[Q]Phone Bricked? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Phone stuck on loading animation, but can get into fastboot and Clockwork mod recovery. Unable to flash a new images using toolkit or adb as device not detected, please help?

You don't have any backups?
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Bricking your Gnex is not a easy task.
Just download the wugfresh's toolkit and click the 'back to stock' button with 'can't boot up' checked. That's it all you have to do now is just wait for a couple of minutes.
And finally you'll have your Gnex back to life.
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I do have a full adb backup but I can't see my device from my laptop.

[sarcasm]yeah yeah, your device is bricked[/sarcasm]

Have you tried usb jig? Gets your phone into dlmode.
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danishprakash said:
Bricking your Gnex is not a easy task.
Just download the wugfresh's toolkit and click the 'back to stock' button with 'can't boot up' checked. That's it all you have to do now is just wait for a couple of minutes.
And finally you'll have your Gnex back to life.
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This has worked a treat, thank you!

pliskin721 said:
Have you tried usb jig? Gets your phone into dlmode.
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NO. Only if you are REALLY bricked, cannot start bootloader, get into recovery, etc. That's actually quite hard to do. If you ever get stuck on the bootanimation or get bootloops:
1. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
3. If not working, re-flash ROM
4. If still not working, wipe data
5. If _still_ not working, go back to stock using any method.

Your welcome mate
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Day Old Nexus Bricked? Need Help

So I have had my galaxy nexus for less than 24 hours. I was transferring some files over and when I was done I had shut off my phone. Now every time I turn the phone it freezes in the boot animation. I managed to get into the stock recovery and do a factory reset, but still the phone locks up.
Can I reflash the stock image? I would have to do this with fastboot?
Yes. Check the stickies in the development forum there will be guides on how to flash good luck. If I wasn't on my phone I would attempt to help more but I can't get to a computer :/
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I was thinking of using the toolkit in the dev section to load the stock rom. I can only get to fast boot on the phone but that should be ok? Correct?
Yes, fastboot should be all you need.
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drvon said:
I was thinking of using the toolkit in the dev section to load the stock rom. I can only get to fast boot on the phone but that should be ok? Correct?
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If you want to learn how to do it, instead of using a toolkit, try a doing it yourself by using something like this.
Well that sucked... Tried the tool kit to reflash the stock image and now the phone wont turn on at all. So I'm off to the store tomorrow to return it. I think the internal memory must of screwed itself when I was transferring files from my mac to the phone, as it would never boot after that. I have never had internal memory fail on a phone before...
Instead of using the toolkit try odin
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Instead of using a toolkit or odin, use fastboot/efrant's guide like he told you to.
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Phone Always Boot to Download Mode

Bought this phone on Craiglist, when i got home, i turn it on and found that it only boot in to Download mode.
If i try to boot into Recovery then it go into "Fastboot", but i can't not navigate at all.
Then i try to reload the factory firmware via Odin then the phone will on but it in "Safe Mode". If i reboot it then it go into "Download" mode again.
I don't know what to do now.
Please help!!!
Go back to fastboot and use tool kit to set it back to factory settings and see if that works. Hope you didn't pay much.
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first thank you for your response,
what toolkit, could you please point me to it.
Thanks
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is this the one ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
You didn't ask them to turn it on before buying it?
Sorry, I'm not here to help, just wondering if you like just took their word on it.
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jimmyco2008 said:
You didn't ask them to turn it on before buying it?
Sorry, I'm not here to help, just wondering if you like just took their word on it.
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It was on, i didn't see the safe mode on the bottom left until got home (like i said in the first post, if flash it with odin, first reboot it will boot to safe mode, but if it turn off) then it will go to download mode.
if it's a Verizon or GSM version you can follow this guide to fastboot flash a stock image
Oh gotcha.
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TWRP Stuck :(

Hello, im in need of a little assistance. TWRP Accidentally deleted my data, and im stuck at the TWRP Screen, how do I go back to stock?
Turn phone off boot into fast boot mode flash factory image and done.
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make use of wugs nexus toolkit its easy for first timers and even has helping information to install drivers needed also it will download the stock rom of your choice and flash it for you
Esteway.619 said:
Turn phone off boot into fast boot mode flash factory image and done.
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No need for fastboot here, OP should be able to recover/push a ROM to /sdcard/ through ADB/custom recovery.
@OP, this has been answered many times before. RTFM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959
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[Q] Soft Bricked

