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Is my phone toast?

Flashed the NexusBeam ICS rom and deleted the radio and bootloader img that came with the zip and now my phone wont boot at all, I was under the impression by deleting the bootloader.img it just wouldnt install the new bootloader which is what i wanted but it seemed to haved deleted mine in the process

Yup.. Deleting those files from the package would result in the bootloader and radio being wiped and replaced by nothing.. You will probably have to use Odin to flash a stock image. Hopefully someone can help you with that, as I've never used it.
This is precisely the reason I, and some others, were asking devs not to include those files in the rom package..and we were getting crap from other people about "complaining".
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PhillyboyDROID said:
Flashed the NexusBeam ICS rom and deleted the radio and bootloader img that came with the zip and now my phone wont boot at all, I was under the impression by deleting the bootloader.img it just wouldnt install the new bootloader which is what i wanted but it seemed to haved deleted mine in the process
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What phone do you have? to want to delete NexusBeam ICS bootloader? I have nexus s GT-I9020 & was gonna delete the radio, but thaught I would give the new ICS one a try first! (could always flash compatible radio later on!) & it works flawlessly! Then I added GlaDOS 2.4 kernel which changed the boot animation which I didn't like (simple, just deleted bootanimation.zip from system/media, then pulled original bootanimation.zip from NexusBeam zip, & replaced!)
Just dowload NexusBeam again & use cwm recovery or fastboot to reflash NexusBeam & if you want to change radio also, do it at the same time after copying your desired rado to your sd-card & wiping dalvik cache first, then if you change your stock kernel in NexusBeam to dev one, just use method I mentioned previously if you want to change your boot animation to whatever you want! Good luck!!

I cant boot into my bootloader or recovery at all....I can boot into ICS but if i try to but into my recovery from ROM manager my phone just turns off, and if i turn it off it wont turn back on until I run a unbrick program i found. Im stuck after that though, dont know how to flash bootloader without fastboot

PhillyboyDROID said:
I cant boot into my bootloader or recovery at all....I can boot into ICS but if i try to but into my recovery from ROM manager my phone just turns off, and if i turn it off it wont turn back on until I run a unbrick program i found. Im stuck after that though, dont know how to flash bootloader without fastboot
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After you use unbrick program & get into recovery, use fastboot to flash new cwm recovery.img! (fastboot flash recovery cwm recovery.img!) Then when you're in cwm recovery, mount usb storage & put your newly downloaded NexusBeam.zip on your sd-card & install through cwm recovery!

CrackDaddy said:
After you use unbrick program & get into recovery, use fastboot to flash new cwm recovery.img! Then when you're in cwm recovery, mount usb storage & put your newly downloaded NexusBeam.zip on your sd-card & install through cwm recovery!
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Fixed it, didnt realized i had to hold power and vol up while running the unbrick process...thanks for all your help guys

PhillyboyDROID said:
Fixed it, didnt realized i had to hold power and vol up while running the unbrick process...thanks for all your help guys
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Glad to hear you fixed it. Don't delete the radio or bootloader files from the package again. Instead, you can just flash a different radio after flashing the rom. The updated bootloader is a keeper though.
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[Q] Red Triangle, Dead Android

After months of flashing everything in sight on my NS4g, the device appears to have rolled over and died! It started a few days ago, when it rebooted and asked me for a password to decrypt from storage (no password has ever been set). I couldn't get past that screen, so I decided to boot into recovery (TWRP), reinstall ROM (CM10) and gapps and restore data from backup.
No go. It just kept rebooting into recovery. But I was able to connect the phone to the PC and copy files from the phone but could not copy or delete files on the phone from the PC.
I used fastboot, Odin, and one-click-stock to wipe the device and install factory images, but the phone would boot no further than the red triangle-dead android.
Is my phone dead? I searched the forums and couldn't find any solutions other than to do what I have already done.

