Can't boot or get into recovery - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Suddenly my Nexus won't boot up, instead it will stay at X logo animation, no mattery how many times I reboot it. I can't get into recovery with volume down + power up button, but I can access recovery via fastboot.
What should I do? I really don't want to loose my data. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and best regards.
p.s.: I have Cataclysm ROM 4.3 with TWRP. I've tried to reflash it, but it's still the same.

krneki10 said:
Suddenly my Nexus won't boot up, instead it will stay at X logo animation, no mattery how many times I reboot it. I can't get into recovery with volume down + power up button, but I can access recovery via fastboot.
What should I do? I really don't want to loose my data. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and best regards.
p.s.: I have Cataclysm ROM 4.3 with TWRP. I've tried to reflash it, but it's still the same.
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If you really don't want to lose any data, create a back up and then adb pull the file to your computer. That way you can backup the file after you restore another ROM. Hopefully that'll solve your problem.

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Jelly Bean animation locked

Need some help. I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and did bootloader and rooted my phone. Yeah!! Tried to install JellyBean and ran into a problem. The animation of Jellybean is locked what do I do? Need some serious help. I am able to get to Fastboot mode.
coachv said:
Need some help. I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and did bootloader and rooted my phone. Yeah!! Tried to install JellyBean and ran into a problem. The animation of Jellybean is locked what do I do? Need some serious help. I am able to get to Fastboot mode.
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The animation is locked? I don't understand what you mean. Are you stuck at the boot logo (Google screen) or the boot animation (flashing X)? Either way, you can just go into your custom recovery, wipe data, and try flashing again if you are waiting on it to boot for that long. Some users have experienced waiting 5 minutes before it actually started up.
Agreed.
Initial boot on my Toro took 5-6 minutes.
It was butter ever since, however.
Give it a minute.
And make sure you're properly installing a rom (post 2 from the link in my signature).
Edit:
Anton&Juba.
Tag-teaming 'ze noobs until it goes out of style.
It's flashing X on Boot animation. It has stayed in that mode for hours. I am confused and can not back into my phone. Reading other posts, I am able to get back to Fastboot mode. What do I do next? I appreciate your help. Thanks
coachv said:
It's flashing X on Boot animation. It has stayed in that mode for hours. I am confused and can not back into my phone. Reading other posts, I am able to get back to Fastboot mode. What do I do next? I appreciate your help. Thanks
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I see. So you're in a bootloop. What do you mean fastboot mode? Because I know some users get confused with the terms... I'm assuming you're able to enter the Bootloader (screen with android belly open, where you are able to move through some menu options with your up and down volume keys)? Note, this is not the screen with the Android and red exclamation point. If you are able to boot into bootloader, you should be able to enter your custom recovery (Clockworkmod Recovery?) and wipe data and either flash a rom (same one or new one) and try again, or restore a backup you made. If you're set on using fastboot commands, you can always flash Nexus Factory Images, although this will wipe your SD card. I recommend getting into your custom recovery and wiping and flashing or restoring. If you don't have a custom recovery, you can always flash a custom recovery (fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img) and flash a custom rom or restore from there. Here is CWM recovery incase you don't have a custom recovery, or you have reverted back to stock (Android with red exclamation point).
yes the android belly is open. I just don't the steps that I need to do from here. This is where I get lost.
coachv said:
yes the android belly is open. I just don't the steps that I need to do from here. This is where I get lost.
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Can you scroll through the menu options with your volume keys? And one of the options should be "reboot recovery." Do that one.
Yes I can scroll with volume controls. Here are my options: start, restart bootloader, recovery mode and power off
coachv said:
Yes I can scroll with volume controls. Here are my options: start, restart bootloader, recovery mode and power off
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Okay dude.
1.) Move your volume keys to select recovery mode
2.) press the power button to actually select that option
3.) You will boot into your custom recovery
4.) EITHER Wipe Data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, and then flash a new rom (or try re-flashing this jellybean rom you're having problems with) OR restore from a backup you have previously made (which I hope you did just incase something worse happens in the future).
You do know how to navigate through your custom recovery, right?

How to Root Nexus 10 on Win/Mac/Linux! [Step-by-Step VIDEO Tutorials]

