I rooted using z4root & installed recovery using Koush's Droid 2 bootstrap with hopes of trying out Liberty before Fission.
Everything seemed to be going well, I backed up, wiped data/cache, flashed Liberty, and booted into it. No signal or leds, so I decided to go with Fission.
So I installed the Droid 2 Bootstrap app in Liberty in order to reboot into recovery, wiped data/cache, and flashed Fission. But when I went to reboot, I still had the Liberty splash screen. So somehow I figured out how to boot back into clockwork, I think I booted into stock recovery by holding X, (maybe wiped data/cache in there), and then hit reboot from there. But this hasn't gotten me to clockwork subsequently.
This time, I tried wiping all the mounts (boot/system/data/cache) as well as fact.reset/cache before flashing Fission.
Still, I get the Liberty splash.
Now, I think my battery won't charge.
Is there any way to restore my backup without a new battery? Even if i do get a new one, how am I going to boot into clockwork to restore my backup?
Word is once you've gone Liberty, way out is first SBF then anything else. Make sure you don't play with the phone too much as battery will die and you cannot SBF.
Like I said, my battery is already dead.
Is there no way to SBF without a charged battery? Can't I just plug it into the wall?
hijklll said:
Like I said, my battery is already dead.
Is there no way to SBF without a charged battery? Can't I just plug it into the wall?
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There is. But is a bit scary. You can jump the battery via the USB port using usb cable to provide power for the flashing. Few people have done it, it works. But you better buy a 10 bucks desktop charger for Motorola BP6X batteries and recharge the battery. If you aren't tech savvy I do not recommend you to try the USB power jump start method...
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But you better buy a 10 bucks desktop charger for Motorola BP6X batteries and recharge the battery.
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That's what I've done. Now I'm just waiting for it to charge.
Now the question is will I be able to get into Clockwork Recovery, or will I have to RSD/SBF?
Depends on what the issue was exactly that was keeping you out of clockwork. In my experance, if I yanked the battery while it was still on the moto logo, when I booted back it would boot directly into clockwork. However, if you've already whiped all mounts, your only option may be to sbf anyway.
I had the same problem with the battery. What worked for me was to plug the phone in via USB while holding x to boot into the recovery. I let it sit and charge slowly for about an hour or so. After that I was able to boot without my battery losing charge.
If this does not work I suggest buying any usb wall charger / car charger and charging your phone with that.
Good luck.
blakzer0 said:
I had the same problem with the battery. What worked for me was to plug the phone in via USB while holding x to boot into the recovery. I let it sit and charge slowly for about an hour or so. After that I was able to boot without my battery losing charge.
If this does not work I suggest buying any usb wall charger / car charger and charging your phone with that.
Good luck.
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Dang, should have tried that before I bought a battery charger. Oh well.
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Since we know that the last recovery can't charge when phone is off, i'm a little bit affraid.
I love to use Rom Manager but... if my phone is fully discharged, i can't boot and it's the end for my phone? o_o
Bluewall said:
Since we know that the last recovery can't charge when phone is off, i'm a little bit affraid.
I love to use Rom Manager but... if my phone is fully discharged, i can't boot and it's the end for my phone? o_o
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Hi,
You can download CWM 4.0.1.4 from here:
http://www.multiupload.com/UCJYHKQH23
Bluewall said:
Since we know that the last recovery can't charge when phone is off, i'm a little bit affraid.
I love to use Rom Manager but... if my phone is fully discharged, i can't boot and it's the end for my phone? o_o
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Some people have had success reviving their phone using various methods, take a look at the link here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193315
Try flashing the recovery provided in the post above me, and then run this ADB command:
adb shell cat /sys/devices/platform/htc_battery/power_supply/battery/status
You should get battery status (charging or discharging)
If it is discharging, flash other recoveries, including the original AlphaRevX one and the CWM one, and seeing what output you get with the above command.
