yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henrybravo:
Oh I see, disregard and carry on then. :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Won't be druv:
That is almost right. Twrp has now been updated to rectify the issue. The latest twrp should function properly. That's 3.0.2.2.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roan.util:
:good:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opz187:
I still had issues backing up on 3.0.2-2, kept getting errors, buy that unofficial -3 build fixed everything
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenbrownstone:
were is that located?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
https://idlekernel.com/twrp/nexus/
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomv5314:
Once again being in the same boat as you with my phone at Huawei which I relocked . If it comes back unfixed and I can not unlock it again I will probably buy another 6 P. I am using my G3 which is not so bad. lol You should get your phone back before me since they just received mine yesterday late afternoon. Let me know what happens with you when you get yours back.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
As someone said earlier, if you locked while it was bootlooping it never booted I to the os to even know if you checked OEM unlocking or not you should be able to fastboot OEM unlock again from the bootloader.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesssiii:
So you have backed up and successfully restored with 3023 version of twrp?

Nexus 6P
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoot007301:
There's already a 3.0.2.3 ver. out ??

Man I just flashed 3.0.2.2 BC a few days b4 that when I was on 3.0.2.1 they said not to use BC there was a bug so .

Man Nougat has really got TWRP messed up.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesmurized:
Its unofficial. I would wait for the official release unless your needs are pressing.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opz187:
yup.. no issuess
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoot007301:
No pressing needs here..haha

Jus wondering if Nougat really that much of a difference than MM when it comes to backup n restore?

Or if they are just trying to make it where some peeps don't get the dreaded boot loop..

But yea I'm staying put on 3.0.2.2
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesmurized:
-3 was created 'unofficially' because there are a few issues with -2. I think the boot loop issues were fixed in -1, but new issues were introduced in -2. Maybe the 'official' release is delayed awaiting feedback. Not sure about these -#'s. So many its becoming a blur (haha
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
They replaced my phone. Just picked up the new one. MMB29M.

Updating and using new TWRP to backup EFS.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hutzdani:
Lol i'd not flash 3.0.2-0 and do your backups and don't bother pissing about with N until the factory image lands, did you learn nothing boy :P
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
Nope, flashing 2.8.7.2 and doing EFS backup for MM. Then going to flash PureNexus.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netwokz:
If you are encrypted(which I am) You can use 3.0.2-1. just don't backup or restore the efs partition. 3.0.2-2 introduced another bug. You can read up about it in the twrp thread. But still probably best to wait for another fix.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Train88:
For people having trouble still, check out my guide with a stock, rooted, & decrypted nandroid included. It has helped 3 people other than myself now, so it's worth a try
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
I decrypted, backed up EFS with old very of TWRP. All is good.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tr4nqui1i7y:
Any luck if you can't get to fastboot?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
Hey, i'm having the same issues with going back from Nougat to Marshmallow. While i was going through the thread i locked the bootloader by accident and i saw that somebody posted that it was possible to unlock the bootloader regardless of a bootloop issue. I was wondering how you would go about doing that so if you guys ever do find a fix i can actually use the fix and not have to replace my 5x. Thanks a million.

I'm back after some experimentation. I can't unlock my bootloader using the latest version of the Android SDK and the Windows Command Prompt. It gives me this error:

...

FAILED (remote: oem unlock is not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.007s

I have no idea what to do now so any assistance in trying to resurrect my phone would be greatly appreciated.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
To unlock you boot into fastboot then: fastboot flashing unlock
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
I've also tried that and it gave me the error i mentioned in my original post.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
Sorry. No idea.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
It's cool. Thanks for trying.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
The error "OEM unlock is not allowed" has to do with the option "Allow OEM Unlocking" not being activated under Developer Options within a booted OS.

This was introduced in Android 5.0 on some devices to try and curb smartphone theft, so that thieves can't just unlock and wipe a device and resell it.

At this time, I don't think there is a workaround for this; If you can't boot into the OS, then I think your only option is to RMA your device.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Milly7:
No offence, but I find it rather appalling that so many people would tinker with their devices, knowingly at their own risk, brick and then try to get the OEM to fix it. Yet, we all would complain the second they lock bootloaders.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
If you talk to google, they encourage the OEM unlock as well as rooting this device...though we all do this with a nexus, it's completely warranted by Google (at least that's what they said to me before they sent my replacement). I had explained to them everything I had tried to fix my phone, and that's why they decided to send me a new one.

