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[Q] installing trickdroid screwed up my phone again. stuck on htc screen.

I was installing trickdroid and everything froze up. I cannot get into my recovery and even if I could trickdroid ended up deleting EVERYTHING I had on my sd card even though what I was doing had nothing to do with the contents of my sd.
I am able to get into fastboot. And have managed to install TWRP on my phone. I don't have any recoveries on the phone itself so even twrp is useless to me right now.
I have tried multiple times to go into cmd and use the fastboot command line and tried doing a few recoveries. They all seem to go through but upon reboot it just gets stuck on the htc developers screen forever.
WTF can I do?? =/

Solved.
Took a few hours but I finally managed to find a ruu for my usa tmobile device that had the 1.84 update.
With this I was able to get into my bootloader
using the cmd prompt i did an oem lock and locked up my bootloader (this all over xda and you can find out how to use it that way, it's a lot more detailed)
i was then able to install the ruu through fastboot on my pc
that's the only way I was able to get a single damn thing working.
this morning i tried trickdroid again and the same **** happened. something about the boot.img they have you install, who knows.

I assume your phone is s4 since you are in US
Make sure the Trickdroid you are installing is for your phone--which one you doing
How are you flashing boot.img and when. I wipe all including System, flash rom, reboot into bootloader and fastboot boot.img "fastboot flash boot boot.img" where boot.img is exact name of the boot file image
What is your hboot
Wipe System also as part of your flashing and don't rewipe in Aroma
The OP pages have detailed info on flashing Rom and how to do Tweaks when you get to that point

rugmankc said:
I assume your phone is s4 since you are in US
Make sure the Trickdroid you are installing is for your phone--which one you doing
How are you flashing boot.img and when. I wipe all including System, flash rom, reboot into bootloader and fastboot boot.img "fastboot flash boot boot.img" where boot.img is exact name of the boot file image
What is your hboot
Wipe System also as part of your flashing and don't rewipe in Aroma
The OP pages have detailed info on flashing Rom and how to do Tweaks when you get to that point
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I made certain I was using an s4 version of the roms. I believe the last one I tried was 7.0?
I was using the boot.img through fastboot. Perhaps I was doing that wrong... i put the phone in fastboot. then it reads fastboot usb. from my computer i went to the folder where i have all my android files and typed in the command for the cmd prompt to run the boot.img and then it showed it installed correctly. but nope.
I played with it again today and I seem to be able to flash ANY rom I have tried so long as I don't actually fastboot any boot.img files. The mixture between the rom and flashing the boot.img on trickdroid really screwed things up but at least I'm up and running again /sigh
I've used trickdroid for a while so it was very surprising that things went so wrong.
Now i just have to wait for the more popular roms to hopefully add wifi calling lol. For right now I've flashed the latest cm10 nightly. Everything is working as it should.

if you are under .13 hboot you don't need to fastboot the kernels. don't remember if you said which hboot you are on
but, glad you got it

Rooted 2.20 now cant boot my phone

Hi Everyone,
So i followed all the steps to temp root 2.20 including successfully installing TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project). I then downloaded the CM10 rom and extracted the boot.img as per posts and rebooted into the bootloader and flashed the boot.img from CM10 via Fastboot. However after doing then rebooting to Recovery mode in order to flash the ROM, i get stuck in the red text where it gives you a warning about it being in development mode or something.
I am able to successfully boot into the bootloader via Power+down volume. Additionally I am able to boot into the TWRP recovery just fine, however I am lost and have no clue how to restore my phone to either the CM10 ROM or most importantly at least to stock working condition.
When i got to mount the SDCARD via twrp normally i would get a pop up on my screen and allow me to access my SD card, now i get a pop up just telling me that i need to format my SD card first. I'm afraid some how my SD card got wiped or something.
Can someone please walk me through the steps on how to restore my phone. Please if possible i would appreciate using LAME terms as i do not have any experience as you can tell i screwed up :/ Can you please listed step by step instructions including commands for Fastboot/adb etc etc if needed. Thank you very much for your help and support.

