[Q] Stuck on Fastboot mode - G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well technically i'm not really stuck on fastboot mode considering I can take the battery out and it loads up fine, but the fact that I've been trying to flash a new recovery, TWRP to be exact and I can't seem to do it, All it does is go to a black screen with "680Fastboot mode" in the top left hand corner and doesn't do anything from there, I've waited up to 15 minutes, take in mind I'm also relatively new to this so I may be doing something obviously wrong, but does anyone have some light to shine in this matter?
Thanks in advance?

the easy way to fix that is factory reset.

Can't do that just goes right back to fastboot mode started

How are you flashing the recovery?

Tried both the adb way and flashify neither works

You get the fastboot screen when trying to boot into recovery?

Marshmallon said:
Well technically i'm not really stuck on fastboot mode considering I can take the battery out and it loads up fine, but the fact that I've been trying to flash a new recovery, TWRP to be exact and I can't seem to do it, All it does is go to a black screen with "680Fastboot mode" in the top left hand corner and doesn't do anything from there, I've waited up to 15 minutes, take in mind I'm also relatively new to this so I may be doing something obviously wrong, but does anyone have some light to shine in this matter?
Thanks in advance?
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I'm guessing you've used a "Root Lollipop (No-Downgrade) Method" and then tried to Flash new "Recovery". You still need to Downgrade the aboot image to KitKat Image. Go here:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-update-to-lollipop-root-bumpd-twrp-t3048845 read OP then goto, Page 16, Post #153 for Imageprep tool. That will give you TWERP. To be honest if you can, use the Downgrade Method, it's been around longer and does not have as many pitfalls (IMHO).... .....

I have a fix for your problem.. Go to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...y-download-t3053985/post60096627#post60096627

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[Q] How to comletely remove Clockworkmod

