I think I might be screwed.
I've been updating with CM12 nightlies about every third of sixth one since the first one and never had a problem. Until today.
Downloaded the 9/21 CM 12 nightly after running my weekly Titanium backup.
Rebooted into TWRP recovery, flashed the zip file for CM12, wiped cached and rebooted. Except the phone rebooted into fastboot. Uh oh.
Phone will no only boot into fastboot, with just the power button = fastboot, power+vol up = fastboot, power+vol down = fastboot.
Plugged phone into computer with USB, PDANet recognizes the phone as having been connected but won't run because adb.exe is installed. Phone shows up in Device Manager with correct driver, listed as Android Device. Phone does NOT show up in Windows 7 Explorer. ADB does NOT work because it doesn't list any devices.
I can run fastboot and all fastboot commands from a command prompt. I've flashed several new recovery images but still cannot reboot into recovery.
I've deleted and updated drivers over and over.
I've pulled battery, SIM card, SD card in every combination I can think of.
In all cases I can only boot to fastboot.
I LOVED this phone! My best phone ever!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-AJ
After 7 hours of fighting it, I may have posted too soon. I kept scouring threads and found a reference to run oem unlock in fastboot. That seemed to work. That got me into recovery and if I can get into TWRP I'm confident that I can fix or rebuild/reinstall everything back to good. So let's say this is solved. But if anyone else has this problem, try the oem unlock..
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First off, this forum rocks. First post but have read a tremendous amount since learning to root and rom my Thunderbolt.
I upgraded to the Galaxy Nexus (CDMA), and decided to try the "one-click root" which left me with the followign problem.
It seemed to work ok, however when I booted into recovery, recovery failed to load and I got the android w/ exclamation.
I tried a few other things to no avail, at one point I hit a volume up and down and got a limited clockwork menu on the screen, one which was factory wipe (as I was intending to install a ROM).
The wipe hung, so I pulled the battery and was left in a loop.
I booted back into fastboot, and it shows as unlocked, but I can't get it to show as a device in ADB.
I'm assuming this may be a driver issue. I did re-download the Android SDK but this didn't seem to make a difference.
I get the USB connection, but the phone displays "Fastboot Command Read Error -2147483647". I did try to kill server and try again as I saw suggested in some other posts but no luck.
In device manager it shows as "SAMSUNG Android ADB Interface" for the driver 2.9.310.1125.
I'm thinking fastboot should be a non-samsung branded driver?
Anyhelp is appreicated.
thanks!
soulman1980 said:
First off, this forum rocks. First post but have read a tremendous amount since learning to root and rom my Thunderbolt.
I upgraded to the Galaxy Nexus (CDMA), and decided to try the "one-click root" which left me with the followign problem.
It seemed to work ok, however when I booted into recovery, recovery failed to load and I got the android w/ exclamation.
I tried a few other things to no avail, at one point I hit a volume up and down and got a limited clockwork menu on the screen, one which was factory wipe (as I was intending to install a ROM).
The wipe hung, so I pulled the battery and was left in a loop.
I booted back into fastboot, and it shows as unlocked, but I can't get it to show as a device in ADB.
I'm assuming this may be a driver issue. I did re-download the Android SDK but this didn't seem to make a difference.
I get the USB connection, but the phone displays "Fastboot Command Read Error -2147483647". I did try to kill server and try again as I saw suggested in some other posts but no luck.
In device manager it shows as "SAMSUNG Android ADB Interface" for the driver 2.9.310.1125.
I'm thinking fastboot should be a non-samsung branded driver?
Anyhelp is appreicated.
thanks!
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When you boot back into fastboot look under device manager on your computer and you will probably find a yellow question mark by your device. You will need to download the Samsung driver and manually install it at that screen. Then you can fastboot oem lock and then fastboot oem unlock and that should fix your boot loop issue. The android with exclamation point is the factory recovery, if you rooted and still have root download rom manager in the market and flash clockworkmod through it.
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When you boot back into fastboot look under device manager on your computer and you will probably find a yellow question mark by your device. You will need to download the Samsung driver and manually install it at that screen. Then you can fastboot oem lock and then fastboot oem unlock and that should fix your boot loop issue. The android with exclamation point is the factory recovery, if you rooted and still have root download rom manager in the market and flash clockworkmod through it.
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definitely check for any drivers, but i haven't heard anybody needing to re-lock & unlock before. once you have the drivers you should be able to use 'fastboot' from the fastboot screen. not adb. after your drivers, type 'fastboot devices' and see if anything comes up.
also, if you can get into clockwork recovery, look at your device manager again for yellow errors....often there is another driver that doesn't install itself properly; the one that allows you to use adb while in CWM.
