Boot Loop Issue - Need Pictures before F.Reset - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm faced with the Boot Loop issue on my phone. I don't mind doing the factory reset, but I have pictures of our new baby on the phone storage that I would really really like to get off before I do that. From what I've ready it doesn't look possible. Anyone got something for me to try?
FYI...I'm an Anandtech Member. murphy55d from there turned me on to you guys.

Is it possible to flash the phone with something that will let me boot up to grab these pics/vids?

Pics and vids are stored by default on the sdcard, unless you set it up to save to the emmc. Either way, a factory reset will not erase the sd or emmc, so you should be good. If they are on the emmc and you cant boot there is no way of getting them till you can boot. If there on the sdcard you can either pop it out and use a micro to sd adapter to pull the pics off with a pc, or if your rooted you can mount the sd to the pc thru recovery and pull them off.

that's what I was looking for...THANK YOU! Going to F.Reset now.

cmlusco said:
pics and vids are stored by default on the sdcard, unless you set it up to save to the emmc. Either way, a factory reset will not erase the sd or emmc, so you should be good. If they are on the emmc and you cant boot there is no way of getting them till you can boot. If there on the sdcard you can either pop it out and use a micro to sd adapter to pull the pics off with a pc, or if your rooted you can mount the sd to the pc thru recovery and pull them off.
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you are wrong...i lost everything...

Not sure what you did, but I've done multiple resets and the photos from froyo that were on the emmc are still there and so are the ones on the sdcard.

Zimeron said:
Not sure what you did, but I've done multiple resets and the photos from froyo that were on the emmc are still there and so are the ones on the sdcard.
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[Q] SD card not being read

SD card won't be read when phone is on. When device is in recovery, I can USB toggle and see everything on my SD card. It's only when I try connecting through USB when on (CM6.1 or Myn TwoPointTwo) is when nothing happens (Myn) or the phone freezes and reboots (CM6.1).
I had my phone plugged in through USB while on CM6.1 RC2 and dropping in the new CM6.1 file into my phone when I forgot to eject and went straight into recovery. Now I can't install anything or mount my SD card. I can use ASTRO or a file manager app to view everything though.
As for nandroid, I deleted all my pre-USB **** up backups and only have the USB **** up RC2 backup. So that won't help. I'm guessing the device is still thinking it's plugged in because of my mistake. Any way to fix this?
I have noticed this as well lately under both Sense and AOSP roms. I can't mount my SDCARD from USB while the rom is running - only in recovery.
Odd. Wonder what is causing this?
I was talking to Shift and we came to the conclusion that my SD card is probably corrupt after shutting down while still mounted to my computer. I just extracted the folders that are important to me (pictures, Titanium Backup, etc) and will transfer them over to a new SD card once I buy one.
If anyone knows any way this might be fixed, I would appreciate it
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
jeriel05 said:
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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I was hoping to exhaust all options before coming across this, but as I have nothing else to try I'm going to just format it. Hopefully I can format through recovery or something because it doesn't even let me unmount my SD card from Settings options.
dadoc04 said:
i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
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Yeah, I figure I'll try my last option of formatting and see if it works. Here's to hoping! Lol.
FIXED
Issue has been corrected by formatting SD card. Thanks for the replies :]

