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(Just wrote a detailed post and when I went to post, it said I wasn't logged in and erased it...will give a quick run down and can supply more detail where needed as I work through fixing my phone)
Stuck on the white htc splash screen is my most recent problem. Sometimes it gets by that but then boots into recovery. I think bananagranola has the solution in their sig to flash a boot.img. and think I'm comfortable with how to do that, just need to find that file (in the ROM zip?)
What led up to this.
Successfully unlocked and flashed to CM7 back in late Jan/early Feb.
Started experiencing random freezing about two weeks ago.
A week later (last weekend) flashed Jellybean (R10). Worked great for a couple hours then started having the same random freezes.
If things froze I'd have to remove the battery and reboot. After a day or two of this though it'd get to the point that even that would leave me on a frozen jellybean boot animation. So I'd go and factory/data reset in CWM Recovery, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik then reflash the ROM. and I'd be good for a little while more.
Tried flashing back to CM7 but Recovery didn't like the file (it has a good MD5 when checked) Had tried my restore point from early Feb before to no avail, so decided this morning to try other restore points from the last few weeks, right before and after switching to JellyBean. They got further, the first step is something with boot then something with system. It failed on the system part. OK...so I wiped and reflashed jellybean again, and now I am to my splash screen freezes.
I should have asked for help much earlier (lesson learned!) but here I am asking now...what's the first step.
Do I test out and see if I hang on the splash screen again. I haven't turned the phone on in about an hour. Worried of screwing it up more.
Thanks all.
TL;DR Believe I'm stuck on splash screen and know solution to that. Have had phone flashed with new ROM with no prob for months, recently freezing, regardless of ROM. Hoping for advice on getting things working again, starting with whether fixing the splash screen thing first is where to start
splash screen issue seems fixed
Seems I fixed the issue with the splash screen. Booted into recovery and reflashed the Jellytime ROM.
Got all the way into Android. after a few minutes I rebooted into recovery and loaded the gapps. Rebooted, it updated apps (not downloading, the popup that says it updates) and was setting up my account when it froze again as I entered a wifi password. Pulled the battery and tried again, got through that and all the way to the lock screen. froze shortly after that.
Now when I reboot, it locks on the boot animation. The Jellytime screen flashes the brightness as few times as things are loading. after the 5th or 6th flash it just sits there frozen.
a new SD card is in the mail, so I may post again when that arrives to see what I can do with an almost clean slate.
irishpanther said:
Seems I fixed the issue with the splash screen. Booted into recovery and reflashed the Jellytime ROM.
Got all the way into Android. after a few minutes I rebooted into recovery and loaded the gapps. Rebooted, it updated apps (not downloading, the popup that says it updates) and was setting up my account when it froze again as I entered a wifi password. Pulled the battery and tried again, got through that and all the way to the lock screen. froze shortly after that.
Now when I reboot, it locks on the boot animation. The Jellytime screen flashes the brightness as few times as things are loading. after the 5th or 6th flash it just sits there frozen.
a new SD card is in the mail, so I may post again when that arrives to see what I can do with an almost clean slate.
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That doesn't sound like an sdcard problem. Are you full wiping?
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That doesn't sound like an sdcard problem. Are you full wiping?
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I'm wiping data/factory reset and cache as well as the dalvik cache.
The steps to flashing a ROM by sashank at link mention to format /boot and /system. I didn't specifically do those...but don't see the option for /boot in any menus I've checked.
A week or so ago I was beginning to suspect there was an issue with the memory but I never found the right search terms to find out how to do a memtest if that's what would have found any problems. Yesterday I did come across some discussion of a corrupt partition/bad chips in some HTC devices. I followed the directions there and through adb ran dmesg | grep mmc0 and the output was similar to the 'normal' one given and showed none of the messages they claimed to indicate a bad chip.
I'm not too concerned with any data from the phone...I backed all that up long ago and the rest restores from my google account. So if I getting things running would normally raise concerns of lost data, that's not an issue for me.
