is there a way to boot back to windows with out taking out the battery.
fastguebo said:
is there a way to boot back to windows with out taking out the battery.
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You can hit the "Reset" button or try to Enable "WIFI" and it will shut it off.
The only ways I use to boot back into Windows is to use the soft reset button or rip the battery out. However, you might want to update your kernel (zImage) if you cannot successfully shut down with Android, as the newer kernels I've used can now successfully shut down. Information and links on how to upgrade your kernel can be found at the Rhodium Android Wiki.
Wifi not working can be a benefit - If you try to turn on the Wifi in some builds, it causes a full crash that turns off the phone. Press power again and u have a full reboot. The latest 2/8/10 image shows this behavior
it does not let me add wifi and when i tell the device to reboot it freezes.
...........................help.
NO. You can not just 'boot back into windows'. You need to restart the phone. Push Reset or pull the battery, or as some have suggested, try the enable wifi 'trick'.
Wifi trick is gone in the 02/15 build..
with the newest build, you can hold down the hangup button until a menu shows up for shutdown.
neodarksaver said:
with the newest build, you can hold down the hangup button until a menu shows up for shutdown.
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Thanks for the tip
Badwolve1
glad it actually shuts down properly now and no longer just crashes, on wifi or end key.
The Jack of Clubs said:
glad it actually shuts down properly now and no longer just crashes, on wifi or end key.
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I am as well. This makes having Android on my phone much more useful. I can still experiement with a lot of the software without having to pull the back off the phone (which, let's be honest - is NOT very well implemented in this phone).
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I booted my phone into recovery mode with ClockworkMod Recovery, and when I got to the screen with all of the options, every option resulted in a blank black screen. Now I can't even reboot my phone. I have tried taking out the battery and retrying multiple times, but it just keeps coming back... Is there any way to fix this?
Do a search for odin. You'll be able to revert to a stock (unrooted) state. From there, you can start anew.
Good luck!
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I thought this might be an option, will try it... However, if i'm not mistaken, odin requires you to boot the phone into the download mode (holding 1 and power button), but i am unable to do this. As soon as I put the battery in, it goes to the Clockwork screen.
Martinpibb22 said:
I thought this might be an option, will try it... However, if i'm not mistaken, odin requires you to boot the phone into the download mode (holding 1 and power button), but i am unable to do this. As soon as I put the battery in, it goes to the Clockwork screen.
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Make sure you use the camera button to select an option in clockworkmod. If you press the home button I believe the screen turns black.
Hummm. is the battery the sole power source? (i.e., not charging or usb'd up)
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jprocha101 said:
Make sure you use the camera button to select an option in clockworkmod. If you press the home button I believe the screen turns black.
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Thank you, this worked!
Martinpibb22 said:
Thank you, this worked!
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No problem. Make sure to click the Thanks button on my post
So tonight I rooted my phone and decided to download CyanogenMod to it. I created a backup of my phones current install, wiped/reformatted, and installed the latest stable release of CyanogenMod from their website (version 10.2.0). I followed the instructions on CyanogenMod's website for installing from recovery since Heimdall isn't supporting right now. Everything went great, said my radio was recent enough, installed with no issues. I go to reboot and I just got the spinning arrow for ages, won't load. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Grrr.. and now, when I try to restore my backup, my phone won't boot. It either crashes on the boot screen and turns off, or I get stuck in a "boot loop" where it just reboots over and over and over but never gets past the splash screen. Ideas?
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Grrr.. and now, when I try to restore my backup, my phone won't boot. It either crashes on the boot screen and turns off, or I get stuck in a "boot loop" where it just reboots over and over and over but never gets past the splash screen. Ideas?
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I and a bunch people are going through the same. We're waiting for someone who comes up with a solution.
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I and a bunch people are going through the same. We're waiting for someone who comes up with a solution.
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Well, it's good to know I'm not alone I suppose, but this is frustrating - I don't have a backup phone. :/ Going through an alternate method to try and restore my phone to stock settings - stock is way better than no phone. Lol.
