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Wiped system, cant get to recovery

Hey all, i wiped my system in TWRP recovery and when i hold power, home, and vol down, i get to the TWRP splash screen but then i reboot. Any suggestions?

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So it will not boot into TWRP fully? How many times have you tried cuz if you rebooted accidentally after wiping system (I've done this), it takes a few tries.
Alternatively, you could Odin flash TWRP (file is in Open1your1eyes0 root thread) and try booting into TWRP then. This increments your flash counter.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
So it will not boot into TWRP fully? How many times have you tried cuz if you rebooted accidentally after wiping system (I've done this), it takes a few tries.
Alternatively, you could Odin flash TWRP (file is in Open1your1eyes0 root thread) and try booting into TWRP then. This increments your flash counter.
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ive tried around 8 or so, its worked before on my second ot third try but im getting no dice this time around, ill check out the odin file, thanks for the reply man =)

VinBertinelli said:
ive tried around 8 or so, its worked before on my second ot third try but im getting no dice this time around, ill check out the odin file, thanks for the reply man =)
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No problem. You're saying its booting to the TWRP logo or booting to the Samsung logo? Just wanted to clarify.
Also, hold: power, home, and volume then once it boots release the power button. That seems to be the only way I can cold boot into recovery.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
No problem. You're saying its booting to the TWRP logo or booting to the Samsung logo? Just wanted to clarify.
Also, hold: power, home, and volume then once it boots release the power button. That seems to be the only way I can cold boot into recovery.
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Yeah i hold home, power, and vol down, then it goes Samsung screen > Samsung Galaxy SIII screen > blue TWRP splash screen > reboot to system and freezes. And another thing, if i odin flash this TWRP, will it wipe internal storage by any chance? Its happened one too many times to me

VinBertinelli said:
Yeah i hold home, power, and vol down, then it goes Samsung screen > Samsung Galaxy SIII screen > blue TWRP splash screen > reboot to system and freezes. And another thing, if i odin flash this TWRP, will it wipe internal storage by any chance? Its happened one too many times to me
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Hmm, weird. What were you doing before which led to this?
Nope, it doesn't wipe internal storage. Just overwrites your recovery partition. When Odin reboots your phone, pull the battery then try booting straight to TWRP. If you still can't boot into recovery try the same steps but flash CWM, flash a rom, and then reinstall TWRP via GooManager.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Hmm, weird. What were you doing before which led to this?
Nope, it doesn't wipe internal storage. Just overwrites your recovery partition. When Odin reboots your phone, pull the battery then try booting straight to TWRP. If you still can't boot into recovery try the same steps but flash CWM, flash a rom, and then reinstall TWRP via GooManager.
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Just flashed it and it still wouldn't fully boot TWRP. I'm about to try CWM now. What happened was i came from LiquidSmooth AOSP and I was ready to flash Hyperdrive Touchwiz so I wiped all the partitions and flashed the zip. The Aroma Installer froze before it started so i battery pulled and figured I'd retry. It wouldn't boot and now I'm where I am now.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Hmm, weird. What were you doing before which led to this?
Nope, it doesn't wipe internal storage. Just overwrites your recovery partition. When Odin reboots your phone, pull the battery then try booting straight to TWRP. If you still can't boot into recovery try the same steps but flash CWM, flash a rom, and then reinstall TWRP via GooManager.
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CWM WORKED! Thanks so much Slim, you're a life saver.

Always happy to help!
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nexus 5 stuck booting

I received my nexus 5 today. Unlocked the bootloader. Tried to install twrp. Gave up and decided to put it back to stock using multitool kit. Toolkit showed as every thing completed successfully but the phone doesn't get past the nexus boot screen. I can boot into the bootloader but that's it. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

speeddemon1891 said:
I received my nexus 5 today. Unlocked the bootloader. Tried to install twrp. Gave up and decided to put it back to stock using multitool kit. Toolkit showed as every thing completed successfully but the phone doesn't get past the nexus boot screen. I can boot into the bootloader but that's it. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Same happened to me after unlocking the bootloader. Here's what you need to do.
Boot into the bootloader and enter recovery.
Press and hold power and quickly press volume up, that will open the menu.
Wipe data/factory reset.
The phone will reboot and you should be good to go.

