[help] soft brick? Bootloop? Corrupted nand? Help! - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Hi,
Recently my brother gave up on his G-Nexus due to some complications that I soon discover. After he gave up reviving his phone, I took the liberty to try to ''revive'' his phone and found the same frustration that plague my brother.
Here's the thing:
1. I reflashed STOCK ROM + UNROOT. (tried 4.0.4/ 4.2.2/ 4.3. No success)
2. the phone is unable to BOOT, just BOOT LOOPs.
3. CAN boot into FASTBOOT.
4. unable to enter STOCK RECOVERY. (or in any rare case I could, cleared data, but bootloop persists).
5. fastboot flashed recovery TWRP and CWM , cleared data, reboot, and bootloop persist.
I'm out of option. I've googled for hours and nothing seems to help. Hoping the members here could provide assistance.
I've sent the phone for a troubleshoot, and the man told me it was the motherboard that was the case.
The thing with this is that I've flashed different stock ROMS and wasn't able to boot, not one successful boot.
My theory is that I've had a corrupted NAND?
Could anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

blooddoom said:
Hi,
Recently my brother gave up on his G-Nexus due to some complications that I soon discover. After he gave up reviving his phone, I took the liberty to try to ''revive'' his phone and found the same frustration that plague my brother.
Here's the thing:
1. I reflashed STOCK ROM + UNROOT. (tried 4.0.4/ 4.2.2/ 4.3. No success)
2. the phone is unable to BOOT, just BOOT LOOPs.
3. CAN boot into FASTBOOT.
4. unable to enter STOCK RECOVERY. (or in any rare case I could, cleared data, but bootloop persists).
5. fastboot flashed recovery TWRP and CWM , cleared data, reboot, and bootloop persist.
I'm out of option. I've googled for hours and nothing seems to help. Hoping the members here could provide assistance.
I've sent the phone for a troubleshoot, and the man told me it was the motherboard that was the case.
The thing with this is that I've flashed different stock ROMS and wasn't able to boot, not one successful boot.
My theory is that I've had a corrupted NAND?
Could anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
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If you've flashed the phone back to stock and it still won't boot then there's probably nothing you can do. Time for a new phone.

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Silicon Knight said:
Well now in the process of trying to fix it. The phone bricked and will no longer turn on at all. Is there anyway to fix this ?
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