nexus player bricked - Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi all,
i had the nexus player with me and installed cm12.1, everything was working fine, i had it at the hotel i was staying at. no issues whatsoever. but after i unplugged it and brought it back home, i plugged it back in and it just bootloops on the google logo. the bootloader is unlocked.
i tried pressing the reset button while powering it on, but no luck, the leds dont flash quickly to enter fastboot.
ive tried also keeping the reset button pressed again while powering it on, and eventually the led will blink slowly. i then let go, but then it just brings up the google logo again and will bootloop. tried plugging it into the pc while doing this as well, but adb doesnt detect it either.
pretty cant get into fastboot mode or even the recovery mode. any hints or tips i should try? i dont want it to be dead after just 4 months of usage.

Lol I did the exact same thing in pretty good at getting out of a brick but the nexus player is pretty low on my list its actually been like this for about two months now and I haven't touched it

While the LED is blinking slowly have you checked to see if the device is enumerating over USB at all. I believe slow flash indicates recovery mode. Do you ever see Andy with an exclamation mark?
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well I was able to get it back up and running by plugging it into my pc and messing with the drivers a little bit, then I used fastboot to flash the stock firmware again and now im putting a custom recovery back on it, all in all its pretty easy to fix so its definitely not dead for good. Sorry im not great with tutorials

howd you end up recovering. i want to get it back up and running. perhaps i can try another pc.
when the led flashes slowly, i have the hdmi cable plugged in, but it just bootloops, never gets to to the android recovery mode. first time ive had a bricked android device.

kewvention said:
howd you end up recovering. i want to get it back up and running. perhaps i can try another pc.
when the led flashes slowly, i have the hdmi cable plugged in, but it just bootloops, never gets to to the android recovery mode. first time ive had a bricked android device.
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Boot into the bootloader by unplugging the nexus player and then hold the button on the bottom and plug it in. Let the button go when you see the google logo. Then just use fastboot to flash the stock firmware.

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Need help when tried to get out of flashboot I get a bootloop phone with green light

Need help tried to get into flashboot mode now the phone is bugging out. all I did was got root and went perfect then I'm trying to use the flash too program and flash a rom or something. and it was telling me to connect into flashboot mode then press the ok button on the PC to start the program couldn't connect. so I kept trying and before the phone didn't want to get into any type of recovery or flash mode now the phone if I turn it on without any USB in the phone shows the Sony sign sits there and reboots by its self. or if I just plug it into my charger I freaking still get a green light and its stuck in the flash mode how can I get it to just turn on normal so I can have a working phone. Sorry for the long story its just odd I've never had a phone where if you pressed a few buttons and the PC never even saw the phone that its freaking out like I dumped a bomb in it. but nothing was wrong I had rooted perfect and turned it off a ton of time before trying to get into flashboot mode. Thanks for any advice everyone
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i got the same issue by you so the only solution i get is to reflash generic 2.1 with flash tool and root xrec ect..and reboot with the charger plug and let's the phone charge reboot again with cable plug and when the green light disappear on boot then flash your rom with xrec. so remember don't flash with flashtool when you in xrec this made a autoflash mode and stay in flash all the time and eat your battery and maybe damage the phone if you stay in flash for long time.
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Hey so you did end up getting out of this mode when it happened to you? And Im getting what your say but im sorta confused so I had android 1.6 and just finished rooting and was trying to put the phone in flashboot mode. Then I downloaded the flash tool and I moves to recovery files the the data/local or where ever they where supposed to be. Then tried to get into recovery but couldn't so I downloaded a rom or generic firmware for my type of phone. but when it said to put in flash mode by just holding the back button and put the plug in and press the ok button it wouldn't find the phone. That's when my problem began I tried to just take the battery out load normal to restart but it then just gets to the Sony sign and then turns off. The software didn't even touch the phone its getting annoying cuz I just want it to turn back on. Can you or someone post a like to where I should go with those directions you posted please
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Hard bricked lg g2!!

Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
deetea48601 said:
Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
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hold power down for 20 seconds. let phone sit for 1 minute. now hold power and volume down. this should bring you to a white reset screen. press power 3 times.
gentlemandroid17 said:
hold power down for 20 seconds. let phone sit for 1 minute. now hold power and volume down. this should bring you to a white reset screen. press power 3 times.
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i tried that and nothing happened.
When you plug in USB does charge light come on. Sounds like a battery went dead.
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I've heard some people are having issues with the charge port and/or cord also. Maybe try another cord and make sure it's plugging in tightly? I think the last person covered everything else.
gentlemandroid17 said:
When you plug in USB does charge light come on. Sounds like a battery went dead.
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No charge light at all =/
I had the same problem, it occured while switching from cwm to twrp. i used the unbuntu method ( i think you mean this right here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142)
are you sure you were in fastboot mode? because i wasnt and it should say so in the top left corner if you were.
try different cords/ usb ports or even pc's to charge it. my mac couldn't find it at all, my windows did.
UnknownCloakedMan said:
I've heard some people are having issues with the charge port and/or cord also. Maybe try another cord and make sure it's plugging in tightly? I think the last person covered everything else.
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Cord charge my tab just fine, therefore im assuming the cord is fine... i think
i have the same problem
deetea48601 said:
Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
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I have the same problem my phone is completly dead i don't know what else can i do, the linux tutorial doesn't work because the pc don't detects the phone
did tou guys check if the twrp image you downloaded was correct size? Wonder if a bad download could cause this.
bachera said:
did tou guys check if the twrp image you downloaded was correct size? Wonder if a bad download could cause this.
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For me the brick happened when i was flashing KK with TWRP, during the flashing appears something that said "couldn't not mount system" and the phone shut down and never power up again , no usb no charge, no linux, no nothing, when i plug my device in windows appears that the devices cannot install the drivers, and i've tried all the drivers and still doesn't work
Hold power down until phone is completely off. Then, hold power and down volume until you see LG logo. As soon as you see the LG logo, release and then quickly press power and down again. Hold until you see a white screen. Then go from there.
techbeck said:
Hold power down until phone is completely off. Then, hold power and down volume until you see LG logo. As soon as you see the LG logo, release and then quickly press power and down again. Hold until you see a white screen. Then go from there.
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i've tried all the possible combinations of buttons and no one works, i've been holding the power button for a whole minute and nothing happened, and the other combination either, nothing seems to work i give up
It's just power you press after the logo, not power and volume down.
pimfram said:
It's just power you press after the logo, not power and volume down.
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There's no logo, 'cause it doesn't turn on by any means , no matter what button or combination i press, there's no response.
Thanks
Have you tried getting into download mode?
pimfram said:
Have you tried getting into download mode?
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i've tried everything, download mode, linux, recovery, lg mobile, and nothing works i think it's completly brick, i hope one day someone comes with the solution, because i went today to SAT and they don't even know what happened with my phone, and i bought it in another country so they don't want to get involve
So all you get is a black screen with you boot? There's probably a way to push whatever file might be missing or even an entire ROM but I lack the knowledge on how to do that. I remember I had to work some magic on my Galaxy Nexus but I used a toolkit so I'm afraid I've got no really useful information for you.
This also happened to me!
I am in the same state.
I rooted the LG, I installed the custom Rom, I installed an updated GAPPS and it wasnt working. I then went and installed another GAPPS overtop and I got stuck in boot loop. After I tried recovery from ADB I tried to restore from TRWP and it didnt take. After I rebooted nothing turned on, no LED, I tried ALL button combinations and nothing comes on at all. I am wondering if the phone died and now will not charge...I started with 60% but the last time i saw it it was down to 15% just thinking maybe it died completely and without any software to boot it wont charge...I have had it on charge for 8 hrs since and still nothing...
Please help!
Bobert the great said:
I am in the same state.
I rooted the LG, I installed the custom Rom, I installed an updated GAPPS and it wasnt working. I then went and installed another GAPPS overtop and I got stuck in boot loop. After I tried recovery from ADB I tried to restore from TRWP and it didnt take. After I rebooted nothing turned on, no LED, I tried ALL button combinations and nothing comes on at all. I am wondering if the phone died and now will not charge...I started with 60% but the last time i saw it it was down to 15% just thinking maybe it died completely and without any software to boot it wont charge...I have had it on charge for 8 hrs since and still nothing...
Please help!
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I'm afraid to tell you, but our phones die there's nothing to do to saved them, we just have to keep them in that state meanwhile the solution comes up, because in this very moment there's nothing we can do

