Last month I sideloaded Lollipop on my Nexus 5 using the official build. Generally, the experience was "OK" at first, but after a couple weeks the Lollipop started tasting a little "sour". In the last week it was rebooting every night (sometime between 3am and 7am), making me miss work!
So yesterday I placed the phone on factory reset and let it be. A few hours go by, and its still stuck at Erasing with the green Android guy gearing around. It was clear to me this wasn't normal, so I shut down, and restarted, and it continued to do that. I gave it a fair bit of time, with the same results. So I proceeded with flashing the Nexus 5 (fastboot). The process running fastboot flash-all tends to get stuck at Erasing Cache. I did manage to get passed that screen once on another machine today, but after getting to the bootloader recovery, it started up with the Android man "gearing away". Hitting the volume + key showed the phone was "Erasing" data message at the bottom. If I tried flash-all again, and shut down the phone during the "Clearing Cache" process (that's where it gets stuck), I get the message "FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))". I've update Android SDK tools on both computers to verify I was completely up to date with USB drivers and other files that may have been corrupt.
Currently I am at the end of my ropes with ideas. Any suggestions?
This phone was a Google Play refurbished model I received last month. It replaced my other refurbished model that grew a mind of its own after 1 week of light use. Im starting to wonder if all the refurbished models are no good..
So yesterday I placed the phone on factory reset and let it be. A few hours go by, and its still stuck at Erasing with the green Android guy gearing around. It was clear to me this wasn't normal, so I shut down, and restarted, and it continued to do that. I gave it a fair bit of time, with the same results. So I proceeded with flashing the Nexus 5 (fastboot). The process running fastboot flash-all tends to get stuck at Erasing Cache. I did manage to get passed that screen once on another machine today, but after getting to the bootloader recovery, it started up with the Android man "gearing away". Hitting the volume + key showed the phone was "Erasing" data message at the bottom. If I tried flash-all again, and shut down the phone during the "Clearing Cache" process (that's where it gets stuck), I get the message "FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))". I've update Android SDK tools on both computers to verify I was completely up to date with USB drivers and other files that may have been corrupt.
Currently I am at the end of my ropes with ideas. Any suggestions?
This phone was a Google Play refurbished model I received last month. It replaced my other refurbished model that grew a mind of its own after 1 week of light use. Im starting to wonder if all the refurbished models are no good..
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