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definitely check for any drivers, but i haven't heard anybody needing to re-lock & unlock before. once you have the drivers you should be able to use 'fastboot' from the fastboot screen. not adb. after your drivers, type 'fastboot devices' and see if anything comes up
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Fastboot OEM lock and the Fastboot OEM unlock is a known fix to correct a loop soft brick issue that he noted
badassirocz said:
Fastboot OEM lock and the Fastboot OEM unlock is a known fix to correct a loop soft brick issue that he noted
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which is because it is just doing a factory wipe correct? if he fixes his drivers & fastboot issue, he should be able to just flash an image without wiping the whole phone
I guess in some aspect yes but if the phone is not softbricked anymore that he should be fine not doing it. Most of the time the ADB issue is like you stated that when you boot into fastboot the driver is not recognized so you need to do a manual install to fix it. If his battery pull left the phone stuck in a boot loop he will have to re-lock and then unlock to fix it.
You guys really are a godsend.
So, the drivers all seemed good and installed properly (no exclamation or question mark in Device Manager).
Ultimately, I knew there was a driver issue so I just went to a different computer (running win7 64). Coulnd't get that to work, then found drivers arn't supported. I also found the PDANET work around.
This allowed me to install the driver and fastboot WAS able to detect the device.
Following some advice and some other posts I tried "fastboot oem lock", which worked successfully.
I then rebooted, was still in a loop, then pulled the battery.
I ran "fastboot oem unlock", then rebooted.
This time I got past the "google" screen and got the graphic screen.
This sat for awhile (3-4 minutes)??
Then it rebooted again (I almost cried) and I was back to the google logo. Again, it went past this point and displayed the graphical animation again.
Than, on the second time around came the "Welcome!" screen!!!!!!
As well as a rush of relief that is indescribable....
I spent 5 minutes living as Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights sitting in his car outside the party - then did a human xanax reboot and am happy to go to bed!
I'm only posting all of this in detail as an update, and so it is available for anyone else who may come into this problem.
It seems there are many ways to get stuck into this boot-loop besides what I did.
NOW - the next problem....
I'm in my phone, everything works. HOWEVER, I apparantly have a corrupt or bad install of Clockworkmod on my phone.
Do I just try everything again from scratch, or is there something I should do differently to reinstall CWM Recovery?
Thanks again!
glad you got booted. drivers are supported for windows 7 64x, using them currently btw.
i would download a new copy of cwm, confirm its md5 checksum first, and flash it again if you think its corrupt, or if you have rom manager you should be able to do it from there.
good luck
Glad you got it fixed. The lock and unlock fixes the boot loop issues as you found out. I would root your phone with cf-root using adb which you can find here on xda. Then install clockworkmod through rom manager which you can download free in the market.
Thanks again guys, all is good in the hood.
I followed the instructions to re-install CWM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392336
I picked up where I had left off (I already had phone unlocked).
All is perfect!
can't thank you all enough
I was looking to do a full wipe from TWRP and wanted to wipe data as well. Knowing that that would erase everything from the internal storage and not having an SD card available to me now I decided to wipe everything and then transfer the new ROM with adb commands.
Before wiping, I wanted to make sure that adb was working first. So I downloaded the Android SDK and booted to TWRP. Went to Advanced--->ADB Sideload and started the command prompt on my PC. From the folder were adb.exe was I typed "adb usb" and got error:device not found.
I don't know why but after 30 minutes trying to fix that I pressed the "Fix permissions" option in TWRP and now my phone is stuck at the boot logo every time I try to turn it on. I also noticed in Device Manager on my PC that every time I connect the phone to the PC that there is a yellow exclamation mark next to the phone which suggests that I don't have the needed drivers. However I tried to install versions 3.10 and the newest 3.12 and the exclamation mark is still there.
So my question is how do I reach the phone with ADB and transfer the flashable ROM zipfile so I can get the phone past the boot logo?
Well I'll answer myself if anybody has the same problem in the future. It was obviously the USB driver's fault and since none of the LG's drivers worked, I used Google's USB drivers and was able to adb sideload the ROM zip and now it's booting into the OS.
So always check your drivers people! In case LG's don't work, then use Google's!
Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. Before I start, want to apologize for bringing up a regular problem. So I have a second hand one x. Last year decided to root, had a few teething problems but managed it, all was well. Then I got 'too big for my britches.' Decided to update my recovery, didn't check battery and it died halfway through. Thing wouldn't work for ages, no charging, wouldn't turn on etc. Gave it up as hard bricked. Decided the other day for some reason to try it on charger and it charged! Thought I was winning, wrong lol. Successfully flashed new recovery. Tried nandroid backups, (yes I actually did what instructed and made some, lol) seemed okay but when rebooting just kept throwing me to recovery. Then, like an idiot, stumbled across a post, (can't remember where) that gave the 'bright idea' of formating. EVERYTHING. yeah I know, idiot, right here. No more nandroid backups, no ROM. Can't flash a ROM now cos my sd card can't mount, and sideload doesn't work as when in recovery adb can't find device. Any help would be appreciated, been all over this wonderful sight and others and no fixes seem to work for me. So sorry for long post. Oh, its an international model, hboot is 1.73
Update: flashed twrp 2.8.0.0 last night, still can't sideload anything. When using command adb devices shows xxxxxx recovery, but when issuing command adb sideload filename.zip getting error:closed. This is so frustrating aaaah! Can flash any recovery no problems but since I'm unable to mount USB and sideload isn't working am unable to flash a ROM. Tried installing universal adb driver, it installed but changed nothing. Please help!
Solved!
Ganglore said:
Update: flashed twrp 2.8.0.0 last night, still can't sideload anything. When using command adb devices shows xxxxxx recovery, but when issuing command adb sideload filename.zip getting error:closed. This is so frustrating aaaah! Can flash any recovery no problems but since I'm unable to mount USB and sideload isn't working am unable to flash a ROM. Tried installing universal adb driver, it installed but changed nothing. Please help!
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Okay, so I did it! I will leave this here in case it helps anyone.
I deleted htc drivers then reinstalled them. Manually installed adb driver from sdk, device was recognised in adb in sideload mode! I.E. instead of saying xxxxx recovery as mentioned above it said xxxxx sideload. Successfully sideloaded cm 11 nightly I had. Rebooted recovery, installed zip from SD under sideload.zip. rebooted to bootloader, flashed boot.IMG that was inside cm11 zip, then used fastboot erase cache command, rebooted, SUCCESS! CM ROM is on and working! Thanks to everyone who took the time to write the numerous tuts etc I perused before FINALLY fixing this mess. Just downloading compatible gapps now to install. Only problem I have now is its not recognizing my sim card..... *sigh* now to sort that out.
I've searched this and other forums, and tried virtually everything that has been suggested or that I can think of.
I have a Zenfone 2 Laser ZE551ML rooted. Phone has worked like a dream. Installed TWRP 3.0, made and saved several backups in several different places, internally and externally.
Two days ago, flashed a TWRP recovery (I was looking to get back some data I had deleted inadvertently), seemed to go well until it booted, and could not get past the screen that says "Fastboot Mode!!!". Connected to a PC and was able to execute fastboot commands; supposedly can flash various recoveries, and seemingly does so, with everything looking right on the PC, and the phone actually rebooting. But always stops at the same screen.
ADB, on the other hand, shows no devices listed. Every command results in "Error: Missing Device."
I have done everything I can think of...uninstalled and reinstalled the ADB drivers, used different ADB drivers, removed the external SD card, removed the battery (which is the ONLY way the phone will shut off...pressing the on/off button for 10 seconds just results in it booting up to the same screen. Have tried the fastboot wipe command, again it seems to do so, but always comes back to the same screen. Fastboot flashing a recovery.img appears to successfully write a recovery, then goes to same screen upon reboot.
Any ideas? I've only had this phone a couple of weeks, and really like it. But flashing what was apparently a bad TWRP backup seems to have destroyed it.
Thanks so much for any suggestions!
i have the same problem.. please help!
i have the exact same problem you had.. please tell me how you restored it
As i have a similar problem i cannot help you on the technical side.
But isn't the laser 551 KL instead of ML. Maybe you flashed the wrong files trying to restore the phone
BeachNYC said:
I've searched this and other forums, and tried virtually everything that has been suggested or that I can think of.
I have a Zenfone 2 Laser ZE551ML rooted. Phone has worked like a dream. Installed TWRP 3.0, made and saved several backups in several different places, internally and externally.
Two days ago, flashed a TWRP recovery (I was looking to get back some data I had deleted inadvertently), seemed to go well until it booted, and could not get past the screen that says "Fastboot Mode!!!". Connected to a PC and was able to execute fastboot commands; supposedly can flash various recoveries, and seemingly does so, with everything looking right on the PC, and the phone actually rebooting. But always stops at the same screen.
