Galaxy Nexus doesnt boot, has locked bootloader and no recovery installed. - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Hi everyone,
I have a old Galaxy Nexus in these conditions:
- No recovery installed (tried to go into recovery by fastboot mode and no recovery is installed)
- Locked Bootloader
- The phone doesn't completely boot, it stucks in the X logo
The phone is from a friend who asked me to "save it"! What can i do in these conditions? I have tried to unbrick it, tried 2 methods i found here in xda and no luck.
I installed Android toolkit and follow the steps, 1 installed the drivers and 2 tried to unlock bootloader, it reboots into fastboot but the it stucks, i have to disconnect and connect again and the does not completely boot, it stucks in X logo
What is possible to do to save the phone? Can anyone help please?

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I've just update my firmware using my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696282
I'm S-On and followed every instruction. When the phone boot (everything was succesfull), it was stuck on the HTC welcoming screen.
Then I thought because the rom installed didn't match the new firmware, so I decided to unlock the bootloader, that too was fine. But then when the phone boot up, I again got stuck on the HTC welcoming screen. Then I tried adb to boot into the bootloader to flash the TWRP custom recovery, but nothing to do, adb is not recognising the phone. But the storage of my phone is appearing on windows explorer and the drives were successfully installed automatically.
What should I do, urgent please anyone
Thanks
92davin said:
I've just update my firmware using my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696282
I'm S-On and followed every instruction. When the phone boot (everything was succesfull), it was stuck on the HTC welcoming screen.
Then I thought because the rom installed didn't match the new firmware, so I decided to unlock the bootloader, that too was fine. But then when the phone boot up, I again got stuck on the HTC welcoming screen. Then I tried adb to boot into the bootloader to flash the TWRP custom recovery, but nothing to do, adb is not recognising the phone. But the storage of my phone is appearing on windows explorer and the drives were successfully installed automatically.
What should I do, urgent please anyone
Thanks
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[Resolved]
hold up and down volume keys then power button to switch off device. Then boot into bootloader through volume down and power button. Flash recovery and install rom. Panicked for nothing

[Q] Bricked Nexus 7 (stuck on google logo, can enter fast boot)

