[Q] Nexus S 4G bootlooping - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.

mjnouri said:
Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.
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What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.

polobunny said:
What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.
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First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!

mjnouri said:
First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!
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Well if you formatted system and the like, you pretty much wiped your ROM. If you installed a stock ROM, it's possible your recovery was replaced by the stock recovery, otherwise there should be no reason for your recovery to get wiped.
Rooting again with the whole unlocking process and re-installing a ROM will get you back online in no time.

Welp, it looks like I need a little more help if you don't mind polo. For someone who was rooted, I guess I didn't know much, but learned a lot from this so far.
I flashed CWM from my desktop via fastboot and can now get into CWM. I then mounted the phone as a USB drive and loaded CM7.2 and then installed it. "Install from sdcard complete." after that. Rebooted and now it's looping at the boot animation for CM7.2. Wiped data/factory reset and same thing happens.
What am I missing here?
After I'm in CM, I plan on going back to stock + root.

Make sure you also wipe cache and dalvik cache. If this doesn't seem to work, in mounts and storage format cache, data, sdcard and system then reinstall your rom. Be sure you have the correct rom for your phone and not the crespo4g version or vice versa.

I just followed those exact instructions and it still loops at the boot animation. Damn.
The world needs more people like you polo. Thanks for trying to help me through this!! I have a genuine gratitude for you my friend.

OK, run a log cat with Adb. First night I had mine had serious issues, nothing worked same problem.
If you don't know how to do log cat
Is
Adb logcat > log.txt
Same as if fastboot. Upload that and we can find your prob instantly.
Sent from my A100 using Tapatalk 2

das_webos_transformer, I just PMed you the dropbox link since I can't post links here, but I don't see it in my sent. Did you get it?

I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.

albundy2010 said:
I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.
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Hey Al. Thanks for replying. My problem is I'm seeing too many guides. I know it's a mortal sin to ask, but can you link me to one that you think is done correctly? Unfortunately I need a little more hand holding if that ok with you guys.
UPDATE - SOMEhow, I got CM10 installed and gapps. Just flashed it it worked. I did nothing differently than before. I installed a bunch of apps and that went well. I had a feeling I wasn't in the clear and now I can't restore a nandroid backup, a fancy widgets transparent background goes missing but the text remains, and Swype won't install. It's just weird. I'm more than willing to go back to stock now. If you can provide a link for how to flash the stock images, I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you!!!

You're all over place so here are some general FYI.
Depending on which recovery was used to make the nandroid you may not be able to restore it with a different recovery.
When you say you can't restore a nandroid and a widget or swype won't restore I am lost. What are trying to restore it from and with what.
Anyways. Stock images are here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Make sure you download the ones for your device. The sprint d720.
Once the download is finished extract the file. You should have a few .img files and a update zip in there. Take those files and move them to the directory you have fastboot in.
With the phone in the bootloader enter the commands.
Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader file name.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio radio image name.IMG
Fastboot reboot boot loader
Fastboot -w update image name.zip
You can most likely skip the reboot 2nd and third reboot bootlaoders . People seem to do it for some reason. If your device already has versions of the bootloader and radio installed you can skip those flashes as well.
Make sure you change the commands to the actual file names you're going to flash. Can manually type/ paste the names or just hit tab after you typed the first letter. Example. Fastboot flash radio r tab. It should auto fill it in. Check anyways.
If you're not comfortable with this dont do it. Read some more or find a video on YouTube if you're unsure. I am not responsible if you screw something up . End result will give you factory up to date bootloader radio and rom. It also wipes the phone but not the internal storage. The bootloader will still be unlocked so you can relfash a custom recovery later and do what you want.
Guides are all over. Just make sure you're flashing the correct files for your device. The commands and procedure is the same for all nexus devices.
And last if the factory images give you issues then there most likely is something actually wrong with the device. Or you managed to screw up flashing.

Thanks Al! I did all that and am pretty comfortable with this stuff, but when time came to flash the image...
C:\Users\Nouri\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot -w update image image-sojus-jro03r.zip
error: failed to load 'image'
Same issue without the -w. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the phone. But how can it. It's functioning. is it possible that a hardware problem can cause these inconsistent issues?
Issues
- When I had CM10 installed, it ran choppy. It ran fine when I flashed it a few days ago. I didn't do much and flashed another ROM, but I know the S 4G is capable of running CM10 smoothly. Swipes between homescreens were choppy and so was bringing up the app drawer.
-I couldn't take a screenshot. "Screenshot not saved" or something to that effect
-Swype would get to 100% download and then halt for a few minutes. I'd hit Install and it would just stay there for a few minutes and nothing would happen.
-I couldn't restore from a CWM nandroid that I just made.
Internal sdcard faulty maybe?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!

Nevermind! Back to stock! Thank you so much Al!!!! Holy crap you have made me a happy man before I sleep tonight dude!
The last step was actually fastboot -w update image.zip, but it's all good!!!!! Thank you ALL!!! XDA is a pretty special place where you guys help someone to the best of your knowledge. I'm going to pass this forward.
Polo, das, Al, I can't thank you guys enough. Know that you guys helped someone out big time here. Hopefully this makes your day better too!

