yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noidea24:
He can't flash any ROM with a locked bootloader.

You should be able to fastboot flash a stock image, but if your fastboot isn't working then you're kinda screwed.

All I can say is give the fastboot flash another try, maybe from a different PC. Use method 2 in this guide to return to stock, then use the stock recovery to factory reset and boot it up
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lulzwolf:
I tried Macon's method but i am still unable to flash the phone back to stock. The OEM bootloader is locked and i cant access it without an OS installed. Is there a way i can bypass the OEM bootloader aka hack/root the phone to reflash it?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Didgeridoohan:
It should work if you run these commands (with the phone in bootloader) prior to flashing the custom rom zip in TWRP:

Fastboot format cache

Fastboot format userdata
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lulzwolf:
"""

Created filesystem with 11/16384 inodes and 2089/65536 blocks

sending 'cache' (6248 KB)...

writing 'cache'...

(bootloader) Unlock before flashing

"""

"""

Created filesystem with 11/1738080 inodes and 153124/6951904 blocks

sending 'userdata' (139061 KB)...

writing 'userdata'...

(bootloader) Unlock before flashing

"""

Im still locked out of the bootloader. how do i circumvent the OEM bootlock? can i hack pass it? it is password protected somewhere, if it is can i bruteforce the password? how can i get pass it guyz?!?!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lulzwolf:
The OEM bootloader is locked and i cant gain access to the developer optios because i dont have an OS to boot into. Im looking for a way i can "bypass" "circumvent" "hack" "disable" or any other word you can think of to get around the bootloader lock and flash my phone. i can start an "adb shell" and gain access to the command line on the phone, but i dont know where i can find the "OEM Bootloader" part of the phone for modification. I have also tried running "fastboot oem get_unlock_data" but it says "(bootloader) This command is not needed to unlock. Run fastboot oem unlock" WTF.... DAMMIT FUK FUK FUK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUJK

"""

The command i used below and its output message.

"""

root@lulzboat# fastboot oem unlock

"""

(bootloader) Check 'Allow OEM Unlock' in Developer Options.

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 0.005s

"""
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Didgeridoohan:
Sorry to hear that... The suggested method used to work for people unable to unlock their bootloader due to not having the setting checked in developers settings (if they had TWRP installed, of course).

I do believe you are screwed...
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
[MENTION=7375763]lulzwolf[/MENTION]: Contact Motorola and/or Google, because you screwed yourself by not leaving "Enable OEM Unlock" checked after you modified the firmware. There is no way to brute force the lock, unless you happen to be immortal. The encryption on the bootloader is sufficiently strong that you'll be dead long before a computer could successfully unlock it.

Lesson of the day folks: if you modify your Nexus 6, even if only to root it, leave "Enable OEM Unlock" checked! Yes, it will make your device less secure since a knowledgeable person can flash a factory image, but it's better than being permanently locked out of the device.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lawstorant:
Just flash any rom trough TWRP. For god's sake, it even supports MTP. What's your problem?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
[MENTION=5449847]Lawstorant[/MENTION]: Did you read the thread? His bootloader is locked, meaning he cannot flash anything.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lawstorant:
[MENTION=2807229]Strephon Alkhalikoi[/MENTION]

It doesn't work that way. Locked bootloader only means that he cannot flash anything using fastboot, but he clearly said that he has TWRP. TWRP doesn't relay on fastboot (common knowledge 1) because it's a totally seperate thing, hence locked bootloader doesn't affect TWRP in any way. He can still do anything he likes. The simplest solution is to flash ANY rom trough TWRP and unlock bootloader with "Boot unlocker" app.

Locked bootloader means you cannot use fastboot, partitions are not unaccesible.

1. If you lock your Windows OS with password you can't acces it, but if you have Linux there's nothing that prevents you from browsing filse on windows partition (only encryption, but still, you can wipe it and put in, anything you want).

TL;DR You're wrong, go learn some more.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
[MENTION=5449847]Lawstorant[/MENTION], your attitude and tone need a bit of adjustment. If I am wrong, that's one thing. There is however no need to be a smart ass about it, especially with the TL;DR bit. It's juvenile, and uncalled for. That said, you are correct in that lulzwolf may not be totally screwed. Virtually everyone, including myself, has assumed he has to flash a stock image, but he really doesn't. We'll need him to answer one way or another, but the instructions to restore his device are as follows.

Boot into bootloader.

Use fastboot and issue the following commands: fastboot format userdata, fastboot format cache.

Reboot into TWRP.

Flash a custom ROM.

Unlock the bootloader, and leave it unlocked.

lulzwolf did in fact get at least as far as the two fastboot commands, but he does not say whether he got back into TWRP. Now that he has gotten the userdata and cache formatted he should be able to boot into TWRP and install a custom ROM. From there he should be able to unlock the bootloader.