Have a nexus 7 in need of help. Hope can get some assistance here.
- Stuck on google screen when boot
- Can enter boot loader mode using power + vol down, and can use fastboot
- successful flash of recovery, rom, boot, boot loader partitions using cmd (fastboot) or wug's kit, but will not restart on its own.
- when tried to restart, it hangs again on google logo.
- Tried recovery mode with power + vol up after reboot, doesn't work. Cant get into recovery. NO "android robot with red !", stuck on google logo
- no access of ADB (since stuck before I can enter Android OS)
- wiped cache and wiped user data no change.
- cannot get into recovery so cannot do a hard reset
- pulled battery in hope of hard reset, same result
Any ideas? thanks in advance
BoredAtWork said:
Have a nexus 7 in need of help. Hope can get some assistance here.
- Stuck on google screen when boot
- Can enter boot loader mode using power + vol down, and can use fastboot
- successful flash of recovery, rom, boot, boot loader partitions using cmd (fastboot) or wug's kit, but will not restart on its own.
- when tried to restart, it hangs again on google logo.
- Tried recovery mode with power + vol up after reboot, doesn't work. Cant get into recovery. NO "android robot with red !", stuck on google logo
- no access of ADB (since stuck before I can enter Android OS)
- wiped cache and wiped user data no change.
- cannot get into recovery so cannot do a hard reset
- pulled battery in hope of hard reset, same result
Any ideas? thanks in advance
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Did you tried flashing stock google image from wug's kit by clicking "Flash Stock+Unroot" option
Further info:
Tried different factory roms, same flash method, same result
4.2.0
4.4.x
4.5.0
all flash using fast boot command shows success on screen.
fastboot recognize device when using "fastboot devices"
supersaayuj said:
Did you tried flashing stock google image from wug's kit by clicking "Flash Stock+Unroot" option
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thanks for quick reply.
Tried Wug's kit (latest version since it auto update), and tried with command line using fastboot drivers (win7 environment)
Same result
Wug's kit logging shows no problems.
BoredAtWork said:
Further info:
Tried different factory roms, same flash method, same result
4.2.0
4.4.x
4.5.0
all flash using fast boot command shows success on screen.
fastboot recognize device when using "fastboot devices"
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Then it should boot man! Try flashing factory image using NRT(wug's toolkit) by "Flash Stock+Unroot" and ticking SoftBricked/Bootloop below that.. hope this works
supersaayuj said:
Then it should boot man! Try flashing factory image using NRT(wug's toolkit) by "Flash Stock+Unroot" and ticking SoftBricked/Bootloop below that.. hope this works
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I have tried exactly that. "flash stock+ unroot" with the nexus in boot loader mode. After complete, the nexus will remain in boot loader mode until I restart it manually (press power button on nexus). Wug's toolkit would not reboot it after successful flashing. Is that normal?
After manual reboot, it still stuck on google logo.
BoredAtWork said:
I have tried exactly that. "flash stock+ unroot" with the nexus in boot loader mode. After complete, the nexus will remain in boot loader mode until I restart it manually (press power button on nexus). Wug's toolkit would not reboot it after successful flashing. Is that normal?
After manual reboot, it still stuck on google logo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orZ_iBpkn_g
Get a look at this video... I can't further help... because this is a weird problem I haven't faced with my nexus 7. Mostly flashing stock would solve this kinda problem! :angel:
Reply back if you unbricked it!
Same problem here
I got the same problem here. First ElementalX kernel frozen touchscreen in 5.0, so I used ADB to flash stock image back. After that it get stucked at Google logo. Does anyone have solution?
Is there anyone can help?
micheldjerzinski said:
I got the same problem here. First ElementalX kernel frozen touchscreen in 5.0, so I used ADB to flash stock image back. After that it get stucked at Google logo. Does anyone have solution?
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All of the above posts match my experience with the n7 2013...it has been a downwards spiral of malfunctions at the touchscreen department...ending at this...some time soon, i'm gonna pick up an axe or some other heavy-hitter tool and smash the f*****g thing to atoms!
yes, i have given up....hopefully you don't get to the same conclusion as i....good luck...
BoredAtWork said:
Have a nexus 7 in need of help. Hope can get some assistance here.
- Stuck on google screen when boot
- Can enter boot loader mode using power + vol down, and can use fastboot
- successful flash of recovery, rom, boot, boot loader partitions using cmd (fastboot) or wug's kit, but will not restart on its own.
- when tried to restart, it hangs again on google logo.
- Tried recovery mode with power + vol up after reboot, doesn't work. Cant get into recovery. NO "android robot with red !", stuck on google logo
- no access of ADB (since stuck before I can enter Android OS)
- wiped cache and wiped user data no change.
- cannot get into recovery so cannot do a hard reset
- pulled battery in hope of hard reset, same result
Any ideas? thanks in advance
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I was experiencing this problem last night. However, I used WugFresh's NRT but when it asks to flash stock and unroot, make sure you check the box that says your nexus 7 is softbricked. Also, you may want to note what version of android it was last running before it was bricked. It worked for me and I was able to update to 5.0.1.
*Edit: The only thing you need to do is make sure fastboot is enabled, and you should be good to go.
P.S. DO NOT download the stock images from google to your computer, let the NRT automatically download it for you. It saves you time, storage and stress. Once done, also install the recovery from the NRT, that should be able to do the trick. Not sure why your device won't restart, you may have to flash again.
wugs
I had to use force flash in wugs, go to options and set it there and try a previous version. Best of luck.
It's fixed!
koymoy said:
All of the above posts match my experience with the n7 2013...it has been a downwards spiral of malfunctions at the touchscreen department...ending at this...some time soon, i'm gonna pick up an axe or some other heavy-hitter tool and smash the f*****g thing to atoms!
yes, i have given up....hopefully you don't get to the same conclusion as i....good luck...
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Haha, I found the solution elsewhere in XDA. So if you haven't beaten your Nexus 7 so bad yet, TRY this: press and hold the power button for about 1 minutes. The slate turned off and on several times, and I found nothing. BUT after several minutes (while I was watching Youtube to see how to remove battery; that would be the last method before throwing 5 stories down to ground), the Nexus BOOTED BACK:good::good::good:. Good luck!:laugh:
And I'm using Glitch kernel and turn off flar2's double-tab-to-wake. It's a neat feature, but can get us into big troubles.
That still doesn't work for me. Pretty sure my eMMC is dead, so I'll need to replace the motherboard.
Anyone know if a 16GB motherboard works in a 32GB Nexus 7 2013? 16GB motherboards seem a fair bit cheaper, and less rare.

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Hi, yesterday i was using my phone and suddenly it freezed then restarted and the lenovo logo stuck forever, i thought that the stuck firnware got crashed and needs to reinstall again, i had root in it and installed twrp on it, i tried to boot to the twrp through the fastboot but when i type " fastboot boot recovery.img" it works and says finish but the phone still stuck at the bootloader screen and freezes and i have to restart the phone again to access the bootloader again, then i tried to reinstall the stuck firmeware that i used before "P2a42_S048_161111_ROW_fastboot" but still after i reinstalled it and start the phone again, it still stuck at the lenovo logo forever" then i tried to boot to the stuck recovery mode using fastboot, and still freezes after i run the command on fastboot, i tried the blankflash it all works fine without no fail but still the problem exist, still cant boot my phone and cant boot to the recovery, this is the first time that something wierd like this happens to my phone, i tried all the solutions and none of them works! i even tried to relock the bootloader using fastboot oem lock but it fails! please help me guys.
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