Soft/Hard Bricked N5 For No Reason - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
this is my first topic and post so don't blame . On last Friday (05.31.2014) I was at school but it was free day so i was enjoying my 1 month old N5. I was using Elix-R rom with kernel included in this ROM. When I was sitting on Google Play my phone did soft reboot but bootanimation was ''scratching'' and bugging. I had decided to do a restore but i was done in 14 second so i knew something went wrong. When I tried to reboot my phone was stuck on google logo and it was rebooting to the same state over and over again (after about 10 seconds). When I came home i tried to flash stock rom's images but i got the same result. oh, and I forgot. When i was restoring, TWRP boot again but it was still restoring. I had some CM zips so i flashed them but it didnt help either. After flashing stock i had tried to access stock recovery but i got same result as before(Google logo). Some time ago I read about temporary booting recovery so i tried it but i didn't help. On Saturday I boot up phone again and i saw stock rom's bootanimation ''scratching'' and loading again as before after ''soft reboot'' on Friday. Now I've locked and re-unlocked bootloader again but i forgot about typing ''fastboot reboot'' in cmd. I've just clicked Power button on N5 and small android with loading bar appeared but after several seconds it stopped and booted again. I accessed the bootloader again and flashed stock images. Then locked/unlocked again and my phone is not booting and i cant access any recovery.
I really dont know what to do. I haven't modified my kernel or something. I haven't done anything bad - I was just surfing the internet and downloading apps from GP. I hope you'll understand all because I'm sure my English is not good enough. Thank you guys for help already

MaxtremePL said:
Hi,
this is my first topic and post so don't ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... or help already
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try to press the power button for some minutes and see if it boots

MaxtremePL said:
Hi,
this is my first topic and post so don't blame . On last Friday (05.31.2014) I was at school but it was free day so i was enjoying my 1 month old N5. I was using Elix-R rom with kernel included in this ROM. When I was sitting on Google Play my phone did soft reboot but bootanimation was ''scratching'' and bugging. I had decided to do a restore but i was done in 14 second so i knew something went wrong. When I tried to reboot my phone was stuck on google logo and it was rebooting to the same state over and over again (after about 10 seconds). When I came home i tried to flash stock rom's images but i got the same result. oh, and I forgot. When i was restoring, TWRP boot again but it was still restoring. I had some CM zips so i flashed them but it didnt help either. After flashing stock i had tried to access stock recovery but i got same result as before(Google logo). Some time ago I read about temporary booting recovery so i tried it but i didn't help. On Saturday I boot up phone again and i saw stock rom's bootanimation ''scratching'' and loading again as before after ''soft reboot'' on Friday. Now I've locked and re-unlocked bootloader again but i forgot about typing ''fastboot reboot'' in cmd. I've just clicked Power button on N5 and small android with loading bar appeared but after several seconds it stopped and booted again. I accessed the bootloader again and flashed stock images. Then locked/unlocked again and my phone is not booting and i cant access any recovery.
I really dont know what to do. I haven't modified my kernel or something. I haven't done anything bad - I was just surfing the internet and downloading apps from GP. I hope you'll understand all because I'm sure my English is not good enough. Thank you guys for help already
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Did you try to wipe in recovery, maybe that gives some more info about what went crazy

GtrCraft said:
Did you try to wipe in recovery, maybe that gives some more info about what went crazy
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as i said i cant access any recovery

MaxtremePL said:
as i said i cant access any recovery
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try to press power button for some minutes.. it should boot to google logo ... try this and see if Your phone is not bricked
edit: or see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53000619&postcount=2

EnricoD said:
try to press power button for some minutes.. it should boot to google logo ... try this and see if Your phone is not bricked
edit: or see here
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phone boots normally but then it starts bootlooping with google logo. i've tried also Dead_Nexus5 but it didnt help either. Im losing hope ;(

can you still get into the bootloader?(power button + volume down, both pressed down until its booted)

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simms22 said:
can you still get into the bootloader?(power button + volume down, both pressed down until its booted)
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luckily i do

MaxtremePL said:
luckily i do
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Well then you should be fine. If your bootloader is still unlocked flash a custom recovery via fast boot then flash a ROM/gapps/su.

simms22 said:
Well then you should be fine. If your bootloader is still unlocked flash a custom recovery via fast boot then flash a ROM/gapps/su.
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hmmm for some reason i didnt think about it lol i'll try ty

MaxtremePL said:
hmmm for some reason i didnt think about it lol i'll try ty
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let me know..

