Hey all. Hopefully someone can provide a little assistance with this..
TLDR; Phone was fine, this morning it went into a bootloop. Tried restore which didn't work, tried wiping which didn't work, wipe everything and installed a new factory image and now it still won't boot and recovery is giving "no command" but I can still see everything with fastboot.
So a few months ago I rooted my Pixel Xl and flashed a "official" 8.1.0 ROM on it along with TWRP and Magisk. Everything was going fine and then about a week ago my phone shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I had to hold the power button about thirty seconds for it to come back. That was the only issue until this morning. This morning the same thing happened, the phone had shut off at some point last night while it was plugged in and this morning it was a black screen. Again, I held the power button down for about thirty seconds until it booted up, but this time a couple minutes after it booted, it shut back off again. Rinse and repeat and every time the time on was shorter and shorter until it just got to the Google boot screen and would freeze up and shut off.
After playing with it for a little while trying to figure out what was going on, I tried to do a factory wipe/reset. That didn't resolve anything. I booted back into TWRP and tried to do a restore, but about 80% of the way through it froze up. I restarted the device and tried restore again, but it froze up towards the end once more. So I tried doing a wipe, then a restore but only the first two boxes checked, system and something else.. It completed successfully, but was still boot looping just like before.
Then I thought maybe it was something internal and did a full wipe of everything.. Still no luck. Then I figured since there wasn't much to lose, I pushed the newest factory image to the phone using platform tools/fastboot.
Now what I get is when I try to start the phone it'll go to the Google logo, then restart, then do that once more and then it will go to a little screen with the Android on his back and an exclamation saying "No command", which I'm assuming is recovery mode since it does the same thing when I try to go there.
I can access fastboot still and all the system menus, I don't care about losing my data obviously and I just need my phone to work. Is there anything I can do?
In the bootloader my information is..
BL: 8996-012001-1808030001
Baseband: 8996-130181-1806061856
Product/Variant: marlin-US-PVT
Serial Number: HT68Hxxxxxxx
CPU: MSM8996SG-AB 0x10001
UFS: 32GB Samsung
DRAM: 4096MB Samsung LPDDR4
Boot-slot: b
Console: DISABLED
Secure Boot: PRODUCTION
Device is UNLOCKED
premedicated said:
Hey all. Hopefully someone can provide a little assistance with this..
TLDR; Phone was fine, this morning it went into a bootloop. Tried restore which didn't work, tried wiping which didn't work, wipe everything and installed a new factory image and now it still won't boot and recovery is giving "no command" but I can still see everything with fastboot.
So a few months ago I rooted my Pixel Xl and flashed a "official" 8.1.0 ROM on it along with TWRP and Magisk. Everything was going fine and then about a week ago my phone shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I had to hold the power button about thirty seconds for it to come back. That was the only issue until this morning. This morning the same thing happened, the phone had shut off at some point last night while it was plugged in and this morning it was a black screen. Again, I held the power button down for about thirty seconds until it booted up, but this time a couple minutes after it booted, it shut back off again. Rinse and repeat and every time the time on was shorter and shorter until it just got to the Google boot screen and would freeze up and shut off.
After playing with it for a little while trying to figure out what was going on, I tried to do a factory wipe/reset. That didn't resolve anything. I booted back into TWRP and tried to do a restore, but about 80% of the way through it froze up. I restarted the device and tried restore again, but it froze up towards the end once more. So I tried doing a wipe, then a restore but only the first two boxes checked, system and something else.. It completed successfully, but was still boot looping just like before.
Then I thought maybe it was something internal and did a full wipe of everything.. Still no luck. Then I figured since there wasn't much to lose, I pushed the newest factory image to the phone using platform tools/fastboot.
Now what I get is when I try to start the phone it'll go to the Google logo, then restart, then do that once more and then it will go to a little screen with the Android on his back and an exclamation saying "No command", which I'm assuming is recovery mode since it does the same thing when I try to go there.
I can access fastboot still and all the system menus, I don't care about losing my data obviously and I just need my phone to work. Is there anything I can do?
In the bootloader my information is..
