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Flashing 5.0.1

I downloaded the flashable zip from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95851846488293411
I use WugToolKit with TWRP, Unlocked and Decrypted. Stock ROM
I'm confused as to how I should flash this, I've read I should just click flash zip in the toolkit and let it finish and done. Also that I could download the file to my phone and use TWRP to flash straight to the phone. Some say backup and some say don't. Also some threads say I need to flash back to factory image, tho this flashable zip should be a factory image of 5.0.1.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Sent from my Nexus 6

SoCoCapricorn said:
I downloaded the flashable zip from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95851846488293411
I use WugToolKit with TWRP, Unlocked and Decrypted. Stock ROM
I'm confused as to how I should flash this, I've read I should just click flash zip in the toolkit and let it finish and done. Also that I could download the file to my phone and use TWRP to flash straight to the phone. Some say backup and some say don't. Also some threads say I need to flash back to factory image, tho this flashable zip should be a factory image of 5.0.1.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Sent from my Nexus 6
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Apparently the new update OTA or zip will update blocks instead of files so from my understanding, even the slightest change from stock will cause this ZIP to fail when flashing. I'm rooted, decrypted, and changed mixer_paths.xml and as expected the flash failed in TWRP and adb sideload so I'm backing up via Titanium and flashing the 5.0.1 stock. I'll decrypt/root/restore after the flash.

Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...

So if I am stock but rooted I cannot sideload the OTA?
I keep getting status 7 error when trying to sideload with ADB using the update OTA.
It actual unzips and installs about 50% and then I get the Status 7 Error

mzimand said:
So if I am stock but rooted I cannot sideload the OTA?
I keep getting status 7 error when trying to sideload with ADB using the update OTA.
It actual unzips and installs about 50% and then I get the Status 7 Error
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Rooting causes a change to the system partition, so no, you can't sideload the OTA anymore. (not since Lollipop)

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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Worked like a CHAMP!!
:highfive:

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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Are you using nexus toolkit by wug?
Sent from my Nexus 6

SoCoCapricorn said:
Are you using nexus toolkit by wug?
Sent from my Nexus 6
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No, just used the steps I listed.

SoCoCapricorn said:
Are you using nexus toolkit by wug?
Sent from my Nexus 6
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No, he used fastboot. Be wary of toolkits. They can do damage that a novice wont be able to fix.

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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Jeezus! perfect!

Thats similar to what I did.
Only thing to do if you are already decrypted is to download this boot file, rename it to boot.img and flash it instead of the one included in the google zip package.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57406510&postcount=360

I had to manually flash each file separately. For some reason when the flash.bat file was running it kept reporting that the system.img file was too big. Not had that before.

dunjamon said:
I had to manually flash each file separately. For some reason when the flash.bat file was running it kept reporting that the system.img file was too big. Not had that before.
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yeah - since 5.0, the flash-all.bat isn't working for a lot of users.

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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What about the cache.img? do we not flash the cache?

mzimand said:
What about the cache.img? do we not flash the cache?
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From what I understand, if you flash cache.img, you will go back to stock and lose all of your settings.

Awesome man, worked perfect, you sir rock!

Great!!!!
stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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It works like a champ! THX man :good:

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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Excellent, works perfectly as described. Thanks
The only thing that I'd add, to avoid any confusion, is that the factory image can be downloaded from:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Thanks again, stevetrooper :good:

stevetrooper said:
Here are the steps I took to flash the factory image and not lose my settings:
Flash bootloader and radio:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img
After flashing the bootloader/radio, you need to reboot the bootloader as shown below, don't skip this step!
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I then unzipped this file: image-shamu-lrx22c.zip
Now you can move on to the rest of the files
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Finally, just reboot your device, and Android should start up.
fastboot reboot
After the phone restarted I then used CF-Auto-Root to re-root my phone. I did not lose any of my settings or installed apps. HTH...
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Curious as to why so many steps?
All i did was flash the radio and system images. Went to 5.0.1 just fine, all settings/data retained.
Didn't flash bootloader, kept unlocked during process, only had to re-root.