So [MENTION=7375763]lulzwolf[/MENTION], where are you getting stuck? You may not be done yet, as I erroneously assumed.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lawstorant:
formating trough fastboot won't succed, because he needs access to these partitions. Why would anyone even recommend fastboot when bootloader is locked? He's better of formatting them trough TWRP.

TWRP is answer to all questions. I don't even know why he's tinkering with his phone if he can't figure it out on his own.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Ask The_Merovingian. He wrote the guide. I simply copied it from his thread.

However, you and I do agree on one very important thing. If he doesn't know what he's doing he shouldn't be messing about with his phone, period. He did say in his opening post that he couldn't flash ROMs through TWRP, but given what's been posted, there shouldn't be any reason he can't flash a ROM, except he has a bigger issue than not having the OS.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lulzwolf:
Ok so i have solved my problem by installing a custom ROM called "Cataclysm" through the TRWP recovery tool. My problem was I tried flashing to stock with fastboot when fastboot had no access to the partitions. so i used adb to push a custom ROM and installed it in TRWP.... BOOM it was fixed! so in conclusion we have learned that fastboot cannot access partitions while the OEM bootloader is locked but TRWP can. thank you all for commenting and helping me out, and hopefully this thread can help out others who run across this problem in the future. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirBindy:
rofl, way to go
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Didgeridoohan:
Which is exactly what gee2012 suggested that you should do in the second reply to your cry for help. :p (And at least I assumed you had tried without success. Serves me right for assuming...)

Glad it worked out. :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
I hope you learned more than just that from this exercise. I know I did, namely a reminder to "practice what I preach". I tell people like you to search before posting and I failed to do just that. Mea culpa.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lulzwolf:
Well to be honest I did search up on this subject. I googled for 3 days straight and found nothing on how to fix it. A lot of people have the same phone as me and have this same exact problem but they never figured out how to fix it, short of sending it in to Google on the warranty. Don't go assuming again that I'm just another random dumbass crying for help and not trying to fix my own ****. :D :D :D :D :D :D
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nullusername:
I had this same exact problem on this same phone. The only fix is to sideload the factory image to twrp but it will only work with the factory image. Google "xtraSmooth Rom Zip download nexus 6" and click the first xda link, scroll down and download the image and then sideload it to you phone and then reboot and you should have a working phone.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mestar_matt:
I'm having the exact same problem. Same phone and everything. I've read this thread top to bottom. I can't get a custom ROM onto my phone. I've tried sideloading, adb push, and loading from OTG usb drive. The files don't show up on the phone if I try to transfer them. When I sideload, it says it's complete, but it only boots to twrp evertime. Any help here would be great. I feel like an idiot. I meant to lock my device, but I was so tired when I did it, I did it out of order. Any help would be great.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adb meister:
fastboot oem unlock xxxx (xxx being your unlock code)

fastboot oem unlock xxxx (xxx being your unlock code)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigkumar:
I'm having the same problem. Did you find a solution. ?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
Can you access the device through ADB? If so, sideload a Full OTA image.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigkumar:
Hi [MENTION=6617276]ktmom[/MENTION] .. Thanks for your reply.

<CODE>ADB DEVICES </CODE>

produces nothing. Hence I used the below command to boot into recovery.

<CODE>Fastboot boot <twrp image name> </CODE>.. then Advanced --> Adb Sideload .. then I issue

<CODE>adb sideload <zip file name> .. </CODE>

E1001 : Failed to update System Image

Updater Process Ended with Error 7.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
Are you sideloading a custom ROM or a full OTA? Sideload works only for full OTA files.

If you can boot TWRP, why not just reinstall your custom ROM?

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigkumar:
Hi [MENTION=6617276]ktmom[/MENTION] .. Yes I'm sideloading full OTA images that is failing with the message in my previous message. Yes, I tried to flash from twrp, it says failed to mount /system, cache and so on.

When I tried to mount them, it says they are not in /proc/mounts.

these are the entries from /proc/mounts.

<CODE>

rootfs / rootfs rw,seclabel 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=1507196k,nr_inodes=172748,mode=755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0

proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0

selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1507196k,nr_inodes=172748 0 0

pstore /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0

adb /dev/usb-ffs/adb functionfs rw,relatime 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p38 /cache ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p42 /data fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072,blksize=4096 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p42 /sdcard fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072,blksize=4096 0 0

</CODE>
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
[MENTION=9067025]vigkumar[/MENTION]

Please stop using TWRP with stock images. There are few things that will hard brick a Nexus, but this might be one.