If none of the recoveries show they are charging after issuing the above ADB command, then either you can be very careful not to let the battery drain, or let the battery drain and risk it and see if the solutions provided in the above thread work, or finally you can flash the stock recovery everytime you don't need the custom recovery (but this can be a pain)
Do this:
DL the .4 referenced version of CWM and then turn off your phone with a semi charged battery. Connect the charger and leave it for an hour. Turn back on your phone and see if the battery has been charging. If it doesnt charge it, OR if you find that you cannot start the phone back up without a battery pull first, then DL the .5 version of CWM.
I found that .4 didnt work correctly for me. While it DID charge the battery, it failed to light the LED AND wouldnt start up without a battery pull. I switched to the .5 version and found everything to work correctly.
It seems that its going to be ONLY one or the other for each person. No one knows why, but this is your best bet.
Matt
I'm stuck in a boot loop and I have no idea why, and I've tried wiping cache, wiping data/factory reset, and re-flashing the CM7 rom. Nothing worked. What happned was, my phone died, so I plugged it in, and it went into "charging mode". The phone will boot, but the touchscreen doesnt work, and non of the radios turn on, so that it can just charge I guess? anyway, the phone got to about 20% battery so I decided to reboot it so I could actually use it while charging, but when I did, it started boot looping. I tried everything mentioned above and its still boot looping. Is there anything else I can try?
let phone go all the way dead
I run Cyanogemod with Da_G's kernel and I let the device die. I had a similar lock up when I finally plugged the charger back in. After it got to about 8 or 9% is all and was still unresponsive, couldn't unlock the screen I simply pulled the battery AND REMOVED THE CHARGE CORD and counted to twenty, slapped it back in and held the power button for the count of ten and let go. It booted back up fine and no issues since.
I assumed you tried a battery pull?
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I run Cyanogemod with Da_G's kernel and I let the device die. I had a similar lock up when I finally plugged the charger back in. After it got to about 8 or 9% is all and was still unresponsive, couldn't unlock the screen I simply pulled the battery AND REMOVED THE CHARGE CORD and counted to twenty, slapped it back in and held the power button for the count of ten and let go. It booted back up fine and no issues since.
I assumed you tried a battery pull?
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Yea, that non responsive state is what led me to reboot. It only does that when the phone is dead and you plug it in. I assume it's because with cm7 there is no way to charge while the phone is off, at least that's the way it was with my infuse and captivate. So that's not the issue. It's that when I rebooted to get out of that state, it gets to the cm7 boot logo and then reboots. It's never done that before, and I do that a lot. I searched for this issue and I found someone with a nexus on cm7 that had a boot loop, and it was solved by some cwm zip that deleted the partitions, then once you do that, if you flash cm7, all will be well, but I don't know if that's applicable to this situation.
EDIT: I tried the battery pull, I left it out for 20 min and it's still boot looping
How are you getting into recovery? Seems once you get into recovery and wipe data/factory reset and flash version 4 and flash the kernel it would fix boot loop.
I use three button method to get to clockworkmod recovery.
If you Odin back to stock the method to get download mode for me was volume down only when plugging in.
I have a 400mb+ size file used by recovery of a working image of my favorite setup to flash back to. Everyone should take a few minutes and boot into recovery and make a backup to flash to once you get up and running good.
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I tried to duplicate. You are so correct I put the battery back in after making sure the phone was off and then plugged in the power.
For brief moment the big battery symbol appeared, but rather than continuing to stay with that and charge, it blinked away and promptly booted up into that frozen screen and no radio signal.
I had 50% charge when I tested this just now.
Upon pressing the power button I got the shutdown menu, but the screen was still unresponsive and wouldn't let me select reboot.
Ended up doing another battery pull (with no power cord of course)
I don't see how you did it, reboot while in that state escapes me.
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I tried to duplicate. You are so correct I put the battery back in after making sure the phone was off and then plugged in the power.