Thanks for taking the time to read. I try to be brief...but don't want to leave anything out.
Wanted to update here before trying to start a new thread and clogging up the board. The title of this thread is not up to date though.
I can hboot just fine and boot into recovery just fine. My phone is unlocked and rooted, ENG S-OFF from when I used AAHK quite a while ago.
When trying to navigate from menu to menu in Recovery I will get the following error messages (best I remember from last time I was in there, I've let the phone be for the last 2-3 days now)
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
This doesn't show up at first though, only after I do a Wipe Data/Factory Reset. And if I understand correctly, that wipes /cache so maybe that's causing these errors?
Anyway, after wiping the dalvik cache I can flash a ROM, I've been using Jellytime, I haven't been able to rollback to CM7, not sure why not.
Jellytime will run though...at first! the first couple of boots I can get in and get through registering my google account and have it begin restoring apps if i make that selection. The time I have to work on the phone before it freezes gets shorter and shorter though. I have to remove the battery to get it to reboot. Eventually I am left with the phone hung during the boot animation. I've left it for over an hour before...it's definitely hung there.
So my reading leads me to believe corrupt partitions. I'm not finding a lot on what I should do to reformat and maybe repartition or whatever I may need to do to recover a functioning phone. I don't care about any data on the phone. I just want to get things working again. I ended up getting a new SD card during all this that arrived earlier. If I can get my phone working, I'd prefer to use that from here on out too. I can use the adb in recovery mode just fine if that's necessary to rejigger things to work.
Can anyone help reset my partitions, if that's what this issue seems to be? If not...any ideas?
Thanks.
Recovery and version?
bananagranola said:
Recovery and version?
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ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
Full wipe?
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Full wipe?
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Yes. Everytime I've flashed, I've followed:
wipe data/factory resent
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
unless there's more I can do.
irishpanther said:
Yes. Everytime I've flashed, I've followed:
wipe data/factory resent
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
unless there's more I can do.
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Maybe try a different ROM, preferably a stock-ish ARHD or similar ROM?
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Maybe try a different ROM, preferably a stock-ish ARHD or similar ROM?
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OK, I'll give this a try. The issue with the freezing is why I moved from CM7 though (which had been stable for four months) so it's reproduced itself in different ROMS. I'll post back once I give this a try. Thanks.
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Maybe try a different ROM, preferably a stock-ish ARHD or similar ROM?
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I gave Android Revolution a shot. During the flash it gave a message which might also be why I wasn't able to flash back to CM7. The MD5 did verify.
Code:
assert failed:write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img","boot")
When I went to reboot, I ended up in Jellytime. Of course I had to sign back in to google apps and those things were reset from the dalvik wipe. Shortly there after the phone froze.
On reboot I tried a logcat. Didn't get it right from the start (you can send the command during the boot animation if I read correctly) but captured the failure of things. It's back around the 09:02 portion of the log. To my eyes it looks similar to others I've collected. Especially the message
Code:
Fatal signal 7 (SIGBUS)
though I haven't been able to figure out much about that, or identify what it is before that that could give another clue as to what is screwy since that's maybe (Probably?) related to the flashing issues.
Over the summer I rooted my Droid Razr HD phone and recently have been trying different roms to use and finally found one I liked (Liquid JB official). After being out late one night my phone died because it ran out of battery. Once I got home I tried plugging it in and letting it charge for awhile before turning it back on. When I finally tried turning it on my phone got stuck on the red Motorola "M" symbol. I let it sit for almost 30 min thinking it was just trying to load everything but this never changed. Is this usual for a rooted phone not to be able to turn on? It seems to me like my phone is not able to find the boot up file for the rom? Any help would be great I really would like to go back to using a different rom.
This problem has also happened to me using other roms to like Beanstalk and Eclipse and happens whether my phone dies or I shut it off or just reboot it.
