Zenfone 2 stuck in start screen - ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey, so I bought a new Zenfone 2 which arrived yesterday.
But it had only Android 5.0 on it with no option to update the system.
After some googling I found out, that I have got an CN phone, but have/need WW software.
So I tried to get Android M via this tutorial:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/how-to-upgrade-cn-version-to-ww-t3101556
I followed along, until point 4. I had no idea how to get the Firmware OTA on the phone now, as I had no option to access the phone storgae via PC?
So I thought, let's go into recovery mode, recover the system, put the OTA on the device first, and then follow the tutorial again.
But now, when I want to start the phone, this screen appears: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T5GlOGbL4Lc/maxresdefault.jpg , then after 1-2 minutes it vibrates two times, and this screen appears again.
I think it's some kind of a bootloop, so I want to access the fastboot-mode to restore the phone somehow with a original firmware, but I can't access the fastboot mode anymore.
If I hold down [Power]+[Volume Up], the phone just vibrates two times and boots normally. If I hold down both, and release [Power] or [Volume Up] earlier (after around 5 seconds), it revolves in the same screen again.
So any idea how to save my phone?

Okay, with "xFSTK-Downlaoder" I managed to get my phone back into Fastboot Mode. Here is how to do it.
Then, post number 8 in this thread solved the problem.
I flashed a totally new Android 6.0 Marshmallow WW on my CN-Zenfone by erasing the whole memory of the phone, including recovery partition and boot table, and creating it new. Now everything works great.
If anyone needs help with this problem, feel free to contact me. (I hope I get email-notification if someone pm's me haha)

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[Q] Cavalier got stuck

hey, i have been using htc s630 from last year.
few days later when i was making a call, the phone got stuck and hang in the incall position, when i removed battery and restarted it again, the phone got stuck welcome screen.
i have done the steps to flash it from pc but it doesn't work,
please help me ot to get my phone back..
umer92 said:
hey, i have been using htc s630 from last year.
few days later when i was making a call, the phone got stuck and hang in the incall position, when i removed battery and restarted it again, the phone got stuck welcome screen.
i have done the steps to flash it from pc but it doesn't work,
please help me ot to get my phone back..
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use the method MTTY to fix it, after that reflas with official rom
hey, i have tried every thing for couple of weeks, but its not working for me, as when my cell phone restarts it stucks on the welcome screen, is there any way to delelete the operating system and install it again?
Sequence for recovery is (don't execute the next step if one gets your device back to life):
Soft Reset (Reboot) - this did not help obviously as you wrote.
Hard-Reset - mind that first boot will take much longer than usual, some minutes (up to 10 - depending on the device) will pass until the device is ready again. This is because all operator and init-specific things must be executed on the device with first boot. Be patient and do not interrupt - it must finish by itself. -You may just be stuck here!
Re-Flash the right shipped ROM - mind that the device can only receive the CID matching original ROM, not just any ROM (yet). You must do that while the device is waiting in bootloader mode, otherwise the RUU may not be able to access the device.
Gold-Card Flash a close-matching ROM (so one with same languages and the right device).
Please describe in detail what you did already and what were the results of your actions.
hey thankz, but i tried everything, all the steps you written above i them them all, nothing happened,, please help me,, my fon is stuck for couple of months.. it just shows the welcome screen, nothing else.. is there is a way that i can flash the operating system and reinstall it??
waiting..
bring the device to go into bootloader mode by Hold the camera button on the right side, press the power button. The phone will enter the " bootloader " mode and you 'll see the tricolor boot screen. after that reflash the device with shipped rom can you get at ftp://xda:[email protected]/Uploads/Smartphone/Cavalier/Shipped_Complete_Updates/Dopod/

