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Hey guys, i've a big problem.
Yesterday, suddently my nexus s didn't boot. It was stucked on Google logo.
It's rooted and it has the cm7 rom.
I tryed to reflash with cw recovery but i have an issue.
I cannot copy nothing on the sdcard partition.
I mount it with recovery and correctly copy the img from my pc. After i sync and dismount but if i remount the sdcard i cannot see the file that i've copied before.
It seems strange because if i try to format sdcard from recovery it says "done" but the data still remain.
After that i tried to lock and reunlock my phone but it fail.
I launch the command fastboot oem unlock, correctly the two-choices window appear, i select yes but on my pc i see (erase fail) and bootload remain unlocked.
Please give me some advice to resurrect my phone.
Thanks for the support, and sorry for my bad english.
Emiliano
fastboot oem unlock wont lock it, use fastboot oem lock.
i need to unlock it. i've locked now i need to unlock.
But the procedure
fastboot oem unlock
fail with erase fail errore.
I had almost the exact same problem yesterday. Tried literally everything and nothing worked. In fact it kept getting a little worse with every battery pull/reboot.
I purposely re locked the boot loader, right before I went to Sprint and paid $38 for a working replacement.
Probably be a good long while before I root another phone.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
After 4.0.4 OTA update device is bricked.
I have experienced the same issue you are discussing here.
A couple of days ago I received an OTA update to android 4.0.4 for my Nexus S device, vodafone UK. My phone is NOT rooted or OEM unlocked. The update downloaded but fails to install on reboot. The phone just returns to the original state, with the update waiting to install.
Any app or software will not work on the device, force closes error. If I attempt to restore to any factory settings or wipe / format the phone by any method you can come up with in a google search!, once the device reboots this change is ignored. If I copy any file on the Mass storage via usb, after the phone reboots the file is gone.
I've attempted to unlock the oem to flash the device in an attempt to resolve this, however when using ./fastboot oem unlock I get the following error:
... FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
It seems the device has been screwed some how after receiving this update. It can only be a hardware error now....
Who is now responsible to fix this? i have had this Nexus S over 1 year now, can I take to Samsung or Vodafone for these guys to get repaired?
Sounds like hardware issue. Have you tried formatting the sdcard in windows or running chkdsk /F.
I Have Same Problem how can i fix it?
LeeVidor said:
I have experienced the same issue you are discussing here.
A couple of days ago I received an OTA update to android 4.0.4 for my Nexus S device, vodafone UK. My phone is NOT rooted or OEM unlocked. The update downloaded but fails to install on reboot. The phone just returns to the original state, with the update waiting to install.
Any app or software will not work on the device, force closes error. If I attempt to restore to any factory settings or wipe / format the phone by any method you can come up with in a google search!, once the device reboots this change is ignored. If I copy any file on the Mass storage via usb, after the phone reboots the file is gone.
I've attempted to unlock the oem to flash the device in an attempt to resolve this, however when using ./fastboot oem unlock I get the following error:
... FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
It seems the device has been screwed some how after receiving this update. It can only be a hardware error now....
Who is now responsible to fix this? i have had this Nexus S over 1 year now, can I take to Samsung or Vodafone for these guys to get repaired?
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please anyone can help me how can i fix my mobile ...
You can't. It's a hardware common issue without any solution. Better sent it to repair. My two cents
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sammme problem har you fix it?
benazhack said:
i need to unlock it. i've locked now i need to unlock.
But the procedure
fastboot oem unlock
fail with erase fail errore.
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please help me if u get the solution plz
zaherrrr said:
please help me if u get the solution plz
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Already been posted, you can't, warranty repair or you need to replace the main board(guessing £100-200?)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
DarkhShadow said:
Already been posted, you can't, warranty repair or you need to replace the main board(guessing £100-200?)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
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Just figured something out, i had the same issues as described above, could only boot the phone with a hair dryer
The new update Jelly Bean 4.1.1 is more forgiving when it comes to booting (probably voltages of the internal SD!! I'm still testing, but as far as i can see now, the phone boots normally again now (no more stuck on the google logo)
My problems:
- Not able to unlock bootloader (erase failed).
- Not possible to boot normally due to faulty internal SD card (only able to boot with the 'hairdryer' trick).
What did i do:
- Just tried the same as the trick on booting: use the hairdryer when fastbooting!!!
- Have everything ready; cmd, fastboot files, drivers etc, phone connected to computer with USB.
- Try to boot it first after heating the phone with the hairdryer (get past the google logo) and then immediately remove the battery.
- Then boot into fastboot mode (power and vol. up).
- Immediately execute the 'fastboot oem unlock' command.
Voila, that did the trick for me. Status OKAY and my bootloader was unlocked.
Then ROOT and update the phone to 4.1.1 with the following instructions:
(not able to unclude link, see webtrickz dot com/guide-to-manually-update-nexus-s-i9020ti9023-to-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean)
That did the trick for me!
NO MORE HAIRDRYER FOR ME!!
OEM unlock FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
Hi
I'm replying to this message to share my experience about the same issu i had.
I bought a broken nexus s on google, auction described the phone as messed up during some software update. When cell got here:
- Bootloader was loading and locked
- Bootloader was reporting no boot image and no recovery
- Recovery was flashed with cwm 6.0.1.0
When trying to oem unlock, I was getting "FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)" no matter what I try. My config was good i've unlocked many nexus s with the same setup.
