Hi
My Nexus 7 recently ran out of battery and as per usual, died.
When i plugged it into the charger, I thought it would charge and be ready to use again.
After several hours, nothing happened. No display saying it was charging, nada.
I then went to power it up into recovery mode, by holding down power button and volume down.
This then seemed to 'reboot' the system and I now see a droid with a red triangle and the words 'No command'
Having a look around online, people have suggested holding down power button and volume up.
Whenever I do this, the screen goes blank, the Google logo appears then the same droid with a red triangle appears.
I cannot seem to get past this step.
Has anyone come across this before and if so, how I do I get past this and actually use my Nexus?
Thanks
sipherz said:
Hi
My Nexus 7 recently ran out of battery and as per usual, died.
When i plugged it into the charger, I thought it would charge and be ready to use again.
After several hours, nothing happened. No display saying it was charging, nada.
I then went to power it up into recovery mode, by holding down power button and volume down.
This then seemed to 'reboot' the system and I now see a droid with a red triangle and the words 'No command'
Having a look around online, people have suggested holding down power button and volume up.
Whenever I do this, the screen goes blank, the Google logo appears then the same droid with a red triangle appears.
I cannot seem to get past this step.
Has anyone come across this before and if so, how I do I get past this and actually use my Nexus?
Thanks
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It's a little tricky actually. You shouldn't have to hold the power + vol up buttons for very long. The most important thing is that you have to make sure you push them at the EXACT same time. I kind of figured this one out on my own when I was having issues flashing a custom recovery.
charesa39 said:
It's a little tricky actually. You shouldn't have to hold the power + vol up buttons for very long. The most important thing is that you have to make sure you push them at the EXACT same time. I kind of figured this one out on my own when I was having issues flashing a custom recovery.
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When I press them at the same time, the only thing that happens is the screen goes slightly darker (i.e the icon becomes less visible)
I've pressed the buttons together so many times and nothing happens.
I tried to get back into recovery mode using a bootloader from androidrootz.com. I managed to get back to the step where i can select 'Start, Recovery Mode, Power Off' etc I ran 'Recovery Mode', which then rebooted and I go the same icon. I can't seem to run the program again though, so I'm still stuck with the lying down droid
sipherz said:
When I press them at the same time, the only thing that happens is the screen goes slightly darker (i.e the icon becomes less visible)
I've pressed the buttons together so many times and nothing happens.
I tried to get back into recovery mode using a bootloader from androidrootz.com. I managed to get back to the step where i can select 'Start, Recovery Mode, Power Off' etc I ran 'Recovery Mode', which then rebooted and I go the same icon. I can't seem to run the program again though, so I'm still stuck with the lying down droid
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Were you completely stock when this all happened? What bootloader from androidrootz.com? If you can flash a bootloader, why not flash the factory image?
Sorry, charesa39. Just as you'd posted (I'd posted same ). I'll just add it can be tricky. Maybe try power first then continue holding while hitting vol +. You do this when you're at the fallen Andy screen.
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I also had some problems to access recovery. Finally it worked after many tries. So far i remember you have to press the buttons not too short and not too long ;D... perhaps 3-4 seconds. Then Release one of the buttons and the second one half a second later. I don't remember which button i released first, but there are only to possibilities. Hope this helps... in my case the recovery appeared.
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Hi,
I have recently installed a new ROM and then used a mod which doesn't seem to be compatible as now the phone is stuck in a loop. When the phone turns on, it comes up with the HTC-Quietly Brilliant screen then continues to the HTC One (with beats audio at the bottom) screen. It won't move past this. I have tried to get into recovery using the vol down+power button but it just repeats the above. I don't think there was a huge amount of battery (maybe around 40%) which I have read can be a problem.