ADB, on the other hand, shows no devices listed. Every command results in "Error: Missing Device."
I have done everything I can think of...uninstalled and reinstalled the ADB drivers, used different ADB drivers, removed the external SD card, removed the battery (which is the ONLY way the phone will shut off...pressing the on/off button for 10 seconds just results in it booting up to the same screen. Have tried the fastboot wipe command, again it seems to do so, but always comes back to the same screen. Fastboot flashing a recovery.img appears to successfully write a recovery, then goes to same screen upon reboot.
Any ideas? I've only had this phone a couple of weeks, and really like it. But flashing what was apparently a bad TWRP backup seems to have destroyed it.
Thanks so much for any suggestions!
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fastboot --cmdline "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot twrp.img
where TWRP.img is the directory of twrp
then you should get back to TWRP
flash TWRP image again in TWRP itself because the method on line 1 only temporary flashes TWRP and will auto discard TWRP after a reboot
I've been trying to install TWRP and Magisk to the Razer phone for upwards of 3 days now. I cannot get anything to flash through fastboot to the phone no matter what I try. At one point I even said screw it and tried flashing the stock boot image back over to re-lock my bootloader, but no luck, still won't flash.
I was originally following this tutorial here but during the flashing of the boot image it kept failing. Then I tried following the "foolproof" guide found here
I either ended up with the error of "no such file or directory" or "too many links" or "unable to identify current slot". Did a ton of Googling but ultimately came up with no solutions.
I have Android SDK and development studio installed. I have the google drivers installed. I have the Razer phone drivers installed and I have ADB and Fastboot installed.
I have all the files I need on the SD card, and when I'm flashing everything I have the files I need placed in the same folder as the ADB\Fastboot files.
I have my bootloader unlocked, developer mode on and USB debugging enabled. I am using a USB Type A to Type C cable as recommended (made by Anker if it matters). I've tried all 3 USB ports on my laptop. I've even disabled Antivirus.
I have flashed many Android devices in the past and none have given me such a headache as this one. I'm even more ticked off that I can't even get the factory boot image back over to re-lock the bootloader after now realizing that I can't install Netflix anymore because they wen't and blocked installations for Rooted android users (for whatever ridiculous reason).
I will say that for whatever reason that when I go to open command prompt by using the shift+right click I only get the option to use Windows Powershell, not Command Prompt. I also have to put a .\ in front of every command I send. I'm unsure why, but I found no work around for it.
I'd like to try to get the TWRP and Magisk installed. I'm sure I can force Netflix to install over to the phone using another method.
Open to any suggestions!
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I've been trying to install TWRP and Magisk to the Razer phone for upwards of 3 days now.
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I feel for you as when things don't work, like someone says they do, it's frustrating. I personally wouldn't be doing everything through power shell but would instead press Windows Key+R to bring up the "Run" dialog box then type "cmd" for command prompt. Trying to restore "command prompt here" to Windows 10 seems stupidly hidden. I'm just not sure if using powershell is messing with your progress.
Second thought is that your Razer phone drivers may not be installed correctly. For me I spent days/hours with my main PC, I then tried another PC and got my phone flashed in minutes. What would happen is that I could send "adb" commands without issue but some of the "fastboot" commands were not working. So at the critical times when it's trying to flash the different portions of our phone, some of them were successful while the others were giving little errors here and there.
I spent a lot of time updating my adb and fastboot commands to newer ones because it seems every time you download someones resources you get a different version. Also the more phones you have owned the more times you have installed specific USB drivers for those phones and they are now hanging around messing things up. There are programs such as USBDeview that will allow you to uninstall those old drivers. For me I had HP drivers from an old tablet, OnePlus drivers, LG drivers, etc.
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I feel for you as when things don't work, like someone says they do, it's frustrating. I personally wouldn't be doing everything through power shell but would instead press Windows Key+R to bring up the "Run" dialog box then type "cmd" for command prompt. Trying to restore "command prompt here" to Windows 10 seems stupidly hidden. I'm just not sure if using powershell is messing with your progress.
Second thought is that your Razer phone drivers may not be installed correctly. For me I spent days/hours with my main PC, I then tried another PC and got my phone flashed in minutes. What would happen is that I could send "adb" commands without issue but some of the "fastboot" commands were not working. So at the critical times when it's trying to flash the different portions of our phone, some of them were successful while the others were giving little errors here and there.