In recovery I was not able to mount sdcard, system, boot, nothing was working as it should.
After many frustrating hours, i saw this post.. What a stupid idea.. But I have nothing to loose at this point.
I don't have a hair dryer but I do have an oven. I figured the idea was to get the phone really hot..
Set the oven to 170, convection on and cooked the phone without the battery and cover for about 5 minutes until it was really hot but not melting.
Did the oem unlock and guess what.. It worked on first try.
After that I was able to update bootloader, radio, recovery and installed latest cm10. I've wipped the phone a couple of time, tried everything I could think of to test if something is not working, but everything does..
No hair dryer?
Just cook you phone at 170 for 5 minutes.
Worked for me.. go figure..
hetile
TimeClypse said:
Just figured something out, i had the same issues as described above, could only boot the phone with a hair dryer
The new update Jelly Bean 4.1.1 is more forgiving when it comes to booting (probably voltages of the internal SD!! I'm still testing, but as far as i can see now, the phone boots normally again now (no more stuck on the google logo)
My problems:
- Not able to unlock bootloader (erase failed).
- Not possible to boot normally due to faulty internal SD card (only able to boot with the 'hairdryer' trick).
What did i do:
- Just tried the same as the trick on booting: use the hairdryer when fastbooting!!!
- Have everything ready; cmd, fastboot files, drivers etc, phone connected to computer with USB.
- Try to boot it first after heating the phone with the hairdryer (get past the google logo) and then immediately remove the battery.
- Then boot into fastboot mode (power and vol. up).
- Immediately execute the 'fastboot oem unlock' command.
Voila, that did the trick for me. Status OKAY and my bootloader was unlocked.
Then ROOT and update the phone to 4.1.1 with the following instructions:
(not able to unclude link, see webtrickz dot com/guide-to-manually-update-nexus-s-i9020ti9023-to-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean)
That did the trick for me!
NO MORE HAIRDRYER FOR ME!!
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hetile said:
Hi
I'm replying to this message to share my experience about the same issu i had.
I bought a broken nexus s on google, auction described the phone as messed up during some software update. When cell got here:
- Bootloader was loading and locked
- Bootloader was reporting no boot image and no recovery
- Recovery was flashed with cwm 6.0.1.0
When trying to oem unlock, I was getting "FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)" no matter what I try. My config was good i've unlocked many nexus s with the same setup.
In recovery I was not able to mount sdcard, system, boot, nothing was working as it should.
After many frustrating hours, i saw this post.. What a stupid idea.. But I have nothing to loose at this point.
I don't have a hair dryer but I do have an oven. I figured the idea was to get the phone really hot..
Set the oven to 170, convection on and cooked the phone without the battery and cover for about 5 minutes until it was really hot but not melting.
Did the oem unlock and guess what.. It worked on first try.
After that I was able to update bootloader, radio, recovery and installed latest cm10. I've wipped the phone a couple of time, tried everything I could think of to test if something is not working, but everything does..
No hair dryer?
Just cook you phone at 170 for 5 minutes.
Worked for me.. go figure..
hetile
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I'm speechless..hair dryer works for me too!!! THANK YOU GUYS!
Hi,
I've never changed anything on my transformer as far as custom roms, never gained root, never even previously booted into the stock recovery. But after one night i woke up to my tablet being burning hot while it was charging. Further investigation showed that it was just rebooting over and over.
I turned it off. left it off to cool down, turned it on.
Bootloop.
I then downloaded the asus firmware put it on an SD card and followed the steps for installing it through asus recovery.
Bootloop.
I can't seem to find a guide on how to actually get nvflash going which is how i'd assume i should fix this.
By the way, I killed my warranty 6 months ago when my girlfriend stood on my tablet (it was on the bed and she walked on the bed in shoes/heels) and cracked the screen. It's been running fine and when it's on it's not noticible. But obviously without the warranty i'm kind of ****ed for an issue that probably Asus did cause.
This actually happened a few weeks ago but my last effort to fix it went south and i haven't thought about it for a while but now i was thinking of taking another crack at it again..
Short question (TL;DR):
Can someone link me a good guide to get nvflash to put either a better recovery or a new non-corrupt rom on my tablet?
Update1: Okay so people here confirm that I have fastboot enabled. But i don't understand how to use it. I've installed the fastboot driver. I've below posted what outputs when i try to push a CWM recovery to it (it looks fine but doesn't seem to work?).
If anyone has some links to how to use any tools via fastboot or APX to recover from here that would be good. Even if you just want me to dump information just tell me how and i'll run anything.
Update2: This time i found out that the fastboot icon is visible to anyone with JB. But fastboot isn't unlocked unless you run the asus apk. So I do not actually have fastboot enabled. Which explains the strange behaviour below.
Because even after trying to install asus official firmwares from SD card and failing, the only alternative remaining is to send it back to asus.
well you need to get it to boot in order to unlock.
perhaps follow the downgrade instructions in general?
lafester said:
well you need to get it to boot in order to unlock.
perhaps follow the downgrade instructions in general?
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That resulted in a dead android with a red exclaimation mark from his chest cavity.
No dice.
Any other ideas?
Edit: There's a newer version than the one which is on my device, but updating causes it also to die Stupid triangle of death.