Hey, I rooted, s-off/hbooted my phone and used Clockworkmod to install a ROM.
Now it won't go away no matter what I've tried and I want to be able to turn my phone off and charge it without seeing that annoying recovery screen.
I've backed up all my apps on to SD, wiped data and factory resetted with CWM and the phones built in factory reset yet it still comes back to haunt me.
What do I need to do to make this go away and revert my phone back to it's original out of box state?
CWM should come with an uninstall guide and a notice of how annoying this is, I see it's quite a widespread problem for everyone trying to calibrate the battery with no clear answer
Install the correct HTC RUU for your desire hd.
prank1 said:
Install the correct HTC RUU for your desire hd.
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Much appreciated, you get my first thanks.
For anyone else in need here's where I got mine (every other ROM and RUU is there too)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868610
Just to be sure, can I just put the RUU on my storage card and use CWM recovery to install it?
Thanks for the.. thanks lol
I don't know but it really doesn't matter, better if you flash it from bootloader. If you were eng hboot s-off then your dhd will become 100% stock (if you installed the correct htc ruu). If you were radio s-off you will still have s-off afterwards. I don't think this affects warrentee issues as long as you have installed the correct rom.
On another note, I am sure I read somewhere some instructions on how to calibrate your battery and fix this problem. But you may have to do a little searching for it.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
even on stock the phone goes into recovery anyway just it don't show the recovery screen. reason it does so i've read is for the led light to come on lol
spookamiester that link just brings you back to this thread so i've placed a link to all HD files and it has all the RUU files there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841207
just check the first two links for ruu files
and a guide here to install ruu's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864054
spookamiester said:
CWM should come with an uninstall guide and a notice of how annoying this is, I see it's quite a widespread problem for everyone trying to calibrate the battery with no clear answer
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Maybe I am being simple but I see this posted everywhere as a problem, it in no way affects battery calibration, yes when the phone is turned off and plugged in it boots into recovery (it also does this with the stock ROM) so what? It's still charging and from CW you can then wipe the battery stats which is required to complete your calibration anyway.
What exactly is the problem with it booting into CW when turned off and plugged in
and to answer the question, reflash with the appropriate RUU
Or just flash recovery.img from a stock rom
Is the s-off that stops the receiving of OTA's ?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
ghostofcain said:
Maybe I am being simple but I see this posted everywhere as a problem, it in no way affects battery calibration, yes when the phone is turned off and plugged in it boots into recovery (it also does this with the stock ROM) so what? It's still charging and from CW you can then wipe the battery stats which is required to complete your calibration anyway.
What exactly is the problem with it booting into CW when turned off and plugged in
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First of all I'd like to thank everyone for the responses, should be able to get things sorted now.
In response to the charging in CWM, I tried it for over an hour after full charge on and the LED remained amber, I turned the phone back on and the battery was at 99% which leads me to believe that it doesn't actually charge in CWM recovery, I tried this on stock and within 10 minutes after full charge on I got the green light off. I've asked in other threads if anyone can confirm the phone charge whilst in CWM but so far no confirmation, just similar results.
I'll keep my eyes pealed for answers but I don't think it works with CWM and can't find a way to charge whilst off without CWM recovery popping up.
spookamiester said:
First of all I'd like to thank everyone for the responses, should be able to get things sorted now.
In response to the charging in CWM, I tried it for over an hour after full charge on and the LED remained amber, I turned the phone back on and the battery was at 99% which leads me to believe that it doesn't actually charge in CWM recovery, I tried this on stock and within 10 minutes after full charge on I got the green light off. I've asked in other threads if anyone can confirm the phone charge whilst in CWM but so far no confirmation, just similar results.
I'll keep my eyes pealed for answers but I don't think it works with CWM and can't find a way to charge whilst off without CWM recovery popping up.
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I have spent quite a while in recovery and I am fairly sure it's charging I wouldnt be surprised that the green led didn't function though? I don't really see how it wouldn't charge surely it a hardware thing when the power is attached?
Update: I use QtADB to give a GUI interface to ADB, have spent the past 15 minutes monitoring the battery state whilst in Clockwork recovery and it is most defintetly charging so you needn't worry about that
I bought the phone from Hong Kong with stock ROM. Rooted, S-Off and installed CWM but never flashed any ROM. But I have same the problem, screen will boot to recovery when I want to charge. I found there are a lot of DHD guys have the same problem here in China or Hong Kong..... and no solution found in any forum here yet. Some said it's a bug on CWM.
Anyway. I found an alternative myself. Instead of using the DHD original charger, I used the I9000 charger to charge the DHD. It worked perfectly (100% charged) and no recovery screen appeared so far......
Hey guys!
I have the original Desire HD stock ROM but I have clockwork mod recovery.
Could you guys provide a step by step guide on how to remove and replace with original recovery image?
I would really appreciate all the help!
xmoo said:
Or just flash recovery.img from a stock rom
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I have a file recovery.img. How do I flash it to the DHD?
I'd like to know this as well. I have the Clockwork bootloader installed. It's OK, but I changed my mind - I'd like to keep this phone as close as possible to factory-standard and use a different phone for hacking. Is there a step-by-step guide to reverting a DHD back to normal so I can benefit from the regular OTA updates?
Thanks!
Reflashing the ruu is the hard and long way.
Just download the stock recovery.img which west2cool was good enough to post for me. (Cheers again I didn't really feel like installing windoze just for that).
Then use fastboot - "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
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Then use fastboot - "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
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And make sure it is FASTBOOT mode. Flashing fails otherwise (unless I did something stupid).
Sorry, I'm a newb at this.
When I boot by doing vol-down + pwr I get a mainly white screen with three Androids skateboarding at the bottom. At the top it says
ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0007
The top option is "FASTBOOT", so I press pwr once to select that.
Next I see four options:
BOOTLOADER
REBOOT
REBOOT BOOTLOADER
POWER DOWN
I do not see an option to reflash a recover image.
If I go into "RECOVERY", I see the green text on a black background of ClockworkMod v2.5.1.3. There is an option to apply an update.zip, however that's clearly not the same thing as I was instructed to do.
Detailed step by step instructions would be much appreciated!
THANKS!
I'm resurrecting my laptop with ubuntu 10.10 x64 right now (so I can build gingerbread) so can't help until later. If someone doesn't beat me to it, I will up a proper set if instructions along with the links you will need once my laptop is fully functional again.
Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD
Ok buddy, my lappy lives again
1. Download the recovery.zip posted earlier on in the thread.
2. Extract recovery.img from the recovery.zip (best to extract it somewhere easy like a new folder called c:\fastboot)
3. Download fastboot from here. http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s2
4. Make sure fastboot.exe and recovery.img are in the same directory (e.g. c:\fastboot)
5. Reboot your phone as you did before (while holding vol down + power)
6. Select fastboot and push the power button
7. Plug your phone into your computer - it should change the message to "FASTBOOT USB"
8. Open a terminal (push start button and type in "cmd" to get one if you don't know how).
9. Type "cd c:\fastboot" and press enter.
10. Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
11. You should see a message which says something like sending ... send complete ... done.
12. To test: Push the power button on your phone once, push volume down once to highlight recovery, push power button. It should boot you to a screen with a red triangle.
13. Push vol up + power button to bring up the stock recovery menu
14. Push power button to reboot
Hopefully thats detailed enough