Here's a video tutorial on how to root your Nexus 10 for noobs!
Windows video tutorial:
Mac video tutorial:
Linux video tutorial:
All the files you need in one zip (adb+SuperSU+fastboot+Windows drivers):
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Nexus10/Nexus10RootNew.zip
Step-by-Step tutorial with photos here:
http://nexus10root.com/nexus-10-root/how-to-root-nexus-10-easiest-method/
Also, if you get stuck on bootloop after unlocking bootloader (This happened to me couple times), do a factory reset in stock recovery to fix:
Thanks to shimp208 for the sideload method and working CWM, ChainFire for awesome SuperSU and to all the developers who are worked on CWM recovery!
So the CWM that was just updated by Koushik on CWM does not work properly or does it work? Was asking based on this
While CWM Recovery is still being fixed
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Edit: There's no driver issue if it were on a Mac right? Especially adb sideloading the CWM SuperSu zip?
How do I flash the stock recovery? CWM isn't working and I tried to update the driver like in the video but couldn't find the "manta" that I needed to update. I'm just stuck in bootloop animation now. I'm downloading the stock image right now to try and flash it back to stock..
johno86 said:
How do I flash the stock recovery? CWM isn't working and I tried to update the driver like in the video but couldn't find the "manta" that I needed to update. I'm just stuck in bootloop animation now. I'm downloading the stock image right now to try and flash it back to stock..
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If you go into fastboot mode then choose recovery to get to the screen with the red triangle, keep pressing the power button and volume buttons randomly until the stock recovery pops up. From there do a factory reset and it'll work, I just did it to mine!
I flashed the CWM recovery img so when I do what you say it takes me to the bootloader screen and says Downloading. No red triangle. It boots into CWM and then after 20 seconds restarts itself and hits the bootanimation loop. Any clue what to do next? Trying to flash the stock image but having issues using cmds in windows cmd
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I cleared cache through cmd and i got to the red triangle...thank ****ing the lord. DTWAZERE, I will remember tonight. Thank you for your help.
johno86 said:
I flashed the CWM recovery img so when I do what you say it takes me to the bootloader screen and says Downloading. Any clue what to do next? Trying to flash the stock image but having issues getting it into fastboot now...
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Thing is it will delete the CWM recovery when you leave it so you'll have to reflash it, which is why this is so unstable!
I had the exact same thing as you and this is what I did:
Press the power button to turn it off while it says downloading
Hold both volume buttons down and power on to get into fastboot
Choose recovery
Press power and volume buttons randomly when the red triangle appears until you get stock recovery
Choose Factory Reset
Reboot
You should be able to get back into the rom that way,
to root it you need to boot into fastboot again, reflash the recovery, and sideload the superuser apk
dtwazere said:
Thing is it will delete the CWM recovery when you leave it so you'll have to reflash it, which is why this is so unstable!
I had the exact same thing as you and this is what I did:
Press the power button to turn it off while it says downloading
Hold both volume buttons down and power on to get into fastboot
Choose recovery
Press power and volume buttons randomly when the red triangle appears until you get stock recovery
Choose Factory Reset
Reboot
You should be able to get back into the rom that way,
to root it you need to boot into fastboot again, reflash the recovery, and sideload the superuser apk
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Yeah this is exactly what I did and it worked. I'll wait on flashing anything until there's a stable recovery. I was fairly confident in what I was doing until that happened. Not being able to input commands from cmd prompt made me sick so I'll wait for a dev to release something that works without having to quickly install the drivers again within a 15-20 second timeframe. Too much stress.
cant boot
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?
lc684760 said:
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?
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Heh im having the same issue.
lc684760 said:
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?
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I'm having the same issue. Stuck on the 2nd splash screen with the Nexus Logo.
I received successful messages after every entry.
deevooneh said:
I'm having the same issue. Stuck on the 2nd splash screen with the Nexus Logo.
I received successful messages after every entry.
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sucks. But we can boot in fastboot and downloading . I think we may have some tricks to fix.
i did everything, and it all went successfully after a few tried. Now i am stuck with the JB X load screen.
How do i get the stock google rom and how do i flash it?
lc684760 said:
sucks. But we can boot in fastboot and downloading . I think we may have some tricks to fix.
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Ok. Let me know if you figure something out. Hopefully we didnt brick it.
deevooneh said:
Ok. Let me know if you figure something out. Hopefully we didnt brick it.
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I just called service phone. But goole play agent told me that they didnt know how to deal with that. Its the new device. They dont know much. Damn it!
lc684760 said:
I just called service phone. But goole play agent told me that they didnt know how to deal with that. Its the new device. They dont know much. Damn it!
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How do we get back to stock? Might need to reattempt this.
If you are stuck on the boot animation (X) screen... power off your device and enter fastboot mode and then type fastboot -w... I has this problem and this fixed it!
NOTE: fastboot -w will wipe your internal storage completely
dtwazere said:
If you go into fastboot mode then choose recovery to get to the screen with the red triangle, keep pressing the power button and volume buttons randomly until the stock recovery pops up. From there do a factory reset and it'll work, I just did it to mine!
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deevooneh said:
How do we get back to stock? Might need to reattempt this.
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Stock is here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantarayjop40c
Still need a way to get CWM stable, so we have time to copy to sd
craigacgomez said:
If you are stuck on the boot animation (X) screen... power off you devices and enter fastboot mode and then type fastboot -w... I has this problem and this fixed it!
NOTE: fastboot -w will wipe your internal storage completely
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THIS WORKED!!
Youre a genius. thanks!
When I try to install the manta drivers manually and tell it to search the same area that it searched and found the android bootloader drivers for fastboot mode it says that the drivers couldn't be found and installed. Am I missing something? Also if i try to do fastboot flash recovery it gives me an error message stating that it cannot determine the image filename for the recovery image.
Well i guess i did it the long way around.
Went to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantarayjop40c
and downloaded the Nexus 10 file. extracted, and the actual files in the Nexus10Root folder.
Opened the flash-all.sh and entered each command manually because it was erroring out running the script.
After the 3rd command it booted right into android!