Either fix your ADB installation so that you can ADB sideload, or, assuming the bootloader is unlocked, use the full factory image through fastboot.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigkumar:
I used twrp to flash custom ROMs not the stock ones.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
Then this discussion is making no sense to me.

To install a custom ROM, boot TWRP and use the "install" button.

To return to stock, use either ADB (not TWRP) sideload for a full OTA or fastboot for a full factory image.

In neither case do you use TWRP sideload.

If you are trying to install a custom ROM using TWRP install and your bootloader is not new enough (e.g. Bootloader is from MM but trying to install Oreo), then you must use ADB method or fastboot method to return the device to the latest stock before trying to install the custom ROM.

If you can't flash anything successfully using TWRP install, and you are using a custom ROM for the N6, then the safest thing to do is use ADB method or fastboot method to return to latest stock and start over.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilc300:
need help please

ok so i learned a little something there as well, my problem is the same but different, im with a honor 8 frp locked bl locked after a fw update no means to access the system frp will not let me wipe thru stock recovery, bl lock will not let me flash ANYTHING, and huawei recovery/erecovery pretend to wipe/format/factory reset, but do not actually do anything except piss me off, i know this thread is about nexus 6, i have BEEN researching, i ended up here because i need to work around the bl thru adb which i can reboot the phone with, not sure what else its capable of in this state, fastboot works although i now know this does me no good. so does anyone here know a way to go around the frp lock and allow myself a way to flash something in fastboot, using adb? REMEMBER I HAVE NO OS HUAWEI STOCK RECOVERY/ERECOVERY FRP LOCKED BL LOCKED awesome situation huh?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
You're pretty much screwed. When we say a bootloader is locked we mean encrypted. In order to do any customization (i.e. custom ROMs and recoveries) at all the encryption needs to be broken. This requires a key from Huawei, one they will not provide. Removing the encryption without the key is virtually impossible, as that would require you to brute force the encryption of the bootloader: a process that would take longer than the current age of the universe (14 billion + years).

If factory reset protection is involved the only legit method of bypassing it is to know the email address and password last used on the device. So while you should be able to factory reset regardless of your bootloader status, FRP will kick in and will prevent you from progressing further.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
I really think you should be hunting in your device forum. There are differences between the N6 and Huawei based devices. I believe you have an e-recovery, there is Hisuite. I just think you may have possibilities that N6 users are not familiar with.

https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/help/help-honor-8-frp-lock-bootloader-t3618090

https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/help
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsias12:
i need help pls! i have razer phone 1 and i do a bad mistake i have no os my bootloader is locked and my twrp gone and i dont have accesse to recovery mode only to fastboot mode. device state locked and i cant enable oem couse i have no os installed. sr for my english
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktmom:
You also need to post in your device forum. Discussions about different devIces in the Nexus 6 area has the potential to confuse users looking for Nexus 6 information. Just enter your device manufacturer and model in the search bar on the forum.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Agreed, though I was being nice to the Honor guy. ?

The OnePlus guy however I really do think is screwed and will need to get a hold of OnePlus to resolve his issue, as a locked bootloader and no recovery is bad news.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hector_789:
I'm facing the same issue. How did you install the custom ROM through TWRP? In my case, "adb" command does not recognize my device, although "fastboot" does. However, as you mentioned, "fastboot" does not work if the bootloader is locked, and based on the instructions in "twerp. me" website in order to use TWRP you must go through fastboot commands.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hector_789:
Please, could you share the steps to use TWRP without fastboot commands? From twrp.me website, the instructions specify you must go thru fastboot and adb commands, e.g. "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img". Googling about this I found this information as steps to work with TWRP:

"

We should note that you can't install TWRP without previously unlocking your bootloader.

A locked bootloader won't allow you to sideload firmware and images that are not signed by the device maker. This means that replacing your recovery image with a TWRP image compiled by a third party is out of the question, let alone the ability to install custom ROMs or root your smartphone.

"

What do you think about it?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jamesava:
China’s Xiaomi has launched the smart home product that many people have been waiting on: a smart rice cooker.

Users can scan their pack of rice to identify the type of rice, brand and origin, and based on that, the rice cooker can adjust its heating methodology to best suit the type of rice. It currently supports more than 200
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] daisy_12:
Rice cookers are worth a buy

Rice cookers are such a blessing.

- First of all, it never burns the rice. It cooks rice uniformly, i.e., no undercooked or overcooked rice grains.

- Also, these pots will keep your rice hot and moist for a long period of time, so you can grab a bowl of rice whenever you like. This saves you from having to cook rice or reheat cold rice whenever you want to eat some.

