so lads, I was bored and I went on to see the feats of the stock recovery. So I followed the "Asus Zenfone 2 | Resources all in one thread" guide and entered recovery
As I entered recovery, even though I'm rooted it worked without "fastboot erase cache" command. There I tried to "WIPE CACHE PARTITION" just to try it out, I left my phone there and about 10mins later it was still stuck on "erasing /cache" (*since in my every phone I've ever tried this was a matter of minute or two to perform the action"
I stupidly thought it was stuck, so force rebooted my phone and since then, I see the ASUS Boot screen and then I get the dead droid/error sceeen
How do I fix this, guys? Can I salvage my data?
Found Solution to this
I used the adb command "fastboot erase cache" to enter recovery again, in there I formatted the /cache partition (this time happened correctly), something that wasn't working in my initial try and then I rebooted the system, which worked just fine (no data loss or anything whatsoever)
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Dears,
I have galaxy nexus intl version with CM 11 , two days ago it rebooted by it self and entered a boot loop that till now couldn't get out of it, when booting it reaches the CM animation stays there for about 30 sec then it restarts.
I tried the following:
Recovery
boot into recovery, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache, but when I was wiping the data/factory reset the device freezes and reboots, I tried to format data from recovery but I ended up the same, the devices freez, reboot and the loop, CM animation then restart and again and again and again and again.
Fastboot:
Every command to erase, lock and relock, flash stock img, flash other recoveries, everything completed successfully but as if I did nothing, nothing changes, neither the boot loader nor the recovery not even the used data, every thing there as if I did nothing, and still stuck in the loop.
ADB:
I booted into recovery , I have CWM 6.0.4, then tried to pull everything, and thankfully I succeeded, but not in pushing, every time I push a file it finishes successfully but nothing shows on the device.
I installed a new rom via sideload, and it completed successfully, so I rebooted but as if I installed nothing same loop in the same place.P.S I tried multiple roms , the result always the same.
I tried to format via adb shell command, but everytime I format the \data\media , the device freeze and reboot.
Odin
I tried to restore to stock via Odin, it failed when writing the system twice but in the third time it succeeded , and then as if I did nothing.
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I also tried the nexus tool kit, every command in the toolkit, I managed to run twrp recovery temporarily and tried the same as before and ended up with the same results.
I gave up , and I ran out of ideas, I wish that there is still something I can do before sending it to maintenance.
Thank you in advance.
Sounds like the emmc is fried.
bpyazel said:
Sounds like the emmc is fried.
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So what do you thing should I do??!!
Either buy a new Emmc and replace it, have a shop do it or buy another phone.
bpyazel said:
Either buy a new Emmc and replace it, have a shop do it or buy another phone.
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I thought, there is something that I still can do before sending it to an electronic shop.
Thank you anyway man
I finally flashed a non Sense ROM onto my dev edition M8, and now I can't even touch /data. I got the enter password to decrypt storage bug while using Paranoid Android, so I followed the steps here to get back to a working system, but the ROM never booted to the password screen. It froze on the boot animation, the went in a loop, I tried to wipe data through recovery, the screen went blank after a few seconds, and then tried to boot the system again. I can't get it to wipe via fastboot either as I get a "FAILED (remote: not allowed)" when trying erasing and formatting data/userdata. I also can't delete anything from /data in recovery. Does anyone have a fix for this? Flashing other ROMs also suddenly quit and go back to trying to boot the system.
Edit: Flashing a stock recovery to wipe /data fixed it. Why didn't I think about that sooner?
Hi everyone,
Years ago I switched to nexus 5 because of a seriusly boot looped Gnexus. Now I'd like to fix it, if it's possible obviusly.
I can't remember how Gnex got bricked very well, but I can list some of my attempts to solve the problem. (I suppose you useful to know that the phone is unlocked and rooted with CWM recovery installed. Fastboot drivers are intalled in my windows 10 PC and also Unified Android Toolkit v1.6.4).
I tried to format everything by CWM with these options: "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache partition", "wipe dalvik cache", "format sdcard", "format system", "format cache", "format data", "format multimedia". After rebooting, if I go to "install zip from sdcard" I see that my data appears again. I suppose that operations from CWM failed. If I normally reboot the device, it gets bootlooped again.
