Our Hydro Vibe was working perfectly fine until Sprint sent an update to it.
Now it's stuck in a boot loop and will not start and will not go into recovery. Tried the Volume Up/Down & Power to no avail.
Our local Sprint store says "Uh, I'd try a new battery. I think the battery can't provide power anymore and the phone is trying to start and then the battery dies......"
No problems like this before the firmware update.
Is my device a nice paperweight now? I don't suppose there is any way to flash it in this state.
Thanks in advance. Sorry if this has been asked and answered already.
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Hi was wondering if anyone could help me. I rooted my friends phone awhile back and it was all fine and hunky dorry until he fudged up. I guess he got a new phone so he tried to give the Optimus V to his son but he did a factory reset from the settings menu you. No the phone won't do anything. Try to power it on but it just shows the first LG logo then off again. If I plug the phone in CWM comes up but I've tried installing a new rom but it winds up doing the same thing. Also I can't get it to show up in adb or fastboot.
PorkMoon587 said:
Hi was wondering if anyone could help me. I rooted my friends phone awhile back and it was all fine and hunky dorry until he fudged up. I guess he got a new phone so he tried to give the Optimus V to his son but he did a factory reset from the settings menu you. No the phone won't do anything. Try to power it on but it just shows the first LG logo then off again. If I plug the phone in CWM comes up but I've tried installing a new rom but it winds up doing the same thing. Also I can't get it to show up in adb or fastboot.
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Flash the stock rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324105
I pulled my vortex out of storage the other day to tinker. It was rooted but fully updated stock 2.2.2
When I booted it up, it stayed on the boot animation 20+ minutes, until the battery ran out. I've tried booting it up again but it keeps bootlooping.
I figured I'd just flash a new ROM onto it, but I never put a custom recovery onto it and the only Vortex Recovery I found was this;
http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/330813-all-one-recovery-thread.html
However, it says I need to do on-device commands and stuff to get it working, which obviously isn't an option.
Is there any other way you guys could think to resurrect my old Vortex? My Droid Charge is my phone now, this thing doesn't get much use anymore, but I'd still like to get it back in a usable form.
EDIT: FYI, already tried everything relevant in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031596
If you flashed stock rom. Try hard reset.
Home+vol down / vol up+ power.
thank you! that button trick did the job!
EDIT:
well, it worked once, but the phone had been uncharged for a while so the battery died, and now i can't get the trick to work again >_<
is there a way to re-flash stock without a custom recovery?
Hi there everyone, recently signed up on here as xda seems to be the holy grail when it comes to all thing smartphone.
I'm fairly new to these type of phones and recently was given an infuse 4g that was suffering a power button problem.
The power button problem has been resolved with a new one and the phone was working fine for 3 / 4 weeks.
One day the phone shut down by itself and entered the boot loop syndrome. Factory clearing it hasnt seemed to do anything to resolve the problem as it continued to reboot continuosly.
I came across the thread about gtg ultimate unbrick guide in the developers forum and this seemed like a good way to go, get the phone all the way back to stock and then work from there.
Kies installed and all drivers installed fine. downloaded the gtg unbrick pack and followed the instructions line for line. Odin reports everything passed, took about 2:59 to complete.
phone rebooted and continued to do boot loop so went into recovery as stated and wiped data and cache and rebooted again.
phone is still stuck in some sort of boot loop, but it gets to display the 1st of the setup android phone screens, then just as you get a chance to select next to go onto the next screen, the phone reboots.
Any one have any idea what could be going wrong or as im fairly new to this, is there anything im doing or not doing right that is causing this.
The phone is an at&t infuse.
regards
Trevor
sound like an issue with stuck power button. it's a know issue with this model. google "infuse 4g boot loop" there's few youtube videos you can try.
tt33333 said:
sound like an issue with stuck power button. it's a know issue with this model. google "infuse 4g boot loop" there's few youtube videos you can try.
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I've already replaced the power button with a new one, but the technician i use did say he will remove the power button completely to see if it does the same, just to rule that out
Trev
just redone the gtg flash and it boots into the os (ver2.2.1) and then within about 5 seconds turns off and reboots
can the new on off switch be faulty......im not so sure as in recovery mode, i can leave it on that screen forever and it doesnt attempt to reboot
Tried the one click repair with hemdial or what its called, updating thisnpost via a moto defy mini so excuse any typos.. The hemdiaOl just seemed to meas it up further. So got baxk into downliad mode with odin and reflashed to gtg brick recovery. Not fixed, still booting but at least the screen is now viewable.
