My 3 weeks old Galaxy nexus restarted today many times and eventually it failed to go further than few seconds to the start up demo. I have stock rom and I no modifications at all. I didn't throw the phone to wall or drop it.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone somehow? With Nexus One it was easy but it seems impossible in SGN. Power & volume down does start something but there is no menu where to continue. I tried to use adb but failing to get in to the phone.
edit1: Volume down & volume up & power works... recovering now.. lets hope this helps.
edit2: Didn't help. I'm starting to think the problem is in HW.
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I have a Stock TILT 2 (TP 2) never flashed running basic programs Mobile Shell never had any issues with it, haven't installed new software in a few weeks , but I soft resetted it this morning and it keeps getting stuck in the boot screen. when first turned on it will run through boot screen then load screen for a millisecond then back to boot screen and never advances again , I've tried battery out sim card out Sd card out everything, even tried hard reset , but wont allow me to hard reset with front buttons and power, is there another way to hard reset , is it possible my phone just bricked for no reason ? thanks for any help ?
have you tried to do a hard reset via the pc? the original rom is on the htc website so you can try useing the exe file there. there is also an updated rom you can try to flash there. hope that helps
You might try sending it to the bootloader screen and reflashing. I don't know if it will work, but I thought it might be worth the effort.
I did notice that HTC removed the original shipped ROM for the Tilt2. I'm sure it is floating around here somewhere. If not, I have it and can send it to you when I get home.
Thanks I have original rom and just released wont work.
dod you see anythign on teh screen? if you do, then hard reset may fix it.
Power off your phone (or take teh battery out). Then press and hold teh call and hang up button while press teh power button. it will enter the hard reset mode. (remember hard reset will erase all the info on the phone and rever tot the stock setting).
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I did notice that HTC removed the original shipped ROM for the Tilt2.
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wow, thank god i dl'd it when i dl'd the updated rom... and they still have the image of the old rom right beside it... lol
as for op, you can try to enter the bootloader with the following steps
Remove the back cover from the phone.
Hold the Volume Down button.
Use the stylus to press the reset hole.
Or if the device was powered off, press the power button whilst holding down the Volume Down button.
and try to flash from there
hope that helps again
My Nexus 7 (2013) won't turn on after I tried to install a custom font from the latest version of Rom Toolbox Pro.
I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it fresh this afternoon with WugFresh's nexus root toolkit. It took a little bit of fiddling to get my pc to recognise my device and for adb/fastboot to work with it, but I managed. Everything went fine once that was sorted out.
I have installed the latest version of Pacman rom for my device (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2408829) from the website linked here, installed all my apps and made a back up before I started using Pimp My Rom and Rom Toolbox Pro.
From Pimp My Rom I installed the GPS fix for Europe/United Kingdom, and the miscellaneous tweaks.
From Rom Toolbox Pro, I installed the font "segoeui". After making these changes with these apps, I rebooted by nexus 7 wherein it entered a bootloop. I waited for 4-5 minutes to see if it would exit the bootloop on it's own, but nothing happened so I held down the three side buttons and my device went off.
After that I plugged it into my pc, which recognises that a device has been plugged in and lists it as "QHSUSB_DLOAD" but can't seem to do anything with it. I tried pressing the power button, and the default symbol for battery charging appeared on the screen so I tried to boot my device into recovery by holding all three buttons again. After doing that, the screen went off and no matter how long I hold down the volume and power buttons, nothing at all happens.
I have only had this tablet for a few hours and I am very worried that I may have inadvertantly destroyed it with the most innocuous amateur rooting, and that I won't be able to return it for a refund if I have.
Can anyone offer me any advice?
Thanks
I think your problem is ... holding ALL three buttons.
Try again with just Power & Volume down. You made a backup so it would be easy to get back.
hyperxguy said:
I think your problem is ... holding ALL three buttons.
Try again with just Power & Volume down. You made a backup so it would be easy to get back.
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You're right. I held power and volume down, and it booted into the bootloader. Thanks Bit of a false alarm there, I just panicked when the screen went black and wouldn't come back on ><
Thanks for your help!
No problemo. Glad you're back in business.
I have multiple android devices and they have different key combos to get to recovery.
