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[Q] Phone freezes after few seconds on startup.

Hey everyone, I am facing a weird problem.My phone freezes after few seconds on startup. Everything works normal for FEW seconds and than phone freezes and it reboots.I was on TWRP.I wiped cache,system,dalvik but it didn't fixed. Than i moved to cwm in a hope than it may fix the problem.I performed a clean install for flashing a rom(wipe system,cache......) but no :crying: .Than i also tried flashing different rom(domination) but that too didn't helped.
Overall i performed each n every possible method but none of them helped.
Note- I see some kind of lines on screen before my device hangs.And than my phone reboots(with battery dropped to zero).

mannyvinny said:
Hey everyone, I am facing a weird problem.My phone freezes after few seconds on startup. Everything works normal for FEW seconds and than phone freezes and it reboots.I was on TWRP.I wiped cache,system,dalvik but it didn't fixed. Than i moved to cwm in a hope than it may fix the problem.I performed a clean install for flashing a rom(wipe system,cache......) but no :crying: .Than i also tried flashing different rom(domination) but that too didn't helped.
Overall i performed each n every possible method but none of them helped.
Note- I see some kind of lines on screen before my device hangs.And than my phone reboots(with battery dropped to zero).
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Use fastboot and flash back to stock. See if that solves it. If not, it is possible it is a hardware issue.

cupfulloflol said:
Use fastboot and flash back to stock. See if that solves it. If not, it is possible it is a hardware issue.
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please don't scare me :cyclops: coz this phone isn't officially launched in India so that I can walk to service centre and get my phone replaced.If its a hardware issue than my phone is surely dead.
BTW,my phone was working just normal 2 days back when i restored a backup from twrp.It all started when i restored backup from twrp as I messed up bootanimation.

plz help me guys..is no one available here to help me out :'(

mannyvinny said:
plz help me guys..is no one available here to help me out :'(
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Did you try flashing back to stock like I suggested previously?

cupfulloflol said:
Did you try flashing back to stock like I suggested previously?
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no.coz i would loose all my sd data too

mannyvinny said:
no.coz i would loose all my sd data too
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Back it up to your PC prior to using fastboot.

cupfulloflol said:
Back it up to your PC prior to using fastboot.
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now my phone doesn't even starts! its bootlooping..i've very important stuff in my sd card which i don't want to loose.and flashing stock will surely wipe EVERYTHING
Anyway to recover sd card data?
note-i can access recovery and bootloader:good:

mannyvinny said:
now my phone doesn't even starts! its bootlooping..i've very important stuff in my sd card which i don't want to loose.and flashing stock will surely wipe EVERYTHING
Anyway to recover sd card data?
note-i can access recovery and bootloader:good:
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You can use ADB in a custom recovery.

cupfulloflol said:
You can use ADB in a custom recovery.
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I flashed the stock image and locked the OEM but the problem still persists

[Q] Screen flickering / Bootloop -> Is my Nexus dead? Data recovery possible?

Hello,
just some hours ago my Galaxy Nexus (SC-04D) rebooted while lying on the table next to me. After several sings of vibration I noticed that the phone doesn't boot completely.
When switching on the phone I get the turn-on-vibration, then the google letters are displayed. Most times the word "google" flickers from left to right over the screen (only the line where the word is supposed to be). Sometimes it boots further and I get the colored "X" displayed. This symbol starts flickering, too and if it went so far it reboots.
Here are two pictures I took from the phone failing to boot:
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The phone is running stock Android from Docomo. The phone is about 14 months old and has never been unlocked, rooted, modded, taken a bath, ... 'til now.
I tried starting with and without SIM-card, with and without charger attached and let it lie around for several minutes without battery between my tries.
Is there any chance to get my data from the phone or even get it fixed? Please give me a hint what I can do.

