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[Q] Nexus 6 bootloop and no "allow OEM unlocking" enabled. Please help!

Hi!
I was installing TWRP on my Nexus 6 just to try it out. Wasn't planning on rooting, just getting my "tap to wake" active. I followed the instructions for unlocking my Nexus 6 through the Dev Options. Then i continued to install a factory image and TWRP. It was all going good until I decided to lock the bootloader again. Now it's on a loop, where however I start the phone, it just goes to the TWRP startscreen and starts blinking at a slow pace.
Is there a way to enable the "allow OEM unlock" option in the Dev Options from a command line? Please can someone help? I really need to fix this, I got this phone yesterday and I feel so bad right now.
Thanks for any answers you might have.
/Diego

Sound like you have a bricked phone... There's a forum about it already started

jiv101 said:
Sound like you have a bricked phone... There's a forum about it already started
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Can u link it please?

Format cache and userdata via fastboot. If that doesn't work, nothing you can do. Send for warranty

DiegoValdes said:
. It was all going good until I decided to lock the bootloader again.
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Words to live by
Sent from my Google N6 on VZ

I never found a solution but luckily the place where I bought it felt sorry for me and gave me a new one with at new receipt. I don't feel like I deserve it though. Never again will I mess with the phone, stock for life.
Thanks for replying people! I appreciate it, truly.
Take care!
/Diego

Just don't relock the bootloader and we can get you out of any other issue [emoji6]
Sent from my Google N6 on VZ

Read, read, succeed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3067302

DiegoValdes said:
I never found a solution but luckily the place where I bought it felt sorry for me and gave me a new one with at new receipt. I don't feel like I deserve it though. Never again will I mess with the phone, stock for life.
Thanks for replying people! I appreciate it, truly.
Take care!
/Diego
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Don't do that. This is part of learning. Sure its stinks that you messed you're phone up. But now you know what you did wrong so just don't do it again. Lol. We've all bricked one or two devices, it comes with the territory. I'm glad the store helped you out though. That's really cool of them.

I soft bricked a phone once and it took me a few days to figure it out. I think the worst part was my wife asking me things like; how much did that phone cost? Aren't computers kind of your job? What number should I call you on?
Sent from my Google N6 on VZ

Is there any solution for bootloop and locked bootloader ?
Thanks !

usernome said:
Is there any solution for bootloop and locked bootloader ?
Thanks !
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If you have stock recovery, first try clearing the cache via recovery. If that doesn't work, factory data reset from stock recovery.
If TWRP is installed, reflash your ROM. Or factory reset option.
Otherwise,
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache

usernome said:
Is there any solution for bootloop and locked bootloader ?
Thanks !
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All else fails. Grab this and go back to stock. Then use it to upload your bootloader and root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2947452

Use the Tool Kit
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DiegoValdes said:
Hi!
I was installing TWRP on my Nexus 6 just to try it out. Wasn't planning on rooting, just getting my "tap to wake" active. I followed the instructions for unlocking my Nexus 6 through the Dev Options. Then i continued to install a factory image and TWRP. It was all going good until I decided to lock the bootloader again. Now it's on a loop, where however I start the phone, it just goes to the TWRP startscreen and starts blinking at a slow pace.
Is there a way to enable the "allow OEM unlock" option in the Dev Options from a command line? Please can someone help? I really need to fix this, I got this phone yesterday and I feel so bad right now.
Thanks for any answers you might have.
/Diego
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What demon possessed you to relock your bootloader??!?!?
Also, even if twrp doesn't start "fully", it should still give you access through ADB, which is all you need to wipe your data partition. I'm not sure why people recommend wiping your cache partition, it won't do you any good.

Accidentally flashed a file to root that was for KitKat (Im on Lollipop)

So I accidentaly flashed the wrong root file thus making my systemui continuously crash. Any suggestions as to what I can do?

shahrukhraza said:
So I accidentaly flashed the wrong root file thus making my systemui continuously crash. Any suggestions as to what I can do?
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Stock recovery or TWRP?
Are you looking to undo what you did without having to do a complete wipe, or are you open to more drastic solutions? Because you can always run the toolkit to reset to complete stock by flashing the stock images over your current system. But that would of course perform a complete wipe.

