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[Nexus 6P General] haieb:
I am using the elementalX batterysaver fix that worked fine until now but I can't reboot my phone. I am wondering if this method let's you reboot your phone without a problem? I hope so...

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Okay, I figured. Can anyone tell me methods to unlock bootloader without wiping internal storage?
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
You need to fastboot flash the modified exkernel in op, and then it should boot up.

Edit: I'm sorry, you need to Fastboot twrp 4core first, then flash the exkernel in twrp.
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
which file to flash? Could you please provide me link and command to flash the file. Thanks again
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
It's all in the op, all the files needed.
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
You have the same issue as I do, where booting into TWRP recovery isn't possible. Once you've flashed the 48B_A4.img (assuming you have Angler 7.1.2) and you flash the recovery with twrp3_1_1_4Cores.img, you should apparently be able to boot into TWRP and reach a custom recovery interface. If this does load for you, go to Advanced> ADB sideload> in the command prompt type > adb sideload EX_A4.zip

This will download the kernel from the OP that is there, and allow you to install the ElementX Kernel. Some people can get this far, other's can't. There isn't a universal fix yet. My phone for example doesn't work or even get to this stage unless I heat it up again. Even If I complete it, my phone still randomly shuts down and boot loops again.
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
Thanks. Yeah I edited my post, it should've said Fastboot flash twp4core then you can simply flash the exkernel zip in twrp. That is what worked for me. My problem was slightly different, my bootloader was already unlocked and I didn't need to heat up my phone. This was my second blod and for the first one they sent me a replacement but my warranty is up now.
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Yes I have flashed 48B_A4.img and twrp3_1_1_4Cores.img and on Angler 7.1.2. After doing so, I am still not able to get into TWRP recovery. It is giving me same orange error, then moving to Google logo and again orange error asking to lock bootloader. ADB sideload can only be done in recovery as far as I know.

I will again try it at home tonight and will comment if it worked or not. Thank you for your help.

So should I download and flash Elemental X kernel version 4.11 given on first page after I have flashed 48B_A4.img and twrp3_1_1_4Cores.img?
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
I didn't flash the 488 img. I just flashed the twrp 4core then exkernel. The unlocked bootloader message is normal and not an error. How are you trying to get to recovery? Try booting to it from the bootloader.
[Nexus 6P General] ylnahar:
How to unlock the bootloader

Hello Community,

I am really excited to apply this fix to get my 6P up and running again. But since my phone is in the boot loop, I am unable to unlock the bootloader. I tried the adb sideload option with this modified image but the error I got was that the signature could not be verified so aborting installation/update.

Could someone please advice this novice on how to unlock the bootloader without the phone starting up?

Thank you.
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Yes I am trying to go in recovery via bootloader only as it seems only option for me. Normally i saw people gettting orange warning followed by Google logo wih unlock followed by twrp recovery but this is not happening with me:(
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
That's unfortunately impossible for now, you can heat up your phone to throttle the processor and then it will boot. Read some of the posts in past pages, they got some good ways to do this.
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Unfortunately you need to unlock the bootloader and then only can proceed. Most of us were in same position as you are now and we came out.

Let ur phone bootloop. Drain battery completely. When your phone is switched off, press power button to switch it ON. If it shows red led blinking instead of starting, it means its completely drained.

Now take hair dryer or heat gun from any of your friend or neighbour. Make sure you know how to use it ;)

Connect your phone to wall charger and let it charge for 10-15 minutes. It will keep bootlooping. Now keep the phone connected to charger and on some flat surface. Do not touch the phone. Keep phone in a way that fingerprint scanner side faces you.

Aim hair dryer or heat gun close to surface between camera and fingerprint scanner and start it. Let your phone heat for 10-15 minutes. Make sure it is still bootlooping and connected to wall charger. After 10 minutes, you will see colorful Google logo appear on screen. This is a sign that your phone has started.

Now stop hair dryer/heat gun and disconnect phone from charger.

