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For Those Who Semi-Bricked Their Nexus 7 0MB Interal Storage

Hopefully this helps people in my situation.
So on the first day of having my nexus 7 i found a way to have no OS and 0MB internal storage showing in TWRP. Yah i suck.
I tried tons of things but knew a system image was needed.
HOW: I was about to flash the superuser root for 4.3 newly released and forgot to put it on nexus so i then proceeded to exit TWRP, however upon exiting TWRP the recovery detected i havent installed supersu and asked do i want to install superuser? I though why the hell not!
I confirmed to install superuser and then tried to reboot but for 20 minutes device could not boot. TWRP showed 0MB internal storage and pushing adb files in this state yielded nothing as there was no directory
This is how i managed to have a working tablet again
1. FORMAT DATA in TWRP - after doing this your internal storage should be back and not show 0MB
2. reboot to the bootloader
3. On your computer download this file kindly given to us by phuduong and uploaded by Nburnes
https://mega.co.nz/#!PBIiEbBJ!bKpdHxegOVlde12nsu_ulEyRq7UsANLLQab1IZjLIGc
Credit to Nburnes http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2918596[/QUOTE]
4. Once downloaded move that system.img file to your adb directory
5. With you nexus 7 in the bootloader, adb open, and file downloaded copy and paste this command into adb terminal
fastboot flash system system.img
6. Now you have an OS but it still would loop and wouldnt start
7. Boot into recovery and Format Data again, because for me 0MB interal storage was back again
8. Then Factory Reset
FINALLY YOUR DEVICE SHOULD BE BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE!!!!!

Is that the factory image? Have you tried going from unlocked bootloader & rooted back to factory using that image?

plbelanger said:
Is that the factory image? Have you tried going from unlocked bootloader & rooted back to factory using that image?
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Google has yet to release the official factory image for the new N7. However, a kind user was gracious enough to make their own. It is likely to be almost identical to what Google will eventually release and should work the same way.

Thank you! Thank you!

good stuff OP. glad you got it working again

You all are life savers! 1000X Thanks!

I tried running through this, but it didn't work for me. I think my situation is different though because I tried to install a factory image for the 2012 nexus, and during part of that process I ran the "flash-all" script which starts by deleting boot, cache, recovery, userdata, and system.
I think deleting boot screwed me up, because even though I can go into recovery now after reinstalling twrp and I can restore my system using system.img, I still can't boot (get stuck on the google logo). Any way to fix that?

So you first tried to restore from the OLD Nexus 7 Image?????
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petersellers said:
I tried running through this, but it didn't work for me. I think my situation is different though because I tried to install a factory image for the 2012 nexus, and during part of that process I ran the "flash-all" script which starts by deleting boot, cache, recovery, userdata, and system.
I think deleting boot screwed me up, because even though I can go into recovery now after reinstalling twrp and I can restore my system using system.img, I still can't boot (get stuck on the google logo). Any way to fix that?
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So you first tried to restore the OLD nexus 7 factory image? Probably gonna have to wait for factory image or exchange yours
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jporter396 said:
So you first tried to restore from the OLD Nexus 7 Image?????
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Yes, I tried to restore from the old image. Obviously fastboot wont let you install the old image, but I didn't realize that until boot, system, cache, etc. were deleted

THANK YOU!!!
This worked perfectly! I had a wiped system folder (no ROM), and obviously no USB debugging enabled. And with the lack of a factory image, I've been counting seconds to seeing somebody post this!
Just follow the instructions carefully. Thank you guys!

petersellers said:
Yes, I tried to restore from the old image. Obviously fastboot wont let you install the old image, but I didn't realize that until boot, system, cache, etc. were deleted
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You can flash old and new image through fastboot. I did 2 times ^_^
This is boot.img for who need
BOOT.IMG HERE

It gives me a fail when I try to wipe data.
Edit: never mind

jarjar124 said:
It gives me a fail when I try to wipe data.
Edit: never mind
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How did you fix it? I still cant wipe data.

