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TWRP asking for password

After unboxing my Nexus 5, here's what I did:
1. Booted into bootloader
2. fastboot oem unlock
3. Flashed TWRP v2.6.3.0
4. Booted to recovery
The screen that greeted me says "Please Enter Your Password".
I can hit the cancel button below this which takes me to the normal TWRP screen. I then pushed SuperSU to /sdcard, but when I flash it it fails because it's unable to mount /cache or storage.
When I reboot to the system, it takes an awfully long time (approximately 30s) to progress past the "Google" screen, and then it just seems to sit on the booting animation forever.
Any help?
EDIT: Solved my own problem.
Hit cancel at the password screen, then go into Wipe and then do a factory reset by swiping. Then go back into Wipe and press the 'Format data' button. You have to type 'Yes', and it will take a few seconds. After that everything should work normally.

You forgot to reboot after OEM unlock
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mattrb said:
You forgot to reboot after OEM unlock
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Ah, that might explain it. So after you do an OEM unlock, you need to reboot back into the bootloader? Or reboot into the system? And then you flash recovery?

Niksko said:
After unboxing my Nexus 5, here's what I did:
1. Booted into bootloader
2. fastboot oem unlock
3. Flashed TWRP v2.6.3.0
4. Booted to recovery
The screen that greeted me says "Please Enter Your Password".
I can hit the cancel button below this which takes me to the normal TWRP screen. I then pushed SuperSU to /sdcard, but when I flash it it fails because it's unable to mount /cache or storage.
When I reboot to the system, it takes an awfully long time (approximately 30s) to progress past the "Google" screen, and then it just seems to sit on the booting animation forever.
Any help?
EDIT: Solved my own problem.
Hit cancel at the password screen, then go into Wipe and then do a factory reset by swiping. Then go back into Wipe and press the 'Format data' button. You have to type 'Yes', and it will take a few seconds. After that everything should work normally.
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Thanks so so much for your informative edit. I had the exact same issue, solved it perfectly for me. Cheers

Haha at least i wasn't the only one to do this! I guess you need to boot up the device after a oem unlock before you try to flash the recovery... who knew haha
Thanks for the solution!

Now, i have a issue, i did this also and i didn't reboot. My phone seems to be stuck in a boot loop. Should i go threw the motions of flashing a ruu to it?

super-6-1 said:
Now, i have a issue, i did this also and i didn't reboot. My phone seems to be stuck in a boot loop. Should i go threw the motions of flashing a ruu to it?
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If you don't have anything on the phone. Just flash the factory image, and everything will be good as new.

joshyth said:
If you don't have anything on the phone. Just flash the factory image, and everything will be good as new.
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awesome doing that now.

mattrb said:
You forgot to reboot after OEM unlock
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Did this after unlocking my new n7 2013. found this solution, worked like a charm! thanks!

I have this error..but i can't wipe "E:Unable to mount storage."

Polv89 said:
I have this error..but i can't wipe "E:Unable to mount storage."
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Same error here. Did you solved it?

Uwe303 said:
Same error here. Did you solved it?
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I have this error..too
"E:Unable to mount storage."
any idea ?
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EDIT : I flashed twrp-2.6.3.4 and then everything was fine

Uwe303 said:
Same error here. Did you solved it?
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Matrix_19 said:
I have this error..too
"E:Unable to mount storage."
any idea ?
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EDIT : I flashed twrp-2.6.3.4 and then everything was fine
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Were you guys flashing or restoring?
I've came across this too, all i did was manually mount/unmount storage as well as system.
But updating recoveries is always best

same prblm
i have the same prblm here on my xperia z but when i do the factory reset by swiping it gave "failed" again ,what can i do !could anyone help me plz!

hssn a said:
i have the same prblm here on my xperia z but when i do the factory reset by swiping it gave "failed" again ,what can i do !could anyone help me plz!
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You should discuss your issue in the Xperia Z sections.

This happened to me, and caused me a real rough time flashing anything. I bought the phone used, and since I've never used the function, I didn't know what was happening. The previous owner encrypted it. Really messed me up. After I realized it, I managed to wipe everything and restore stock 4.4.2.
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Might not be the same issue for you...but it sure sounds similar.
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:cyclops: thx genius !! just trying to ask here because many ppl have the same prblm , and this isnt about "sony"

Matrix_19 said:
I have this error..too
"E:Unable to mount storage."
any idea ?
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EDIT : I flashed twrp-2.6.3.4 and then everything was fine
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Happened to me a few times...I just kept rebooting to recovery until it mounted.