Well the Red exclamation mark means that there is a problem with the phone reading the build path. Since you have never rooted the phone, this would mean that the files got corrupt on the phone. With a non-rooted phone a Factory Reset is about the only solution, but is probably only a temporary fix. This is most likely caused by too many apps on the phone and it just freaked out on something eventually.
I think these options might work for you, however I cannot confirm since I have rooted my phone from day one and never looked back:
Power button + up volume= recovery

Thanks GPFboy for your fast response,
GPFboyJS said:
Well the Red exclamation mark means that there is a problem with the phone reading the build path. Since you have never rooted the phone, this would mean that the files got corrupt on the phone. With a non-rooted phone a Factory Reset is about the only solution, but is probably only a temporary fix.
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As far as I understand a factory reset results in a complete loss of data on the phone, right? So without root/unlock there's no chance to get my data from the phone? That would be really bad.
GPFboyJS said:
This is most likely caused by too many apps on the phone and it just freaked out on something eventually.
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What is "too many"? I think there are about 35 apps installed atm. By the moment the problem arose wifi and 3g-data,BT,GPS were disabled and just a minute before I took a look how late it was. So nothing special.
GPFboyJS said:
I think these options might work for you, however I cannot confirm since I have rooted my phone from day one and never looked back:
Power button + up volume= recovery
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The phone reaches fastboot mode, but when selecting recovery mode I get the google logo and after that the open android with the red exclamation mark. That doesn't look good, does it?

BrainSD said:
The phone reaches fastboot mode, but when selecting recovery mode I get the google logo and after that the open android with the red exclamation mark. That doesn't look good, does it?
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thats stock recovery.
is your bootloader already unlocked or no?

Zepius said:
is your bootloader already unlocked or no?
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It's still locked.

you might try and go into recovery,
then press (i think) power and vol up and try and see if you can wipe just cache.

Zepius said:
you might try and go into recovery,
then press (i think) power and vol up and try and see if you can wipe just cache.
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ok, I tried that several time now, but it didn't work. The only thing when I select recovery and press the power button is that I get the google logo and then the dead android + red exclamation sign, but this screen is scrambled and shows flickering pixels as shown in one of my pictures in the first post. So recovery mode seems not to work for me?
Is there a software or hardware problem with my device?

BrainSD said:
ok, I tried that several time now, but it didn't work. The only thing when I select recovery and press the power button is that I get the google logo and then the dead android + red exclamation sign, but this screen is scrambled and shows flickering pixels as shown in one of my pictures in the first post. So recovery mode seems not to work for me?
Is there a software or hardware problem with my device?
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You can try to unlock your boorloader and flash a custom recovery like cwm or twrp. Maybe that helps. You can always go back and re lock it.
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mrgnex said:
You can try to unlock your boorloader and flash a custom recovery like cwm or twrp. Maybe that helps. You can always go back and re lock it.
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He wants to keep his data... which, at this point, seems rather impossible.
If fastboot doesn't solve it, i would try omapflash, OP. That "flickering" doesn't look good.

beekay201 said:
He wants to keep his data... which, at this point, seems rather impossible.
If fastboot doesn't solve it, i would try omapflash, OP. That "flickering" doesn't look good.
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Well if I was him I would be more worried about my expensive phone instead of data. Maybe a lesson for later to have a backup
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beekay201 said:
He wants to keep his data... which, at this point, seems rather impossible.
If fastboot doesn't solve it, i would try omapflash, OP. That "flickering" doesn't look good.
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Yes exactly this is the point. Since I don't have a current data backup the first thing to try is getting my data from the phone. I already tried temporary loading the clockwork recovery through fastboot - with the galaxy nexus toolkit and by hand(sdk) - but it failed ("Bootloader locked").
What I'm wondering about is the fact that the phone seems to behave normally in odin and fastbood mode but going nuts the moment it's expected to boot. Besides the flickering google logo and the "matrix-modded" dead android it even ended up in a totally green screen one time.
At the moment I don't dare trying to unlock/flash the phone because of being afraid getting stuck and ending up with the phone being in some kind of undefined / totally broken state. Initially I was in hope of being able to rescue my data but now i will try my luck with docomo support first.
As far as I understood omapflash is primary used for recovering bricked phones not even starting to odin/fastboot mode. But thanks to your hint I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016628 "Unlock bootloader on GT-I9250 without wipe and without root" This might bring some chance for data access.
I will try to get through 1 to 4 of the guide first and see how far I get.
If this won't work I might try to unlock, recover and try to "undelete" what's possible. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705)
Does this order make sense?
Btw, having a dead phone is bad, of course, even when I got it new for 2300Yen but loosing some pictures i really liked and having no phone atm currently hurts more. Especially when knowing that I was thinking of copying all photos to my computer only one day before when I pulled only some minor important ones from the phone I needed for work and planned to do a full backup and unlock this weekend when I get back my 'Milestone' currently lent to someone else.
Once again something I learned. Backup! Even you phone.