For brief moment the big battery symbol appeared, but rather than continuing to stay with that and charge, it blinked away and promptly booted up into that frozen screen and no radio signal.
I had 50% charge when I tested this just now.
Upon pressing the power button I got the shutdown menu, but the screen was still unresponsive and wouldn't let me select reboot.
Ended up doing another battery pull (with no power cord of course)
I don't see how you did it, reboot while in that state escapes me.
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I hold the power button until the phone reboots.
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How are you getting into recovery? Seems once you get into recovery and wipe data/factory reset and flash version 4 and flash the kernel it would fix boot loop.
I use three button method to get to clockworkmod recovery.
If you Odin back to stock the method to get download mode for me was volume down only when plugging in.
I have a 400mb+ size file used by recovery of a working image of my favorite setup to flash back to. Everyone should take a few minutes and boot into recovery and make a backup to flash to once you get up and running good.
Sent from my SGH-I727 using CyanogenMod
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I use the three button combo to get into recovery, and I did wipe data then flash both version 4 and the kernel, and it still loops. I am so confused as to how in the world this happened... anyway, I tried to go back to stock using odin twice and it just got stuck at system.img.ext4.
Oh dear you must take this to the Odin thread.... You belong there until you flash back to stock. Did you try only holding volume down when plugging in to download mode? Your skyrocket is powered down when you try?
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I got into download mode fine the first time. then when it got stuck, I changed to a usb port on the back of my pc, but it still got stuck. now it just boots right into download mode.
I don't know what changed.. but since going back to stock wouldn't work, I decided to re flash cwm and try to install cm7 again, and I'm now back up and running just fine. This whole situation was very odd... Thank you for being helpful.
Odin3-v1.85.zip is what you have set up on your computer?
Glad you fixed it.
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I think it was on low battery...
what do i do?
iArtisan said:
I think it was on low battery...
what do i do?
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Try turning it on without the battery in, while it's plugged in to the charger (obviously), if it won't turn on at all, try to flash the stock 2.3.3 via nvflash using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644&highlight=nvflash
If that doesn't work try flashing cwm recovery via nvflash using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847&highlight=nvflash
Good luck! Hope this helps
well first off shame on you for trying to flash a rom with a low battery that was prob not the smartest thing to do second if you have removed your battery and charged your phone and it still wont boot or anything well then you have a bricked phone sorry
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Try turning it on without the battery in, while it's plugged in to the charger (obviously), if it won't turn on at all, try to flash the stock 2.3.3 via nvflash using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644&highlight=nvflash
If that doesn't work try flashing cwm recovery via nvflash using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847&highlight=nvflash
Good luck! Hope this helps
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Thanks a lot man, it doesn't turn on at all without the battery in. I was using clockwork recovery to flash the ROM. What do you suggest I do from here?
If you can't get into recovery, then you did probably brick your phone, so you'll need to follow the instructions from the first link i posted earlier to flash the stock GB. Then follow the second to flash cwm using the second link, then flash your rom again
iArtisan said:
Thanks a lot man, it doesn't turn on at all without the battery in. I was using clockwork recovery to flash the ROM. What do you suggest I do from here?
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If your battery got TOO low, since there's no auto-shutoff while in recovery, it could be too low to take a charge or even allow the device to turn on.
Try turning on the device with a different, fully charged battery. If that works then your battery fried.... at which point it may still be salvagable.. you'd need to hot-swap the battery. that is, turn the device on plugged in and with a GOOD battery... once it's on, then without unplugging, pull out the good battery and QUICKLY insert the bad battery, which will allow it to start charging...
Now, this of course would involve you booting into RECOVERY since you don't have a working ROM, but that would still apply.
lotherius said:
If your battery got TOO low, since there's no auto-shutoff while in recovery, it could be too low to take a charge or even allow the device to turn on.
