Root Bricked Nexus 5

[Zahlo]

My little brother has a Nexus 5 running android 6.0 and on tuesday he decided it was a good idea to root his device. He doesn't have alot of experience with rooting and when i came home from school his device was stuck in the loading screen, the four moving dots. Recovery mode does not work, and I suspect his phone is bricked.
I have no idea what he used to root it, but I think the problem occured because he didn't use a root compatible with 6.0.
Is there any way for me to unbrick his phone easily? I'd rather not download alot of stuff, as I haven't read myself up on this stuff yet.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Slug]

If it's stuck on the splash/loading screen then it's not bricked, and should be recoverable.

Unfortunately that's about the limit of my knowledge of the Nexus, so I've moved your thread to the Root - Nexus 5 sub-forum so that other users of the device can offer you better advice.

 

[Zahlo]

Thank you, that was my intended sub-forum.

 

[scary alien]

At the moment, to root Android 6.0, you need to first flash a modified boot image before flashing the root install package.

Chainfire is still working-out whether or not a special boot image will be required for future roots, but for now it is for 6.0.

You should always be able to flash a Nexus device back to a factory state (note, this will wipe the device). Here are a few links (the first of which is Google's, the second of which was written by our own @jhawkkw):

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en

http://androidforums.com/threads/gu...us-factory-image-manually.706533/#post5702530​

If you're still wanting to root, you might want to use this all-in-one utility:

http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/​

Best of luck!

 

[Hook]

Actually, you can use WUGs to recover. Use "Flash Stock + Unroot" with the "soft bricked/bootloop option checked and it should return you to stock without root. Then you can root it if you want.

 

[scary alien]

Actyually, you can use WUGs to recover. Use "Flash Stock + Unroot" with the "soft bricked/bootloop option checked and it should return you to stock without root. Then you can root it if you want.

I'm guessing this does the "fastboot -w update image-hammerhead-mra58k.zip" without actually using the "-w" (wipe) switch...cool/.

 

[Zahlo]

Thank you very much, WUGs worked flawlessly! His Nexus is now working

 

[morgankslade]

WUG is always the go to with Nexus.

 

[scary alien]

WUG is always the go to with Nexus.

Oh sure, if you like not having to hunt down the current adb and fastboot USB drivers, the current Nexus factory images, the current Chainfire root package, finding and using the proper commands to enter correctly and in the right sequence, etc.

He takes all the fun out of it I tell ya!

(Wugfresh and his toolkit are okay, I guess...)

 

[morgankslade]

Little brother without much experience....Wug could be his SippyCup until He learns to drink from a glass.
I soft bricked many times and will probably do it again. Whatever it took for me to get it back going to brick again...I did.