Previously, I was using Lineage 13 on my device. I wanted to restore it to stock ICS, so I flashed some backups I found here https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295643.
However, now the phone is stuck on the loading splash screen and won't boot. Turning the device off, no combination of buttons will do anything (no recovery, no menu that let's you choose).
Using adb to try to reboot into recovery or fastboot just shuts it off, and it reboots normally, still stuck at the splash screen.
I have noticed that now when the phone powers on, I don't get the screen warning about an unlocked bootloader anymore.
I am sort of new to this, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Use RSD Lite to restore the phone to factory defaults.
I've tried this but my device does not show up. I do have the correct drivers installed.
thatlegit said:
I've tried this but my device does not show up. I do have the correct drivers installed.
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I haven't done this in literally years, but I think the device needs to be in fastboot mode.
Make sure you follow all the instructions carefully.
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I haven't done this in literally years, but I think the device needs to be in fastboot mode.
Make sure you follow all the instructions carefully.
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I can't get into fastboot right now. Not when it's shut down or through adb.
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I can't get into fastboot right now. Not when it's shut down or through adb.
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You've tried the power+camera (I think that's the combo) to get the menu? There should be a button combo to bring up a menu to enter fastboot, recovery, etc.
If you can't get to fastboot, I don't think there's anything that can be done. I've never (soft) bricked this device so hard that fastboot didn't work...
Test to flash phone via rsd with factory cable OR pull out battery and connect 4V from power supply directly to battery contacts.
If is still dead or rsd gives you writing error then this problem is for 90% bad emmc connection or bad emmc self.
Is needed to desolder metal cover and heat emmc with approx 380-400°C for few seconds and then very little and carefully push from side to emmc with needle.
If this not helps too then desolder emmc, make new balls and solder it back.
...you can find emmc chip under large metal cover on keyboard side on mainboard.
thats all
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im stuck in the loading animation of ICS right now and my phone wont start, since my power button is broken i cant boot into recovery to wipe cache... is there some way i can boot into recovery console without the power button? can i used odin to start into recovery console?
please help!
if your phone is off the only way to connect it to your pc is booting it(bootloader or normally).. so power button is the only way. I was using android sdk and the toolkit but I hope there is a program for this situation even if I don't think so
instead if you can start your phone in bootloader mode but when you boot it loops in the starting animation means there is something wrong with your rom/kernel and you have to flash something new (you can do it in fastboot mode using one of the two programs I've mentioned before)
However I've not understand the situation fully... if your power button is broken how can you be in the loading animation??? :/
serafo said:
if your phone is off the only way to connect it to your pc is booting it(bootloader or normally).. so power button is the only way. I was using android sdk and the toolkit but I hope there is a program for this situation even if I don't think so
instead if you can start your phone in bootloader mode but when you boot it loops in the starting animation means there is something wrong with your rom/kernel and you have to flash something new (you can do it in fastboot mode using one of the two programs I've mentioned before)
However I've not understand the situation fully... if your power button is broken how can you be in the loading animation??? :/
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i can restart the phone by putting a USB or power cord into the phone, i cant turn it on with the power button.. because of that is why i cant get to recovery console, but i can get into the bootloader screen, but none of my buttons work there... also i got a jig USB, so i can get into download mode, but im missing the files to use ODIN to re-image the phone...
WolfShooterX said:
i can restart the phone by putting a USB or power cord into the phone, i cant turn it on with the power button.. because of that is why i cant get to recovery console, but i can get into the bootloader screen, but none of my buttons work there... also i got a jig USB, so i can get into download mode, but im missing the files to use ODIN to re-image the phone...
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I'm not familiar with odin but if you can boot your phone in fastboot mode I think you can flash every file or make a wipe from your pc like with sdk for example.. you have just to search for the commands.. sorry if I can't be helpful
Did you explore the idea of repairing your power button ? Seems like a good solution
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Did you explore the idea of repairing your power button ? Seems like a good solution
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lol, yeah... but want to boot it at least.... which i did with Odin :victory:
now, does anyone know where i can get the files to root a nexus s with odin?
WolfShooterX said:
lol, yeah... but want to boot it at least.... which i did with Odin :victory:
now, does anyone know where i can get the files to root a nexus s with odin?
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I have never used Odin with Nexus S, never needed that. As you are able to boot, you may look at the following thread to get the script for rooting your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544940
Remember, this process will unlock the boot loader if it is locked and unlocking boot loader will delete all files, even from the internal SD card. So you may consider having a complete backup on your computer.
