I do not know why but when y friend gets inebriated she like to hook her phone up to a PC and play with it. she has a basic knowledge of ADB and fastboot commmand and i verified with her what was thrown. When she went to re-lock the bootloader it did not with thisI did. she downloaded Google minimal sdk tools to get the updated ADB and Fastboot then went all the way and got mfastboot from Motorola to insure parsing for flashing. All of these fastboot packages were also tested on Mac and Linux Ubuntu, on Windows 8.1 Pro N Update 1 and Windows 7 Professional N SP2 (all x64). Resulted in the same errors. She is super thorough and I only taught here how to manually erase and flash no scripts or tool kits.
fastboot oem lock
and it returned.
(bootloader) FAIL: Please run fastboot oem lock begin first!
(bootloader) sst lock failure!
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.014s
Then tried again, then again, and then yep again. At this this point she either read the log and followed it. personally though I think based on the point she starts playing with phones it more likely she started to panic because she needs the bootloader locked for work and started attempting to flash.
fastboot oem lock begin
and it returned.
M:\SHAMU\FACTORY IMAGE\shamu-lmy47z>fastboot oem lock begin ...
(bootloader) Ready to flash signed images
OKAY [ 0.121s] finished. total time: 0.123s
FACTORY IMAGE\shamu-lmy47z>fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot' (7731 KB)... OKAY [ 0.252s] writing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed FAILED (remote failure) finished. total time: 0.271s
Then the bootloader log stated
cmd: oem lock
hab check failed for boot
failed to validate boot image
upon flashing boot.img the Bootloader Logs lists "Mismatched partition size (boot)". intresting sometimes it returns
fastboot oem lock begin ... (bootloader) Ready to flash signed images
OKAY [ 0.121s]
finished. total time: 0.123s
fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot' (7731 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.252s]
writing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.271s
I logged the partitions to see if they are zeroed out indicating bad emmc but they are not.
cat /proc/partitions
cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name
179 0 61079552 mmcblk0
179 1 114688 mmcblk0p1
179 2 16384 mmcblk0p2
179 3 384 mmcblk0p3
179 4 56 mmcblk0p4
179 5 16 mmcblk0p5
179 6 32 mmcblk0p6
179 7 1024 mmcblk0p7
179 8 256 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 500 mmcblk0p10
179 11 4156 mmcblk0p11
179 12 384 mmcblk0p12
179 13 1024 mmcblk0p13
179 14 256 mmcblk0p14
179 15 512 mmcblk0p15
179 16 500 mmcblk0p16
179 17 4 mmcblk0p17
179 18 512 mmcblk0p18
179 19 1024 mmcblk0p19
179 20 1024 mmcblk0p20
179 21 1024 mmcblk0p21
179 22 1024 mmcblk0p22
179 23 16384 mmcblk0p23
179 24 16384 mmcblk0p24
179 25 2048 mmcblk0p25
179 26 32768 mmcblk0p26
179 27 256 mmcblk0p27
179 28 32 mmcblk0p28
179 29 128 mmcblk0p29
179 30 8192 mmcblk0p30
179 31 1024 mmcblk0p31
259 0 2528 mmcblk0p32
259 1 1 mmcblk0p33
259 2 8 mmcblk0p34
259 3 16400 mmcblk0p35
259 4 9088 mmcblk0p36
259 5 16384 mmcblk0p37
259 6 262144 mmcblk0p38
259 7 65536 mmcblk0p39
259 8 1024 mmcblk0p40
259 9 2097152 mmcblk0p41
259 10 58351488 mmcblk0p42
179 32 4096 mmcblk0rpmb
254 0 58351488 dm-0
Ive asked for log or the total process to see the full warning, error, and failure message but she is super far on business. From what I do have and what literature i have started to crack. I am starting to believe from all my research and learnng about the android boot proccess. Maybe there is a missing or corrupted key in the SST table which is I beleieved called the bigtable to google. or a hash password failure when locking the bootloader security down or i could be way off please let me know. What I do not know how to investigate or disprove this issue to move on. Would I be able to get confirmation through a stack trace for missing or corrupted coding. So then it can be a puzzle thats solved. Honestly though this has become a puzzle that begs to be solved not an emergency thanks.
You should try "fastboot flashing lock" command instead.