Hi. First, I'll explain to you that for 10 years I had no contact with flashing phones. I didn't have any problems with the previous models. So I stopped somewhere at the level of the Samsung Galaxy S3-S4. Some time ago I decided that I would bring two Asus tf101s back to life and install a new KitKiss ROM on them. I set to work confidently. Turns out it's not that simple. I can do nothing. Some of the links have expired and the tips seem outdated. I can not upload a new recovery or even root the device. Strange things are happening. First of all, after turning on the device in recovery mode, after some time it goes into system boot and exits recovery. I've tried many ways and I don't understand any of it anymore. In the command line (CMD) it seems to see the device but does not want to respond to any commands, even to "adb reboot fastboot". I can do like this :
1. Ask for simple instructions for a "boy" and current links to the necessary files.
2. Look for someone who will perform a miracle and install the required Android for me.
Will someone help me?
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Hi all,
Here is my sad saga.
Today, I decided I wanted to move up to ICS. I had 2.3.4 on a Koodoo phone that I decided was ready for the brave new world of ICS (bought it off Kijiji, now running it on Rogers which means I have no option of bringing it into a shop).
Ran into some issues but some good folks saved my butt in a number of tough spots. However, my grave seems to have been dug deeper by the minute. Essentially, I have managed to upgrade to 4.0.3. but am stuck with no 3G connection, hence no phone signal. This is a HUGE issue since I require my phone for work (foolish move #1 of the night).
Here are things I have tried and the challenges I have faced thus far:
1) CWM. Have not been able to access it or install it successfully. However have somehow managed to root the device. I did it through a one-click root/CWM tool I found online but have never been able to access CWM from the recovery screen, only stock recovery.
2) Changing the radio baseband version. Fail, since I have no CWM. Or Root Explorer because...
3) I can't access the google Market as I have no data connection. And did I mention no wireless? I live out in a rural area (sad story #1). It's ethernet only, sadly
4) Also, I have very limited access to a PC. I do have one at work, but I have my own macbook. Although I could use the PC at work to try some stuff out, I can't be spending my entire day Googling for help. Seems like employers would frown greatly on it. I've already spent a solid 4 hours on the forums and Internet tonight trying to find something that works. Absolutely no dice.
5) Attempted to get back to 2.3.6. No joy. Phone won't budge from 4.0.3. and I think it has to do a huge part with no CWM.
6) Factory reset a number of times. Still stuck on 4.0.3. with no 3G connection.
7) Reset APNs to default. Still no luck. Perhaps it isn't the radio baseband after all?
8) Also tried entering and leaving airplane mode a number of times. Zero luck.
9) I have a pretty low comfort level with PCs to be honest. I am open to all instructions, as long as they are detailed and written For Dummies.
Please help. I really, truly do not know what else to do or where else to turn but the forums. I've tried everything I could think of and I'm afraid this will impact my job since I need to be in constant phone contact for work. I'm exhausted from stress and worry. I swear this will be the last time I experiment with my phone (I know I've said it before, but this time I MEAN it!)
Thank you all you kind-hearted folk out there for anything you can do to help.
first cell phone model you have and that you had changed baseband before all ... You can also try a new version of CMW in case, can also be kernel problem that uses TO in the mobile ...
So you have a nexus with barely PC access running ics minus a recovery. Good news is your in luck. You need proper tools to do the job. Easiest method is either on that Mac or at work, install the phones drivers. search Google for the fastboot binary for the operating system your using. Once the drivers are installed boot to fast boot not recovery but the screen where you choose recovery. Open a terminal on the PC and type fastboot devices. No period. Should return a serial number on the screen. Your good to go. When you download the fastboot program, put it in a folder on the PC. Also put cwm for your phone in a .img format not a .zip. That should give you a name like cwm-2.5.5.0.img. When you open the terminal, navigate to the folder with both files. After typing fastboot devices and seeing the number type fastboot flash recovery cwm-and-whatever.img
That should give you cwm.
Also you got root have you tried downloading rommanager apk from the net putting it on the sd then installing. Once it installs try to flash recovery from the app
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
You have to relax first lol. When you're panicky nothing gets done so calm down. Do what the guy above says. Install cwm with fast boot. First install the android sdk then get the drivers. Get fast boot file down as well. Remember that the command fastboot flash whatever varies from operating systems.
With cwm installed, do a test. Backup your efs folder , which is essentially extremely important. You would better do a nandroud backup. Then, try various radios. See if that's your issue. If not change to trying out new roms . Worse case scenario go back to your 2.3.6 rom by flashing with cwm or install cyanogen mod 7.