Related

Stuck at google logo Telus

So I tried to flash CM7 RC4 onto my Telus Nexus S its a i9020a and I got an error status 7, now I'm stuck at the google logo. oops. What do I do? I can still get into recovery.
same thing happened to me
Did you get it fixed?
http://android.grdlock.net//index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Samsung Nexus S&
I just found that, it's a nandroid backup of Nexus S i9020a found in this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033269
hopefully I can fix now.
for some reason i cant back up or restore........and there is a problem reading the cache
not sure what the hell is wrong here but i cant fastboot flash the boot.img or system.img onto the damn thing
I got it fixed man, read this it will fix you up, you just have to flash the i9023 recovery image then eveyrthing works, i'm on cm7 now!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-992114.html
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/19988-unable-to-flash-cyanogen/
Heres where they are in case you don't have that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
KryPTiCk0d3 said:
Heres where they are in case you don't have that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
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thanks so much, its retarded that you gotta use the recovery for the i9023 tho
Yeah I'm not sure why either, kinda stupid and took 3 hours of reading to find that ffs... o well works wicked now.
would this work for me? I'm stuck at the splash screen! I'm not rooted though and have never attemtped to root. This randomly happened as my battery was dying now i've been stuck with it for the past 48 hours!
xxartixx said:
would this work for me? I'm stuck at the splash screen! I'm not rooted though and have never attemtped to root. This randomly happened as my battery was dying now i've been stuck with it for the past 48 hours!
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I'm not sure if this would work for you or not. If you turn the phone off, and then hold volume up and push the power button (hold both) until you get to the bootloader interface. If you can get there, you should be able to install the clockwork recovery and put on a custom rom. But on the other hand, if you did nothing to it in the first place, maybe you should take it back and get a new one?

Reboot to CWM only- help

So this is what happened. I was in the middle of using navigation on Trickdroid 7 and my S4 started to reboot and kept rebooting every 15 to 20 seconds. I was able to re-flash trickdroid 7 and everything was ok for the past month- yesterday I flash trickdroid9 everything was OK and I decided to go back to trickdroid 7 because I use wifi a lot. Thats when things got squirrely- I did a factory reset before and after the flash and it would just hang at the HTC logo and disappear. Now, I'm stuck at it being in CWM only, can't seem to even be able to get to the bootloader anymore. even by power and volume down.
Any hope of recovering? Any input would be appreciated.
Dan
Thats what happens when you use a crappy recovery.
Keep trying vol- and power. Once you get into bootloader flash twrp.
Goatshocker said:
Thats what happens when you use a crappy recovery.
Keep trying vol- and power. Once you get into bootloader flash twrp.
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Dude you should pimp my thread for this stuff lol.
After a good hour of trying I finally got TWRP installed..... I was able to push trickdroid 7 but it gets to the 1st HTC boot screen and just goes blank. Wait about 10 minutes....
Any further suggestions of what to push?
Thanks for the help so far.
Dan
OK- thanks. Back in business. I flashed the trickdroid7 Kernal and BAM! working again.