I've typed and retyped a response to help. I'm so tired and my brain is mush. (More so than normal) if you can't find any resolution by morning? Pm me and I'll try and help. Something about pluggin the USB in The back of your pc something something....... snore
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subarudroid said:
I've typed and retyped a response to help. I'm so tired and my brain is mush. (More so than normal) if you can't find any resolution by morning? Pm me and I'll try and help. Something about pluggin the USB in The back of your pc something something....... snore
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I know you tried to help, but it appears now I have bricked the phone. Hopefully i can fix it as i still have access to Bootloader and TWRP recovery. I'll PM you in the morning, thank you.

dont factory reset in bootloader. only factory reset in twrp. sometimes evita has a hard time getting into recovery from bootloader. just keep trying to get into recovery from bootloader. also even if your phone doesn't boot all the way adb sometimes still works. so try "adb reboot recovery" while its trying to boot.
if you did corrupt your sdcard try this method to get it fixed without having to run ruu.
[How to] Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
when you get your sdcard fixed remember to wipe everything and then copy cm10 and gapps to your sdcard and flash. since boot.img is already flashed you shouldn't need to do it again.
you did flash boot.img as "fastboot flash boot boot.img"? i made the mistake of flashing boot.img to recovery instead of boot. i was freaking out. just to make sure flash recovery again "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-evita.img"

DvineLord said:
dont factory reset in bootloader. only factory reset in twrp. sometimes evita has a hard time getting into recovery from bootloader. just keep trying to get into recovery from bootloader. also even if your phone doesn't boot all the way adb sometimes still works. so try "adb reboot recovery" while its trying to boot.
if you did corrupt your sdcard try this method to get it fixed without having to run ruu.
[How to] Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
when you get your sdcard fixed remember to wipe everything and then copy cm10 and gapps to your sdcard and flash. since boot.img is already flashed you shouldn't need to do it again.
you did flash boot.img as "fastboot flash boot boot.img"? i made the mistake of flashing boot.img to recovery instead of boot. i was freaking out. just to make sure flash recovery again "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-evita.img"
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Yes i did fastboot flash boot boot.img from within the Bootlader. FYI that boot.img was from inside the CM10 zip file. I belive my SD card is corrupt i will check out that link. FYI I am able to get into Recovery mode form the Boatloader if i chooser recovery. However since the SD card seems messed up i can't access it currently. Also I tried to use the method to install the CM10.zip file using TWRP recovery. That recovery has a GUI and you can click on the INSTALL button and choose the zip file you want to install, however it errors out.
What is the proper way to flash a rom when i am in the TWRP recovery? Can you provide me with the commands/steps? Thanks for all your support guys.

movadoevo8 said:
Yes i did fastboot flash boot boot.img from within the Bootlader. FYI that boot.img was from inside the CM10 zip file. I belive my SD card is corrupt i will check out that link. FYI I am able to get into Recovery mode form the Boatloader if i chooser recovery. However since the SD card seems messed up i can't access it currently. Also I tried to use the method to install the CM10.zip file using TWRP recovery. That recovery has a GUI and you can click on the INSTALL button and choose the zip file you want to install, however it errors out.
What is the proper way to flash a rom when i am in the TWRP recovery? Can you provide me with the commands/steps? Thanks for all your support guys.
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install/install from zip/browse to your zip/slide to flash (they really should patent that)
now most of us, to do a clean flash, we'd go into the "wipe" menu in TWRP before flashing , factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system. then we flash our rom.
hope that cleared it up!
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You won't be able to flash anything until you fixed your sdcard using the method in that link.

Ptesmoke where have you been? DvineLord is the only one been helping here. The Q&A thread is a mess. where is edditsync chongo, rohan and the other superhero's. I feel like Hawkeye trying to shoot sh#@ down with a bow and arrow. Waiting for ironman, hulk, Thor and the other avengers to get real sh#@ done. I'm tired going to sleep now.
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ptesmoke said:
install/install from zip/browse to your zip/slide to flash (they really should patent that)
now most of us, to do a clean flash, we'd go into the "wipe" menu in TWRP before flashing , factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system. then we flash our rom.
hope that cleared it up!
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I tried to fixed corrupted SD card as per video. however after flashing the recovery.img via fastboot when it wants me to do a factory reset instead of doing the factory reset it just goes back to the HTC brilliant screen with the red warning text and sits there. If i go to twpr recovery and click on install i can't access me zip currently due to sd card issues.
Is there a way to format via PC since it lets me as long as I am in twpr and just put stock files/folders onto the SD card? Or is it possible to install the 2.20 ruu again? I re-downloaded it form HTC's site while I am in twrp however I cannot install it won't detect my phone. Thanks for your help.

