There are two types of bricks ("brick" as in "bricking your phone")—soft and hard. Soft bricks are recoverable—something has probably gone wrong with some critical system partition, causing a bootloop or inability to boot in some way. Fine. Re-flashing everything should fix that instantly. Hard bricks are not recoverable—if you manage to hard-brick your Nexus, you are in trouble. After finding forum threads plagued with users who decided to run the only command that can hard-brick a Nexus (as far as I am aware), I decided to write this article: not just to warn people against ever running it... more
