so today i went to unlock and flash CM 10.1 on my tablet.
unlocking went smoothly
installing clockwork recovery went fine
installing cm10.1 and gapps went fine
once i booted into cm successfully, i checked the internal storage to see if it was clear. it wasn't, so i went to settings, backup and reset, and done a factory reset. now i'm stuck on this one screen and i dont know what it is.
i've held the power button and volume down until the tablet restarts and that results in the same thing.
i've tried power and volume up. that seems to start the tablet but the screen stays blank. i connected it to the computer and my computer installed an APX or APTX or something like that driver.
i've tried holding power, volume up and down, and that does the same as the power and volume up.
i'm very new to installing custom recoveries and roms. can anyone give me an idea on whats happened
Once you have a custom recovery installed you should NEVER wipe from the system settings or the bootloader menu. You wipe from your recovery.
If you do that, the bootloader seems to write a command to the misc partition to reboot into recovery.
And that is the loop you seem to be stuck in.
You can try _that's method to clear the misc partition from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528313
Read the whole thread, salvation may be found in post 7.
If that does not work, you could try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2399698
buster99's method may be another way to enable you to boot into the bootloader and flash a working recovery.
Good luck!
Thanks for the tip. I'll remember to do that next time. As of now it is fixed. I found a post on the cyanogen forum of someone who done the same thing. And he said he had to wait a painful 6+ hours of that screen I posted. Lucky for me it was only a ~45 minute wait. So all is good. Cyanogen is running. Recovery is working. All the stress is gone.
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Alright. This is a 100% stock Nexus S- nothing "development" wise was done to the device, no system tools installed that could cause issues, basically nothing but basic apps loaded on the device.
It just started today. I was working on my bf's Vibrant (another, more successful story) and grabbed my Nexus and hit the power button and it did not turn the screen back on. Holding the power button down did not reboot the device, and none of the buttons would light up or function.
So, I pulled the battery. Now every time I try to boot, it hits the "Google" screen and stays put. I left it alone for 5 minuets hoping it would finish booting and nothing. The soft buttons will light up, and if I touch them they register the touch but it does not help the phone to boot.
I do know that the phone was basically dead right before this happened, and at first I thought it was just dead. However, its been on the charger for at least 30 minuets- which should have given it enough of a charge to boot up, and still nothing.
What could cause this issue?
I did install a couple of new applications today, and I know the market updated a bunch of them but they're all apps that I've had on several phones (minus the two new ones today) and have never had an issue with any of them. The two new ones I downloaded were OS Monitor, and a 2G/3G toggle for hopes of improving some battery life.
But those are the only two things I've done differently. I've only been using the phone for a week but I haven't had any problems at all, before this.
Now- if worst comes to worst I can seem to get into the bootloader, and through that, stock recovery. So I can try to do a factory reset and wipe cache but without a backup I really kinda hope thats a last resort.
Please help, and let me know if you need any more information.
Thank you!
I understand that you're fully stock which I assume means you have a locked bootloader (everything I say from here on out assumes as such)? First, I'm going to also assume that you didn't update to 2.3.3? If not, then follow the steps in this guide to boot into a custom recovery and from there go to backup and restore and do a NANDroid backup. Now go to mounts and storage and mount USB storage (or whatever its called, don't have my phone right here). Plug your phone into your comp and copy over whatever you'd rather not lose from your SDcard (just in case you have to wipe). Now download the 2.3.3 update from here and put it on the root of your SD card. Now go back and flash this. Reboot and see if you're golden. If so, great, if not try a factory reset.
If that doesn't work go through the steps again to boot into a custom recovery, you might have to unlock your bootloader and wipe all your data (again) and restore your backup and try doing a factory reset with that. Don't worry about unlocking the bootloader, it can be relocked with a simple command and it won't wipe anything to relock it.
Here is the command just in case:
Code:
fasboot oem lock
I got all the way to having clockwork recovery booted up on the phone, but nothing would mount. Everything gave me an error, and factory reset froze...
I don't think there is anything I can even do from here, is there?
i've searched high and lo, been reading up on this forum for awhile now, reading the tutorials, etc. i must now hang my head in shame. managed to root my phone, put android revolution ROM on it, yay go me. decided i wanted to restore back to previous ROM. couldn't boot into bootloader via vol - and power, so i used ROM manager. went into backup/restore and picked a previous version. rebooted phone and now it hangs on the white HTC screen. i can take my battery out and put it back in and it will charge my phone. i think this might be my mistake, the battery was yellow when i tried all this. but it's been charging for awhile now, and still nothing. when i try to turn it on or the vol- and power it gets stuck on the white screen and is no longer charging. i've looked and looked and seen some suggestions of booting into recovery, etc. but i can't for some reason boot into anything. i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
ok, when i take the sd card out, it boots just fine, so what would my next step be?
Haha....you didnt wipe your device clean before restoring from your backup!