What can I do to get the phone to boot? I currently have the phone on charge on the HTC One screen in an attempt to get it to work as I cannot do it when turned off however if I take the cable out, the red light stays on making me think it isn't actually charging. Any advice you guys can give would be great. I think if I can get into CWM I'll be ok
Cheers
press the volume down + power for 10 secs, and keep them pressed while it reboots untill you get to the hboot menu
Thanks. I was trying to do that but obviously let go before the 10 seconds. It did it once earlier on but couldn't replicate it. Many thanks-phone is now ok again
Cheers
Can't get past fastboot
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Try holding down volume down, then while holding it down, hold down the power button for 7 seconds until it turns off, it should then restart into hboot. I had to do it twice in a row to make it work.
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Yeah it can be a bit fiddly at times. Grrr
I went to plug in my one x to charge. The second that I plugged it in, the screen went black. The home and back keys were still lit up. I'm not sure if it auto restarted or I powered it down. After that it seemed like it was just going to restart, but it only got to the htc logo screen. The normal little orange bar showed loading. I think it only does that once normally, now it goes twice. When it finishes that animation, it just sits at the white htc screen.
I haven't modified anything recently. It has been running over a year with no changes. If I hold power down at the screen, the home keys flash every few seconds. After seven flashes, the phone powers down and immediately restarts. There is no way to power it down until it dies. I took it apart and removed the battery for a few minutes, that didn't help at all.
If I home power and volume down, the red charge light comes on a few seconds. It then seems to boot to a black screen. I can't see anything, but the home keys are lit up. If I hold power down a while, it goes back to booting to the white logo screen. I tried hooking it to my computer, but it isn't getting to a point where it is being recognized as being plugged in.
I assume the thing is beyond help, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I went to plug in my one x to charge. The second that I plugged it in, the screen went black. The home and back keys were still lit up. I'm not sure if it auto restarted or I powered it down. After that it seemed like it was just going to restart, but it only got to the htc logo screen. The normal little orange bar showed loading. I think it only does that once normally, now it goes twice. When it finishes that animation, it just sits at the white htc screen.
I haven't modified anything recently. It has been running over a year with no changes. If I hold power down at the screen, the home keys flash every few seconds. After seven flashes, the phone powers down and immediately restarts. There is no way to power it down until it dies. I took it apart and removed the battery for a few minutes, that didn't help at all.
If I home power and volume down, the red charge light comes on a few seconds. It then seems to boot to a black screen. I can't see anything, but the home keys are lit up. If I hold power down a while, it goes back to booting to the white logo screen. I tried hooking it to my computer, but it isn't getting to a point where it is being recognized as being plugged in.
I assume the thing is beyond help, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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"home power and volume down"?
If you mean HOLD power and volume down, trying to get to bootloader, and you cannot, you're not going to be able to do anything else with and to your phone I am afraid.
If you ARE holding down the Home key in the process, I am not sure if it makes a difference but don't.
thanks
Tigerlight said:
"home power and volume down"?
If you mean HOLD power and volume down, trying to get to bootloader, and you cannot, you're not going to be able to do anything else with and to your phone I am afraid.
If you ARE holding down the Home key in the process, I am not sure if it makes a difference but don't.
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Sorry, you are correct, it should have said hold. I tried to edit it, but it wouldn't let me edit so soon after posting as a new member. My phone has been through a lot. In the process of opening the case many times, the volume bar got damaged. I have to use something metal against volume down to manually trigger it. I'm fairly certain that it has tried to boot into the loader though. I guess the charger had a short and fried some memory..
