Hi Guys,
I have a Nexus S EU version I9023 and I wanted to get ICS. I flashed the 128 mb ICS image manually through fastboot recovery, however, I wanted to go back and try to flash it again or flash 2.3.6 on the phone again but it's not working.
It's going into fastboot and I can choose what I want from the menu but when I choose Recovery, it shows the Google screen, Flashes the Android with a little "Matrix" ball in front of it and then it freezes at a black screen, with the soft buttons lit up.
Could anyone tell me what happened and if it can be fixed?
PS: When I press VolumeUp+Power at the black screen, it resets!
kamikaze666 said:
Hi Guys,
I have a Nexus S EU version I9023 and I wanted to get ICS. I flashed the 128 mb ICS image manually through fastboot recovery, however, I wanted to go back and try to flash it again or flash 2.3.6 on the phone again but it's not working.
It's going into fastboot and I can choose what I want from the menu but when I choose Recovery, it shows the Google screen, Flashes the Android with a little "Matrix" ball in front of it and then it freezes at a black screen, with the soft buttons lit up.
Could anyone tell me what happened and if it can be fixed?
PS: When I press VolumeUp+Power at the black screen, it resets!
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I think the phone is booting into stock recovery instead of clockworkmod
I am having the same issue, when i have to go into recoevery, i have to open the command prompt and type in
fastboot boot recovery-image-file.img
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each time i need to flash something. Its a pain
I m running ICS on Nexus S i9023.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem ?
Ibn Saeed said:
I think the phone is booting into stock recovery instead of clockworkmod
I am having the same issue, when i have to go into recoevery, i have to open the command prompt and type in
each time i need to flash something. Its a pain
I m running ICS on Nexus S i9023.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem ?
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Thing is, I don't have clockworkmod installed at all. It's a clean Nexus S, NO root, NO CWM, no nothing.
I truly hope that somebody will have an answer to this or that, at least, I won't loose any OTA updates from Google by making this update.
The stock ics recovery turns off the backlight on the 9023, it has been explained countless times. Point a flashlight at it and u should be able to see what's actually there.
Harbb said:
The stock ics recovery turns off the backlight on the 9023, it has been explained countless times. Point a flashlight at it and u should be able to see what's actually there.
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Exactly. I've had the same problem than OP and fixed it today. Just use a very bright lamp, try to find a good angle and you may see the recovery menu (it's hard to see, you'd better be comfortable with the navigation on the recovery menu as you may not be able to read everything).
it depends what you want to do from here on. the bright light method did not work for me so i installed cwmrecovery with bootloader.
if u are waiting for the next ota, do nothing as you wont need stock recovery to install update.
if you wanna downgrade or flash different rom, you can install cwmrecovery and use that from thr..
no need to access stock recovery
i panicked as well when it happened but ntg to worry about
Bls440 said:
Exactly. I've had the same problem than OP and fixed it today. Just use a very bright lamp, try to find a good angle and you may see the recovery menu (it's hard to see, you'd better be comfortable with the navigation on the recovery menu as you may not be able to read everything).
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Harbb said:
The stock ics recovery turns off the backlight on the 9023, it has been explained countless times. Point a flashlight at it and u should be able to see what's actually there.
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cspader said:
it depends what you want to do from here on. the bright light method did not work for me so i installed cwmrecovery with bootloader.
if u are waiting for the next ota, do nothing as you wont need stock recovery to install update.
if you wanna downgrade or flash different rom, you can install cwmrecovery and use that from thr..
no need to access stock recovery
i panicked as well when it happened but ntg to worry about
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Guys,
Thank you VERY MUCH for your prompt responses !!! I tried with a bright light and YES, everything is there, I just need to make sure that the angle of the light is right !!!
I can't thank you enough guys and I hope that this thread will help others as well !!!
Thank you once more !
I have the same problem on a I9020. I tried with the bright light, and the screen is blank. What should I do?
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Ok, I go into hboot and select recovery so I can flash the gingerbread rom I downloaded. It wont load into recovery. I tried to go through Rom Manager too, but it just goes to a black screen with no commands? Anyone have help for this? I have pulled battery and reloaded to hboot, tried rom manager and flashed clockwork from there.
Thanks for any help!
iphonedefector said:
Ok, I go into hboot and select recovery so I can flash the gingerbread rom I downloaded. It wont load into recovery. I tried to go through Rom Manager too, but it just goes to a black screen with no commands? Anyone have help for this? I have pulled battery and reloaded to hboot, tried rom manager and flashed clockwork from there.
Thanks for any help!
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Read post #2400 for to fix your problem with black screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406&page=240
Thank you!