I make a little trick to fix this case. I disassembled my phone for get motherboard with button in my hands. After it I "played" with power button: push, sway from side to side and kick it by finder nail. After all assembled phone and now the power button works fine.
I recently broke the screen and the touchscreen of my OPO and bought a new Glass+LCD+Digitizer+Middle Frame from Aliexpress. I just installed all the parts and afterwards my OPO booted happily into recovery. Touchscreen and Display etc are working fine. I wiped everything via TWRP 2.8.7.0 and wanted to do a clean install of CM12.1. But no matter what I do now, the phone always(!) boots directly into recovery mode. I can't even get into fastboot! I already tried all sorts of things.. any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/tool-oneplusrecovery-tool-v1-0-restore-t2991851
use this url
If I power off my phone and plug it into the computer it immediately turns on. If I leave it plugged in and then shut it off via recovery, it reboots instead of turning off. Only if I unplug it from the computer, I can shut it off. So I'm afraid this link won't work for me
Bannix said:
If I power off my phone and plug it into the computer it immediately turns on. If I leave it plugged in and then shut it off via recovery, it reboots instead of turning off. Only if I unplug it from the computer, I can shut it off. So I'm afraid this link won't work for me
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did you press and hold volume up when plugging it to the computer?
Yes I tried everything. It will only boot in recovery.
brah it will work. i was in same situation. it fixed my phone. try it.
I managed to do the whole "unbrick" process... now my recovery looks a little bit different but I still can't get into the bootloader!
When I boot up the phone, a split second before it enters recovery mode this picture shows up. The recovery is now stock CM recovery. ADB now doesn't work either..
TWRP has an option to reboot to bootloader. Did you try that as well?
Yes, I did. It booted into recovery...
Bannix said:
Yes, I did. It booted into recovery...
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When you connect your phone to your PC while it's in recovery does it show up as a drive?
Heisenberg said:
When you connect your phone to your PC while it's in recovery does it show up as a drive?
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No, it doesn't. However if go into the "install update via adb sideload" option in the recovery, the phone gets recognized as A0001, but the driver on my PC doesn't work. ADB doesn't work either in this case.
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I did it with color OS, and now the phone always boots into ColorOS recovery I replaced the ColorOS recovery.img with the TWRP one, and now i got TWRP and ADB back. Phone gets recognized as SD Card now. Could it be that something on the hardware side of things broke my bootloader?
Please help
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I did it with color OS, and now the phone always boots into ColorOS recovery I replaced the ColorOS recovery.img with the TWRP one, and now i got TWRP and ADB back. Phone gets recognized as SD Card now. Could it be that something on the hardware side of things broke my bootloader?
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I got exactly the same now , let me know what worked for you?
Bannix said:
I did it with color OS, and now the phone always boots into ColorOS recovery I replaced the ColorOS recovery.img with the TWRP one, and now i got TWRP and ADB back. Phone gets recognized as SD Card now. Could it be that something on the hardware side of things broke my bootloader?
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Well its possible, that one of the volume butten is pressed permanent(that u even don't take notice) due bad hardware and replacement. Therefore, the device would only boot into recovery, no matter what u try. Take a voltmeter and check the buttons.
BTW: stop using these dirty "toolbox" around here, they are pure cancer for your device
Hey, thanks for your reply. The volume down button being permanently pressed was actually the case! I found out myself and fixed it by soldering a new volume flex cable. Phone works fine again
Hello Guys,
My OnePlus One screen broke, it was in my drawer for more than 15 days without charge, i connected charger for 1 hour it just went from 1% to 5% but i didnt thought much about it as my priority was to change screen, i bought touch+lcd with frame and replaced it myself, but it wasnt powering up then i tried putting the backpanel on, it then booted up to the home screen, but the battery indicator wasnt moving up i powered off the phone after that it never turned on, i researched a bit and found out the after long period of time if you dont charge your phone might have problem charging and there was one suggestion which i followed and that was charge OPO using usb cable attached to PC, i left it for somewhat 7hours and it powered on i thought it might be the problem of ROM i flashed official H2OS (regret selecting this rom) using TWRP, it was a catastrophe my phone wont Enter Bootloader or Recovery, and wont even boot to system, it seemed i hardbricked my device, i used Oneplus one recovery tool 64GB to bring my device to life but after that no matter what i do my device wont enter to bootloader as the volume up button stopped working too : tried advance reboot, powerup+volumeup, opo toolkit.
Help me, i want to root my device and unlock bootloader once again.