I've got 4 options in the pre-boot stuff; which is RCK Android USB and Wipe Data. None of these seem helpful, i was hoping there might be a way to push across using adb but i guess that requires root beforehand.
skythra said:
I've got 4 options in the pre-boot stuff; which is RCK Android USB and Wipe Data. None of these seem helpful, i was hoping there might be a way to push across using adb but i guess that requires root beforehand.
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If the USB option is available, that should mean your tablet is unlocked and you can use fastboot from your PC to flash a custom recovery.
_that said:
If the USB option is available, that should mean your tablet is unlocked and you can use fastboot from your PC to flash a custom recovery.
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Okay, that's odd, well so this is a good thing for me then. I can just follow one of the guides here for pushing a firmware onto it? Can you recommend one?
My understanding is i need to get ADB to work by installing the google tools and then install the ADB driver and something something.. I'm going to go read up now about that and pray to my favourite diety of the minute. I assume there should be one for electronics..
Okay so,
using fastboot, installing the drivers and etc. I tried to flash a custom recovery, but so far it doesn't look like it worked; here's the output:
C:\Users\X\Desktop\Android Tools\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.552s
C:\Users\X\Desktop\Android Tools\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash rec
overy recovery-jb-touch.img
sending 'recovery' (6866 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.867s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.069s]
finished. total time: 0.944s
C:\Users\X\Desktop\Android Tools\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
rebooting...
It doesn't reboot my tablet at all. It doesn't load the recovery from any form of way i can tell. I'm at a loss again. I still can't find a guide to use fastboot to send any kind of stock firmware or custom firmware to the tablet reliably either. So i'd like any tips/links etc please
Okay so i'm still struggling to do this alone with tidbits strewn across the internet. Every time i think i find new information I find that I can't follow the directions because something else prevents me. Having 'fastboot' hasn't really helped me at all yet.
So i found http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28077/bricked-my-asus-tf300t-manual-jb-update and i was using that but i'm still finding odd behaviour with fastboot.
Let me explain in copy-paste form.
C:\Users\Skythra\Desktop\Android\platform-tools>fastboot devices
???????????? fastboot
C:\Users\Skythra\Desktop\Android\platform-tools>fastboot devices
015d262e990c0c08 fastboot
C:\Users\Skythra\Desktop\Android\platform-tools>fastboot flash system 01\blob
sending 'system' (800199 KB)...
OKAY [ 97.595s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.067s]
finished. total time: 97.665s
C:\Users\Skythra\Desktop\Android\platform-tools>fastboot devices
???????????? fastboot
After using fastboot and issuing a second command it then stops for a countable 5 seconds before it says ??????????. If i say fastboot -reboot it says success but it doesn't reboot the device. So here's my understanding of what happens:
I load the staging area with the BLOB file
The copy to the staging area completes
fastboot goes crazy and doesn't listen
Next reboot doesn't do the android installation (which people have mentioned but i've never myself seen)
I go back to bootloop
If i reboot the device go back to fastboot, i can send it the command "Fastboot reboot" and it works. But any command after "Flash" nothing else works.
So far there has been a total of zero success I'm about to try the older firmware instead of the same as what's on there.
Okay so,
Apparently because fastboot is there doesn't mean I have real fastboot access. Probably this is my guess:
With JB you get access to Read from fastboot but it doesn't truthfully write. The simplified USB interface might take your data as it's sent but it's probably not storing it.
So the truth of the matter is i'm NOT unlocked. It's exactly as I thought.
I can't recover from trying to move any version of asus official firmware onto the ext_sd card and RCKing (even when the android man appears to work correctly, it still clearly restarts into a bootloop).
So this has to be sent back. Which likely won't be covered by warranty due to the fact that many months ago my now-ex-girlfriend broke the screen.
Fantastic
I can only assume this: Either the OTA update failed and my TF700 then melted itself from the charging+bootloop heat. Else when my ex stood on it, it broke something that would only be used in recovery.
Either way I'm down my 700AUD item and sad for the experience
Ahwell. I suppose i could change the title of this to "Solved" and update the OP as "Unfixable".
Seeing what ASUS was telling people fixing their Prime would cost for user incurred damage, you might be better off just to buy a new tablet. Fixing it would only save a hundred bucks or so and they might void your warranty.
Hi all, first time posting here.
Last night my Nexus 5 turned itself off while charging. Today it won't boot past the white Google logo. I had an unlocked bootloader, but was stock with no root and no custom rom, 5.1.1. I've had the phone for over a year, and bought it from a high street UK phone chain on contract, not from the Play Store.
I've spent the last 6 hours learning, trying, reading, trying again, watching videos, trying not to punch things, but nothing works.
Here's what I know:
I can boot into fastboot mode
bootloader is unlocked
recovery mode is a permanent black screen
"adb devices" cmd in platform-tools does not find the device
I've tried tweaking Windows 7 drivers (driver for fastboot etc.) but to no avail (including using clockwork)
"fastboot devices" returns the serial code for my phone
flashing using fastboot commands gives me "flash write failure" on bootloader-hammerhead xxx .img
even "fastboot erase boot" does not work ("failed to erase partition")
"fastboot reboot-bootloader" simply turns the phone off (does not attempt even a normal reboot)
Unless I'm in some weird driver quandary, I fear my phone may be beyond help as even simple commands do not work. Any help is much appreciated.
I should mention that "flash-all" doesn't work within platform-tools.