As far as truly locking bootloaders, most of that is by carriers request. Samsung is one of the only OEMs that lock their devices down completely. (As far as I know)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
You must have got a better customer service rep than i did. He wouldn't' let me RMA my device because i flashed some of their software packages to attempt to fix my phone. Since i flashed something on my phone he couldn't RMA my phone.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
Wow...google has always been good to me...I would call back and say something to someone else
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
I was thinking about it. I really hope i get the person you got or someone like them.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
Just explain the situation to them...did this happen when trying to roll back no mm from n?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcastrophe:
I was trying to go back to Marshmallow from Nougat. I told him that i flashed a Marshmallow image to try and go back. I also locked my bootloader by accident so nothing works.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakedTator:
Just try another rep...that's about all you can do
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyea:
Bootlooper here:crying:. I tried flash-all with MTC20L factory image and sideloading the OTA with no success. I really beginning to think my 6p is bricked. Maybe a N6p 7.0 or 7.0+ factory image will change things. I hope this gets fixed in the next few months, because if it does, I'm selling the phone to recoup some costs.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tr4nqui1i7y:
Did you wipe efs via adb
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyea:
Not this time. I did try that when that fix when first recommended for the twrp related bootloop with last month's Android version.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sund00bie:
I had the same issue with my Nexus 6P and tried all sorts of things to get an official ROM but had no joy. I ended up flashing http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-debloated-prerooted-deoxeded-t3372600 and now all is good!!

yay
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mearjunsha:
I was following this thread from page 1. And believe me it worked for me too. My phone booted. I am so happy. Happy for you too. Thanks everyone in this thread. It was life saving.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juzman:
I took my phone back to my carrier and they ordered a replacement and arrived 3 days later.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
I would normally do that but sprint does not sell the phone.

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Just got the email they are sending me a replacement.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
I'm in the same boat as you; I received the "We received your device" email on Tuesday; Now it's just a waiting game.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
they got mine on the 2nd and i got this today.

Dear Huawei Customer,

This email is to inform you that our repair center upon reviewing your warranty eligibility has provided a replacement device of your product.The replacement unit is being returned to you via UPS tracking number:XXXXXXXXXXXX. Please note that an adult signature is required upon delivery. You may view the estimated delivery date by clicking the UPS tracking number above. This is a post-only mailing from a computer system that is unable to read and reply to messages. Please, do not attempt to reply to this message. For any questions regarding your repair please feel free to contact our Customer Support at 888-548-2934 (888-5HUAWEI).

Again, thank you for choosing Huawei. We truly value you as a customer.

Best Regards,

Huawei Customer Service

I got this around 11am EST today but i still cannot track yet.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
HOT DIGGITY DOG!

That's great news!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
As a note, I flashed MM stock 20f and locked it before sending off to them. I'm getting ansy that it's not tracking at ups yet.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomv5314:
I got the same e-mail also and I am also unable to track it. A little antsy too . Also mine was a graphite 128 gb device in like new shape.. I guess we shall see.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
mine was perfect, although it says replacement not referb so... there's hope lol
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
If it's a UPS outbound shipment I have sometimes noticed tracking delays; When I shipped mine out to them I couldn't track it for almost 12 hours, then it popped up an hour away from their service center.

They probably print the shipping labels and put all the packages for the day together and ship them out at one time.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
Just got the update and they friggin ship it back via ups ground ... From tx and I'm in NY fml
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
That figures
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
Let me re-iterate I will not ever buy another nexus...pixel device from anyone but the play store ever again. They send a free 2 days shipping air to send the device to them but send it via ground back? they really are a special kind of a-hole company.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
They did replace it for you though; You have to give them credit for that.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
So did the people that returned it to google...2 weeks ago
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frost_nz:
7.0 factory image is up! :good:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jammol:
Companies have their own policies. It's in the contract you acknowledge upon purchasing a device. Read it next time before you purchase anything as some companies can be seen as "shady," just because a different company does it different.?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
I bought it at bestbuy, and like I said earlier i learned my lesson about that but my opinion about the company and their policy still remains the the same as it's ****. Bestbuy did not present me with Huawei contract for an unlocked phone. If you look up dealings with them it's not just me complaining, but thanks for the condescension I'll take it to heart.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tr4nqui1i7y:
Lol. ****s lit fam
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyea:
Well I tried flash-all factory image and sideloading the ota image of the latest 7.0 android version Google has on their factory images site and the Nexus 6p is still bootlooping. Dammit, $400 wasted at Best Buy a year ago for this device.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jammol:
Did you run the adb commands?

