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Re: Soft-bricked Nexus 7 with Ubuntu Phone

 

Hi!
You should use fastboot in fastboot mode, not adb.
And you should simply reboot into recovery and flash the ubuntu files (you
have adb there too)


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:32 PM, John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hello all,
>
> My name is John Kim, a newcomer to the Ubuntu Phone community, and I
> contribute to Ubuntu Docs and Quality team.  For the Quality team, I intend
> to start writing automated testcases for core apps.  My first task will be
> the music-app.
>
> My development environment is complete.  I installed the Ubuntu SDK and Qt
> Creator on my 13.10 laptop, and I successfully installed Ubuntu Phone into
> my Nexus 7 as well as SSH to it.  I personally prefer to ssh over USB than
> over IP because it's just faster.
>
> Normally, after minutes of inactivity, my Nexus 7 will power off on its
> own.  I can power again after holding the power button for a moment.  But
> as soon as I ran the music-app testcases with my Nexus 7 plugged in
> (QtCreator recognized it and set the device as development), which failed,
> my Nexus 7 was missing a music and video app icon.  *When it powered
> down, my Nexus 7 would get stuck perpetually in the Google screen with the
> unlocked lock image at the bottom. * The only way I could turn it off was
> hold the power and the volume down button, and go to "Power Off";
> otherwise, my Nexus 7 will reboot back to the boot screen over and over
> again.
>
> I would like to know how I can restore my device with a fresh Ubuntu Phone
> build.  I haven't tried yet, but I'm quite sure that 'adb devices' won't
> recognize my Nexus 7 on neither the fastboot mode nor the Google screen.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> John Kim
> Ubuntu QA & Doc Contributorjohnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx
>
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