Having an issue while flashing system.img file. I flashed radio, and flashed system.img then flashed cf-auto-root. On first start up I was having issues with my radio. LTE was not connecting to T Mobile. So I Nandroid back to stock. Then of course I noticed this didnt change my radio back to stock. Starting everything over, I reflashed radio, reboot bootloader, Flash system.img, reboot bootloader, then fash autoroot. Restart device. Radio was flashed and I had root, but stuck on 5.0 Tried to reflash system.img and I am getting error. "access denied" when flashing. I have read this is an issue with mounting the drive, I have even tried to do this in fast boot but I am coming up with nothing. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
theblizzard2010 said:
Curious as to why so many steps?
All i did was flash the radio and system images. Went to 5.0.1 just fine, all settings/data retained.
Didn't flash bootloader, kept unlocked during process, only had to re-root.
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[GUIDE] Update stock rooted/modified rom to last 6.0 Marshmallow w/o losing your data

Requirements:
you need to have a pc with adb working
a stock firmware on your device (any)
unlocked bootloader
a working backup just in case
Pro:
you will not lose your data / application
Cons:
you will lose all system modification (root, busybox, custom kernel...)
you'll take all the risk of operation (I've tested on my device)
Guide:
some file names changes depending on version so please complete the {version_here} placeholder with the file you download
* prepend "sudo" on command line if you are on a Linux machine
download last version for your device here (if you want to root download the zip file in the section below to speed up the operations)
extract
extract image-{device_here}-{version_here}.zip in the same folder (no subdir)
command line* (or reboot device with vol down pressed):
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
command line*:
Code:
cd {your_path_here}
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-{device_here}-{version_here}.img
command line*:
Code:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash radio radio-{device_here}-{version_here}.img
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
ONLY IF YOU FOUND A VENDOR.IMG IN THE ZIP command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash cache cache.img
command line*:
Code:
fastboot reboot
Now you have the lastest stock image and all your data.
Change recovery (TWRP) and root:
Note that we haven't flash the stock recovery, but during every boot of an unmodified system there's a script that do that (supersu usually deactive this behavior during install).
If you had TWRP installed and the SuperSU zip on your device, at the end of the above procedure you can boot directly from bootloader to recovery and go directly to last step:
download: TWRP image (twrp-{version_here}-{device_here}.img) for your device
download: chainfire SuperSU 2.71 on your device
command line*:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-{version_here}-{device_here}.img
alternatively you can keep the original recovery and use TWRP one time with
Code:
fastboot boot twrp-{version_here}-{device_here}.img
boot in recovery and flash supersu zip

working fine for me, all correct, thanks

Just tried with flash_all.bat. I'm getting the message "Can not generate image". How can I solve this, please?

Thank you, works like a charm!

Same here, cant flash system

There's not flash-all.bat in my steps (that delete you data!), can't give help about it sorry

i've gone your way, but i tried also the flash-all.bat with the -w switch, didnt work.

Tnx mate. Helped a lot

Cant flash the system.img manually. All the other img are working. I get this error message :
Code:
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'
The old system.img from lrx22c works also.
Someone know whats going on?

Sp0KI said:
Cant flash the system.img manually. All the other img are working. I get this error message :
Code:
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'
The old system.img from lrx22c works also.
Someone know whats going on?
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I think that all who has flashed the developer preview got an broken filesystem or the partitions missmatch.
Before i used the preview the -w update flag worked well to rebuild the partitions, now it didnt work anymore, tried all factory images don to 4.4

c3k said:
Requirements:
you need to have a pc with adb working
a stock firmware on your device (any)
a working backup just in case
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so if i have twrp, before i have to return stock 5.0.1??
or i flash directly 5.1 over twrp?
tnx

chikess said:
I think that all who has flashed the developer preview got an broken filesystem or the partitions missmatch.
Before i used the preview the -w update flag worked well to rebuild the partitions, now it didnt work anymore, tried all factory images don to 4.4
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I didn't flash the preview.

Sp0KI said:
I didn't flash the preview.
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Hmm ok, but u got the same problems. So, in this way we had to wait for a flashable zip or maybe ota.

@c3k why do you mention to flash twrp while in steps above stock recovery is not included to flash... ? Doesn't that mean that custom recovery (twrp) is still on device?

Doesn't this require an unlocked bootloader, and not necessarily root, or am I confused?

Sp0KI said:
Cant flash the system.img manually. All the other img are working. I get this error message :
Code:
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
error: cannot load 'system.img'
The old system.img from lrx22c works also.
Someone know whats going on?
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Are you using the latest version for the fastboot.exe file?

foosion said:
Doesn't this require an unlocked bootloader, and not necessarily root, or am I confused?
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This requires an unlocked bootloader. But, there are users like us who have rooted the stock ROM.
This guide is meant for the users who has unlocked bootloader with rooted stock ROM.
This guide will also work for phones with unlocked bootloaders with STOCK ROM(rooted or un-rooted).
efrant said:
Are you using the latest version for the fastboot.exe file?
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I had faced the same issue while flashing LRX22C. It got fixed by rebooting the phone and switching the cable to a different USB port. Might work for him too.
PS: I have flashed the images from Linux.