Balsta said:
How did you fix it? I still cant wipe data.
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Have you formatted first?
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jporter396 said:
Have you formatted first?
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I can't, get an error with that too
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OP and nburnes saved my butt!

I did this and now it seems my device is booting and it shows up as N7 when I attach it to my PC. But the display shows nothing at all. It just goes blank after the Google screen. Any ideas?
After flashing everything I could think of and banging my head and the device against the wall for two hours, I finally got it to work. Not sure how exactly but the last thing I did was reflashing bootloader. So if anyone has the same problem, try that.

Thank you.
Note:
Give step 6 a little time be patient.

All main JSS15J .IMGS here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381438
Glad this helped some of you guys!

Root N Dev Preview 5

Can anyone here point in the right direction to guide me through DP5 root? TWRP hangs on splash screen when attempting to install. Thanks!
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TWRP can't decrypt the N system right now. So it will stay stuck on the splash screen.
The most common way around here, is to decrypt your device's storage. Once, you have decrypted, you will be able to access the recovery, and flash the latest SuperSU zip for root.

DJBhardwaj said:
TWRP can't decrypt the N system right now. So it will stay stuck on the splash screen.
The most common way around here, is to decrypt your device's storage. Once, you have decrypted, you will be able to access the recovery, and flash the latest SuperSU zip for root.
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Thanks! What's the best way of doing that!?

DLloyd said:
Thanks! What's the best way of doing that!?
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Be advised that decrypting will wipe off your complete data, including that on the internal storage. So, backup first.
The first step would be to download the modified boot image for DP5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/stock-modified-boot-img-regular-root-t3306684 (Make sure that you download the correct file).
Next, reboot your device into bootloader mode and flash the boot image using the following command:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Once that is done, you will need to decrypt using the following command (Do not mix "fastboot erase" command with "fastboot format"):
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fastboot format userdata
Finally, reboot your device. Now, you will be able to access TWRP and flash SuperSU: http://download.chainfire.eu/969/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.76-20160630161323.zip

This is great but unfortunately no joy - I'm still stuck on the TWRP splash screen when trying to enter recovery, after flashing the modified boot.img - in security it still show's encrypted?

DLloyd said:
This is great but unfortunately no joy - I'm still stuck on the TWRP splash screen when trying to enter recovery, after flashing the modified boot.img
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Have you formatted the userdata after flashing the boot.img?

DJBhardwaj said:
Have you formatted the userdata after flashing the boot.img?
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Yeah, exactly as advised... re-downloaded boot.img to try again, no luck

DLloyd said:
Yeah, exactly as advised... re-downloaded boot.img to try again, no luck
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Go to Settings > Security and see if Encrypt phone option is available or greyed out. Also try reflashing TWRP.

DJBhardwaj said:
Go to Settings > Security and see if Encrypt phone option is available or greyed out. Also try reflashing TWRP.
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It show's Encrypted, with no option to change, have tried re-flashing TWRP but nothing. How do I make sure format userdata has worked correctly? Appreciate your help!

DLloyd said:
It show's Encrypted, with no option to change, have tried re-flashing TWRP but nothing
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Then the decryption process didn't work at all.
Download this specific boot.img: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591023225178833
Flash it via fastboot. And then, "fastboot format userdata" and "fastboot format cache".
Finally, reboot.

DJBhardwaj said:
Then the decryption process didn't work at all.
Download this specific boot.img: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591023225178833
Flash it via fastboot. And then, "fastboot format userdata" and "fastboot format cache".
Finally, reboot.
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Yeah, still no joy... I'll revert to previous dev preview for root. Thanks anyway!

DLloyd said:
Yeah, still no joy... I'll revert to previous dev preview for root. Thanks anyway!
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I rooted my Nexus 6P successfully with that specific boot.img and flash TWRP for many times.
1.flash specific boot.img
2.flash TWRP 3.0.0.0
3.get into TWRP-Wipe-format data and type "yes"
4.reboot to bootloader, flash TWRP 3.0.0.0 again.
5.get into TWRP and flash supersu
6.do not reboot or clean cache, get into wipe, and format data
7.reboot to bootloader, flash TWRP 3.0.2.0
7.get into TWRP and flash supersu
8.done
Since it seems ridiculous, it works.

