Hello guys i need help with my galaxy nexus. I'll explain what happened - I was running zmod 5.1.1 since quite some time without any problems, but the phone had become slow due to loads of apps on it so i decided to do a fresh install of zmd 5.1.1 again. I did the fresh install and the phone was working absolutely fine for 2 days, but yesterday the phone restarted randomly and since then the whenever i try to boot the phone it restarts when it reaches the lock screen. Some times it doesnt restart and stays on but it becomes highly unresponsive and eventually restarts. I have twrp recovery and sadly i forgot to do a backup after the fresh install of the zmod rom. I am able to boot into recovery and the phone is recognized by my pc when i connect with the usb cable. I tried to place the rom and gapps again into folder when i connected my nexus to pc but when i go into recovery the files are gone.
Then i tried to troubleshoot with nexus root toolkit but it says some drivers are missing and for complete driver installation i need my phone to work which isnt working so i left it. Then i tried to manually flash stock rom with help of adb and fastboot. Every command worked perfectly with adb and fastboot and i managed to flash stock rom 4.3 yakju jwr66y factory image, but as soon as i booted the phone it began booting with the zmod animation and restarted at lock screen. I am clueless as to what has happened and need experts to please help me out as this is my only phone.
P.S i do not post here regularly so if i have made mistakes posting this query please forgive me.
patelsuneesh said:
Hello guys i need help with my galaxy nexus. I'll explain what happened - I was running zmod 5.1.1 since quite some time without any problems, but the phone had become slow due to loads of apps on it so i decided to do a fresh install of zmd 5.1.1 again. I did the fresh install and the phone was working absolutely fine for 2 days, but yesterday the phone restarted randomly and since then the whenever i try to boot the phone it restarts when it reaches the lock screen. Some times it doesnt restart and stays on but it becomes highly unresponsive and eventually restarts. I have twrp recovery and sadly i forgot to do a backup after the fresh install of the zmod rom. I am able to boot into recovery and the phone is recognized by my pc when i connect with the usb cable. I tried to place the rom and gapps again into folder when i connected my nexus to pc but when i go into recovery the files are gone.
Then i tried to troubleshoot with nexus root toolkit but it says some drivers are missing and for complete driver installation i need my phone to work which isnt working so i left it. Then i tried to manually flash stock rom with help of adb and fastboot. Every command worked perfectly with adb and fastboot and i managed to flash stock rom 4.3 yakju jwr66y factory image, but as soon as i booted the phone it began booting with the zmod animation and restarted at lock screen. I am clueless as to what has happened and need experts to please help me out as this is my only phone.
P.S i do not post here regularly so if i have made mistakes posting this query please forgive me.
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Your eMMC chip may be beginning to fail .One little sign of it is when you said you copied files to it but they weren''t there . Here's what I mean . You copy 20 files to the phone and place them in downloads . You then boot to recovery but you don't see the files . In comparison you delete 10 files using the pc . You boot into recovery and the 10 files are still there . So you hook it to the pc with a toolkit and successfully restore it to a factory image and when you reboot it's not the factory image but the old rom . That' is a clear indicator that the eMMC chip has likely failed or is failing . The chip is sort of locked in a snapshot , or last picture of the phones state before it failed . No matter what you do nothing changes . Google bad eMMC to learn and get a better explanation than I'm giving . I have one nexus with a bad eMMC . Mine won't boot at all , and can finally get into twrp after about a 15 minute wait . Then if I click on anything in twrp it's another 5 minute or more wait . I tried everything . My suggestion to find out is get wugfresh nexus toolkit . Follow all the directions on restoring the factory image to a bricked phone . If you are successful in restoring and you reboot and you see the zmod animation you might as well toss the phone in a drawer and get yourself another phone . The reality of it as best i can tell is you really are adding and deleteing files and you really are restoring the image but through the eye of the eMMC you haven't changed a thing . It has to function and see the changes . Compare it to looking at a webpage . Everything you click actually works but all you see is the same damn page . The connection is broken between whats displayed and what's really happening in the background . Hope this helps . It's the understanding I have of it and some of it might not be exactly right . If anyone with the knowledge disagrees with any part please feel free to correct and explain any part of it . Thanks
patelsuneesh said:
Hello guys i need help with my galaxy nexus. I'll explain what happened - I was running zmod 5.1.1 since quite some time without any problems, but the phone had become slow due to loads of apps on it so i decided to do a fresh install of zmd 5.1.1 again. I did the fresh install and the phone was working absolutely fine for 2 days, but yesterday the phone restarted randomly and since then the whenever i try to boot the phone it restarts when it reaches the lock screen. Some times it doesnt restart and stays on but it becomes highly unresponsive and eventually restarts. I have twrp recovery and sadly i forgot to do a backup after the fresh install of the zmod rom. I am able to boot into recovery and the phone is recognized by my pc when i connect with the usb cable. I tried to place the rom and gapps again into folder when i connected my nexus to pc but when i go into recovery the files are gone.
