I'm running Liberty ROM on my droid 2. I went to flash back to my standard blur infested stock screen and the phone won't come out of boot logo (which I changed to a DroidLife logo for the heck of it). I can't get into recovery. Android with the triangel and exclamation point show up. Hard reset gives this error:
E:cant open /cache/recover/command
I can not for the life of me get it to come out of boot logo. Is this bricked, am I screwed what? I need to come across a solution fast as a phone is crucial to my work.
Did you try holding x while powering the device on, then hitting the search hard key to bring up the stock recovery? Then wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache.
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I did. I've tried every method I know. The E:cant open /cache/recover/command message means the phone can't get to the recovery. Its annoying because all I did was flash back to a backup I made 4 hours prior to all this happening. FML.
Wipe everything I think may be help.
hoshikoong said:
Wipe everything I think may be help.
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The phone will not access the recovery files so a wipe is unsuccessful. I've tried 12 times now, even called VZ tech support.
UPDATE: I've sent the phone in for insurance replacement. Though I would like to know how to solve this problem in the future.
Anyone else had issues performing factory resets? My Nexus 5 seems incapable of completing it. So far I have tried doing a factory reset from the settings menu 4 times. Every single time it locks up on the erasing step. I don't mean it takes a little longer. I have let it sit for almost half an hour and the little android robot sits there taunting me.
Every time I have had to manually go into the bootloader and sideload a factory image, which works fine.
Any ideas why this problem is occurring? Faulty memory maybe?
Same issue here, phone is getting nice and warm but the little robot just sits there twiddling his antennae. Forced restart either normally or into recovery mode lands me right back on the erasing screen, looks like nothings going to happen unless I intervene another way. Any ideas?
Try pushing the system.img using fastboot. Might be best to start over and do a clean install.
Have you tried doing a factory reset in recovery instead?
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Same problem
I have the same problem with the loop at the erasing screen. It will not go into recovery so that I can fix it. I tried flashing the Stock Rom again but no use. Please help me or at least give me some pointers what to try next.
jizkidjnr said:
Same issue here, phone is getting nice and warm but the little robot just sits there twiddling his antennae. Forced restart either normally or into recovery mode lands me right back on the erasing screen, looks like nothings going to happen unless I intervene another way. Any ideas?
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martinancevski said:
I have the same problem with the loop at the erasing screen. It will not go into recovery so that I can fix it. I tried flashing the Stock Rom again but no use. Please help me or at least give me some pointers what to try next.
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I have the same problem
I'm sure you wait a long time...but if not, mine probably took 10-15 minutes to finish...
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i have the same problem
What is your recovery? Version # also? How did you root? <--- this goes to the rest of you guys too because it seems like its happening to more than one person.
Follow this: Maybe flash the stock recovery found in here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
fastboot flash recovery C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/recovery.img
^^ the command
edit: on second thought start over.
lpforte said:
Anyone else had issues performing factory resets? My Nexus 5 seems incapable of completing it. So far I have tried doing a factory reset from the settings menu 4 times. Every single time it locks up on the erasing step. I don't mean it takes a little longer. I have let it sit for almost half an hour and the little android robot sits there taunting me.
Every time I have had to manually go into the bootloader and sideload a factory image, which works fine.
Any ideas why this problem is occurring? Faulty memory maybe?
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hello
I have the same exact problem
I'm completely stock and I want to reset all so I do factory reset from menu setting, backup & reset
And since, my nexus stucked in "erasing...."
I have tried flashing factory image according to this guide, succeeded, but then still stucked in android logo with endless progress bar (but this time without "erasing....")
Need help how to restore it
All I want is to factory reset
How did you actually sideload factory image?
thanks
iori said:
hello
I have the same exact problem
I'm completely stock and I want to reset all so I do factory reset from menu setting, backup & reset
And since, my nexus stucked in "erasing...."
I have tried flashing factory image according to this guide, succeeded, but then still stucked in android logo with endless progress bar (but this time without "erasing....")
Need help how to restore it
All I want is to factory reset
How did you actually sideload factory image?
thanks
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ADB sideload: place the rom you want to flash in the fastboot folder and in the phones recovery select adb sideload, then on the pc in cmd type: adb sideload namerom.zip and it will start flashing.
gee2012 said:
ADB sideload: place the rom you want to flash in the fastboot folder and in the phones recovery select adb sideload, then on the pc in cmd type: adb sideload namerom.zip and it will start flashing.
