Please excuse my stupidity, just realized G3 is not unibody, did a battery pull.
First, I followed the instruction to root my G3.
Then I was trying to make a stock backup in TMRP. After an hour now, it is still trying to backup SYSTEM. I did enable compression, but it shouldn't take this long... TMRP is responsive, I can lock and unlock the screen.
How can I force reboot the phone? ADB says "device not found", and long press power bottom does nothing. I also tried power+vol up, power+vol down, and all three, nothing reboots the phone.
Please help:crying:
Glad you figured it out, I had the same problem the first time I backed up on this phone too. Ended up pulling battery. But I haven't had that problem since.
Made several backups with TWRP and didn't an issue.
Not much use for backups yet, I hope development will pick up soon.
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Hello,
I have a AT&T Tilt 2 that is caught in the boot cycle. Splash screen comes on, it reboots. I'm quite confident that flashing a new ROM will fix it it but the phone has not had hard SPL installed so I can only flash the original AT&T ROM, which as far as I can tell is not available?
I've tried to install SPL but it won't take in the state that phone is in. Is there a way to flash SPL from the memory card? Any other suggestion on how to flash it? Is the original AT&T ROM available?
Any other suggestions on how to proceed?
Your input is greatly appreciated.
try this
copy recovery img from wiki to root of micro sd card. img should be named xxx.img, insert microsd card into phone
with phone off hold down the vol down key and the red/phone call end button then power on, with any luck you should see the tricolour boot screen and the img should be detected and flashed automatically. ensure at least 50% battery
try taking your sd card out of your phone and then reboot. if that takes it out of the boot cycle, then you have installed a program to your sd card that is putting it into the endless boot cycle. after your phone boots up, uninstall whatever program that you installed to your sd card. hopefully that helps.
if all else fails, try a hard reset. just hold down the send button, end call button and power button simultaneously. it will ask you to press the volume up button to proceed. that will wipe your phone to factory settings and then you can hardspl your phone and flash away!
Milo, thanks for your reply... I can't seem to locate that recovery img on Wiki, hate to ask but can you post the link?
spacemonkey, I've tried those steps and it's still caught in the boot cycle.
You might want to explain how your phone got caught in the boot cycle to begin with. If it happened randomly, and you weren't trying to mod the phone, then just take it in for service. But somehow I doubt that's what happened. What were you doing? How come you don't have hard spl on there? What did you try to flash onto your phone, and how did you try to do it? These are all important questions that you should answer first before blindly flashing things to your phone.
The unit froze up. Tried to reboot the phone, it boot looped. Tried a hard reset, it continued to reboot.
It initially happened when a text message was coming in.
May just have to send it in. It doesn't want to take a flash of any kind it seems.
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The unit froze up. Tried to reboot the phone, it boot looped. Tried a hard reset, it continued to reboot.
It initially happened when a text message was coming in.
May just have to send it in. It doesn't want to take a flash of any kind it seems.
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If it just crapped out on its own, then the last thing you want to do is try to fix it on your own (other than doing the obvious like hard resetting and pulling the battery). Just return it and get another.
Well it's not that easy since I'm in Canada and it has to go to AT&T so I thought if I could get it going it would save me a lot of hassle but it seems I have no choice!
Stock galaxy nexus, ui force closed. Powered off. Can get into recovery mode to attempt to reinstall stock rom. It shows a droid with an opened chest, with a red triangle above it when I try to go to recovery mode from the odin screen.
Anyone else have this issue? Is there a way to flash using a mac? I have limited access to a pc.
Thanks all.
This is the hspa version.
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Stock galaxy nexus, ui force closed. Powered off. Can get into recovery mode to attempt to reinstall stock rom. It shows a droid with an opened chest, with a red triangle above it when I try to go to recovery mode from the odin screen.
Anyone else have this issue? Is there a way to flash using a mac? I have limited access to a pc.
Thanks all.
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The android icon you're referring to sounds like the stock recovery. In order to flash a ROM (even stock) from recovery mode, you'll need to load a custom recovery. This requires the device to be unlocked.