Then i tried to troubleshoot with nexus root toolkit but it says some drivers are missing and for complete driver installation i need my phone to work which isnt working so i left it. Then i tried to manually flash stock rom with help of adb and fastboot. Every command worked perfectly with adb and fastboot and i managed to flash stock rom 4.3 yakju jwr66y factory image, but as soon as i booted the phone it began booting with the zmod animation and restarted at lock screen. I am clueless as to what has happened and need experts to please help me out as this is my only phone.
P.S i do not post here regularly so if i have made mistakes posting this query please forgive me.
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Faulty motherboard. Try to find a second hand one on eBay. I had the exact same problem and a "new" motherboard solved it
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So I am the proud owner of a shiny, new Galaxy Nexus (GSM). Unlocked the bootloader and installed CWM recovery and was doing great. Today I decided to install the volume fix. Installed the zip through recovery, completed and rebooted. The phone got stuck in a bootloop over and over and over and over and would not boot Android at all. Did a ton of research here and everywhere and, in a panic, I booted into CWM recovery, reset the cache & did a full factory reset. NOW, the phone will not go past the Google bootscreen with the unlock symbol, no matter what I do. AND, I can't even flash the original google image because I can't get in to set USB debugging so my computer won't even recognize the phone (FYI, I'm on a Mac). I am at a complete loss and don't know what to do. If I could only get the computer to recognize the phone I could flash the original google image through Terminal, but alas, I can't. Any ideas? If I can somehow get this phone back up and running I would be eternally grateful. For now, I think I may be SOL. Thanks....
This happened to me, I was not able to solve the issue, even though I could push and pull data to and from the device via ADB. I could still not get past the google logo. I decided to lock the boot loader again and return to the store for a new device.
http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/2cd2b16ed56a7e84
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hartford said:
So I am the proud owner of a shiny, new Galaxy Nexus (GSM). Unlocked the bootloader and installed CWM recovery and was doing great. Today I decided to install the volume fix. Installed the zip through recovery, completed and rebooted. The phone got stuck in a bootloop over and over and over and over and would not boot Android at all. Did a ton of research here and everywhere and, in a panic, I booted into CWM recovery, reset the cache & did a full factory reset. NOW, the phone will not go past the Google bootscreen with the unlock symbol, no matter what I do. AND, I can't even flash the original google image because I can't get in to set USB debugging so my computer won't even recognize the phone (FYI, I'm on a Mac). I am at a complete loss and don't know what to do. If I could only get the computer to recognize the phone I could flash the original google image through Terminal, but alas, I can't. Any ideas? If I can somehow get this phone back up and running I would be eternally grateful. For now, I think I may be SOL. Thanks....
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Hi
My GNex (Unlocked GSM variant) is rebooting continuously. I'm on Resurrection Remix rom (not blaming the rom, just mentioning it), TWRP: 2.8.5.0
The phone boots up, shows the lock screen and reboots within 10 seconds. This is happening continuously....
I booted into Recovery and did a restore(of existing nandroid)/wiped/repaired/re-partitioned but nothing works, it'd just say successful but the ROM/Data doesnt change at all.
Tried flashing via ODIN, but it fails after transmitting system.img to the device. Tried using pit also. Used different cables/USB ports/machines just to be sure.
Once after the phone booted up, I somehow managed to disable the Wifi (in 10 seconds that the phone was ON)and it got disconnected. And after the auto-reboot the wifi somehow was still ON.
I assume that the memory blocks have gone to read-only mode.
Similar thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-assist/galaxy-nexus-restarting-continuously-t3046586
I'm posting it here for visibility. Please help
Regards,
sasuketobi
Have you tried installing the latest factory image from Google?
If not, just download it (I cannot post links now, because I have less than 10 posts, but you can google it by yourself - galaxy nexus factory image)
For GSM maguro, use yakju or takju with Google Wallet support.
