Hello,
I'm new to the XDA forums and hope you guys can help.
Last night, I came to the mind that I would flash my phone. I completed everything in torr's "[Tutorial] Root, Unlock, Recovery, and Flashing a Custom Rom" without any problems. First loaded Viper's Rom, no problems. Then I wanted to see how the other ROMs looked like so I proceeded to load Energy (had Wi-Fi connection issues), some of the "Without Sense" ROMs on Uwe303's, and finally tried to load BAKED Blackbean and hit a rock.
I'm stuck on the Recovery screen. I can't go into Fastboot either via the volume way, adb, or Hansoon200's AIO Kit. When I try to restart the phone, the red signal light goes on and off twice, screen blips twice, and goes back into recovery. I can't RUU, because I can't re-lock the Bootloader. I have been able to push other ROMs and flash them, but to the same results. Can someone help me?
Thank you.
mstrsage2 said:
Hello,
I'm new to the XDA forums and hope you guys can help.
Last night, I came to the mind that I would flash my phone. I completed everything in torr's "[Tutorial] Root, Unlock, Recovery, and Flashing a Custom Rom" without any problems. First loaded Viper's Rom, no problems. Then I wanted to see how the other ROMs looked like so I proceeded to load Energy (had Wi-Fi connection issues), some of the "Without Sense" ROMs on Uwe303's, and finally tried to load BAKED Blackbean and hit a rock.
I'm stuck on the Recovery screen. I can't go into Fastboot either via the volume way, adb, or Hansoon200's AIO Kit. When I try to restart the phone, the red signal light goes on and off twice, screen blips twice, and goes back into recovery. I can't RUU, because I can't re-lock the Bootloader. I have been able to push other ROMs and flash them, but to the same results. Can someone help me?
Thank you.
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Sounds like you flash CWM which is buggy you want to flash TWRP. The trick to getting into the bootloader is to hold the Vol- as you turn the phone off while holding Vol- let go of power and press and hold again. Also the reason it didn't boot was that you didn't fastboot the boot.img.
Darknites said:
Sounds like you flash CWM which is buggy you want to flash TWRP. The trick to getting into the bootloader is to hold the Vol- as you turn the phone off while holding Vol- let go of power and press and hold again. Also the reason it didn't boot was that you didn't fastboot the boot.img.
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I used Hansoon's AIO to flash the boot.img before every refresh and holding Vol- still brings me straight to CWM. I can't flash TWRP right now cause I can't get it to the bootloader.
mstrsage2 said:
I used Hansoon's AIO to flash the boot.img before every refresh and holding Vol- still brings me straight to CWM. I can't flash TWRP right now cause I can't get it to the bootloader.
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You just have to keep trying and maybe tweak what I said because without getting into bootloader there nothing you can do but as soon as you do flash TWRP it will make it easier to get into the bootloader.
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You just have to keep trying and maybe tweak what I said because without getting into bootloader there nothing you can do but as soon as you do flash TWRP it will make it easier to get into the bootloader.
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Thanks =] I'll keep trying then
Not sure exactly what you are doing on the "volume- way"
The only way I get to bootloader is to hold down vol- and pwr at same time for about 5-7 seconds, then release only pwr. Continue to hold vol- down till it boots. May take 20 seconds or so.
Were you wiping all including system before flashing these roms
You said you can adb push a rom then flash it, try that again with wiping all including system 2x
when you were in adb you tried to get to bootloader by typing "adb reboot bootloader" ? no quotes
just some ideas--not sure if you them all or not
rugmankc said:
Not sure exactly what you are doing on the "volume- way"
The only way I get to bootloader is to hold down vol- and pwr at same time for about 5-7 seconds, then release only pwr. Continue to hold vol- down till it boots. May take 20 seconds or so.
Were you wiping all including system before flashing these roms
You said you can adb push a rom then flash it, try that again with wiping all including system 2x
when you were in adb you tried to get to bootloader by typing "adb reboot bootloader" ? no quotes
just some ideas--not sure if you them all or not
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Sometimes when you are in recovery with CWM you can also use "adb" commands. Connect your device when its in recovery to your pc via usb. Then try "adb reboot bootloader" as a command.
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Sometimes when you are in recovery with CWM you can also use "adb" commands. Connect your device when its in recovery to your pc via usb. Then try "adb reboot bootloader" as a command.
