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[Q] Nexus 10 Bricked :/

Hey,
I need some help with my Nexus 10, it's stuck at the moment.
I ran fastboot oem unlock via the Samsung Google Nexus 10 ToolKit 1.3.0 (updated for 4.2.2) and as soon as it was done it rebooted and was stuck...
Booting normally it gets to the bootlogo and just sits there forever, going round and round and round.
If I try to boot into fastboot it shows that it's unlocked but I can't change change to recovery using the volume rocker it's just a solid static screen, only choice is to start which boots back into the normal boot logo.
I have no way to use adb or fastboot... it's just stuck :/ How do I recover/unbrick this?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hyflex said:
Hey,
I need some help with my Nexus 10, it's stuck at the moment.
I ran fastboot oem unlock via the Samsung Google Nexus 10 ToolKit 1.3.0 (updated for 4.2.2) and as soon as it was done it rebooted and was stuck...
Booting normally it gets to the bootlogo and just sits there forever, going round and round and round.
If I try to boot into fastboot it shows that it's unlocked but I can't change change to recovery using the volume rocker it's just a solid static screen, only choice is to start which boots back into the normal boot logo.
I have no way to use adb or fastboot... it's just stuck :/ How do I recover/unbrick this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Reboot holding Power and both volume buttons and you should be able to get to recovery

brees75 said:
Reboot holding Power and both volume buttons and you should be able to get to recovery
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I'm on the xda-devs irc at the moment and we've got so far... but still its messed up.
- Recovery is dead (can't get into it atm, orange triangle guy every time)
- Flashed stock via fastboot and unrooted, but on reboot I get the triangle guy.
- I can boot into unsecure roms (temporary)
- I can boot into temporary recoverys, clearing cache works but davlik cache and factory reset doesn't work both say "failed"
I'm currently awaiting the guy whos been helping me get back from the shops.

From what I remember you need to either install something or run a command after "oem unlock" for security reasons. Android wont let you boot back into the OS until you have wiped all the data after the unlock.

The orange guy means it's working. There's a button combo to hit at that screen to get the recovery to boot. Once there do a factory reset and your done.
That's why toolkits sick, they teach you nothing and when they break your stuck
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

Can you flash a factory image to it via fastboot?
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

altimax98 said:
The orange guy means it's working. There's a button combo to hit at that screen to get the recovery to boot. Once there do a factory reset and your done.
That's why toolkits sick, they teach you nothing and when they break your stuck
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD
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The pressing 3 buttons at once; cycling to recovery... method wasnt working because there was no recovery accessable what so ever and temporary recoveries weren't working.
That's what a few guys in IRC said too about the toolkits haha
Thankfully some guy by the name of YellowGTO spent some time helping me out and we finally got there in the end, he's awesome and extremely patient
jlvlawrence said:
Can you flash a factory image to it via fastboot?
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
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Okay, updates for everyone just incase someone else gets the problem.
- Factory Images via fastboot flashed fine but never stuck, just kept returning me to triangle dude.
- Fix permissions, did nothing
- Restoring stock recovery did nothing, I still couldn't get to a recovery.
- Temporary recoveries only had limited functionality.
I decided to unlock an already unlocked phone again
I flashed stock, Ran file permissions
Used the temporary recovery to clear the cache/davlik (previously didn't work)
I re-rooted, Installed TWRP 2.4.4.0, this finally stuck.
I double checked that it had stuck by booting the system, rebooting into recovery, powering device of and powering it on to Android. It was all working perfectly.
I then made my backup and put a custom rom and kernel on, it's working lovely now.
It seems that somewhere during the oem unlock it messed up some partitions or something resulting in recoveries and flashing not to work/stick.

Good to hear it's working for you. The issue is that the stock N10 bootloader does not wipe the data partitions correctly as it should. So after an unlock you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe it. Boot once, then go and flash all your flasheys
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

altimax98 said:
Good to hear it's working for you. The issue is that the stock N10 bootloader does not wipe the data partitions correctly as it should. So after an unlock you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe it. Boot once, then go and flash all your flasheys
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD
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That's the thing, the recovery wasn't available in any way shape or form and temporary recoveries wouldn't wipe the cache... the oem unlock went wrong somehow even though it had full power, wasn't interrupted or anything.
I'm glad it's all working now, I thought the device was completely dead at one stage.

