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Hello, I am new to these forums. I mostly registered for this one specific problem.
I'm pretty sure the phone isn't hardbricked, but I tried rooting my T-Mobile Galaxy Note 3 (4G LTE version) with Klingo. After that, it said the root was successful and the phone immediately restarted itself. However, it was then stuck in a bootloop and it just kept restarting itself. The phone turns on, and then the "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" logo appears with "RECOVERY....." in blue in the top left corner, and directly under that it says "Set Warranty Bit: recovery" in yellow. Then after about 3-4 seconds it shuts off, then about 2 seconds later it restarts automatically and just keeps looping like that.
T-Mobile said they would replace the phone, and they'll be sending me a new one as soon as the old one reaches the return center. Obviously I didn't tell them what I actually tried to do. In case they're able to find out what I tried to do and end up sending my old one back, I just wanted to ask this question preemptively so I might have an idea of what to do.
I HAVE TRIED BOOTING INTO RECOVERY MODE AND DOWNLOAD MODE. No button combinations cause anything to happen. The only thing that stopped the auto-restarting and looping was taking the battery out. Upon putting the battery back in, it will stay off until I manually turn the phone on again, where it will then continue to auto-restart and loop itself.
I do not have the phone right now because I sent it to a return center after spending a few hours searching online for answers and talking to T-Mobile on the phone. But if any of you have any ideas it would certainly be a great help if the worst case scenario ends up happening. Thanks for any potential solutions!
JasePK said:
Hello, I am new to these forums. I mostly registered for this one specific problem.
I'm pretty sure the phone isn't hardbricked, but I tried rooting my T-Mobile Galaxy Note 3 (4G LTE version) with Klingo. After that, it said the root was successful and the phone immediately restarted itself. However, it was then stuck in a bootloop and it just kept restarting itself. The phone turns on, and then the "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" logo appears with "RECOVERY....." in blue in the top left corner, and directly under that it says "Set Warranty Bit: recovery" in yellow. Then after about 3-4 seconds it shuts off, then about 2 seconds later it restarts automatically and just keeps looping like that.
T-Mobile said they would replace the phone, and they'll be sending me a new one as soon as the old one reaches the return center. Obviously I didn't tell them what I actually tried to do. In case they're able to find out what I tried to do and end up sending my old one back, I just wanted to ask this question preemptively so I might have an idea of what to do.
I HAVE TRIED BOOTING INTO RECOVERY MODE AND DOWNLOAD MODE. No button combinations cause anything to happen. The only thing that stopped the auto-restarting and looping was taking the battery out. Upon putting the battery back in, it will stay off until I manually turn the phone on again, where it will then continue to auto-restart and loop itself.
I do not have the phone right now because I sent it to a return center after spending a few hours searching online for answers and talking to T-Mobile on the phone. But if any of you have any ideas it would certainly be a great help if the worst case scenario ends up happening. Thanks for any potential solutions!
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I have no idea what the issue is, but it seems you might not have a recovery installed on the phone. Try this:
Hold power + volume to go into bootloader (I know you said you tried various combinations, but make sure you're doing it correctly.).
Go into fastboot
flash a new recovery image from (TWRP or CWM) (how to: https://sites.google.com/site/tomsgt123//adb-fastboot)
reboot and go into recovery, then use adb sideload to flash a new ROM.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/htcone/comments/1rkvy0/help_stuck_in_bootloop_without_access_to_recovery/
I have no idea whether this will work, but it's worth a try. Please don't blame me if your phone gets even more messed up than it already is.
Techngro said:
I have no idea what the issue is, but it seems you might not have a recovery installed on the phone. Try this:
Hold power + volume to go into bootloader (I know you said you tried various combinations, but make sure you're doing it correctly.).
Go into fastboot
flash a new recovery image from -snip-
reboot and go into recovery, then use adb sideload to flash a new ROM.
Source: -snip-
I have no idea whether this will work, but it's worth a try. Please don't blame me if your phone gets even more messed up than it already is.