BL: 8996-012001-1808030001
Baseband: 8996-130181-1806061856
Product/Variant: marlin-US-PVT
Serial Number: HT68Hxxxxxxx
CPU: MSM8996SG-AB 0x10001
UFS: 32GB Samsung
DRAM: 4096MB Samsung LPDDR4
Boot-slot: b
Console: DISABLED
Secure Boot: PRODUCTION
Device is UNLOCKED
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Ok, so I'm assuming you have the latest factory image currently downloaded on your PC and extracted all the files to the same folder as fastboot/ADB. Hook up your phone to the PC and boot into the bootloader on the phone by powering on while holding in Volume Down + power. In the folder where you have fastboot on your PC, hold down shift and right click the mouse and select open command prompt (or powershell, depending on Windows version). Type fastboot devices to make sure your phone is being seen by your PC. If it is, type fastboot erase system, after that runs type fastboot erase userdata, once that runs type fastboot erase system, and finally fastboot erase boot. Then type fastboot --set-active=b , and run the same commands on that slot. Then type fastboot reboot bootloader, and when it reboots to bootloader type in flash-all.bat . That should wipe everything properly on both slots and install the latest factory image. If that doesn't work then I would say there's definitely a hardware defect. Also if it doesn't work I would try a different port on your PC.
Phalanx7621 said:
Ok, so I'm assuming you have the latest factory image currently downloaded on your PC and extracted all the files to the same folder as fastboot/ADB.
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Inside of the factory image file, once unzipped there is another zip file contained in there with the same name. Do I need to extract that as well since it has options such as boot.img, keymaster.img and several other .img files in it, or do you just extract the main files containing bootloader-marlin-8996-012001-1808030001.img, flash-all.bat, etc.?
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Then type fastboot --set-active=b , and run the same commands on that slot.
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Awesome, thanks for the reply. Question though since i'm not entirely sure about the slots. Since it's already reading it as slot B, will I change the active to slot A at some point or will running those commands in slot B erase slot A, as I understand that it basically works in whatever slot is not active.
It should detect slot A by defualt, but as long as you run those commands for both slots you'll be wiping it clean. Keep in mind we aren't talking about TWRP, we're in fastboot. And no, once you extract the files from the zip you don't need to extract the other file inside of it. The flash-all command will read it and do the proper magic. Just make sure the extracted files are in the folder with fastboot/ADB.
Well, I followed it to a T with your first post and I made it further than before. I got it all the way to where it asked if I wanted to copy files and then it froze. Restarted and it made it to finding my sim before it restarted and then it makes it to a different point before restarting, which is further than I made it before, however it still hasn't made it all the way into the software, so I guess I'm pretty well screwed unless it's something with Slot A. But I'm pretty doubtful at this point.
Update: Now it won't make it past the Google logo anymore again...
Ok, so it still isn't working. I'm going to try flashing the 8.1.0 image in a bit and see if maybe that some how resolves it. Doubtful, but it's my last step before I go spend a thousand dollars buying a new phone..
A couple questions though, when I flash-all I'm getting a lot of "Archive does not contain 'xxxxx.xxx'" errors. Archive does not contain boot.sig, boot_other.img, dtbo.img, dt.img, odm.img, product.img, product-services.img, recovery.img (this one seems important..), super.img, system.sig, vbmeta.sig and vendor.sig are all missing from the archive. This normal?
Also, I can play around in bootloader and I could in TWRP before it was erased for hours with no reboot or anything, but once the OS starts to load or loads, that's when it freezes up and fails. If it was a hardware issue shouldn't it be restarting regardless of what I'm running under?
Just trying to expend all my options before spending more ludicrous amounts of time for a piece of hardware that can just die without reason.
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I can't wipe my phone. So far I've tried:
Factory reset from Settings menu
Hard reset from recovery mode
fastboot -w
Flashing latest version of Yakju from Google
Locking and unlocking bootloader
Wiping from TWRP
Formatting userdata
In addition, I've tried uninstalling apps and removing files via adb shell. In both cases, the apps/files would return on reboot. (And the phone will reboot spontaneously when booted normally, although uninstalling some apps will make it take longer.)
Some background: I forgot to plug in my phone Friday night, and when I checked on it Saturday evening, it was dead. I plugged it into the wall charger, but it wouldn't charge. I poked around the charger port a bit, and got it working again. At 1/4 charge, I tried booting it, only to find that when doing a normal boot, it would stall at the Google start-up screen, while a recovery boot would show the dead android image with no text.
I had some more trouble getting it to charge, and ultimately damaged the USB port. (I got it replaced earlier today (Monday).) To fix the booting problem, I downloaded the latest yakju image from Google and tried flashing it. Not realizing that it would take 25 minutes to write system, I pulled the battery before that point. In spite of this, I was now able to boot the phone, even if it could no longer charge.
Today I got the USB port replaced, but found that the phone would crash every minute or so. I suspect that this is symptomatic of the larger problem of the phone not wanting to change from how it was Saturday morning when it died. No settings changes seem to stick. Every time I start up, I get the same SMS notification from Friday night. Deleted files are restored, and even my attempts to replace the recovery img with TWRP failed. (I managed to load it with fastboot boot, but it didn't do me much good.)
I've also run it through a successful flash of yakju, once I realized it would take half an hour to run. So far the only thing I can think of that I haven't tried is ODIN!