The reboot doesn't actually work. When it says "waiting for device" I manually restart the phone into fastboot myself. And then I get write errors, when it's starts pushing the radio file.
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Pete.D said:
Hi all, first time posting here.
Last night my Nexus 5 turned itself off while charging. Today it won't boot past the white Google logo. I had an unlocked bootloader, but was stock with no root and no custom rom, 5.1.1. I've had the phone for over a year, and bought it from a high street UK phone chain on contract, not from the Play Store.
I've spent the last 6 hours learning, trying, reading, trying again, watching videos, trying not to punch things, but nothing works.
Here's what I know:
I can boot into fastboot mode
bootloader is unlocked
recovery mode is a permanent black screen
"adb devices" cmd in platform-tools does not find the device
I've tried tweaking Windows 7 drivers (driver for fastboot etc.) but to no avail (including using clockwork)
"fastboot devices" returns the serial code for my phone
flashing using fastboot commands gives me "flash write failure" on bootloader-hammerhead xxx .img
even "fastboot erase boot" does not work ("failed to erase partition")
"fastboot reboot-bootloader" simply turns the phone off (does not attempt even a normal reboot)
Unless I'm in some weird driver quandary, I fear my phone may be beyond help as even simple commands do not work. Any help is much appreciated.
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Did you try locking the bootloader, and then unlocking it again?
Oh god , I think you have a hard bricked nexus .
Schoat333 said:
Did you try locking the bootloader, and then unlocking it again?
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Good idea! Just tried it (which it let me do) but still getting write errors running flash-all.
Given the sudden shutdown and corruption on your phone along with failure to write and to erase sounds like your internal memory has gone bad.
If that's the case you won't be able to to anything. I had the same occur with a Galaxy S3 last year and the nand memory went bad. Unfortunately it does happen, but not often. My guess is you now have a paperweight
I have nexus 5 and its bricked, But I cant unlock the bootloader using fastboot ( I think its because I have no rom ). Is there an another way to unlock the bootloader?
The fastboot oem unblock solution is the only way to unlock the bootloader without root.
If you can't do it then you may have hardware issues.
The phone is recognized when you run the command "fastboot devices"? If not, you'll need to get it recognized before issuing fastboot commands to the phone.
If you have no ROM, and the bootloader is locked, you've gotten yourself into quite the predicament. What error does fastboot oem unlock give you?
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
drsn0w said:
If you have no ROM, and the bootloader is locked, you've gotten yourself into quite the predicament. What error does fastboot oem unlock give you?
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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I get the devices to oem unlock, but when i try and flash a bootloader.img I get this
Owners-iMac:image-hammerhead-mob31e EmilyHaugen$ ./fastboot flash bootloader /Users/owner/Desktop/android/hammerhead-mob31e/bootloader-hammerhead-hhz20h.img
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'bootloader' (3124 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.308s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.488s
Strange
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After unlocking the bootloader, reboot the phone into fastboot and see if the bootloader is still unlocked.
Try relocking the bootloader and then unlock it. If the phone performs a factory wipe in a few seconds, the emmc chip may be damaged.
Primokorn said:
The fastboot oem unblock solution is the only way to unlock the bootloader without root.
If you can't do it then you may have hardware issues.
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I think that has a root.
My friend rooted it and than remove kingroot (without unroot).
What the way to unlock bootloader with root?
Thenx
matan10 said:
I think that has a root.
My friend rooted it and than remove kingroot (without unroot).
What the way to unlock bootloader with root?
Thenx
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BootUnlocker app
Primokorn said:
BootUnlocker app
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But I have no rom. And I cant install rom because my bootloader is locked
matan10 said:
But I have no rom. And I cant install rom because my bootloader is locked
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I know but you asked. No other solution mate except going to a repair shop.
Hello,
First some background and credits:
There are a few ways to brick a phone. Sometimes it's lack of experience, sometimes it's an accidental thing, sometimes there just isn't an explanation for what went wrong... (share your experience here, if you wish). For me, I owned my OPO for about 4 hours before things went wrong. First thing I did was I rooted it and installed TWRP. After creating a nandroid backup of the stock image I installed my favorite custom ROM and restored all my apps with TiBu. Everything was great and configured just the way I wanted it. I then wiped my old phone (Nexus 4), installed a new ROM and got it all ready for my wife. She was so excited to get rid of her GNex and move up to the N4. But then, for whatever reason, I opened an app on my OPO that I used to manage, download, and install kernels with. It came up with "there is a new kernel update!" and I instinctively clicked on "Install". 10 seconds later my phone was bricked. Nothing came on the screen, no fastboot, no recovery, nothing to boot to, no way to send data to and from it. The second the screen went black and the phone became lifeless I got that wretched feeling in my gut as I realized I just flashed a N4 kernel on my new OPO. Restoring the kernel management app with TiBu made it act like it's still running on my old phone, and in my excitement I didn't take a second to think things through...
I received a bit of consolation when a quick XDA search revealed that I am not the only dumbass to brick his phone this very way. I joined forces with some pretty smart and desperate people and tried different things, all described in the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/wrong-kernel-black-screen-fastboot-adb-t2835696. Unfortunately it took us what seemed like many long weeks to figure it all out. Well, in the end a solution was found and I documented it in the the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55024864&postcount=136.
This was a few months ago, but I recently noticed many people continue to search for these directions and have problems finding them hidden among many pages and other threads, so I've decided to put this stand alone thread with these, now updated, directions.
