A strange thing happened and now I can't escape the bootloader screen. I lost my phone for a two days and when I found it it wouldn't come on. I connected it to a power cable and it immediately brought up the bootloader. The charge light won't come on but now the phone will power on without the power cable. Problem is it just brings up the bottloader and tries to install the rom image on the sd card. I put a new image on the card reinserted it and then allowed it to reflash. But it still just brings up the bootloader. Any advice?
Try to flash another ROM but not from SD, remove SD and SIM and flash from your PC
Hope it helps,
orb3000 said:
Try to flash another ROM but not from SD, remove SD and SIM and flash from your PC
Hope it helps,
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Go into bootloader. Plug in usb and flash from your pc. Try if it helps.
Flash with Task 29 first, it may be that corrupted info is still on the rom when you reflash screwing up the loading of the new rom.
orb3000 said:
Try to flash another ROM but not from SD, remove SD and SIM and flash from your PC
Hope it helps,
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Lennyz1988 said:
Go into bootloader. Plug in usb and flash from your pc. Try if it helps.
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Reflashed from PC, reboot to bootloader behavior does not change.
ultramag69 said:
Flash with Task 29 first, it may be that corrupted info is still on the rom when you reflash screwing up the loading of the new rom.
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Flashed Task 29, then reflashed Energy ROM 23569 MaxManila. ROM booted and began setup procedure. Completed setup procedure and there was joy in the land. Installed the SD card and copilot loaded. Turned off phone to reinstall SIM. Turned phone on and bootloader loaded. every attempt to reboot brought bootloader up. Removed SD card and soft reset bootloader came up with error message but all I could read was "RUUUBH" at the top and "...error code" at the end of one line and "...se try again" at the end of the next, the rest was overwritten over the bootloader text.
Removing the SD card, I reflashed the stock SPL, rebooted to bootloader, then reflashed Task 29 and attempted to flash stock ROM, but the computer would not recognize the phone anymore.
Rebooted the phone and replugged into PC computer recognized, reflashed Hard-SPL and then attempted to flash Core EVO ROM (which is when all the trouble started by the way) The ROM flashed and the phone commenced the setup routine.
Was able to setup email and apps and customization and everything was good, left phone in cradle overnight and phone was fully charged this am. Rebooted the phone just as a check and bootloader returned, subsequent reboots always return into bootloader.
What now?
cyberscribe said:
Reflashed from PC, reboot to bootloader behavior does not change.
Flashed Task 29, then reflashed Energy ROM 23569 MaxManila. ROM booted and began setup procedure. Completed setup procedure and there was joy in the land. Installed the SD card and copilot loaded. Turned off phone to reinstall SIM. Turned phone on and bootloader loaded. every attempt to reboot brought bootloader up. Removed SD card and soft reset bootloader came up with error message but all I could read was "RUUUBH" at the top and "...error code" at the end of one line and "...se try again" at the end of the next, the rest was overwritten over the bootloader text.
Removing the SD card, I reflashed the stock SPL, rebooted to bootloader, then reflashed Task 29 and attempted to flash stock ROM, but the computer would not recognize the phone anymore.
Rebooted the phone and replugged into PC computer recognized, reflashed Hard-SPL and then attempted to flash Core EVO ROM (which is when all the trouble started by the way) The ROM flashed and the phone commenced the setup routine.
Was able to setup email and apps and customization and everything was good, left phone in cradle overnight and phone was fully charged this am. Rebooted the phone just as a check and bootloader returned, subsequent reboots always return into bootloader.
What now?
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reflashed task 29, then reflashed stock ROM, still enters bootloader. note that it says serial on the bottom and that changes to USB most of the time when I plug it in. Also please note that when I remove the battery to power down and replace it and then plug it in it powers up all by itself (without me pushing the power button). This has been the method of rebooting that has been going on, this last time however, after removing the battery and plugging it in the charge light came on (seems to be a good sign). Pressing the power button caused the phone to boot to ROM image, but I'm afraid that rebooting it will result in the bootloader loop. I'll update after it finishes loading Winmo 6.1
this is certainly strange, could it be something with the SPL, i would look into that next if this doesnt help
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reflashed task 29, then reflashed stock ROM, still enters bootloader. note that it says serial on the bottom and that changes to USB most of the time when I plug it in. Also please note that when I remove the battery to power down and replace it and then plug it in it powers up all by itself (without me pushing the power button). This has been the method of rebooting that has been going on, this last time however, after removing the battery and plugging it in the charge light came on (seems to be a good sign). Pressing the power button caused the phone to boot to ROM image, but I'm afraid that rebooting it will result in the bootloader loop. I'll update after it finishes loading Winmo 6.1
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I think you either have a bad battery or a bad TP 2. Try replacing the battery first. You can get a cheap external charger off ebay if you phone doesn't charge.