BrainSD said:
As far as I understood omapflash is primary used for recovering bricked phones not even starting to odin/fastboot mode. But thanks to your hint I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016628 "Unlock bootloader on GT-I9250 without wipe and without root" This might bring some chance for data access.
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!!!
It will work actually, I read/also replied to that thread! I had forgotten about it, sorry. I must say that if you had already read the stickies that matter, you'd already know about it.
It will unlock your bootloader, bypassing fastboot. Still, it's not for the faint hearted. I refered to omapflash because its a low level tool, it doesn't require the bootloader to be unlocked, and is able to restore the bootloader to working state, and I got there because you mentioned you see graphical glitches/flickering which may indicate bootloader partition failure and/or consequent corruption.
I think that's your best shot at trying to get your data back. After unlock, boot to fastboot and 'fastboot boot custom_recovery.img', and grab your stuff (if you can) from /data/.

beekay201 said:
!!!
It will work actually, I read/also replied to that thread! I had forgotten about it, sorry. I must say that if you had already read the stickies that matter, you'd already know about it.....
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Your hint was very helpful for me getting the right direction since I'm just starting to dig into all this stuff.
Unlocking went quite well. Writing back to the phone worked without a problem and after that it's shown as unlocked in fastboot mode.
It even started loading clockwork recovery with fastboot. But the initial cw recovery screen (their logo and the cw recovery footer) was already shown on a scattered screen (google logo + unlocked lock was fine). After that the usb port connected and disconnected several times, then the screen went blank.
May this be because of corrupted fs or defective hw?
From my understanding with omapflash one have raw access to the phones internal memory similar to with dd on Unix/Linux. So currently I'm trying to dump ("upload") the emmc from the phone - actually in smaller chunks since omapflash needs to allocate all the memory in advance for the upload and to prevent interruptions. This will take a while...
After that I want to try to 'cat' the parts together and mount the filesystem - might be possible to do this from linux since it seems to be ext4 filesystems

BrainSD said:
Your hint was very helpful for me getting the right direction since I'm just starting to dig into all this stuff.
Unlocking went quite well. Writing back to the phone worked without a problem and after that it's shown as unlocked in fastboot mode.
It even started loading clockwork recovery with fastboot. But the initial cw recovery screen (their logo and the cw recovery footer) was already shown on a scattered screen (google logo + unlocked lock was fine). After that the usb port connected and disconnected several times, then the screen went blank.
May this be because of corrupted fs or defective hw?
From my understanding with omapflash one have raw access to the phones internal memory similar to with dd on Unix/Linux. So currently I'm trying to dump ("upload") the emmc from the phone - actually in smaller chunks since omapflash needs to allocate all the memory in advance for the upload and to prevent interruptions. This will take a while...
After that I want to try to 'cat' the parts together and mount the filesystem - might be possible to do this from linux since it seems to be ext4 filesystems
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Great, so far so good.
Yeah, they're ext4 images, but sparse images i believe - link

[Q] S3 won't stay booted.

I can get into recover,download mode, or the rom boot screen but phone turns off right after. It won't stay on long enough to change roms or backup anything. Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do? Thanks in advance

Can't not can...stupid tablet won't let me edit.

Please Specify your Rom and Kernel. If on Stock, do a factory reset.

Perseus71 said:
Please Specify your Rom and Kernel. If on Stock, do a factory reset.
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I'm on Cyanogenmod with stock Kernel from Cyanogenmod, never changed my kernel. It was working fine for months then just rebooted on its own and won't stay on since. Unfortunately I'm stock and I'm not even sure it will stay on long enough to do anything to it.Its also not the battery. This video shows exactly whats happening to mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J61jghxz-Vc

If it can stay stable in Download mode, then you can Odin Flash Root66. Once that's done, flash recovery again and the Rom.

Perseus71 said:
If it can stay stable in Download mode, then you can Odin Flash Root66. Once that's done, flash recovery again and the Rom.
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That's the problem I can't. Is there any other options. I'm not worried about backups or anything I just want it fixed.