I have three sets of logs from logcat running up until the time of a crash, and the output of adb bugreport, if those are helpful.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I've attached the logs.
I've poked around a bit more, trying to get things working, or failing that, not working in a different manner. I started it up TWRP and ran a few tests. I uploaded the zipped image files to /sdcard, downloaded them again, and verified that result was identical. I used dd to copy the recovery partition to a file, grabbed it from the phone, and tried to use dd to copy TWRP over top. dd seemed to think it was successful, but grabbing the partition again, I get the same contents as before.
I'd assume it's something like the flash memory is never actually flushing its cache, so none of the changes I make get committed. I can run 'sync', and it will pause briefly if there was recent activity, but if I write data to a partition, unmount then remount it, the change is gone. If this is the case, I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it - the problem is sufficiently low level that the OS doesn't seem to be aware of it. If there are any tools available to test this, could you let me know?
At this point, I'm considering cutting my losses and getting a new phone.
Have you tried
fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase system
Etc etc with userdata and cache also?
Might not work but worth a try.
G-Nexus Sent
ifly4vamerica said:
Have you tried
fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase system
Etc etc with userdata and cache also?
Might not work but worth a try.
G-Nexus Sent
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"userdata"
Sent from my Nexus
Yeah userdata! Thanks man.
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alfedenzo said:
I can't wipe my phone. So far I've tried:
Factory reset from Settings menu
Hard reset from recovery mode
fastboot -w
Flashing latest version of Yakju from Google
Locking and unlocking bootloader
Wiping from TWRP
Formatting userdata
In addition, I've tried uninstalling apps and removing files via adb shell. In both cases, the apps/files would return on reboot. (And the phone will reboot spontaneously when booted normally, although uninstalling some apps will make it take longer.)
Some background: I forgot to plug in my phone Friday night, and when I checked on it Saturday evening, it was dead. I plugged it into the wall charger, but it wouldn't charge. I poked around the charger port a bit, and got it working again. At 1/4 charge, I tried booting it, only to find that when doing a normal boot, it would stall at the Google start-up screen, while a recovery boot would show the dead android image with no text.
I had some more trouble getting it to charge, and ultimately damaged the USB port. (I got it replaced earlier today (Monday).) To fix the booting problem, I downloaded the latest yakju image from Google and tried flashing it. Not realizing that it would take 25 minutes to write system, I pulled the battery before that point. In spite of this, I was now able to boot the phone, even if it could no longer charge.
Today I got the USB port replaced, but found that the phone would crash every minute or so. I suspect that this is symptomatic of the larger problem of the phone not wanting to change from how it was Saturday morning when it died. No settings changes seem to stick. Every time I start up, I get the same SMS notification from Friday night. Deleted files are restored, and even my attempts to replace the recovery img with TWRP failed. (I managed to load it with fastboot boot, but it didn't do me much good.)
I've also run it through a successful flash of yakju, once I realized it would take half an hour to run. So far the only thing I can think of that I haven't tried is ODIN!
I have three sets of logs from logcat running up until the time of a crash, and the output of adb bugreport, if those are helpful.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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i have the exact same issue.. i cant wipe anything, after rebooting everything comes back to the phone, even if the flash or odin success, the same old files and OS come back again and nothing changes.
and as in your case, system take like 30 min to write, or even more.
i've tried fastboot erase userdata, fastboot erase system, etc, odin, format partitions from adb, toolkits, etc everything you can think of, and nothing works.
please, post if you fix your phone, because mine has been dead for a month atleast, id like to fix it but i dont know how.
ifly4vamerica said:
Have you tried
fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase system
Etc etc with userdata and cache also?
Might not work but worth a try.
G-Nexus Sent
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Sorry I didn't see this earlier. I ran the commands just now:
Code:
$ ./fastboot devices; ./fastboot erase boot; ./fastboot erase system; ./fastboot erase userdata; ./fastboot erase cache 130 ↵
016B75D71500B013 fastboot
erasing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.006s]
finished. total time: 0.006s
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.007s
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 0.032s]
finished. total time: 0.032s
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 1.881s]
finished. total time: 1.882s
Then it just boots up into the same old. (I'd tried at least some of those earlier, but I couldn't remembe which ones.)
This happened on the incredible to one of my rom users. Emmc or hardware related most likely. Either way there's not much hope to fix it if the usual methods don't work.
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can't wipe & phone powers down right after boot
Ok it looks like I have the same problem as alfadenzo, except when my Nexus finishes booting, I get a buzz, a red exclamation point in the battery icon, and a popup saying "battery is not charged, please plug in charger", and powers down.
I've flashed 3 or 4 different stock firmares via Odin.