I will have to do this later. As I am exchanging my Inspire, since I scratched it getting the battery case off. My rep said no worries just bring it and he will give me a new one. So I unrooted it for tonight. And will re root tomorrow.
Mine does the same thing. I just use rom manager to flash, and when it goes to a black screen, just lay the phone down and wait. (may take up to 5 minutes or so) It will eventually restart with the new rom/kernel or whatever. At first i thought it wasn't doing anything, but i later found out it IS flashing, I just cant see it. Restarting/pulling battery during the black screen could result in a brick due to it actually working but you not seeing it, so be careful. Good Luck.
Bamatide2007 said:
Mine does the same thing. I just use rom manager to flash, and when it goes to a black screen, just lay the phone down and wait. (may take up to 5 minutes or so) It will eventually restart with the new rom/kernel or whatever. At first i thought it wasn't doing anything, but i later found out it IS flashing, I just cant see it. Restarting/pulling battery during the black screen could result in a brick due to it actually working but you not seeing it, so be careful. Good Luck.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406
D/L the one click, He added a one Click for ENG S-Off which will fix the black screen problem in cwm
Thanks will try that when i get home.
Bamatide2007 said:
Thanks will try that when i get home.
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I would try much safer methods to fix your fade to black screen than running Eng S-Off. A bad install using Eng S-Off is the easiest way of bricking your phone, PLUS you just don't need Eng S-Off for anything.
Pulling the battery while in the black screen will niy brick your phone. CWM Recovery is actually running you just can see the screen. How do I know? Run a backup in Rom Manager. It will eventually reboot and you can check if the backup was successfully by doing selecting restore in Rom Manager which will show the backup you just performed.
You can pull the battery when you see the black screen but even easier is just press the power button.
If you want a safe method to correct the black screen just look at my post on the first page if this thread.
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I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
xr2unitx said:
I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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which root method did you use?
I used the one click root method.
xr2unitx said:
I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
SNadler said:
Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
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Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
If you press the down volume and hold power can you get to hboot?
Try using bubby's tool to fix the CWM black screen. Its under the fixes link.
I can't seem to access any sort of recovery or hboot. Holding down both volume buttons and turning the phone on will result in the black screen with green LED. Holding the down volume button and turning the phone on does nothing.
xr2unitx said:
Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
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Sorry go to Bubbys super one step and search for CWM black screen....
If it helps, the phone vibrates 5 times then shows a black screen.
Well I was able to get into HBOOT but when I tried to go into recovery, the screen would just turn black.
You need to get the stock rooted PD98IMG.zip into the root of your sd card. Then go to hboot and let the phone find it. Follow on screen instructions. Note the progress bar will be vertical on upper right. I bet that fixes you up on getting the phone working. Black screen on cwm is a whole nother issue. One that I share. I think I'm going to revert to stock unrooted and then our attn1 hack kit.
There is a solution you can eng s-off, but I would not advise this there is no need to eng s-off your phone.
The simplest way though it may take longer is to, revert to stock and reroot and s-off with the hack kit.
This is a very common problem with the one click. To be honest there is a thread made just like this twice a day.
Thanks for all the help everyone. I managed to fix everything on my phone. I just flashed the rooted AT&T stock ROM with HBOOT and then used the one-click ENG S-OFF method to fix the black screen on CWM. Now running CM7 perfectly. I'm glad I no longer have to send it back to AT&T.
kinder gentler XDA i guess. Last year posts like these would have been flamed right off the board. Thats not a bad thing, but new people are wasting everyones F'ing time with these posts.
RTFM! w/e it is you decide to do , how about looking for help in the dam thread you downloaded the stuff from? I duno maybe we have a bunch of people brand new to Forums or something.
Ok I don't mean to thread jack, I just didn't want to start a new thread for this. I've been running the Coredroid Rom since I first rooted my phone. I have never had any problems with my phone even when trying out other roms. Today I tried installing the new Coredroid 5.0. It all went well as usual except this time on the last step of the setup wizard, it said something like "setup has stopped working unexpectedly and will notify HTC" and only let me press ok to force close.
After that happened all I couldn't even go to my home screen. I then tried restarting my phone but got stuck on the Coredroid rotating logo. Only way out of that was to pull the battery cover. Tried going into recovery mode but the screen would just be black and I would have the orange light flashing. That didn't work so I tried restarting again. Again just got stuck on the spinning logo.....This is where **** gets weird. I began to receive a call while on the logo and that allowed me to answer thus leaving the spinning logo. I still could not go to my home screen. I could only use the drop down notifications menu. I restarted my phone again so I could call myself while on the logo and again it got me unstuck from the logo. Only way to fix every thing was to use the search option and run Rom Manager and recover from my previous back up.
