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[Nexus 6P General] angry6powner:
I'm not too concerned about the early shutdown, but I would like to be able to get the phone running again. Has anyone else had this experience and managed to get the 6P going again?
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
Early shutdown is related with the battery, i replaced my battery and early shutdown is gone.

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Did you flashed the 4core modified franco kernel?
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
No, flashed regular r61 after the 4core modified boot image for October.
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
How's the performance?
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
Very good. Feels like all cores are running. Although, I don't play any games or anything like that.
[Nexus 6P General] angry6powner:
I'm not having early shutdown problems but. I'm stuck in the bootloop!

I fixed the bootloop initially using the flashed image, however yesterday it came back and now I can't get rid of it again. How to get out of the bootloop now?
[Nexus 6P General] alahkel:
Could you post a step by step guide?

I tried many times with aicp oreo but still I get to the bootanimation and then it reboots into recovery.

I tried these steps:

1) aicp + gapps

2)october 4core oreo boot img

3) ex kernel 4 core oreo

Result: reboot to recovery

1)aicp + gapps

2) October 4 core oreo boot img

3) fk r61 oreo (official)

result: same as above

Tried also without gapps and rebooting recovery between flashing october boot img (flashed always through twrp flash image - boot) and fk r61, still no luck.
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
Same here.

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Do not be angry, did you try the october 4coreupdated image?
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
ROM, ezio oreo gapps, latest magisk, arise zips, custom boot image in TWRP, r61 Franco, then finally magisk again.
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
Those Ezio gapps do not have the problem with the camera mentioned in the AICP thread? Can you also please provide us with the link. Thanks!
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
No issue here with Camera NX.

Ezio latest beans gapps: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=673791459329050585
[Nexus 6P General] alahkel:
Same gapps I'm using.

Will try your steps and report.

Ok it worked, which vendor should I flash to match with the rom?

I still don't get why it worked this way ? something definitely about magisk
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
Those Gapps are telling me that i need and SDK version 26 to proceed, my SDK version is 25... I dont get it, I am in the latest oreo factory image..
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
Nice. Sorry for the delay in between replies, have a new born! The OPR5 vendor will do, October.

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Are you flashing the 13.0 AICP ROM?
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
Got it now, all working now! Thanks
[Nexus 6P General] GeoTortoise:
Does this process sometimes fail?

Hi all,

Firstly, to be clear, I'm a competent programmer, but entirely out of my wheelhouse in android and thus very stupid about a lot of the details here. The fix doesn't appear to be working for my phone but I'm not entirely sure that I haven't made an error.

I believe the minimum path to restoring a Nexus 6P (using a mac) is:

1.install adb and fastboot

2. Download factory image from : developers.google.com/android/images (in my case trying android 7.1.2)

2a. Navigate to image file's folder and run Google's shell script (angler-n2g48c)

./flash-all.sh

2b. wait a few mins for this to do its thing.

3. Download the OP's modified boot.img

3a. Navigate to containing folder and run

fastboot flash boot 6p48C.img

3b. Wait 0.5 secs for this to finish (surprisingly fast?)

4. Phone should now work, although first boot may take a while (I FAIL HERE. Phone still Bootloops forever)

Is this correct? No missing essential steps?

Am I right in thinking that EX kernel and TWRP and such are effectively optional tools for users who want low-level? And that only the appropriate boot.img file is the essential install from OPs post?

If I am right, I assume my phone is totally screwed (also tried the equivalent process for an Oreo install).

Any pointers gratefully received!
[Nexus 6P General] dazone04:
Flashed the Oreo4cores.img, it was a success but my device says; "Your device has loaded a different operating system" before going to android logo. My device is android O anyway.
[Nexus 6P General] johnnyphive:
Will this method work if i use the factory image download from google, as i have yet to receive the OTA? Also, how can i find out which build i am running so i make sure to get the correct stock boot.img?

Thanks for the help, and your time in figuring this all out! It saved me from having to buy a Pixel 2 at full cost! :)
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Hmm, I am not sure how to update using factory/ota images.

I've seen people upgrading successfully via full ota (about same size as factory file) ,but am not familiar with the procedure. I have tried atleast 3 times , each time I had to factory reset.