"fastboot oem lock" then run ruu. ruu gets run in fastboot.
after the ruu, reunlock bootloader and flash twrp, copy cm10 and gapps to your sdcard, flash boot.img in fastboot, wipe everything except for external storage in twrp, flash cm10 and gapps in twrp, then reboot.

If you can get into twrp and go to mount, mount usb storage and connect your phone windows should prompt you to format the SD card.
Once that's done you can drag and drop the rom you want to flash then boot into fastboot and flash the boot.img.
If you want to run the ruu you need to relock the bootloader first.
To do that you must go into fastboot usb and then type fastboot oem lock.
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DvineLord said:
"fastboot oem lock" then run ruu. ruu gets run in fastboot.
after the ruu, reunlock bootloader and flash twrp, copy cm10 and gapps to your sdcard, flash boot.img in fastboot, wipe everything except for external storage in twrp, flash cm10 and gapps in twrp, then reboot.
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I'm sorry i'm not too tech savy. Can you clarify how to Fastboot OEM lock. Assuming i just need to be in fastboot mode and run a command in command prompt?
Also once that is done how can i run RUU via fastboot? Right now i have HTC RUU for 2.20 from august that i downloaded from their site and not sure how i can have it detect my phone. If you could clarify and explain those steps in Lame terms i would greatly appreciate it, thanks in advance.

movadoevo8 said:
I'm sorry i'm not too tech savy. Can you clarify how to Fastboot OEM lock. Assuming i just need to be in fastboot mode and run a command in command prompt?
Also once that is done how can i run RUU via fastboot? Right now i have HTC RUU for 2.20 from august that i downloaded from their site and not sure how i can have it detect my phone. If you could clarify and explain those steps in Lame terms i would greatly appreciate it, thanks in advance.
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That's the command you do and the ruu is an exe file so get into fastnoot on your phone from bl and run the ruu after you've locked the bootloader

Thank you both will try that now.

Hey guys thanks for all your help and your support it worked. I had the wrong CM10 file instead of Evita i had the other one :/ That was the issue all along ugh... but all resolved could of not have done it without your support. Thanks!! I can now finally go to bed.. been at it since 10pm, now 3:11am

Maybe you can help me . I'm having the same problem. The problem is, everytime I try to use any fastboot commands, it'll say "waiting for device". I'm stressing out.

marcur12 said:
Maybe you can help me . I'm having the same problem. The problem is, everytime I try to use any fastboot commands, it'll say "waiting for device". I'm stressing out.
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Make sure you have the right drivers installed, download the latest htc sync from htc's website.
Install HTC sync connect phone and let the drivers install, then make sure you close htc sync from the system tray and try again.
Like DvineLord said below make sure you're in the bootloader then select Fastboot once selected it should say in red writing Fastboot USB.

fastboot only works in bootloader btw

Hit the thanks button for the people helping you fix your boo boos.
If you can type it, click it for them, least you can do in return.
WR
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One XL no onger recognizes unlock.bin from HTC DEV

Good day everyone.
I relocked and installed stock RUU (4.0.3) on my Evita since I had that failing zip install though TWRP. It worked fine but when I tried to manually install the latest RUU (Android 4.1) it failed. Now I decided to unlock it again and start to flash custom ROMs, problem started.
1.) After flashing boot, recovery and custom rom (tried it with CM 10.1 and JellyBam), it would go only up to the boot image (HTC) and stay on there forever. Cleared everything that I could clear on the recovery and cleared fastboot cache.
What I did, relocked it again and tried running the stock RUU (through the computer) and shows error and won't complete.
2.) Now, phone no longer recognizes the Unlock_code.bin from HTC dev. I tried manually flashing it in fastboot and as well as using the All-in-one-tool for Evita, it would somehow show that it went through on both but looking at my phone, it stays: Relocked. Tried it with at least three unlock bin files to no avail.
3.) Other than that, turning the phone off and back on would go straight to bootloader. When I select Recovery, it would go back straight to fastboot mode. Tried to flash recoveries again, and would get this:
E:\Mobile Devices\sd-fix\Nocturnal_SD_FIX_EVITA\Nocturnal_SD_FIX_EVITA>fastboot
flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-evita.img
sending 'recovery' (7992 KB)... OKAY [ 2.140s]
writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 2.871s
E:\Mobile Devices\sd-fix\Nocturnal_SD_FIX_EVITA\Nocturnal_SD_FIX_EVITA>fastboot
flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.0-evita.img
sending 'recovery' (7460 KB)... OKAY [ 1.692s]
writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 2.370s
Now I'm stuck with a phone with no OS. Please help. I appreciate your time.
Here's my phone info.
AT&T HTC One X
S-ON
HBOOT - 2.14.0000