I tried to flash a custom ROM stored in memory from CWM, but it seems that this operation doesn't work. I tried from toolkit and cmd promt too.
I tried to intall a new recovery like TWRP. After rebooting, CWM appears again. I also use cmd promt "fastboot erase recovery" but nothing happens.
If I try to unroot or lock bootloader again, a successful message appears in cmd window. After reboot nothing changes.
I tried removing battery before every attempts.
Someone can suggest other ways to fix my device?
Was running the pixel experience rom, have been for a month.. and I had a very strange issue today, the whole phone just froze, I force restarted it, and everytime It would reboot it would just hang/freeze or unlock and display nothing on my screen but the wallpaper.. ended up trying to restore from an old backup I had, but realized it was when I was running an oreo rom.. got stuck in a loop for fastboot, used twrp to re-install this rom, and it was taking forever to boot, at the G logo.. so stupidly instead of having patience and waiting, I rebooted and formatted data, or tried too, (read it somewhere) and its just been hung on that for hours now "formatting data" Dunno what to do.. I should have just waited on the initial boot after re-installing this rom, forgot it took forever.. dunno if should just keep waiting.. or try an flash back stock rom, and re-do everything.. I think my data partition is corrupted, or unmountable.. so not for sure how to proceed.
Format data or wipe data ?? Formatting data will remove encryption and everything will be erased
Wipe data just erases data partition
Try to clean flash once again by wiping system data cache
Here is the issue now.. when I would go to format data, it would just stay stuck on formatting data with ext4 or w/e ... I left it for an hour or more, and nothing.... so decided to use miflash an restore everything. it goes all the way... but never actually says success just still says flashing, even with the green bar full and says finished 200s or something.. the last part of the log always stops after:
"[3:52:43 AM 49c50e2d]:err:writing 'vendor' 2/2...
[3:52:43 AM 49c50e2d]:errKAY [ -0.000s]
[3:52:43 AM 49c50e2d]:err:finished. total time: 23.850s"
so I've let that set for 20 minutes or more, then finally I just manually kick it out of fast boot, and it'll start to boot with MI Logo, and it has the white bar at the bottom, the bar loads all the way then it just hangs there, ive left it over night an its just stuck there
Even now I can fastboot flash a recovery image, and boot into it, but its unable to mount data, missing crypto header.. maybe I should just let the "format data" take its time maybe eventually it will?
Hi,
I need some help with my OnePlus 3 running the latest or close to latest Android 8 OTA stock rom. It started half year ago, suddenly the phone was in a boot loop. I switched it on and off and I managed it to start again, doing a factory reset and wiping cache data. Then I reentered my details and selected a password. It was working for some days again, but I struggled to enter the right password after a while. Not because I'm stupid, it's pretty easy and I did it again and again. Then it was accepted and the phone was running again. I backuped my data and wiped it again just to check whats going on with that password. After restart I reentered all my data with password 0000. After restarting, it started again having trouble to enter the right password... not accepted. Switching on and off and then suddenly 0000 was accepted.... I don't know, I was tired to use this phone anymore and left it on my desktop.
Now half a year later. I want to fix this somehow and I thought, ok nothing to lose. I try that new Android 9 beta with adb sideload. Before that I'll do a full wipe loosing all my data (no problem). The wiping bar stucks at 99% and then it says "Format failed" with the only option "Yes". So stuck there, not started to sideload so far.
Update 1:
If I select that "Yes", I'm back in that erasing menu, with 3 options factory reset, wiping cache and erasing everything... if I select the last option again, it takes a second saying "Format failed"... I could do this forever. But if I select another option like wiping data something strange happens. It opens up a password screen asking for password... none of my passwords are working there. It is starting to decrypt... but stops with vibration and I'm back in that password screen. Only option that is left is "Forget password". If I select that, it is warning me, that I'll lose all my data. I say "Yes" and it's rebooting with a Chinese screen with a bar stucking at 99% again. That after a while the screen turns black. Phone is rebooting into that Chinese screen again, animating the bar to 100% again, switching itself off. If I start normal, Android logo appears, thats it, no OnePlus circle is coming up. Then I did it once more... "Chinese init/wiping loop" again. So I can restart normally having this or restart in recovery to do all the things as before.
Update 2:
After showing up the Chinese init/wipe loop again it restarted but now with red/white OnePlus circle animation. As you read this, it's still rotating...
