Nothing Phone (3) stuck on boot logo after flashing factory image

[Widmo]

Hi,
first of all – thank you for your amazing work and for maintaining this resource. It's incredibly helpful to have a place like this.

I recently bought a Nothing Phone (3). Everything worked fine at first – I connected and rooted the phone (initially using APatch, then switched to Magisk) and successfully installed the OTA package.

After performing a factory reset, I couldn’t reinstall the OTA – the phone kept prompting me to install it, but the installation would always fail with an error.
I then downloaded the factory image from this repository and flashed it. The process completed successfully, but now the phone gets stuck on the Nothing logo during boot.

Is there anything else I can try, or should I wait for a full OTA package to be released?

Thanks again for your support and for all the work you’re doing here!

Logs:
np3-full-flash-logs.txt

[spike0en]

Logs: np3-full-flash-logs.txt

@Widmo, from your logs, I can see that you used the wrong script for flashing. Note that spacewar = Nothing Phone (1) & metroid = Nothing Phone (3). Please refer to the correct script and always make sure to go through the readme in the future. In this case, you are fortunate that it did not get bricked. The device got stuck in a bootloop because some of the partitions were not flashed which is obvious in this case for the wrong script usage and the partition layouts being different for the respective models.

Correct link: flash_all.bat (Windows)

[spike0en]

rooted the phone (initially using APatch, then switched to Magisk) and successfully installed the OTA package.
After performing a factory reset, I couldn’t reinstall the OTA

Refer to this. The device won't allow you to OTA update if the partitions are not stock or have been modified in any way. In such cases, flashing the stock images for the modified partitions will help. Simply performing factory resets won't help in this regard to the best of my knowledge. As always, please go through the documentation in the future.

Cheers!

[Widmo]

Thank you so much – the phone is back to life!

I definitely feel lucky… or maybe Nothing is just a very forgiving brand 😉
I honestly did my best to use the correct flash_all.bat and read the README carefully, but something clearly went wrong on my end.

Maybe it would be helpful to add a quick prompt like
"Is your device a Nothing Phone (3)?"
at the start of the flashing scripts – it might save others from making the same mistake.

Thanks again for the help and the amazing work you're doing!

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Just to clarify – the OTA was applied on stock images.
For root testing, I only used:

fastboot boot /np3/patched-boot{magisk,apatch}.img

and flashed, and re-flashed by original boot.img.

Hope that helps clarify. Appreciate the guidance!

[spike0en]

and flashed, and re-flashed by original boot.img.

I would recommend flashing the vbmeta image along with the boot image.