I got mixed up sometimes. Why don't they all agree to the same steps?
hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?
try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices
Same problem
tekweezle said:
try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices
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My incredible started doing this yesterday, Ive tried this option it doesn't work for me. I can get the menu but it when I choose factory reset or any of the other options it flashes the htc incredible screen and starts the loop again, any more suggestions would be appreciated.
Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?
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Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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No I was getting ready to root it the day this started. Will rooting help this problem?
having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.
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tekweezle said:
having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.
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I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol
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I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol
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This sounds quite a bit like an Inc I have lying on my shelf. It was a friend's and he gave it to me to see if I could fix it. As far as I can tell, the phone's emmc storage simply failed. These phones are aging and that happens sometimes. Anyway, I tried all the usual stuff, including running RUU's (flashing signed PB31IMG.zip's since the thing had never been rooted and was still s-on), and yeah, just boot looped.
I did get the phone working, but it was complicated and messy. Here's more or less what I did: I was able to successfully run the RUU that updates HBOOT to 1.02 (or 1.07, either one works), which allowed me to unlock the bootloader via HTCdev. (see one of the root / s-off guides if this doesn't make sense.) This made it possible to flash ClockworkMod recovery using fastboot, and boot into recovery. From there, I was able to get to a root shell through adb (plugged into my computer) and proceeded to downgrade and get s-off, following the guide. It now works, though it's running Froyo and there is hardly any space for apps due to the messed up storage. I've been wanting to try this hack on it but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
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I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?
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I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?
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Sounds hosed to me. You could try to flash an RUU zip but that'd require use of the keys in HBOOT. If there is an RUU option that does not involve touching the phone, it's possible. Otherwise, no. I guess you could open the phone and check the button connections are there but it may be locking up at the HBOOT screen. Give it a chance to charge up a bit. However, I believe this phone is a lost cause. I seem to be seeing more frequent bootloop phone reports lately.
Hey guys so even tho it looks like another typical soft brick thread, I really couldn't find any thread with similar issues than mine.... So here is my scenario:
I have a GSM galaxys nexus and my volume button is completely broken (a while ago I opened my device to install a wireless charging thing and accidentally I pulled apart the volume button and I never soldered it back). Since I have no volume button anymore, in order to get into recovery mode I always used adb commands...
And yesterday then while flashing I copied the wrong rom to my device and I only noticed it after wiping everything (system, cache, etc).
So right now I have a phone that does not boot (stuck on unlocked google screen) and I can't figure out how to get into the recovery mode since my adb or fastboot do not show any device anymore (besides the one I always used and was working before, I tried all 4 drivers suggested on Nexus Root Toolkit)...
Do you guys think that there is hope in my case or is a dead end for my gnexus?
I've been thinking about trying to completely open my phone and trying to manually hit the contacts with a paperclip or something, but I don't even know which one would be exactly the down volume one...
Thank you
Why not replace the volume buttons instead? It'll come with the ribbon that needs replacing
Hello Everyone!
First of all, let me say that i'm desperately in need of help with my phone. Here's what happened to it so everyone knows.
My Phone was bought in UAE and was given to me, i live in the Philippines and it was working fine, i can use it on everyday tasks Until, a few days ago my phone performed updates (auto updates) which made it froze, i tried to press and hold the power button but it doesn't turn off. I removed the battery and restarted my phone then all i get is the Boot screen. I went to recovery mode to perform a wipe/factory reset. it returned with a lot of errors about files missing, etc etc...
At that point i thought that my phone might have been updating the OS when it froze so i DLed a stock firmware because i can still go to download mode.
After a day (crappy internet + limited download speed from sammobile) i finished the firmware download then tried going to download mode on my phone but now, my phone doesnt turn on at all. when i press and hold power+down vol+home nothing happens. i tried going back to recovery mode and still nothing happens. Even if i just press the power key nothing happens at all. I tried charging the phone but its not charging as well, The Battery Icon is not showing on the screen anymore but after minutes f charging i can feel my phone getting warmer.
Anyone experienced this issue before or knows how to fix it? i do not believe that the battery died because it was working just a day before.
Any help and TIPS would greatly help.
again: I cannot go to download/recovery mode nor go to the boot screen.
Hello there,
Try to connect your phone to PC and press power button / vol / home button simultaneously, if PC still recognize your phone, then you still got chance to recover it using Octoplus software?