Extract zip somewhere to your PC, connect your Nexus with your PC in bootloader mode and run flash-all.bat.
After this, you will have fully working 4.3 stock Android.
Then you should try again flashing recovery, custom rom and kernel.
LamarrCZ said:
Have you tried installing the latest factory image from Google?
If not, just download it (I cannot post links now, because I have less than 10 posts, but you can google it by yourself - galaxy nexus factory image)
For GSM maguro, use yakju or takju with Google Wallet support.
Extract zip somewhere to your PC, connect your Nexus with your PC in bootloader mode and run flash-all.bat.
After this, you will have fully working 4.3 stock Android.
Then you should try again flashing recovery, custom rom and kernel.
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Hi,
I've tried this and also using the flashboot commands separately but with no luck. Thanks for your suggestion though.
sasuketobi said:
Hi
My GNex (Unlocked GSM variant) is rebooting continuously. I'm on Resurrection Remix rom (not blaming the rom, just mentioning it), TWRP: 2.8.5.0
The phone boots up, shows the lock screen and reboots within 10 seconds. This is happening continuously....
I booted into Recovery and did a restore(of existing nandroid)/wiped/repaired/re-partitioned but nothing works, it'd just say successful but the ROM/Data doesnt change at all.
Tried flashing via ODIN, but it fails after transmitting system.img to the device. Tried using pit also. Used different cables/USB ports/machines just to be sure.
Once after the phone booted up, I somehow managed to disable the Wifi (in 10 seconds that the phone was ON)and it got disconnected. And after the auto-reboot the wifi somehow was still ON.
I assume that the memory blocks have gone to read-only mode.
Similar thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-assist/galaxy-nexus-restarting-continuously-t3046586
I'm posting it here for visibility. Please help
Regards,
sasuketobi
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If every attempt to revive your phone fails, then I'm afraid that you will have to replace the motherboard in your phone
Wish39 said:
If every attempt to revive your phone fails, then I'm afraid that you will have to replace the motherboard in your phone
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Yeah, I've been thinking the same. Tried everything that I can and it's still in the same state.
Hi,
today my Galaxy Nexus started doing the same things you described. All trys to factory reset the phone or to flash a new rom were worthless. Did you get a solution for the Problem or did you change the motherboard?
Thank you for your help
Jochen
Even my keeps on rebooting continuously.. did any one find any solution...Please help..Thanks in anticipation of your cooperation..
same here, if anyone could help I would appreciate
Hello guys,
I had my Nexus 7 2013 (Wi-fi) for almost an year running stock rom and I decided to install CM12+ElementalX. It was all good untill yesterday when I returned it back to stock 5.0.2. When i started the tablet a message popped about 5.1 update and I started the update, but in the middle of the process it said "ERROR". I rebooted the device and now its stuck on the screen where you have to choose your language, with two errors constantly popping up - "PHONE HAS STOPPED WORKING" and "NFC Service has stopped working". I press OK like mad trying to skip some of the steps,but the "touch and go" (i think thats the name) is as far as i can go.
Is there any way I can flash the stock 5.1 without USB Debug Mode. There is no way i can get in the tablet's menu. I also saw some of the othere topics with this kind of problems, but i didn't find the answer.
You don't need USB Debugging to flash the factory images... use fastboot.
Telyx said:
You don't need USB Debugging to flash the factory images... use fastboot.
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Can you please explain with few steps. I tried everything and i don't know what am I missing
P.s. I dont have custom recovery and i cant turn debug mode on
Ramirezz27 said:
Can you please explain with few steps. I tried everything and i don't know what am I missing
P.s. I dont have custom recovery and i cant turn debug mode on
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I have installed ADB i Android SDK. Everythink is working fine on my Nexus 5 , but i cant do anything with my Nexus 7 which is now constantly rebooting after i managed to go through all the starting steps , when it started to install my 36 apps it rebooted by itself and now it keeps doing it.
i am having similar issue. i have tried the root tool several times with no success. ive been rooting devices since the samsung moment and i cannot get this tablet going at all. with the root tool i am able to flash twrp recovery, but for some reason it will not mount to put a rom on the internal memory. i have even tried pushing a stock rooted rom through adb fastboot and it just hangs. what else can i possibly do? could it be hardware related? this all happened after i was prompted for the latest 5.1.1 update. any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. tia
Hello everybody,
i hope the xdadevs can help me with my problem.
