Hi all,
I decided to flash a different radio to see if that would have an influence on a couple of small signal issues i've been having with Bruce's CM10. After flashing it using the bootloader I restarted the phone and I can no longer get past the CM10 loading screen. I pulled the battery and turned the phone on holding power and down to get to the boot loader (eventually hoping to get to recovery). The bootloader trys to install the radio again and I'm forced to reboot the phone. How do I get out of this cycle of trying to get to the bootloader and it trying to install the radio again?
Thanks
I sorted it by doing
adb reboot recovery
Then wiping the cache in recovery. It rebooted and said "Android is upgrading" and then everything was back to normal.
I would have deleted the post but couldn't find the delete button.
Renegade_Darling said:
I sorted it by doing
adb reboot recovery
Then wiping the cache in recovery. It rebooted and said "Android is upgrading" and then everything was back to normal.
I would have deleted the post but couldn't find the delete button.
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Delete the PG58IMG from sd card (I presume that radio was a PG58IMG file) or move into a folder. otherwise next time that you go into bootloader it will start to update the radio again and again....
Normally, you should just have to wipe cache and you'll be fine. I had to reflash the entire ROM, but hopefully cache should be enough.
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I rooted my G2 via the instructions and download in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928160
I did not flash the hboot.
Phone seemed to work fine after that. But then I downloaded ClockWorkMod Rom Manager and downloaded CM7. When I installed it, my phone comes up to the boot screen, runs for a second, then reboots.... it just keeps rebooting.
Using the factory reset, I can get back into the recovery, so I tried to install CM6.1 from my sd card, but the exact same thing happens (endless boot screen reboots).
What can I do? Thank you for any help.
Fixed.
All I had to do was clear the dalvik cache.
So i started by downloading the new gingeritis 3d beta 5. I rebooted into recovery, wiped data, cache, and dalvik cache. installed the rom just fine. I rebooted the phone and it just kept showing the splash screen and going black then splash again. I did a battery pull and went to bootloader then to recovery. When i try to install a different rom or do a restore the phone reboots right in the middle of the install/restore.
What do you think the problem is. Can i flash a different rom from the bootloader? is the recovery bad?
Or as a last resort do I have to flash the "Custom upgrade PG05IMG_MR1_upgrade.zip" from the "root your thunderbolt" thread in the bootloader?
Thanks
Ianxcom said:
So i started by downloading the new gingeritis 3d beta 5. I rebooted into recovery, wiped data, cache, and dalvik cache. installed the rom just fine. I rebooted the phone and it just kept showing the splash screen and going black then splash again. I did a battery pull and went to bootloader then to recovery. When i try to install a different rom or do a restore the phone reboots right in the middle of the install/restore.
What do you think the problem is. Can i flash a different rom from the bootloader? is the recovery bad?
Or as a last resort do I have to flash the "Custom upgrade PG05IMG_MR1_upgrade.zip" from the "root your thunderbolt" thread in the bootloader?
Thanks
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Try going back into recovery and wipe the three you've stated again, also "format /system" in mounts and storage. It could be something's not getting wiped properly and creating your problem. Then try installing a ROM. If that doesn't fix your problem then replace your recovery with the one I've attached. Copy it to the root of your SD card and install it from the bootloader. If your recovery is the problem that should fix it. Once you've done that try installing a standard ROM like one of the rooted OTA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161251
Thanks for the help and the attachment. I will try it whe n i Get home since im at work. Whenever i try to wipe anything its like im on a time limit where it will restart ofter like 30 seconds no matter what i do.
Ianxcom said:
Thanks for the help and the attachment. I will try it whe n i Get home since im at work. Whenever i try to wipe anything its like im on a time limit where it will restart ofter like 30 seconds no matter what i do.
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I just remembered that another person had the same problem as you and it turned out that the Micro SD card was the problem. It makes sense since your installing the ROM from the Micro SD card and then the card craps out causing the reboot. If you don't have another Micro SD card you could format the one you have and that might fix it. Of course you would lose any data on the card.
I tried the new recovery, a new sd card, still same problem. Is there something i can flash in bootloader? like the PG05IMG_MR1_Upgrade? or something else?
Ianxcom said:
I tried the new recovery, a new sd card, still same problem. Is there something i can flash in bootloader? like the PG05IMG_MR1_Upgrade? or something else?
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You could download an RUU http://dougpiston.com/ThunderBolt/R..._NV_8k_1.41_9k_1.64_release_182727_signed.zip and rename it to PG05IMG.zip. That will do a factory restore from the bootloader. You would then need to root the phone again. It's possible the memory on your phone is damaged creating the reboots, Lets hope that's not the case.
Thanks! at least that worked.
Ianxcom said:
Thanks! at least that worked.
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Awesome, glad you're up and running again. Remember to delete or rename the PG05IMG.zip on your SD card or next time you go into your bootloader it will try to install the restore RUU again. I've done that before.
I just tried updating my radio and now I am stuck at the white HTC screen. I can get into hboot and it wants to load the new radio again, but even if I select "no" it still gets me back to the white screen. What is the best course of action at this point? My phone is rooted if that helps.
Delete the PG58IMG.ZIP from your sd card. Boot into recovery and then wipe dalvik and cache. Should get you booted up.
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Delete the PG58IMG.ZIP from your sd card. Boot into recovery and then wipe dalvik and cache. Should get you booted up.
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Yep, thats basically what I did. Thanks!