Not very often a stock setup needs to be restored. Generally, with the stock setup, only the /data partition is wiped (revert to factory default) and the issues are cleared. Not sure why a stock setup would need to be restore.
If you're still going to pursue reloading the system, without access to the normal android mode, the best route will be using fastboot. This can be done on a mac and the fastboot commands should be the same.
Hope that helps get a start!
This happened me earlier. I was able to factory reset it, which, unfortunately really annoyed me because I hadn't saved a backup..
Before the "Google" logo shows up, press and hold the power button and the volume up and down buttons.
Then go into recovery mode using the volume buttons.
When it reboots, you get that Droid with the hazard sign (which I know you're at, but just for the sake of others who need help) all you have to do is hold down the power button and WHILE it's held, press the volume up or down button and move to "Factory Reset". When you hold down the power button and press the volume rocker, a little menu will appear. It should only take a few minutes then.
Hope this helps. Apparently this is a WiFi issue. I'll definitely be keeping backups as of now..
I left it off, plugged it back in for a couple of hours and it booted right up. Strange.
I'm wondering if it had anything to do with juice defender and its settings that take effect at a lower battery level? Its the only thing I can come up with. Never had a stock phone's ui force quit and not reboot. The battery was definitely up to 25% given the time it was initially charging, but maybe it was still interfering.
Well, now that she's running, time to get root, recovery, rom and rejoice.
Thanks for the replies, very much appreciated.
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I left it off, plugged it back in for a couple of hours and it booted right up. Strange.
I'm wondering if it had anything to do with juice defender and its settings that take effect at a lower battery level? Its the only thing I can come up with. Never had a stock phone's ui force quit and not reboot. The battery was definitely up to 25% given the time it was initially charging, but maybe it was still interfering.
Well, now that she's running, time to get root, recovery, rom and rejoice.
Thanks for the replies, very much appreciated.
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I had the exact same problem happen last night with UI crashing and then the getting stuck at the boot animation. I was desperately searching online, looking to find a solution that didn't involve rebooting to factory setting and came across this post and did exactly what you did and it WORKED, very strange, I really wanna know what caused that!!!!
I've had the same problem with my Galaxy Nexus. I received it on December 21st, with stock 4.0.1 build. No root or unlock attempt at any time. On January 2nd I experienced this problems (UI process crash, screen not responding, reboot and stuck in boot animation).
The only solution was to do a factory reset and start over.
On January 10th same problem, same solution. Second factory reset.
I got the 4.0.2 OTA just two days after that. I thought that would resolve the problem. The phone seemed more stable, with less FC's and no trace of the UI crash. Indeed it lasted long...
Exactly until January 24th when I picked up the phone and seemed in the sleep of dead. Removed the battery, restarted the phone... and stuck in the boot animation.
Do you have any advice? Should I return the phone? Aside from those specific problems I am quite happy with the SGN and Android 4 in general. And I use it quite a lot (I have a very long train commute) without other problems.
Again...
It happened again!!
I don't know what to do anymore, this is not a usable phone when I have to reinstall and reconfigure every 3 weeks.
I may have found the problem
Well, not me exactly, but this bug report seems to fit the problem and the charging workaround. Seems to be a problem the file used to store the battery stats and draw the charge graph.
It also fits my usage (I try not to charge it up until 100%).
I can't post links to the forum, the issue is id number 24518 which you can find in code.google.com/p/android/
I need a bit of help with a stock HTC One X. As of this morning it won't boot up. I have made no changes to the ROM, everything is stock.
Tried entering the recovery panel and turning fastboot on then restarting but every time the system stops at the "HTC One" page after making a startup sound. Sometimes the screen will go black and hitting the volume keys will bring up the volume changer but that is it.
There was no warning of an OTA update or anything like that.
When charging the screen stays on and dims, but stays on the "HTC One" screen.
Factory reset HOX and it booted, but next day same issues. This is 3 times I've had to factory reset now.
Every time I restart or cold boot it freezes on the "One X" screen.
