I flashed TWRP on my Shield, and now whenever I boot it up, it boots to TWRP. I tried going into recovery mode as well, and it just brings it back to TWRP.
megahero63 said:
I flashed TWRP on my Shield, and now whenever I boot it up, it boots to TWRP. I tried going into recovery mode as well, and it just brings it back to TWRP.
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How did you flash it? TWRP is a recovery and should be flashed to your recovery partition so booting into recovery and getting TWRP is what should be happening. Using the stock images is the easiest way to get completely back to stock.
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Keithn said:
How did you flash it? TWRP is a recovery and should be flashed to your recovery partition so booting into recovery and getting TWRP is what should be happening. Using the stock images is the easiest way to get completely back to stock.
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Thanks for responding, but I've already reset it to stock, and everything is working fine now.
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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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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."
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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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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.
Hi guys, I flashed the latest factory image, then flashed the latest TWRP but can access it 1 out of 10 tries.. What am I doing wrong? Is it a faulty replacement phone? Never had this issue with my other nexus 5 (same recovery file but lollipop and not marshmallow) and now I have this problem.. Tried to riflashato the factory image 5 times, boot to recovery without installing but nothing changed.. Thanks in advance!
If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
a hammerhead wrote this.
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If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
a hammerhead wrote this.
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Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..
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Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..
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do you finde fix
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do you finde fix
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Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..
carlese said:
Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..
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This is not really a fix, since to use Flashify one needs to be rooted already.
What I did to work around this was reflash LMY48M. After reflashing that, fastboot correctly boots/flashes twrp.
I've read that the issue arises when trying to boot and/or flash twrp with MRA56K installed, AND the device is connected to USB.
Ok, i got some of problems here, i tryied to root my Nexus 5 with other Android 6 version, it was the first one launched after development version. Now i have MRA58K version.
Problem 1 : I have no stock recovery, i first rooted original version of Marshmallow with CWM and i soft bricked, so no backup, no factory images. Installed MRA58K and there is no stock recovery, thanks god i can use bootloader. I can install TWRP, but i want to install the old recovery, Tell me how to do it.
Problem 2: Actual version of Marshmallow ask me to install a patch, but when installing i got stuck in TWRP, it cant install it (yes, android was rooted, but i installed twrp before root, and the update were before it.)
Thanks.
You can flash a stock ROM using the flash-all file in a command prompt. This will install stock ROM with stock recovery. Make sure the phone has an unlocked bootloader and you should be fine.
Official OTA updates cannot be installed with a custom recovery.
I tryied 3 times to install OS with flash-all. All the problems start after i installed CWM and try to root the phone, but after that, i used a stock rom image that was different build than actually one.
I`m not sure yet who`s fault is.
Any ideas?
I don't recommend using CWM, only TWRP.
After you flash TWRP always boot into it, and since you're flashing a custom recovery I'm going to assume you don't care about OTA's, swipe to allow system to be mounted. TWRP will automatically patch the system to survive android trying to overwrite it. Reboot into TWRP a second time to be safe. TWRP should stick from now on until you flash over it or restore stock system partition.
Yes, now i have TWRP as recovery, but i want to replace it with stock recovery.
Problem is, when i upload stock recovery and try to boot in recovery mode, i got the green dead android with red triangle.
But after TWRP uploading and booting in recovery mode, TWRP is there..
I really don`t know what`s wrong.
Flash stock recovery, select recovery from the fastboot menu, hold the power button and press volume up button.
I have a 703L 16Gb on B012 and installed X2-B015-KangVIP ROM through TWRP.
All installed fine and I tried the ROM for a while.
Anyway there were too many Chinese Apps so I restored my TWRP backup and rebooted.
Now it continually boots into TWRP and won't even power off. I tried again to restore it, and earlier backups, but they all just boot into TWRP continually.
Any suggestions? I tried using a stock Recovery but the phone wont even boot into that, so reverted back to TWRP.
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I have a 703L 16Gb on B012 and installed X2-B015-KangVIP ROM through TWRP.
All installed fine and I tried the ROM for a while.
Anyway there were too many Chinese Apps so I restored my TWRP backup and rebooted.
Now it continually boots into TWRP and won't even power off. I tried again to restore it, and earlier backups, but they all just boot into TWRP continually.