Getting a new code only requires fast boot. So just get a new unlock code.....
*edit*
Sorry I misread. This happened to me. Just simulate a battery pull by pressing and holding power and try again. Keep doing that over and over. Eventually, it will work.
Took me about 10-15 tries once.
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Also try to lock the phone even if it tells you it is already locked.
fastboot oem lock
Do that prior to attempting the unlock after full power cycle. Sometimes that gets the device back on track, dont worry too much this issue is not exactly new and after a bit of dicking around the phone will unlock again.

Thanks for your responses!
Yeah, it did. After a number times requesting for unlock bins and re locking, finally it was unlocked.
Now I now have problem #1 from OP. It actually goes to HTC boot screen, stays there for a couple of seconds then reboot. It's been doing that in a loop. Flashed three different ROMs and three different versions of TWRP and phone still does the same thing.
Found my mainver to be 3.18 which I suspect have been changed when I attempted to run the 4.1 RUU (this was before I tried to unlock the bootloader). Downloaded the said RUU from two different sites just to be sure. None of those have worked.
So I found a thread here in XDA saying that this could be the reason why I couldn't boot any of these ROMs.
Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated.

Must not have read very much before trying to root if you don't know fastboot flash boot boot.Img
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You're s-on so you need to flash the boot.img manually on hboot 2.14.
Retrieve the boot.img from the ROM zip and place it in your working directory on your pc.
Copy ROM to phone (if you haven't already done that).
Do a full wipe in recovery, then flash the ROM.
Reboot to the bootloader, connect phone to pc, make sure it says fastboot usb on your phone screen.
Open a command prompt in your working directory and issue the following command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot the phone.
Enjoy.
Sent from my Evita

Typically bootloops are solved by
flashing recovery cwm or twrp.
wipe cache, data and system.
Manual install the boot.ing from rom you are installing.
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Install your rom in recovery.
Hopefully all will work then
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exad said:
Must not have read very much before trying to root if you don't know fastboot flash boot boot.Img
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timmaaa said:
You're s-on so you need to flash the boot.img manually on hboot 2.14.
Retrieve the boot.img from the ROM zip and place it in your working directory on your pc.
Copy ROM to phone (if you haven't already done that).
Do a full wipe in recovery, then flash the ROM.
Reboot to the bootloader, connect phone to pc, make sure it says fastboot usb on your phone screen.
Open a command prompt in your working directory and issue the following command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot the phone.
Enjoy.
Sent from my Evita
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twistedddx said:
Typically bootloops are solved by
flashing recovery cwm or twrp.
wipe cache, data and system.
Manual install the boot.ing from rom you are installing.
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Install your rom in recovery.
Hopefully all will work then
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It's actually my fourth device. Did flash boot.img all the time. That's why it's kind of frustrating.

Any thoughts about damaged eMMC? Just hypothetical.
I don't know if it was a brick but I had an issue before where this HOXL didn't boot up after flashing a wrong kernel. Didn't even light up when plugged to power and had to re-flash the eMMC block using that WIP method. It went back to life.
Might need to try that again. Would that be possible? Still have to download live ubuntu, though. The one I used before got corrupted.
What I did so far:
-relock
-unlock
-erased fastboot cache
-flashed boot.img ( from the custom ROMs that I've tried )
-flashed twrp ( 3 versions )
-wiped every wipe option i could see
I already have tested at least 6 ROMs on this device with no issue with TWRP.
I had ViperXL installed before this happened. I wiped everything out and tried to flash the ATT Android 4.1 RUU and everything got screwed.
edit: i typed the capcha on the title box. lol

You're still s-on right?
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exad said:
You're still s-on right?
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Yup!
Is there a way to s-off while you're on fastboot? Facepalm method requires it on booted android. So far can't see other procedures done through fastboot.

EjWilkes0121 said:
Yup!
Is there a way to s-off while you're on fastboot? Facepalm method requires it on booted android. So far can't see other procedures done through fastboot.
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Get twrp running 2.3.3.1 and flash any sense Rom then s-off
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I'm going to try again once I get home from work.
Thanks for all your responses guys.

