[Q] Vizio XR6M Smartcast Tablet Remote - OTA bricked it... help? - General Questions and Answers
This Vizio XR6M came with the M65-D0 display I bought. It was running their unmodified version of whatever software was preinstalled. It worked fine all the way up until they pushed an OTA to it, which is causing it to bootloop. I cannot get into any usable recovery because the screen that appears where recovery options should be is the Android on its back with an exclamation point I believe. Can anyone help me get this thing working again? Thanks.
I was really hoping that someone would have a clue. This really sucks. I'll keep waiting
Had the same thing happen to me. When on the screen with the android on his back, hold the power button and quickly press volume up. This should give a menu with a handful of options. Scroll up and down with volume up and down and press power to select. One of the options is to wipe the device. Do this and then select reboot. (There is also a wipe cache option, but this didn't do anything for me.) This is what I was told to do by Vizio support. Unfortunately I've had to do this wipe 3 times now. This tablet is very unstable in my opinion. (Once after an OTA update, once after I rebooted it, and once it just rebooted itself and got stuck in the loop.) I came across your post while looking for info on rooting the tablet or at least getting a backup like TWRP on it so I don't have to spend an hour downloading apps and getting my settings back like I had them every time the tablet decides to lose its **** and go haywire. Best of luck.
Gah... I spent about an hour trying different key combinations to get into recovery... I thought I tried all the key combinations at that Android screen too... But I guess not. Thanks!! Trying a wipe of cache with no expectations that it'll work... full data wipe incoming....
Getting to the Factory menu
1. Hold pwr button down to turn the tablet off
2. Hold the vol dwn button and press the pwr button
3. Anddroid logo with an ! should appear
4. Hold the pwr button and press the vol up button
5. The factory menu should appear
I just picked up two of these TVs and wall-mounted them and they are pretty fantastic, one of the remotes updated just fine but the other one keeps giving me a signature validation failed when it tries to update. I've wiped the cash down a factory reset from recovery and factory reset from inside Android. Anyone have any ideas? I've downloaded it on 3 different WiFi networks and tried to install it probably 10 times now.
Vizio's online chat support to the rescue. I told them what the issue was, what all I tried, she had me verify that I had already done what they suggest (basically get into recovery and such), and told me to send them a copy of my receipt and I'd get a free brand new one, or they could send me a refurbished one without it.
Here's the instructions she gave me.
Please try the following steps:
1. Power the tablet off. While the tablet is off press and hold the Volume Down and Power keys at the same time.
2. The tablet will vibrate and the V logo screen will pop up. Let go of the POWER and VOL DOWN key when the tablet VIBRATES.
3. The tablet will show a picture of the Android mascot laying on the ground with the text 'No Command'.
4. Press and hold the Power key and tap Volume Up key. (One you've tapped the volume up key you can release the power key).
5. Use the Volume Up and Down keys to navigate the options, and the Power Key as an 'OK' button to select options.
6. Navigate down to Wipe Data/ Factory Reset, and press the Power key.
7. Text will appear in the bottom the screen indicating the tablet is resetting.
8. The Android Recovery options will appear again. Use the Vol Keys to navigate to 'Reboot System Now' and press the power button to confirm.
Note: After the reset it may hang on the V logo screen for 5+ minutes before initiating the rest process.
RED ZMAN said:
Vizio's online chat support to the rescue. I told them what the issue was, what all I tried, she had me verify that I had already done what they suggest (basically get into recovery and such), and told me to send them a copy of my receipt and I'd get a free brand new one, or they could send me a refurbished one without it.
Here's the instructions she gave me.
Please try the following steps:
1. Power the tablet off. While the tablet is off press and hold the Volume Down and Power keys at the same time.
2. The tablet will vibrate and the V logo screen will pop up. Let go of the POWER and VOL DOWN key when the tablet VIBRATES.
3. The tablet will show a picture of the Android mascot laying on the ground with the text 'No Command'.
4. Press and hold the Power key and tap Volume Up key. (One you've tapped the volume up key you can release the power key).
5. Use the Volume Up and Down keys to navigate the options, and the Power Key as an 'OK' button to select options.
6. Navigate down to Wipe Data/ Factory Reset, and press the Power key.
7. Text will appear in the bottom the screen indicating the tablet is resetting.
8. The Android Recovery options will appear again. Use the Vol Keys to navigate to 'Reboot System Now' and press the power button to confirm.
