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One mini with bootloader fail. Still alive but not boot up accurately

Hello to all.
I tried to find an answer for my troubles here by a few hours but unfortunatelly i didnt. So I wonder to find help here thanks to XDA specimens society.
Problem symptoms
1 I bought One mini in USA. Seller provided a photo with bootloader screen which I attach below.
2 When received device, it didnt boot up at all. Only a HTC logo appeared at white background and screen began black.
Than when I press a power button, a touch buttons under screen flash 10 times and stop. Again press of power button gives one short vibration and nothing later happens.
I noticed that alu cover at down side (battery area) becomes warm and it is working till battery power goes to 0%
3 When "working", mobile is detected by Windows system connected by usb. It show mass storage, modem and not recognized device.
4 Also it shows a battery charging animation if power button was not pressed before and battery is charged from 0%.
After a two weeks in my desk it still shows 99% what means that battery is mint condition and mobile is not working when not powered on before.
Serviceman said that I have broken bootloader and it should be repaired.
Finally I found out that I can install a new ROM.
So I downloaded a
drivers (recommended here at another article)
TWRP recovery file 2 7 0 5 m4kk
customized Rom by CodenameLungo version CM 11
What I should do now? What tools install? How to putt all these into phone memory if I have not acces to bootloader screen?
If you know article which solve my problem than I will be thankfull for a link.
I know that for most of you these questions are stupid but I m not a pro and will be thankfull for a little help
THX in advance for all who will try to help me.

LukeKaz said:
Hello to all.
I tried to find an answer for my troubles here by a few hours but unfortunatelly i didnt. So I wonder to find help here thanks to XDA specimens society.
Problem symptoms
1 I bought One mini in USA. Seller provided a photo with bootloader screen which I attach below.
2 When received device, it didnt boot up at all. Only a HTC logo appeared at white background and screen began black.
Than when I press a power button, a touch buttons under screen flash 10 times and stop. Again press of power button gives one short vibration and nothing later happens.
I noticed that alu cover at down side (battery area) becomes warm and it is working till battery power goes to 0%
3 When "working", mobile is detected by Windows system connected by usb. It show mass storage, modem and not recognized device.
4 Also it shows a battery charging animation if power button was not pressed before and battery is charged from 0%.
After a two weeks in my desk it still shows 99% what means that battery is mint condition and mobile is not working when not powered on before.
Serviceman said that I have broken bootloader and it should be repaired.
Finally I found out that I can install a new ROM.
So I downloaded a
drivers (recommended here at another article)
TWRP recovery file 2 7 0 5 m4kk
customized Rom by CodenameLungo version CM 11
What I should do now? What tools install? How to putt all these into phone memory if I have not acces to bootloader screen?
If you know article which solve my problem than I will be thankfull for a link.
I know that for most of you these questions are stupid but I m not a pro and will be thankfull for a little help
THX in advance for all who will try to help me.
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Do you know how to enter bootloader? When the phone is off, you hold the Volume Down Button and the power button until phone boots up (several seconds). If you can access bootloader this way, we have a chance to help you out.

Yes I read about this method. Unfortunatelly it didnt work. Or i tried power+vol up.
Today I visited another specialist and left it for diagnostic purposes. They suppose that bootloader is damaged and should be reconstructed (if I can name it this way).
They were listening to me carefully before said that wold try to connect it with computer.
I hope they know what to do. Will call them on Friday and post here what s going on in their opinion.

LukeKaz said:
Yes I read about this method. Unfortunatelly it didnt work. Or i tried power+vol up.
Today I visited another specialist and left it for diagnostic purposes. They suppose that bootloader is damaged and should be reconstructed (if I can name it this way).
They were listening to me carefully before said that wold try to connect it with computer.
I hope they know what to do. Will call them on Friday and post here what s going on in their opinion.
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OK. Good luck with it.

Bootloader was reconstructed and now it is running to the boot menu. But serviceman has a problem with flashing ROM. He said that during instalation system cant rebuild certificate and all proces fails at 3%.
May anyone point me any link with instructions what should be done at this situation? We have a deal that on Monday i take mobile back, even if rom will not be flashed correctly...
He confirmed that this phone comes from ATT broadband and is not sure if that change anything or not.
Also suggest that previous owner tried to modify ROM by himself and thats why bootloader was damaged...