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I think you either have a bad battery or a bad TP 2. Try replacing the battery first. You can get a cheap external charger off ebay if you phone doesn't charge.
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Yeah, leaning heavily on the battery theory myself (although that could be wishful thinking), so I ordered a new OEM one this AM. OK here is the update. WinMo6.1 completed setup, activesync synced up my contacts, did not load copilot (since 4 out of 6 times the crash happened after I reinstalled copilot). Rebooted using the power button, rebooted to winmo.
Rebooted 4 times manually, each time it rebooted to winmo just fine.
Executed hard reset and aborted setup then reflashed task 29
Flashed Energy Rom MaxManila, allowed setup to complete, loaded copilot, and synced with activesync. Everything has been fine for 8 hours. No forced reboots, no lockups. Please note I have maintained battery charge above 50%.
Thanks for the suggestions and keep your fingers crossed.
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Yeah, leaning heavily on the battery theory myself (although that could be wishful thinking), so I ordered a new OEM one this AM. OK here is the update. WinMo6.1 completed setup, activesync synced up my contacts, did not load copilot (since 4 out of 6 times the crash happened after I reinstalled copilot). Rebooted using the power button, rebooted to winmo.
Rebooted 4 times manually, each time it rebooted to winmo just fine.
Executed hard reset and aborted setup then reflashed task 29
Flashed Energy Rom MaxManila, allowed setup to complete, loaded copilot, and synced with activesync. Everything has been fine for 8 hours. No forced reboots, no lockups. Please note I have maintained battery charge above 50%.
Thanks for the suggestions and keep your fingers crossed.
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Fixed! Stable as a rock
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Fixed! Stable as a rock
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Premature, OK I've been rocking just fine and bamm out of the blue the problem reemerged. OK I say to self no biggie MUST be the battery and the new just came in the mail today so I say self change battery, no help. Bootloader loop here again. Help someone please!
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Premature, OK I've been rocking just fine and bamm out of the blue the problem reemerged. OK I say to self no biggie MUST be the battery and the new just came in the mail today so I say self change battery, no help. Bootloader loop here again. Help someone please!
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task 29 got me to the rom splash screen
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task 29 got me to the rom splash screen
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reflash ROM from PC not SD. Reflashing after that from SD works. Hope I don't have to do this every time I change a battery!
I think I may be having the same or a similar issue as you cyberscribe. All of a sudden, I am getting restarted into the bootloader too.
I was using an older NRG 2.1 ROM (April-ish) and had to pull the battery after it froze up. Nothing new, it happens. The new part is that it would only restart into the bootloader screen. I thought it might be the older ROM, so I Task 29'ed and flashed NRG's newest 2.1 June 2nd ROM.
Successful boot and ROM setup while connected to USB. Unplugged USB, restarted phone, BOOTLOADER.
Plugged in USB, successful boot.
Unplugged USB, BOOTLOADER.
Plugged in wall outlet, successful boot.
Unplugged wall outlet, BOOTLOADER.
Obviously, I can conclude that there is an issue with trying to boot on battery power, or at least while not connected to a power source.
Anyone ever have this happen? Or have any ideas why this would be happening? I really don't want to have to find a power source every time I need to restart my phone, haha. I am still trying to troubleshoot further and will update if I find anything else worthwhile.
Also last night I tried restarting while plugged into car adapter, which as expected booted fine every time.
However, this morning I just restarted on battery power and it booted fine also. Nothing changed from last night to this posting. Honestly, I am completely at a loss as to why I am getting restarted into the boot loader seemingly at random. I thought I had it nailed down with the power source, but now that apparently is not the issue.
cyberscribe, are you still having issues? Anyone else ever have this problem? Any thoughts on a cause or solution? Or anything to help troubleshoot?
After the bootloader first pops up, there is a very quick screen that flashes, "Loading.... No image file", then goes back to the bootloader screen.