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Over the summer I rooted my Droid Razr HD phone and recently have been trying different roms to use and finally found one I liked (Liquid JB official). After being out late one night my phone died because it ran out of battery. Once I got home I tried plugging it in and letting it charge for awhile before turning it back on. When I finally tried turning it on my phone got stuck on the red Motorola "M" symbol. I let it sit for almost 30 min thinking it was just trying to load everything but this never changed. Is this usual for a rooted phone not to be able to turn on? It seems to me like my phone is not able to find the boot up file for the rom? Any help would be great I really would like to go back to using a different rom.
This problem has also happened to me using other roms to like Beanstalk and Eclipse and happens whether my phone dies or I shut it off or just reboot it.
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thats defiantly not normal. you should wipe everything 100% clean and start over, also updating your recovery to the latest version. during the wipe process make sure you wipe "data-media-/sdcard" too (NOT external sd, unless you want to and have things backed up).
also, its extremely bad for the battery to let it run down to the point where it shuts off. its only a matter of time, repeatedly doing that, before you plug it in and it will not charge no matter how long you leave it on for.
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thats defiantly not normal. you should wipe everything 100% clean and start over, also updating your recovery to the latest version. during the wipe process make sure you wipe "data-media-/sdcard" too (NOT external sd, unless you want to and have things backed up).
also, its extremely bad for the battery to let it run down to the point where it shuts off. its only a matter of time, repeatedly doing that, before you plug it in and it will not charge no matter how long you leave it on for.
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When I am installing a new rom I wipe Dalvik Cache, System, Data, and Cache each three times and then I also Format Data Three times. Is this what you mean my wipe everything 100%?
Also I am currently running TWRP v2.5.0.0, I have found a newer version on twrps website but when I go into Rom Manager and check for updates my phone does not come up as a possible clockworkmod Recovery?
SELind01 said:
Over the summer I rooted my Droid Razr HD phone and recently have been trying different roms to use and finally found one I liked (Liquid JB official). After being out late one night my phone died because it ran out of battery. Once I got home I tried plugging it in and letting it charge for awhile before turning it back on. When I finally tried turning it on my phone got stuck on the red Motorola "M" symbol. I let it sit for almost 30 min thinking it was just trying to load everything but this never changed. Is this usual for a rooted phone not to be able to turn on? It seems to me like my phone is not able to find the boot up file for the rom? Any help would be great I really would like to go back to using a different rom.
This problem has also happened to me using other roms to like Beanstalk and Eclipse and happens whether my phone dies or I shut it off or just reboot it.
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In all likelihood, this is not a LiquidSmooth issue. I would suggest a clean install as the previous posters suggested. The latest stable version of LS is now at v2.10 for Android 4.3
LS 2.10 must be installed as follows, according to the devs:
New Flashing Instructions
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvik cache
format /system
Install ROM, NOT GAPPS YET!!
Reboot system, first boot may take a few minutes, don't panic ;-D
Setup your phones settings, anything that isn't Google related
or let your phone sit for 5 minutes
reboot back into recovery
wipe cache and dalvik
then flash gapps
reboot and enjoy
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For the xt926, the download page for LS 2.10 is here: http://d-h.st/users/jsnweitzel/?fld_id=15202#files
gapps 8/13 or newer are supposed to be used with this ROM. dl from here: http://d-h.st/users/jsnweitzel/?fld_id=21058#files
The official ROM page is over at G+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117452480298315341829, if you have any additional questions.
Give it a whirl, and let us know what happens. Good luck.
SELind01 said:
When I am installing a new rom I wipe Dalvik Cache, System, Data, and Cache each three times and then I also Format Data Three times. Is this what you mean my wipe everything 100%?
Also I am currently running TWRP v2.5.0.0, I have found a newer version on twrps website but when I go into Rom Manager and check for updates my phone does not come up as a possible clockworkmod Recovery?