Paddington said:
Stock recovery or TWRP?
Are you looking to undo what you did without having to do a complete wipe, or are you open to more drastic solutions? Because you can always run the toolkit to reset to complete stock by flashing the stock images over your current system. But that would of course perform a complete wipe.
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I dont really mind a complete wipe. And are you referring to this toolkit? http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...l-windroid-universal-android-toolkit-t3048099
if not could you please tell me which one?
And to clarify, I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPIYhzWlnw . The file that I flashed to attempt to root is in the description of that.

shahrukhraza said:
I dont really mind a complete wipe. And are you referring to this toolkit? http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...l-windroid-universal-android-toolkit-t3048099
if not could you please tell me which one?
And to clarify, I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPIYhzWlnw . The file that I flashed to attempt to root is in the description of that.
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I actually used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/tool-moto-x-pure-edition-recovery-t2897819 when I was messed around, but I would imagine either would work. When I needed to return to unrooted stock, I believe that toolkit returned me to 4.4.4 unrooted stock, then I just ran the 5.0 OTA once the phone booted up.
The toolkit you referenced is the one I used to unlock the bootloader, flash TWRP, and root my phone. As long as you can get to recovery or fastboot, either toolkit should work to return you to stock. BUT I caution you, I have a pure edition, and these toolkits were made for the pure edition. If you do not have a pure edition, you'll want to read the disclaimers/instructions/other posts to make sure it will work on your phone.

Okay so this escalated quickly.
So here I am being my dumb self , I try to flash TWRP. That goes fine and then I try to wipe my data. After that I reboot it and as its turning on it foes black on the boot animation. and now I cant even get into freaking recovery mode. I dont know what I did but im pretty sure I messed up bad. I need some serious help now and anything is appreciated.

Paddington said:
I actually used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/tool-moto-x-pure-edition-recovery-t2897819 when I was messed around, but I would imagine either would work. When I needed to return to unrooted stock, I believe that toolkit returned me to 4.4.4 unrooted stock, then I just ran the 5.0 OTA once the phone booted up.
The toolkit you referenced is the one I used to unlock the bootloader, flash TWRP, and root my phone. As long as you can get to recovery or fastboot, either toolkit should work to return you to stock. BUT I caution you, I have a pure edition, and these toolkits were made for the pure edition. If you do not have a pure edition, you'll want to read the disclaimers/instructions/other posts to make sure it will work on your phone.
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Yessir thanks for replying. However I now have a whole new problem. Do you have any suggestions for that? It is the post above^

shahrukhraza said:
Okay so this escalated quickly.
So here I am being my dumb self , I try to flash TWRP. That goes fine and then I try to wipe my data. After that I reboot it and as its turning on it foes black on the boot animation. and now I cant even get into freaking recovery mode. I dont know what I did but im pretty sure I messed up bad. I need some serious help now and anything is appreciated.
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Hey thats an easy fix just load into the boatloader and reflash the rom through mfastboot
edit: you should be able to get all the files you need from his website http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/general/ota-pure-edition-lollipop-5-0-t2932625

ewalk4866 said:
Hey thats an easy fix just load into the boatloader and reflash the rom through mfastboot
edit: you should be able to get all the files you need from his website http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/general/ota-pure-edition-lollipop-5-0-t2932625
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Bootloader as in vol. down + power button right? Thats not working too. I also tried other combinations to no luck. And before it was turning on but now its not even booting to the boot animation. Thanks for the link though, if it does magically boot into the bootloader then i'll know what to do at least.
Edit: Okay so theres the charging animation, so thats a start, I guess. Still no luck on the bootloader tho.