Help phone stuck at boot screen

Hello. I just tried to unlock the bootloader on on Verizon Galaxy nexus. Now it's stuck at the bootscreen with the lock image. I did a search and couldn't find a exact answer for my issue. I hope I haven't bricked my phone. Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
I wasn't trying to root just unlock the bootloader. It appeared everything went ok but, now I'm stuck. I used the same method for unlocking the bootloader on my GSM G-nex and it worked.
I know I've done something wrong or this may be something simple. I just need help so I can use my phone.
are you able to boot into the bootloader? if so you should be able to recover and can't worry a little less.
same thing here... I posted a request for a LTE boot.img since can still get into the bootloader
Goat_For_Sale said:
are you able to boot into the bootloader? if so you should be able to recover and can't worry a little less.
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No I don't believe I can. When I type fastboot it just says "waiting on device" I can hold the volume down & power buttons and get to the screen were it says "start" at the top and below that "downloding"
Yea, that was what I was eluding too, The device just came out and google released the GSM image. I am sure that it will appear online in the near future.
if you are able to get into the bootloader does it say that its unlocked ? is your google splash screen showing the unlocked padlock ? you could also try fastboot flash recovery to get cwm on there and provide additional potential solutions.
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qnet said:
No I don't believe I can. When I type fastboot it just says "waiting on device" I can hold the volume down & power buttons and get to the screen were it says "start" at the top and below that "downloding"
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That is download mode used for odin.
hold BOTH volumn buttons and power to get into the bootloader/fastboot
Goat_For_Sale said:
Yea, that was what I was eluding too, The device just came out and google released the GSM image. I am sure that it will appear online in the near future.
if you are able to get into the bootloader does it say that its unlocked ? is your google splash screen showing the unlocked padlock ? you could also try fastboot flash recovery to get cwm on there and provide additional potential solutions.
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That is download mode used for odin.
hold BOTH volumn buttons and power to get into the bootloader/fastboot
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Yeah, when I did the procedure it said that it was unlocked. Everything looked ok , it booted show the unlock symbol under Google. It then went to the colorful animation and was stuck there. At that time I pulled the battery and, it's been stuck at the screen showing google and the unlock image.
qnet said:
Yeah, when I did the procedure it said that it was unlocked. Everything looked ok , it booted show the unlock symbol under Google. It then went to the colorful animation and was stuck there. At that time I pulled the battery and, it's been stuck at the screen showing google and the unlock image.
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you should have let the animation run for like 10 minutes the phone has to rebuild the first boot can take like 15 minutes sometimes.
try booting into the bootloader see if that works still
Sorry I wasn't paying attention and didn't read the part were you told me how to get to the fastboot screen. I'm there now. Can I just relock or fix the bootloader from problem there? It shows it unlocked at the fastboot screen.
qnet said:
Sorry I wasn't paying attention and didn't read the part were you told me how to get to the fastboot screen. I'm there now. Can I just relock or fix the bootloader from problem there? It shows it unlocked at the fastboot screen.
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you could try fastboot oem lock and see if that works but if the phone wasn't booting i don't know if that will fix it but worth a shot.
try it out and see. it shouldn't do any harm to try
I had the issue with the failure to boot up after doing the fastboot oem unlock (I had to use the pda net drivers to get my device recognized to get even that far). I did a lot of things like pulling the battery, locking again and then unlocking and nothing worked until I went here http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11732-galaxy-nexus-root-procedure-adb-method/, then downloaded the files following their directions and doing the fastboot boot boot.img command. It took a LONG time to boot up, but it did boot finally.
GirLuvsDroid said:
I had the issue with the failure to boot up after doing the fastboot oem unlock (I had to use the pda net drivers to get my device recognized to get even that far). I did a lot of things like pulling the battery, locking again and then unlocking and nothing worked until I went here http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11732-galaxy-nexus-root-procedure-adb-method/, then downloaded the files following their directions and doing the fastboot boot boot.img command. It took a LONG time to boot up, but it did boot finally.
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Thank you, I'll try that.
I have another question. One of the selections on the fastboot screen is recovery mode. Can I try that or is this something were you have to have a rom stored on a sd-card?
qnet said:
I have another question. One of the selections on the fastboot screen is recovery mode. Can I try that or is this something were you have to have a rom stored on a sd-card?
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you could download the recovery image from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392336
then when connected in fast boot flash it with
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(rename the file from the linked thread to recovery.img)
this should write your custom recovery partition.
once you have that though you are still not going to be able to boot but it would allow you to flash a nandroid backup if someone made one for you or a LTE based rom
EDIT: you could also try a factory data reset and wipe dalvk cache from withing cwm. that may fix your boot problem
I had this problem, too.
I downloaded Clockwork Recovery and used 'fastboot boot LTErecovery_cwr.img' to boot into it, I wiped data and cache / factory reset and then rebooted. It rebooted twice, but after ten minutes or so I was back to the ICS Welcome screen. All of the files I'd put on my internal storage were wiped (during the oem unlock, I assume) but I'm in the stock rom but Superuser was installed and I have root access.
Hope it helps.
EDIT: looks like this is the same thing Goat_For_Sale posted above, but his command flashes CWM where mine temporarily boots into it. Since most of us will be installing CWM anyway I'd recommend using his command instead.
mixedlemon said:
I had this problem, too.
I downloaded Clockwork Recovery and used 'fastboot boot LTErecovery_cwr.img' to boot into it, I wiped data and cache / factory reset and then rebooted. It rebooted twice, but after ten minutes or so I was back to the ICS Welcome screen.
Hope it helps.
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where did you get the lterecovery_cwr.img ? could you link to it please
I linked to the thread in my post, but here's a link to the mediafire upload from that thread: http://www.mediafire.com/?mdf0mtacskob5yg
mixedlemon said:
I linked to the thread in my post, but here's a link to the mediafire upload from that thread: http://www.mediafire.com/?mdf0mtacskob5yg
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Thanks, my bad I didn't realize you were refering to the recovery image, thought it was the boot image for the LTE device.
Goat_For_Sale said:
Thanks, my bad I didn't realize you were refering to the recovery image, thought it was the boot image for the LTE device.
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Ahh no problem.
I got pretty worried for a second that I'd already broke my shiny new Nexus, so I'm really hoping I can help out someone else that had the same problem.
Solved
I believe it's fixed now. I use the method that GirLuvsDroid posted from the Rootzwiki forum. Once it rebooted, I stopped there and didn't root the phone. I was just happy to get it booted.
It's downloading all my apps and settings now. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me, I really appreciate. This was a good learning experience for me.
qnet said:
I believe it's fixed now. I use the method that GirLuvsDroid posted from the Rootzwiki forum. Once it rebooted, I stopped there and didn't root the phone. I was just happy to get it booted.
It's downloading all my apps and settings now. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me, I really appreciate. This was a good learning experience for me.
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So you were just able to go through the Rootzwiki method? Were you stuck at "Downloading...Do not turn off target !!" screen when you went to boot screen originally? My device still can't be detected :/

[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:
picpaste.com/img_0001_01-Rmm7kDYb.jpg
picpaste.com/img_0001-eoLqVoiM.jpg
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.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA Premium HD app
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.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA Premium HD app
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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
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA Premium HD app
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:
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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.....
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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

Nexus 5x Recovery error, cannot go into bootloader, bootloader unlocked.