[Q] Motorola RAZR HD XT925 Doesn't Start (Blinking Green LED)

Hello. I have problems with my device, a Motorola Razr xt925 HD. It doesn't start, it just keeps the green led blinking when connected to wall charger, and when I plug the USB, makes a sound of a new device detected but only for a few seconds then it makes a sound of an unplugged device, and so on. It doesn't respond to any combination of buttons. I let it charging overnight, even though the battery was nearly full before this happened. Don't know if this is relevant but before this happened, I was going to flash stock Retail Brazil firmware by fastboot and got a flash failure. I turned it off and then it wouldn't turn on again. I never had this happened, I had problems but I always solved them all. Not this time hopefully you guys can help me or tell me what it could be, because I doubt it was the battery. I leave you a video showing my case.

i dont know for certain but the only time i see that green light is when battery is ou and i put it to chrge. Could your phone be in apfastboot and can t charge. It is a bit of a tough situation to troubleshoot.
Did you try keys combo to put it in fastboot, and test it by flashing
or maybe use rsd lite see if it shows you device connected? maybe then you can flash stock
i am sure there are other possibilities, let s hear from you

There's no way to enter in Fastboot by key combos and RSD lite doesn't show my device :/ maybe I need a factory cable, just in case that the battery is empty. I need more suggestions please

me paso lo mismo
did you find any solution?

im having this problem after i start using KK 4.4.2 seems like the phone go to sleeping mood by it self while my screen is locked so i have to keep clicking at power and volume up and down to restart the device now im looking for an update or a fix for this problem, another problem is the device WIFI do not catch my house signal while im away 10 feet from the house the software have bugs

I've been using CM 11 (KK 4.4.4) with no issues. This is a flash problem or maybe the battery. My phone is still dead btw I see that two more people are having the same problem here... we need a solution please.

chuYxP said:
I've been using CM 11 (KK 4.4.4) with no issues. This is a flash problem or maybe the battery. My phone is still dead btw I see that two more people are having the same problem here... we need a solution please.
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i think your your device is dead.
this exact thing happened to me.
it happened on september, i was forced to get a new device.
i love this phone but it was dead.
i hope a fix comes through i would like to have it back

I ll take one of your hand, I need parts if interested

Any update with this? Did you try with a factory cable?

I'm going through the same thing , I read the other day that and the driver installed and nothing more .
keep trying to revive my device.

I'm going through the same thing. When I plug it into my pc , under device manager it shows "Human Interface Device" then it unmounts itself then remounts itself then unmounts. Over and over..... I've even replaced the battery.

I was running stock rom with just root, phone was working great. phone rebooted, screen never came back on but when i connect it to my computer it sees it in adb..........
Any advice would be great.
Thank you

kilroy1stcav said:
I was running stock rom with just root, phone was working great. phone rebooted, screen never came back on but when i connect it to my computer it sees it in adb..........
Any advice would be great.
Thank you
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This thread for the droid Ultra might interest you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-ultra/general/droid-ultra-maxx-brick-recovery-t2830806
There is some discussion of the Razr HD in this thread. It looks like someone with an unlocked device would need to dd their bootloader partition for this method to work.

A few years later .... Any solution? rsrsrs

any update on this scenario?
i have this situation too and the time could give us an answer, i am searching again, i took my device to some 'phone repair stores' and in less than 5 minutes they told me that the phone was dead, but i have my last doubts

Just to add an update here
I ended up with the Green light only and blank screen after trying to fix a battery issue, despite getting a number of batteries my phone wasn't accepting the batteries.
I remembered a battery issue a long while back, so went to reflash my phone to see if it resolved it.
I ended up with the green light and blank screen and no matter what buttons, it would just make a noise then keep rebooting.
I ended up using the Unbrick bat file.
RSD Lite was briefly showing a Medfield device of something starting with Med, but since the phone kept rebooting I couldn't reflash it again.
I did the Pwr and Vol down and as soon as I saw the device, I clicked the UnBrick bat and it managed to get my Moto logo up.
I then booted to Fastboot mode and reflashed and my phone is back,
See this link for the UnBrick, but when you do it, you have to be fast to catch it while the device is seen, otherwise the phone reboots after 4s or soo.
Softely Unbrick XT890 Razr i - Really Unbrick the Zombie
Well do not think that this thread is one among others. It's my experience when i messed up with my Razri. I wish I had this before, so I'm sharing it with you ! Every has his experience and a way to do it, so this is mine First I searched...
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[Q] Nexus 5 won't turn on or show battery icon while charging