Note: After the reset it may hang on the V logo screen for 5+ minutes before initiating the rest process.
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And after the hair and saliva samples to verify you're really a human and not something from Nibiru, you were able to get into recovery and get it working right?!
Crazy, ive had at least 15 different android devices, and never ever needed to go through a military-style agility course to get into recovery.
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jerry43812 said:
And after the hair and saliva samples to verify you're really a human and not something from Nibiru, you were able to get into recovery and get it working right?!
Crazy, ive had at least 15 different android devices, and never ever needed to go through a military-style agility course to get into recovery.
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It took like 2.5 weeks to get the replacement too, but it was brand new. Now I've got 2 tablets, 3 wireless chargers, and I don't want to use them at all. LOL
Does anyone know if anyone has a factory image that can be flashed? I think mine has bad firmware so resets don't do anything to fix it.
This device have made by Chinese/Indian company Borqs. The code name Bennu-M. Platform is Qualcomm APQ8016 (MSM8916 w/o modem). There should work standard method to bring EDL mode. Hold Vol+ and Vol- at power on (press power). Then connect to the PC. Thus device will stay look dead, however should be detected as Qualcomm QDLoader 9008 on the PC side. This is the factory described method.
You can flash factory firmware from this mode using external bootloader (programmer) for MSM8916 firehose protocol. This procedure is described in the thousands of manuals around the net. Qualcomm tools like QPST or QFIL can be used as good as many 3rd party utils to flash and manage any another available way. Many professional 'box' tools should support this device too but only as 'generic' msm8916 (if applicable).
However I can't find the firmware package for this device anywhere. You should ask and require the manufacturer/distributor to publish firmware, the source code and all the corresponding matherials to be able to flash and rebuild firmware from sources in any manner you want without any limitations as required by GNU/GPL free open source software licenses this firmware is obligated to.
Everyone who have the device working or software dead, can try to dump the current firmware and data, stored on the internal eMMC memory module in part(s) or in whole image using free QTools project utilities and suitable external bootloader with ability to dump eMMC, not only to flash as many factory supplied programmers do. There are programmer(s) for MSM8916 available in the project repo. Read and understand manuals carefully before trying anything!
There is definitely another ways to root, dump, flash, manage the device in any manner YOU WANT, not only the way you are "allowed" to use your own device by manufacturer/distributor. FTA!
You can root the device then dump all the multiple partition images manually (dd if=/dev/block/mmbblk0...... of=/sdcard/......) or using built custom recovery like CWM/TWRP for your device. Please note, kernel sources are important but not mandatory to build e.g. CWM. You can build one using CWM image from the similar device and the kernel (boot/recovery) image binaries from your device. There are good manuals and image repacking utils available around like e.g. AndImgTool.
There are the way to produce factory image from the eMMC/partitions dump(s). Use utils like R-Studio to dump particular partition images from the eMMC dump (it's like whole HDD or UFD image with all the sectors raw, one by one, w/o any modifications/compression/etc) Manuals / utils are avavailable to make e.g. sparse and xml scripts set which is flashable by the programmer in the EDL mode (i.e. from any damaged state, because EDL is built in to the PBL and masked to the internal CPU ROM, thus can not be damaged in any manner, except firing the CPU up).
You can also flash partition images from the more common Fastboot mode, unless eMMC GPT and bootloaders (SBL/RPM/TZ/ABoot) stay intact (logo showed). You can't dump from fastboot, which is common due to the (foolish) 'safety' requirements. It's security by obscurity and is definitely not for your favor, but for the corps control over you and force to send valuable private data to foreign clouds.
Please share eMMC full and/or partitions dumps using reliable 'neverending' file cloud/hosting since there is no factory firmware available yet (ever). I do not own this device and never seen being overseas, so I can't share. Help each other and f... the mfrs and matrix!
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SORRY FOR BAD LANGUAGE...but i really realy realy need help
hi all, heres the deal. i rooted my defy with superoneclick, it worked great. heres the problem and what i think is the cause but i need a solution! PROBLEM: i switch my phone on, it starts normally motoblur screen then T mobile screen then the normal swipe unlock i ulnlock it fine but as soon as i do the wallpaper dissapears/goes black. i cannot access any apps. none of the buttons work (menu,home,return/back,search) but the info bar/ menur bar thing at the top that swipes down works fine and what ever is in it works fine i.e when i plug into usb im able to choose portal and tools and those other 3. but when i just leave my phone on lock then press power button/activate unlock screen. it will show normal background with time and everything looks normal. the CAUSE ( i think ) i was installing apps and deleting motoblur stuff. but it it was one of those two, i isntalled an app and i deleted a file at the same sort of time. the app installed was some startup app killer or a firewall of some type. or it could have been that i deleted an apk file that had a real short name i think, like blur.apk PLEASE HELP ME. I need a solution FAST its my first smartphone ever and i paid alot for it. if you need my phone info it was moto defy android 2.1 uk version but then rooted with super one click THANK YOU IN ADVANCED FOR ANY HELP ps i have installed rsd lite and it is recognised by it but thats as far as i know what to do...