Okay got it into bootloader mode!
Now before I do any other stupid thing can somebody just confirm one thing for me? On Graffix's website, this is the img I should flash through mfastboot right
Lollipop 5.0 22.21.11 FULL IMAGE PACKAGE Zip
Just a confirmation because I dont really trust my judgement. Thanks again everybody

shahrukhraza said:
Okay got it into bootloader mode!
Now before I do any other stupid thing can somebody just confirm one thing for me? On Graffix's website, this is the img I should flash through mfastboot right
Lollipop 5.0 22.21.11 FULL IMAGE PACKAGE Zip
Just a confirmation because I dont really trust my judgement. Thanks again everybody
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Yes that's right remember you only have to flash system

Sorry that my Toolkit suggestion messed you up. I really thought that solution would work, not make it worse.

Paddington said:
Sorry that my Toolkit suggestion messed you up. I really thought that solution would work, not make it worse.
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Toolkit are never really a good idea it just makes people lazy and not learn how to flash or fix problems on there own.

Paddington said:
Sorry that my Toolkit suggestion messed you up. I really thought that solution would work, not make it worse.
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Nah man that didnt mess it up, some other stupid thing did it lol. Nothing on you, rather thanks for the help.

ewalk4866 said:
Toolkit are never really a good idea it just makes people lazy and not learn how to flash or fix problems on there own.
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I agree that Toolkits can make you lazy and not learn how to fix things on your own, but when you need a quick fix and don't have time to figure out what is going wrong, it's always nice to just boot your phone into fastboot or recovery and fix things with a few keystrokes on your computer.

I got it to work guys! Thanks for all the help. It was much appreciated.

oem locked NO O.S wug fresh restore fail! NEED A GURU TO TELL ME ITS FIXABLE

My nexus 6 is in a mess.
Ive briefly read everywhere about fixing it so far no luck. Is there any way any fix /solution possible
It started when i Wiped data and formated data thus wiping out the whole os inside twrp when it was working "by mistake".
So i remained oem unlocked . I used wug fresh toolkit to reflash 5.0, I suspected the process had finished but it didnt work the first time it just sat on google splash sreen and idiot me clicked on oem lock right after.
Now i cant oem unlock to run any commands or even the toolkit. I read about a hardbrick fix solution using rsd lite and qhsusb drivers basically lg version of qualcomm flashing. Would this work for my instance? What are my choices? WHAT I Dont understand is if there is no O.S why would it even ask for oem unlock knowing there isnt even a operating system on board since it was wiped after twrp reboot

androidddaaron said:
My nexus 6 is in a mess.
Ive briefly read everywhere about fixing it so far no luck. Is there any way any fix /solution possible
It started when i Wiped data and formated data thus wiping out the whole os inside twrp when it was working "by mistake".
So i remained oem unlocked . I used wug fresh toolkit to reflash 5.0, I suspected the process had finished but it didnt work the first time it just sat on google splash sreen and idiot me clicked on oem lock right after.
Now i cant oem unlock to run any commands or even the toolkit. I read about a hardbrick fix solution using rsd lite and qhsusb drivers basically lg version of qualcomm flashing. Would this work for my instance? What are my choices? WHAT I Dont understand is if there is no O.S why would it even ask for oem unlock knowing there isnt even a operating system on board since it was wiped after twrp reboot
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No, you cannot use that fix, as it is specifically for a hard brick, non bootable device. When you relocked your bootloader, you sealed your fate. Your only option is to RMA at this point. Sorry.

Evolution_Tech said:
No, you cannot use that fix, as it is specifically for a hard brick, non bootable device. When you relocked your bootloader, you sealed your fate. Your only option is to RMA at this point. Sorry.
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Hi! Sorry for my English. I use Google Translate. I have noticed a hundred you know well the device Nexus 6. My problem - OEM locked, stock recovery, Status code 2.
Do you think it possible to hope for a solution to this problem in software?I mean, is it possible that it will release software to solve this problem?