DLloyd said:
Yeah, still no joy... I'll revert to previous dev preview for root. Thanks anyway!
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Weird. I have followed the same drill about 2-3 times on DP5, and it works perfectly.

using CF Auto root works with Android N DP5. Don't need custom recovery.

XRaptor29 said:
using CF Auto root works with Android N DP5. Don't need custom recovery.
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How did you pull that off, I recently did that and it bootloop on the cf auto root screen

jussaren said:
How did you pull that off, I recently did that and it bootloop on the cf auto root screen
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Make sure boot loader is unlocked. I never had the CF Auto Root screen boot loop, it does boot loop a few times when booting afterwards but that's it finishing it up.
Last night I unencrypted my phone and twrp works fully so I could flash a custom kernel. It's sad that NP5 forces encryption and you have to flash the stock kernel with encryption disabled to unencrypted. I can provide a link if you're interested in that. It provides the kernel and step by step process.
Edit: didn't realize that one guy with the Droid Origin signature had the link also, I Googled and found it but this is how I unencrypted and everything last night. http://www.droidorigin.com/decrypt-nexus-6p/ Props go out to that team.
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TWRP wont stick keep going to stock

was trying to do a systemless root to use android pay and unrooted my device from the SU app and selected to keep my custom recovery, tried to go into recovery and gave me the stock recovery. Used fastboot to reinstall twrp but after reboot it reverts back to stock, what am i doing wrong.
stock 7.0

Look for a system file called recovery from boot.p (boot.p). Might be your culprit. It's a file , if I recall correctly, that on initial boot overwrites twrp. Puts you back on stock.

You don't need the twrp installed. Just boot to the bootloader and type: fastboot boot twrp-filename.img from your command prompt on your pc.

In order to make sure that custom recovery overwrites twrp, when you have finished flashing twrp, reboot into bootloader immediately. Then flash latest SuperSU. This modifies boot.img so it doesn't overwrite twrp.

so ill fastboot install twrp then i will not reboot into system because if i do the recovery will be overwriten with the old stock recovery. Trying to use a systemless root with magisk

blueyes said:
Look for a system file called recovery from boot.p (boot.p). Might be your culprit. It's a file , if I recall correctly, that on initial boot overwrites twrp. Puts you back on stock.
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where is the file located, should i replace that file or just delete it. Thank you

Toxin715 said:
where is the file located, should i replace that file or just delete it. Thank you
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No no no. Try like I mentioned. Flash TWRP then reboot recovery immediately. Then flash SU. This will prevent TWRP from being overwritten
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dratsablive said:
No no no. Try like I mentioned. Flash TWRP then reboot recovery immediately. Then flash SU. This will prevent TWRP from being overwritten
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OK will do, well give results soon

dratsablive said:
No no no. Try like I mentioned. Flash TWRP then reboot recovery immediately. Then flash SU. This will prevent TWRP from being overwritten
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ok systemless root with magisk works fine along with twrp sticking now. Things to know is when twrp is booting it still says unable to mount system but everything works fine if that matters. Thank you

Toxin715 said:
ok systemless root with magisk works fine along with twrp sticking now. Things to know is when twrp is booting it still says unable to mount system but everything works fine if that matters. Thank you
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What version of TWRP are you flashing?
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OS wiped accidentally from TWRP recovery

I accidentally wiped the OS from advanced wipe option. How do I get my phone to work again. I tried to operate adb sideload from recovery but it failed. I have downloaded the stock rom but I do not know how to install it.
Please help.
Thanks.

Kalaxy said:
I accidentally wiped the OS from advanced wipe option. How do I get my phone to work again. I tried to operate adb sideload from recovery but it failed. I have downloaded the stock rom but I do not know how to install it.
Please help.
Thanks.
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Just flash it from custom recovery, so download it into ur phone go to recovery and simply flash it and all should be good.
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Exiwolfman said:
Just flash it from custom recovery, so download it into ur phone go to recovery and simply flash it and all should be good.
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How do I download it to my phone if I cannot boot into it. Is there any way I can copy a zip file (rom) onto the phone's internal memory.?