Remove the battery and place it back in, hold the bottom volume button and lock button...you should boot into Hboot(white screen also)
give it like 20 seconds because it will search for a file and select the recovery option by scrolling using the volume keys.
factory reset phone and go into advanced-wipe dalvik-cache
now install any rom or any backup!
You must do this for every ROM and every restoring of a backup...
thank you for your response, but i corrected my mistake, and wiped everything, but the backups i was trying to go back too still didn't work. still got stuck on the screen. i was however able to flash the ROM i had, but it's very basic, and nothing like what i flashed from it originally.
Current Status of my TF700:
-Boot looping with Asus "Inspiring Innovation - Persisten Perfection" logo. Approximately 5 seconds between reboots, with a vibrate every time it reboots.
-It says "Device is Unlocked" in the top left.
-Holding power for a long time (over 20s) will shut it off, and vibrate, but then it immediately vibrates again and resumes the bootloop.
-I cannot get it into the bootloader with Power + Vol Down. That combination does nothing.
-If I use the pinhole button, as long as I hold it, the screen remains blank. As soon as I release it again, the bootloop resumes immediately.
-It does not get to the second "shiny" Asus logo.
-It doesn't get far enough to recognize a new firmware file on the microSD card.
How I got to this point:
Stock ever since I bought it up until a few days ago. I decided it was time to root, unlock, install TWRP, and install CWM. I never got that far.
1. I unlocked first. I believe it was successful because it has said "Device is Unlocked" ever since.
2. I tried to root with the debugfs method. It reported it was successful, but despite several attempts, it was unsuccessful.
3. I tried using GooManager to install TWRP. It never worked.
4. I discovered that I wasn't running the latest Asus firmware. I then upgraded it. It ran successfully. (V10.6.1.14.10)
5. I tried rooting with Motochopper. It reported success. But it didn't work. I then discovered it wouldn't work with V10.6.1.14.10.
6. I then tried installing TWRP via fastboot. It reported success, but Power+VolDown didn't get me into TWRP. Nothing seemed to load TWRP. In case it's relevant, I was having trouble where Windows was saying there was a problem with the Bootloader Interface Driver, and after several reboots, I was able to get fastboot to reportedly load TWRP. It reported success, but I never saw TWRP.
7. I booted into Recovery, the latest version that said something to the effect of, "USB recovery loaded" or something, with 3 icons: RCK, Android, and Wipe Data. This is the only recovery I was ever able to see, by the way. I then selected "Wipe Data" hoping it would give me a new starting point.
Once it rebooted, it has been stuck in this bootloop. Have I royally screwed myself, or is there a way to recover?
Please ask any questions, I will answer them to the best of my ability. In the meantime, I will hope to run the power down on the tablet in the hopes it will make a difference.
blauciel said:
6. I then tried installing TWRP via fastboot. It reported success, but Power+VolDown didn't get me into TWRP.
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7. I booted into Recovery, the latest version that said something to the effect of, "USB recovery loaded" or something, with 3 icons: RCK, Android, and Wipe Data. This is the only recovery I was ever able to see, by the way.
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Power+VolDown activates the bootloader menu - this is the screen with the 3 icons, where you can use fastboot. Since you needed to go there to install TWRP via fastboot, you should have known that Power+VolDown doesn't get you into TWRP - you'd have to press VolUp in the bootloader menu, to activate RCK.
blauciel said:
I then selected "Wipe Data" hoping it would give me a new starting point.
Once it rebooted, it has been stuck in this bootloop. Have I royally screwed myself, or is there a way to recover?
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Selecting "Wipe data" from the bootloader menu with a broken recovery is the best known way to brick a TF700. This can only be recovered via nvflash, which you can't use since you never got far enough to extract the required files from your tablet while it still worked. Your only option now is a new mainboard.
Well, crap. RCK never did anything except show a loading bar then reboot.
Thanks for the reply.
...from my phone...
Anyone know of a place that sells 64gb mainboards? Not finding anything thus far...
...from my phone...
in case anyone cares, I swapped the motherboard out with one from ebay, and it booted right up.
So I haven't had any luck with my Oneplus One lately . I had rooted the phone and was running the CyanogenMod nightlies for a while, but recently for some reason when I updated it for Nov. 25 I have been suck in a reboot loop where the phone boots up and it starts updating apps, but then it continuously does this cycle of rebooting and updating apps. I have tried to enter recovery mode to try and remedy the situation as I have twrp, but for some reason it doesn't boot to recovery when I press down the power and vol down buttons. I have tried to adb to try and reboot into recovery mode but I haven't been able to get it to work. I'd really appreciate some help on this as I have no idea what to do at this point.
I should also mention that I would like to see if it is possible to recover my data as I foolishly did not make a back up.
Thanks in advance.
So just an update I was finally able to get into recovery mode. I backed up my data with twrp and I tried the method mentioned in the reddit link below.
http://https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/1ly5b1/is_it_possible_to_restore_my_sms_from_a_twrp/
I installed the newest version of nightlies CM 13.0 2015 11/30 along with gapps 6.0, but now my phone just boots up and optimizes apps but when it restarts after that it just goes to a black screen.