Done it all.
Relocked, intalled RUU - fail.
Unlocked, wiped everything, installed ROM, erased fastboot cache, flashed boot.img, erased fastboot cache - bootloop.
Tried using CWM and same thig happes - bootloops after flashing rom and boot.img
However, I just noticed something.
Whenever I get to flash a zip through recovery, process seems to just complete in no time. I have flashed multiple ROMs and one could really see progress shown on progress bar on both recovery flashing( CM10.1, JellyBam ) and through Aroma installer( CleanROM, ViperXL ).
When this problem started, entire process would initiate, pauses for few seconds then it completes. Can't see the progress bar move across.
I might be going out of topic here but I'm desperate in having this fixed.
Your thoughts and ideas means a lot.

Are there any roms you can boot?? How are you downloading the files? On a pc? Did the md5 match. Maybe the usb wire has a defect and screws the file upon transfer. Your have a really strange issue. I'll flash out of boredom and never had that happen, Even with roms that do nothing more than boot.
And your running twrp 2.3.3.1???
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I think the recovery is most likely at fault here.
Make sure it's twrp 2.3.3.1: http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/evita/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
Use a USB 2.0 port just to be safe.
check md5 omg so important!
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot bootloader
Select recovery
Check the md5 of the sense rom you downloaded
Extract boot.img from rom.
Transfer the rom zip to the phone.
wipe cache, dalvik, system and factory reset in recovery
install sense rom
reboot to bootloader
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
Do all that and then tell me what happens.

Back to life!
A huge thanks to you guys! Big time! :victory:
It could be the recovery that screwed it up. Been trying TWRP 2.5 and TWRP 2.2 most of the time. I gave TWRP 2.6 a shot and that made a successful install. I flash ViperXL 3.2.7 + ElementalX 6.7 and phone's back to life!
One thing i noticed. After I S-Off'ed, phone's kind of jerky using normal use. One noticeable thing is the lock screen that doesn't respond after waking, takes 1-2 sec to respond when swiping the lock ring. Big prob for me, battery stuck at 77% even when charged or used heavily. Random reboots also happen. Maybe have to read the entire FacePalm S-Off thread this week. LoL. For now, back to S-On, phone works perfect.
Again, thanks so much for your help guys! Won't be missing any Thank button that you got. :laugh:

I found current sense roms work better with latest firmware so s-off ruu to 3.18 and then see how things run.
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How to Downgrade bootloader 41.1A to 41.18 or 41.19

please..
i have problem with bootloader version 41.1A
i want to Downgrade to version 41.18 or 41.19
anyone know ..??
please share it
thank you

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Me too
My bootloader v 41.1A I downgrade 41.18 Help

Why do you need to downgrade? Messing with Bootloaders can destroy your phone.

even i want to downgrade... I cant flash custom recovery on 41.1A

poran123 said:
even i want to downgrade... I cant flash custom recovery on 41.1A
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Bootloader cannot be downgraded. You're stuck on w/e version you have currently installed.

Okay so I'm stuck on 41.1A and my phone will continue to restart itself and then stuck in bootloop till the battery dies... and then when I connect it to the charger boot's up normally...

@lost101
Can you please let me know how to check bootloader version?
I am using Moto G XT1033 model(Asia).
It was updated to Lollipop 5.0.2 by Motorola Stock Lollipop update.
Later on I had unlocked bootloader and downgraded it to Kitkat 4.4.4 using this thread.
I don't have any clue about current version of bootloader in my Moto G.
I want to try Lollipop 5.1 Optimized stock rom link here, so just wanted to ensure compatibility of bootloader so that my phone works after flashing it.

kalpesh.fulpagare said:
@lost101
Can you please let me know how to check bootloader version?
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Enter bootloader (hold volume-down while turning it on), read text on screen (second line).

I too want to know if there is a way to downgrade or at least reflash my damaged bootloader which is causing weird behaviour.
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I have the exact same problem.
Stuck on 41.1A
Was on a slim6 rom before. Tried to return to STOCK_ASIA_RETAIL. All fastboot commands successfully executed but no apparent change. I have the exact same wallpaper, the same layers RRO navbars, everything. I would not need to go to STOCK but since the slim installation is unstable and everything force closes, the phone is unusable.
Additional note: Somehow even TWRP is stuck in the splash screen, so cant flash any other ROM. Even tried to access TWRP using adb, but the TWRP service fails to start.
I fastboot flashed phillz recovery, stock recovery & newer TWRP versions, but nothing happens. Phone still stuck in TWRP screen.
To my surprise I was able to pull my personal files from the internal SD using ADB (which still works btw).
But I'm left with a phone in a zombie unusable condition, it just doesn't react to anything.
Any help from the XDA community would be greatly appreciated. I am still keeping my fingers crossed, so that one day a guide comes up to brick my device (STOCK 5.1 bootloader) and unbrick it using some sort of unbrick tool.

