Monday, 5 October 2015

Nexus 7 bricked ? Nothing helped



Hello Community,

for learning programming skills, I bought an ASUS/Google Nexus 7 Wi-Fi 32 GB (2013).

All I wanted is to reset it to factroy defaults, so I chose to reset it (Android 5.01). The tablet rebooted. The screen showed the message "Deleting..." for about 10 hours, afterwards it showed an android robot with a red triangle containing an exclamation mark. It boots in a endless loop between Deleting-screen and trianlge-screen.

After reading a lot of "helpful" thread in different forums, I installed android developer tools and android studio under Win10.

I booted the Nexus 7 into bootloader mode (Power + Volume down, bootloader flo-04.05) and typed in: fastboot devices, which showed a serial number.
Later I typed: fastboot oem unlock. Windows tells me the tool "erases user data".

This erasing never takes an end. I inrterrupted it, which led to a message: "Status read failed (too many links)".

I tried:
- different USB ports
- different non-original micro-USB-cables (Amazon, Kindle-cables)
- executing fastboot as administrator (executing cmd.exe as admin)

The android tools installed to "c:\Users\NAME\local\Android\..."
The android studio installed to "f:\Programs\Android..."

The device manager tells me Win10 recognized an "Android device" -> "Android bootloader interface" Version 11.0.

At this moment I´m very dissapointed about this tablet and the complexity of solving problems.

Would be great if some tips can help bringing this device back to life for developing.



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