The video points to Recovery only. Have you tried to boot into Download mode (the kind that has yellow triangle and Downloading message ) ?

Perseus71 said:
The video points to Recovery only. Have you tried to boot into Download mode (the kind that has yellow triangle and Downloading message ) ?
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Yeh I've tried recovery and download. Neither one stays on for more than 5 seconds and in download mode after clicking up to go into download mode the phone restarts.

Could be hardware, could be softbrick. Can you try the De-Bricking thread's instructions ?

Perseus71 said:
Could be hardware, could be softbrick. Can you try the De-Bricking thread's instructions ?
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Trying to find it now. Can you point me in the right direction with a link??

Pivo99 said:
Trying to find it now. Can you point me in the right direction with a link??
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Here you go.

Perseus71 said:
Here you go.
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I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem. I got it to boot into recovery long enough to factory reset, load a new rom, and gapps. I rebooted and it loaded for a few seconds and turns off. It booted again and went to the optimizing apps screen then shut off before it could finish. Does this sound like it could be a software problem?

Pivo99 said:
I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem. I got it to boot into recovery long enough to factory reset, load a new rom, and gapps. I rebooted and it loaded for a few seconds and turns off. It booted again and went to the optimizing apps screen then shut off before it could finish. Does this sound like it could be a software problem?
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I got the phone to boot into cyanogenmod but in the set up screen it failed again. Really getting annoying and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Pull battery. Then put it back. Does it try to turn on by itself? Could be the power button issue many others have had.

DocHoliday77 said:
Pull battery. Then put it back. Does it try to turn on by itself? Could be the power button issue many others have had.
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YES thats it I was thinking there might be a problem with the power button...Is there a fix on this or a thread anywhere?

There have been many threads posted with this issue, and some did manage to just buy the part and fix themselves. No instructions though thst I'm aware of.
I'd suggest you google galaxy s3 or t999 teardown.

DocHoliday77 said:
There have been many threads posted with this issue, and some did manage to just buy the part and fix themselves. No instructions though thst I'm aware of.
I'd suggest you google galaxy s3 or t999 teardown.
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Found a few posts and people just thump around the general area of the power button and that seems to be a temporary fix and it worked for me for a little while. It's gonna work long enough to revert everything to stock and send in. Thanks you two for your help

[Q] Nexus 7 suddenly bricked ?

Hello all, so yesterday I went on my tablet (Nexus 7 2013 WIFI ver.) and browsed the net a bit and went to sleep. I recall having around 30% battery power. This morning I wake up to an apparently flat battery (power button didn't turn on anything) so I just plugged it in and did something else. After a while, I took my tablet and started it with the power button. However, it got stuck on the Google logo and never fired up anything. I've rooted the tablet quite some time ago (months) so the cause is not from there.
Things I haven't recently done:
Installing an app.
Rooting or flashing anything.
Updating an app.
Things I have tried doing to fix the problem:
Booting into FASTBOOT then trying the recovery mode = still stuck on the Google logo.
Booting a custom recovery image using Wug's toolkit = frozen at the team logo (TWRP) / black screen (CWM).
Flash Stock + Unroot (Soft-Bricked/Bootloop) = FAILED (flash write failure).
So now I'm really stuck and desperate to make the device work again. I've been reading all day long and trying all sorts of solutions to no avail. And it seems far-fetched to me for a device like this to just instantly brick itself without any reason at all.
Can anyone help me with this case ? Or does anyone has any idea what just happened to my tablet ? :crying:
EDIT: I'm afraid that warranty might not work as the device was unlocked and rooted so it's the last solution for me.

Bumpity bump
No one has any idea what happened to the tablet and how to fix it ? I've tried doing some more flashing but to no avail. It just refuses to flash and keeps failing to write the files.

I think you need to leave out on the charger for 1/2hr without doing anything with it. You are probably using what little power it has charged by trying to reboot it, etc.
I had to do that once and it did the trick.
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There is no reason you should not be able to get in to recovery (power and volume down).
You could call Motorola. They have good tech support.

The exact same thing happened to me. I rooted it months ago and haven't changed a thing since then. It just froze up a few days ago. I restarted and it just gets stuck on the google screen. I can get into the bootloader, but when I try to go to recovery, the google screen comes up and won't go away. I've tried every method I can find for flashing the stock image and absolutely nothing is working. I just get stuck on the google screen.
Please update this if you find a solution!

