I'm in big trouble and need help.
This is a rooted Nexus 5 running stock 5.1.1 The SuperSu version was 2.79. Everytime I updated to the latest SuperSU (2.82) from Google play I would get boot problems - specifically that the reboot would "optimize" all apps each time making my reboot take about 30 minutes. I would recover by rebooting into twrp recovery and restoring a previous nandroid.
After waiting a week for the SuperSu developers to fix their problem I tried the update again. Same result. As the app optimizations restarted, I impatiently pressed and held the power button to restart the boot but into Recovery. The optimizations stopped, the display turned off but the phone did not reboot. All attempts to reboot by holding down the power button have since failed no matter how long I hold the button down, with or without the volume down lever.
So I have a phone that is dead and will not reboot. How do I get out of this problem? My laptop has adb installed but I don't know if that will connect with the phone powered off.
Please help. Thanks.
OK. After holding the power button down forever, the phone finally rebooted.
Phew! Don't know why it decided to do so, but glad it did! Maybe it was scared of your expertise.......
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Hello guys, my TF300 has been rooted since it came out and i've only used AOKP rom and I have a fast boot app that I use to go into recovery mode or if need me I would just do the vol up and power.
Today I wanted to change my rom and I notice my fast boot wasn't going into recovery it just rebooted the tablet. so I tried the vol up and power and I just get a black screen, finally when I stop holding the buttons, it just reboots again.
I thought I lost root some how but so I opened some apps where I need root and they work and if I long press the power the built in recover that was there is no longer and when I turn it off and back on it still says "unlock" in the top left
the next thing I tried was I went into the playstore and download the goomanager and tried to download the TWRP 2 but it told me nothing is avail for my system.
As far as i know the only way To enter recovery is to restart or power on the tablet while holding down the vol down button then press the vol up when prompted. otherwise tablet will always fully restart.
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philly0128 said:
Hello guys, my TF300 has been rooted since it came out and i've only used AOKP rom and I have a fast boot app that I use to go into recovery mode or if need me I would just do the vol up and power.
Today I wanted to change my rom and I notice my fast boot wasn't going into recovery it just rebooted the tablet. so I tried the vol up and power and I just get a black screen, finally when I stop holding the buttons, it just reboots again.
I thought I lost root some how but so I opened some apps where I need root and they work and if I long press the power the built in recover that was there is no longer and when I turn it off and back on it still says "unlock" in the top left
the next thing I tried was I went into the playstore and download the goomanager and tried to download the TWRP 2 but it told me nothing is avail for my system.
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From terminal on unit!
su
reboot recovery
Good Luck!
if that fails then
#!/system/bin/sh
su
reboot recovery
Thanks guys, not sure what happen, look like it was a issue with my vol down button, it's like it was stuck so when I thought I was pressing it, I wasn't so now i'm good to go.
I'm usually pretty good at following instructions but I have a problem. I am rooted with TWRP, stock kernel. I successfully applied the 4.4.1 update and used the phone for awhile no probs. Tried re-applying the 4 way reboot menu mod that I'd used successfully on 4.4.0. TWRP says flash was successful. I rebooted and am stuck at the spinning google colored circles. I cant get into recovery mode by holding the volume up/down and power buttons. The phone vibrates briefly when I hold all three but the logo keeps spinning. Pressing power button only does the same. Tried connecting to PC but mac says can't read device and to reboot it. ?help?
Update - Got her to reboot with volume down/pwer, into TWRP, and restored from backup, Back up and running...
Edit: PROBLEM SOLVED! However I'll keep this up just in case anyone runs into a similar issue, I'll go ahead and quote the post that brought my tablet to life. As simple as it may be, it helped!
pjim said:
Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
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Okay, so in case I'm missing something, I'll keep it quick and say my tablet (WiFI version) wont boot to the system, and no button combo will boot it into the bootloader. It goes straight to the nvidia screen no matter what, and won't get past the boot animation.
In case that doesn't cover it, and more info is needed, I'll give the complete rundown of all that happened.