This exact same thing has just happened to me! Just 10 minutes ago
I have no idea what to do.
I have not attempted root or anything like that everything is stock (Optus from allphones).
All I did was restart and now I cannot get into the phone.
I can get to those options (fastboot) by holding down the volume down button and the power button but restarting it or powering it off there does not help.
I havn't tried a factory reset yet as I'm scared about loosing all my data.
Can someone please help!
Please please
I'm suprised someone else is having the exact same issue what the hell is happening
Have you tried using the Recovery option from the Bootloader?
Yeah I tried that.
It didn't do anything. I've since done a factory reset. That worked but I've now lost everything
Now that's it's allw whiped I figure I might as well root it and install android revolution. I hope it's just a software thing and this will fix it.
Pyrope said:
Yeah I tried that.
It didn't do anything. I've since done a factory reset. That worked but I've now lost everything
Now that's it's allw whiped I figure I might as well root it and install android revolution. I hope it's just a software thing and this will fix it.
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Fair enough, if you're thinking of Rooting and installing ARHD etc then feel free to use my Guide : The Stock to Custom ROM Awesomeness guide
It'll take you from Stock to having ARHD on your phone ok
(Shameless plug)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30471180#post30471180
Took it into HTC last night and had the firmware flashed. No problems now... 12 hours with numerous restarts just to make sure.
It looks like it was a corruption in the software. I noticed HTC turned off the fast boot option before giving the phone back to me. Took 30 minutes in total.
If it happens again, try to hold the power button and the "Homepage" button at the same time. You should see a grey box saying "Continue holding to restart".
Thats a full restart rather than a shell restart.
That may help.
Well, guys was doing pretty well there for a second, I had just installed CarbonROM, was tweaking to my heart's content. Flashed a bad file in an attempt to improve speaker clairity, and boom stuck on the HTC boot logo.
Popped open the back, unplugged the battery, rebooted into HBOOT, rebooted into recovery and attempted to restore one of my backups I took right before flashing the bad zip. Failed. Can't load the data partition.
Ok, got the RUU file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/ruu-htc-desire-816-a5chl-ruu-file-t2920254
Downloaded, put on root of SD card, renamed, rebooted to HBOOT, it picked it up, seemed to flash it, but it also seemed to go faster than it should. I'm suspecting it failed as well.
So now I've just got my phone sitting in recovery. Unable to mount the data partition.
Any clue on what I can do now? Hoping I haven't bricked this sucker...
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
kenmoini said:
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
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Haha I had this same problem before, was ready to send my phone back. I was so scared and it wasn't working for like 3 days.
FoxyDrew said:
Haha I had this same problem before, was ready to send my phone back. I was so scared and it wasn't working for like 3 days.
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Yeah, note to self, never get a phone without a removable battery. The sticky pads under the back cover while I was popping it off were annoying. Thankfully my phone was only down for a few hours.
kenmoini said:
Yeah, note to self, never get a phone without a removable battery. The sticky pads under the back cover while I was popping it off were annoying. Thankfully my phone was only down for a few hours.
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This phone has a non-removable battery. You don't need to take out anything, all you do is hold volume up + the power button for 10 seconds or more. It will ALWAYS hard power off no matter what state the phone is in.
Also, what file did you flash over to improve the speaker clarity which broke your phone? I spoke to you about this earlier in my CarbonROM thread. I actually was able to fix the boomsound issue and there is no more crackling in my speakers. I'm going to post how to do it when I get home.
Edit: SORRY! Volume UP, not DOWN. Got mixed up
LiquidPlacidity said:
This phone has a non-removable battery. You don't need to take out anything, all you do is hold volume up + the power button for 10 seconds or more. It will ALWAYS hard power off no matter what state the phone is in.
Also, what file did you flash over to improve the speaker clarity which broke your phone? I spoke to you about this earlier in my CarbonROM thread. I actually was able to fix the boomsound issue and there is no more crackling in my speakers. I'm going to post how to do it when I get home.
