[Q] Can't get into recovery, can't flash new recovery - Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok, so I have an MZ601. Flashed with R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux and omni-4.4.2-20140321-1754+0100-everest-HOMEMADE (updated with latest omni versions as they became available).
Everything been working fine until two days ago, when Xoom froze. It had happened before a couple of times and a reboot had solved the problem. Did that, and this time it got stuck in a bootloop, only getting as far as the Omni splash screen before rebooting. Few reboots later, nothing improving, and then it didn’t get past the Motorola M splash screen.
Tried booting into recovery, frozen at teamwin splashscreen. Nothing was working. Rebooted few time, same thing. Connected to power, charged til green, left for extra 30 minutes, tried again, same problem. Switched off. Came back to it today and....
All of the following done via Fastboot:
Tried flashing non bigpart TWRP (R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3), still stuck at teamwin splash screen. Flashed Clockwork recovery, booted into recovery fine, but couldn’t see memory card. Flashed Clockwork recovery touch version, same problem. Flashed back to TWRP non bigpart, and it booted into recovery fine, sdcard mounted fine, seeing all files. Excellent. Decided to reflash bigpart version, used reboot option in TWRP, it tells me there is NO OS INSTALLED.
Ok, that’s a bit odd. Must be corrupted or something, but might explain the original freeze and bootloop and then not even getting to Omni splash screen. Swiped to reboot. Flashed bigpart version of TWRP. Rebooted into recovery. Back to original problem, stuck at teamwin splash screen. Left it for 10 minutes just to be sure. No joy.
Tried retracing steps, flashing Clockwork recovery. Reboot. Teamwin splash screen. WTF? Try flashing Rogue recovery. Reboot. Teamwin splash screen.
Kinda confused. It’s like it’s telling me it’s successfully flashed but it hasn’t actually done anything. Power everything down, disconnect everything. Start again. Flash Clockwork recovery, reboot, displays teamwin splash screen, sticks. Flash TWRP, non bigpart, displays teamwin splash screen, sticks. Reboot. Flash TWRP bigpart. Reboot, displays teamwin splash screen, sticks.
Walk away in disgust so as not to throw something at Xoom.
Ok, TL-DR recap.
Worked fine for months
Two days ago, froze on Omnirom logo, got stuck in bootloop
After few reboots didn’t even make it to Omnirom logo, stuck on M screen
Flashed TWRP recovery, non bigpart, stuck at teamwin splash screen
Flashed Clockwork recovery, got into recovery, no SDcard
Flashed Clockwork recovery, touch version, same problem
Flashed TWRP non bigpart, got into recovery, could see SDcard and files, rebooted from within recovery to flash bigpart version, tells me NO OS installed
Reboot
Now, regardless of which recovery I flash it goes straight to teamwin splash screen and stays there.
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Come on guys, 100 plus views and no replies? Surely somebody has an idea?