Why is not possible to create a flashable zip with the bootloader inside? I want to downgrade to KitKat bootloader too

SLATE21&MOTOG said:
Why is not possible to create a flashable zip with the bootloader inside? I want to downgrade to KitKat bootloader too
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Creating such a zip is possible, but flashing it may either not work or hard brick your phone.

How to install working recovery on 41.1A bootloader
I had the situation on my Moto G XT1039 where I had formatted the partitions on my phone (using my old CWM recovery), then flashed the 41.1A bootloader, but 41.1A would not allow me to flash any recovery.
So I had a working bootloader, but no recovery and no OS. And apparently no way to install a recovery, to install an OS...
I got the phone back like this:
- Flashed 4.4.4 stock manually using the bootloader (if you do this, DO NOT flash the 4.4.4 motoboot.img, according to everything on here that will permanently brick your phone; I am not sure about partition gpt.bin - I flashed this, but I was already on the 4.4.4 partition layout anyway). Do flash boot.img, that is the OS boot.
- So now I had a bootable phone OS (back on 4.4.4 again, with a flickering screen), but still no recovery.
- From the bootloader, I booted into an old recovery which I knew had previously worked with my phone:
Code:
fastboot boot clockworkmodrecovery.6051.peregrine.img
(this boots into a temporary copy of the recovery, without actually installing it on the recovery partition).
- Using that, I installed the SuperSU binary.
- Then I booted back into my 4.4.4 OS, installed the SuperSU app, checked it was working, then installed the TWRP Manager app (which requires root, hence the previous steps), then used that to successfully install the TWRP recovery on my phone.
From there I now had the correct recovery in place to flash the 5.1 Optimized distro (which I would definitely recommend - clean, stable, excellent battery life!).
Yay!

Bmju said:
- So now I had a bootable phone OS (back on 4.4.4 again, with a flickering screen), but still no recovery.
- From the bootloader, I booted into an old recovery which I knew had previously worked with my phone:
Code:
fastboot boot clockworkmodrecovery.6051.peregrine.img
(this boots into a temporary copy of the recovery, without actually installing it on the recovery partition).
- Using that, I installed the SuperSU binary.
- Then I booted back into my 4.4.4 OS, installed the SuperSU app, checked it was working, then installed the TWRP Manager app (which requires root, hence the previous steps), then used that to successfully install the TWRP recovery on my phone.
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Why didn't you simply fastboot flash a TWRP image?

_that said:
Why didn't you simply fastboot flash a TWRP image?
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I hope I haven't misunderstood, but isn't the whole point of this thread that the 41.1A bootloader won't let some poeple (including me) successfully flash anything to the recovery partition? You can run the command, but the recovery won't boot up. At least that's how it was for me.

Bmju said:
I hope I haven't misunderstood, but isn't the whole point of this thread that the 41.1A bootloader won't let some poeple (including me) successfully flash anything to the recovery partition? You can run the command, but the recovery won't boot up. At least that's how it was for me.
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I see. So "fastboot boot" worked, but "fastboot flash" wouldn't write anything? In that case you could probably also have used fastboot boot with TWRP and then use TWRP's "install image" feature to flash it.

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I see. So "fastboot boot" worked, but "fastboot flash" wouldn't write anything? In that case you could probably also have used fastboot boot with TWRP and then use TWRP's "install image" feature to flash it.
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Thanks! I definitely tried that first! Maybe this bit I didn't make clear in my post, but actually:
- fastboot boot was only working for me with older recovery ROMS, i.e. the older CWM recovery which I mentioned, which I had lying around from when I first rooted my phone on 4.4.4, and also - not that it's much use - with the recovery in the 4.4.4 image, which just brings up the dead Android logo
- fastboot flash recovery was not working at all, not even with the recovery roms which would boot with fastboot boot
- but fastboot flash to all the other partitions seemed to work fine (I could see that it seemed to be working because I was able to flash different logo.bin files to change the phone logo which shows before the phone tries to boot into recovery or OS) and as per my post this was how I was able to get my phone back eventually
This thread was the only place I could find which seems to represent people having the same set of problems, so I thought the above workaround might be useful in future to someone in the same situation.

