I recently tried to change my boot animation with the "Boot Animations for Superuser" app on the Play Store and now my phone won't boot anymore, I had the latest PixelExperience 9.0 installed and was rooted with magisk 20. When I boot up the phone it displays the "Your phone has been unlocked and can't be trusted message for around 60 seconds whilst vibrating once or twice and after that, the screen turns black and it continues to vibrate every couple of minutes. I still have access to TWRP and fastboot but I haven't found a way to get my boot animation back yet. I have flashed numerous boot animations but to no avail. I don't want to revert back to stock because I have seen various posts around here about people losing their IMEI numbers.
Does anybody have a solution?
Jz1803 said:
I recently tried to change my boot animation with the "Boot Animations for Superuser" app on the Play Store and now my phone won't boot anymore, I had the latest PixelExperience 9.0 installed and was rooted with magisk 20. When I boot up the phone it displays the "Your phone has been unlocked and can't be trusted message for around 60 seconds whilst vibrating once or twice and after that, the screen turns black and it continues to vibrate every couple of minutes. I still have access to TWRP and fastboot but I haven't found a way to get my boot animation back yet. I have flashed numerous boot animations but to no avail. I don't want to revert back to stock because I have seen various posts around here about people losing their IMEI numbers.
Does anybody have a solution?
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Dirty Flash the PE rom and it will bring back the PE boot animation for your device and boot your device.
riyan65 said:
Dirty Flash the PE rom and it will bring back the PE boot animation for your device and boot your device.
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just tried that, didn't work... still stuck on the Motorola your device is unlocked screen...
Jz1803 said:
just tried that, didn't work... still stuck on the Motorola your device is unlocked screen...
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Try formatting system from advanced wipe
Then flash rom zip gapps and magisk
If it doesn't boot then your data partition has also been modified and unless you know what changes were made or you created a twrp backup before the changes were made then you will also have to format data too
TheFixItMan said:
Try formatting system from advanced wipe
Then flash rom zip gapps and magisk
If it doesn't boot then your data partition has also been modified and unless you know what changes were made or you created a TWRP backup before the changes were made then you will also have to format data too
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Just tried formatting system and then flashing PE and it worked, however when I also flash magisk it goes back to freezing again but I guess thats not the end of the world. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions guys!!
Jz1803 said:
Just tried formatting system and then flashing PE and it worked, however when I also flash magisk it goes back to freezing again but I guess thats not the end of the world. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions guys!!
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Flash the magisk uninstall zip first to clean up any modules you may have
Also if you are flashing cannery builds of magisk try going back to stable versions
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The Problem: No matter what custom rom I load...it boots into an apparently endless display of the colorful boot animation that comes stock on the Nexus. I have to battery pull to get out of it. I've got an Unlocked/Rooted phone w/clockwork recovery working. I can backup and successfully restore the OEM rom I backed up after each failed custom rom install attempt.
I've been working through issue after issue all evening and have continued to hit the same problem no matter what my approach.
I've got Rom Manager and can download and load ROMS via it's GUI - or by booting into clockwork recovery and doing it manually by choosing the zip I previously downloaded. I've renamed the oem recovery file in system etc... still no joy getting anything to boot successfully except the OEM image I backed up.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
nondem said:
The Problem: No matter what custom rom I load...it boots into an apparently endless display of the colorful boot animation that comes stock on the Nexus. I have to battery pull to get out of it. I've got an Unlocked/Rooted phone w/clockwork recovery working. I can backup and successfully restore the OEM rom I backed up after each failed custom rom install attempt.
I've been working through issue after issue all evening and have continued to hit the same problem no matter what my approach.
I've got Rom Manager and can download and load ROMS via it's GUI - or by booting into clockwork recovery and doing it manually by choosing the zip I previously downloaded. I've renamed the oem recovery file in system etc... still no joy getting anything to boot successfully except the OEM image I backed up.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
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How long exactly are you waiting on the boot animation? when you first flash a new rom, it can often take a long time on this screen first boot up. be patient. dont pull the battery unless its been like 15 minutes
can you give us any info on what phone you are using, and which roms you tried?
When you flash a completely different ROM, you HAVE to do a full data wipe in CWM.
When you update the current ROM, you have to do a wipe cache and dalvik cache.