Let me get one more thing straight, for the record. I did not find the way to unbrick the OPO. In fact I wasn't even the very first one to do it. It was a collective effort of few people who tried many different approaches and ideas, and I eventually documented these steps for others to follow. Being said, the following people deserve credit as well: @os_man, @rezor92, @Mnt-XDA. If I am forgetting other significant names and efforts, I apologize.
***CAUTION***
The following instructions are for hardware bricked devices ONLY and will not work on soft bricked devices. To determine whether your device is soft or hard bricked, click the button below:
Hardware brick
A hardware bricked OPO has nothing but a black screen (nothing ever comes on the screen, not even a boot logo), it might vibrate when a power button is pressed and held for 20 seconds, has no Recovery partition, no adb mode, and no fastboot partition. The device might be detected in Linux and you might be able to even send commands to it. In Windows, the bricked OPO should be detected as QHSUSB_BULK USB. You might have a bricked OPO as a result of flashing a kernel meant for a different device (or a ROM meant for another device that included a kernel), tinkering with the boot logo or bootloader, or your attempt of unlocking the bootloader resulted in corrupting the boot partition.
Software brick
Please do not attempt to use these directions if your phone is soft bricked. A software bricked OPO is one that might be stuck in a bootloop, but has a working bootloader, recovery partition, fastboot, or adb. If you press the power button and images appear on the screen and you are able to enter fastboot mode (Power + VolUP) or recovery (Power + VolDOWN) then your device is soft bricked. This thread does not encompass soft brick recovery, the instructions below do not apply and will not work on these phones. Consult other threads for help on soft bricked devices.
If based on the above explanation of differences between soft and hard bricks you determined your device is hard bricked, here's what you will need to do...
1:
Download Color.zip from https://goo.gl/iDby26
After downloading, unzip the archive on your computer.
2:
Next, you need proper Windows drivers. There are architectural differences between Windows XP and Windows 7/8, so follow the directions below that pertain to you. One quick note about the drivers: the installation and process is very simple and straightforward on Windows XP (I also tested successfully on Windows 2003), but proves to be quite a challenge when running on Windows 7 or 8. Over and over people report issues when attempting the unbrick procedure on Windows 7/8, some have more luck than others. Being said, if you have access to a Windows XP computer, I highly recommend that you use that. If you have no choice but to use a Windows 7 or 8 computer and have problems, please share them here and read others' experiences.
So first, by now you probably tried a few different things to fix your phone and you've already installed some drivers, including Qualcomm USB drivers for 9006 and 9008. My best advice is to uninstall the drivers you tried so far and use the ones listed below. Go to Device Manager, right click on the bricked USB device (QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008) and go to Properties, click on Driver, then select Uninstall. Check the box to remove driver files, if prompted. Then:
2a:
Windows XP users:
You are in luck, driver installation is straightforward. Go to the extracted Color.zip folder and find Driver.iso. Extract Driver.iso. Inside the extracted folder find Setup.exe. Run Setup.exe to install the drivers. The installer is Chinese, but all you need to do is click through the prompts.
2b:
Windows 7 and Windows 8:
These operating systems block unsigned driver installations by default. Follow these steps (thanks @nag4pl for testing these):
Download and extract these Qualcomm 2012 drivers: https://goo.gl/cIKnFZ. Connect your bricked phone and let Windows do its thing.
Now something very essential you need to do here is to execute two commands to allow you to install unsigned drivers for QHUSB_BULK. Click on Start Menu > Type cmd.exe > Right Click and Run as Administrator.
In the CMD window type in the following commands (hit enter after each):
Code:
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
Code:
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
After both the commands should run successfully, restart your computer.
You can now proceed to install unsigned drivers from the file you downloaded. Open Device Manager, you should be seeing ugly yellow warning under other devices for QHUSB_BULK. Right click on the name and select Update Driver Software > Browse my Computer for driver software. For driver software location provide the path where you have extracted Qualcomm 2012 drivers you downloaded and make sure 'Include Subfolders' is checked. Proceed through all the installation prompts ignoring any warnings.
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Once you have the drivers straightened out, connect your bricked phone to the computer and start it up by holding VolUp + Power to about 10 seconds, and let the computer do its thing. Don't install drivers if they are not installed by itself. Instead launch Msm8974DownloadTool.exe as Administrator (right click on Msm8974DownloadTool.exe and select "Run as administrator") from the extracted Color.zip archive. It will scan all the COM ports and find the phone. That's the one line that looks different in the list. The list is just a list of your com ports and devices. If you unplug the phone and move it to another port, it will show your bricked phone on a different line.
Clicking on "Enum" just rescans the busses. Clicking the big square button in upper right corner scans the phone and reports what's good and what's not. It takes a minute for the scan to finish.
If you don't see your phone in the list of com devices, try unplugging/plugging in your phone a couple times, and rebooting it with VolUP + Power (hold 10 seconds). You will see it in Device Manager as well.
Once you see the phone in the list, click Start. You should see the programs start writing different files to the phone. Each time it writes a file you'll see a progress bar. Once you see this process happening, smile, you know you will be good to go... After all files are written, the com line with your device will turn green. You're good, unplug and reboot your phone. It will boot to ColorOS, the Chinese OS that comes on OPO.