I have to discount my earlier theory that it will always boot when connected to any power source. Now it will only boot when connected via USB to the PC.
Looks like I am going to have to re-flash the stock ROM and then stock SPL and see if this solves the issue. Then, if not, I guess a warranty claim is in my near future.
I really wish we could have gotten some replies from smarter people than myself in this thread. haha
Finally flashed back everything to stock (SPL, radio, ROM) and still having the bootloader issue, looks like it is going to be a warranty claim after all.
Sounds more like a memory issue if it can't find the image file. If you both got your Rhodiums from the same carrier it could be a bad batch of phones...
Same issue on my tilt 2 just cropped up today. If I am reading the above correctly it sounds like 2 tilts and a t-mob rhodium having the issue, so different carriers. =/
Soft reset the handset and set it down, picked it back up and it was in bootloader. All attempts to get it out of bootloader (reflashing from sd, pc etc.) seem to complete just fine, but upon reboot dump into bootloader. May be a different problem than OP as I havent had any success in getting a boot after reflash.
Not sure if I am having the same problem, when I try to turn on it just comes up with the Touch pro 2 screen with the red text in the bottom left hand corner, I am using an energy Rom again from about April, I have tried re flashing but pc wont recognise/find phone, Wha acn be done?
Hey guys, I really need your help here.
I was trying to flash my mate's phone with the newest MIUI today, but it wouldn't work because the SD card wouldn't mount.
Now when he got this phone, it was already rooted. No idea how they rooted it, but there were a few Chinese apps on there. I got my phone (Samsung Captivate) from the same people, and there were also a few random apps on there, but I managed to flash a new ROM on that. It got to the point where I was un-rooting and rooting it over and over again, until I found a Clockwork Mod that worked on the Defy. It mounted the SD card fine, and then it installed the ROM using the "install from zip from sd card" function or something like it. It went fine, said it finished and it didn't lose power half way through the install. Rebooted the phone, and now it's stuck on the "M" Motorola logo. Went to go flash with sbf, and then it came up saying that the battery was too low so it wouldn't program. Well ****.
Tried the Mcgyver mod where you just splice a USB in between the battery and the phone, but that didn't work. I'm hoping that it will just charge from USB while the phone is off? I've read somewhere that it won't charge while it's off, but the LED is white (I think that indicates that it's charging). Occasionally the "M" logo comes on, but it goes away and starts "charging" again. It won't take to the wall charger for some reason, just doesn't want to charge D:
I've been at this for 8ish hours now, does anyone have any advice? Anything at all will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin
How long have you been trying to charge it? That's normal behavior for the phone to show the Moto logo and go to battery charging animation when the phone is off. You should be able to power it on if it is plugged in though.
Are you in the boot loader when you try to flash the SBF? Reboot the phone and hold the volume key up to get to the bootloader. Use RSD lite to flash the SBF. I'm sure you've already looked at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537. It's very helpful.
Good luck!
After flashing the new firm , try to make a WIPE before you install the zip !!
Worked for me!!
this should go to the development sector
youll find your answer there under "bricked phone"
Here's what happened to my (not rooted) G3
The phone has been weird for a couple of days, rebooting randomly once in a while, but working fine whenever plugged onto a power source. Google told me it could be a battery related issue, so I bought a new battery online (and I didn't get it yet).
This morning the phone entered a boot loop, even when plugged in to any power source. Google this time told me I could put the phone in "download mode", then restore upgrade errors via LG PC Suite. I try to do that, and the phone actually goes into download mode, but I'm not able to restore upgrade errors with that ugly piece of software because it keeps "losing" my phone usb connection. I unplug and plug it back in several times, the phone seems to make progress on the firmware upgrade screen but I see a red ASSERT error on my phone at around 15% of recovery.
Now whenever I turn on my phone and try to put it on download mode keeping the volume up button pressed, the screen will just go straight into firmware update, warning me not to unplug the usb connection, even if the phone isn't plugged. I'm able to start a restore but again the usb issue comes up and the phone is totally frozen and stuck to that firmware update screen. If I want to turn it off I need to remove the battery.
I'm doing this because I would love to recover some data from my phone, otherwise I would have done a hard reset or a flash of some kind
Please someone help me before i throw this piece of junk out of the window
Nobody able to help me in any way?
bump =(
Contact LG in this case. Might be faulty NAND memory. If it is then it will probably be impossible to get those files back...but they will replace it and fix the phone. (if it is under warranty that is...)