Hello there, I was installing Recovery using this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682, I only went up to the first part of unrooting the phone where it asks me to connect my and install te recovery, my phone after the root did not want to turn on. I tried using the Volume +/- along with the home key, nothing, it just vibrates and nothing. I tried pulling out the battery and the same thing happened, no matter what I did, it vibrates and won't turn on. Also when I hook it up to the charger and try turning on it vibrates and it keeps vibrating in loops, around 2-3 sec apart. What is wrong with my phone? Please don't tell me it's a brick, I just got it yesterday ;p
infernel250 said:
Hello there, I was installing Recovery using this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682, I only went up to the first part of unrooting the phone where it asks me to connect my and install te recovery, my phone after the root did not want to turn on. I tried using the Volume +/- along with the home key, nothing, it just vibrates and nothing. I tried pulling out the battery and the same thing happened, no matter what I did, it vibrates and won't turn on. Also when I hook it up to the charger and try turning on it vibrates and it keeps vibrating in loops, around 2-3 sec apart. What is wrong with my phone? Please don't tell me it's a brick, I just got it yesterday ;p
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I think this kit is honestly the easiest way to brick your phone. There are simply too many options, most of them have no real use for this phone, and the free version never gets updated. Honestly think it's a bad move for people who are new to the game.
To get in download mode:
Start with the phone off.
Press and hold the home button and volume down button.
Press the power button until the phone vibrates.
Release the power button.
To get in recovery mode.
Start with the phone off.
Press and hold the home button and volume up button.
Press the power button until the phone vibrates.
Release the power button.
Release the volume up and home button when the blue text appears in the top left corner of the screen.
If these won't work, you are bricked. Time for JTAG.
I agree 100%. That kit seemed pretty helpful for some when this was still pretty new, but recently it seems there are more reports of failures (or worse) than successes. When you get this fixed I suggest reading all the stickies and then take it from there.
Good luck
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I just rooted and S-off my HTC via rumrunner.
No flash roms install or custom recovery installed.
I wanted to see if I still had CWM from my last root (I returned to stock via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475216&highlight=s-on.
So I went into the bootloader or fastboot (I don't remember) and hit recovery. This did not send me to a CWM, but it appeared to be the stock version of recovery. The process took too long (I know impatient) so I turned it off via power button + volume down.
Now I come to you in need, my phone is constantly turning off/on only displaying the green htc text, no red text, then pausing for 8 seconds, then off again to black screen. The whole process lasts 12 seconds, and this had been going on for about 10-15 min atm.
Plugging it in, my computer does not have the time to recognize it with adb, or fastboot.
I cannot use the power button + volume down to go into bootloader, and pressing the power button does nothing.
Please help me.
So the problem still persists and I assume it's going to keep turning on and off for a while.
I'm just going to wait until the battery dies and see if it can charge and turn it back into bootloader. I'll report back on that.
On a side note in the case that this is bricked, anyone recommend any future phones out there better than the one with verizon? If not I'm probably just going to stick to this phone.
geeibara said:
So the problem still persists and I assume it's going to keep turning on and off for a while.
I'm just going to wait until the battery dies and see if it can charge and turn it back into bootloader. I'll report back on that.
On a side note in the case that this is bricked, anyone recommend any future phones out there better than the one with verizon? If not I'm probably just going to stick to this phone.
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Hold down the volume down and power button at the same time, until the white hboot menu appears.
This may take a good 15 seconds or more, keep holding them down until the hboot menu appears.
Sounds like you aren't holding down long enough. If that doesn't work, try both volume up and down and power all at once.
Then when the screen goes black, let up on the up volume key, so that you enter fastboot via volume down and power.
Then you should be able to fastboot flash whatever you need to get back up and running again.
I wouldnt just let it keep looping until it dies though.
Probably won't damage anything but I doubt that it's real great for the device.
santod040 said:
Hold down the volume down and power button at the same time, until the white hboot menu appears.
This may take a good 15 seconds or more, keep holding them down until the hboot menu appears.
Sounds like you aren't holding down long enough. If that doesn't work, try both volume up and down and power all at once.
Then when the screen goes black, let up on the up volume key, so that you enter fastboot via volume down and power.
Then you should be able to fastboot flash whatever you need to get back up and running again.
I wouldnt just let it keep looping until it dies though.
Probably won't damage anything but I doubt that it's real great for the device.
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So here's the update.
Screen is now black, meaning the boot up/down process has stopped.
I have tried these:
A. Hold down the volume down + power button for 20+ seconds.
B. Hold down the volume up + volume down + power button for 20+ seconds and let up on the volume up button when screen goes black.