Best of luck
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2
dreamsforgotten said:
So you have a nexus with barely PC access running ics minus a recovery. Good news is your in luck. You need proper tools to do the job. Easiest method is either on that Mac or at work, install the phones drivers. search Google for the fastboot binary for the operating system your using. Once the drivers are installed boot to fast boot not recovery but the screen where you choose recovery. Open a terminal on the PC and type fastboot devices. No period. Should return a serial number on the screen. Your good to go. When you download the fastboot program, put it in a folder on the PC. Also put cwm for your phone in a .img format not a .zip. That should give you a name like cwm-2.5.5.0.img. When you open the terminal, navigate to the folder with both files. After typing fastboot devices and seeing the number type fastboot flash recovery cwm-and-whatever.img
That should give you cwm.
Also you got root have you tried downloading rommanager apk from the net putting it on the sd then installing. Once it installs try to flash recovery from the app
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Follow dreamsforgotten's instructions should get you out of the problem.
And yeah, relax.
You flashed the wrong ROM. the i9020a never got 4.0.3, it went straight from 2.3.6 to 4.0.4. you flashed a ROM for the i9020/i9023. This means that you have a US modem, a problem with those in the gingerbread days is that if you toggled 3G off, you lost it.
Now, I'm not 100% sure this will fix your issue, it *will* bring you back to proper stock image for your phone. Also, keep in mind, that you are responsible for anything you do to your phone, I in no way take any responsibility.
Instructions are for windows
Start by downloading the factory image:
Factory image for your phone
(ref) https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Uncompress this file, you will need the following files:
Image-sojua-imm76d.zip
bootloader-crespo-i9020xxkl1.img
radio-crespo-i9020uckj1.img
Put these all in a folder, you'll need them shortly
Now you need to connect your phone to the computer. follow this guide, part 1 ONLY:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
You should still be in the bootloader when you do the following steps, (turn phone off, press and hold the volume down, power up the phone)
Grab a copy of fastboot.exe and put it in the folder with the IMG files (PM me if you can't find one)
Now, test to make sure your phone is seen by fastboot:
Open a cmd prompt and go to the folder where the img files and fastboot are stored.
Type: fastboot devices
you should get a response like this:
C:\temp\nexus image files>fastboot devices
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fastboot
(x's will be alphanumeric)
This means that fastboot can now see your device. if you get nothing, something went wrong above.. troubleshoot that.
If everything is good, start flashing:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-crespo-i9020xxkl1.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-crespo-i9020uckj1.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-sojua-imm76d.zip
Reboot your phone and be *Very* patient with the first boot.
You should now be good.
Thanks all so very much for all the help! It was extremely helpful and really helped to get my head around things.
What I ended up doing was (for those who might be stuck in the same situation as me):
1) Wipe everything. EVERYTHING. Used fastboot into CWM to help me do that.
2) Put in Kustom Kream found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399956
3) CM9 from here:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=crespo
* Not super stable to be honest; I've had at least three times where my entire phone randomly shut down and went into the CM9 boot screen and was stuck there until I did a battery pull. Reinstalled each time through CWM. Hope this gets fixed soon!
I found that Kustom Kream put CWM AND rooted my phone AND had everything working in terms of radio bands, sending SMS, etc. I originally had major issues with radios but now I have KB3 although the signal is kind of weak. Maybe because I live in a relatively far out suburban area?
But this solved my problems. Good luck to anyone out there stuck where I am, I feel your pain!
I would recommend that you at least flash a radio that is designed to work with your model - ucjk. That way you won't have any issues if you toggle to 2G.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Hello Everyone,
I have searched this forum and followed many useful threads which seemed related to my issue, alas none have actually been able to fix my phone.
I am using a stock ROM which upgraded to marshmallow not too long ago. The other day my phone rebooted for no reason got it's self into a boot loop. Since them I have tried the following:
1) I have used recovery mode and cleared the cache/performed a factory reset. I just the get the can't mount/cache line pop up.
2) Tried to use ADB to boot an image over the USB but couldn't get much from this (so I may have missed something with this).
3) Tried to use fastboot to move flash back to a version of marshmallow downloaded. When I go to flash files in I get failed messages on command prompt. (Failed, remote flash write error).
additional info
1) the device was encrypted from the settings menu when functional.
Any advice or help would be good at this point. Let me know if additional information is needed.
Thanks!
Ok, I've been reading around the forum for about a week, trying to solve a problem with an original moto g (falcon). Basically my cousin got the moto g a few years back, and I, in my ignorance, tried to root the device for him. What I can remember was oem unlocking the bootloader with Motorola's unlock code through their website and adb. then my cousin freaked about the warranty warning on the boot animation, and decided against it. So cut to now, I'm a little more experienced, the phone's years old now, and he'd like to refresh it with a new rom, which I suggested, trying to help him. So forgetting what I'd originally done those years ago, I started the process of rooting the phone, installing a custom recovery, to hopefully put a lighter rom on it for him.