Pra7ul said:
Hello Guys,
My OnePlus One screen broke, it was in my drawer for more than 15 days without charge, i connected charger for 1 hour it just went from 1% to 5% but i didnt thought much about it as my priority was to change screen, i bought touch+lcd with frame and replaced it myself, but it wasnt powering up then i tried putting the backpanel on, it then booted up to the home screen, but the battery indicator wasnt moving up i powered off the phone after that it never turned on, i researched a bit and found out the after long period of time if you dont charge your phone might have problem charging and there was one suggestion which i followed and that was charge OPO using usb cable attached to PC, i left it for somewhat 7hours and it powered on i thought it might be the problem of ROM i flashed official H2OS (regret selecting this rom) using TWRP, it was a catastrophe my phone wont Enter Bootloader or Recovery, and wont even boot to system, it seemed i hardbricked my device, i used Oneplus one recovery tool 64GB to bring my device to life but after that no matter what i do my device wont enter to bootloader as the volume up button stopped working too : tried advance reboot, powerup+volumeup, opo toolkit.
Help me, i want to root my device and unlock bootloader once again.
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adb reboot bootloader
waterdaan said:
adb reboot bootloader
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That Just Reboots it to system, i have turned adb on and clicked on trust this connection i have checked adb devices, and it shows attached devices too,
it just wont reboot to bootloader, but i can enter recovery. Help Please.
Pra7ul said:
That Just Reboots it to system, i have turned adb on and clicked on trust this connection i have checked adb devices, and it shows attached devices too,
it just wont reboot to bootloader, but i can enter recovery. Help Please.
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Is your volume up button actually broken or does it still work and can you boot into something? If it still works (hold on, this idea might be a little crazy xD) you could try completely hard bricking (no joke! you cannot get into Qualcomm download mode with a booting device) and restoring it with the msm8974downloadtool from the oneplus one unbricking guide which should theoretically fix everything that is wrong.
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Is your volume up button actually broken or does it still work and can you boot into something? If it still works (hold on, this idea might be a little crazy xD) you could try completely hard bricking (no joke! you cannot get into Qualcomm download mode with a booting device) and restoring it with the msm8974downloadtool from the oneplus one unbricking guide which should theoretically fix everything that is wrong.
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Even If my volume button dosent work then why wont it enter bootloader via advance reboot it just restarts to system after selecting reboot to bootloader,so i should hard brick my device once again, P.S. i have done that twice before though.
I've foolishly tried coming back down from NXT-L29C636B585 ending up on NXT-L29C636B330 after using the roll back update mid-way. I then tried the roll back update again to then flash to NXT-L29C636B211 and now my phone does nothing but show the boot logo and get hot - which in this weather I could live without!
Power+up does nothing, power+down does nothing, and power+up+down also does nothing. I don't have TWRP on, and adb/fastboot commands do nothing as it can't get to recovery. I can't even turn it off!
Is it now a paperweight? The only way to turn it off is to let the battery run down I think as holding power down just makes it restart.
Confirmed - it only turns off if the battery runs out. On giving it charge it then pops up with the logo screen again, and again none of the buttons combinations do anything other than restart it. I think my only option now is to send it off to Huawei. Does anyone have any ideas other than having to send it off?
Did you connect it to a PC before trying power + volume down? Was the reason it didn't work for me before.
Yeah, hold Power + Volume down after connecting it to your computer via USB and you should see go into fastboot mode.
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Yeah, hold Power + Volume down after connecting it to your computer via USB and you should see go into fastboot mode.
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I'll give it a go when I get home! god I hope this works..
YES! FASTBOOT! Only issue now is i'm FRP unlocked, but PHONE locked.. I can use the tool to unlock the phone as I have my password from Huawei, but what then? use the tool to flash one of the recoveries?
Thanks for the advice so far - I was very nearly physically sick when i realised nothing worked..
Try unlocking the bootloader and flashing twrp
bootloader unlocked and I used the SRK tool to flash stock 4.1 so now getting messages about my phone not being secure. Next step I figure is build enough charge in it to try flashing B330 again assuming power + vol up/down is working
bootloader unlocked. twrp 3.0.3 flashed ok:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery' (23498 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.500s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.330s]
finished. total time: 0.834s
However TWRP is nowhere to be found.. I just get the 'Your device has been unlocked' waffle and can't get to recovery still. Left the phone to fully discharge, and on inserting a mains lead to charge it for a while it then auto starts up and goes to the same screen - I try power&up and it just goes to the red charging 'lightning bolt' screen - then back to 'Your device' etc. I have no way of getting into TWRP!