I've flashed complete sytem img's via fastboot, first wiping everthing.
Despite all this, the same splash screen loads. I think its a from CM7
I've flashed cwm by itself via fastboot , but it doesnt stick. Instead I get the "exclamation point android" , and then the stock recovery which I cant do anything with.
I have *3* whole smacking batteries that I've used, allong with two seperate usb cables. One that came with the phone, and on that came with a different Nexus.
Is this a kernel or bootloader issue? Im all out of the options that I know of
Galaxay Nexus I505
Tuna
variant - toro
bootloader - primekk15
baseband I515 EK02 CDMA
carrier - none
Unlocked
Hi,
I am having the same issue. I tried everything. The recovery mode shows that partitions and files are erased/deleted. However, on next boot all comes live ! and my phone boots. but restarts within a few seconds!
When trying to flash using ODIN, the "system" update fails!
Anyone to help?
Hi, I'm having the same problem.
Have you found the solution??
I'm trying to
- Flash ROM from fastboot
- Flash TWRP from fastboot
- Erase partition from fastboot
- Go to recovery and delete all data in /sdcard using adb
- Trying to delete 1 widget from home screen and reboot
- Try to restore stock image using Odin, Fail in system.img
Nothing happened. My gnex boot like usual to the old home screen and nothing changed.
Then it reboot by itself.
Any ideas?
Same problems with me as I reported earlier! Some are saying that the internal memory has gone readonly and its permanent!
Do you think you can contact Samsung service for a solution? I have thought of so, but need to bring out some time for that.
rakun123 said:
Hi, I'm having the same problem.
Have you found the solution??
I'm trying to
- Flash ROM from fastboot
- Flash TWRP from fastboot
- Erase partition from fastboot
- Go to recovery and delete all data in /sdcard using adb
- Trying to delete 1 widget from home screen and reboot
- Try to restore stock image using Odin, Fail in system.img
Nothing happened. My gnex boot like usual to the old home screen and nothing changed.
Then it reboot by itself.
Any ideas?
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sudiptochoudhury said:
Same problems with me as I reported earlier! Some are saying that the internal memory has gone readonly and its permanent!
Do you think you can contact Samsung service for a solution? I have thought of so, but need to bring out some time for that.
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I haven't contact samsung service center yet. This is my old phone, it's already out of warranty so it might be costly.
I thought read only mode should give you an error message at least.
In this case, I'm feeling like using Deep Freeze but for Android
Looks like my gnex chip have emmc brickbug. I cannot check anymore using brickbug app checker because it always crashed after booting. But the symptoms is the same.
Still haven't found a way to fix it
Indeed sounds like a fried emmc. Sorry guys.
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On the same boat as you guys !
Same Scenario here ! :silly: ..... i got a GT-9250 brand new in box , was pulled out only once to try it out and it's in the EXACT same condition as mentioned by previous posters ! i have tried : Odin , fastboot flashes , Cyanogenmod Installer ( the one i had the most progress but failed as well ) , the regular reset procedure , nothing works ! its impossible to clean wipe the device !!! no matter what you do .... once the phone restarts , everything comes back again ! old apps , old data , old software !
I've read somewhere that the problem was related to the READ , WRITE permissions on the phone partitions , somehow .... and i know everyone of us come from different specific scenarios , but it may be worth to give it a try if someone knows how to help us out on that part because it makes sense, it seems the filesystem on the device is protected somehow and when we try to overwrite everything things go wrong ...
Too many people with that crazy issue without a solution , warranty claims or checks on that device are long gone blues ... so dont even think about it .... not with samsung or with the carriers ... its over for us , so we need to figure out a solution for this issue and get our devices back working properly ! :highfive:
Hoping someone here can give me some help. Sometime last night my phone crashed - had an error message on the screen asking me if i wanted to restart - basically the android version of a blue screen.
I rebooted and when it started up it tried to activate but failed. Tried it a few times, never activated. I called sprint and they had me type in 2 different codes:
##72786# which didn't get an error but didn't help anything
They had me try a 2nd 6 digit number, which I'm not sure if it's unique to my phone or not so I wont post it here but that did nothing at all - typed in the ##______# and nothing happened. They claimed it was because the phone is rooted, but the phone is ONLY rooted. I haven't installed a new OS it's the stock rom as far as i can tell.
Anyone have any ideas whats going wrong here or how to fix it?
thanks
edit: and apparently now I wiped the OS from the phone since it wont go past the LG logo. Is there some way for me to either copy a rom onto the phone from TWRP or copy a backup onto the phone? I've got a couple of TWRP backups saved on my pc, but since the phone wont start up I don't have any way of copying them onto the phone - damn non-user removable sd cards.
merkk said:
Hoping someone here can give me some help. Sometime last night my phone crashed - had an error message on the screen asking me if i wanted to restart - basically the android version of a blue screen.
