Hi, yesterday a friend of mine gave me a nexus 5x with the bootloop of the dead issue, I charged the battery 100% and then started to play a little bit. I managed to get into recovery mode and tried a data/cache wipe, the issue was obviously still there, the thing is when I went to recovery mode, one of the options is "Apply Update from ADB". I went into that mode by mistake, withouth having the phone connected to the PC and now it won't start, not even with the Recovery mode command (voulme+power key). Is there a way to reactivate the recovery mode? The phone is unresponsive to any key combination. Thanks!
@nemesys660: to be sure, Power+VolUp doesn't work. Power+VolDown offers the base menu of bootloader. If you cannot start this way: does system boot (sometimes)?
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Nexus 5X - was working fine all this while till about yesterday evening.. then suddenly when i causally checked, it was in powered off state.
Normal press of the power button did not work. No response. Pressed Power button for 10 seconds -- google logo appeared...... and that's about it -- it powered off again when OS/Android started to load. (no android boot animation).
Tried to boot to fastboot -> was successfull. Phone stays alive in fastboot mode.
Tried to boot into recovery (I had TWRP). Again, shows google logo and then when TWRP screen shows up - phone shuts down.
Dont think its a power button issue - since in fastboot/bootloader mode, the power button and rest of the buttons work as expected & the phone does not reboot.
Battery is fully charged using official charger.
Further, in fastboot mode, i am able to access/push .img files - so that way, i could push full factory image (with no errors, including userdata) & relock the boot-loader & also install the factory recovery.
I can now get into factory recovery -- but nothing much.
One thing i noted was, while in factory recovery, if i try "Apply update from SDCard" option, it says its unable to mount /sdcard (error).
The phone was purchased directly from google & is under warranty.
Have had nexus 4, nexus 5 without any issues in the past.
This nexus 5x --- has been replaced once in the past due to yellow screen issues ...
Any help/fixes will be appreciated...
arjunprabhu said:
Nexus 5X - was working fine all this while till about yesterday evening.. then suddenly when i causally checked, it was in powered off state.
Normal press of the power button did not work. No response. Pressed Power button for 10 seconds -- google logo appeared...... and that's about it -- it powered off again when OS/Android started to load. (no android boot animation).
Tried to boot to fastboot -> was successfull. Phone stays alive in fastboot mode.
Tried to boot into recovery (I had TWRP). Again, shows google logo and then when TWRP screen shows up - phone shuts down.
Dont think its a power button issue - since in fastboot/bootloader mode, the power button and rest of the buttons work as expected & the phone does not reboot.
Battery is fully charged using official charger.
Further, in fastboot mode, i am able to access/push .img files - so that way, i could push full factory image (with no errors, including userdata) & relock the boot-loader & also install the factory recovery.
I can now get into factory recovery -- but nothing much.
One thing i noted was, while in factory recovery, if i try "Apply update from SDCard" option, it says its unable to mount /sdcard (error).
The phone was purchased directly from google & is under warranty.
Have had nexus 4, nexus 5 without any issues in the past.
This nexus 5x --- has been replaced once in the past due to yellow screen issues ...
Any help/fixes will be appreciated...
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if you press hold power + volume up you go into download mode. there is a thread with all official MM and N roms, so you should be able to install one and hopefully fix your problem. ofc do a clean install
if that does not work, then you might have more luck with lg flash tool to do a factory reset
if nothing works then imo its hardware problem, but since i am not as good at such stuff as most here i refrain to say so
Giorgos Chatziioannou said:
if you press hold power + volume up you go into download mode. there is a thread with all official MM and N roms, so you should be able to install one and hopefully fix your problem. ofc do a clean install
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can you please point me to the forum links on how to flash using download mode? -- Nevermind : got the links. will try.
Hey guys, My moto Z Play died on me, and it doesn't budge from the AP Fastboot Flash Mode.
I can do the selections using the volume keys but nothing happens when I try to select one of the mode, including the Start, Recovery Mode, QCOM, Bootloader logs. It just gets stuck there until I restart the phone again to this mode using the power and volume down keys.
Only option that works in here is the restart bootloader option which pushes it back to the same screen.
The problem here is I the USB debugging was not enabled before this happened, so I am not able to detect the phone in either the Adb fastboot or in RSD lite.
Looks like its been hardbricked or the internal storage has been corrupted.
Any suggesstions to be able to flash the stock firmware to my phone.
PS: Its a verizon phone.
thanks
azeem.droid said:
Hey guys, My moto Z Play died on me, and it doesn't budge from the AP Fastboot Flash Mode.
I can do the selections using the volume keys but nothing happens when I try to select one of the mode, including the Start, Recovery Mode, QCOM, Bootloader logs. It just gets stuck there until I restart the phone again to this mode using the power and volume down keys.
