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[Q] Can't access fastboot...

Hey guys,
first of all, my powerbutton stopped working some weeks ago. I thought that not much of a problem, so I remapped this thing and perfect.
I noticed, if I turn off my phone, take battery out and back in, it restarts instantly. Seems to be stucked at "ON" or something.
Well I also noticed without touchrecovery, it's quite a problem to navigate through cwm recovery.
But there's still fastboot... naaah I couldn't find the phone in Windows to install drivers, thought that's a problem of Win8, but after that I tried same thing in ubuntu with manually installed drivers... still nothing.
Okay next thing, is, there are so many apps in the market, which install some recovery, autoflash stuff... Did that, (yeah I gave root access and so on) and still nothing happened, I'm still stuck with this cwm recovery and can't install new roms.
Now my Question(s):
Is there an Option to install some new recovery?
Is there a way to get Fastboot working?
Is there a way to get the Powerbutton in this state back to work?
Or kinda best worst case, is there an option to get my Nexus back to Stock and unroot to send it in, I still got warranty but this would require stock phone...!
Thanks!

30floh00 said:
Hey guys,
first of all, my powerbutton stopped working some weeks ago. I thought that not much of a problem, so I remapped this thing and perfect.
I noticed, if I turn off my phone, take battery out and back in, it restarts instantly. Seems to be stucked at "ON" or something.
Well I also noticed without touchrecovery, it's quite a problem to navigate through cwm recovery.
But there's still fastboot... naaah I couldn't find the phone in Windows to install drivers, thought that's a problem of Win8, but after that I tried same thing in ubuntu with manually installed drivers... still nothing.
Okay next thing, is, there are so many apps in the market, which install some recovery, autoflash stuff... Did that, (yeah I gave root access and so on) and still nothing happened, I'm still stuck with this cwm recovery and can't install new roms.
Now my Question(s):
Is there an Option to install some new recovery?
Is there a way to get Fastboot working?
Is there a way to get the Powerbutton in this state back to work?
Or kinda best worst case, is there an option to get my Nexus back to Stock and unroot to send it in, I still got warranty but this would require stock phone...!
Thanks!
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Yes, yes, yes... and yes!!! What you need is a shop that repairs phones or a store that sells new phones...
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Can you boot all the way up into your android os?.. If so, you can use NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT to flash to stock and relock it so it's "stock" for waranty..
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFr16--8W0o1xpv2Qtf0lDDwdGYJA

Setting.Out said:
Can you boot all the way up into your android os?.. If so, you can use NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT to flash to stock and relock it so it's "stock" for waranty..
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFr16--8W0o1xpv2Qtf0lDDwdGYJA
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Well ADB works but when NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT reboots into fastboot it looses connection... Tried that to change recovery... Seems to be the same with relocking isnt it?!
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30floh00 said:
Well ADB works but when NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT reboots into fastboot it looses connection... Tried that to change recovery... Seems to be the same with relocking isnt it?!
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Hmmm.... Ebay..

have you tried flash touch recovery with ROM Manager app?
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Edit:
Try capacitive buttons on your current recovery. On my current recovery the search button makes the same that the power button, so if in your recovery the button have the same behaviour then you can easily flash a stock rom

Okay, i just got told: "If the power button is always pressed, fast boot does not react on input from keys or over adb.."
Hope that's not the "notsolution" for my problem... ^^
mykos5 said:
have you tried flash touch recovery with ROM Manager app?
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Try capacitive buttons on your current recovery. On my current recovery the search button makes the same that the power button, so if in your recovery the button have the same behaviour then you can easily flash a stock rom
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doesn't work, too....

30floh00 said:
Okay, i just got told: "If the power button is always pressed, fast boot does not react on input from keys or over adb.."
Hope that's not the "notsolution" for my problem... ^^
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On my recovery the capacitive buttons react even with the power button pressed...

Can you get into download mode ???if so http://db.tt/88pntL6T flash this twrp recovery in Odin make sure auto reboot is checked and not repartition it should boot you right into recovery and then do whatbu got to do .... if you can not get into download mode get a jig always a life saver with android I've had no power button for 3 years and when it dies I Odin the recovery every time :thumbup:
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okay guys, just flashed touch recovery via Flash_image
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/
hope it helps you, if you cant access fastboot, too.. It's a bit tricky, but totally worth it

Oh sonofa... I used Flashify to update TWRP and now I'm black screened. Please help

I was trying to update TWRP so I can install a 4.4 ROM and I installed Flashify (I read this was the easiest way) then flashed TWRP 2.6.3.1 and when I rebooted it went right to a black screen. When it boots I see the Samsung screen for just a sec and tiny blue words in the left corner that says something like 'recovery booting'. I've tried a hard boot (volume ^ + home then power on, right?) Well the phone buzzes, SAMSUNG flashes for a millisecond then blaxk, Maybe I'm not doing the hard boot correctly? But it's hard to tell. I'm trying to get back to TWRP to restore a backup image!
Please help and thank you.