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Flashed twrp.. booted into recovery flashed bigpart twrp then says no OS.
It will say no OS cause bigpart would have wiped everything to resize the partition.
I've updated my TWRP to support bigpart and a few other things. Grab it from the pined thread by myself flash it and wipe everything but sdcard.
THen from the terminal in twrp type
df
Ensure the system is around a gig if so then you have repartitioned your /system
Then flash your bigpart Rom and gapps should be good to go from there
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Cheers for the reply, but I'd already had it flashed and running fine for about three months, as I said in my first line:
Ok, so I have an MZ601. Flashed with R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux and omni-4.4.2-20140321-1754+0100-everest-HOMEMADE
Actually, reading that back, it may not have been clear enough that I meant I'd been running it that way for a while.
Oh, also in the TLR, I meant I rebooted so that I could flash TWRP bigpart from ADB/FASTBOOT, not that I flashed it from within TWRP (which is what I should have done since it turned out to be the one and only time I managed to get past the splash screen). It told me there was no OS installed after I flashed the non bigpart version of TWRP and before I rebooted from within the recovery.
My point is I can't get past the splashscreen, no matter what I do, so I can't use any of the recovery / flash options in TWRP. I also can't flash any other recoveries using ADB or FASTBOOT because no matter what I flash it still stays stuck on the TWRP splashscreen when I reboot into recovery, whether I use FASTBOOT REBOOT or reboot using the volume rocker.
runandhide05 said:
At the bottom of your tldr
Flashed twrp.. booted into recovery flashed bigpart twrp then says no OS.
It will say no OS cause bigpart would have wiped everything to resize the partition.
I've updated my TWRP to support bigpart and a few other things. Grab it from the pined thread by myself flash it and wipe everything but sdcard.
THen from the terminal in twrp type
df
Ensure the system is around a gig if so then you have repartitioned your /system
Then flash your bigpart Rom and gapps should be good to go from there
sent from::§::
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codliness1 said:
Cheers for the reply, but I'd already had it flashed and running fine for about three months, as I said in my first line:
Ok, so I have an MZ601. Flashed with R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux and omni-4.4.2-20140321-1754+0100-everest-HOMEMADE
Actually, reading that back, it may not have been clear enough that I meant I'd been running it that way for a while.
Oh, also in the TLR, I meant I rebooted so that I could flash TWRP bigpart from ADB/FASTBOOT, not that I flashed it from within TWRP (which is what I should have done since it turned out to be the one and only time I managed to get past the splash screen). It told me there was no OS installed after I flashed the non bigpart version of TWRP and before I rebooted from within the recovery.
My point is I can't get past the splashscreen, no matter what I do, so I can't use any of the recovery / flash options in TWRP. I also can't flash any other recoveries using ADB or FASTBOOT because no matter what I flash it still stays stuck on the TWRP splashscreen when I reboot into recovery, whether I use FASTBOOT REBOOT or reboot using the volume rocker.
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I'm stuck in TWRP v2.6.3.0(RunAndHide05 Edition) cant mount system, wipe any data tried or install any rom. Tried flashing different recovery via fast boot but stays the same
*No Os installed error

@crazylegs90 did you figure this out man? Im stuck at twrp start screen..

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Hi.
I have a HUGE problem and need help.
I was on Cyanogen OS 12.1 and decided to install the latest Cyanogen OS 13.1. I downloaded the flashable zip. Booted into TWRP recovery and installed the zip file. I had always allowed my phone to reinstall Super SU in the past with great succes, but it seems I shouldn't have done that according to someone in Oneplus forums. Now my phone is stuck on the bootup animation that says "Cyanogen MOD ready". I also cannot boot into the recovery or safe mode using hardware keys. Please help! I don't want to lose my phone or my data!
Thanks for any advice.
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EDIT2: It looks like my phone has booted successfully and is now optimizing apps for COS update! If I don't follow up, it means everything worked out great again!
EDIT 3: My phone finished "optimizing" apps. I thought it would take me to my launcher as all other times I've updated. To my surprise, the phone seemed to reboot and was stuck on the "splash screen" (Cyanogen MOD ready). After that, I got the "Android is starting" "Optimizing app xx of xxx" message again, which is incredibly weird and I think my phone might be in a bootloop. PLEASE HELP!
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To recap everything:
1. I was trying to manually upgrade from COS 12.1 to COS 13.1
2. My phone was rooted, had TWRP recovery and ADB debugging was enabled in dev options. I can enter fastboot mode using hardware keys. I cannot enter recovery using hardware keys (shows a blank screen), but I can enter recovery using "fastboot boot recovery.img.
3. After I flashed COS 13.1, I was asked (in TWRP) if I wanted to install SU and I said yes and flashed it. This is when I was in a loop of being stuck on COS 13.1 splash screen for about 5-10 minutes and then my phone was "optimizing app xx of xxx" for 15 minutes and then rebooted and did everything all over again.
4. I tried to restored a nandroid backup using "restore" in TWRP, but phone is stuck in "cyanogen" splash screen for more than 40 minutes.
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Not sure what to do at this point.
I ended up wiping data and performing a factory reset through TWRP. Might try to upgrade again in the future.

