My M8 got royally f'ed, need dire help! - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Okay so for some context:
My phone had water spill on it, it then immediately started vibrating uncontrollably. I turned it off, it kept vibrating. I had no choice but to let it die of battery exhaustion.
I let it dry in a bag of rice for a week and now I trying to turn it on. It got stuck in a bootloop, booted up the main screen once, rebooted again. Kept vibrating uncontrollably which led to quicker battery exhaustion.
Eventually after like 30 reboots, it said, "this phone ass flashed with an unauthorized image and has been locked" and it told me to contact the manufacturer.
See, from the beginning, I don't give a damn about the phone itself, I just want to get the data off.
How do I achieve this? It's very important.
Thank you, any help is appreciated.

Power it up holding the volume up and power button down. Will boot into boot loader. Select hboot, then recovery. Wipe everything using your recovery. Is that what you are trying to do?

eskimosound said:
Power it up holding the volume up and power button down. Will boot into boot loader. Select hboot, then recovery. Wipe everything using your recovery. Is that what you are trying to do?
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I want to get all data off correct. It's rooted and I have TWRP on here.
Also since that security message, my phone hasn't booted back up. It's a black screen.
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mmmm, just try charging it and doing what I said but it does sound like you've fried it.
There was a program I used a few years back on my One X+ that switched the phone on and off for hours and that recharged the battery but I don't think the M8 works like that....may be worth a Google, recharging dead One battery.

eskimosound said:
mmmm, just try charging it and doing what I said but it does sound like you've fried it.
There was a program I used a few years back on my One X+ that switched the phone on and off for hours and that recharged the battery but I don't think the M8 works like that....may be worth a Google, recharging dead One battery.
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Okay, here's an update.
The phone turns on but the screen will not work, I cannot unlock my devices but I can get INTO recovery and I can get into ADB Recovery. What can I do in this situation that will allow me to pull my files?
All I want to do is to pull my pictures off, that's it!
Thanks!

technocrat7 said:
Okay, here's an update.
The phone turns on but the screen will not work, I cannot unlock my devices but I can get INTO recovery and I can get into ADB Recovery. What can I do in this situation that will allow me to pull my files?
All I want to do is to pull my pictures off, that's it!
Thanks!
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If you can get into recovery with adb access, just enter the following from a Windows CMD prompt...
For the entire contents of Internal Storage:
adb pull /data/media/0 C:\Users\(your username)\Desktop (or any location)
If you only want to recover your pictures:
adb pull /data/media/0/DCIM C:\Users\(your username)\Desktop (or any location)
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[Q] "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped."

Hi guys, I'm very sorry if this has been solved already but I've been searching a lot now and none of the methods seemed to help me. I'm running a One X International. Until yesterday, I was running one of the older Cyanogenmod 10 Nightly builds but due to some performance issues and whatnot (nothing major), I decided to finally put in some work to update my phone to 10.1. My HBOOT was still on one of the older versions so after searching around, it seemed reinstalling the stock ICS and then doing some OTA updates would be the easiest way (for a n00b like me).
After doing so, I unlocked my bootloader again, re-rooted my phone, installed a newer version of CWM Recovery and finally flashed the latest stable build of CM 10.1. My first problem came after rebooting, where it would just hang at the Cyanogenmod ring loop and nothing else. I booted back to recovery and wiped everything (cache, data, dalvik etc.) and did a factory reset then reflashed the rom. This time it booted up but then, the "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." kept popping up. I literally can't do anything (there's a microsecond of space after I click OK before it would pop up again). I have read some people suggesting to others that they need to do a factory reset but I've tried doing that and it still didn't work. I've even tried installing the latest Nightly build of CM10.1 but it still didn't seem to make any difference.
Could someone please offer some advice? Thanks a lot in advance.
I had this problem and it was an hardware fault, so the only thing i could to was to send back the phone to HTC and get a new one...
MarcusJKX said:
Could someone please offer some advice? Thanks a lot in advance.