Let me start form the beginning.:-
My bootloader was locked and I was on stock 4.4.4 . I faced no problems at that time. I saw OTA notification for lollipop 5.0.2 update, downloaded it, installed it, device gets restarted, I saw new bootlogo and then bootanimation. Just after the bootanimation, the screen goes blank(back-light is still on). I waited for about 40-50 minutes, but the screen is still blank with backlight on. Tried rebooting 3-4 times but stuck after bootanimation. 1 time it booted successfully and I was presented with the lockscreen. I swiped unlock the screen but suddenly services was stopping one by one and various applications also getting force closes, even the launcher also got force closed. So I rebooted again, and again got stuck after bootanimation, getting only a blank screen with backlight on.
Now I booted my phone into recovery, factory reset it(also wiped cache manually) and then booted into system, still no good. I was getting the same blank screen after bootanimation. I tried rebooting 4-5 times and at one time, it got past the bootanimation. There I saw that the device didn't get factory reset(wallpaper, home screen icons were at that place only where it was before). Now again service got stopped and apps got force closed.
Now, I downloaded stock firmware images from here on xda and flashed it from bootloader. I was still getting blank sceen after bootanimation and occasionally it got booted and everything force closes again.
After trying everything, I unlocked my bootloader and tried flashing a custom recovery (so that i can try installing custom roms). But after successfully flashing custom recovery, I booted into recovery and find that it didn't got flashed (I was still on stock recovery). I tried flashing different custom recoveries 7-8 times, but the stock recovery persists!.
So, now the bootloader is unlocked, stock recovery is persisting after flashing any custom recovery, even the user data is persisting after factory reset, and I am unable to boot to system properly. I don't know what to do after this. Please let me know if this all means that some part of the hardware is failing in my moto g or if it can ever be come back to life.
Edit:- I have just booted into twrp Recovery(not flashed, only booted) and found that I am unable to wipe internal storage. Everything else like, dalvik cache, data, cache and system do not give error on wiping. Also, I am unable to delete any file or folder using twrp file manager
Thank you.
About two weeks ago just before CyanogenMod's announcement of its closure I updated my Moto G2015 (1GB) to the latest nightly, which was CM14.1 released on the 25th of December, with its corresponding GAPPS version also released on the 25th of December (ARM, android 7.1, Full)
Yesterday the 7th of January my Google Apps decided that they didn't want to open, at first I thought it was just updating and since my battery was low I plugged in my device, I later realised that my device randomly went to a boot loop and stayed there. I grew impatient so I restarted the phone and went to the Recovery Mode (To Re-Flash the ROM), but to my annoyance the recovery (TWRP) just stayed on the 'Teamwin' logo forever, it would randomly go black then return to that logo. infuriated I turned on my phone and went to backup/reset and clicked 'factory reset'. it annoyingly booted me into recovery to reset the device, which of course I couldn't do.
Now the simple answer would have been for me to go and wipe the cache and data from 'google play services' and or 'launcher3' but I did, either it always shows 'calculating' preventing me from clicking 'manage space' or clearing 'cache' or when it did finally show, after I did click the button for the cache and or data to be cleared it would say 'calculating', and a quick check would discover that nothing was actually cleared.
Kind Regards, and Thank You to any help recieved,
NotSoGreat
Boot TWRP or CWM Recovery (not sure if it's still called CWM Recovery now that LineageOS has replaced it) with the command 'fastboot boot recovery.img' but replace recovery.img with your actual recovery image filename. If TWRP won't boot wait, sometimes a theme or corruption in the TWRP directory on internal storage can pause the startup of TWRP by several minutes, if that still fails boot CWMR and remove the TWRP directory or wipe internal storage.
Once you can get TWRP to boot properly, backup everything (MPT works in TWRP) and wipe and reflash, should be good to go.
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Boot TWRP or CWM Recovery (not sure if it's still called CWM Recovery now that LineageOS has replaced it) with the command 'fastboot boot recovery.img' but replace recovery.img with your actual recovery image filename. If TWRP won't boot wait, sometimes a theme or corruption in the TWRP directory on internal storage can pause the startup of TWRP by several minutes, if that still fails boot CWMR and remove the TWRP directory or wipe internal storage.
Once you can get TWRP to boot properly, backup everything (MPT works in TWRP) and wipe and reflash, should be good to go.
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Thanks for the reply, what you're saying makes sense and would probably work, but I found a simpler work around. I'm actually annoyed I didn't do it earlier.
So simply put, I downloaded my stock recovery which worked and then I just factory reset my device from there, that reset the CM14.1 ROM and let my Google Apps work again. Now about the recovery, I'm a bit skeptical about Re Flashing it, but I think I'll try it next weekend and post the results.
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Thanks for the reply, what you're saying makes sense and would probably work, but I found a simpler work around. I'm actually annoyed I didn't do it earlier.
So simply put, I downloaded my stock recovery which worked and then I just factory reset my device from there, that reset the CM14.1 ROM and let my Google Apps work again. Now about the recovery, I'm a bit skeptical about Re Flashing it, but I think I'll try it next weekend and post the results.
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Have you tried it since you wiped? It might just work now that the reset wiped internal storage...
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Have you tried it since you wiped? It might just work now that the reset wiped internal storage...
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I'll try now.
acejavelin said:
Have you tried it since you wiped? It might just work now that the reset wiped internal storage...
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Right, so I reinstalled and flashed the latest version TWRP, when I opened into it, it took about 1 minute before it opened up, it ran a quick operation that I just glimpsed, it looked like it was wiping cache and user data, my phone was rebooted and I was right, my phone had been reset for the second time today (I'm almost a pro at reinstalling all my apps). I rebooted into the recovery and Look and Behold, it was working.
Thanks slot for your help and time.