I have not tried it with flashfire though... At the moment I cannot recommend any other procedure for updating than the inbuilt ota one.

People have updated using some toolkit, I read. Don't know anything much other than that.

Edit: you can find your build number in 'about phone'.

Edit2: You can check this post: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74108990&postcount=349

for updating using full factory image and flashfire
[Nexus 6P General] fuadhdmini:
Can anyone who's expert in this kernel source modding make 4core version for the new EX kernel?
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Just a suggestion: Maybe you can ask the developer to add option to turn off cores in aroma installer?
[Nexus 6P General] angry6powner:
Sorry I'm not able to help you much, other than to say that I followed this procedure about 2 months ago and it worked perfectly - my 6P stopped bootlooping and was working fine. That was until a few days ago, when it started bootlooping again. I've followed the procedure and used loads of different factory images and boot images including 6p48C, Oreo4Cores, Oreo4Cores-oldfstab, and modboot-oreo-oct-4-cores. Think I might be at the end of the line?
[Nexus 6P General] DaKoin:
someone please help me, i started having bootloop problems since Thursday this method did not work for me at all. i flashed stock n that seemed to fix it. however it keeps happening and now flashing stock wont help me. i am on the latest oct update of android oreo. i flash the boot image and i flash the recovery nothing happens, i also flash the zip file in the modified recovery nothing happens. when i flash the custom twrp it asks me to enter my password to decrypt and this doesn't work. if i flash other versions of twrp it doesnt even boot into recovery. i havent wiped the phone because there is some really important files i want to get off first. can any one help. if i do happen to get a proper twrp file that can decrypt my data can i then transfer it from the phone to my pc?

also why on earth is this fix not working for my phone? btw my bootloader is already unlocked
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Twrp password issue is addressed in FAQ #1

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Yup. Phone is dead if nothing works. Time to move on and boycott Huawei.
[Nexus 6P General] jaysway:
Worked flawless on my 6p with Oreo, I've read people having problems after a while and contacted google. They are sending me a pixel xl 128gb for a replacement. Cant complain about googles helpfulness. thanks OP
[Nexus 6P General] fantoro:
TWRP Asking for password

Hi, I've flashed boot image and TWRP, I've gone through the setup and when I enter the password in TWRP it says that it failed, I even tried the default password "default_password" but it still didn't work.

EDIT: I haven't noticed the FAQ :P
[Nexus 6P General] angrynexus6puser:
I tried this method but it did not work for me. I get the error message "Your device is corrupt. It can't be trusted and may not work properly." and keeps on boot looping with the Google logo.

Edit: I flashed stock firmware and reflashed the images. Now the phone is stuck in the Google logo. It doesn't reboot or do anything else.
[Nexus 6P General] adroid16:
boot image for PA 7.3

Is there a 4cores boot image for PA 7.3 available anywhere?
[Nexus 6P General] sms473:
Oreo Rom

Hello guys,

This is to confirm Oreo custom roms are working fine. I have tested latest AICP and ABCrom 8.0.

But there is a catch. If you are trying to install any custom rom follow below steps:

1. Wipe everything except internal storage

2. Flash rom zip

3.Flash Gapp

4. Flash Oreo 4 core modified boot image

5. Finally you need to flash latest MAGISK. I have used 14.0 and it worked.

6. Reboot.

Flashing of MAGISK is a must. For some reason phone will not boot up and will go back to recovery if you don't flash MAGISK.

Hope this helps.
[Nexus 6P General] dekela:
is there a 4 core boot image for Stock 8.0.0 (OPR5.170623.007, Oct 2017)?
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
There are atleast 3, including the one by Nathan. Oreo builds seem to run on same boot.img unlike different images for nougat builds.
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
Was the 6P purchased through the Google Store and still on warranty?
[Nexus 6P General] jaysway:
Yes and yes. I had bought the extended warranty.
[Nexus 6P General] joshyzacariya:
Try this:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74066716&postcount=1447
[Nexus 6P General] killa_beatz:
I'm no serious techie but I fixed my Nexus 6P last night. I had the bootloop issue. I replaced the battery and flashed Oreo on the phone and it is working brand new. I don't know how or why but I am good to go. Someone may want to research this fix. I was using Resurrection Remix ROM when I encountered my bootloop issues.
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Can you elaborate on the procedure? It seems an extremely dangerous procedure for novices and requires tools that are not commonly available in a house.
[Nexus 6P General] killa_beatz:
It definitely wasn't an easy fix. I had special tools for working on phones that I got off Amazon. A small toolkit also came with the Nexus 6p battery I bought off Ebay. I also had a heat gun which is needed to open the 6P.

