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[Q] Bricked Xoom, flashing not working. HELP!

I believe I'm bricked, and when I installed the moto stock .img and tried to flash them, I get an <unknown error> in command prompt. Please help me! can anyone give me some step by step instructions for a fix? thanks!

This may be a dumb question but I need to ask, are you using adb and can you get into fastboot?
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This is how I unbricked my xoom it will take you back to stock 3.0, then you will have to wait for the over the air updates before you can root again. Any questions, please ask. I have bricked my xoom a few times. Lol.
tabletroms.com/forums/xoom-general-discussion/1268-how-unbrick-your-moto-xoom.html
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johnny0911 said:
This may be a dumb question but I need to ask, are you using adb and can you get into fastboot?
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Yes I'm using adb, and yes, I'm in fastboot.

you must be in bootloader for fastboot commands(adb reboot bootloader)
put 4 stock .img files in platform-tools or tools(from where you are running fastboot)
that should do it.
needless to say your your bootloader must be unlocked for fastboot commands.
.................
the commands are given at motodev website.

rohit3192 said:
you must be in bootloader for fastboot commands(adb reboot bootloader)
put 4 stock .img files in platform-tools or tools(from where you are running fastboot)
that should do it.
needless to say your your bootloader must be unlocked for fastboot commands.
.................
the commands are given at motodev website.
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I am in Fastboot protocol support. I try flashing the 4 stock .img in platform-tools, and I get errors.
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.253s
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (262144 KB)...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.637s
See, it isn't working. any advice! I really hope I didn't pay $700 for a paper weight!!

I also get the OK, then it fails and says this...
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.727s]
writing 'boot'...
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 1.319s
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (262144 KB)...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.636s
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (12288 KB)...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.637s
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

I expect that you have copied all contents of "tools" folder to platform-tools folder.
Your bootloader must be unlocked to accept commands.
check the result of fastboot oem unlock.
Second : when xoom is not in bootloader mode type adb devices and check whether serial no of xoom is displayed.
Also recheck that you have java dev kit.
You may uninstall and then reinstall android sdk.
More than that I can not think of problem.
May be someone else.

rohit3192 said:
I expect that you have copied all contents of "tools" folder to platform-tools folder.
Your bootloader must be unlocked to accept commands.
check the result of fastboot oem unlock.
Second : when xoom is not in bootloader mode type adb devices and check whether serial no of xoom is displayed.
Also recheck that you have java dev kit.
You may uninstall and then reinstall android sdk.
More than that I can not think of problem.
May be someone else.
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I have copied all of "tools" into platform tools. However, I cannot check adb devices, because I cannot leave the "Dual Core technology" screen. It's stuck on that. I cannot even enter recovery mode! I will attempt to reinstal java dev kit, and android SDK. And I will post my reply on how that works. Thanks for your patience with me. I'm just quite frustrated nothing has worked so far...

V0nice said:
I have copied all of "tools" into platform tools. However, I cannot check adb devices, because I cannot leave the "Dual Core technology" screen. It's stuck on that. I cannot even enter recovery mode! I will attempt to reinstal java dev kit, and android SDK. And I will post my reply on how that works. Thanks for your patience with me. I'm just quite frustrated nothing has worked so far...
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I'm in the same boat as you, and with no good help. I'm getting the same answers, although my errors are a bit different than yours. If you somehow find an answer, PLEASE let me know.

hocplyr98 said:
I'm in the same boat as you, and with no good help. I'm getting the same answers, although my errors are a bit different than yours. If you somehow find an answer, PLEASE let me know.
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Got it to work. I Google'd my issue, and I came up with a few possible issues. 1 being the usb cable, and the other being the usb port. Mine was a stock cable, so that wasn't the issue. But when I plugged the usb cable into the back of my pc (directly to the motherboards usb's) it worked, and I did not encounter the "command write failed"! successfully flashed the boot and system... ect img. and now my xoom is working!

Encryption Unsuccessful - after Fastboot Flash of MZ600_HRI39

Okay so I seem to be bricked in some way. I've tried fastboot flash a couple times using OEM images "MZ600-HRI39" I have the MZ600 so that should be correct. Attached is my log of what I did, I eventually tried erasing each partition and rebooting to see if that changes anything, theoretically I thought I should be stuck since everything should be erased. However, I still get the Encryption Unsuccessful screen. Went back to recovery and tried wipe/user data and cache get BP fail with user data wipe and tried e: dev a few times before it stops. Then reboot and same. Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks in advance.
P.S. I just want to get a stock IMG in so I can OTA to current; trying to keep stock so I can exchange at BB for newer tablet.
I just kept the log short only showing I erased each partition, but pretty much same result with flashes. All performed and got OKAY.

