I've been lumbered with an original Nexus 7 (ME370T) that's in a bad state. The device has been attempted to have a factory reset done, by using the 4th button under the plastic casing, (under the volume down button). Its now stuck in the "Erasing" screen. It did have stock OS and bootloader.
I have tried accessing the bootloader using volume down and power buttons, but it only ever reboots into the factory reset mode, where I'm greeted with the green android wiggling its ears with the caption "Erasing", and I've left it doing that for several hours, with no sign of any progress. I've pressed some combination of volume buttons, and managed to get it to display the text under that splash screen, where all it says is "Formatting /data..."
I don't know whether I could use ADB or fastboot with the device in this state as I'm sure it needs to be booted into the bootloader for USB communication to work, and the bootloader was still stock/locked anyway.
Any ideas? It would be a shame to bin the whole thing, as I was sure that they are always recoverable in some fashion, perhaps JTAG, although I have no experience of that.
I have tried accessing the bootloader using volume down and power buttons, but it only ever reboots into the factory reset mode, where I'm greeted with the green android wiggling its ears with the caption "Erasing", and I've left it doing that for several hours, with no sign of any progress. I've pressed some combination of volume buttons, and managed to get it to display the text under that splash screen, where all it says is "Formatting /data..."
I don't know whether I could use ADB or fastboot with the device in this state as I'm sure it needs to be booted into the bootloader for USB communication to work, and the bootloader was still stock/locked anyway.
Any ideas? It would be a shame to bin the whole thing, as I was sure that they are always recoverable in some fashion, perhaps JTAG, although I have no experience of that.
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