Another Day, Another Problem.. Stuck on Android Robot

So I was stuck in a similar mode (recovery download mode) yesterday, it only show Android robot with spinning gear on his back and a scrolling progress bar. I turn it off (Power + Vol Up) and then no matter what I do, just power or power + vol down all just go back to that damn robot.. Fastboot, adb won't work.. It show up on the computer as HTC Android Phone USB Device in the DVD/CD drives
It refuse to get out of that for hours.. I finally give up and I leave it running and walked away.. somehow when I got back (around 2 hours later) it is booted back to normal and asking for new setup. So I thought is working. So after messing up the initial setup, I when and try to factory reset it this morning.. and again it goes back into a similar mode, but this time it have the word Erasing under it. However this time it won't leave the mode even for 3 hours +. Anyone know how to get it out of that mode and maybe interact with Fastboot or Recovery or bootloader or something
When it is working... I could into booloader and stuff. The phone has been modded to play edition, S-off and bootloader unlocked...
However whenever that happen, if the phone is off but plug into a computer, it show up as QHS_USB_BULK. and then usually turn on and get stuck on that robot again... Also if I just keep pushing up an then power it will say formatting and then backup recovery log and then all the spinning gear and progress bar just stop
I don't get this thing. Please help
So I managed somehow to kick it out again (after waiting for a long time).. but wanted to convert the GPE back to original. Was following this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523 but before I could go back into TWRP to load the new rom, I accidentally hit factory reset and it got stuck in the HTC version of that same screen. This time it have one extra line Backup CW Package.
Again can't get into the bootloader.. just stuck on this boot loop.. god damn..
Here is how it looks like
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Flashed Firmware S-ON

After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON. The device had never been Rooted or tampered with previously.
So now the phone does not boot at all. I've tried every button combination, but nothing seems to work. If I plug in the phone to charge the orange light flashes, endlessly. Even after I've left the device to charge for 6hours, the orange light still flashes.
When I plug in the phone to my PC, all I get it seems is this new device: QHSUSB_BULK, which shows with an exclamation mark next to it. I've read similar threads for different phones where they've unbricked devices while they were in this mode, is that even possible? I can hear Windows recognizing a device was plugged in, and if I press Power+VolumeUP, it will disconnect the phone and reconnect it, at least based on the sounds Windows is playing. The screen is Black at all times.
How badly have I bricked this device and is there any hope to revive it? Thanks to everyone who chimes in on this.
arrayy said:
After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON.
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Most likely it's a soft break. So you can fix it. First of all get yourself a working usb cable. Your's maybe broken.
Your phone's data partition had been encrypted. It never boots up completely without lux password. You could've format the data partition with a custom recovery such as TWRP. Instead you tried the reflash firmware but obviously it didn't finish and failed. All you need is reflash again but doing it correct way so it can finish. Your old data is gone atm. You will have factory reset phone at the end. Before giving you any instructions, you need to answer a few questions so anyone can help.
Have you ever updated your phone to marshmallow which is android 6? If no: You can recover it with voidzero's wonderful answer titled back to stock. Follow that exactly. If yes you can't flash old versions since they are using different bootloaders. Also you will have to reflash it manually. It's long and difficult for anyone who is new. If you don't know if it was updated. Just boot into bootloader then Fastboot mode, connect usb. Then use htc's Fastboot. Run htc_fastboot getvar all command. Paste output here.
Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader using the Power+VolumeUP keys, or any other combination.
Instead of flashing the RUU, or maybe turning to S-OFF(I still don't know if this would've made a difference), I flashed a firmware, one that matched my version. This is the exact filename: 0PKVIM[email protected]60201_20.05_018_F_release_479349_combined_signed
I've renamed it to 0PKVIMG.zip and booted using the Power+VolumeUP keys. For whatever reason, everything went OK, no errors whatsoever. In the end it told me to press Power to reboot the phone. I've pressed Power and nothing happened since.
If anyone can help me figure this out, I'd be forever grateful.
arrayy said:
Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader
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That is a big problem. I assume you never tried to go S-OFF (which is dangereous). While phone was S-ON. You could always boot into bootloader. That's one of the purpose of staying S-ON.
Combination is Power + Volume down. But if your phone is up & somehow can not continue to boot. eg: stuck at reading system or kernel etc. You can do a hard reset which is pressing Volume up + volume down + power for at least 15 seconds. phone will shut down. then you can try bootlader combination. Make sure it's has power on with light at screen edges you must look at carefully. After trying this if you still can not see bootloader. That's a problem beyond my experiences, so I don't have any idea to fix it.
I have never tried the firmware you have used. Maybe that firmware is not usable, broken or even dangerous.
We need to confirm that here. if anyone else tried and brick their phone with that.