Try turning on the device with a different, fully charged battery. If that works then your battery fried.... at which point it may still be salvagable.. you'd need to hot-swap the battery. that is, turn the device on plugged in and with a GOOD battery... once it's on, then without unplugging, pull out the good battery and QUICKLY insert the bad battery, which will allow it to start charging...
Now, this of course would involve you booting into RECOVERY since you don't have a working ROM, but that would still apply.
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If you can't get into recovery, then you did probably brick your phone, so you'll need to follow the instructions from the first link i posted earlier to flash the stock GB. Then follow the second to flash cwm using the second link, then flash your rom again
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Thank you both, got it working again. Whew.
Someone won't be flashing with anything below 50% battery from now on
Love this community.
If you let the phone battery run down, it will not, I repeat WILL NOT boot back up out of recovery.
When I plug the charger in it just boot it right back into recovery, which we all know won't charge the battery.
Pull the battery, put battery back in, plug in the charger....boot right back into recovery.
Power off from recovery with charger still plugged in...boot right back up in recovery.
Reboot system from recovery...boot right back up in recovery.
No way to charge the battery without getting out of recovery first.
No way to boot out of recovery without enough juice in the battery.
I had to use the extended battery (spare) to boot up the phone and...well you guest it...to flash the "other" recovery to get it working normal again.
Thunderbolt
Miui
TWRP 2.3.1.0
Works fine on earlier version, if this is a false alarm, then please delete.
Update: After reading through a few forums, TWRP might be able to charge while in recovery. It doesn't work for me.
That's a +1 for 4ext. It let's you charge the battery in recovery.
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Your phone should charge in the powered off state though.
Thought so too but I know for a fact that cwm boots you into recovery as soon as there is enough juice to boot. Then having the screen on starting what little there is left. I know because I dealt with that for a month before I realized that my stock battery finally took a drive and wasn't retaining a full charge anymore.
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Its recovery 101 never mess with recovery unless you have a decent charge. You are just asking for trouble. I agree it makes 4ext look better because you can charge while in its recovery. If you let your phone die in recovery then you deserve it. Not to sound harsh but for the longest time when devs post roms they said make sure your battery is charged before flashing the rom. You think they was joking? lol
I remember having to do that with the Droid Eris.
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I think what he means is, if you let your phone die normally, then plug it in to charge, it will boot to recovery. I had that happen to me when i first tried clockwork touch.
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Let me clear it up a bit.
If there's not enough juice in the battery to boot up the phone. If you push and hold the power button and nothing happen then you're screwed.
As soon as you plug in the charger, it will boot right to TWRP. you can not stop it from booting into TWRP, when you power it off from within TWRP it will boot right back into TWRP as long as the charger is connected.
Bottom Line:
If your battery went dead (under normal usage condition) and you don't have a good spare. You are SCREWED. This is a FATAL bug.
There's no way to charge a dead battery.
DarkJedi thinks that I'm in TWRP while the phone went dead. The answer is NO. The battery went dead under standby.
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Its recovery 101 never mess with recovery unless you have a decent charge. You are just asking for trouble. I agree it makes 4ext look better because you can charge while in its recovery. If you let your phone die in recovery then you deserve it. Not to sound harsh but for the longest time when devs post roms they said make sure your battery is charged before flashing the rom. You think they was joking? lol
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You're not understanding the post. This has nothing to do with messing with TWRP. Battery went dead under normal using condition, has nothing to do with recovery.
Shadow Death said:
Your phone should charge in the powered off state though.
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That's the problem, it will not power down out of TWRP, as soon as you plug in the charger it will boot right back into TWRP.
It has the same cwm bug there used to be. When you plug the phone in to charge it boots into recovery.
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That's good to know, I had been using TWRP on my Thunderbolt so I guess it's time to switch back to 4ext, i just wish there was software keyboard support in 4ext.
Also with a note, I had this problem the op had when using TWRP on my Asus Transformer, actually strangely, while the recovery was installed it would not charge the device at all, not even when turned off. Once TWRP was taken off of it, and CWM back on, it charged properly. After using TWRP I can say for some reason this recovery has some serious game changing bugs.
