My sister pulled her battery on her inc2 and now its in a bootloop. It is not rooted and fully stock. I don't know whether she pulled it during some sort of update or not...but the fact is it doesn't work. It boots up but doesn't get past the unlock screen and at that point it freezes up and reboots. I tried ruu but since its not rooted it cannot accept the file since its not an upgrade over here existing ROM. Is there a way around this? Or does anyone know of an alternative method?...this would not be a problem if it was rooted but unfortunately it isn't.
You'll have to reset. I had this happen on stock many a time.
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Did factory reset twice through bootloader..no luck.
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This is really my first time posting unfortunately, but here's what happened.
I have an Incredible that I purchased back when they were only available for preorder. I've had it rooted with 2.2 running Virtuous rom and king kernel since they basically were released. Everything has been running great. Today I woke up though and unplugged the phone from the charger and the phone rebooted itself. I thought, ok it does this every so often so I didn't think anything of it. Ten minutes later it's still stuck at the HTC INCREDIBLE white screen and hasn't moved from there. I can boot into hboot, but no clockwork recovery. When trying to boot into recovery it just goes to the white start screen as well.
I tried clearing user data from hboot and I tried updating the radio, and nothing seems to do it. I'm stumped. Is there any way to recover a phone that's stuck on this screen? I've got a replacement coming, but for future reference I would love to know how to fix it, if at all possible.
Any ideas?
So in reading your post, I gathered this information- You were running a 2.2 Virtuous rom on a radio baseband of 1.x? Is that right?
Did you try getting a complete stock RUU file and installing it via HBOOT?
Sounds like your partitions are screwed up. There is another thread about this in the Q&A.
Hey All,
New to XDA but been using this site years so my level of Android knowledge is not bad.
I am currently having a huge problem with my Nexus. I used Google Apps encryption on it recently and that seems to have bricked my phone. I am unable to reset to factory settings to wipe the encryption as recommended by Google and I am stuck now with a bricked Nexus.
I also tried flashing stock roms with Odin which appears to work but the encryption still remains. All I am trying to do is put the stock back on my phone and re-root but I am having no joy. When using CWM to flash a new rom the system does not mount in recovery mode so I can't load any other roms. I have also tried the fastboot method but it stalls on waiting for device all the time.
If anyone has seen this and can help or if anyone just knows how to fix it please help me! I am stuck now with a useless Nexus. I should have just left it alone but as usual I couldn't.
Any help would be so appreciated. Thank you.
By some chance is your phone both rooted with CWM?
Hey, yeah it was so when I did a factory reset it could'nt use the stock bootloader so it didn't know how to wipe it. Unfortunetly once you apply encryption from a Google Apps the only way to remove is to factory reset.
I got around it by fastbooting the stock bootloader, radio and image from Google. Then I completed a manual reset using the original bootloader.
A world of hurt really! I have learned a lot but never going near Google Apps encryption again. It also slowed down the phone too.
Anyhow all sorted now, re rooted and running revolution rom now.
theres another thread with a guy who had the same problem. I wonder if vzw nexus has an issue with encrypting...
If the phone wasn't rooted I would have had no issues. It is simply a problem when it comes to loading roms. In CWM the recovery cant mount the data/system so you can't flash anything. Also doing a factory reset from settings doesnt work because the phone is looking for a stock bootloader which it doesn't have once you root. So I ended up in a loop and could do nothing. Fortunetly I learned all about adb and fastboot this morning, never heard of them before and that allowed me to reload stock and unroot. I still had to wipe the phone using the bootloader as I couldn't get into the phone or past the encryption.
If anyone is having issues with this I will gladly help as I really thought that my phone was bricked and was very frustrated. The only way I got help was from a guy on this tread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392037&page=3
First i ran the phone with stock 4.0.2, and one morning when i woke up(the phone was in the charger) the phone was in a boot loop(turned off when the google letters came up), so I ended up with a factory reset.
Some days later I rooted the phone and installed AOPK rom and installed google apps. 2 days later it got into a boot loop again, but now it booted all the way till where I tyoe in the SIM code, if I did it really fast I could also get past the sim code but just seconds after it booted again. I tried everything from CWM, restore an older backup, wipe cache/data but the phone couldn't find the boot or something like that. So ended up push adb stock rom.
Is this something thats normal? I got 2 friends with the same phone, never had any problem, they both run stock 4.0.2.
