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I tried using superboot to root my nexus s, but ended up with having a stuck google screen upon reboot.
Is there anyway I can recover my phone to the original state. I can get into the boot screen by pressing up volume and the power button and I have downloaded an original rom; however, I don't know how to upload this rom
into the phone.
I unlocked the bootloader, and have the android SDK installed. I do have a response when I use the command "fastboot devices"
Is there any possible way to save my phone? Please help, Thanks in advance
is there a recovery image saved under the recovery option?
Hey I'm having the exact same problem as the OP.
I don't have a recovery image saved in recovery, so I tried to flash the latest CWM recovery image through adb, but the device isn't found.
My phone was rooted, then upgraded to 2.3.4, then got 2.3.6 OTA, but lost root. Tried to root with Superboot and now my phone's stuck.
How can I get my phone to work again?
ri ch said:
Hey I'm having the exact same problem as the OP.
I don't have a recovery image saved in recovery, so I tried to flash the latest CWM recovery image through adb, but the device isn't found.
My phone was rooted, then upgraded to 2.3.4, then got 2.3.6 OTA, but lost root. Tried to root with Superboot and now my phone's stuck.
How can I get my phone to work again?
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You have to flash CWM using fastboot, not adb.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Once you have the custom recovery flashed you can flash superuser in CWM to get root back or just flash one of the custom ROMs that include superuser.
Yes, I did exactly that.
I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'm extremely grateful for people who do.
Thanks
I am in the same boat as these other chaps. After installing the 2.3.6 OTA update I tried to root with Superboot and now my Nexus S just sits on the Google screen with the open padlock.
I've tried installing CWM recovery, as well as the boot.recovery.img that comes with Superboot, and it seems to install successfully. After rebooting my phone still sits on the Google screen, however.
Am I doing something wrong here (I'd previously rooted with few problems)?
EDIT: I should mention that after flashing the .img I'm trying to boot into recovery - at this point it just sits on the Google screen.
EDIT 2: Never mind, I sorted it. I tried using a different recovery.img (from this thread) and I was then able to get into recovery and restore a backup.
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.
ttakacs said:
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."
ttakacs said:
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
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
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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.
ttakacs said:
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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Setting.Out said:
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.
Hey guys, flashed this camera mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516061
and am now stuck in a boot loop. my huge mistake was i didn't make a backup on CWN when i installed it, since i'm a massive noob.
I'd post this in the thread for the mod, but new accts can't post in developer forum (to prevent threads like these, probably).
anyone know a quick solution to this? i've dalvik wiped, factory resetted, wiped cache partition.
edit: i also don't know how to get the stock camera ROM back on the device since it doesn't show up in my windows explorer. if i knew that, it'd be easy to go back to stock.
stealth0wnz said:
Hey guys, flashed this camera mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516061
and am now stuck in a boot loop. my huge mistake was i didn't make a backup on CWN when i installed it, since i'm a massive noob.
I'd post this in the thread for the mod, but new accts can't post in developer forum (to prevent threads like these, probably).
anyone know a quick solution to this? i've dalvik wiped, factory resetted, wiped cache partition.
edit: i also don't know how to get the stock camera ROM back on the device since it doesn't show up in my windows explorer. if i knew that, it'd be easy to go back to stock.
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If you can get back to the boot loader (hold down power button and volume down) and recovery (choice in bootloader menu), you are fine. I did the same thing. you can adb push the stock file (in his developer thread) and then flash it with custom recovery.
Here is a link showing how to adb push - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
If that doesn't work, you can always flash back stock...... Unfortunately have had to do this more than once and have learned my lesson on backups.
Speedbal
Hope that helps.
speedbal said:
If you can get back to the boot loader (hold down power button and volume down) and recovery (choice in bootloader menu), you are fine. I did the same thing. you can adb push the stock file (in his developer thread) and then flash it with custom recovery.
