Okay, I've got a weird problem here. I was on Stock rom and thought of flashing a CM 12.1 because the nightlies are more stable now than their previous versions. The recoveries get replaced by CM recovery when we flash cm rom, so i thought of using the new method i.e flashing a FOTAKernel + recovery so that the recovery would stay even after flashing new roms. I flashed philz recovery in that way (forgot to backup original stock FOTAKernel). Now when I boot the system, i get two recoveries! If you press vol - on first led blink while boot, it goes into twrp. When you press vol - while second led blink, it goes into philz. I think i screwed up somewhere, but the device doesn't connect in Flashmode anymore. Whenever I try connecting usb while holding vol - button, the led blinks red and then green and then nothing. Maybe it will connect in flashmode while on CM, so i flashed CM with twrp. Though it has only one recovery, it still doesn't connect in Flashmode! Now i cannot flash a clean rom. I need help and this is urgent! Please help, i am freaking out!!
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Hi all,
I have TWRP recovery. I was in the middle of flashing carbonRom v1 when I realized I forgot to flash gapps. Flashed gapps, which must have been a bad download. Phone boots up but greeted by "unfortunately, Setup wizard has stopped" and will not let me pass. Also, no power down or reboot to recovery options are available. Power button will not turn off screen (broken?)
Questions: How to manually boot into TWRP , and if that wont work, whats the next step?
Thanks!
EDIT: phone is also not recognized by pc due to debugging settings not being able to be accessed
amotamatapia said:
Hi all,
I have TWRP recovery. I was in the middle of flashing carbonRom v1 when I realized I forgot to flash gapps. Flashed gapps, which must have been a bad download. Phone boots up but greeted by "unfortunately, Setup wizard has stopped" and will not let me pass. Also, no power down or reboot to recovery options are available. Power button will not turn off screen (broken?)
Questions: How to manually boot into TWRP , and if that wont work, whats the next step?
Thanks!
EDIT: phone is also not recognized by pc due to debugging settings not being able to be accessed
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Access recovery: Turn off your phone (shut down or pull battery). Then hold Volume Up, Home, and Power until TWRP boots up. You may need to plug your phone into a charger in order for the button combination to work.
If all fails you could always Odin back to stock and start over.
When in doubt, Odin out.
Flash the stock ROM and wait for it to boot, then re root it (should take 2 minutes the second time around since you know what your doing, hopefully.) And then reflash your ROM and definitely red download gapps, if you have anymore issues re-download the carbon ROM.
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So, I got my new OnePlus One today and I tried to get CM12 onto it. I was following the [GUIDE] How to Install CM12 on the OnePlus One- Android Lollipop/5.0 on the OPO forums, and everything went well until I tried to get the TWRP on there. I flashed the recovery and rebooted the phone. I turned it off and then tried to boot it into recovery but it doesn't, it just hangs at the OPO logo until I hard-restart it.
I've tried factory resetting it and doing
fastboot oem unlock
but nothing happened. The factory reset pretty much just reset the phone. I think I might've messed up the kernel. How do I fix it?
EDIT 1: I've tried reflashing twrp recoveries and nothing. When I hold power+volume down, it powers on, shows the one plus logo, then reboots and just goes to the lockscreen.
UPDATE 1: I managed to manually flash all the CM12 files and use lollipop. I haven't tried the recovery yet but I'll keep you guys updated (if any of you even care).
UPDATE 2: Apparently flashing CM12 made the recovery work. Everything works as it should and the OTA to the most recent CM12 worked perfectly.
You're probably doing the button combo wrong. Hold volume down, then hold power (so you're holding them together), when you see the boot logo let go of power but keep holding volume down until you reach recovery.
Heisenberg said:
You're probably doing the button combo wrong. Hold volume down, then hold power (so you're holding them together), when you see the boot logo let go of power but keep holding volume down until you reach recovery.
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I was curios and enabled advanced reboot to try and boot into recovery and it worked (after I had flashed CM12). Everything's working now.
SDCore said:
UPDATE 1: I managed to manually flash all the CM12 files and use lollipop. I haven't tried the recovery yet but I'll keep you guys updated (if any of you even care).
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How did you manually flash CM12? I think I'm having the same trouble you were having. I used the oneplus toolbox from the forum to unlock the bootloader, then flash the TWRP, but no luck in getting into recovery mode. It just boot loops with the oneplus logo until I release the volume down button at which point it then boots to the lock screen.
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You're probably doing the button combo wrong. Hold volume down, then hold power (so you're holding them together), when you see the boot logo let go of power but keep holding volume down until you reach recovery.
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@Heisenberg I'm also having trouble getting into recovery. I've tried the different button combos (power + vol down; power + vol down and release power) as well as the advance reboot options to get into recovery, but they all fail. I get the 1+ logo and after I let go of the volume down button the screen goes black and boots again to the 1+ screen and then to the lockscreen. It's almost like it doesn't recognize the recovery. I tried putting the stock recovery back on using the image in the OnePlus One toolkit folder, but that one doesn't work either. In addition to unchecking the "CM Recovery Update", are there any other settings that could be causing problems?