I think you had the problem almost everyone runs into:
As you can see in the video, you just have to try for a bit to actually get the recovery menu to open - My heart dropped a little before I knew that as well

anazei said:
I think you had the problem almost everyone runs into:
As you can see in the video, you just have to try for a bit to actually get the recovery menu to open - My heart dropped a little before I knew that as well
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I think you are right and that was his problem..... The toolkit actually told him how to handle this ... but who reads all the that text anyway

[Q] Stock Nexus 4 bad install of 4.3 OTA

Hello, I tried searching for this but came up empty. I have a completely stock Nexus 4, received the OTA push for 4.3. Phone has never been rooted. After going through the install process it showed the android on it's back with a red triangle and said error. After a restart the phone just sits at the Google screen!!! I'm I boned or is there a fix for this? Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Jesmuris said:
Hello, I tried searching for this but came up empty. I have a completely stock Nexus 4, received the OTA push for 4.3. Phone has never been rooted. After going through the install process it showed the android on it's back with a red triangle and said error. After a restart the phone just sits at the Google screen!!! I'm I boned or is there a fix for this? Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Try going into fastboot and flashing the stock rom from google.

gmaxpwnage said:
Try going into fastboot and flashing the stock rom from google.
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Not sure what mode I entered, Held vlm down + power. Says Fastboot Mode in red with a big green Start at the top. Options it gives me is Start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. If I try to enter Recovery mode it says no command. Don't see anything that allows me to reinstall

Jesmuris said:
Not sure what mode I entered, Held vlm down + power. Says Fastboot Mode in red with a big green Start at the top. Options it gives me is Start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. If I try to enter Recovery mode it says no command. Don't see anything that allows me to reinstall
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Ok, found out on the no command screen I can hold power and hit vlm up and it brings me to system recovery with these options. Reboot system, apply update from ADB, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition.
Not sure what to do sadly

Try following step:
1. Press Vol up and down and powerbutton same time to get to the fastboot mode as you mention.
2. Choice Recovery Mode and press power button. If you got luck you will see an android guy with red mark on the screen.
3. Press Vol Up and Power button same time for while don't let go it will pop up a list of option clean the cache and do factory reset, then reboot system.
If this method not working. Then hard method is flash your Nexus 4 with fastboot. Search the forum there few people already post how to flash 4.3 ROM with fastboot

Johnsonyc said:
Try following step:
1. Press Vol up and down and powerbutton same time to get to the fastboot mode as you mention.
2. Choice Recovery Mode and press power button. If you got luck you will see an android guy with red mark on the screen.
3. Press Vol Up and Power button same time for while don't let go it will pop up a list of option clean the cache and do factory reset, then reboot system.
If this method not working. Then hard method is flash your Nexus 4 with fastboot. Search the forum there few people already post how to flash 4.3 ROM with fastboot
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Ok thank you, trying this now will update:good:

Didn't work Will try other method

Jesmuris said:
Didn't work Will try other method
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Sorry to hear this bad news Hope the other method work for you!

Well, first try, couldn't get my PC to recognize fastboot in adb. Was getting frustrated beyond hell and had to walk away for a bit. Came back about an hour later and for some reason it finally recognized it... Back to the start screen like when I first bought the phone. So far working ok, except for being able to log into my google account... 2-step verification giving me issues now lol. Thank you again for your assistance. Very much appreciated!!:good::good:

Jesmuris said:
Well, first try, couldn't get my PC to recognize fastboot in adb. Was getting frustrated beyond hell and had to walk away for a bit. Came back about an hour later and for some reason it finally recognized it... Back to the start screen like when I first bought the phone. So far working ok, except for being able to log into my google account... 2-step verification giving me issues now lol. Thank you again for your assistance. Very much appreciated!!:good::good:
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I had a similar experience (kind of). I had issues side-loading 4.2.2 -> 4.3 on my N4. After it finished update and rebooted I got a black screen and nothing more. I ran through it and tried to update to 4.3 again, and then it worked.
Even though it worked I've been noticing issues with it. For example, I now can no longer uninstall anything. When I attempt to uninstall any app, the phone reboots. I'm backing up now with Titanium and am about to flash. I was hoping there would be a quick fix here, but such is life. Viva la impatience.