ArmanioKZ said:
Hi! Sorry for my English. I use Google Translate. I have noticed a hundred you know well the device Nexus 6. My problem - OEM locked, stock recovery, Status code 2.
Do you think it possible to hope for a solution to this problem in software?I mean, is it possible that it will release software to solve this problem?
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No. You need to make a request to Motorola for repair (RMA).

cam30era said:
No. You need to make a request to Motorola for repair (RMA).
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Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I have no such possibility(( I'll wait, can think of something.

ArmanioKZ said:
Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I have no such possibility(( I'll wait, can think of something.
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your only option is to fastboot format userdata and cache.

simms22 said:
your only option is to fastboot format userdata and cache.
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it does not help, because the established stock recovery

ArmanioKZ said:
it does not help, because the established stock recovery
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some people it does help, but they usually have twrp recovery, so youre right.

Phone Die or did I kill It?

So here's the deal. I use WUGS and don't manually do stuff.. Yes this makes me a weak individual and I bow to the people who can manually flash and their omniscient power. I bought a 64gb google version Nexus 6 about a month ago when the price dropped. I had issues with it just shutting off every once in a while, but tried rooting and romming and no matter what the rom was, about a day in it would just force shutdown... In the early days I could access TWRP and even if I restored to a stock back up, only one time did it just restore and boot up, the rest of the time it would just not boot up..... I called about an RMA and put it back to complete stock, unlocked, trying to get it working, just thought maybe it was something I did and if so, I wanted to try stock. I flashed it, a few times I even made it to the set up screen on the initial boot, but after failing it didn't matter if I navigated to stock recovery and wiped or anything. Only thing I can do is access stock recovery and bootloader and all that and try to power it on but it just says google for a few seconds then shuts down. . Last night I got worried and relocked the bootloader so I could send it back and not have Moto void me on that... Was this always just a faulty phone or is it more likely something i did? I appreciate any intelligent thougts.
Dustin

kickenwing13 said:
So here's the deal. I use WUGS and don't manually do stuff.. Yes this makes me a weak individual and I bow to the people who can manually flash and their omniscient power. I bought a 64gb google version Nexus 6 about a month ago when the price dropped. I had issues with it just shutting off every once in a while, but tried rooting and romming and no matter what the rom was, about a day in it would just force shutdown... In the early days I could access TWRP and even if I restored to a stock back up, only one time did it just restore and boot up, the rest of the time it would just not boot up..... I called about an RMA and put it back to complete stock, unlocked, trying to get it working, just thought maybe it was something I did and if so, I wanted to try stock. I flashed it, a few times I even made it to the set up screen on the initial boot, but after failing it didn't matter if I navigated to stock recovery and wiped or anything. Only thing I can do is access stock recovery and bootloader and all that and try to power it on but it just says google for a few seconds then shuts down. . Last night I got worried and relocked the bootloader so I could send it back and not have Moto void me on that... Was this always just a faulty phone or is it more likely something i did? I appreciate any intelligent thougts.
Dustin
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There is honestly no way to tell. We would be guessing. You cannot unlock the bootloader now either, so we can't even get you to manually flash stock to test.
You can try a "fastboot format userdata" and "fastboot format cache" to see if that helps you boot, otherwise, nothing you can do.
We do recommend that you only use toolkits if you know what they are doing in the background. It really isn't difficult. In fact, I wrote a very simple thread to explain in in General > Sticky roll-up. None of this has anything to do with omniscience. Though, that particular skill would be helpful to us to answer your actual question.

Lol thanks dude. I'll try anything. I figured out how to run simple commands, but when it comes to putting the files in the correct directory I think so that it reads it... But, you're saying now that I'm locked, stock, and not loading up, I could try to do fastboot and format data and cache? Is this a more in depth wipe than just wiping in stock recovery does ? I assume now that I locked, I can't flash firmwares without voiding my warranty or? I was actually on chroma and it shutdown, so I went to stock, started typing gmail log in on initial set up and it shut down.. .So as far as I know. I'm stock... and locked..