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Did you flash the boot image?, and if so, did you fastboot erase cache after flashing the boot image?
matt95 said:
I had this problem and it was an hardware fault, so the only thing i could to was to send back the phone to HTC and get a new one...
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I'm hoping that it's not and somehow I doubt it since I didn't have any problems like this until what I described earlier.
Did you flash the boot image?, and if so, did you fastboot erase cache after flashing the boot image?
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I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean Boot image as in the bootloader? I didn't touch the bootloader except that it got upgraded whilst I updated the official HTC rom and also when I unlocked it. But I did erase everything before flashing.
MarcusJKX said:
I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean Boot image as in the bootloader? I didn't touch the bootloader except that it got upgraded whilst I updated the official HTC rom and also when I unlocked it. But I did erase everything before flashing.
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he means
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
matt95 said:
I had this problem and it was an hardware fault, so the only thing i could to was to send back the phone to HTC and get a new one...
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matt95 said:
he means
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I don't think I did this. What is it for? I don't remember reading it in any guides although I read so many that I might've have forgotten.
MarcusJKX said:
I don't think I did this. What is it for? I don't remember reading it in any guides although I read so many that I might've have forgotten.
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you have to flash the boot.img everytime u flash different rom
it is inside the zip file of the rom just extract it from there and take your phone to the bootloader and flash the boot.img...thn it will work perfectly
have a good read on how to flash a rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904
ll_r1d0_ll said:
you have to flash the boot.img everytime u flash different rom
it is inside the zip file of the rom just extract it from there and take your phone to the bootloader and flash the boot.img...thn it will work perfectly
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Thanks a lot! I can't right now because like an idiot, I was in a rush before coz I had to leave for a few hours and really needed my phone so I thought maybe I'd try redoing the process. I got to the stage where I relocked the bootloader, factory reset, erased the rom, cache and pretty much everything but then I had to leave. Now that I'm back, the phone is out of battery coz I had it plugged in but it just wouldn't shut down for some reason so the screen remained on the bootloader wasting a ton of battery. This had happened yesterday when I was doing this and the battery would charge really slowly since the screen was constantly on. Do you know why this is? I don't think it's a hardware issue since after installing the stock rom yesterday, it could turn the phone off through the bootloader, recovery or just in the actual OS.
MarcusJKX said:
Thanks a lot! I can't right now because like an idiot, I was in a rush before coz I had to leave for a few hours and really needed my phone so I thought maybe I'd try redoing the process. I got to the stage where I relocked the bootloader, factory reset, erased the rom, cache and pretty much everything but then I had to leave. Now that I'm back, the phone is out of battery coz I had it plugged in but it just wouldn't shut down for some reason so the screen remained on the bootloader wasting a ton of battery. This had happened yesterday when I was doing this and the battery would charge really slowly since the screen was constantly on. Do you know why this is? I don't think it's a hardware issue since after installing the stock rom yesterday, it could turn the phone off through the bootloader, recovery or just in the actual OS.
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the phone never charges in the bootloader ....as ur phone is off right now just plug it to a wall charger and leave it for around 2-3 hours and check if the Red LED turns on which will show that your phone is charging
ll_r1d0_ll said:
the phone never charges in the bootloader ....as ur phone is off right now just plug it to a wall charger and leave it for around 2-3 hours and check if the Red LED turns on which will show that your phone is charging
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Aha didn't know that! Well I did leave it on the charger before i left although it was on the bootloader so like you said, it didn't charge. But when i came back (several hours later), the screen was black and the red LED was not on. Again like an idiot, I tried to turn it on and it went into the bootloader although it said that the battery is critically low. I then tried restarting it and now it's staying on the HTC Quietly Brilliant screen. Does it charge here? The red LED is on. If i press power+vol down then it would go into the bootloader so i guess it's not bricked right?
MarcusJKX said:
Aha didn't know that! Well I did leave it on the charger before i left although it was on the bootloader so like you said, it didn't charge. But when i came back (several hours later), the screen was black and the red LED was not on. Again like an idiot, I tried to turn it on and it went into the bootloader although it said that the battery is critically low. I then tried restarting it and now it's staying on the HTC Quietly Brilliant screen. Does it charge here? The red LED is on. If i press power+vol down then it would go into the bootloader so i guess it's not bricked right?