I think I got it. So you erased all the partitions... No problems when erasing data and cache, but the worst error you did was erasing "boot" and "recovery", so what I recommend you to do is:
1 - (easier way) download LordAIOTool for LINUX! (Windows is outdated...) and use Stock Install tool
2 - (harder way) follow this guide:
- Open cmd
- Plug your Xoom on fastboot
- go to Stock Files folder
- type fastboot flash (not sure if it's flash or install, anyway, I think it's flash ) boot boot.img (if downloaded from Motorola)
- type fastboot flash system system.img
- type fastboot continue
- Pray lol
Now all I wish to you is Good Luck
Sent from my 3g JB Xoom - By the 1st Xoom RC

XxLordxX said:
I think I got it. So you erased all the partitions... No problems when erasing data and cache, but the worst error you did was erasing "boot" and "recovery", so what I recommend you to do is:
1 - (easier way) download LordAIOTool for LINUX! (Windows is outdated...) and use Stock Install tool
2 - (harder way) follow this guide:
- Open cmd
- Plug your Xoom on fastboot
- go to Stock Files folder
- type fastboot flash (not sure if it's flash or install, anyway, I think it's flash ) boot boot.img (if downloaded from Motorola)
- type fastboot flash system system.img
- type fastboot continue
- Pray lol
Now all I wish to you is Good Luck
Sent from my 3g JB Xoom - By the 1st Xoom RC
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Okay I used CMD since I have more experience with DOS than Linux:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\>fastboot devices
161c10c9434122d7 fastboot
C:\>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.731s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.587s]
finished. total time: 1.323s
C:\>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (262144 KB)...
OKAY [ 19.190s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 6.427s]
finished. total time: 25.621s
C:\>fastboot continue
resuming boot...
FAILED (remote: (00120000))
finished. total time: 0.126s
C:\>fastboot continue
resuming boot...
FAILED (remote: (00120000))
finished. total time: 0.120s
C:\>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.117s
***I still get to Encryption Unsuccessful screen.....my thing is I don't even feel like it's flashing over anything, but not sure if that's possible. Almost like some write protection to the partitions.
Any other suggestions or does anyone need a paper weight?

not sure if this means anything either or gives a better ideal of the state of the device, but when I try wipes i get.."E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/cache" yet it states cache wipe complete. Then a bunch of failed to mount and can't open.

Try reflashing a custom recovery and with it try formating everything... Then try again everything from my other post again good luck
Sent from my 3g JB Xoom - By the 1st Xoom RC

I've tried custom recovery, via fastboot flash recovery "recovery".img with no luck. It doesn't stick. Do you have any experience with RSD?

g14life said:
I've tried custom recovery, via fastboot flash recovery "recovery".img with no luck. It doesn't stick. Do you have any experience with RSD?
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What do you mean with It doesn't stick?
Can you get into the recovery menu?
You could also do a oem lock and oem ulock again.
Then reflash everything again (boot, system, recovery if needed).

I go to flash with fastboot and when I try to access via power button, then volume down button I just back to OEM recovery. Was thinking if I try to rebuild system from bottom up that should clear everything out (bootloader, then IMG files). Was wondering if RSD would do that?

just noticed this in recovery when I perform wipe cache partition I get this message "E: format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/cache cache wipe complete".
So frustrated right now.....REALLY appreciate all the help!

Lord do you know how to enable USB debugging from fastboot, RSD, or OEM recovery? Found a forum mentioning a lock if OTA updates performed.
http://www.arvydas.co.uk/2012/05/installing-android-4-0-3-ice-cream-sandwich-ics-on-motorola-xoom/

[5.1 stock] n5 hangs on boot, black screen recovery mode

Hello everyone,
today I had very unpleasant surprise with my nexus 5. Let me tell the whole story from the beginning.
At first, I've never played with my nexus in any way (custom roms, root, etc.), it's all default from the beginning.
Few days ago I upgraded to 5.1 using android default upgrader. Next day I did a factory reset (from the settings menu) and then I encrypted the device. Since the flow of turning on the encrypted Android sucks, I did the factory reset again. Then I installed all the apps etc. and I was happily using the phone for 2 days until today's evening. I plugged my nexus into charging, it had 5% battery and was turned on. An hour or two later, I've noticed that the phone restarted and stucked on "Google" screen.
I tried booting several times. Then I googled how to boot into recovery mode. I hold volume and power buttons for a while, from the screen I chose "Recovery mode" and hit the power button again. Unfortunately I am getting the black screen...
Please, help me to make it working again, I found a lot of Google screen loop problems on the web as well as black screen recovery mode but happening not together and not with stock android.
I would like to have stock 5.1 back, possibly to backup some data before erasing.
Thanks,
alatar