I have same problem my stock 4.2.2 stuck x boot load , did vol up+dwn +power now stuck in "Download Mode" do not unplug the device until the process is complete .

oneguy77 said:
I have same problem my stock 4.2.2 stuck x boot load , did vol up+dwn +power now stuck in "Download Mode" do not unplug the device until the process is complete .
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This is what I eventually followed to get mine working. I just did scenario 2 and that worked perfectly for me, so far no issues, just having to get things back to where I had them before. The second link is actually more detailed. Just make sure you follow step by step. I guess i could have not done step D10 but wanted to make sure this route worked for me. Thank you again for those who pointed me in the right direction
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...-to-android-4-3-jwr66v-and-root-it-right-now/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34552123&postcount=1

Jesmuris said:
Well, first try, couldn't get my PC to recognize fastboot in adb. Was getting frustrated beyond hell and had to walk away for a bit. Came back about an hour later and for some reason it finally recognized it... Back to the start screen like when I first bought the phone. So far working ok, except for being able to log into my google account... 2-step verification giving me issues now lol. Thank you again for your assistance. Very much appreciated!!:good::good:
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I have the exact same problem but not sure how to get my PC to recognize fastboot in adb mode...

FYI if you flash to stock android 4.3 and you have the 16 GB Nexus 4, make sure that after you re-flash you have the full 16 GB and not 8 GB (unless you want to re-setup your phone twice like me). If you get this problem you can wipe cache and data from recovery and voila, all of your free space is back.
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zpilot said:
I have the exact same problem but not sure how to get my PC to recognize fastboot in adb mode...
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If this is what I think it is, I was having the same problem. If I went into Control Panel on my PC and it would say that the driver is failing to load. To fix this I uninstalled the driver, rebooted, reinstalled Google USB Driver from the Android SDK Manager, restarted, and all was well after that.
I really have no explanation for why this fixed it, or it didn't work before, because other than fastboot, everything was working flawlessly with getting my phone to communicate with my PC.

locked bootloader wont unlock

Hi everyone. Here is the deal im having with my nexus 7 (not the 2013 model) with jop40d.zip. The person I purchased from didnt tell me it was soft bricked. It seems as though he tried to root it but failed while at the same time relocked the bootloader. So I've tried almost everything in my mind to get it back to normal. It wont let me adb sideload the stock rom it says "installation aborted" or any other rom. Also when i boot up it goes directly to the bootloader which gives me the options start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, power off. start obviously does nothing. restart bootloader just for some reason turns the device off, recovery mode takes me the caution sign where i can adb sideload or factory restore. factory restore hangs and doesn't do anything then shuts off. adb sideload always fails when loading up the zip files. i factory restored the cache. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I spent a fair amount of money on this device but now it all seems like a mistake. Can anyone who has fixed this issue help me out? I would deeply and greatfully appreciate it.
-Cheers

truebattleaxe said:
Hi everyone. Here is the deal im having with my nexus 7 (not the 2013 model) with jop40d.zip. The person I purchased from didnt tell me it was soft bricked. It seems as though he tried to root it but failed while at the same time relocked the bootloader. So I've tried almost everything in my mind to get it back to normal. It wont let me adb sideload the stock rom it says "installation aborted" or any other rom. Also when i boot up it goes directly to the bootloader which gives me the options start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, power off. start obviously does nothing. restart bootloader just for some reason turns the device off, recovery mode takes me the caution sign where i can adb sideload or factory restore. factory restore hangs and doesn't do anything then shuts off. adb sideload always fails when loading up the zip files. i factory restored the cache. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I spent a fair amount of money on this device but now it all seems like a mistake. Can anyone who has fixed this issue help me out? I would deeply and greatfully appreciate it.
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also I wanted to add. I have the android sdk installed and all drivers installed properly. as well as adb/fastboot.

