I just upgraded my rooted and bootloader unlocked Robin to Nougat last night by installing the official upgrade files from the Razer Community forum. I've tried installing TWRP several times through fastboot, and each time I can get the phone into recovery, but the phone will never boot into the system. It hangs on the black "Nextbit by Robin" screen, and never goes past it. If I turn off the phone by holding down the power and volume down buttons, and then turn it back on, it still won't get past that screen. I can always get into TWRP, though, but no matter what I do, the phone won't boot. I've been using TWRP 3.1.0. Is there a different version that's required for Nougat?
Saaber said:
I just upgraded my rooted and bootloader unlocked Robin to Nougat last night by installing the official upgrade files from the Razer Community forum. I've tried installing TWRP several times through fastboot, and each time I can get the phone into recovery, but the phone will never boot into the system. It hangs on the black "Nextbit by Robin" screen, and never goes past it. If I turn off the phone by holding down the power and volume down buttons, and then turn it back on, it still won't get past that screen. I can always get into TWRP, though, but no matter what I do, the phone won't boot. I've been using TWRP 3.1.0. Is there a different version that's required for Nougat?
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My guess is you messed up the boot.img, or worse you corrupted some partition. If it's the boot.img, go get the latest factory image, unzip it, and move the file 'boot.Img' onto where your adb and fastboot files are located. Then go into fastboot on your Robin, and run this command on your PC:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
If you corrupted something, you basically need to go into fastboot and use the flash-all.bat in the already unzipped Robin_nougat_88 folder to bring your phone back bone stock.
Hope that helped
Had this issue with my phone at first, but eventually just fixed it anyway by flashing the decrypted boot.img.
I ended up fixing it the same way you did. No matter how many times I took it back to stock by flashing the files in the Robin_nougat_88 folder and then flashing TWRP, no matter which version of TWRP I used, it would never boot. I finally flashed TWRP, then booted back into recovery, wiped the phone, loaded and flashed the decrypted boot image and SuperSU, and then the phone booted fine. I should have just done that in the first place since it was always my intention to unencrpyt it and rooted it again, anyway.
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I was on stock F240L20D, 4.4.2 Kitkat, rooted, PhilZ Touch 6 installed. I've tried some ROMs before but reverted back to this one. So, basically, I've been to the recovery several times, but only used the ADB method to access it, and I've made several backups too.
However, one thing that happened today has frustrated me completely. Long story short, I thought about making a backup again, although this time, I used the power keys to get to the recovery instead of the ADB method, backup completes successfully, nothing wrong just yet, but just as I tap on 'Reboot System Now', it boots back in to recovery.
I've tried everything, tried using all the ADB commands, even going through all the options in the recovery, but it always seems to boot back in to the recovery. Really can't figure out what's happening. Any help would be extremely appreciated.
UPDATE: So I've flashed a KDZ, the Lollipop one using the LG Flash Tool. It's taking a bit too long to start, currently stuck at the U+ Lte logo. I hope it gets fixed.
UPDATE 2: It says Android is upgrading, YES YES!!!!! This is so exciting, but I'm still not convinced.
With most of cwm version after 6.4.7, any time you use power + volume up to access the recovery, you will get the boot loop. Go here and down load the zip file from the first post. Flash the zip and you should be go to go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2619403
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.
My telephone keeps booting to fastboot after trying to update TWRP.
I am trying to restore the original ROM (apollo_eea_global_images_V12.5.12.0.RJDEUXM_20220208.0000.00_11.0_eea) and I can get the rom installed through fastboot but the phone enters a boot loop cycle. It starts up, vibrates shortly then reboots.
If i press volume up it goes into the original recovery menu. I have tried clearing everything and even entering safe mode but the phone will not boot.
Am i screwed?
Thanks in advance.
I installed the Pixel Experience recovery and side-loaded the zip and at least have a working OS.
I must be doing something wrong with the stock mi10t
Now i sided the miui zip and its working agian. I think i have misunderstood the procedure. I thought you only need to install the rom with flashboot and that was it.
So I loaded Lineage OS 19.1 just fine, but it caused a few issues so I decided I'd flash it back to a global stock ROM.
My first step after factory resetting the phone was going into the bootloader and wiping user data. Now I just get the boot screen and restarts when it usually would go past it.
The phone is not responding to any button press combinations as well as not loading into the bootloader when a usb is inserted while the volume down button is being help in the brief off time between restarts.
Am I stuck, do I just need to put a new motherboard in the phone? Should I not have wiped user data from the bootloader, and instead used the recovery to do so?
I do have another motherboard from a working parts phone except its Google locked, but I've heard and seen that there are ways around that.
do you have boot.img flashed without errors? on some devices, you need to add fastboot flash:raw boot_a boot.img
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do you have boot.img flashed without errors? on some devices, you need to add fastboot flash:raw boot_a boot.img
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Well I did. But now it won't accept inputs. I've already swapped the motherboard. It works, but I decided to go back to Lineage AGAIN, as the stock ROM is has WAY too many issues, and now it has a similar issue after sideloading the zip from lineage. Although the recovery partition booted just fine after I flashed it with the lineage recovery img.
Hey guys, been a hot minute since I've been around these parts but I've got a weird one for you.
I'm stuck in a boot loop. I can get into the bootloader using pwr+vol up, but thats it. If I try to enter recovery it boot loops.
Using fastboot commands and I can get things to flash (so it says), but am still stuck in this bootloop.
Tried loading TWRP using fastboot boot twrp.img and it says it succeeded but then loops without ever getting the TWRP splash
Tried extracting the img files from the most recent OTA downloaded from google from the payload.bin and flashing those with no success.
Tried flashing the boot.img out of LineageOS and it still loops afterwards... I'll admit that this was a last ditch effort and I hope I didn't screw myself, but I figure I can just reflash if needed since I can still access fastboot.
I feel like since I can get into the bootloader that there's got to be SOMETHING I can do, but nothing seems to be working. Is this old phone truly bricked? Any ideas??
A little extra info. I was on a stock rom, it was rooted for a while and eventually after some of the ota's I lost it and didn't bother getting it back. the bootloader unlocked, though, so there's that.
ridethisbike said:
Hey guys, been a hot minute since I've been around these parts but I've got a weird one for you.
I'm stuck in a boot loop. I can get into the bootloader using pwr+vol up, but thats it. If I try to enter recovery it boot loops.
Using fastboot commands and I can get things to flash (so it says), but am still stuck in this bootloop.
Tried loading TWRP using fastboot boot twrp.img and it says it succeeded but then loops without ever getting the TWRP splash
Tried extracting the img files from the most recent OTA downloaded from google from the payload.bin and flashing those with no success.
Tried flashing the boot.img out of LineageOS and it still loops afterwards... I'll admit that this was a last ditch effort and I hope I didn't screw myself, but I figure I can just reflash if needed since I can still access fastboot.
I feel like since I can get into the bootloader that there's got to be SOMETHING I can do, but nothing seems to be working. Is this old phone truly bricked? Any ideas??
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As a rule of thumb
-- A 'bricked phone' is usually unresponsive, won't power on, and doesn't function normally.