Did you get my PM lol saw you in the other forum. try to do a factory reset on the phone from the recovery menu. if anything, reflash your rom or pick a new one. I had this issue with a few mods/roms/kernals aswel.
sgtagem said: Did you get my PM lol saw you in the other forum. try to do a factory reset on the phone from the recovery menu. if anything, reflash your rom or pick a new one. I had this issue with a few mods/roms/kernals aswel. Click to expand... Click to collapse i sent you a pm too. thanks for being so quick to reply. but i dont know how to do that stuff im a noob this is my first androidsmartphone ever but im a very quick learner
all good. For my phone. ( droid incred.) when the phone is off i hold power and the volume up key. then i select recovery using the volume keys. I know the buttons to push are different on some phones so you might neeed to use google to find the right 2 keys to hold down while booting
i currently have it in boot loader mode, it says battery ok, ok to program, transfer mode, usb. and thats all it says. no recovery options at all
Ok, found this in another forum. this is how to get into your boot menu i guess: The boot menu happends when you press the volume down key and the power button. When it takes you to the triangle part press the volume up key and the power button this action brings up another menu on which you can reboot and other settings.
the first triangle with exclamation mark inside it with the lil andorid man comes up, but the second menu doesnt, im holding vol down and power to get up this image, the to get second one you say to do vol up and power...i tried it, held it for a while but still no joy
ok, give this a try "If you swipe the bottom right corner when you see the triangle you will get a menu. From there you can reboot or reset" Still looking for more
nope sorry still dont work. i really appreciate you spending your time doing this it realy does mean ALOT. thank you i hope the solution isnt far away!
Ok, this is from the t-moble forms: One suggestion... Pull the battery. Hold down the volume down key and press the power button. Continue to hold the volume down key until you seem something happening on the screen. This should boot you into recovery mode, you'll see a little green Android stood next to a yellow warning sign. Press the bottom-right corner of the screen, a menu should appear. Use the volume keys to scroll up and down. Scroll to 'Wipe DATA/factory reset' and press 'ok' (bottom-left of screen) - you may need to re-confirm in a sub-menu. After the wipe completes, scroll to the 'reboot' option and press 'ok'. If you do that, you completely wipe the handset, same as if you performed a full factory reset on the handset. Obviously, this will get rid of anything you have on the handset but if your only other option is an exchange, you've nothing to lose really.
http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/discussions/index?page=forums&topic=801038121b7ab9012dee673eff007b6f If you wanted to look. its the 2nd guy down. issue has nothing to do with this but same steps
it says it worked that it did the reset properly but still same original problem.