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nop its not bricked and if your phone is now on just press the power button for few seconds until the 3 buttons flash and it wll turn off and when your phone will have enough battery charged it will automatically turn on (my htc one x do this) and dn you continue the steps dat i told you
ll_r1d0_ll said:
nop its not bricked and if your phone is now on just press the power button for few seconds until the 3 buttons flash and it wll turn off and when your phone will have enough battery charged it will automatically turn on (my htc one x do this) and dn you continue the steps dat i told you
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Hmm i still can't turn it off. After holding the power button and waiting for the 3 buttons to flash, it would just reboot into the HTC screen. But it seems to be charging because when I booted into the bootloader just then, it doesn't say "power critically low" anymore.
By the way, whilst we're on the subject, do you know if it's possible to disable the ability to restart the phone by holding down the power button even when the phone is locked? I have quite a bulky case (from Ballistic) which makes the power button stick out a bit and sometimes when it's in my jeans and I kneel down to tie my shoelace, my leg would press into the button making the phone restart. This doesn't happen with the iPhone for example. on the iPhone, when the screen is locked, the power button doesn't give any response and even when the screen is unlocked, holding down the power button will only display the option to shut it off. This has always annoyed me on the One X (don't know if this is the case for other Android phones).
MarcusJKX said:
Hmm i still can't turn it off. After holding the power button and waiting for the 3 buttons to flash, it would just reboot into the HTC screen. But it seems to be charging because when I booted into the bootloader just then, it doesn't say "power critically low" anymore.
By the way, whilst we're on the subject, do you know if it's possible to disable the ability to restart the phone by holding down the power button even when the phone is locked? I have quite a bulky case (from Ballistic) which makes the power button stick out a bit and sometimes when it's in my jeans and I kneel down to tie my shoelace, my leg would press into the button making the phone restart. This doesn't happen with the iPhone for example. on the iPhone, when the screen is locked, the power button doesn't give any response and even when the screen is unlocked, holding down the power button will only display the option to shut it off. This has always annoyed me on the One X (don't know if this is the case for other Android phones).
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very good now ur phone is charging and i hope u have flashed the boot.img too well i also have that issue with that button :/ but i keep the phone in the opposite direction like the headphone jack side goes inside pocket and the mic side is on the outside whn inside the pocket ....thats the only idea i use :/
ll_r1d0_ll said:
very good now ur phone is charging and i hope u have flashed the boot.img too well i also have that issue with that button :/ but i keep the phone in the opposite direction like the headphone jack side goes inside pocket and the mic side is on the outside whn inside the pocket ....thats the only idea i use :/
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Yeah I guess that's the only solution then. Glad I'm not the only one!
I just got home and it looks like I was wrong. The phone's screen was off and no red LED lights were showing even though it's plugged into the wall. I disconnected it and waited a few seconds and then reconnected it and after a couple of minutes, the red LED came back but it also started up into the bootloader automatically...this thing just won't stay off!! I will see what happens after an hour or so but at the moment, I can't think of what else I can do to shut it off to charge it.
By the way, as I said earlier, I have now resetted everything, cleared everything and relocked my bootloader. Can I flash the unlock_code.bin I got previously from HTC or has my Token ID changed now and I need to obtain a new one? I did a Google search and it sounds like it will have now changed but I just wanna make sure.
EDIT: ok I need to go to bed now but I just realised that the reason why it won't switch off is BECAUSE it is plugged in. After unplugging it and selecting Power Down from the bootloader menu, it's now switched off. But as soon as i plug it in again, the screen lights up again. I guess i have to leave it like this and hope that it charges overnight but I'm a bit worried that it's not so good for the screen not to mention it seems to get a little warm after awhile. We'll see...
MarcusJKX said:
Yeah I guess that's the only solution then. Glad I'm not the only one!