Your phone should boot into recovery, so as long as it goes on and boots all u do u is use ur pc to move file over and flash it...
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Kalaxy said:
How do I download it to my phone if I cannot boot into it. Is there any way I can copy a zip file (rom) onto the phone's internal memory.?
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Boot into bootloader (hold power and system on), flash the though recovery through adb, mount your .zip,, flash your .zip through recovery. Sorry if that doesn't make sense, I've been drinking with the roommates, lol.
Edit: if that doesn't work, send me an IM and I will help you in the morning
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Which state is your phone in right now? Is it bootlooping or in recovery?
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The same thing happened to me also! The whole /data (incl. sdcard) partition went corrupt (showed up in TWRP as eemc instead of ext4) & the /vendor failed to mount.
First I had to repair the /data partition (unfortunately the data was lost, as it repaired to a blank partition). I ended up having to go home (was at work at the time) & hook the phone up to the PC & download the ROM & transfer it onto the sdcard. I'm not entirely sure why/how this happened, but I believe it was because a corrupt vendor IMG. Although that theory doesnt include why the /data partition corrupted, it only explains why the /vendor partition failed to mount.

Fastboot flash system system.img
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I have the same issue. The problem is, that my computer will not recognize the phone in bootloader mode or in recovery mode(MTP enabled). How can install usb drivers without being able to boot into phone OS???? I've tried Nexus Toolkit with no success. Please help?

Have a look here how to load in bootloader, flash, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928

So I did the same thing. I'm sitting in TWRP right now but have nothing on the phone. Will I be able to reboot from TWRP into the bootloader and just use the flash-all command to get my phone to boot back up, then just go through the process of custom recovery again?
Basically I'm worried about leaving twrp without an OS. I didn't wipe bootloader did I? Also, I tried to download a ROM and just drag it to internal memory, but I can't seem to add anything to the internal memory.

dbroer91884 said:
So I did the same thing. I'm sitting in TWRP right now but have nothing on the phone. Will I be able to reboot from TWRP into the bootloader and just use the flash-all command to get my phone to boot back up, then just go through the process of custom recovery again?
Basically I'm worried about leaving twrp without an OS. I didn't wipe bootloader did I? Also, I tried to download a ROM and just drag it to internal memory, but I can't seem to add anything to the internal memory.
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Hi... Just boot into recovery and reflash system.img from the factory image of your choice in bootloader with fastboot. Also flash the vendor image from the same factory image. Done...
Or reflash the whole package with flash all (manually is better imho). But you'll waisted time... Let your phone reboot into Android and you'll have your internal storage back.

5.1 said:
Hi... Just boot into recovery and reflash system.img from the factory image of your choice in bootloader with fastboot. Also flash the vendor image from the same factory image. Done...
Or reflash the whole package with flash all (manually is better imho). But you'll waisted time... Let your phone reboot into Android and you'll have your internal storage back.
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Thats what I thought. JUst wanted to make sure I could get into bootloader still

dbroer91884 said:
So I did the same thing. I'm sitting in TWRP right now but have nothing on the phone. Will I be able to reboot from TWRP into the bootloader and just use the flash-all command to get my phone to boot back up, then just go through the process of custom recovery again?
Basically I'm worried about leaving twrp without an OS. I didn't wipe bootloader did I? Also, I tried to download a ROM and just drag it to internal memory, but I can't seem to add anything to the internal memory.
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Yes TWRP has a reboot to bootloader option available. So you can access fastboot via bootloader to flash the necessary images. Just don't forget to re flash TWRP image again in case the stock recovery image was flashed beforehand.

The odd thing was that I did choose that option to boot to bootloader in twrp and it didn't work. I ended up having to reboot to bootloader manually. Not a big deal. All is working now, but thought that was interesting.

