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My XL is stuck in a boot loop that I haven't found described anywhere. It begins with the bootloader unlocked warning screen then goes to the white "Google" boot screen, but within one second the screen goes black, waits about 10 seconds and runs through that cycle again. It also randomly (it seems) does the "Writing to EX4 file" screen before the bootloader unlocked warning screen.
It will cycle through this sequence forever if it's plugged in but when not plugged in it will seemingly power off after a random number of cycles. However, powering on does not require holding down the power button - it jumps directly to the beginning of the cycle, sometimes at the bootloader unlocked screen and sometimes at the EX4 screen.
At no point does my Windows 10 PC show the phone as being attached when plugged in to USB. Also, no combination or duration of the phone's physical buttons affect this in any way.
I was following the steps in this article and had just performed the second-last line in the post, "Reboot into the installed recovery." That's when the cycle started. Prior to the step "In TWRP, install twrp.zip" everything was working correctly, though I hadn't rooted yet, of course. I didn't reboot normally in between those two steps, so I can't say which of them caused the problem.
I'm running Android Update, 7.1.2 N2G47E and had been before beginning the procedure. It came from the OTA update and had unrooted the phone from the previous version.
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I would fastboot latest factory image.
Just hold vol- when a reboot comes it will go into bootloader.
piz333 said:
My XL is stuck in a boot loop that I haven't found described anywhere. It begins with the bootloader unlocked warning screen then goes to the white "Google" boot screen, but within one second the screen goes black, waits about 10 seconds and runs through that cycle again. It also randomly (it seems) does the "Writing to EX4 file" screen before the bootloader unlocked warning screen.
It will cycle through this sequence forever if it's plugged in but when not plugged in it will seemingly power off after a random number of cycles. However, powering on does not require holding down the power button - it jumps directly to the beginning of the cycle, sometimes at the bootloader unlocked screen and sometimes at the EX4 screen.
At no point does my Windows 10 PC show the phone as being attached when plugged in to USB. Also, no combination or duration of the phone's physical buttons affect this in any way.
I was following the steps in this article and had just performed the second-last line in the post, "Reboot into the installed recovery." That's when the cycle started. Prior to the step "In TWRP, install twrp.zip" everything was working correctly, though I hadn't rooted yet, of course. I didn't reboot normally in between those two steps, so I can't say which of them caused the problem.
I'm running Android Update, 7.1.2 N2G47E and had been before beginning the procedure. It came from the OTA update and had unrooted the phone from the previous version.
Any and all help will be rewarded with 137 Antique, Pre-Web Internet Points and The Thanks of a Grateful Nation™.
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Sounds like you were coming from the April 2017 update to the May 2017 OTA update. The May update included a new bootloader which performs additional verification on the boot image. I suspect that when you installed TWRP and rebooted, the May bootloader detects the changes TWRP installation made to your boot image and aborts the boot process resulting in your bootloop. Additional detail and information can be found in the linked thread and solution should be towards the end of the thread. You have a few options I think (assuming you can get into fastboot/recovery mode) - you can temporarily resolve by reverting back to the April 2017 bootloader which does not have the additional boot verification procedure or you can follow the steps to flash Chainfire's VerifiedBootSigner.zip if you prefer to get fully on the May update (including the May bootloader). Details are in the thread below. Good luck!
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/images-t3599709
piz333 said:
My XL is stuck in a boot loop that I haven't found described anywhere. It begins with the bootloader unlocked warning screen then goes to the white "Google" boot screen, but within one second the screen goes black, waits about 10 seconds and runs through that cycle again. It also randomly (it seems) does the "Writing to EX4 file" screen before the bootloader unlocked warning screen.
It will cycle through this sequence forever if it's plugged in but when not plugged in it will seemingly power off after a random number of cycles. However, powering on does not require holding down the power button - it jumps directly to the beginning of the cycle, sometimes at the bootloader unlocked screen and sometimes at the EX4 screen.
At no point does my Windows 10 PC show the phone as being attached when plugged in to USB. Also, no combination or duration of the phone's physical buttons affect this in any way.