Mixmode said:
I was trying to update TWRP so I can install a 4.4 ROM and I installed Flashify (I read this was the easiest way) then flashed TWRP 2.6.3.1 and when I rebooted it went right to a black screen. When it boots I see the Samsung screen for just a sec and tiny blue words in the left corner that says something like 'recovery booting'. I've tried a hard boot (volume ^ + home then power on, right?) Well the phone buzzes, SAMSUNG flashes for a millisecond then blaxk, Maybe I'm not doing the hard boot correctly? But it's hard to tell. I'm trying to get back to TWRP to restore a backup image!
Please help and thank you.
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Try to hold volume up + home + power until you see the blue text. Let go of the power button but keep holding volume up + home until it Boots into recovery.
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BadUsername said:
Try to hold volume up + home + power until you see the blue text. Let go of the power button but keep holding volume up + home until it Boots into recovery.
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I'm doing that, or trying to but I'm still getting nothing. Problem is, I cant tell when the phone is on or off, I've done it by pulling the battery and by long pressing the power. I'm holding vol ^ + home + power, as soon as the blue text shows, I release only power and nothing, black screen. UUUUGH
I'm trying it over and over but still not getting anywhere.

Mixmode said:
I'm doing that, or trying to but I'm still getting nothing. Problem is, I cant tell when the phone is on or off, I've done it by pulling the battery and by long pressing the power. I'm holding vol ^ + home + power, as soon as the blue text shows, I release only power and nothing, black screen. UUUUGH
I'm trying it over and over but still not getting anywhere.
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Hmm, you only have access to Odin mode right?
Download the latest recovery and try to flash it with Odin:
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2vzw
I have a feeling this isn't going to work, but it might let you boot into recovery. And do you have your backups on the internal or external SD card?
Edit: I forgot to mention to make sure to use the.Tar.Md5 file, not the .img file.
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BadUsername said:
Hmm, you only have access to Odin mode right?
Download the latest recovery and try to flash it with Odin:
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2vzw
I have a feeling this isn't going to work, but it might let you boot into recovery. And do you have your backups on the internal or external SD card?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
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I just got it into ODIN mode. says Downloading dont turn off. I plugged in USB and it installed properly but it's not shown in 'My Computer'. I haven't used ODIN in a long time, what do I do now? Do I DL the TWRP .img or .tar?
SCH-I535
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (1 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
OK I have the .TAR file downloaded. It seems to be frozen on this Downloading dont turn off screen.

Mixmode said:
I just got it into ODIN mode. says Downloading dont turn off. I plugged in USB and it installed properly. I haven't used ODIN in a long time, what do I do now? Do I DL the TWRP .img or .tar?
SCH-I535
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (1 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
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Download the .tar and extract the tar.md5 file.
Put the tar.md5 file into the pda slot, make sure your phone is connected, and it'll reboot by itself.
If it doesn't reboot properly, try to pull the battery and force it into recovery again like before.
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Mixmode said:
OK I have the .TAR file downloaded. It seems to be frozen on this Downloading dont turn off screen.
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It's supposed to do that.
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BadUsername said:
Download the .tar and extract the tar.md5 file.
Put the tar.md5 file into the pda slot, make sure your phone is connected, and it'll reboot by itself.
If it doesn't reboot properly, try to pull the battery and force it into recovery again like before.
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So weird... the phone seemed to be stuck in the Downloading screen so I rebooted it and it went right to my last backup image so I was gonna reboot to recovery so I can wipe any junk away and restore my most recent image and it went back to the black screen. OK I downloaded ODIN again and its coming back to me. I'll report back in just a few.

