[Solved] Can't boot, only enters download mode - Asus Transformer TF700

So I've been trying to install some different roms and try some things out, and I've gotten myself into a jam. I didn't let a format operation complete because I thought it was just frozen and my internal memory started showing a size of 0b. TWRP couldn't format or mount the cache, system, or data so I went hunting for info. Someplace I read that switching to cwm and back to twrp helped some folks. I successfully got CWM onto the tablet, only to find that after reboot, it also doesn't fully boot, only going into what I'd assume is download mode.
At this point, I'm able to access it via ADB, but I'm definitely out of my element by now so any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd like to basically get back to working with twrp if at all possible, but I'm afraid I might be hooped.

eternalbl said:
So I've been trying to install some different roms and try some things out, and I've gotten myself into a jam. I didn't let a format operation complete because I thought it was just frozen and my internal memory started showing a size of 0b. TWRP couldn't format or mount the cache, system, or data so I went hunting for info. Someplace I read that switching to cwm and back to twrp helped some folks. I successfully got CWM onto the tablet, only to find that after reboot, it also doesn't fully boot, only going into what I'd assume is download mode.
At this point, I'm able to access it via ADB, but I'm definitely out of my element by now so any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd like to basically get back to working with twrp if at all possible, but I'm afraid I might be hooped.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Define 'download mode'
Thx Josh

The screen shows the green android guy with his stomach open with a blue 3d geometrical shape spinning around.

eternalbl said:
The screen shows the green android guy with his stomach open with a blue 3d geometrical shape spinning around.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am sure that is a factory reset ......
Boot into this plug it into power and let it do its thing ....
Thx Josh

lj50036 said:
I am sure that is a factory reset ......
Boot into this plug it into power and let it do its thing ....
Thx Josh
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, it seems you were right. After about 45 minutes I checked on it and it said something about re-applying root, I accepted it and now it says android is upgrading like after an initial rom install.
edit: yup, booting normally now. Can't thank you enough, I thought it was done for.

eternalbl said:
Well, it seems you were right. After about 45 minutes I checked on it and it said something about re-applying root, I accepted it and now it says android is upgrading like after an initial rom install.
edit: yup, booting normally now. Can't thank you enough, I thought it was done for.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great to see you up and running ..... :good:
Can you add 'SOLVED' to the thread tittle.
Thx Josh