For background info, I initially used the toolkit interface to unlock the bootloader and then flash the recovery. The bootloader unlocked with no issue...it wiped my device and I was in sync with the "How to root" video posted by alex.inthi. I got sidetracked after the (seemingly) successful flash of TWRP onto the phone I kept getting booted into the Cyanogen recovery. I realized out that I needed to uncheck the setting to keep it from overwriting TWRP and after that was not able to boot into recovery. After finding your beginners guide (thanks, by the way, very well written) I tried using fastboot from the command line as you show, but still no luck.
Thanks in advance for any help...
bellino13 said:
I used the oneplus toolbox from the forum to unlock the bootloader, then flash the TWRP, but no luck in getting into recovery mode. It just boot loops with the oneplus logo until I release the volume down button at which point it then boots to the lock screen.
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bellino13 said:
@Heisenberg I'm also having trouble getting into recovery. I've tried the different button combos (power + vol down; power + vol down and release power) as well as the advance reboot options to get into recovery, but they all fail. I get the 1+ logo and after I let go of the volume down button the screen goes black and boots again to the 1+ screen and then to the lockscreen. It's almost like it doesn't recognize the recovery. I tried putting the stock recovery back on using the image in the OnePlus One toolkit folder, but that one doesn't work either. In addition to unchecking the "CM Recovery Update", are there any other settings that could be causing problems?
For background info, I initially used the toolkit interface to unlock the bootloader and then flash the recovery. The bootloader unlocked with no issue...it wiped my device and I was in sync with the "How to root" video posted by alex.inthi. I got sidetracked after the (seemingly) successful flash of TWRP onto the phone I kept getting booted into the Cyanogen recovery. I realized out that I needed to uncheck the setting to keep it from overwriting TWRP and after that was not able to boot into recovery. After finding your beginners guide (thanks, by the way, very well written) I tried using fastboot from the command line as you show, but still no luck.
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Okay, I must have been having a special kind of moment - I've got TWRP 2.8.7.0 running on my handset now. I may have been holding the volume down button too long, or it may be that I was using an older version of TWRP, but I'm going to go with the former. I've also been able to successfully flash and boot into Philz 6.59.2
Having the same problem
I am having the exact same problem and cannot seem to find a solution. Recovery screen just doesn't appear, but goes to lockscreen.
Tried erasing, flashing both twrp, philz etc., but nothing works. The phone doesn't recognize the recovery status. Advanced booting does the same.
Update CM-recovery is checked off, phone is unlocked. I've followed every step of the big guide down to every detail.
Is manually flashing the 12.1 ROM the only way and in that case: is it hard for a relative newcomer?
while i was trying to flash another rom on my device it turned off in the middle of the flashing and since then it is stuck in bootloop , i tried to enter in to the recovery (twrp) but it again gets into the bootloop after showing the TWRP logo, tried flashng the TWRP recovery but the phone is not being detected on PC .... kindly help me people
mmm, try upgrading recovery to the latest from TWRP official site. never used 2.8.5.
have used 2.8.7.0 during lollipop days, and it had no issues
koshikas said:
mmm, try upgrading recovery to the latest from TWRP official site. never used 2.8.5.
have used 2.8.7.0 during lollipop days, and it had no issues
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thanks for the reply mate , now i am have increment in my problems , the other day i tried to flash another rom and during the flashing my phone went off and since then it is stuck in boot loop(not booting though) i can't enter in to TWRP recovery , (it displays the TWRP logo and again gets stuck in boot loop ) tried connecting to the PC in order to update the recovery but the command prompt isn't recognising the device though i installed ABD tools etc ... a bit too much to ask but can you suggest me what to do next ?
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thanks for the reply mate , now i am have increment in my problems , the other day i tried to flash another rom and during the flashing my phone went off and since then it is stuck in boot loop(not booting though) i can't enter in to TWRP recovery , (it displays the TWRP logo and again gets stuck in boot loop ) tried connecting to the PC in order to update the recovery but the command prompt isn't recognising the device though i installed ABD tools etc ... a bit too much to ask but can you suggest me what to do next ?
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i would while booting the device keep pressing the power button to force shutdown the device. immediately after turning off, press and hold both power button and vol - keys for 10sec or more and release. this will get you into the bootloader screen. on that keep pressing vol - to select 'recovery' and press vol + to go into the recovery. good luck
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i would while booting the device keep pressing the power button to force shutdown the device. immediately after turning off, press and hold both power button and vol - keys for 10sec or more and release. this will get you into the bootloader screen. on that keep pressing vol - to select 'recovery' and press vol + to go into the recovery. good luck
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yep tried this , on doing so it gets in TWRP recovery (the logo displays) but it again go into bootloop without actually booting into the recovery ... i am kind of stuck
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yep tried this , on doing so it gets in TWRP recovery (the logo displays) but it again go into bootloop without actually booting into the recovery ... i am kind of stuck
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that leaves you only with one option. get into the bootloader screen, and flash the latest stock ROM using fastboot commands. then try flashing custom recovery, custom ROM from the beginning. i would skip flashing bootloader though.