Hey all. I just wanted to send a quick update your way. I successfully went back to 100% stock thanks to Al's awesome directions. Still couldn't install swype and there were some files on the internal storage that had all sorts of strange symbols and were .01 to 5 GB in size! Clearly there is something wrong here. I rebooted and that all went away actually. This morning I rebooted and I see a notification saying "Damaged USB storage - USB storage is damaged. Try reformating" I tapped it and successfully formatted the storage, but that's my issue all along. Wish I left the notification up there, but I'll get it back and take it to Sprint. Hopefully get a replacement.
You guys freakin rule. You helped me until we all, especially I, were blue in the face. Thanks again!!!

If you're going to take it sprint you should probably re lock the bootloader. They may not check or care but eh
Fastboot oem lock.
That doesn't wipe anything
Fastboot oem unlock does and that would be needed if you wanted to root and flash your device again .

Thanks and yup! I got pretty good at this whole thing now. I feel very good now learning fastboot. I flashed completely stock like you said. It worked. Problems arose. Locked the bootloader and tucked the phone away. If it wasn't for Google Voice, my life would suck right now! Hopefully my trip to Sprint turns out well. A few short hours.

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[Q] HTC One S(ville) black screen, thats it... just a black screen, what can i do???

I was working fine, enjoying my new HTC One S with CM9 rom installed. Well the battery life wasnt the best on it, and i didnt install the custom kernel. So I looked for the custom kernel download(on my phone, not on my computer) and i found a .zip file. Well I thought that you could just download the kernel straight to my phone and open it up with "Rom Manager" which i did, it than said i needed to reboot the phone in recovery to continue the installation, so I did... it took me to recovery "to continue the installation" well than I looked away, looked backed down and it was black.... and i have tried powering up, booting into boot loader, booting into recover, and nothing... its just BLACK! nothing works, its literally useless ATM. I really messed up, is there anyway to fix this? Thanks in advanced!
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I think I accidentally flashed the kernel like i would normally flash a rom.... cause i downloaded the .zip file(directly to my phone, not using a computer), than i tapped the download and it asked me if i wanted to open it up with rom manager, so i did. and i think rom manager thought i was flashing a rom, when i wasnt, it was a kernel.... am i screwed? or is there anyway out of this?
Do you know the exact kernel you flashed--where did it come from
Some you need to extract and push
Assume you just tried to boot into bootloader thru phone buttons
Does your pc recognize your phone when plugged in, if so can you open a command window and try to access phone as in adb devices then adb reboot bootloader
assuming you are familiar with sdk adb/fastboot comands
otherwise i don't know what else to say--may be bad--sorry
Came from an XDA thread
Here is where it came from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708676 from "sun90" (half way down the page "CM9 KERNEL remix edition.zip - [Click for QR Code] (5.53 MB, 9 views) ")
i downloaded that straight to my phone and opened it up with Rom Manager, which i think the app took it as a rom, and installed it like a rom even though it was not a rom. I just tried to access it through adb, it comes up with no devices my PC does recognize it when i plug it in though...
Ive tried to get into bootloader tons of times, it just stays black... :'(
Thanks for your answer!
You flashed a galaxy s2 kernel on your one s? why would you ever think that was a smart thing to do?
Looking at the updater script in that zip it seems it wipes some partitions, the partitions on a SGS2 and the ONE S are different, so if that script accidentally wiped say the hboot partition, or some other critical-for-boot partition, you have a fully bricked phone.
For any devs that may know what partitions are what on the One S, the script wiped
mmcblk0p7, and wrote a zimage to mmcblk0p5
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Normally this is a cwm flashable zip on the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is why rom manager flashed it, as it met all the requirements, the only issue is, it was not made for the ONE S and probably overwrote some important things.
I tried for hours and hours to fix the same issue on a friend's One S (same symptoms, not same cause) to no avail. I tried QPST and telnet and a ridiculous amount of things. Had to bring it to the store and get a new one.
Good luck, but I don't believe there's anything you can do to fix it.
Just answered your question in the help thread, Didnt see this thread too !
Im afraid its not looking good, I think your best bet would be to call your provider and blame it on an OTA update.
And hope for the best
Alright, thanks for the help!
Well it looks like i bricked my phone than.... I thought that CM9 was only on the One S, so I just looked for the CM9 kernel, which obviously was for the sg2, i feel like such a dumb ass now! haha well thanks for all the help guys! ill be heading to the t-mobile store today to blame it on a OTA:]
yeah, others wont agree with what your about to do but........
just act like a complete noob, dont mention anything about software / firmware / ROMs / bootloader etc ect
just say your phone made a noise, you selected update and it died lol
good luck--I know it is heartbreaking
not sure of your situation with carrier, but you could go thru Retention if needed
Hi peeps.
i'm very new to all this but sort of know the basics
i'm running on Axiom now but tried to flash cm10 but after install i got a black screen so had to do a restore.
Today i just flashed venom and after the instal process is done, i hear the start up music but nothing on the screen.
I have had 3 other roms on my phone and never had a problem!
these are the steps i do
download rom - place on sd
put phone in recovery
reset factory
reset cache
install from sd
when it finish's reboot
blank screen.
Am i missing something?
Any help would be great and i can't post on the thread because i'm a noob with less than 10 and dont want to spam my way to the 10 :silly:
you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe
rugmankc said:
you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe
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Thanks but i think that is now the least of my problems!
I used Goomanager and installed CM10, When I did it i installed teamwin recovery. It started to do a lot of strange things, when it finally rebooted i got a load of errors "phone is not working" nearly every 10 seconds?
it will not connect via usb, i discovered the the SD was not mounted.
I tried to mount the SD but it doesnt work, so i rebooted to recovery and tried to mount there but its coming up with - error unable to mount? ive tried everything but no joy
please please help
Thanks:crying:
see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands
rugmankc said:
see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands
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I've got a mac
not sure what fastboot is.
I'll check out the link, and thank you very much for trying to help:good:
sorry i do know what fastboot is, yes can get in to it. but ive gone from CWM to teamwin recovery if i go in to the recovery section but that wont let me do anything because the mount. cant even load the phone up
I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track
rugmankc said:
I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track
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im going to use someone elses alp top with windows. i'll ytry the all in one thing because thats how i rooted it in the first place. thanks for helping it means alot
good luck on it