Niksko said:
EDIT: Solved my own problem.
Hit cancel at the password screen, then go into Wipe and then do a factory reset by swiping. Then go back into Wipe and press the 'Format data' button. You have to type 'Yes', and it will take a few seconds. After that everything should work normally.
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Many thanks from me too!
I've got the described problem by attempting to install a KK ROM on my Xoom. After the TWRP update I also got this "Enter password" dialogue.
Your solution helped very much.

I had the same problem. all you need to do is to set your screen lock to none.(go to settings, security, screen lock, and then select none)

[Q] Help i hosed my Nexus 5

I hosed my nexus 5 trying to root it. I can get to the bootloader and recovery but when I try to use adb twrp says it failed. I have tried using a couple of different tools to get it back to stock but they reboot from the bootloader and it stops at the boot up screen and never goes any further. I really hope i can fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried flashing the factory image?
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Yes I have. I keep getting stuck at the boot screen.

akcanuck said:
Yes I have. I keep getting stuck at the boot screen.
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Did you factory reset from recovery after flashing?
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akcanuck said:
Yes I have. I keep getting stuck at the boot screen.
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Do you mean that after a succesfull flash of the factory image in fastboot it will not boot and you`re stuck on the bootscreen? If so go into fastboot, go to recovery and wipe the caches and data factory reset and reboot.

I tried just tried to boot into recovery from the bootloader after flashing and got a android screen with a red triangle.

akcanuck said:
I tried just tried to boot into recovery from the bootloader after flashing and got a android screen with a red triangle.
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Press the power key and right after that volume up to get into recovery.

OK I was able to get into recovery. Did a factory reset and restarted and I am still stuck at the bootscreen.

akcanuck said:
OK I was able to get into recovery. Did a factory reset and restarted and I am still stuck at the bootscreen.
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How did you flash the factory images? Using the flash-all.bat?

akcanuck said:
OK I was able to get into recovery. Did a factory reset and restarted and I am still stuck at the bootscreen.
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And you flashed a full factory image before and the device was wiped completely? If yes the device is bricked bro and you`ll have to send it back bro.

I finally got it. Thanks for everyones help. I am so relieved.

akcanuck said:
I finally got it. Thanks for everyones help. I am so relieved.
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Glad its solved, btw don`t say thanks but hit the thanks button if users helped you

[Done] Stuck on splash screen

Hello
i received my 64Go one today
i unlocked bootloader
i installed teamwin recovery
i made a mistake : i booted on recovery withoot copiing SU update zip on the tel
And it doesn't want to reboot : i'm stuck on the first screen : the black one with oneplus logo in white and << powerd by android >>
I can enter fastboot
please help

ludskyrider said:
Hello
i received my 64Go one today
i unlocked bootloader
i installed teamwin recovery
i made a mistake : i booted on recovery withoot copiing SU update zip on the tel
And it doesn't want to reboot : i'm stuck on the first screen : the black one with oneplus logo in white and << powerd by android >>
I can enter fastboot
please help
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did you try to wipe/cache or do a factory reset then reboot. Question - Is this your first time ever rooting any android device? do you know how to use adb? since you can simply push the Su zip file over to your device from recovery

playya said:
did you try to wipe/cache or do a factory reset then reboot. Question - Is this your first time ever rooting any android device? do you know how to use adb? since you can simply push the Su zip file over to your device from recovery
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i had htc hd2 and galaxy note1, rooted and flashed
i didn't wiped nor factory reset
i am a newbie with adb but i want to be able to do it if someone explain me

ludskyrider said:
i had htc hd2 and galaxy note1, rooted and flashed
i didn't wiped nor factory reset
i am a newbie with adb but i want to be able to do it if someone explain me
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now if thats all you did I would wipe cache and try and restart. ADB tutorials are all over
Edit: How did you root - you used a toolkit?

playya said:
now if thats all you did I would wipe cache and try and restart. ADB tutorials are all over
Edit: How did you root - you used a toolkit?
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ok
done, with adb sideload, flashed mahdi rom
thank you

ludskyrider said:
ok
done, with adb sideload, flashed mahdi rom
thank you
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just click the thanks button and I am glad it worked for you. Its a good feeling I bet.... Enjoy :good:

playya said:
just click the thanks button and I am glad it worked for you. Its a good feeling I bet.... Enjoy :good:
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ok i clicked
but there is one thing i didn't understood : what's the way to boot under recovery
i know how to boot in android or in fastboot but i didn't find the way to enter recovery... I finally get into recovery but it was only in a lucky moment...

find a toolkit that can flash CM11s in fastboot worked for me after i got stuck on bootloop with omnirom
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ludskyrider said:
but there is one thing i didn't understood : what's the way to boot under recovery
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Either use the Advanced Reboot options in the power menu or turn your phone off and hold the volume down+power button till it vibrates. ±15 seconds and you are in your recovery.