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Lol thanks dude. I'll try anything. I figured out how to run simple commands, but when it comes to putting the files in the correct directory I think so that it reads it... But, you're saying now that I'm locked, stock, and not loading up, I could try to do fastboot and format data and cache? Is this a more in depth wipe than just wiping in stock recovery does ? I assume now that I locked, I can't flash firmwares without voiding my warranty or? I was actually on chroma and it shutdown, so I went to stock, started typing gmail log in on initial set up and it shut down.. .So as far as I know. I'm stock... and locked..
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Format is not a wipe. It will wipe, but unlike a wipe, it will recreate the file system. A corrupt file system can prevent boot so worth trying.
If the BL is locked and won't unlock, that's about all you can try.
Boot.to recovery just incase you have TWRP recovery still

danarama said:
Format is not a wipe. It will wipe, but unlike a wipe, it will recreate the file system. A corrupt file system can prevent boot so worth trying.
If the BL is locked and won't unlock, that's about all you can try.
Boot.to recovery just incase you have TWRP recovery still
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tried and the process failed... I have it back to status 2 and not rooted and it died after flashing stock so I assume sending it back is okay.. my replacement is here today. I'm unlocking and rooting as we speak

I erased everything on my Nexus 6 and then tried using the flash-all.bat from image-shamu-lmy48i.zip.
It failed saying could not allocate so many bytes.
Accidentally i did lock my bootloader using fastboot oem lock.
Now cant load anything and my phone doesn't boot.
When i try fastboot oem unlock it says enable that option under developer options.
I am now with a brick Nexus 6 please help me out of this situation.

openbook said:
I erased everything on my Nexus 6 and then tried using the flash-all.bat from image-shamu-lmy48i.zip.
It failed saying could not allocate so many bytes.
Accidentally i did lock my bootloader using fastboot oem lock.
Now cant load anything and my phone doesn't boot.
When i try fastboot oem unlock it says enable that option under developer options.
I am now with a brick Nexus 6 please help me out of this situation.
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No matter how many times this question is asked, unfortunately, the answer is still, there is no fix.
This has been happening since the nexus 6 went to 5.1 and has been documented numerous times. A bit of reading beforehand is all that is needed to avoid this situation.
RMA is the only option.

Evolution_Tech said:
No matter how many times this question is asked, unfortunately, the answer is still, there is no fix.
This has been happening since the nexus 6 went to 5.1 and has been documented numerous times. A bit of reading beforehand is all that is needed to avoid this situation.
RMA is the only option.
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I did unlock before and rooted the phone and i was using it.
Does it mean my warranty is also void and no more support?
Is any devs working on fixing this problem?

openbook said:
I did unlock before and rooted the phone and i was using it.
Does it mean my warranty is also void and no more support?
Is any devs working on fixing this problem?
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It's a security feature since 5.1. You cannot.unlock the bootloader without first setting "enable oem unlock". If you unlocked before 5.1, then you most likely didn't do this as it wasn't needed. So now you're locked and there is no way to unlock it.
Some devs may be looking into it, but if they are, they have been looking into it for a long time. It's extremely unlikely there will be a solution for this that doesn't come from Motorola. It could be an easy fix if Moto Wanted. They could provide a stock recovery flash able fully signed, rom.zip. This wouldn't bypass security either because you would still need your unlock code / google password to boot the device. But so far, we've heard nothing
Send it in to them. If you haven't got TWRP installed, there is nothing you can do. There's no reason for them to void warranty