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Thank you so much. I will definitely try this. I was also getting replies elsewhere that if I can see the logo, I should be able to get into download mode where I could then flash the stock ROM. Honestly, it does seem like I somehow may not have a recovery installed.
If they send me my old phone back I will definitely give this a try. Thanks a bunch! And don't worry, I won't hold you accountable haha.
JasePK said:
Thank you so much. I will definitely try this. I was also getting replies elsewhere that if I can see the logo, I should be able to get into download mode where I could then flash the stock ROM. Honestly, it does seem like I somehow may not have a recovery installed.
If they send me my old phone back I will definitely give this a try. Thanks a bunch! And don't worry, I won't hold you accountable haha.
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If the advice above didn´t work (nothing happened when pressing the usual VOL down - home - power etc; this did not work for me), this is how I managed:
I tried booting around 25 times with the power button released at different times. Did not work.
Tried to insert battery when pressing the 3 buttons. Did not work.
I let the battery run completely empty. Started charging the phone and pressing the 3 buttons. Did not work.
I charged the phone full (with booting the whole time....needed to put it somewhere quiet). After estimating it was full, I pulled out the battery, preparing to send it to mobiletechvideos.com (they saved me before). After a few hours I wanted to see the error message so I could inform them. When I inserted the battery, I got the regular download mode! Nowthen, would I dare to boot it since I am not really sure what to flash to my phone?
I rebooted, and now the phone is back to normal. OTOH, I will not try to flash CWM/TWRP again, so goodbye custom roms (Omega )
cdresor said:
If the advice above didn´t work (nothing happened when pressing the usual VOL down - home - power etc; this did not work for me), this is how I managed:
I tried booting around 25 times with the power button released at different times. Did not work.
Tried to insert battery when pressing the 3 buttons. Did not work.
I let the battery run completely empty. Started charging the phone and pressing the 3 buttons. Did not work.
I charged the phone full (with booting the whole time....needed to put it somewhere quiet). After estimating it was full, I pulled out the battery, preparing to send it to mobiletechvideos.com (they saved me before). After a few hours I wanted to see the error message so I could inform them. When I inserted the battery, I got the regular download mode! Nowthen, would I dare to boot it since I am not really sure what to flash to my phone?
I rebooted, and now the phone is back to normal. OTOH, I will not try to flash CWM/TWRP again, so goodbye custom roms (Omega )
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So basically your problem was fixed by keeping the battery out for an extended period of time? Did you get the same problem as I did, with the phone trying to boot into recovery constantly and failing due to having no recovery image?
I never kept the battery out for more than 2-3 minutes, so that's another option for me to try if they send my old phone back and the first guy's suggestion doesn't work.
JasePK said:
So basically your problem was fixed by keeping the battery out for an extended period of time? Did you get the same problem as I did, with the phone trying to boot into recovery constantly and failing due to having no recovery image?
I never kept the battery out for more than 2-3 minutes, so that's another option for me to try if they send my old phone back and the first guy's suggestion doesn't work.
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Yes, I had the exact problem. I tried to have the battery out for 10 minutes, and also ran out of battery during a nightly discharge. Still I could not get it to work. The only way was to leave the battery out for several hours. Beats me, but it worked.
Having bricked a device completely before, I am confident that your phone will be able to get fixed. This isn´t even semi-bricked
Good luck - let me know what happened!
cdresor said:
Yes, I had the exact problem. I tried to have the battery out for 10 minutes, and also ran out of battery during a nightly discharge. Still I could not get it to work. The only way was to leave the battery out for several hours. Beats me, but it worked.
Having bricked a device completely before, I am confident that your phone will be able to get fixed. This isn´t even semi-bricked
Good luck - let me know what happened!
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Thanks so much to both of you. I feel relieved now no matter what happens. Will post the results when I've reached the end of this ordeal!
JasePK said:
Thanks so much to both of you. I feel relieved now no matter what happens. Will post the results when I've reached the end of this ordeal!