Mixmode said:
So weird... the phone seemed to be stuck in the Downloading screen so I rebooted it and it went right to my last backup image so I was gonna reboot to recovery so I can wipe any junk away and restore my most recent image and it went back to the black screen. OK I downloaded ODIN again and its coming back to me. I'll report back in just a few.
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If you can get into a rom, it's better just to use that to update a recovery, just don't use flashify this time.
We'll see how this goes.
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BadUsername said:
Download the .tar and extract the tar.md5 file.
Put the tar.md5 file into the pda slot, make sure your phone is connected, and it'll reboot by itself.
If it doesn't reboot properly, try to pull the battery and force it into recovery again like before.
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It's supposed to do that.
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Ok I think that fixed it. I am on TWRP 2.6.3.1 restoring a backup I made earlier as we speak. THANK YOU!
Btw, what caused all of this was I flashed the Dirty Unicorn 4.3 and lost my mobile data. I went on to mobile providers and its a crap shoot when picking one that works consistently...
CDMA/EvDo auto
LTE/CDMA/EvDo
LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA
each on of those have worked before but none work every time and sometimes I will have tried to use them all several times before one finally kicks on. But if I reboot or even shut off data then back on it farks everything up again.
So I was trying to go to a 4.4... is there anything else I need to do to flash a 4.4 rom? I was thinking of trying the Cyanfox. Liquid Smooth became buggy so I went to Dirty Unicorn. But I gotta have mobile data

Mixmode said:
Ok I think that fixed it. I am on TWRP 2.6.3.1 restoring a backup I made earlier as we speak. THANK YOU!
Btw, what caused all of this was I flashed the Dirty Unicorn 4.3 and lost my mobile data. I went on to mobile providers and its a crap shoot when picking one that works consistently...
CDMA/EvDo auto
LTE/CDMA/EvDo
LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA
each on of those have worked before but none work every time and sometimes I will have tried to use them all several times before one finally kicks on. But if I reboot or even shut off data then back on it farks everything up again.
So I was trying to go to a 4.4... is there anything else I need to do to flash a 4.4 rom? I was thinking of trying the Cyanfox. Liquid Smooth became buggy so I went to Dirty Unicorn. But I gotta have mobile data
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I really have no idea what caused it. I've never flashed anything other than 4.1 TouchWiz roms, but I know it's an intermittent issue with aosp roms.
You probably had a bad twrp image when you flashed it, or did something incorrect in flashify. I'm glad you got it working again though.
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BadUsername said:
I really have no idea what caused it. I've never flashed anything other than 4.1 TouchWiz roms, but I know it's an intermittent issue with aosp roms.
You probably had a bad twrp image when you flashed it, or did something incorrect in flashify. I'm glad you got it working again though.
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Me too man. Thx again for the help.

Same thing just happened to me. For me I would avoid Flashify. Not worth the hassle. JMO of course.

I used flashify to flash twrp
and now my phone wont boot at all doesnt respond at all
any help please
my model GT-I9300

azouzi.simohamed said:
and now my phone wont boot at all doesnt respond at all
any help please
my model GT-I9300
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This is a forum for the VZW S3 not the international version of the S3
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[Q] Imp:Phone wont start up.PLS HELP

Hi,
So i decided to install NOVA launcher and kept it as default launcher.
No when i wanted to go back to google launcher the system was getting crashed and some error like : "systemui" is not working was poping up.
Meanwhile i was getting notifications of whatsapp messenger and i could use it but when i was trying to exit the app , again the problem occured.
Thats when i decided to reboot the phone to my bad luck it is not going further after "FOUR CIRCLES(red,green,yellow and blue) which comes after google logo.
I had previously owned S2 and when i used nova launcher and tried to switch back ( aftr uninstalling nova) it automatically use to use google launcher.
Please help.
Thanks & Regards,
V

If it won't boot you may have to fastboot the factory image can you get into recovery and do you have a custom recovery If so try clearing cache in it
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jd1639 said:
If it won't boot you may have to fastboot the factory image can you get into recovery and do you have a custom recovery If so try clearing cache in it
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I went into recovery and tried factory reset as well as wiping cache but it takes for ever.
So again , i just have powered off the phone and waiting for suggestions.
I guess i need to flash factory image ?
Thnks
V

vzuwOw said:
I went into recovery and tried factory reset as well as wiping cache but it takes for ever.
So again , i just have powered off the phone and waiting for suggestions.
I guess i need to flash factory image ?
Thnks
V
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How long is forever? Give it a good 10 minutes, maybe longer
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vzuwOw said:
Hi,
So i decided to install NOVA launcher and kept it as default launcher.
No when i wanted to go back to google launcher the system was getting crashed and some error like : "systemui" is not working was poping up.
Meanwhile i was getting notifications of whatsapp messenger and i could use it but when i was trying to exit the app , again the problem occured.
Thats when i decided to reboot the phone to my bad luck it is not going further after "FOUR CIRCLES(red,green,yellow and blue) which comes after google logo.
I had previously owned S2 and when i used nova launcher and tried to switch back ( aftr uninstalling nova) it automatically use to use google launcher.
Please help.
Thanks & Regards,
V
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I need you to answer a few questions before anyone can help...
Do you have a custom recovery installed? (Eg. TWRP or CM?)
- If not, are you rooted?
- If you do, have u made a Backup through your custom recovery?
- If you're not rooted, do you have warranty?
- If you don't have warranty, how long have you had you're phone for, because Google provide warranty for a certain amount of time with your phone.
Basically, if you have a custom recovery installed or are not rooted with warranty, don't panic.
In not an advanced user but I know done stuff... And there's always a way!
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jd1639 said:
How long is forever? Give it a good 10 minutes, maybe longer
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Gave good 10 + mins
Will try it one more time.I guess it should hardly take about 30 secs or so.