If that doesn't work, you can always flash back stock...... Unfortunately have had to do this more than once and have learned my lesson on backups.
Speedbal
Hope that helps.
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I guess you gotta learn this stuff at some point, thanks for your help! i forgot that you could push files!
now a brand new issue is that anytime i flash ANYTHING to the phone, adb doesn't see the device anymore.
anyone know what's up with that?
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I did the camera mod too and happened to kill my phone trying to get a camera back on it. It boot loops bc now there is no os. Tried installing Cm-12.1 on my N910P and its now getting a "Error updating binary zip" on TWRP. I have no idea what to do. I have wiped the phone several times. Tried using odin and it failed when the phone was up and running, now it still fails any rom. Please help. I have pushed thru adb, odin, im out of options on my end. no backup either. Looking for a stock twrp recovery file for any note4 dont care anymore
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I did the camera mod too and happened to kill my phone trying to get a camera back on it. It boot loops bc now there is no os. Tried installing Cm-12.1 on my N910P and its now getting a "Error updating binary zip" on TWRP. I have no idea what to do. I have wiped the phone several times. Tried using odin and it failed when the phone was up and running, now it still fails any rom. Please help. I have pushed thru adb, odin, im out of options on my end. no backup either. Looking for a stock twrp recovery file for any note4 dont care anymore
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New nightlies of CM12.1 needs the bootloader to be updated to newer version (HHZ12H).
Following the link to flashable zip of new bootloader: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23991606952613145 (Credit to @mo976)
Flash it in recovery
Wipe the cache
Reboot into bootloader and select recovery.
Flash CM12.1 rom.
I just tried what you recommended . Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I'm still getting "error updating binary zip" when trying to load anything on twrp
I rooted my phone temporarily with pie root for motorola devices:-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/orig-development/root-4-4-x-pie-motorola-devices-t2771623
and on some post, it was written that we could flash custom recoveries with it using rashr. I flashed TWRP using rashr but is showed an error "hab check failed for recovery failed to validate recovery image", I ignored for that time but now, I can't use my device because of it. I downloaded an ota update for 4.4.4 and pressed install now, my phone shut down and then it tried to get into recovery and again this error, I selected Normal Powerup but, it would, after one or two minutes, again shut down to install the update. I wanted to know if there is a way to stop it and can I get stock recovery from anywhere to solve it??
nitish159 said:
I rooted my phone temporarily with pie root for motorola devices:-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/orig-development/root-4-4-x-pie-motorola-devices-t2771623
and on some post, it was written that we could flash custom recoveries with it using rashr. I flashed TWRP using rashr but is showed an error "hab check failed for recovery failed to validate recovery image", I ignored for that time but now, I can't use my device because of it. I downloaded an ota update for 4.4.4 and pressed install now, my phone shut down and then it tried to get into recovery and again this error, I selected Normal Powerup but, it would, after one or two minutes, again shut down to install the update. I wanted to know if there is a way to stop it and can I get stock recovery from anywhere to solve it??
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you can get the right stock image of your phone here (non-GPE):
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14
simply open the zip and look for the recovery.img file
then just put your device in bootloader mode and via
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you can get your stock recovery and hopefully then your 4.4.4 update will work
Then you are lucky, that your phone is still not upgraded to 4.4.4.
Just download the factory image from the location as mentionend before and restore.
Now my personal advice:
Do not upgrade to 4.4.4. There is still no Factory image out there.
I am in that situation that my Phone does not boot and i have to reflash.
It is not possible to Downgrade to older Versions for the moment. At least not a clean solution.
So actually i and some others need a solution to make a phone out of their brick.