These two methods results in a single boot up to green HTC text then black screen.
I suspect the device has lost most of its power. Tried it for a third time, the device is now unresponsive and remains at black screen.
Now I plugged the usb cable connected to the power adapter.
The device enters the aforementioned continuous boot loop.
I tried method A and B, and there are no results, the boot loop continues. Now the device returns to the low or no powered state.
Now the device is connected to the computer. The same happens as if it were connected to the power adapter.
Method A and B still do not work.
Results: holding down buttons longer do nothing for me. The device seems to have lost power, but when charged, immediately the device enters the boot loop state.
Note: when doing method A and B the trials were done when screen is on and when screen is off, still no results.
Now the screen is off and not connected to anything. The problem still persists.
ak074 said:
leave the phone charging for at least 10-15 min on the AC adapter. press and hold both vol buttons then press and hold power for 2+ minutes. after 2 minutes, let go of all buttons except volume down. success?
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actually doing that will destroy the battery. well maybe destroy is too strong of a word but it will damage it for sure. this is a very useful site for anything battery...
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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I actually tried the 2+ minutes because I saw someone had success with another phone and they said they did it for 3 1/2 min. However it did not work.
Update: Welp, I gave up. I'm going to get my replacement soon and I'll be turning it into Verizon. Really it's not that bad of a loss since I just wiped the phone, only thing is I lost my screen protector and carbon skin
ak074 said:
have you tried to just let the phone bootloop while holding vol down?
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Yep, nothing happened.
Bootlooped too!
Hello I have a HTC Thunderbolt that is S-ON Unlocked and unrooted with stock recovery that is in a bootloop that does now show on ADB or Fastboot. PLEASE HELP!!!!! I REALLY NEED IT!!
Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
Sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the power button is sticking. Try using an object see if the button is physically depressed. If not, then it us the switch inside.
Ixthusdan said:
Sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the power button is sticking. Try using an object see if the button is physically depressed. If not, then it us the switch inside.
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I can press the button though. I can press and Hold it to reset it, and I can press it to get it to go on again.
I guess that is possible, but if it was intermittent, the times I've just pressed the button repeatedly to try to get it to do something should have gotten me past that scrolling boot menu.
Thing is, the reason it is scrolling is from an input from the button. If the button is not the issue, then it is a circuit problem. Bad news. Better to have been the button.
ScoJoh said:
Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
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Can you PC see you tablet in adb or fastboot???
ScoJoh said:
Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
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Can it boot into reecovery?
Sadly no, the PC will not see it. It doesn't get far enough to be seen.
I did find a little more info. I used the Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.6 and it's running FFF 1.4a I believe? (bootup screen with the Blue Kingle Fire Logo).
The weird thing is, if I have the USB cable plugged into it and hit the power button, it won't come at all. I have to unplug it in order to get the boot sequence to come up.
If I remember correctly the boot options menu always scrolled, you just pressed the button when it was on the choice you wanted.
I did launch the KF Utility but when trying to do anything it just saying waiting for device because it isn't seeing the darn thing...
I really hope I'm not screwed. What really sucks was I had JUST been thinking about running the clean system image to restore it in TWRP but it did this before I decided to go ahead and do that.
My menus only scrolled if I press the power button. Otherwise, it boots whatever the menu is on. That is why I suspect the boot program is receiving an input from the button.
Ixthusdan said:
My menus only scrolled if I press the power button. Otherwise, it boots whatever the menu is on. That is why I suspect the boot program is receiving an input from the button.
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Well... I'm reading elsewhere the same thing you said.... yet mine has ALWAYS scrolled since I first loaded it and only advanced when I pressed the button when it was on the choice.....
Perhaps my power button has been having an issue for far longer than I realized... yet when the system did boot it didn't act like it was being pressed constantly.
Such a confusing issue.... sadly it's looking more and more like I've just got a Kindle I can do nothing more with