El Daddy said:
Same happened to me after unlocking the bootloader. Here's what you need to do.
Boot into the bootloader and enter recovery.
Press and hold power and quickly press volume up, that will open the menu.
Wipe data/factory reset.
The phone will reboot and you should be good to go.
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Looks like Google fixed the by-pass data wipe exploit we used with the n4.
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El Daddy said:
Same happened to me after unlocking the bootloader. Here's what you need to do.
Boot into the bootloader and enter recovery.
Press and hold power and quickly press volume up, that will open the menu.
Wipe data/factory reset.
The phone will reboot and you should be good to go.
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Mine is tuck on bootscreen. I can't do anything. I cannot open bootloader or turn off the device
Nvm. fixed it

Vercion3 said:
Mine is tuck on bootscreen. I can't do anything. I cannot open bootloader or turn off the device
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Press and hold Power + Volume Up + Volume Down all at the same time. It will power down the device (it sometimes takes a while, so keep holding down the buttons for at least 10 seconds). Then Power + Volume Down to boot into recovery.
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hello
I have boot loop problem too
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, 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
Thanks

HOW?
Vercion3 said:
Mine is tuck on bootscreen. I can't do anything. I cannot open bootloader or turn off the device
Nvm. fixed it
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Hey there, I have the same problem. How on earth did you fix it?

jacquesjackfourie said:
Hey there, I have the same problem. How on earth did you fix it?
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What did you do right before it got stuck on the boot screen?

jd1639 said:
What did you do right before it got stuck on the boot screen?
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hehe... I've actually just fixed it, turns out TWRC was the problem. But thanks anyway for the quick reply, and sorry for wasting your time!

jacquesjackfourie said:
hehe... I've actually just fixed it, turns out TWRC was the problem. But thanks anyway for the quick reply, and sorry for wasting your time!
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As long as you got it working, that's what counts

HELP
jacquesjackfourie said:
hehe... I've actually just fixed it, turns out TWRC was the problem. But thanks anyway for the quick reply, and sorry for wasting your time!
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Please help me,
I have nexus 5 rooted and it's completely stock
I have installed market enabler and chosen sprint US.
Then when i have rebooted mu nexus has stuck to black screen
I have tried bootloader but it doesn' help.
There is teamwin bootloader but except there is very basic one which give me only four facilities
Reboot
Apply an update
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe partition chache
I have tried all of that but nothing help
I think that it isn't wiping all the data..
Please HELP

Anagh Khandelwal said:
Please help me,
I have nexus 5 rooted and it's completely stock
I have installed market enabler and chosen sprint US.
Then when i have rebooted mu nexus has stuck to black screen
I have tried bootloader but it doesn' help.
There is teamwin bootloader but except there is very basic one which give me only four facilities
Reboot
Apply an update
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe partition chache
I have tried all of that but nothing help
I think that it isn't wiping all the data..
Please HELP
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You have the stock recovery on your phone, not team win. You say you've done a factory reset in the recovery? Try that again first. If that doesn't work then flash the factory image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Problem solved
jd1639 said:
You have the stock recovery on your phone, not team win. You say you've done a factory reset in the recovery? Try that again first. If that doesn't work then flash the factory image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Sorry for late reply,
But i my problem is solved when I unroot my nexus..
Thanks for your effort...

how
jacquesjackfourie said:
hehe... I've actually just fixed it, turns out TWRC was the problem. But thanks anyway for the quick reply, and sorry for wasting your time!
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how did you do it bro? my screen is on google and it wont move from there i went to twrc and did a factory reset butit stayed the same

STEVENCORREA002 said:
how did you do it bro? my screen is on google and it wont move from there i went to twrc and did a factory reset butit stayed the same
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You should explain how the problem happened. Was it by itself? Which Rom are you using?
You can flash a Rom or use this link they posted above http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701/post47156064 to flash Factory images doing method 1. Report back.

nexus 5
jd1639 said:
As long as you got it working, that's what counts
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i hAVE SAME PROBLEM ((( how i fix it ?(

Fastboot erase boot boot.img && fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Or u can do the same command for system just make sure u backup the data partition with twrp and make a copy of sdcard.
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I had a problem like that today
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speeddemon1891 said:
I received my nexus 5 today. Unlocked the bootloader. Tried to install twrp. Gave up and decided to put it back to stock using multitool kit. Toolkit showed as every thing completed successfully but the phone doesn't get past the nexus boot screen. I can boot into the bootloader but that's it. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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iori said:
hello
I have boot loop problem too
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, 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
Thanks
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STEVENCORREA002 said:
how did you do it bro? my screen is on google and it wont move from there i went to twrc and did a factory reset butit stayed the same
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Elendis said:
i hAVE SAME PROBLEM ((( how i fix it ?(
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Check this: [TUTORIAL] How to flash a factory image | Return to stock | Unroot/SAVE your Nexus 5 read the whole post, then do method 1 if it not works then do method 2.
If it still dont work, then try this:[Tutorial] How to flash factory images with LG Flashtool

Stuck at Boot
Hi guys,
Installed TWRP and everything is fine. Tried to install Cynagonmod 11S but it always failed. So I reboot to System and now all I can see if Google text with little unlock icon at bottom. Can't power off to move to recovery. Please help me what to do!