ttakacs said:
After months of flashing everything in sight on my NS4g, the device appears to have rolled over and died! It started a few days ago, when it rebooted and asked me for a password to decrypt from storage (no password has ever been set). I couldn't get past that screen, so I decided to boot into recovery (TWRP), reinstall ROM (CM10) and gapps and restore data from backup.
No go. It just kept rebooting into recovery. But I was able to connect the phone to the PC and copy files from the phone but could not copy or delete files on the phone from the PC.
I used fastboot, Odin, and one-click-stock to wipe the device and install factory images, but the phone would boot no further than the red triangle-dead android.
Is my phone dead? I searched the forums and couldn't find any solutions other than to do what I have already done.
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When you flashed to stock you erased your recovery.. Reconnect to your computer and push a recovery onto your phone and you're good to go..

Unfortunately, when I flashed TWRP and boot.img to the phone using fastboot and attempted to boot into recovery, bootloader reports "No Boot or Recovery Img."

ttakacs said:
Unfortunately, when I flashed TWRP and boot.img to the phone using fastboot and attempted to boot into recovery, bootloader reports "No Boot or Recovery Img."
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Try the Nexus tool kit and from the bootloader (power and vol. up) select flash to stock (bricked) then in advanced boot temporary recovery to flash the recovery of your choice.. or push a boot image.

Setting.Out said:
Try the Nexus tool kit and from the bootloader (power and vol. up) select flash to stock (bricked) then in advanced boot temporary recovery to flash the recovery of your choice.. or push a boot image.
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Wish I had better news but ... using the Nexus tool kit I was able to boot into TWRP but when trying to flash CM10 and gapps for this phone the flash failed; likewise, I could not flash CM10 and gapps by pushing the files from the PC to the phone. I first did flash to stock (bricked) but that brought me back to the red triangle, dead android.
I am beginning to suspect that the phone internal sdcard is corrupted ... is there a way to test for that?

ttakacs said:
Wish I had better news but ... using the Nexus tool kit I was able to boot into TWRP but when trying to flash CM10 and gapps for this phone the flash failed; likewise, I could not flash CM10 and gapps by pushing the files from the PC to the phone. I first did flash to stock (bricked) but that brought me back to the red triangle, dead android.
I am beginning to suspect that the phone internal sdcard is corrupted ... is there a way to test for that?
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When you got it to flash to stock did it boot up fully?
Remember that flashing to stock removes custom recoveries and you will need to flash one
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

Setting.Out said:
When you got it to flash to stock did it boot up fully?
Remember that flashing to stock removes custom recoveries and you will need to flash one
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
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No, the phone never did boot up fully. It got to the Google screen with the unlock icon and then to the red triangle, dead Android.

ttakacs said:
No, the phone never did boot up fully. It got to the Google screen with the unlock icon and then to the red triangle, dead Android.
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This happened when you tried stock or custom?..
Did it fully boot on stock image?..
The dead android usually shows up when you attempt to boot into recovery and you don't have one... If you try to boot and you loop back to the dead android it usually means you don't have a rom...
Try again to flash to stock, use the toolkit to boot a temporary recovery and flash a custom recovery.. Then make sure you are flashing the correct rom and correct gapps for that rom and for your phone.

Setting.Out said:
This happened when you tried stock or custom?..
Did it fully boot on stock image?..
The dead android usually shows up when you attempt to boot into recovery and you don't have one... If you try to boot and you loop back to the dead android it usually means you don't have a rom...
Try again to flash to stock, use the toolkit to boot a temporary recovery and flash a custom recovery.. Then make sure you are flashing the correct rom and correct gapps for that rom and for your phone.
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I know have a recovery because the tool kit booted into TWRP; furthermore, the tool kit installed a TWRP 2.3 image (prior to installing the tool kit I was on 2.5 so the tool kit did something). From there, I tried to flash CM10 and gapps in the sdcard/download folder, but that failed, with TWRP returning message similar to "error opening ZIP".
I have used Odin to flash the stock image and it did not fully boot, ending at the dead android. Same results for flashing the stock image using fastboot with the phone connected to the PC. Same results with using the Nexus tool kit to flash a stock image (first JB and then, when that didn't boot, ICS). And, after the toolkit booted into temporary recovery (TWRP), I tried to flash (in this order) CM10 plus gapps, JB stock, and ICS, each time with the same results (no full boot, dead android).
I am with you when you say that the dead android means there is no rom, because my efforts to flash any rom, whether stock or custom, don't do anything. To all appearance, the phone contains a bootloader and a recovery and nothing else.
Thanks for your persistence ... any ideas for something else to try?

