yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
fastboot format userdata

[IMG="fastboot format userdata"]https://i.imgur.com/FNGcCjC.png[/IMG]

From the Bootloader, I pressed the Power button for Start.

Then...:victory:

[IMG="Hi there"]https://i.imgur.com/RvddNbh.jpg[/IMG]
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
Congrats :good:
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
Thank you!

Now that I am at this point, what are some steps I can take to prevent my Nexus 6P from going into boot looping again? Is there another ROM or image to flash? Something to do from the front-end, perhaps to increase stability? Is it safe to turn my phone on and off? Are there things to avoid?
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
The best thing you can do is keep it as cool as possible. Try to avoid games or anything else that will heat up the phone. Doing nandroids in TWRP heats up the phone pretty good (that's how my Bullhead died) so you may want to avoid making any backups. Even charging can heat up the phone so probably best to do mini charges rather than long charges.
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
I just looked up NANDroid. Seems useful, but I'll avoid it per your recommendation. And I won't be playing games and will monitor the temperature. Any temperature monitoring tool you recommend?

Before coming to these forums, I tried the heat up method and half the screen went grey for about an hour. Thankfully, the screen resumed to normal after that. What's the chance that I did permanent damage to my phone with the heat-up method?

So, at this point I can just use the phone normally? There's no further troubleshooting or core monitoring that I need to do?
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
It will be slow running without half its cores, and it will eventually likely die again, this time permanently, per the FAQ in the OP you should have read, so just be prepared for that.
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
Hi, osm0sis. The slowness and half its cores is fine. I'm not worried about that.

I just re-read posts #1 and #2 again. I also looked at [INDEX] Huawei Nexus 6P and don't see an FAQ listed there. Can you point me to the FAQ? I may have missed it. The steps I've tried and reviewed are mostly what to do beforehand, not afterwards.
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
I'm referring to "Some important notes before going any further" in my OP here, it discusses how your phone will more than likely end up dying again from further flaws.
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
Thanks. Good info. Just read it again.

I guess if I get another BLOD, the next step would be to open up the phone and re-solder items. Not saying I'm going to do that, but it's good to know that there isn't much more to do on the software side past what I've done.
[Nexus 6P General] Lenox11312:
I want to report my first boot after performing this fix.

The phone lasted 3d 12h 9m from the last full charge before powering off. After charging it for a short while, I turned it on and received the "corruption" screen again. After inputting my PIN, the phone booted normally after that. So, thumbs up on being able to boot again on its own. I was worried.

Regarding performance, it actually runs better now than it did before the boot loop issues even began. I don't notice the performance issues from reduced cores. I'm mostly using the phone for Hangouts, Teams, and Discord text chatting. And some Gmail.

It's a shame I didn't find this forum sooner. Thanks, again.
[Nexus 6P General] tinyspeck:
I think I have a brick:)

I did the 4 cores fix an year ago.

Before two days, after some intensive browsing it got hot and enter in bootloop on Google static logo.

Fastboot is there but no way to enter in recovery.

I choose reboot in recovery then I tried with key combinations and without pressing keys (just select reboot in recovery). When use keys upon reboot (keep power down and pres and release volume up) it shows static logo for a short time (may be 2-3 seconds) and reboot again.

During normal boot (no pressed buttons) static logo is present for near 20 seconds.

I flushed twrp-3.2.1-0-fbe-4core-angler.img on recovery and on boot partitions. It reports the flush process finishes successfully.

Still no luck. It reboots on static Google logo. No twrp, no recovery.

It may be that more components are separated but it looks like the CPU is there and the flash drive looks like working also... Is it really lost?

Thanks for reading

Any advice is highly appreciated:)
[Nexus 6P General] tinyspeck:
The phone is back after some resoldering the qc chip.

That phone is dying hard:)

Cheers
[Nexus 6P General] Alasajay:
Was going through my gallery and my 6p froze and after like a minute it went off tried putting it back on but no response. Tried the charger and still no response.

Left it for awhile and tried again and it came on but didn't pass the Google logo and went off.

I noticed it's when the phone is cold that it comes on at all. I'm on bliss A10. Is there a way to fix this cause I have so much data on that phone:mad:
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
Follow the directions in the OP. You won't lose your data by flashing the modified TWRP or the workaround.zip as long as your bootloader is already unlocked. If it is locked you'll have to try to boot up long enough to transfer your data because unlocking the bootloader will erase your data.
[Nexus 6P General] branja6:
Hello, good people.