I was following the steps in this article and had just performed the second-last line in the post, "Reboot into the installed recovery." That's when the cycle started. Prior to the step "In TWRP, install twrp.zip" everything was working correctly, though I hadn't rooted yet, of course. I didn't reboot normally in between those two steps, so I can't say which of them caused the problem.
I'm running Android Update, 7.1.2 N2G47E and had been before beginning the procedure. It came from the OTA update and had unrooted the phone from the previous version.
Any and all help will be rewarded with 137 Antique, Pre-Web Internet Points and The Thanks of a Grateful Nation™.
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Just started with me today too.
I cannot get into recovery or boot loader
rebooting using the hard button just brings up this Dump to EXT4 and then into the ROM that is havnig a ish ton of force closes.
My plan is to back up some stuff I need to copy off the phone and then start factory reset from within settings.
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I was rooted running stock
All i did was run a backup in TWRP
issues started after reooting.
Once i factory reset and re Root i will see if I can restore backup, maybe
sb1893 said:
Sounds like you were coming from the April 2017 update to the May 2017 OTA update. The May update included a new bootloader which performs additional verification on the boot image. I suspect that when you installed TWRP and rebooted, the May bootloader detects the changes TWRP installation made to your boot image and aborts the boot process resulting in your bootloop. Additional detail and information can be found in the linked thread and solution should be towards the end of the thread. You have a few options I think (assuming you can get into fastboot/recovery mode) - you can temporarily resolve by reverting back to the April 2017 bootloader which does not have the additional boot verification procedure or you can follow the steps to flash Chainfire's VerifiedBootSigner.zip if you prefer to get fully on the May update (including the May bootloader). Details are in the thread below. Good luck!
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/images-t3599709
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I had forgotten that after I booted normally just before installing TWRP, the May OTA happened to arrive and I went ahead and installed it. Then the problem started after I installed TWRP. I used @mikaole's advice and got into bootloader (can't believe I hadn't done that, given all the button combinations I'd tried).
I re-flashed the April update and now the behavior is exactly the same except that the white Google boot screen lasts about 5 seconds and after a few boot tries I land on the "No command" screen. That sits for about a minute and boots again, landing again on "No command." Power+vol-up gets me to recovery mode but all I can do is go to bootloader or get back to "No command." I tried a factory reset, same result. I tried re-flashing April again, same result. Now I think I have the May bootloader with all else April.
I ran this:
Code:
fastboot set_active a
because I noticed that flashing the bootloader was always going to b. After flashing the bootloader again and seeing it go to a, the phone boots normally. I'm going to let the May update happen and wait to root again until after that.
One thing, I don't think the link you provided is the one you intended - there's none of the info you said would be there.
This has been very helpful. You and @mikaole got me through this. Thanks!
piz333 said:
I had forgotten that after I booted normally just before installing TWRP, the May OTA happened to arrive and I went ahead and installed it. Then the problem started after I installed TWRP. I used @mikaole's advice and got into bootloader (can't believe I hadn't done that, given all the button combinations I'd tried).
I re-flashed the April update and now the behavior is exactly the same except that the white Google boot screen lasts about 5 seconds and after a few boot tries I land on the "No command" screen. That sits for about a minute and boots again, landing again on "No command." Power+vol-up gets me to recovery mode but all I can do is go to bootloader or get back to "No command." I tried a factory reset, same result. I tried re-flashing April again, same result. Now I think I have the May bootloader with all else April. How do I revert the bootloader?
Also, I don't think the link you provided is the one you intended - there's none of the info you said would be there.
This has been very helpful so far. Thanks!
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They flashing all the parts of the image manually. Something like this happened to a buddy of mine and using the flash all wouldn't fix. He couldn't get the device to boot until he did all the images manually.
piz333 said:
I had forgotten that after I booted normally just before installing TWRP, the May OTA happened to arrive and I went ahead and installed it. Then the problem started after I installed TWRP. I used @mikaole's advice and got into bootloader (can't believe I hadn't done that, given all the button combinations I'd tried).