Oneplus One TWRP Bootloop

Hi,
I've got a Oneplus One that's stuck in a twrp recovery boot loop, and I'm wondering if anyone can help. I just had my screen replaced and when I got it back it was stuck in a twrp recovery bootloop, and I couldn't boot into fastboot mode- not via recovery, and not via holding the power/volume buttons down. By wiping the system in twrp I was able to get into fastboot mode, and flash the latest stock Cyanogen rom cm-13.1-ZNH2KAS254-bacon-signed-fastboot-d194f46bee. Everything booted up fine, and at that point the phone had been restored to stock. After that, I installed the latest cyanogenmod snapshot cm-13.0-20160419-SNAPSHOT-ZNH0EAO2O0-bacon, and everything booted up fine. Next I flashed the latest twrp 3.0.2-0 and rebooted the system. At that point everything seemed to be okay. I took the back cover off again to try and line up the speaker grill a little bit better, and now I'm stuck in a recovery bootloop again, except this time I can't get back to fastboot mode by wiping the system, and I don't have consistent internet access to research how to fix this (I'm posting this from the library). I was able to install the cm snapshot again via twrp thinking that it would just undo whatever it is that was causing the problem, but the phone still boots into twrp every time. Twrp does detect that I have indeed installed the zip, it's just I can't boot into anything other than twrp. Even when I plug the phone in powered off as if to charge it, it boots straight into recovery. I am able to put files on the phone via mtp, and it shows up under adb devices as serial# recovery when I mount mtp, so if there is a magic file that I can install, or an adb command that I can run, or if you know of the solution please lend me a helping hand.
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Asus TF300T - boot loop - device unlocked - can boot recovery Kang Twrp

So I updated to the latest version of KatKiss, did a wipe first (from Kang TWRP), everything seemed fine the tablet booted and everything was working. I powered off the tablet and went on with my day, when I turned it on again it's in a boot loop. I get the ASUS-logo (at least one time I also got the KatKiss-logo), it tries to boot and it returns to the ASUS-logo. I tried to do a wipe in recovery (Kang TWRP) but it doesn't complete, after around 30 seconds it jumps automatically to the ASUS-logo and tries to boot again.
Any solution greatly appreciated.
Glomgold said:
So I updated to the latest version of KatKiss, did a wipe first (from Kang TWRP), everything seemed fine the tablet booted and everything was working. I powered off the tablet and went on with my day, when I turned it on again it's in a boot loop. I get the ASUS-logo (at least one time I also got the KatKiss-logo), it tries to boot and it returns to the ASUS-logo. I tried to do a wipe in recovery (Kang TWRP) but it doesn't complete, after around 30 seconds it jumps automatically to the ASUS-logo and tries to boot again.
Any solution greatly appreciated.
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Please try to get into "Fastboot Protocol" by holding the button volume down at the time before the boot loop starts newly again. Three icons will appear. The first one, RCK; is blinking. Press volume up and your TWRP should start. Hopefully you have Kang TWRP. If so you may install rom, gapps and SuperSU again by following exactly the install instruction by Timduru here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tra...t/rom-t3453702.
(Don't forget to do "Format Data" through Kang TWRP as first of all. It takes up to one hour. Be patient and let it run.)
I'm sorry, but if you are really not able to boot into either fastboot or recovery the tablet is bricked for good!
Thank you for advice.
The tablet is up and running again. I wasen't able to boot into Kang TWRP, but I was able to use fastboot. I ran a lot of erase commands that I found in a guide, erase boot, erase recovery, erase userdata etc., afterwards I flashed stock rom. It still wouldn't boot, but I installed Kang TWRP with fastboot and I was able to use TWRP again so I was able to flash a custom rom and it booted up again.
Glomgold said:
Thank you for advice.
The tablet is up and running again. I wasen't able to boot into Kang TWRP, but I was able to use fastboot. I ran a lot of erase commands that I found in a guide, erase boot, erase recovery, erase userdata etc., afterwards I flashed stock rom. It still wouldn't boot, but I installed Kang TWRP with fastboot and I was able to use TWRP again so I was able to flash a custom rom and it booted up again.
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Congratulations! You did a good job. Seems as if you did the well known "Buster99 Solution" successfully in order to get back on stock rom. Keep it in your mind for ever. It may be also helpfully in other cases of trouble.
odd loop.
Glomgold said:
So I updated to the latest version of KatKiss, did a wipe first (from Kang TWRP), everything seemed fine the tablet booted and everything was working. I powered off the tablet and went on with my day, when I turned it on again it's in a boot loop. I get the ASUS-logo (at least one time I also got the KatKiss-logo), it tries to boot and it returns to the ASUS-logo. I tried to do a wipe in recovery (Kang TWRP) but it doesn't complete, after around 30 seconds it jumps automatically to the ASUS-logo and tries to boot again.
Any solution greatly appreciated.
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Randomly my tablet started doing the boot loop. It would show the Asus Logo, then the Kattkiss logo and it will go to a screen saying optimizing apps. It would go through and optimize all 1-75 then reboot and start the process again. I unhooked the dock and allowed it to do this until the battery was completely dead. Next day same thing. This tablet has been unchanged OS wise for about 2 years. only used for youtube videos. Super odd that it randomly broke.
It does have a good TWRP version installed v2.8.7.0. So I tried flashing the 7.1 rom, su, gapps and wiped cache/dalvik. Did not correct it. So then did factory reset. Still no go. Now i am doing a full wipe / format. After format i will reinstall katkiss 7.1, su, and gapps. Hopefully i get back to normal after that.
Absolutely no idea what spurred this or what caused the break. Has been completely normal for a very long time. Weird.
Anybody else see anything like this?
thereal35 said:
It does have a good TWRP version installed v2.8.7.0.
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I don't think so. In order to get this Rom installed on your devise you need Kang TWRP as advised by @timduru https://forum.xda-developers.com/transformer-tf300t/development/recovery-twrp-t3046479.