Hello friends, im writing because today I screwed my nexus 5x downgrading from oreo to nougat because the phone was getting too hot and I was worried that it would have the famous bootlop.
I don't know what happened, but when I tried to enter the recovery after flashing it, following instructions, the recovery now have a flashing "no command" logo and force entering the bootloader mode Its impossible because the vol down key is damaged. Now everytime I restart the phone it goes straight to recovery mode.
Can I do something? this is the so called bootloop? there's another way to enter bootloader mode?
Thanks for answering
Psicovirus said:
Hello friends, im writing because today I screwed my nexus 5x downgrading from oreo to nougat because the phone was getting too hot and I was worried that it would have the famous bootlop.
I don't know what happened, but when I tried to enter the recovery after flashing it, following instructions, the recovery now have a flashing "no command" logo and force entering the bootloader mode Its impossible because the vol down key is damaged. Now everytime I restart the phone it goes straight to recovery mode.
Can I do something? this is the so called bootloop? there's another way to enter bootloader mode?
Thanks for answering
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Hold Volume and Power Up while in the stock recovery aka "no command" screen. You should fully enter stock recovery now. You F you can boot up, then you can issue this command "adb reboot bootloader" while in Android and connected to a computer.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Hold Volume and Power Up while in the stock recovery aka "no command" screen. You should fully enter stock recovery now. You F you can boot up, then you can issue this command "adb reboot bootloader" while in Android and connected to a computer.
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Thank you for answering friend.
When I do the combo vol up and power, it just reboots to the bugging recovery.
If i try to start up in any way, it will go straight to recovery.
I just managed to enter a "download mode" but i don't know if that coul be useful.
Psicovirus said:
Thank you for answering friend.
When I do the combo vol up and power, it just reboots to the bugging recovery.
If i try to start up in any way, it will go straight to recovery.
I just managed to enter a "download mode" but i don't know if that coul be useful.
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Connect it to your computer and try to do adb reboot bootloader from the "no command" screen.
Nicktheprofessor said:
Connect it to your computer and try to do adb reboot bootloader from the "no command" screen.
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Hey friend.
In recovery mode, the pc doesn´t recognize the phone at all, so I cannot reboot to bootloader.
Thanks for answering.
Psicovirus said:
Hey friend.
In recovery mode, the pc doesn´t recognize the phone at all, so I cannot reboot to bootloader.
Thanks for answering.
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Something has gone seriously wrong here, you can't even use the LGUP tool to recover from whatever happened there I suspect. I think your best bet would be to open it up (unless it's under warranty) and short the vol down button to get into bootloader mode.
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Something has gone seriously wrong here, you can't even use the LGUP tool to recover from whatever happened there I suspect. I think your best bet would be to open it up (unless it's under warranty) and short the vol down button to get into bootloader mode.
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I just used LGUP tool and phone is in Google logo for too long, shutted it off so it can cool down (LGUP relocks bootloader?)
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Edit: Now the phone is stuck at google logo, should i wait for it to boot or assume it is damaged?
Psicovirus said:
I just used LGUP tool and phone is in Google logo for too long, shutted it off so it can cool down (LGUP relocks bootloader?)
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Edit: Now the phone is stuck at google logo, should i wait for it to boot or assume it is damaged?
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Is it recognized at all by the computer? I really know nothing about Windows and how this works on Windows so perhaps someone else who does can help you.
If you have access to Linux, is it present in /dev/block?
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Is it recognized at all by the computer? I really know nothing about Windows and how this works on Windows so perhaps someone else who does can help you.
If you have access to Linux, is it present in /dev/block?
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No, it can't be recognized by my pc, but i can still get to download mode, i think the problem it that the tot file that is available, is from an earlier version from android an it doesn't include several partitions, so the bootloader (now locked) doesn't let it start up, i think the solution is try to get to recovery or bootloader and sideload an recent OTA file, but i don't know if i can because i can't get to recovery.
There's any way in which i can get to install a more recent image via download mode?
Any suggestion is welcome, thanks to you all.
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No, it can't be recognized by my pc, but i can still get to download mode, i think the problem it that the tot file that is available, is from an earlier version from android an it doesn't include several partitions, so the bootloader (now locked) doesn't let it start up, i think the solution is try to get to recovery or bootloader and sideload an recent OTA file, but i don't know if i can because i can't get to recovery.
There's any way in which i can get to install a more recent image via download mode?
Any suggestion is welcome, thanks to you all.
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Well you can't sideload anything without getting into recovery and it doesn't sound to me that you used a correct file if it has fewer partitions.
There are probably .tot files floating around if you search this N5X forum, or you might be able to find one here: http://www.lgbbs.com.cn/forum-109-1.html
Best of luck.
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Well you can't sideload anything without getting into recovery and it doesn't sound to me that you used a correct file if it has fewer partitions.
There are probably .tot files floating around if you search this N5X forum, or you might be able to find one here: http://www.lgbbs.com.cn/forum-109-1.html
Best of luck.
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Sorry for the inconvenience, but i've installed the only tot file that there is around. I have been reading and here in the forum, people says that "This TOT file only contains GPT partition table, boot, recovery, system, modem", and we need to flash a full factory image so the rest of the partitions are in the same page. do you think that with LGUP's option "Upgrade FOTA" i can achieve this?
Many thanks in advance.
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Sorry for the inconvenience, but i've installed the only tot file that there is around. I have been reading and here in the forum, people says that "This TOT file only contains GPT partition table, boot, recovery, system, modem", and we need to flash a full factory image so the rest of the partitions are in the same page. do you think that with LGUP's option "Upgrade FOTA" i can achieve this?
Many thanks in advance.
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What that tells you is that you now have a GPT that is correct and you can now fastboot flash a correct image BUT it has replaced your recovery which should allow you to enter recovery properly.
From there you can sideload a full OTA image that will restore the other partitions.
Oh an don't worry, if I stop responding I'm trying to find something and if I cannot help you further I'll just tell you that.