Nexus 5X stuck at Google Screen. Won't boot stock recovery.

I was just using my phone like normal today opening up the transit app at the bus stop and it randomly froze and restarted. After that, it only shows the initial Google screen and just keeps bootlooping, but never even gets to the part where the OS is loading (with the google animation). It was just on stock 6.0.1, MTC20K I think. Was not rooted. Bootloader was/is unlocked. Secure boot was/is enabled. It won't even go into stock recovery (when I select recovery it immediately goes back to the Google screen and continues as if I had never selected recovery). I have tried manually flashing each piece of the latest factory 7.0.0 build (NRD90S), but even though fastboot says everything was successful, nothing seems to have changed. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Same thing just happened to me. I have no root or anything but it will not boot the OS. I hope there is a fix for the problem because I really want to use the phone.
Same thing just happened to me.
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No recovery for you either?
What was the latest Build you had when it was working fine?
To get into the recovery plug the phone into your computer. Go into fastboot (vol down + power) and select the power off option. When it turns off or goes to the charging screen, hold volume up + power to boot to download mode. Once in download mode, turn the phone off by holding vol down + power, then go back into fastboot and you should be able to now access recovery mode. This is what I did, and then flashed back to 6.0.1 and it runs fine now. No Idea why going into download mode allows you to then access recovery and get one clean boot, but it does
Druas said:
I was just using my phone like normal today opening up the transit app at the bus stop and it randomly froze and restarted. After that, it only shows the initial Google screen and just keeps bootlooping, but never even gets to the part where the OS is loading (with the google animation). It was just on stock 6.0.1, MTC20K I think. Was not rooted. Bootloader was/is unlocked. Secure boot was/is enabled. It won't even go into stock recovery (when I select recovery it immediately goes back to the Google screen and continues as if I had never selected recovery). I have tried manually flashing each piece of the latest factory 7.0.0 build (NRD90S), but even though fastboot says everything was successful, nothing seems to have changed. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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Had the same thing happen - Now typing to you from my warranty replacement. Only option.
blackpaw78 said:
To get into the recovery plug the phone into your computer. Go into fastboot (vol down + power) and select the power off option. When it turns off or goes to the charging screen, hold volume up + power to boot to download mode. Once in download mode, turn the phone off by holding vol down + power, then go back into fastboot and you should be able to now access recovery mode. This is what I did, and then flashed back to 6.0.1 and it runs fine now. No Idea why going into download mode allows you to then access recovery and get one clean boot, but it does
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Surprisingly, this worked. I forgot about download mode being an option. I also am not sure why this worked.
Edit: The phone boots, but is still randomly rebooting rather often. Not sure why, as everything was wiped and it should have been a fresh install of everything.
Another Edit: Back to boot looping/not getting to the Android loading screen. I didn't do anything other than let it download my apps. Maybe it is a hardware problem after all because it did successfully boot into Android a couple times.
This seems to be a common problem which I have, too. Looks like a whole series of devices had these issues. Currently LG is unable to repair my device because auf missing spare parts they say. So after effortless 3 weeks they will send my unrepaired device back to me with a letter for my dealer to get back my money.
Nice quality and service, LG - NOT!
Janny82 said:
This seems to be a common problem which I have, too. Looks like a whole series of devices had these issues. Currently LG is unable to repair my device because auf missing spare parts they say. So after effortless 3 weeks they will send my unrepaired device back to me with a letter for my dealer to get back my money.
Nice quality and service, LG - NOT!
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That is actually pretty good outcome. Pixel phone is coming out soon.
Just had this happen today. Streaming music over Bluetooth and using another app, then tried switching tracks in Google Play Music and the app froze. Phone was unresponsive with app on the screen, then screen went off and wouldn't power on.
I finally got it on by holding down power for 30 seconds, but kept boot-looping to Google boot screen. I was able to get into fastboot mode and wipe everything and install the factory image. Still doing the same thing!
Just got off phone with Google. Told the rep everything I had tried and she is working on a replacement order. Supposed to call me back after chatting with higher level support. I wish they would just send me a new Pixel phone, or the 6P at least!