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My Phone was running Android 11 perfectly fine. Has been for about a week and a half, and I've decided that I don't like the OS. I was going to flash a custom ROM and went to create a nandroid before flashing. Literally all I did was boot into recovery and TWRP got stuck in a bootloop, the TWRP splash screen appears, crashes and then reappears about 2 seconds later, now when I try to boot back into system, TWRP appears instead and continues to bootloop. I can enter fastboot mode but that's all.
So far I've tried
Booting TWRP through fastboot. Failed another bootloop.
Rebooting through ADB. Boots into TWRP.
Rebooting Bootloader. Seems to do nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this ? It seems strange to me that something as simple as booting recovery could do this much harm. I also have a nandroid backup stored on the device from about a month ago, so the data loss wouldn't be THAT major, but I'm also not sure how I could access it without system or recovery access.
Hi , Which version of TWRP use? I think there is an update a new version TWRP 3.5.2 , Try to flash it. if its still not booting try to boot the original Boot of OOS11.
May be this threads will help you.
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humood96 said:
Hi , Which version of TWRP use? I think there is an update a new version TWRP 3.5.2 , Try to flash it. if its still not booting try to boot the original Boot of OOS11.
May be this threads will help you.
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New version does not work as well. Flash the stock boot img to get out of bootloop.
Jacobo123 said:
My Phone was running Android 11 perfectly fine. Has been for about a week and a half, and I've decided that I don't like the OS. I was going to flash a custom ROM and went to create a nandroid before flashing. Literally all I did was boot into recovery and TWRP got stuck in a bootloop, the TWRP splash screen appears, crashes and then reappears about 2 seconds later, now when I try to boot back into system, TWRP appears instead and continues to bootloop. I can enter fastboot mode but that's all.
So far I've tried
Booting TWRP through fastboot. Failed another bootloop.
Rebooting through ADB. Boots into TWRP.
Rebooting Bootloader. Seems to do nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this ? It seems strange to me that something as simple as booting recovery could do this much harm. I also have a nandroid backup stored on the device from about a month ago, so the data loss wouldn't be THAT major, but I'm also not sure how I could access it without system or recovery access.
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Did your problem got solved?As i updated to A11 a few days ago and am facing the same problem since.Did flashing the new version of twrp worked for you?
Jacobo123 said:
My Phone was running Android 11 perfectly fine. Has been for about a week and a half, and I've decided that I don't like the OS. I was going to flash a custom ROM and went to create a nandroid before flashing. Literally all I did was boot into recovery and TWRP got stuck in a bootloop, the TWRP splash screen appears, crashes and then reappears about 2 seconds later, now when I try to boot back into system, TWRP appears instead and continues to bootloop. I can enter fastboot mode but that's all.
So far I've tried
Booting TWRP through fastboot. Failed another bootloop.
Rebooting through ADB. Boots into TWRP.
Rebooting Bootloader. Seems to do nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this ? It seems strange to me that something as simple as booting recovery could do this much harm. I also have a nandroid backup stored on the device from about a month ago, so the data loss wouldn't be THAT major, but I'm also not sure how I could access it without system or recovery access.
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At first.- Stable TWRP is not available til now for OOS11
For TWRP to work your device must be decrypted.
This link will help you, will get full details
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-oneplus-7-pro.3931322/page-152#post-84727891
For more questions and help, please post in that twrp thread only
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