EDIT: Also, "Boot Manager" doesn't seem to be compatible with restoring backups made with TWRP.
Give this build a shot and see if it fixes the charging:
http://techerrata.com/dees_troy/mecha.img
Ellises said:
That's good to know, I had been using TWRP on my Thunderbolt so I guess it's time to switch back to 4ext, i just wish there was software keyboard support in 4ext.
Also with a note, I had this problem the op had when using TWRP on my Asus Transformer, actually strangely, while the recovery was installed it would not charge the device at all, not even when turned off. Once TWRP was taken off of it, and CWM back on, it charged properly. After using TWRP I can say for some reason this recovery has some serious game changing bugs.
EDIT: Also, "Boot Manager" doesn't seem to be compatible with restoring backups made with TWRP.
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No idea what your trouble with the Transformer were but charging on the Transformer isn't done in recovery and changing recovery wasn't the fix.
The Thunderbolt & most all HTC devices made after it use recovery for charging. There's a handful of HTC binaries & a special init.rc that make the device charge while turned off. None of this is part of the recovery code so it's not inherent to TWRP itself.
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Give this build a shot and see if it fixes the charging:
http://techerrata.com/dees_troy/mecha.img
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my port is busted so i cant test charging but the build does work
Another tester confirmed that it was fixed in that version, so I have updated everything.
Hi!
I had installed cyannogenmod 12.1 on my device and it worked, then I went on to install another kernel eXPerience and that made my wifi and usb port on the phone to stop working. It only connects via fastboot but I can't get it to charge. (Tried the reboot loop thing, it just depletes the battery.) If I do get it to charge, I could reflash a working recovery, format cyannogen and use it to push a backup i made on my PC via bluetooth (ADB doesn't work.) Solutions?
If it connects in bootloader mode then I think your phone should be charging simultaneously
If not try using different charger or cable.
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If it connects in bootloader mode then I think your phone should be charging simultaneously
If not try using different charger or cable.
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Tried, it doesn't, powers off and won't boot afterwards (Only tried this with 2 cables, but somehow the battery magically gains a small amount of charge the next day.
RayonDeLumiere said:
Tried, it doesn't, powers off and won't boot afterwards (Only tried this with 2 cables, but somehow the battery magically gains a small amount of charge the next day.
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So it seems either the battery is not working properly or the charging pin I is damaged recommend you to go to the mobile repairing shops.
RayonDeLumiere said:
Tried, it doesn't, powers off and won't boot afterwards (Only tried this with 2 cables, but somehow the battery magically gains a small amount of charge the next day.
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Try charging via wall socket.
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So it seems either the battery is not working properly or the charging pin I is damaged recommend you to go to the mobile repairing shops.
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It's cause I changed the kernel I think, I believe the hardware's fine
lost101 Yea I tried that too - in 2 whole days it got a small amount of charge enough to boot into fastboot but shuts off if I load the OS or recovery.
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lost101 Yea I tried that too - in 2 whole days it got a small amount of charge enough to boot into fastboot but shuts off if I load the OS or recovery.
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The phone will charge if left on the fastboot screen.
lost101 said:
The phone will charge if left on the fastboot screen.
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Tried that yesterday, completely lost charge and now it won't boot to fastboot either
It could be the kernel, drivers, rom. Go back to stock rom, do a total wipe.
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It could be the kernel, drivers, rom. Go back to stock rom, do a total wipe.
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I would if it charged! At this state, the battery's too low for me to flash anything.
Yoou didn t do backup before? How many % are left? There is enougth to flash another kernel?
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Yoou didn t do backup before? How many % are left? There is enougth to flash another kernel?
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Did, but it's on my PC, and I can't transfer it(except via bluetooth, which will take really long). Battery's at 0% now so no.
I ve read that for someone work to turning it on in boot mode then plugging into computer