Dear All,
I don't know why, but my old Nexus S doesn't boot up any more. It is doing boot animation endlessly and doesn't go forward. When I go to recovery I get a picture of a dead droid with red exclamation mark. The device is not rooted and locked
The point is that I'd like to save my photos from the device before flashing with a new ROM. This seems impossible because the boot loader is locked. Unfortunately unlocking requires a full system wipe. Moreover the device is not accessible through USB.
Is there any way to boot up the device for example in safe mode or so?
Thanks in advance!
Peter
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Hello everybody.
Although I've been following the forum since longtime ago, this is my first post. I hope this is the beginning of a more active and regular participation . Once I've introduced myself, I'll explain my problem:
I've got a Huawei U8110 from Movistar which seems to be in a boot loop as it gets stuck at the Android logo screen. I got it from eBay and it was already in an unusable state. I knew that but I thought it was a good opportunity to make my first steps in this amazing world.
After surfing the Internet for days and reading tons of posts to document myself, I decided re-flash the phone . I tried several stock ROMs (Yoigo, T-Mobile and again Movistar) and I was able to flash them without problems from an SD card. However, I got always the same result with all of them, always stuck at the Android logo. For info, when I bought the phone, it had the original stock ROM from Movistar.
As I've said, I've got no problems to flash the stock ROMs from a SD card. I can also enter into the bootloader mode. Nevertheless, I cannot boot into the recovery mode because after pressing the keys combination "Vol up + Call + Power On", I get into a purple / magenta screen where I can do nothing.
I've tried to root the phone and flash a custom recovery from bootloader mode. Through the rooting process, I can flash the image OK with fastboot tool but at the reboot time, I come again over the boot loop at the Android logo. Same thing for the custom recovery… I get to flash de recovery image but if I try to boot into the recovery mode, I get again de purple / magenta screen.
I'm a bit lost and I don't know what else can I do… Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
EDIT:
I've forgotten to comment that if I enter "fastboot getvar all", the result is only "all:" without any variable output... Maybe the bootloader is corrupted?
you can try odin? find the pit and flash a new boot loader.
I have looked at multiple guides on this and other sites, googled and tried stuff and I cannot resolve this problem. Hopefully I am posting in the right place.
I took the jump and unlocked the bootloader on my Moto G first generation, XT1034 successfully. I flashed TWRP 2.8.60.xt1034.zip with adb and this was successful. Then I flashed Super SU 4.6 Update and that was successful. I got into trouble I guess when I tried to flash Cyanogenmod 12.1 nightly. I used TWRP to flash via install. The flash had an error, which unfortunately I didn't write down. I believe it was something to do with a partition. However, it looked like the flash failed. At this point and for hours I have been trying to fix the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked Loop I am stuck in.
I have been able to get into the phone and flash via adb commands. I've tried several commands suggest to fix this that I have found in forums. I have tried flashing several recoveries including an older TWRP per the method in this thread, a clockworkmod - and the original 2.8.6.0.xt1034. When I get into the phone bootloader which is available, I have not been able to access any options in recovery. Pushing the power button on recovery leads to a blank screen sometimes followed by a recovery starting or a Motorola Logo starting up and a couple times a recovery. TWRP has started a couple times, but never gets past the intro screen, where it locks up. clockworkmod (clockworkmod-6.0.4.7-falcon.img started once after flashing through adb and gave me flash options. I tried to sideload, didn't understand, went back and the recovery locked up. These recoveries no longer load at all.
Through all of this the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" logo screen comes up after plugging into the computer (Windows 8.1).
Example, I open the phone bootloader by waiting for the phone screen to go from the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" screen to blank - it cycles from logo to blank. If I'm quick the phone and hard boot the phone will boot into bootloader. I connect to the laptop through USB. When I toggle to recovery and hit the power button the screen goes blank, the Motorola Logo pops up, goes blank and then the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" appears. The Laptop then seems to connect and disconnect as the Warning screen comes on and turns off.
The factory selection just goes to a blank screen.
I would really appreciate some advice on how to get the phone back to a state in which I can work with it and try again. It is very difficult wading through all of the information out there. I've learned a lot through this issue, but can't take it any further.
Thanks, Jeff
Solved - Stuck in "Warning Bootloader Is Unlocked" Loop
This resolution took many hours to figure out, but I finally got there with this guide - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219, this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54855457#post54855457 and this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/gen...e-firmware-t3042687/post59139823#post59139823.
I tried RSD Lite on different computers and USB cables I could not get the device recognized. So I ended up with the MfastbootV2 method to reload stock firmware, which I found on the firmware thread above - this was big, as my phone is with Wind Mobile in Canada and the link is the right one. The only thing I picked up from a different website was to use a computer with USB 2 ports. This is what I did, but I don't know one way or the other if USB 2 was needed. .