Do u guys have the most up to date version of whatever particular recovery that you're on?

Yep. I've flashed the stock recovery multiple times to no avail. :/

nexusjas said:
Yep. I've flashed the stock recovery multiple times to no avail. :/
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If you can't get into recovery or flash any images it sounds to me like a hardware failure. Bad memory maybe? If you've tried everything then RMA to Asus before the one year warranty runs out.
Have you tried to see if your computer sees your N7 by typing fastboot devices if you have the sdk installed?

wantabe said:
If you can't get into recovery or flash any images it sounds to me like a hardware failure. Bad memory maybe? If you've tried everything then RMA to Asus before the one year warranty runs out.
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Not what I wanted to hear, but you're probably right. Thanks :/

nexusjas said:
Not what I wanted to hear, but you're probably right. Thanks :/
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I was to slow with my update. Does your computer see your N7 with fastboot?

wantabe said:
I was to slow with my update. Does your computer see your N7 with fastboot?
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Yes, I can get into the bootloader just fine and I can use fastboot. I go through the flashing process and the command prompt says everything flashed successfully, but when I restart the device, it hangs on the google logo. The same thing happens when I try to boot into recovery.

nexusjas said:
Yes, I can get into the bootloader just fine and I can use fastboot. I go through the flashing process and the command prompt says everything flashed successfully, but when I restart the device, it hangs on the google logo. The same thing happens when I try to boot into recovery.
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If you fastboot flashed the factory image and can't boot up then it sounds like a hardware problem. Out of ideas, sorry.

wantabe said:
If you fastboot flashed the factory image and can't boot up then it sounds like a hardware problem. Out of ideas, sorry.
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I'm not sure what happened, but I just ran this little utility again (I've done it many times over the last week or so to no avail) and it actually worked. Hopefully it keeps working!
Thanks for your help!

Stuck on "Google" screen

I was using my phone like I usually do, and then it suddenly froze. So I held down the power button, forcing it to restart. Ever since, the screen only shows "Google" for a while, then becomes blank; no booting animation. It would restart itself occasionally.
I tried booting into recovery mode by holding Power+VolDown, and selecting "recovery mode". For the first few tries, it would go back to the Google screen, the turn blank. After giving it a break and trying again, I finally got to the "no command" screen, and I wiped the cache partition. Sadly, I'm still having the same problem.
Is this a bootloop? How can I fix this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This happened to me and Google sent a replacement phone. However the replacement phone is a refurbished phone that suffers from ghost touches Now trying to get a replacement for the replacement.

Ocelot584 said:
I was using my phone like I usually do, and then it suddenly froze. So I held down the power button, forcing it to restart. Ever since, the screen only shows "Google" for a while, then becomes blank; no booting animation. It would restart itself occasionally.
I tried booting into recovery mode by holding Power+VolDown, and selecting "recovery mode". For the first few tries, it would go back to the Google screen, the turn blank. After giving it a break and trying again, I finally got to the "no command" screen, and I wiped the cache partition. Sadly, I'm still having the same problem.
Is this a bootloop? How can I fix this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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can u boot into bootloader mode?

dominoeflux said:
can u boot into bootloader mode?
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What's that? Is it the screen that comes up when you hold down Power+VolumeDown and gives you the option to select Start, Power Off, Restart Bootloader, or Recovery?

Ocelot584 said:
What's that? Is it the screen that comes up when you hold down Power+VolumeDown and gives you the option to select Start, Power Off, Restart Bootloader, or Recovery?
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Yes that's the one. If u can get back to that screen you should be able to flash it back stock and re root the phone with out any problems

dominoeflux said:
Yes that's the one. If u can get back to that screen you should be able to flash it back stock and re root the phone with out any problems
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So are you saying that I should factory reset my phone from the recovery menu, or do I have to use the method that requires the factory image?
My phone wasn't rooted btw, so I can't re-root it.

Ocelot584 said:
So are you saying that I should factory reset my phone from the recovery menu, or do I have to use the method that requires the factory image?
My phone wasn't rooted btw, so I can't re-root it.
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Oh ok I thought it was sorry if I wasn't of any help

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Oh ok I thought it was sorry if I wasn't of any help
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haha it's ok you tried to.
Rooted or not, do you think factory resetting it will fix the problem as long as I can get to the bootloader menu?

