Hello guys,
I have a Ginko device. It started to act weird, as if the volume down button was held down at all times. I took it to some shop and they told me it's most likely software and not hardware, and to try and flash a new ROM.
Now, I believe he was talking out of his ass. Rebooting the phone automatically puts it into fastboot because of the volume- button being broken. If it was a software issue this would not happen, I believe.
Whatever, I decided to try and flash a ROM just because maybe if I have root I will be able to block that button from working somehow.
The issue is, I can't boot into TWRP.
I unlocked the phone through Xiaomi and downloaded TWRP for Ginko. I did the `fastboot flash recovery twrp.img` thing and it works fine, but after that the command to reboot it to recovery `fastboot boot twrp.img` does not work. The fastboot image goes black for .1s then it shows the fastboot image again. Nothing happens. If I run the command again it takes a few seconds shoing "booting..." then the phone reboots to SYSTEM and an error shows on the CMD saying "FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))".
The only way I've found to boot to recovery is by using `adb reboot recovery` but that needs me to boot into system, which means TWRP is erased and the default recovery comes up.
If I reboot the phone the only way to go into system is by holding volume+, as it seems to counter the broken volume- button... But that means I can't boot to recovery, no matter how many times I try.
So I have no idea what to do.
AckmanDESU said:
Hello guys,
I have a Ginko device. It started to act weird, as if the volume down button was held down at all times. I took it to some shop and they told me it's most likely software and not hardware, and to try and flash a new ROM.
Now, I believe he was talking out of his ass. Rebooting the phone automatically puts it into fastboot because of the volume- button being broken. If it was a software issue this would not happen, I believe.
Whatever, I decided to try and flash a ROM just because maybe if I have root I will be able to block that button from working somehow.
The issue is, I can't boot into TWRP.
I unlocked the phone through Xiaomi and downloaded TWRP for Ginko. I did the `fastboot flash recovery twrp.img` thing and it works fine, but after that the command to reboot it to recovery `fastboot boot twrp.img` does not work. The fastboot image goes black for .1s then it shows the fastboot image again. Nothing happens. If I run the command again it takes a few seconds shoing "booting..." then the phone reboots to SYSTEM and an error shows on the CMD saying "FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))".
The only way I've found to boot to recovery is by using `adb reboot recovery` but that needs me to boot into system, which means TWRP is erased and the default recovery comes up.
If I reboot the phone the only way to go into system is by holding volume+, as it seems to counter the broken volume- button... But that means I can't boot to recovery, no matter how many times I try.
So I have no idea what to do.
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Did you also try to flash recovery as you did before but right after that booting directly into recovery using hw buttons (vol- and pwr button till boot splash appears) from fastboot?
AckmanDESU said:
The only way I've found to boot to recovery is by using `adb reboot recovery` but that needs me to boot into system, which means TWRP is erased and the default recovery comes up.
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to prevent twrp to be erased flash vbmeta (attached) using :
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
i suggest you use OrangeFox and enable "aggresive stock recovery deactivation" in settings
This is a hardware problem and it's better to replace it
you can disable that button (while on Android) using xposed edge by setting "none" to click and long clic (need root + lsposed or edxposed)
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So I already had a rooted (and I'm pretty sure unlocked bootlader) version of the stock Asus and wanted to put CM13 nightly on there. Everything was going smooth until I got to the stage where I have to load into TWRP and I got the error screen with the little dead alien and the red symbol.
Now I can't enter normal boot, but entering recovery mode seems to work. I tried the option to side load a package from ADB on that screen but nothing worked (.zip files extracted, but I got an error on the phone).
As you can tell, I'm really new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried looking around, but it seems the more common issue is people not being able to enter recovery mode or something similar.
Thanks
Looks like your doing it wrong. Being rooted does not necessarily mean that your bootloader is unlocked.
By the looks of it your in recovery mode with the dead robot with the "error" message. That is normal. To reboot back into system you either have to press (I don't remember) power button and volume up or down button. Then you should see some options with reboot to system. Or if that does not work you can hold the power button till it turns off.
Then you get back into Android, download the official bootloader unlock tool from ASUS and install it on your device. NOTE: If you updated to MM then this will not work and this will void your warranty.
Run the tool and press unlock and it should reboot into fastboot where it should begin the unlocking process. I believe it should automatically reboot and you should see that the Asus logo is now black instead of white. If not, repeat the process.
You can now proceed to flash twrp recovery. Boot into fastboot/bootloader mode either with "adb reboot bootloader" or hold a specific set of buttons while off to go directly into fastboot.
On the computer, connect your device and type in "fastboot flash recovery (path to twrp IMG without brackets)"
When done you should be able to reboot into twrp recovery where you can flash the cm13 zip.
Hope this helped.
hi
i just unlocked my mi5s now, but when im trying to get into recovery mode (volume up + power) it still shows me the phone picture.
there is something that i am missing?
Flash the recovery, when in fastboot reboot into recovery by "fastboot boot recovery.img" if that's the name of the file on your computer. It will boot into recovery. After that, turn of the phone and boot into recovery with the button combination. Do not boot into the OS as it will disrupt the process! After this you should be fine. If not, try again, as you probably failed to directly boot into recovery with the button action.
Also, do check that you push both the volume keys plus the on/off button. So three in total.