need help. my sdcard is not mounted

so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP
Jahrern said:
so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP
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Try using the All in One tool in the dev section to reflash CWM Recovery, then keep trying to ADB push a stable ROM zip to your SD card. It might take a few tries but it does work. I saved my phone from a similar situation a few weeks back using the ADB push method.
Sent from my HTC One S.
thats what im currently trying to do. for some reason clockworkmod recovery just wont work. whenever i try to go into recovery, the phone just boots instead. and i tried multiple times to push over a rom, but it just wont get past 4mb.
http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable
Jahrern said:
http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable
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I used this thread to salvage my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
I followed the instructions to the letter, and got the ROM pushed on the third try. I reflashed and was back in business.
Sent from my HTC One S.
i tried that one aswell, but since my sdcard is not mountable, "- Ensure in Recovery that your phone shows "Unmount /sdcard/" and "Unmount /system/" (If they do not show this automatically, just press each one once respectively as pressing just toggles Mount and Unmount) " wont work for me. and it says that the file has to be in tools instead of permanent-tools, and that also did not work for me. ive tried basically everything up until now. theres still one thing i dwell on, and that is to flash to stock recovery. i dont know where to find that for a Norwegian Telenor handset. i can find the t-mobile one, but thats pretty much it
I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
Sent from my HTC One S
kaiser347 said:
I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
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i have to admit i have no idea what you mean here. im not pro at this, so i honestly didnt understand much of that. RUU is also something i dont "quite" understand what it. i think it is the OS itself or something.
i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux
Jahrern said:
i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux
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Looks like you found out for yourself; I was going to say that you may have to reboot your recovery a few times before the SD card shows up. I think I had to reboot CMW four or five times before it showed. After that, I was golden. Well, after pushing the ROM zip twice, that is. Make sure you always have a back up or ROM zip on the SD card from now on. It sucks that you may have to resort to a blank slate, but it's better than being stuck with a $500 paperweight!
Sent from my HTC One S.
i actually had a backup, and 2 roms on my sdcard, but that obviously didnt help from now on i will keep a backup on my computer aswell as on the sdcard. if i could ever get my stock backup back that would help. looks like im not gonna have a stock backup anymore. anyone redirect me to some place i can find that just in case i ever need to revert back to stock? Norwegian Telenor based phone if that is info you needed to redirect me. thanks for all the replies guys

Bootloop and no recovery...

So I feel like I am pretty experienced when it comes to the whole ROM/Root scene, I've had the OneXL, Galaxy S3, and Nexus 4.. but I've always had a difficult time with the One XL and ROMs... I always seem to run into major problems.. Right now I can only access the fastboot area of the phone, it will not go into recovery (i have even tried reflashing recovery but no luck) and no matter what, it bootloops constantly. I had ViperXL running fine on the device but I tried to install ElementalX kernel for the first time and now the phone is Kaput.. Any ideas??? Could this be a semi-brick?
did you specifically try to go into fastboot and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
?
because this phone is pretty much either "it's reading qsb mode in device manager bricked" or "i don't know what i'm doing and cannot figure out what to do next NOT BRICKED" (i'm not rippin on you; if you pull up my history, it even happened to me once and i had to make a baww thread for someone to help me figure it out. turns out, don't click factory reset in bootloader.) there is one other way, but it involves acceptin the OTA with your CID having been changed
wdkingery said:
did you specifically try to go into fastboot and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
?
because this phone is pretty much either "it's reading qsb mode in device manager bricked" or "i don't know what i'm doing and cannot figure out what to do next NOT BRICKED" (i'm not rippin on you; if you pull up my history, it even happened to me once and i had to make a baww thread for someone to help me figure it out. turns out, don't click factory reset in bootloader.) there is one other way, but it involves acceptin the OTA with your CID having been changed
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Actually, I was just about to post that I fixed it!! I relocked the bootloader, then unlocked again(i thought maybe it would wipe all my data for me, and it did!!) So I then reflashed the recovery and got into it, reformatted the USB mount in windows with FAT32 and then placed a new ROM onto the device. And it booted right on up!
By the way, this ind of thing happened to me too before... but I never had to do the bootloader thing.. Thanks for the input though!