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Only issue with that is it will boot into CWM because of the USB cable.
same issue
hey guys,
I'm having the same issue of rebooting into CWM recovery and have no way out.
I've tried both the VOL DOWN option and the "adb reboot bootloader" option, and I am having no luck.
Can you please help me get OUT of CWM recovery????
Thanks!
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I'm trying to load the CM ROM to my HTC One S device. I was able to unlock and root the device. Next, I flashed the boot.img (fastboot flash boot.img) from the ROM zip file to the device and restarted it (cm-10.1-20130304-EXPERIMENTAL-ville-M2). Now my device just cycles through the HTC splash screen with the red letters "this build is for development purposes only..." -> Android Splash Screen. Phone does not properly boot up. I think I missed a step in the flashing process. Any ideas on how to proceed?
fastboot flash boot boot.img
just in case you typed it the way you wrote in your post.
what recovery are you using? what version?
maybe try twrp 2.3.3
get into bootloader and flash again, go to recovery do a full wipe and install the cm zip again.
tivofool said:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
just in case you typed it the way you wrote in your post.
what recovery are you using? what version?
maybe try twrp 2.3.3
get into bootloader and flash again, go to recovery do a full wipe and install the cm zip again.
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Sorry, the command I used was "fastboot flash boot boot.img" The CM boot.img definitely got written to the device. I missed the step of copying the ROM to a folder on my device. I wasn't clear on this step since I'm not sure how to view folders on the device. Is there a way to load the ROM from my PC instead of copying the files to the device first?
I'm using TWRP 2.6.0.0. I'm also not clear on the back up portion since there is no SD card on this device. Is it possible to perform a backup? I thought I did one during the initial step, but now that I'm trying to restore, I don't see a backup available.
yes, the "sd card" is there as a partition or whatever. But it works the same way. Backups do work.
So in twrp mount the sd card (usb storage, whatever twrp calls it), then you can transfer the rom to your phone from your computer. Then just wipe your caches and install zip.
You can get into recovery from your bootloader, hold volume down and press power (don't hold)
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yes, the "sd card" is there as a partition or whatever. But it works the same way. Backups do work.
So in twrp mount the sd card (usb storage, whatever twrp calls it), then you can transfer the rom to your phone from your computer. Then just wipe your caches and install zip.
You can get into recovery from your bootloader, hold volume down and press power (don't hold)
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Thanks for clarifying. I successfully loaded the ROM on my device.
My workflow stopped at the same spot, screen is locked in the HTC logo and the warning about the build being development purpose only, but trying again to get into bootloader and the phone doesn't load it up, it just turns off and nothing else happens
Mhord said:
My workflow stopped at the same spot, screen is locked in the HTC logo and the warning about the build being development purpose only, but trying again to get into bootloader and the phone doesn't load it up, it just turns off and nothing else happens
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Was your battery too low?
Hopefully you can get into bootloader, that's pretty important to fix anything.
someone could correct me, but can't you hold power down until the buttons flash, then hold both power and volume down button until bootloader starts.
tivofool said:
Was your battery too low?
Hopefully you can get into bootloader, that's pretty important to fix anything.
someone could correct me, but can't you hold power down until the buttons flash, then hold both power and volume down button until bootloader starts.
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It had like 75% charge. Buttons don't flash like normal... Got to load the bootloader flashed the recovery, reboot, same screen
Mhord said:
It had like 75% charge. Buttons don't flash like normal... Got to load the bootloader flashed the recovery, reboot, same screen
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So you are trying to get into recovery. When you go into the bootloader, you choose recovery and it doesn't work.
you could go back to bootloader, fastboot usb.
from there open a command terminal on your computer. From your fastboot folder press shift and right mouse click <open command terminal here>
type
fastboot erase cache
then you can press power button to select hboot, then volume down to recovery.
You could try to flash a different recovery if that doesnt work. Make sure you are using the correct recovery for your device. S4 version or the S3 international type devices.
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So you are trying to get into recovery. When you go into the bootloader, you choose recovery and it doesn't work.
you could go back to bootloader, fastboot usb.
from there open a command terminal on your computer. From your fastboot folder press shift and right mouse click <open command terminal here>
type
fastboot erase cache
then you can press power button to select hboot, then volume down to recovery.
