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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
While you are waiting for the battery, try fastboot flashing the "oreo 4 core" boot.img. Limiting the phone to just the 4 small cores may get your phone working until the battery replacement comes.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
My phone also got affected by bootloop of death like 2 hours ago:rolleyes: . I downgraded from Oreo to nougat like almost 2 weeks ago( to try out Xposed). I think that triggered something in my phone and now...I'm stuck. The problem is, from the bootloader warning screen it goes to the google splash screen. And loop. At first I thought of clean flashing any ROM but I can't access twrp. I go to the bootloader menu then select recovery, and again the loop continues, can I get this fixed by flashing the stock Oreo Images? I can't seem to charge my phone also, even when powered off when I connect the charger the black and white charging screen comes up for like 5 seconds and the phone restarts itself to the bootloader screen and again the loop continues..
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Sounds like the classic BLOD. Have you tried (fastboot) flashing the "oreo 4 core" boot.img? If this doesn't work, you are at the end of the road.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
I'm on 7.1.2 can I flash the Oreo 4 core on this build?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
No, use the one for Nougat. I can see you're posting in that thread. Did you read the OP?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
Ya, btw I'm thinking some thing else cuz I already had a custom kernel on(on dark rom). I doubt the modified kernel would work since I had a custom kernel installed What I'm thinking is I'll dirty flash my Rom and flash the 4 Cores ex kernel universal zip. I hope this works...whats your say on This?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Suit yourself but you could just flash the modified boot.img and find out if it will boot real quick. Takes like 30 seconds.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
Alright I'll try flashing just the modified boot image at first..which boot.img should I flash? there are 2 images for nougat , I'm not sure which one to flash...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
It won't make a difference. Either one. I would tell you to boot your OS and find out which one Dark ROM was based on, but you can't (and they are only one month apart).... so it doesn't matter. Flash away. If your phone won't boot the last step is WIPING, flashing stock Oreo, and then the Oreo modified boot.img. If that doesn't work, your phone is toast.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
Thanks a ton for the info, hope everything​goes well.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
alright itried flashing the boot image and the 4 core twrp, both didnt work...how can i wipe my phone using fastboot?? and the wiping should be done before flashing the factory images right?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
fastboot format system

fastboot format userdata

fastboot format cache

Follow the directions given on this page.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloud36426:
I have a question. Has anyone here used SquareTrade? I bought the insurance through them when I got the phone. It was an extended warranty and accidental damage replacement. I was going to replace the battery myself but by the time I get the battery and the tools it would be about $75 total. That's how much my deductible is. So I am curious if anyone has had any dealings with them. It says they offer a one time battery replacement. I would rather them do it cause if I screw it up I'm out a phone and the money for tools and battery. Any clarification would be appreciated.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
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Thanks, I tried all the methods you suggested...did the wiping flashed Oreo 6.17 build (since I had it already downloaded), flashed the oreo 4core boot image... nothing changed. I even flashed twrp 4 core but couldn't even boot twrp...is there anything else worth trying...

P.S already tried the hair dryer thing, didn't work...thanks
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Nope. Time for a new phone.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdfahad47:
Thanks for all the help brother...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfred_chung:
You better flash the whole factory image first > 4 core image > 4 core twrp (optional), if the phone still cannot boot into system, use hair dryer during the phone bootloop, when the phone heat-up a certain (cannot touch by bare hand), the phone may boot normally.

If not, it is time to buy a new phone.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samuel Holland:
Hi, just a thought, I was wondering if from 6p with right cores to pixel with four cores and then pixel 2 with six cores had anything to do with the 6p problems. I got a Sino battery but were still getting random reboots when I did anything power intensive. I just purchased my second battery(original) from ifixit and seems ok until under twenty percent or so.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnetwork:
I was able to get my phone running with heat (but not using heat to put the phone into 4 core limp mode)...

https://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/gene...loop-death-blod-t3640279/page203#post74827763
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yangqi:
Call Huawei, they have extended the warranty on the nexus 6p. Google won't give a sh*t once you are out of warranty.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fe Mike:
Do you need to relock bootloader before sending in for rma? My warranty runs out in March and going to update to nougat and see if I get the bod. Way back I was on 7 during the previews but went back to mm and wait for xposed. My device build date is 10/15 with Samsung emmc. I'd rather find out now before I lose warranty. In the process of backing up internal stuff before I take the plunge.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueblur:
Add me to the list of people with bootloops. Completely stock, 7.1.1, no root, etc. Clicked a link in news.google.com and constant boot loop. I am unable to log into recovery. Google says I'm out of warranty. Serial lookup on Huawei's website says I'm good until 4-2017. I have to wait until support is online.