TiVON said:
Either use the Advanced Reboot options in the power menu or turn your phone off and hold the volume down+power button till it vibrates. ±15 seconds and you are in your recovery.
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15 seconds
ok
i did'nt wait so much

stuck in loop, possibly a different kind of loop

I was trying to fix my girlfriends nexus 5 that was doing the restart loop after an update. Everything seemed to go fine. Unlocked the bootloader, etc. Flashed the newest rom (6.0.1 (MMB29S) ce1d670f61061c3902f3997510ea55d7 6bfcdfa4f4840898e5d76fa044f5e6a0f71343bf) and then something obviously went wrong (not quite sure, dont think i touched anything) and it's now stuck in a different kind of loop that only loops while it's plugged in. Ive uploaded a video to youtube, but since im a new user i cant actually link it properly yet. Hopefully this wont annoy any mods, I promise it's not spam. youtube . be / yNSoiTPnGZw
Is there any way to get it to stay on for more than a couple seconds to retry the flashing?
Any help is appreciated.

atomkrieg said:
I was trying to fix my girlfriends nexus 5 that was doing the restart loop after an update. Everything seemed to go fine. Unlocked the bootloader, etc. Flashed the newest rom (6.0.1 (MMB29S) ce1d670f61061c3902f3997510ea55d7 6bfcdfa4f4840898e5d76fa044f5e6a0f71343bf) and then something obviously went wrong (not quite sure, dont think i touched anything) and it's now stuck in a different kind of loop that only loops while it's plugged in. Ive uploaded a video to youtube, but since im a new user i cant actually link it properly yet. Hopefully this wont annoy any mods, I promise it's not spam. youtube . be / yNSoiTPnGZw
Is there any way to get it to stay on for more than a couple seconds to retry the flashing?
Any help is appreciated.
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What was your flashing procedure, did u is a toolkit or do it manually, can u get it into bootloader or recovery? What files did u is for update and where did u get them?
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What was your flashing procedure, did u is a toolkit or do it manually, can u get it into bootloader or recovery? What files did u is for update and where did u get them?
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First i followed the guide here on xda to unlock the bootloader(guide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905), installed twrp, which went fine. Then i realized that i couldnt (or didnt realize how to via command line) to copy the stock rom and install it via twrp, so then i followed this guide here on xda (tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701) with the factory img (6.01 hammerhead), got to this point in the guide: ★After everything finished, select "Recovery" using the volume buttons. then it stalled out,turned off and now just cycles on and offf through the google logo with the lock picture or if i hold down the volume button it will go into the bootloader briefly then restart, rinse repeat.

atomkrieg said:
First i followed the guide here on xda to unlock the bootloader(guide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905), installed twrp, which went fine. Then i realized that i couldnt (or didnt realize how to via command line) to copy the stock rom and install it via twrp, so then i followed this guide here on xda (tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701) with the factory img (6.01 hammerhead), got to this point in the guide: ★After everything finished, select "Recovery" using the volume buttons. then it stalled out,turned off and now just cycles on and offf through the google logo with the lock picture or if i hold down the volume button it will go into the bootloader briefly then restart, rinse repeat.
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Have u tried messing with the power button, there are a lot of issues on the nexus 5 with the power button causing loops, simply from getting stuck, try playing with the power button a little and see of that helps, it might just need to be replaced
Wait, did u flash the factory img with twrp, or did u flash it using fastboot?
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soupysoup said:
Have u tried messing with the power button, there are a lot of issues on the nexus 5 with the power button causing loops, simply from getting stuck, try playing with the power button a little and see of that helps, it might just need to be replaced
Wait, did u flash the factory img with twrp, or did u flash it using fastboot?
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in the end fastboot, since i coulndt see how i could copy the img over to install via twrp
im pretty sure the button is fine, since it was cycling from the ota update install, then was working fine unlocking the bootloader, but after the flash, it crapped the bed.