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you are wiping very well, i was just confirming you wipe everything possible short of the external sd.
the wipe im talking about in twrp is wiped when you wipe "data", the one where you have to type "yes" before it will wipe. in cwm, in the formatting section (i forget what its called), there is an option that specifically says "data-media /internal sd" or something close to that.
as for the latest recoveries, here is a tool by Tucstwo that i have been updating lately http://www.mediafire.com/download/2o061zcmzlaycb5/Razr_HD_Recovery_Flasher_V8.rar
also, twrp 2.5 doesnt have all the selinux bugs worked out, you need 2.6.3.0, which is in the above utility.
Soooo. The photon i've been using since june lost it's identity (IMEI, ESN, MEID, etc. all GONE and DFS tool kept throwing nasty errors every time it tried to read or write to the phone) so i swapped the board out of my other photon with a broken screen into the pristine chassis of the amnesiac phone.
now the fun starts: i RSD back to stock to activate the phone, all's good while i'm on stock. but if i flash a rom like skrillax's CM 10.2, the phone will boot fine the first time, then upon reboot will hang at the unlocked bootloader warning screen. restoring a backup of stock fixes this issue, but i'd really love to have my CM back
Any ideas?
Weird
I had that once, during my endeavors. After wiping cache and dalvik again, it finally booted after like 5 minutes, though (never had anything take that long to rebuild the dalvik, though)
...but I assume you tried that already. Hrm.
angahith said:
Weird
I had that once, during my endeavors. After wiping cache and dalvik again, it finally booted after like 5 minutes, though (never had anything take that long to rebuild the dalvik, though)
...but I assume you tried that already. Hrm.
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well, i wiped everything (system, data, cache, and dalvik) like 4 times and flashed again. It did hang on reboot again, but i wiped cache and dalvik 3 more times and it's working great now!.
Thanks for the advice!
solitarywarrior1 said:
well, i wiped everything (system, data, cache, and dalvik) like 4 times and flashed again. It did hang on reboot again, but i wiped cache and dalvik 3 more times and it's working great now!.
Thanks for the advice!
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Update: it still seems to have issues rebooting without clearing caches, but shutting it down and cold-booting works perfectly.
solitarywarrior1 said:
Update: it still seems to have issues rebooting without clearing caches, but shutting it down and cold-booting works perfectly.
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I just ran into this issue too, after flashing CM10.2.
I can't boot any ROM right now. The phone always shows the unlocked bootloader screen and returns (without button press) to the recovery..
I will try flashing the stock FW with RSD Lite.
I have just been searching for a reason for this issue also.
I was running stock jelly bean, unlocked, twrp. Flashed CM 10.2, and it runs fine right until I reboot the device then it hangs at the red Motorola symbol. I have to hold the power button until it starts vibrating to shut it off. If I boot into recovery and do a factory reset it will then boot again.
I have tried updating to the latest version of TWRP (from 2.5), and tried both Milestone and Nightly versions of CM. I have flashed this phone at least 20 times today. Issue persists with or without Gapps.
I REALLY don't want to go back to stock after all this time I've spent, any ideas on what is causing this?
i had a similar problem monthes ago. i was able to boot but its not a fix more a workaround.
go to bootloader menu (Power+Vol-Up+Vol-Down)
and try the first option it called "normal powerup"
if it not work go again to bootloader menu and try "BP Tool"
same problem here...
after flashing cyanogenmod 10.2 and the first reboot the phone hangs
i restored original moto 4.1.2 from nandroid and now phone runs without problems. is there a problem with cm 10.2 ?
i used last night 20131127 gsm and swapped bootloaderimage.
Know this is an old thread, but after Motorola recently announced that they won't be bringing KitKat to the Photon Q, I finally decided to root and flash mine.
Can't begin to say how disappointed I am at Motorola on this one - the MSM8960 is well supported by KitKat and there are no technical reasons not to... at least Motorola is tactily admitting this is a penny-pinching business decision.
Anyways, I'm stuck at the same hang. Tried flashing known-good Photon Q builds and using the latest TWRP.