Edit: SORRY! Volume UP, not DOWN. Got mixed up
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I tried Vol Up/Down + Power for at least 30 seconds, was just stuck at HTC logo screen and I could feel the phone getting hotter so instead of having it run down the battery I decided to pop off the top. The back is meant to be non-removable but starting at the SD/SIM slot...slot, a guitar pick works great to undo the clips. Used a credit card to separate the sticky pads from the back. Pulled out the battery cable from the mainboard and reseated it, started it back up in HBOOT.
I flashed some sorta ZIP that's used with the HTC One M8 phones, figured if they have BoomSound it'd help too but noooope, haha. Can't remember what it was called. Did a lot of searching, tried Viper4Android, that sucked, tried tweaking the DSP, nothing came close to the original.
Sharing my own bricking experience
I'm a newbie, but I wanted to share my own experience from a few days ago. I bricked my VM/USA 816 when I was restoring a ROM backup of CM12 over a stock ROM. I was stuck on the CM12 blue "alien head" boot screen. I tried to get into the recovery screen by holding down power & volume, but it would only reboot and load CM12 again and not TWRP.
After a couple of hours of trying to get into recovery and deciding not to wait for the battery to drain because I thought the blue CM12 logo might burn into the screen. I decided to try to remove the cover and unplug the battery. I started at the SIM/SD Card slot trying to pop the cover off a little with a small screw driver to get a credit card(CC) between the cover and phone. Once I got it started I moved clockwise(cover side up) around with either a bent CC or a smaller cut up piece of CC to pop the tabs. I wasn't very gentle since I knew I wasn't going to return the phone and I bought the phone from VM with account balance so I didn't feel like I was really going to waste $300. Thank HTC the plastic cover is very forgiving. Once you get past the HTC logo you have to worry about the sticky tape around the bottom half of the phone where the battery is located. The bent CC was the best tool here and as I said earlier I wasn't very gentle while pulling off the cover once the tabs were loose.
Once I had the cover off I didn't know how to unplug the battery connector so I decided to pry the battery out. Once I did that I could see that the connecter pops up. I plugged the battery back in but the phone tried to load CM12 again. I don't remember if I had to press power button to turn on phone or it started when I connected the battery. I got back into the same state as before with a boot loop with no way getting back into recovery. So I unplugged battery again and connected the phone to my PC. I could see the screen the flashing between the charging screen and TWRP, but I couldn't get into recovery with buttons or screen touches. I then went into a command window on my PC to try the adb command. First I did a "adb devices" then I did a "adb reboot recovery" to get into TWRP. Once in TWRP I did an advanced wipe and installed CM12, gapps and supersu again from my ext SD Card. I'm not sure but I may have done a format of the internal storage just to be safe. Once I was up and running again I replaced the cover starting again clockwise from the SIM/SD Card corner and all the way around the phone till you get near the SIM/SD Card slot and have to replace the flap which is held in place by the cover/phone.
I hope this helps anyone who runs into the same problem.
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Well, guys was doing pretty well there for a second, I had just installed CarbonROM, was tweaking to my heart's content. Flashed a bad file in an attempt to improve speaker clairity, and boom stuck on the HTC boot logo.
Popped open the back, unplugged the battery, rebooted into HBOOT, rebooted into recovery and attempted to restore one of my backups I took right before flashing the bad zip. Failed. Can't load the data partition.
Ok, got the RUU file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/ruu-htc-desire-816-a5chl-ruu-file-t2920254
Downloaded, put on root of SD card, renamed, rebooted to HBOOT, it picked it up, seemed to flash it, but it also seemed to go faster than it should. I'm suspecting it failed as well.
So now I've just got my phone sitting in recovery. Unable to mount the data partition.
Any clue on what I can do now? Hoping I haven't bricked this sucker...
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You have to flash and use CWM 6.0.5.1 and wipe the same partitions that were backed up in your STOCK nandroid backup.
Once you do this, reboot to hboot. Enter fastboot. Flash the stock recovery. Wipe the data/cache/dalvik. Reboot and go to hboot again. (Your device won't be able to boot yet.) Enter fastboot again.