I re-flashed the April update and now the behavior is exactly the same except that the white Google boot screen lasts about 5 seconds and after a few boot tries I land on the "No command" screen. That sits for about a minute and boots again, landing again on "No command." Power+vol-up gets me to recovery mode but all I can do is go to bootloader or get back to "No command." I tried a factory reset, same result. I tried re-flashing April again, same result. Now I think I have the May bootloader with all else April.
I ran this:
Code:
fastboot set_active a
because I noticed that flashing the bootloader was always going to b. After flashing the bootloader again and seeing it go to a, the phone boots normally. I'm going to let the May update happen and wait to root again until after that.
One thing, I don't think the link you provided is the one you intended - there's none of the info you said would be there.
This has been very helpful. You and @mikaole got me through this. Thanks!
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Glad you got it working. I checked and I did link the thread I intended to. Starting at post #57 onward from that thread has the information on how to update to the May update and leverage Chainfire's VerifiedBootSigner.zip.
Thx,
S
Pixel bootloop
Hey guys, this is the only thread thqt i found here on XDA about pixel and pixel XL bootloop issue.
I'm about to buy a used Pixel 1st gen phone for really great deal, because it is in this bootloop. As the owner sad, it was on the Oreo upgrade. I'm wondering if its possible to fix it... What you guys say?
Thanks!!
rosendomurilo said:
Hey guys, this is the only thread thqt i found here on XDA about pixel and pixel XL bootloop issue.
I'm about to buy a used Pixel 1st gen phone for really great deal, because it is in this bootloop. As the owner sad, it was on the Oreo upgrade. I'm wondering if its possible to fix it... What you guys say?
Thanks!!
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Well that depends. If the owner unlock the bootloader and then relocked it it could have screwed it up depending on what he was doing with it at the time resulting in a bootloop that cannot be fixed because it's hard brick now. I say can't be fixed only because the only way to get it fixed as far as I know is to contact someone here on the forums I'm not exactly sure who it is but they do fix hard bricked pixels for money. If I were you I would try and figure out if that's the case before buying it.
Phalanx7621 said:
Well that depends. If the owner unlock the bootloader and then relocked it it could have screwed it up depending on what he was doing with it at the time resulting in a bootloop that cannot be fixed because it's hard brick now. I say can't be fixed only because the only way to get it fixed as far as I know is to contact someone here on the forums I'm not exactly sure who it is but they do fix hard bricked pixels for money. If I were you I would try and figure out if that's the case before buying it.
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Yes, that's my biggest fear right now... He sad he never had done anything like root or custom rom, he just had done a system update and the phone never boot correctly again.
I have a little bit of knowledge in android, i was thinking if just putting a custom rom it wouldn't solve, because i had other devices that i had put in bootloop and i was able to fix it just putting a custom rom...
rosendomurilo said:
Yes, that's my biggest fear right now... He sad he never had done anything like root or custom rom, he just had done a system update and the phone never boot correctly again.
I have a little bit of knowledge in android, i was thinking if just putting a custom rom it wouldn't solve, because i had other devices that i had put in bootloop and i was able to fix it just putting a custom rom...
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Can you get to recovery ?
Phalanx7621 said:
Can you get to recovery ?
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I'm not with the phone right now, I'm going to buy it next week... Correct if I am wrong, but if i can get to recovery or bootloader i can fix it, right?
I think he had tried to unlock the bootloader but without experience had bricked...
rosendomurilo said:
I'm not with the phone right now, I'm going to buy it next week... Correct if I am wrong, but if i can get to recovery or bootloader i can fix it, right?
I think he had tried to unlock the bootloader but without experience had bricked...
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Yeah if you can get into recovery you can side load things. And if you can get to the boot loader screen you're fine.
Phalanx7621 said:
Yeah if you can get into recovery you can side load things. And if you can get to the boot loader screen you're fine.
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Perfect! Just as I expected... Probably i will do an youtube guide if it works... Thanks bro!
