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Re: Soft-bricked Nexus 7 with Ubuntu Phone

 

Just a note, you should run fastboot as root , so sudo fastboot ...
Am 25.07.2013 19:19 schrieb "András Mamenyák" <mamenyaka@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Follow this guide <http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html> (from
> step 3) to make your device detection work.
> You should just copy over the two .zip files, then flash .zip from sdcard
> in recovery.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:15 PM, John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  On 07/25/2013 10:09 AM, Daniel wrote:
>>
>> Am 25.07.2013 19:03, schrieb John Kim:
>>
>> 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>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 Contributorjohnkim.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 Contributorjohnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>  what is the output of
>> lsusb
>> or
>> dmesg | tail
>>
>>
>>  Hi Daniel,
>>
>> The outputs of lsusb and dmesg are...
>>
>> *john@kotux:~$ lsusb*
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
>> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b217 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Lenovo
>> Integrated Camera (0.3MP)
>> Bus 002 Device 017: ID 18d1:4e40 Google Inc.
>> *john@kotux:~$ dmesg | tail*
>> [51516.226040] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300
>> mBi, 3000 mBm)
>> [54988.705131] kvm: disabled by bios
>> [54988.713699] kvm: disabled by bios
>> [55663.698675] systemd-hostnamed[4006]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not
>> installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please
>> install nss-myhostname!
>> [56352.199773] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 17 using
>> ehci-pci
>> [56352.293273] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1,
>> idProduct=4e40
>> [56352.293285] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>> SerialNumber=3
>> [56352.293290] usb 2-1.2: Product: Android
>> [56352.293295] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Google, Inc
>> [56352.293300] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 015d2****
>>
>> From the warning, should I install nss-myhostname?
>>
>> --
>> John Kim
>> Ubuntu QA & Doc Contributorjohnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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>>
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