I woke up this morning to my locked up in the middle of the night. I did a battery pull and it gets stuck at the nexus boot screen. I tried rebooting into recovery mode it only goes to a pic of the android laying down with the panel open and an exclamation point above it.
I connected it to my computer and tried to do a recovery with Wug Fresh toolkit. It has a problem with the ADB not being connected. I think it is probably because I didn't put it into developer mode. How can I fix my phone now?
Try diff usb cable. Look in device manager on your comp and make sure the adb drivers are installed. Sounds like a driver issue.
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sconrad308 said:
I woke up this morning to my locked up in the middle of the night. I did a battery pull and it gets stuck at the nexus boot screen. I tried rebooting into recovery mode it only goes to a pic of the android laying down with the panel open and an exclamation point above it.
I connected it to my computer and tried to do a recovery with Wug Fresh toolkit. It has a problem with the ADB not being connected. I think it is probably because I didn't put it into developer mode. How can I fix my phone now?
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1) android on its back is stock recovery.
2)your drivers are not setup correctly.
Does it matter that when my phone died I didn't have USB debugging mode checked? After I rooted the device, I unchecked it for safety reasons.
Zepius said:
1) android on its back is stock recovery.
2)your drivers are not setup correctly.
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Think hes referring to stuck on androud back but no options avail on that screen
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Can u boot into the bootloader? If so it can be fixed
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[/COLOR]Can u boot into the bootloader? If so it can be fixed
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You mean where it boots up with the Volume up- down and power button? Yes it boots into that. I have fastboot abilities. When I choose reboot bootloader it just restarts the phone and hangs again on the Nexus logo.
Awesome. Its a verizon nexus right? If so search my topics and find my tool. 4.0.4 flash back to stock. This will bring it back to its original state. If ur having fastboot driver issues download them and install them via device manager on ur pc. The program will say not responding. Ignore it and let it do its thing. Can take up to 20 mins but it does work.
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vabeachfc3s said:
Awesome. Its a verizon nexus right? If so search my topics and find my tool. 4.0.4 flash back to stock. This will bring it back to its original state. If ur having fastboot driver issues download them and install them via device manager on ur pc. The program will say not responding. Ignore it and let it do its thing. Can take up to 20 mins but it does work.
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No, it is not a Verizon Nexus, it is a GSM maguro.
It will still work. Just uncheck the cdma and lte radio boxes. U can also flash the stock image. Theres other toolkits out there that should work for you
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vabeachfc3s said:
It will still work. Just uncheck the cdma and lte radio boxes. U can also flash the stock image. Theres other toolkits out there that should work for you
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I'm going to try something I read for Odin, if that doesn't work, I will try your tool. Can you provide me with a link to your tool?
Thanks for your help so far. I was panicking even called in today from work so I could focus on this.
ODIN to the rescue.
Thanks everyone for your help and patience with me.
Could the nightly Franco Kernel have done that? I installed the latest nightly kernel last night about 8 or 9, and when I got up my phone was toast.

Water damage, bootloop.

Hi XDA,
my brother got his GNex wet and gave it to me. I took it apart entirely and let it dry overnight, I assembled it back together today but I can't get into the OS.
Bootloader, Fastboot, Download-Mode, recovery and ADB sideload all work fine but if I want to boot into the OS it just keeps rebooting at the Google-logo with the little lock at the bottom.
What I've tried so far:
Reflash the stock ROM via the Nexus Root Toolkit
Repartition and reflash stock ROM via Odin
Flash CyanogenMod in CWM
I've tried all of the above multiple times, I can't get it to boot.
Could it be that the internal memory is defective? If so, is there any tool that I could use to test it? Can I partiton "around" the defective parts?
Thanks for your time and help.
Juat use fastboot and no toolkit. Flash the factory image..
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mrgnex said:
Juat use fastboot and no toolkit. Flash the factory image..
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That's essentially exactly the same, all the toolkit does is execute the commands automatically
HeavyHDx said:
That's essentially exactly the same, all the toolkit does is execute the commands automatically
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Fastboot does too with less failure chance and more input on what went wrong.
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mrgnex said:
Fastboot does too with less failure chance and more input on what went wrong.
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Okay I just did that according to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/how-to-return-to-stock-galaxy-nexus-t1626895 but it still doesn't boot properly. Any ideas?
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I just noticed that:
http://i.imgur.com/hUJPul7.jpg
Could it be that the Cache-partition is defective or something?
No ideas? :/
Err thats recovery. Not fastboot. But maybe your internal memory has died.. But I sont know sure yet.
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mrgnex said:
Err thats recovery. Not fastboot. But maybe your internal memory has died.. But I sont know sure yet.
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I can get to fastboot and download-mode as well, that's how I flashed the ROM and the stock recovery
No ideas? :/

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