I installed TWRP to install a different kernel.
It installed and offered to wipe Dalvik Cache, which I thought would be a good idea. It then seemed to get stuck doing this, so eventually I turned off and rebooted.
It rebooted fine, but the internal memory seems to be unreadable and Google Play seems to constantly crash.
I thought the quickest way to start again was to oem lock and unlock again. It then seemed to get stuck booting up.
I got back into TWRP and did a data reset, which is now allowing me to boot again, but I still have no Internal Storage and Google Play still FC's.
I'm currently trying the Nexus 5 Multi Tool to reset back to original state (flash back stock ROM)
It's got 30 minutes to go, downloading the ROM... so I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas for me?
Thanks.
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Just wondering if anyone has ever bootlooped their Charge for no apparent reason. I wasn't flashing anything I was just transferring some videos from my computer to my SD card when suddenly I noticed I can't install any apps from the market it just endlessly installs. So I hold the power button and click restart, get the Samsung logo & my boot animation but the boot animation NEVER ends. I battery pulled twice already and attempted to remove the SD card(since transferring files to it seems to be the only cause for this problem) but alas, to no avail. I rebooted into clockwork, reflashed Eclipse, cleared cache, dalvik cache and rebooted. Still, nothing.
If anyone has had this happen to them or just knows how to fix this please let me know, it's quite shocking considering I did absolutely nothing except transfer a video to my SD card. I'd prefer not to flash the .pit/.md5 since I haven't backed up in a while but if it's totally necessary I'll make the sacrifice for the greater good.
Your phone is force closing due to something if the boot animation never ends. If you use adb and get a logcat, it is possible that we could figure out what it is and maybe fix it. However, wiping /data and doing a factory reset will fix it if you want to go that root. Also Q&A
I just did a factory reset, didn't want to but I need my phone. Bummed I'm going to have to redownload like 35+ apps though, my fault for not backing up more frequently.
I have some random acore fc's sometimes that can only be fixed by wiping and flashing. Good thing I keep everything backed up every few days. I wish there was an option to schedule backups.
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Yeah it bootlooped so I did a factory reset & reflashed, everything seemed fine but then i got all these force closes. This is so aggravating!
update: Flashed the .pit/.md5 combo to go back to stock, just gonna start over.
Hello there, I have a huge issue with my Motorola Xoom.
I ran the #156 TeamEOS 4.2 Nightly Rom for my European 3G Xoom when all of a sudden my tablet started acting really weird.
Apps were crashing, Google Play wasn't working, Browser as well, and so on.
I decided to do a hard reset, formatting cache, Dalvik Cache, Hard Reset...but nothing was cancelled. As soon as i rebooted my device, everything was back the way it was with the same issues. I noticed my tablet was costantly updating the same apps and even if I updated them the following reboot they were back re-updating themselves.
I have no idea what to do, I tried everything, including RSD Lite. Nothing.
Can somebody help me figuring out what to do and how to at least format my Xoom completely so that I can re-install my rom and then re-install the apps?
Thanks.
I would boot into recovery and do a full wipe the reflash the rom a gapps. you should be good to go.
No can do, sorry. What's weird is that even when I go to change the performance settings on the rom, to overclock it more or less, the changes are not recorded. I can set whatever I want but it doesn't change it. It's like the tablet is in a loop, always stuck doing the same things, charging the same rom, the same settings. I really don't know what to do, I don't want to throw it away but I don't know how to solve it.
Which xoom do you have? We can always flash the stock img with fastboot to restore it. It will be back to complete stock.
Can you get into recovery at all by powering off then press the power button wait till 3 sec's after the logo appears and press volume down. You will see android recovery at the top press vol up to select. If you can and you have a backup restore it. If you use an external sd card you can load a rom on to it and flash it in recovery.