it says first line.... E:cant open /cache/recovery/command that is in the recovery mode / reset
do you have a rom that you can try to flash? any rom really just to rule out a rom issue. you can try to find a rom here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=855&order=desc&page=1
im going to give it a try ill get back to you to let you know how its going within the next 20 mins, thanks for all your help
here is an option for a factory reset. 1. Turn the power off on the Defy (if it's frozen, pull the battery out & reinsert it) 2.Hold the volume down button 3. Press and hold the button until the device turns on 4. You'll get a menu that allows FASTBOOK, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE, and SIMLOCK 5. Select CLEAR STORAGE, by pressing the Volume Down button 6. Press and release the Power 7. Now just confirm your decision Volume Up for YES, Volume Down for NO
it says on rsd lite . fail flashing process. unable to retrieve initialization values from INI (0x07029);phone connected isnt working for some reason
that menu...mine says from top to bottom Android system recovery <2a> reboot system now apply sdcard:update wipe data/factory reset wipe cache partition (then at the bottomit says...) E:cant open /cache/recovery/command. but yet it will still go through the process like it is working but it doesnt fix it
Did you try the top option. Android system recovery <2a> i wish i had that same phone to replicate this problem
im sorry i didnt write it clear enough the top android recovery thing isnt an option, its like the header/title for the program or page its written in red. the options to choose are in blue
[Q] xoom not powering on
Hi After being on numerous custom Roms for the xoom I decided to return to stock and was succesful in return to the 3.01 stock image for the wifi MZ604 model I was also successful in relocking the xoom. I then began to receive the offical updates though everytime the were applied I had to go into recovery and wipe the device as otherwise it would bootloop on the dual core screen. On the last update that it received and that was installed , on rebooting nothing happend and the screen just went blank No combination of volume up + power would show any sign of doing anything. After leaving the tablet to the side for awhile I noticed it came up with the following model mz604 : Revision0 (0x8000) modem none InitBl Info function failed with codes 299/3 failed to boot 0x0001 starting RSD mode 3 one wire : charger is not connected or battery is not being charged battery charge level : 56% I tried fastbooting and adb at this point but no devices are found. However when plugging in the xoom my laptop recognises something is attached. After some searching I found out about RSd lite and SBF files. When opening rsdlite v5.6 (running as admin) the tablet is recognised and I have now attempted to use two sbf files HUBWF_W5.H.6.4-20_SIGNED_UCAHUBLWFRTCOREEU_P010_A010_M004_HWwifi_hubble_AP1FF.sb f and HUBWF_W5.H.6.2-24_SIGNED_UCAHUBLWFRTCOREEU_P006_A006_M003_HWwifi_hubble_Service1 FF.sbf however both fail when it attempts re numeration. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could give on this Thanks
Try this. My mom's Xoom had a similar problem. Reboot the tablet by pressing Volume Up and Power. Then quickly turn on the xoom and press the down button as fast as possible, and continue pressing until you see "Recovery Mode" (or something similar) on the top left of the screen. Once you see that, press the volume up button. Quickly, when you see the Android guy with the exclamation mark tap the power button and the up button. This will take you to recovery mode. In there use the up and down volume keys to navigate and the power button to confirm things. Go down to restore/delete data (may vary) and press power. use the volume down key to scroll to Yes. This will restore your tablet back to factory settings. If you're trying to backup your data, don't try... No such luck and you won't be able to without the tablet booted.
thanks for the reply but this didnt work. Tried quite a few times. The screen just goes blank and again after a long while the error shown in the op appears. Should add there is no Motorola logo showing. I have also tried forcing fastboot by the instructions found in other similar threads but again this does not work. I think my best bet is the SBF files , but need to understand why this is failing on re-numeration
[Q] Eken t02/t02a equivalent stuck in boot, can't access recovery mode
Bmorn V11, Goclever A73, Eken T02, Aldi Minitab, MyAudio Tablet Series 7, ASK 748SP at the very least look the same and are probably the same tablet. So much so that I ordered a Bmorn touchscreen for my ASk tablet and it worked. ...until I factory reset it from settings a few weeks ago, since then it started freezing up ocasionally and now I get stuck at one of the 3 boot logos but I never see it boot all the way. I hope it's not hardware failing. I found a button behind the microphone pin-hole after trying vol + and power + home and the like for hours. Can someone please tell me how I get into what i presume is called recovery mode ? I tried pushing that hidden button with the power button, but it doesn't work. Is there even a recovery mode for this device ? Someone claims there is no recovery mode and vol + and power should work ? So what's the deal with the button behind the mic hole ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406429 "The device was strangely rooted when I bought it from the retailer. The instruction manual strangely says to boot into recovery mode by holding Vol + and the power button. I called the support company and they said that a recovery needs to be installed first. Using Root Explorer there is no recovery folder. (/recovery) - is there supposed to be?" I'm on linux, do I really need windows to flash this ? If I fail, can I try again ? I used to get along computers really well, but android is currently totally confusing me. I found several images that might work, but I really don't mind trying out unofficial images. If I can try them one by one I'll figure it out eventually, but I'm afraid I might brick it or something. I've read about flashing bootable SD cards, but I guess that won't work here ? Nor will the images that are supposed to be flashed to an SD card work ? I guess I'll have to bet on an image and find a Windows (I'm on Linux) machine and the rest is trial and error ? Is there a page somewhere I could read to figure out the basics ? I feel really confused by all of this. Thank you ! I also found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23769918&postcount=3 which explains how to flash this, but maybe i don't need to go through that if there is a recovery mode ? And it also seems like those instructions are for t01, and it doesn't involve that hidden button at all. I guess this isn't what i need, right ? I guess this should work:"Turn off your tablet. You will find upgrade button located in microphone hole on the right side of your device. Press this button using e.g. paper clip. Next connect your device to your PC while holding upgrade button" (http://www.goclever.com/data/upload..._d4d0bde076ab401d6cb98bb1b77713165b6ffb11.pdf). I can't turn off my tablet. All I can do is force it to quit by holding the power button for 5 seconds, is that enough ?