In my case I guess all the issues are from a previous attempt to flash OptiPop ROM. The flashing process it's a little tricky to understand (with that F2FS file system). I remember that after flashed OptiPop and the phone didn't boot, I tried to restore to stock ROM and it was a lot of errors until it worked fine again.

efrant said:
Are you using the latest version for the fastboot.exe file?
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I'm using the newest Minimal ADB.
The strange thing is, that i can flash the LRX22C system.img and all other new lmy47d files but not the lmy47d system.img.
I guess i'll wait for the OTA update and hope it works then.
Tried rebooting and switching port and usb cabel..

You actually don't need to manually install supersu or root. Flash the 5.1 images and then (after the first full boot) flash twrp.
Once you boot into twrp and exit out of it, you will be promoted with a message that your phone is not rooted, and you're asked if you want to install supersu. It's built into twrp.

What is the easiest way to install 5.1.1

My bootloader is unlocked, I'm rooted , I have TWRP 2.8.6.0 custom recovery installed and I have Viper for Android installed on my Verizon Nexus 6. What is the easiest way to update to 5.1.1. without losing all my data. There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer. Can someone please make it clear for us non experts out here. I am in no way a newb. I'm not as computer savvy as some of you. I already have adb and fastboot on my laptop. Could someone please help m. Thanks in advance

What I did was fastboot everything except the userdata partition, which put me back to stock 5.1. Then I installed the 5.1.1 update.zip, taking me to stock 5.1.1. From there, I just rooted again using the Nexus 6 toolkit, installed busybox, and was back to normal running 5.1.1.
You could also probably fastboot directly to 5.1.1, again skipping the userdata. Then you'll just have to reroot. The images are available at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?csw=1#shamu

tombaldwin6 said:
My bootloader is unlocked, I'm rooted , I have TWRP 2.8.6.0 custom recovery installed and I have Viper for Android installed on my Verizon Nexus 6. What is the easiest way to update to 5.1.1. without losing all my data. There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer. Can someone please make it clear for us non experts out here. I am in no way a newb. I'm not as computer savvy as some of you. I already have adb and fastboot on my laptop. Could someone please help m. Thanks in advance
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Download the factory image for LMY47Z from the google site. Extract all of the .img files.
Make sure your Android SDK is up to date, so you have a recent version of fastboot (otherwise the system.img flash will fail).
Boot into bootloader.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.10.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.101.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Now, stop using command prompt for commands. Pick up your device and use the volume button to navigate to "Recovery", and push power button to select. Once TWRP loads, flash SuperSU. You should be good to go.

Updating from 5.1.1 to 6.0

Lol. I'm totally lost. I usually don't make these types of threads. I'm trying to update to 6.0. I'm assuming I would need to update the Bootloader to 6.0 before hand. How would I go about doing so? Would I need to flash the factory images straight from google? ?Currently running 5.1.1 dirty unicorns v9.8. Thank you.

houstonsveryown said:
Lol. I'm totally lost. I usually don't make these types of threads. I'm trying to update to 6.0. I'm assuming I would need to update the Bootloader to 6.0 before hand. How would I go about doing so? Would I need to flash the factory images straight from google? ?Currently running 5.1.1 dirty unicorns v9.8. Thank you.
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So, what you wanna do is download a stock image for the version of Android you're trying to flash, make SURE it's for your device! And assuming you know where to get fastboot and how to use the tool correctly, enter these commands!
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader[press tab]
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio[press tab]
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
EDIT: Also worth noting that flashing system.img takes a few minutes, it may seem to hang, this is normal!
Sent from my Nexus 6

Okay. I appreciate that!! I just wanted to make sure I was taking the right steps to do so lol. Thank you!!

H4X0R46 said:
So, what you wanna do is download a stock image for the version of Android you're trying to flash, make SURE it's for your device! And assuming you know where to get fastboot and how to use the tool correctly, enter these commands!
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader[press tab]
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio[press tab]
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
EDIT: Also worth noting that flashing system.img takes a few minutes, it may seem to hang, this is normal!
Sent from my Nexus 6
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Okay so is flashing the latest 6.0 MRA58X okay? I'm on AT&T by the way.

houstonsveryown said:
Okay so is flashing the latest 6.0 MRA58X okay? I'm on AT&T by the way.
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The latest Android version is 6.0.1. But if you want to flash that version, it's fine! As long as you make sure it's for your device! If you're using a Nexus 6, make sure it's for the "shamu"! And glad I could help! No problem!

