Hey everyone. I'm a novice at this, but I've gotten tired of Xiamoi's updates and decided to try Pixel Experience I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and flashed it per the instructions on the website. I know that unless I boot straight into it, it'll be overwritten by the stock recovery, but that doesn't seem to be possible. Both power + volume up, and adb fastboot reboot recovery just take me into a boot loop until I hard reset. And then of course, the stock recovery is back.
I tried Orange Fox, and various other versions of TWRP, and the same thing happened. This phone really does not want to boot into a custom recovery.
This has been a difficult question to google as everyone just gives obvious solutions like "reboot straight into recovery!!" I'm hoping someone else has experience with this.
Alice! said:
Hey everyone. I'm a novice at this, but I've gotten tired of Xiamoi's updates and decided to try Pixel Experience I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and flashed it per the instructions on the website. I know that unless I boot straight into it, it'll be overwritten by the stock recovery, but that doesn't seem to be possible. Both power + volume up, and adb fastboot reboot recovery just take me into a boot loop until I hard reset. And then of course, the stock recovery is back.
I tried Orange Fox, and various other versions of TWRP, and the same thing happened. This phone really does not want to boot into a custom recovery.
This has been a difficult question to google as everyone just gives obvious solutions like "reboot straight into recovery!!" I'm hoping someone else has experience with this.
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If you install PE successfully it won't overwrite your current recovery. As far as I know only stock MIUI removes custom recovery when it boots into system.
To boot into TWRP with the phone off press and hold volume up + power button. When the Redmi logo appears release only the power button (keep volume up pressed). When the TWRP logo appears you can release the volume up button.
Ignore the root part if you don't want it.
Compass.
Compass Linux said:
If you install PE successfully it won't overwrite your current recovery. As far as I know only stock MIUI removes custom recovery when it boots into system.
The video mentions using the button combo if you're on MIUI 12. Press and hold volume up + power button. When the Redmi logo appears release only the power button (keep volume up pressed). When the TWRP logo appears you can release the volume up button.
Ignore the root part if you don't want it.
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I don't have PE yet, I'm still on stock MIUI. I'd like to switch to PE but I can't get into TWRP or any other custom recovery.
Also I have tried this several times-- as stated in the post, volume up + power just sends me into a bootloop, and the next time I restart, MIUI is able to remove the custom recovery.
Alice! said:
I don't have PE yet, I'm still on stock MIUI. I'd like to switch to PE but I can't get into TWRP or any other custom recovery.
Also I have tried this several times-- as stated in the post, volume up + power just sends me into a bootloop, and the next time I restart, MIUI is able to remove the custom recovery.
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Watch the video.
It covers both MIUI 12.0.x and MIUI 12.5.x.
Compass.
Compass Linux said:
Watch the video.
It covers both MIUI 12.0.x and MIUI 12.5.x.
Compass.
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Sorry, I mistook your post for the same couple suggestions I'd been given, and was way too quick to write it off. Using the downloads in the video description worked like a charm. Thank you so much!
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i just bricked my M8 (stock 4.4.2 just rooted)
i rooted my phone so i couldn't get OTA updated to i tried to use "[GUIDE] How to add root access & and keep official OTA updates | 3.28.401.9"
but after i flashed boot.img using fastboot flash boot boot.img command in the fastboot mode the phone stuck on boot screen (HTC logo boot up screen) even after i heard the rom sound load up
now i can't even restart my phone to be able to access the boot menu
i tried to use Android Revolution HD rom to i use their "Flash_recovery_3.28.401.7" now i can't even log into recovery "i wait to the battery is empty to be able to access boot menu :crying
any help plzzzzz :crying:
thx in advance
sahmeds said:
i just bricked my M8 (stock 4.4.2 just rooted)
i rooted my phone so i couldn't get OTA updated to i tried to use "[GUIDE] How to add root access & and keep official OTA updates | 3.28.401.9"
but after i flashed boot.img using fastboot flash boot boot.img command in the fastboot mode the phone stuck on boot screen (HTC logo boot up screen) even after i heard the rom sound load up
now i can't even restart my phone to be able to access the boot menu
i tried to use Android Revolution HD rom to i use their "Flash_recovery_3.28.401.7" now i can't even log into recovery "i wait to the battery is empty to be able to access boot menu :crying
any help plzzzzz :crying:
thx in advance
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Well that's one of the perks of flashing a 3.xx.xxx.x ROM on 1.xx.xxx.x(4.4.2) firmware. You get to have extremely long boot up times and you won't have a proper working radio which leaves you with no wifi, data, gps, bluetooth...
Your OTA probably didn't work because of a custom recovery, not because it was rooted. Root does NOT prevent OTA updates from installing, though you might lose root access after the OTA.
If you're stuck at Boot screen hold Volume UP + Power button for 10seconds, as soon as the screen goes black press volume Down + Power button to enter into Bootloader.