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What that tells you is that you now have a GPT that is correct and you can now fastboot flash a correct image BUT it has replaced your recovery which should allow you to enter recovery properly.
From there you can sideload a full OTA image that will restore the other partitions.
Oh an don't worry, if I stop responding I'm trying to find something and if I cannot help you further I'll just tell you that.
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I didn't quite catch that, what I should do now? my phone still doesn't want to enter recovery mode, and bootloader is out of the picture for now because the broken button.
Should i try to flash the OTA via the "FOTA UPGRADE" option from LGUP?.
Im grateful that you are taking the time to answering me.
Edit: Tried to install the OTA via LGUP and gives error, so is a no.
Edit2: Seems like i screwed up stalling stock recovery on top of twrp, sahme on me. How can i short the volume down button?
Psicovirus said:
I didn't quite catch that, what I should do now? my phone still doesn't want to enter recovery mode, and bootloader is out of the picture for now because the broken button.
Should i try to flash the OTA via the "FOTA UPGRADE" option from LGUP?.
Im grateful that you are taking the time to answering me.
Edit: Tried to install the OTA via LGUP and gives error, so is a no.
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Reboot to recovery, use adb to sideload the OTA.
Reply to edit2: open it up, find the leads on the circuit board that go up to the vol down circuit breaker, use two needles and insert them into the solder where the breaker connects and while crossing the needles so they connect push power.
OR, fix the broken breaker, most of the time it's just a broken off brass dome that needs realigning, you'll need to fixate it which is just a needle's head worth of superglue on one side and a soldering on the other side (reflowing by heating the dome with a soldering iron usually works).
Your problem was that your recovery was shot, it should now be restored since that partition along with the GPT (the partition table) has been rewritten when you flashed the TOT file.
If you still cannot enter recovery or use adb reboot bootloader from whatever stage you can get into you'll have to open it up and short out the leads to vol down to get it into bootloader but even then you're probably SOL since it sounds like your emmc isn't working correctly. That is a hardware error though so depending on where you live that might buy you another two years of warranty.
Nicktheprofessor said:
Reboot to recovery, use adb to sideload the OTA.
Your problem was that your recovery was shot, it should now be restored since that partition along with the GPT (the partition table) has been rewritten when you flashed the TOT file.
If you still cannot enter recovery or use adb reboot bootloader from whatever stage you can get into you'll have to open it up and short out the leads to vol down to get it into bootloader but even then you're probably SOL since it sounds like your emmc isn't working correctly. That is a hardware error though so depending on where you live that might buy you another two years of warranty.
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Friend, what is SOL? how do you know it is a emmc error if it was me that damaged the software? I cannot enter recovery, so ill try the short, any recommendation tha you can give me about that?
Psicovirus said:
Friend, what is SOL? how do you know it is a emmc error if it was me that damaged the software? I cannot enter recovery, so ill try the short, any recommendation tha you can give me about that?
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SOL=Sh*t Out of Luck.
You flashed a tot file that rewrite the partition table (GPT) as well as installed a recovery partition and the stock recovery (whatever version it was should work fine). That it didn't tells me that something is awry with your emmc.
See my edit of my previous post, shorting it out is a piece of cake, fixing the breaker is a bit more work but if you have a soldering iron and super glue as well as a steady hand and good eye sight you'll be able to fix it.
Don't go nuts with the superglue though, as I said, a needles head worth is plenty. You'll know what I'm talking about regarding the brass dome (sometimes it's copper and sometimes it's zink, zink doesn't work with the superglue so you'll have to use special glue for that) when you see it, it's like a little dome resting on top of the leads, pushing it down shorts them out.
I'd do the needle thing first though, just to see if it works at all, no need fixing the button if the emmc is dead.
Nicktheprofessor said:
SOL=Sh*t Out of Luck.
You flashed a tot file that rewrite the partition table (GPT) as well as installed a recovery partition and the stock recovery (whatever version it was should work fine). That it didn't tells me that something is awry with your emmc.
See my edit of my previous post, shorting it out is a piece of cake, fixing the breaker is a bit more work but if you have a soldering iron and super glue as well as a steady hand and good eye sight you'll be able to fix it.
Don't go nuts with the superglue though, as I said, a needles head worth is plenty. You'll know what I'm talking about regarding the brass dome (sometimes it's copper and sometimes it's zink, zink doesn't work with the superglue so you'll have to use special glue for that) when you see it, it's like a little dome resting on top of the leads, pushing it down shorts them out.
I'd do the needle thing first though, just to see if it works at all, no need fixing the button if the emmc is dead.
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Im trying to do that, i already have the phone open, sewing needles will do?
Psicovirus said:
Im trying to do that, i already have the phone open, sewing needles will do?
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Anything with a sharp point made of metal will do, as long as you can penetrate the solder with the tip and get a lead it will work.
All you need is to short it out for a few seconds while you use the power button to enter bootloader.
My guess is that you won't be able to enter the bootloader mode either though. The bootloader is read from a partition on the emmc.
I really hope you do prove me wrong on this though, that would be awesome.
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Anything with a sharp point made of metal will do, as long as you can penetrate the solder with the tip and get a lead it will work.
All you need is to short it out for a few seconds while you use the power button to enter bootloader.
My guess is that you won't be able to enter the bootloader mode either though. The bootloader is read from a partition on the emmc.
I really hope you do prove me wrong on this though, that would be awesome.
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I tried that and didn't work, but maybe im doing something wrong, the sadness hit me hard and I rather try again when im more clear headed.
I still fail to see how the emmc is failing, should have entered recovery mode more easily? Flashing software somehow made it more prone to fail?
Many thanks, friend, you've been really helpful.
Psicovirus said:
I tried that and didn't work, but maybe im doing something wrong, the sadness hit me hard and I rather try again when im more clear headed.
I still fail to see how the emmc is failing, should have entered recovery mode more easily? Flashing software somehow made it more prone to fail?
Many thanks, friend, you've been really helpful.
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You can use a q tip and some acetone to clear eventual lacquer from the solder points but the thing is, it's probably the emmc that is shot.
Your emmc obviously doesn't accept what the recovery the LGUP wrote to it. If it did, you'd be flashing the OTA right now. Why? I have no idea, I'd need to take the phone to the lab to examine what caused the degradation and even then I probably couldn't tell you much more about the actual cause.
And don't worry about it, your case is interesting and not easy to solve by simply doing a search, you weren't an arse about anything either and that is unusual and welcome.

