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Re: Soft-bricked Nexus 7 with Ubuntu Phone

 

On 07/25/2013 09:45 AM, András Mamenyák wrote:
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 <mailto: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!

-- John Kim
    Ubuntu QA & Doc Contributor
    johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx  <mailto:johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>


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Hi!

I entered fastboot mode, but running 'fastboot devices' shows nothing.
On recovery mode, 'sudo adb kill-server; sudo adb start-server; adb devices' shows no devices as well, even when I start sideload.

How exactly do I flash ubuntu files?

--
John Kim
Ubuntu QA & Doc Contributor
johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx


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