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I tried to flash latest cwm again and got the same loop. I could narrow it down to 30 min without battery :laugh:
cdresor said:
I tried to flash latest cwm again and got the same loop. I could narrow it down to 30 min without battery :laugh:
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When that happens and you go back to normal, are you able to access recovery mode afterwards if you want to? Or does trying to cause the same loop? Is it wise to re-flash the stock firmware just to be safe?
JasePK said:
When that happens and you go back to normal, are you able to access recovery mode afterwards if you want to? Or does trying to cause the same loop? Is it wise to re-flash the stock firmware just to be safe?
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I never dared to try. But since I always used Windows under Mac (Parallells) or the fact that I used Windows 7 or 8, I tried to flash CWM on a native Windows XP PC today and it worked. So now I have a custom ROM working which I never thought would happen :laugh:
Sorry I did not try to access recovery before so you would know
Cheers,
cdresor said:
I never dared to try. But since I always used Windows under Mac (Parallells) or the fact that I used Windows 7 or 8, I tried to flash CWM on a native Windows XP PC today and it worked. So now I have a custom ROM working which I never thought would happen :laugh:
Sorry I did not try to access recovery before so you would know
Cheers,
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No that's alright, I just wanted to know if it was something I should avoid. :laugh: I'll use Odin to flash the official firmware back on regardless.
I had this happen to me, what had occurred was that the efs was corrupt. Here's the fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507403
Now to implement this fix, you must first be able to get into download mode. To do so:
1. Pull the battery
2. Wait 10-20 secs
3. Reinsert battery WHILE holding power button and (volume down + home???, whatever the key combination is)
5. Phone will boot directly to download mode, no logo
6. Flash twrp via odin
7. Phone will reboot into bootloop again
8. Repeat steps 1-4 except this time use the key combination for recovery
9. You must now use adb and push the file I linked to earlier
10. Then without rebooting you must flash it
11. Reboot and problem solved
Fixed issue with continuous recovery boot
So, this issue was somewhat perplexing, and while the information shared was hopefully valuable to some, it took me about 2 minutes to
fix this and get back into download mode.
Take the battery out of the device, then plug the device into USB (If you're having same issue I was device will not show charging or turn on when plugged in.) Then with the device plugged in to usb and the battery out, hold down the Download mode combination Vulume +, Home and Power, then simultaneously slide in the batter, the phone will boot into download mode and you can get back to stock.
Hope this helped! If it did, leave a thanks.
twill1987 said:
So, this issue was somewhat perplexing, and while the information shared was hopefully valuable to some, it took me about 2 minutes to
fix this and get back into download mode.
Take the battery out of the device, then plug the device into USB (If you're having same issue I was device will not show charging or turn on when plugged in.) Then with the device plugged in to usb and the battery out, hold down the Download mode combination Vulume +, Home and Power, then simultaneously slide in the batter, the phone will boot into download mode and you can get back to stock.
Hope this helped! If it did, leave a thanks.
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This is exactly what I posted above lol
LOL Sorry. When I flash the TWRP file it just rebooted the phone back into the Hyper Drive Rom I'm using, did it do the same for you?
Thanks to everyone who has provided information and tried to help me! Thankfully, T-Mobile simply sent me a new phone. However, I'm definitely going to keep this topic bookmarked for future reference. This seems to be a rather uncommon problem, considering I had to make a topic to find a solution since all of my searches didn't give me any results.
Thanks again to everyone!
twill1987 said:
So, this issue was somewhat perplexing, and while the information shared was hopefully valuable to some, it took me about 2 minutes to
fix this and get back into download mode.
Take the battery out of the device, then plug the device into USB (If you're having same issue I was device will not show charging or turn on when plugged in.) Then with the device plugged in to usb and the battery out, hold down the Download mode combination Vulume +, Home and Power, then simultaneously slide in the batter, the phone will boot into download mode and you can get back to stock.
Hope this helped! If it did, leave a thanks.