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that leaves you only with one option. get into the bootloader screen, and flash the latest stock ROM using fastboot commands. then try flashing custom recovery, custom ROM from the beginning. i would skip flashing bootloader though.
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please provide a link for the same tutorial (step by step)
I'm not able to get into recovery.
After doing something stupid on my phone, i wanted to flash a new rom (crDroid). But the recovery gave an error 7. So i wanted to flash the recovery from the thread. I wasn't near a pc so i downloaded an app called Rashr to flash the recovery.img. But then my phone wouldn't boot or get into recovery.
So i used the official flashtool from sony to flash the official software to reset my phone and now my phone works again, but i still wanted crDroid. I downloaded a permissive kernel from zach and installed it through fastboot. I also installed the recovery through fastboot but when i booted, no yellow light came up and holding the volume up button wouldn't work as well.
Any suggestions?
Edit: Also fastboot boot recovery.img results in the phone being stuck at the sony logo
When you have recovery installed in FOTA partition, you can enter it by holding VOL DOWN + Power button while the phone is off.
The way you described only applies when recovery is installed in boot partition.
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When you have recovery installed in FOTA partition, you can enter it by holding VOL DOWN + Power button while the phone is off.
The way you described only applies when recovery is installed in boot partition.
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This only works with 100% reliability after flashing at least .160 Nougat firmware via FTF (XperiFirm),
then flashing twrp/recovery via
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
and the behavior varies from country to country (or even firmware to firmware, among network operators / giving the name "custom firmware" credit :silly.
This time [2nd flash of .160 firmware, different operator] the notification led lights up violet for me, previously it was something else (a form of red, orange) and recovery almost instantly booted up,
now it takes several seconds - if not 30 seconds until it's in TWRP.
Okay so i'm on 34.4.A.0.160. I flashed some different recovery images by now but still no change in the situation. I did al the recovery flashing using the 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' code and fastboot gave no errors and it looked like it works everytime. But when i boot there is no led light during the entire boot sequence.
Also booting to recovery with volume down + power button when phone is off, didn't work. It just boots normal. I tried it serveral times and every time i changed some things, like pressing the volume button or power button for a longer time. Also once again, here no led indicators appear....
My led light is not broken as it still lights up when i get a message.
I installed a old lolipop firmware through flashtool, installed the Androplus permissive kernel and recovery, also from Androplus, through fastboot. Now when the phone boots it gets a yellow led indicator. When pressing volume up during the indicator, the light turn orange but the phone does not boot into recovery, but instead reboot itself.
Once again, no idea what is happening. Fastboot is working fine or i would not be able to flash the permissive kernel and get a yellow led light. But why won't my phone boot to recovery? I tried multiple different variants of twrp by different people. Tried multiple firmwares. I think there is something wrong with the partition where the recovery is stored. Is this possible? And if so, how would i fix it?
*i think it is against the rules, but here is a BUMP*
No one any idea ? I can't flash anything without recovery
Same here
I had a similar experience. What worked for me was
"fastboot erase recovery" before fastboot flash recovery etc.
Might work.
Wow - folks there you have your answer - but no one seems to care or read it:
serenize said:
When you have recovery installed in FOTA partition, you can enter it by holding VOL DOWN + Power button while the phone is off.
The way you described only applies when recovery is installed in boot partition.
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well, I flash twrp to the recovery partition (FOTA huh ?)
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
after both steps were [OK]
you can disconnect the cable (= phone off)
Now press VOL DOWN + POWER at the same time,
wait for the Sony logo/screen to appear,
wait 1-3 seconds and release the POWER button - keep the VOL DOWN button pressed [probably can release ALL but still ...]
the phone should boot into TWRP/recovery after quite some time
Just boot the recovery:
$ fastboot boot twrp.img
I had LineageOS 14.1 ROM installed using TWRP recovery in Xperia L. A new update came through and installed it using TWRP recovery. Successfully installed with a message and just after pressing reboot, the phone went dead. The phone just gives a boot vibration nothing else. No SONY logo, no backlight, nothing. On connecting it to charging or laptop, it turns on red LED. On disconnecting the phone, the red LED remains turned ON till battery remove.Has the phone bricked? Please, any suggestions to help the phone boot up?
EDIT: It was a kernel problem. Flashed new kernel using flashtool in fastboot mode. Surprisingly, fastboot mode didn't worked before lol. Sorry for inconvenience. Remove this.
I don't think that it is bricked. Try to boot into fastboot mode and then into recovery and do a full wipe. Try another rom or reflash lineage 14.1