Hi all. I'm trying to determine if my Nexus 7 tablet (original 2012 version) is toast or can be fixed by software. Since its OS stopped being upgraded in 2015, I'd installed LineageOS on it some time ago. A few months ago when I went to upgrade, the install from TWRP didn't take and it just bootlooped on the Lineage animation about 15 seconds in. After trying a bunch of things I decided to just erase the whole thing and take it to factory settings. So, using these instructions <https://developers.google.com/android/images#nakasi>, I downloaded the factory ROM and tried to install. Here's what happened when executing the supplied install script: fastboot oem unlock (bootloader) Bootloader is already unlocked OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.015s fastboot erase boot erasing 'boot'... OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.015s fastboot erase cache ******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition? erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.015s fastboot erase recovery erasing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.015s fastboot erase system ******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition? erasing 'system'... OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.015s fastboot erase userdata ******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition? erasing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 0.026s] finished. total time: 0.026s fastboot -w update image-nakasi-ktu84p.zip target didn't report max-download-size sending 'bootloader' (2100 KB)... OKAY [ 0.262s] writing 'bootloader'... OKAY [ 0.601s] finished. total time: 0.863s rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.015s] finished. total time: 0.065s extracting android-info.txt (0 MB)... extracting boot.img (4 MB)... target didn't report max-download-size archive does not contain 'boot.sig' archive does not contain 'dtbo.img' archive does not contain 'dt.img' extracting recovery.img (5 MB)... archive does not contain 'recovery.sig' extracting system.img (628 MB)... archive does not contain 'system.sig' archive does not contain 'vbmeta.img' archive does not contain 'vendor.img' wiping userdata... Couldn't parse erase-block-size '0x'. Couldn't parse logical-block-size '0x'. mke2fs 1.44.6 (5-Mar-2019) /tmp/TemporaryFile-fnXNLB: Unimplemented ext2 library function while setting up superblock /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/mke2fs failed with status 1 mke2fs failed: 1 error: Cannot generate image for userdata Does this mean I have a hardware problem? I suspect if it is, the fix will be well more than the tablet is worth. Well, at least I know it's *probably* been wiped of any useful data, And yes, I've tried multiple ports, cables images and even systems. Thanks! -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56