Ocelot584 said:
haha it's ok you tried to.
Rooted or not, do you think factory resetting it will fix the problem as long as I can get to the bootloader menu?
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In pretty positive that it will, make sure u unlock the Bootloader first before you do anything. Do you know how to unlock it?

dominoeflux said:
In pretty positive that it will, make sure u unlock the Bootloader first before you do anything. Do you know how to unlock it?
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nope...what's a bootloader anyway?

Ocelot584 said:
nope...what's a bootloader anyway?
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The bootloader allows the phone to be unlocked to flash custom ROMs on it, without it unlocked you'll brick your phone. Read up about rooting your phone first so you can get the idea of what goes into it before attempting it. Once you get the general idea of unlocking the phone and flashing things on it, it becomes relatively easy. There's even a nexus root toolkit on this forum that you can download on your computer for free as well as "how-to's" for doing it

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The bootloader allows the phone to be unlocked to flash custom ROMs on it, without it unlocked you'll brick your phone. Read up about rooting your phone first so you can get the idea of what goes into it before attempting it. Once you get the general idea of unlocking the phone and flashing things on it, it becomes relatively easy. There's even a nexus root toolkit on this forum that you can download on your computer for free as well as "how-to's" for doing it
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Wait...what?? So if I choose to factory reset my phone now without unlocking the bootloader, it might become completely useless? Is rooting necessary?

Ocelot584 said:
Wait...what?? So if I choose to factory reset my phone now without unlocking the bootloader, it might become completely useless? Is rooting necessary?
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No is not necessary, but in order to re flash the factory image to fix the problem the bootloader must be unlocked. You never have to root your device but having a unlocked bootloader is essential to flashing anything on your device other wise like I said, you'll brick your phone. You can even lock it back to full stock once you've re flashed the image.
Edit: there's another way of flashing the factory image but it requires some searching. You might not be able to do it the way I'm explaining to you Because you would have to give it permission to be unlocked in the developers option while the phone is booted up and operative

dominoeflux said:
No is not necessary, but in order to re flash the factory image to fix the problem the bootloader must be unlocked. You never have to root your device but having a unlocked bootloader is essential to flashing anything on your device other wise like I said, you'll brick your phone. You can even lock it back to full stock once you've re flashed the image.
Edit: there's another way of flashing the factory image but it requires some searching. You might not be able to do it the way I'm explaining to you Because you would have to give it permission to be unlocked in the developers option while the phone is booted up and operative
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Oh...I see. So what about the factory reset option in the recovery menu? Would you expect that to fix it too?

Ocelot584 said:
Oh...I see. So what about the factory reset option in the recovery menu? Would you expect that to fix it too?
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Of course
Edit: have you tried resetting it in the factory recovery?

dominoeflux said:
Of course
Edit: have you tried resetting it in the factory recovery?
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Nope...I was waiting to see if I could find a way to recover my data first

Ocelot584 said:
Nope...I was waiting to see if I could find a way to recover my data first
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When u first bought your phone and it takes you through the set up window, when it asked you to put in your email, that right there backs up all your apps that you previously had in the phone so when you go through the setup again, it's going to ask you if you want to start as a new phone or recover your previous apps. You won't be able to recover all of your data but you should be able to recover all of your apps.

dominoeflux said:
When u first bought your phone and it takes you through the set up window, when it asked you to put in your email, that right there backs up all your apps that you previously had in the phone so when you go through the setup again, it's going to ask you if you want to start as a new phone or recover your previous apps. You won't be able to recover all of your data but you should be able to recover all of your apps.
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Alright, but since all my data won't be recovered, is there a way to get access to files on my phone before I factory reset it?

Ocelot584 said:
Alright, but is there a way to get access to files on my phone before I factory reset it?
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Sorry bro but I wish there was.... There actually is away, but you would have have to have been rooted with a custom recovery on your phone and since you had neither, there's my other way
Edit: I meant no other way

dominoeflux said:
Sorry bro but I wish there was.... There actually is away, but you would have have to have been rooted with a custom recovery on your phone and since you had neither, there's my other way
Edit: I meant no other way
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oh... wow.
I'll just suck it up and reset it then. I'll let u know how it goes.