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U r My neww Mirical worker I messed up a Mobile Odin Flash At work today trying to get the newish NE6
couldnt get it to boot into download after the screw up but read this this morning nd after trying everything else it worked perfect
thank you thank you
I'm having the same problem with my TMobile Note3 after using Kingo after upgrading via Kies to the latest Firmware. The only difference is my phone immediately starts rebooting as soon as I put the battery back in. It doesn't appear that any keys stop this and the USB isn't recognized by my computer in time before the reboot cycle starts.
Is there anything else to try other than sending the phone back for warranty replacement?
tim
Yeah Kingo has given me nothing but trouble, I'd steer clear of that software. I'm assuming you have no access to recovery mode? I have had that issue before on an S3 and was able to finally get it into download mode, but the battery being inserted immediately boots the phone up. So what you have to do is 1. Take battery out and unplug usb cable. 2. Plug USB cable in and Hold download mode buttons with BATTERY OUT (vol+, home and power) 3. insert battery simultaneously while holding buttons down, phone will boot up.. After holding down for about 10 seconds phone will manually reboot, 4. When screen shuts off (potentially vibrates) release download mode buttons, then IMMEDIATELY press and hold download mode buttons again (must perform this step FAST, the key is to do it right before the screen turns on if you can.) 5. The manual boot you've performed should allow you to trigger download mode. I was eventually able to get this to work (about 3 tries. ) I believe your download mode is still intact, you just have to use this method to access it. Remember that because your phone atuo boots with battery inserted download mode will only be available by manual reboot not battery insert.
Give thanks if I assisted you.. Your phone isn't a hard brick so Jtag service should be unnecessary at this juncture.
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R187J said:
U r My neww Mirical worker I messed up a Mobile Odin Flash At work today trying to get the newish NE6
couldnt get it to boot into download after the screw up but read this this morning nd after trying everything else it worked perfect
thank you thank you
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Awesome man!! Glad I could be of assistance!!
Give thanks/thumbs up!
I read on many posts and comments that everyone is able to boot in download mode. My Note 3 just stuck on recovery boot and I can't get it to boot in download mode. I tried all of the suggestions about pressing three buttons, removing battery etc.
Does anyone know solution for when you can't get into download mode?
Thanks
Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
Haven't left stock in a while so not sure if still doable but have you tried --> fastboot boot twrp, then flash the full ota?
same issue
kidh0tsh0t said:
Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
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Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
kidh0tsh0t said:
Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
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Exactly what's happens with me. In my case i left charging over night and in the morning i couldn't even enter fastboot. Black screen all the time. Holding power button didn't nothing. Using fastboot buttons combination gave me some vibrations and that's all. I had to sent my Pixel to Google for a exchange. Still waiting my replacement device.
Check if warranty still covers your device and starts a RMA for a replacement.
dlhstick said:
Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
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Cristiano Matos said:
Exactly what's happens with me. In my case i left charging over night and in the morning i couldn't even enter fastboot. Black screen all the time. Holding power button didn't nothing. Using fastboot buttons combination gave me some vibrations and that's all. I had to sent my Pixel to Google for a exchange. Still waiting my replacement device.
Check if warranty still covers your device and starts a RMA for a replacement.
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Apologies for the late response, I kinda forgot I had this thread here
I started the RMA process the same day and I sent it to Google that day. They replaced the phone with a new/refurbished one that works now. They didn't tell me what the problem was or had any steps I could take to fix the problem(all the steps they had me go through didn't work)
So unfortunately sending it in for a RMA is the only thing I know about that works.
dlhstick said:
Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
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I am having the EXACT same issue as you. Did you get the recent Android update?
Everybody have 128gb models?
Mine just did the same thing on the 6th last month. I can't boot further than the first Google logo, and OTA images do nothing. Completely stock and locked.
For reference, I have the standard size, 128 GB model. I can at least report that my flash memory is Toshiba, and the ram is from Hynix. I've been emailing with Google support for nearly 3 weeks now, and am unfortunately outside of the warranty.