ttakacs said:
I know have a recovery because the tool kit booted into TWRP; furthermore, the tool kit installed a TWRP 2.3 image (prior to installing the tool kit I was on 2.5 so the tool kit did something). From there, I tried to flash CM10 and gapps in the sdcard/download folder, but that failed, with TWRP returning message similar to "error opening ZIP".
I have used Odin to flash the stock image and it did not fully boot, ending at the dead android. Same results for flashing the stock image using fastboot with the phone connected to the PC. Same results with using the Nexus tool kit to flash a stock image (first JB and then, when that didn't boot, ICS). And, after the toolkit booted into temporary recovery (TWRP), I tried to flash (in this order) CM10 plus gapps, JB stock, and ICS, each time with the same results (no full boot, dead android).
I am with you when you say that the dead android means there is no rom, because my efforts to flash any rom, whether stock or custom, don't do anything. To all appearance, the phone contains a bootloader and a recovery and nothing else.
Thanks for your persistence ... any ideas for something else to try?
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I'm at a loss.. Try again, maybe there's something missing.. And flash only one at a time and see if it worked (just ROM then reboot) then wipe d+c and flash gapps reboot then wipe flash... Ect... Ect...
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Setting.Out said:
I'm at a loss.. Try again, maybe there's something missing.. And flash only one at a time and see if it worked (just ROM then reboot) then wipe d+c and flash gapps reboot then wipe flash... Ect... Ect...
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I am too. Every method known to me (Odin, fastboot, adb) to flash a ROM, whether custom or stock, has failed to boot. Thanks for hanging with me on this; if you can think of solution I'll be glad to have it. Or if I solve it, I'll post here.

[Completed] [SOLVED] Bricked my Asus Z00A! Please HELP!

I have a Asus ZenFone 2(Z00A)
I was followed [ROM][5.1.1][OFFICIAL]Paranoid Android-L[08/13/2015][Z00A][ZE551ML] to install Paranoid Android-L on my phone. I did it without unlocking the bootloader and I used Tethered Recovery to get into CWM. I did not know that unlocking the bootloader and UN-Tethered Recovery was a must (I'm a noob).
After bricking the phone I tried to unlock the bootloader and then installing TWRP(from http://daritoca.appspot.com/forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/congrats-to-bootlocker-unlocked-t3138547 and here)
But instead I erased the stock recovery.
Now I don't have an OS installed in my phone(since I formatted /system), I have no recovery. On Booting the phone starts fastboot.
I Googled a lot and found this How to Recover a Bricked Asus Zenfone 2 Smartphone. Will I be able to recover my phone by following these steps? i.e.
1) Download the latest Stock ROM from the Asus website for my phone.
2) Copy the downloaded Stock ROM to the folder where I installed ADB.
3) Do a Tethered Recovery to get into CWM(Since I don't have any recovery on my phone) and Apply update from ADB.
4) Reboot
Will this work. I'm currently downloading the latest Stock ROM from the Asus website.
Help Please!
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Monget said:
For the recovery you just put your phone into Fastboot ! After you open a cmd in the folder) where is your twrp.img(With shift + right click . And you run the command "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img " Your phone should normally react
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Problem Solved! I downloaded the StockRom, put it into my memory card and flashed it with Temporary CWM Recovery. Thats it!
Then I rooted my phone using Temporary CWM. Installed Busy Box, Xposed and Restored my backed up apps & system settings via Titanium Backup.
My phone is back to normal.
But I Flashed firmware version 2.20.40.59(latest) which currently doesn't support unlocking of bootloader. I'll just wait then flash Paranoid.
Thanks for your help!:good:
Bootloader of 2.20.40.59 Unlocked
Actually, I just unlocked the bootloader of 2.20.40.59 using One-Click bootloader unlock(http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/tool-one-click-bootloader-unlock-root-t3155884/page1)