Oh, and also, see if you can fastboot by pressing the power button and volume down whilst booting up. If you can't, then try pressing power button + volume up + volume down whilst booting up.
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ProVickers said:
I need you to answer a few questions before anyone can help...
Do you have a custom recovery installed? (Eg. TWRP or CM?) - NO,2 month old phone , full stock.
- If not, are you rooted? NO
- If you do, have u made a Backup through your custom recovery? NO,I dont mind if my data is lost
- If you're not rooted, do you have warranty? YES,but now i stay in different country.so count it as NO
- If you don't have warranty, how long have you had you're phone for, because Google provide warranty for a certain amount of time with your phone. have been using since 2 months
Basically, if you have a custom recovery installed or are not rooted with warranty, don't panic.
In not an advanced user but I know done stuff... And there's always a way!
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ProVickers said:
Oh, and also, see if you can fastboot by pressing the power button and volume down whilst booting up. If you can't, then try pressing power button + volume up + volume down whilst booting up.
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I can do that , it is showing me options over there like recovery,poweroff,bootloader recovery,etc.

If factory reset doesn't work then you option is to flash the factory image. Have you unlocked the bootloader?
Edit, you'll want to review this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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jd1639 said:
If factory reset doesn't work then you option is to flash the factory image. Have you unlocked the bootloader?
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No,I hav'nt modded my phone.
Just tried using nova launcher and uinstalled so this prob.
PS: I this any how to do with google search.Because i had disabled it from settings.

vzuwOw said:
PS: I this any how to do with google search.Because i had disabled it from settings.
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This is probably why it crashed. Your phone doesn't have a launcher to boot into. That's the reason it is boot looping. As mentioned earlier, you'll have to flash the factory image.

jd1639 said:
If factory reset doesn't work then you option is to flash the factory image. Have you unlocked the bootloader?
Edit, you'll want to review this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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UPDATE : i can go into fastboot by pressing power + volume down
There earlier when i clicked on recovery it showd me option for cache wipe and data factory reset but instead of that i see a red triangle which has a exclamation mark on a sleeping android logo.
I have nt unlocked the bootloader.

El Daddy said:
This is probably why it crashed. Your phone doesn't have a launcher to boot into. That's the reason it is boot looping. As mentioned earlier, you'll have to flash the factory image.
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Yea, i feel the same. I forgot it was google launcher and its a nexus phone.
If it would have been some other trebuche launcher(like in samsung) , this problem would'nt have persisted.

vzuwOw said:
UPDATE : i can go into fastboot by pressing power + volume down
There earlier when i clicked on recovery it showd me option for cache wipe and data factory reset but instead of that i see a red triangle which has a exclamation mark on a sleeping android logo.
I have unlocked the bootloader.
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That is the stock recovery. You can press both volume buttons at the same time, to show the recovery options.
Flashing the factory image is very easy. You put your phone in fastboot mode, plug it into your computer, and simple run the Flashall.bat (or .sh depending on your OS.)
Touchwiz Home in Samsung devices does not rely on google search. Our Nexus has a launcher that requires google search to run. Otherwise you can install AOSP launcher.

Beauenheim said:
That is the stock recovery. You can press both volume buttons at the same time, to show the recovery options.
Flashing the factory image is very easy. You put your phone in fastboot mode, plug it into your computer, and simple run the Flashall.bat (or .sh depending on your OS.)
Touchwiz Home in Samsung devices does not rely on google search. Our Nexus has a launcher that requires google search to run. Otherwise you can install AOSP launcher.
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Done.
Phew
Thanks a lot everyone.
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@jd1639
@Beauenheim
@ProVickers
@El Daddy
Thanks a lot all of you Cookies are in transit
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vzuwOw said:
@jd1639
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Glad you got it working
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Repeated Post.