If it vibrates and restarts over and over until you remove the battery. It's a bad power button. I had it happen to me. I unsoldered the button off for now. It stays on now i have a touch recovery and use volume to wake and a tile to sleep.
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If it vibrates and restarts over and over until you remove the battery. It's a bad power button. I had it happen to me. I unsoldered the button off for now. It stays on now i have a touch recovery and use volume to wake and a tile to sleep.
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It's only a bad power button when I try to flash CyanogenMod, then. I found a way to revert back to stock and my phone is fine.
IntoxicatingToxin said:
It's only a bad power button when I try to flash CyanogenMod, then. I found a way to revert back to stock and my phone is fine.
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That makes no sense. It definitely isn't a bad power button because it works just fine with stock.
Hey there, so my phone randomly decided to stop working today.
Whenever I put the battery in the phone or plug in the charger, the Samsung screen loads then nothing. This all happens without me pushing the power button btw. Then the power button doesn't work, nor can I access recovery.
Like I mentioned, this all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly. I haven't flashed a rom in awhile so I'm not sure what caused the problem. One tidbit worth mentioning is that my phone would randomly reboot on the rom I've been using, but it wouldn't happen too often.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not exactly sure what I should do in this situation. Thanks for reading.
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Hey there, so my phone randomly decided to stop working today.
Whenever I put the battery in the phone or plug in the charger, the Samsung screen loads then nothing. This all happens without me pushing the power button btw. Then the power button doesn't work, nor can I access recovery.
Like I mentioned, this all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly. I haven't flashed a rom in awhile so I'm not sure what caused the problem. One tidbit worth mentioning is that my phone would randomly reboot on the rom I've been using, but it wouldn't happen too often.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not exactly sure what I should do in this situation. Thanks for reading.
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try to be quicker to access recovery, power off the phone. then press the power, vol up, and home then AS SOON as you see the blue text on the left top side of the samsung logo screen let go of the buttons, it should boot into recovery then wipe data factory reset and reboot.
Andy_nu said:
try to be quicker to access recovery, power off the phone. then press the power, vol up, and home then AS SOON as you see the blue text on the left top side of the samsung logo screen let go of the buttons, it should boot into recovery then wipe data factory reset and reboot.
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Yeah, I was able to do that once, but then the phone just goes to a black screen and doesn't load anything
nfsplayer99 said:
Yeah, I was able to do that once, but then the phone just goes to a black screen and doesn't load anything
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flash this recovery attached with odin by booting into download mode via power vol down and home, wipe data factory reset and reboot
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390212717148635222 (recovery)
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390275921635705049 (odin)
place in pda with only f. reset time and auto reboot checked. it SHOULD only take about 10 seconds to flash. as soon as your phone reboots hold the recovery combo and it should go to it
I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.
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I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.
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kinda odd. never had that happen before. ,maybe you could try to reflash the download mode into your phone using this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125(make sure you use a debrick.img http://d-h.st/iEy for att not sprint BTW)
or use a jig. since your phone can still access the boot interface.
nfsplayer99 said:
I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.
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Have you done this and then connected the USB to see if ODIN will recognize the phone? it's entirely possible that you are getting into download mode, but just can't see it..
It's certainly worth a try.
It's been stuck at this loading screen for hours. Are there any ways out of this? I cant power off nor can I connect it to my PC. It always rebooted perfectly until I flashed the 5.0 version of ElementalX. Then this happened. Hope to hear some input asap as I'm trying my best not to panic. No other kernels are on here except for micro gapp and CM 13. I would remove the battery pack, but might as well get a new phone at that point. I would post a picture but I'm a new user so I'm restricted. Thanks!
legitbeans said:
It's been stuck at this loading screen for hours. Are there any ways out of this? I cant power off nor can I connect it to my PC.
would remove the battery pack, but might as well get a new phone at that point.