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Your phone is no longer bricked. You now have a few options to get back to stock. The easiest way is to use a toolkit from http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/oneplus-one-toolkit-manudroid19-gui-t2807418, or you can flash an image manually by following directions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541. Download the proper image zip and after extracting it, run the following commands in fastboot mode:
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fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn
fastboot flash dbi sdi.mbn
fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash LOGO logo.bin
Make sure you have the proper image. I accidentally installed the 16GB version on my 64GB OPO first time and obviously didn't get 64GB of space.
That's about it. I think if people are still having problems then it's likely due to drivers, or Windows 7/8 issue.
Good luck! Share your experience here and let me know if I can improve this thread.
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I saw this guide but its for one plus one.
Its any way to do this guide for nexus 5?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732/page40
This is the link
Can you boot into fastboot mode? If you can, connect the phone, run the fast boot command "fastboot oem unlock".
audit13 said:
Can you boot into fastboot mode? If you can, connect the phone, run the fast boot command "fastboot oem unlock".
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I ran this command but it still locked. I think because its need to reboot after run the unlock command, but I cant reboot because I have no rom.
After you type "fastboot oem unlock", you should get a prompt on the phone to say "yes".
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After you type "fastboot oem unlock", you should get a prompt on the phone to say "yes".
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Right. I did it and its looks like its unlocked, but after reboot to bootloader it was back seems locked.
If the bootloader relocks itself on reboot, the Emmc chip is damaged and needs to be replaced.
audit13 said:
If the bootloader relocks itself on reboot, the Emmc chip is damaged and needs to be replaced.
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How much does a repair for switch emmc chip?
If I buy this chip, can I switch it alone?
It's the memory chip on the motherboard that needs to be replaced. Unless you have specialized soldering equipment, the best solution would be to find a nexus 5 with a smashed screen and working internal components.
I was using the camera on my pixel and it just shut off. It wouldn't turn back on. I had to hold the power button down for almost a minute before it booted back up. Now I'm stuck on the bootloader screen with no way to get into recovery. Clicking on recovery brings me to a failed to load recovery message.
I'm rooted on 7.1.1 December update, unlocked bootloader, stock rom and recovery.
I've tried reading the forum's before posting but im stumped. I've tried flashing the factory image via flash-all bat, but I get stuck at writing 'bootloader'... I've tried flashing twrp with basically the same amount of success, it just saying 'booting' after I run the fastboot boot recovery command. I've tried basically every option in the skipsoft tool kit. Many of the different things I've tried seem to end up getting stuck at the bootloader portion of whatever it is I'm trying to do.
Slot b is the current slot, I feel like that has something to do with it, bl is listed as N/A on the bootloader screen. I successfully ran the fastboot active_slot command to switch to slot a, but when I rebooted slot b is still active. I can't relock the bootloader either, tried that, it says successfully locked, then it reboots and it's still unlocked.
I'm not in front of my PC right now and can give more specific details if anyone has any suggestions.
llong31 said:
I was using the camera on my pixel and it just shut off. It wouldn't turn back on. I had to hold the power button down for almost a minute before it booted back up. Now I'm stuck on the bootloader screen with no way to get into recovery. Clicking on recovery brings me to a failed to load recovery message.
I'm rooted on 7.1.1 December update, unlocked bootloader, stock rom and recovery.
I've tried reading the forum's before posting but im stumped. I've tried flashing the factory image via flash-all bat, but I get stuck at writing 'bootloader'... I've tried flashing twrp with basically the same amount of success, it just saying 'booting' after I run the fastboot boot recovery command. I've tried basically every option in the skipsoft tool kit. Many of the different things I've tried seem to end up getting stuck at the bootloader portion of whatever it is I'm trying to do.
Slot b is the current slot, I feel like that has something to do with it, bl is listed as N/A on the bootloader screen. I successfully ran the fastboot active_slot command to switch to slot a, but when I rebooted slot b is still active. I can't relock the bootloader either, tried that, it says successfully locked, then it reboots and it's still unlocked.
I'm not in front of my PC right now and can give more specific details if anyone has any suggestions.
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If you can access bootloader, you're still OK. Take a breath, grab a recent adb/fastboot download. The Minimal ADB 1.41 copy isn't the latest but it'll work for this purpose. Redo your flash-all.bat. Be patient. May need to flash boota and bootb if you receive errors about boot slots. Search for CZ Eddie's flash-all instructions if unsure.
llong31 said:
I was using the camera on my pixel and it just shut off. It wouldn't turn back on. I had to hold the power button down for almost a minute before it booted back up. Now I'm stuck on the bootloader screen with no way to get into recovery. Clicking on recovery brings me to a failed to load recovery message.
I'm rooted on 7.1.1 December update, unlocked bootloader, stock rom and recovery.
I've tried reading the forum's before posting but im stumped. I've tried flashing the factory image via flash-all bat, but I get stuck at writing 'bootloader'... I've tried flashing twrp with basically the same amount of success, it just saying 'booting' after I run the fastboot boot recovery command. I've tried basically every option in the skipsoft tool kit. Many of the different things I've tried seem to end up getting stuck at the bootloader portion of whatever it is I'm trying to do.
Slot b is the current slot, I feel like that has something to do with it, bl is listed as N/A on the bootloader screen. I successfully ran the fastboot active_slot command to switch to slot a, but when I rebooted slot b is still active. I can't relock the bootloader either, tried that, it says successfully locked, then it reboots and it's still unlocked.