Related

Relock US Xoom Tiamat 1.4.4 resulted in hanging at Motorola logo

Hey guys I was having some problems with my xoom's wifi on Tiamat's 1.4.4 so i decided to relock the device and use stock.
It's a US model and had build HMJ37 but i decided to follow this thread
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...4600-thinking-about-unrooting-read-first.html
I downloaded img build HRI66 and followed all the steps and it was ok. Then, i rebooted and now my device is at the motorola logo's dual core screen. Everytime i manually reboot with power and volume up it automatically reboots the device instead of shutting it down, it literally won't shut down and keeps hanging at the moto logo. It just keeps rebooting and getting stuck at the motorola logo. I then unlocked again, and performed the same process with the HRI39 img and still got the same problem
So im stuck. Please help me out guys, i'm in serious ****.
So you have gone as far as the "fastboot erase cache" and "fastboot oem lock" right? This is kind of funny because I tried to install Tiamat 1.1 ROM tonight and ended up going through this HUGE loop of problems.
Here's the problem I had: some time ago I installed ROMManager from the market. I thought it would be easier. It SHOULD be easier. I let it update my recovery to its own version 4.something. It allowed me to SORT OF install the ROM, but I wound up with some persistent system files that weren't getting wiped and a bcm4329.ko version mismatch.
This stumped me for a long time because all I could see was an "Error" message where I was supposed to be able to toggle the wifi on and off. I tried rolling back to my previous ROM. No go. And the culprit the whole time was ROMManager's CWM.
I tried rolling back my recovery.img file to the Tiamat version recommended in this forum. I kept getting all of these crazy "could not mount" errors for pretty much EVERYTHING. I thought my recovery partition was effed. So I rolled back to stock. Followed pretty much the same instructions you linked to.
From there I was able to boot into the stock OS. WiFi worked. I breathed deeply for a minute or two then dove right back in.
If I was in your position I would (and I did, though not from a boot loop) boot into fastboot and unlock the bootloader again. You can do it by holding the Vol down key as the device boots. When fastboot loads type "fastboot oem unlock". Press the Vol down key then the Vol up key. Do that again. Your device is unlocked now! Hooray!
Now you need to install a recovery.img. (I just did this too.) Get the .img file here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074979
Boot into fastboot again. Put the recovery img file you downloaded into the same directory as your adb and fastboot executables (if you haven't already linked to them in your PATH). Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery-lotsofstuffhere.img". Type "fastboot reboot". 2 seconds after the Motorola logo pops up press the Vol Down key. Then press the Vol Up key to enter recovery.
Ok, here's where I found out what a dumbass I was. I got all of the stupid "can't mount anything" errors again. I thought, HOLY ****. I just did all of that work, spent hours troubleshooting and reformatting and bringing it back to stock and flashing the custom recovery all over again just to run into the SAME error. I really thought I was screwed. Then I found some forum where a guy was complaining about the same error. He realized he was getting it because his sd card was half-way out. I thought - "SD CARD?!?" Some guys told me I needed one earlier too, but the ROMManager CWM didn't require it. It just screwed up my system files. So I popped one in and rebooted. Voila. Everything's kosher. If YOU have the same problem, make sure you've got an SD card in.
Ok, so now you're in recovery. You'll need to flash an OS of course. If you haven't already got it, get Tiamat 1.1 rom. Put it on the sd card. Wipe data/factory reset. Install zip from sd card. You're golden. At least I was. 5 hours later.
-Mike
Hey Mike I'm gonna give this a go. Just when i downloaded the img file to flash through fastboot i got an error saying battery was too lower to perform the recovery....damn it! The xoom isn't able to charge at the moment so i have to wait until it dies i guess (or i hope at least) and then charge it up and try again later.
Thanks again dude, hope i sort this out too. I'll download tiamat 1.1 in the meantime.
DUDE YOU'RE MY ****ING HERO!!!! I got it running can't say if everything is 100% just yet but the fac tthat im back in is enough to thank you so very much Mike!!! What a guy!
It worked? Great that's excellent news. Just out of curiosity - did you get there because you had ROMManager's ClockWorkMod? Or maybe you didn't do a full wipe before flashing a new rom? Or maybe you restored some WiFi settings with Titanium Backup after a new flash? How did you wind up with tthe problem in the first place - you know, for posterity.
well to be honest i am not 100% sure. I think the source of the problem msut have come from my previous installation of tiamat's 1.4.4 rom, it was always actin up on me and i don't believe i wiped the mod before i updated it and that may have done it. I wish i could give you more than just a pseudo answer.
DeeJayCruiser said:
Hey Mike I'm gonna give this a go. Just when i downloaded the img file to flash through fastboot i got an error saying battery was too lower to perform the recovery....damn it! The xoom isn't able to charge at the moment so i have to wait until it dies i guess (or i hope at least) and then charge it up and try again later.
Thanks again dude, hope i sort this out too. I'll download tiamat 1.1 in the meantime.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is why they say to make sure you're plugged in when doing this important stuff, lol.
okantomi said:
This is why they say to make sure you're plugged in when doing this important stuff, lol.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Normally, I'd agree but in this rare case, he actually needed it to fully drain because he couldn't get it to power off using any normal method. Weird! so, it seems his only shot was to let it die to finally kill the screen and then start over. Very odd...
From original post
DeeJayCruiser said:
Everytime i manually reboot with power and volume up it automatically reboots the device instead of shutting it down, it literally won't shut down and keeps hanging at the moto logo.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
farmsatguy said:
Normally, I'd agree but in this rare case, he actually needed it to fully drain because he couldn't get it to power off using any normal method. Weird! so, it seems his only shot was to let it die to finally kill the screen and then start over. Very odd...
From original post
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are right...I had forgotten that from the OP. Very strange indeed.
Yeah I dunno why, my xoom was just acting up. It's fantastic now, albeit the wifi still has a couple kinks but android market issues have been resolved, i get much better streams and with tiamat 1.1 everything is already built in and with a quickboot option =)
Xda...where would i be without you!
farmsatguy said:
Normally, I'd agree but in this rare case, he actually needed it to fully drain because he couldn't get it to power off using any normal method. Weird! so, it seems his only shot was to let it die to finally kill the screen and then start over. Very odd...
From original post
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should be able to reboot the device using vol up + power, then holding vol down and vol up until it says "Cold booting Linux.....".
This should do the same as letting the battery drain, plugging it in and turning it on.
DeeJay - dunno if you've done this already, but if you haven't you should go back to the Tiamat 1.1 thread and find the Modpack. It fixes the Market update issue and gives you built-in screenshot capabilities and an option to reboot into recovery from the power off menu. It's in there - you just have to scroll down a bit before you find it.
Also - what issues are you having with WiFi?
Thanks for that important tidbit, solarnz. I'm going to file it away for future use.
OMG!!!! Dude you just saved my life! I thought my baby was out the window. I had the exact same problem as you did. I was trying everything from every thread that had anything to do with this problem. I just finished installing and it booted. WHEWWW!!!
Thank u thank u thank u!!
Glad it helped. I'm seeing all kinds of posts in here about the ROMManager CWM. Not good.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