sammorrison said:
I have a Asus ZenFone 2(Z00A)
I was followed [ROM][5.1.1][OFFICIAL]Paranoid Android-L[08/13/2015][Z00A][ZE551ML] to install Paranoid Android-L on my phone. I did it without unlocking the bootloader and I used Tethered Recovery to get into CWM. I did not know that unlocking the bootloader and UN-Tethered Recovery was a must (I'm a noob).
After bricking the phone I tried to unlock the bootloader and then installing TWRP(from http://daritoca.appspot.com/forum.x...eral/congrats-to-bootlocker-unlocked-t3138547 and here)
But instead I erased the stock recovery.
Now I don't have an OS installed in my phone(since I formatted /system), I have no recovery. On Booting the phone starts fastboot.
I Googled a lot and found this How to Recover a Bricked Asus Zenfone 2 Smartphone. Will I be able to recover my phone by following these steps? i.e.
1) Download the latest Stock ROM from the Asus website for my phone.
2) Copy the downloaded Stock ROM to the folder where I installed ADB.
3) Do a Tethered Recovery to get into CWM(Since I don't have any recovery on my phone) and Apply update from ADB.
4) Reboot
Will this work. I'm currently downloading the latest Stock ROM from the Asus website.
Help Please!
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Hello, thank you for using XDA Assist.
For best results, please post your question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/help-post-questions-instead-making-t2997779
That's a help thread specifically for your device.
You'll receive expert advice there.
Good luck!

Stock recovery.img for Moto G 4G (Peregrine)

Hi
I recently unlocked my bootloader and rooted my Moto G 4G and decided that I should do a nandroid backup so that my un-rooted stock OS would be backed up if ever wanted to restore my phone. I ran into one problem whilst flashing the recovery over fastboot, and that was after powering down the phone and then re-entering the bootloader menu, the TWRP recovery that I've literally just flashed disappears. I quickly found and solution on a forum and it simply said select 'recovery' from the bootloader menu (not doing a full power down) otherwise you'll lose the third-party recovery because some stock OS replace the recovery or something. With this in mind I had the intention that I could use my PC to temporarily flash TWRP, install my root .zip folder, reboot my phone and then the recovery would return back to the stock one. Wrong. I now have a permanent TWRP recovery and would like to put the stock one back on. I've looked all of this forum and I can't find the recovery.img file for the Android 5.1 OS anywhere.
Could someone please lend me a hand here please
Many thanks
Will

Look again. There are stock ROM images which of course include the stock recovery.

_that said:
Look again. There are stock ROM images which of course include the stock recovery.
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I looked very deeply into it but all the links are dead.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3142816
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3110795
Post to author... Lost is very active...Maybe he can help u

HELP- NO OS INSTALLED asus ze500kl

hello guys
i accidentally deleted my os. now it says no os found.
bootloader is not unlocked. have twrp working fine.
i have done some research but dont have clear vision.
can i download any version or should i download particular firmware version to which my phone belong.
what is the difference between firmware and OS
i have downloaded my old firmware version but is says "error executing updater binary in zip"
Asus EXPERTS please help me. i am waiting for your reply with 1000 eyes:crying:
PLEASE USE GENERAL WORDS TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

Flash to stock recovery and flash to stock rom again

XVenom said:
Flash to stock recovery and flash to stock rom again
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while i do that i get errors. it says "error executing updater binary in zip"
i didnt unlock bootloader. can we still able to flash?