Stop trying to use adb, follow the sticky at the top that says flashing a factory rom using fastboot/return to stock. If you can't type fastboot devices and get a serial number return then the drivers are not installed properly.
Sent from my Nexus 7(2012) that has zero issues.

SlowCobra96 said:
Stop trying to use adb, follow the sticky at the top that says flashing a factory rom using fastboot/return to stock. If you can't type fastboot devices and get a serial number return then the drivers are not installed properly.
Sent from my Nexus 7(2012) that has zero issues.
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hey slow cobra. yes fastboot does recognize the device. however fastboot oem unlock doesn't do anything.

Bricked Nexus 4

Hi folks, This is the first time I need help from this excellent forum.
Something weird happened. I was updating apps from Google Play and when Titanium (Pro version), came up my phone crashed. I'm not a total noob, Unlock, Root all of my phones. No I never flashed other ROMs
I've tried everything to unbrick my phone (Nexus 4, 5.1.1., unlocked and rooted, factory ROM).
Now my PC doesn't recognize my phone, it's stuck on boot screen, can't boot into recovery, (error 10), no Fastboot, no download mode, I can't do anything. I've unbricked my phones many times before. Can't install MTP device driver including other drivers. This one has me stumped. Been at this for 4 days.
Can't sideload. Power and other buttons don't work to boot into Recovery, Fastboot etc,
Obviously, can't do a "battery pull" on Nexus 4. Tried the 15-second power button trick to simulate battery pull and other button tricks. Can someone help?
I've searched the web for days, tried all the tricks.
Can someone help?
Cheers!

What buttons are you using for fastboot mode? What when you power it off, then while pressing volume down button, press the power button?
Nitin

Thanx for replying Nitin
nitin.chobhe said:
What buttons are you using for fastboot mode? What when you power it off, then while pressing volume down button, press the power button?
Nitin
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That's the thing. I've tried all the button combos. The problem is my PC doesn't fully recognize my phone so I can't access or push fastboot or ADB. It shows up in device manager but that's it, nothing else. The phone goes only as far as the boot animation and stays like that for days. I've soft bricked my other phones before but was able to repair them.
I get fastboot not found, ADB error 10. I've never seen anything like this. I also get an MTP driver error.
It got bricked by a Playstore app update then when Titanium backup pro came up, that's when it crashed???
I have a Nandroid backup on my pc but it's useless.
Thanx, I hope someone can figure this out. I'm running stock ROM, 5.1.1, unlocked and rooted.
I'm using Nexus Root Toolkit but can't push fastboot or ADB, because, like I said, it doesn't show in my computer???

Nomad5000 said:
That's the thing. I've tried all the button combos. The problem is my PC doesn't fully recognize my phone so I can't access or push fastboot or ADB. It shows up in device manager but that's it, nothing else. The phone goes only as far as the boot animation and stays like that for days. I've soft bricked my other phones before but was able to repair them.
I get fastboot not found, ADB error 10. I've never seen anything like this. I also get an MTP driver error.
It got bricked by a Playstore app update then when Titanium backup pro came up, that's when it crashed???
I have a Nandroid backup on my pc but it's useless.
Thanx, I hope someone can figure this out. I'm running stock ROM, 5.1.1, unlocked and rooted.
I'm using Nexus Root Toolkit but can't push fastboot or ADB, because, like I said, it doesn't show in my computer???
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Try using a friends windows laptop/computer and windows will most likely install drivers on it for you then use nrt to fix your phone from fastboot could also be a bad USB cable or bad USB port though