I just got home and it looks like I was wrong. The phone's screen was off and no red LED lights were showing even though it's plugged into the wall. I disconnected it and waited a few seconds and then reconnected it and after a couple of minutes, the red LED came back but it also started up into the bootloader automatically...this thing just won't stay off!! I will see what happens after an hour or so but at the moment, I can't think of what else I can do to shut it off to charge it.
By the way, as I said earlier, I have now resetted everything, cleared everything and relocked my bootloader. Can I flash the unlock_code.bin I got previously from HTC or has my Token ID changed now and I need to obtain a new one? I did a Google search and it sounds like it will have now changed but I just wanna make sure.
EDIT: ok I need to go to bed now but I just realised that the reason why it won't switch off is BECAUSE it is plugged in. After unplugging it and selecting Power Down from the bootloader menu, it's now switched off. But as soon as i plug it in again, the screen lights up again. I guess i have to leave it like this and hope that it charges overnight but I'm a bit worried that it's not so good for the screen not to mention it seems to get a little warm after awhile. We'll see...
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no u just have to use the old unlock unlock_code.bin ....just charge it for 1-2 hours only and flash the boot.img in the bootloader and your go to go
ll_r1d0_ll said:
no u just have to use the old unlock unlock_code.bin ....just charge it for 1-2 hours only and flash the boot.img in the bootloader and your go to go
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Thanks a lot man. So turns out that once again, it wasn't actually charging and the phone was dead when I woke up. So then I found another thread where someone had a similar issue and this was suggested:
mevorach said:
Hi
I have a solution for you
make a batch file :
" @echo off
:start
fastboot getvar battery-voltage
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping /n 6 localhost >nul
goto start
"
put this file in the directory where you have fastboot.exe adb.exe and all other
files , also put the unlock.bin file that you have from htcdev
put your phone to bootfsatusb , and run the batch file , you will see the voltage
off the battry each time it loop , after an hour or two you will have enough power(~3.68mv) to unlock it , then charge it and do what ever you want
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I did that and left it for a couple of hours and then the battery was at a high enough level for me to get to work again. I went through everything again remembering to flash the boot.img before flashing my new ROM and now everything is working perfectly! By the way, that guide written by hasoon2000 made a mistake I think. He said to flash the boot.img AFTER flashing the new rom which I did but then still got that com.android.phone problem. But then I flashed it again BEFORE flashing CM10.1 and now everything is smooth as butter.
Anyways, thanks all for your help. I really appreciate it!
MarcusJKX said:
Thanks a lot man. So turns out that once again, it wasn't actually charging and the phone was dead when I woke up. So then I found another thread where someone had a similar issue and this was suggested:
I did that and left it for a couple of hours and then the battery was at a high enough level for me to get to work again. I went through everything again remembering to flash the boot.img before flashing my new ROM and now everything is working perfectly! By the way, that guide written by hasoon2000 made a mistake I think. He said to flash the boot.img AFTER flashing the new rom which I did but then still got that com.android.phone problem. But then I flashed it again BEFORE flashing CM10.1 and now everything is smooth as butter.
Anyways, thanks all for your help. I really appreciate it!
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glad to know that your htc one x is running like a fire well that method is just to show the current battery level nothing else ...and i had flashed the boot.img after the room but it worked for me cux i did fix permission wipe davlik cache and partition cache too...on some roms it works for me and on some roms it doesnt..well its better if you flash the boot.img before installing the room well um glad to help you and sort out your problem

[Q] htc incredible loop at boot up

hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?
try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices
Same problem
tekweezle said:
try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices
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My incredible started doing this yesterday, Ive tried this option it doesn't work for me. I can get the menu but it when I choose factory reset or any of the other options it flashes the htc incredible screen and starts the loop again, any more suggestions would be appreciated.
Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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Htc loop
wanted167 said:
hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?
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tekweezle said:
Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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No I was getting ready to root it the day this started. Will rooting help this problem?
having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.
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tekweezle said:
having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.