And like the guy above said, it can take a while on first boot.
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Progress
First - Thanks for the help. I did a full data/cache wipe right before attempting to flash a ROM and it worked. Didn't even take longer than usual to boot into the OS.
I had done that earlier but I think it must have been the order I had followed or something. Regardless - I got a ROM up and running and can repeat the process reliably
Of course - there is another hurdle that I don't find anything on so far...if I add the google apps to the ROM I get stuck in a crashing Verizon login wizard. "Touch here" results in a crash message and the wizard restarts.
I can access settings and use the phone - but "Home" is the wizard.
Hey all,
So I updated my pixel xl to Android O, and then used the modified TWRP to flash Super Su, SUhide. The phone booted up and everything was perfect. It was a little sluggish so I decided to do a full factory reset... again, phone reset, booted perfectly. I then restored all my apps from the google play store cloud... phone was functioning fine.
I went to reboot the phone after a while... and now the phone is stuck on the G logo after the bouncing dots... and just continues to load.
It's been like that for over 20 minutes.
Is this normal? Anyway I can fix this?
Thanks!
8.0.0 rooting nightmare
gaw54 said:
Hey all,
So I updated my pixel xl to Android O, and then used the modified TWRP to flash Super Su, SUhide. The phone booted up and everything was perfect. It was a little sluggish so I decided to do a full factory reset... again, phone reset, booted perfectly. I then restored all my apps from the google play store cloud... phone was functioning fine.
I went to reboot the phone after a while... and now the phone is stuck on the G logo after the bouncing dots... and just continues to load.
It's been like that for over 20 minutes.
Is this normal? Anyway I can fix this?
Thanks!
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I have the same exact issue after following the exact process described above. After a weekend of frustration, I was thrilled to see this post, but then bummed there are no suggestions. There is no way I can get it back to recovery, no matter what power/volume combination I try. The phone is not detectable by ADB either, so unless a kind soul has a suggestion, there seems to be nothing to do except let the battery die and hope.
Umm boot into bootloader and flash stock boot.img and system.img?
george241312 said:
Umm boot into bootloader and flash stock boot.img and system.img?
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I would love to do that, but how is it possible if there is no power or volume button combination that can get me off of the Google boot screen and into bootloader?
Have you tried Power + volume down ? It'll turn off after release power button only. That or let the battery die and when you try to plug it up next time leave vol down pressed.
george241312 said:
Have you tried Power + volume down ? It'll turn off after release power button only. That or let the battery die and when you try to plug it up next time leave vol down pressed.
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I have tried that, thank you. I will let battery die and do the Volume Down method you suggest, and report back.
edjanx said:
I have tried that, thank you. I will let battery die and do the Volume Down method you suggest, and report back.
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That did the trick. Back to stock 8.0.0, and hoping to find a stable root method that doesn't hang-up on the first reboot. Thanks for the help!
First of all. Hold the power button for about 20 secs and the phone will reboot.
Hold vol - and you are straight to bootloader.
Second flash full factory to both slots.
And third stop using the - w solution when you are coming from another rom or a different stock version. We had this problems on other forums and it was every time - w or not flashing both slots. I know for many people there will be no problem but some apps are just misbehaving when you do so. And they are causing reboots and bootloops.
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First of all. Hold the power button for about 20 secs and the phone will reboot.
Hold vol - and you are straight to bootloader.
Second flash full factory to both slots.
And third stop using the - w solution when you are coming from another rom or a different stock version. We had this problems on other forums and it was every time - w or not flashing both slots. I know for many people there will be no problem but some apps are just misbehaving when you do so. And they are causing reboots and bootloops.
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OK, thank you! I am not familiar with the -w method. This is a new Pixel XL I received from Google to replace a nexus 6p with a bootloader issue. I made the mistake of not attempting this before it updated from 7.1.2 to 8.0.0, or it may have been a different story.
So I have the the phone restored to 8.0.0 and was going to attempt root. But I didn't realize there are two slots to flash. I simply ran flash-all.bat and the phone came back up. So I guess I'd have to move the Sept security stock image over to the phone along with the SU, SU Config (which may not be needed if on 8.0.0?), and Su Hide. Then I boot up TWRP 3.1.1 and flash stock image to both slots, reboot, then get back into TWRP and run the SU, then SU Hide on *both* slots?
