I unlocked my bootloader with no issues. I then went to root the pixel xl (from the Google Store) by putting the boot-to-root file in my adb folder. I typed in fastboot boot boot-to-root.img and hit enter. It did it's thing and rebooted a couple times and then rebooted a 3rd time and instead of booting all the way up it is stuck on the boot animation screen where the colored dots are just jumping over each other but it never boots up. This has been going on 20 minutes now. I can't hold down power button or anything, it's just stuck on this screen. How can I fix?
thanks in advance
Dcox28 said:
I unlocked my bootloader with no issues. I then went to root the pixel xl (from the Google Store) by putting the boot-to-root file in my adb folder. I typed in fastboot boot boot-to-root.img and hit enter. It did it's thing and rebooted a couple times and then rebooted a 3rd time and instead of booting all the way up it is stuck on the boot animation screen where the colored dots are just jumping over each other but it never boots up. This has been going on 20 minutes now. I can't hold down power button or anything, it's just stuck on this screen. How can I fix?
thanks in advance
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Hold the power button longer, it takes quite a while to trigger a reboot on this phone.. long enough that it becomes uncomfortable to hold for me! Once it reboots hold volume down.
Edit- Just timed it, it takes 20 seconds of holding the power button to trigger a reboot. Once your back in the bootloader just go flash the stock kernel again or use unified toolkit to flash back to stock.
Me too
Same thing, tried to root my Pixel using boot-to-root image and got stuck in the loading animation. I read that it takes some time so I went to dinner with my family. An hour and a half later it was still stuck so I flashed the stock image. Is there something I am missing? The phone isn't locked, I got it from Google. Why won't the root take for me?
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Hello all,
My Nexus was simply sitting on my table doing nothing when it rebooted, then boot looped. After ten minutes of this I pulled the battery and attempted to go into recovery, but when I held down the button the phone vibrated but there was nothing simply a blank screen. Waited for about ten and decided to once again pull the battery. Powered on normally and the phone stays at the google screen. I've been running cm9 stable for about three weeks with not a single problem. BTW I've googled the hell out of this problem but everything came back to getting the phone into back to recovery or the fastboot screen which I cannot. Anyone tell me if this can be fixed, or does it need to have an "accident".
Thanks
Are you sure, you can't boot into fastboot (and then recovery)?
Try holding vol down + power, and if that is unsuccessful then try volume down + volume up + power
Can you see the phone in command prompt window?
i seem to have hard bricked the device and i have been attempting to find a way i can fix it for hours.. i seem to be stuck. Its stuck on the boot animation cyanogenMod logo. I am unable to get into the recovery mode, as well as fast boot mode. i let it sit on that boot logo for hours without anything at all happening. No progress what so ever. Now the biggest thing i am trying to figure out is how i even managed to get this to happen. there was a software update notification that i received, so i figured it may have been the Android L update or something, so without taking into considering what exactly i was agreeing to i accepted, and continued. Let it reboot, and thats how i got to come across this issue. Any suggestions.
So if you hold down "volume up", "volume down", and then press and hold the power button, does it not boot into the bootloader? You may have to hold all three down for 15 seconds or so... Based on the fact that you can see the boot animation, it tells me that your bootloader is indeed functional, so, once booted into the bootloader, you can easily flash the factory images (as per this) and restore your device to working condition.
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So if you hold down "volume up", "volume down", and then press and hold the power button, does it not boot into the bootloader? You may have to hold all three down for 15 seconds or so... Based on the fact that you can see the boot animation, it tells me that your bootloader is indeed functional, so, once booted into the bootloader, you can easily flash the factory images (as per this) and restore your device to working condition.
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Yeah ive tried that, and nothing is working it just keeps going back to that same boot animation & im out of ideas. Iknow there has to be a way though.
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Yeah ive tried that, and nothing is working it just keeps going back to that same boot animation & im out of ideas. Iknow there has to be a way though.
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What I find strange is that it boots to the boot animation -- that means the bootloader has loaded up the kernel and Android is attempting to start. The bootloader loads up before anything, so it is obviously working. Don't know why you can't access its menu though with the 3-key press. Maybe one of your volumes keys is not working properly? By holding those three keys down, it should not boot to the boot animation...