BTW if you take out the battery during flashing...you may hard brick the phone...then you're technically more fked
Hi everyone, a couple days ago I flashed from stock (smp600) to cm 12 unofficial. I also installed xposed and a few modules. The last module, which I have a hunch is what caused the problem, was xhalofloatingwindows. Last night it was fine when I powered down, but this morning I got a boot loop when I turned it on. So, I booted to recovery, flashed the uninstall xposed and rebooted. It optimized my apps and then shut down automatically after it finished. Same thing when I turned it back on again. So I did a full wipe and reinstalled the cm 12 and xposed, then rebooted system and walked away. When I came back it was hard bricked. Power button doesn't work, no recovery, no download mode, no charging symbol when plugged in. Any ideas? Any way to get into download mode without a removable battery? Thanks in advance for any help!
hi there,
well, first of all, you could try the usb jig to force it into download mode ( Read this: http://www.cpkb.org/wiki/Samsung_download_mode_usb_jig ). You can make one on your own if you have the connector and soldering iron (and buy the needed resistor), or you can buy one ready to use (search ebay). Another option is to let it charge for few hours, amazingly this can help. I didn´t get what you said about 'removable battery', do you mean removing battery?
If not succeeded, would take a little more effort, and a multimeter. Disassemble device, and measure battery with the multimeter. If it has less than 3.3v, it won´t show charging till gets at least 3.5v. If it shows 0v, your battery could be drained so much that tablet cannot charge without a little help from a regulated power suply. If bat is above 3.65v, and still nothing, you may have to take it to Samsung Service Center or some repair shop that have jtag tools (it can rewrite boot sector and make download mode alive again). Hope you get it fixed.
Hello there everyone! Let me explain my problem:
Backstory
I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT-i9250 maguro since 7-6 years or so. I've been flashing some roms into it and everything went well since a week ago.
I had installed from a very long time this version of CM "cm-13.0-20160921-NIGHTLY-maguro" and I have not updated it, so I basically was running that from a very long time.
Three weeks ago the phone started behaving strangely, it was closing automatically, and I thought that it was a temperature problem (being a very hot summer) so I did not worry too much.
Everything was working fine, charging and connecting via USB .
Problem
Last week the phone once again died and I tried to boot it up normally as I would normally do, but nothing happened, not even the Google logo popped up.
So I removed the battery and put it back in, the phone booted up to the Google logo, then after two or three seconds the Google logo flashed like brightness went up to 100% and black screen.
Went into fastboot, booted TWRP to see if that was working, and the recovery was working fine.
Things got worse.
At the moment
I cannot get the phone to do anything if it's not connected to a power source.
If the phone is connected via USB, or charger, I can get it to go ONLY on fastboot, and download mode. If I unplug the phone while on fastboot or download mode, the screen brightness goes up to 100% for half a second then it glitches out and goes into black screen immediatelly. I can not access bootloader nor recovery mode from fastboot, because the phone reboots, shows the Google logo and then it dies.
What I tried
Thinking that maybe the ROM went crazy, I followed this guide to flash the phone with all the original ROM and recovery (I downloaded "yakju-jwr66y-factory-4cadea65" and followed the instructions of the guide).
Nothing changed, if the phone is not connected to a power source, it is basically dead, if I put it to a power source it shows the charging logo for a second, then black screen, and I can only boot up fastboot and download mode.
I don't know if this might help but I've also tested the battery voltage and it seems to be fine.
Last thing, if I connect the phone to the PC (with the battery or without) every 2 seconds it shows up that an unidentified device is being detected.
I currently am using a laptop running windows 8.
On my desktop computer the same thing happens (the device detection) but from device manager I see a OMAP4400 (something like that) popping up but at the moment I cannot use my desktop PC since I'm traveling.
I would really like to know what happened to my phone, any answer will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Update [solved]
After doing some research and trying different methods I gave up. But then I realized that maybe trying the stupidest thing could be the solution, so I went to a phone shop and asked them if they had some sort of test battery that I could plug in my phone temporarily to see if it was booting up.
Turns out, it was the battery.
I bought a new battery and now the phone runs smoothly like it's new.
I feel so dumb and I'm so sorry if I've made some of you people waste your time by reading the poem of the first post.
Hopefully this will someday help someone that will have the same problem of my GT-I9250!
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