Ive had the same issue, where I just couldnt get passed the Google screen, the only solution for me to get back on to my phone was to let it happen until the battery died. After i let the battery die i turned it back on normally and connected it to my charger, it hasnt turned off since but im sure it will sooner or later
Edit: Issue is still happening but the only way for me to turn it back on is because the battery dies
This just happened to my and my wifes phones...all within a week of each other. I sent my wife's in about a week and a half ago to LG for warranty service. I am hoping that they are able to fix it...it is still in the 'repair' phase. I am trying to decide whether or not I want to send my phone in (which just died yesterday) before or after LG figures out what is going on with my wifes. In both cases, the phones were running fine and just shut down by themselves. The battery was not dead. Each time, the phone will boot to the Google screen, but then immediate shut down. I can get in to recovery and do actions within there, so I do not believe it to be a battery issue. However, as soon as you attempt to boot the phone, it will die.
Were you guys using stock setups or custom ones?
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
Its a 'known' issue. Google has confirmed there is an issue. Only solution appears to be a warranty replacement.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/r29mtzLFS0g;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/nexus$205x$20bootloop
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Psychofrantics said:
Were you guys using stock setups or custom ones?
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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on both phones, bone stock. Only difference was I was running the beta before getting the stock OTA and my wife's was full stock and received the stock OTA.
I'm having the exact same problem here. Running Android 6.0.1, rooted. Phone suddenly turned off and won't start past the "Google" screen, except for once when it booted fully then immediately shut down, and three times when it loaded the boot animation and shut down. Bootloader is unlocked and TWRP recovery is installed. I can access fastboot but not recovery. I've tried the suggestion of booting into download mode then recovery again, but that didn't work. I have NOT tried updating to Android 7 yet, so this isn't the same boot loop issue faced by some other users. I don't want to try flashing stock yet and lose my data because I have a ton of Tasker profiles and tasks that I haven't backed up in months and I don't want to risk losing them! Serves me right...
Any suggestions?
Same HERE !!!!
the samed for me, and still now i can't light it up
sagshar said:
I'm having the exact same problem here. Running Android 6.0.1, rooted. Phone suddenly turned off and won't start past the "Google" screen, except for once when it booted fully then immediately shut down, and three times when it loaded the boot animation and shut down. Bootloader is unlocked and TWRP recovery is installed. I can access fastboot but not recovery. I've tried the suggestion of booting into download mode then recovery again, but that didn't work. I have NOT tried updating to Android 7 yet, so this isn't the same boot loop issue faced by some other users. I don't want to try flashing stock yet and lose my data because I have a ton of Tasker profiles and tasks that I haven't backed up in months and I don't want to risk losing them! Serves me right...
Any suggestions?
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In my opinion your EMMC probably died, but you can try reflashing factory images to see if it is some other problem.
I would only try LGUP as a last resort because it will set Allow OEM unlocking to false and lock your bootloader, making further experimentation difficult.
BTW IMO the Android 7 bootloop probably isn't related to Android 7. I think they are just saying hardware problem (EMMC failure) that happens to show up more frequently when you have large updates of OS.
The way Google worded it, it made it seem like Android 7 is killing some hardware because of some incompatibility with just some isolated hardware builds.
I would suggest you let it keep booting and flash some factory images and sometimes EMMC will come back briefly and boot. If it does, immediately backup as much as you can before doing anything else.
Same deal for me and they are sending a replacement. This is a MAJOR blackeye!
Is your phone under warranty then? I am having the same problem as everyone on here. I've tried everything. I bought the phone just over a year ago though, so am a little concerned Google will turn around and tell me it's not their problem... Even though this is clearly a fault!

[SOLVED] Android Pixel XL Boot Loop, Never Seen Before

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™.
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.
EDIT:
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:
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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!

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