When using Fastboot oem unlock to flash the kitkat image, I got this message:
C:\Users\riel>fastboot oem unlock
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FAILED (status read failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 122.501s
Now, I cannot see to get the phone on. When I plug the phone in the PC, I hear the usb connection sound but unknown device. It did boot once after this error, and got me into a fresh 4.3. Then, after turning it off to charge, it is not turning on again.
I saw the red light very shortly, and now it is doing nothing when I press power button or power / vol down.
Any next steps? I only see 'red light fix' but maybe something went wrong with fastboot?
not to get down on you or anything, but fastboot oem unlock does not flash anything. it only unlocks your bootloader. and fastboot oem lock locks it back up. if you are trying to flash the factory image, its also done via fastboot and the bootloader, but there are other commands for it. theres a how to flash the factory image thread in general, you should check it out.
simms22 said:
not to get down on you or anything, but fastboot oem unlock does not flash anything. it only unlocks your bootloader. and fastboot oem lock locks it back up. if you are trying to flash the factory image, its also done via fastboot and the bootloader, but there are other commands for it. theres a how to flash the factory image thread in general, you should check it out.
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I only did fastboot oem unlock for now, and rebooted.
My battery is very dead maybe? It's not turning on anymore, no lights, nothing.
Riel said:
I only did fastboot oem unlock for now, and rebooted.
My battery is very dead maybe? It's not turning on anymore, no lights, nothing.
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It has nothing to do with fastboot. Search for Nexus 4 red light fix on this forum or google. Or let your battery charge for a while.
Riel said:
I only did fastboot oem unlock for now, and rebooted.
My battery is very dead maybe? It's not turning on anymore, no lights, nothing.
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its possible. if you turn off the device, and plug it in, it charges?
have you flashed a custom recovery yet? try charging it a little, the go into your stock recovery(if you didnt flash a custom recovery) and factory reset/wipe data. see if you will boot then.
simms22 said:
its possible. if you turn off the device, and plug it in, it charges?
have you flashed a custom recovery yet? try charging it a little, the go into your stock recovery(if you didnt flash a custom recovery) and factory reset/wipe data. see if you will boot then.
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it failed when he done oem unlock, so he is everything stock.
Now to fix - for me looks like eMMC fail to me,if red light fix dont work, see if u can get your phone to recognize as QHSU_DLOAD so u can use QPST to recover it.
Okay, so there is no screen protector or anything. Not rooted or unlocked or tampered in any way. I've had the phone for 26 hours and then the following happened:
EDIT: YouTube video added https://youtu.be/yAVmTz7MQbQ
I pulled the phone out of my pocket to unlock it. I see the lock screen and put in my pin (yes, I see the actual screen and stuff on it. Let me make that clear.) after I enter my pin successfully the screen locks itself. I contacted Google support and they said to factory reset it. I did the full factory data reset in the recovery mode (again, the screen works. I can see everything to do a FDR and I can see the boot animation) and it starts to boot up. Once I see the "welcome" screen it instantly locks itself. I can hear the audible "latch" locking sound that it makes when you press the power button. I know the buttons are not malfunctioning because they work perfectly fine in bootloader / recovery mode to scroll up and down and select things. I've tried multiple things but nothing seems to work. The problem here is that I want to try and do a factory image but my computer will NOT recognize my Nexus 6P when in recovery mode / bootloader mode. I have all the drivers installed but since I can't access the OS and enable OEM UNLOCKING there is no way to factory flash a factory image is there? Can someone maybe help point me in the right direction? Again, I can NOT access the OS at all whatsoever.
You just need the bootloader unlocked to flash a factory image, you can't enable that from settings o.0 so I guess your down to RMA now.
The command is now "fastboot flashing unlock"
Hey downloading a tool kit from this devices tools sections. Install the latest adb / fastboot binarys and try again
Good luck !
hutzdani said:
You just need the bootloader unlocked to flash a factory image, you can't enable that from settings o.0 so I guess your down to RMA now.
The command is now "fastboot flashing unlock"
Hey downloading a tool kit from this devices tools sections. Install the latest adb / fastboot binarys and try again
Good luck !
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Hi Hutzdani, when I try to run the command it says "remote: oem unlock is not allowed". I have the RMA in progress but 3-5 days with no phone is going to become grueling unfortunately and I want to try everything I can. :S
xandr00 said:
Hi Hutzdani, when I try to run the command it says "remote: oem unlock is not allowed". I have the RMA in progress but 3-5 days with no phone is going to become grueling unfortunately and I want to try everything I can. :S
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Can you run fastboot format cache and format user data? Then will anything happen ?
Sounds like you need to edit the partition that holds the data change for allow OEM unlock - there's a few threads about this on XDA for the N9 and N6 as far as I can remember.
It would seem the ability to flash a fresh system.img would solve this
ive ran into a big problem. i had my OP2 rooted and loaded with CM12. Recently i wanted to revert back to stock to receive all the updates for the phone and in the process of reversing everything, i've managed to lose everything as i was expecting when i was initially going to. Now the bootloader will not unlock with using "fastboot oem unlock". The phone restarts out of fastboot to the 1+ logo then black screen or just sits in a constant boot loop.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
It's sad no one answered your post u know I'm going thru the same problem
Done everything like enable OEM unlock and USB Debugging in developer settings?
all it is ive just gone into developer options after unlocking the bootloader and the setting oem unlocking is turned off, now obvs my bootloader is already unlocked so does this oem unlock need turning on or leaving alone ?
thanks
You are done.
Thanks mate
I was on android device manager and i clicked the button that said "enable lock and erase". After about a second, the buttons were enabled. Now, when i go into developer settings on the phone, OEM unlocking is turned off. Should I worry? I am running Pure Nexus (0802 build). The phone is still on and fully functional, and I have not rebooted it since. I have tried multiple times to re-enable oem unlocking in developer settings, it asks for my pin and after i put it in it stays off. Maybe my custom rom doesn't even have the code in it to mess with anything like that because it knows it is running on an unlocked bootloader? I went into google settings on the phone and unchecked the box that says enable erase and lock and now i am back to not being able to do it in android device manager.
That has nothing to do with it... with your bootloader unlocked that setting is disabled, that's normal. If you bootloader is unlocked, why would you need to enable "OEM Unlocking", it has no function now.