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My N7 ran out of power and now loops the Google Screen over and over...

My N7 ran out of power and shut off. I immediately put it on the charger and it turned on for a minute (without me turning it on) and then powered off again. After that it booted to the White "Google" screen and continues to reboot into this screen.
I can get into fastboot (holding power and the volume down) where I have options to Power off, restart bootloader, recovery mode (which shows me the red triangle and says "no command"), or start.
I am not rooted and the bootloader is still locked.
I'm good at following directions and have tried what I thought were solutions but nothing seems to be working... or perhaps I am just retarded (no offense to people who are actually retarded) I think I have installed the correct drivers but I still can't get the cmd prompt screen to show my device when I type adb devices
How do I fix this? I don't want to send it back and deal with that hassle!
Thanks in advance and I apologize up front for what is probably a simple fix but I couldn't find any other posts with a solution that has worked for me.

Wot-75 said:
My N7 ran out of power and shut off. I immediately put it on the charger and it turned on for a minute (without me turning it on) and then powered off again. After that it booted to the White "Google" screen and continues to reboot into this screen.
I can get into fastboot (holding power and the volume down) where I have options to Power off, restart bootloader, recovery mode (which shows me the red triangle and says "no command"), or start.
I am not rooted and the bootloader is still locked.
I'm good at following directions and have tried what I thought were solutions but nothing seems to be working... or perhaps I am just retarded (no offense to people who are actually retarded) I think I have installed the correct drivers but I still can't get the cmd prompt screen to show my device when I type adb devices
How do I fix this? I don't want to send it back and deal with that hassle!
Thanks in advance and I apologize up front for what is probably a simple fix but I couldn't find any other posts with a solution that has worked for me.
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In boot loader you use fast boot commands. Type "fastboot devices". If listed type "fastboot reboot". If its still stuck in loop try and taking back cover off and disconnecting battery for a few seconds, reassemble and power on.
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Gizmoe said:
In boot loader you use fast boot commands. Type "fastboot devices". If listed type "fastboot reboot". If its still stuck in loop try and taking back cover off and disconnecting battery for a few seconds, reassemble and power on.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Thanks. The battery pull didn't work however your tip on typing fastboot instead of adb worked and it recognized my device. Consequently I was able to flash the stock image and start over with setup and etc.. which sucks but it's better than sending it back in and all that mess.
Thanks!

[Q] Possible Brick?

Hey all, requesting some assistance...
I had used the nexus 7 toolkit to unlock the bootloader and root my tablet.
Earlier this afternoon, I decided to cave and flash cm10 on my tablet. Before doing so, instructions stated to wipe. In my ignorance, I wiped one too many things and also wiped the internal memory.
As a result, I am unable to get my tablet to fastboot and when I searched for the .zip to flash, I was presented with an ominously empty file directory to my sdcard's root. I have tried various things with the nexus 7 toolkit and have been unsuccessful in my endeavors, as many of those functions require the tablet to be in fastboot mode before any of them will work.
The device is stuck on the Google screen, and if I push the volume buttons with the power button, it will flicker and eventually return to this screen.
I do have a nandroid backup stored on my machine, but I am unable to use it as I am unable to even boot to the recovery (because I can't get to fastboot)... Any suggestions? I really hope I didn't brick this...

I believe you can get to fastboot mode with the v4.13 bootloader from any other mode so long as the battery is not dead and the screen is working.
When the battery has a good charge, hold the power button down until the google logo appears (could be up to 15-18 seconds). At that very moment that the black-and-white google logo image appears, press the Vol-down button.
Voila. Fastboot.
You do need to see that screen appear though; maybe that's the rub. Note that the timing is important - you only get one second or two to do this immediately after the image first appears.
As a bonus, glance at the bottom of that image. Shows an unlocked padlock for an unlocked bootloader, nothing if locked.

It worked! Thanks a bunch!

qwertyx7 said:
It worked! Thanks a bunch!
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No worries. Glad it worked. Actually, I only stumbled across a reference to that button sequence a couple days ago.
If you see someone else reporting that they "can't get to fastboot", let them know - you can get there from ANY MODE.
[REF] Nexus 7 Button Combinations
Don't be this guy...