[Q] Dropped my phone - Now stuck in bootscreen

Hello guys,
I woke up too early this morning, and i accidentally knocked my phone off the stairs. It fell about 2 meters, bounced and then fell another meter, bounced and fell another meter and stopped.
Thankfully it was in a silicon case (i think that's what made it bounce) and there are no visible damages.
I picked it up, and it seemed to be working. After a few secs it went into sleep mode and would not wake up.
I removed the battery and rebooted, and i got the HTC screen, then the nexus boot screen and it stays stuck on the nexus boot.
I then entered recovery mode and thought i would try and restore my backup. I get the following message:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E: Can't mount /sdcard
I took off the SD card, put it my pc and it works just fine.
I got another SD card, copied a rom onto it and tried to reinstall through recovery.
I did a wipe/data factory reset and tried to install the rom.
I got the same message...
Is my Desire toast? It's only six months old...
I was running Defrost6.1 and using psfMod 0.9.7.2 as my recovery.
Any advice would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks
aalex
UPDATE
I did another wipe data / factory reset, and i rebooted.
The rom starts up, without any of my previous settings of course, but I still cannot mount my SD card.
From file manager, it seems that it is being mounted, but no files are listed...
When i try with gallery it reports "SD card unmounted or not present".
Any insights?
Drop it again, it helps
Daanlt said:
Drop it again, it helps
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That's a helpful suggestion, thanks
Can u mount the SD card as usb storage in clockwork recovery?
Also try to boot it up normal and
Wait till the battery dies. Then insert the SD card and try again to boot it (with usb cable connected to have some battery power) again.
Gd luck
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mclaren2 said:
Can u mount the SD card as usb storage in clockwork recovery?
Also try to boot it up normal and
Wait till the battery dies. Then insert the SD card and try again to boot it (with usb cable connected to have some battery power) again.
Gd luck
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Thanks for responding mclaren2,
I tried to mount as usb storage, it seems that it mounts, my pc picks up an additional drive but when i double click on this drive it just says that it cannot be read...
With your SD card in your phone go into settings then storage and unmount SD card. Then format your SD card from your phones menu and it should mount the SD card see if that worked.
ste1164 said:
With your SD card in your phone go into settings then storage and unmount SD card. Then format your SD card from your phones menu and it should mount the SD card see if that worked.
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Hi ste1164,
Thanks for responding. My problem is that my phone cannot pickup the existence of an SD card.
This is a typical USB-brick. I've had one a few weeks ago. You should look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639&highlight=usb+brick.
If you're new to this, it can be hard to get it working again. Just let me know if you have any problems. It took me a few hours to get it done
From fastboot via ADB, execute "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" and then reboot it with "fastboot reboot" command.
See if it works.
If you don't remember how to do the above, just search.
koenvbeek said:
This is a typical USB-brick. I've had one a few weeks ago. You should look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639&highlight=usb+brick.
If you're new to this, it can be hard to get it working again. Just let me know if you have any problems. It took me a few hours to get it done
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aalexandrou said:
Hi ste1164,
Thanks for responding. My problem is that my phone cannot pickup the existence of an SD card.
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its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.
AndroHero said:
its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.
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he switched sd cards and it still doensn't fix the problem
AndroHero said:
its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.
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Can't be sdcard, op said tried sdcard in PC and tried different sdcard...same result, must be sdcard reader or something.
You never know, might be a USB brick, just happened before the drop and was brought on by the reset...but I agree probably is hardware fault.
Is it possible to flash stock rom from fastboot without sdcard? Could try warranty repair then...
mercianary said:
Can't be sdcard, op said tried sdcard in PC and tried different sdcard...same result, must be sdcard reader or something.
You never know, might be a USB brick, just happened before the drop and was brought on by the reset...but I agree probably is hardware fault.
Is it possible to flash stock rom from fastboot without sdcard? Could try warranty repair then...
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sorry i didnt notice that, could be a usb brick but like i said thats S/W related and i doubt dropping your phone could cause such an error, +1 suppose the sudden reset could cause the usb brick especially if the device was reading or writing to the sd card when it happened, could also be the sd card reader in the device has been damaged or one of the internal components. can the device read the sim card? if it dosent, could be a usb brick
Just a thought...is the sdcard reader attached by a ribbon? (never seen the inside of my desire, hope I never have to)
I'm sure I've heard of a few desires that can't read sdcard anymore, I reckon it's either attached by ribbon or it's the most delicate part of the phone.
I'm hoping it's a loose ribbon because that's an easy fix, even I could do that.
Hey guys,
Thanks to all of you for responding.
My sim card works just fine. I can make and receive calls, texts, go online via 3g and Wifi, connect through bluetooth. As far as i can tell, my phone does everythind it did before except mount an SD card. Also, the android market keeps crashing, and if i try and download anything from the net i get a prompt saying that i need an sd card to download.
So far I took the SD card and put it in my pc. I formated it, tried again but it didnt work.
I then tried a brand new sd card and that didn't work either.
However, I did not format the old card's ext2 partition, and the new sd doesn't have an ext partition yet.
Would this point to a USB Brick as mentioned above?
Would it be possible for me to flash the stock rom on the device?
Thanks once again, to all of you.
aalex
3722 said:
From fastboot via ADB, execute "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" and then reboot it with "fastboot reboot" command.
See if it works.
If you don't remember how to do the above, just search.
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Although i don't really understand what this means, could it be a possible solution?
If yes, how would i go about implementing it?
Yes, that should solve your problem. I had the same problem a few weeks ago, but that included a malfunctioning usb, even charging didn't work correctly.
To fix the sd-card, you should run the above command using the tool fastboot, available in the Android sdk. After downloading, cd to the tools folder in the sdk and then run the command while your phone is connected to your pc in fastboot mode. Then it should work again.
koenvbeek said:
Yes, that should solve your problem. I had the same problem a few weeks ago, but that included a malfunctioning usb, even charging didn't work correctly.
To fix the sd-card, you should run the above command using the tool fastboot, available in the Android sdk. After downloading, cd to the tools folder in the sdk and then run the command while your phone is connected to your pc in fastboot mode. Then it should work again.
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Hey koenvbeek,
Thanks for the help. I think i may need a bit more of it
Here is what i did so far:
I used Nephrons guide to download and install ADB.
I then rebooted to bootloader. The phone displays "fastboot" and then when i plug it in it dispalys fastboot-usb
I then went to the ADB tools directory and tried to run the command.
I got a message saying the command cannot be run because adbwinapi.dll is missing from my system, and asking me to reinstall everything...
Clearly i made a mistake somewhere but where?
I don't think you made a mistake
Either the requested file is missing, or it can't be used by your computer. First check if the file is present. If not, google for it.
If it is present, your computer can't use it for some reason. Are you on a 64-bit OS? If you're on Vista/7: did you open the cmd promt as admin?
Yeah, nothing wrong, it's just that the API library is missing.
Download it from the attachment here, and put it in the "tools" folder, then try again.
Edit: As you can see it's in an archive, since dll attachment is not enabled here, so extract the file from it.