boot loop - can't navigate bootloader to get into recovery mode

hi there,
I'm running CM11 nightly late feb. For no apparent reason my phone went into a boot loop this morning (n.b. I didn't flash a new rom or installed a new app). Now it constantly reboots (literally) and doesn't get further than the CM11 boot video or google logo.
If I press volume down and power, it will head into bootloader - but - I can't navigate beyond 'shut down' or 'restart bootloader'. It doesn't execute two consecutive volume up or down commands. In other words, it's impossible to get into recovery mode. Also, because my phone doesn't boot further than the video or logo, I can't make a fastboot or adb connection via my laptop.
Does anybody know how I can fix this issue? I'm clearly running out of luck. Many thx in advance!
reflash recovery?
Try to boot into recovery with cmd: fastboot boot TWRP.img (TWRP or your current custom recovery)
Then restore a nandroid backup or wipe data/system/dalvik
You can still flash the factory images. Fastboot mode is enough. Guide
suikerchiller said:
Now it constantly reboots (literally)
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Stuck power button. Mash the power button really fast for 20 seconds to unstick whatever is in there.
gd6noob said:
reflash recovery?
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can't flash anything, because phone is constantly rebooting. Have opened up the phone and took the battery out for 1 minute. Didn't help either. After starting up the phone I get stuck in the boot loop again.
Anyone else an idea?
suikerchiller said:
can't flash anything, because phone is constantly rebooting. Have opened up the phone and took the battery out for 1 minute. Didn't help either. After starting up the phone I get stuck in the boot loop again.
Anyone else an idea?
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The phone doesn't reboot in the bootloader right?
If it doesn't either do what primokorn said or flash the factory image.
Sent from my Nexus 5
El Daddy said:
The phone doesn't reboot in the bootloader right?
If it doesn't either do what primokorn said or flash the factory image.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Well the issue is that it only stays for a fraction of a second in bootloader, which gives it enough time to navigate one step up or down. Not enough time to get into recovery.
How can I do what Primoken said? It doesn't seem to be possible to do a flash when the phone is constantly rebooting?
Thx for helping me out guys, much appreciated!
suikerchiller said:
Well the issue is that it only stays for a fraction of a second in bootloader, which gives it enough time to navigate one step up or down. Not enough time to get into recovery.
How can I do what Primoken said? It doesn't seem to be possible to do a flash when the phone is constantly rebooting?
Thx for helping me out guys, much appreciated!
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Have you ever kept your phone in narrow pocket? Because it's definitely sounds to me like a stuck power button.
Simonna said:
Have you ever kept your phone in narrow pocket? Because it's definitely sounds to me like a stuck power button.
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It's not a power issue. Also unscrewed my phone to see if that was what caused it. Nothing in there, mechanism functioned correctly.
UPDATE: For some reason my phone booted up out of nothing. I managed to flash an older ROM via CM Updater (through settings)- which seemed to work. Apps were updated and it was running normally. But after a couple of minutes it restarted out of the blue and now back to square one again.
Guess there's a chance I'll probably get a normal start up soon. Is it a good idea to do a factory whipe restart through the settings menu? Or is Primokorn's method safer?
suikerchiller said:
...Or is Primokorn's method safer?
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Yes.