Only option that works in here is the restart bootloader option which pushes it back to the same screen.
The problem here is I the USB debugging was not enabled before this happened, so I am not able to detect the phone in either the Adb fastboot or in RSD lite.
Looks like its been hardbricked or the internal storage has been corrupted.
Any suggesstions to be able to flash the stock firmware to my phone.
PS: Its a verizon phone.
thanks
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The question is what did you do to the Verizon "unlocked bootlader" phone to get you to this point?
I've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4" which no longer has a working display. I want to back up as much of it as I can, so I've set to work on installing TWRP. I already installed and used it successfully on an identical device (but with the screen working!), but this time round, it just doesn't work.
TL;DR: My questions: Is there any way to add TWRP to my device without using Download Mode? Is there any way to check if TWRP is installed? And is there any way to, once I'm in Download Mode, determine that without exiting and without a display?
My process: I've tried getting into Download Mode both by shutting down, then holding the power, volume down, and home buttons for ten or so seconds, then following up with a volume up press to confirm that I want to use download mode; and by just typing reboot download in adb. I've then used Odin to flash it with TWRP. Odin shows a PASS, so I wait for the tablet to reboot into the normal mode.
Once there, I've tried to get into TWRP by both shutting down, then holding the power, volume up, and home buttons for ten or so seconds; and by just typing reboot recovery in adb. But, no matter how long I wait, my device never reconnects to my computer, and adb shell can't connect to it.
When I've rebooted into recovery, I seem to be able to press the power button once, and it reboots into the normal boot mode; this indicates to me that it's in the normal Recovery Mode, since this isn't default TWRP behaviour. That would mean that TWRP hasn't been successfully installed.
I came across this thread, which suggested that using Odin to flash a device while it's not in Download Mode would likely have no effect. My figuring, then, is that I haven't successfully booted into Download Mode ever.
Interestingly, when I ran Odin during what I thought was Download Mode, it did seem to restart the device when it was done (at least, after a bit I could connect to it normally with adb).
My question, then: Is there any way to add TWRP to my device without using Download Mode? Is there any way to check if TWRP is installed? And is there any way to, once I'm in Download Mode, determine that without exiting and without a display?
I know it's a bit of a tricky one, so :good: if you can think of an answer to any of those.
I wonder if the hdmi adaptors would work in recover, they are quite cheap to buy.
Your issue is likely that you're not manually booting to recovery IMMEDIATELY after flashing with Odin. TWRP is obviously successfully flashing.
You need to disable auto-reboot then when odin states PASS, force manual reboot by holding POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN for a few seconds then change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.
This is all gonna come down to timing, so you may have to do it several times until you get it.
In any case if all you need to back up is your stuff stored on internal storage, you don't need twrp for that. Just connect the tablet to the PC and use MTP to backup what you need.
Hi everybody, yesterday I was playing with my old Galaxy A50 trying to install a custom rom unsuccessfully.
I repeated the procedure three times installing TWRP and then Havoc OS but every time I tried to reboot from TWRP to OS I was stuck at the warning screen saying that the phone bootloader was unlocked and booting into download mode to reflash TWRP was blocked as it showed "only official binaries can be installed" (yes I installed Samsung disabler but still).
Still I was able to get the phone into download mode and reinstall the stock firmware as it seemed to be the only way to install and boot TWRP.
But at 4th time repeating the process I got frustrated, shut down the computer and left the phone on the warning screen still connected to computer usb cable.
Then I got back and noticed the phone was off as the battery died.
Indeed the battery died, so I put the phone in charging and after it reached 100% I tried to boot into download mode again to reflash stock firmware.
But here's the strange thing, I cannot boot into download mode anymore as pressing vol up+vol down while connecting usb cable, shows the lightning charge logo for 5 secs and then reboots infinitely with the same pattern.
If I force reboot by pressing vol down+power it shows the Samsung logo with the warning below it, then skips to another screen with another warning suggesting to press power button to continue (which does nothing) and after a while reboots to samsung logo.
So it doesn't seem it is bricked, it looks more like a battery controller fault, so I tried to detach the battery flex from the board, hoping it would reset the controller but it's still the same.
Also I tried with the flex detached and still no download mode is possible.
Was the download mode somehow erased? (if it's even possible considering it's the motherboard firmware)
If you need photos, videos or even a call on zoom, Skype, webex I would be glad to show you
same i got the same problem i can't find nothing for this when i press volume up and down and put the otg cable its simply charges but it gets stuck on the logo image there's no way to fix this but the only way is to open the phone,change the emmc and put one from samsung,close the phone flash a custom rom and you are done.
If you can enter recovery, do it. As soon as your phone gets into it, select the power off variant and then try to enter the download mode.
It seems like you did not unlock the bootloader, did you?