This is a mega bummer and not being able to restore data from the phone is a disappointment.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
I relocked bootloader (fastboot flashing lock) prior to sending it in, after I made sure to clear my data again(fastboot -w), just in case I had anything personal.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wickidmasshole:
I did NOT re-lock the bootloader either of the 2 times i sent it in (battery & BOD) and they still fixed it with no issue. I was dealing with huawei directly fyi.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
Did you get back your original phone, referb or new device? I just sent mine in yesterday and was wondering.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fe Mike:
thank you both for the replies. I'm expecting the bod, I have my s6 to fall back on just in case.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wickidmasshole:
Actually I scored pretty good. So when i sent the battery replacement they actually put a new screen and back camera glass on as well as a new battery. After i BOD'd 2 weeks later i sent it in and received back my original shell ( i know bc of a small ding in the corner i have) but to my delight they replaced my 64GB motherboard with a 128Gb. So i pretty much have brand new everything except my body plus double the storage. Hope you get hooked up too assuming you didn't already have 128GB model.

AND my warranty was extended 4 months. So yes these issue suck, but I'm actually very very very satisfied with Huaweis customer service right now.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fe Mike:
I've done this plenty of times before, not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have twrp 3.0.3 and I wiped everything but internal and fastboot flashed everything but user data and recovery from January J image and won't boot past google screen. I'm not in a loop and can go back to mm no problem. What am I missing?

Edit: so I overlooked the error when fastboot flashing system. It says it's too big. Never had that issue before. I downloaded image again and un zipped it, it's 2.79gb I believe. I've also double checked that my adb and google drivers are up to date. Anyone ever have that issue?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
In bootloader mode, fastboot format system, userdata and cache then try again
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fe Mike:
Thank you, I just noticed i had 2 instances of adb in path. I removed the one and checked adb version. All is good now. Noob mistake
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Glad you got it working again.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TTA1326:
My wife's N6P was bought on Feb 22 last year. I unlocked, rooted, and installed TWRP on it day one just to get AdAway. She hardly ever had problems aside from not being able to get OTAs or security patches at all. So, her phone was the untouched original OS. Two weekends back we were on the way out to eat and the phone rebooted while she was texting. It NEVER came back. It just boot looped at the Google logo.

I put it into recovery and shut it down until we got home. I messed with it that night and the next day. Flashed the original OS, no go. Flashed the very latest 7.1.1 (not knowing what I do now), and no go. Reflashed 7.1.1, unrooted, and went to stock recovery all at once using NRT. Nothing. Did it again. Nothing. Brick...

Called Huawei and they wouldn't do anything when I told them it was rooted. I asked the lady why Huawei built Nexus phones. She said they made them to sell them. I told her she didn't understand her consumer base if they were building Nexus phones and voiding the warranty for rooting. (Yes, I know, but I hate this BS. To me it's exactly the same as buying a PC with a Guest account only. Who does that? Nobody...) Called Google, boom, new refurb phone in 2 business days. We do have Nexus Protect until 2018 though. It came with 7.0.0 and updated to 7.1.1 right out of the box. Didn't touch it past that, no problems so far.

SO, I'm thinking it's some software update not related to the OS or security patches myself. Again, her phone NEVER updated from day 1, and it self terminated without any warning...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
I have been on stock MM and had the same bootloop of death. I am on my third phone now.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fe Mike:
Just curious were you ever on nougat and went back to mm on your phones that looped?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Nope never got to even 7 let alone 7.1.1 which seems to breaking all the phones. Was on stock stock MM.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unconfuse:
BLOD here. I flashed to the most recent Nitrogen and TWRP about a week prior. Sent out a text message and a couple minutes later my phone was off. Could only get to the bootloader from then on. Lost a good chunk of recent backups. Having 128G of storage sure makes you be a bit lazier at offloading files. Sigh

I have Google protect and received it next day. It was on 7.0 and will flash back to 7.1.1. The refurb team said I have unlimited replacements for hardware issues and I think 2 oopsies. Might as well find out if my phone can take it now then dealing with a dead phone after my protection is up.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrruin:
I got my 6p back today which was fairly quick. Motherboard was changed so I suppose this is the same issue everyone else is having. I can only tell everyone running into this issue to RMA your device. This is a known issue.