I used two you tube vids.

Remove Battery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spz9S5aIiJg

FastBooot OREO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEdJB-_2M5I&t=540s

I didn't elect to use TWRP when I loaded OREO. I personally left that part out because I wanted to keep the phone as stock as possible.

When I was reading about the benefits of OREO on another site I came across this "Rescue Party"-one of the new Oreo updates. Which prompted me to try it. I had nothing to lose as my phone was essentially bricked and the phone wouldn't come on unless I had it plugged in which is why I felt I had to replace the battery as well.

Rescue Party

Another new Android 8.0 feature has been announced. Rescue Party will help prevent bootloops, one of the most dreaded mobile phone issues. When core system components are crashing over and over again, Android will notice and take steps to recover the device. As a final resort, it will reboot into Recovery Mode and give the option to factory reset the device. This feature will be enabled by default and doesn't require any special hardware, though it's only for phones running Android Oreo.

Please let me know if this makes sense. I really didn't expect it to work but tried out of desperation and didn't want to do the four core fix.
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Rescue party is useless, so you can count that out.

So you mean to say that replacing battery alone fixed your phone?

Btw, did you have early shutdown or quick drain issues?
[Nexus 6P General] killa_beatz:
I'm not sure. I had a boot looping issue, but my phone only boot looped while it was plugged in. So I assumed it was some sort of power issue as well. Whenever I disconnected the plug I would not have any power. Just a dead brick. Plug it in I'd get a boot loop. I just wanted to get Oreo on the phone to see if it helped and to possibly trade it in by making my phone appear stock. I was able to get to the Boot Recovery Screen when plugged in but when I selected anything within the menu it would immediately boot loop. So a forced flash was my only option as I could not even select any flash menu settings. So doing both fixed my phone. But replacing the battery alone may of worked for me, not sure. I wanted to update the ROM to OREO just in case it was a software issue since that's when most people started experiencing the issues after an update. I dunno. I feel it was a software and hardware issue. I Like I said I'm no technical expert , just passing along my experience. And this phone was a refurbished phone due to my last phone having the early shut-down issue.
[Nexus 6P General] Eddie_Brock:
I'd just like to chime in that doing a Factory Reset to get thru the password screen on the broken version of TWRP is unacceptable.

I'm hoping whoever made the fix can either show us how they did it, or try again on the latest version of TWRP that doesn't have this known bug.
[Nexus 6P General] zhangla:
I applied the fix (the 6p48C.img) about 2 months ago, and it worked.

However, today my phone suddenly got into bootloop again... I tried to apply 6p48C.img and all the img provided in this thread, but none worked. During the past 2 months, I have turned off the OTA updates and did not update any Android system in any way.

This issue is really puzzling... Does this mean the small cluster starts to fail also?
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
I conclude the same. My friend's n6p has met the same end too.
[Nexus 6P General] angry6powner:
I had the exact same issue. I fixed mine initially with 6p48C.img, only for it to start bootlooping about a month later. I've since tried everything to get it going - no luck. I gave up yesterday.
[Nexus 6P General] Leorreia:
Hello,

I just registered to the forum because I am having this problem "Infinite Loop" on my Nexus 6 P, since monday this week.

The thing is, I tried to run the fastboot with different images downloads listed on the tutorial, but It was not working. So I realized that my phone was LOCKED and I need to first do the "*If your phone is bootloader locked/OEM locked:", but I am lost here, how do I do that? It says to go to phone settings but how I am going to enter the phone settings since my phone does not start up? I did not understand this part. If I drain all the battery how do I boot it up? That part when its written: " Some users have reported success by freezing their phone for a bit" It means to put the phone in the refrigerator?

