I originally did a boot unlock, a fash of twrp-2.8.7.2-angler.img, and when I could not get the pattern on twrp recovery to function, I did a sideload of the twrp.img instead of an install.
This failed in a boot loop.
SO I did a flash back to stock with angler-mdb08m-factory-dbc17940.tgz (after unpacking this).
Then I restored all my apk, etc.
BUT now when I do:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.2-angler.img, I SEE:
target reported max download size of 494927872 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16880 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.561s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.247s]
finished. total time: 0.809s
---- all looks fine, but the device itself does not seem to react and when I reboot, and select recovery, it just goes into Google recovery.
Has anyone else seen this, and do you know how to get past this?
I already tried to unlock again and it tells me error, already unlocked.
So my next step would be to do a lock and then an unlock again, but that would probably cause me to take several hours restoring after another flash to stock, and I fear that I will be back where I am now??? any thoughts??
SOLVED!
It seems that somehow, I just hadn't waited long enough. I was able to now reboot into recovery.
Thanks to any that looked at this issue.
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My son brought me his Nexus S 4g and told me that it doesn't work anymore. He says that he didn't do anything and that it just started doing this on its own. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When powered on, it quickly goes to the screen with the Google icon and a lock icon. It sits here for about 30 seconds, then reboots to the same thing. If I pull the battery and hold Vol Up and Power when inserting the battery I can get into Fastboot, but when I select Recovery or Reboot, I get the same Google screen.
When I gave him the phone, it was rooted with CWM recovery loaded and a ICS ROM running.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have been reading through threads all night long without finding much.
Sounds to me like you need to begin the rooting process again at the "fastboot oem unlock" part. Since you probably don't have anything on your SD card, you might have to push a new recovery via fastboot as well.
Look to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078213
for inspiration.
Once you get into the recovery loaded via fastboot, you can get whatever rom that you want onto the SD card by navigating to:
Mounts and Storage > Mount USB Storage
and leave it on that screen while you load the rom onto the SD card.
After that flash the new rom via CWM as normal.
Thanks for the reply. Since I was already unlocked, I followed the steps to return the phone to stock, including flashing boot, system, userdata, recovery and erasing cache. Now when I reboot, it just loops to the Google screen and reboots after 30 seconds. The only difference is that I don't see the lock icon at the bottom or the Google screen.
When I select Recovery, it just goes into the same Google loop. I am going to try to go through the root steps and see what happens. :-(
I was able to unlock the phone, but it will not boot into Recovery. I can get to Fastboot, but I am back to where I started.
When I gave the phone to my son, I had installed SetCPU and configured a profile to throttle the processor down when the screen was off to conserve battery. I am now wondering if he tried to overclock the processor and clicked "set at boot".
Any more suggestions? (please)
Did you successfully flash a recovery.img? Immediately after this you should hit Recovery, then mount the storage, copy a ROM over, do a Full Wipe and flash the ROM.
If all goes well, you'll boot fine. If not, it may be a hardware problem. Try to wipe most of it and lock the bootloader if you need to send it to samsung.
It looks like I successfully flashed a recovery image. I have tried version 5.x and version 3.x. Below is the result of the 5.x command. However when I select Recovery from Fastboot, I go to the Google screen loop.
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery-cloc
kwork-5.0.2.0-crespo4g.img
sending 'recovery' (4136 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>
OK, go to http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/GRJ22IMAGES.zip
That will download the GRJ22 stock images of your phone. Unzip them in your PC. Next, use fastboot like this.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
After it finishes you can reboot your phone with "fastboot reboot". This will installed Stock GB 2.3.4 for NS4G. Setup your phone and you will get OTA to 2.3.5. After that you will get OTA again to 2.3.7. Good luck.
By the way, you must let it OTA all the way up to 2.3.7 to get the latest Radio and bootloader version.
Giving it a shot now. I'll let you know shortly how it goes.
Update: Same result. All commands completed successfully, but I end up in the Google logo boot loop. Is there a kernel .img file that I should flash, in case my son tried to flash an unsupported kernel?
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash bootloader bootloader
img
sending 'bootloader' (1536 KB)... OKAY
writing 'bootloader'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash radio radio.img
sending 'radio' (15232 KB)... OKAY
writing 'radio'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (174451 KB)... OKAY
writing 'system'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
sending 'userdata' (18796 KB)... OKAY
writing 'userdata'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (2904 KB)... OKAY
writing 'boot'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (3144 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'... OKAY
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>
That included stock kernel.
Man you might just want to fastboot oem lock and send the phone. Those were factory images... if they don't work it means hw issues.
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rasengan82 said:
That included stock kernel.
Man you might just want to fastboot oem lock and send the phone. Those were factory images... if they don't work it means hw issues.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA
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I agree. If this does not work, send the phone back to Sprint.
I really appreciate y'all trying to help. I will see if Sprint will be kind enough to exchange it. Thanks again.
I was working on an interesting app on my N7 (grouper). I left it on for about a week after the week I found the N7 stuck in a boot loop. I can get it into the boot loader and can do fastboot things but I can't flash a recovery or rom.
I get this error when I try.
sending 'recovery' (7766 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.013s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: (FileWriteFailed))
finished. total time: 4.848s
I was able to get to the recovery splash screen if I booted recovery (no flash) but thats it.
Trying to start from the bootloader gives me a "Booting failed" error.
My guess is I managed to cook the flash so no more writing or reading is possible. What say you fine fellows have I made it into masonry?