Device came with 6.0.1 but I already put F2FS and new NitrogenOS on it and everything is running well!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noriega813:
Welp, I guess I can be added to the BOD list ...It started on Monday while I was on play music. Then it just kaput on me, I contacted Huawei and had to RMA it. I was on stock 7.1.1 I'm glad I had my OG Nexus 6 still kicking around. Sucks that I didn't get to back up some pics I had...Oh well...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohlin5:
I know everyone feels slightly different about Google's own products to a degree, but if you haven't tried out Google Photos yet I highly, highly recommend it. After using it the last 3 or so years, I've grown to absolutely love it and forget what I ever did without it. And then if the unthinkable happens you'll never have to worry about whether pics were backed up or not :) Just a thought :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Yep I started with it after my first 6p hit the skids. I love it!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noriega813:
Thanks but I've been using Google photos since the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 or was it the Nexus 7? One of them offered unlimited storage... Anyways, I only lost my memes, snapchat, reddit pics and my edited car pics. :crying: I forgot how saturated the colors look on the Nexus 6. Too lazy to root it at the moment...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohlin5:
Ahhhhh gotcha lol :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] headcreepz:
Just got the boot loop of death. 2nd time ive rmad this 6p. What really irks me is it will take 2 weeks for huawei to get one back to me. It should be sent overnight.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vacross:
BLOD just happened to me. Was sitting on the crapper on chrome, phone locked up and retarted into the boot loop.

I can get into fastboot mode, i can run fastboot commands from my pc, but nothing gets it out of the boot loop so far.

Starts looping even when you try to go to recovery.

Was running stock 7.1.1, rooted.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
2nd time! Your like the 10th person I've read who has had to re-rma!! It seems like they are not getting to the root cause. I'm beginning to see a bad failure pattern; 12-13 months old, multiple rma's. I suppose I will keep my Moto X around as a backup for awhile longer.

I'm just in my first week of no N6P, sent off to Huawei.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Nope I see your one year mark and raise you approx 6 months then about 4... Both on 6.0.1 which blew their mind when I called to RMA it because they said yes we know its happening, its something in Android 7.x. I said well mine have both been on 6.0.1 so maybe the problem isn't in Android... And I am back on my Moto X Pure which during heavy use gets to about 115 degrees F but Moto sees no problem with that because it supposedly has "heat syncing pads" inside but did claim 115 is the danger zone (114 plus). Not having much luck with phones. So I am waiting for whatever 6P comes back to break yet again... Just hoping I still have warranty when it does but its right their turn around could be a little quicker...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rchtk:
Out of topic but Google Photos is far from perfect IMO. Sometimes when network is bad, you can't even see your local photos. Also the fact to not be able to selectively disable the upload for a video makes it rather unusable. I sometimes do a 200MB video then 10mn later do a photo and have to wait 30mn before I can share the photo. Pretty badly designed.

Appart from that, it's a good product, that's the only one I use with Google Play.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko82marko:
The same fate had struck me.

My beloved NEXUS 6P has died.

After update on 7.1.1 he went into bootloop.

I tried all I could find as a possible solution to the problem but without positive results.

In my country ( Serbia ) there is no official representatives of Google or Huawei.

Finally I gave up, my beloved 6P is dead.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
lol, I'm also on the MXPE, but I have to say I think I'm starting to lean towards it becoming my daily. It stays pretty cool, most of the time!

The BLOD comments keep on coming and that's just on XDA. I can't imagine this is a isolated issue. I was wondering if it had something to do with 7.1.1, but too many people, including you, were still on MM.