help pls, nexus 4 softbricked

Hi guys,
I had Pure nexus rom installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/development/rom-pure-nexus-project-layers-t3237366
and everything worked fine for weeks. Yesterday I noticed that my nexus 4 is using battery too much, without any reason.. Then my phone turned off, try to restart but it was stuck on google logo. At that point there was 20 or 30% battery left. I boot it to recovery, wipe everything and tried to restore factory settings, cos I didnt have any backup on phone. But again it was stuck on google logo.
So now I cant boot it cos there's no system installed on it, basicaly there is nothing on my phone. I tried Nexus Root Toolkit, but my pc dont recognize my phone, when I boot to recovery it's still the same, so I cant install drivers..
At this point, I have no idea what to do.. Can anyone help pls?
Thx
Can you get into fastboot? Are you using Win7? Tried different USB ports and cables?
audit13 said:
Can you get into fastboot? Are you using Win7? Tried different USB ports and cables?
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Thx for quick reply !
Yes, I'm using win7 64x, I tried all usb ports and 3 different cables and nothing. I can get into fastboot and recovery, but pc still don't recognize anything..
i am currently under the same situation
only difference is i can still fastboot and flash a recovery (twrp for that matter)
afterwards, when booting to recovery - i can install a rom
once the rom is installed, reboot does not boot into the ROM and instead just displays the google logo - then vibrates a little - then the screen turns off
I just tried on 2 other win7 pc's, still nothing.. Nexus root toolkit just can't establish adb/fastboot connection..
edit: other thing I tried is to copy ROM file on usb stick, and then connect usb stick with micro usb cable to phone, and when I'm in recovery (twrp 3.0.2-0) there is just ''internal storage'' option.. Is that normal, should twrp see external USB drive? Cos I'm thinking that maybe something is wrong with usb charging port (I replaced that board month ago).
Hi,
I have a similar problem:
I had my mobile in working condition and once when upgrading the OS to 5.0.1, it downloaded the OS and was upgrading. During that process, the charge got over and hence the phone was shutdown. There after, it was not proceeding further from Google screen when trying to reboot. So, i thought battery is dead and replaced the battery with a new one. Now, i am getting the following problem:
The phone doesn't turn on(not even getting GOOGLE screen now). But, If I keep holding power button and Volume down button and try to insert the charging cable immediately then i get the boot menu but it wont stay there for even a second and goes to GOOGLE logo screen and gets shut down. Please help me with this.
Hi guys,
I menaged to fix the problem, my problem was charging port (smal L shaped board) that I replaced month ago. That's why there was no connection.
I got another one this morning from ebay, and Nexus Root Toolkit established connection immediately.
guruhg said:
Hi,
I have a similar problem:
I had my mobile in working condition and once when upgrading the OS to 5.0.1, it downloaded the OS and was upgrading. During that process, the charge got over and hence the phone was shutdown. There after, it was not proceeding further from Google screen when trying to reboot. So, i thought battery is dead and replaced the battery with a new one. Now, i am getting the following problem:
The phone doesn't turn on(not even getting GOOGLE screen now). But, If I keep holding power button and Volume down button and try to insert the charging cable immediately then i get the boot menu but it wont stay there for even a second and goes to GOOGLE logo screen and gets shut down. Please help me with this.
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That looks like a stuck power button.
Try just holding the volume down button and plugging the charger.
If you see the fastboot screen, you have a stuck power button.
Just experienced this issue on a Nexus 5 and I was able to recover from it by "massaging" the power button for a while.

RSD Lite Flash Failure?