[Q] HELP! Accidentally erased boot

Hi!
I could use a little help. Following the lovely directions here, I successfully rooted my phone (XWLF2) Android 2.3.6 and was attempting to CM 10.2 to add jellybean. That went OK, I added the Gapps (which also seemed OK) but then I got stuck on the CVM recovery system. It would not reboot. Turning the phone off and back on kept me on the same screen. Finally, since I had only a /data directory to clear and not the /dbdata originally stated, I tried to clear /boot.
Well, that worked! Got me out of CVM but now my phone turns on, hits the Samsung loading screen and stays there... eventually you can make it loop but it come back to the load screen. I cant even seem to get it to go into download or recovery mode. All the files are still in the SDs but it wont get to them.
How can I re-boot it? Or start form scratch... if nothing is in there, how can I add it, say go back to original and then try again.
I'd appreciate any help you could give. I know I newb-ed it but help anyway. Thanks!
Cheers!
Craig
craigj82 said:
Hi!
I could use a little help. Following the lovely directions here, I successfully rooted my phone (XWLF2) Android 2.3.6 and was attempting to CM 10.2 to add jellybean. That went OK, I added the Gapps (which also seemed OK) but then I got stuck on the CVM recovery system. It would not reboot. Turning the phone off and back on kept me on the same screen. Finally, since I had only a /data directory to clear and not the /dbdata originally stated, I tried to clear /boot.
Well, that worked! Got me out of CVM but now my phone turns on, hits the Samsung loading screen and stays there... eventually you can make it loop but it come back to the load screen. I cant even seem to get it to go into download or recovery mode. All the files are still in the SDs but it wont get to them.
How can I re-boot it? Or start form scratch... if nothing is in there, how can I add it, say go back to original and then try again.
I'd appreciate any help you could give. I know I newb-ed it but help anyway. Thanks!
Cheers!
Craig
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you cant get in download or recovery mode??? but you can see samsumg logo.... if you cant enter in either of the two modes that I mentioned then use JIG(a hardware device that fits in the charging/USB slot of phone,available on ebay for like $2) to enter instant download mode... flash a stock rom from ODIN and you are done .. let me know if it worked
Little better now
mh,
Reading you comment prompted me to try and get into DL or Recovery mode again and that did work. I could get into DL mode. Trying to load original ROM now. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion. At least I figured out that it should still get into the modes.
Cheers!
C
craigj82 said:
mh,
Reading you comment prompted me to try and get into DL or Recovery mode again and that did work. I could get into DL mode. Trying to load original ROM now. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion. At least I figured out that it should still get into the modes.
Cheers!
C
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Goodluck
Well, it helped but not entirely. I got it into DL mode and tried to re-install XWLF2 (as originally installed). It attached to Odin successfully, took about a minute and 'passed'. However, it now goes further but still does not complete it goes past the Samsung logo screen, makes the swirly. twirling stars with sound and the hits the second small Samsung Name screen and sits there.
Should I try the re-install with the sim and SD card removed? Does that impact it in any way?
Should I start with a different base? In the end I would like to get it rooted and to jellybean before I start re-loading everything else. What is the shortest direct route to that end?
Thanks for the continued advice,
Cheers!
Craig

[Q] Bricked?