I'm not in front of my PC right now and can give more specific details if anyone has any suggestions.
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Download the toolkit and choose option to download and install the latest factory build and when it asks if you want to erase data type n (no) so you will not lose anything. Just make sure you are on the slot that was active which i believe u said was b
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If you can access bootloader, you're still OK. Take a breath, grab a recent adb/fastboot download. The Minimal ADB 1.41 copy isn't the latest but it'll work for this purpose. Redo your flash-all.bat. Be patient. May need to flash boota and bootb if you receive errors about boot slots. Search for CZ Eddie's flash-all instructions if unsure.
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Thanks for the quick response, but the suggestion did not work. I had previsouly tried a version of what CZ Eddie said ( my adb drivers werent updated and I didnt palce the factory image in the same folder as minimal adb). I followed the guide to a T this time with the same result. The below is the same for boot_a and boot_b
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash boot_a boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (24821 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.643s]
writing 'boot_a'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 1.212s
and this is what I get when trying to run the actual bat file
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>flash-all.bat
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'bootloader_b' (32728 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.876s]
writing 'bootloader_b'...
It just sits there until I cancel the job, I let it run for about 15 min, which is prob 15 min longer than it should take for that particular portion of the batch. My bootloader is ****ed...
llong31 said:
Thanks for the quick response, but the suggestion did not work. I had previsouly tried a version of what CZ Eddie said ( my adb drivers werent updated and I didnt palce the factory image in the same folder as minimal adb). I followed the guide to a T this time with the same result.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash boot_a boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (24821 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.643s]
writing 'boot_a'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 1.212s
and this is what I get when trying to run the actual bat file
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>flash-all.bat
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'bootloader_b' (32728 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.876s]
writing 'bootloader_b'...
It just sits there until I cancel the job, I let it run for about 15 min, which is prob 15 min longer than it should take for that particular portion of the batch. My bootloader is ****ed...
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Well, you're always welcome to send it to me. I'll fix it at no charge one time, plus shipping. I have a team of testers whose only tasks are to break phones, tablets, laptops just so we can put them back together.
llong31 said:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot
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Get off of minimal and on to Google's fastboot. May not help but there have been a far number of problems with this phone and minimal to not try.
Sounds like when I lost a recovery in one slot doing a sideload in TWRP. I did the temp TWRP load and then added TWRP properly from there. No issues after.
llong31 said:
Thanks for the quick response, but the suggestion did not work. I had previsouly tried a version of what CZ Eddie said ( my adb drivers werent updated and I didnt palce the factory image in the same folder as minimal adb). I followed the guide to a T this time with the same result. The below is the same for boot_a and boot_b
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash boot_a boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (24821 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.643s]
writing 'boot_a'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 1.212s
and this is what I get when trying to run the actual bat file
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>flash-all.bat
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'bootloader_b' (32728 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.876s]
writing 'bootloader_b'...
It just sits there until I cancel the job, I let it run for about 15 min, which is prob 15 min longer than it should take for that particular portion of the batch. My bootloader is ****ed...
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I had to do the flash all once because I wiped the whole OS. I just ran it without specifying _a or _b and it worked like a charm. I think where to flash it is in the bat file so it puts it in the right place on its on. I didn't take out the -w to save my data.
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Get off of minimal and on to Google's fastboot. May not help but there have been a far number of problems with this phone and minimal to not try.
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This was going to be my suggestion. It's all I ever use when flashing through fastboot.
Also, as I believe the above poster stated, I don't specify_a or_b when flashing stuff. It usually just works for me.
Hope you get it all working again. If you can access the bootloader, I believe you will be able to.
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This was going to be my suggestion. It's all I ever use when flashing through fastboot.
Also, as I believe the above poster stated, I don't specify_a or_b when flashing stuff. It usually just works for me.
Hope you get it all working again. If you can access the bootloader, I believe you will be able to.
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I am not so sure minimal even supports dual partitions. It's latest version is from April. Long before all of this. Might be why people are getting in trouble. It works if you don't specify partition sometimes it seems....We might be on to something here.
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Well, you're always welcome to send it to me. I'll fix it at no charge one time, plus shipping. I have a team of testers whose only tasks are to break phones, tablets, laptops just so we can put them back together.
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Interest to know what you do? Can I have a job
aholeinthewor1d said:
Interest to know what you do? Can I have a job
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We're a mobile app developer for vertical markets (doctors, lawyers, engineers, warehousing). We put ourselves in customers' position to test our apps. We find ways to break mobile devices, from OS to drivers to incompatibilities to external environment (temperature, sand, rain, etc) in order to error-trap potential issues that users may encounter. We haven't bricked a phone by accident in a long while. If we brick something, we know what we did. That's why I'm speechless that average Pixel users in these forums can brick their phones.
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We're a mobile app developer for vertical markets (doctors, lawyers, engineers, warehousing). We put ourselves in customers' position to test our apps. We find ways to break mobile devices, from OS to external environment (temperature, sand, rain, etc) in order to error-trap potential issues that users may encounter. We haven't bricked a phone by accident in a long while. If we brick something, we know what we did. That's why I'm speechless that average Pixel users in these forums can brick their phones.
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That sounds awesome. Here I am doing tech support from home talking to miserable people all day. But yea it's crazy how quiet it is here. I don't really mean the development side of things either I just mean on general any time I've had new phones at release the forums were filled with people. Hoping after the holidays and as back orders are shipping we get some more people here that can figure this out.
