I think I may have bricked my phone beyond repair. I initially had a problem rooting my dx after the .340 update. I flashed to .320 using rsd lite. That seemed to do the trick. I was able to reroot. I created a nandroid backup.
Last night my phone died. I put on the wall charger for a couple hours. Now the device boots to the moto screen and freezes. I was able to get into recover using the home button. I used the recovery and the device was fixed...i thought. It only lasted about 10 min. Now I am back at the moto screen. I have access to recovery but not bootstrap...the factory recovery. I tried a factory reset no luck. I have done battery pulls w/wo sd card...no luck. Also I have no access to the bootloader any more.
Any ideas or am I outta luck?
No bootloader.. weird. I think you are out of luck. try vol up and vol dwn while phone is off then hit the power button to turn phone on keep holding the vol buttons until a exclamation mark appears then let go of vol keys hit the search button. see it that boots you into recovery.
For bootloader access...hold volume down and camera button after doing a battery pull.
For stock recovery after a battery pull...hold home and camera button, release home at M screen, wait for triangle press search key, data/cache wipe and factory reset, reboot.
For clockwork...plug phone into wall charger, battery pull, wait for green screen, put battery back in and clockwork should be there
verizon is overnighting me a new phone. the rep said the last .340 update had corrupt files.
thanks for all the support. i appreciate it!
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hi i have flashed cm902 rom it booted up but it dont like me cause makes eroros so i wanted ro reflash with old stock 2,3,3 and with recovery bootstrap i thinked what i wild came into recovery but it just hanged and now no recovery only white triangle with yelow! and only logo m, so maybe someone hav this problem earlier and can help me?cause now im searching half day of work for searching for solution.
thanks fo anny help
Dont worry. Do this. First use the wall charger and charge your phone for at least 30mins. So if your phone is off then it will charge till 70-80%. Check if it is charging by looking at the micro-usb port lighting up.
Now go to the White triangle with ! mark. Then press @ button. You will get options. Select erase data by pressing volume button and then clicking enter button on your keypad.
After the wipe has been done pull out battery. Then start RSD Lite on your computer. Put the battery to your phone. Now press both volume up and volume down together and then power button for 2secs. Leave power button. You will see it in bootloader.
Now load sbf file on RSD software and wait for it to recognize your phone. Then click start. Thats it. Your phone should be ok.
My Atrix has been going in to reboot ever since the last OTA update. Usually it would start doing this once a week and I could remove the battery for 10 mins and it would come back and work fine for about a week.
Yesterday it started again but can not get it to stop. It won't even stay on long enough to do a factory reset.
I stopped by an art store and they were no help, they just gave me a number to call so they could have online tech try to help me. They stepped me through the standard take the battery out, try to do the factory reset (even after I told then I tried all of this stuff) they told me to hold the power key and both up & down volume keys at the same time (that did not do anything or may be I was not doing it right)
Finally they are sending me a replacement (refurb) phone that I have to wait 6 days to get and from what I have been reading on the forums it will most likely have problems too.
I had to go back to my old samsung windows phone and its been less than 24 hours and I am getting the shakes not having my android.
Any other ideas on how to get my phone to stop rebooting constantly?
Can you get into recovery even if it's stock recovery just turn off and hold the vol- key and tape the power key it will boot to a screen with fastboot press vol- untill you see android recovery press vol+ and wait for it to boot in to recovery if you have clockwork recovery the hit reset to factory and if you have stock recovery then press both vol-+ at the same time and then press reset to factory
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Can you get into recovery even if it's stock recovery just turn off and hold the vol- key and tape the power key it will boot to a screen with fastboot press vol- untill you see android recovery press vol+ and wait for it to boot in to recovery if you have clockwork recovery the hit reset to factory and if you have stock recovery then press both vol-+ at the same time and then press reset to factory
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Thanks,
Your advice was very helpful. I was able to reset my matrix.