Louisss15 said:
Mine just did the same thing on the 6th last month. I can't boot further than the first Google logo, and OTA images do nothing. Completely stock and locked.
For reference, I have the standard size, 128 GB model. I can at least report that my flash memory is Toshiba, and the ram is from Hynix. I've been emailing with Google support for nearly 3 weeks now, and am unfortunately outside of the warranty.
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I have the same model and it won't turn on too,have to RMA
I had this happen back in October, and again in November.
Yes, it happened to the same Verizon Pixel XL 32GB, bootloader unlocked.
A few days after it abruptly shut down. I woke up one morning, and it was fully booted, data intact.
And again in November. I did a full teardown to try and troubleshoot.
It ended up being the oem charger block.
1 broken pin in the block crossed 2 other pins, and that was that.
First off, I did do a search, but as far as I can tell no one has had this problem so far.
This is all after modding using a tool kit: (i can't include the url but it is the toolkit by neisor on the oneplus forums)
tldr: phone stuck in bootloop, computer wont recognize the phone, maybe because it keeps shutting off and then booting to the 1+ logo, then shutting off again, would drivers help? what can I do about the volume up button?
So for a while my volume up button hasn't been working, and the mega unbrick post shows that I need to hold the volume up button for at least 25 seconds and while holding, plug my phone in. I have also seen some posts that say the volume up button could be a software issue, and the button itself could be working, and it is just not registering, as well as someone saying that you could take the back off and manually press the button, instead of using the bar on the outside of the phone (would this work?). I have gotten the button to work in the past by pressing the volume up button to the side instead of straight in, but I haven't been able to get it to work since my phone got bricked.
Another issue: my phone is stuck in a boot loop, I can't access fastboot, and I'm unsure of recovery because my volume up button is not working. would it be worth it to deal with the constant vibrating to try to get it to recovery?
I have been able to shut the phone off by holding the power button for something like a minute and a half, though.
This is my first post, and if I have broken any rules I am very sorry, but I need help and am tired of not having a phone.
Thank you everyone,
Mark
Edit: this is what I did to root the phone:
1. download the toolkit
2. unlock bootloader (when fastbooting the phone said unlocked at the bottom, and a message about not being secure showed every time I rebooted the phone)
3. flashed twrp (no issues, still booted, recovery went to twrp. for some reason I had to flash multiple times as every now and then recovery would revert to stock op, although I did make a backup through twrp)
4. send supersu zip file to phone, install using twrp (phone would not boot, op logo stayed on phone for 2 hrs + until I rebooted to fastboot and tried to reinstall the backup I made, still nothing)
5. Try magisk (still stuck on op logo)
6. try to go back to stock, accidentally lock bootloader (now the phone is stuck in bootloop, don't know what to do from here as I cant get to fastboot and am unsure of recovery's accessibility.)
If you are sure you have a broken volume button, you need to replace it first in order to get the phone fix.
Correction:
Fastboot/bootloader = Power+Vol Up
Recovery = Power+Vol Down
This happened to me except I didn't even get anything appear on the screen -- the phone just periodically vibrated with the screen not even light up. I tried the reset toolkit which is meant to flash your phone back to normal using Qualcomm drivers or something, but that didn't work either. Eventually I had to send it to OnePlus who fixed it for free in under a week! They said the motherboard had failed.
I hope you get this fixed!
Thanks
150208 said:
If you are sure you have a broken volume button, you need to replace it first in order to get the phone fix.
Correction:
Fastboot/bootloader = Power+Vol Up
Recovery = Power+Vol Down
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thanks for the correction, I will keep trying the volume buttons, if it doesn't work by the end of today I will search for a new volume button.
Thanks again,
mark
Ouch
badabdba said:
This happened to me except I didn't even get anything appear on the screen -- the phone just periodically vibrated with the screen not even light up. I tried the reset toolkit which is meant to flash your phone back to normal using Qualcomm drivers or something, but that didn't work either. Eventually I had to send it to OnePlus who fixed it for free in under a week! They said the motherboard had failed.