Hello,
Today I tried to sideload the OTA update to Android 5.0.1 (because my Nexus is root and it would not let me update normally), but there was an error saying missing file in system.img. So, after that, I got stuck at Google logo screen. I entered stock recovery (I never installed a custom recovery) and wiped cache, with no luck. Did a data wipe. No luck. So I tried flashing the factory image for Android 5.0, but right after flashing the bootloader, the device turned off (or it appeared to), the script showed "waiting for device", and the phone never came back. Now it won't turn on at all. I don't know what to do
Thank you for your help

cool1007 said:
Hello,
Today I tried to sideload the OTA update to Android 5.0.1 (because my Nexus is root and it would not let me update normally), but there was an error saying missing file in system.img. So, after that, I got stuck at Google logo screen. I entered stock recovery (I never installed a custom recovery) and wiped cache, with no luck. Did a data wipe. No luck. So I tried flashing the factory image for Android 5.0, but right after flashing the bootloader, the device turned off (or it appeared to), the script showed "waiting for device", and the phone never came back. Now it won't turn on at all. I don't know what to do
Thank you for your help
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I had the same problem today and i thought that i'll post how i fixed it.
My wife left her N5 charging overnight, this morning the phone was dead, kaput, it won't turn on or show the battery icon. I ended up opening the phone and disconnecting the motherboard and battery following the "Nexus 5 Battery Replacement howto" from ifixit.com.
Long story made short, open the phone, remove the 6 screws holding the motherboard, disconnect the daughterboard and battery connector, wait a few minutes and reconnect them again (Steps 1 to 4, no need to continue), the phone should power on now, if it does, put everything back together and keep enjoying your N5.
The only trick is opening the case , use your nails or a plastic opener tool to pry open the latches then carefully pull out the case, in my N5 there was some light glue applied on the lower part of the case, not a showstopper at all.

Necrosis

works for me too
elfarto said:
I had the same problem today and i thought that i'll post how i fixed it.
My wife left her N5 charging overnight, this morning the phone was dead, kaput, it won't turn on or show the battery icon. I ended up opening the phone and disconnecting the motherboard and battery following the from ifixit.com.
Long story made short, open the phone, remove the 6 screws holding the motherboard, disconnect the daughterboard and battery connector, wait a few minutes and reconnect them again (Steps 1 to 4, no need to continue), the phone should power on now, if it does, put everything back together and keep enjoying your N5.
The only trick is opening the case , use your nails or a plastic opener tool to pry open the latches then carefully pull out the case, in my N5 there was some light glue applied on the lower part of the case, not a showstopper at all.
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i had some similar experience this morning, phone wont turn on, no charging notifications nothing, and i followed ur instructions and its works fine now, no idea how it happens, but when i open the back i got some burning smell too, anyway the device is working fine now!
anyways thanks

Slot Unbootable, no USB

Okay, this one seems slightly different, so anyone who has had the problem and found a solution, I'm all ears. While reflashing the second Q beta (over the second Q beta - I was getting Play Services FCs and rebooting didn't fix it) everything went fine until the command window closed and the phone stayed in the bootloader. After that the PC didn't recognize anything being plugged in or our, it's stuck on slot b, which is unbootable, I can't change it and I can't boot from it, because I can't talk to it. I've removed and replaced the driver, I'm using a USB 2.1 connection, the computer recognizes other phones on that cable, I've used the same combination to flash factory versions and sideload updates all year using exactly the same thing, so ...
Google recommended an RMA, so they did, and Fedex has it on the truck today for delivery but ... has anyone found a way to get this to work without changing the motherboard? (I've treated this battery well, and the phone's been a case since day 1 - who knows what I'm getting.)

Rukbat said:
Okay, this one seems slightly different, so anyone who has had the problem and found a solution, I'm all ears. While reflashing the second Q beta (over the second Q beta - I was getting Play Services FCs and rebooting didn't fix it) everything went fine until the command window closed and the phone stayed in the bootloader. After that the PC didn't recognize anything being plugged in or our, it's stuck on slot b, which is unbootable, I can't change it and I can't boot from it, because I can't talk to it. I've removed and replaced the driver, I'm using a USB 2.1 connection, the computer recognizes other phones on that cable, I've used the same combination to flash factory versions and sideload updates all year using exactly the same thing, so ...
Google recommended an RMA, so they did, and Fedex has it on the truck today for delivery but ... has anyone found a way to get this to work without changing the motherboard? (I've treated this battery well, and the phone's been a case since day 1 - who knows what I'm getting.)
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I would try skipsoft Android toolkit. It might not recognize your phone right off. Try uninstalling and reinstalling USB drivers through the toolkit with phone plugged in. Downloading and installing firmware, etc. It got me out of a bind once. Worth a try.