I know I can wipe everything through twrp and install cm 13.0 probably eliminating the issues I am having, but I'm reluctant to do so as I would like to retrieve my sms messages. I have taken my photos off my phone so I have that.
If any one can advise me on if I can restore my sms from the twrp back up I have made then I'll wipe my phone and do a clean install.
Thanks in advance
i have the exact same problem. would be nice to have it fixed and working without losing all the data.
So I decided to go ahead and wipe my system as I have all of the data I could get out of my phone on my pc now. I get get cyanogen working nicely, until I go into twrp and try to restore the data files I had backed up. This goes well until the reboot then a message pops up saying something isn't working (too fast too read). I then get a blank screen.
Now I still have the same problem of how to put the data I had saved when I used twrp back on to my phone. I believe something in my data is corrupt which is why this is happening, but I'm not sure. Is there just a way to extract say the sms from the data I have saved, that's really all I need at this point. The backups made by twrp are in a format .WIN that I have never seen before and I would appreciate the help if someone can advise me what to do from here.
CM13.0 struck in Reboot loop
When I was browsing and doing some multitasking stuff..noticed that phone was lagging a bit .So i thought to reboot so that it would come out of that...But it completely struck in reboot loop forever.
please help me out of this issue.
Thanks in advance
Novius vi said:
So just an update I was finally able to get into recovery mode. I backed up my data with twrp and I tried the method mentioned in the reddit link below.
http://https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/1ly5b1/is_it_possible_to_restore_my_sms_from_a_twrp/
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How did you get into recovery ?
I'm not been able to boot into recovery even while pressing vol - and power. And system is also not booting up just stuck on oneplus logo. i can enter fastboot though
vindows18 said:
How did you get into recovery ?
I'm not been able to boot into recovery even while pressing vol - and power. And system is also not booting up just stuck on oneplus logo. i can enter fastboot though
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Are you pressing the Vol down button and power button. Also I unscrewed the back of the phone to unhook the battery cable then I pressed the buttons. I found also, through trial and error on my phone, that you can hold down the buttons for too long so you have to watch and make sure on that. I found that you should hold the 2 button combo through the oneplus one boot logo and you'll see the lights dim then you let the buttons go and its worked so far at least on my phone.
Hi all,
well, to be honnest I already posted my story in the help thread but no answer came so I try with a new thread
We'll see if I'm luckier this way !
a few weeks ago I broke my screen and decided to change it myself.
Everything went fine (even restarted successfully my phone before applying the tape to fix the screen) until I finally tried to restart my phone after the repair is done.
Since then I'm not able to turn on my phone
Holding the power button starts fastboot mode, UP + power doesn't do anything and DOWN + power enters recovery. Weird !
Another weird thing: it only works if I'm not plugged. When I'm plugged nothing ever happens.
I suspected I could have damaged buttons or cables. I have looked carefully but nothing appears to be broken.
Here is what I already did without any result:
- I had access to the original recovery so wiped the cache
- I tried to recover the phone but that did not work so
- I installed twrk using adb (like here)
- and then installed the rom as explained here (I used the last release here, so it should be cm-13.0-20160819-SNAPSHOT-ZNH5YAO0IN-bacon.zip). It seemed to work but finally no, same situtation
- I tried this but so far not able to get the qualcomm port listed once the phone is on. It may be related to the fact that I have to unplug to boot it but I always got a Android bootloader interface listed.
Any idea someone ?
Thank you very much for your help !
Did you try to "fastboot reboot" while in fastboot mode?
Try flashing a CM14 rom. Mine came with CM12 so I tried flashing back to CM11 and I did flash it successfully through Fastboot but alas it won't boot. The boot logo loads but then I'm introduced to a black screen.. So I flashed back to a (at that time the latest stable) CM12.1 but same result. And I got worried. Then I decided to flash a CM13 rom which was a beta build (at that time newly released Android 6) and it booted into it alright! So I suggest flashing a CM14 and let me know how it does.
The problem seems be much deeper than just a broken screen. It may sometime affect the chipset of the cellphone.
For that we can't do anything.
For now you can try the following things :
1 . Flash the latest Cyanogen Firmware from the same place you have downloaded the snapshot cm13.
2. Flash recovery (TWRP) using adb.
3. Wipe
-System
-Data
-Cache and Dalvik Cache
4. Flash the latest Cyanogen Rom .
5. Boot into recovery.
6. Flash some gapps as per the Android version.( Open Gapps I recommend)
7. Boot back to recovery .
8. Boot into System.
This is the max you can do for now.
You can also check device forums for recovering from a bricked device post.
Go through the post and check if any symptoms matches yours. You'll find the answer right away.
And the last option you can do is going to service center, they will charge you mostly (even if in warranty as you have yourself tampered hardware of the phone.)
Hope it will help. Thanks