Phone will boot but let it cool. Then go to settings-> about phone. Click on build number 5-6 times. You will get developer settings. Enable USB debugging and OEM Unlock after few password entries (it may ask). Done. You can unlock bootloader.
[Nexus 6P General] jdelfin85:
TWRP flash problems on 8.0 Developer preview

Ok, so I tried going through the thread, and can't find any indication of why I can t getthe TWRP recovery to stick on my device, I tried the wipe from inside twrp and nothing, when the device reboots, I am going back to the stock bootloader. What am I missing? I have the files downloaded, my phone isn't in the bootloop of death quite yet, but it is coming, the phone randomly resets itself over 10 times a day, I bought the phone on Amazon, it didn't have a warranty on it, and now I just want to do something to stop the phone from these random resets. Do I need to roll back to 7.1.2? If thats what it is going to take to install TWRP and EX on the device I can do it..... Please help!

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looking at one of the other posts, it looks like I have softbricked my phone, I got into twrp and when I flashed elemental, now my phone only boots to bootloader. I'm assuming now I need to flash the original rom to revert to stock, then start the process form there? any suggestions would be helpful.
[Nexus 6P General] richychizy:
Pls i need a download link for PA boot.img from PA version 7.2.1 modified for 4cores. The Google link seems to be dead on the post am trying to download from.
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
Sorry bud, I hope it works out for you. I don't know what else can be done, but I wish you good luck. Mine is working now, but I'm thinking of moving on to the oneplus 3t, or oneplus 5.
[Nexus 6P General] Balthazard:
[MENTION=5288606]XCnathan32[/MENTION]

First and foremost! You have my utmost gratitude! My phone was working when I saw your article on the portal. Then the next day it died on me.

I got it to work with your latest build included flar's kernel and it's going smooth on pure nexus. But I want to use S.I.X Rom wich is based of pure but somehow it doesn't boot if I use that rom. It keeps going around with the boot animation.

Could you show me how I can use your pure nexus build to edit it for Six?

Thank you in advance for your help!
[Nexus 6P General] XCnathan32:
Have you tried flashing ex kernel over it?
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
I tried but no luck. Is there any way to flash EX_A4.zip via fastboot i.e. in bootloader mode? I think if I am able to flash karnel, it may work.
[Nexus 6P General] Balthazard:
Yes I did.

Did the following.

Boot into your twrp

Flashed vensor

Boot

Six

Gapps

Ex kernel

Where pure nexus boots in under 90sec six stays for almost an hour and it still didn't boot.

Also what I found out is that when I setup the rom and flash the boot + ex kernel again I get a way smoother experience.
[Nexus 6P General] XCnathan32:
Weird, I would try factory resetting everything
[Nexus 6P General] Balthazard:
I'll do that when I have the time! Just came back from a 2500km drive haha
[Nexus 6P General] THERAJ12:
I was on six ROM before bootloop and haven't gotten it to work via fix...I think it doesn't play well with ex kernel
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Can anyone tell me methods to unlock bootloader without wiping internal storage? Or, let me rephrase that, if I can boot the phone, does OEM unlock in Dev Options mean that the bootloader is unlocked?
[Nexus 6P General] fuadhdmini:
Allow OEM unlock in Dev options is to allow fastboot command "fastboot flashing unlock" to execute (to unlock bootloader to allow you to flash images in fastboot)

Without allowing OEM unlock in Dev option, the said command can't be executed.
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Okay so there is no way around "fastboot flashing unlock" which will wipe the internal storage.
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
So I've tried flashing multiple times now with multiple approach angles. I always factory flash-all before I flash the modded images or TWRP to make sure I'm starting with a clean slate. I've tried even using the very first image that only uses one core and my phone still boot loops/cannot boot into TWRP or even the stock recovery for that matter.

What's confusing me is how this works for other people yet it doesn't work for me. When I do heat up my phone and download CPU-Z I see that the phone is running on 4 cores with the correct kernel I installed while the phone was hot from being heated up. Whats even more strange is that if I heat up my phone, I can get into TWRP and install the ElementX kernel. However, this fix never lasts, either the phone cools down or something with the software is off. Something about my phone is either overwriting the modified images provided by the OP, or certain applications are able to overwrite CPU permissions and access the A57 clusters. I'm honestly not sure.

If anyone else is experiencing this just like me, please post what you have done, for those of you that DID EXPERIENCE THIS, please post what you did to get around it. Also for those that have been successful, please note how long the repair has worked for you, whether you could shut down the phone confidently knowing the repair would hold.