I just got my tablet a few days ago, however I immedietly unlocked the bootloader, and rooted it, and was fine with that for a while. Eventually I got sick of Lollipop due to lack of support for some Xposed modules and other apps that didn't support 5.0. So I decided to boot into recovery and flash THIS CarbonROM. But it didn't boot past the CarbonROM logo, so I forced a shutdown and booted into recovery (vol down + power) and figured I had to flash the KitKat OTA, then the ROM. So I flashed THIS OTA onto my tablet in CWM, then after booting I booted back into CWM and flashed CarbonROM. It booted just fine. I then went into ES File Explorer and deleted the system apps I didn't want (calender, the stock launcher, etc.) and it worked fine. I then booted back into CWM to clear cache and Dalvik Cache, to clean up any app data that might have been left behind. After booting it stayed on the "Android is upgrading" screen for almost 20 minutes. So I decided to hard reboot it. After doing that, I'm where I am now. The tablet won't boot past the CarbonROM logo, and although I can manually power it down, no matter what I do, I can't boot it into bootloader. I have gotten to the bootloader from a powered off state plenty of times before, in fact it's my preferred method of doing so. But now it skips straight to the Nvidia screen, followed by the CarbonROM screen, and never boots.
Also, I had just flashed the ROM, and had never enabled adb debugging.
Any possible solution would be greatly appreciated, as like I said I just bought the tablet days ago.
Try connecting it to your pc, boot it up, and try running "adb reboot revovery" after it's been running for a bit
ailima said:
Try connecting it to your pc, boot it up, and try running "adb reboot revovery" after it's been running for a bit
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I seem to get a "error: device offline" message when I try that.
I have used adb and fastboot before this issue so I know my drivers and adb files are just fine :/
Edit: When I unplug the usb from the tablet it makes the low battery noise. I think it's booted to the system but stuck at the CarbonROM logo for some reason. I did delete the stock launcher without installing a new one...
Edit: Since I had just flashed the ROM, I had not yet gone into developer options and enabled adb debugging. I had only done it before I flashed the ROM.
FoxyDrew said:
I seem to get a "error: device offline" message when I try that.
I have used adb and fastboot before this issue so I know my drivers and adb files are just fine :/
Edit: When I unplug the usb from the tablet it makes the low battery noise. I think it's booted to the system but stuck at the CarbonROM logo for some reason. I did delete the stock launcher without installing a new one...
Edit: Since I had just flashed the ROM, I had not yet gone into developer options and enabled adb debugging. I had only done it before I flashed the ROM.
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Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
pjim said:
Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
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I literally love you right now.:laugh:
Seriously thank you, I thought I was screwed. I just wonder why it works like this. I'll have keep it in mind for the future haha, thanks:good:
Hey there, I have a rooted HTC e8 with TWRP-Recovery and xposed + xprivacy installed. Everything worked fine until some days ago I got a notification from xposed to restart due to an update (might be 54->58 but I can't 100% remember). So I touched the notification and got to the xposed menu where the different restart buttons are. I used software reboot (might have been an error :crying and the screen went black. Thats what always happens, but the problem is that now my phone doesn't boot back up (at least I guess so). What ever I do (hold power for a short/long time, power and -) nothing seems to work. If I connect it via usb adb devices sees a device, but adb reboot doesn't seem to do anything either.
What happened? How do I get my phone back to where it was before?
Some help would be great!
ILastSamuraiI said:
Hey there, I have a rooted HTC e8 with TWRP-Recovery and xposed + xprivacy installed. Everything worked fine until some days ago I got a notification from xposed to restart due to an update (might be 54->58 but I can't 100% remember). So I touched the notification and got to the xposed menu where the different restart buttons are. I used software reboot (might have been an error :crying and the screen went black. Thats what always happens, but the problem is that now my phone doesn't boot back up (at least I guess so). What ever I do (hold power for a short/long time, power and -) nothing seems to work. If I connect it via usb adb devices sees a device, but adb reboot doesn't seem to do anything either.
What happened? How do I get my phone back to where it was before?
Some help would be great!