Hi,
Someone gave me a Tf700t. On bootup it says unlocked, shows the Asus screen and then keeps rebooting. If I reboot and hold down the volume down arrow I get the menu with four choice ROC, Android, USB, Wipe.
When I press ROC I get the red triangle.
I've read many threads and I think this indicates its bricked and can't be recovered. I just want to confirm before I sell it for parts.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Mark
mmanis said:
Hi,
Someone gave me a Tf700t. On bootup it says unlocked, shows the Asus screen and then keeps rebooting. If I reboot and hold down the volume down arrow I get the menu with four choice ROC, Android, USB, Wipe.
When I press ROC I get the red triangle.
I've read many threads and I think this indicates its bricked and can't be recovered. I just want to confirm before I sell it for parts.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually, since you do have access to the bootloader this may be recoverable.
You have 4 icons in the BL menu, so it's a ICS bootloader. The dead Droid on his back when you select RCK is normal - it's the stock recovery not finding a valid update file.
The easiest way to try to get your tablet back to life would be to download the full Asus firmware from here: http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T&p=28&s=1
Select "Android" as the OS. From the resulting list, choose the firmware for your SKU: US if you are in the USA.
If you are considering running a custom rom do yourself a favor and go for the 10.6.1.14.8 version, NOT the latest firmware 10.6.1.14.10. The .8 version can be rooted, the .10 not.
Download the .zip file, extract it ONCE, getting another zip and rename that file to: EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
Copy that file to a FAT32 formatted microSD (that's the factory default) and insert it into the tablet.
Boot into recovery (Power and Volume Down, then Volume Up to select RCK) and hopefully the recovery will recognize the file and start to flash it. Be patient - it'll take a while. Wait for it to reboot.
berndblb said:
Actually, since you do have access to the bootloader this may be recoverable.
You have 4 icons in the BL menu, so it's a ICS bootloader. The dead Droid on his back when you select RCK is normal - it's the stock recovery not finding a valid update file.
The easiest way to try to get your tablet back to life would be to download the full Asus firmware from here:
Select "Android" as the OS. From the resulting list, choose the firmware for your SKU: US if you are in the USA.
If you are considering running a custom rom do yourself a favor and go for the 10.6.1.14.8 version, NOT the latest firmware 10.6.1.14.10. The .8 version can be rooted, the .10 not.
Download the .zip file, extract it ONCE, getting another zip and rename that file to: EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
Copy that file to a FAT32 formatted microSD (that's the factory default) and insert it into the tablet.
Boot into recovery (Power and Volume Down, then Volume Up to select RCK) and hopefully the recovery will recognize the file and start to flash it. Be patient - it'll take a while. Wait for it to reboot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well that partially worked. Thanks so much!!!
It was able to flash the firmware. It rebooted 5 times before the os came up. I then shut it down. When I turned it on it goes to the Asus screen and then keeps on rebooting indefinitely. I then hit the volume up and power button to reset and then it rebooted 5 times before the OS came up. BTW I flash with 10.6.1.14.10.
Any ideas?
Thanks again,
Mark
mmanis said:
Well that partially worked. Thanks so much!!!
It was able to flash the firmware. It rebooted 5 times before the os came up. I then shut it down. When I turned it on it goes to the Asus screen and then keeps on rebooting indefinitely. I then hit the volume up and power button to reset and then it rebooted 5 times before the OS came up. BTW I flash with 10.6.1.14.10.
Any ideas?
Thanks again,
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmm, still bootlooping.
Next thing I would try is to boot into the bootloader, select 'Wipe Data' with the Volume Down button, hit Volume Up execute.
And actually, before even booting back to system (that would be choosing the Android), I would reflash the firmware - just for good measure after the data wipe.
Can't wait to hear if that solves it!
So I downgraded to .8. Rooted. Was able to install TWRP. Reflashed, wiped and it still reboots multiple time before coming up. I tried to flash CyanogenMod but all I get is the spinning Cyanogen wheel. I was able to restore .8. Its not bricked anymore. Its just weird that it keeps rebooting before coming up. But at least its now consistent and will come up every time whether from power on or reset.
Thanks,
Mark
mmanis said:
So I downgraded to .8. Rooted. Was able to install TWRP. Reflashed, wiped and it still reboots multiple time before coming up. I tried to flash CyanogenMod but all I get is the spinning Cyanogen wheel. I was able to restore .8. Its not bricked anymore. Its just weird that it keeps rebooting before coming up. But at least its now consistent and will come up every time whether from power on or reset.