Can't thank you hard working guys enough for the time you take to put these threads together. I'm back up and running. As a bonus, after a big clean up in the process, my phone is running fast again.
Thanks everyone.
So recently for some reason my Nexus 5 gets stuck on the booting animation. I think it was updating to 6.0.1 or something but I'm not sure, because I just woke up one day and the phone wouldn't boot, and when it finally did it just gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried to flash stock images and etc but I need an unlocked boot loader and for some reason if the phone doesn't boot completely after unlocking the bootloader, then it gets re-locked. So now my last option is to use the stock recovery to wipe data or something but when I go to the screen with the dead android guy, no combination of buttons seem to make the recovery options show up. If anyone could help that would be great, even if it doesn't involve the stock recovery!
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shylittlezerg said:
So recently for some reason my Nexus 5 gets stuck on the booting animation. I think it was updating to 6.0.1 or something but I'm not sure, because I just woke up one day and the phone wouldn't boot, and when it finally did it just gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried to flash stock images and etc but I need an unlocked boot loader and for some reason if the phone doesn't boot completely after unlocking the bootloader, then it gets re-locked. So now my last option is to use the stock recovery to wipe data or something but when I go to the screen with the dead android guy, no combination of buttons seem to make the recovery options show up. If anyone could help that would be great, even if it doesn't involve the stock recovery!
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You only need to go back to the bootloader to unlock and then flash factory images, why do you need recovery?
If the bootloader is relocking itself after a reboot, the emmc has probably gone bad and can only be fixed with a motherboard swap.
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If the bootloader is relocking itself after a reboot, the emmc has probably gone bad and can only be fixed with a motherboard swap.
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aw that's unfortunate. thanks anyway
I had two Nexus 5 phones that would bootloop and, eventually, the bootloader would keep relocking each time I rebooted.
I bought a couple of used N5s with busted screens, swapped motherboards, and everything went back to normal. A new motherboard is way too expensive.
Hi all,
I have a Nexus 5 that I bought second hand. It powers up but is stuck in a bootloop. The Google Logo appears and it starts to load but it does not progress. I can get in to boot loader and I have tried to do a factory reset but it it still stays in the boot loop. I have tried to install the new factory software using the Nexus Root Toolkit but nothing. The Phone is also locked and I cant unlock the phone so the Nexus Root Toolkit wont allow me to try to flash the stock image? I am at the end of my knowledge base as I have tried almost all the normal methods to unbrick and fix the boot loop. The Phone can access the boot loader. When I try to unlock the phone using the Nexus Root Toolkit, it unlocks it but does not write the data and it becomes unresponsive! I have no idea if USB developer is on in settings as I have never got in to the Android operating system as I cant get past the bootloop.
Your help and suggestions would be most helpful as I am now at an end of my abilities until I am further educated about how to resolve the issue.
Res
I haven't tried this myself (no need), but since you seem to have nothing to lose give it a go. It's official Google, and comes with instructions.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/ota#instructions
Does the fastboot oem unlock command work?
Do you have all the correct usb and adb drivers installed??
First off, I suggest doing some reading up on adb and fastboot. Then manually flash factory images first and try to boot the phone completely.
The links @dahawthorne will help a lot.
Then try the command that @audit13 mentioned.
I unrooted my phone through Magisk Manager to get the Android 10 update, and I guess I missed a step. Because when my phone rebooted, it comes up with the "No Command" screen after showing the unlocked bootloader warning.
I am able to enter the recovery mode and all of those settings, but my phone wont boot normally. It doesn't even show the Motorola "M". If I leave it on for a bit, it will switch between the unlocked bootloader warning and the no command screen. I've already tried a factory reset but that does nothing.
Am I stuck with a broken phone, or is there another hope? I'll do my best to provide more info if needed. Please help!
Randomsamm said:
I unrooted my phone through Magisk Manager to get the Android 10 update, and I guess I missed a step. Because when my phone rebooted, it comes up with the "No Command" screen after showing the unlocked bootloader warning.
I am able to enter the recovery mode and all of those settings, but my phone wont boot normally. It doesn't even show the Motorola "M". If I leave it on for a bit, it will switch between the unlocked bootloader warning and the no command screen. I've already tried a factory reset but that does nothing.
Am I stuck with a broken phone, or is there another hope? I'll do my best to provide more info if needed. Please help!
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What recovery u using I would look for orange fox and fastboot into that there is more things u can do if you don't want to save any thing I would reflash using orange fox recovery the rom u want I would use bliss or havoc I'm on now supper stable everything works and it's Android 10