Hope the factory image will come quick, or at least a proper solution to Downgrade.
bernida said:
you can get the right stock image of your phone here (non-GPE):
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14
simply open the zip and look for the recovery.img file
then just put your device in bootloader mode and via
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you can get your stock recovery and hopefully then your 4.4.4 update will work
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I didn't see any firmware matching my system version so I found a number matching my starting numbers in system update, and downloaded a random file with those results
bernida said:
you can get the right stock image of your phone here (non-GPE):
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14
simply open the zip and look for the recovery.img file
then just put your device in bootloader mode and via
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you can get your stock recovery and hopefully then your 4.4.4 update will work
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Thanks a tonne, I could upgrade to 4.4.4 and it allowed me to connect to my lg tv usinf wifi direct which further allowed me to use miracast but, the video sometimes get stuck, don't know where the problem is, phone or tv
Im a bit noob for these things, two days ago I bought this phone ZTE blade III, I heard this phone will work like a charm with kitkat 4.4 so I wanted to upgrade android to 4.4, I think I followed all steps to install it but I failed to install this update and got stuck in CWM mode. I tried to restore files, system, etc. wiped all data, then restored again, tried to install other ROMs but Im still stuck in CWM mode. Please help me.
Alexi_Zavetnik said:
Im a bit noob for these things, two days ago I bought this phone ZTE blade III, I heard this phone will work like a charm with kitkat 4.4 so I wanted to upgrade android to 4.4, I think I followed all steps to install it but I failed to install this update and got stuck in CWM mode. I tried to restore files, system, etc. wiped all data, then restored again, tried to install other ROMs but Im still stuck in CWM mode. Please help me.
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Okay, first of all I would recommend restoring stock ROM but DON'T restore in CWM as their are issues unless its a Nandroid backup, In the stock ROM file you will find the stock recover (recovery.img) flash that via fastboot the same way you would flash CWM, after this you can restore your stock ROM using the update.zip file
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Okay, first of all I would recommend restoring stock ROM but DON'T restore in CWM as their are issues unless its a Nandroid backup, In the stock ROM file you will find the stock recover (recovery.img) flash that via fastboot the same way you would flash CWM, after this you can restore your stock ROM using the update.zip file
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Can you explain me what to do step by step, please.
Alexi_Zavetnik said:
Can you explain me what to do step by step, please.
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Make sure you have a stock ROM for your ZTE Blade and have coppied the recovery.img file from it
Coppy the Stock ROM to your SD
Then set your phone into fastboot mode which can be achived by holding down the volume up and power button
Now your in fastboot so go and download the ZTE Blade fastboot drivers which you should have since you flashed CWM
Check in Fastboot CMD that your device is listed and type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (Which can be extracted from the rom)
Now return your phone to recovery as you would in CWM
In stocm recovery flash the update.zip (Stock ROM)
Hopefully all should be well and good
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Make sure you have a stock ROM for your ZTE Blade and have coppied the recovery.img file from it
Coppy the Stock ROM to your SD
Then set your phone into fastboot mode which can be achived by holding down the volume up and power button
Now your in fastboot so go and download the ZTE Blade fastboot drivers which you should have since you flashed CWM
Check in Fastboot CMD that your device is listed and type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (Which can be extracted from the rom)
Now return your phone to recovery as you would in CWM
In stocm recovery flash the update.zip (Stock ROM)
Hopefully all should be well and good
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Heres what I got, downloaded stock ROM from ZTE website and whenever I try to install it it says signature verificitation failed. Before I do what you said, can you send me trusted working stock ROM for this phone, Serbia, VIP(mobile network) version?
Alexi_Zavetnik said:
Heres what I got, downloaded stock ROM from ZTE website and whenever I try to install it it says signature verificitation failed. Before I do what you said, can you send me trusted working stock ROM for this phone, Serbia, VIP(mobile network) version?
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Sorry, I forgot to ask if it was carrier locked
If you need really in depth instructions they've created some great ones here that probably know a bit more about that specific device than I do
http://www.modaco.com/topic/361786-zte-blade-iii-stock-roms/
They also have your carrier ROM here, for some reason I couldn't copy the link but the site is in depth and easy to follow