8166uy said:
Flash the recovery, when in fastboot reboot into recovery by "fastboot boot recovery.img" if that's the name of the file on your computer. It will boot into recovery. After that, turn of the phone and boot into recovery with the button combination. Do not boot into the OS as it will disrupt the process! After this you should be fine. If not, try again, as you probably failed to directly boot into recovery with the button action.
Also, do check that you push both the volume keys plus the on/off button. So three in total.
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as far as i know, when im unlock the phone, it unlock the recovery mode so i can access it by volume up + power instead of the phone picture.
i want for now stay with the stock recovery and not flash a custom one
Mm, you could use the phrase "fastboot reboot recovery". If that doesn't work, flash the latest Global beta and try again both ways.
If that also doesn't work, recheck if the phone is really unlocked (sometimes Xiaomi phones relock after an update without any good reason).
You could also try to find the stock recovery and use it in the method in my first reply. But keep that for last, as I don't know for sure how that recovery reacts to such a thing. Although I can't think of a reason why it would go wrong, it's better to be save than sorry.
Hello,
Yesterday, doing noting special, I took my phone from my pocket and saw it was stucked on "fastboot".
Ok, no problem, I made a hard reset (power button 20s-30s): it reboots and immediately the screen fastboot appears.
I tried a fastboot reboot from my PC: idem: it reboots and immediately shows "Fastboot".
I tried vol UP + power button: a menu shows me just 2 options: wipe cache or reboot. I tried wipe cache: nothing better. I reboot in fastboot mode. It's weird because I had TWRP menu before (I rooted it a few months ago).
In summary, I cannot leave from the Fastboot screen. Whatever I do, I always come back to "fastboot" menu.
Could you help me please?
You can try to flash your device with the latest fastboot ROM witch can be found there
Flash MIUI fastboot ROM using MiFlash software..
Note : Do not relock bootloader for safer side
isterios said:
Hello,
Yesterday, doing noting special, I took my phone from my pocket and saw it was stucked on "fastboot".
Ok, no problem, I made a hard reset (power button 20s-30s): it reboots and immediately the screen fastboot appears.
I tried a fastboot reboot from my PC: idem: it reboots and immediately shows "Fastboot".
I tried vol UP + power button: a menu shows me just 2 options: wipe cache or reboot. I tried wipe cache: nothing better. I reboot in fastboot mode. It's weird because I had TWRP menu before (I rooted it a few months ago).
In summary, I cannot leave from the Fastboot screen. Whatever I do, I always come back to "fastboot" menu.
Could you help me please?
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I had a similar problem like that and I thought all was hopeless and then I tried the simplest thing. Fastboot boot recovery instead of trying to flash it and then I flash the recovery through recovery to make sure everything was okay but it happened when using Orange ? recovery. I have not used it since. I hope this helps.
I was trying to flash a Custom Recovery(TWRP) on my Friend's phone(Realme 3) It was officialy supported by TWRP and was listed on their website so I downloaded the Custom Recovery. Then I unlocked the bootloader of his phone but yes a strange thing happened there after it asked for pressing the volume button to be pressed it unlocked the bootloader but after that there was option "Select boot type"(Not sure what it said). It had three options Boot to Bootloader, Boot to recovery and last Normal boot and also there was a arrow on the bootloader option. And there were some instructions something like volume up for select and volume down to move. But I tried every button but the arrow was stuck on the bootloader option. So I connected it to my device and used the "fastboot reboot" command to restart the device after restarting at the realme logo it was saying "You are unlocked you cannot be trusted" But after it booted normally and the phone was Factory Reset. After this in the Developer options the OEM unlocking was grayed out saying Bootloader is unlocked. Ok so we were successful in unlocking the bootloader. After that I pasted the twrp img file in the platform tools directory and put the command adb reboot bootloader and after the device was in bootloader I used the command fastboot flash recovery name.img to flash the recovery. It said sending and then writing in my terminal after that I used the command fastboot reboot and the the key combinations(power+volume down) for the device which used to get into recovery for that phone but this time instead of going into recovery it was in the bootloader. So again I tried fastboot reboot command and this pressing the power+volume up but the phone booted normally so this time I tries adb reboot recovery but it booted into stock recovery so again I tried flashing the recovery and tried using fastboot reboot recovery but it didn't work. And yes I know that after flashing the custom recovery the phone should first boot into the recovery but as I said neither the key combinations nor the fastboot reboot recovery command so what can I do to prevent the system from overwriting? PS: Sorry for long paragraph...
And restarting can't exit fatsboot mode, it seems that bl detects that your phone has a bootloop, and then enters fastboot mode, usually this requires me to use fastboot to flash the boot partition.
I am using crDroid v7.15 system with InfiniR Alioth v2.06 kernel.
Reflash kernel, you probably switched partition ...
boot tempory recovery and flash kernel
snx413 said:
Reflash kernel, you probably switched partition ...
boot tempory recovery and flash kernel
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I rebooted 7 times in a row and the 8th reboot seems to go into fastboot mode.
Usually everything works fine after I write to the boot partition in fastboot mode.
It seems to enter fastboot mode in this state, long pressing the power key does not bring the phone back to normal, the device must be rebooted using fastboot reboot in the command line.