Thanks,
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great job so far! That you got TWRP installed is very good and gives you many more options. It's version 3.6.1? Have you tried to capture a logcat of the boot process?
The logcat may reveal the cause of this and then you could target the problem easier.
If you can't get a logcat my next step would be to format the data partition. Since you probably do not have that much data on it yet, this is the perfect time for that. Always a good idea when you move to a different rom and major framework change.
Go for a Wipe > Advanced > Format Data. It could be that there's something left behind from a former installation that causes the bootloop.
After the format you have to reflash the rom - or restore your .8 nandroid. Although I would go for CROMi-X 5.0.4. Love that rom. Excellent support too.
sbdags, creator of this rom, also provides a bootloader and several kernels.
I mean, if you flash a new bootloader and kernel, format data, clean install the rom and you still get bootloops, it's got to be hardware related. At least I would be out of ideas at that point.
berndblb said:
Great job so far! That you got TWRP installed is very good and gives you many more options. It's version 3.6.1? Have you tried to capture a logcat of the boot process?
The logcat may reveal the cause of this and then you could target the problem easier.
If you can't get a logcat my next step would be to format the data partition. Since you probably do not have that much data on it yet, this is the perfect time for that. Always a good idea when you move to a different rom and major framework change.
Go for a Wipe > Advanced > Format Data. It could be that there's something left behind from a former installation that causes the bootloop.
After the format you have to reflash the rom - or restore your .8 nandroid. Although I would go for CROMi-X 5.0.4. Love that rom. Excellent support too.
sbdags, creator of this rom, also provides a bootloader and several kernels.
I mean, if you flash a new bootloader and kernel, format data, clean install the rom and you still get bootloops, it's got to be hardware related. At least I would be out of ideas at that point.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, how do you capture a logcat. FYI, I flashed with CROMi. It kept hanging on reboot. Finally it booted and worked. I shut it down and now I'm back into the endless looping boot cycle. One thing I didn't mention before when the unit is off the only way it will turn on is if I hold the power button down for 10 seconds.
Thanks,
Mark
mmanis said:
Hi, how do you capture a logcat. FYI, I flashed with CROMi. It kept hanging on reboot. Finally it booted and worked. I shut it down and now I'm back into the endless looping boot cycle. One thing I didn't mention before when the unit is off the only way it will turn on is if I hold the power button down for 10 seconds.
Thanks,
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you format data?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1378491
berndblb said:
Did you format data?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1378491
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I formatted data. Its very weird it only will boot correctly after I re-flash or about once every 10 times.
Thanks again.
Mark
mmanis said:
Hi, how do you capture a logcat
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This was at the top of the xda portal http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274119
best bookmark it for future reference its a really good tutorial
mmanis said:
Yes I formatted data. Its very weird it only will boot correctly after I re-flash or about once every 10 times.
Thanks again.
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
At this point only a bootloop logcat can shed light on this. Check the tutorial JTR recommended. It's truly good - thanks for the link!
Hi,
I've attached the logcat. What I did first was do a total wipe, system, data, cache and then reinstalled the rom.
Still having trouble booting once I shutdown and turn it back on.
All the help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
mmanis said:
Hi,
I've attached the logcat. What I did first was do a total wipe, system, data, cache and then reinstalled the rom.
Still having trouble booting once I shutdown and turn it back on.
All the help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great! Now we need to try to get someone's attention who can actually read and interpret the logcat - that is where my usefulness ends...
@sbdags, @_that, @JoinTheRealms to the rescue???
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 4
berndblb said:
Great! Now we need to try to get someone's attention who can actually read and interpret the logcat - that is where my usefulness ends...
@sbdags, @_that, @JoinTheRealms to the rescue???
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 4
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Right try booting without the microsd card in. Something is wrong with it. Also turn off the Bluetooth, what ever it is trying to connect to is adding lots of entries to the log.

