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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"
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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:
So I made a post in the general help thread and nobody has replied (although I've only waited a few days so I could probably wait a bit longer) but still I feel like my phone's issues are "unique" compared to other bootloops, I can't find anyone else having the same symptoms on their phone. I'll repost what I said in the general help thread and then give a brief overview of everything because I simply cannot comprehend why I'm unable to get out of bootloop with this damn phone.
So I just recently picked up an old Zenfone 2 (ZE500CL) off of my father who didn't really need it anymore and it was an upgrade from my old ****ty phone, so of course I wanted to root it and after using it for a few hours I wanted to install a custom rom by unlocking the bootloader. Well, I tried that, and something must have gone wrong because I got a bootloop and was only really able to boot into recovery mode.
Now, I didn't backup because I'm dumb for one and two I generally have a good idea of where to start if something does go wrong. The thing is, the methods I've looked up and tried have all failed. First, reflashing the stock rom of my ZE500CL (I've tried four different firmwares from the official website, and I know it's ZE500CL because that's what recovery mode is telling me) does not work. Adb hits 47% in the command prompt, the phone stays at 25% until then, and it goes:
E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted
Not sure why it doesn't work, I looked it up and tried various things and it just isn't resolving itself.
So I tried simply running commands like the following:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Using files from the stock firmwares themselves, and that gives me a flash_cmds error. I've tried deleting all of the userdata, the system, the cache, and a factory reset through recovery mode but none of that works. I'd really appreciate any help anyone could offer, this is a pickle and I'd really like to get this phone back up so that I can just run it as a rooted phone.
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Now, I'll go over the issues quickly:
I'm stuck in bootloop but I can get into recovery mode
Trying to flash any rom, including multiple stock roms from the asus website, results in an installation aborted message at 47% in either ADB or microSD attempt at flashing the rom.
Attempting to run commands like fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ends up giving me a flash_cmds error which I cannot find anywhere else for the Zenfone 2e
Deleting the cache, userdata, system, or factory resetting the phone does not remove the bootloop
Unlocking and relocking the bootloader does nothing
I would really appreciate any help, feels like my phone is a lost cause even when it's not hard bricked.
Try ASUS Flashtool with a .RAW Firmware...
Find on This Thread...
ponnuvelpandian said:
Try ASUS Flashtool with a .RAW Firmware...
Find on This Thread...
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Thanks, I haven't seen this. I've got the Intel and xFSTK drivers all up and running but my phone isn't being recognized constantly by my computer under Intel Soc in my Driver Manager, and it's not being recognized as MOOREFIELD but rather as CLOVERVIEW PLUS, and only for a second in-between boots on my phone. Can't get the files to be downloaded through xFSTK, so I've hit a snag here unless someone knows the solution to this.
I'll try just running the flash tool and using a raw firmware, then, since I can't do any of the other stuff.
EDIT: Looks like the issue I was having before is stopping me from running the tool, seems that the computer needs to recognize my phone through the Intel drivers at all time (which it doesn't) in order to run the tool. Also I can't get the tool to view the raw file, it only seems to read zip files (so I put the raw into an empty zip, thinking that could maybe work but I don't know for sure). Damnit, I don't know why this is so difficult.
EDIT 2: All right! Looks like I got it working. The process was relatively simple, actually. It involved booting into TWRP but I wasn't able to most of the time for some reason, it would just never do it. But, I was able to using the CWM Zenfone 2 bat file located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/ze500cl-rooting-related-stuff-t3163528/
Then, I needed the stock rom for my ZE550CL placed onto an external sd card which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/ze550cl-factory-reset-return-to-stock-t3141513
So I would download the CWM Zenfone 2, replace the recovery file as the post states, then run the file. After that, I would run T4 since T1 and T2 didn't work (never tried T3), only T4 would seem to boot me into TWRP. From there, I went to Install, left Zip Verification unchecked, and let the damn thing run. It was the only thing that would run for me, even when doing it with ADB it wouldn't work with the stock rom. Then, I just rebooted and now I'm back on my phone. Hopefully this helps anyone else having this troubling issue, it was terrible!
Hi,
I made some mistake when trying to get the Oreo soak to flash. I flashed back the stock boot.img (since the backup made by Magisk caused some error) and WiFi wasn't working. It showed to be disabled woke searching for WiFi without possibility to turn it on, so I tried to reflash the latest official ROM.