So I pulled out my XT907 to test a new cable I have. The port on the phone has been damaged and it won't charge and won't be recognized by my PC. The port stopped working ages ago during a reset to stock using RSDlite. So when the device tries to boot, it goes straight to the fastboot screen and tells me there was a flash failure. This screen also tells you if you have a USB cable connected. Heres where I am confused. According to this screen, when I plug in a cable, the device registers it as being plugged in (or not plugged in), but the PC won't say anything. Since then I thought I also lost TWRP as a result of the flash failure. Today I found out I was very wrong. I got the device to boot to TWRP without issue, the red Motorola logo even appears at boot which hasn't happened since RSDlite failure. From there I went to the file manager and discovered the whole system is still there. So I am confused as to what is really happening here: 1) Either the USB port on the phone works or it doesn't, depending on what you believe (the phone or the PC) 2) If RSDlite did fail, as fastboot says, how would I even be able to boot to TWRP? 3) Given number 2, if the flash really did fail would it cause the device not to be recognized? 4) Also given number 2, the logo shouldn't even appear period. EDIT: 5) With the device powered off and I plug it into an outlet or my PC, it will power on into fastboot and also says USB connected.
So I decided to dig out the phone and play around with it. I can still get into TWRP so I managed to flash system and boot. Here's the weird part. I thought the phone wouldn't charge. I was wrong. It charges on almost every cable, but my PC will not recognize it in AP fastboot or TWRP. I had forgotten about the 3 button trick, volume up + volume down + power brought me to the recovery menu. I just let it sit there for the few seconds it stays and suddenly the red logo appeared...and the phone booted...normally. So it does charge, but adb or fastboot is a no go. Looks like if I keep this phone, I'll be flashing what I can or am able to with TWRP, on an external SD card if I can't download it to internal.
So it appears only the AP fastboot partition is damaged...every time It boots to it (if I didn't intentionally do it) it says "fastboot flash failure". So since I can't use RSD lite, what are my options?
So the only thing that was damaged was AP fastboot and anything beyond that, including 'charging mode' (thanks for that trick @sd_shadow though it didn't work). For a couple years I thought the clip inside the charging port on the phone was too badly damaged to take a charge or be recognized by my PC. So with intentions of fixing it myself, I put it in a drawer until such time. I knew there was some hope in salvaging it despite the 'flash failure' because every cable I tried, would only charge the phone so no PC means no RSD Lite. I was convinced TWRP would save me and I would find a way to flash everything I needed, but was only able to get as far as the boot.img and system.img. So last night I started to play around with the phone after having plugged it in and noticed the green light in the upper left corner turned on. I spent a few hours flashing and reading and flashing some more before I found another post by @sd_shadow referencing to three buttons, press and hold in this order: volume down, volume up and power. That got me to the stock Motorola recovery screen, which only hangs around for abut 10 seconds, so you have to be quick at selecting an option. I did not select an option, and much to my surprise the phone booted all the way and properly. And that was the only issue. I still had TWRP too. However anytime I needed to reboot, it would go straight to the AP fastboot screen. The 3 buttons bypassed that.
I looked inside the charging port on the phone as I had many times before, and noticed what looked like a piece of foil stuck inside of it. I tried to dig it out but I just managed to push it between the crack in the clip. I plugged it back into my PC and I was even more surprised when it made the familiar connect sound. So I assume that piece of foil was actually a pin, and I managed to seat it just right that the phone charges, is recognized by my PC and i was able to SUCCESSFULLY recover using RSD Lite. We're back in business