I want to try an Ubuntu Touch port and, in order to try it, I have to go back to stock Android 7.1.2 image. How can I do it, without going into a bootloop again?

Thx in advance
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Just patch it after you go back to stock. Same instructions as always.
[Nexus 6P General] branja6:
TYVM
[Nexus 6P General] blackmonk19:
@osm0sis Just wanted to say thanks man for the amazing work! :)

God bless you... (y)
[Nexus 6P General] Omar.nwo:
i need some help i started from zero and detailed instructions and where can i find that custom kernal zip ?
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
If you are talking about the workaround zip, it's attached at the bottom of the OP.
[Nexus 6P General] Omar.nwo:
i got the files but i can not use the modified bootloader i can not even boot to twrp on my device any help ?
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
Do you mean the modified recovery? If you cannot boot into any modified recovery, your device is likely dead, unfortunately.

Quote from the OP:

"If no 4core recovery boots for you then you definitely have more components than just the performance cores separated, sorry but your device is a brick."
[Nexus 6P General] Omar.nwo:
i just have some hope i need to try for the last time lol so what can i do ?
[Nexus 6P General] hany0u:
Dark Magic: What Caused Google’s Nexus 6P Death Loop (and How to Fix It With a Hairdryer) | iFixit News

A history and diagnosis of the bootlooping that plagued the Nexus 6P, 5X, and other mid-2010s phones, and the weird hacker fixes that actually worked.

www.ifixit.com
[Nexus 6P General] hany0u:
Can I install xposed with BLOD? I wanted to disable my proximity sensor because it doesn't work.
[Nexus 6P General] Pipo-X:
My N6P already in TWRP mode, during process fixing, accidentally I erased all data with TWRP, now tried with few OTA Images from https://developers.google.com/android/ota?hl=en#angler but never success, always back to TWRP after warning message "your device software can't be checked for corruption. Please lock the bootloader.........".

Hope someone can help how to fix it back, even 4 cores, 2 cores it's ok. Love too much my 6P. Thanks.
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
Try fastboot flashing the factory image. You could also try a factory reset in TWRP instead. It won't boot afterwards if you have the BLOD but you can then just follow the instructions in the OP for flashing the custom recovery and workaround zip.

Btw, that warning message is normal with an unlocked bootloader.
[Nexus 6P General] kaenshin:
So in the beggining it was looping google logo turn off, logo, turn off. I hair dryer trick to overheat CPU it worked like a charm I managed to unlock it I downloaded the platform tool and fastboot I tried to boot the fix from this thread https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-fix-for-nexus-6p-bootloop-of-death-8-22-android-o-working.3640279/ with command "fastboot flash boot [name of the file here]" and I was getting errors of 0 partition or something, so what I did I typed fastboot flash:RAW boot name. After reboot I had the loading animation but it kept going for 30min, so I turned off the phone.

And after that it doesn't launch anymore, no matter what I flash or what I click, recovery, factor. The google logo appears but it stucks (no looping, just freeze). I mean I still have access to bootloader, but can't access recovery or start it.

So, I got instruction to follow this video

And I faced a couple of problems

1st. N5X-6P_BLOD_Workaround_Injector_Addon-AK3-signed.zip file I cannot find it, seems like the owner removed it from the site. If someone has it laying on a disk, I would really appreciate uploading it!<3 edit: I m blind, found it

2nd. the problem I'm trying to follow the cmd part and on 3d step while wanting to boot boot.img I got this error, any idea how to solve it? Someone said add flash:raw but I can't tell if that doesn't break anything?

3rd problem at one point he send files with fix and magisk to his phone, but is it possible to do from bootloader? I don't see it on my pc, where I could just drag it/send it
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
It's attached in the OP of the thread you are posting in... 🤦‍♂️
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
The files you need are located at the bottom of the OP. The method you originally used is outdated. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the OP. Depending on if you messed something up by flashing other boot images, etc., you may have to first flash the latest factory image, but try the steps in the OP first.

EDIT: Ninja'd again 😛
[Nexus 6P General] kaenshin:
Oh my 🤦‍♂️ I m super sorry.

I m super blind today, thank you 😅 Ill try it.

Still wondering if flash is different than flash:RAW, will that work?