To recover one of these phones, is there like a definitive guide as to what to do to first prepare one of these phones for recovery, ie, first, flash to this with cwm and then clear data, cache, dalcik etc. like an idiots fuide, i feel i may need one
Regards
Trev
I've had my rooted N5 on 5.0.1 for a while now. I recently unrooted it to upgrade to 5.1.1, and then I would reroot it. I downloaded 5.1.1 and the phone asked if I wanted to install the upgrade. I said yes and the phone then reboots. But when I looked at which software I was running it said 5.0.1. At that point I went through another reset so I could start over. And that's when the problem began. When the phone boots up it tries to boot into TWRP. My screen flashes TEAMWIN, but won't go any further. It just continues flashing without actually going into TWRP. If I hold the power button and the down volume button I can get the phone into bootloader mode, and that allows me to shut the phone off but that's all I can do. Can someone tell me where I screwed up and how can I get the phone to quit trying unsuccessfully to boot into TWRP? Thanks in advance.
Mark
Austexcat said:
I've had my rooted N5 on 5.0.1 for a while now. I recently unrooted it to upgrade to 5.1.1, and then I would reroot it. I downloaded 5.1.1 and the phone asked if I wanted to install the upgrade. I said yes and the phone then reboots. But when I looked at which software I was running it said 5.0.1. At that point I went through another reset so I could start over. And that's when the problem began. When the phone boots up it tries to boot into TWRP. My screen flashes TEAMWIN, but won't go any further. It just continues flashing without actually going into TWRP. If I hold the power button and the down volume button I can get the phone into bootloader mode, and that allows me to shut the phone off but that's all I can do. Can someone tell me where I screwed up and how can I get the phone to quit trying unsuccessfully to boot into TWRP? Thanks in advance.
Mark
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Flash the 5.1.1 factory image with fastboot and start all over.
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Hello!
I recently flashed my Moto G with the unofficial LineageOS 16 rom by allstargaurav. Kudos to him for his work.
I unlocked my bootloader, got TWRP, flashed the rom, flashed Gapps,Magisk and started using it normally.
One night, after using it with the battery at 30%, I left it as it was and did not charge it.
The next day, I saw that it was not booting up at all. I plugged it in and the white led light started and did not go off.
The light was constantly on. I searched on google to no avail.
Nothing works and I have pressed the power button and power+volume down for more than 5 minutes.
I cant get to the fastboot menu or the TWRP, the phone doesnt power on at all so I cant do anything or get a logcat.
Please help!!!!
I also got the watchdogs boot animation. That is all I have modified.
Please tell me what is wrong and how to rectify it.
Please help quickly.
I am at wit's end and helpless. I should also mention that this was my first time flashing a rom on any device, but I followed the instructions very carefully.Before this the phone was on stock Lollipop rom, stock recovery and locked bootloader.
Thanking anyone who helps or even replies in advance.
:crying::crying::crying::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
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Alphacube111 said:
Hello!
I recently flashed my Moto G with the unofficial LineageOS 16 rom by allstargaurav. Kudos to him for his work.
I unlocked my bootloader, got TWRP, flashed the rom, flashed Gapps,Magisk and started using it normally.
One night, after using it with the battery at 30%, I left it as it was and did not charge it.
The next day, I saw that it was not booting up at all. I plugged it in and the white led light started and did not go off.
The light was constantly on. I searched on google to no avail.
Nothing works and I have pressed the power button and power+volume down for more than 5 minutes.
I cant get to the fastboot menu or the TWRP, the phone doesnt power on at all so I cant do anything or get a logcat.
Please help!!!!
I also got the watchdogs boot animation. That is all I have modified.
Please tell me what is wrong and how to rectify it.
Please help quickly.
I am at wit's end and helpless. I should also mention that this was my first time flashing a rom on any device, but I followed the instructions very carefully.Before this the phone was on stock Lollipop rom, stock recovery and locked bootloader.
Thanking anyone who helps or even replies in advance.
:crying::crying::crying::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
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Being unsure what the problem is, I also followed FabioSan's guide on unbricking the phone, but I got stuck on the part where we go to the device manager console as my PC would not recognise the phone no matter what I did.
Also, the warranty has expired long ago as the phone was bought in 2014 and it was only a 1year warranty.
Therefore, I am considering giving the phone to the moto support centre. I will also try replacing the battery as it may be a battery problem considering my symptom of the white light does not fit any hardbricked phone's symptoms. Will notify if it works.
Till then, please help and suggest what the problem might be.