I've had my shield for a little over a year now... never rooted, never bootloader unlocked. I've been on the latest firmware since it came out in November, I was extracting a pokemon game rom when I had a lockup earlier, and I force shut it down and turned it back on, now I'm stuck in a bootloop! I've gone into the bootloader and launched recovery mode, but when it gets to that menu, it has the normal android with chest open background with "no command." typed below it. I need to know how I can fix it lol. I'm not rich and have handfulls of expensive android devices, so if this thing is gone for good, then fml.
I've been considering unlocking the bootloader and rooting anyway since the warranty is out so I've decided I'll unlock the bootloader, flash a stock rom extract, and root it. hopefully I can pull it off with nothing but fastboot.
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I had my 4G xoom unlocked and rooted, installed Tiamat 2.2 on it (which then killed the 3G) so I decided to flash back to stock, but somehow screwed up the backup, managed to go back to factory 3G image with the HRI66.zip file I found in another thread. It unrooted my phone and relocked it, but now it's in a constant reboot loop, showing the honeycomb images for nearly 45 minutes now. What's my options? My computer wont talk to it, because I can't even get into it to enable USB debugging.... UGH!
sooo..... I let my device run dead.... then powered it up, went into fastboot mode, which took me straight to the unlock screen.... because I didn't lock it when I unrooted it.... All fixed..... except still NO 3G!!!!!
Ok, so had it unlocked, but running stock. Ran fine, then one day it stopped working and got stuck in a boot loop on the google screen. Managed to get it into CWM and then wiped, after lots of tries, and back to CM7 and unlocked. Then backed it out to stock and locked the bootloader(was planning on giving it to a friend who doesn't like to play with phones like that). But now it gets stuck on the google screen. Can get to fastboot, but if I do fastboot oem unlock it just has "..." and holds for hours(until I manually stop it) and then says it failed too many links. Can't get it unlocked, can't get it to boot into anything usable(either fastboot or the google screen and no further) and I'd really like to turn it back into a tablet for the kids to use since I've moved on. ADB devices shows error device not found but fastboot devices shows the serial number. I just really need to know how to unlock it so I can get it back and running. I think what screwed it up was I flashed it back to the way it came locked bootloader and then it said there was a OTA update, I said ok, downloaded it and when it rebooted it wouldn't go past google screen or past fastboot screen. If I try and do the recovery I get the triangle with exclamation point(yellow) and if I hit the power button a few times it tries to reboot and hangs. And yes, when I do the unlock the screen comes up, I move it to yes, hit power and then it freezes. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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Did you ever get this figured out? This is where I'm at after hours and hours to get to this point.
Hey all, new guy here with a really frustrating problem.
I have a nexus 5 that I was preparing to hand down to my wife. I had transfered everything over to my new phone, and initiated a factory reset. It rebooted to the "erasing" screen, and sat there for about 20 minutes, before switching to the dead android screen (w/ red triangle.) I thought that was odd, did some searching, and tried the recovery mode from the bootloader. That produced the same results. So now I'm stuck.
From the boot loader I can access the following options:
Start -> Erases for ~20 minutes, then dead android
Restart Bootloader -> Screen goes blank, phone vibrates, and then back to the bootloader screen
Recovery Mode -> Erases for ~20 minutes, then dead android
Power off -> turns off the phone
I called Google, and the tech support hadn't heard of anything like this. Because it's almost two years old, he transferred me to LG's tech support, who basically said find a local repair shop, or they could RMA it for an unknown cost. I called my local repair shop, and they didn't think they could help.
I'm pretty sure the phone is bricked at this point, which is frustrating, because it was running stock android - completely unmodified. I think I might have rooted it once, months ago, but I can't imagine that that would have caused this issue. I had even received and installed Marshmallow OTA, and it was running perfectly.
Anyway, I'm hoping (but not expecting) someone on here might have a brilliant idea, or some program I might be able to use on the PC to regain access to my device.
Literally the only information I can provide about the phone at this point in time is as follows:
Product_Name - hammerhead
Variant - hammerhead D820(H) 32GB
HW Version - rev_11
Bootloader Version - HHZ12k
Baseband Version - H8974A-2.0.50.2.27
Carrier Info - None
Serial Number - 047....
Signing - Production
Sercure Boot - Enabled
Lock State - Unlocked
Thanks,
Ian
Update
So I followed the tutorial on flashing your device with the stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701) and it appears to have done... something. Not sure what yet.
I was able to get through the tutorial, and flash all the images onto the phone. I got to the following step:
★After everything finished, select "Recovery" using the volume buttons.
And it went back to the erasing screen. I thought that I was still screwed, so I went back to the fastboot screen. Then I decided what the hell, I might as well let it officially die again, instead of just assuming it would.