how can you access external sd card from cwm?

how can i access the external sd card from cwm? ive noticed everything has been installed and downloaded into internal sd. i did a factory reset from phone and erased my internal sd card now my phone wont boot and i cant access my external sd card from cwm. i can get to cwm but no access to card and everythings been wiped from the internal memory. is there a way to access the external sd card? also seems to be a bigger problem than just this when i tried to install xda app before i did wipe it wouldnt allow me since xda is stored in sd cARD. its like it doesnt access the card. anyone????
ok so i did a factory data reset thru phone thinking this would solve some of my issues and instead created more because i went into continuous bootloop. then my internal memeory was wiped also and i couldnt flash anything and for some reason you cant access external sd thru cwm. so i actually thought about intentionally bricking my phone so i could take it back to sprint. lmao!! anyways so finally io went into cwm and went to mount and unmount then hit mount usb and text changed to unmount usb so i plugged my phone to my pc and bam it connected and this gave me the oppurtunity ti put a rom into sd once it synced then i was able to acces it and flash it and now im back lol. but when you do a factory reset it wipes everything from your internal memory all your roms and zips to flash are gone and you can no longer flash anything. i dont know if this was already spoken of or not vut i searched the forum and couldnt find anything to help my situation so maybe this will help the next guy at least until we get further into the development of this phone.
hope this helps someone!!!
Man I hope this works I just got my phone and i bricked it.... wow.
I noticed that you can't access external_sd from cwm *yet*. I was going to say you always have odin if you can get the phone into download mode, but looks like you figured that out.