OK so it's a UK Retail on tesco mobile, moto g xt1032 running Android 5.1.
in bootloader menu it says "Device Locked status 2", dunno what this is in relation to.
first I checked the bootloader was still unlocked, and adb said it was. so I tried to use CF-autoroot to finish the job, but there was issues. it restarted the phone into fastboot mode, but when the script started, pc end did nothing, on the phone it said, "flashing unlock" and just sat there for 10-15mins doing nothing (i left it the time, just incase it was doing it).
So i read a little more, and found because i'd already unlocked the bootloader, I could just flash a custom recovery and root from adb? so I downloaded the latest twrp and tried. I was unable to do so. it said the partition wasn't the right size? should have documented it, but really didn't expect to run into any problems.
So I restarted and tried to do my usual fallback, and flash the factory image and start again, But couldn't find a source for the specific img, and tried to keep fighting on.
So I noticed that the phone wouldn't respond to adb or fastboot once in fastboot mode, when in android with usb debugging, no problems, in fastboot, didn't show up as adb devices?
I tried booting into the recovery from the bootloader menu, and got a no command. So there isn't a recovery, and I can't flash a new one? if i could find the stock recovery, I would try that.
so apart from deleting all his apps and settings, I hadn't solved the problem at all, and had to leave the job there as I couldn't find a solution.
I know this isn't the most detailed, but I've done this with quiet a few phones now, and felt I was pretty competent. I see everyday as an excuse to learn more, and like to think I have humility. So, I'm assuming I did something those years ago to damage the recovery? I'm running out of ideas, and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction?
I've lurked on xda for years, and learned so much about this kind of thing through my past experiences, but I'm stumped this time, and feel obliged to resolve the problem, as it was me who caused it.
TL DR
Can't flash recovery, no command when I try to open recovery, trying to either factory image back, or root/custom recovery it.
any insight would be much appreciated.
Hi. I just rooted and installed CM13 on an old XT1034 about two days ago. I am also sort of a ROM noob, I have ROMed a few devices, but usually but following strict step by step guides I have found here on XDA. Over the years I have some minor understanding of the process now.
I also got the "No command screen" when trying to get into TWRP recovery. The issue seems to be that if you reboot via ADB and the ROM launches it will automatically rewrite the recovery to the stock one, and when you try to go to recovery from fastboot, it gives you the "no command" error. Apparently you can get to the stock recovery from there by a hardware key combo, something like holding up vol for 10 sec then a quick press of power (I can't remeber the exact key sequence or what forum I read it in). If it does this you have to reflash TWRP again. This issue is mentioned here (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_falcon) in step 8 about installing recovery. What I ended up doing was after the flash of TWRP via ADB, I manually powered down, then manually bood into fastboot by holding volume down and power, and selecting recovery. This was a bit fiddly and I had to attempt it a few times but eventually it worked and TWRP installed.
The issue with the phone not being recognized may be due to incorrect drivers. I had no issue with this because I installed the official driver package from Motorola. It is available in their website in the developer section. I don't have the URL right now.
Hopefully this helps, for me CM13 Official has been an a stable fresh start for this old device.
If I'd prefer not to purchase a new phone, is there much risk a rootkit is installed? Or, is this certainly random device corruption that doesn't seem to be harming anything?
Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? (Yes, I could turn dm-verity off through adb, but that hides the error without fixing it.)
TL;DR
I have an Asus Zenfone V Verizon edition, which is the V520KL A006.
When I was using my phone a few days ago, it suddenly rebooted and since then shows:
Your device is corrupt. It can't be
trusted and may not work properly.
Visit this link on another device:
g.co/ABH
If power key is not pressed:
Your device will poweroff in 30 seconds
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Fastboot shows:
TARGET PROJECT : V520KL
IMAGE VERSION : V5.6.0
BUILD VARIANT : USER
SECURE BOOT : enabled
DEVICE STATE : locked
Software status : Official
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After a few days, I finally tried the power button, and it boots up just fine, and seems perfectly stable. I performed complete backups, and for what it's worth, I ran a bunch of droid virus/malware/rootkit scanners, and they found nothing. (Obviously, a good rootkit will hide itself.)
I eventually did a factory reset. This went well, but the red error message remains. So, I believe the corruption must be in a partition that a reset doesn't replace.