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I don't care about their company. The fact that it's in a foreign nation already told me what their policy would be like. There wasn't any condescending in my post, was just being real as usual. I am glad you learned your lesson though, hopefully you never end up in that situation again.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
I bought mine at Best Buy as well. And honestly I think it would be better if Best Buy honored manufacturer warranties, rather than trying to sell you their overpriced Geeksquad protection.

Everytime I called Huawei, I never waited on hold for more than 90 seconds and the person who answered was easy to understand.

Huawei's USA division is headquartered in Plano, TX and they have 15 other offices across TX, CA, NJ, CO, PA, WA, GA, KS, IL, NC, and Washington, DC.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomv5314:
I got mine in May 128GB graphite mint never activated for 500.00 on Swappa .So as long as I get 128GB graphite hopefully new I can not complain. The rep I talked to today said 90 to 95% of time they are new. And they send same size and color. My update said ground shipping also. Delivery on Tues. We shall see.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panupan:
anyone know how to fix this?

I had flash all roms but it doesn't show up any folder in SDCard except TWRP

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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] longjohnsteve:
TWRP 3.0.2-2 saves the day

Had the exact same bootloop problems when I did a clean install of the rooted Nougat rom over my purenexus install. Tried everything from clean installs, to vendor images etc... After digging around for a little while I found out that you need the new version of TWRP 3.0.2-2 in order to deal with nougat roms, the previous version didn't seem to play nice. After installing the new recovery I was able to restore my backup with no problems at all!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defcondev:
[MENTION=4796847]Tomv5314[/MENTION] [MENTION=4053942]joeyddr[/MENTION]

Just following up; Did Huawei send you new or refurbished replacements?

Thanks
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
got mine today was brand new.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Tautology:
The man

I freaking love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I should mention that this command also works when run from the terminal inside twrp.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomv5314:
I got mine yesteday also and mine was brand new also. So I must admit I am happy with how Huawei handled this. I was without phone for 13 days. Course I still had my G3 so makes it easy to say not bad. lol Not bad but could have sent it back to me 2nd day instead of ground same as we sent back to them. lol But one regular weekend in there and a 3 day holiday weekend 8 business days is pretty good turnaround.:good:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyddr:
Yes to a point....but then I read about people that got theirs from Google and it just seems unacceptable on the turnaround from Huawei .... But I understand what you mean.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyea:
BootLoop Fixed!, Not......

If you've followed all my posts on the botched nougat and elsewhere, my bootloop was unfix-able with everything tried on xda.

Today I downloaded the NRD90T factory image and installed it via flash-all method and it bootlooped, but I then went into recovery and did a factory reset. Then it bootlooped a few times and, a moment later I gloriously saw the welcome screen to complete installation. My bootloader is still unlocked, and I'm not touching the phone for a few days ---DAMMIT it started bootlooping again.

UPDATE 5 min later: Well after letting it bootloop about 15 cycles the phone decided to boot up again, so I have no idea what the future will look like for this phone operating reliably. I'll keep it charged for a week, while I use my new Nexus 5x , that I got a few days ago. I like the 5x more than I thought I would. My wife says she can here me-----DAMMIT its bootlooping again. Until next time...

UPDATE2: Well I called Huawei and only stated my phone was in a bootloop and I tried a factory reset. They ok'd a RMA and they sent me back a new or refurbished one, I can't tell. I locked the bootloader before I sent it back and factory reset it again. I just want to say Huawei makes good phones and given their customer response, I've experienced and read about, I'd buy from them again. I think they will succeed in the north American market.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honki24:
I tried to flash the new Maple ROM (7.0) and had issues never getting through the google loading screen. I finally found this thread and saw to try to flash only the purenexus rom and vendor image. That allowed me to boot something. I then restored only my system and data and I got it to boot.

Then the lockscreen wouldn't let me past, said my password was wrong. Found this: http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/psa-twrp-backups-lockscreen-security-t3245070

I've always been on TWRP 3.0.2-0

Long story short, I had the same issues. On TWRP 3.0.2-0 I just wiped, reflashed PureNexus and restored my vendor image from my PureNexus backup. That booted. I then restored system and data, that booted. I then fixed my lock screen password issue with directions in link above. I am back to PureNexus, still have TWRP 3.0.2-0
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle4040:
Make sure you flash the previous vendor image you were using when restoring a nandroid backup.

I was on Pure Nexus Marshmallow 6/21 update and updated to Pure Nexus 7.0 Nougat. I flashed the rom, gapps, and vendor img and everything went smooth.