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I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol
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I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol
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This sounds quite a bit like an Inc I have lying on my shelf. It was a friend's and he gave it to me to see if I could fix it. As far as I can tell, the phone's emmc storage simply failed. These phones are aging and that happens sometimes. Anyway, I tried all the usual stuff, including running RUU's (flashing signed PB31IMG.zip's since the thing had never been rooted and was still s-on), and yeah, just boot looped.
I did get the phone working, but it was complicated and messy. Here's more or less what I did: I was able to successfully run the RUU that updates HBOOT to 1.02 (or 1.07, either one works), which allowed me to unlock the bootloader via HTCdev. (see one of the root / s-off guides if this doesn't make sense.) This made it possible to flash ClockworkMod recovery using fastboot, and boot into recovery. From there, I was able to get to a root shell through adb (plugged into my computer) and proceeded to downgrade and get s-off, following the guide. It now works, though it's running Froyo and there is hardly any space for apps due to the messed up storage. I've been wanting to try this hack on it but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
stuck in boot loop, keys dead
I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?
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I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?
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Sounds hosed to me. You could try to flash an RUU zip but that'd require use of the keys in HBOOT. If there is an RUU option that does not involve touching the phone, it's possible. Otherwise, no. I guess you could open the phone and check the button connections are there but it may be locking up at the HBOOT screen. Give it a chance to charge up a bit. However, I believe this phone is a lost cause. I seem to be seeing more frequent bootloop phone reports lately.

HOX Shutting down,no recovery access [HELP]

Hi everyone,fisrt of all happy new year tooo all the mates in this awesome forum.
Well, my problem is kind of weird, ive never faced such a problem with my hox, or any other smartphone.
My phone was running well, then it turned off,it was discharged (my phone always shuts down whet it hits 10% or below,i need to take out the sim card or airplane mode so it dosent shuts down),ive plugged it to charge, icould see it charging,but..after that....my phone JUSTE DIED.
It suddenly started bootlooping, always says battery is tooo low to flash from the bootloader, and it never goes below the htc quietly brilliant logo,but when i try like a loot of time, it goes trought it, loads my rom, but as soon as i can see the home screeen,it turns off.....always....its been 3 days im stuck ..... ive looked alll arond the forum but couldnt find any fix....
I am able to access bootloader,but no recovery, ive tried to flash several different recoveries, but it always shows black screen(turns off) when loading recovery....
I still havent tried to re-lock the bootlader and go trought it all again flashing a stock rom and all (even if im pessimistic about if it is oing to fix it)
cuz i do really have preecious data on my hox, i would like to save the content of the internal storage before re-locking it.
Is it a software issue? batterie issue? but, ive tried discharging my hox while letting it in the bootloader, and...it just didnt shut off randomly, it kept alive for about an hour..... then i plugged my phone to charge ,left it be for the whole night, got the greeen light, and still the same problem.....
also(when i get the phone to load, ive seen the last time that my battery was like 53%, and then it just shut down..
i have also tried cvharging it via fastboot reboot method...same issue....
Please, help me guys, I really, reaaally need your help,i was ssooo satisfied with this phone, i cannot afford myself another one right know, and i dont have any warranty....im confused :crying::crying:
Phone running on Viperx 4.0.6 with original kernel.
Thanks in advance.
Please Im really stuck out here, i would like, at least, be able to access CWM or the storage so i could backup everything end then Re-lock and stock.
Try 'fastboot erase cache' to attempt to fix recovery shutting down.
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tomascus said:
Try 'fastboot erase cache' to attempt to fix recovery shutting down.
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Thanks for answering, i already tried that,but it changed nothing.
Now it's WORST, i was rebooting the phone again and again to gain access to the rom, just pushing the buttons and all, and then it rebooted with no screen... its like the screen is dead, the phone vibrates when you power it, but the screen shows nothing.....
Is the screen dead? So i do need to replace it? now my problem has grown worst...
thekkiller said:
Thanks for answering, i already tried that,but it changed nothing.