Here are the stats I have from the bootloader screen:

BL: angler-03.68

Baseband: angler-03.81

CPU: MSM8994 0x20001

eMMC: Toshiba

DRAM: 3072MD Hynix LPDDR4

Console: NULL

Battery OK

Device is UNLOCKED.

Qfuse Status: ENABLED

Off-mode-charge: ENABLED

Download Mode: DISABLED
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
I wonder if [MENTION=6842057]The Flash[/MENTION] might be able to look into making a 4 core kernel that would work for us?
[Nexus 6P General] Kayloe:
Oh. My. God.

My phone starting randomly rebooting a few days ago. Last night it randomly rebooted, and the dreaded bootloop hit.

How strange that this happens a mere 2 weeks after my warranty with Huawei expired.

Flashed modified TWRP via fastboot. Then installed the modified EX kernal in TWRP via sideload. Booted up with no problems.

THANK YOU!
[Nexus 6P General] fuadhdmini:
Yup. Apparently no.

It'd be great if this phone can also utilize deep flashing cable like Xiaomi phone does. With deep flashing cable even though bootloader locked, u can still flash.
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
I just did this using a 1500W heat gun on low and kept the heat gun about a 2ft away and the phone got hot. After twenty minutes the only change in the bootlooping is the battery charging logo shows up. I am still going through the pages to see if anyone else has experienced this. But if anyone knows immediately what it is, that would save me a lot of time scrolling.

Thanks!

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Oh man, this sucks. Okay thank you.
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
It's when the battery gets too hot, simply get ice into a ziplock bag and cover the battery, then keep heating and it should boot.
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Alrighty, so I heated this bad boy for 15 minutes, turned the phone over. Screen was still in bootloop. Flipped it back over, ran it for 10 more minutes. Flipped over and still in bootloop. 10 more minutes, flipped and the battery charging logo appears. Ice pack applied to battery area below the fingerprint sensor and heat reapplied. Continued to heat for 10 more minutes. Flipping off and on at random for a total of four times. After 45 minutes of heating and I had my oven mitts handy. I flipped the phone over and it was completely off. Flipped the phone over with the battery resting on the ice pack. And after a minute it starts bootlooping again.

:( I feel like Tom and Jerry keeps pushing my buttons.
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
Is the phone plugged into the fast charging cable it came with? It'll ensure the phone won't run out of juice while it is boot looping.
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Yes sir, it is plugged in to the OEM cable and I made sure that the cable is not getting heated or warm.
[Nexus 6P General] Archavius:
Dang thats strange, I actually just tried to boot up using the blow dryer as well to try and install pure nexus, but after 20 minutes it didnt work. I'm honestly not sure anymore. Best thing if it still doesnt work after multiple attempts is just to try and wait for a solution. Theres always someone else out there with the same problem we have.
[Nexus 6P General] AzianAssassin:
Yeah I hear ya brother. I gotta get a burner phone for the meantime. Found a used Nexus 5 for $80 in my area of Florida so I'm gonna go pick that up tomorrow. Atleast this way, if that one bootloops I can continue my research lol. Thanks for getting back to me man. I'll stay in touch if I find something that works.
[Nexus 6P General] nathanchance:
I suppose I can.
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Yes even I am on same page as of you buddy. Not able to find solution yet.
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
The Flash is in the house!! Thanks buddy. Being in this position with my phone, I'd miss your kernel too much!
[Nexus 6P General] imate_joe:
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has any guide for this fix on a mac using terminal? Appreciate any help. Cheers. Joe
[Nexus 6P General] Az Biker:
Not sure if you bought your device from Huawei or Google. I just talked to Google (I purchased through them) and they are sending me a replacement. My warranty ended in Dec of 2016.

Worth a shot if purchased through Google. Good luck.
[Nexus 6P General] stewwmann:
Yaeh Huawei sucks. Mine is 25 days out of warranty. On the positive side, this worked for me. I flashed the twrp from here and after putting the four core fix file on the phone memory, flashed it with twrp. I got lucky with unlocking. I was able to do it by letting the phone run almost out of battery then plugging it in and let it continue to try and boot, eventually it did. I did this a couple times. Performance is fine and the thing does not run hot enough to cook on now.