Hi, I got to this "not bootlable" situation for second time when I was downgrading from Q beta 2 back to Pie. But I am probably lucky one Same situation like you, only bootloader screen and PC didn't see my phone, but I was able to fix it I was in bootloader, connected to PC and I hold power button for long time (2 minutes maybe more). Phone was still restarting, bootlader screen, black screen, bootlader, black.....sometimes it vibrated. After this 2 minutes I just tried "flash-all.bat" command and phone arose from the dead and is working.

somin.n said:
Hi, I got to this "not bootlable" situation for second time when I was downgrading from Q beta 2 back to Pie. But I am probably lucky one Same situation like you, only bootloader screen and PC didn't see my phone, but I was able to fix it I was in bootloader, connected to PC and I hold power button for long time (2 minutes maybe more). Phone was still restarting, bootlader screen, black screen, bootlader, black.....sometimes it vibrated. After this 2 minutes I just tried "flash-all.bat" command and phone arose from the dead and is working.
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This should work. Had something similar happen to me, keep holding power for about 10 seconds or so while it keeps rebooting until you feel the phone vibrate. Release the power button, connect to the computer and it should detect it then.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78744315&postcount=31

somin.n, I just wanted to thank you for rescuing my phone. After a lot of problems with Q, I decided to go back to Pie and bricked the bootloader. I tried your trick and it came back - but ... I flashed Pie, it rebooted and hung on the "G" screen. So I did a factory reset and resigned myself to use the refurb they sent me. This morning I tried once more and flashed Pie. Voila! The phone works. The original, non-refurb, phone. So now, since the refurb they sent me has the "bootloader unlockable flag = '1', but the bootloader won't unlock" problem, which seems to be common, there's another refurb on its way. So on Tuesday, I'm returning two refurbs to Google.
But you saved my phone so, again, thank you.

Rukbat said:
somin.n, I just wanted to thank you for rescuing my phone...
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Hey, you are welcome I was really lost when it happened to me, because google is not selling phones in our country officialy, so no RMA and secondly, my pixel is my bussiness phone so I can't tell to my boss that my phone is broken because of flashing beta builds Yeah, I had to find a solution

Bricked Harrrrd

Metro variant on latest OTA
OEM unlocked
flashed twrp.img
installed magisk 21.4.zip
dog got in confrontation with phone in my hand and in twrp I hit a bunch of crap.
now i have brick -- no power on, no usb trigger, no vol dn+power....nothing
adb and fastboot dont see it.
possibilities....may have restored the SELinux
May have selected the slot b
anything else in twrp advanced tab......
android and linux knowledge at beginner to intermediate levels if im honest
what are my options?

2clacaze said:
Metro variant on latest OTA
OEM unlocked
flashed twrp.img
installed magisk 21.4.zip
dog got in confrontation with phone in my hand and in twrp I hit a bunch of crap.
now i have brick -- no power on, no usb trigger, no vol dn+power....nothing
adb and fastboot dont see it.
possibilities....may have restored the SELinux
May have selected the slot b
anything else in twrp advanced tab......
android and linux knowledge at beginner to intermediate levels if im honest
what are my options?
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On the computer Under device manager does anything pop up when phone is plugged in?

JimmyJurner said:
On the computer Under device manager does anything pop up when phone is plugged in?
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nothimg

2clacaze said:
nothimg
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Not even showing this : Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008????

JimmyJurner said:
Not even showing this : Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008????
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Not a thing under devices, removable our otherwise