alatar- said:
Hello everyone,
today I had very unpleasant surprise with my nexus 5. Let me tell the whole story from the beginning.
At first, I've never played with my nexus in any way (custom roms, root, etc.), it's all default from the beginning.
Few days ago I upgraded to 5.1 using android default upgrader. Next day I did a factory reset (from the settings menu) and then I encrypted the device. Since the flow of turning on the encrypted Android sucks, I did the factory reset again. Then I installed all the apps etc. and I was happily using the phone for 2 days until today's evening. I plugged my nexus into charging, it had 5% battery and was turned on. An hour or two later, I've noticed that the phone restarted and stucked on "Google" screen.
I tried booting several times. Then I googled how to boot into recovery mode. I hold volume and power buttons for a while, from the screen I chose "Recovery mode" and hit the power button again. Unfortunately I am getting the black screen...
Please, help me to make it working again, I found a lot of Google screen loop problems on the web as well as black screen recovery mode but happening not together and not with stock android.
I would like to have stock 5.1 back, possibly to backup some data before erasing.
Thanks,
alatar
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Well you have two options:
Reflash stock rom with fastboot http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
Or
Reflash stock rom with LG flashtool http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833
Both method will wipe your phone.

Use fastboot to reflash stock rom, but you may need to wipe data too. I've had this randomly happen before, luckily for me tho I had twrp and a backup, but even after re-installing the rom it'd still not load, i assume data had just got corrupted somehow unluckily, wiped data and all was fine and has been ever since
Sent via tapatalk from my cataclysm'd Lollipooop Nexus 5

Thank you @bitdomo and @Ben36.
So I tried reflashing with fastboot. I connected n5 to my notebook (running Ubuntu 14.04) and I turned on the device into fastboot mode. I ended up with "FAILED (remote: flash write failure)".
Here is what I did:
Code:
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot devices
[I]XXXXXXXXXXXX[/I] fastboot
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot oem unlock
...
OKAY [ 48.373s]
finished. total time: 48.374s
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz12f.img
sending 'bootloader' (2579 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.292s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.472s
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz12f.img
sending 'bootloader' (2579 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.296s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.476s
I wanted to try with another cable and usb port but I didn't manage n5 to be recognized in fastboot lately (fastboot devices list is empty, lsusb is blind as well). I did a lot of attempts both on linux and windows 8 but it worked only twice on linux.
I will try again later. Perhaps you have some advise for this problem?
PS What is strange, after few minutes I plug n5 intro charging , it starts booting by itself... What the hell?
PS2 The phone keeps restarting whole the time... The battery seemed empty so I was charging it. It starts charging, after a minute it starts booting and then after 3 minutes it goes off. All over again and again.

alatar- said:
Thank you @bitdomo and @Ben36.
So I tried reflashing with fastboot. I connected n5 to my notebook (running Ubuntu 14.04) and I turned on the device into fastboot mode. I ended up with "FAILED (remote: flash write failure)".
Here is what I did:
Code:
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot devices
[I]XXXXXXXXXXXX[/I] fastboot
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot oem unlock
...
OKAY [ 48.373s]
finished. total time: 48.374s
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz12f.img
sending 'bootloader' (2579 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.292s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.472s
/opt/eclipse-adt/sdk/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz12f.img
sending 'bootloader' (2579 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.296s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.476s
I wanted to try with another cable and usb port but I didn't manage n5 to be recognized in fastboot lately (fastboot devices list is empty, lsusb is blind as well). I did a lot of attempts both on linux and windows 8 but it worked only twice on linux.
I will try again later. Perhaps you have some advise for this problem?
PS What is strange, after few minutes I plug n5 intro charging , it starts booting by itself... What the hell?
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That error message you get means that the emmc of the phone is fauilty.
Do you have warranty?

bitdomo said:
That error message you get means that the emmc of the phone is fauilty.
Do you have warranty?
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Yes, I do. I have the phone just since few months. Are you sure about that? Cannot it be a failure of my usb port or poor cable quality?

alatar- said:
Yes, I do. I have the phone just since few months. Are you sure about that? Cannot it be a failure of my usb port or poor cable quality?
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I am sure about that, there plenty of other people having the same problem. Only solution is to buy a new motherboard.