RSD lite can't find my device and all the manual methods either and in since error or include bootloader locking or going back from a custom ROM (and most likely wiping /data for compatibility). I found one that separated out a few files that could wile internal storage but it would be stuck on that back/white Motorola logo (the one you get unlocking bootloader and hiding the warning). A different one wanted to flash that gpt file but that gave me an error in terminal.
I was able to get everything running by restoring boot image and something else from TWRP, the only thing remaining is that when I bootup/reboot my phone it automatically boots into fastboot so I have to hit the power button on,"start", which is a bit annoying.
But also for the future: is there any simple way to flash from the .xml.zip files like with Googles image files or Samsung's .tar.md5 through ODIN or something like that? Or at least a working manual method not including bootloader lock or loosing any data?
It seems like I've found a working manual myself that includes creating a bat file and explains what you have to do to either keep or whipe data. Don't know what it's doing that much different, I just know that it doesn't give me any (real) errors.
At first I tried to update my existing TWRP (3.2.1-0) to the 3.2.1-2 variant. It flashed ok, but then the phone would only boot to TWRP (reason for upgrade is that 3.2.1-0 would hang). I was attempting initially to put myself on the path to a "custom rom". When this failed, I manually flashed the latest google firmware from their page and it still will not do anything other than fastboot mode. No recovery, no firmware load. When I try to do the flash-all.bat method now, all I get after it loads the archive contents is "error: Cannot generate image for userdata. Guess I got a $1000 brick at this point?? Image from the PC screen included.
See if this thread helps.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ory-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post7649698
I am going to have to find another way to look at that thread. My ipad is getting directed to some HTC desire article about and orange and black theme.
I have tried so far very unsuccessfully to wipe everything by booting to twrp via fastboot method. Then I used the dueces script to reflash everything completely (both partitions). No matter whether I flash complete stock or flash magisk and verizon radio files, it just hangs on the white google screen now and that is as far as I have gotten. Left it at home in this mode hoping it will clear.
JoeNeckbone said:
See if this thread helps.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ory-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post7649698
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That link is bad. Three devices are going to an htc desire theming page.
remove the -w from the update line in flash-all.
I have got the same problem since yesterday and search for a solution.
ctradio said:
That link is bad. Three devices are going to an htc desire theming page.
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Not sure what happened with link, https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...ry-image-flashing-fails-t3715350/post74751631
new adb dont help for me. I cannot flash slot a and change to b and got the error message that no slot is supported.
Still need help? Have you tried Skipsoft? Sure its not been updated but it might beable to help ..
Where fastboot flashing failed for me one time it got me out of a hole....
Otherwise i can try and remote and help... BTW its not finding the userdata file in the fastboot side... Something isnt right hence why it cant create the userdata file...
I try to boot with skipsoft to temp twrp but stuck on boot.img loading. the flashed twrp stuck on twrp logo and before I have changed from slot b to a inside twrp i can boot. now I cannot flash inside fast boot or delete anything.
Have you guys tried Deuces Bootloop Recovery & Flashing Script? I'd imagine you'd run into the same issues as the script runs a lot of the same fastboot commands...but it has worked wonders for many other users so......
I also might try re-downloading the factory image and comparing the Checksums to make sure you have a whole exact download just in case that's getting in the way of properly generating the userdata image. I'd also suggest making sure you have more than 4GB of space on your C drive; I was getting similar messages about not finding or not generating system images because they couldn't be fully extracted (temporarily) because I didn't have sufficient temp space on my C drive.
But I had encountered this issue before. It was either userdata or system_other partition. I did attempt to fastboot erase and fastboot format those partitions and other tweaks; even messed with changing the size of the partition (you might have better luck). What I seemed to conclude is that I was flashing the wrong month's Full Factory image; i.e. I was manually flashing system_other image from February when the whole phone was still on January. But I believe what I ended up doing was flashing a Full Factory image with the "-w" intact; therefore, if you still have access, you should copybackcup (via TWRP or adb pull) your internal storage (/sdcard and-or /data/media) and simply flash a Full Factory image with wipe option enabled...
Just some thoughts and suggestions...hope this helps...
I figured it out finally. Even though my ADB/Fastboot tools were a later creation date than the ones posted online, the ones online worked great. Even used the dueces script to ensure the junk is gone. Thanks all! Hate pesky gotchas like that!!
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.