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I've never unlocked, rooted, or installed a custom ROM onto this phone. The only "beyond typical user" thing I'd previously done is to install adb sourced directly from Google, to be able to run Genymobile's scrcpy, which is an extremely fast open source program that allows me to remotely control my phone from my linux PC, via USB or wireless. I've been using this for many months without any issues.
This appears to mean dm-verity is detecting corruption, and is the "red" version of it which many have described as the death of their device. I believe this means the phone is able to verify the signature on the bootloader and it's able to verify the signature on the kernel, but that the kernel is finding an invalid block(s) on one of the many partitions being read right at turning on (detected because the hash for the block is not as expected.) When this happens, an I/O error is given indicating the block cannot be read.
I have been quite concerned if this might indicate a rootkit had been installed. I haven't done anything that I would suspect could let one in. After spending a lot of time learning about adb, fastboot, TWRP, and having the ultimate goal of discovering which partition has an unexpected hash, determining if this meant a rootkit or file corruption, and fixing the error, I've hit many brick walls.
For a day or two, I avoided seeing if the power button would allow it to boot, because if there was a rootkit, I didn't want it to run. I was disappointed to learn that through fastboot (specifically, I mean the fastboot PC program that connects to the droid when in fastboot mode), there is no way to do something like a full bitwise image of the internal storage, and analyze the situation in linux. Or, any type of backup whatsoever. I was frustrated to learn from another XDA thread about a lot of problems others have had rooting and/or installing TWRP on this device. I was frustrated to see there is no prebuilt version of TWRP for my device. (There is an image for the Asus ZenFone 5z 2018 ZS620KL which is very different than my Zenfone V520KL V.)
I realized with my particular device, I think, the only way I was going to take any next step required hitting the power button. (As I mentioned way above, that's when I found it appears to work fine, and I eventually did a factory reset.)
I attempted using the TWRP recovery.img posted by game #1 in that XDA thread about my device, but like he encountered, fastboot boot recovery.img doesn't work, and just reboots instead.
Without being able to extract the original recovery.img, I'm not sure that I'm willing to install his and see if it works for me. I was frustrated to find there appears to be no way to extract the original recovery.img without first having root access. All non-root methods I later found to do this didn't work. Notably, su can't run anymore through adb, and adb root can't run with a user build.
I've looked a bit at custom compiling TWRP myself, but haven't done that yet. In part, because if my version doesn't work through fastboot boot recovery.img, I'd have the same concern about overwriting the original one before getting some feedback here. Also in part, because I haven't looked enough to find how someone goes about making a BoardConfig.mk and the device tree from scratch.
Hey. I tried installing TRWP on my device, Asus Zenfone 5Z (ZS620KL) but I also got the same message. "This phone is corrupted and cannot be trusted." It also said it won't boot. Now I am stuck in Fastboot mode.
I tried installing a stock rom. Downloaded the firmware. i even downloaded python so I can extract the payload.bin file. Followed the steps but still to no avail.
Is there anyone who could help me?
If you could attach the files that I would be needing, that would be a great help.
Thanks.
I am trying to resurrect my tf101. This is my starting point. Some time ago I installed cm10-20130929-NIGHTLY-tf101 into my tf101 using twrp. That installed fine but in the process something happened and I cannot boot into twrp I can now only boot into CM by holding the power button and volume up. I was not able to install gapps . Also I think my bootloader is corrupted because if I try to boot into it I just get a blank screen. I was able to install the Official TWRP App and can run it but it crashes every time "Unfortunately the app has stopped".
I am about ready to throw this laptop out because I have tried many options on this board and nothing worked. I can connect the tf101 to my computer and I can see it in device manager and I can open the laptop in file manager. I would even be willing to wipe the entire laptop and start from scratch but I don't know enough how to do this.
Any help or suggestions would be welcome.
Hi. First, I'll explain to you that for 10 years I had no contact with flashing phones. I didn't have any problems with the previous models. So I stopped somewhere at the level of the Samsung Galaxy S3-S4. Some time ago I decided that I would bring two Asus tf101s back to life and install a new KitKiss ROM on them. I set to work confidently. Turns out it's not that simple. I can do nothing. Some of the links have expired and the tips seem outdated. I can not upload a new recovery or even root the device. Strange things are happening. First of all, after turning on the device in recovery mode, after some time it goes into system boot and exits recovery. I've tried many ways and I don't understand any of it anymore. In the command line (CMD) it seems to see the device but does not want to respond to any commands, even to "adb reboot fastboot". I can do like this :
1. Ask for simple instructions for a "boy" and current links to the necessary files.
2. Look for someone who will perform a miracle and install the required Android for me.
Will someone help me?