You could try to flash a different recovery if that doesnt work. Make sure you are using the correct recovery for your device. S4 version or the S3 international type devices.
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mmm yeah tried what you said, and still got stuck in "entering recovery".
I used eyeballer recovery which is the one CM recommends on their wiki
EDIT: My HBOOT says VilleC2 in that case S3 recovery would be the correct one?
EDIT: Yep found the correct recovery back in business, many thanks Tivofool
My phone is bootlooping and the power button has been broken for a while. I've tried various things posted in other threads, just wondering if anyone has any solutions or ideas.
I can't seem to get it to connect with usb in the bootloader but it does connect while bootlooping. Can I fix it while connected in the bootloop?
edit: Actually, now that I've researched more, I'm pretty sure the problem is that my bootloader is frozen. That's why neither my functioning volume keys or adb works in the bootloader.
ekovv said:
My phone is bootlooping and the power button has been broken for a while. I've tried various things posted in other threads, just wondering if anyone has any solutions or ideas.
I can't seem to get it to connect with usb in the bootloader but it does connect while bootlooping. Can I fix it while connected in the bootloop?
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Try Nexus root toolkit to boot custom recovery temporarily (or another option like that), while looping, ?may? work??
Setting.Out said:
Try Nexus root toolkit to boot custom recovery temporarily (or another option like that), while looping, ?may? work??
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I can't seem to get anything in the Nexus Root Toolkit to work while it's bootlooping or while it's in the bootloader even though it comes up in my device manager as Google Nexus S ADB Interface while in the bootloop.
Is there a way to fix it in the command line, or is that just the same thing as using the root toolkit?
ekovv said:
I can't seem to get anything in the Nexus Root Toolkit to work while it's bootlooping or while it's in the bootloader even though it comes up in my device manager as Google Nexus S ADB Interface while in the bootloop.
Is there a way to fix it in the command line, or is that just the same thing as using the root toolkit?
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Can you get into recovery?
No I can't get into recovery because my volume buttons won't let me navigate the bootloader options. They aren't broken, they just don't work in the bootloader for some reason. My power button is physically broken though so I don't know how to get to recovery or if I can even use recovery without the power button...
I think fastboot will work without a power button?
This command...
adb reboot bootloader
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ekovv said:
My phone is bootlooping and the power button has been broken for a while. I've tried various things posted in other threads, just wondering if anyone has any solutions or ideas.
I can't seem to get it to connect with usb in the bootloader but it does connect while bootlooping. Can I fix it while connected in the bootloop?
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1) Download latest CWM Touch.
2) Follow steps from here to install CWM.
3) Boot in recovery using the command in the above link.
4) Download a flashable touch recovery from here.
5) Mount USB in the recovery and copy this zip and flash it. This will make your custom recovery permanent. Reboot to recovery again just to verify.
Now, you have a touch recovery accessible through fastboot and can install custom ROMs
smit.sanghavi said:
1) Download latest CWM Touch.
2) Follow steps from here to install CWM.
3) Boot in recovery using the command in the above link.
4) Download a flashable touch recovery from here.
5) Mount USB in the recovery and copy this zip and flash it. This will make your custom recovery permanent. Reboot to recovery again just to verify.
Now, you have a touch recovery accessible through fastboot and can install custom ROMs
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Thanks for the step by step! The problem is I still can't get the adb working in the bootloader to install CWM Touch. When I type adb reboot bootloader it says "no device connected." If I type the same command while the phone is bootlooping it says "device unauthorized."
edit: Actually, now that I've researched more, I'm pretty sure the problem is that my bootloader is frozen. That's why neither my functioning volume keys or adb works in the bootloader.
ekovv said:
Thanks for the step by step! The problem is I still can't get the adb working in the bootloader to install CWM Touch. When I type adb reboot bootloader it says "no device connected." If I type the same command while the phone is bootlooping it says "device unauthorized."
edit: Actually, now that I've researched more, I'm pretty sure the problem is that my bootloader is frozen. That's why neither my functioning volume keys or adb works in the bootloader.
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You can't use adb in fastboot. There are fastboot commands for that.
Step 2 has fastboot commands to install custom recovery.
Very similar problem on Nexus 4
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/nexus-4-bootloop-adb-unauthorized-t3540874
ekovv said:
My phone is bootlooping and the power button has been broken for a while. I've tried various things posted in other threads, just wondering if anyone has any solutions or ideas.