SDcard

Ok. haven't seen anything similar so figured new post.. so here goes:
went to install a new rom.. went in and did normal wiping
wipe cache
wipe davlik
factory reset
wipe system
reboot and redo
After i did this (ive done this many times no issues..) twrp stopped recognizing my ext sdcard... luckly i had a rom on my internal and was able to at least load something.. i put root explorer back on and it too does not see an ext card... i took my card out and put it in my laptop and at first it didnt see it.. i put another sd card in the laptop and it saw it.. so took it out and then out my 32gb back in and it sees it.. right now im copying everything off it to back it up..
when i put the 16gb in phone, sees it fine.. i put the 32gb back in it and phone doesnt see it.. again did the same as above with laptop.. at first doesnt see it unless i put the 16 in first then take it out..
anyone got any thoughts on what i might need to do?
wondering if i should format it and see if that fixes it
Yeah, reformat the 32 with the computer.
mrhaley30705 said:
Yeah, reformat the 32 with the computer.
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thanks. well so far seems to be working.. i did a repair on it in windows.. and then put it back in phone and so far so good.. if it goes away i at least have backup and will format it next time.. thnx

[Q] Phone started acting up after app install, need help

Okay, so. I have an HTC One M8, rooted, S-On, TWRP, whatever else. It was running just fine until yesterday or so, when I wanted to switch out an icon pack, but wanted to keep my stock launcher, so I found Unicon on the App Store, and downloaded it (along with the Minimal Hero/Hera Icon Pack, or whatever it was called). As soon as I installed it, I started having problems with my phone restarting randomly, and I disabled the Icon Pack in Unicon, and got rid of Unicon (disabling it in Xposed Installer and then uninstalling the app).
That didn't solve my problems, though. I managed to somehow keep the phone on after numerous restarts, but every time my phone was turned off, it went into the same constant restart cycle (where it restarts about a minute after it's booted up). I tried searching for ways to remedy the problem, ending up in the TWRP recovery, where I tried wiping the cache and the Dalvik cache, which didn't help. I also uninstalled Xposed Framework and before that, tried disabling all the Xposed modules, nothing helped.
As things stand now, I did a wipe on all the categories in TWRP (including cache, Dalvik cache, internal storage, system and data) and when I rebooted from recovery, my phone was stuck with the HTC boot logo. Now I'm just letting it sit on my bed, showing the boot logo, waiting for it to drain.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I did a factory reset (perhaps stupidly) and now, when I reboot it, it says "No OS is installed!". Since it's not showing up on my computer while in recovery, how should I proceed to flash the stock ROM?
when you wiped the system partition, you wiped the ROM.
You should put a stock ROM on your phone and flash it.
Follow one of the returning to stock guides.
BenPope said:
when you wiped the system partition, you wiped the ROM.
You should put a stock ROM on your phone and flash it.
Follow one of the returning to stock guides.
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Excuse my stupidity, but could you point me towards one of those? I was looking for that, but didn't really find anything helpful.
Also, I know how to flash a ROM in its simplest form, but my phone's not booting and I don't know how to get a ROM file onto the phone itself, because it doesn't show up in the computer when in recovery. How do I flash ROMs from the computer or whatever?
Fraught said:
Excuse my stupidity, but could you point me towards one of those? I was looking for that, but didn't really find anything helpful.
Also, I know how to flash a ROM in its simplest form, but my phone's not booting and I don't know how to get a ROM file onto the phone itself, because it doesn't show up in the computer when in recovery. How do I flash ROMs from the computer or whatever?
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I'm sure the search tools on this forum work just as well for you as they do me. Or you could probably start at a sticky thread.
You could also search for "adb sideload" and "adb push".
BenPope said:
I'm sure the search tools on this forum work just as well for you as they do me. Or you could probably start at a sticky thread.
You could also search for "adb sideload" and "adb push".
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I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
Fraught said:
I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