Can you get into download mode? Hold only volume down and press and hold power. If so, then you can use Odin and flash a stock ROM as per this thread.
In any case, if you can't get into the bootloader or download mode, then your only option is using OMAPFlash (as per this thread). That will re-flash your bootloader. If you still can't get into the bootloader menu after that, then there is a hardware issue.
Wash flashing rom in twrp. Rebooted and was bootlooping at the google splash screen. When trying to boot into bootloader getting a ramdump writing to ext4 file instead of bootloader...Please help!!
can you boot into bootloader or recovery or regular boot? anything?
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Wash flashing rom in twrp. Rebooted and was bootlooping at the google splash screen. When trying to boot into bootloader getting a ramdump writing to ext4 file instead of bootloader...Please help!!
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Ever since I instead 7.1.2 mine shows that stupid ram dump thing , just keep holding volume down and power button it will eventually go into bootloader mode. One time for me it seemed like forever holding the buttons. I also here if you flash stock to both slots that gets rid of that ram dump message. I havn't got around to trying that yet. Don't think it's that big a deal
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Wash flashing rom in twrp. Rebooted and was bootlooping at the google splash screen. When trying to boot into bootloader getting a ramdump writing to ext4 file instead of bootloader...Please help!!
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Hello...
Power down your device, hold power + volume down only two or three seconds. Should boot into bootloader. That's how it booted into bootloader when I was having the same issue.
Good luck...
mac796 said:
Ever since I instead 7.1.2 mine shows that stupid ram dump thing , just keep holding volume down and power button it will eventually go into bootloader mode. One time for me it seemed like forever holding the buttons. I also here if you flash stock to both slots that gets rid of that ram dump message. I havn't got around to trying that yet. Don't think it's that big a deal
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Hey,
First times I installed Pure Nexus, i would always reboot before installing TWRP zip (I know I was dumb), ended having RAM dump all the time. Flashing both slots stock fixed it. :good:
Cheers...
I had a similar issue and it seems that when I shut the phone off I have to wait a bit over 60 seconds after screen turns off before pressing power+vol down. I'm other words, if I shut phone off and it takes more than 3-4 seconds of holding power+vol down and it doesn't vibrate to indicate power on, I simply wait another 30 sec and try again and it works right away. Otherwise if I keep holding it does the same dump it does for you.
Hey all,
So a few months back i got the screen changed at my local store, they did a ****ty job and the volume buttons have always been sticky, today they finally got completely stuck so i held down the power button and powered off the phone so i could try and mash they free (probably a bad idea but what else could i do?).
Got the buttons alittle free but now when i went to turn it on its stuck in a boot loop only getting to the white htc logo, if i hold down the vol dwn button i get a silver htc logo instead and occasionally i get the red charge notification led to come on too but then it goes back into its loop.
Somehow after hours of playing with the buttons ive managed to get it into the bootloader screen, the fisrt time i tried recovery and it sent me back into the loop. so is there anything else i can do at this point. i desperately need this phone for work tomorrow. Will the download mode or bootloader option help me? it took like an hour of button mashing to get this screen up so i dont want to waste it.
If I can just get the phone started again i dont care about the volume for now i can get it fixed later with a new screen i just really need my phone.
Sorry for the spelling its 11pm here and im rushing
TIA!
Joel
If you're still in the recovery screen, try to restore a backup.
If not, try "adb reboot-recovery" from an adb shell in command prompt. I had about 3 seconds with adb access with the blue text at the top during the boot loop. This got me into recovery mode to restore a NANDROID.
Sounds like you might have a stuck button though?
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
LeonDsouza123 said:
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
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1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
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1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
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I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
LeonDsouza123 said:
I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
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That's the reason. I know that pain. You should try pressing that button with different pressure (but be careful) and move you finger while doing it. Maybe it will recover itself. If not you should find someone trusted who will open the phone and clean the buttons from the inside. It's a shame that Lenovo just left this construction vunerable like that.
After you get your P2 working properly again then just buy case that will cover whole buttons to prevent situations like this next time. Also make sure to clean it regullary inside.
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