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you mean you can't boot your phone ?
if you can
press the power button
once htc screen appear click " - " button untill it boots
this puts your device in safe mode
try to remove xposed or the module you have installed lately
I think your e8 is soft bricked. First your power on your phone by pressing power button, then as soon as htc logo appears, you press power and volume down button together to go to bootloader screen. From there you can enter TWRP by selecting recovery menu. After that you can try to restore backup for system or can do a complete restore also.
Hope that helps.
A little late, but my problem was actually a battery problem. I found it somewhere online. There is a key combination (up + down + power I think it was) that you can press to recalibrate your battery. That helped.
Unusual bootloop - can't access recovery OR fastboot but loops on "optimzing apps"
I had my US version OpO 64GB working with CM12 for quite a while, rooted and bootloader unlocked with TWRP (possibly 2.8.6) installed, then some months ago I tried upgrading to CM12.1 through CM updater. This failed miserably - The phone started bootlooping on "Optimizing apps n of N" - as soon as it finished optimizing apps, the phone would reboot and start optimizing again. Booting to safe-mode (Power + VolUpDown) also fails in the same way (though optimizing fewer apps).
I tried rebooting to recovery mode holding Power + VolDown but it just gives a quick buzz (vibration motor) at the "1+" screen and reboots. The same thing happens when I try to boot to fastboot mode with Power + VolUp. So I'm completely stuck. All the guides show being able to boot either to fastboot or recovery (soft-brick) or else the screen being completely black/unresponsive (hard-brick). My phone is neither of these!
I got frustrated enough that I've let it sit on the shelf for the past 6 months, but now I'd like to fix this. All help appreciated.
---danq989
Did you try clearing the cache and doing a factory reset ?
SpectreFang said:
Did you try clearing the cache and doing a factory reset ?
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That's impossible for me to do since I can't get to launcher or recovery.
No acess to recovery?? Then better take it to service center... Atleast can u boot to fastboot mode or adb accesible then use oneplus one toolkits
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Install oneplus tool kit, while optimising apps it gets dectected by pc, just make it reboot mode & do reset.... Dnt worry this can be fixed, if all these seems messy then take it to service center
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I had my US version OpO 64GB working with CM12 for quite a while, rooted and bootloader unlocked with TWRP (possibly 2.8.6) installed, then some months ago I tried upgrading to CM12.1 through CM updater. This failed miserably - The phone started bootlooping on "Optimizing apps n of N" - as soon as it finished optimizing apps, the phone would reboot and start optimizing again. Booting to safe-mode (Power + VolUpDown) also fails in the same way (though optimizing fewer apps).
I tried rebooting to recovery mode holding Power + VolDown but it just gives a quick buzz (vibration motor) at the "1+" screen and reboots. The same thing happens when I try to boot to fastboot mode with Power + VolUp. So I'm completely stuck. All the guides show being able to boot either to fastboot or recovery (soft-brick) or else the screen being completely black/unresponsive (hard-brick). My phone is neither of these!
I got frustrated enough that I've let it sit on the shelf for the past 6 months, but now I'd like to fix this. All help appreciated.
---danq989
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while things are loading, have u tried to hold vol up + power for 10 seconds or until the screen turns off and then hold vol down + power button until the oneplus logo?
Bradl79 said:
while things are loading, have u tried to hold vol up + power for 10 seconds or until the screen turns off and then hold vol down + power button until the oneplus logo?
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Yes, just tried it. Same thing as described in my original post. When I hold power+volup the screen goes blank. I switch to power+voldown until the 1+ logo. At that point:
1. If I continue to hold the power+voldown key through the 1+ logo, the screen goes blank briefly, the phone vibrates once and reboots. If I continue to hold the power+voldown key, the vibrate&reboot cycle continues indefinitely
2. If I let go of either the power button, the voldown button, or both at or before the 1+ logo, the phone boots normally and goes to "Android is starting... Optimizing app n of 119). When the optimization finishes, the phone instantly reboots.
It's like the phone recovery is gone or inaccessible. Could this have to do with the phone tampering setting? As I said, I had this phone rooted and bootloader unlocked, working fine with CM12 for some time before trying an in-place upgrade to 12.1. That's when things went south.
---danq989