I hope you get this fixed!
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Damn, that sucks, and besides being unfixable (doubt it), this is my biggest fear. I'm in the US and really don't want to have to ship my phone to china to have it fixed. If you are in the US as well do you know if there is a OnePlus branch I can send it to in the US?
Thank you,
Mark
MarkTheFur said:
Damn, that sucks, and besides being unfixable (doubt it), this is my biggest fear. I'm in the US and really don't want to have to ship my phone to china to have it fixed. If you are in the US as well do you know if there is a OnePlus branch I can send it to in the US?
Thank you,
Mark
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There seems to be one in Texas. Anyway, contact OnePlus and they may try to solve it over the air.
Apart from that, did you install the Qualcom drivers properly? Even with your faulty power button, try to hold it down for 40+ seconds (for the phone to switch off) and then immediately hold down the volume up button for 10 seconds and then plug in the phone to the PC. I know I am merely repeating the instructions of Naman Bhalla in his Mega Unbrick Guide but it is crucial to do them correctly especially the installation of the drivers. Try these steps repeatedly because for some people, the phone gets recognised after repeated attempts. Or else replace the power button and then try these steps.
I had to use the Guide last month and successfully resurrected my dead phone.
MarkTheFur said:
... what can I do about the volume up button?
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Can you boot into recovery by pressing power+volume down buttons?
Update: Got phone to show on computer as qualcomm under coms and ports
So last night I went ahead and held volume up for about 20 seconds, then plugged the phone in, keeping the volume up button pressed the entire time. my phone stopped bootlooping and showed up as a qualcom device! So I have downloaded the new driver the stock os, and am going to proceed to try to unbrick my phone.
Wish me luck,
Mark
Yes, I did, and its working so far
tnsmani said:
There seems to be one in Texas. Anyway, contact OnePlus and they may try to solve it over the air.
Apart from that, did you install the Qualcom drivers properly? Even with your faulty power button, try to hold it down for 40+ seconds (for the phone to switch off) and then immediately hold down the volume up button for 10 seconds and then plug in the phone to the PC. I know I am merely repeating the instructions of Naman Bhalla in his Mega Unbrick Guide but it is crucial to do them correctly especially the installation of the drivers. Try these steps repeatedly because for some people, the phone gets recognised after repeated attempts. Or else replace the power button and then try these steps.
I had to use the Guide last month and successfully resurrected my dead phone.
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I still need to turn off the signed drivers features ( a huge bi*ch, I have to use another computer to contact microsoft or something to get my computer to load when I turn off safe boot or whatever its called), but once I do that I can install the driver and attempt to reinstall the stock os. Hopefully everything will go well.
Thank you,
Mark
Not as far as I know
rk2612 said:
Can you boot into recovery by pressing power+volume down buttons?
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So far recovery has not been loading, just the bootloop, but I have gotten the phone to power off by pressing the power button for 40 seconds, and the volume up button plus plugging in does make the phone register as qualcom 9008 or something like that. Basically everything is going well so far, and the faulty vol button seems to have been a software bug, as it does work when plugging it in. I will try to get to fast boot, but it did not work last time.
Thank you,
Mark
MarkTheFur said:
So far recovery has not been loading, just the bootloop, but I have gotten the phone to power off by pressing the power button for 40 seconds, and the volume up button plus plugging in does make the phone register as qualcom 9008 or something like that. Basically everything is going well so far, and the faulty vol button seems to have been a software bug, as it does work when plugging it in. I will try to get to fast boot, but it did not work last time.
Thank you,
Mark
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Glad to hear that there is some progress. Best of luck and keep us informed.
Hello guys.