I rebooted and when it started up it tried to activate but failed. Tried it a few times, never activated. I called sprint and they had me type in 2 different codes:
##72786# which didn't get an error but didn't help anything
They had me try a 2nd 6 digit number, which I'm not sure if it's unique to my phone or not so I wont post it here but that did nothing at all - typed in the ##______# and nothing happened. They claimed it was because the phone is rooted, but the phone is ONLY rooted. I haven't installed a new OS it's the stock rom as far as i can tell.
Anyone have any ideas whats going wrong here or how to fix it?
thanks
edit: and apparently now I wiped the OS from the phone since it wont go past the LG logo. Is there some way for me to either copy a rom onto the phone from TWRP or copy a backup onto the phone? I've got a couple of TWRP backups saved on my pc, but since the phone wont start up I don't have any way of copying them onto the phone - damn non-user removable sd cards.
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Can you boot to recovery?
If you can, then flash a newer TWRP build, they have MTP support, you can mount it while connected to your PC, copy a ROM zip over (there is a stock on in these threads somewhere), flash it from recovery, wipe everything first. Then you should be able to boot into a working device.
Yes I can boot into twrp, but I'm not sure how to copy files that way. I tried using adb but it couldnt find the phone. Can you give me some tips on how to copy a new ROM or twrp backup to the phone?
Thanks
merkk said:
Yes I can boot into twrp, but I'm not sure how to copy files that way. I tried using adb but it couldnt find the phone. Can you give me some tips on how to copy a new ROM or twrp backup to the phone?
Thanks
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Yes, first thing is to flash this.
http://cubegamemc.de/kevinjoa/lollipop/recovery-geehrc/twrp/
You can flash it through fastboot.
follow these steps:
1. Download and place the file on your PC.
2. Reboot your device into Fastboot Mode. To do that, simply hold down the Volume DOWN+Power buttons together.
3. Once inside the Fastboot mode, connect your device to your PC via USB cable.
4. Launch a Command Prompt Window in the folder you saved the recovery image to. You can do that by holding down the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any blank area on the screen, then select Open command window here.
4. Enter the following command into the Command Prompt Window. You need to replace recoveryfilename.img with the actual name of the Recovery Image you downloaded.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img
5. Once it is done, reboot your device
Code:
adb reboot recovery
should do it. If not, just hold down the power button, and get back to recovery.
at that point you should have the newest recovery. This recovery has MTP enabled so you can transfer files just like you can if you had a running device.
Once it shows up on you PC you can transfer a ROM zip or a backup to the internal SD. From there you I am sure you know how to flash a zip or restore a backup. It is the same as an older version. MTP should be under the "MOUNT" section of TWRP. I don't remember because I have a different device now.
Good luck!
If this doesn't work, follow the thread here: You would need the super big full bin file if you do though because you do not have a working ROM or zip currently on your internal SD card and this contains a very old recovery, but it does work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106
edit: I altered the directions from the source here for the att version. Don't worry, I changed them to suit your current need.
http://theunlockr.com/2013/03/26/how-to-install-twrp-recovery-on-the-lg-optimus-g-att/
My phone seems to behave a little differently than what you describe. Holding down the volume down and power button just turns it on. Holding vol up and power puts me into a screen with the android bot on it with the option to restart bootloader, go into recovery, or power off. and at the bottom there's some text indicating fastboot mode is on.
I was able to use the fastboot command to load the newer recovery. But for some reason, none of the adb commands work on my phone.
I'm copying a twrp backup to the phone now and i'll restore that. Hopefully that'll fix the issue of the phone not booting and if i am really lucky, fix the issue of the phone not being activated, but I'm not too hopeful about that.
Thanks again for all your help
hey - just wanted to say thank. Got my phone to boot back up again. Unfortunately the backup restore doesnt seem to have fixed my initial problem. Phone is back to saying it needs to be activated. Any ideas about that? It's also showing zero bars - not sure if that's what it's supposed to show when it's not activated.
Thanks again for your help
merkk said:
hey - just wanted to say thank. Got my phone to boot back up again. Unfortunately the backup restore doesnt seem to have fixed my initial problem. Phone is back to saying it needs to be activated. Any ideas about that? It's also showing zero bars - not sure if that's what it's supposed to show when it's not activated.
Thanks again for your help
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EDIT:: TRY THIS FIRST<
Do a full wipe of the system and data, not internal. GO to recovery, select wipe, then factory reset. Then boot your phone. You will have to setup everything again but it might help. If it does not, you can always restore your backup again.