Edit: flash:raw worked, just managed to run TWRP - progress.

Edit2:

My god, after 6h of reseaching and fighting the phone, I got it back to life.

I don't know how to thank you all <3
[Nexus 6P General] kaenshin:
I think I was happy too quickly, I assume the phone is dead, here's the story.

I managed to flash stock image + twrp + magicks + 4 core fix. Launched phone, everything works, downloaded CPUZ to check if the fix is applied - 4 enabled, 4 disabled cores. I m super happy, everything seems to work. I plugged in SIM card, configurete phone, perfect. I gave the phone to my mom shelf and next 5h she woke me up in the middle of the night and what I see is Google logo running all the time... That means there's some bigger hardware issue right? Probably impossible to fix if the 4core fix didn't help?

Anyway, thanks to all it was a long journey
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
To be sure there are not other hardware issues I would flash the stock image again, install the 4core recovery and the workaround zip without Magisk. It could possibly be that Magisk or a Magisk Mod is causing your bootloop. If after being completely on stock with the applied fixes you still get bootloops then it is likely you have other hardware issues. If not, then it is likely that Magisk or a mod is causing it.
[Nexus 6P General] kaenshin:
It's dead :'( I tried twice and I can't even run TWRP with 4 core fix anymore. It bootloops here.
[Nexus 6P General] hackvoip:
Hi... Sorry I am new and have lots of confusion. Could you please help me with flashing steps for stock image. I downloaded the "angler-ota-opm7.181205.001-abb36a2f.zip" file but it have multiple bootloader images.

fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.1-0-fbe-4core-angler.img is successful
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Just uploaded a new BLOD zip update with the latest AK3 support for multipartition patching, Lineage 18.1 Recovery, TWRP, Android 11 ROMs, and updated my dexed build of AOSP's boot_signer.jar for AVBv1 signing. 🤘

My development work on my many projects comes out of my free time, so if you enjoy this project or anything else I've done on xda, please consider sponsoring my ongoing work using my GitHub Sponsors profile. For a one-time donation you can hit the donate link from my profile. Thank you for your support!

See the related commits here: https://github.com/osm0sis/N5X-6P-BLOD-Workaround-Injector
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
Wow. This is well above and beyond the "call of duty". Kudos 👍
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
It helps me test the AK3 Backend and Core changes for multi-partition patching, where like 99% of the changes for the updated BLOD zip were anyway. :)

Edit: Just noticed it's the 3 year anniversary of these threads too! :p
[Nexus 6P General] Tarun?:
For once this didn't worked for me bcoz i messed up in 8th step, in next go i did all with step 8 and voila. Thnx for this awesome patch and guide !!
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Yep, always gotta cross your fingers 😛
[Nexus 6P General] darkriff:
This solution really aged well!
[Nexus 6P General] LONGMANi:
When I am trying to reboot to recovery mode, I am getting the same bootloop. What can I do in this case?
[Nexus 6P General] the_alphabet_guy:
Yes Man.....I Am also facing the same.....btw did u find any solution for that??
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
From the OP:

If no 4core recovery boots for you then you definitely have more components than just the performance cores separated, sorry but your device is a brick.
[Nexus 6P General] Volumee:
Guys i was using my phone since 3 years with 4core fix but yesterday i messed up. Now 4 core fixes doesnt work. always bootloop screen. Any help ? i tried all core fixes :/

what is 'factory' on bootloader menu ? my phone works with is but its liitle different. can i do something from here to fix ?
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
If you tried all the fixes, then unfortunately it might be that time...
[Nexus 6P General] Volumee:
phone booting 'factory' mode . phone can be used with factory ? there is a section 'factory' on bt menu.
[Nexus 6P General] DANIEL TAN:
Thanks, this works!

However, when I try to update apps through google play store, my phone reboots when it's "installing" the update. Same thing happens when I install any new app from the play store.

Does anyone else have this issue?
[Nexus 6P General] rotorline:
@osm0sis

sent a few bucks your way for saving my old, unloved, unused, Nexus!

Thanks
[Nexus 6P General] the_alphabet_guy:
see i literally devoted myself for fixing this situation in my nexus6p.....but as per as our conditions, we can do nothing about it ......it's the time to let it go😔
[Nexus 6P General] the_alphabet_guy:
I think its an hardware issue...try using older Android versions on it
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Unsubscribing now since the Nexus 5X (my afflicted device) scene is near death, and the last fully working ROM for it was PE Plus Android 10.

