Let me preface from saying I've had this phone and flashed countless ROMs on it.
Also the power button died on it (fast reboot etc problem) and since I had already ordered my Nexus 5 I just decided to rip the button off and use it for the few weeks until I got my new phone.
Now that its been a while I decided to see what I could do with it and wanted to boot. It wouldn't boot and was stuck at the loading screen for a good hour. So I went okay I'll just decide to use Odin and bring it back to stock. Followed the guide here to the T and 3 separate times all that happens is the phone is stuck at the S boot screen. Tried both stock roms posted.
Now since I don't have a power button I can't get into recovery (which I'm assuming is wiped but I have the Odin recovery ready to flash but whats the point?)
I tried adb/fastboot and the phone isn't recognized.
Any suggestions? Currently stuck at the boot logo for 1hr 25min. I'm aware of wiping the cache but I don't know how to do that without recovery.
Edit: So I opened the sucker again, got some foil and shorted the power button contacts and actually got to the stock recovery and did a wipe of the data and cache. Now booting fingers crossed. If this doesn't work at least I know I can get into recovery and install TWRP and a custom rom and see if that boots. However if this is a go then I'm good (only want it t run Perktv)
Edit2: So I couldn't get anything to install with TWRP (tried 3 different roms) so I went to the other recovery (Philz?)
Was able to install SlimKat (was using SlimBean when I was using the phone) and was finally able to install it... now its in a boot loop.
So I guess back to fully wiping (again) but I remember with these phones you had to do the wipe 2x which I didn't do. God I'm so spoiled with the Nexus.
Off to do that and see if that helps.
Edit3: Worked!! Woohoo
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After flashing the latest ROM I was messing around with (WajkIUI 2.1.6) the phone would crash and reboot within 30 seconds of booting up. The previous ROM that was running was FAUXMIUI_RG2xV2.0.0 (01/08/2011 [v2.0.0]OVERCLOCK) that was stable except for when I’d turn wi-fi on after being off for 8 hours or so phone would reboot.
I figured I would boot into ClockworkMod Recovery and restore one of the nandroid backups, I tried booting into recovery I found out that I could not. When I hold the volume down and press the power button I see the screen that says software update (like when flashing with OneClickRecoveryFlasher).
Whenever I flash a new ROM I will Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and then wipe dalvik before installing zip. I’ve always run cyanogenmod nighties; FAUXMIUI_RG2xV2.0.0 was the first MIUI ROM I’ve used.
When I run OneClickRecoveryFlasher, I do not see any errors on the command prompt so I am assuming it was successful, or at least thinks it was.
I tried to Restore LG G2x Stock Recovery using OneClickRecoveryFlasher and then flashing v5.0.2.0 and still no ClockworkMod Recovery, also tried v4.0.1.5 and still no ClockworkMod Recover.
I then tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644 and with that I was able to get back to stock 2.3.3, tried to use OneClickRecoveryFlasher to flash ClockworkMod, still no go.
I tried LG Mobile Update and that proceeded to install something, not really sure what the update was, after the update finished, phone rebooted into stock 2.3.3. Shut the phone down and tried to flash ClockworkMod and still nothing.
I did a hard reset following http://mobilephonerepairguides.blogspot.com/2011/04/lg-g2x-hard-reset.html
I also tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183168, that got me to stock 2.3.3 but I still could not boot in to ClockwordMod Recovery.
I’m having a hell of a time wrapping my head around what I screwed up. Did I somehow destroy the recovery partition, is that possible? Any ideas what I broke and how to fix it? Can I used adb to view the partition table, would that tell me if something was corrupt?
Any help and ideas would be appreciated, I have tried doing my due diligence and I apologize if I missed something obvious.
Thanks,
-Matt
Faux never made a miui
Did you nvflashed recovery? If no then do that first.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
If you did the LG Updater it returned your phone to stock everything, including recovery. You need to use NVFlash (One Click method okay) to reflash CWM and then you should be good to go.
When the phone is completely off, hold volume down, then hold the power button and don't let go of both until the second lg logo.
If you hold volume down too early it'll give you the software update screen.
Well that's embarrassing, thanks buru898 that did the trick and got me into CWM Recovery. I never remember holding the power button for that long but it worked and I'll remember that for next time.
Thanks
fcisco13 said:
Faux never made a miui
Did you nvflashed recovery? If no then do that first.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
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Sorry, I only wrote in the actual zip file name, I meant RG2x-MIUI v2.1.6-MultiLang/Powered by Faux Kernels CM v0.4.8(01/08/2012)[v2.0.0].