My Pixel XL downloaded and installed PP5 yesterday, seemed to go okay. Initially, it would boot but spontaneously reboot after 1-2 minutes of run time. But it degraded and now it is stuck on a white screen with Google, and reboots before the animation begins.
I can get into the Bootloader, but when I try to select Recovery mode it just goes back to the white boot screen and repeats. In Bootloader I can select Off, but it only shuts off for a short time then reboots on its own into the boot loop.
This was running stock Android, bought from Google Play store, unlocked, 32GB version, and I had run the previous 3 versions of Android P Beta without problems.
Is there anyway I can do a factory data reset without the Recovery mode?
Thanks,
...Patrick
pamack said:
My Pixel XL downloaded and installed PP5 yesterday, seemed to go okay. Initially, it would boot but spontaneously reboot after 1-2 minutes of run time. But it degraded and now it is stuck on a white screen with Google, and reboots before the animation begins.
I can get into the Bootloader, but when I try to select Recovery mode it just goes back to the white boot screen and repeats. In Bootloader I can select Off, but it only shuts off for a short time then reboots on its own into the boot loop.
This was running stock Android, bought from Google Play store, unlocked, 32GB version, and I had run the previous 3 versions of Android P Beta without problems.
Is there anyway I can do a factory data reset without the Recovery mode?
Thanks,
...Patrick
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You didn't relock the bootloader did you? After unlocking it?
Phalanx7621 said:
You didn't relock the bootloader did you? After unlocking it?
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No, I did not lock the bootloader. The phone was originally unlocked, and I never rooted it. It was completely stock. But it was definitely acting crazy....at one point I did see the Recovery mode but I did not know at the time what to do with it. Once I had a minute to research that on my laptop then it would never go back into Recovery mode.
So maybe I inadvertently locked it, but not that I know that I did it.
...Patrick
Phalanx7621 said:
You didn't relock the bootloader did you? After unlocking it?
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No, I did not lock the bootloader. The phone was originally unlocked, and I never rooted it. It was completely stock. But it was definitely acting crazy....at one point I did see the Recovery mode but I did not know at the time what to do with it. Once I had a minute to research that on my laptop then it would never go back into Recovery mode.
So maybe I inadvertently locked it, but not that I know that I did it.
...Patrick
pamack said:
No, I did not lock the bootloader. The phone was originally unlocked, and I never rooted it. It was completely stock. But it was definitely acting crazy....at one point I did see the Recovery mode but I did not know at the time what to do with it. Once I had a minute to research that on my laptop then it would never go back into Recovery mode.
So maybe I inadvertently locked it, but not that I know that I did it.
...Patrick
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I ended up asking uBreakiFix to diagnose the problem....and they indicate it is a bad motherboard.
It can be repaired for $380. I passed, and now own a brick that flashes from one Boot to the next, occassionally running for 30 seconds, but not quite long enough for me to run Reset Factory Settings.
Oh bother, < 2 years old.
...Patrick
pamack said:
I ended up asking uBreakiFix to diagnose the problem....and they indicate it is a bad motherboard.
It can be repaired for $380. I passed, and now own a brick that flashes from one Boot to the next, occassionally running for 30 seconds, but not quite long enough for me to run Reset Factory Settings.
Oh bother, < 2 years old.
...Patrick
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Still probably worth flashing via adb to check?
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Still probably worth flashing via adb to check?
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He means fastboot.
I have a RN5p which I bought from China. It was running the global ROM.
I bought it 3 months ago and until now it was working fine.
Yesterday I turned on USB debugging and tried to install ADB, but all I got was "ABD is not a recognized command" on my PC and then I assumed there was some issue with my PC and I unplugged my phone and turned off USB debugging (I used this method: https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ and I never managed to get past step 4 cause powershell was screwing me over).
6-8 hrs later my phone's screen froze and I had to force reboot it (hold pwr button for 10s). Once it restarted it was working fine, but then it froze again, and this time it started to boot loop, never getting past the MI logo, sometimes the android with the 3 dots would show, but it usually just remains there or freezes and then reboots.
After like 15 reboots, I managed to reach the lock screen and unlock the phone and worked fine for 30 mins then froze again.
