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[q] urgent help!

i tried to flash masters aurxa rom, and it got aborted half way. now i cant boot up (stuck at google with the lock screen) and i cant get into recovery. (i get the green android with the exclamation mark sign)
how do i progress from here?

anyone ?
10 char

please help!!

Press power and up when you get the android with the mark
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Try re-flashing the ClockWorkMod recovery?

thanks, but i odined it back to stock

chikilin1389 said:
Press power and up when you get the android with the mark
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I believe it's actually press&hold power up, then press volume up.
Moot point for the OP, but good to know for future problems.

Hey guys when I encountered the problem earlier, I did hold volume and power all I got was a blue screen. How do I exactly go about re flashing recovery
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afishpie said:
Hey guys when I encountered the problem earlier, I did hold volume and power all I got was a blue screen. How do I exactly go about re flashing recovery
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To get to STOCK recovery from fastboot, it's select "boot recovery" then power FIRST, then while HOLDING power, it's volume up. You can't do it the other way.
To flash a new recovery, it's fastboot mode on the phone, then on your computer (hooked to the phone via usb) the command is "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". (recovery.img is replaced by whatever name your recovery image actually has.)

[Q] How to remove CWM

I've looked through the searches but I couldnt really find the answer.
I've rooted and unlocked my HOX but I can't boot into bootloader through volume donw + power.
I have CleanROM 4.0 flashed and the 4.1 version just came out. It says to use TWRP so I will.
How do I go about removing CWM that I installed through the one-click tutorial?
I want to put TWRP after that.
Thanks a lot XDA.

RYEGRAIN said:
I've looked through the searches but I couldnt really find the answer.
I've rooted and unlocked my HOX but I can't boot into bootloader through volume donw + power.
I have CleanROM 4.0 flashed and the 4.1 version just came out. It says to use TWRP so I will.
How do I go about removing CWM that I installed through the one-click tutorial?
I want to put TWRP after that.
Thanks a lot XDA.
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Make sure fastboot I the power settings is u checked then you can boot into bootloader with the button combo. And the easiest way to install twrp would be to use Goo Manager from the market, it will install it for you.
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kleeman7 said:
Make sure fastboot I the power settings is u checked then you can boot into bootloader with the button combo. And the easiest way to install twrp would be to use Goo Manager from the market, it will install it for you.
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Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.
I still can't boot into bootloader with both fastboot checked and unchecked. However I did install TWRP through Goomanager. By doing that does it mean CWM is gone?
It freaks my out that I can't use my H-boot. :crying:

RYEGRAIN said:
Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.
I still can't boot into bootloader with both fastboot checked and unchecked. However I did install TWRP through Goomanager. By doing that does it mean CWM is gone?
It freaks my out that I can't use my H-boot. :crying:
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You can use your bootloader, you need to make sure fastboot is unchecked, and when you hold power + vol down make sure you let go of power and keep vol down til in bootloader, and yes cwn is gone you can only have one recovery.
Just keep trying you will get it.
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RYEGRAIN said:
I still can't boot into bootloader with both fastboot checked and unchecked.
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Assuming you still have CleanROM installed... try this:
1. Boot into the Android OS as usual
2. Press and hold the power key; this will bring up the "Phone Options" dialog
3. Select "Restart"; this will bring up a second "Phone Options" dialog
4. Choose "Recovery"
The phone will reboot into recovery. No need to press and hold volume down or anything like that. See attached screenshots.

denversc said:
Assuming you still have CleanROM installed... try this:
1. Boot into the Android OS as usual
2. Press and hold the power key; this will bring up the "Phone Options" dialog
3. Select "Restart"; this will bring up a second "Phone Options" dialog
4. Choose "Recovery"
The phone will reboot into recovery. No need to press and hold volume down or anything like that. See attached screenshots.
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I was just going to say, use the Advanced Power Menu way, which is what I do almost every time to get into Recovery.
If you do the power+vol down way, make sure the phone is fully powered off (with fast boot unchecked in power settings). Hold down vol down, then depress the power button for a few seconds, release power, but keep holding vol down until you get into Hboot.
Might just be (hopefully) pilot error. If neither method works, you have some other issue.