"I decided to do a hard reset, formatting cache, Dalvik Cache, Hard Reset...but nothing was cancelled. As soon as i rebooted my device, everything was back the way it was with the same issues. I noticed my tablet was costantly updating the same apps and even if I updated them the following reboot they were back re-updating themselves."
this is the same exact problem i'm having. I cannot get my xoom to reset. It always goes back to where it was before.
danman1835 said:
"I decided to do a hard reset, formatting cache, Dalvik Cache, Hard Reset...but nothing was cancelled. As soon as i rebooted my device, everything was back the way it was with the same issues. I noticed my tablet was costantly updating the same apps and even if I updated them the following reboot they were back re-updating themselves."
this is the same exact problem i'm having. I cannot get my xoom to reset. It always goes back to where it was before.
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Sounds like your data has gotten corrupted somehow. You can take the boot.img out of whatever Custom ROM ur using, and via terminal -
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
I'm not using any custom roms. I'm using factory settings for almost everything.... also i don't know how to use terminal
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Sounds like your data has gotten corrupted somehow. You can take the boot.img out of whatever Custom ROM ur using, and via terminal -
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
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I have the same problem.
The Xoom is a european with android 3.1 kernel version 2.6.36 and build H.6.3-25-9 <- this i dont understand but i think that is no correct.
I try flash the H.6.1-38-1_Retail_Europe version, all the process finish ok, but when i restart the tablet everything continues as before.
I not know what else to do, Heeeelp.
I'm trying to remove apps that's on this phone (GT-S7500) because some of the apps always force close and not working. Firstly, I tried uninstall the apps one by one, all went good until I rebooted the device, all of the apps are back again. Second, went to privacy>erase everything including SD card content, device rebooted and went straight to recovery. It was weird because normally it will reboot itself straight to home screen. So I select the option factory reset/wipe data, after that wipe cache partition and reboot. Device does not reboot but turned off completely (weird again) Turned it back on, and only saw that none of the apps were removed. Even the wallpaper are still the same. Next thing I do is manually boot into recovery menu and factory reset again, still the same thing, (device turned off without rebooting itself, turned it back on and everything was still the same) after few tries again, I finally decided to flash a stock rom with ODIN. Flashing was successful ODIN shows PASS, waiting device reboot but it shut off completely again. turned it back on, but nothing changes. wallpaper are still the same and every single downloaded apps were still there. Went to settings> about device only to found that it wasn't the same rom that I've flashed earlier using ODIN.(flashed 2-3 times again, results still the same) Very confused right now, suspected that the internal SD card was corrupted/damaged. Does anyone experiencing such thing on your galaxy ace plus? searched on xda forums and found that this issue was also happening on few other devices. This is not my phone, just helping a customer. Thank You.
After flashing stock rom
Go to recovery (stock of course)
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Reboot
Sent from my Gt-S7500
So, got the 4.4.2 update , downloaded it and then it asked for a reboot. I did reboot. I am completely stock , no root nothing. Now the update was installing but in the end I got error :/ the image was robot kinda looking like he had heart attack... anyways, it gave me 4 options, so i cliked volume button .. I don't know all the options but from the 2 of them, one was reboot and other was clear cache or something. I thought clearing cache may **** up something on phone so I tried scrolling back on the top.. but to my surprise from volume buttons phone didn't let me go up at all :/
I didn't had any choice but to choose clear cache.. I thought it may help. But it didn't... so I forced reboot it with power button hold for 10 seconds.. Now phone is working but no sim on it starts.. no signal whatsoever. If I try to open my gallery, it doesn't open. says "No storage, no external storage available" .. when I try to connect usb to phone and try to backup my pics and stuff from pc it doesn't open anything. PC does show "Internal memory" but there's nothing in it. My phone doesn't let me even use wifi. So I thought it was time to factory reset, but to my surprise when I click erase everything, it does nothing. So, I thought of rebooting and clicking "power+volume down" , still nothing.. it shows the same robot pic having heart attack... I doesn't have knowledge of root and stuff for now, I am a simple user of nexus 5 who is still on stock. Any help please? I am worried here now
Think you're gonna need to follow one of the guides to flash stock system again
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nevermind. Working again.