H4X0R46 said:
The latest Android version is 6.0.1. But if you want to flash that version, it's fine! As long as you make sure it's for your device! If you're using a Nexus 6, make sure it's for the "shamu"! And glad I could help! No problem!
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okay last thing. will the old root method still work on 6.0?

houstonsveryown said:
okay last thing. will the old root method still work on 6.0?
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For 6.0, you will need a custom kernel. In short, Google added these "system is corrupt" messages to their stock kernels for Android 6.0, you will need a custom kernel. I used elementalx personally, you can get that at elementalx.org if you choose to, for Android 6.0.1, that's a different story. Let me know if you need any other help on this! PM me if you need to!

While upgrading from 6.01-7.0 crashed at 83% Now Stuck at Google logo image w/Unlock

Any help appreciated here, I have been searching the forums all morning, but haven't found the same issue as mine (lots of stuck at google ?'s but none from failed upgrade) last night I decided to take the plunge and update my N6 from build 6.0.1 (MOB31H, Oct 2016) to 7.0.0 (NBD90Z, Oct 2016)
I typically use the WugFresh NRT to upgrade via factory image. Last night I decided to give the OTA images a try.
Everything was going smoothly until I bumped my keyboard tray and my phone became disconnected while still flashing. It was almost done too.....it was at the point of flashing the system image and was interrupted at 83% and it failed install.
I then attempted to recover from this by flashing entire factory image for 7.0 but it doesn't seem to want to mount my device. I then tried to go back and flash 6.01 to device using the softbrick/bootloop function from the NRT toolkit. It seemed to partially work as the size of the word google on the screen changed during boot went smaller (so I assume the boot.img was able to flash?) but I am still stuck at the google logo with the unlock at the bottom. Bright side is device is bootloader unlocked.
If I try the recover from bootloop function on the NRT it seems to have trouble sending files to phone (goes through all the process just doesn't take it looks like it sending files but before each at beginning it doesn't seem to connect to device.
I can access bootloader, and recovery. In recovery I tried to wipe/cache (wipes but doesn't help), tried factory reset (wipes but still stuck at Google), tried to mount system through selecting via recovery and it fails.
Not sure which image I should try to flash now to recover 6.01 or 7.0 or if I can even recover from this? Any suggestions are appreciated.
When I first got my phone I did create a backup using the NRT but that was on I think 5.0 or 5.01 and I no longer have twrp installed, should I try putting twrp on it and restoring that back up? It was a long time ago and I am not sure if it will cause radio or boot img issues...since I have upgraded so far past without making another backup with a newer version.
I have read that some others with similar issues that were told to use the N beta to get a clean flash.....only issue is there is no longer a N beta for Nexus 6......it now only shows 7.01 for 6p, 5x, and pixel.
Should I try flashing twrp and a ROM? And after see if I can get to load that way then go back and flash stock image?
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

On PC:
Download most recent from Google factory images page.
Download most recent twrp
Unzip file
Unzip image-shamu-______.zip
From phone:
Boot to bootloader (power+vol down)
Plug in phone
From PC:
Fastboot flash bootloader <name of bootloader file>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio <name of radio>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Fastboot flash system system.img
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Boot into twrp recovery and wipe cache and dalvik
Reboot
Profit

Dirty_Jerz said:
On PC:
Download most recent from Google factory images page.
Download most recent twrp
Unzip file
Unzip image-shamu-______.zip
From phone:
Boot to bootloader (power+vol down)
Plug in phone
From PC:
Fastboot flash bootloader <name of bootloader file>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio <name of radio>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Fastboot flash system system.img
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Boot into twrp recovery and wipe cache and dalvik
Reboot
Profit
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just a silly question really , can this work on on a locked bootloader /not rooted device ?

touns_j said:
just a silly question really , can this work on on a locked bootloader /not rooted device ?
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This requires you unlock your bootloader. You will be installing a custom recovery. Root is not needed though.

wavechapter said:
This requires you unlock your bootloader. You will be installing a custom recovery. Root is not needed though.
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alright , i thought twrp could be replaced with stock recovery

Dirty_Jerz said:
On PC:
Download most recent from Google factory images page.
Download most recent twrp
Unzip file
Unzip image-shamu-______.zip
From phone:
Boot to bootloader (power+vol down)
Plug in phone
From PC:
Fastboot flash bootloader <name of bootloader file>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio <name of radio>.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Fastboot flash system system.img
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Boot into twrp recovery and wipe cache and dalvik
Reboot
Profit
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Thank You Dirty_Jerz! I really appreciate the help.
I am now back up and running on 7.0!