I can't seem to get it to connect with usb in the bootloader but it does connect while bootlooping. Can I fix it while connected in the bootloop?
edit: Actually, now that I've researched more, I'm pretty sure the problem is that my bootloader is frozen. That's why neither my functioning volume keys or adb works in the bootloader.
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You can wait till the battery drain and then connect your phone to PC holding the volume button to enter bootloader and then using Nexus Root Toolkit flash your stock rom.
Kiranarul2000 said:
You can wait till the battery drain and then connect your phone to PC holding the volume button to enter bootloader and then using Nexus Root Toolkit flash your stock rom.
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it doesnt work because if the phone gets charged up it goes into the loop again
Hey so I am having a problem unlocking the bootloader.
This is my friends phone and he messed it up bad. What he told me is that he was trying to install a custom ROM on his phone which was already rooted and unlocked. When he went to install it he told me that the ROM locked his bootloader and earased everything on the phone.
When I got the phone it would only boot into fastboot and nothing else. The screen would just be blank.
I have run that color installed and now I get the opo screen when i turn it on and I can also boot into fastboot. I cannot boot into recovery because it is gone I think.
When I try and install the recovery through fastboot I cannot because the bootloader is still locked.
I also tried loading up the custom recovery with the command fastboot boot recovery recovery.img
This doesn't work because I am getting the error "cannot load 'recovery' : Permission denied
I am out of ideas and any help will be greatly appreciated.
smertz said:
Hey so I am having a problem unlocking the bootloader.
This is my friends phone and he messed it up bad. What he told me is that he was trying to install a custom ROM on his phone which was already rooted and unlocked. When he went to install it he told me that the ROM locked his bootloader and earased everything on the phone.
When I got the phone it would only boot into fastboot and nothing else. The screen would just be blank.
I have run that color installed and now I get the opo screen when i turn it on and I can also boot into fastboot. I cannot boot into recovery because it is gone I think.
When I try and install the recovery through fastboot I cannot because the bootloader is still locked.
I also tried loading up the custom recovery with the command fastboot boot recovery recovery.img
This doesn't work because I am getting the error "cannot load 'recovery' : Permission denied
I am out of ideas and any help will be greatly appreciated.
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I think your friend is giving you dodgy information, flashing a ROM doesn't lock the bootloader. So can you get into recovery at all by using the recovery button combo? Hold power to turn the phone off. Hold volume down, then hold power (so you're holding them together), when you see the OnePlus boot logo let go of power but keep holding volume down until you reach recovery.
Heisenberg said:
I think your friend is giving you dodgy information, flashing a ROM doesn't lock the bootloader. So can you get into recovery at all by using the recovery button combo? Hold power to turn the phone off. Hold volume down, then hold power (so you're holding them together), when you see the OnePlus boot logo let go of power but keep holding volume down until you reach recovery.
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I am sure there is something he isn't telling me.
I have tried booting into recovery and I will hold down the button for several minutes but it never boots into recovery.
The phone will only boot into fastboot.
smertz said:
I am sure there is something he isn't telling me.
I have tried booting into recovery and I will hold down the button for several minutes but it never boots into recovery.
The phone will only boot into fastboot.
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There isn't much you can do then, without recovery and without being able to unlock the bootloader you're pretty much stuck.
Heisenberg said:
There isn't much you can do then, without recovery and without being able to unlock the bootloader you're pretty much stuck.
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Darn. I was hoping there was some other way of unlocking the booloader. I know I can install a recovery if it was only unlocked.
smertz said:
Darn. I was hoping there was some other way of unlocking the booloader. I know I can install a recovery if it was only unlocked.
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That's right, recovery install requires an unlocked bootloader. It doesn't really fit your situation but this might be worth looking into.
Heisenberg said:
That's right, recovery install requires an unlocked bootloader. It doesn't really fit your situation but this might be worth looking into.
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Thanks! But I have already tried it. The second half of it requires that you have an unlocked bootloader to use fastboot.
smertz said:
Thanks! But I have already tried it. The second half of it requires that you have an unlocked bootloader to use fastboot.
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Oh yeah, I forgot you mentioned that in the OP. Well there's really nothing you can do unfortunately.