Are there any thoughts about it... has this phone a hardware damage or what can I do? I appreciate any ideas.
Cheers, cyx
cyx said:
Hi,
I need some help with my OnePlus 3 running the latest or close to latest Android 8 OTA stock rom. It started half year ago, suddenly the phone was in a boot loop. I switched it on and off and I managed it to start again, doing a factory reset and wiping cache data. Then I reentered my details and selected a password. It was working for some days again, but I struggled to enter the right password after a while. Not because I'm stupid, it's pretty easy and I did it again and again. Then it was accepted and the phone was running again. I backuped my data and wiped it again just to check whats going on with that password. After restart I reentered all my data with password 0000. After restarting, it started again having trouble to enter the right password... not accepted. Switching on and off and then suddenly 0000 was accepted.... I don't know, I was tired to use this phone anymore and left it on my desktop.
Now half a year later. I want to fix this somehow and I thought, ok nothing to lose. I try that new Android 9 beta with adb sideload. Before that I'll do a full wipe loosing all my data (no problem). The wiping bar stucks at 99% and then it says "Format failed" with the only option "Yes". So stuck there, not started to sideload so far.
Update 1:
If I select that "Yes", I'm back in that erasing menu, with 3 options factory reset, wiping cache and erasing everything... if I select the last option again, it takes a second saying "Format failed"... I could do this forever. But if I select another option like wiping data something strange happens. It opens up a password screen asking for password... none of my passwords are working there. It is starting to decrypt... but stops with vibration and I'm back in that password screen. Only option that is left is "Forget password". If I select that, it is warning me, that I'll lose all my data. I say "Yes" and it's rebooting with a Chinese screen with a bar stucking at 99% again. That after a while the screen turns black. Phone is rebooting into that Chinese screen again, animating the bar to 100% again, switching itself off. If I start normal, Android logo appears, thats it, no OnePlus circle is coming up. Then I did it once more... "Chinese init/wiping loop" again. So I can restart normally having this or restart in recovery to do all the things as before.
Update 2:
After showing up the Chinese init/wipe loop again it restarted but now with red/white OnePlus circle animation. As you read this, it's still rotating...
Are there any thoughts about it... has this phone a hardware damage or what can I do? I appreciate any ideas.
Cheers, cyx
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Try THIS version of TWRP to format and flash.
tnsmani said:
Try THIS version of TWRP to format and flash.
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Update 3:
Before following tnsmani's advice to install TWRP I did something that makes things worse. Because I couldn't wait, I sideloaded the new Android 9 zip without any problems in sideload mode. It was installed and the loading circle was coming up. It took a while and finally the phone switched off. Now the phone is booting up to a new rounded edge OnePlus splash screen without any animation and It's not possible to start the old recovery mode anymore. So I can't connect to adb or fastboot to install that TWRP. All what is coming up are different menus without the options I need. I attached two new pictures to show them. But I can't establish a connection to my pc anymore. No devices showing up.
Update 4:
Ok, it seems that fastboot is communicating when I'm in that green/red menu which says start but my command:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.3-10-oneplus3.img
fails with the output:
target reported max download size of 440401920 bytes
erasing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Partition erase is not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.019s
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps anímating the Oneplus dots and I can't install TWRP to do a clean wipe.
All I want to have is a booting up final or beta stock rom working as before, without any specials.
cyx said:
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps anímating the Oneplus dots and I can't install TWRP to do a clean wipe.
All I want to have is a booting up final or beta stock rom working as before, without any specials.
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Is fastboot/bootloader working or not? If it is, simply flash the TWRP first and then proceed with ROM.
If the MSM Download Tool succeeded, you should be able to boot. If not, it means that it did not succeed. Try it a few more times since for some people, repeated attempts are required before the phone boots.
cyx said:
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps an
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What I noticed from your SS is that your bootloader is locked. So no way you can flash or run a custom recovery til the time you actually unlock your bootloader.
I will advise to unlock bootloader first, flash TWRP fixed version (somewhere in LOS thread is the link), "format" /data partition, flash your desired OOS Rom and then try again and see if it works.
@cyx
Boot into the bootloader and on the PC enter this command: fastboot oem unlock.
This should unlock the bootloader. Then flash TWRP, boot back into it and flash ROM etc.