I just bought my Pixel 3 XL phone straight from the Google Store and it just arrived two days ago. After learning about Android Q, I opted-in on the android beta and downloaded the Beta 6 OTA update to my phone. The phone downloaded the OTA and installed it and it seems all is well until the moment it rebooted. It didn't turn on again. It won't turn on. I tried to force restart it by pressing the power button 10 seconds, 30 seconds, or even 1 minute+, won't turn on, no haptic feedback, nothing. I even tried the power button + volume down combo. I also tried plugging it to the original charger it came with for 30 minutes, nothing.
Before this, I have experience with flashing stock and custom roms with pixel devices and other brands (I have owned the OG Pixel until it wont boot due to its motherboard issue), and while normally, I could have just unlocked the bootloader and installed the beta firmware thru fastboot/recovery, or even installed a custom recovery, I didn't and instead tried the OTA update thingy (which claimed that you don't have to unlock your phone or anything). I didn't expect that it will brick this early and unexpectedly.
My suspicion would be that the OTA update broke the bootloader itself, or the firmware that loads the bootloader, thus not responding to the power button correctly. It's also not a power problem, because the phone warms up when plugged to the charger. Also, I download and applied the OTA while the phone is charging (around 70%). Could that also be the culprit?
I'm at my wit's end here. I'm thinking I should RMA this phone, which I haven't done before. Are there any similar issues like this before? Did anyone else had similar issues like this one?
wincaffeine said:
Hello guys.
I just bought my Pixel 3 XL phone straight from the Google Store and it just arrived two days ago. After learning about Android Q, I opted-in on the android beta and downloaded the Beta 6 OTA update to my phone. The phone downloaded the OTA and installed it and it seems all is well until the moment it rebooted. It didn't turn on again. It won't turn on. I tried to force restart it by pressing the power button 10 seconds, 30 seconds, or even 1 minute+, won't turn on, no haptic feedback, nothing. I even tried the power button + volume down combo. I also tried plugging it to the original charger it came with for 30 minutes, nothing.
Before this, I have experience with flashing stock and custom roms with pixel devices and other brands (I have owned the OG Pixel until it wont boot due to its motherboard issue), and while normally, I could have just unlocked the bootloader and installed the beta firmware thru fastboot/recovery, or even installed a custom recovery, I didn't and instead tried the OTA update thingy (which claimed that you don't have to unlock your phone or anything). I didn't expect that it will brick this early and unexpectedly.
My suspicion would be that the OTA update broke the bootloader itself, or the firmware that loads the bootloader, thus not responding to the power button correctly. It's also not a power problem, because the phone warms up when plugged to the charger. Also, I download and applied the OTA while the phone is charging (around 70%). Could that also be the culprit?
I'm at my wit's end here. I'm thinking I should RMA this phone, which I haven't done before. Are there any similar issues like this before? Did anyone else had similar issues like this one?
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Plug the charger in and hold all 3 buttons together, not saying it will work but worth a try, it deletes battery stats and cache, if it does boot then keep hold of them for about 40 secs, hold them for over ten seconds even try for a whole minute, this sounds like hardware fault to me though. Also, if youve just bought it, swap it.
boe323 said:
Plug the charger in and hold all 3 buttons together, not saying it will work but worth a try, it deletes battery stats and cache, if it does boot then keep hold of them for about 40 secs, hold them for over ten seconds even try for a whole minute, this sounds like hardware fault to me though. Also, if youve just bought it, swap it.
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I have tried what you suggested. Still nothing.
If I can I'd try to resolve this without returning the thing but yeah, it may really be a hardware fault. Guess I have to wait for a miracle to happen (like the phone turning on by itself after several hours, like with some posts that I have found around).
If all else fail, maybe I'd just ask Google to replace it.