Thanks!
Janx
Run flashall.bat on the slot you are now in. Reboot to system
Back to bootloader. Switch slots through fastboot
fastboot --set-active=_b
fasboot reboot bootloader
Now you should be on the other slot
Flashall.bat
Reboot to system
Back to bootloader
fastboot boot twrp.img (latest)
In twrp put latest su or in my case magisk 14.2, twrp zip on device.
If you use su just flash it
If you use magisk. Flash magisk, flash twrp.zip and magisk again. With magisk twrp will stick.
Reboot and you are good to go.
If you want a kernel you have to flash twrp and magisk after again.
mikaole said:
Run flashall.bat on the slot you are now in. Reboot to system
Back to bootloader. Switch slots through fastboot
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If you want a kernel you have to flash twrp and magisk after again.
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Thank you! I will be able to perform this sequence in a few hours and will report back. :good:
Ok. Will be in bed than. If you have any problems give me a PM and we can do it together via hangouts.
Update: I successfully flashed A & B, got to the step where I flash Magisk 14.2. It finished unmounting partitions, but when updating partition details fails, "failed to mount '/system' (device or resource busy)...done
It said successfully installed, so I flashed twrp to the boot image, flashed magisk again, and it is now rebooting endlessly. Wrong place to flash the twrp image I'm guessing?
EDIT: Just noticed your message, good night - thanks again. I'm working through it and will take you up on your kind offer should I not find success.
I did a 'flash-all.sh' on both A and B again, copying over my old phone, then will attempt to gain root by booting into TWRP 3.1.1, installing "SR3-SuperSU-v2.82-SR3-20170813133244", reboot bootloader, go into TWRP again and then install "UPDATE-suhide-v1.08-20170815171034"
EDIT #2: EDIT #2: Stable root achieved using newer versions of files "SR5-SuperSU-v2.82-SR5-20171001224502" & after booting, applying "UPDATE-suhide-v1.09-20171001222116". So far it has survived several reboots, so I'm hoping it's all good now.
Long story short installed substratum and it was working fine, had a navbar theme already running and installed another one. Few hours later rebooted phone and when it booted back up systemui crashed and it went into bootlooping into that over and over again. Now it bootloops a few times and goes into a recovery menu that only gives me the options to try rebooting again or a factory data reset.
The phone boots into bootloader/fastboot just fine and I can get into recovery but the only options I have are 'try again' and 'factory data reset' I know that FDR is basically my only option and so be it. BUT IF POSSIBLE I want to try and backup the internal data or at least as much of it as possible.
So, is it possible to backup any internal data with only having access to bootloader/fastboot.
I've spent over an hour searching to this answer but either I was searching wrong or simply was not able to find the answer. Pixel XL is 100% stock. Never modded, never rooted, stock recovery, stock latest official Oreo from OTA update.
So again. Absolutely no access to the OS. Only access bootloader/fastboot and a form of the recovery menu and I would like to somehow backup the internal data. I don't care about apps or any app data, specifically just the user data if at all possible. If not well then I'm screwed and that's that.
Hello,
Happened to me also something like this. The phone rebooted and the only option were those presented to you also. But, I pressed the "Try again". If this still doesn't work, when the device is rebooting, and the white screen appears, try and hold on to the power button until the moving dots appear.
Also, this didn't wipe anything on my device.
Hope this is useful to you.
moraritza1 said:
Hello,
Happened to me also something like this. The phone rebooted and the only option were those presented to you also. But, I pressed the "Try again". If this still doesn't work, when the device is rebooting, and the white screen appears, try and hold on to the power button until the moving dots appear.
Also, this didn't wipe anything on my device.
Hope this is useful to you.
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Does nothing. Just reboots back into recovery. I've tried Try Again probably 100 times and nothing ever changes. Even safe mode does not work. The SystemUI is completely dead.
I'm 90% sure there is no way to fix the phone other than factory data reset and I'm fine with that. I just want to know if I can backup anything from bootloader/fastboot before I do that.
Have you tried using ADB to boot ( not flash ) a custom recovery, and from there to backup the phone, and after if it's possible, to use the USB-OTG to copy that backup to an USB memory stick?
