Hey guys, I just tried flashing CWM touch recovery however something strange has occurred. The phone went into the bootloader like normal but would switch off completely after a few seconds and now it's unresponsive with only the screen being on but completely black and the led notification light remaining orange and being on permanently. Phone isn't switching off either, any help would be super appreciated.
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Have you unlocked the boot?
What firmware version/ROM are you on?
What commands did you use to flash the recovery?
Greg
Sorry, running Glade rom so CM12 and bootloader is unclocked. Command used to flash recovery was 'fastboot flash bootZ3_DooMLoRD_AdvStkKernel_v01_FW-93.img'.
My pc is registering the phone connecting but nothing else.
omz123 said:
Sorry, running Glade rom so CM12 and bootloader is unclocked. Command used to flash recovery was 'fastboot flash bootZ3_DooMLoRD_AdvStkKernel_v01_FW-93.img'.
My pc is registering the phone connecting but nothing else.
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That kernel will only work on a stock rom. Reflash the boot.img from with in the ROM you are on OR flash a stock ROM
gregbradley said:
That kernel will only work on a stock rom. Reflash the boot.img from with in the ROM you are on OR flash a stock ROM
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Will do, used the TWRP recovery but am reflashing back to a stock rom. The phone is still unresponsive though.
Ok so I had to reinstall drivers that were faulty and the phone was responding to commands again and have since flashed the correct boot.img. Thanks heaps
omz123 said:
Will do, used the TWRP recovery but am reflashing back to a stock rom. The phone is still unresponsive though.
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No worries
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Hey everyone,
Basically I was trying to flash a new ROM onto an old Nexus S of mine and when I tried to boot into recovery there was just a black screen. I pressed the power button and a single line saying "Clockwork mod Recovery" and the version number popped up. I assumed that the recovery must've been corrupted so I erased it and installed the latest version using fastboot which seemed to work fine.
Now whenever I try to boot into recovery I just get a blank screen with nothing else. I've tried using other recovery images such as twrp but the same problem happened, I just get the background wallpaper/image and nothing else.
I searched the forums and apparently people were having this issue earlier on when the i9023 was first released but now most custom recoveries are supposed to work with both i9020 and i9023.
Also the touch buttons light up and vibrate whenever I touch them when I'm in recovery mode.
Any help to this problem would be greatly appreciated as atm I have an old ROM which is buggy as hell and I need to get rid of it.
Cheers!
I had the same Issue. If you can boot into the rom, you can try to download the rommanager-app and install the recovery from there.
Hey I tried that already that and instead of booting into recovery it just went into the bootloader and said "No Recovery or Bootloader found".
Any other ideas?
Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
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Hey
I have the i9023 and I install rom manager. install CWM and if I reboot into recovery it works and I get in to CWM recovery.. but after reboot into os.. if I go into Rom manager and reboot to recovery it dont work? I just get the android figur and a "!".. then I just can Power + vol up and I'm in bootloader recovery..
Do I have to install CWM every time i want to use it? and can't I access CWM on boot op ?
sorry for my bad English
Normaly you have to flash the recovery only once.
Try to flash the newer clockwork-recovery with fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
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bedalus said:
Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
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I havent unlock my phone, but I can get in to bootloader is it then necessary to unlock ?
I try to delete the /install-recovery.sh
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
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Xziped said:
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
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Then it must be unlock as default.. I havent unlock it.. just delete the install install-recovery.sh and it works every time now.
now I just have to find a ROM to try..
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Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
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Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...
Simultaneity said:
Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...
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what happens when you try to temporary boot into the recovery?
instead of "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img", try to "fastboot boot recovery.img"
Just look for an recovery.img that works temporary and then try to flash it permanently.
I'll try it and get back to you Xziped. If anyone else can think of any other ideas please just throw'em at me, I'm willing to try anything!
Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.
Simultaneity said:
Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.
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Sorry but if not even the temporary recovery boots up, i dont know what else we can do
did you try some of the older recoverys? is your bootloader unlocked?
I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next
Simultaneity said:
I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next
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Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.
khartaras said:
Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.
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There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!
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There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!
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Just look @ http://www.samfirmware.com/ .
There you should find all you need
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Hi, i wanted to upgrade my rom from black dragon 4.5 til 5.0 but as i was in a bit of a hurry i failed to read the innstalation notes..
So i just flashed the rom.zip from cwm touch and tried to reboot, now im stuck in a bootloop with the HTC screen with the red writings and a blackscreen.
I cant seem to be able to power-off my device either, i guess i have to let the power run out..
Is there any way i can fix this and flash mayby LeeDroid rom or is my phone permanently bricked?
rom.zip from an RUU ??
If it wasnt, most custom roms require the boot.img to be flashed.
Plug your phone in via USB and use adb to do a full factory reset, Flash boot.img and flash the rom
you should be good to go in no time
azzledazzle said:
rom.zip from an RUU ??
If it wasnt, most custom roms require the boot.img to be flashed.