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Interesting that your phone was the opposite for the buttons. Maybe I had it backwards, or maybe my source did. Either way I am glad you have a device that boots now.
Check this...
Go to the about section and see if your imei and other information are blank or have 0's. I am almost certain that there are 0000's.
If that's the case then you lost your EFS some how. and there is a way to recover that as long as you have a backup somewhere. You should have one somewhere if you used freegee to unlock your phone in the beginning. If not, perhaps an earlier backup you had of your device. A lot of the recoveries for this device make a backup of the EFS.
well i just dropped the phone off at a sprint repair store to see if they could do anything with it now that it actually boots. If they can't fix it, I'll try what you suggested. Although i already tried a factory reset and that didn't help.
well you are right about the esn/meid/IMEI - they are all zeros
I did a restore and then used freegee to restore the efs. Will free tell you if there is no backup of the EFS? Because i restored it, it finished pretty much instantly, and then i restarted the phone just be safe. Unfortunately it didn't fix it.
Phone still says searching for service, and now there's a little red x over the bars. Before the bars were blank but there was no red x. Not sure if that makes any difference.
Also, something else weird is going on now. I just tried copying a newer backup to the phone to try and restore the newer one. I don't seem to be able to copy files now. When i drag the folder windows , it says the device has stopped responding. If i try and copy each individual file in the backup folder, it starts to copy, and then just sits there like it froze, or like it's copying so slowly it might as well be frozen. I had to reflash twrp to the newer version and then I'm able to copy files.
Reloaded the efs backup again but still can't activate/have all zeros.
After running Joe stones cyanogenmod10.1 for almost a year I suddenly found my phone in a bootloop
It is stuck at the boot animation, restarting it brings it back to the same state.
All I did was somehow keep one of the buttons pressed (not even sure which one), and did see the shut down/reboot menu flashing by.
The mt1 U06 does appear in my file manager (linux) but cannot be ejected, trying to connect does nothing but show progress indicator.
Tried adb reboot> device not found
fastboot recovery> waiting for device
I have started making a backup using twrp, (yes, could access it) but that may backup what's broken too...)
Any idea if this is fixable?
But also, Why, oh why did this happen?
SvenHee said:
After running Joe stones cyanogenmod10.1 for almost a year I suddenly found my phone in a bootloop
It is stuck at the boot animation, restarting it brings it back to the same state.
All I did was somehow keep one of the buttons pressed (not even sure which one), and did see the shut down/reboot menu flashing by.
The mt1 U06 does appear in my file manager (linux) but cannot be ejected, trying to connect does nothing but show progress indicator.
Tried adb reboot> device not found
fastboot recovery> waiting for device
I have started making a backup using twrp, (yes, could access it) but that may backup what's broken too...)
Any idea if this is fixable?
But also, Why, oh why did this happen?
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Usualy for the fastboot output that you got it means you need to reinstall the drivers.
Sent from my SM-G850F
Reinstalling drivers if for windows is it not?
Until now I found that linux is super easy in installing adb and fastboot, and previously, during instalation of the phone, installing adb and fastboot was all I did.
Assuming that the 10.1 ROM still is present on your SD card try to reinstall it dirty. Just wipe cache and dalvik cache before rebooting into the system. Only the rom.
Got it working again with just a factory reset, but off course, all data and settings were gone.
I did try to put (partial) backups back but that broke the system again.
It is a shame that all my texts are gone, but I'll get over it.
Thanks for the help guys!
IS the android recovery menu stored in the bootloader?
Does the bootloader corresponds to the file boot.img on SP FLASH TOOL?
I have an alcatel 7047 xpop c9 (with MT6582M processor) . It power on and automatically goes to android recovery menu and there is no way to let it exit from this mode or to power off because the battery is not removable.
It seems that the problem appeared during an upgrade, because the battery discharged during the process.
Today i tried to use SP FLASH TOOL version 5 in order to write the flash, included preloader, boot, recovery etc., by using a backup for this phone found on internet. After flashing everything i tried to reboot the phone but each time the same menu is shown.
Question: does the boot.img file overwrites the bootloader? How could I understand what is the problem? Could I enable some print or log, even remote logging, in order to better understand what is going wrong?
Yesterday i also tried the upgrade tool from alcatel website (it reloads all the original files but the result is the same).
EDIT: i was able to open the case, remove the battery and replug it, but the problem is still the same: Reconnecting the battery and powering the phone, it automatically goes in the recovery menu.
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Wow, no reply. Is it there someone hereeeeeeeee?
gaucho1978 said:
IS the android recovery menu stored in the bootloader?
Does the bootloader corresponds to the file boot.img on SP FLASH TOOL?
