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Root Bricked?

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AltitudeJunkie

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Mar 25, 2015
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Was trying to get Cyanogenmod going on my Nexus 6.
Got stuck in a TWRP bootloop.
Moment of madness, relocked bootloader (because I'm an idiot).

Now have Nexus 6 that will only boot into a TWRP bootloop no matter what I choose in the bootloader. The LOCKED bootloader. That I cannot unlock with fastboot since there is no OS to "allow OEM unlocking".

Any ideas? Please tell me it's not bricked....

(Totally should have found this forum before rooting. Lesson learnt the hard way. Nandroid, eh? Sounds great...)
 
#2
Solved. Will keep this updated just in case anyone is interested/sees anything useful.

Tried a few "fastboot erase"s with partial success...

aj@aj-desktop:~/android$ fastboot erase cache
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.055s]
finished. total time: 0.055s
aj@aj-desktop:~/android$ fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Permission denied
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.003s
aj@aj-desktop:~/android$ fastboot erase system
erasing 'system'...
(bootloader) Permission denied
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.004s
aj@aj-desktop:~/android$ fastboot erase userdata
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 1.181s]
finished. total time: 1.181s
aj@aj-desktop:~/android$ fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Permission denied
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.003s​

Trying to boot Lollipop just hung on splash screen, but TWRP now booting fine from recovery.

Tried to copy files over for install, but kept getting "unable to mount" errors.

Did full format. Yes.

Installed Cyanogenmod from TWRP screen... Winner!
 
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C:\Users\pha nee.000\Downloads\moto>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
(bootloader) Failed to erase partition
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.031s

C:\Users\pha nee.000\Downloads\moto>fastboot erase userdata
erasing 'userdata'...
(bootloader) Failed to erase partition
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.016s

C:\Users\pha nee.000\Downloads\moto>fastboot erase system
erasing 'system'...
(bootloader) Permission denied
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.016s

C:\Users\pha nee.000\Downloads\moto>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Permission denied
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.000s


But im not getting okay command here please help. how to enable bootloader permissions.
 
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