14 DAY TRIAL // Owners of the Nexus 7 tablet might be familiar with this particular issue. We all love our tablets, except for when they don’t work. So, if you too have been dealing with an unresponsive Nexus 7, we’re going to be telling you how to go about and fix the problem.
Even if the Nexus 7 is frozen, but it boots in Fastbook Mode, one can easily fix/unbrick the device by virtue of an Official Android Factory Image.
Bear in mind that if you go ahead and follow the instructions, all your files will be wiped out. When flashing an Android Factory Image, the Nexus 7 will return to 100% Stock OS, but will eradicate all data in the process.
Before getting started with the Unbrick process there are a few pre-requisites you need to be aware of:
- don’t apply the tutorial bellow to anything other than the Google Nexus 7; - Flashing an Android Factory Image shouldn’t be applied to any other device; - you will need to download and install Google USB Driver to your computer; - the device should be on unlocked bootloader; - go in Developer Options and enable USB Debugging; - as mentioned above, flashing the factory image will remove all the data store on the internal SD card; - make sure the Nexus 7 battery is charged over 50% in order to ensure your tablet won’t shut down while you’re in the middle of doing things.
Now let’s see how you can brick your Nexus 7 using Android Factory Image from Google (via Android.Gs).
1. First off, you need to download the specific version for the tablet you own, be it Nexus 7 2013 Wi-Fi, Nexus 7 2013 Mobile, Nexus 7 2012 Wi-Fi, Nexus 7 2012 Mobile; 2. After the file has been downloaded to your tablet, extract the archive and save it on a folder on your computer; 3. Shut down the Nexus 7 completely; 4. Perform Fastboot Mode; 5. Connect the tablet to your computer by virtue of USB data cable; 6. Open the folder which you used to extract the archive in; 7. Windows users double click “flas-all.bat” while MAC and LINUX will have to go for “flash-all.sh”; 8. Now the Factory Image is being installed, so let it run its course without interfering; 9. When the installation is done, press Volume UP until you see the text in Fastboot Mode change in Recovery Mode. Press Power to boot Recovery; 10. Choose “wipe data / factory reset”; 11. After the process is complete, choose to reboot the system. Now the Nexus 7 is booting into stock Android; 12. Unplug the tablet from the computer, when the process is complete.