[SOLVED] (Soft?) Bricked nexus 5? Seeking expert input - please

EDIT:
SOLVED! Thanks for the support!
In the end I decided to flash back to stock factory image from Google downloaded at the following link (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images) and installed using the very easy method of inputting a single command. Exactly the kind of solution I needed after pulling hair out.
Hopefully this post is of assistance to others in need.
In the end I used the Chain Fire auto root. Worked a treat - so now running stock Nexus 5 image with root, just the way I wanted it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507211
Original question:
Need help - I think I bricked my Nexus 5 (was running KOT49H stock ROM). And would really appreciate some sage advice now to get me out of trouble.
Not my first root, custom ROM experience - have done on 3 previous devices, but first Nexus 5 and first stuff up for me. Not a complete noob, but please be clear in your advice. Thanks.
I "followed" this guide (http://www.teamandroid.com/2013/12/10/root-nexus-5-android-442-kot49h-kitkat-install-cwm-recovery/2/)
However, at Step 13-15 I was unable to mount an SD card (Nexus 5 is all internal), and I then opted to sideload the UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.80.zip file using "adb sideload". It is now stuck in a boot animation loop (say 10mins of waiting?). So what has gone wrong here?
I also guides from the same site to unlock bootloader and install CWM - that all worked.
I am able to get back to the bootloader and can get into CWM still, just cannot boot.
Not sure if my phone is charging, but I believe I still have some juice so looking for a solution. Have I somehow replaced all of the ROM software with just the SuperSU file? Is that possible? This is my first outing with the Nexus 5 but I have rooted and custom ROMed many phones before, but this is my first with no external SD card.
I could not mount any / partition from what I could tell.... such as /data (not sure if this helps your advice?)
In another thread, someone mentioned a catch all solution might be this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
As I said, I can get into the bootloader and CWM and phone is still recognised by PC.
If I am not mistaken, this would basically sideload everything back to factory?
Would this matter if my phone was at KOT49H before everything went wrong, or will that just come down via OTA later anyway (I was getting OTA updates just fine).
I think I should still have about 50% battery charge, but I don't know if it is charging (nothing shows) and the battery is completely internal on these.
Your help = much appreciated! Please - its Christmas afterall...
Cheers Adriaan
Sorry to hear about your troubles! I know how frustrating it can be when you softbrick for no apparent reason. However, the fact the phone still boots into recovery and all that means that there shouldn't be anything we can't recover from. The link you provided would work. You might also check out one of the toolkits that helps automate most of the stuff you are looking for, like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525026 .
That being said, me personally, I would attempt some fixes via CWM first (though I much prefer TWRP). It could be something as simple as wiping the caches and fixing permissions. Possibly a factory reset could help, though I suspect probably not at this stage. Are you comfortable with manual ADB and fastboot commands? I would download a rom zip and adb push it to /sdcard, perform resets and reboot. Should be fine at that point and rooted to boot. If you're all about the stock root experience (never really understood that, but to each their own ) then try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557523
Once you would download that, and are able to get ADB access in recovery (should work if you have the right drivers and all - if not, would recommend switching to TWRP) then you would use this command:
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/ - where rom.zip is the name of whatever that one downloads as...
Then wipe factory reset and caches (system too if you want to be thorough) then install the rom and reboot. Should be back to where you want.
If you would like some more 1 on 1 type help, feel free to hit me up on Hangouts with this username. Good luck!
You can flash the factory images directly from Google which should get you back up and running again.
Download and extract them.
Boot your phone to the bootloader and plug into your PC.
Run the flashall.bat
Note that this will fully wipe your phone
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First reboot recovery and factory reset the phone. If it boots your good. If not install the google factory image.
Everyone, thank you for your input. My phone is back alive and well.
In the end, I decided to flash all back to a stock factory image from Google. Only had 1% battery left by the time it booted into the fresh flash. Figured this was the best place to recommence my efforts to gain root again, and hopefully this time with a better outcome.
I will probably give the chain fire auto method a shot this time, after a bit more research.
Thank you again for your help and for the very quick responses. Great community.
In the end I used the Chain Fire auto root. Worked a treat - so now running stock Nexus 5 image with root, just the way I wanted it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507211

