[TOOL][HOW-TO] [Nexus 6P] Bootloop of Death (BLOD) Workaround [Flashable Zip]

[Lenox11312]

No need to wait until 100%.
Reboot to bootloader and in command line type fastboot format userdata (just like you did earlier when you fastboot flashed all the other things in Post # 292).
Then reboot from bootloader

fastboot format userdata

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

Then...:victory:

 

[Lughnasadh]

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

Then...:victory:

Congrats :good:

 

[Lenox11312]

Congrats :good:

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?

 

[Lughnasadh]

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? Is it safe to turn my phone on and off? Things to avoid?

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.

 

[Lenox11312]

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.

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?

 

[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.

 

[Lenox11312]

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.

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.

 

[osm0sis]

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.

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.

 

[Lenox11312]

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.

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.

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[tinyspeck]

The phone is back after some resoldering the qc chip.
That phone is dying hard

Cheers

 

[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

 

[Lughnasadh]

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

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.

 

[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

 

[osm0sis]

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?

Just patch it after you go back to stock. Same instructions as always.

 

[branja6]

Just patch it after you go back to stock. Same instructions as always.

TYVM