I let it do it's thing, and it got through "Erasing", only for it to restart and BOOT! YAY! I was worried when it got to the 4 dots, as I thought maybe it was going to get stuck in a bootloop there, but it just started up the welcome screen. So hopefully it's good to go!
I'm glad that you got it working again. Best way to recover a bricked phone is by installing a factory image, just like you did.
Hello guys.
I apologize for making yet another "my phone is soft-bricked" thread, but I have been through at least 20-25 of the other threads, seemingly tried everything, and I can't get past my problem. Also, most of the other threads I saw are pretty old and not really active anymore. A few of the tools there can't even be downloaded anymore because the links are dead.
Anyway, here's my story.
I have a 16 GB US retail XT1032 that I bought mostly to give tech support to my parents, whom I also bought a 8GB each. Theirs, I left untouched. Mine, I unlocked bootloader and rooted right away. All went well for a long time.
My parents kept receiving OTA's and it took them all the way to Lollipop. Me being rooted, I got stuck in KitKat somewhere (I'm not 100% sure whether that was in 4.4.2 or 4.4.4), but since it wasn't my daily driver, I let it lie as stock rooted KitKat. Recently I wanted to go to Lollipop in order to keep seeing "the same things" as my parents, and I installed TWRP in preparation to flash a "stock enhanced" version of Lollipop. TWRP flashed fine but there was something funny all along: I could use ADB or a root app to boot into recovery from the ROM, but I could never manage to get the phone to go into recovery by booting into fastboot (vol down+power) and then choosing recovery. Screen would go black and recovery would never load.
So I copied a "stock" Lollipop image and booted into TWRP from the ROM and wiped everything and tried flashing the Lollipop ROM. It got stuck somewhere part way, and a few hours later there was no more progress.
Ever since then, I am stuck in fastboot. Fastboot seemingly works correctly, recently I was able to flash an OG animation to get rid of the nasty "your bootloader is unlocked" warning. I can flash recoveries (TWRP and/or CWM) without error on the phone or the computer, but when I try to then boot into recovery using the bootloader, I get stuck on the black screen and go nowhere.
As others in the various threads have commented, when I try to boot "normally", I get the boot animation and a vibration and then it gets stuck.
I have tried so many things by reading different threads I couldn't tell you anymore what all of them were. I've gotten errors about downgrading, I've gotten stuck in fastboot reason: "failed flash", I've gotten flashing errors about the size of recovery or boot or gpt. What I've never managed to do again is to boot into anything other than bootloader. No recovery and no ROM.
Could someone with a bit of experience please point me to some working links and/or when you have the time, help me look at a couple of logs or something that can help me figure out where my problem lies and how to get out of it? my daily driver phablet died a gruesome death and I wanted to go back to my trusty moto g, to no avail.
Thank you very much to whomever can help.
Ruben.
Try to reflash full stock firmware for your device according to your bootloader version. Hope it helps....
Try typing in fastboot devices
So recently for some reason my Nexus 5 gets stuck on the booting animation. I think it was updating to 6.0.1 or something but I'm not sure, because I just woke up one day and the phone wouldn't boot, and when it finally did it just gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried to flash stock images and etc but I need an unlocked boot loader and for some reason if the phone doesn't boot completely after unlocking the bootloader, then it gets re-locked. So now my last option is to use the stock recovery to wipe data or something but when I go to the screen with the dead android guy, no combination of buttons seem to make the recovery options show up. If anyone could help that would be great, even if it doesn't involve the stock recovery!
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shylittlezerg said:
So recently for some reason my Nexus 5 gets stuck on the booting animation. I think it was updating to 6.0.1 or something but I'm not sure, because I just woke up one day and the phone wouldn't boot, and when it finally did it just gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried to flash stock images and etc but I need an unlocked boot loader and for some reason if the phone doesn't boot completely after unlocking the bootloader, then it gets re-locked. So now my last option is to use the stock recovery to wipe data or something but when I go to the screen with the dead android guy, no combination of buttons seem to make the recovery options show up. If anyone could help that would be great, even if it doesn't involve the stock recovery!
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You only need to go back to the bootloader to unlock and then flash factory images, why do you need recovery?
If the bootloader is relocking itself after a reboot, the emmc has probably gone bad and can only be fixed with a motherboard swap.
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If the bootloader is relocking itself after a reboot, the emmc has probably gone bad and can only be fixed with a motherboard swap.
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aw that's unfortunate. thanks anyway
I had two Nexus 5 phones that would bootloop and, eventually, the bootloader would keep relocking each time I rebooted.
I bought a couple of used N5s with busted screens, swapped motherboards, and everything went back to normal. A new motherboard is way too expensive.