OnePlus One softbricked

I never thought that this would happen, especially after 6 years of being an ardent flashaholic but here I am like another noob requesting for guidance.
So it started a few days back when the Flashaholic in me wanted something to divert my mind from the monotonicity of a good ROM.I was using "[8.1.x][WEEKLIES] CarbonROM | cr-6.1 [bacon]" Rom on my 3 year old bacon happily when I decided to try "Crdroid ROM for OnePlus ONE crdroid-4.6".
As mentioned in the instructions I followed the steps to each word i.e. wipe,flash rom and then gapps (using modded twrp-3.2.1-K2-bacon.)and the ROM booted fine.I setup it as usual post boot however I faced few reboots which made me doubt myself so i thought of reflashing the same ROM again but the butter fingers got the best of me and while selecting partitions to WIPE( I guess) I selected some incorrect partition and after the flash my phone went into bootloop..
I tried to boot into recovery but I wasnt able to so but I knew I could boot into recovery using Fastboot so I reflashed the recovery while in fastboot mode and ran fastboot boot TWRP.img as I wasnt able to boot into recovery with VolumeDown+Power.I tried to fetch the nandroid backup but to my astonishment it was gone and my /data partition was wiped clean.I blame myself as I must have done something wrong as I was panicked.
Since then(last sunday)my phone has been in bootloop and doesnt start in recovery unless I boot recovery from fastboot. I have spent countless hours to fix it and the things I have tried already are mentioned below
1)Flash Stock rom (CM11,CM12,CM13)
2)Erase and flash persist.img
3)Flashed CM13 snapshot or bacon_firmware_update_2015_05-15_DI.3.0.c6-00241.zip followed by RR 5.8.5 ,RR 6.0 ,Carbon rom 6.1 and c-droid 4.6
4)Flashed coloros and then stock rom(CM11,CM12,CM13) or RR 5.8.5 ,RR 6.0 ,Carbon rom 6.1 and c-droid 4.6
I have gone through this awesome guide ultimate-answer-to-bacon-flavored- by @Timmmmaaahh ,other noob friendly guides indexes , compilations ,threads on softbrick and hardbrick topics and used almost every tool created for one plus one.
I have ruled out below
1)Volume button not working as I can boot into fastboot fine using VolumeUp+Power button
2)Battery not working as my phone can stay in fastboot for pretty much a day with 50% battery or bootloops throughtout the day
I am really out of my depth and I am trying to find where I had kept my nandroid backup on Laptop/Drive but I dont think even that can help me now.I have lost a lot of precious and Important data due to my panicking and wouldnt want to lose my phone so any help and guidance would be really appreciated.
Hopefully I am posting in the correct place and havent breached any XDA rules!Aplogies in advance if I have
you are sure, that you have flash thr TWRP and not only load TWRP via sideload into the ram?
please post the command, which you have send to the phone
So I use below command to install the twrp from fasboot
fasboot flash recovery <path/twrp file>
Also I've tried to flash twrp in recovery from twrp by selecting image file option but it doesn't boot into recovery ever
I've tried twrp 2.7,2.8,3.0,3.1 and 3.2 as well on every rom that I've flasher given the compatibility.
to boot into recovery as it's not accessible I use below command
Fastboor boot <path/twrp file>
Stupid thing it seems but try different micro usb cable
vedanth123456 said:
So I use below command to install the twrp from fasboot
fasboot flash recovery <path/twrp file>
Also I've tried to flash twrp in recovery from twrp by selecting image file option but it doesn't boot into recovery ever
I've tried twrp 2.7,2.8,3.0,3.1 and 3.2 as well on every rom that I've flasher given the compatibility.
to boot into recovery as it's not accessible I use below command
Fastboor boot <path/twrp file>
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Okay, let's optimize your environment first. Make sure the path to your adb is c:\adb (don't flash stuff like "c:\users\dinky doodle\my awesome downloads\android shizzle\recovery manizzle"). Use the amazing 15 seconds adb installer and let it install the drivers as well. @kallum7 makes a good point, do try that.
Use the TWRP recommended in my guide and follow the clean flash steps (including CM13 step again).
More importantly: check md5 hashes on all your downloads. You really want to avoid flashing a corrupted recovery download. Only continue flashing ROMs once you have a stable TWRP installation going. If it's not properly booting to TWRP, do not bother flashing anything else.
When successfully booted in TWRP, make sure MTP is enabled under mount and connect it to your PC. Browse for possible backups via your computer. If you can't find any, you've probably wiped internal memory. If you didn't make a copy to your computer, the data is most likely gone forever (sorry).
Panicking is indeed a bad idea, we've all been there and it's an excellent learning process (you'll appreciate your failures later, lol). It's better to work step by step slowly, make sure you read everything thoroughly. When in doubt, just post here and we'll follow up. We'll get there, don't worry.
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Oh and rename the recovery file to recovery.img and place it in your adb folder to avoid any complications. Less = more!
Because I had bricked my phone a few months ago and I changed my USB cable and it worked perfect
kallum7 said:
Stupid thing it seems but try different micro usb cable
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Thanks mate..I did try that but it didn't endure fruitful results
Timmmmaaahh said:
Okay, let's optimize your environment first. Make sure the path to your adb is c:\adb (don't flash stuff like "c:\users\dinky doodle\my awesome downloads\android shizzle\recovery manizzle"). Use the amazing 15 seconds adb installer and let it install the drivers as well. @kallum7 makes a good point, do try that.
Use the TWRP recommended in my guide and follow the clean flash steps (including CM13 step again).
More importantly: check md5 hashes on all your downloads. You really want to avoid flashing a corrupted recovery download. Only continue flashing ROMs once you have a stable TWRP installation going. If it's not properly booting to TWRP, do not bother flashing anything else.
