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[Q] Stuck in recovery some time after flashing cwm

Actually it might be a little more complicated...
Full story: I was trying to flash cyanogenmod so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed cwm and SuperSU. Until this point everything worked just fine. I copied the CM-zip to the root of my phone. When trying to install CM however I got an error saying "Some changes failed" (Status 7), basically this. Also I started having trouble booting the system normally. The phone would either get stuck at the bootloader unlocked screen or just boot into recovery. I had done a backup at some point (not prior to starting to try to flash CM, I didn't really think I'd need one since the phone was brand new and I didn't there was any data on it I'd miss... yeah, well...) and sometimes restoring it would enable me to boot normally. However, after the factory reset before my nth attempt to install CM, that was gone as well. After doing a bit of research I found this thread. Since I had version 6.0.13 of cwm as well, I flashed twrp v2.7.1.2 instead. The interface is a little friendlier, but other than that there have been no changes.
Now I can't boot the system normally, not even by selecting "System" when rebooting it from recovery, it will just keep booting into recovery. I can still fastboot, though. My CM-zip is gone since that infamous factory reset and I can't get it back on the phone, or anything else for that matter, since my pc only detects the phone when it's booted normally. I tried pushing CM with adb but when I try to mount any partition I get an error saying E: Unable to find storage partition to mount to USB.
Any ideas how I could fix this mess? Or suggestions on how to avoid ****ing it up any further...

If you can adb, you can adb push... You are just adb push'ing to the wrong place I suppose.
Code:
adb push blah.zip /sdcard/
Should work...
Or even better, just sideload (put phone in recovery & 'sideload mode' before running):
Code:
adb sideload blah.zip
Either way, CWM for our device is ancient and does not support the latest ROM's. The version of TWRP should work fine, as should the latest OpenRecovery (2.09 IIRC).

Sideload worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

cm11 working only TWRP here , with cwm appears same error

mmichaelalves said:
cm11 working only TWRP here , with cwm appears same error
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Did you not read my post?
arrrghhh said:
Either way, CWM for our device is ancient and does not support the latest ROM's. The version of TWRP should work fine, as should the latest OpenRecovery (2.09 IIRC).
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Moto G Bricked?

Hi.
A friend gave me his Moto G1 2013 to install Linage OS but I'm really having troubles with it, first of all it doesn't allow me to install TWRP, when I type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img it says that it installs but it doesn't, when I try to boot on it it just doesn't boot, the way I had access to TWRP was typing fastboot boot recovery.img...
When I got in I did the first step when you install a new Custom ROM that is wipe system, cache and dalvik cache, then I tried to install the ROM zip file but it gave me "error 7" I looked for solutions and I found one that is modifying updater-script file, I did it but it gave me another error about mount system, I looked for solutions too and I found one that is modifying file system format to anotherone and then bringing it back to the original format but still having the same error.
After that I decided to go back to stock ROM, I have flashed many times the stock ROM with fastboot commands but it just doesn't boot into the OS, when I try to boot the phone it boots into bootloader again... Any solution to this? Is it a hardware problem? Please help me I'm so embarrased with my friend.

Same thing happened to me!
Basidialfiddle said:
Hi.
A friend gave me his Moto G1 2013 to install Linage OS but I'm really having troubles with it, first of all it doesn't allow me to install TWRP, when I type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img it says that it installs but it doesn't, when I try to boot on it it just doesn't boot, the way I had access to TWRP was typing fastboot boot recovery.img...
When I got in I did the first step when you install a new Custom ROM that is wipe system, cache and dalvik cache, then I tried to install the ROM zip file but it gave me "error 7" I looked for solutions and I found one that is modifying updater-script file, I did it but it gave me another error about mount system, I looked for solutions too and I found one that is modifying file system format to anotherone and then bringing it back to the original format but still having the same error.
After that I decided to go back to stock ROM, I have flashed many times the stock ROM with fastboot commands but it just doesn't boot into the OS, when I try to boot the phone it boots into bootloader again... Any solution to this? Is it a hardware problem? Please help me I'm so embarrased with my friend.
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Hi! I tried something similar with a similar result. I first unlocked my Moto G's bootloader. Then installed TWRP using fastboot. After that I tried flashing Resurrection Remix rom which failed. I've been stuck in a kind of bootloop since then. My handset powers up, finds something wrong, tries to go into recovery, fails and does this over and over again.
Since I am able to boot into bootloader mode, I tried to flash the stock rom by following instructions from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47820707#post47820707
I have tried different variations from many different forums (fora?) all with the same result. Still stuck in the bootloop-thingie.
Btw, I also tried the unbricking guide from this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/how-to-unbrick-moto-g-falcon-t3394788 without any success. My phone shows up as a Motorola ADB device and also as XT1033 in Device Manager when its plugged in.
Anyone know anything to help me out?

gaurav.kar said:
Hi! I tried something similar with a similar result. I first unlocked my Moto G's bootloader. Then installed TWRP using fastboot. After that I tried flashing Resurrection Remix rom which failed. I've been stuck in a kind of bootloop since then. My handset powers up, finds something wrong, tries to go into recovery, fails and does this over and over again.
Since I am able to boot into bootloader mode, I tried to flash the stock rom by following instructions from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47820707#post47820707
I have tried different variations from many different forums (fora?) all with the same result. Still stuck in the bootloop-thingie.
Btw, I also tried the unbricking guide from this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/how-to-unbrick-moto-g-falcon-t3394788 without any success. My phone shows up as a Motorola ADB device and also as XT1033 in Device Manager when its plugged in.
Anyone know anything to help me out?
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Hi, I found the solution time ago, sorry for answering to late, hope I can still be helpful.
Well, what I did is, I booted into TWRP, then I did a total format to the storage, after that I did something kind of crazy, I switched my storage format to anotherone and then I turned it back to how it was before (example: I was on fat32, I switched to exFAT and then I switched again to fat32) after doing that I tried to flash LinageOS and it allowed me, it booted and now my friend has Android Oreo on his Moto G1
Hope it works for you mate, those situations are very frustrating, good luck

Please help! My phone doesn't want to boot into the system.