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- fastboot flash recovery was not working at all, not even with the recovery roms which would boot with fastboot boot
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So far nobody has posted a terminal transcript of "not working". Did it appear to succeed or did you get an error message?
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- but fastboot flash to all the other partitions seemed to work fine (I could see that it seemed to be working because I was able to flash different logo.bin files to change the phone logo which shows before the phone tries to boot into recovery or OS) and as per my post this was how I was able to get my phone back eventually
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That doesn't make any sense. Not that I don't believe you, I just can't explain how fastboot could fail writing recovery but succeed in writing a different partition.
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This thread was the only place I could find which seems to represent people having the same set of problems, so I thought the above workaround might be useful in future to someone in the same situation.
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Thanks for sharing your experience though, maybe it will help someone who has the same weird issue.

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So far nobody has posted a terminal transcript of "not working". Did it appear to succeed or did you get an error message?
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It appears to succeed, except that it gives the 'mismatched partition size error' on the bootloader screen at the end of flashing. (Although other posts seem to state that this is normal for a non-strock recovery?)

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It appears to succeed, except that it gives the 'mismatched partition size error' on the bootloader screen at the end of flashing. (Although other posts seem to state that this is normal for a non-strock recovery?)
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Yes, I've got that one too, but my flashed recovery then worked fine. However I upgraded my bootloader by installing the complete 5.1 stock ROM, maybe your bootloader update was somehow incomplete.

Trying to root Verizon Pixel and stuck in bootloop??

What's up everyone. So I unlocked the bootloader of my Verizon pixel OK. I then went to root it and after it rebooted once it seems to be stuck at the jumping dots screen. It's been like 5 minutes. Not sure what I should do.
Any suggestions?

From bootloader:
Using stock boot.img from your version's factory image from Google. (In a zip inside the main zip).
Fastboot flash boot_a boot.img
Fastboot flash boot_b boot.img
Fastboot reboot
Then after setting up your phone try rooting again. You have to boot once stock after unlocking bootloader initially.
If still no dice, use flash-all.bat or .sh to go fully stock, then boot and set device up then reboot to root as per normal directions for your firmware.
Rooting won't cause a second wipe. Just unlocking or flashing factory image.
Do NOT relock bootloader (potential brick).
Sent from my sailfish using XDA Labs

Got it!! Holy Crap brother thank you!!!
Just so I don't do that again, which root files should I be using? I read it may have been caused from using outdated files

Which method did you use to gain root? Fastboot boot boot-to-root.img caused me to bootloop. I restored the factory image, installed TWRP alpha2, then flashed SuperSU 2.78 SR5 from TWRP and all was fine.

yeah i tried the boot boot method. I guess I should try the twrp method. Just so I don't screw up again, do you remember where you got the files. Figure I'll use those if they worked for you.

Everything is in the Pixel ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, and Other Development Forum.

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Everything is in the Pixel ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, and Other Development Forum.
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Thanks! OK so i downloaded the twrp file I'm getting a failed error message. I've renamed the file twrp.img and am using this commmand to flash it fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
What am I doing wrong?

RC1 or Alpha2? RC1 kept giving me md5 mismatch errors. On the TWRP download page both Alpha2 files are also available.

I'm trying to flash alpha 2 and it keeps saying Failed remote partition recovery doesnt exist

Haven't seen that one before. When I tried the boot-to-root method I had to restore a factory image before I could try again.

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Haven't seen that one before. When I tried the boot-to-root method I had to restore a factory image before I could try again.
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Yeah I'm totally stumped. I did have to reflash the boot image and am back up and running. just can't seem to get twrp to flash!! I've followed the steps from multiple threads and just can't get it to work.
Any suggestions are welcome

Boot twrp Img, not flash. Then install the twrp zip if you want it to replace the stock recovery.
Which guide says flash..theres a new rc1 out but haven't checked it. You made 2 posts regarding inability to flash but did you Google for the answer?

I kept trying to flash it cause the threads and sites I saw kept using that command. I finally used fastboot boot twrp.img and it worked fine. Also many of the guides don't say you need to have the zip on your phone to flash.
No prob, I worked it out!! Thanks for everyone's responses!!!