[Q] Google Screen Only. No bootloader at all. N7

I was trying to do the 4.2.2 upgrade via CWM 10.1 Everything seemed to be working ok but that the radio was working and could not connect with AT&T. Tried to go back to 4.1.2 with Nesux Root Toolkit. Now it will just sit there at the Google screen. I can't get into the bootloader at all. When I use fasttboot devices there is not list. Looking in device manager nothing is there. I've d/l'ed and re-installed the windows (7) drivers, re-installed Java as well as the SDK.
The only way I can get it to shut off is to hold all three buttons down. Not really sure where to go from here. I'd be happy to just get it back to stock.
UPDATE: I've not been about to get into it no matter what I've tried. I've held down VOL+DN Power for over 10 min. Nothing. VOL+UP gives me a black screen. I've tried different usb cable and different ports. Now, having it plugged into the computer and doing VOL+DN I hear it make a sound after about 30 seconds going up like da-TA than right back down like TA-da.
Not really sure what else to do at this point. I have no problem with opening it up at this point.
I've re-installed the win 7 drivers, system still will not see the N7. Should I just throw myself on the mercy of Google and send it in for repair/replace? What will they do and what will it end up costing me? I would just buy a new one, but I keep hearing that the second Gen is coming out in just a month...

aklesh3 said:
I was trying to do the 4.2.2 upgrade via CWM 10.1 Everything seemed to be working ok but that the radio was working and could not connect with AT&T. Tried to go back to 4.1.2 with Nesux Root Toolkit. Now it will just sit there at the Google screen. I can't get into the bootloader at all. When I use fasttboot devices there is not list. Looking in device manager nothing is there. I've d/l'ed and re-installed the windows (7) drivers, re-installed Java as well as the SDK.
The only way I can get it to shut off is to hold all three buttons down. Not really sure where to go from here. I'd be happy to just get it back to stock.
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Hi, aklesh3...
The Google Logo (white text on a black background, with an unlocked padlock symbol if unlocked) IS the bootloader.. as is the white battery charging animation whilst charging.
You're just not in FASTBOOT mode....
From a fully powered down state... press and hold VOL DOWN, whist holding press the POWER button. Your device should now boot into the bootloader in FASTBOOT mode.
If you can't get shut the device down (eg. it's wedged/bootlooping), press AND hold both VOL DOWN and the POWER button for a good 30 seconds or more... the device should boot into the bootloader in FASTBOOT mode.
From here...
Code:
fastboot devices
...should yield a serial number indicating you have a FASTBOOT connection. You should now be free to run whatever FASTBOOT commands you like.
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Checkout this list of Nexus 7 button combinations for more specific details on how to break out of a bootloop....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133986
Rgrds,
Ged.

Nothing.
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried every one of the combos, but nothing. It still just sits at the bootloader screen. fastboot devices shows nothing in the list. What should I try next?
GedBlake said:
Hi, aklesh3...
The Google Logo (white text on a black background, with an unlocked padlock symbol if unlocked) IS the bootloader.. as is the white battery charging animation whilst charging.
You're just not in FASTBOOT mode....
From a fully powered down state... press and hold VOL DOWN, whist holding press the POWER button. Your device should now boot into the bootloader in FASTBOOT mode.
If you can't get shut the device down (eg. it's wedged/bootlooping), press AND hold both VOL DOWN and the POWER button for a good 30 seconds or more... the device should boot into the bootloader in FASTBOOT mode.
From here...
Code:
fastboot devices
...should yield a serial number indicating you have a FASTBOOT connection. You should now be free to run whatever FASTBOOT commands you like.
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Checkout this list of Nexus 7 button combinations for more specific details on how to break out of a bootloop....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133986
Rgrds,
Ged.
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[Q] Nexus 7 stuck

Hi,
my Nexus 7 (2013) is stuck on Google screen...
a few days ago I downloaded a lot of movies via utorrent, and utorrent kept crashing. So i forced stop, removed the app, reinstalled it from google play and continued.
My nexys then suddenly freezed for about 1-2mins before i shut it down via the power buttom, and since then it wont start...I've tried almost everything.
The device is stuck on Google screen. I've tried to boot it through the bootloader, recovery mode etc, but it's still stuck on the google screen. downloaded the nexus root toolkit to unlock my device, but it keeps tellin me i've to enable USB debugging. which I can't since my device won't start.
I've downloaded the SkipSoft Android tookit, but not too familiar with the tookit so haven't really tried anything yet (also not sure which android version i'm running)..
Is there ANYTHING i can do?
EDIT: tried using skipsoft android tookit to unlock bootloader, but when coming to the stage where i've to chose yes or no, the device get stuck and the power button does not respond => I can't chose Yes..
EDIT: So I've tried a few things but nothing seems to work..
downloaded a new adb+fastboot directory from another thread. Fastboot commands seems to work, but when i try and erase boot/cache etc the cmd does nothing...had this line for about 10min:
erasing 'boot'..
nothing happens.. when i unplug my device an error message shows (too many links).
so, fastboot won't erase my boot nor my cache, so i tried to fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img, and it says my bootloader is locked.
fastboot oem lock --> bootloader is alrdy locked
fastboot oem unlock --> stuck at "YES", just as i was when trying with different toolkits.
fastboot -w update image-razor --> Error, failed to load 'img-razor'
soo i'm getting kinda desperate here...
remeber, this was all from a stock rom, no root, no custom rom, just from a freeze when dl movies from utorrent...