I also have bricked my M8

So I was playing around trying to get Sound MOD to work(dont ask me y..I was bored) And I have bricked my phone. I am stuck on the white HTC screen the one at the begining of the boot..the one that says this build is for development purposes..blah blah. and it is just stuck there. Adb wont find device or nothing..I am truly screwed..yes?
Well, ADB wouldn't be able to do anything at that point anyway. It's not fully booted, or in the bootloader.
Have you tried powering it off, and booting to the bootloader? From there recovery, do a factory reset, and see if it boots then?
BDogg718 said:
So I was playing around trying to get Sound MOD to work(dont ask me y..I was bored) And I have bricked my phone. I am stuck on the white HTC screen the one at the begining of the boot..the one that says this build is for development purposes..blah blah. and it is just stuck there. Adb wont find device or nothing..I am truly screwed..yes?
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If your screen shows something you are not bricked.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW
sfreemanoh said:
Well, ADB wouldn't be able to do anything at that point anyway. It's not fully booted, or in the bootloader.
Have you tried powering it off, and booting to the bootloader? From there recovery, do a factory reset, and see if it boots then?
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They is no way of powering it off..its just stuck on that screen. No buttons do anything. Guess ill just have to let the FULLY CHARGED..lol..battery run out then try to get into bootloader.
Have you tried holding down the power button for around 10s? That usually does it.
sfreemanoh said:
Have you tried holding down the power button for around 10s? That usually does it.
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yep..no dice
1ManWolfePack said:
If your screen shows something you are not bricked.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW
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Well Im something..lol
ok..so I got it to go into hboot..And Im trying to factory reset..but it just keeps taking me to twrp again. and everytime I try to do something in there in just boots back to that htc screen. I am noticing when it first boots into hboot it quickly says something about wrong image.
BDogg718 said:
ok..so I got it to go into hboot..And Im trying to factory reset..but it just keeps taking me to twrp again. and everytime I try to do something in there in just boots back to that htc screen.
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Which menu options are you selecting in TWRP? And to factory reset, you would WANT to be in TWRP, so I don't know why you're making it sound like that's a bad thing...
sfreemanoh said:
Which menu options are you selecting in TWRP? And to factory reset, you would WANT to be in TWRP, so I don't know why you're making it sound like that's a bad thing...
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I cant do anything in twrp. I can factory reset but when i go to install anything or restore a backup it boots right back to that HTC screen
BDogg718 said:
I cant do anything in twrp. I can factory reset but when i go to install anything or restore a backup it boots right back to that HTC screen
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So you've tried doing a factory reset, and afterwards it still just gets stuck during boot? And do you mean it boots back to the HTC boot screen after restoring an image and rebooting, or you select "Restore image" (or whatever) and it instantly reboots and gets stuck?
sfreemanoh said:
So you've tried doing a factory reset, and afterwards it still just gets stuck during boot? And do you mean it boots back to the HTC boot screen after restoring an image and rebooting, or you select "Restore image" (or whatever) and it instantly reboots and gets stuck?
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Yep and now I really have a brick..I cant even get it to turn on. If i hold the power and volume down button for ten sec i get htc scren for 3 sec then phone goes bye bye. Im screwed. Thanx for the help guys.
Out if curiosity how did you get to this state by trying to flash a sound mod?
Sent from Tapatalk on my one m8
wtoj34 said:
Out if curiosity how did you get to this state by trying to flash a sound mod?
Sent from Tapatalk on my one m8
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I was trying to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498 and after doing what issue 1 said I rebooted and got a unauthorized device warning. was finally able to get back to hboot and recovery but nothing would work..wiping, factory resetting..nothing. I just had to order new one. I hate mistakes that cost $..lol
Its my own dumbass fault. I shouldve just let it alone. Was running great on viper 1.6
Have you tried flashing any Rom? You can't boot into the OS following a factory reset in TWRP, you will always end up with what you're getting
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richii0207 said:
Have you tried flashing any Rom? You can't boot into the OS following a factory reset in TWRP, you will always end up with what you're getting
Sent from my HTC6525LVW using XDA Free mobile app
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It is impossible for me to flash a rom. Cant get into a recovery to do it.
Ok so update: I was SOMEHOW able to get into recovery(TWRP) but no matter what i try to do it just reboots back into recovery..any ideas?
EDIT: gonna try verizon RUU. Fingers crossed
Just a thought here. TWRP can install from USB. I have flashed from a thumbdrive in the past on an S3. You may be able to do same. I know this is a shot in the dark but may help.
Will it just sit at the recovery screen or does it boot before you touch anything? If it will sit at the TWRP main screen you should be able to boot into hboot via adb and try a reflash of twrp or CWM. Your recovery may be corrupt.
You're definitely not bricked. You're catching breaks left and right.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW
Would a moderator kindly close this thread as I have fixed my problem. Thank you!
After toying around with it for HOURS! Somehow I was able to get it to boot into hboot. Which from there was ablt to fastboot an RUU and profit! Funny thing is I had already made a claim with the Big Red V. Called them back to say that I had found my phone...too late claim already in..lol. Now I have a brand new phone on its way and a mini-tab and dev device I guess..lol