It took even more reboots this time to get it to boot but same thing, froze after sometime.
Now sometimes it doesn't even manage to get past the lock screen, just freezes and reboots.
Additional Notes: I highly doubt that this boot loop is bcoz of ADB as I never installed it on my phone
I checked online and my phone is running the offical international rom(checked on the mi website)
My bootloader is locked( tho I did unlock the oem unlocking setting for 5 secs just to see what happened and then locked it again, but this was at least 6 weeks ago)
Out of the 4 times I managed to get my phone running normally, it froze 2 times while I was watching Youtube and 2 times while it was locked
Running miui 10.0
I would love to have my phone back to normal
All help is appreciated.
Edit: It just turned on and I allowed OEM unlocking. I think it will be easier this way. And now its back to boot looping.
Edit 2: I factory reset it
Surge746 said:
I have a RN5p which I bought from China. It was running the global ROM...............
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I don't have this device but, your best bet is to post this question within the following Q&A thread that's specific to your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3818384
Good Luck!
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Brand new Pixel 3 XL
Enabled OEM Unlocking
Enabled USB Debugging
Unlocked Bootloader
Copied twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip to my phone
Rebooted into bootloader
fastboot boot c:\...\twrp-3.3.1-3-crosshatch.img
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Wiped system/data/cache
Flashed AOSiP-9.0-Official-crosshatch-20190722.zip
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Rebooted
When the system rebooted, it brought me into bootloader. I selected Start and then it rebooted into Bootloader again. I then figured something went wrong with installing AOSiP, so I booted into recovery.... from TWRP, I wiped system/data/cache/storage/data in attempt to start over and flash the ROM again. This time, I rebooted the system after the wipe and upon rebooting, the phone never turned back on. Pressing and holding the power button for long periods of time doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas where I went wrong and more importantly if I bricked my phone? Thx.
EDIT: Tried holding volume down and power button for 10+ seconds and it booted into bootloader. Not really sure where to go from here.
EDIT 2: I tried booting into Recovery. It went back to the black screen. I had to use volume down and power button to get back into bootloader. Fastboot devices does detect the phone. I'm guessing this is a softbrick and I can follow the softbrick tutorial from here? Either way, it'd be nice to know where I took a wrong turn if anybody knows. Thanks.
EDIT 3: It may also be worth mentioning that I confirmed all the md5sum's before flashing the zips or booting the img.
thex2 said:
Brand new Pixel 3 XL
Enabled OEM Unlocking
Enabled USB Debugging
Unlocked Bootloader
Copied twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip to my phone
Rebooted into bootloader
fastboot boot c:\...\twrp-3.3.1-3-crosshatch.img
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Wiped system/data/cache
Flashed AOSiP-9.0-Official-crosshatch-20190722.zip
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Rebooted
When the system rebooted, it brought me into bootloader. I selected Start and then it rebooted into Bootloader again. I then figured something went wrong with installing AOSiP, so I booted into recovery.... from TWRP, I wiped system/data/cache/storage/data in attempt to start over and flash the ROM again. This time, I rebooted the system after the wipe and upon rebooting, the phone never turned back on. Pressing and holding the power button for long periods of time doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas where I went wrong and more importantly if I bricked my phone? Thx.
EDIT: Tried holding volume down and power button for 10+ seconds and it booted into bootloader. Not really sure where to go from here.
EDIT 2: I tried booting into Recovery. It went back to the black screen. I had to use volume down and power button to get back into bootloader. Fastboot devices does detect the phone. I'm guessing this is a softbrick and I can follow the softbrick tutorial from here? Either way, it'd be nice to know where I took a wrong turn if anybody knows. Thanks.
EDIT 3: It may also be worth mentioning that I confirmed all the md5sum's before flashing the zips or booting the img.
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Nevermind, @sliding_billy has the answer.