Flash CWM (ONLY CWM) and make sure it flashes by flashing it twice back to back without leaving fastboot at any point.
Boot into recovery and once loaded reboot into hboot once more then go once again to fastboot and flash Philz Recovery with the same double flash process.
Now boot into it, mount as a USB and create a clockworkmod/backup folder on the device root directory since Philz Recovery doesn't use the buried part of the system like CWM.
Drag and drop your stock root nandroid backup. Use Philsz recovery to restore it. Boot up and your phone will boot after 3-5 minutes.
Flash back CM11/12 if you'd like.
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kenmoini said:
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
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Hello
Thank you for sharing your solution.
I have a problem which is described in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/des...im-boots-fastboot-t3316255/page3#post65409302.
My questions to you:
1. My bootloader is locked. Is it possible to flash stock recovery on it?
2. I tried to flash official rom but I received the message "Partition update fail!". Can what you did, resolve this problem?
My daughter has this phone and she gave it to me to fix it was doing the same thing as stated in op kept rebooting on its own and would vibrae over an over , playing with the power button it would try to reboot sometimes it would get to the home screen but would rebot again i took the back piece off and cleaned around the power button and i would try to go into recovery but it kept rebooting, i kept trying and messing around with it and i got it to go into recovery and just enough time to clear cache brfote it robboted angian by itself still same thing, kept at it and got it to go into recovery again but i accidentally push update adb and it started to do what it does when you pushed that but i kept pressing power from a panic then i finally rebooted successful now im currently got it working its plugged into my computer it installed successfully but i don't see the storage on my computer, it does not have a sd card in it tho i have one to put in it and it does not have a sim card it it either tho i have the one my daughter gave me that she had to to her phone, i quickly turned on usb debuugging incase i need to odin firmware or something im not sure what do do from here so im asking any one that might know what i should do? If it was the power button i clean it as best as i can and aired it out too, im thinking this might tho do it again since im not sure what fixed it to this point except from what i did to it from what i wrote here. Please if anyone has any ideas out there so i can keep this thing fixed let me know in your replys TY!
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My daughter has this phone and she gave it to me to fix it was doing the same thing as stated in op kept rebooting on its own and would vibrae over an over , playing with the power button it would try to reboot sometimes it would get to the home screen but would rebot again i took the back piece off and cleaned around the power button and i would try to go into recovery but it kept rebooting, i kept trying and messing around with it and i got it to go into recovery and just enough time to clear cache brfote it robboted angian by itself still same thing, kept at it and got it to go into recovery again but i accidentally push update adb and it started to do what it does when you pushed that but i kept pressing power from a panic then i finally rebooted successful now im currently got it working its plugged into my computer it installed successfully but i don't see the storage on my computer, it does not have a sd card in it tho i have one to put in it and it does not have a sim card it it either tho i have the one my daughter gave me that she had to to her phone, i quickly turned on usb debuugging incase i need to odin firmware or something im not sure what do do from here so im asking any one that might know what i should do? If it was the power button i clean it as best as i can and aired it out too, im thinking this might tho do it again since im not sure what fixed it to this point except from what i did to it from what i wrote here. Please if anyone has any ideas out there so i can keep this thing fixed let me know in your replys TY!
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First off, that's one hell of a long sentence!
Had you (or your daughter) recently installed a ROM and forgot to factory reset (clear all caches) the phone after doing so? Many at times, this is what causes boot loops. And you cleared cache, which I think has resolved the problem. However, MAKE A BACKUP on your phone (and onto your computer, just in case the phone hard-bricks) using your Recovery right away! Once you make the backup, there's no need to worry about whether you soft-brick your phone again; you can simply restore that backup. It's also highly possible that it was your power button, but since you said you did clean it up thoroughly, it might just be the cache preventing you from rebooting normally.
Either way, it's good to hear you got your phone working now. I would highly recommend that you make a backup before doing anything else with the phone - just to be on the safe side. Good luck!