So I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I always fallow instructions and hardly ever have any problems but this was just odd. I felt like I had to solve riddles in order to get my phone working again.
See if you can boot to bootloader by means of ADB (adb reboot bootloader). If so reflash the stock rooted rom then reload CWM. You might need to Eng-S off if you have a corrupt file / bootloader? When done reflash CorDroid 5.0 (What I am running by the way)....
black htc screen
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
I see a lot of motivation in this and other threads to leave well-enough alone. Going to leave mine unrooted-stock.
I just had an excellent session of Google Nav where it performed exemplary. My phone does all I need and remains within the rules as the OEM wants it.
kadukasan said:
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
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check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868
I recently flashed ICS 4.0.3 on my Nexus S, and now when I enter Recovery it shows me the Android guy lying on his back with his chest open and having an exclamation mark on top and then the screens turns off.
I tried using a flashlight to read the screen and I tried re-flashing the 4.0.3 but to no success. I wanted to use ClocworkMod's ROM manager to boot but it says my phone is not rooted.
The phone was rooted when I had 2.3.6, but since I've updated I didn't root again.
I looked around the forum and I saw something about fastboot, but I'm a n00b when it comes to these things and I don't know how to use it..
Any idea on how to make it go into Recovery mode again? Thanks
While your phone is off; hold the power button and hold the volume up button, then you should be in recovery.
djquick said:
While your phone is off; hold the power button and hold the volume up button, then you should be in recovery.
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I've done that, I used a flashlight and tried to flash ICS all-over again, but nothing flashes...anything else?
Same problem
A friend of mine has the same problem unrooted stock 4.0.3 when he boots in to recovery black screen. Tried using a torch (flashlight) to see the screen but couldn't see anything on it.
A bit of research has found this section and just trying to find bright lamp to see if works as per a few of the posts on the link below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396615
and yes you can just see the text, we have used a bright lamp at different angles but not managed to do the 4.0.4 update yet...
Cheers
I've already used a flashlight and I could see part of the menu. I tried re-flashing the ICS update to 4.0.4 and the original 4.0.3 ROM, but still nothing. I couldn't tell what error it had or it said. I want to know how can I root again and try to install the ROM from ROM manager?
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I remebered I saw this dead droid and seems like need to go into fastboot and download custom recovery again.
I think you should try to load in custome recovery. That is what happen to me and able to have a live droid.
When you see the android guy lying down with his chest open, just hold the power button and push the volume up button, then let it go and you should be in the bootloader menu. Then just use the volume buttons to move it down to recovery, then click install zip from sd card.
djquick said:
When you see the android guy lying down with his chest open, just hold the power button and push the volume up button, then let it go and you should be in the bootloader menu. Then just use the volume buttons to move it down to recovery, then click install zip from sd card.
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I tried that, it doesn't work (i tried flashing 2 ROMs and it didn't do anything to the phone). What custom recovery would you recommend?
Flash back to stock I guess
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
http://speedy.sh/gdtgM/recovery.img (it's stock)
Iuliano said:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
http://speedy.sh/gdtgM/recovery.img (it's stock)
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thank you, I'll try flashing and reply whit the result
Finally did it. I used fastboot to re-write the recovery.img. Now it works.
Anyone can recomend a good ICS 4.0.4 ROM?
woolf4ever said:
Finally did it. I used fastboot to re-write the recovery.img. Now it works.
Anyone can recomend a good ICS 4.0.4 ROM?
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I can recommend AOSP+. It's very stable and fast (ROM benchmark 2nd place). It is very stockish, I LOVE IT. The developer is also involved in CodeName Android, a highly customizable ROM, they should update to 4.0.4 soon. If you like STOCK you should go with AOSP+, if you want more options for customization you can install CodeName in version 1.6 or wait for the Update on 4.0.4.
Also very good is Pete's Bugless Beast and Brainmaster's Stock 4.0.4
last night I got OTA for 4.0.4...dk how since I have root. I installed it and it runs sweet. thx for the help guys
how???
do u ve a phone bought in india...i have i9023 carrier airtel chennai india....i am still in 4.0.3 stock rom but manually updated....
woolf4ever said:
I recently flashed ICS 4.0.3 on my Nexus S, and now when I enter Recovery it shows me the Android guy lying on his back with his chest open and having an exclamation mark on top and then the screens turns off.
I tried using a flashlight to read the screen and I tried re-flashing the 4.0.3 but to no success. I wanted to use ClocworkMod's ROM manager to boot but it says my phone is not rooted.
The phone was rooted when I had 2.3.6, but since I've updated I didn't root again.
