Hey guys. I'm aware there's a bootloop megathread but I really just need some help.

My Nexus 5X is rooted and has an unlocked bootloader (did this years ago), I'm trying to follow the fix instructions at https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x-bootloop-fix-boot-phone/ but for whatever reason I just can't get the USB drivers to work. I'm entering "fastboot devices" and nothing seems to come up. I'm worried that I never enabled USB debugging, I'm an absolute noob with this stuff lol

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Hi moderators and users, I need help, I'm 24 from Italy and I'm doing a personal Market Research about Foldable Smartphones, for my university degree. Can you complete this survey free and anonymous?

I sincerely thank those who will contribute to this study of innovation!

*Tools:

• nethunter-2023.1-bullhead-oreo-kalifs-full.zip
• twrp-3.2.1-0-fbe-4core-bullhead.img
• SR5-SuperSU-v2.82-SR5-20171001224502.zip
• forceencrypt_disabled_dm-verity_disabled (modified boot.img for my Oreo)*

I have issues with my Nexus 5X being unable to mount /system partition due to encrypted data. Following several guides found online, I found a way around it by re-formatting /data to ext2 back to ext4 in TWRP.

This allowed me to successfully flash SuperSU and root my Stock Oreo ROM. The problem comes when I try to install Nethunter via TWRP.

I've tried:
1) Flashing both the Stock and force-encrypt-disabled Modified boot.img (neither of which decrypt the /system files in TWRP)

2) Unlock bootloader --> boot into TWRP --> Install Nethunter via ADB sideload (must use sideload since SD card is not mountable)
- This fails, probably because /system cannot be mounted

3) Unlock bootloader --> boot into TWRP --> Format /data to ext2 and back to ext4 --> Mount /system --> Drop Nethunter into SD Card --> Install via TWRP

• This fails due to "Data partition appears to be empty, run Android setup Wizard before installing Nethunter)

SO based on my findings online I can either decrypt /system or keep /data in-tact, but not both. But both appear to be required for the Nethunter installation? I know this is an old device but I am hoping SOMEONE out there has a potential solution.
Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Due to the Nexus 5x being several years old, and with constant on/off charging, I think the battery is shorted or just old. I could replace it. It's flat, so I left it overnight checked it, the red light still flashes repeatedly, and it doesn't make it past that zap icon screen. If I were to replace the phone with a slightly more modern one I'd need to move over all of my data, but even then if I can't get the phone to turn on I'd have to do it the long way through the pc. This has happened before, any ways to get it to charge? It might just be the charger I'll try another one, but yeah ideas?

A while back I bought a used Nexus 5X to check out Fi. It has a hairline screen crack, hardly visible. The Nexus 5X has been used for trips outside the US since it has quite a few LTE bands that work in most places (but not all), and I like the size of it not like the new gargantuan phones now a days. After the trips it goes into the travel kit box for the next trip. Lately I have been using the Pixel 2 with Fi for trips but we need a phone with a local SIM for a couple of trips.

So far so good, no issues with it, no overheating, battery seems to be holding up for a day's use. It is used mostly for Voice calls using WhatsApp, once in a while a video call, some picture and video taking.

The question is if I am playing with fire and should replace it with a newer phone? Don't want the unit to break down while I am in a remote area with nor tech shops around/

Yeah, I screwed up real bad.

I just bought this Nexus 5x (Yesterday!) and when I went to flash a new ROM (Since android is out-of-service) then I went ahead and flashed the Nexus 5 thinking that was the correct rom, turns out I screwed up real bad and now it wouldn't boot into either recovery or fastboot.

So I went onto Google to try and find solutions (Including here) but so far nothing has been working at all.

I've tried:

1. Entering recovery mode, didn't work

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1. Entering fastboot mode, didn't work

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1. Using adb to re-flash it, didn't work

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1. Downloaded LGFlashTool, did connect under ports as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM41), but I couldn't find the right DLL file for it, I did find the TOT file for the 32GB one, but no one had the 16GB one, so it kept giving me this (CheckCommMode FAIL!!!) error📷

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1. Downloaded LGUP, it kept saying "There is no handset connected" but I can clearly see it in device manager. Tried troubleshooting like hundreds of times by installing the drivers repeatedly.

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1. Downloaded Nexus Root Tool, didn't work
2. Downloaded QFIL, seems like the Firehose files, etc. doesn't work, it just kept giving me this "Sahara protocol failed", not sure what that's supposed to mean. (Downloaded from the previous thread from Baidu Pan)

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1. Found an MBN file from Github and tried using it on QFIL, same error as above.
2. Downloaded LGMobile Support Tool, didn't want to install

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1. Tried QPST Configuration, didn't work.

