HELP: Fastboot Flash Failure ... AP Fastboot mode every time on startup!

[_base2]

Perfect. This has made my hours of research all worth it in a matter of about 45 seconds after reading this, haha thank you.

Okay... Well my situation is this-

Got the offical OTA last week to .893 lost root (never used the forever root method)
Got the Galaxy Nexus Deactivated the Bionic through VZW
Sold my phone via eBay (Have to send it out tomorrow)
Tried the RSD Lite method (Failed as you can see)
Did a factory reset through regular recovery (not through cwm)
Now I am at .886
Getting the Fastboot error on a normal boot

And now I am getting ready to dive into your suggestion

Seeing my circumstances it sounds like this should work just fine. My only concern/question is will if I will get the OTA after I choose option #4? Not that I am that concerned considering I am just selling my phone as is and want the customer to get a phone completely clean and ready to activate.

Well here goes nothing, I'll let you know how it goes.

THANKS again though, REALLY appreciate it.

first, congrats on the galaxy nexus! it's sooo sweet. i switched to the RAZR recently, but I'm thinking about jumping to the nexus... i'm quite conflicted!

i'm glad I could help -- i hope this works for you.

And YES, once you flash the 5.5.886 system.img from using option #4 in the 43v3r root APP, you WILL be able to accept the OTA and install it via STOCK recovery, even with the updated kernel and radio still from your 5.5.893 update. I've done it... something like 3 times lol

If you follow the instructions carefully and do what I did (since it sounds like you're in the same boat that I was in) you should be: booting normally into android (not fastboot mode), unrooted, on stock 5.5.893 (latest official) system, latest official kernel and radio, and back on the upgrade path for VZW official OTA updates.

good luck and happy flashing!

 

[ChuckDz3]

first, congrats on the galaxy nexus! it's sooo sweet. i switched to the RAZR recently, but I'm thinking about jumping to the nexus... i'm quite conflicted!

i'm glad I could help -- i hope this works for you.

And YES, once you flash the 5.5.886 system.img from using option #4 in the 43v3r root APP, you WILL be able to accept the OTA and install it via STOCK recovery, even with the updated kernel and radio still from your 5.5.893 update. I've done it... something like 3 times lol

If you follow the instructions carefully and do what I did (since it sounds like you're in the same boat that I was in) you should be: booting normally into android (not fastboot mode), unrooted, on stock 5.5.893 (latest official) system, latest official kernel and radio, and back on the upgrade path for VZW official OTA updates.

good luck and happy flashing!

PERFECT!! Worked like a charm! Thank you!!

Yes I love the Nexus, it is truly is amazing. You will not be disappointed if you make the jump. The thought of a pure Google Android phone alone makes it allll worth it I've came along way from the hyperflashing days of the Original Droid, feels good to be wide open again for development with the Galaxy Nexus.

Again thank you for all your help, this is what makes Android amazing, the community of people that will to help others

 

[_base2]

PERFECT!! Worked like a charm! Thank you!!

Yes I love the Nexus, it is truly is amazing. You will not be disappointed if you make the jump. The thought of a pure Google Android phone alone makes it allll worth it I've came along way from the hyperflashing days of the Original Droid, feels good to be wide open again for development with the Galaxy Nexus.

Again thank you for all your help, this is what makes Android amazing, the community of people that will to help others

i'm glad it worked for you too thanks for the info on the nexus ... that makes it even more tempting bc there's really no way of getting out of hot water (no fxz ...) with the razr so it makes me insanely nervous to hack it... i've been an android hack since the OG as well but had to delete my previous account on here because of work :-/ LAME i know but now I'm back and glad to help! i agree with you too -- android is a COMMUNITY, not just an OS. people helped me out when I was getting started and learning, so I try to likewise help others to keep the android community alive

have a great night dude!

 

[parton1080]

I soft bricked my phone.I was rooted with p3droids one click on 5.5.893. I then installed the 901 update and lost root. I tried to use r3l3as3droot to get back to 886 so I could have root again, but now I'm stuck at ap recovery and it says flash failure. What can I do?

 

[ChuckDz3]

I soft bricked my phone.I was rooted with p3droids one click on 5.5.893. I then installed the 901 update and lost root. I tried to use r3l3as3droot to get back to 886 so I could have root again, but now I'm stuck at ap recovery and it says flash failure. What can I do?