[Q] Start TWRP

I rooted with Casual and selected TWRP for Custom Recovery. Everything seems to be working fine, but I have been unable to start TWRP. With phone off, I hold volume down + Power. The phone will vibrate every few seconds until I release the power button. Then it starts in normal Android mode. Am I trying to start this in the wrong way or is there something messed up with TWRP on my phone?

joekiv said:
I rooted with Casual and selected TWRP for Custom Recovery. Everything seems to be working fine, but I have been unable to start TWRP. With phone off, I hold volume down + Power. The phone will vibrate every few seconds until I release the power button. Then it starts in normal Android mode. Am I trying to start this in the wrong way or is there something messed up with TWRP on my phone?
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Until you flash a rom that has a custom menu to boot to recovery you have to hold volume up plus the home key while hitting the power button. Let the power button go but keep holding the volume up and home key then TWRP should start up.
Edit: You can also download Quick Boot by Sirius app from the play store and see if that gets you to your recovery until you get a rom on that let's you boot straight to recovery.

TheAfroSamurai said:
Until you flash a rom that has a custom menu to boot to recovery you have to hold volume up plus the home key while hitting the power button. Let the power button go but keep holding the volume up and home key then TWRP should start up.
Edit: You can also download Quick Boot by Sirius app from the play store and see if that gets you to your recovery until you get a rom on that let's you boot straight to recovery.
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The buttons worked BUT TWRP isn't. I have an Android Robot, out for the count, he is on his back. The recovery must be messed up.

joekiv said:
The buttons worked BUT TWRP isn't. I have an Android Robot, out for the count, he is on his back. The recovery must be messed up.
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That's the stock recovery. Download too manager and install twrp from the settings menu
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jhoutz said:
That's the stock recovery. Download too manager and install twrp from the settings menu
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Thanks, but I already tried redoing TWRP with Goo Manager. Program ran fine & finished, but when I rebooted into recovery I got the dead Android Robot again. Don't know how to proceed at this point. May try re-running Casual. Still reading everything I can find on this situation before doing anything.

From a powered off state, hold volume UP, home, and power. Let go of the power button when the phone vibrates.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
From a powered off state, hold volume UP, home, and power. Let go of the power button when the phone vibrates.
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Done that multiple times, same result - Android on back. Tried redoing TWRP with Goo manager, also Checked on lock/unlock with Ez Unlock - got "status unknown". Did not risk pressing either 'Lock' or 'Unlock' and exited app. Not sure what to do next.
Phone is working. Can make calls, messages, use & install apps and change settings. SuperSU is working, TB Pro is working. I did TB Backups & uninstalled multiple locked apps (Bloatware) before discovering that I cannot get into a working TWRP Recovery.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

joekiv said:
Done that multiple times, same result - Android on back. Tried redoing TWRP with Goo manager, also Checked on lock/unlock with Ez Unlock - got "status unknown". Did not risk pressing either 'Lock' or 'Unlock' and exited app. Not sure what to do next.
Phone is working. Can make calls, messages, use & install apps and change settings. SuperSU is working, TB Pro is working. I did TB Backups & uninstalled multiple locked apps (Bloatware) before discovering that I cannot get into a working TWRP Recovery.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Odin flash a TWRP tar. Uncheck auto-reboot, once it successfully flashes, pull the battery then try booting directly into twrp.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Odin flash a TWRP tar. Uncheck auto-reboot, once it successfully flashes, pull the battery then try booting directly into twrp.
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Will Odin work if I am unable to get the phone into a working bootloader?

joekiv said:
Will Odin work if I am unable to get the phone into a working bootloader?
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It should. There's download mode and there's recovery mode. You are having issues flashing a recovery. I don't see anything in your prior posts about difficulty accessing anything else.

SlimSnoopOS said:
It should. There's download mode and there's recovery mode. You are having issues flashing a recovery. I don't see anything in your prior posts about difficulty accessing anything else.
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Your link above for the "TWRP Tar" goes to a page that instructs to go into odin mode on the 'device' by pressing Vol down, home and power. When I do that I get the Android Robot standing and a message that says "Downloading Custom, do not turn off device". At this point no buttons work and I have no choices do do anything and have to do a battery pull to get out. If I go in any other way I get the Robot on its back.
EDIT: You link was only for the purpose of getting the tar file, not a suggestion to use Odin Mobile. I think that all of the time I spent reading about this issue is affecting my brain.