I've been flashing Samsung phones for years and I can't remember ever getting this infuriated on a flash procedure..
I think I may have to do everything through fastboot as that's the only screen I can get to - but the only thing I can alter which seems to make a visible change is locking or unlocking the bootloader.
Should I re-lock with TWRP supposedly on? I have tried, and all I get is the 'not enough charge' screen - regardless of how long it is left untouched on power. It's as if all the charge I am putting in is just going to heating up the back and showing me the flipping message - then it runs low enough on charge to blank the screen, reboot and then end up with the unlock screen.
All I want to do is hold down all the buttons and have it install B211 - B330 - B'anything' from the dload folder on the sdcard I have in there. If anyone could tell me what to do to get to that point i'd be super happy. Failing that is there a way to fastboot flash a rom file?
Make sure to unplug the usb cable in order to get to TWRP.
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Make sure to unplug the usb cable in order to get to TWRP.
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At the moment i'm just struggling to get back to stock let alone a custom rom! If I ever get back to working phone in any way i'll be happy..
I've extracted out the boot, recovery and system from B330 and flashed them all through fastboot then re-locked the bootloader. It is still starting up with the Huawei logo as if booting up, and stays at that screen - It eventually then goes blank, pops up with the red circle with red charge pic in it, then after a while the Huawei logo reappears. I am essentially no further forward.
The more I flash things the more it pays no attention to me and sits on my work desk doing nothing.
I'm wondering if - in my epic screw-up - I managed to somehow destroy some part of the OS that governs charging, as it refuses to hold a charge while plugged in to the pc, powerbank or mains lead. At least thats what it is showing me.. It stayed powered long enough for me to fastboot flash the system.img, but that is when on the pc usb connection.
When I lock/unlock the bootloader through the SRK tool it finishes with the 'choose lock or unlock then press power' option which then promises a system reset.. and then it turns off with the red power screen. I can flash TWRP but because it is seeming not to hold a charge, I cannot then get into it without cables attached as it just boots back to the red charge screen.
Is there another file from the update.app I need to flash? should I just flash every single image and hope for the best? I really felt I was getting somewhere this afternoon..
Have you tried what I posted to you on?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=72758529#post72758529
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Have you tried what I posted to you on?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=72758529#post72758529
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I plan to in the morning at work!
SOLVED: Phew - problem solved! see https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/general/best-c636-rom-battery-life-t3623313#post72775720
Don Kronos said:
Have you tried what I posted to you on?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=72758529#post72758529
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Hey,
I unbricked my phone using the same method - thanks for mentioning it! But sadly I'm stuck again. Maybe you have a hint for me?
Patneu said:
Hey,
I unbricked my phone using the same method - thanks for mentioning it! But sadly I'm stuck again. Maybe you have a hint for me?
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Replied on that post! Probly not that useful though..
Good Morning,
yesterday when i flashed a rom, something goes wrong.
My opo don't go in boot animation and work only the recovery and fastboot.
I don't know why but afther another reboot the phone is dead, i think that is a normal hard brick so i try to restore with the tool "msm8974 download tool" but it don't work, when i start the restore come out a red word.
I never seen a hard brick like this, the phone is 100% dead , when i press the power button don't vibrates and nothing come out, diplay is black.
What can i do to restore my opo? :crying:
Try Wiping everything from TWRP and try a different ROM.
Another thing to try is connecting ADB to get the logcat.
Can you give more details on what you've tried so far?
Additionally, I remember reading that the OPO can stop booting correctly when the battery starts failing.
umer936 said:
Try Wiping everything from TWRP and try a different ROM.
Another thing to try is connecting ADB to get the logcat.
Can you give more details on what you've tried so far?
Additionally, I remember reading that the OPO can stop booting correctly when the battery starts failing.
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Now the phone is dead, if I press the power button nothing come out (no vibration, no screen) the phone look like without battery! (But it is over 50%)
I followed the tutorial to restore HARD BRICK with the tool but it don't success!
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Now the phone is dead, if I press the power button nothing come out (no vibration, no screen) the phone look like without battery! (But it is over 50%)
I followed the tutorial to restore HARD BRICK with the tool but it don't success!
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Me to.. this morning my phone dead.. i dont know what can i do again..
Trying pressing all combination button not showing anything even in pc device manager usb not recognize or qhsusb_bulk not appear
Anyone can help me please.. @netbuzz
I have bricked this phone in and out, believe me lol all you gotta do is open the phone, unscrew all (TOP HALF) screws and UN plugg battery......wait about 30 sec RE plugg/connect battery and re run the unbricking tool