Nomad5000 said:
That's the thing. I've tried all the button combos. The problem is my PC doesn't fully recognize my phone so I can't access or push fastboot or ADB. It shows up in device manager but that's it, nothing else. The phone goes only as far as the boot animation and stays like that for days. I've soft bricked my other phones before but was able to repair them.
I get fastboot not found, ADB error 10. I've never seen anything like this. I also get an MTP driver error.
It got bricked by a Playstore app update then when Titanium backup pro came up, that's when it crashed???
I have a Nandroid backup on my pc but it's useless.
Thanx, I hope someone can figure this out. I'm running stock ROM, 5.1.1, unlocked and rooted.
I'm using Nexus Root Toolkit but can't push fastboot or ADB, because, like I said, it doesn't show in my computer???
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As far as I have seen, Nexus 4 can not be bricked You can even remove the bottom 2 screws to remove the battery, it is not so difficult (I can say that as I have replaced the battery, power button as well as back of the phone on multiple occasions)
Also try what @[email protected] has suggested.
Nitin

I used platform-tools-v16 and Universal_Naked_Driver_0.72 to flash stock room and unlock bootloader... worked fine. Maybe this helps...

Nexus 10 boot stuck on google logo... bootloader ok, but recovery does same thing.

I replaced my GNEX10 battery last january. Aside from the battery calibration being off... (which eventually corrected itself!) it's been working fine. As of late it had rebooted itself while I was using it a few times. A few days ago, it had enough battery such that I left it on overnight. I picked it up the next morning and the notification lamp was flashing so I knew it was still on. I tried to wake it up without success. Usually a quick tap on the power button should do it. Nothing. So I rebooted... and on the google logo it stuck. I knew that a factory reset was probably in order since I didn't do it when I replaced the batter... I got it into the recovery screen... but I could not get the menu. I likely didn't press the right volume rocker. Then I tried again... booted to the bootloader, and selected recovery. This time, and since, only the google logo comes up. No andy on his back with "no command". It just tries to boot into something. I can't do a factory reset this way.
I tried the Nexus Root Toolkit. I can only get it to recognize the device if it's in the bootloader... when I try to use it to boot to recovery, same thing and the NRT says waiting for device... and gets no further. I tried to use it to flash (stock?) recovery but the N10 just sits there on the twrp logo screen and nothing more after temporarily booting into twrp. Just keeps saying "waiting for device"
Anyone have any suggestions! Getting seriously bummed!
So one more data point... I manually rebooted into the bootloader after trying to flash the stock recovery using the NRT. Then it appeared to flash the recovery image.... here is the bit of the log where it ended up:
Checking Fastboot Connectivity
fastboot devices
R32CB04GHGT fastboot
+ Fastboot Device Connected
Flashing Stock Recovery to RECOVERY partition...
fastboot flash recovery "C:\usr\NRT\data\Recovery_Stock\recovery_stock_mantaray_5.1.1_LMY49J.img"
Temporarily Booting TWRP...
fastboot boot "C:\usr\NRT\data\Recovery_Custom\TWRP\twrp-3.0.2-0-manta.img"
Flashing 'undo-perm-recovery-signed.zip'...
Waiting for your device...
That's where it ended up... not getting any further. Once again, attempting to boot into recovery gets it stuck on the Google logo.
How screwed am I? Is there a thread somewhere in the forum anyone can point me at?

Well, in spite of the crickets... I understand. I've managed to resurrect my Nexus 10. Alas there are no good contemporary replacements. The last so-called nexus table google put out there was too damn expensive in the first place and they seem to have abandoned the tablet market to others.
So the key question here: So long as I can get this tablet into the bootloader is it generally possible to reflash a stock image? I'd like to know of any types of caveats etc. The mystery I have still though is: How or why did my N10 get into this state (of of only being able to get to the Google screen) in the first place? I didn't have any questionable apps installed etc. I was totally on stock. One thing that did happen a week or two prior to my tablet going belly up... was somehow the thing lost my google account info and gmail had none of my accounts in place... it was very odd.
I did have to wipe the system because evidently you can't flash anything onto a locked bootloader (the Nexus Root Toolkit by wugfresh is up to date so far as the N10 is concerned at least). I know I could have resorted to using fastboot.exe and the adb directly but this was a touch easier. Alas the backup options for it say you need an unlocked bootloader which seems to be a chicken/egg issue if you've always been on stock.... so it goes.