Flash a custom recovery like TWRP. Go into recovery and restore a nandroid backup for your device.
first thx alot for replaying
i already got TWRP installed but the screen is stock on boot screen but still manage on the back ground to load my current rom as i'm hearing the log in sound of the rom :S
so i tried to power it off without seeing by holding the power key the power option pop up and touching random parts of the screen but i failed
i even waited for the battery to empty and factory reset the phone with no use
is these is any way even by adb to power off my phone
plzzz help
thx again for replaying
sahmeds said:
first thx alot for replaying
i already got TWRP installed but the screen is stock on boot screen but still manage on the back ground to load my current rom as i'm hearing the log in sound of the rom :S
so i tried to power it off without seeing by holding the power key the power option pop up and touching random parts of the screen but i failed
i even waited for the battery to empty and factory reset the phone with no use
is these is any way even by adb to power off my phone
plzzz help
thx again for replaying
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By the look of things you are booted in OS but have no screen, hence why try and hold power button in and randomly tap to shut off?
I told you already to Hold Volume UP + Power button for about 10seconds and then hold volume down + power to enter bootloader.
You can of course also just plug it in and try to reboot to bootloader using adb, if you have USB debugging enabled. adb reboot bootloader
As already said just hold power and volume up for around 12 seconds then immediately press and hold power and volume down. This will always get you into the boot loader.
However if adb is working just use the command above. Reflash the original boot.img and you should be good.
ashyx said:
As already said just hold power and volume up for around 12 seconds then immediately press and hold power and volume down. This will always get you into the boot loader.
However if adb is working just use the command above. Reflash the original boot.img and you should be good.
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ya power and volume up worked for me thx
i flashed the boot.img using adb and stock recovery that make it don't even continue to the rom but hang up
so i installed twrp-2.8.0.1 so now i got recovery working but i still can't get in the rom as it's still no screen
must it install a new rom or can you give me a stock boot.img (may be mine have an issue)
and if i need to install a new rom can u recommend one for me (just direct me to the link)
thx again now i got a new hope
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
Use that to get back to the stock rom for your phone. Then after installing the right one, get the OTA
sahmeds said:
ya power and volume up worked for me thx
i flashed the boot.img using adb and stock recovery that make it don't even continue to the rom but hang up
so i installed twrp-2.8.0.1 so now i got recovery working but i still can't get in the rom as it's still no screen
must it install a new rom or can you give me a stock boot.img (may be mine have an issue)
and if i need to install a new rom can u recommend one for me (just direct me to the link)
thx again now i got a new hope
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Never leave your device with an empty battery. In any circumstances.
Because you might not be able to charge it. Recover the device while you have some power on your battery.
Remember, this is a unibody device. It's not so easy to pull out the battery.
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
Gargat said:
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
n_alvarez2007 said:
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.
Hello,
I installed a custom ROM (ViperOneM8+4.6.1) on my M8, which is the international edition M8QL_UL.
I now suspect this ROM is not compatible, as the phone is stuck in a reboot loop - the white screen with the red text at the bottom appears, and then about 35 seconds later the screen goes blank and it restarts.
I've tried holding the power button down to try and turn it off, but it won't stop restarting.
I've tried holding the volume down + power buttons to enter recovery and it doesn't work.
Adb and fastboot don't work either - the phone isn't on long enough to appear on my PC.
Please let me know if there's anything I can do at this point?
Cheers.
jmh55 said:
Hello,
I installed a custom ROM (ViperOneM8+4.6.1) on my M8,
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Your device is not a M8 but a different device called M8s ....
Read this thread and get help there if you need to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/make-custom-recovery-htc-one-m8s-t3114245
ckpv5 said:
Your device is not a M8 but a different device called M8s ....
Read this thread and get help there if you need to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/make-custom-recovery-htc-one-m8s-t3114245
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Oh dear, I think this is the issue. The ROM I used was for the M8, not the M8s.
Thanks, I'll try posting in that thread.
jmh55 said:
I've tried holding the volume down + power buttons to enter recovery and it doesn't work.
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There is no button combo that boots into recovery for this device. I believe you mean the button combo to enter bootloader. Folks will often call this recovery, but bootloader and recovery are 2 completely different things (and this is an important distinction), and folks need to stop thinking they are the same.
Since the phone is bootlooping, just hold the vol down button during the next "loop" and you will enter bootloader.
Once in bootloader, then you can select to boot into custom recovery. Then restore your stock nandroid, if you made one before flashing the custom ROM (and you should always make a nandroid of the stock ROM before flashing a custom ROM).
If you didn't make a stock nandroid, you'll need to use RUU or find a stock nandroid that matches your firmware number.
jmh55 said:
Adb and fastboot don't work either - the phone isn't on long enough to appear on my PC.