Nexus 6 bootloop when updating to android 5.1

Hey everyone I'm looking here as my last resort before sending my phone back to Motorola.
Bought a Nexus 6 from motorola uk which was delivered yesterday, switched phone on and all the Google apps on the phone updated, then had a notification OTA to download and install android 5.1 which I did, towards the end of the install process I had an error with the green android and a red exclamation mark.
I powered the device off with the power button and it turned back on and ever since it says "Android is starting" "Optimizing app 1 of 125" once it goes through all the apps it gets to the android boot screen then just goes back to the "Android is starting" "Optimizing app 1 of 125" over and over and over. (Infinite bootloop)
Pointers: The phone is not unlocked or rooted as I'm a noob its just fresh out the box, also I never opened/unlocked the developer options.
I have tried various recovery mode fixes, wiping cache and wiping all data and then rebooting the device with no luck.
Is there anyway I can hook my N6 up to my computer and fix this with a tool kit etc? I'm willing to try but I'd need basic instructions and reassurance it wouldn't muck up my warranty if it didn't work as my only other option is to exchange for a new device.
I'm a noob so I need detailed basic step by step instructions.
Any help, advice etc would be hugely appreciated. Thanks

Just send it back, no point messing about with it if it brand new could down to a fault with the hardware itself.

ixon2001 said:
Just send it back, no point messing about with it if it brand new could down to a fault with the hardware itself.
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Iv'e heard this is a common problem with the N6 whilst trying to update the OTA 5.1 I had no other apps on the phone it was fresh, I did nothing wrong, I know someone who has been through 4 devices with the same bloody issues! In the end he had to sideload 6.0 and I'm not confident in being able to do that.

Well best bet is to download wugfresh toolkit 2.10 i think is the latest version, follow the instructions carefully because first you need to unlock the bootloader then flash 6.0.1 which has just come out.
Using Wugfresh is the best way to go if your new to flashing & you can't really go wrong with it.

ixon2001 said:
Well best bet is to download wugfresh toolkit 2.10 i think is the latest version, follow the instructions carefully because first you need to unlock the bootloader then flash 6.0.1 which has just come out.
Using Wugfresh is the best way to go if your new to flashing & you can't really go wrong with it.
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I`am sure most xperienced users (me included) will not agree with you The best way to unlock, flash and root is still adb/fastboot. Especialy for lesser xperienced users that are lost is something goes wrong while using the toolkit, wich happens frequently btw. Just check the help threads.

gee2012 said:
I`am sure most xperienced users (me included) will not agree with you The best way to unlock, flash and root is still adb/fastboot. Especialy for lesser xperienced users that are lost is something goes wrong while using the toolkit, wich happens frequently btw. Just check the help threads.
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Lol it's not rocket science using adb, been doing that way for years but for somebody that never flashed, rooted ect I still think the toolkit best way to go at first because everything is done for you at a click of a button.
Yes things can go tits up when using toolkits, mainly because they don't follow simple instructions.

ixon2001 said:
Lol it's not rocket science using adb, been doing that way for years but for somebody that never flashed, rooted ect I still think the toolkit best way to go at first because everything is done for you at a click of a button.
Yes things can go tits up when using toolkits, mainly because they don't follow simple instructions.
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Lets agree to disagree

OK

ixon2001 said:
Yes things can go tits up when using toolkits, mainly because they don't follow simple instructions.
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No, but because toolkits are always behind at least one version with marshmallow. People kept bricking their devices with toolkits when marshmallow came out and they thought they could root it. As 6.0.1 came out they'll do something else wrong.
Toolkits are not help. It's the lazy way if everything is already working and up to date.
Also what can a toolkit do if this phone doesn't even have developer options turned on? If it's in boot loop, as the OP said, then the Enable OEM unlocking was never set, then the only solution is to send it back. Unless there's a toolkit magic we don't know about.
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istperson said:
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Also what can a toolkit do if this phone doesn't even have developer options turned on? If it's in boot loop, as the OP said, then the Enable OEM unlocking was never set, then the only solution is to send it back. Unless there's a toolkit magic we don't know about.
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I think op created another thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/nexus-6-stuck-bootloop-trying-to-update-t3266100 for this issue - and was somehow able to unlock the bootloader (not sure how that worked if OEM unlock was never set)

jj14 said:
(not sure how that worked if OEM unlock was never set)
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It was said that some of the first Nexus 6s with the original 5.0 came out with a bootloader that didn't check for this switch.