When successfully booted in TWRP, make sure MTP is enabled under mount and connect it to your PC. Browse for possible backups via your computer. If you can't find any, you've probably wiped internal memory. If you didn't make a copy to your computer, the data is most likely gone forever (sorry).
Panicking is indeed a bad idea, we've all been there and it's an excellent learning process (you'll appreciate your failures later, lol). It's better to work step by step slowly, make sure you read everything thoroughly. When in doubt, just post here and we'll follow up. We'll get there, don't worry.
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Oh and rename the recovery file to recovery.img and place it in your adb folder to avoid any complications. Less = more!
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Hi mate,So I pulled an all nighter yesterday and was somehow magically able to boot in TWRP.I don't remember what I did but I booted into TWRP 2.8.7.0 and the first thing I did was check if any nandroid backup was there but I was disappointed to see my /data with free 55326 MB also no backups on my drive.All my data is gone and I can't curse myself enough for that,moving on so I did manage to gather my sense and flashed TWRP 3.2.1-K2 and flashed RR-O-v6.1.0 but the phone goes into boot loop again and again.
Since then my phone is displaying some weird behavior so if I unplug my device and start my phone the phone won't boot and wont go past oneplus one splashscreen so I thought my battery is gone but if I can go in fastboot mode or TWRP mode while being plugged in and unplug my device but my phone wont die,it'll be in the respective mode for ages.
I do have a clean setup (K:\oneplus\adb\) that's how I stayed away from this mess since ages but I guess I got too cocky.
I have religiously followed your thread and it has helped me a lot so once I am home I will check the TWRP part again and get back with the results.
Once again..thanks for your guidance.
vedanth123456 said:
Hi mate,So I pulled an all nighter yesterday and was somehow magically able to boot in TWRP.I don't remember what I did but I booted into TWRP 2.8.7.0 and the first thing I did was check if any nandroid backup was there but I was disappointed to see my /data with free 55326 MB also no backups on my drive.All my data is gone and I can't curse myself enough for that,moving on so I did manage to gather my sense and flashed TWRP 3.2.1-K2 and flashed RR-O-v6.1.0 but the phone goes into boot loop again and again.
Since then my phone is displaying some weird behavior so if I unplug my device and start my phone the phone won't boot and wont go past oneplus one splashscreen so I thought my battery is gone but if I can go in fastboot mode or TWRP mode while being plugged in and unplug my device but my phone wont die,it'll be in the respective mode for ages.
I do have a clean setup (K:\oneplus\adb\) that's how I stayed away from this mess since ages but I guess I got too cocky.
I have religiously followed your thread and it has helped me a lot so once I am home I will check the TWRP part again and get back with the results.
Once again..thanks for your guidance.
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This is weird I just restarted my phone to see if it magically starts but it went into bootloop(displaying splashscreen not boot logo) in contrast to earlier when it died instantly when not plugged in also I can't boot into my recovery now!
Once I am plugged in and the phone is on bootloop and if I hold the volumedown+Powerkey it boots into TWRP properly..
This is just weird and I havent seen this behavious in the past three years of using my old lovely bacon
Try using the color os toolkit https://steemit.com/oneplus/@delusionalgenius/how-to-unbrick-oneplus-one-bacon and even though it says do not use if it is soft bricked use it this helped me
Sorry for getting back rather late (again). I'm in the middle of organizing an event and it's leaving very little XDA time. Anyway...
Isn't a hardbrick tutorial kinda agressive? I mean, I've used it before, and it's excellent, but then my device was actually hardbricked. I'd rather go for the 'back to stock' method first, setting the system back to CM13, which is a much better base for further flashing compared to ColorOS.
@vedanth123456 if you didn't take any action yet then I suggest following this thread (skip step 4!!).
The deal is to flash all images from fastboot. This will – naturally – wipe every single partition on your device!
I suggest doing the fastboot flashing manually (copy paste each command one by one) to avoid your device getting its bootloader locked. You DO NOT want to lock the bootloader on a OnePlus One if you ever wish to unlock it again.
When you successfully booted CM13, go though its initial setup, [disable recovery protection in system or developer settings] (it's been so long since I've experienced this process that I'm not sure if this option was present in CM13; if you can't find it, don't mind), get back to fastboot mode and flash K2 TWRP. First thing to do at this point: create a full nandroid backup of your working CM13 setup and copy it externally. ROM flashing should now be successful. If not, I'm afraid your hardware is failing. Do try several ROMs.
Don't forget to check those md5 hashes!
By the way, your /data is supposed to be empty after a factory reset. /data merely contains settings and app data (user added information). Backups and user media go to the /sdcard partition, which is known as internal memory. If I may suggest a ROM, go for CrDroid. It's more stable compared to RR, it's still actively developed and it has similar features.
Timmmmaaahh said:
Sorry for getting back rather late (again). I'm in the middle of organizing an event and it's leaving very little XDA time. Anyway...
Isn't a hardbrick tutorial kinda agressive? I mean, I've used it before, and it's excellent, but then my device was actually hardbricked. I'd rather go for the 'back to stock' method first, setting the system back to CM13, which is a much better base for further flashing compared to ColorOS.
@vedanth123456 if you didn't take any action yet then I suggest following this thread (skip step 4!!).
The deal is to flash all images from fastboot. This will – naturally – wipe every single partition on your device!
