[Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raedrizk:
I'm having the exact same problem. My nexus player suddenly lost connection to my Wifi, and would not connect to the remote. I did a factory reset and I was stuck on the start up screen where it would not see my remote.

After some troubleshooting here is what I found:

1-My remote is fine, If I put it in pairing mode I can discover it from other devices

2-If I press the button on the bottom of the player to search for Bluetooth devices, it just searches and searches with nothing found.

3-I hooked up a keyboard to the nexus player using an OTG adapter, and I was past the remote pairing screen, however

the nexus player does NOT see any WiFi networks as all

. If I select the option to setup using my phone I get the "An error has occurred" message, and then I'm back to the select WiFi screen (and again, no WiFi networks at all are discovered)

4-Unfortunately the bootloader is not unlocked so I am unable to flash a factory Image, but I was able to re-flash the latest OTA which was already on the player (7.0.0 (NRD91D)) using adb sideload. Flash was successful, however the problem still remains

So as of now I'm out of ideas (other than waiting for Google to post the OTA Zip for November, adb sideload it and see if that fixes the problem, however I am doubtful).

Anybody else having a similar problem? any feedback or ideas are highly appreciated

[UPDATE]

So I just realized that the nexus player does not need to have OEM unlocking enables like the newer Nexus phones, So I want ahead and unlocked the bootloader and using fastboot I flashed the factory software for 7.0. 6.0 and 5.0, All with the same result. But I believe I know now why no communications are working. Below is the output from the last flash I did:

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'bootloader' (12260 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.563s]

writing 'bootloader'...

OKAY [ 4.497s]

finished. total time: 6.060s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.594s]

finished. total time: 0.594s

< waiting for device >

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'

archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'

archive does not contain 'system.sig'

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Bootloader Version...: FUGU-02.13

Baseband Version.....: N/A

Serial Number........:

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checking product...

OKAY [ 0.583s]

checking version-bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.607s]

sending 'boot' (6762 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.404s]

writing 'boot'...

OKAY [ 1.667s]

sending 'recovery' (9274 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.475s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 1.826s]

erasing 'system'...

OKAY [ 1.431s]

sending sparse 'system' (514168 KB)...

OKAY [ 18.736s]

writing 'system'...

OKAY [ 25.878s]

sending sparse 'system' (480613 KB)...

OKAY [ 16.846s]

writing 'system'...

OKAY [ 24.474s]

erasing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 1.453s]

formatting 'userdata' partition...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 6393126912

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 8144

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 24387

Label:

Blocks: 1560822

Block groups: 48

Reserved block group size: 383

Created filesystem with 11/390912 inodes and 51998/1560822 blocks

sending 'userdata' (101577 KB)...

writing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 10.580s]

erasing 'cache'...

OKAY [ 1.214s]

formatting 'cache' partition...

Creating filesystem with parameters:

Size: 268435456

Block size: 4096

Blocks per group: 32768

Inodes per group: 8192

Inode size: 256

Journal blocks: 1024

Label:

Blocks: 65536

Block groups: 2

Reserved block group size: 15

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

sending 'cache' (6248 KB)...

writing 'cache'...

OKAY [ 4.116s]

rebooting...

finished. total time: 115.227s

Press any key to exit...

So the baseband version is NA and there is no serial number. Somehow something got corrupted, and I'm not even sure this is something I can fix via flashing!!!