The bootloader Is unlocked i can't enter in the recovery because the phone locks on charging logo and its fully charged but when i try without charger It doesn't start.
Hello,
my wife got a S21 FE (SM-G990B/DS VD2). Yesterday it started to reboot over and over out of a sudden, showing the samsung logo first, followed by the knox logo, then shutting off and on again. Tried several guides to enter Recovery or Download Mode. The only thing that worked was entering download mode by pressing Vol up, down and power while a USB-Cable is plugged in, but as soon as i press the vol up button to pass the "warning screen", it shows some phone specs for a couple of seconds, shuts off and starts bootlooping again. After some hours, the phone once entered recovery mode when it lied next to me for about an hour. Tried to wipe cache, but just got an error I can't remember right now. Hoped it fixed itself when it made it to recovery and just rebooted to see if it works again, but then it just keept bootlooping again.
Since then I couldn't figure out why it once booted to recovery on it's own nor why I can't force it to enter recovery by pressing vol up + on.
Still hope it's just a faulty update or bug, but feels very much like it's a hardware related issue. Replacing the phone won't be an issue, but I'd really want to save data on the phone as my wife didn't make any backups and really wants to keep the photos.
As I just found guides that included recovery or DL-Mode, which are both no valid options for my case, I'd be thankful for any ideas to fix the phone or at least gain access to files before replacing it.
So.. did anyone come across similar issues and found a solution to revive the phone or are there any "unpopular" ways to recover samsung phones out of this state?
Edit:
Turned off completely overnight, booted once to system, looped again and now it's working like nothing ever happened. Got no clue what caused it or why it is working again. Saved everything for the case it happens again.
Wouldn't trust that device anymore, but my wife wants to keep it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would just like to reply here and add my own potential fix and also would like confirmation that it would work.
So I have a SM-G996B in a boot loop which returns a 'fs_mgr_mount_all' error. Possible to reboot into recovery mode, cleared cache and restarted bootloader etc with the same boot loop. Powered off and connected to PC for Download mode for ODIN recovery but upon pressing volume up, it then restarts again so Download mode recovery is impossible.
I know however that Developer options and USB debugging was enabled on the device as well as unlocked boot loader. I was able to download the correct original stock OS based on the PDA , CSC and Android version.
I have then installed the latest ADB software on my PC and Samsung USB drivers.
By then rebooting into recovery mode, I have the option of 'Apply update from ADB'. I have then confirmed the device connects using the ADB devices command.
I would like to clarify one thing however. I want to keep the user data at all costs. By using the stock firmware and renaming as update.zip, will it use the HOME_CSC and not the CSC file? If not would it work if I open the zip and remove the CSC before re-zipping to make sure?
Thanks
Reebee said:
Hello,
my wife got a S21 FE (SM-G990B/DS VD2). Yesterday it started to reboot over and over out of a sudden, showing the samsung logo first, followed by the knox logo, then shutting off and on again. Tried several guides to enter Recovery or Download Mode. The only thing that worked was entering download mode by pressing Vol up, down and power while a USB-Cable is plugged in, but as soon as i press the vol up button to pass the "warning screen", it shows some phone specs for a couple of seconds, shuts off and starts bootlooping again. After some hours, the phone once entered recovery mode when it lied next to me for about an hour. Tried to wipe cache, but just got an error I can't remember right now. Hoped it fixed itself when it made it to recovery and just rebooted to see if it works again, but then it just keept bootlooping again.
Since then I couldn't figure out why it once booted to recovery on it's own nor why I can't force it to enter recovery by pressing vol up + on.
Still hope it's just a faulty update or bug, but feels very much like it's a hardware related issue. Replacing the phone won't be an issue, but I'd really want to save data on the phone as my wife didn't make any backups and really wants to keep the photos.
As I just found guides that included recovery or DL-Mode, which are both no valid options for my case, I'd be thankful for any ideas to fix the phone or at least gain access to files before replacing it.
So.. did anyone come across similar issues and found a solution to revive the phone or are there any "unpopular" ways to recover samsung phones out of this state?
Edit:
Turned off completely overnight, booted once to system, looped again and now it's working like nothing ever happened. Got no clue what caused it or why it is working again. Saved everything for the case it happens again.
Wouldn't trust that device anymore, but my wife wants to keep it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Similar issue with same phone. In a bootloop after trying to root. None of the button combinations have worked for me, for the past several days.
Tried powering the phone off for the whole night.
When connected to the PC shows phone is in recovery mode via adb (blank screen though).
Want to know how to get into DL-mode, guaranteed.
Got to DL mode by pressing vol up + down + power + usb cable connected in PC and phone. However, couldn't do anything there, but maybe you can
Also, phone is still working and I still have no clue what was the problem and what fixed it.