I suggest doing the fastboot flashing manually (copy paste each command one by one) to avoid your device getting its bootloader locked. You DO NOT want to lock the bootloader on a OnePlus One if you ever wish to unlock it again.
When you successfully booted CM13, go though its initial setup, [disable recovery protection in system or developer settings] (it's been so long since I've experienced this process that I'm not sure if this option was present in CM13; if you can't find it, don't mind), get back to fastboot mode and flash K2 TWRP. First thing to do at this point: create a full nandroid backup of your working CM13 setup and copy it externally. ROM flashing should now be successful. If not, I'm afraid your hardware is failing. Do try several ROMs.
Don't forget to check those md5 hashes!
By the way, your /data is supposed to be empty after a factory reset. /data merely contains settings and app data (user added information). Backups and user media go to the /sdcard partition, which is known as internal memory. If I may suggest a ROM, go for CrDroid. It's more stable compared to RR, it's still actively developed and it has similar features.
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Hi mate
Apologies for not acknowledging your message and not replying back earlier. I've been traveling using a spare phone and things just aren't the same on it.
To give u an update, I tried the steps mentioned in the link (which I had tried previously as well) but the phone didn't boot. Same bootlooping and issue with the twrp.
So I went through other forums and links and finally found an exe that worked.!!!!!! So the exe seems to be an modified version of the one mentioned in the hard brick method and has been created by someone else (NOT ME!!)
My phone after many moons has booted and its on the good old cyanogen CM 11.0 XNPH44S. I've tried numerous roms on this bad boy but there is some beauty in the simplicity of the good old roms.
My phone battery is charging pretty slowly and wifi is not turning on so I'm still tensed but the fact that it booted is a small victory. I would want to upgrade to a stable rom once my phone is charged and not displaying erratic behavior so I'll wait for a day and see how it works but I'll want to upgrade to a slightly latest rom probably not a battery hogging one.
I believe I'll have to first install an old twrp followed by nandroid backup(save on every goddammed devices I own), then some CM snapshot and finally the rom but please can you confirm and suggest.
vedanth123456 said:
Hi mate
Apologies for not acknowledging your message and not replying back earlier. I've been traveling using a spare phone and things just aren't the same on it.
To give u an update, I tried the steps mentioned in the link (which I had tried previously as well) but the phone didn't boot. Same bootlooping and issue with the twrp.
So I went through other forums and links and finally found an exe that worked.!!!!!! So the exe seems to be an modified version of the one mentioned in the hard brick method and has been created by someone else (NOT ME!!)
My phone after many moons has booted and its on the good old cyanogen CM 11.0 XNPH44S. I've tried numerous roms on this bad boy but there is some beauty in the simplicity of the good old roms.
My phone battery is charging pretty slowly and wifi is not turning on so I'm still tensed but the fact that it booted is a small victory. I would want to upgrade to a stable rom once my phone is charged and not displaying erratic behavior so I'll wait for a day and see how it works but I'll want to upgrade to a slightly latest rom probably not a battery hogging one.
I believe I'll have to first install an old twrp followed by nandroid backup(save on every goddammed devices I own), then some CM snapshot and finally the rom but please can you confirm and suggest.
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Heya!
Well, this is legacy material so I kinda forgot what TWRP worked best for the older ROMs (2.8?). The latest TWRP should be backwards compatible and support CM11 so you can give that a whirl first. You're just making a backup (no write actions) and TWRP's are easily replaced with other version so there ain't much to lose. Anyway, glad you got it running! I'd still go with the CM13 flash before moving to one of the modern ones. If you encounter more bootloops, that same exe should recover it for ya. By the way, can you PM me a link to that exe? Who knows, it might come in handy one day.
As a stable up-to-date ROM I can really suggest crDroid. I've been using it myself for a few weeks now. @chineel is a talented and devoted dev.
Timmmmaaahh said:
Heya!
Well, this is legacy material so I kinda forgot what TWRP worked best for the older ROMs (2.8?). The latest TWRP should be backwards compatible and support CM11 so you can give that a whirl first. You're just making a backup (no write actions) and TWRP's are easily replaced with other version so there ain't much to lose. Anyway, glad you got it running! I'd still go with the CM13 flash before moving to one of the modern ones. If you encounter more bootloops, that same exe should recover it for ya. By the way, can you PM me a link to that exe? Who knows, it might come in handy one day.
As a stable up-to-date ROM I can really suggest crDroid. I've been using it myself for a few weeks now. @chineel is a talented and devoted dev.
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Try bacon root toolkit you can perform most of the things very easily.
chineel said:
Try bacon root toolkit you can perform most of the things very easily.
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Hey man, thanks for pinching in. I'm personally not a fan of these toolkits as one can accidentally lock the bootloader and I prefer manual style because it's educational and you see more of what's going on. It's like I preferred DOS over Windows 3.11 back in the day. That's pretty much the same, right?... ?
Timmmmaaahh said:
Heya!
Well, this is legacy material so I kinda forgot what TWRP worked best for the older ROMs (2.8?). The latest TWRP should be backwards compatible and support CM11 so you can give that a whirl first. You're just making a backup (no write actions) and TWRP's are easily replaced with other version so there ain't much to lose. Anyway, glad you got it running! I'd still go with the CM13 flash before moving to one of the modern ones. If you encounter more bootloops, that same exe should recover it for ya. By the way, can you PM me a link to that exe? Who knows, it might come in handy one day.