Is it acceptable to you that a $800 phone dead in 21 months?

My pixel xl(1st gen) purchased from Google store in Jan 2017, and in bootloop a week ago.
I contact google support, they told me my device out of the 1-yr warranty, and redirect me to UbreakIfix for repair, cost on myself.
I contacted UbreakIfix, get a quote for 300+ to change motherboard.
As of today, the Pixel XL only worth $130 trade-in value, and the condition need to be perfect.
So clearly I won't spend $300 to save a device only worth $130.
About the issue, I had some level of experience with fastboot/adb command:
* tried re-image all latest Google Stock Image of Android 7/8/9 individually with boot-loader unlocked, no luck;
* tried adb sideload ota image of Android 7/8/9 individually, with boot-loader locked/unlocked, no luck;
* tried change active slot to a and b with combination of above two items, no luck;
* checked the recovery logs, the boot-loader did take whatever Android stock image I feed to to it, and I do almost every time can get in to both boot-loader or recovery-mode successfully, and has no limit to run any fastboot/adb commands, but these are all I can do, and still not to get the phone boot into Android OS.
* in a very few times, the static "Google" in the white screen did spinning into a big rainbow "G", but it was frozen right after, and eventually reboot again.
I don't know if it worth spend more time on it, and feel very frustrated about spending my time on this doomed device and dealing with the Giant company as a individual customer.
I am not a picky guy, I accept the device running slow, or buggy sometime, but doesn't accept it dead in 2 years as a premium phone.
What do you think, guys?
By the way, many thanks to XDA forum, I learnt a lot from many brilliant and kind people here.
It's not acceptable, but it's the norm. Look at buying a new tv - Some mfg warranties are like 90 days labor and 6 months to a year on parts...It's a shame you pay all that money for something that could be a paperweight in a year.
Acceptable for a phone, or any gadget worth $800 to die in 21 months? LMAO. If this acceptable to some group of people, please redirect them to the best psychic facility available on this planet.
Like you said, you can just grab another one for $130. Phones are put through a lot and used every day so it's hard to say. Lots of people have no issues for several years.
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lafester said:
Like you said, you can just grab another one for $130. Phones are put through a lot and used every day so it's hard to say. Lots of people have no issues for several years.
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I used my Pixel as a regular way, never root it, never even boot into bootloader before the bootloop issue, always use ota in os to get update. No water spilt, never get drop or hit. In another word, I never "abuse" the phone, and the phone has no accident.
Yeah, whatever, for the phone issue, I'm just having bad luck, like you said, many people have no issues. What I upset about is a $800 phone became a brick within 2 years with a normal usage, and Google not even give this case as an exception to cover it out of warranty.
You may say, or like Google said, then what the warranty stands for, right? I say, if only a few people got this issue, then as a Giant company, should cover since no fault on customer, and it would be a small cost to Google; if a lot of people got this issue, then still Google need to cover, since it becomes a general issue to this phone, which indicates this is a failed model at all.
Please don't think I'm a cheap guy, and trying to take advantage from Google, just trying to think the logical here. BTW, I'm not just complaining Google without putting in effort to solve the issue by myself, I did a little bit research and pickup learning, regard this issue, I'm not alone, many other users have the same issue as well, some of them get it "resolved" by reimage, but the other just has no luck like me.
You don't have to agree with me, I'm a kind of guy would love to discuss with people no matter they have same point view as mine or not.
What is the actual problem with the phone? You can get into the boot loader screen then correct? When you try to install the latest stock factory image from Google with fastboot what happens?
Phalanx7621 said:
What is the actual problem with the phone? You can get into the boot loader screen then correct? When you try to install the latest stock factory image from Google with fastboot what happens?
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Both the boot-loader and recovery-mode functions are normal. after flash in the stock factory image, all the progress logs shows flawless, and phone will reboot itself upon the progress is successfully complete. Instead of going into Android OS, the phone is stuck on a white screen with colorful "GOOGLE" in screen center, after like about 30 seconds, it reboots again, and if you leave the phone there, you will see it sometime just keep rebooting, showing the logo screen, or it goes into recovery-mode, showing "no command" black screen.
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Both the boot-loader and recovery-mode functions are normal. after flash in the stock factory image, all the progress logs shows flawless, and phone will reboot itself upon the progress is successfully complete. Instead of going into Android OS, the phone is stuck on a white screen with colorful "GOOGLE" in screen center, after like about 30 seconds, it reboots again, and if you leave the phone there, you will see it sometime just keep rebooting, showing the logo screen, or it goes into recovery-mode, showing "no command" black screen.