Now it's WORST, i was rebooting the phone again and again to gain access to the rom, just pushing the buttons and all, and then it rebooted with no screen... its like the screen is dead, the phone vibrates when you power it, but the screen shows nothing.....
Is the screen dead? So i do need to replace it? now my problem has grown worst...
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go to bootloader and flash Philz recovery 5.15 mount the sd card and backup the information. when you go in Philz and mount the recovery wait 3-4 min SD card to appear on the computer.
Thant said:
go to bootloader and flash Philz recovery 5.15 mount the sd card and backup the information. when you go in Philz and mount the recovery wait 3-4 min SD card to appear on the computer.
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Well, as i already mentioned, i do not have any access to the recovery, didnt try to flash phillz but now my phone isnt showing anything, means it vibrates but no screen
thekkiller said:
Well, as i already mentioned, i do not have any access to the recovery, didnt try to flash phillz but now my phone isnt showing anything, means it vibrates but no screen
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Try to charge the phone, maybe from so many restart you f**ck up the battery and for this you have only short vibrate no power for the screen or use battery extendet pack. Second try to go in bootloader not to start the phonejust the volume down +power button
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Try to charge the phone, maybe from so many restart you f**ck up the battery and for this you have only short vibrate no power for the screen or use battery extendet pack. Second try to go in bootloader not to start the phonejust the volume down +power button
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I tried that too,well, i finished opening the phone to check on the battery state and all, everything seemed to be fine, next step is buying another battery and test another set of screen+digitalizer to check for the origin of the problem.
Insane how from trying to access the recovery it became changing battery and screen.
Thanks for all your tips, im going to check on it and keep you informed about my issue
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I tried that too,well, i finished opening the phone to check on the battery state and all, everything seemed to be fine, next step is buying another battery and test another set of screen+digitalizer to check for the origin of the problem.
Insane how from trying to access the recovery it became changing battery and screen.
Thanks for all your tips, im going to check on it and keep you informed about my issue
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Did I ruin my phone?

Was trying to switch from TWRP to CWM (having trouble with TWRP installing CM nightlies). I installed the latest CWM via fastboot. Seemed to load OK, but when I tried to start up the recovery, it just rebooted after showing 'Entering Recovery...' in pink at the top.
Now I'm really stuck. No matter what I do, the phone starts up, shows Entering Recovery at the top, and then shuts down. I cannot enter the bootloader. I cannot start up the phone into the ROM (which is a TikTak ROM that was working fine). Basically, I'm unable to do anything.
When the phone is plugged in, no orange charge light comes on. Vol Down + Power doesn't work. Vol Up + Power doesn't work. Either way, the phone tries to enter recovery, then shuts down.
Is there anything else I can try? Is this phone bricked?
What was the fastboot command you did? It sounds like you flashed to the wrong partition, or flashed an m7 recovery instead of an m7wlv
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What was the fastboot command you did? It sounds like you flashed to the wrong partition, or flashed an m7 recovery instead of an m7wlv
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fastboot flash recovery <cwm.zip> (whatever it was called)
Same way I did it for TWRP which worked perfectly.
Really need a solution here, if there is one. Currently planning on just letting the battery drain and starting again...
mobilemedic20 said:
fastboot flash recovery <cwm.zip> (whatever it was called)
Same way I did it for TWRP which worked perfectly.
Really need a solution here, if there is one. Currently planning on just letting the battery drain and starting again...
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If you can't get a charge light while it is off, DO NOT let it die! It will not charge while dead. When it is booting, can you do adb or fastboot commands from your PC? If so, try:
ADB/fastboot reboot bootloader
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Usually, the command: fastboot erase cache
Will resolve such issues, though it doesn't always work, depends on what's causing the actual issue.
But that is what I would suggest trying from fastboot.
Problem is I can NOT get into the boot loader at all, unless i'm missing something. Start phone, tries to load recovery, shuts off. That's it. Is there a way to get the bootloader to open? I seem to have no options.
mobilemedic20 said:
Problem is I can NOT get into the boot loader at all, unless i'm missing something. Start phone, tries to load recovery, shuts off. That's it. Is there a way to get the bootloader to open? I seem to have no options.