I spent a lot of time updating my adb and fastboot commands to newer ones because it seems every time you download someones resources you get a different version. Also the more phones you have owned the more times you have installed specific USB drivers for those phones and they are now hanging around messing things up. There are programs such as USBDeview that will allow you to uninstall those old drivers. For me I had HP drivers from an old tablet, OnePlus drivers, LG drivers, etc.
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I've been messing with it today a bunch. I am back to following the "foolproof" guide and this time I have completely uninstalled all my old drivers for anything android or USB or ADB related and reinstalled everything.
All commands work, I am using command prompt now.
What I am getting hung up on now is even after pushing all three files to the SD card, I run the command "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img && fastboot reboot" and it bounces back with " Failed: Write to device failed (no such file or directory)"
I've double checked the file names numerous times. I have no idea what I am doing wrong now. I have tried the command "fastboot boot twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img" as stated in the other tutorial and it bounces back with "failed to identify current slot".
So I'm making progress at least. I'm trying to follow the first set of instructions listed in the fool proof guide but still no luck. I also tried the "clean method" listed below on that guide and that one doesn't work either. Apparently the Fool Proof guide thinks I'm a fool!
FireGuy0723 said:
What I am getting hung up on now is even after pushing all three files to the SD card, I run the command "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img && fastboot reboot" and it bounces back with " Failed: Write to device failed (no such file or directory)"
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I believe that when you run "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img" you are pushing the file called "twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img" that is sitting on your PC's C: or whichever drive you are currently sitting in to the Razer Phone. So make sure the file is in the same directory as where you are running that command. This will then transfer it to the Razer and will reboot into TWRP.
But after you reboot into TWRP you will want to flash the version you have sitting within your SD card to the "recovery" partition. That way it is permanent.
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I believe that when you run "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img" you are pushing the file called "twrp-3.2.1-0-cheryl.img" that is sitting on your PC's C: or whichever drive you are currently sitting in to the Razer Phone. So make sure the file is in the same directory as where you are running that command. This will then transfer it to the Razer and will reboot into TWRP.
But after you reboot into TWRP you will want to flash the version you have sitting within your SD card to the "recovery" partition. That way it is permanent.
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I was finally able to get the phone to accept a flash! I ended up saying screw it and dug a old laptop out, fresh install of windows and installed all the proper drivers onto it.
It worked almost flawlessly. It was able to correctly send the twrp.img file and the phone was able to boot into twrp which is about as far as I got. As it was attempting to load twrp it would "crash" the screen would flash twice and try rebooting back to TWRP.
What ended up happening was it got stuck in a boot loop trying to boot into TWRP. (I haven't even installed TWRP.zip yet, just tried booting the .img file).
I couldn't get the phone to boot to the system anymore. I thought I had a nice $600 paperweight on my hands.
I finally got the phone to go back into the boot loader and flashed all the factory stuff back on and relocked the bootloader. So right now I'm 100% back to stock.
I'm not sure what went wrong in the boot up of the twrp.img file. I'd like to try again but I'm kinda getting sick of wiping the phone Everytime something goes wrong.
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I'm wanting to get TWRP / Magisk on my Razer too, but see too many bootloop stories after attempting to flash TWRP.... making me nervous ha ha.
Sorry, not much help, but hope you get it sorted...
Peace
chris5s said:
I'm wanting to get TWRP / Magisk on my Razer too, but see too many bootloop stories after attempting to flash TWRP.... making me nervous ha ha.
Sorry, not much help, but hope you get it sorted...
Peace
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I had mine in boot loop, I was able to get it out pretty easily. If your able to get the phone into the bootloader (I did using a fastboot command while it was in a boot loop) you can just execute the script provided by Razer and it does the rest. Took about 10 minutes and I had factory everything back on the phone. Relocked the bootloader after and done, phone fixed.
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FireGuy0723 said:
I had mine in boot loop, I was able to get it out pretty easily. If your able to get the phone into the bootloader (I did using a fastboot command while it was in a boot loop) you can just execute the script provided by Razer and it does the rest. Took about 10 minutes and I had factory everything back on the phone. Relocked the bootloader after and done, phone fixed.
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In my case I actually had to flash the stock boot.img from the May 2018 stock OS. Then I was able to use Razers guide to flash stock again. I haven't locked my bootloader since I still want to give it a try again. But I want to find a reliable way of rooting and then unrooting in case I want to do so in the feature.
So far I haven't found said documentation.
Installed Magisk v17.1 via TWRP loaded in fastboot boot (not fastboot flash boot ie not permanently installed) and so far all seems well. No boot loops when restarting...
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