[Q] Bricked Galaxy Nexus- Help Needed

stoye · 18th April 2012, 11:06 AM

[Q] Bricked Galaxy Nexus- Help Needed

Guys,

I need any help possible although I fear I may be beyond recovery. Basically my Galaxy Nexus is bricked, I had been running 4.0.4 (IMM76D) on it. The phone is rooted and unlocked.

When switching the phone on, all I get is Google and the unlocked keypad. Will not progress further. I can boot into fastboot mode, and sometimes into recovery however although I have files showing on the SD, when I choose them I get a message declaring the path empty.

My main issue is that the handset is not recognised by my computer (running windows 7 and also since yesterday a dual boot of Ubuntu). This results in my Nexus toolkit and the AdamOutler tool being of no use as they do not recognize the device.

Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated as I'm at my wits end.

p.s. I have looked through other threads and even posted this message on one of the threads but recived no replies, hence the new post

Jubakuba · 18th April 2012, 12:34 PM

Google splash screen = not bricked.

Power+DownVol from a power-off state...does this boot you into odin?
If so...flash an odin file.
You'll lose all of your data/sd contents =/ but at least it'll boot.

But the fact that you can boot into "fastboot" but not access it is bothersome to me.
Have you used fastboot before? (not a toolkit?)
It really SHOULD recognize...

stoye · 18th April 2012, 01:38 PM

In ODIN mode in shows the droid with a 'downloading...do not turn off target' message however i've left it in this state for hours and nothing happens, I cannot access it from my laptop either to push files to flash etc.

Data appears to be completely wiped from the handset

Zepius · 18th April 2012, 02:21 PM

install the adb drivers http://pdanet.co/bin/PdaNetA302.exe (32bit win 7) or http://pdanet.co/bin/PdaNetA302x64.exe (64bit win 7)

and try fastboot devices after it has been installed.