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thex2 said:
Brand new Pixel 3 XL
Enabled OEM Unlocking
Enabled USB Debugging
Unlocked Bootloader
Copied twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip to my phone
Rebooted into bootloader
fastboot boot c:\...\twrp-3.3.1-3-crosshatch.img
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Wiped system/data/cache
Flashed AOSiP-9.0-Official-crosshatch-20190722.zip
Flashed twrp-pixel3-installer-crosshatch-3.2.3-5.zip
Rebooted
When the system rebooted, it brought me into bootloader. I selected Start and then it rebooted into Bootloader again. I then figured something went wrong with installing AOSiP, so I booted into recovery.... from TWRP, I wiped system/data/cache/storage/data in attempt to start over and flash the ROM again. This time, I rebooted the system after the wipe and upon rebooting, the phone never turned back on. Pressing and holding the power button for long periods of time doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas where I went wrong and more importantly if I bricked my phone? Thx.
EDIT: Tried holding volume down and power button for 10+ seconds and it booted into bootloader. Not really sure where to go from here.
EDIT 2: I tried booting into Recovery. It went back to the black screen. I had to use volume down and power button to get back into bootloader. Fastboot devices does detect the phone. I'm guessing this is a softbrick and I can follow the softbrick tutorial from here? Either way, it'd be nice to know where I took a wrong turn if anybody knows. Thanks.
EDIT 3: It may also be worth mentioning that I confirmed all the md5sum's before flashing the zips or booting the img.
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If you can get to BL and fastboot devices is recognizing it, you are only soft bricked. Do a flash-all of the factory image. You will be starting over with the exception of OEM unlock and BL unlock. Once you are up and running, go back to BL, change slots and do the flash-all again. Of course, you will be setting up again but you should be clean. Be sure to use the last Android 9 factory image for flash-all if you are not intending to go to 10 yet. There is one rock solid custom ROM for 10 (Havoc). Take a read of the install instructions as it doesn't use TWRP (not available for 10 yet). It does need the flash-all of November factory image done to both slots, so if you are looking at that do it immediately IMO since you will have to wipe anyways.
If you wipe system in TWRP then you have to flash a ROM from there. That is why it went blank when you rebooted. You have nothing to boot up on.
ADB a stock file and start over...it's not bricked.
Thank you for the help guys. I will work on fixing the issue tonight. Also, thanks for the suggestion on the Havoc ROM, but I'm staying with Android 9 because of the menu navigation button at the bottom right of the older apps... https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...utton-has-finally-been-retired-in-android-10/
thex2 said:
Thank you for the help guys. I will work on fixing the issue tonight. Also, thanks for the suggestion on the Havoc ROM, but I'm staying with Android 9 because of the menu navigation button at the bottom right of the older apps... https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...utton-has-finally-been-retired-in-android-10/
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Havoc also had pie builds if you wanted to try.
So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
You can try flashing the stock rom from recovery or from fastboot.
Had something similar on an og Pixel... Turned out to be a broken power switch.
I had a weird issue last week. Phone would freeze after a couple of minutes and would reboot. It would also boot loop while connected for charging (wireless and corded.). The battery would not charge. I would shut down the phone and when I plugged in the charger, it would boot loop. The battery finally discharged to 0% and shut off. I plugged the charger in and it remained off. I let it charge to 100% and it's been working for the past week without issue. I'm not sure what happened.
I would suggest letting the battery drain to 0% and go from there. HTH
I updated my 3XL to Android 11 two days ago and since then I have caught it rebooting at seemingly random times, though only when it is on the wireless charger. I guess it's back to Android 10 for now. Hopefully reverting a Pixel is as easy as it was on the Nexus. Thanks Google.
BostonDan said:
So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
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Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
jjlane86 said:
Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
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I am proficient in using the bootloader. Phone has been bootloader unlocked since day one.
I upgraded to Android 11 with ota and all was good for a day (rooted with Magisk canary). Then the phone started acting up, first not booting system and then bootlooping.
I can get into the bootloader (fastboot) but only for maximum 3-5 seconds before the phone reboots, or if I hit any button (vol up/down) the phone reboots. Also, if connected to my computer the USB does not recognize fastboot anymore (before it reboots anyways)
I think it's dead, Jim.
Cheers,
B.D.