When it came time to restore my apps and contacts there was an error so I needed to get back to Pure Nexus 6.0. I restored my 6.0 nandroid backup and I got stuck at the Google screen when trying to boot up.

I flashed the MTC20F vendor image that I was previously using and my phone booted up fine back on marshmallow.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hachiroku:
The same thing sort of happened to me. Installed Pure Nexus 10/10/2016 release along with EX kernel, TWRP 3.0.2-2, and a bunch of other things. Phone was running awesome for 2 days then while browsing the internet kicked into a boot loop. After 30 min or so of bootlooping I got it to restart. Used the phone and continued surfing then 15 minutes later got into another bootloop went on for 15 minutes then I figured maybe I should clear the cache.

Mind you each time these boot loops would not let me into recovery. So after 45 min- 1.5 hours of boot loops I figured I'd try to use fastboot from my laptop to issue some commands. Wasn't able to do much besides what I already was failing at and suddenly the thing booted into recovery. From there I cleared cache and Delvik and flashed the Pure Nexus 10/10/2016 rom once again for safe measure. Phone ran great for the next 3 hours then randomly kicked itself to boot loops once again. Spent the next 4 hours trying everything. Flashed factory recovery etc etc one by one over and over. I was trying to retain my external storage but at the end not even flash-all.bat could save the phone.

Seems there really must have been a hardware failure here as restoring completely to factory and locking the phone didn't save it. I lost all my travel photos from the week before along with many other irreplaceable photos. Really annoyed but my replacement refurbished phone will be arriving from google tomorrow. It took 4 business days and I'll need to send back my faulty phone.

The odd thing is I had zero error messages when flashing the factory images files or flash-all.bat
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Degenerator9000:
This happened to me randomly too, completely out of nowhere. I had installed the first nougat from the OTA, gotten the second update, and it just randomly started bootlooping today while i was studying, weeks after having had done anything with it. Can still use TWRP, can still adb sideload the developer image,but when i do that, it still bootloops.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdad1963:
Okay, let me throw my solution in the ring. Excuse all of the grammatical errors soon to follow because I am doing this on the Fly and don't have time for a lot of editing. My situation was that I was on nougat and then mistakenly flashed a marshmallow ROM over the top of it and then couldn't get past either the Google bootloop or the colored Circle bootloop. I I have an older laptop and couldn't get fastboot to work and could not restore any of my backups in a way that would make my phone work again. I read through all 1 million posts of this thread and it struck me that maybe my phone was just having trouble recognizing things that were already on it. I went to Best Buy and purchased a SanDisk OTG USB type-c flash drive 32 gigabyte on sale for about $18 yesterday. I loaded up all of the appropriate files and flashed the stock rooted nougat ROM. Well I flashed the vendor, the rom, the recommended Google apps, the radio, and then the vendor again. All after wiping everything but internal storage. It's been about 12 hours and the only problems I've had are the occasional force closing of the Google app, which is still working and I believe a bit of a problem on nougat anyways and I have to figure out how to extract my music collection from one of my nandroid backups. But the phone, the camera, video, everything else seems to be working fine.

BTW, I did not transfer the files into my phone from the drive. I flashed them directly from the drive. You get a choice of sources within TWRP when you are installing things.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlosfurlong:
I had kind of the same issue with a moto G, maybe and im just saying MAYBE when the factory image of Android 7.0 be released you just need to flash that image.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jammol:
I highly doubt it's a hard brick (why does that even exist being a term). Your vendor partition is probably jacked up and isn't getting wiped by either recovery. Nexus phone were never "invincible," just harder to brick unless you lock the bootloader while it's jacked up. Even then, it can still be undone.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V6iNSPIRE:
Did you try downloading the factory image from

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Extract .tgz

Double click flash-all.bat or execute adb flash-all

This should return everything back to stock MTC20F without having to flash each individual image.

When I had major issues with the phone being out of wack, flashing back and forth, the method above fixed it everytime.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ericarthurc:
This method (so far) hasn't worked for anyone. Still boot loops after
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V6iNSPIRE:
Thats unbelievable. I dont know what else to say. I guess good luck to the ones who are affected. Hope there is a solution soon.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itspritts:
I have a gut feeling it has to do with a missing wipe. I think something is stuck in there regardless of fastboot erase/format commands. I temp booted into TWRP after fastboot erasing everything and snooped around the file manager. There are still a ton of files in there. I'm thinking a hidden update partition or something.