joekiv said:
Your link above for the "TWRP Tar" goes to a page that instructs to go into odin mode on the 'device' by pressing Vol down, home and power. When I do that I get the Android Robot standing and a message that says "Downloading Custom, do not turn off device". At this point no buttons work and I have no choices do do anything and have to do a battery pull to get out. If I go in any other way I get the Robot on its back.
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Yes, you use Odin from a computer and boot your phone into download mode then connect it via usb to flash files. Based on your post, you haven't used Odin before have you?
Edit: If it makes it easier, this thread has a [HOW TO] for Odin and the process of flashing tar files as well.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Yes, you use Odin from a computer and boot your phone into download mode then connect it via usb to flash files. Based on your post, you haven't used Odin before have you?
Edit: If it makes it easier, this thread has a [HOW TO] for Odin and the process of flashing tar files as well.
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No I haven't, but I realized (slowly) what you meant and edited my last post, Probably while you were posting this.

joekiv said:
No I haven't, but I realized (slowly) what you meant and edited my last post, Probably while you were posting this.
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Ahh, I see that now. Also, per your earlier statement about EZ Unlock. If you have v1.2, just tapping unlock does not harm the phone in any capacity. In fact, fact I encourage you to do so just before using Odin (from a computer) to flash TWRP or CWM. EZ Unlock v1.2 only unlocks the bootloader.
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Did your suggestion and Ran Ez Unlock again and pressed 'Unlock', Status now says UNlocked. Now that it does I'm going to give Goo Manager 1 more shot at fixing TWRP before I run Odin with the TWRP Tar you linked to.

joekiv said:
Did your suggestion and Ran Ez Unlock again and pressed 'Unlock', Status now says UNlocked. Now that it does I'm going to give Goo Manager 1 more shot at fixing TWRP before I run Odin with the TWRP Tar you linked to.
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Cool, let me know what happens.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Cool, let me know what happens.
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Ran Goo Manager, but no success. Put phone in download mode and used Odin to flash recovery with openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.0-d2vzw.tar. Odin ran through to end and showed "Pass" and rebooted. Used Vol UP, Home & Power keys to enter TWRP got the Robot on his back with a Red Exclamation mark with this message below:
# Manual Mode #
"...Applying Multi ...CSC
Applying the CSC Code: VZW
Successfully applied Multi-CSC
I have 6 choices on this screen.
1 Reboot System Now (I pressed power and phone booted normally)
2 Apply Update from ADB
3.Apply Updated from External Storage
4 Wipe Data/Factory Reset
5 Wipe Cache Partition
6 Apply update from Cache
So I still can't get into TWRP and the only difference is now the Red Exclamation Point.

Did you uncheck "auto reboot" and pull the battery and boot into TWRP like I said before?
Here's a third method if the above does not work. Download EZ Recovery from the Play Store. Once you've done so, you can use my prior link from Rootzwiki and download a TWRP img (image) and use EZ Recovery to install that img file. For this method, make sure to use TWRP.img. Do not use the "tar" file, for this method, tar files are for Odin only.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Did you uncheck "auto reboot" and pull the battery and boot into TWRP like I said before?
Here's a third method if the above does not work. Download EZ Recovery from the Play Store. Once you've done so, you can use my prior link from Rootzwiki and download a TWRP img (image) and use EZ Recovery to install that img file. For this method, make sure to use TWRP.img. Do not use the "tar" file, for this method, tar files are for Odin only.
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SUCCESS! Flashed the recovery again, BUT this time with Auto reboot unchecked as you previously told me to do and that I missed. Thank you, not only for your help, but for all your patience as well.

joekiv said:
SUCCESS! Flashed the recovery again, BUT this time with Auto reboot unchecked as you previously told me to do and that I missed. Thank you, not only for your help, but for all your patience as well.
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Ahh, sweet! haha glad I could help you out!

(Q) Stuck at google logo, won't power off

I was flashing a new ROM and I got stuck at the google logo upon bootup. I tried holding power button to power it off. It does, then turns right back on.