- Plus you can cook many other food items in a rice cooker like lentils, pasta and various other recipes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note5] Misterjunky:
[BOOTANIMATION] QMG PACMAN with Audio & BIKINI GIRL *G928T & N920T & All Variants*

These bootanimations are 100% compatible with all

Note 5 variants and all S6 Edge+ and their variants.

I created these bootanimations in QMG format using the Samsung Theme Designer.

Here are the previews

Just flash these QMG bootanimations using twrp or philz recovery

Here is the download link for PACMAN QMG Bootanimation with audio:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347822253

Here is the download link for Bikini Girl QMG Bootanimation

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347818623.

In case the new bootanimation does not show up after you reboot the phone you can do this:

Open the zip file with winrar or winzip and click on the SYSTEM folder inside the zip file

then click on the MEDIA folder and copy all the QMG files from the MEDIA folder to a

empty or new folder in your internal sd.

Then copy all the QMG files to your phone's system/media folder and reboot the phone.

After you do that, it will work fine.

--------------------------------------------

Good luck,

Have a great day!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note5] piezan:
doesnt work on my note 5 6.0.1 unfortunately. 920T
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] callumbr1:
Hey all. So when I turn on auto brightness on my S6E it just goes to full whack. The brightness goes up to the brightest. Even if it's on auto and I cover the sensors it still stays on max brightness. Anybody know a fix? Is it easily solved? I'm on G925F 6.0.1. Any help would be appreciated thanks.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] jackielo:
How to modify default size of desktop character?

Thanks a lot.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Optika:
Start, Settings, System, Screen, Text size and scale it to Largest

Or the way you want it to be
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Themes and Apps] Misterjunky:
[BOOTANIMATION] QMG PACMAN with Audio & BIKINI GIRL *G928T & N920T & All Variants*

These bootanimations are 100% compatible with all

Note 5 variants and all S6 Edge+ and their variants.

I created these bootanimations in QMG format using the Samsung Theme Designer.

Here are the previews

Just flash these QMG bootanimations using twrp or philz recovery

Here is the download link for PACMAN QMG Bootanimation with audio:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347822253

Here is the download link for Bikini Girl QMG Bootanimation

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347818623.

In case the new bootanimation does not show up after you reboot the phone you can do this:

Open the zip file with winrar or winzip and click on the SYSTEM folder inside the zip file

then click on the MEDIA folder and copy all the QMG files from the MEDIA folder to a

empty or new folder in your internal sd.

Then copy all the QMG files to your phone's system/media folder and reboot the phone.

After you do that, it will work fine.

--------------------------------------------

Good luck,

Have a great day!
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Themes and Apps] mtxss:
Thank you
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Themes and Apps] mattan1999:
The bikini girl is just a blue black hole animation for me when I install it :3
[Galaxy S6 Edge+ Themes and Apps] Isovitisgr:
+1
[General Questions and Answers] holymoz:
hi all, I searched a lot but can't decide because I need user experiences (bugs, heating etc..)

Please can you suggest a good performance phone to buy?

my requirements are:

dual sim

2+gb ram

if possible not more large than 5"

good brand (no samsung!)

must be rootable

must install custom recovery

must install xposed

obviously lollipop or M

I always had samsungs phone but i had enough, software is slow, not optimized, full of bloatware and difficult to customize (touch****z) thanks, :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge Themes and Apps] Misterjunky:
[BOOTANIMATION] QMG PACMAN with Audio & BIKINI GIRL *G928T & N920T & All Variants*

These bootanimations are 100% compatible with all

Note 5 variants and all S6 Edge+ and their variants.

I created these bootanimations in QMG format using the Samsung Theme Designer.

Here are the previews

Just flash these QMG bootanimations using twrp or philz recovery

Here is the download link for PACMAN QMG Bootanimation with audio:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347822253

Here is the download link for Bikini Girl QMG Bootanimation

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347818623.

In case the new bootanimation does not show up after you reboot the phone you can do this:

Open the zip file with winrar or winzip and click on the SYSTEM folder inside the zip file

then click on the MEDIA folder and copy all the QMG files from the MEDIA folder to a

empty or new folder in your internal sd.

Then copy all the QMG files to your phone's system/media folder and reboot the phone.

After you do that, it will work fine.

--------------------------------------------

Good luck,

Have a great day!

Good luck,

Have a great day!
[Galaxy S6 Edge Themes and Apps] scholz123:
Are you kidding me? I downloaded your Bikini Bootanimation but it doesn't show up. Instead of the Bikini Girl shows me an Blue Thing.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bibs213:
How Much Screen on Time Do You Get? (Screen on Time for Daily Usage)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clouds5:
I get about 5h on my 1 and 1/2 year old device. But that is over 3 days of standby(my normal cycle). If I just use it a lot on one day I get quite a bit more, like 6-7h.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adek89:
11h