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I'm having the exact same issue and Phalanx7621 tried helping me out but unfortunately it looks like there's no solution for it.. Just like your issue, everything successfully flashes, but I got a little past the Google logo a couple of times, but no more. My phone wasn't dropped, never wet, nothing at all. Yesterday morning I woke up and the screen was just black and it started boot looping.
Funnily enough, 2 weeks after I paid the phone off. 1 week after Verizon called to let me know they had open enrollment on their insurance plans and I turned it down since, yanno, I don't mistreat my phone.. "Coincidence" I guess..
My post btw https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/help/possibly-bricked-t3861057#post78033420 if any of that helps you hopefully.
That is the weirdest thing. So everything flashes and it reboots like it's going into the operating system and then just reboots in a boot loop? unless someone else times in its possible is a hardware failure.
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Both the boot-loader and recovery-mode functions are normal. after flash in the stock factory image, all the progress logs shows flawless, and phone will reboot itself upon the progress is successfully complete. Instead of going into Android OS, the phone is stuck on a white screen with colorful "GOOGLE" in screen center, after like about 30 seconds, it reboots again, and if you leave the phone there, you will see it sometime just keep rebooting, showing the logo screen, or it goes into recovery-mode, showing "no command" black screen.
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That is the weirdest thing. So everything flashes and it reboots like it's going into the operating system and then just reboots in a boot loop? unless someone else times in its possible is a hardware failure.
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I've made it far enough in to setup my device, receive and send a text message and then it will completely freeze up for a few seconds and restart. Then it may or may not make it past the Google logo, usually it'll stick on the Google logo or the G before freezing and restarting. But one out of every dozen or two restarts it'll load all the way into the OS before freezing and restarting after a few minutes.
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I've made it far enough in to setup my device, receive and send a text message and then it will completely freeze up for a few seconds and restart. Then it may or may not make it past the Google logo, usually it'll stick on the Google logo or the G before freezing and restarting. But one out of every dozen or two restarts it'll load all the way into the OS before freezing and restarting after a few minutes.
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Ok so how about downloading TWRP on your PC and flash kernel on your phone, (https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/development/marlin-flash-kernel-1-00-t3788300) put TWRP in the same folder as fastboot on your PC and reboot into boot loader and fastboot boot TWRP.img ( or whatever you named TWRP) . From TWRP, flash Flash kernel, then reboot and see if it boots into Android.
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Ok so how about downloading TWRP on your PC and flash kernel on your phone, (https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/development/marlin-flash-kernel-1-00-t3788300) put TWRP in the same folder as fastboot on your PC and reboot into boot loader and fastboot boot TWRP.img ( or whatever you named TWRP) . From TWRP, flash Flash kernel, then reboot and see if it boots into Android.
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Sure. Gimme a couple minutes and I'll report back
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Ok so how about downloading TWRP on your PC and flash kernel on your phone, (https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/development/marlin-flash-kernel-1-00-t3788300) put TWRP in the same folder as fastboot on your PC and reboot into boot loader and fastboot boot TWRP.img ( or whatever you named TWRP) . From TWRP, flash Flash kernel, then reboot and see if it boots into Android.
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So it loaded up TWRP, then I remembered that I didn't set a pin after the latest reflash. So I went into software and setup a pin and moved the TWRP files over onto the phone as well as the kernal before it restarted. But now I can't get 'fastboot boot twrp.img' to actually load TWRP on the phone.. Command prompt says "downloading boot.img, booting, finished. And then on the phone it loads up the google logo and then just freezes and restarts.. I'll dink with it some more and see if i can make it work
Yeah you don't want a pin or password in TWRP. Any pin or password would've been erased with the wiping we did via fastboot earlier before we installed the newest factory image.
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Yeah you don't want a pin or password in TWRP. Any pin or password would've been erased with the wiping we did via fastboot earlier before we installed the newest factory image.
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Alright so I guess I'll wipe everything again, then get far enough into the software to pull TWRP and the Kernel over? Or is there a way I can do all that from fastboot?
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Alright so I guess I'll wipe everything again, then get far enough into the software to pull TWRP and the Kernel over? Or is there a way I can do all that from fastboot?