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Fastboot only works in bootloader-fastboot mode; adb only works in OS or recovery. So neither is ever going to work while in a bootloop. Get into bootloader as I've described above (and select fastboot); and you should at least be able to use fastboot.
redpoint73 said:
There is no button combo that boots into recovery for this device. I believe you mean the button combo to enter bootloader. Folks will often call this recovery, but bootloader and recovery are 2 completely different things (and this is an important distinction), and folks need to stop thinking they are the same.
Since the phone is bootlooping, just hold the vol down button during the next "loop" and you will enter bootloader.
Once in bootloader, then you can select to boot into custom recovery. Then restore your stock nandroid, if you made one before flashing the custom ROM (and you should always make a nandroid of the stock ROM before flashing a custom ROM).
If you didn't make a stock nandroid, you'll need to use RUU or find a stock nandroid that matches your firmware number.
Fastboot only works in bootloader-fastboot mode; adb only works in OS or recovery. So neither is ever going to work while in a bootloop. Get into bootloader as I've described above (and select fastboot); and you should at least be able to use fastboot.
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Thanks for the suggestions and advice - I've got the Pandora Rom back on it now and won't be fiddling anymore I think.
I actually managed to get it sorted by holding vol-up and power for a good 15 seconds based on advice from the M8s thread, just in case any one has the same problem and vol-down doesn't solve it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63177320&postcount=658
Thanks again everyone, I'm been amazed by how helpful people on this forum are.
jmh55 said:
I actually managed to get it sorted by holding vol-up and power for a good 15 seconds based on advice from the M8s thread, just in case any one has the same problem and vol-down doesn't solve it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63177320&postcount=658
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Power+vol up reboots the phone. You stated the phone was already in a bootloop, which means it was already rebooting over and over.
Vol down (just vol down, no need to hold power button) during any reboot will put you into bootloader. If it doesn't, its because you didn't hold vol down long enough.
HI all,
I had a MIUI 12.5.5 Stable and decided to install custom ROM.
I have unlocked the bootloader, waited 7 days. Then installed TWRP, flashed Crdroid 12 ROM and it had a lot of errors on the installation log- but I can see it tried to install to drive A. I have now found out there are 2 partitions on this device (A and B). In TWRP I tried to reboot to another partition but am now stuck at the fastboot mode. Holding Power, Power + Down, Power + up + down keys just trigger the device to go back into fastboot mode. Can anyone provide some advice about my next options.
Benzened said:
HI all,
I had a MIUI 12.5.5 Stable and decided to install custom ROM.
I have unlocked the bootloader, waited 7 days. Then installed TWRP, flashed Crdroid 12 ROM and it had a lot of errors on the installation log- but I can see it tried to install to drive A. I have now found out there are 2 partitions on this device (A and B). In TWRP I tried to reboot to another partition but am now stuck at the fastboot mode. Holding Power, Power + Down, Power + up + down keys just trigger the device to go back into fastboot mode. Can anyone provide some advice about my next options.
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1/flash the rom which corresponds to the firmware for the Crdroid rom
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/flash-tool-guide-use-xiaomi-flash-tool.4262425/
select CLEAN ALL
2/flash TRWP
3/Format data(write yes)
4/reboot Twrp
5/flash Cdroid rom according to the instructions of the OP.
My advice would be to go back to MIUI using MiFlash. Don't lock the bootloader, use the clean all options only. Once you and your device were all set because errors like these would get you into a panic mode. In that situation, you'll do several mistakes which might lead you to do some mistakes while flashing. Therefore, go back to MIUi, take some days and then try flashing stable custom ROMs first. My advice would be to go with the Pixel experience.
Cheers and don't stop trying new things just because they don't work out.
Step 5 of the upgrade instuctions say that if you want install add-ons, you need to click Advanced then Reboot to Recovery. However, my phone, as mentioned in the instructions can happen, goes to a black screen. So how can I install Gapps after side-loading LOS?
Has anyone successfully carried out the upgrade?
Try this:
Connect your phone to a charger or pc....(make sure its charging)....then press and hold (vol up + power button)...until android one logo shows up, as soon as the logo shows up just leave the power button but still holding the volume up button until it enters lineage os recovery menu. Then flash your gapps...and then factory reset,....then reboot system. It works.....good luck
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Try this:
Connect your phone to a charger or pc....(make sure its charging)....then press and hold (vol up + power button)...until android one logo shows up, as soon as the logo shows up just leave the power button but still holding the volume up button until it enters lineage os recovery menu. Then flash your gapps...and then factory reset,....then reboot system. It works.....good luck
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My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.
Ok
oldfone said:
My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.
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oldfone said:
My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.
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Hello! I have the exact same issue! Is there any known fix yet and can I contribute somehow?
I haven't found a solution, but some workarounds are given here: https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/4170
oldfone said:
I haven't found a solution, but some workarounds are given here: https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/4170
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The TWRP workaround did not work for me, but I awas able to install it blindly.
Is there any way to run the LOS Recovery on a windows PC in VirtualBox or something? Then I could make some screenshots of the Recovery Menu so everyone with the same issue can at least do it blindly in theory...