Heisenberg said:
Oh yeah, I forgot you mentioned that in the OP. Well there's really nothing you can do unfortunately.
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Ugh darn I was hoping there was something I could do. Thanks for the help!
hello all this what happens I flash a bad room and it keeps rebooting and I cannot go back to recovery check this video if someone have an idea or fix it before.
thanks in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh5BTDVhGOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-0WwswJi8
kasey348 said:
hello all this what happens I flash a bad room and it keeps rebooting and I cannot go back to recovery check this video if someone have an idea or fix it before.
thanks in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh5BTDVhGOY
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You can try re-flashing TWRP which may clean it up and allow you in. Power down the phone (pull the battery and put it back in), hold down the volume down, and plug your phone into your computer while keeping the volume down pressed. Should get you into fastboot/bootloader. From there you can do "fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-h918.img". You can then reboot via "fastboot reboot". Now I'm not too familiar with the h918 model so I'm not for sure you can do this in fastboot/bootloader but if you can it's worth a shot.
Try "fastboot erase cache" instead. Your TWRP seems to be getting stuck running an OpenRecoveryScript which is located in the cache partition according to documentation. If you clear the cache it should theoretically let you into TWRP instead of running the script on start.
redshorty4 said:
You can try re-flashing TWRP which may clean it up and allow you in. Power down the phone (pull the battery and put it back in), hold down the volume down, and plug your phone into your computer while keeping the volume down pressed. Should get you into fastboot/bootloader. From there you can do "fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-h918.img". You can then reboot via "fastboot reboot". Now I'm not too familiar with the h918 model so I'm not for sure you can do this in fastboot/bootloader but if you can it's worth a shot.
Try "fastboot erase cache" instead. Your TWRP seems to be getting stuck running an OpenRecoveryScript which is located in the cache partition according to documentation. If you clear the cache it should theoretically let you into TWRP instead of running the script on start.
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thanks man
but I can only lock or unlock my boot-loader it doesn't take any other commands to reboot into recovery i need to make work adb shell.
thanks for your advice.
kasey348 said:
thanks man
but I can only lock or unlock my boot-loader it doesn't take any other commands to reboot into recovery i need to make work adb shell.
thanks for your advice.
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Was worth a shot. If you can get an adb shell you should be able to fix recovery. Did you try locking and then unlocking the bootloader? It wipes userdata and cache when you lock/unlock. That could fix your TWRP.
redshorty4 said:
Was worth a shot. If you can get an adb shell you should be able to fix recovery. Did try locking and unlocking the bootloader? It wipes userdata and cache when you lock/unlock. That could fix your TWRP.
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yes i did that too it wipes the phone then it boots into the system but all the apps keeps crashing all i get is a black screen.
Mine is doing the exact same thing,,, Except I don't get passed the LG logo. I'm on the same version of TWRP also.
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Mine is doing the exact same thing,,, Except I don't get passed the LG logo. I'm on the same version of TWRP also.
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crap i have the whole week without phone i guess the only way we can fix this is loading or flashing a tot file i just need a dll file that one have it anywhere,
but if i find a solution i will let you know my friend, don't give up we are get it fix trust me.
keep looking on this tread i'm downgrading my pc to windows 7 today I been installing a lot crap to make this phone work and nothing i read that windows 7 works better.
I flashed TWRP to the device successfully, and proceeded to try to install Magisk 19.3 zip. It would begin to do a recovery bootloop. I fixed it using TWRP, and tried using the patched boot img from magisk manager instead. This is where things go wrong. After flashing boot.img, the phone refuses to boot, and asks me to do a factory reset. I did this twice, and the phone continued not to boot. I then tried installing the latest android Q factory image. The flash failed, and the phone stopped showing up when I do fastboot devices or adb devices. It is stuck in the bootloader telling me slot b is not bootable. I have tried different ports, but adb and fastboot are no longer responding.
Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start
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Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start
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Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.
skyward176 said:
Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.
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Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?
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Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?
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Holding down the volume up and power buttons just restarts it repeatedly, and each time it restarts it tells me "ERROR: Operation Denied"
EDIT: OMG fastboot works! Let's see how this goes from here. TYSM!
ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much
skyward176 said:
ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much
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Hello! I have exactly the same problem.
Can you explain step by step what you did after fastboot began to see your phone?
I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.
skyward176 said:
I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.
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Ayyy! Good job!