[Q] Installed Stock ROM, but stuck on Logo

Hello.
After i wiped to much on my mini, i got left with totally nothing on my phone...
i found out that i dont have access to that s-off (so its on) and i have htc-sense 6 firmware
but i unlocked the bootloader with the official htc page
first i installed cwm-recovery and pushed this stock rom with updated boot.img to my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...-official-stock-sense-6-rom-firmware-t2817921
then i installed it via cwm and the log reads no errors, after a successfull installation.
now i pushed reboot, but the phone keeps stuck on the white display with the htc logo.
i waited 10 minutes, nothing
what can i do?
please help!!
edit: hboot 2.22 , os 4.09
Tuoo said:
Hello.
After i wiped to much on my mini, i got left with totally nothing on my phone...
i found out that i dont have access to that s-off (so its on) and i have htc-sense 6 firmware
but i unlocked the bootloader with the official htc page
first i installed cwm-recovery and pushed this stock rom with updated boot.img to my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...-official-stock-sense-6-rom-firmware-t2817921
then i installed it via cwm and the log reads no errors, after a successfull installation.
now i pushed reboot, but the phone keeps stuck on the white display with the htc logo.
i waited 10 minutes, nothing
what can i do?
please help!!
edit: hboot 2.22 , os 4.09
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Hi,
Try to flash boot.img once more via fastboot...then try to reboot...if it works....cool.... if not try next step.
Enter recovery.....make a factory reset
Try to reboot...
if this didn´t help report back...
shivasrage said:
Hi,
Try to flash boot.img once more via fastboot...the try to reboot...if it works....cool.... if not try next step.
Enter recovery.....make a factory reset
Try to reboot...
if this didn´t help report back...
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hey, thanks for your fast reply!
i tried to flash the boot.img again and rebooted, but nothing.
then i made the factory reset, but still nothing
and btw. how does it look, when it works? i mean after new rom-install, i guess theres a loading screen while first bootup is processed?
or does it just keeps stay on that white display with htc logo?
edit: i just found out, that with exact version "version-main: 4.09.776.3", there is no ruu existing for the m4 .. crap, i have no backup
Tuoo said:
hey, thanks for your fast reply!
i tried to flash the boot.img again and rebooted, but nothing.
then i made the factory reset, but still nothing
and btw. how does it look, when it works? i mean after new rom-install, i guess theres a loading screen while first bootup is processed?
or does it just keeps stay on that white display with htc logo?
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I reommend you to change recovery better usw TWRP 2.7.1.1 or latest Philz recovery.
If you want use Philz recovery...there is an option:
wipe all--install a new ROM ...use this Option...then reinstall ROM ..like you did before
Should work now...but some patience neefed takes some time on first boot
Greets
Tuoo said:
and btw. how does it look, when it works? i mean after new rom-install, i guess theres a loading screen while first bootup is processed?
or does it just keeps stay on that white display with htc logo?
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You get the plain white HTC screen with Powered by Android for a long while...at least couple of minutes (or it seems that way, anyway), so try to be patient on this one.
Then you get the HTC One screen with BeatsAudio at the bottom for a while. I think on this screen when it's about to take you into phone setup, you get Preparing SIM card toast.
Then you get setup.
I don't think there are ever any progress bars.
shivasrage said:
I reommend you to change recovery better usw TWRP 2.7.1.1 or latest Philz recovery.
If you want use Philz recovery...there is an option:
wipe all--install a new ROM ...use this Option...then reinstall ROM ..like you did before
Should work now...but some patience neefed takes some time on first boot
Greets
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bingo! i installed twrp, did a wipe first, pushed the rom and installed zip - rebooted
waited 30 seconds and there it was finally ! thank you !!!!
it nearly instantly beeped and animated the logo into the beatsaudio-display, from that moment i knew it must work
i have a feeling, that the cwm not really works that good anymore.
also if i remember right, it was the reason for the initial fail-wipe, which caused all this.... :cyclops:
jollywhitefoot said:
You get the plain white HTC screen with Powered by Android for a long while...at least couple of minutes (or it seems that way, anyway), so try to be patient on this one.
Then you get the HTC One screen with BeatsAudio at the bottom for a while. I think on this screen when it's about to take you into phone setup, you get Preparing SIM card toast.
Then you get setup.
I don't think there are ever any progress bars.
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thanks for your input too! made it easier to be patient
time for a nand backup now!! :good:
Tuoo said:
bingo! i installed twrp, did a wipe first, pushed the rom and installed zip - rebooted
waited 30 seconds and there it was finally ! thank you !!!!
it nearly instantly beeped and animated the logo into the beatsaudio-display, from that moment i knew it must work
i have a feeling, that the cwm not really works that good anymore.
also if i remember right, it was the reason for the initial fail-wipe, which caused all this.... :cyclops:
thanks for your input too! made it easier to be patient
time for a nand backup now!! :good:
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awesome. glad to hear it.

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