I have an alcatel 7047 xpop c9 (with MT6582M processor) . It power on and automatically goes to android recovery menu and there is no way to let it exit from this mode or to power off because the battery is not removable.
It seems that the problem appeared during an upgrade, because the battery discharged during the process.
Today i tried to use SP FLASH TOOL version 5 in order to write the flash, included preloader, boot, recovery etc., by using a backup for this phone found on internet. After flashing everything i tried to reboot the phone but each time the same menu is shown.
Question: does the boot.img file overwrites the bootloader? How could I understand what is the problem? Could I enable some print or log, even remote logging, in order to better understand what is going wrong?
Yesterday i also tried the upgrade tool from alcatel website (it reloads all the original files but the result is the same).
EDIT: i was able to open the case, remove the battery and replug it, but the problem is still the same: Reconnecting the battery and powering the phone, it automatically goes in the recovery menu.
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Just discovered your post. Have you solved the issue?
First of all, the recovery image is not stored in the bootloader...whatever you meant by that. It is stored in the recovery partition. The boot.img is NOT the bootloader. It is the kernel. And it is stored in the boot partition. Those questions simply sound like you are trying to figure out why your phone is booting into recovery. Even after you have restored the STOCK ROM using Alcatel's Mobile Upgrade S.
My first thought was that you have no system image or that your custpack partition is corrupted. But those issues would lead to a boot loop or you would just hang on the boot logo and not move forward. Plus you restored the stock ROM. So that's really strange that you're booting only into recovery each time.
However what is more likely is that you are not starting your phone correctly. I once had a lady with the exact same issue. Her phone developed this strange problem where it would only boot into recovery. Her phone was completely stock. She never did anything with her phone except use it like a non-techie would use their phone. She didn't even know what recovery meant. All she knew was this strange menu always appeared when she started her phone.
BUT, when I booted her phone...guess what? It booted up just fine! But with her, her phone would always boot into recovery. You know why? I watched her boot her phone. She had developed a new habit every time she started her phone of inadvertently applying pressure on the Volume UP button while she was turning on her phone...because it was on the opposite side of the phone from the power button.
It's really weird that the problem persists even after you flashed back to stock. If that's the case, my only other guess is that your motherboard is damaged, or perhaps it's not you who is holding down the vol+ button...maybe it's just stuck.
I'm about 4 hours of reading in on this matter, and I still don't have a proper answer. I've run through countless threads with similar titles, and found some helpful tidbits, but nothing the resolves or fully explains what is going on here.
I just made the jump from Android 9.0.0 (latest) rooted to Android 10.0.0 (latest.) Here were my steps:
Download the latest Platform Tools & unzip
Download the latest Android 10.0.0 Factory image for Pixel 2 XL & unzip into the platform tools folder
Download the latest USB drivers & install
Hook up my phone to the computer (Windows 10) and verify that ADB & Fastboot are working properly via command prompt
Execute the flash-all.bat (left the -w flag in so that it wiped my data) -- it appeared to be only flashing the one slot except for a couple mentions of the other slot's system towards the end of the commands
The phone booted just fine and I went through and installed TWRP and Magisk 23 and so on
Here's where I encountered the error:
As I was rebooting out of TWRP, I realized I'd never used the "Slot A" or "Slot B" buttons, so I picked one, and it started rebooting the phone. The normal screen with the yellow text about phone being unlocked came up, then switched to the white background with the 'G' as expected. The expected next step would've been the 'G' spinning into a circle for a second, and then going to the homescreen, but instead what happened was the screen went black, and then a screen that said "Your device is corrupt. It can't be trusted and may not work properly." showed. It looked similar to the one when the phone first boots with the yellow text about the bootloader, but this text was red. I attempted to use the power button to bypass it, and when I did, it switched the the normal yellow-text-about-bootloader screen, and then switched to the 'G' with the white background again, but there it stayed, just frozen.
I was still able to boot to bootloader by using the power + down button, and could then boot to the stock recovery, but that was it. After a bit of reading, I discovered the following command:
fastboot set_active a
or
fastboot set_active b
and also fastboot getvar all
The set_active command chooses which Slot is being used, and the getvar command shows all the fastboot variables, one of which shows the "current_slot." Once I set the other Slot to be the active one and rebooted, the phone booted normally. Buuut, now I'm concerned that someone is screwed up with my phone, and it's going to fail at some point when I don't have my computer handy, so I went back to work trying to resolve the error when I booted out of the one slot.
Here's what I've tried:
Run the flash-all.bat file in one slot, let the phone reboot, boot to bootloader, switch slots, reboot to bootloader, flash-all.bat in the other slot.
Same as above, but without the -w flag.
Manually flash the bootloader, radio and image zip on both slots
Install the TWRP while booted into the adb-loaded TWRP img (this seems to write to both slots based on the output)
Install and uninstall Magisk both via recovery and via the patched stock boot image.