Bootloop! Unable to flash stock rom or lock bootloader (Help)

Hi. I can't get passed the google splash screen on a Nexus 5 D821 and could use some help.
Here are the facts:
* The owner of the device told me it bricked after an update.
* The Bootloader is unlocked. When i tried to lock i got the following message:
Code:
fastboot oem lock
...
OKAY [ 0.041s]
finished. total time: 0.041s
But it wasnt persistent. When given reboot comand the phone switched OFF instead. I turned it on to bootloader again and it was still unlocked.
* I tried flashing stock rom LRX22c manually after a failed attempt with the flash-all script. I got the following error for bootloader, radio, boot and recovery:
Code:
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
* I tried erasing cache and flashing userdata but the after over 60 minutes waiting i came to the conclusion that i wasnt going anywhere and just rebooted the phone.
*The only thing im actually able to flash without an error message is system.img:
Code:
fastboot flash system ~/Downloads/hammerhead-lrx22c/image-hammerhead-lrx22c/system.img
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.127s]
sending 'system' (981472 KB)...
OKAY [ 30.934s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 62.705s]
finished. total time: 93.767s
* I tried booting TWRP, but i was unable to mount the file system (perhaps because i wasnt able to flash it. i used "fastboot boot twrp.img").
Are phones technically able to get to splash screen or bootloader with a damaged NAND or EEMC chip? Im starting to consider the possibility of a hardbrick. Why would i be able to write system.img if that was the case though? Any help is welcome
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alright so im pretty sure its a hard brick. The emmc is dead. its a shame :/ guess ill just try to sell it for parts. I would delete this thread because its pretty useless, but i have created my account a few days ago, and i ddont know how to.

You've only flashed the system img?
Do all the img's one by one. Recovery, boot, system, radio, userdata. Then fastboot reboot
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Ben36 said:
You've only flashed the system img?
Do all the img's one by one. Recovery, boot, system, radio, userdata. Then fastboot reboot
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I have tried all of the imgs in their respective order. they all failed. i got the error
Code:
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
. system.img was the only .img i was able to write, and i was wondering why. Also, when i try fastboot reboot the phone switches off. It doesnt reboot.

Nexus 5 and Android 6.0 Fastboot Issue

Hi all
I finally received my Nexus 5 back from LG, which said that they replaced the battery and other parts to address my issue (the original thread can be found at the link below).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-various-issues-t3212261
This being said, I now want to flash Android 6.0 on my Nexus 5 and start fresh. This is the tutorial that I'm following, and that I followed when flashing Android 6.0 on my Nexus 5 prior to sending it to LG.
http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-how-to-flash-a-nexus-factory-image-manually.706533/
However it looks like it's not working anymore. On Step 8, the fastboot erase boot command returns me the following:
Code:
c:\adb>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
FAILED (command write failed (Invalid argument))
finished. total time: -0.000s
Anyone knows what that means? I used the ADB Installer 1.3, like I did back then, and even reinstalled it just in case, but to no avail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118
If anyone knows what's happening and can assist me, I would be really grateful! If you need more information, let me know.
Thank you!

Aura. said:
Hi all
I finally received my Nexus 5 back from LG, which said that they replaced the battery and other parts to address my issue (the original thread can be found at the link below).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-various-issues-t3212261
This being said, I now want to flash Android 6.0 on my Nexus 5 and start fresh. This is the tutorial that I'm following, and that I followed when flashing Android 6.0 on my Nexus 5 prior to sending it to LG.
http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-how-to-flash-a-nexus-factory-image-manually.706533/
However it looks like it's not working anymore. On Step 8, the fastboot erase boot command returns me the following:
Code:
c:\adb>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
FAILED (command write failed (Invalid argument))
finished. total time: -0.000s
Anyone knows what that means? I used the ADB Installer 1.3, like I did back then, and even reinstalled it just in case, but to no avail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118
If anyone knows what's happening and can assist me, I would be really grateful! If you need more information, let me know.
Thank you!
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Is your bootloader unlock? That is the first thing that comes to mind when ADB fails to write.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

It is, here's the output of the fastboot oem unlock command.
Code:
c:\adb>fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (remote: Already Unlocked)
finished. total time: 0.002s
Also I can see on my phone LOCK STATE - unlocked

Alright so I restarted my phone in fastboot mode, and the command went through. Weird, now I'm at the step where I need to flash system, recovery, boot, cache, etc. manually, but I keep on getting this message:
Code:
c:\adb>fastboot flash system system.img
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.578s]
sending 'system' (1019257 KB)...
FAILED (command write failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.625s
Restarted multiple times, also changed USB port (from USB 3.0 to USB 2.0) but the error persists. Any ideas?

Issue most likely solved. Changed my USB cable for a 2.0 one (I was using the 3.0 that came with the Nexus 5, but it started to be a bit loose), plugged it in a USB 2.0 port, and all the commands went through successfully. If I see that my Nexus behaves weirdly, I'll fastboot it again using the same setup to make sure that everything goes through properly.
This being said, issue solved, you can close this thread if you wish