(soft)Bricked Omnia Turris?

For a TL;DR

The omnia won’t boot anymore as it’s just resetting after the message “Starting Kernel”
I tried:

  • Return to last snapshot
  • Reflash using medkit file (with ext4 and fat formatted USB)
  • Create a bootable usb

All of the above didn’t work for me and the device still isn’t booting.
I have UART access to the device and am up to try anything to get it working.

The problems started when I attempted an update.
After the update the omnia didn;t boot anymore and UART access told me it couldn’t read the btrfs volume.
It looked like the u-boot environment did not have a kernel module for the btrfs filesystem.
After this I used the medkit usb method to flash the device an have been in the situation described above ever since.