I looked around the forum and I saw something about fastboot, but I'm a n00b when it comes to these things and I don't know how to use it..
Any idea on how to make it go into Recovery mode again? Thanks
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You can just inter to bootloader, and reflash the recovery image with fastboot tools.
Hi,
I was on Dark Rom Nougat but recently i tried to flash paranoid android marshamllow cause I was not happy with the sound. After flashing the rom the device booted up normally. I tried to reboot it again into recovery to flash some other zip file. But instead of recovery my phone booted up in bootloader mode. And the 4 options that bootloader of nexus 5 has, kept changing one by one. I mean to say I just can't select any option cause it keeps changing constantly. So you have to be very quick to select any option from the 4 options given in the bootloader.
After a few tries i am able to boot into the device quickly pressing the buttons when the bootloader option comes to 'Start' . But that too in safe mode. I know its a bit hard to understamd cause I have seen this the first time around. And I don't how exactly I can explain this to anyone. I am thinking of making a video of this.
I keep changing roms back and forth and everything works fine. It is the first time I have experienced something like this. To solve the issue,I have flashed other roms ,restored nandroid backups,flashed latest bootloader and radio. But nothing seems to work. I am now planning to flash my nexus 5 to stock factory image. If anyone have any advice/insight I will be really thankful.
Sorry for my bad english.
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RolF2 said:
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How in the world did you figure that out so quickly! Thank you freind. For your simple and subtle advice. Cheers!
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How in the world did you figure that out so quickly! Thank you freind. For your simple and subtle advice. Cheers!
Hello everyone!
I dont know if someone already posted this thread, but I'm a bit desperate now. Here is my problem.
A few days ago I was sliding through Facebook, when my phone screen just turned upside down and backwards.
1) Restarted the phone - NOTHING.
2) Rooted and tried to modify a line in system folder (rotation) that everyone said would solve the problem, but the line doesn't eve exist.
3) Factory reset and flashed stock firmware- NOTHING.
4) Tried updating screen firmware through MMI/USSD code, but phone refuses to execute codes.
Rtl layout is not on just so we're clear.
Screenshot is normal. The controls are the same, but the picture is upside down, so I would'nt say it's a hardware problem.
Any suggestions before I replace the damn screen?
Picture link below.
https://imgur.com/JWuTMrX
https://imgur.com/JWuTMrX
That is kind of weird, unfortunately I have nothing to advice that you didn't perform previously , I think the best thing to do is to send it to customer service :/
In my opinion it is a software issue and changing the screen won't resolve it
Weird.
Is it revered in fastboot or recovery too?
This would highlight if it's a screen issue or ROM software...
lgrubisic2 said:
https://imgur.com/JWuTMrX
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Boot logo, recovery or fastboot also reversed??
linkazoid said:
Is it revered in fastboot or recovery too?
This would highlight if it's a screen issue or ROM software...
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It's reversed in recovery mode, but not fastboot. So weird
hassanjavaid8181 said:
Boot logo, recovery or fastboot also reversed??
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It's reversed in recovery mode, but not fastboot.
lgrubisic2 said:
It's reversed in recovery mode, but not fastboot.
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Give it a try flashing another firmware via dload... May that could help..
Ok, we have a brealthrough! I flashed a few new firmwares, and when I flashed the last one the picture went to normal orientation, but now the screen is flickering and blinking and going bananas.
lgrubisic2 said:
Ok, we have a brealthrough! I flashed a few new firmwares, and when I flashed the last one the picture went to normal orientation, but now the screen is flickering and blinking and going bananas.
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LOL.. those are really strange issues.. :laugh:
Downgrade your phone to marshmellow.. Try flashing marshmallow firmware.. If it went back to normal upgrade to nougat via OTA.
Holy crap it's back to normal. I went to developer options and disabled HW overlay. Apparently CPU and GPU were ''fighting'' over who's going to control the screen. So for anyone who has the same issue as me, and none of the solutions I mentioned in the first post help- flash stock firmaware/firmwares, and if the problem persists, disable HW overlay. Thanks a lot guys
EDIT - Oh and flashing firmware via dload worked like a charm. Thanks hassanjavaid8181
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Holy crap it's back to normal. I went to developer options and disabled HW overlay. Apparently CPU and GPU were ''fighting'' over who's going to control the screen. So for anyone who has the same issue as me, and none of the solutions I mentioned in the first post help- flash stock firmaware/firmwares, and if the problem persists, disable HW overlay. Thanks a lot guys
EDIT - Oh and flashing firmware via dload worked like a charm. Thanks hassanjavaid8181
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Good to hear..enjoy