The good news is they rma'ed you 2x's, it looks like you were out of warranty? The bad news is you had to get rma'ed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Yea my MXP is going to smoke itself. It looks like the screen might be separating or something weird. So I'm going to warranty it also. But I haven't even owned my 6P a year and it's been replaced twice already... This shouldn't be or they should make exceptions since this is a mass problem not just isolated.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Have you tried fastboot formatting userdata, system and cache....any errors there? Then reflash stock. To automate this you could also just use the Skipsoft toolkit which has the option to format these partitions pre-flash. I'm a manual flasher myself, but some people have reported recovering from the BLOD + no access to recovery by using the SS toolkit. Hope you can get your device up and running.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shooterlgk:
Do u know where I can get the skipsoft toolkit? I just bought a nexus 6p from my friend, he has it on stock 7.1.1 but I wana root it but I'm scared cuz all these comments about the BLOD. I just wanna make sure if I root and it happens I can at least try to recover from it
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
If you are new to unlocking and rooting the N6P you should read and use the forum guide here. It has been revised and updated several times to make the procedure as fool proof as possible. Leave the phone unlocked so that if you get into trouble later on, you can still flash from bootloader mode. You are better off learning the basic ADB and fastboot commands above to get yourself out of trouble if the need arises. That said, there are a few toolkits here on XDA, notably NRT by wugfresh and Skipsoft by mskip.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shooterlgk:
My phone's unlocked so I think I just need to flash recovery and SuperSU
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
smh... sigh... I am so over this... I got my replacement back about a weeks turn around and I understand they send you a refurb but the case is scratched up by the charging port (very noticeable) and the case is dented by the power button and the screen is already lifting... Glad they are replacing it now the third time......
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhs39:
Who is providing the crappy service --google or Huawei?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Huawei. And even tho it took her over 5 minutes to "review" my 6 pictures I sent it she still needed to have a supervisor okay the RMA and they would call me back within 2 days. Smh... Love this phone but almost willing to take a refund if they offered it. Would be hard bc the phone is great but it'd be less of a headache...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhs39:
Plus you don't know you won't have problems with the replacement down the line. The 6P just feels like a time bomb. It's great as long as it works.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Well its proven in my case alone that even the replacements are a problem. So I will continue to have them replace it till I can get one that lasts or they run out of replacements because I didn't buy a product to have a paper weight. I bought it to use it and enjoy it not to just have a dead phone sit around. They must've expected this phone to come back tho because they sent me a nice fancy box with a pen in it and basically return packaging, resealable bubble sleeve... Pretty sad if that's true though....
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
That is pathetic! By 6P brick is coming back tomorrow, they said they are sending me a replacement. My phone was in basically mint condition when I sent it, thats what I expect back. It's looking like they are just churning out returned junk as replacements to defective hardware.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay with my Moto X Pure at this point, I get 2 days battery and its not a pos yet. Last phone I will buy from Huawei.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
I agree also I sent a mint phone in why get junk back... So that's why I'm having them replace this also, let alone the damn screen lifting already... Come on, seriously... I would just stick with the MXP but this phone isn't much better it heats up so hot you can't touch it and battery is garbage... Wish I could get my OG Droid working and just be done with phones forever. I don't know how they could let a phone leave the repair shop like this one. At this point hope it's brand new replacement, money back, or maybe even choose another phone... Idk I have never had a problem with a phone failing this much as I have had with the 6P.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
So whats up with the heat on the MXP's? I bought mine used a few months back as a backup when I started having issues with my 6P. I've not had any issues with heat, I don't play many games, but everything else. And the battery lasts me 2 days, my 6P would get 1 day, no exceptions, and that was with custom rom/kernel.

I've been a "nexus" person for years, but with the whole Pixel thing and the 6P issues, I think its time to look elsewhere.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Not to off topic too much but it gets super hot, so hot you can't touch it. Moto states there's heat sync pads inside but I don't think they do anything. My battery lasts me half a day but I'm a heavy user. Also might be also effected by getting so hot with its lifespan. I am just playing the waiting game on this "supervisor" to call me back and see how they are going to remedy this problem. All I can see is getting another half ass put together refurbished phone that's going to break again.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randy6644:
same here. Bootloop of Death. Was playing a game then phone rebooted, opened the game again tried to continue. Rebooted again so i went to twrp and wiped the cache, rebooted again but this time it failed and the booting animation got really choppy . The phone keeps rebooting and gets stuck at the Google logo then. Rec gone.

I've tried flashed everything i could.

NO LUCK.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veedubsky:
Unfortunately welcome to the squad... ?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randy6644:
enable the download mode. Don't know what it does and flash again, still no go.

Truly done with Google phones. and tablets. 6P and three damn pixel C all come with fatal problems and I don't have anywhere to rma my devices in my country.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpollard:
Can you contact Huawei directly? I thought they were a global company. Did you buy it with a CC? Someone posted in another thread they used the extended warranty from the CC to get the money back. That does suck if you can't.