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With device powered off,
Power + volume down
Even if partially powered on, trying to load recovery,....
Same process, hold volume down and power until it boots to hboot.
santod040 said:
With device powered off,
Power + volume down
Even if partially powered on, trying to load recovery,....
Same process, hold volume down and power until it boots to hboot.
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Tried it man, vol down + power as much as you want. It starts, tries to enter recovery (for about 3 seconds) then goes dead. The thing is, even with the screen off and I plug it into the computer, the computer recognizes the phone a little... It says 'driver not recognized' (even though they're installed). So maybe it's actually partially on in the background, and locked up? That's why I'm hoping the battery running down will fix it.
I'm literally dusting off my old galaxy nexus to get that loaded up, because I need my phone. I'm worried the One is bricked.
***Edit / update - when I plug the phone in 'off' (not responsive) mode, and try fastboot anything, it hangs saying 'waiting for device'. Whatever that means.
mobilemedic20 said:
Tried it man, vol down + power as much as you want. It starts, tries to enter recovery (for about 3 seconds) then goes dead. The thing is, even with the screen off and I plug it into the computer, the computer recognizes the phone a little... It says 'driver not recognized' (even though they're installed). So maybe it's actually partially on in the background, and locked up? That's why I'm hoping the battery running down will fix it.
I'm literally dusting off my old galaxy nexus to get that loaded up, because I need my phone. I'm worried the One is bricked.
***Edit / update - when I plug the phone in 'off' (not responsive) mode, and try fastboot anything, it hangs saying 'waiting for device'. Whatever that means.
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You are holding down on both the volume down and the power button for as long as your fingers can stand to?
It's not a quick press of both, but a steady hold down of both buttons, even if it tries to do the recovery loading , keep holding both down.
Make sure you are pressing them both FIRMly and for at least 30 seconds or more.
If you are already trying that, then disregard.
But the way it's behaving, it doesn't sound like you are.
If so, again, disregard, just making sure you are attempting one of the only possible methods you have, correctly.
As it won't do what it's supposed to if you do not continue to hold them down, even if that entering recovery screen comes up, you need to continue holding them down.
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You are holding down on both the volume down and the power button for as long as your fingers can stand to?
It's not a quick press of both, but a steady hold down of both buttons, even if it tries to do the recovery loading , keep holding both down.
Make sure you are pressing them both FIRMly and for at least 30 seconds or more.
If you are already trying that, then disregard.
But the way it's behaving, it doesn't sound like you are.
If so, again, disregard, just making sure you are attempting one of the only possible methods you have, correctly.
As it won't do what it's supposed to if you do not continue to hold them down, even if that entering recovery screen comes up, you need to continue holding them down.
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Yes, that's what I've been doing - and if I hold it down for a longer time, the phone will just cycle through. Off, "Entering recovery", off, "entering recovery", etc every 10 seconds or so. It's clearly not working.
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Yes, that's what I've been doing - and if I hold it down for a longer time, the phone will just cycle through. Off, "Entering recovery", off, "entering recovery", etc every 10 seconds or so. It's clearly not working.
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Well that's too bad. Sorry to hear you're having these issues.
I noticed in your first post in this thread, you said you did this:
fastboot flash recovery cwm.zip
Was the file actually a zip?
It should have been a .img file.
Just trying to figure out what happened, as it could help in finding a resolution.
As it stands right now, there is nothing really to go off of.
Anyone, still trying to recover my phone... Here's where I'm at. I figured out that while the phone is off, if I plug it in, I can access ADB via the computer's cmd prompt, but no fastboot (says 'waiting for device'). If I use ADB to reboot the bootloader or recovery, I get the same problem - phone resets, tries to enter recovery for 2 seconds, then back off again.
Can I somehow use ADB to get the phone working again?