Any suggestions? I tried using a stock Recovery but the phone wont even boot into that, so reverted back to TWRP.
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You will back to Stock B112 with your TWRP Backup?
I think you must be flash the Boot img via fastboot,i think this fix the Problem.
Yes that worked thanks.
I bought this phone so I can get access to a lot of different roms... I'm trying to install twrp as my recovery or cmw but when I flash it after unlocking the boot loader with cmw it doesn't stay installed and revert back to the original request and the twrp I get an error message in twrp about original recovery and then the phone goes into a boot loop. It has the latest OS version running with April Security fixes... please help
Flash twrp as it is a more versatile and widely supported recovery.
Flash twrp in fastboot mode. After flashing, use the power and volume buttons to boot directly to twrp, do not reboot the phone until after you have entered recovery.
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Flash twrp as it is a more versatile and widely supported recovery.
Flash twrp in fastboot mode. After flashing, use the power and volume buttons to boot directly to twrp, do not reboot the phone until after you have entered recovery.
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did exactly what you said and im getting thr error / system to prevent the stock rom from replacing twrp...
whats happening
I recommend flashing the latest stock rom to make sure the phone boots properly.Then, I would flash twrp again.
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I recommend flashing the latest stock rom to make sure the phone boots properly.Then, I would flash twrp again.
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Did that and flashed twrp and I'm still getting the error...
I unlocked boot loader
Flashed twrp
With USB still plugged in I selected recovery from the fastboot menu...
Boots to recovery and still get that error message
Am I doing something wrong
You're flashing 2.8.7 for the hammerhead?
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You're flashing 2.8.7 for the hammerhead?
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No I'm flashing the latest 3.0.2 version is that the problem?
I would try 2.8.7
All I did was install TWRP with Odin. Then I backed up my phone, without "data" because it was unable to mount /data.
It said the backup succeeded, so I restarted. Now It won't come off the "Samsung Galaxy S7 (powered by Android) boot screen. Is this really typical of TWRP? Brick my phone for backing it up? All I wanted to do was back it up.
I can get into Download Mode and back into TWRP, but it looks like there's nothing in internal storage!!! Wtf??? The stuff on my external SD is there, including the backup. Am I supposed to restore the backup now? Why was it all deleted? What do I do???
Please help. I was backing up in order to make sure this would never happen in the first place!!
SGS7 SM-G930W8, latest TWRP
Where's the sense here? You wanna back up your phone? Sure, let's delete all your data and soft brick it. Not the same thing?
Whaat?
If I don't get a response soon I'll try restoring that backup. THE THING IS... If my data was deleted before the backup, it might only make **** worse... Maybe.
I attempted the backup. Nothing. Strangely, when I press "Restart," it seems to crash and reboot before I get to "Swipe to Restart".
What do I do???? Why is TWRP not trustworthy?!
Too late, I'm attempting to flash stock firmware to my phone now. Where do I complain to TWRP about backing up having the exact opposite effect?
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Too late, I'm attempting to flash stock firmware to my phone now. Where do I complain to TWRP about backing up having the exact opposite effect?
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If you flash exactly the same version of firmware that your device had when you installed TWRP, it won't wipe your data.
The TWRP team, nor it's code are to blame here. If its an unofficial TWRP then it was built by someone that isn't a part of the TWRP and probably didn't do a good job, especially if this TWRP was ported from a similar model.
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Hey Kliva,
I have run into the same problem. I flashed TWRP 3.2.3 heroflte, booted into recovery and went to do a backup. I only got an error message that TWRP couldn't mount some partitions and no backup.
I tried to reboot and am stuck in boot loop.
Did you get your phone back up running? and how?
Thanks
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Hey Kliva,
I have run into the same problem. I flashed TWRP 3.2.3 heroflte, booted into recovery and went to do a backup. I only got an error message that TWRP couldn't mount some partitions and no backup.
I tried to reboot and am stuck in boot loop.
Did you get your phone back up running? and how?
Thanks
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Flash your stock firmware via Odin.
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Flash your stock firmware via Odin.
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Thanks for getting back to me. I tried flashing stock through Odin several times and each time the process failed.
Out of desperation I found a different kernel and flashed it through TWRP and it worked. The phone booted and everything seems to be working ok.
Thanks again.