Final zip for the workaround still works well enough on even the latest broken Android 12L ROMs, and will remain available here, on my AFH and on GitHub.

Feel free to mention me in your post if you need something here. 👍
[Nexus 6P General] hany0u:
What is the most current room to use this patch?
[Nexus 6P General] m.rawass:
hello, im trying this on a zenfone 6 asus and the problem i getting is "Flashing is not allowed in Lock State"

i need to bypass this problem without wiping my phone as i have important data on it, please help
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
This is only meant for the Nexus 6P (and 5X in the other thread).

The error you are getting is because your bootloader is locked. Suggest you go to the Zenfone 6 forum to seek help as this is the wrong forum for your phone.
[Nexus 6P General] jam0688:
I was reading the op and I saw where it read that the bootloop of death happens on a locked bootloader. My bootloader has been unlocked since day one when I got it last summer and several months ago I started experiencing random reboots and then it started bootlooping at the boot animation and Google splash screen. I found this and along with the blod work around and 4core twrp it doesn't do it anymore until I flash stock firmware again to update everything. Is this a blod issue or some other kind of issue? The issue doesn't really make sense to me.
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
The BLOD can happen on a locked or unlocked bootloader. If the only way your phone boots is with the 4core TWRP and workaround zip, then it sounds like you do have the BLOD. After flashing back to stock you need to again flash the TWRP and workaround zip as outlined in the OP.
[Nexus 6P General] jam0688:
Ah ok. I understand now. I figured that was the case but I just wanted to make sure i read everything right. Thanks
[Nexus 6P General] seven2death:
my device was working ok but shutting down randomly when it was below 20%. i flashed the latest ota update rebooted fine. unlocked bootloader and flashed twrp. rebooted fine. but not no rom i flash will boot..... is this the same issue? i have a usb otg so ive tried quite a few roms. they all just hang on the logo then eventually reboot into twrp. like i feel like it might be obviously cause its so common but my symptoms are currently so different and just similar to issues ive had flashing a wrong version rom (like version vs rogers etc) it doesnt matter if i bought it from rogers right?
[Nexus 6P General] highmileage:
Thank you, Osmosis!

I've followed the directions in your initial post step-by-step. Now waiting on the Android colored dots animation. It's been about 10 minutes - is the first boot usually a long process, as with other flashes, or should it be instant? Will update this post if and when it finally does boot up.

Darn shame Google and Huawei sold us defective hardware and never owned up to it. The phone was acting up three months after purchase. I bought a 5X to replace it once it started bootlooping, but the 5X is showing its age.

Man, I miss my old Nexus 5. I kept that thing with no complaints for four years.

Really appreciate you taking better care of the Android community than Google or Huawei did!
[Nexus 6P General] Demonface.24:
Thank you for this, My device was stuck on the bootloop for years and I just gave up and I picked up my phone today and ended up finding this thread and now my device is back in working order. Thank you very much .
[Nexus 6P General] mikal75:
Thank you [MENTION=4544860]osm0sis[/MENTION]!

Thank you very much for this thread - My N6P is back again!

I followed the instructions in the second post and now I have the latest PureNexus (7.1.2) and Elemental X 4.14 working fine.

I am thinking of flashing Aquarios 8.1. If anyone has an experience with this ROM (on a recovered BLOD device) please let me know.

Is there a Elemental X Kernel (or other Kernel) image that you recommend for better CPU utilization?

To be honest the performance I have with the PN and the default Elemental X settings are fine! The device is snappy enough for me!

Many thanx again for bringing back to life our N6P devices osm0sis

Mike
[Nexus 6P General] Lughnasadh:
I find the default setting with ELEX work fine for me as well. I even have the little cores underclocked by a step to keep the heat down. Using one of the profiles like Dragonfly or Butterfly can help make it a little snappier.
[Nexus 6P General] Hubird:
With Pie 9.0 ROMs starting to surface hopefully we can get an updated / compatible fix.
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
It should already be compatible, no need for an update.
[Nexus 6P General] Aircraft800:
I already have Pie installed before I realized my problems may be with the 4Big Cores. I have TWRP and Magisk 17.1 installed.