Since two Days i try to recover my Nexus 7 form a bootloop.
A week ago i flashed Kali Nethunter 2.0 via TWRP on my Device (Nexus 7 2003 Wifi) - Everything worked fine till yesterday.
My device run out of energy so i loaded it and startet it shortly after that.
Then i regognized the bootloop. I tried to restart the device but it had no effect.
After that i tried to boot into the Recovery Mode with TWRP to restore my working backup. But it got stucked on the loading screen of TWRP too.
Now i tried to recover some images and fix the problem with some manuals which seemed promising. - no success
After a while i did something incredible stupid and locked my bootloader again (i wanted to try to lock and unlock it since some tools couldnt flash the stock rom).
The situation right now:
I cant boot up normaly: Stuck while "Google" is displayed
I cant boot in Recovery Mode (TWRP): Stuck on the blue TWRP Logo
If i try to use the Skipsoft Toolkit or something else it fails - or do i miss something
Recover the Stock rom by using the "flash-all.bat" fails because of this (pastebin. c0m/ie0dBv1D). I used the stock rom of Android 4.4.4(razor-ktu84p) because every other stockrom says this (pastebin. c0m/Dz31k8qu).
I wonder why the stock rom needs to get the bootloader unlocked... ive red so much about it that it just works out of the box..... am i doing something wrong ?
If i try to unlock again, the selection screen on the tablet shows up. I choose yes and hit the Power button. At the console the output <bootloader> erasing userdata" shows up and "freezes?!"... nothing happens afterwards.
Thats about it and this is where i am stuck. I would really appreciate if someone could help me ! I would even reward or spend some money on help.
I try to fix it meanwhile and update this post if something new happens.
I had to alternate the links because im a new member, im sorry for that !
Thanks in advanced and sorry for the spelling
did you try the nexus root toolkit ?
war your PC detecting (USB) the Nexus prior to this problem?
diehard2013 said:
did you try the nexus root toolkit ?
war your PC detecting (USB) the Nexus prior to this problem?
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Yeah i tried it but it couldnt fix my problems. Returning to Stock Rom will always tell me that i need the bootloader unlocked... and i cant unlock it.
My PC and Linux Notebook where recognizing before it was bricked. Now it only gets detected in fastboot because it wont start anymore.
Hey! Need a little help. I updated to Android 11 Beta 2. Now my phone is stuck on a boot loop. A li'l different though, phone boots up normally and stays on the lockscreen and alive. Can receive calls. But once I unlock with the pattern it shows ' Phone is starting' works for a good 2 seconds and then ends up on infinite bootloop until I Power down. How do I access my files on PC ? If I can get just few files out of it then maybe I can perform a factory reset . Please HELP!
kkrazzyyguy said:
Hey! Need a little help. I updated to Android 11 Beta 2. Now my phone is stuck on a boot loop. A li'l different though, phone boots up normally and stays on the lockscreen and alive. Can receive calls. But once I unlock with the pattern it shows ' Phone is starting' works for a good 2 seconds and then ends up on infinite bootloop until I Power down. How do I access my files on PC ? If I can get just few files out of it then maybe I can perform a factory reset . Please HELP!
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some older app is causing the loop you mayneed to factory reset through recovery or flash factory images to ur devices ,( please backup your all data and i will advice you to remove the screen lock if possible as it may cause issues after flashing older or newer images
That's what I am asking. How do I backup?
kkrazzyyguy said:
That's what I am asking. How do I backup?
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I use this tool in my computer to update my phone.
Make sure to follow and read the instructions.
Since you're phone is in boot loop, put your phone in into bootloader
https://flash.android.com/welcome?continue=/custom
Facing the same trouble, did it help?
Hi, I finally managed to solve this!! Was able to get the phone working with data intact.
So I got exactly the same problem yesterday and was looking around for a solution when I bumped on this thread, the solution suggested to use Android Flash Tool can work only if the bootloader is already unlocked, USB debugging is on and you edit the flash.bat file to remove -w from the command line, which would not work in my case since my bootloader is locked and unlocking through ADB would wipe all data
So the only good solution is to do an OTA UPDATE USING ADB SIDELOAD, I just downloaded the OTA file, connected the phone to computer, booted into recovery and used ADB to sideload the OTA and boom, the phone is its pristine self again, with ALL DATA intact