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1. Tried using different Windows machine, one desktop running Windows 11, one laptop running WIndows 11 and one more desktop running Windows 7 using the same methods above, didn't work.

I know there's a ton of ways to solve this, but at this point, I'm at my limit since I have been trying to solve this for at least 18 hours at least now (Nonstop, I'm serious) and I'm seriously considering giving up, but I know there's a way to get this fixed since it's still alive (partly, of course).

So, anything I missed here that may help?

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone has information or assistance with this problem, last night the firmwire update screen appeared on the phone, I left it overnight for charging and this morning the phone was very hot and it still had 0 percent. Couldn't turn it off so I removed the usb and tried to turn it on again, it went to the Google screen then powered off with the RLoD.

How do I fix this?

My Nexus 5X was getting quite hot, since the CPU is still perfectly fine and hasn't desoldered itself yet, I decided to mod the cooling of the phone.

I started off by taking it apart, after removing the shielding covering the CPU, I cut the tape on top to allow the CPU to be exposed.

The motherboard and the modified shielding.

After that, I made a copper plate by hammering a piece of copper, the dimensions of the copper plate I made is 160mm*160mm*0.8mm. I put some GD900 thermal paste between the copper plate surface and the metal frame.

The copper plate installed in the frame.

I then put some more GD900 thermal paste on the CPU and put it back together and noticed and immediate temperature decrease while idling, from 42°C to 36°C.

Before: Idling around 42°C.

After: Idling around 36°C.

I also did a CPU throttling test, it's still not a straight line, but way better.

Before: Throttling within 1 minute.

After: Throttling after one and a half minute, with random jumps.

My Nexus 5X's battery drains fast while powered off. 50% at 7am, turned it off, by the time I came back at 3pm, it's already at 0%.

I've opened it up and heard a hissing noise when a battery is connected, is it a capacitor problem? If so, which one is know to use a ton of power?

Also, when it's turned on, it drops 1% like every minute. Tried multiple batteries, one made in 2015, one from 2017, no difference.

I'm using full disk encryption on my Nexus 5x (Android 8.1.0, stock, nothing rom customized). Normally the phone asks for a password before boot, because of the FDE. But suddenly it doesn't ask/ require a password to boot!! :O WTF

Did Google silently push an update to bypass the preboot password prompt for FDE phones??

Trying everything possible could really use some help on what to do here

Hi Everyone. My Nexus 5X will not make or receive voice calls. The phone app immediately closes with a beep when I press the dial button. Incoming calls are sent to voice mail. The phone doesn't even ring. I've tried the following:

1. Close and reopen the app
2. Force stop the phone app
3. Restart the phone
4. Clear the phone app cache and data
5. Verify the app permissions
6. Reset phone settings
7. Reboot from Recovery Mode (not successful)
8. Check for app updates
9. Factory reset

After the factory reset, I allowed the phone to update all of the stock apps. The phone app still crashes in the same manner. I tried installing a third-party dialer (Drupe), which has the same crash behavior.

Otherwise the phone behaves normally. I can send and receive text messages. WiFi and GPS works fine. I don't know what else to try. Have I exhausted all options or is there something else I can try?

Thank you for any advice.

I'll start by saying I am a total noob, but I found my old Nexus 5 that's been stuck in a bootloop for years, every once in a blue moon it will boot to the lock screen, but doesn't stay long enough for me to do anything.

I did some research and have no idea what most of it mean, but I wanted to know if there was a way to access the internal storage so that I can get my old pictures off from my teen years. I'm hoping that there might be some pictures of a deceased friend on there.

I read something about recovery mode, and something called TWRP, but I can't make heads or tails of it

Thanks in advanced to anyone who can help

Been with my 5x for ~5.5 years now (includes one blod), but the performance is starting to fade.

Have been looking at potential replacements recently. Through Google Fi they are offering the Galaxy S21 (base, 128GB) for 399 USD which seems fairly reasonable (256GB is out of stock, probably never to return on GF).

Really wanted to be no bigger than 5x, but the S21 only appears minimally taller. Also thought I wanted microSD as a firm requirement, but maybe 128GB is enough these days(?). Trying to avoid iPhones if at all possible.

Anyone have any experience with the S21 having come from the 5x? Any other phones recommended?

EDIT: Thanks for the feedback everyone. I ended up going with the base S21. Have had it for about a week, and so far mostly pleased with it (I still prefer the stock UI/apps of the 5x though). Definitely a big step up in performance from where my 5x has been lately, although as some noted I feel that boost probably would have been more or less the same if i had picked up a recent Pixel.