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thanks
but i finally found out that the stock recovery was somehow corrupted after factory reset
then I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP recovery, and voila! my device booted normally
Nexus 5 hung at reset
iori said:
hello
I have the same exact problem
I'm completely stock and I want to reset all so I do factory reset from menu setting, backup & reset
And since, my nexus stucked in "erasing...."
I have tried flashing factory image according to this guide, succeeded, but then still stucked in android logo with endless progress bar (but this time without "erasing....")
Need help how to restore it
All I want is to factory reset
How did you actually sideload factory image?
thanks
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Exactly the same problem here. Nexus 5 running 4.4.2 kept powering off randomly roughly once a day. Attempted a factory reset and it got stuck at erasing. Having unlocked the bootloader and following the steps to unlock and reboot, I have a progress bar with the animated android icon, apparently stuck at the same stage, but without the "erasing" caption.
As far as I'm concerned, I can nothing with the phone at present short of taking it back, though they'll likely take issue with my attempts to rectify myself
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Exactly the same problem here. Nexus 5 running 4.4.2 kept powering off randomly roughly once a day. Attempted a factory reset and it got stuck at erasing. Having unlocked the bootloader and following the steps to unlock and reboot, I have a progress bar with the animated android icon, apparently stuck at the same stage, but without the "erasing" caption.
As far as I'm concerned, I can nothing with the phone at present short of taking it back, though they'll likely take issue with my attempts to rectify myself
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I'll add that I've also tried the Nexus Root Toolkit v1.8.0 to flash stock. Appears to go fine, recreating the file system and loading software, then as soon as it gets to the "erasing cache" step it just sits there for hours and makes no progress.
I know I probably shouldn't promote toolkits but you can always try this. Seems to have worked for a lot of people.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513937
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Same thing happened to me yesterday. My N5 is rooted, running stock rom and recovery. I had some corrupted app date showing in Titanium that I could not remove that were causing a Play store issue for me. I backed up my phone with TB and ran a factory reset in settings. The phone was stuck on the 'erasing' screen for maybe 20 minutes, so I put the phone in fastboot and from there back into recovery. This took me back to the 'erasing' screen to my dismay. I put the phone down and started searching for a solution online, but then I noticed after about 7 minutes the erase process had finally finished on its own and the phone rebooted normally again.
Based on what others are saying in this thread it appears the factory reset process via settings or stock recovery can hang sometimes. If you power off, start the phone in fastboot and select recovery again, I'm guessing the factory reset process restarts and hopefully it will then work properly the next time, like it did for me.
Well when I did a factory reset from settings, it took nearly 20-25 minutes to finish. The next time I did a reset, it completed within 10 minutes
I guess this problem occurs randomly.
Be patient
My guess is that you just need to be patient -- my device took nearly 45 minutes to reset. It seems to me that the time required is proportional to either the amount of data or the number of files you have on the device. My device had a mix of large files (such as musics and photos) and many many small files (sensor data log files), so it's hard for me to say which of those contributed more to the long reset time.
Based on what others are saying in this thread it appears the factory reset process via settings or stock recovery can hang sometimes. If you power off, start the phone in fastboot and select recovery again, I'm guessing the factory reset process restarts and hopefully it will then work properly the next time, like it did for me.
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This worked for me too. On the initial 'Return to factory defaults' it got stuck for about 45 minutes. I then follow the advice above:
- Put the N5 in Fastboot by pressing: Vol. Up + Vol. Down + Power
- Select: Recovery and press on Power to proceed
- Phone reboots, still into the 'Androidman' but it seems that the 'Return to factory defaults' also restarts.
- Wait about 10 minutes and the Phone powers down automatically. Upon startup you enter the 'Initial configuration menu' so the factory reset has been completed.