It took three flashes just to get the latest stable TWRP for it to take. I suspect the "JBBL" (Motorola Jelly Bean-era Boot Loader) is at fault here. CM just committed some patches to (in the near future) resume issuing builds for JBBL devices, but that won't fix the underlying problems.
And, since Motorola is abandoning the device, it looks like those won't get fixed either.
My next step is to restore via RSDLite, update PRL, Firmware, and Profile in stock ROM, and then start over. Disturbing that's needed, but now Motorola is Lenovo's problem I guess.
How long did you let it boot? Out of five XT897's I've owned, one woul ALWAYS take 15-60 minutes after an initial flash. I guess something was wrong with the memory. After an RSD-return-to-stock and back to CM it would take at least an hour to boot (repair process in the back during bootloader-logo). A wipe (internal too) and CM and it would take 10-15 minutes to get past bootloader logo.
Yesterday I restored a nandroid, wouldn't boot. Installed via zip and 15 minutes later it did boot again.
So just maybe you also have one of those special Photon's . It's worth a try.
I used TWRP 2.7.1.1 and M8 Snapshot in case you were wondering.
So I had a problem where I had issues getting a ROM onto my phone after entirely formatting it.
Some kind members helped me to get the phone running again and then getting TWRP 2.6.3.1 on it with the 4.1.2 build.
This was flashed to the phone using Odin after using E-Z Unlock 1.2 to unlock the bootloader and install TWRP 2.6.0.0.
I saw some random issues when I would reboot or power off and on with it locking on the Samsung Galaxy S III logo... but the phone rebooted eventually and I was able to continue use.
Fast forward to today -- for the first time in awhile, my battery fully discharged. When I got home, I plugged in and tried to power on my phone. Locked at the Samsung Galaxy S III logo... EVERY. TIME.
So I go into recovery... I find that the first thing that greets me is a message asking me for a password. This is odd, since I never put a password on anything... I try to mount the system/cache/external partitions. I try to factory reset to try a different rom. I'm told it works but there's a failure message because of E: cannot decrypt data. I try to flash a different rom anyway. It says it was successful. I flash the gapps, more success messages. I try to reboot and again I'm locked at the Samsung Galaxy S III logo.
Random side note -- sometimes my Samsung Galaxy S III logo has a blue android cat of some sort on it... not sure where that came from (one of the CMR flashes when I was trying to fix the phone, methinks).
It's so strange -- because I was obviously able to load a custom ROM with the current bootloader and recovery -- and now after my phone's battery drained, I'm back to being dead in the water... I really need to get to the bottom of having my phone boot into a ROM reliably.
Previous ROM was Gummy Nightly 01-06-14.
New flashed ROM is CyanFox 2.0.2.
Please help. I need my phone up and working as soon as possible here, I'm expecting important calls in the morning, so this is horrible timing.
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So I had a problem where I had issues getting a ROM onto my phone after entirely formatting it.
Some kind members helped me to get the phone running again and then getting TWRP 2.6.3.1 on it with the 4.1.2 build.
This was flashed to the phone using Odin after using E-Z Unlock 1.2 to unlock the bootloader and install TWRP 2.6.0.0.
I saw some random issues when I would reboot or power off and on with it locking on the Samsung Galaxy S III logo... but the phone rebooted eventually and I was able to continue use.
Fast forward to today -- for the first time in awhile, my battery fully discharged. When I got home, I plugged in and tried to power on my phone. Locked at the Samsung Galaxy S III logo... EVERY. TIME.
So I go into recovery... I find that the first thing that greets me is a message asking me for a password. This is odd, since I never put a password on anything... I try to mount the system/cache/external partitions. I try to factory reset to try a different rom. I'm told it works but there's a failure message because of E: cannot decrypt data. I try to flash a different rom anyway. It says it was successful. I flash the gapps, more success messages. I try to reboot and again I'm locked at the Samsung Galaxy S III logo.