Looking at the Substratum FAQ in the app it says that if you experience a bootloop you should be able to flash /storage/emulated/0/substratum/SubstratumRescue.zip in recovery and it should fix the boot loop.
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Looking at the Substratum FAQ in the app it says that if you experience a bootloop you should be able to flash /storage/emulated/0/substratum/SubstratumRescue.zip in recovery and it should fix the boot loop.
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As Matt already mentioned, there's a rescue zip file which comes by default with substratum. It's purpose is to remove all overlays which you've currently installed.
In case you don't have a custom recovery installed you can simply boot into twrp via adb (without having flash the recovery)
Android-xp said:
As Matt already mentioned, there's a rescue zip file which comes by default with substratum. It's purpose is to remove all overlays which you've currently installed.
In case you don't have a custom recovery installed you can simply boot into twrp via adb (without having flash the recovery)
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What if you're bootloader locked? Is there a way to recover from a bad overlay?
You could try to flash the factory image if you've unlocked the BL, just remove the -w from the flash all script
bobby janow said:
What if you're bootloader locked? Is there a way to recover from a bad overlay?
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If you have checked the option to potentially allow unlocking your bootloader in dev-settings you can use fastboot to unlock your bootloader and boot into the bootable recovery image
I tried to update to the latest update to the Razer Phone and was able to install it successfully, but when I went to install Magisk on the new update, it caused the Wifi to stop working. For that reason, I tried to restore my old TWRP backup I made prior to updating which everything was working before updating. I wiped cache, dalvik, data and system and restored my old backup. Now when I try to boot, it gets stuck at the Razer logo and doesn't get past that. I also tried wiping data and restoring the system image only to no avail and it didn't do anything.
Have you tried booting to TWRP and booting The other [email protected]
How long did you wait on the Razer logo.. When I reset my phone after relocking it.. It took 10+min for first boot. I was scared it wasn't gonna work but I just left it alone and it eventually booted itself up
mikeandjaimie said:
How long did you wait on the Razer logo.. When I reset my phone after relocking it.. It took 10+min for first boot. I was scared it wasn't gonna work but I just left it alone and it eventually booted itself up
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Thanks. I'll try that and see if it works. But I let it sit for 5 or so minutes.
Edit: I'll go ahead and add it was stuck at the Razer logo. It never got to the actual boot animation.
Edit 2: I let it sit for 20+ minutes and it wouldn't boot or get past the Razer logo.
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Yes I've tried switching slots and it didn't work.
Any luck with the stuck at logo screen? I followed instructions from Razer and fkashall and now it won't boot to recovery download or system . It just hangs at the logo screen for better part of 2 hours now so it's not a waiting game .. any luck in fixing yours?
hi there, same here after flashing google pixel experience on razer phone1. seems to be a general problem for many users. Any hints?
Best regards
Michael
I have the same problem, but I wasn't updating or installed any new app. I was just ordering food from an app and then all of a sudden my phone restared and got stuck in a bootloop.
I reflashed the stock rom, over and over, slot a or slot b, hoping that would fix it somehow... it's just stuck there now. I could go into download mode and recovery mode. but, it's only until there.
now it's bootloop until it gets into download mode...
ThatGuy94 said:
I tried to update to the latest update to the Razer Phone and was able to install it successfully, but when I went to install Magisk on the new update, it caused the Wifi to stop working. For that reason, I tried to restore my old TWRP backup I made prior to updating which everything was working before updating. I wiped cache, dalvik, data and system and restored my old backup. Now when I try to boot, it gets stuck at the Razer logo and doesn't get past that. I also tried wiping data and restoring the system image only to no avail and it didn't do anything.
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I could fix it. After flashing (even Android Pi) you have to do a factory reset.
IMPORTANT: THE FACTORY RESET IN TWRP DOES NOT WORK. So you have to flash the boot-sector in your system partition with the stock boot.img and reset to STOCK RECOVERY by typing "fastboot reboot" and pressing the vol-up button. Once in stock recovery, do a factory reset and return to bootloader. Now you can flash the boot.partition with twrp boot.img, install in recovery the stock boot.img, install the twrp-installer.zip and reboot to system. The bootlogo will not stuck anymore.
I hope, I could help you. Do not forget to backup before trying.