I am totally noob here and also english is not my native language as you can see.. Please help me, I really need my phone back again.. Thanks in advance
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
You have to make the phone boot into system for enabling OEM unlock.

2 possible working methods: When the phone is on and bootlooping, try :

Heating the region between fingerprint sensor and camera using a hairdryer for upto 10 minutes.

Using an electric heating pad ( the one used medically to apply heat to muscles for relieving them) for upto 25 minutes.

Once in, activate developer mode and toggle on OEM unlocking.
[Nexus 6P General] 3l1k:
I had same issue - i never had problems with my nexus 6p till i updated it to android O (i instantly noticed lags, freezes and overall poor performance) - phone worked several days and one day it is just made weird sound like vzzzz, rebooted and i got bootloop. I tried all methods i found but had no luck because bootloader was locked and phone never booted to android.

Then i found this thread and first tried to heat my phone with air heater but had no luck. Then i tried to freeze it in refrigerator for about 2 hours and after this phone almost booted first time (i saw "andr..." letters) but then rebooted. So i freezed it again and after several bootloops it is suddenly booted to android. I had enough time to bypass setup process and enable OEM unlocking in developer options. After that i installed twrp and flashed modified boot from first post. Phone still works!

So keep trying and i believe you will be able to fix it
[Nexus 6P General] athuljays:
A new Hope?

So, replacing the battery really is a worthwhile pursuit, wont you guys say?
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
I've seen only one person confirm his/her success. Would like to see more results , but it would be worth a try if you give a damn.
[Nexus 6P General] KAEDE_RL:
Just registered to tell something from China.

I encountered bootloop after updated to Oreo. At first I thought I could find some solution by Google. So I found this and that including this thread but it seems no solution is a definite cure.

Then I gave up on googling the solution but found some repairmen online in China. The same answer from different repairmen is that the problem is the soldering of the CPU. They've fixed many bootlooping Nexus 6P by disassembling and re-soldering the CPU manually. Only hardware operation; no data loss. Of course the same problem may occur again some time later, as manual soldering isn't perfect either. But there's also a chance that the device will work perfectly for good.

I've sent my phone to one of them to repair; meanwhile he'll also replace the battery and increase RAM. I'll see what the result is.
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
Could you please provide us with the repair shop info so we could use them as well?
[Nexus 6P General] Bobbaloo:
In China?!?
[Nexus 6P General] bootloopictim:
This post is incredible thank you so much! My phone is one of the many that can't use this because of having a locked OEM/USB debugging off. However I applied hot hair dryer air flow around the fingerprint sensor and my phone is able to get by the Google animation screen and on to the 4 dots. They appear for around 10 to 30 seconds, however after these dots appear my phone shuts off.

I may be wrong but i think it could be because the phone shuts itself off because its too hot OR there is an issue with my OS. I'm thinking a solution to this would be to sideload Oreo and then maybe I'll be able to get into settings quickly enough to unlock my OEM and allow USB debugging. I have been told I'll be able to sideload/ADB an OTA even if my OEM is locked, usb debugging is off, and my bootloader is locked. Is this true?

Here are the problems I got when trying to sideload/ADB oreo on to my 6p:

I have installed USB Google drivers, Minimal ADB Fastboot, Android Studio (for good measure) When I am in bootloader and connect my phone to my computer I hear the dinging noise which tells me something is connected to my computer. I look into device manager and I see "Android Bootloader Interface" under "LeMobile Android Device". I understand if I go into Recover I should also see "Android ADB Interface" as well as "Android Composite ADB Interface" however these are not available. To fix this I added them by legacy adding. They still have the yellow caution attached to the icon even after manually updating them with the google drivers. I opened up CMD and tried to see if my device could be seen, searched for "adb devices: and the results were blank. Then I went to apply update from ADB and entered "adb sideload ota.zip" and i got a sign saying device/emulator not found.​

If it isn't i believe my only option would be to continue to hair dry the back of my phone and hope i get lucky. I'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks

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yes it is. especially if you have the random shutdown battery problem. I replaced my battery and it was my very first time taking apart a phone. It is easy but i did break my black glass plate.
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
Aww yes. If that is where it is!
[Nexus 6P General] Bobbaloo:
To the far ends of the Earth to keep his 6p running....! ?
[Nexus 6P General] fuadhdmini:
If I may ask, why 2 versions? Any difference?
[Nexus 6P General] KAEDE_RL:
Are you serious... i mean the shop is in China and i don't think the repairman speaks English...