ViciousMo said:
I was flashing a new ROM and I got stuck at the google logo upon bootup. I tried holding power button to power it off. It does, then turns right back on.
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press both power + volume down until it boots on bootloader. then choose recovery, press power and do necessary steps to flash a new rom

You need to restore your cwm or twrp backup in this case...
You phone's not restarting properly coz the custom myt have been missing a file or you might have forgotten to clear the data,caches and delvik cache before installing the custom rom zip file...
As of now...i recommend you restore your backup first
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GUGUITOMTG4 said:
press both power + volume down until it boots on bootloader. then choose recovery, press power and do necessary steps to flash a new rom
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Well, when I do this. the phone turns off. Then, it turns back at to the google logo.
singhshantanu1996 said:
You need to restore your cwm or twrp backup in this case...
You phone's not restarting properly coz the custom myt have been missing a file or you might have forgotten to clear the data,caches and delvik cache before installing the custom rom zip file...
As of now...i recommend you restore your backup first
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In TWRP, I wiped everything but internal storage. I thought it was a norm coming from a S4 but I don't think I should have done that now. I have the factory image downloaded. Just trying to get into fastboot mode.

I got into fastboot mode. the mistake I was making was that I was stop holding the buttons once the phone powered off.

Yeah...this boot stuck thing happend to me too...during custom rom installation...
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singhshantanu1996 said:
Yeah...this boot stuck thing happend to me too...during custom rom installation...
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User error

.my error

Try to redownload the roms from Google Developers
And Re-Flash it via fastboot n see
(PS:Not sure ADB not running or just bad rom)
Send My Signature phone to XDA with my Bad grammars..

ViciousMo said:
I was flashing a new ROM and I got stuck at the google logo upon bootup. I tried holding power button to power it off. It does, then turns right back on.
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If you long press the power button to force a reboot as soon as the screen goes off hold down the volume down button and it will put you into the bootloader screen, Getting to recovery from there is a piece of cake. Holding the volume down button at the beginning of a reboot (when screen is off) to get to the bootloader and/or recovery screen has worked on every device I've tried it on. Just one more way.

I rooted with incorrect recovery?

Got my new Oneplus One and rooted it. (CM Version 11.0 xnph25r?). But, when I press Vol Down + Power, it just bootloops into a never ending TWRP logo screen. When I press Vol Up + Power I get a picture of a small Penguin! If I press the Power button by itself it boots normally. So basically my phone works, but I seem unable to boot into recovery mode (which scares the heck out of me). Can anyone venture a guess as to what is going on?
Thanks!

alwayssc said:
Got my new Oneplus One and rooted it. (CM Version 11.0 xnph25r?). But, when I press Vol Down + Power, it just bootloops into a never ending TWRP logo screen. When I press Vol Up + Power I get a picture of a small Penguin! If I press the Power button by itself it boots normally. So basically my phone works, but I seem unable to boot into recovery mode (which scares the heck out of me). Can anyone venture a guess as to what is going on?
Thanks!
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Use fastboot flash another recovery, or redownload another TWRP recovery. Personally I use PhilZ Touch.

I also flashed philz recovery and it is working great, if you can't manually install recovery there are plenty of oneplus toolkits on these forums that just need fastboot.
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Thanks. I'll try that and rport back tomorrow!

Yes use a toolkit from here and install philz recovery. All should be good
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Bricked my Oneplus
zabih107 said:
Yes use a toolkit from here and install philz recovery. All should be good
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I wiped everything - including the OS-- and can only get the "penguin" when holding Vol UP + Power.
Anyone want to buy a nice looking paperweight?

I truly feel sorry for you, so no fastboot at all? And did you try different Oneplus One toolkits?
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no fastboot at all...jeez

pouring myself a large drink now!

Maybe you can talk with a Oneplus Rep and tell them you received a phone that would never boot up? I just read on a XDA forum that if you hold you power button for 30 seconds 5 times it will reset a certain chip. It actually worked for a couple people. I would give it a try if I was you.

alwayssc said:
I wiped everything - including the OS-- and can only get the "penguin" when holding Vol UP + Power.
Anyone want to buy a nice looking paperweight?
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Hey no worries, I was in same situation as u. I fixed mine. I will write instructions for u later. I'm at work rite now.
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The penguin IS the fastboot. So this is what u do (having properly installed ADB and have android SDK):
First in android SDK folder go to platform tools where fastboot.exe is located. Download the proper TWRP recovery and name it "recovery.img" and place it in this folder. Also In here hold shift and right click on a clear area, from the menu choose "open CMD here". Now turn off ur phone and after hold power+volm UP to boot into fastboot mode. Connect phone to PC and in CMD type "oem unlock" then type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". This should flash the twrp recovery. Now turn off phone and hold volume DOWN +power to boot into twrp. U can flash w.e ROM u want in this recovery now.
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