Help - this is a difficult one

Okay from the top, have OPO that had paranoid 4.6 Beta 2 working just fine. Was playing with settings(dumb idea) and changed the runtime to ART like i have on multiple other phones just to try it out. Phone rebooted and upgraded all the apps like it should, but about 5 seconds after it booted, screen froze for a second and then it rebooted. Once it rebooted it was up for 5 seconds again and then rebooted again. thus started a continues reboot loop.
Using the five seconds i had i was able to race through settings and switch the runtime back to dalvik. this caused the normal reboot and fixing of apps however once it finished the boot process it began the reboot loop again and there was nothing i could do to stop it.
I booted to recovery and attempted to reflash the last update, that failed.
attempted to wipe cache and dalvik cache and that failed.
attempted factory data reset, that failed
NOW is when i made a mistake, on TWRP i checked system wipe as well as data and cache. Wiped everything.
So, phone was then entirely devoid of OS which is a slight problem. I was able to get into fastboot however and flash cm11s which i figured would fix it, false. Now when it boots the system ui crashes over and over continuously and it wont become stable. Went back to recovery but my twrp was gone and i just had cyanogenmod simple recovery. attempted to get to fastboot mode but its apparently nonexistent, i tried every combination of commands possible to get there but cant. so now im stuck with an unusable OS and a useless recovery and no way to get to fastboot mode that im at least aware of... if there are any other details that could help feel free to help, ill post pictures once i figure out a way to do that.
please, for the love of God, help me.
If you gold the power button for about 15 seconds then it should turn off. Then hold volume up and then press and hold power while still holding volume up for a few seconds and it should boot fastboot mode. Try erasing userdata from there to see if you can recover from the crashing.
tiny4579 said:
If you gold the power button for about 15 seconds then it should turn off. Then hold volume up and then press and hold power while still holding volume up for a few seconds and it should boot fastboot mode. Try erasing userdata from there to see if you can recover from the crashing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried that a hundred times, the problem is once the screen turns off, if you keep holding vol up it never comes back on, its something i have never seen before and its exxtremely frustrating. Its like fastboot doesnt exist.
I wiped out everything on my Oneplus two months ago by mistake. Then my phone wont boot up because it had nothing in it except the TWRP. I tried EVERYTHING, to load a Rom into the phone, but it didn't work. It goes through the motion of loading a Rom into your phone and when you are about to hit the 100% level, it says FAILED. It wants you to check the debugging which you can't because your phone wont boot up. Anyways, I purchased a micro usb flash drive and loaded up the Rom into flash drive from my comp's usb. Then I connected it to my phone from TWRP via the micro usb port. After it loaded up the Rom from the flash drive, it booted up. Hope that works.
grenademasta said:
I wiped out everything on my Oneplus two months ago by mistake. Then my phone wont boot up because it had nothing in it except the TWRP. I tried EVERYTHING, to load a Rom into the phone, but it didn't work. It goes through the motion of loading a Rom into your phone and when you are about to hit the 100% level, it says FAILED. It wants you to check the debugging which you can't because your phone wont boot up. Anyways, I purchased a micro usb flash drive and loaded up the Rom into flash drive from my comp's usb. Then I connected it to my phone from TWRP via the micro usb port. After it loaded up the Rom from the flash drive, it booted up. Hope that works.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hey i hadnt thought of that, thanks ill try that as soon as i can get my hands on a micro usb flash drive, will the device find it using cyanogenmod simple recovery? twrp is gone for some reason.
Don't know if it will work without TWRP. I only see "Apply Update" then "Apply from ADB" and "Choose from internal storage". Hopefully the phone might recognize additional storage from the micro usb flash drive. Good luck.
grenademasta said:
Don't know if it will work without TWRP. I only see "Apply Update" then "Apply from ADB" and "Choose from internal storage". Hopefully the phone might recognize additional storage from the micro usb flash drive. Good luck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks for your help! ill update as soon as i get one