i have been stuck like that before. get into to the bootloader screen from where its hung at the google splash screen. once there you can fastboot a factory image.
from the google screen:
1. hold volume up, volume down and power until you get to the screen with the android and its belly open
2. connect to pc
3. download factory image from HERE
4. unzip the tar file you just downloaded and place the contents in your platform-tools folder
5. double click the file named flash-all.bat
6. wait for it to finish and it should boot up just fine.

jase33 said:
from the google screen:
1. hold volume up, volume down and power until you get to the screen with the android and its belly open
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say what? Hold vol.up, vol.down and power until i get to bootloader?
when i press vol up, vold down, and power, holding them all in together from the google screen the device shuts down..
Do you have a youtube tutorial gudie or something?
EDIT:
Also, I've never rooted or done anythign with this tablet except downloading a few apps etc...this crash happened when downloading from utorrent...

The key combination is to be used from being powered off.

Fuzzra said:
The key combination is to be used from being powered off.
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Yeah, and from what i can read it also needs an unlocked bootloader, which i don't have..

just keep holding the keys down. it will shut down. keep holding it will try to boot back up and take you to the bootloader screen. you do not need an unlocked boot loader. all my nexus devices have locked bootloaders, are rooted and run custom roms.

jase33 said:
just keep holding the keys down. it will shut down. keep holding it will try to boot back up and take you to the bootloader screen. you do not need an unlocked boot loader. all my nexus devices have locked bootloaders, are rooted and run custom roms.
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shuts down, then nothing... tried holding it down for about a minute.

skampflens said:
shuts down, then nothing... tried holding it down for about a minute.
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like this

jase33 said:
just keep holding the keys down. it will shut down. keep holding it will try to boot back up and take you to the bootloader screen. you do not need an unlocked boot loader. all my nexus devices have locked bootloaders, are rooted and run custom roms.
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also, should add that i tried to unlock oem via the cmd, tried to flash boot.img but nothing..
when typing fastboot oem unlock, it got stuck at "Yes" when trying to unlock bootloader, and when typing flash boot, it said error, cannot flash boot.img..
AND i'm not running a custom rom, just the standard stock rom

one step at at a time. lets get you to the bootloader screen first. all good things happen from there.

jase33 said:
one step at at a time. lets get you to the bootloader screen first. all good things happen from there.
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uploading a video....
only way i can access fastboot is via volume down and powerbutton..and that's when the device is shut down
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SRfrjR9Y8fI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

OK. but you can get there. yes?

jase33 said:
OK. but you can get there. yes?
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Yes, I can access bootloader (fastboot mode).
tho i don't know which version i'm running..
it's either 4.4.2 (KOT49H) or 4.4 (KRT16S).
however, when running flash-all it says "fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRfrjR9Y8fI&feature=youtu.be

dont worry about version. it does not matter. lets focus on your connection to the device. do you have ADB setup on your pc? if you dont, go to THIS thread and get minimal ADB & fatboot from shimp208. install it and run it.

jase33 said:
dont worry about version. it does not matter. lets focus on your connection to the device. do you have ADB setup on your pc?
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Yeah, at least i think so.. downloaded the adb bundle pack..

plug in your device and type "fastboot devices". tell me if you see a serial number display

jase33 said:
plug in your device and type "fastboot devices". tell me if you see a serial number display
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nope, it says "fastboot" is not recognized as an internal or external command, oparable program or batch file.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLjLdHxuENg&feature=youtu.be

ok. you dont have fastboot. go and install Minimal ADB and Fastboot

jase33 said:
ok. you dont have fastboot. go and install Minimal ADB and Fastboot
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serial nr does show!

great! have you downloaded the factory image for your device yet? get it HERE if you have not. make sure you get the right one. if your device is wifi only select that one, if it had mobile data and a sim card get the one for mobile..