[Q] Atomic GB Not Booting Help!

Hi,
I tried using CWM to flash Atomic GB to my Xperia Play 800x, and when it gets to the loading screen, the logo thing just spins. It does not work. I tried getting back in the recovery system to restore my phone to my backup, but when I take the battery out, and turn it back on, it won't boot into recovery. I'm pressing the vol down button, but it won't boot to recovery. What do I do? Please help.
Thank you.
Got It
vandel212 said:
Hi,
I tried using CWM to flash Atomic GB to my Xperia Play 800x, and when it gets to the loading screen, the logo thing just spins. It does not work. I tried getting back in the recovery system to restore my phone to my backup, but when I take the battery out, and turn it back on, it won't boot into recovery. I'm pressing the vol down button, but it won't boot to recovery. What do I do? Please help.
Thank you.
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Forgot that I could use flash boot to reflash stock firmware. So I was able to start over. Whew...

Stock recovery "vanished"

Hi all, after some modding it seems that my nexus 7 2013 lte custom recovery is vanished. I've tried to flash it via adb, I've flashed the new 5.1 official image, but nothing happen. Every time I try to boot into recovery mode, via adb or power+volume up, all I get is a dead android robot logo with no options.
And, btw, my N7 works perfectly
What can I do?
Thanks
When you flash a new android version you lose root and custom recovery, you need to root and flash custom recovery again as your currently on stock, when that robot is on his back you also have hold down a button combo to access the fastboot / bootloader or recovery, unless you send it the command via adb.
My advice is re-root using cfautoroot and flash custom recovery with flashify.
Ok, thanks! I've flashed twrp (I'm still no-root) and it works fine. Now is there any possibility to come back on stock recovery?
Flashify premium allows you to download and flash stock recovery or bootloader,
if you can't afford it or there not available for dl yet you can alternatively extract the .img files
from the factory image and flash them instead.
Q8-V08 said:
Flashify premium allows you to download and flash stock recovery or bootloader,
if you can't afford it or there not available for dl yet you can alternatively extract the .img files
from the factory image and flash them instead.
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Nothing to do. I've extracted the img file from the factory image and flashed it via fastboot but, when I restart the device in recovery mode, it still shows the green half dead androidbot
^Thats normal. When you get to that screen you have to press volume up, down and power all at the same time, all three buttons. Just keep pressing them all at once a few times and it'll let you into stock recovery. It took me about 10 minutes to get in the first time. Don't hold the buttons, a quick press.
yosmokinman said:
^Thats normal. When you get to that screen you have to press volume up, down and power all at the same time, all three buttons. Just keep pressing them all at once a few times and it'll let you into stock recovery. It took me about 10 minutes to get in the first time. Don't hold the buttons, a quick press.
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So you're saying that normally, on a Nexus 7 with no root and with stock recovery, the combination key to enter in the recovery isn't power+volume up ? Sorry for repeating, but I'm new at modding
I'm saying when you boot into recovery and it gives you the dead android (on it's back I think?) do what I said above.
yosmokinman said:
I'm saying when you boot into recovery and it gives you the dead android (on it's back I think?) do what I said above.
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Done Thank you all!
Yeah it's pita to press, it's why I prefer to launch recovery from flashify or quick boot it's so much easier.
Android seems to love doing things arsed about faced / over complicated it should just be an option in settings, power off like
custom roms along with wireless adb.

[SOLVED]Help Please! Can't flash recovery.img (stock or custom)

I can get my one plus 3 into fastboot mode but that is it, I have tried wiping the cache and user data from there, I have tried flashing both the stock recovery and TWRP, everytime I try to boot into recovery I get a few seconds of the boot screen and then nothing?
Any help would be wonderful, if you need more info let me know,
Mac
I had a similar problem as you, managed to get into fastboot, but no recovery at all, neither stock nor TWRP. Flashing TWRP again didn't help, although process ended successfully.
Same thing for flashing the whole ROM.
What saved me from getting remote support from OnePlus was this wonderful HOW TO:
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-for-a-hard-bricked-oneplus-3.452634/
I lost all data, but it's a price I payed gladly in order to get my OP3 back
Good luck
McreativeH said:
I can get my one plus 3 into fastboot mode but that is it, I have tried wiping the cache and user data from there, I have tried flashing both the stock recovery and TWRP, everytime I try to boot into recovery I get a few seconds of the boot screen and then nothing?
Any help would be wonderful, if you need more info let me know,
Mac
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After flashing, try to boot directly to recovery by pressing the button combination.
I got it to work in the end by flashing CM recovery and then working my way from there

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