What did you do to get it Woking I got mine in a box ready to RMA if you got a suggestions I'm open to try one more time beforrv I be without my phone for s long time
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How did you get it working?? F**k mine has no signal at all too! Damn I am really pissed!
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I did a factory reset and its working now. What a headache Google!
Mistake 1: not allowing the phone adequate time to clear the cache when finished installing the ota. If you force the phone to restart during this process, it will corrupt your cache which causes all of those issues listed above (loss of signal, no baseband info, loss of access to mountable storage, etc).
Cache clearing takes considerably longer than on any other device I've owned prior to this phone, so messing with the phone during that important cache clearing process is the issue.
Mistake 2: reflashing the entire phone to stock. In the event you become impatient and decide to force your device to restart, you DONT HAVE TO revert to stock to get the phone working. What you have to do is restore functionality to the cache portion of the phone. All of your files are in fact still on the phone and accessible, you just have to unbreak your phone. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites), and then you fastboot flash the file in the boot loader (look up adb commands to do this). Once this is done, reboot the phone and everything should be hunky dory after your applications cache is rebuilt and android boots.
Note: you might need to check for root again. Also if you corrupted your cache you will have to set all of your ringtones and notifications again because this cache corruption process unlinked the ability of yours apps that use notifications to "see" the sound files you have on your SD card.
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What a savior ... wiped the cache again , gave adequate time this time and it booted again fine
I had the exact same problem! Cleared cache in recovery mode in 4.4.4 and then thought it stalled because it was running for 1 minute (which normally took 2 seconds in previous devices) so I forced a restart. Then I had all sorts of errors: couldn't connect with my SIM card, couldn't download our see my pictures, screen rotation but working, constant Google Playstore crash popups, and more.. I thought I'd bricked it. A few more attempts to clear cache in recovery mode, still took longer than 1 minute (also the same errors in my recovery mode like stated above: "E: failed to mount /cache" ... that sort of things)
A few days later I'd had it. My steps for the SOLUTION:
1. Cleared cache in my settings: settings -> storage -> cache (don't know if this has influenced the outcome but I did it).
2. Went back to recovery mode, errors still displaying, but tried again to clear cache. The only difference now was that I left it running without touching my Nexus 5 for about 10 MINUTES(!).
..........To my surprise it ended with "clearing cash complete" WOW! So I rebooted and everything worked fine again! The only thing was that I had to set some notification sound again. That wasn't too hard
Let me know if it helped in your case
xybur said:
Mistake 1: not allowing the phone adequate time to clear the cache when finished installing the ota. If you force the phone to restart during this process, it will corrupt your cache which causes all of those issues listed above (loss of signal, no baseband info, loss of access to mountable storage, etc).
Cache clearing takes considerably longer than on any other device I've owned prior to this phone, so messing with the phone during that important cache clearing process is the issue.
Mistake 2: reflashing the entire phone to stock. In the event you become impatient and decide to force your device to restart, you DONT HAVE TO revert to stock to get the phone working. What you have to do is restore functionality to the cache portion of the phone. All of your files are in fact still on the phone and accessible, you just have to unbreak your phone. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites), and then you fastboot flash the file in the boot loader (look up adb commands to do this). Once this is done, reboot the phone and everything should be hunky dory after your applications cache is rebuilt and android boots.
Note: you might need to check for root again. Also if you corrupted your cache you will have to set all of your ringtones and notifications again because this cache corruption process unlinked the ability of yours apps that use notifications to "see" the sound files you have on your SD card.
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I did that. The fastboot flash cache.img and still have the error...
Try flashing a stock rom, including the userdata.img file. Flash the userdata file last, right after flashing, boot into recovery and perform a factory reset.
. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites),
where to get the cache.img from.
i have searched the folder of the stock rom after extraction,couldn't find one.
and my phone is soft bricked.
also its a asus zenfone 5(501 cg) with 4.4.2 not a nexus but with similar problem(rebooted phone without waiting for cache wipe to finish )
please reply asap
thanks
UPDATE: I have finally managed to get my phone working again! Am now currently re-downloading all my apps and transferring all my files back to my phone, running AOSPExtended (https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-aospextended-rom-t3732194) with OpenGApps. I'll write the steps I took to figure this mess out at the end of this post for anyone who might encounter the same problem in the future. :good:
So last night I left my phone charging overnight from 54% as I was downloading a couple of files (my internet is 1Mbps or 125KB/s). I've done this a couple of times before with no problems what so ever. But this morning I woke up and my phone was in a boot loop. I've tried everything I can think of and everything I could find on these forums, but to no luck. I am at my wits end and I have no clue what to do except to do a full factory reset, which I'd rather not do as its been a while since my last backup and I would lose a lot of precious files...
My Phone: OnePlus One 64GB Sandstone Black, purchased in August 2014.
ROM: cm-13.0-ZNH5Y-20161105-STABLE-Sultan-bacon
Recovery: TWRP+3.0.3-2-TugaPower
Firmware: bacon_firmware_update_2016_1-25_.4.0.1.c7-00011
The boot loop itself is odd, I'll describe them separately here.
-I can boot into fastboot, but not while the USB is plugged into my PC. I have to boot into fastboot, followed by plugging it into my PC. If I try to boot into fastboot while it is plugged in, the screen goes completely black and goes back into the bootloop. However, the phone shows up in Device Manager during the black screen.
- I can boot into Recovery, but the phone automatically reboots and goes back into the bootloop after a few minutes. One thing I have noticed is that if I let it reboot by itself, all the settings reset (including the confirmation to allow modifying of files when you first boot into recovery). But if I manually reboot back into recovery, the settings remain the same; atleast until it reboots automatically again.
Here, I'll list the things that I have tried to no avail:
1. Following this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/3izejg/so_youve_just_bricked_your_oneplus/, when I try to wipe Dalvik cache and cache from recovery, the phone goes right back into the bootloop
2. I tried flashing a newer version of TWRP (3.2.1-0 and 3.2.1-K2). After flashing I try to boot into recovery but the TWRP loading screen displays, and then goes right back into the bootloop. It wont even let me into the main menu.
3. I tried flashing a ROM through fastboot (via this post, https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-oneplus-one-flashing-fastboot-recovery.301131/). The phone still remains in a bootloop.
HOWEVER, if I flash my previous recovery (TWRP+3.0.3-2-TugaPower replacing the stock cyanogen recovery from this method), my phone manages to get past the 1+ screen, and goes through my custom power on screen, and reaches the "Android is starting... Optimizing app 1 of 67." But it never gets past app 1, freezes, and then reboots. So now it's stuck in this "extended" bootloop thing.
What I want to know: is there anyway to fix my phone, or will I have to lose all my data and do a full factory reset through the ColorOS method? If anyone has any experience with this or knows a way to help, please don't hesitate!
Thank you in advance.
WHAT WORKED FOR ME:
After following the steps in this post (https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-oneplus-one-flashing-fastboot-recovery.301131/) my phone was booting up, but was kicked back into a boot loop after freezing at the "Android is starting.. Optimizing app 1 of 67" screen. However, the recovery was now the default CyanogenMod recovery. I then re-flashed my previous recovery (TWRP+3.0.3-2-TugaPower) from fast boot, and it was now stable (no more auto-reboots). From there I made a backup off all my files onto my PC before proceeding. After that, I did what this post said (https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/3izejg/so_youve_just_bricked_your_oneplus/) and wiped Cache + Dalvik cache. This allowed me to boot all the way past the "Android is starting" screen. However, the phone was still rendered unusable as there were non-stop notifications saying various apps had stopped working. I then booted back into recovery, downloaded and pushed a new ROM and GApps package on to my phone, wiped system, data, cache, dalvik cache, and installed the ROM and GApps pacakge, clearing the cache one more time before rebooting. Everything is working beautifully so far and I could not be happier! I hope this helps anyone else who encounters this problem, Cheers!