Stuck in Boot Loop

Have searched the forum but came up empty.
Hoping someone can help.
Purchased the phone used back in December and have been using it as-is. Two OTA updates came through fine. The latest OTA update has it stuck in a boot loop.
- I can get to fastboot with power and volume down buttons but all of the options either turn it off or stick it back in the loop again (Essential logo with powered by Android, NO dot animation)
- Can't see it via "adb devices" since developer mode was likely not enabled
- "fastboot devices" can see the phone but can't change slots or do anything else
I saw two other people who've posted something similar but no solution. Is my phone garbage?
Any help is appreciated.

harpoon said:
Have searched the forum but came up empty.
Hoping someone can help.
Purchased the phone used back in December and have been using it as-is. Two OTA updates came through fine. The latest OTA update has it stuck in a boot loop.
- I can get to fastboot with power and volume down buttons but all of the options either turn it off or stick it back in the loop again (Essential logo with powered by Android, NO dot animation)
- Can't see it via "adb devices" since developer mode was likely not enabled
- "fastboot devices" can see the phone but can't change slots or do anything else
I saw two other people who've posted something similar but no solution. Is my phone garbage?
Any help is appreciated.
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Damn, that's a bit unlucky, this March update said it would make recovery from a loop after OTA update easier to recover from, which might just have helped you. Sorry not sure how to help fix at present.

you can try flashing one of these https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681
be sure to pick one with the fastboot images

harpoon said:
- Can't see it via "adb devices" since developer mode was likely not enabled
- "fastboot devices" can see the phone but can't change slots or do anything else
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A couple of questions:
- Is your BL unlocked (or is OEM Unlocking enabled)?
What happens if you try executing "fastboot flashing unlock"? NOTE: this would WIPE your data if successful.
- Can you get to the Recovery mode? It's when you pick "Recovery" option from fastboot mode, see the lying android with an exclamation sign, then hold Power and press VolumeUp to get to the Recovery menu.

kt-Froggy said:
A couple of questions:
- Is your BL unlocked (or is OEM Unlocking enabled)?
What happens if you try executing "fastboot flashing unlock"? NOTE: this would WIPE your data if successful.
- Can you get to the Recovery mode? It's when you pick "Recovery" option from fastboot mode, see the lying android with an exclamation sign, then hold Power and press VolumeUp to get to the Recovery menu.
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Thanks for your response.
- I dont belive OEM unlocking is enabled.
- I can get to the fastboot menu, but the recovery mode option just takes me back to the 'powered by android' logo, not the green dead robot.
- When I try fastboot flashing unlock, I get the below error:
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FAILED (remote: Flashing Unlock is not allowed
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finished. total time: 0.013s
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yenkoPR said:
you can try flashing one of these https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681
be sure to pick one with the fastboot images
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Will this work even though I cannot see the device via adb? AND the device state is "locked".

harpoon said:
- I dont belive OEM unlocking is enabled.
- I can get to the fastboot menu, but the recovery mode option just takes me back to the 'powered by android' logo, not the green dead robot.
- When I try fastboot flashing unlock, I get the below error:
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Dang... :\ Yeah, the last error means you don't have OEM unlock enabled. So, you can't flash the bts image via fastboot. One last thing I could think of is trying to get to recovery by the button combo. Although, if you are correct in saying you don't have USB debug enabled, it won't do much good, i.e. you won't be able to flash an OTA... :\
While device is OFF, press and hold Volume-Up button while pushing Power button to boot.
Your device will now be in Recovery mode. An Android logo with red exclamation mark should appear on screen. Hold the Power button, then press the Volume-Up button one time to see the recovery menu.

can you try this command on bootloader:
fastboot OEM unlock

harpoon said:
Have searched the forum but came up empty.
Hoping someone can help.
Purchased the phone used back in December and have been using it as-is. Two OTA updates came through fine. The latest OTA update has it stuck in a boot loop.
- I can get to fastboot with power and volume down buttons but all of the options either turn it off or stick it back in the loop again (Essential logo with powered by Android, NO dot animation)
- Can't see it via "adb devices" since developer mode was likely not enabled
- "fastboot devices" can see the phone but can't change slots or do anything else
I saw two other people who've posted something similar but no solution. Is my phone garbage?
Any help is appreciated.
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Hi. A long time has passed and I want to know if you have solved your problem. I came across the same)

Rudter said:
Hi. A long time has passed and I want to know if you have solved your problem. I came across the same)
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Nothing ! ..
my ph-1 still into the drawer ! .