As a stable up-to-date ROM I can really suggest crDroid. I've been using it myself for a few weeks now. @chineel is a talented and devoted dev.
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Hi Mate,
My perils seem not to end.So after the last update I tried to start my phone and it started but as soon as I removed the power cord the phone switched off.
I realized that the issue was with the battery so I got it replaced in one of the OnePlus Authorized service center.
The new battery with only one month warranty started just fine and I could see the phone hold power without the charger attached.So I reached home and did the below
1)Flash Twrp
2)Flash CM 13 snapshot
3)Flash cdroid and gapps
4)Reboot phone
Everything seems to work as expected other than the goddamn network and the wifi.My phone has no IMEI and ofcourse I have no EFS backup stored cause of my previous fiasco.
Any ideas mate,I see forums where itts told to install color os and then cm11 and then something but I dont want to risk anything anymore .
Any advice ?
vedanth123456 said:
Hi Mate,
My perils seem not to end.So after the last update I tried to start my phone and it started but as soon as I removed the power cord the phone switched off.
I realized that the issue was with the battery so I got it replaced in one of the OnePlus Authorized service center.
The new battery with only one month warranty started just fine and I could see the phone hold power without the charger attached.So I reached home and did the below
1)Flash Twrp
2)Flash CM 13 snapshot
3)Flash cdroid and gapps
4)Reboot phone
Everything seems to work as expected other than the goddamn network and the wifi.My phone has no IMEI and ofcourse I have no EFS backup stored cause of my previous fiasco.
Any ideas mate,I see forums where itts told to install color os and then cm11 and then something but I dont want to risk anything anymore .
Any advice ?
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you are going to have to use the colour os toolkit to get the imei info back there is nothing else you can do
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vedanth123456 said:
Hi Mate,
My perils seem not to end.So after the last update I tried to start my phone and it started but as soon as I removed the power cord the phone switched off.
I realized that the issue was with the battery so I got it replaced in one of the OnePlus Authorized service center.
The new battery with only one month warranty started just fine and I could see the phone hold power without the charger attached.So I reached home and did the below
1)Flash Twrp
2)Flash CM 13 snapshot
3)Flash cdroid and gapps
4)Reboot phone
Everything seems to work as expected other than the goddamn network and the wifi.My phone has no IMEI and ofcourse I have no EFS backup stored cause of my previous fiasco.
Any ideas mate,I see forums where itts told to install color os and then cm11 and then something but I dont want to risk anything anymore .
Any advice ?
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you are going to have to use the colour os toolkit to get the imei info back there is nothing else you can do
kallum7 said:
you are going to have to use the colour os toolkit to get the imei info back there is nothing else you can do
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you are going to have to use the colour os toolkit to get the imei info back there is nothing else you can do
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Mate ,can you please help me with the link ?
I know I can google it but I just dont want to take chances anymore
vedanth123456 said:
Hi Mate,
My perils seem not to end.So after the last update I tried to start my phone and it started but as soon as I removed the power cord the phone switched off.
I realized that the issue was with the battery so I got it replaced in one of the OnePlus Authorized service center.
The new battery with only one month warranty started just fine and I could see the phone hold power without the charger attached.So I reached home and did the below
1)Flash Twrp
2)Flash CM 13 snapshot
3)Flash cdroid and gapps
4)Reboot phone
Everything seems to work as expected other than the goddamn network and the wifi.My phone has no IMEI and ofcourse I have no EFS backup stored cause of my previous fiasco.
Any ideas mate,I see forums where itts told to install color os and then cm11 and then something but I dont want to risk anything anymore .
Any advice ?
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I'd hate to say I told you so ?
Don't worry too much. The cool thing about flashing with Android is that there's always other ways to get to a working system. Plus, having a fizzled up system is how you'll learn the most about how this all works. You'll be a pro in no time. I personally got seriously into troubleshooting with a hard bricked OPO that had a wasted flash chip. Believe me when I say that's a whole other world of pain.
One question: did you wipe system/data/caches between the CM13 and the crDroid flash? That's kind of important. It would also be useful to mention the versions of everything.
I have no first person experience with broken EFS partitions but according to what I've read you'll indeed have to get ColorOS running. You could try wiping everything again and flash CM13 to see if that boots fine (with working connectivity) but I'm afraid you'll have to go through the whole works: wipe all, flash or fastboot flash ColorOS, get it running (verify IMEI), flash TWRP and backup EFS (MAKE AN EXTERNAL COPY), wipe all again, flash CM13, get it running, wipe all again, flash crDroid + Gapps, wipe caches and boot to a (hopefully) working system. If EFS broke again you can simply restore the backup made earlier instead of starting over.
Mind that when I say wipe all, it doesn't have to include internal memory or you'll be wiping backups you might need later on.
Alright, here goes your 27th attempt. Good luck! ?
mate here is the link https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732 even though it says do not use on soft brick devices in your case you are going to have to

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