Plug your phone in via USB and use adb to do a full factory reset, Flash boot.img and flash the rom
you should be good to go in no time
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yep what he said you can also hole power button for a bit and it will power of the phone
^^What they said. You need to fastboot yourboot.img through adb. Since that rom has the base upgraded to 1.78, you need to update your boot.img, it's provided right under the logo.
When I select to reboot to recovery the phone attempts to reboot and never shows the google screen. I have to enter the bootloader and enter recovery from there. After i install what I need to install and click "reboot to system" in the recovery, the phone does the same thing. It just goes to a black screen. I have to re-enter the bootloader again and select "Start" to boot into the ROM.
What could be the issue here? Do I need to reflash the bootloader?
What rom are you on. Stock doesn't give you an option to boot into recovery. I'd try and re-flash the rom
jd1639 said:
What rom are you on. Stock doesn't give you an option to boot into recovery. I'd try and re-flash the rom
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PSX. This started to happen after I flashed CWM so I switched back to TWRP but it seems like clockwork might of screwed something up. Might have to flash the factory img.
biggiephat said:
PSX. This started to happen after I flashed CWM so I switched back to TWRP but it seems like clockwork might of screwed something up. Might have to flash the factory img.
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I would try flashing the recovery image in fastboot. That should fix up the recovery issue. Cwm seems to have some issues right now.
jd1639 said:
I would try flashing the recovery image in fastboot. That should fix up the recovery issue. Cwm seems to have some issues right now.
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That did not work. Still cant turn on the phone unless i go into the bootloader when attached to AC adapter and click start from there.
biggiephat said:
That did not work. Still cant turn on the phone unless i go into the bootloader when attached to AC adapter and click start from there.
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I would try flashing the entire factory image then. But i think you have something else going on if you need to have it plugged in to start it up
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
Himeko7 said:
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
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Try flashing stock google image 5.1 with or without fastboot.
ghosty7 said:
Try flashing stock google image 5.1 with or without fastboot.
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I did already as I mentioned. But I can't even enter TWRP, as soon I select recovery it reboots. Faulty board/storage?
Himeko7 said:
I did already as I mentioned. But I can't even enter TWRP, as soon I select recovery it reboots. Faulty board/storage?
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You said 5.1.1 that is not out yet only 5.1. Also you do not need TWRP to flash google stock image, if you can get into bootloader as you said, you can flash the image with your PC. or am i missing something ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
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You said 5.1.1 that is not out yet only 5.1. Also you do not need TWRP to flash google stock image, if you can get into bootloader as you said, you can flash the image with your PC. or am i missing something ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
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Sorry I meant 5.1.0 from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
I first flashed TWRP with the idea to install CM from there, but then I can't even enter it (all commands through fastboot work just fine), which is a pretty bad sign I guess. Then I flashed stock 5.1.0, and nothing changed.
Himeko7 said:
Sorry I meant 5.1.0 from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
I first flashed TWRP with the idea to install CM from there, but then I can't even enter it (all commands through fastboot work just fine), which is a pretty bad sign I guess. Then I flashed stock 5.1.0, and nothing changed.
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That does not sound good at all...
Himeko7 said:
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
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Power button issue?
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Power button issue?
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I don't think so, phone stays in bootloader indefinitely until I reboot or try to enter recovery.
I have a nexus 5.
16GB model.
5.1.1
Rooted.
TWRP 2.8.6.1
I was about to flash CM 12.1 .
I pressed wipe but it froze, I left it that way for about an hour and decided to research about what is happening. A lot of comments on some thread I read said that turning it off and then on worked for them and I did the same. Now all I get is a flashing Teamwin logo. The only accessible feature of the phone is the Power off/Start/Bootloader/Restart Bootloader thing-y. Whichever of them I press I get the flashing Teamwin logo.
Just wait it takes awhile
@bigglongruler
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I have a nexus 5.
16GB model.
5.1.1
Rooted.
TWRP 2.8.6.1
I was about to flash CM 12.1 .
I pressed wipe but it froze, I left it that way for about an hour and decided to research about what is happening. A lot of comments on some thread I read said that turning it off and then on worked for them and I did the same. Now all I get is a flashing Teamwin logo. The only accessible feature of the phone is the Power off/Start/Bootloader/Restart Bootloader thing-y. Whichever of them I press I get the flashing Teamwin logo.
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Well you still have access to the bootloader luckily. Best part about a Nexus is that they're difficult to actually brick. Boot your phone into the bootloader and either fastboot flash recovery to reinstall twrp or use fastboot to reflash the stock system images.
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Well you still have access to the bootloader luckily. Best part about a Nexus is that they're difficult to actually brick. Boot your phone into the bootloader and either fastboot flash recovery to reinstall twrp or use fastboot to reflash the stock system images.
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Thanks man, that's exactly what I needed. I tried to re-flash TWRP but had the same problem but when I flashed the stock system images everything went back to normal.
bigglongruler said:
Thanks man, that's exactly what I needed. I tried to re-flash TWRP but had the same problem but when I flashed the stock system images everything went back to normal.
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Glad I could help, and that your phone is up and running again.
Take care.