The latest twrp supports mtp and you can use adb push to push the file to sdcard. Its really worth learning.
ugly_duckling said:
I tried that a hundred times, the problem is once the screen turns off, if you keep holding vol up it never comes back on, its something i have never seen before and its exxtremely frustrating. Its like fastboot doesnt exist.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should let go of the power button after the device turns off. Then vol up+power when the phone is off. This is different than what I read for the device but it works for getting me in fastboot.
Try flashing it by adb?
Overdose1986 said:
Try flashing it by adb?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
tried using adb to push files but got error: closed, tried adb kill-server etc to try and get it to work but it wouldnt go, trust me i have tried a lot of things
as for the holding of the volume up button, ive tried every combination of holding and releasing i could think of, it just wont work :/
ugly_duckling said:
tried using adb to push files but got error: closed, tried adb kill-server etc to try and get it to work but it wouldnt go, trust me i have tried a lot of things
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He meant using adb sideload
Sent from my Oneplus One
have you had a look at my thread here? sure sounds like one of the issues listed. Take a peak and decide if it's something you'd like to try
Makrilli said:
He meant using adb sideload
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ya i tried, it wouldnt connect to the phone, tried multiple tweaks from pc side and device side and couldnt get it to work, im probably messing it up somewhere but i tried to follow various "tutorials" to the letter
markbencze said:
have you had a look at my thread here? sure sounds like one of the issues listed. Take a peak and decide if it's something you'd like to try
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey thats exactly how it started when i first reflashed cm11, but i managed to get through and force disable audiofx, from there though it just kept crashing system ui, i will definitely try this when i get outta class.
is there something different ill need to do based on having already disabled audiofx?
ugly_duckling said:
Hey thats exactly how it started when i first reflashed cm11, but i managed to get through and force disable audiofx, from there though it just kept crashing system ui, i will definitely try this when i get outta class.
is there something different ill need to do based on having already disabled audiofx?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Disabling it will not fix your issue. My thread tells you what needs to happen. Generally when people decide to try new ideas without proper knowledge is when they get into trouble
ugly_duckling said:
I tried that a hundred times, the problem is once the screen turns off, if you keep holding vol up it never comes back on, its something i have never seen before and its exxtremely frustrating. Its like fastboot doesnt exist.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just a tip, if u can go in fastboot mode, try to disconnect usb from phone first , and then try
markbencze said:
Disabling it will not fix your issue. My thread tells you what needs to happen. Generally when people decide to try new ideas without proper knowledge is when they get into trouble
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ya i gotcha, i was just wondering if i needed to re-enable audiofx for stuff to work, my other problem with this method is, and correct me if im wrong, but i believe i need to be in fastboot mode? which for some reason is unattainable at the moment..
ugly_duckling said:
ya i gotcha, i was just wondering if i needed to re-enable audiofx for stuff to work, my other problem with this method is, and correct me if im wrong, but i believe i need to be in fastboot mode? which for some reason is unattainable at the moment..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes and then follow the directions in my thread
luka1002 said:
Just a tip, if u can go in fastboot mode, try to disconnect usb from phone first , and then try
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
idk why, but i read this post and said "what the hell, ill try it again" out loud to myself. unplugged my phone, held down the volume up key and turned it on, IT WENT STRAIGHT TO FASTBOOT. fml thanks guys, i think i can fix everything from here...i dont know how i managed to never do it correctly even though before this happened i booted into fastboot regularly to flash different ROMS...thank you guys very much for the help