Thanks
So I flashed the new synergy to try out the multiwindow pinning, but had the intention of going back to my nandroid right after trying it out. After flashing it and booting it up, and trying it out, I tried going back to my recovery (TWRP). But when my phone showed the TWRP welcome screen, it just stuck there and flashed every couple of seconds (like every 5 seconds) instead of going up and revealing the recovery. So I pulled battery and tried the hardware keys for recovery. It did the same thing. So I tried booting back up to my system, but it kept trying to go into recovery, so I went to download mode and pressed the down button to reboot (this time successfully). I did this about three times, and it kept failing to go to recovery. So I decided the flash cwm. With cwm I was able to get to recovery and move around in the menus, but as soon as I try factory resetting to flash another rom I had on my sd card, it froze. So I rebooted back up to my system using the download mode again. So now I have a booting phone but my recoveries don't work. I have flashed roms numerous times without problems, I checked to make sure my bootloader is unlocked, and am rooted. Can anyone tell me how to get my recoveries to work?
Edit: I just tried goo manager and installed the latest twrp. It went to recovery. Ill edit if I have any other issues.
was coming from CleanRom7
have TWRP V2.6.3.1
wiped cache, data, davik
installed VRUCML1_Stock_Root_Deodex (12.31.13 downloaded from the link. MD5 checked OK)
flashed ZIP - successful message recieved (noting that boot times would be 3-5 minutes)
system reboot took me back to recovery
tried to restart several times - always back to recovery
reflashed zip file again -
now won't do anything except stick on Samsung Galaxy SIII banner
what is the recommendation?
bgbird said:
was coming from CleanRom7
have TWRP V2.6.3.1
wiped cache, data, davik
installed VRUCML1_Stock_Root_Deodex (12.31.13 downloaded from the link. MD5 checked OK)
flashed ZIP - successful message recieved (noting that boot times would be 3-5 minutes)
system reboot took me back to recovery
tried to restart several times - always back to recovery
reflashed zip file again -
now won't do anything except stick on Samsung Galaxy SIII banner
what is the recommendation?
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Wipe again and wipe system. If don't work try reflashing TWRP. Something is corrupt. Check MD5 of rom download.
still no joy
reflashed TWRP - went back to 2.5.0.0-d2vzw.tar - via ODIN - that went OK -
then retried the both the VRUCML1 and the cleanrom7 ROM flash - still no luck. it flashes SAMSUNG then Samsung GALAXYSIII and hangs
Can anyone you recommend an image (hopefully that won't quickly do the OTA) that I can ODIN that will enable me to start over?
bgbird said:
reflashed TWRP - went back to 2.5.0.0-d2vzw.tar - via ODIN - that went OK -
then retried the both the VRUCML1 and the cleanrom7 ROM flash - still no luck. it flashes SAMSUNG then Samsung GALAXYSIII and hangs
Can anyone you recommend an image (hopefully that won't quickly do the OTA) that I can ODIN that will enable me to start over?
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Whoa! I thought I was the only one! 4.3 worked for the first boot, and then never booted after that.
Somehow (I really don't know how) I got it working without ODIN. When my phone got stuck at the "Samsung GALAXY SIII" screen, I pulled the battery many times and even tried reflashing CleanROM 7 many times, still getting stuck at the SIII splash screen on boot.
Since it was night, I retired for the day and plugged my phone in to charge (AC) over night (thinking that I'd have to ODIN too). However, in the morning, I picked up my phone, pressed the home button (seeing the battery icon at 100%) and then powered on the phone. It booted into CleanROM! From there I flashed the 4.3 Stock Deodexed and from then it has always booted!
So I guess what really happened was that I charged it to 100%, pressed the home button to wake the phone up and then booted into android.
Here's some things to note though:
1. If you have a custom splash screen, remove it; it doesn't work and only makes the phone reboot.
2. I lost everything on my internal storage, whether for better or for worse, so I actually formatted it again before flashing 4.3
Hope that helps
Here is where I'm at...
yosterwp said:
Whoa! I thought I was the only one! 4.3 worked for the first boot, and then never booted after that.
Somehow (I really don't know how) I got it working without ODIN. When my phone got stuck at the "Samsung GALAXY SIII" screen, I pulled the battery many times and even tried reflashing CleanROM 7 many times, still getting stuck at the SIII splash screen on boot.
Since it was night, I retired for the day and plugged my phone in to charge (AC) over night (thinking that I'd have to ODIN too). However, in the morning, I picked up my phone, pressed the home button (seeing the battery icon at 100%) and then powered on the phone. It booted into CleanROM! From there I flashed the 4.3 Stock Deodexed and from then it has always booted!
So I guess what really happened was that I charged it to 100%, pressed the home button to wake the phone up and then booted into android.