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No need to do a battery pull on this phone, as you know is not really feasible. HTC has already thought that out, and built-in a hardwired button combo that does the same thing. Hold power button+ vol up until the phone reboots (may take a minute or so in the current condition). The moment the screen goes dark to reboot, slide your finger from vol up, to vol down (no need to keep holding power button at this point) and don't let go until the bootloader screen appears. From there, you can boot recovery, connect fastboot, etc.
If the button sequence above fails, its virtually always due to getting the timing wrong, either not pressing vol down soon enough, or letting go too early. Either of which, will result in trying to boot normally (not bootloader) which in your case puts you back stuck on the loading screen. Just repeat until you get it right.
Although, at this point, your battery may have just run out. In which case, you should be able to charge, and just hold power+vol down to boot directly into bootloader.
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It always rebooted perfectly until I flashed the 5.0 version of ElementalX.
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Here was your mistake. ElementalX is only for Sense and GPE ROMs, it doesn't work on AOSP ROMs like CM13.
Once you get booted into recovery, you should be able to dirty flash CM13 to re-install the CM kernel, then reboot. Or at the worst, wipe, flash CM13 and gapps again.
First off, I did do a search, but as far as I can tell no one has had this problem so far.
This is all after modding using a tool kit: (i can't include the url but it is the toolkit by neisor on the oneplus forums)
tldr: phone stuck in bootloop, computer wont recognize the phone, maybe because it keeps shutting off and then booting to the 1+ logo, then shutting off again, would drivers help? what can I do about the volume up button?
So for a while my volume up button hasn't been working, and the mega unbrick post shows that I need to hold the volume up button for at least 25 seconds and while holding, plug my phone in. I have also seen some posts that say the volume up button could be a software issue, and the button itself could be working, and it is just not registering, as well as someone saying that you could take the back off and manually press the button, instead of using the bar on the outside of the phone (would this work?). I have gotten the button to work in the past by pressing the volume up button to the side instead of straight in, but I haven't been able to get it to work since my phone got bricked.
Another issue: my phone is stuck in a boot loop, I can't access fastboot, and I'm unsure of recovery because my volume up button is not working. would it be worth it to deal with the constant vibrating to try to get it to recovery?
I have been able to shut the phone off by holding the power button for something like a minute and a half, though.
This is my first post, and if I have broken any rules I am very sorry, but I need help and am tired of not having a phone.
Thank you everyone,
Mark
Edit: this is what I did to root the phone:
1. download the toolkit
2. unlock bootloader (when fastbooting the phone said unlocked at the bottom, and a message about not being secure showed every time I rebooted the phone)
3. flashed twrp (no issues, still booted, recovery went to twrp. for some reason I had to flash multiple times as every now and then recovery would revert to stock op, although I did make a backup through twrp)
4. send supersu zip file to phone, install using twrp (phone would not boot, op logo stayed on phone for 2 hrs + until I rebooted to fastboot and tried to reinstall the backup I made, still nothing)
5. Try magisk (still stuck on op logo)
6. try to go back to stock, accidentally lock bootloader (now the phone is stuck in bootloop, don't know what to do from here as I cant get to fastboot and am unsure of recovery's accessibility.)
If you are sure you have a broken volume button, you need to replace it first in order to get the phone fix.
Correction:
Fastboot/bootloader = Power+Vol Up
Recovery = Power+Vol Down
This happened to me except I didn't even get anything appear on the screen -- the phone just periodically vibrated with the screen not even light up. I tried the reset toolkit which is meant to flash your phone back to normal using Qualcomm drivers or something, but that didn't work either. Eventually I had to send it to OnePlus who fixed it for free in under a week! They said the motherboard had failed.
I hope you get this fixed!
Thanks
150208 said:
If you are sure you have a broken volume button, you need to replace it first in order to get the phone fix.
Correction:
Fastboot/bootloader = Power+Vol Up
Recovery = Power+Vol Down
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thanks for the correction, I will keep trying the volume buttons, if it doesn't work by the end of today I will search for a new volume button.
