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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Finally solved this one. Reinstalled Android, enabled debugging, 
rebooted via adb into bootloader, and ran the ubuntu install again.

Cheers,

Mitchell


On 30/10/14 18:37, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> Ok, so still having some major issues with this here - not sure what's 
> wrong. Have now successfully flashed rtm-proposed, utopic-proposed, 
> and vivid-proposed, non of which will boot past the Google icon. Have 
> tried wiping the cache on all images, have aso tried doing a factory 
> reset to wipe the data in the recovery. Still no luck. Have also tried 
> letting the Google boot icon sit there for a half hour, still no luck.
>
> Has anyone gotten a Nexus 7 to boot recently from bootstrap? Have just 
> updated everything on my install of 14.10, and am now trying on my 
> wife's 14.04 laptop to see if that makes any difference. Next step 
> will be to totally reinstall android, and try again from scratch. 
> Tedious...
>
> I'd appreciate anyone's advice about getting this to work, or to tell 
> me how to debug this so we can figure out what's going on. Will post 
> back if I find anything useful.
>
> Mitchell
>
> On 30/10/14 12:09, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 11:50 +1100, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> > > Flashing a Nexus 7 2013 (flo) with rtm-proposed won't boot, version 
> > > 109.
> > > Device hangs at Google logo. Same behaviour from vivid-proposed, 
> > > version
> > > 1. I seem unable to download the archive from the stable (rtm 
> > > version 5)
> > > to flash. Here are the commands I've tried:
> > >
> > > ubuntu-device-flash --channel=ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/devel --bootstrap
> > > &
> > > ubuntu-device-flash --channel=ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/stable 
> > > --bootstrap
> > >
> > > I keep getting the error: "Failed to locate latest image information."
> > > Is there a bug with the repos at the moment with flo? Also, are there
> > > issues with getting Nexus 7 tablets to boot? Have tried wiping the 
> > > cache
> > > partition with no luck. This is a new install from the bootloader.
> > ubuntu-device-flash --list-channels|grep stable
> > ubuntu-touch/stable (alias to ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09)
> > stable (alias to ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09)
> >
> > There is no "ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/stable" channel, which would
> > explain why you might see problems with that one.
> >
> > Also, ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/devel points at the 14.09 branch, not
> > 14.09-proposed (if you were looking for the proposed images).
> >
> > I don't think there are any RTM images being built for flo right now
> > though. Does --channel devel-proposed work for you? That should get you
> > the utopic devel-proposed image, which may be slightly out of date as
> > well, given utopic is done and released now, so nothing should be
> > landing in utopic, but may get you back to a booting device.
> >
> > Also, try waiting a bit longer. Sometimes my phone will sit at the
> > Google logo for what seems forever, and then eventually boot.