You said that it won't power on? Correct? "No power on".. I'm assuming that's what you meant.
If that's the case, it's obvious why nothing shows up when you connect to the computer. I mean, it sounds like you have a fried unit.
I'm not even sure how you could do that in twrp. Lol.
The only phone I've ever had that wouldn't power on, was due to water damage (sweat damage actually). Which I'm still fired up about. I had a pixel 3a. Just 6 months old. Had a case on it.. was walking and talking to my niece, and pouring sweat as I walked/hiked. We hung up, and I noticed I had phantom touches all over the screen. I wiped the phone down, powered it down, sat it in rice for 12 hours. Turned it back on, and it was worse than before. So many phantom touches that I couldnt even power it down. Then volume down and power wouldn't take me to recovery so I could power it off.
I literally just had to sit there for 2 hours as it fried itself alive from water damage. Next morning, I noticed no warming on quick charge. No screen paper. No vibe on startup. Plugged into laptop, nothing registered.
It wasn't bricked. It was gone.
I know it's not a waterproofed phone. But sweat? Destroying a $400 phone? Give me an effin break.
Luckily, I pay my verizon bill with mastercard.. and all mastercard users (even debit cards) have phone insurance built into it. I called them, submitted the paperwork. (Copy of phone bill, copy of bank statement showing I used the mastercard, and a copy of the estimate showing it was a total loss. $349). The deductible was $50.. so 4 business days later, they deposited $299.99 in my account. And I bought the g stylus with it. And when I went to Walmart to buy it, it wouldn't ring up. It was supposed to be $299.99. I found a price match of $249.99. and when he was trying to ring it u, it wouldn't show up on their system. They did a search for it on their website, and he didn't know the difference between a g stylus and a g fast. I got it for $129.99. unlocked. (Was $179.99 on the website, and I had found a 50 off price match for the 299 priced phone earlier, so they gave me the 50 off 179.99. so needless to say -- I got a heckuva deal.
The g stylus is basically a pixel 3a. Except a bigger screen, better battery, and a stylus. The 665 actually performs better on multi ore than the 670 does. Because the 665 has 4 cores at 2ghz, rather than just 2 like the pixel. And the gpu is over closed to almost 1ghz on this phone. So no complaints other than picture quality. The pixel 3a is among the best camera phones ever made to this day. But with the g stylus, running a heavily tweaked and microtuned gcam mod.. its not a huge huge difference unless you are zoomed in. Then it's obvious.

It's possible you tried to boot into a different slot. Hold power and volume down until the phone boots into recovery. Unless you deleted the recovery image, it should still boot into recovery. From recovery you can flash a fresh install of Android or attempt to boot into twrp. I.e. "fastboot boot c:/'location-of-twrp.img'" as to attempt to boot into slot a. I had the same problem and just installed Android one from lollinets site. The variant of Android 11 that works for our metro moto g pro is "11 rprs31.q4u-20-28".
Volume up and power should take you to fastbootd. If hard ware keys aren't working it's either a dead battery or hard bricked. In which case, be careful with the next one.

ok heres the deal .... i came into this thread late but i have made every mistake possiable with this device and have dang near any file to fix the mistakes most of which were on purpose ... i pulled a couple noob reinforced actions tho like flashing sofiar instead of sofiap .... if you still need help brotha hit me up we will team viewer and ill teach you how to correct your issues no prob

sings ..... one of these things is not like the others .......

Vampire Lord said:
ok heres the deal .... i came into this thread late but i have made every mistake possiable with this device and have dang near any file to fix the mistakes most of which were on purpose ... i pulled a couple noob reinforced actions tho like flashing sofiar instead of sofiap .... if you still need help brotha hit me up we will team viewer and ill teach you how to correct your issues no prob
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I have similar issue. When i connect to charger the white led flashes for exactly one minute then stops. Plug to computer i get nothing. Installed qualcomm drivers still nothing. Tried edl cord no change.
Im not sure what caused this. I was going to root so i unlocked bootloader. Flashed cwm. After flashing cwm its had errors mounting a couple partions. I powerd off and started digging here and on google, found couple options to try. When i tried to power up it was dead. No responce, no conection to computer... just one min of flashing led when i plug into wall charger. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Can you hard reset into recovery

If not does adb recognize your device

If it does you can always force boot twrp from debug

Shane8705 said:
I have similar issue. When i connect to charger the white led flashes for exactly one minute then stops. Plug to computer i get nothing. Installed qualcomm drivers still nothing. Tried edl cord no change.
Im not sure what caused this. I was going to root so i unlocked bootloader. Flashed cwm. After flashing cwm its had errors mounting a couple partions. I powerd off and started digging here and on google, found couple options to try. When i tried to power up it was dead. No responce, no conection to computer... just one min of flashing led when i plug into wall charger. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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I did exactly this. But I get no flashing LED when I plug into wall charger.
I've tried holding vol down + power for 20+ seconds, nothing.
I've tried holding vol up + power for 20+ seconds, nothing.
When I connect to my computer I no longer see the 9008 in device manager.

abense said:
I did exactly this. But I get no flashing LED when I plug into wall charger.
I've tried holding vol down + power for 20+ seconds, nothing.
I've tried holding vol up + power for 20+ seconds, nothing.
When I connect to my computer I no longer see the 9008 in device manager.
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Hardbricked mine - I have the metro G Stylus 2021. |
Switched to slot B and now I have nothing.

acrinym said:
Hardbricked mine - I have the metro G Stylus 2021. |
Switched to slot B and now I have nothing.
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This section is for the 2020 G Stylus.