I bricked my phone

I accidentally erased the phones system from fox recovery. (dont ask how im dum) Its bricked now and is in a boot loop of some sort. It cant communicate with my pc which ik works with it as i used this pc to root it in the first place. Any help is appreciated. Its not overly important as its my old phone that i was messing around on.
If adb doesn't work, try to use filemanager to add files to your internal storage. Usually this should always work, as the device would be detected as MTP.
possiblyLopsided said:
I accidentally erased the phones system from fox recovery. (dont ask how im dum) Its bricked now and is in a boot loop of some sort. It cant communicate with my pc which ik works with it as i used this pc to root it in the first place. Any help is appreciated. Its not overly important as its my old phone that i was messing around on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is there anything preventing you from booting into OrangeFox, and flashing your ROM again?
DarthJabba9 said:
Is there anything preventing you from booting into OrangeFox, and flashing your ROM again?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried to boot to recovery but it just turns the screen on (nothing is displayed) and starts to "boot" after a bit it stops and retries until it dies. anytime I try to hold buttons to go to recovery or fast boot it just restarts its "boot" process. i cant get it to connect to my pc either. it doesn't show up in the USB tool or device manager.
posiblyLopsided said:
I tried to boot to recovery but it just turns the screen on (nothing is displayed) and starts to "boot" after a bit it stops and retries until it dies. anytime I try to hold buttons to go to recovery or fast boot it just restarts its "boot" process. i cant get it to connect to my pc either. it doesn't show up in the USB tool or device manager.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Simply erasing the "system" should not cause any of these problems that you are describing. The system partition is totally isolated from the recovery partition, the bootloader, and every other partition. You might want to expand on what precisely you erased, and how exactly you erased it.
DarthJabba9 said:
Simply erasing the "system" should not cause any of these problems that you are describing. The system partition is totally isolated from the recovery partition, the bootloader, and every other partition. You might want to expand on what precisely you erased, and how exactly you erased it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that's an excellent question and I'm not entirely for sure. i rly was not thinking at all when i was doing this but basically i was trying to factory reset and somehow got into recovery mode. i think I went to wipe and erased everything. i am not for sure tho. like said I was rly not thinking at all when I was doing this.
Thank you so much for helping me with my stupidity.
posiblyLopsided said:
that's an excellent question and I'm not entirely for sure. i rly was not thinking at all when i was doing this but basically i was trying to factory reset and somehow got into recovery mode. i think I went to wipe and erased everything. i am not for sure tho. like said I was rly not thinking at all when I was doing this.
Thank you so much for helping me with my stupidity.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
None of this should affect the boot loader. So you should boot into fastboot mode, flash the recovery image, boot into it, and then go on from there.
Full details of what to do are available here: https://wiki.orangefox.tech/en/guides/installing_orangefox ("Via fastboot, and the recovery")
I have tried. i cant even get into fastboot. i will try again.
DarthJabba9 said:
None of this should affect the boot loader. So you should boot into fastboot mode, flash the recovery image, boot into it, and then go on from there.
Full details of what to do are available here: https://wiki.orangefox.tech/en/guides/installing_orangefox ("Via fastboot, and the recovery")
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok. i got my phone to talk with my pc. i was able to maybe boot into fastboot. im not for sure because the screen is still black but the computer saw it as a usb device. the only problem is that it says the usb device is is not working and is malfunctioning. i think that its because i dont have the right drivers. however i need yo connect my phone properly to install the right drivers which i cant do. maybe i am doing this wrong. im trying to use the xiaomi suite. i tried manually installing but windows says the best drivers are already installed.
Edit: Great news. i got it to go to fastboot. i had a faulty cable. its working now. im getting orange fox rn.
posiblyLopsided said:
...Edit: Great news. i got it to go to fastboot. i had a faulty cable. its working now. im getting orange fox rn.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Excellent.
PS: no harm in hitting the "thanks" button ...
thanks for your help. i got it to work and i have miui flashed and running. again thank u for raking ur time to help with my stupidity.
posiblyLopsided said:
thanks for your help. i got it to work and i have miui flashed and running. again thank u for raking ur time to help with my stupidity.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
:good:

Categories

Resources