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So BIG thanks to OP! Question now is how to get Tap to Pay working. After fix I have unlocked bootloader, twrp installed, and a modified boot img. There are many opinions over at the magisk thread, but I don't think any of them is in our exact situation. I know if I lock bootloader with twrp installed, I'll brick. Also don't know if I need to sign the new boot img file? Has any one of us actually recovered tap to pay? Please, please, please tell me how. Thanks all....
[Nexus 6P General] metallicant:
Just simply install magisk 13.3 in TWRP. The rest is simple. Android pay works on my BLOD recovered Pure Nexus rom 6p......
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Is there any way to flash zip file in fastboot mode rather than in recovery? Or any way to convert kernel zip to img file so we can flash it in bootloader mode? Problem is, I am still not able to boot into recovery normally though flashed all versions available of twrp.
[Nexus 6P General] kaushalkhatri:
I followed the steps

I followed all the steps and its been 1 hour my phone is stuck at the google logo but not like before.

Earlier it used to flash but now the screen is just stuck there. Can you tell what to do?
[Nexus 6P General] richychizy:
About the Pure Nexus ROM

Took a while to boot up for the first time unlike the PA which took like forever.

You Guys are awesome......
[Nexus 6P General] NN6P:
HELP

Hello

first i would like to say thank you so much for the restoration of my bricked nexus 6p. i managed to retrieve all the data off my phone by dismantling it and having it in pieces on my bench. prior to this fix 6 months ago.

my dilemma is that i cannot boot into twrp without a viewing files, always asks for decrypt password. i have downloaded all the latest corresponding files, rooted, installed android 7.1.2.

please if possible can you email me regarding a step my step on how to wipe this phone and start from scratch i would really appreciate it.
[Nexus 6P General] marshy73:
First and foremost I want to say thank you and great work on this.

I'd like to report a phenomenon.

Initially I pushed in the modified Boot IMGs via ADB but it was unsuccessful as it hung at the Google word for an hour.

Finally I pushed in the most current ROM from Google and then followed by the modified IMG.

It worked. And I setup the 6p as usual and played some graphics intensive games without any troubles for 2 days.

Only just, I decided to reset the 6p and so I started up the phone normally without any issues.

So I proceed to Reset the device from Settings Option.

Then **** happens, the phone rebooted and went into bootloop again.

SO...

I started the proceedings all over again and now try as I may, Whatever steps I try as described above, the phone is still in a bootloop.

My joys were shortcoming it seems.
[Nexus 6P General] richychizy:
First and foremost if your device can boot up to stock, do a manual backup of recent files u might need then You go back to TWRP and do a wipe factory reset then install EX Kernel to decrypt your device. After you can install Superuser.....(just cancel that pattern lock screen then do the factory reset)
[Nexus 6P General] kaushalkhatri:
Workedd

THANKSSSSS A TONNNN MATEEEE

It worked for me

earlier i had marshmellow thats why it was not working

God bless you <3
[Nexus 6P General] sunnyhj:
Seeing a lot of post regarding stuck on google logo. Guys flash the the kernel in the end. If you flash a custom ROM after after flashing the Kernel then the one present in the ROM will overwrite the one created by XCnathan32. So i'm going to simplify the steps if you are unable to boot using the steps provided by XCnathan32 (They are simple and easy enough to being with) But here it goes.

1) Download the Bootimg

2) Download the Twrp.imp

3) Place them both in the Folder where Fastboot files are present on you system

4) Put your device in fastboot mode (Power + Volume down) and connect with your system ,Use the fastboot to flash the Boot.img first

5) Then flash the Twrp.img

6) Now Restart the device while pressing power up button. This will boot you into Twrp recovery. (If it doesn't try it 2-3 times)

5) Now Download the rom of your choice (I used Pure nexus - ROM, VENDOR & GAPPS)

6) Flash Vendor, then ROM & GAPPS

7) Now download the modified kernel Elemental X

8) Flash the zip file file and follow the steps in the aroma installer.

9) Once done, restart the device (Alternatively you can flash the latest SU as well)

10) It will take somewhat 5-10 minutes at max for the device to boot it.