Best regards
Mellus
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I was on AEX and tried a new roms (Pixys, Evolution, Pixel Experience etc) and none of them booted the android.
Tried to restore AEX and even that is not booting. Phone keeps rebooting in loop without booting to any os including the restored backup.
Evolution and pixel after a clean installation says "no os".
Phone stays in start mode and does not move beyond this point.
Phone boots to twrp recovery.
Any idea what is wrong? Have corrupted the phone that it can't be used?
Is there a way out?
Quick solution would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Anyone has a solution/suggestion for this?Deperate now since there is no alternate phone.
Thanks again
The phone boots recovery and adb commands work whereas fastboot commands don't work. I am able to flash vendor2factory and rom successfully with no error but the phone still not boot android but vibrates and goes back start screen and if i don't press any keys it restarts again after showing the ZUK logo.
I hope i have been able to explain the situation. I am still not able to boot the android despite trying more than one rom.
Anyone has any clues? Thanks
ramadurair said:
I was on AEX and tried a new roms (Pixys, Evolution, Pixel Experience etc) and none of them booted the android.
Tried to restore AEX and even that is not booting. Phone keeps rebooting in loop without booting to any os including the restored backup.
Evolution and pixel after a clean installation says "no os".
Phone stays in start mode and does not move beyond this point.
Phone boots to twrp recovery.
Any idea what is wrong? Have corrupted the phone that it can't be used?
Is there a way out?
Quick solution would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
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I am having the same problem. I was in pixel experience and i flashed latest pixel experiences august security patch, it showed no os but it booted. But there were several bugs in the rom, i thought it was roms problem and then i tried to flash evolution, it again showed no os after flashing and then i got stuck at evolution x boot logo. So, i tried to qfil zui but to no avail, the flashing process won't even start the qpst tool just freezes after pressing the download button. Then in the twrp i noticed that battery percentage is different at different times sometimes it shows correct value but somes it won't so i thought that the problem might be from twrp and then i flashed new twrp but again same problem. Then i flashed arrow os 10.0 without gapps, it booted successfully then i flashed gapps. After sometime i tried to flash evolution x but got stuck at boot logo again. Finally i flashed arrows os again it booted successfully (i flashed rom and gapps separetly)
So, FINALLY THE TEMPORARY SOLUTION IS TO FLASH ARROW OS IT WILL BOOT SUCCESSFULLY BUT THEN AGAIN OTHER ROMS WON'T BOOT. IF I FIND ANY SOLUTION I WILL POST HERE
muralee krishna said:
I am having the same problem. I was in pixel experience and i flashed latest pixel experiences august security patch, it showed no os but it booted. But there were several bugs in the rom, i thought it was roms problem and then i tried to flash evolution, it again showed no os after flashing and then i got stuck at evolution x boot logo. So, i tried to qfil zui but to no avail, the flashing process won't even start the qpst tool just freezes after pressing the download button. Then in the twrp i noticed that battery percentage is different at different times sometimes it shows correct value but somes it won't so i thought that the problem might be from twrp and then i flashed new twrp but again same problem. Then i flashed arrow os 10.0 without gapps, it booted successfully then i flashed gapps. After sometime i tried to flash evolution x but got stuck at boot logo again. Finally i flashed arrows os again it booted successfully (i flashed rom and gapps separetly)
So, FINALLY THE TEMPORARY SOLUTION IS TO FLASH ARROW OS IT WILL BOOT SUCCESSFULLY BUT THEN AGAIN OTHER ROMS WON'T BOOT. IF I FIND ANY SOLUTION I WILL POST HERE
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Now the phone is not even booting into recovery after i did a qfil install on zui rom. Looping into start screen only.
ramadurair said:
Now the phone is not even booting into recovery after i did a qfil install on zui rom. Looping into start screen only.
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When you qfil, the recovery will be lost i think. But since you cannot enable usb debugging i think you wont be able to flash twrp.
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ramadurair said:
Now the phone is not even booting into recovery after i did a qfil install on zui rom. Looping into start screen only.
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I think the problem is our phone is not able to boot big rom i.e. roms of size close to 1gb or more than 1gb since arrow os without gapps is only 600mb my phone is able to boot. If you are able to find the solution or get your phone repaired at any cell repair centre please let me know
bro is your phone working now