Kalaxy said:
I accidentally wiped the OS from advanced wipe option. How do I get my phone to work again. I tried to operate adb sideload from recovery but it failed. I have downloaded the stock rom but I do not know how to install it.
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Exactly which partitions did you wipe? system? data? Internal Storage (userdata)? all of the above? Hopefully you did not wipe userdata (all your stuff). Were you on a stock ROM? You should be able to d/l the Google image from the same build you were on, extract system and data and fastboot flash those. Don't flash userdata. All your stuff should be there. Follow the tutorial on how to set up fastboot and selectively flash partitions.
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This thread got hijacked at least 3 times. Let's hope OP can find his way back.

pocholo36 said:
I have the same issue. The problem is, that my computer will not recognize the phone in bootloader mode or in recovery mode(MTP enabled). How can install usb drivers without being able to boot into phone OS???? I've tried Nexus Toolkit with no success. Please help?
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Try this Hope you get solution to your problem of installing adb and fastboot tools in the correct manner.

I just by mistake deleted my internal storage.
I have TWRP, how do i put the ROM on there and flash it? Someone please help.
Thanks

6p Bootloop of death softbrick

I was flying yesterday, and noticed that the phone went into a bootloop when I took it out of my pocket during the flight.
My phone is on purenexus with TWRP installed already. When I got back home I tried clean flash the latest Feb ROM update, wiping all partition besides storage partition before the flash. Also flashed the latest vendor image. I did not see any error during the flash process.
No matter what I try, the phone would not get past the google screen and reboots just before it gets to the boot screen.
I am now backing up data on my phone via TWRP. It's going to be a PITA if I need to RMA the phone as it was bought in the US but I am now using it overseas.
Any magical fix to this issue?

Prior to the phone had issue, it was running Nougat Purenexus rom Jan 2017 version.

I got it yesterday. Try to flash the factory image in this post https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62924118&postcount=2 (Step 10)
Add some more steps before the above:
fastboot format system
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
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It will works. Try it.

nhatminhng said:
I got it yesterday. Try to flash the factory image in this post https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62924118&postcount=2 (Step 10)
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It will works. Try it.
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As I do not want to format internal storage, I tried option 11 - How To Flash The Factory Images (Return To Stock But Leaving Internal Storage Intact)
I followed all the steps and phone is still in bootloop.

Just backup your internal storage to somewhere in your PC and then you're free to go. Why dont try?

nhatminhng said:
Just backup your internal storage to somewhere in your PC and then you're free to go. Why dont try?
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I haven't seen any evidence of wiping the internal storage will fix this issue.

Me. Yesterday. It's up to you to try.

nhatminhng said:
Me. Yesterday. It's up to you to try.
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Just tried step 10 and format userdata - does not work. Phone is still stuck in bootloop.

The fact that you have access to the recovery means you have a high chance of getting the phone back to the should. The real BLOD only has boot loader available but nothing else besides the bar code screen.
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CyberpodS2 said:
The fact that you have access to the recovery means you have a high chance of getting the phone back to the should. The real BLOD only has boot loader available but nothing else besides the bar code screen.
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I have access to bootloader, and recovery (TWRP). Problem now is finding a solution to boot the phone past the google screen without going into a loop.

fustyler said:
I have access to bootloader, and recovery (TWRP). Problem now is finding a solution to boot the phone past the google screen without going into a loop.
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Format your sytem, userdata and cache partitions then flash the latest full stock image using flash-all.bat.

v12xke said:
Format your sytem, userdata and cache partitions then flash the latest full stock image using flash-all.bat.
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I have formatted every partition, and flashed latest full stock image. Still the same, google, google, google. Even tried the solution to format EFS partition and still bootloops.

So you have TWRP access still, and you have used the flash-all.bat method through the boot loader and it's still boned??
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CyberpodS2 said:
So you have TWRP access still, and you have used the flash-all.bat method through the boot loader and it's still boned??
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I followed step 10 in this guide (which is the same as doing flash-all.bat, and it is still bootlooping. I then reflashed TWRP into recovery.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62924118&postcount=2