Different problem
I had a problem where the google logo keeps on booting up with a slight vibration.This started to happen when my was dropped.I initially thought that was a software issue and thought of installing new ROM's but eventually my device was not detected :crying:
So i took it to repair shop near my house and they said it would cost 2500
I did some google research and found the reason was due to the power button being stucked during the fall.I got that repaired and my device is good to go

siddhu007 said:
I had a problem where the google logo keeps on booting up with a slight vibration.This started to happen when my was dropped.I initially thought that was a software issue and thought of installing new ROM's but eventually my device was not detected :crying:
So i took it to repair shop near my house and they said it would cost 2500
I did some google research and found the reason was due to the power button being stucked during the fall.I got that repaired and my device is good to go
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ok, took it into a shop, got the power button fixed. It must have been on the way out because literally one minute it worked and the second it didnt. now i think ive got it narrowed down. it's saying it's unable to mount /persist. ive tried the various fixes:
e2fsck/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
and
make_ext4fs/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
but all i get is a not found error. not sure what to do from here on.

success!! i ended up stumbling on a bit how to restore the persist partition i didnt try. got a custom rom installs and everything works. thanks to everyone who tried to help!!

stuck in bootloop while flashing cataclysm rom
i tried to flash cataclysm rom in my n5..i unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery using TWRP and flash cataclysm rom following the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...s-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905...after that it was stuck in bootloop...i tried to open recovery but it wont open anymore it will only go back to loop....how can open the recovery? is it safe to flash CWM recovery?..tnx in advance..

When it was stuck in the loop, I had to hold vol up and down with the power button (wait a few secs until it was completely off) then reboot holding down + power till it opened the bootloader. if that doesnt work, try reflashing the bootloader via fastboot. I only found out i couldnt mount the persist partition by looking at the terminal window in twrp after trying to install a rom which kept it in the boot loop. I then used the cmd: make_ext4fs /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist to rebuild it.

jpau11 said:
i tried to flash cataclysm rom in my n5..i unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery using TWRP and flash cataclysm rom following the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...s-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905...after that it was stuck in bootloop...i tried to open recovery but it wont open anymore it will only go back to loop....how can open the recovery? is it safe to flash CWM recovery?..tnx in advance..
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After flashing TWRP, use the volume and power button to select recovery. Once in TWRP, wipe cache, data, reboot.

audit13 said:
After flashing TWRP, use the volume and power button to select recovery. Once in TWRP, wipe cache, data, reboot.
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problems solved!!i flashed TWRP again and it it already to the recovery so i reflashed the cataclysm rom and it worked...my n5 is now working..tnx guys!

jpau11 said:
problems solved!!i flashed TWRP again and it it already to the recovery so i reflashed the cataclysm rom and it worked...my n5 is now working..tnx guys!
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Great to hear it. Congratulations:good:

nexus 5 stucked on google screen and twrp startup failure

hi, this is my first time on xda and I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong here. I'm using nexus 5 since last 3 years and I was thinking of rooting it cause there is no official update after 6.0.1. so, I unlocked the bootloader installed twrp recovery and when I tried opening the custom recovery for the first time ever and it opened with some loading screen for 3-4 seconds then turned off and got stuck on the google screen and after 2-3 seconds it starts again. I searched everywhere but there was nothing like my problem. Now I don't know what to do cause I can't even open the custom recovery to wipe the data.
can anyone help me out in this situation?
thanks

prerit_m said:
hi, this is my first time on xda and I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong here. I'm using nexus 5 since last 3 years and I was thinking of rooting it cause there is no official update after 6.0.1. so, I unlocked the bootloader installed twrp recovery and when I tried opening the custom recovery for the first time ever and it opened with some loading screen for 3-4 seconds then turned off and got stuck on the google screen and after 2-3 seconds it starts again. I searched everywhere but there was nothing like my problem. Now I don't know what to do cause I can't even open the custom recovery to wipe the data.
can anyone help me out in this situation?
thanks
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Install this recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead.img i think it will help u.
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tathanhlam66 said:
Install this recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead.img i think it will help u.
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Thank you so much for your help but it took me no where. I tried cleaning the data and cache and now im stucked in animation loop. Lol

You flashed twrp using fast boot commands?
After flashing twrp, did you boot into twrp from the fast boot screen?

This is called a boot loop.
prerit_m said:
Thank you so much for your help but it took me no where. I tried cleaning the data and cache and now im stucked in animation loop. Lol
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First off I'd like to know what did you do to unlock your bootloader? What version of TWRP did you use? Are you sure it was for the right device?
But what you're in is called a boot loop, which is the result of a error in the OS. If it's still doing this what I want you to do is wait until it is shut down then hold power + VOL Up + VOL Down and wait until it brings up the bootloader (if it does at all.) If you access that hit the VOL Down button twice to open recovery mode. If it tries to enter the TWRP custom recovery and you get that error again, I can't help ya. If it enters the stock recovery you're golden. Hit the VOL down button until you're on the wipe data/factory reset and hit the power button. This should clear out your phone. Hope this helps.