Still stuck on Erasing screen, running out of options
Hello,
I am a newbie with zero developer knowledge and received my Nexus 5 in the mail yesterday. I liked the phone specs and that is the only reason I got it. I left it alone while it charged up and the first thing I did once it was finished was perform a Factory Reset (it was a "like new" phone so I just wanted to be safe) and have been stuck on the Erasing screen ever since. Pressing Vol- and Power button does take me to the bootloader screen, however, any option I choose by pushing the power button, such as Recovery Mode, sends me back to the Erasing screen. Pushing Vol+, Vol-, and Power shuts the phone off completely. Holding the Power button down does nothing more than restart the phone into the Erasing screen. I have also let the phone die twice and as soon as it has enough juice to come back on, it goes straight to the Erasing screen. Everything on the phone is stock and it is completely unrooted. The bootloader screen also indicates it is unlocked. I have attempted to flash it as per instructions I have found on here but I am unable to download the stock factory images. It gets to about 90% before the install fails and I have tried to install three times already. I do have the 15 Second ADB installed, however. I assumed the install of the factory images failed because I don't have WiFi and I'm running completely off of limited 3G data (I live in the middle of no where with no high speed internet to speak of). So in lieu of all that I have attempted, is there ANYTHING at all that can be done to get the phone off of this Erasing screen? Or do I just need to try and return it because it's useless at this point? I did at first let the process run but it's now been 24 hours stuck on this Erasing screen with no improvement. I'm fairly certain it runs KitKat 4.4.0.
I decided to restore my OPO to factory settings after well all the time since I bought it (more than a year ago). I was on CyanogeOS 13.1 last build (the one with Mods). I decided to restore it, I went to stock recovery, press "Factory Reset", I press to wipe also my datas, and now it's more than 30m "Wiping data - formatting data..." . The logo on the droid belly is still rotating, it's not frozen. I have OPO 64 gb. Is it normal to take all this time?
Edit: it appears to have performed the reset, now it's booting. Sorry to have opened a new thread for nothing, feel free to delete this, thanks!
amoutie said:
I decided to restore my OPO to factory settings after well all the time since I bought it (more than a year ago). I was on CyanogeOS 13.1 last build (the one with Mods). I decided to restore it, I went to stock recovery, press "Factory Reset", I press to wipe also my datas, and now it's more than 30m "Wiping data - formatting data..." . The logo on the droid belly is still rotating, it's not frozen. I have OPO 64 gb. Is it normal to take all this time?
Edit: it appears to have performed the reset, now it's booting. Sorry to have opened a new thread for nothing, feel free to delete this, thanks!
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Dont be sorry... It helped me... I am having the same problem and your post was the light at the end of the tunnel..
I had similar issues in the past, no idea what causes this, but the boot sometimes can take a lot after a dalvik/cache wipe or a factory reset even through TWRP
Try it out..
The best way to resolve your problem is to return to Original Stock ROM via FASTBOOT MODE.
In case, if the won't play. Then search for " Return your OPO to 100% Stock ROM " in google and open xda link.
Notification Bar of my Moto G3 is not coming down, no notification showing, factory Reset button not working, when i went to recovery mode it said "no command", apps are working fine, only back button is working, other two are not. Please help me what to do now, i want to repair it without rooting my device.
ankitn1311 said:
Notification Bar of my Moto G3 is not coming down, no notification showing, factory Reset button not working, when i went to recovery mode it said "no command", apps are working fine, only back button is working, other two are not. Please help me what to do now, i want to repair it without rooting my device.
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In recovery "no command" screen, hold Power and tap Vol Up... Should give you recovery menu. Try wiping cache first, if trouble persist factory reset.
To be honest, it sounds like damage to screen or failure of digitizer. Portions of screen not working is usually hardware problem.
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Thanks for quick reply, it really worked, wiping cache failed, but factory reset worked, that saved my day...thanks for help
ankitn1311 said:
Thanks for quick reply, it really worked, wiping cache failed, but factory reset worked, that saved my day...thanks for help
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Glad you got it working and it wasn't damaged hardware. Have a great last Sunday of summer!
Hi everyone. A friend of mine gave me this falcon to revive.
He just unlocked the bootloader and never booted again. When it starts, it gets frozen after the world bootanimation in this retroiluminated black screen.
When i go to the fastboot screen and reset the device to factory state, the phone stays the same. When i go to Recovery mode appears there's no command. And i got to press power+up several times 'til 'Recovery' pops out. But when it does, none options makes any difference (factory reset, cache and data user reset, etc).
I tried to push a rom or install with adb from this recovery, and tried to install a new rom in fastboot. No matter what i do, it always stays in this black screen after the bootanimation.
I left it turned on for a day and nothing, i charged and nothing, i try some other versions (5.0, 4.4) and nothing.
If there's something that isn't clear or any question and solutions, tell me.. i will give you any information. Thanks.
Thanks all for reading and please help!.