How do you recommend I proceed? Should I use Magisk manager to uninstall first, then adb patched TWRP and 4Core fix?
[Nexus 6P General] Hubird:
Thanks for the info, appreciated.

Use TWRP to flash modded recovery, reboot to recovery and apply 4 core fix and with any luck you'll be good to go.
[Nexus 6P General] snappycg1996:
I'm on Nougat currently and want to update to latest stock Oreo.

Do I just flash the factory image without data wipe, reboot to recovery, install SU, then BLOD AK2? Do I need to install any custom kernel? Or is ak2 a kernel?

Currently my BLOD device has the elementalX fix but I want to update my OS. Will I need the elementalX fix and AK2? Or just AK2?
[Nexus 6P General] Jay_Lo:
Hi, thanks you for all this info.

Have Nexus 6P bootloop issues just recently. coming up to three years old and Battery had been replace June 2018.

Ran the TWRP recovery flash step and then tried the BLOD step but fails with device not found in CMD.

Then as recommend i manual installed BOLD in TWRP.

It installed and rebooted.

This still failed to fix the bootloop.

Then proceeded to load the Oreo img in OP, via CMD fastboot flash command.

URL xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/guide-fix-nexus-6p-bootloop-death-blod-t3640279

Booted to recovery and reinstall BLOB.

Device rebooted and started the android circles, for a minute or two.

Rebooted back to Google then android circles and then it went into the TWRP.

How do I fix this current boot process?

Is there a setting in TWRP to stop it automatically booting into recovery and go into my normal phone operations?

thanks

Jay
[Nexus 6P General] Mahmoud.nexus6p:
Nexus 6p camera focus problem

Hey

I had the bootloop problem and fixed it with custom ROM (the one you provide it).

Now the camera isn't focusing right and I don't hear any clicking sound when I shack the phone.

Anyone have this problem?
[Nexus 6P General] gvenugopal141:
Thanks osm0sis for detail explanation. But I got another problem after following steps until #5. My Nexus 6p is showing "Your device is corrupt. It can't be trusted and may not work properly. PRESS POWER TO PAUSE BOOT." message then showing "Google" for sometime and then going back to same message. It is going crazy infinite times. At this stage, 'adb' is also not working.

Can you please suggest me any alternate way to avoid this error and side load N5X-6P_BLOD_Workaround_Injector_Addon-AK2-signed.zip.

Thanks,

Venu
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
That's just an unlocked bootloader.. you're still otherwise in the bootloop by the sounds of it.
[Nexus 6P General] kevinseeger:
Everything worked great and thank you so much, only problem, I am on Android 8.0 and ota is available, but I installed and opened FlashFire app to que up the files, but on open the app checks for root, it's granted, and gets through it's check until last one, Checking for Pro, at which time the FlashFire app closes Everytime.. any suggestions?
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
There's a "timebomb" in FlashFire. If you check the FF thread they suggest rolling back the date. Then you can purchase pro if you like to remove the "timebomb".
[Nexus 6P General] kevinseeger:
That worked thank you - sorry such a careful noob here but does this look right?
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Nice! Looks good except wipe cache shouldn't be necessary at all. :good:
[Nexus 6P General] gvenugopal141:
Thanks for your reply osm0sis.

But I don't understand what do I need to do next to perform remaining steps to complete the process.
[Nexus 6P General] osm0sis:
Does the recovery .img boot? Go back to that step. Also, maybe reflash stock ROM since you must have already had to wipe data to unlock for the first time.
[Nexus 6P General] Jay_Lo:
All fixed. download Factory image

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

flash with below steps video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJj3JXKg-GI

Then upload TWRP and BLOD files.

Booted back to normal. Give it a few days, then before I load my stuff back on it.
[Nexus 6P General] Aircraft800:
Thank You so much!

My 6P would only bootloop occasionally, usually when hot or plugged into my USB with Android Auto running. I could never troubleshoot the problem. I upgraded to Android Pie and seemed like the problem went away, but I noticed in Dev Check that cores 5-8 were offline. Seems like when they would wake up, my problems with Bootloop would show up.

I used TWRP to flash your patch, and all is right in the world! No bootloop 48hr and counting!

Great Work!
[Nexus 6P General] bilatche:
Does it exist a method to flash the workaround Zip from Somewhere else than twrp?

My touchscreen doesn't respond and I can't swipe to unlock in twrp starting...