Did you install the 901 update as an OTA or a leaked version? Anyway I would follow the steps that _Base2 laid out a couple replies earlier and get your phone back to stock. Then apply the updates and get to 893. I'm not sure if the 901 update hasn't been rooted yet.

 

[parton1080]

I installed 901 as a leak. I run option four from r3l3as3d root and this is what it says(attachment). When it reboots I still have flash failure.

 

[_base2]

I installed 901 as a leak. I run option four from r3l3as3d root and this is what it says(attachment). When it reboots I still have flash failure.

Pull the battery and boot by holding pwr + up volume + down volume to boot into recovery mode. Select normal powerup. Under settings > about phone > system version ... are you on the .901 system or are you still on your old system? What does the system version read EXACTLY?

And btw flashing any part of the fxz successfully will fix your "flash failure" on bootup. You can use p3's method linked above to flash a simple preinstall.img to take care of the flash failure error. But if you're trying to flash a new system you might as well try to flash .886 and update to 5.5.893 THEN update to the leak if you want. But you can't revert your kernel or radio unfortunately. They cannot be undone because of the locked BL.

Once we know your exact system version #, I or someone else can advise the best way forward. That's the most important piece of info to get first.

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[parton1080]

I used bionic path saver to fix my boot issue. It couldn't push the updates to my sd card, but I proceeded anyway, and it was able to rewrite system, preinstall, webtop, etc and that got me to boot. I don't have service so I cant get past the welcome screen now. Maybe I'm on .886 now and it doesn't like the 901 radio or kernel?

 

[_base2]

I used bionic path saver to fix my boot issue. It couldn't push the updates to my sd card, but I proceeded anyway, and it was able to rewrite system, preinstall, webtop, etc and that got me to boot. I don't have service so I cant get past the welcome screen now. Maybe I'm on .886 now and it doesn't like the 901 radio or kernel?

You can bypass the welcome screen by tapping the corners in order... but I can't remember if its clockwise or counterclockwise ... try both ;-) just tap each 4 corners of the screen in rotation and it should bypass the initial setup

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[_base2]

Its clockwise... just googled it. Starting at the top left. That should get you past that nonsense. Flashing fxzs and img files and you're Heisman-ed by the android setup... shame on you ;-) lol jk

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[parton1080]

OK. I'm on 886. Baseband says unknown so I guess that's why I have no service. ERI and PRL are unknown too. I assume the kernel is what came with 901. update to 893 still wont take. Some steps in the batch file didn't take the first time around since my phone was in an abnormal state. I'm running path saver again now.

 

[_base2]

OK. I'm on 886. Baseband says unknown so I guess that's why I have no service. ERI and PRL are unknown too. I assume the kernel is what came with 901. update to 893 still wont take. Some steps in the batch file didn't take the first time around since my phone was in an abnormal state. I'm running path saver again now.

Weird... haven't seen that before. Let us know how it goes and we'll keep trying stuff. You're on windows right? You might want to try p3's moto-fastboot manual procedure and flash them one-by-one but hopefully it'll work this time...
Keep us updated...

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[parton1080]

Why cant I update posts on this site?My edit is: It's working! 893 patch installing now. Now I wonder if I'll have to update to 901 again in order to get service?

 

[parton1080]

Sorry for the double post but edit doesn't work for me in chrome or firefox. I went out on a limb and went ahead and flashed 901 without booting and seeing how 893 behaved. I haven't heard of anyone rolling back from 901, and I know it wasn't getting along with 886. Rebooting... and runmebat(path saver) is still doing it's thing. Booyah! 4g signal, back on 901, runme.bat just rooted and rebooted(I think).

 

[_base2]

Sorry for the double post but edit doesn't work for me in chrome or firefox. I went out on a limb and went ahead and flashed 901 without booting and seeing how 893 behaved. I haven't heard of anyone rolling back from 901, and I know it wasn't getting along with 886. Rebooting... and runmebat(path saver) is still doing it's thing. Booyah! 4g signal, back on 901, runme.bat just rooted and rebooted(I think).

Booyah is right! It's such a good feeling to un-bork a phone w a locked bootloader like the bionic... such a feeling of accomplishment lol

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