I too had a problem with my Gnex, it kept freezing up and switching off, if you are getting this problem on stock and custom roms its likely hardware, so send it off to Sammy, just a heads up but mine was sent off 10.02.12 first time then 2 more finally they said thay would replace it .... That was a month ago, rang them yesterday and they said it would be another week .. what I'm getting at if your insurance could offer a quicker fix I'd go with that
Have you tried flashing google's stock images and going from there?
Yeah, I did flash 4.0.2 stock again from that site, been running it for 2-3 days now.
First let me say ive used this site many times and never needed to post as all my questions were already answered, so for the many times ive not needed to post thank you all for being so great and helpful!!
That being said im hoping im just using the incorrect rom or going about it wrong. we switched carriers at work and my sprint lgog is sitting in a drawer while my wife uses a droid 4 on a regional carrier because they cant flash phones running JB. So for mothers day i thought i would downgrade to ICS and get this phone flashed for her. Thus far ive managed to root, unlock bootloader and fix two softbricks using teenybin's work. The softbricks came after trying to install both LS970ZV9_ODEX_STOCKROOT_1_13 and LS970ZV9_DEODEX_STOCKROOT_1_13 using twrp. I selected backup and wipe before doing both. Is there a different rom i need to use post VZB to install a ICS rom? or are these roms ok im just installing them improperly? TIA
*update* after trying to install the LS970ZV9_02.bin update with lgnpst the phone hung at 85% and upon reboot would hang at the 4glte screen, I tried teenybin unlocker again and the phone wouldnt boot at all. The lg logo would flash and then blank screen...i couldnt seem to toggle the power at all and it wouldnt even charge on wall charger. after 20 mins of frantic "oh #^#$" button pressing i finally got it to go into recovery mode and recovered back to zvb. It seems mostly back to normal now other than the wifi doesnt seem to be on even though it says its on, no emblem in notification area and wont connect to my wifi when told to.
*update2* after doing factory restore i got my wifi working properly. So i then rerooted and then reinstall teenybin with lgnpst i was able to get into twrp and restore my primary backup.... So now i THINK im back to square 1, rooted, unlocked vzb...at least everything seems to be back to normal. 3rd time is the charm which in this case means i think im going to wait to hear from someone more knowledgeable than i before i screw something up i cant fix
4th attemt 4th fail
so i tried to flash LS970ZV9_02, a totally stock unrooted, locked rom i found here on xda...i did a factory reset before booting into twrp, wiped cache and dalvik, loaded the rom and it boot looped....:crying: i dont know what im doing wrong unless these phones just refuse to downgrade....
I suggest you get on the optimus g IRC. They are very helpful. You may need to find the older radios and flash those after you downgrade. LGNPST should work, normally when it reboots at 85% its a good indication that it worked properly. Perhaps you could find a copy of the ls970zv8.bin and try to install that. Good luck.
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For some reason my phone isn't booting up all the way to the rom/OS. It gets stuck on the boot animation and goes on forever and hasn't been able to boot up since yesterday, when my powered off at 20% battery, which is something normal for my phone. I was rooted and on android 4.3/MK4, but when I put it to charge and tried booting it back up, the phone would boot up, but would get stuck on the boot animation, going on forever. It wouldn't freeze it would just continue to play the animation. I tried removing the battery, factory wiping it, and installing a new rom, which I found out was for a different baseband. When i finished installing it it still wouldn't boot up all the way through.:crying: I then tried installing the previous rom, and still no good. After all that I installed a stock firmware using odin, hoping it would work. I installed the 4.4.2 NE2 firmware, which isn't for my phone but watching zedomax's video, he said to download the latest build date, which is what I did. Well, downloaded it and flashed it through Odin with a PASS and everything going good. Although, when it was rebooting-even after a factory and cache wipe-it still wouldn't boot up. I tried installing other firmwares aswell, but still no luck. I'm just waiting for it to finally boot up, so if anyone can help me out, I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT, otherwise, anything is going to help at this point. Since I flashed the firmware, I now have a stock recovery and rom(I hope). I've been through these types of situations, but not to this point.. :crying:
It seems odds, but you may want to try a new battery. I recently went through a total disaster with my device and it ultimately was the battery. You may want to try booting with it connected to the a/c wall charger. It may give you an indication.
Have you tried the quick fix posted? My phone did the same thing when i had the stock recovery it showed error mounting efs folder. I noticed after installing clockwork that error didnt show up. It was still the same problem though. Wouldnt hurt to check it out. I got my note two from a friend who described the issue starting the same way you said happend to yours. The phone had never been rooted though. Good luck to you in trying to fix it.
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