Looping on Teamwin screen
Hi! I don't know what to do anymore. I rooted my Nexus 5 and I install Lollipop. I don't remember what I did now my device loop on the Teamwin screen. I can go to the fastboot mode ( Power + volume down) and that's it. I can not go in the recovery mode because it's bringing me back to the teamwin screen and keep looping. Can you help me?

Won't boot past Google bootscreen, TWRP can't mount any partition

I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?

Can you get into the bootloader? Vol down + power
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jd1639 said:
Can you get into the bootloader? Vol down + power
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Yes, that is how I got to recovery. Selected recovery from the bootloader. I can also see the device through fastboot in bootloader mode.

Flyview said:
Yes, that is how I got to recovery. Selected recovery from the bootloader. I can also see the device through fastboot in bootloader mode.
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Get the cache.img from the factory image and flash that in fastboot.
fastboot flash cache cache.img
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jd1639 said:
Get the cache.img from the factory image and flash that in fastboot.
fastboot flash cache cache.img
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Flashed cache.img from the factory image in fastboot, did fastboot reboot, and now it's doing the same thing, stuck at the Google logo.

Flyview said:
Flashed cache.img from the factory image in fastboot, did fastboot reboot, and now it's doing the same thing, stuck at the Google logo.
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I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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jd1639 said:
I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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I will try what this guy did here first:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...o-repairing-corrupted-data-partition-t2577447
This is my lesson to not only do a nandroid backup BUT SAVE IT TO MY COMPUTER.....grrrrr.

jd1639 said:
I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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Just noticed you're on that thread too. If it is the /data that's corrupt, or worse, all my partitions are corrupt, what's the best way to pull the data that's in there now? adb? What if I can't mount it?

Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/

Flyview said:
Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/
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Well, that's good. Hopefully it'll continue without problems. And, yea, I get around
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I left it overnight to backup everything off my phone onto the computer, and I wake up to it powered off, now it won't boot again, lovely! At least it let me copy everything!

Flyview said:
I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?
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I had the same problem a few weeks ago. If you don't care about losing your /data, just reinstall TWRP and whatever ROM you're using.

Sounds a bit like your emmc is corrupt

Flyview said:
I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?
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Just use wugz, it'll fix it. .

Flyview said:
Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/
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So after this happened I decided to completely reflash it with the stock 4.4.4 image. Now, 2 weeks later I wake up and my phone is off. Won't boot past the Google screen, again. Seriously!? I didn't undervolt it at all this time. Completely stock except root and Franco's r54 kernel.

soupysoup said:
Just use wugz, it'll fix it. .
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What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.

Flyview said:
What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.
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You probably will have to. Use the option to flash back to stock.

LuqmaanMathee said:
You probably will have to. Use the option to flash back to stock.
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Yea if I wanted to lose my data, it would be easy! It can all be done through fastboot.

Flyview said:
What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.
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Try flashing a stock, rooted rom in recovery, just dirty flash it. You'll probably have to use adb to side load or push the rom to the device
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jd1639 said:
Try flashing a stock, rooted rom in recovery, just dirty flash it. You'll probably have to use adb to side load or push the rom to the device
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I will try that as a last resort, but considering that /data can't be mounted, I'm pretty sure that won't help since it'll just flash system right? The data partition is corrupt (just like last time). I'm trying the method of fixing the corruption through adb based on the link I pasted on the first page.

phone shuts off at boot animation

I have a nexus 5 and when the phone starts to boot it gets to the google image and then shuts off. I have flashed nexus images from google using flash_all.bat. I have manually flashed using fastboot. I've re flashed it like 20 times. One time I actually got it to boot but when I restarted it did the same thing. Is there anytihng I can try?

Try booting into recovery and do a factory reset
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jd1639 said:
Try booting into recovery and do a factory reset
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I did, it doesn't help, I did a factory reset and wiped cache. sometimes after a flash I can get it to boot and then if I do get it to boot and I restart it, it won't boot anymore

Rma

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.