HELP! Stuck in Boot Logo w/ no Recovery Mode

Ok so before I started writing this I had only one problem now I'm worried my problem has gone from bad to worse.
I updated my 6T to 10.3.2 from the latest Beta after the process it prompted for a restart, upon restarting it got stuck in the boot animation. I tried going into Recovery and Download mode unsuccessfully so I went through the forums a bit and saw that someone who had the same problem successfully entered Recovery mode by pressing VOLUME UP+DOWN+POWER buttons simultaneously, I tried to do the same and my phone turned off and now it doesn't turn on! :crying:
Has anyone experienced this or know how to fix this? Any help will be much appreciated. Tia!
theDUD3 said:
Recovery mode by pressing VOLUME UP+DOWN+POWER buttons simultaneously, I tried to do the same and my phone turned off and now it doesn't turn on!
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These should be clarified:
Volume Up + Power while turning on will boot to fastboot.
Volume Down + Power while turn on will boot to recovery.
Holding Volume Up + Power should force the phone to turn off.
Volume Up + Volume Down should put your phone in Download mode for the MSM Tool.
Turn the phone off, let it sit. Then try turn it back on. Any response?
try to shutdown phone ...hold vol+ and power button for like 15 sec and restart your phone if this didnt work then u can try MSM tool
Thanks guys, got it working using MSM Tool!
regarding oneplus 6 got stuck on logo screen and recovery mode not working
was just going through some random stuff on my phone and suddenly my device automatically restarted and not it is stuck on logo screen. i and when i tried to open recovery mode, nope its is just not working either. i even tried the fastboot menu to open recovery settings but still no progress help me here...its urgent going though lockdown in country so no service either cant communicate with the fam also. HELP...!!!!
frankynehemimah said:
was just going through some random stuff on my phone and suddenly my device automatically restarted and not it is stuck on logo screen. i and when i tried to open recovery mode, nope its is just not working either. i even tried the fastboot menu to open recovery settings but still no progress help me here...its urgent going though lockdown in country so no service either cant communicate with the fam also. HELP...!!!!
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You are likely going to lose your data. Know that going in if its not already backed up.
If you have the fastboot menu you can use the fastboot roms.
Or my least favorite option or what I would try last, MSM Tool (Tmobile 6Ts use a different tool).
IMPORTANT if you want to try and recover and data off your phone first, go to fastboot, and try and "boot" the TWRP img (not the installed one, one from your PC using the fastboot command). If that works you might be able to recover data. If that does worm, try dirty flashing the last ROM you were running and see if it boots.
No worries!
frankynehemimah said:
was just going through some random stuff on my phone and suddenly my device automatically restarted and not it is stuck on logo screen. i and when i tried to open recovery mode, nope its is just not working either. i even tried the fastboot menu to open recovery settings but still no progress help me here...its urgent going though lockdown in country so no service either cant communicate with the fam also. HELP...!!!!
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Hello, I am sorry to hear of you having this issue, I just went through 3 1/2 days (off and on) of recovering my T-Mobile OnePlus 6t which I found a way to get my unlock code within 2 weeks of having it, so I rooted it and put a custom kernel on it, stuck on 9.0 never let me update as I was not familiar with A/B partitioning, yet! The answers I saw to your questions were spot on, I just had a little to add to it and I'm sure I am not alone. Real quick let me list what has gone wrong on the rare occasion it hit the fan with the 6t...
- When I would accidentally and rarely let my battery die it seemed like it took forever to get it to reboot, I mean it sat on my desk of DOA devices for 2 weeks!
- It often seems like the buttons do not always respond properly and never have when I needed them to. Been through this before, I've bricked and unbricked and flashed and re-flashed and wiped all weekend and I like Android 10 and all but seems everything is different for every build, and everything seems to have to go in the right order with the exact right file or you wind up in a jam, period..
- That said, the previous person that answered your question has likely encountered similar, I've heard of right down to the buttons not physically working, but I have been a Smart Device Master III Technician for over 5 years, i know my buttons were not broken.
- Most likely culprit that I just handled and worked, i did have to use the MSM tool, several times - and re-unlock the BL, several times I would not even get the chance to get to fastboot, just a screen saying Build and Hardware not a match"" in yellow letters and it just bootlooped. No fastboot is no good, but when you said the tool would show some signs of working but then not, I have 2 solutions that I needed on diffrent occcasions.
1 - As mentioned fully try other USB cables, and ports, if you pull the usb-c out of the port and hold <power + vol up + vol down> eventually it will do something, very picky, sometimes gotta move your fingers to different spots on the buttons and also after 15-20sec let go of power and hit and hold it again... after a few seconds before it vibrates stick the cable in connected to your PC and the screen will be black (obv) but the msm tool will pick up on it. I know about the cables because I take good care of my phones and cables and charging ports, however on my final fix today it showed in msm tool it was connected but waiting for device.... Fed up i put the phone down and moved the usb cable a little bit and it picked up on it and did its thing! That part was just the cable, getting into qualcomm mode or w.e. is a bit tricky sometimes.
- Also someone said set it down for a while and come back to it.. THAT WORKS!! Let it fully charge and often just plugging in charger turns it on, bootloop soft brick or however have you, very simiilar to an Apple device and their DFU (don't f up mode cause screen is black..)
I hope that helps you get in touch with your family and friends.. Whatever you do, don't give up bc if you have not got it yet, you will! One other note, there are a few different msm tools available and they look the same some same size, but the one that supposed to work on my phone didn't and one that they say only a fool would attempt to try actually saved me, so if all else fails, use a different msm tool/usb cable and you will get it! I don't think I can post links yet I am on here very rarely, but plan on more! I have received so much help from XDA throughout the years on thousands of phones with just software issues alone, aas well as guides to my own phones. I would be honored to give back as I also have some extensive knowledge on many devices but I am a noob in comparison to many! Stay safe, good luck and please update and let us/ me know how it worked out for you. If i can help further I will, I have every firmware file for the OP6t, recovery, tools, software, this is not new to me but I feel your frustration!

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