Thanks again,
mark
Ouch
badabdba said:
This happened to me except I didn't even get anything appear on the screen -- the phone just periodically vibrated with the screen not even light up. I tried the reset toolkit which is meant to flash your phone back to normal using Qualcomm drivers or something, but that didn't work either. Eventually I had to send it to OnePlus who fixed it for free in under a week! They said the motherboard had failed.
I hope you get this fixed!
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Damn, that sucks, and besides being unfixable (doubt it), this is my biggest fear. I'm in the US and really don't want to have to ship my phone to china to have it fixed. If you are in the US as well do you know if there is a OnePlus branch I can send it to in the US?
Thank you,
Mark
MarkTheFur said:
Damn, that sucks, and besides being unfixable (doubt it), this is my biggest fear. I'm in the US and really don't want to have to ship my phone to china to have it fixed. If you are in the US as well do you know if there is a OnePlus branch I can send it to in the US?
Thank you,
Mark
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There seems to be one in Texas. Anyway, contact OnePlus and they may try to solve it over the air.
Apart from that, did you install the Qualcom drivers properly? Even with your faulty power button, try to hold it down for 40+ seconds (for the phone to switch off) and then immediately hold down the volume up button for 10 seconds and then plug in the phone to the PC. I know I am merely repeating the instructions of Naman Bhalla in his Mega Unbrick Guide but it is crucial to do them correctly especially the installation of the drivers. Try these steps repeatedly because for some people, the phone gets recognised after repeated attempts. Or else replace the power button and then try these steps.
I had to use the Guide last month and successfully resurrected my dead phone.
MarkTheFur said:
... what can I do about the volume up button?
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Can you boot into recovery by pressing power+volume down buttons?
Update: Got phone to show on computer as qualcomm under coms and ports
So last night I went ahead and held volume up for about 20 seconds, then plugged the phone in, keeping the volume up button pressed the entire time. my phone stopped bootlooping and showed up as a qualcom device! So I have downloaded the new driver the stock os, and am going to proceed to try to unbrick my phone.
Wish me luck,
Mark
Yes, I did, and its working so far
tnsmani said:
There seems to be one in Texas. Anyway, contact OnePlus and they may try to solve it over the air.
Apart from that, did you install the Qualcom drivers properly? Even with your faulty power button, try to hold it down for 40+ seconds (for the phone to switch off) and then immediately hold down the volume up button for 10 seconds and then plug in the phone to the PC. I know I am merely repeating the instructions of Naman Bhalla in his Mega Unbrick Guide but it is crucial to do them correctly especially the installation of the drivers. Try these steps repeatedly because for some people, the phone gets recognised after repeated attempts. Or else replace the power button and then try these steps.
I had to use the Guide last month and successfully resurrected my dead phone.
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I still need to turn off the signed drivers features ( a huge bi*ch, I have to use another computer to contact microsoft or something to get my computer to load when I turn off safe boot or whatever its called), but once I do that I can install the driver and attempt to reinstall the stock os. Hopefully everything will go well.
Thank you,
Mark
Not as far as I know
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Can you boot into recovery by pressing power+volume down buttons?
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So far recovery has not been loading, just the bootloop, but I have gotten the phone to power off by pressing the power button for 40 seconds, and the volume up button plus plugging in does make the phone register as qualcom 9008 or something like that. Basically everything is going well so far, and the faulty vol button seems to have been a software bug, as it does work when plugging it in. I will try to get to fast boot, but it did not work last time.
Thank you,
Mark
MarkTheFur said:
So far recovery has not been loading, just the bootloop, but I have gotten the phone to power off by pressing the power button for 40 seconds, and the volume up button plus plugging in does make the phone register as qualcom 9008 or something like that. Basically everything is going well so far, and the faulty vol button seems to have been a software bug, as it does work when plugging it in. I will try to get to fast boot, but it did not work last time.
Thank you,
Mark
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Glad to hear that there is some progress. Best of luck and keep us informed.