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Anyone, still trying to recover my phone... Here's where I'm at. I figured out that while the phone is off, if I plug it in, I can access ADB via the computer's cmd prompt, but no fastboot (says 'waiting for device'). If I use ADB to reboot the bootloader or recovery, I get the same problem - phone resets, tries to enter recovery for 2 seconds, then back off again.
Can I somehow use ADB to get the phone working again?
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If you borked your boot loader where you can't access it, there isn't much we can do to help. If the phone can't boot to the boot loader, we can't do anything to help. I think the only thing you can do is send it in for JTAG.
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If you borked your boot loader where you can't access it, there isn't much we can do to help. If the phone can't boot to the boot loader, we can't do anything to help. I think the only thing you can do is send it in for JTAG.
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'Send it in for JTAG'... sorry, what does this mean?
I'm also going to try bringing it to Verizon and claiming ignorance to see if I can get a warranty replacement. What's the downside, right?
adb shell
dd if=/sdcard/LOCATIONOFHBOOT/HBOOT.img of=/dev/block/nameofblock
should work, but i have no clue what the hboot block name is and that this way is really risky. Maybe a dev can chime in and help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320271
maybe pm this guy for help?
synisterwolf said:
adb shell
dd if=/sdcard/LOCATIONOFHBOOT/HBOOT.img of=/dev/block/nameofblock
should work, but i have no clue what the hboot block name is and that this way is really risky. Maybe a dev can chime in and help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320271
maybe pm this guy for help?
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Appreciate the suggestion but have no idea how to proceed with this. Read that link, even more clueless.

[SOLVED] I think I bricked my brand new pixel xl 2. Will appreciate any advice.

Hello friends.
I got my Pixel XL 2 yesterday and today I'm in trouble already.
I unocked the bootloader, installer twrp and rooted with magik succesfully, but I had trouble installing my apps (titanium backup gave me a parcing error and the googgle play store wanted me to pay again for my purchases for some reason), so I figured I do a factory reset so I get prompted to restore from my old phone via cable. So I went to settings -> factory reset.
The problem is that when android rebooted to erase the data, I instead got dumped into twrp on a screen that says Mount Decrypt Data and is asking me for a lock pattern. But the screen doesn't responds, so I can't proceed. The power hard button just toggles the screen on and off but it does not reboot or turns the phone off when I hold it, so I don't know how to get to my bootloaded to maybe reinstall a factory image or what else to do.
I'm just stuck on that screen without options.
I would very much appreciate any advice.
Hold power, vol up and down buttons until your device turns off.. then go into bootloader by holdind vol down and power
I thank you very much for your reply.
I did booted succesfully into bootloader, but now I'm affraid I jumped from the frying pan into the flame because now my phone doesn't power up at all. If I connect it to the charger I don't get the battery with a lighting bolt that I'm supposed to get. The only life sign I get is if I plug it via USB to my computer, I do get the sound that windows plays when yoy connect something, but other than that, the phone seems to be dead.
I'm guessing it's something with the hardware?
hold the power button till it shuts off
flex360 said:
hold the power button till it shuts off
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It is off. I can't turn it on at all. It's unresponsive.
BreadedChicken said:
It is off. I can't turn it on at all. It's unresponsive.
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Was the battery low when you started this?
Are you familiar with ADB? When plugged into the computer type adb devices or fastboot devices does it return your device serial number? If so type adb reboot bootoader.
If not I would hold the power button for a good 20-30 second and see if you can force it to turn on or reboot and immediately hold volume down to get back to bootloader.
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It is off. I can't turn it on at all. It's unresponsive.
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Did you get anywhere with this? Just curious. I know you're probably upset, we're here to help if we can. :good:
Thank you very much to everyone for your time and help.
Thanks to your advices I was able to solve it. In case anyone ever finds himself or herself out in a similar situation, here's what ended up happening:
After holding the power button for about 30 secs as Namolas sugested the phone did reboot itself and brought me back to that twrp mount decrypt data screen asking me for a lock pattern. It was then just a matter of adb booting to the bootloader and install a factory image as usual.
Thanks again. I appreciate it guys.

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