Greetings.

I recently installed the Pixel Experience ROM based on Android 10 for my Nexus 5X (https://download.pixelexperience.org/bullhead).

I've been experiencing consistent Wi-Fi drops. I'm not sure of the reason behind this, because the ROM seems to work for other people across the internet.

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Can anyone assist me in solving this issue?

I can send in additional screenshots, etc on request.

** edit**: didnt know there was a r/nexus5 subreddit, didnt know the nexus5 and 5x where different phones...

tl:dr what do i need to know about this phone in 2021/2022?

i found a nexus 5 LG-d280 at a recycle depot. plugged her in and it booted into a lockscreen (dont have the pin) and it looks like the previous owner didnt wipe the phone before she tossed it.

the phone now bootloops, occasionly it would boot all the way up to the lock screen, and occasionaly boot up to the 4 rainbow dots. i tried to do a FDR on it and see if it helped, but im unable to get into the right recovery mode screen for that, normaly cause it reboots on me.

i wanna use the phone in a diy vr headset, so i have been doing a lot of digging, trying to find information on the process to fix the phone. i did read all the threads in the pinned bootloop post and i do know a tiny bit about android ( using a pixel 3 with lineageOS atm )

my question is: what do i need to know about this phone in 2021/2022?

some people said they flashed android 8 to the phone, but it looks like it ships with kitkat (android 4.4) so idk if thats viable, other people have said that i need to have usb debugging enable and other say the opposite

https://imgur.com/a/LHsPWyh nice

The battery from my phone recently expanded, so I had to remove it. When trying to find a replacement battery, I found some no name brands from china, which I'm not comfortable using and this: https://www.newegg.ca/2700-mah-lg-google-nexus-5x-replacement-battery/p/0SC-003D-00CD9?Description=Eac63079601&cm_re=Eac63079601-_-9SIA6CE5JG7796-_-Product (i also found one from LG's website, but it was 90$) This is the model of the battery inside my phone was "BLT19" and its part number was EAC63079601. The thing is that ont the newegg listing, there are photos of two different batteries (EAC63079601 and EAC63100001). For some reasons, these two batteries, which appears to be from LG have the same model number (bl-t19) and specs, but with two different part numbers. Is there any diffference between these two batteries and are these really oem?

I have a nexus 5x, wich I had to remove the battey from because the battery was about 2x its original size. I can still use the battery as a temporary setup if I need to boot the phone. After trying to boot the phone without its battery, it only displayed the charging icon. I am thinking of installing the smartphone version of ubuntu (ubuntu touch) or an alternative os to Android in order to get the phone to boot. Do you think it will work or am I better off throwing the phone away since I'm not comfortable buying a third party replacement battery?

Welp, my Pixel 3 just bricked itself earlier today. Popped the SIM card back into my Nexus and charged it up and it's running just fine still. I'm afraid to update it at all though. It's on Android 8.1.0 from December 2018. Should I try to change anything?

Is it possible to put a thermal paste between the processor and this metal plate and then this plate and the casing ? Nothing will be damaged / there will be no short circuit? I am using google translator

I don't have the N5X anymore but I just wanted to share my thoughts. I believe that this phone had the best LED indicator I've ever had on a phone. Not many phones placed their LEDs in the speaker grill and as most of you have probably noticed, phones these days have swapped LED indicators for AOD/Ambient displays which is a bummer for me but we move.

My Nexus 5X died on Sunday and I don't think I'm going to be able to fix it. I had some luck with the freezer method, but it would only stay on for less than a minute :(
I made a post on r/AndroidQuestions when I thought it might be fixable with software, but now it seems to be suffering from the same hardware problems that a lot of them have had.
I wish that I had made a backup of my text messages and call history, but I guess I should consider myself lucky that my phone lasted as long as it did. It worked during a 9-month deployment in the desert and I probably should've replaced it shortly after that.
Lesson learned; I'll make sure to set up backups on my new phone, a Pixel 3a.

Hello, what is the best linux based os for a nexus 5x?

Hello, My Pc recognizes the device, even as an android device, the only problem is that when I try the device with one of the platform tools from google and use the command fastboot devices, my device is not listed and therefore it does not work

Hello, I've been using my nexus5x for almost 5 years now and I've been running the latest official release of lineageOS on the phone. But today suddenly the fingerprint sensor stopped working, it is no longer detected by the system. Says no hardware for fingerprint detected.

Anyone came across this error? The phone took no physical damage.

Thank you.