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If I were you I would wipe everything with fast boot and flash-all.bat again. See if you can get it to boot up once into Android, then reboot to the bootloader, fastboot boot TWRP.img and from TWRP because it's connected to your PC it will allow you to transfer files. download The flash kernel on your PC and just transfer it over to your phone and flash it, then reboot into Android to see if it works. But be careful whenever you reboot for the first time from TWRP because it will ask you to install TWRP as a system file or something. make sure to always hit do not install because if you swipe it will install it. That can definitely mess things up.
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If I were you I would wipe everything with fast boot and flash-all.bat again. See if you can get it to boot up once into Android, then reboot to the bootloader, fastboot boot TWRP.img and from TWRP because it's connected to your PC it will allow you to transfer files. download The flash kernel on your PC and just transfer it over to your phone and flash it, then reboot into Android to see if it works. But be careful whenever you reboot for the first time from TWRP because it will ask you to install TWRP as a system file or something. make sure to always hit do not install because if you swipe it will install it. That can definitely mess things up.
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Well, knock on wood, I'm about 10 minutes into it and it seems to still be working.. But earlier it was on for a good bit of time before restarting as well. I'll report back!
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Well, knock on wood, I'm about 10 minutes into it and it seems to still be working.. But earlier it was on for a good bit of time before restarting as well. I'll report back!
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Excellent ! Ok, so let's install magisk via TWRP. You'll need to boot back into TWRP via fastboot using fastboot boot TWRP.img and then transfer Magisk (https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445) onto your phone. After flashing , reboot and install kernel auditor here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grarak.kerneladiutor so we can see what's going on with the kernel
Edit:also, you could flash TWRP with this file as well https://dl.twrp.me/marlin/twrp-pixel-installer-marlin-3.2.3-1.zip.html (you flash the zip while in TWRP) to not have to use fastboot to boot into it )
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Excellent ! Ok, so let's install magisk via TWRP. You'll need to boot back into TWRP via fastboot using fastboot boot TWRP.img and then transfer Magisk (https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v17.1/Magisk-v17.1.zip) onto your phone. After flashing , reboot and install kernel auditor here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grarak.kerneladiutor so we can see what's going on with the kernel
Edit:also, you could flash TWRP with this file as well https://dl.twrp.me/marlin/twrp-pixel-installer-marlin-3.2.3-1.zip.html (you flash the zip while in TWRP) to not have to use fastboot to boot into it )
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Done, done and done.
I flashed TWRP through the zip, so it's a more permanent fixture. Magisk is installed as well as the kernel adiutor. What type of data/info am i looking for through the kernel program?
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Excellent ! Ok, so let's install magisk via TWRP. You'll need to boot back into TWRP via fastboot using fastboot boot TWRP.img and then transfer Magisk (https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v17.1/Magisk-v17.1.zip) onto your phone. After flashing , reboot and install kernel auditor here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grarak.kerneladiutor so we can see what's going on with the kernel
Edit:also, you could flash TWRP with this file as well https://dl.twrp.me/marlin/twrp-pixel-installer-marlin-3.2.3-1.zip.html (you flash the zip while in TWRP) to not have to use fastboot to boot into it )
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Apparently i didn't knock on wood hard enough. Was working for a solid 45 minutes to an hour, but then as I was reading through some stuff it froze up and went back into boot looping..
premedicated said:
Done, done and done.
I flashed TWRP through the zip, so it's a more permanent fixture. Magisk is installed as well as the kernel adiutor. What type of data/info am i looking for through the kernel program?
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Apparently i didn't knock on wood hard enough. Was working for a solid 45 minutes to an hour, but then as I was reading through some stuff it froze up and went back into boot looping..
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No! OMG I'm sorry man. I thought we had this problem on its way to being solved. So it's now boot looping again ? Same exact thing as before ?
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No! OMG I'm sorry man. I thought we had this problem on its way to being solved. So it's now boot looping again ? Same exact thing as before ?
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Well here's the deal.. Right after I posted that it started bootlooping again. It went through about 6 bootloops before I said 'eff it' and then just plugged it into the charger and walked away. I came back to it a little bit ago and according to the Kernel manager, it has an uptime of an hour and 32 minutes. So I grabbed it and was dinking around for a minute with it. Downloaded hulu, no problems. Downloaded netflix, no problems and then I was writing out a text and all of a sudden it froze and rebooted. Bootlooped once, then on the second try it started up. It's been up for about half an hour now.
Are there some sort of .log files with Android that could possibly show exactly what it is that's causing it to restart? Maybe something in the Kernel manager could help?

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