Thanks anyway :good:
You may want to try to see if you get a USB notification from your computer on Windows and if it does try to flash it Back to stock. Hope it works
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kentek said:
You may want to try to see if you get a USB notification from your computer on Windows and if it does try to flash it Back to stock. Hope it works
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I also have tried that to no avail. The phone won't just turn on. Anyway I already returned the device. Thanks
wincaffeine said:
I also have tried that to no avail. The phone won't just turn on. Anyway I already returned the device. Thanks
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Have you tried making an edl cable, to see if the phone boots to qualcomm flash/diagnostic mode. I dont understand why no one in this thread as mentioned EDL mode, its a life saver for when you brick your device. This allows a full factory image flash through qualcomm flash mode. Plenty of tuturials on internet for EDL. (Emergency Download)
boe323 said:
Have you tried making an edl cable, to see if the phone boots to qualcomm flash/diagnostic mode. I dont understand why no one in this thread as mentioned EDL mode, its a life saver for when you brick your device. This allows a full factory image flash through qualcomm flash mode. Plenty of tuturials on internet for EDL. (Emergency Download)
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Because of warranty?
Hello hello,
Someone on another website told me to visit you guys here!
My Problem is as follows:
So around 6 hours ago my Pixel 6 pro decided to just turn itself off. I tried various methods of starting it, pressing different button combinations etc but it is completely unresponsive. I tried charging it for several hours but that also didn't do anything. The screen won't turn on at all.
The only sign of life that I have is when connecting my phone to my PC via USB and pressing all 3 buttons (Power, Volume up and down) then a device called "Pixel Rom Recovery" will pop up for a little bit. It disappears when letting go of the power button or after around 20 seconds. If I keep pressing the buttons it will apear again and do the same thing.
What I basically wanna know is:
Is there a way to still recover my data?
Is there a way for me to save my device?
I got some more or less important stuff on my phone and it would be a shame if it all was gone.
How ****ed am I?
Thank y'all for all your help!
Hi,
If you cannot turn on your phone, it'll be difficult to help you. Pressing other 30 sec power button doesn't run ?
In parallel did you contact the Google pixel support ?
It's not to scare you, but I had the same issue on a old Samsung S8 and it was the motherboard 🫤
Hope it's not the case for you !!
Fadey_Fadington said:
Hello hello,
Someone on another website told me to visit you guys here!
My Problem is as follows:
So around 6 hours ago my Pixel 6 pro decided to just turn itself off. I tried various methods of starting it, pressing different button combinations etc but it is completely unresponsive. I tried charging it for several hours but that also didn't do anything. The screen won't turn on at all.
The only sign of life that I have is when connecting my phone to my PC via USB and pressing all 3 buttons (Power, Volume up and down) then a device called "Pixel Rom Recovery" will pop up for a little bit. It disappears when letting go of the power button or after around 20 seconds. If I keep pressing the buttons it will apear again and do the same thing.
What I basically wanna know is:
Is there a way to still recover my data?
Is there a way for me to save my device?
I got some more or less important stuff on my phone and it would be a shame if it all was gone.
How ****ed am I?
Thank y'all for all your help!
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So this is in fact just an undocumented Emergency Download Mode that Google Custom Exynos SoC has natively built into it in case of the rare event of a bad boot loader.
I’ve been doing an extreme amount of research lately about bootROM’s, how they communicate, the Driver rule support for interfacing with the phone while it’s Pixel ROM Recovery. The viewable name for the Exynos USB DownLoading mode.
Can I get you to dm me on Telegram? It might be helpful to have more people. I’ll be glad to help in getting this figured out. It could help a lot of other people who don’t have a Pixel 6 too
I have the same issue after trying to update to 1205. I see the Pixel ROM Recovery and a COM port.
If you cannot enter fastboot mode, no way to recover your phone.
Was there a solution to this? The same thing happened to me. When I get to the bootloader and hit recovery the screen just goes black.
redplayer5 said:
Was there a solution to this? The same thing happened to me. When I get to the bootloader and hit recovery the screen just goes black.
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if u can boot into fastboot just flash the latest factory image from google
w_tapper said:
if u can boot into fastboot just flash the latest factory image from google
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Can I do that even though my device is locked?
Is there a tutorial?
redplayer5 said:
Can I do that even though my device is locked?
Is there a tutorial?
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nvm i dont think u can do it if bootloader is locked