I managed to get adb and although lsusb lists the device, I can't connect to it with adb. After a minute or two lsusb doesn't show the device anymore either. Do I need to have debugging enabled or something ? I was hoping to reset it with Code: adb shell recovery --wipe_data
Tried Adding Multiple Users and ... phone won't boot up
Just rooted my phone with ODIN/TWRP. One of the reasons was I wanted multiple user support as I'm using this phone as a second phone (no SIM card) that my son can play with, but wanted to have a user account on it as well. Stupidly, googled this which seemed harmless enough.. [I can't post URL's yet so had to delete this line] Adjusted the build.prop file as it mentioned, saved it to another directory, and then saved that file over the one in the System directory. Sure enough, selected "reboot" on my phone, and now it won't power up. If I press power/vol down key it brings up the Galaxy S6 shot, and then just a black screen. I tried going back into TWRP recovery mode and reflashing Odin, but end up with the same result. I know, I should have asked here before I messed with the build.prop file, but when the same answer came up on 2 or 3 different public sites indicating how to adjust it to add multi-user support, I stupidly figured it was a simple fix! Any help getting the phone back would be appreciated! Does Multiple User support even work on this phone!?
Flash stock rom with Odin or just do emergency software recovery from SmartSwitch. When phone try to reboot, force turn off (10 sec press power button) and then enter recovery (vol up+power+home) and wipe data. This should do it.
punktnet said: Flash stock rom with Odin or just do emergency software recovery from SmartSwitch. When phone try to reboot, force turn off (10 sec press power button) and then enter recovery (vol up+power+home) and wipe data. This should do it. Click to expand... Click to collapse Hmmm...didn't seem to work. Same issue as the phone just ends up with a black screen.
Need help with my Google FRP locked [non-rooted] LGL455DL
I made the mistake of Factory Resetting my phone after a few failed attempts at remembering the Pattern to unlock the phone, in doing so I ended up being stuck in the set-up process because I forgot the Google account I was logged into on it before the Factory Reset, had been an account I just quickly made on the spot months ago just to set up an app on it. I'm posting here for help with this since I'm on day 4 of trying to find a way to bypass this and my head is ready to explode. I feel like someone with a fresh mind would be able to point me in the right direction. If anyone can let me know if I'm doing something wrong or missing some steps that will help me try any one of these, or honestly any advice at all... I'd very much appreciate it and it'd help relieve a huge chunk of this ridiculous headache this has all been. Thanks in advance! What I've tried thus far -- - I know for most ways around this, USB debugging needs to be enabled. But since I cannot get past the initial set-up process, I can't access the settings to enable it. - I also know that for a lot of Android devices USB debugging is enabled by default in Recovery Mode but everywhere I've searched for the hardware combination to boot into Recovery/Download mode, all say the same thing: Turn phone off > Power up with Vol. Down + Power button until 'Download Mode' is displayed (for boot into Download mode, while holding Vol. Down + Power button plug OTG cable into device) - My problem with this is that on my device, Vol. Down + Power button, restarts the phone. So instead of 'Download Mode', I'm just restarting the phone over and over again. I was able to get my phone to boot into was Safe mode using the Power button + Side button. - I've also tried getting around this through a series of steps which involved the 'TalkBack' accessibility feature, but when I try toggling to enable it I just get a message saying "Complete setup first to continue" From there -- I started looking up Stock ROMs that I'd be able to just flash the firmware. But for the life of me, I cannot seem to find anything for this device. And this is where I'm pretty much at now.
To remove FRP lock you boot into phone's Recovery mode and apply 1. Wipe data 2. Factory Reset Every Android device gets shipped by default with Android Recovery.
xXx yYy said: To remove FRP lock you boot into phone's Recovery mode and apply 1. Wipe data 2. Factory Reset Every Android device gets shipped by default with Android Recovery. Click to expand... Click to collapse I can't get my device to boot into Recovery mode. Everywhere I look up, it tells me to Power off device, then Press Vol. Down + Power key until the menu appears. But on my device, all that combination does is force the phone to restart.