[Nexus 4 General] SidCurry:
Fastboot Method is Unsuccessful

Hello efrant (and everyone else),

I want to thank you very much for your thoroughly detailed guide. However, nothing I do seems to work in order to revive my beloved sexy Nexy (following and reattempting your instructions verbatim, along with trying other variations). A week ago, my phone restarted by itself while it was chilling on my desk, and got stuck in the bootloader animation (with the 4 spinning circles). I had just received the 4.4.3 OTA update a few days prior so not sure if that caused my phone to commit suicide. Never rooted, stock.

So I followed your instructions to get it to respond using fastboot, however I keep getting a "FAILED (remote: flash write failure)". Now, I've scoured this entire thread (and N4 xda forums) and haven't found someone with this particular situation or a remedy so I was hoping you (or one of our beloved posters) would be kind enough to tell me what was going on.

One of the main problems is that after entering "fastboot reboot-bootloader" following "fastboot oem unlock", my phone's bootloader gets locked again, and none of the proceeding commands can actually get through (please see "

Screenshot - Unlocked Bootloader.jpg

" and "

Screenshot - Bootloader Locked Again.jpg

" images attached below). Which was fine, since I knew the commands wouldn't work if it was locked. But I decided to go through your instructions in their entirety just for the sake of having said I tried it. For instance:

*****Attempt 1 - Following your Instructions Despite Return to Locked State******

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot devices

0034409e61xxxx fastboot

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot oem unlock

...

OKAY [ 25.179s]

finished. total time: 25.179s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot reboot-bootloader

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mak

o-makoz30d.img

sending 'bootloader' (2203 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.072s]

writing 'bootloader'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 0.073s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot reboot-bootloader

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-c

efwmazm-2.0.1701.02.img

sending 'radio' (45537 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.437s]

writing 'radio'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 1.438s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot reboot-bootloader

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash system system.img

erasing 'system'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

erasing 'userdata'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (6916 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.221s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 0.222s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot format cache

erasing 'cache'...

FAILED (remote: not supported in locked device)

finished. total time: 0.002s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.001s

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So of course, that did nothing, and now my phone won't even enter the bootloader animation. So I tried skipping the "fastboot reboot-bootloader" commands in an effort to keep my device in an unlocked state. Again, I keep getting an error: "flash write failure". For instance:

*****Attempt 2: Skipping the "fastboot reboot-bootloader" commands*****

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot oem unlock

...

OKAY [ 5.026s]

finished. total time: 5.026s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mak

o-makoz30d.img

sending 'bootloader' (2203 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.072s]

writing 'bootloader'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.076s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-c

efwmazm-2.0.1701.02.img

sending 'radio' (45537 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.540s]

writing 'radio'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 1.544s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash system system.img

erasing 'system'...

OKAY [ 0.030s]

sending 'system' (731040 KB)...

OKAY [ 23.011s]

writing 'system'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 23.044s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

erasing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 0.975s]

sending 'userdata' (98413 KB)...

OKAY [ 3.103s]

writing 'userdata'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 4.082s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash boot boot.img

sending 'boot' (6366 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.220s]

writing 'boot'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.224s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (6916 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.239s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.243s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot format cache

erasing 'cache'...

OKAY [ 0.024s]

formatting 'cache' partition...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 587202560

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 7168

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 2240

Label:

Blocks: 143360

Block groups: 5

Reserved block group size: 39

Created filesystem with 11/35840 inodes and 4616/143360 blocks

sending 'cache' (10984 KB)...

writing 'cache'...

FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

finished. total time: 0.417s

C:\Users\Sid\Desktop\Nexusreflash>fastboot reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.001s

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Everytime I give the flash image command, I can see the green letters "downloading" on my nexus (please see "Screenshot - Downloading Readout" image below), so I know that the images are being transferred to the phone, but they just can't be written into the phone for some reason.

Before attempting this, I had tried clearing cache through booting into my nexus' Recovery mode, and even tried doing a full clear data/factory reset. However, I kept getting a "failure to mount" error during both entering into Recovery mode (see "

Screenshot - Previously Entering Recovery Mode

" below) and while doing the factory reset (see "

Screenshot - Previously Attempting Factory Reset

").

After following the original fastboot instructions, I can no longer enter Recovery Mode on my device, so I have no way to do a factory reset. And the bootloader animation no longer shows up on bootups (only "Google" written out).

I would greatly appreciate your input, and if you read through all of this, please understand that I greatly appreciate all of your efforts and help. :highfive:

P.S.

I thought it would be worth mentioning that I can't get ADB to recognize/list my device (I've tried several times over the last couple of days), even after trying to unlocked bootloader through fastboot, and then opening an ADB command window and entering "adb devices".

Also, throughout this entire process (I must've repeated this+variations at least 15-20 times) I tried using different USB ports on my laptop (both USB 2.0 and 3.0), tried switching to various USB cables in case they were causing problems, and even tried chanting Hare Krishna out loud for an hour straight. Since I'm using Windows 8, I also made sure to follow the extra step when installing device drivers.