After I unlocked my bootloader of my Xiaomi Mi A1, I wanted to boot into TWRP by using this command: fastboot boot twrp.img but it wouldn't do anything so then I typed 'fastboot reboot' and it started to reboot and went onto the screen with the MI logo but then the screen went blank, the phone vibrated and it started rebooting again. I left it for a while and when I returned, it was still rebooting constantly. I do not know what is happening but I tried to lock the bootloader and then boot into recovery but that didn't work. I managed to somehow get into TWRP (not knowing how) twice and the first time I just rebooted and the second time, I factory reset my device. From that point onwards I couldn't get into TWRP because I was trying to flash Ressurection Remix rom if I could get into the recovery. My phone is not yet rooted.

Good/Bad news
I installed a different version of TWRP and was able to boot to TWRP successfully so I installed Lineage OS 15.1 and it said that it can't mount '/system' or '/storage' as it doesn't exist after that, I booted and it went into some kind of Lineage OS recovery and I
didn't know what to do with it as applying an update from SD card didn't work so then I installed the pixel experience ROM which also put me into a recovery and the apply update from SD card didn't work as it says 'couldn't mount /sdcard Installation aborted.
Instaling an update from ADB doesn't work either as it tells me to sideload the zip file which I did and nothing happened. Whenever I choose reboot system now, it just reboots back to the recovery.
My phone is not yet rooted but if that would help in any way, I could root in TWRP.
Please help, I don't know what to do.

Oneplus one bricked twrp not loading and no rom installed

Hello everyone!
I am new here and really looking forward for some answers. I own oneplus one and had a good experience with it. I had upgraded to custom rom that is lineage os 14.1
I wanted to upgrade it to 15.1 through Twrp. I followed the same procedure as i did for last flashing. I wiped the old data and everything and started to flash new rom. But this time twrp was giving an error. When I did research on that i found that i needed to upgrade to newer version of twrp to install lineage os 15.1
I did the same. And then end of it I just unselected the Supersu root and it reboots. Now when I go to the twrp recovery. The oneplus icon shows but then nothing happens. My phone now doesn't have a rom and twrp recovery won't open. When I connect it to my laptop through fastboot, cmd doesn't recognizes the device. I don't have any knowledge about tech and stuff. And I might have done something wrong. Please help me with some solutions

First of all, try to reinstall TWRP trough fastboot (boot in bootloader mode with Volume UP + power), just google a guide if you don't know how fastboot works. also be sure to use the correct twrp for bacon
After that you should be able to boot back in recovery and flash your rom
if still it doesn't work, follow this guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/tool-oneplusrecovery-tool-v1-0-restore-t2991851

Sometimes it happens we brick our phones but No worries as long as you can go to fastboot you can always restore back to how it was before.
Either use the Program the guy above provided or this guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541

I want to know how to flash the twrp again through fastboot, because when I connect it, phone is not detected in cmd. It says no fastboot devices are there. But then I checked and it says some android thing is connected in device manager. I hope it is my Oneplus one. How to pass this step?

It's the android drivers. Make sure you have the drivers installed.

Thank you so much. I was able to download the twrp again and flashed the 14.1 lineage os. The latest twrp is not flashing in the phone i don't know why and because of that 15.1 lineage os is not flashing and shows error. But still it's a relief that my phone is working. Also, when i switch on the camera it's not working and the flashlight icon also is dim and doesn't gets clicked and not works.

Google Pixel - No apply update from ADB in recovery and other strange things

Hello everyone,
The starting situation is the Google Pixel of my mother was stuck on android 8.0. While showing there was an update available, the update would always fail to install after the reboot in the process. I found advice to factory reset the phone and then update, but this didn't help.
So my first thought was, if the update won't install the normal way I will do it manually. Google OTA installation guide says, get file (latest), reboot to recovery, plug in to USB, choose apply update by adb.
At this point the guide loses me, because the recovery screen I get to only lists reboot, reboot bootloader, simlock tool and device info tool (see picture). The device info will only tell "failed to update device info". The simlock tool just says "failed to enable simlock". Further while on this screen the phone isn't visible as an ADB device any more.
Next thing to try cause this didn't work was getting the image file (latest) from Google and flashing it through fastboot flash all, which led to a boot loop and the phone not starting at all. So I went and flashed back to the android 8 that was on it before and the phone booted again, but I'm still not any step further.
Next idea was maybe the recovery is broken somehow, so I went to install TWRP. Following the instructions I copied the latest version zip onto the phone and booted the img through fastboot. So far everything is fine, but when I install the zip I will get several errors about "can't mount /persist". And the installation won't work.
At this point I am out of ideas, so maybe someone here can tell me if and how this can be fixed? I wasn't able to find any information on this issue, aside from some xiaomi phones can show similar errors with the /persist partition and TWRP.
Any help would be welcome.