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I might have missed this but did you do a recovery? Within TWRP you have the option of storing it on internal storage, or the sd card. If you did the sd card way, there might be hope. Just hold down power and volume up and when the screen goes dark, hold power down to get into recovery, then restore the backup. If it was on internal storage, its probably gone, and if you didnt make one, well..wouldnt an RUU fix that?
Also you did more then a plain factory reset...that would still keep the os etc installed..you wiped that sucker completely clean
Fraught said:
I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
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I suggest you make use of the external SD card and a USB card reader.
Tower1972 said:
I might have missed this but did you do a recovery? Within TWRP you have the option of storing it on internal storage, or the sd card. If you did the sd card way, there might be hope. Just hold down power and volume up and when the screen goes dark, hold power down to get into recovery, then restore the backup. If it was on internal storage, its probably gone, and if you didnt make one, well..wouldnt an RUU fix that?
Also you did more then a plain factory reset...that would still keep the os etc installed..you wiped that sucker completely clean
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Yeah, I know. I was idiotic. I'm just kind of a newb to the whole scene, and I panicked when my phone started acting up. It was stupid to wipe system too.
And yeah, I have an SD card and my computer has a reader for it. I can access my SD card, but how do I install something on my SD card from recovery? As far as I can see, it only lets me install form internal storage.
Fraught said:
Yeah, I know. I was idiotic. I'm just kind of a newb to the whole scene, and I panicked when my phone started acting up. It was stupid to wipe system too.
And yeah, I have an SD card and my computer has a reader for it. I can access my SD card, but how do I install something on my SD card from recovery? As far as I can see, it only lets me install form internal storage.
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Take the SD card out and put it onto your computer, download a ROM and place it on SD Card. Insert card back into phone, boot into recovery and change location path to external SD card. There is an option for that.
Location where ROM is... of course.
BerndM14 said:
Take the SD card out and put it onto your computer, download a ROM and place it on SD Card. Insert card back into phone, boot into recovery and change location path to external SD card. There is an option for that.
Location where ROM is... of course.
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There is, actually, no option for that. I got the ROM adb pushed to my phone and got it flashed, though, so it's all good now (despite the fact that I idiotically made myself lose all my internal storage data).
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Fraught said:
There is, actually, no option for that. I got the ROM adb pushed to my phone and got it flashed, though, so it's all good now (despite the fact that I idiotically made myself lose all my internal storage data).
Anyway, thanks for the help!
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within twrp...where it says internal storage after you tap backup,.. tap those words Internal Storage, it will bring up 3 options..Internal Storage..MicroSD..or OTG I believe..I know mine does..I had 2.7.1.0 and which ever was below it allow that option. Well just for future reference.. And btw...dont cut yourself down..We all make mistakes...thats why we come here..to learn and maybe help someone else
Tower1972 said:
within twrp...where it says internal storage after you tap backup,.. tap those words Internal Storage, it will bring up 3 options..Internal Storage..MicroSD..or OTG I believe..I know mine does..I had 2.7.1.0 and which ever was below it allow that option. Well just for future reference.. And btw...dont cut yourself down..We all make mistakes...thats why we come here..to learn and maybe help someone else
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I know. I swear, I tried, didn't seem to work. Maybe something else's amiss elsewhere. In any case, I got it adb pushed to the internal storage, so it's all alright, phone's fine now. I'll look into the microSD thing, but I'm still glad I learned a bit more about Android in the process of recovering my device (because it's a path where most is yet untrodden for me).
And yeah, being on xda as such a newbie is sort of daunting, especially as I'm pretty impatient with people who don't understand as well something that I do, but I always hope for at least one paragon who helps, and helps with patience and friendliness (which I did get, so thank god).

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