After every single attempt, the one slot would work just fine, and the other slot would exhibit the behavior I mentioned. Depending on which Slot is flashed first, the Slot that fails to boot properly does change (ie. it's not always Slot A or Slot B that fails.)
Untested methods:
Screwing with dm-verity -- I saw one thread that gave a few fastboot commands to disable dm-verity, and a couple people reporting success with it. After searching around and doing a bit of reading on dm-verity, I still don't understand what it does, whether disabling it would have any negative repercussions, and whether disabling it would fix the issue legitimately, or just kinda mute it.
Using Deuce's bootloop recovery tool -- again, I don't really know what that thing is running, it hasn't been maintained in quite some time as far as I can tell, and there are several threads indicating that it runs a bunch of haphazard stuff that could cause more problems. Some reports indicated it worked for them, but I'm concerned about what else it might be doing that may negatively affect things down the road.
Re-locking the bootloader -- I saw this one mentioned several times, but I also saw several people warning that you could brick your phone if you do it wrong. I also saw one or two folks who seemed like they couldn't get back to being unlocked after re-locking. I don't want to screw with this option given those risks.
Can anyone give me any more tips on how to resolve this? I'm pretty sure that the Pixels are supposed to run equally well from both slots, so I'd really like to get the matter resolved so I don't have to worry about what would happen if my phone moved me over to the other Slot for some reason. Any insight and explanations are appreciated!
People say that you cannot install both TWRP and magisk (I haven't tried it myself). So start again with a flash-all, and then, instead of installing TWRP, run it using fastboot boot whenever you need it.
The OP needs to flash a factory image first or the corruption message will never disappear. While he's at it he should make the jump to Android 11...latest radios and all that. If he doesn't want to lose data he can edit flash-all.bat in the factory image and remove the -w flag in that batch file.
From there he can flash anything he wants. If he plans on rooting however he cannot install TWRP, only boot it using ADB. The combination of Magisk and TWRP causes a bootloop.
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People say that you cannot install both TWRP and magisk (I haven't tried it myself). So start again with a flash-all, and then, instead of installing TWRP, run it using fastboot boot whenever you need it.
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The problem presents with even the stock boot image though.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
The OP needs to flash a factory image first or the corruption message will never disappear. While he's at it he should make the jump to Android 11...latest radios and all that. If he doesn't want to lose data he can edit flash-all.bat in the factory image and remove the -w flag in that batch file.
From there he can flash anything he wants. If he plans on rooting however he cannot install TWRP, only boot it using ADB. The combination of Magisk and TWRP causes a bootloop.
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Understood on the magisk / twrp thing, but regarding the factory image, that is exactly what I was going. The problem presents even after doing that. That's why it's so puzzling.
Edit: it's admittedly a very long post, but if you look at the section that's numbered, you'll see I'm grabbing the latest factory image for Android 10 and flashing it. Then in the section labeled "Here's What I've Tried" (aka my attempts to troubleshoot) the very first thing I did was flash the factory image (including the wipe) to both Slots and then trying to boot from one slot and then from the other.
Grab an Android 11 package and don't remove the -w flag when installing. The corruption may be persisting because user storage isn't being wiped.
The factory image - NOT OTA - is the only way to fix this short of sending the device to Google for service.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Grab an Android 11 package and don't remove the -w flag when installing. The corruption may be persisting because user storage isn't being wiped.
The factory image - NOT OTA - is the only way to fix this short of sending the device to Google for service.
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Why would it be any different when I wipe with Android 10 or Android 11? I flashed the latest Android 10 factory image to the phone *with* the -w flag as mentioned in my "here's what I tried" section. I even went so far as to force the phone to Slot A with the "set_active" command, and then set_active Slot B and flashed the factory image (not the OTA) again. After doing that, the one slot will boot just fine while the other gives the error. If I change it up and flash Slot B first and then Slot A the same thing occurs, just in reverse (the slot that booted before throws the error while the slot that threw the error before now boots.)
My initial post explains why I recommended an Android 11 ROM (updated radio). Any of them will of course work, but that's beside the point. Try using ADB to format the partitions and see if that resolves the issue. Otherwise contact Google, as I can't think of anything else that would be blocking you.
I had this same issue and Flashing Android 11 on both partitions (without removing the -w command) resolved it.
I first booted into Recovery Menu and wiped both slots. Then downloaded the factory image (not ota) and flashed each slot separately wiping the device after each flash in recovery menu. it's the only way to fix this just like user @Strephon Alkhalikoi
If that doesn't resolve it then you have an issue that's more serious and will require a repair of some sort (not necessarily hardware).