Here's some things to note though:
1. If you have a custom splash screen, remove it; it doesn't work and only makes the phone reboot.
2. I lost everything on my internal storage, whether for better or for worse, so I actually formatted it again before flashing 4.3
Hope that helps
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Here is where I'm at...
1. rooted
2. unlocked bootloader
3. flashed CWM recovery
4. did factory reset
5. flashed VRUCML1_Stock_Root_Deodex (12.31.13) (after again checking MD5 hash)
6. after flash - it tried to boot - but always went back to recovery
7. did factory reset - tried again still no boot up. continues to loop to recovery
8. flashed CleanRom7 - not it tries to boot but get hung after 1 second on the Samsung GalaxySIII black and white logo
Guess that I'll have to either stay on the KIES_HOME_I535VRBMF1_1152558_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5 that you gave me or move to the
ALL_I535VRUCML1_I535VZWCML1_2198062_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5.7z that is out there
Is there anything that you can think of?
bgbird said:
Here is where I'm at...
1. rooted
2. unlocked bootloader
3. flashed CWM recovery
4. did factory reset
5. flashed VRUCML1_Stock_Root_Deodex (12.31.13) (after again checking MD5 hash)
6. after flash - it tried to boot - but always went back to recovery
7. did factory reset - tried again still no boot up. continues to loop to recovery
8. flashed CleanRom7 - not it tries to boot but get hung after 1 second on the Samsung GalaxySIII black and white logo
Guess that I'll have to either stay on the KIES_HOME_I535VRBMF1_1152558_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5 that you gave me or move to the
ALL_I535VRUCML1_I535VZWCML1_2198062_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5.7z that is out there
Is there anything that you can think of?
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Hmm, the only other thing that I can think of is perhaps flashing the MF1 modem (the all in one package) and then flashing the ML1 modem.
My devise is unlocked, rooted and I have flashed clockwork recovery. I backed up my system using clockwork and was still using my ASUS system. I wanted to reset the tablet to factory and when I did it just went to the Android. After 20 minitues I realized there was a problem since it kept spinning. I tried to reboot to recovery by holding down the power and down vol keys but it will not go to recovery. Any Ideas? any Help.
No one will believe this
paullec said:
My devise is unlocked, rooted and I have flashed clockwork recovery. I backed up my system using clockwork and was still using my ASUS system. I wanted to reset the tablet to factory and when I did it just went to the Android. After 20 minitues I realized there was a problem since it kept spinning. I tried to reboot to recovery by holding down the power and down vol keys but it will not go to recovery. Any Ideas? any Help.
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So I was really upset about the tablet and just left it in the loop. Even after I attempted to re-boot it several times I was trying to let the battery run out. Well after about an hour it booted into the factory reset tablet. I'm going to leave it alone!! No more roms or recovery's for me. All I saw was $400 down the drain. Thank God its running again.
Next time you can follow these steps in order to install the stock ROM.:
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...er-update-your-me301t-using-adb-fastboot.html
It works with fastboot which means that you can flash the ROM even if the device is bootloops.
It saved more than once
Hi there, having just the old casual phone crisis. I was running cyanogenmod 12.1 for awhile and decided to finally upgrade to a nougat 7.1 build.
I tried using this one https://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/development/rom-dark-rom-t3492150 using adb sideload as I had tried a earlier one and the gapps messed up so I wasn't able to put twrp back on the phone. The rom said it had installed successfully but I wasn't able to sideload gapps, I kept getting an error status 255. I went ahead and just tried to load the rom without gapps and see if I could install it slowly through APKs. I managed to get past the initial android load and the services started up, and it got in an endless crash loop because the phone service wouldn't start. So I went to try and flash another rom and was going to delete the cache. When I went to delete the cache the phone hung for about an hour so I tried to just reset it into recovery mode again.
Now when I hold the power button and volume down key to into fastboot mode I can. I have access to the initial screen with the four options, but when I try to start recovery mode or start the phone my screen goes black, and it'll flash the dead android symbol with the error saying unable to mount cache, it only flashes it for like half a second then goes black and repeats every 10-15 seconds.
I tried holding power down, doing volume up, and letting go to do a hard factory reset but it does nothing. I also can't seem to access the adb sideloading anymore, I'm very scared that it's hard bricked, is there anything I can do at all to fix this.
Flash a new version of the recovery via fastboot. Then do a full wipe. After that install the ROM only! Reboot recovery (not system but recovery) then reflash the ROM (no wipe) and add everything else. Hope this helps you out.
The phone may not boot the ROM without wiping data if installing a 7.1 ROM over a 5.1.1 ROM.