vzuwOw said:
Repeated Post.
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@vzuwOw if you run into this problem again just fastboot flash the system.img, not the flash-all.bat. it would have kept the rest of your settings and you wouldn't have to redo your while phone.
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boot loop - can't navigate bootloader to get into recovery mode

hi there,
I'm running CM11 nightly late feb. For no apparent reason my phone went into a boot loop this morning (n.b. I didn't flash a new rom or installed a new app). Now it constantly reboots (literally) and doesn't get further than the CM11 boot video or google logo.
If I press volume down and power, it will head into bootloader - but - I can't navigate beyond 'shut down' or 'restart bootloader'. It doesn't execute two consecutive volume up or down commands. In other words, it's impossible to get into recovery mode. Also, because my phone doesn't boot further than the video or logo, I can't make a fastboot or adb connection via my laptop.
Does anybody know how I can fix this issue? I'm clearly running out of luck. Many thx in advance!

reflash recovery?

Try to boot into recovery with cmd: fastboot boot TWRP.img (TWRP or your current custom recovery)
Then restore a nandroid backup or wipe data/system/dalvik
You can still flash the factory images. Fastboot mode is enough. Guide

suikerchiller said:
Now it constantly reboots (literally)
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Stuck power button. Mash the power button really fast for 20 seconds to unstick whatever is in there.

gd6noob said:
reflash recovery?
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can't flash anything, because phone is constantly rebooting. Have opened up the phone and took the battery out for 1 minute. Didn't help either. After starting up the phone I get stuck in the boot loop again.
Anyone else an idea?

suikerchiller said:
can't flash anything, because phone is constantly rebooting. Have opened up the phone and took the battery out for 1 minute. Didn't help either. After starting up the phone I get stuck in the boot loop again.
Anyone else an idea?
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The phone doesn't reboot in the bootloader right?
If it doesn't either do what primokorn said or flash the factory image.
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El Daddy said:
The phone doesn't reboot in the bootloader right?
If it doesn't either do what primokorn said or flash the factory image.
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Well the issue is that it only stays for a fraction of a second in bootloader, which gives it enough time to navigate one step up or down. Not enough time to get into recovery.
How can I do what Primoken said? It doesn't seem to be possible to do a flash when the phone is constantly rebooting?
Thx for helping me out guys, much appreciated!

suikerchiller said:
Well the issue is that it only stays for a fraction of a second in bootloader, which gives it enough time to navigate one step up or down. Not enough time to get into recovery.
How can I do what Primoken said? It doesn't seem to be possible to do a flash when the phone is constantly rebooting?
Thx for helping me out guys, much appreciated!
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Have you ever kept your phone in narrow pocket? Because it's definitely sounds to me like a stuck power button.

Simonna said:
Have you ever kept your phone in narrow pocket? Because it's definitely sounds to me like a stuck power button.
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It's not a power issue. Also unscrewed my phone to see if that was what caused it. Nothing in there, mechanism functioned correctly.
UPDATE: For some reason my phone booted up out of nothing. I managed to flash an older ROM via CM Updater (through settings)- which seemed to work. Apps were updated and it was running normally. But after a couple of minutes it restarted out of the blue and now back to square one again.
Guess there's a chance I'll probably get a normal start up soon. Is it a good idea to do a factory whipe restart through the settings menu? Or is Primokorn's method safer?

suikerchiller said:
...Or is Primokorn's method safer?
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Yes.

HELP!!! I think I bricked my Pixel

Any help appreciated. I accidentally put the pixel elemental x kernal on my pixel xl and no I am stuck at the google screen with an unlocked bootloader. Can these batteries get pulled at all? Im just stuck here, and very nervous.

Solved

having the same problem, im interested in how you solved it

dablitzkrieg said:
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hiw did you fix this i seem to be in same problem

Did you start in recovery and flash the files manually through usb on a computer?
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chrisinsocalif said:
Did you start in recovery and flash the files manually through usb on a computer?
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i cant get into recovery i got red corrupt screen i did fastboot continue got it booted back up but had a emergancy and had to run out and forgot to plug back in battery died now i cant seem to get to get it booted back up again just seems to bootloop or get stuck with white screen with the dots when i do the fastboot continue

chrisinsocalif said:
Did you start in recovery and flash the files manually through usb on a computer?
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thank you so much for your help.somehow i got it back up and running

Had the same happen to me. It didn't want to go into recovery gave a message it failed. With some patience I manged to get the button combo to work for fastboot then did a flash-all of the factory image. I think the trick was it had to be plugged in to get to download mode and I think you may hit the power button slightly before the volume down. It was a bit tedious. I tried to recover the boot.img and that trashed things up worse, got no google loading logo or something odd. Anyhow flashing the full factory image fixed things!
Glad you got it resolved, maybe this helps someone else in the same spot.