I know I won't have an issue rooting and installing TWRP but I'm a little nervous to flash Roms before this is figured out. Especially because I don't stay on any single ROM that long I like to experiment.
aholeinthewor1d said:
That sounds awesome. Here I am doing tech support from home talking to miserable people all day. But yea it's crazy how quiet it is here. I don't really mean the development side of things either I just mean on general any time I've had new phones at release the forums were filled with people. Hoping after the holidays and as back orders are shipping we get some more people here that can figure this out.
I know I won't have an issue rooting and installing TWRP but I'm a little nervous to flash Roms before this is figured out. Especially because I don't stay on any single ROM that long I like to experiment.
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Understandable.
quangtran1 said:
We're a mobile app developer for vertical markets (doctors, lawyers, engineers, warehousing). We put ourselves in customers' position to test our apps. We find ways to break mobile devices, from OS to drivers to incompatibilities to external environment (temperature, sand, rain, etc) in order to error-trap potential issues that users may encounter. We haven't bricked a phone by accident in a long while. If we brick something, we know what we did. That's why I'm speechless that average Pixel users in these forums can brick their phones.
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Im sure you didnt mean it this way, but I didnt do anything to brick the phone, I wasnt flashing twrp or a rom or tinkering in any way. I was just using the camera. The more I'm reading, the more I'm thinking its an issue with 7.1.1 with pixels and nexus 6p's. I RMA'd this, we'll see what happens.
Also, I tried google fastboot, didnt change anything. I let it sit for about an hour and a half running the flash-all.bat, just sits at writing 'bootloader'... One thing I noticed is that with google fastboot is says writing 'bootloader' whereas with minimal adb is gave a specific slot it was writing.
llong31 said:
Im sure you didnt mean it this way, but I didnt do anything to brick the phone, I wasnt flashing twrp or a rom or tinkering in any way. I was just using the camera. The more I'm reading, the more I'm thinking its an issue with 7.1.1 with pixels and nexus 6p's. I RMA'd this, we'll see what happens.
Also, I tried google fastboot, didnt change anything. I let it sit for about an hour and a half running the flash-all.bat, just sits at writing 'bootloader'... One thing I noticed is that with google fastboot is says writing 'bootloader' whereas with minimal adb is gave a specific slot it was writing.
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There was absolutely no negative connotation in my comment. I stand by my experience that it is improbable to brick a smart phone. I'm just flabbergasted that it happens at all to anyone these days.
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Also, I tried google fastboot, didnt change anything. I let it sit for about an hour and a half running the flash-all.bat, just sits at writing 'bootloader'... One thing I noticed is that with google fastboot is says writing 'bootloader' whereas with minimal adb is gave a specific slot it was writing.
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Thank you for trying, and letting us know how it went. We are all still gathering info, and it's much appreciated. And glad they rma'd it.
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Thank you for trying, and letting us know how it went. We are all still gathering info, and it's much appreciated. And glad they rma'd it.
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Thought I'd add a little more info...
I cant charge the phone with the phone being turned off. It shows a picture of a battery being charged, screen goes black and flashes a a blue horizontal line across it (kinda like its glitching out). It does this about 3 times and then it automatically turns on without me pushing the power button. Not sure whats causing this, but its strange to say the least.
I made sure I had the latest SDK on my pc, been trying a bunch of different fastboot commands to try and wipe the thing and start over. Every command I run results in- FAILED (remote: failed to erase partition).
I tried searching this error, and its not looking good, most people just RMA'd their devices with many believing the internal sd is corrupted. I hope they accept it back, I checked the tamper flag, and its not on, unlocked is showing as on though (obviously).
llong31 said:
Thought I'd add a little more info...
I cant charge the phone with the phone being turned off. It shows a picture of a battery being charged, screen goes black and flashes a a blue horizontal line across it (kinda like its glitching out). It does this about 3 times and then it automatically turns on without me pushing the power button. Not sure whats causing this, but its strange to say the least.
I made sure I had the latest SDK on my pc, been trying a bunch of different fastboot commands to try and wipe the thing and start over. Every command I run results in- FAILED (remote: failed to erase partition).
I tried searching this error, and its not looking good, most people just RMA'd their devices with many believing the internal sd is corrupted. I hope they accept it back, I checked the tamper flag, and its not on, unlocked is showing as on though (obviously).
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Sure, a corrupt system would certainly cause the battery replenishment logic to misbehave. It won't know when to fast charge, when to maintain, when to trickle, etc.
llong31 said:
Thought I'd add a little more info...
I cant charge the phone with the phone being turned off. It shows a picture of a battery being charged, screen goes black and flashes a a blue horizontal line across it (kinda like its glitching out). It does this about 3 times and then it automatically turns on without me pushing the power button. Not sure whats causing this, but its strange to say the least.
I made sure I had the latest SDK on my pc, been trying a bunch of different fastboot commands to try and wipe the thing and start over. Every command I run results in- FAILED (remote: failed to erase partition).
I tried searching this error, and its not looking good, most people just RMA'd their devices with many believing the internal sd is corrupted. I hope they accept it back, I checked the tamper flag, and its not on, unlocked is showing as on though (obviously).
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Did you have an outdated fastboot binary? If you can still get in bootloader, I'd try with the good fastboot from the Android SDK.