1st time around i didn't flash the Kernel after installing the ROM and i was just sitting there waiting for 20-30 minutes watching the google boot animation. Then flashed the kernel again and phone booted up in 5 minutes.

Hope this helps.
[Nexus 6P General] stewwmann:
Sigh....Thanks for the info. I went to flash Magisk in TWRP and it doesn't see internal storage. I wiped and formatted data... nope...any other way to get magisk on this BLOD recovered stock rom phone?

I know i'm close to being off topic, but it does relate to post recovery from BLOD. Sorry and thanks again.............
[Nexus 6P General] hotrodwinston:
Just to report -mine may just be a fluke but I have bootloop of death again. Going to try reflashing but not hopeful.
[Nexus 6P General] FallenHermes:
can anyone take a video of the usage on the latest update

like video of basic stuff because I'm planning to buy that phone and unlock the boot loader and able the OEM just in case i get the boot-loop
[Nexus 6P General] metallicant:
All I did was follow the steps on page one and once everything booted up I downloaded Magisk 13.3, rebooted into recovery, and from there I installed Magisk.
[Nexus 6P General] stewwmann:
Yeah, thanks, I'm with you until I reboot recovery. Then it shows (0m) for internal storage and sdcard folder shows empty.

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Phone works pretty well except for not passing safety net.
[Nexus 6P General] metallicant:
Sure because you don't have root.

You can download the zip to your PC and then copy and paste to your phone. It should show up in twrp then.
[Nexus 6P General] stewwmann:
Yeah,thanks. But that's what I've been trying to get across,it is on my phone. Side loaded from computer. TWRP not seeing it.?
[Nexus 6P General] stewwmann:
Thanks for your time. I just downloaded TWRP official and fastboot installed it. The magisk zip showed right up. Installed and working fine.:D
[Nexus 6P General] ramhses02:
There is a video on YouTube that somebody uploaded recently showing all the process to fix this issue. Unfortunately it's quite hard to understand for dime, but could be helpful for others.

Today I just downgraded to 7.1.2, tomorrow I will try this.
[Nexus 6P General] FallenHermes:
my dear friend, you misunderstood my words, I want a video of the performance of the phone after the this fix

a daily basis like texting and media consumption and also the battery life after the fix
[Nexus 6P General] titustitustan:
I've no videos, but i was able to try out all fixes here since the day it was posted. You will really feel how the processor was cut down to 4 cores alone, slowing down performance (loading of apps, app switching, HDR processing of photos, etc), but battery life is excellent hahaha.

I highly recommend also following all the "recommended tweaks" to speed up performance. Change the resolution, clocking up cores and remove animations. My phone's performance is at par with its pre-BLOD state (but HDR remains to be slow), including the battery life hahaha.
[Nexus 6P General] FallenHermes:
thank you, good sir, so what's the SOT ?
[Nexus 6P General] chait:
Recovery Mode

Hi,

After experiencing Bootloop issue on my Nexus 6P for 3 weeks, I was fortunate enough that it got restarted again. I am trying to wipe the entire cache but when I go into Recovery mode, it is not giving me any options to Wipe Cache.

Any expert help any suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Regards

Chaitanya
[Nexus 6P General] Sumedh Pendse:
Can anyone please help me with this? Is there any other way?
[Nexus 6P General] titustitustan:
less than a day. Maybe I can get back to you on this one later with a more specific answer. It lasts me 5 hours playing Pokemon Go, but that's not a good basis for SOT :D
[Nexus 6P General] chait:
Flash Unlock Issue

Hi,

I am typing the command "fastboot flashing unlock". But it gives me an error "oem unlock is not allowed".

Please help.
[Nexus 6P General] chandradithya:
Are you able to see the android logo on the recovery with an exclamation mark ?

If so you need to press the volume UP button while pressing the power button for the menu options to show up. This is what you meant?

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I'm getting an SOT of 6-7 hours using wifi all the time. And no gaming just youtube HD videos and playing local HD videos on the VLC app.

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Did you enable the Allow Unlocking Bootloader options in the developers menu when the phone was still working? If not there is no way to unlock the bootloader other than making the phone start by heating up the phone, starting on a low battery, or the other workaround and go to developer options and allowing bootloader unlock.