Random side note -- sometimes my Samsung Galaxy S III logo has a blue android cat of some sort on it... not sure where that came from (one of the CMR flashes when I was trying to fix the phone, methinks).
It's so strange -- because I was obviously able to load a custom ROM with the current bootloader and recovery -- and now after my phone's battery drained, I'm back to being dead in the water... I really need to get to the bottom of having my phone boot into a ROM reliably.
Previous ROM was Gummy Nightly 01-06-14.
New flashed ROM is CyanFox 2.0.2.
Please help. I need my phone up and working as soon as possible here, I'm expecting important calls in the morning, so this is horrible timing.
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At this point I would take the phone back to factory stock, are you able to boot into Odin mode?
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At this point I would take the phone back to factory stock, are you able to boot into Odin mode?
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Yeah -- I can boot everywhere, pretty much.
I ended up formatting everything... I tried CyanFox again, but after install, it was throwing errors all over the place (not sure why).
I then formatted everything again and loaded up Gummy... it seems to be working relatively well.
I'm not sure what caused TWRP to think it was encrypted, but I'm guessing that had something to do with the issue?
Is there anything I can do to try to prevent this type of issue from happening in the future?
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Yeah -- I can boot everywhere, pretty much.
I ended up formatting everything... I tried CyanFox again, but after install, it was throwing errors all over the place (not sure why).
I then formatted everything again and loaded up Gummy... it seems to be working relatively well.
I'm not sure what caused TWRP to think it was encrypted, but I'm guessing that had something to do with the issue?
Is there anything I can do to try to prevent this type of issue from happening in the future?
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I know for a fact that there has been issues with the flashing of 4.4 and encryption. The best bet is to turn encryption on then off again. Now you said you never encrypted it but the Turn it on then off again approch might work here. I also know for a while TWRP had issues flashing 4.4 so it might be worth it to run CWM.
Hello to everyone, posting this here as I don't have access to ask in the forum post for BlissPop - I.E fresh user
I'm having issues with my "recalled" shield tablet (wifi), I had it flashed to BlissPop successfully previously but when I tried reflashing it the other day I was met with a major roadbump: It just won't load the ROM.
The tablet freezes at the screen following the installing and optimization of each application - basically my screen is stuck at a small wall of text saying the following:
"BlissPop is starting...
Powered by Team Bliss
Starting apps.
Please wait for the optimization process to finish."
And before you ask, yes I have waited long enough (left it on through the night just to be sure - this thing won't load).
My procedure is as follows.
Bootloader is CWM and it is rooted beforehand.
1st off going into recovery mode.
#2 Wipe data/cache/dalvik cache - done
#3 Installed BlissPop via sideload, then gapps_pico afterwards (I've tried wiping cache+dalvik before installing gapps to no help.)
#4 Rebooting from CWM, here I've tried both allowing and denying CWM to "fix" root settings.
I've tried the first ROM I installed (when wifi/lte versions were available) and the newer releases - same problem with both.
After this I am met with this screen that won't budge, anyone got a possible solution to this issue?
Hey I just received my replacement tablet and was going through this process too. I did some digging around and found / remembered that having an external SD card socketed can cause this problem. So I powered my device off, removed the card and then rebooted without major issue.
Hope this helps.
I don't have any SD card in my tablet though, thanks anyways.
Did you format system?
If not then do format system/data/cache
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Tried doing a format of system as well as data/cache/dalvik, still getting same result :/
Not sure its still helpful or not...i saw the xda thread regarding to this thread and whoever tried to flash the last zip got stuck at boot. So I'm guessing if you will flash a different one (by this time maybe they upload a new one) maybe you could get rid of it..
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When I switched to BlissPop I had to format /data because TWRP was unable to wipe it. TWRP offers that option unter "advanced wipe". Might be the same with CWM.
any help my phone stuck on this boot loop and i dont know what to do now , any fix ? i dont wanna have broken phone i did everything that u guys said nothing works