Can you boot into stock recovery.If yes try factory reset otherwise
Try the wugs toolkit
It has options to restore your phone
So i have been trying to flash TWRP 3.0.0.1 onto my phone using the guide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928, and at first when i got to step 2 and tried to flash TWRP file, it would say "error: cannot load twrp.img"
and that went away and i was finally able to flash it after installing universal adb driver.
When i flash it i get this:
C:\SDK\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
target reported max download size of 494927872 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16904 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.415s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.244s]
finished. total time: 0.665s
and when i try to reboot to the bootloader, it shows up the standard stock recovery. What am i doing wrong?
please help
Also, when i do adb devices, it wont show my device. But i saw on the forum that adb doesnt even matter.
NEVERMIND i got it to work. But now im having trouble flashing the lastest march update. It says error 7 and something about my SD card.
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So i have been trying to flash TWRP 3.0.0.1 onto my phone using the guide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928, and at first when i got to step 2 and tried to flash TWRP file, it would say "error: cannot load twrp.img"
and that went away and i was finally able to flash it after installing universal adb driver.
When i flash it i get this:
C:\SDK\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
target reported max download size of 494927872 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16904 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.415s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.244s]
finished. total time: 0.665s
and when i try to reboot to the bootloader, it shows up the standard stock recovery. What am i doing wrong?
please help
Also, when i do adb devices, it wont show my device. But i saw on the forum that adb doesnt even matter.
NEVERMIND i got it to work. But now im having trouble flashing the lastest march update. It says error 7 and something about my SD card.
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I flashed twrp 5 times.. before it "stick" and shows up twrp recovery.
Hi, I just changed the lcd screen on an old p8lite my girlfriend wasn't using for a year or so. Fact is she can't remember the pin.
Pressing power+vol down I can enter fastboot and rescue mode, but phone was never unlocked so i don't know what commands I can really execute from here, if I press vol up and get into rescue mode I am given the option to download a new recovery, but when downloading it says 'getting package info failed'. In rescue mode I don't have other choices besides rebooting and shutdown.
What can I do to unlock the phone?Can somebody help me?????
UPDATE: on one of many reboots instead of showing me just the options to reboot, shutdown and download recovery, Emui recovery showed the possibility of making a wipe, so i went on wiping, downgrading, rooting, unlocking the bootloader, but i couldn't install twrp - every time I try these are the results:
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk TWRP-3.2.3-0-Hi6250-Askuccio-v1.0.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery_ramdisk' (10816 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.277s]
writing 'recovery_ramdisk'...
FAILED (remote: partition does not exist)
finished. total time: 0.303s
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery TWRP-3.2.3-0-Hi6250-Askuccio-v1.0.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery' (10816 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.287s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.183s]
finished. total time: 0.484s
But TWRP doesn't get installed, anyway....
I would also like to try to run a datarecovery software to recover photos and stuff my girlfriend left in, but without having the p8 lite mass storage in explorer the results I get with android data recovery softwares are pretty useless, is there a way to make show the storage in explorer? If anyone would be willing to help me with some hints, I'd be very grateful. Thanks
Hi, i'm trying to root my redmi note 7 so first i need to boot in twrp in order to root my phone.
My problem is that i can't enter twrp:
I've unlocked bootloader and installed adb + enabled usb debugging. Then, i enter fastboot (adb reboot bootloader), i flash the recovery with twrp img, which works fine
C:\Users\Ailiganon\Desktop\redmi note 7 root tool\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Sending 'recovery' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.410s]
Writing 'recovery' OKAY [ 0.452s]
Finished. Total time: 1.928s
But then, when i want to enter twrp using VolumeUp+Power button, it simply boots the phone normally !!!
I've also tried using this command when in fastboot: fastboot boot twrp.img but it does nothing although in CMD, it shows the command worked fine:
C:\Users\Ailiganon\Desktop\redmi note 7 root tool\platform-tools>fastboot boot twrp.img
Sending 'boot.img' (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.392s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.133s]
Finished. Total time: 1.584s
I can access recovery mode when i turn off my phone and simply use VolumeUp+Power button (not from fastboot) but since Xiaomi overwrites the recovery mode everytime it reboots, it just enters the regular redmi recovery menu and not twrp. Idk what to do else
I've used the twrp img from this video: www youtube com watch?v=r3R9kiBIx34 (i can't post url >.<) and i've tried another one on another website, but i think it was the same one since they had the same size.
Hope someone can help me ty
Orangenfox unpack, flash in Fastboot mode, don't restart, hold the recovery buttons and then flash the Orangenfox.zip in recovery mode
joke19 said:
Orangenfox unpack, flash in Fastboot mode, don't restart, hold the recovery buttons and then flash the Orangenfox.zip in recovery mode
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I've unpacked orangefox, flash recovery.img in fastboot mode, and then i held the recovery buttons, but yet again, it just boots the phone and it's even worse cause it prompts me a password to access android that i dont fkin know. So i've had to reset the phone using "fastboot format userdata" command. I did it twice cause the first time i had a schema to unlock the phone so i've put a password instead but the second time it prompted me the password, i've put the password i've chosen to unlock the phone but it said "wrong password". So i don't know what password they ask, and i dont know why it appears only after flashing orange fox....
I've also tried with the command "fastboot boot recovery.img" with the same result as earlier
C:\Users\Ailiganon\Desktop\redmi note 7 root tool\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Sending 'recovery' (30488 KB) OKAY [ 0.659s]
Writing 'recovery' OKAY [ 0.216s]
Finished. Total time: 0.917s
What orangenfox said by cancel and format data?