I found the shop on Taobao - a Chinese online shopping platform. However it seems I'm not allowed to paste the link as a new user...:crying:
[Nexus 6P General] joshyzacariya:
As you can see one is for FACTORY image and the other for OTA image.

Please download factory image and try the OreoOct4Cores .

Thanks,
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Tell me how it goes. If possible, can you guide users from here on how to contact the repairmen in China?
[Nexus 6P General] btvolta:
I have since moved on to the oneplus 5, but thought if they could fix my 6p in China, I could mail it there. It is running good with the fix though, but I hardly ever even turn it on now since I'm loving the op 5.
[Nexus 6P General] Bobbaloo:
I believe you. I had wished I could get one but alas, Sprint is my provider. Please DO keep us posted if you send the 6p to China.
[Nexus 6P General] 3l1k:
After my phone went to bootlooping, i downgraded it to android 7.1.2 (without any fixes). Now it works much smoother and don't rebooting anymore (3days)
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
Just tried this last night and still bootlooped. Did you flash the straight image factory and that's it? Thank you!
[Nexus 6P General] joshyzacariya:
Flash in the below order and it works:

1. Flash factory image

2. Flash modified boot image

3. Flash TWRP

4. Ex kernal version

Thanks,
[Nexus 6P General] 3l1k:
Yes, i flashed angler-n2g48c image with fastboot by running flash-all script
[Nexus 6P General] aoaleman:
Edit: nevermind. lol

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Wow, makes me think you may have not had a "real bootloop" issue. lol Very weird!
[Nexus 6P General] 3l1k:
I quoted my previous post for you.

My phone continued rebooting till i applied fix. But Overall performance been very low with fix, so i decided to try downgrade and it helped
[Nexus 6P General] NoobInToto:
Just wanna inform you that flar2 has agreed to include that option.

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74181768&postcount=8427
[Nexus 6P General] zhangla:
Good news - I just used the heat gun to make the phone boot again... I applied 6p48C.img in fastboot mode and the phone seems to be working fine. Now, I am curious why would the first successful 6p48C.img application not last? If it's really the big cluster causing issue, disabling that should be a permanent fix, right? It does not appear so to me... Somehow, some thing else fails after my first application of 6p48C... Using heat gun appears to do something that cause the failure to go away, maybe temporarily. Now even after the temperature has cooled down fully, 2 hours after the heat gun, my phone still can boot correctly.

I am happy my phone is back, again, but also very confused about what is the real cause at this point....
[Nexus 6P General] 3l1k:
I think it is bad cpu soldering - that is why heat gun helped. I froze my phone and this helped. It worked 3 days without bootloops but today it fell in bootloop again so i was forced to apply 4cores fix
[Nexus 6P General] zhangla:
Before I used the heat gun, I have already applied the 4core fix... Why would the phone go into bootloop again after the 4core fix? Does the 4core fix go away/disappear somehow? I have not updated any system or app since I applied the 4core fix.

Anyway, heat gun seems to bring it back. I guess I just need to heat it up whenever it goes into bootloop again in the future.
[Nexus 6P General] Araxus:
Well i applied the 4core fix like 2 weeks ago and just thought today "lets look whats new with the Nexus6p problem" and as soon as i started to read this thread: boom, back into the bootloop of death .......... this is bad luck i would say. Honestly wondering what should i do now, as it was working fine with the fix before.
[Nexus 6P General] zhangla:
This is why I don't think the 4core fix is a permanent fix. It also implies we have not yet found the true cause. It may not be the big/small cluster issue at all.
[Nexus 6P General] Davidxxx:
It's not work for my phone

i try all the boot.img,even i try to use one core ,but my phone still not work,what can i do ,omg.