Try to flash your stock Rom using Odin[PC].You will most likely get your stock Rom in xda itself.
Sent from my Cyanogenmod10.1 Huawei Y210 0100

1) Flash this file with twrp : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3718733&d=1460659898
2) Flash stock recovery with adb
3) Flash stock rom with recovery
sorry for my bad english

XVenom said:
1) Flash this file with twrp : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3718733&d=1460659898
2) Flash stock recovery with adb
3) Flash stock rom with recovery
sorry for my bad english
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thanks for your interest guys. now i am unable to into fastboot mode too. when i hold power + volume up i only see asus logo but not fastboot mode.

Did you install the software ? Does it work ?

XVenom said:
Did you install the software ? Does it work ?
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no i flashed the ubu zip file and when i try to flash stock recovery i am unable to get into the fastboot mode

asus ze500kl said:
no i flashed the ubu zip file and when i try to flash stock recovery i am unable to get into the fastboot mode
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Tried to enter by using adb

XVenom said:
Tried to enter by using adb
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stock recovery is a img file. Twrp is not detecting the img file.
shell i directly flash the original rom?

asus ze500kl said:
stock recovery is a img file. Twrp is not detecting the img file.
shell i directly flash the original rom?
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No, you can't flash the stock recovery with twrp and twrp is don' flash the stock rom
You can flash the stock recovery with only adb

XVenom said:
No, you can't flash the stock recovery with twrp and twrp is don' flash the stock rom
You can flash the stock recovery with only adb
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i am unable to flash through adb. it says cannot read the zip file any other option?

asus ze500kl said:
thanks for your interest guys. now i am unable to into fastboot mode too. when i hold power + volume up i only see asus logo but not fastboot mode.
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broooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
FINALLY MY PHONE IS ON NOW SO HAPPY DID DANCE WHEN IT REBOOTED
I WILL EXPLAIN CLEARLY SO THAT IT MAY HELP OTHERS TOO.
i downloaded currunt rom from the official website.
tried to flash the stock rom but it gave me a error like- this is for ww sku your phone is asus zooe
theni extracted the zip file and edited the updater script and reflashed successfully but still stuck at the asus logo with out loading symbol.
i tried to flash stock recovery image with adb but it was saying unable to find the recovery file- not exactly but something like that.
i tot the problem is with adb. then i remembered that i have my phone model root file. to conform that the adb is working properly or not i gave a try to flash the mod_boot.img (asus ze500kl root img file) but unfortunatelly it flashed, rebooted and finally my phone is on.
ANY WAY UR METHOD DIDN'T WORK BUT THANKS A LOT FOR REPLYING TO MY PROBLEM. YOU GAVE ME SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STOCK RECOVERY AND STOCK ROM.
THANKS ALOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

XVenom said:
No, you can't flash the stock recovery with twrp and twrp is don' flash the stock rom
You can flash the stock recovery with only adb
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broooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
FINALLY MY PHONE IS ON NOW SO HAPPY DID DANCE WHEN IT REBOOTED
I WILL EXPLAIN CLEARLY SO THAT IT MAY HELP OTHERS TOO.
i downloaded currunt rom from the official website.
tried to flash the stock rom but it gave me a error like- this is for ww sku your phone is asus zooe
theni extracted the zip file and edited the updater script and reflashed successfully but still stuck at the asus logo with out loading symbol.
i tried to flash stock recovery image with adb but it was saying unable to find the recovery file- not exactly but something like that.
i tot the problem is with adb. then i remembered that i have my phone model root file. to conform that the adb is working properly or not i gave a try to flash the mod_boot.img (asus ze500kl root img file) but unfortunatelly it flashed, rebooted and finally my phone is on.
ANY WAY UR METHOD DIDN'T WORK BUT THANKS A LOT FOR REPLYING TO MY PROBLEM. YOU GAVE ME SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STOCK RECOVERY AND STOCK ROM.
THANKS ALOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Yeah try ur original rom