I unlocked the bootloader and flashed a custom recovery. I then rebooted the device. Now it is stuck at the bootloader (white Google logo on black background) and I can't get it to do anything else. I've rebooted it a bunch of times including with the vol + and vol - buttons held down to no avail. I've also let the battery run out and then tried to boot it up again and the same thing happens. adb nor fastboot see the device and it doesn't show up in the logs on my machine (Mint 13) as coming online at any time.
Most of the times I reboot it with the power switch it reboots to the Google logo even without me letting go of the power button. Sometimes I can get it to fully power off but I haven't figured out what combination of vol keys and reboot does that.
Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!
You are not bricked if you can still get into the bootloader.
Download the factory image from here, and flash it with fastboot. If you don't know how to do that, read this thread.
I wish I could get fastboot to see it then I could definitively flash that img.
I can't get into the bootloader and can't get fastboot or adb to see it. It's stuck at the Google logo now and when i hold the power key it reboots back to the Google logo with the unlock logo at the bottom.
Thanks for the help
You've tried holding volume down+power for 10+ seconds? That should power off the device, then hold both vol up+down down and power up
Ya I've tried to hold vol + and power for 10+ seconds and it reboots back to the Google logo even if I don't off the power key. Same happens with all the other combinations of keys being held with the power button. I can't get it to turn off now unless I let the battery die
Press and hold power till screen goes black. Then quickly press power+volume down and HOLD.
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Tried that and still stuck at the Google logo. I have to go to work for a couple hours and then will hack on it when I'm back. Hope I don't have to deal with Googles rma process seeing how disorganized the rest of that company is
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No luck with any button combos but the vol + and power actually turned it off. All out of ideas over here. I'm thinking it really is bricked
I'm in the same spot. I can get it into recovery occasionally but once there it locks up after trying to flash or clear the cache.
I'm wondering if a contributing issue is CMR v6.0.0.6? I updated it from 6.0.0.4 that was running fine. But no fastboot or adb so that is doubtful.
This is frustrating and not a great start with this N7.
thank you
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Press and hold power till screen goes black. Then quickly press power+volume down and HOLD.
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this worked. you have to be fast. as soon as screen goes black release power button then quickly, very quickly repress along with vol up and down.
You will still be able to get into the bootloader! Force kill the tablet by holding the power button for ages. Then hold volume up and volume down and the power button together, which will boot to fastboot.
It looks like a CWM bug as I feared. Anyone in the same boat try here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782932
Nothing has worked and I've literally tried everything that those three buttons can do. Thanks again for all the help guys. Had a great time trying to resurrect it but guess it's time for it to go back home
Just as I suspected. Google puts out buggy junk once again.
I just wanted to report a similarly event. I have a rooted, unlocked Nexus 7, with TWRP recovery. I have previously rebooted without issue. Tonight I booted into bootloader mode to check something and the hit power button to choose start. I got stuck on the boot logo. After finding this thread, I started with the simplest combination and held power button until screen went dark, then added volume down and once again in bootloader. This time choosing start led to a regular system boot. It's as if the device froze and needed a hard reboot.
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I was attempting to boot into recovery and kept getting the 'Google' logo (I am unlocked/rooted with twrp recovery). I wasn't aware that one had to be plugged in via usb in order to *not* hang....
Any way around this?
Once I plugged it in and attempted to boot into recovery it worked fine.
I had a similar issue after using the Nexus Root Toolkit to flash to nakasi 4.2 with CWM recovery - just got stuck on the nexus boot screen, flashing in a loop for over 15 minutes.
I ended up powering down the device, holding power for about 5-10 seconds - then QUICKLY holding both the power and volume up+down keys, it then went into the fastboot screen.
After it was there, plugged it into my PC.
Now, this should work for you - assuming you have all the fastboot/usb driver stuff installed.
I extracted the contents of nakasi-jop40c-factory-6aabb391.tgz into the same directory as the fastboot.exe provided by WugFresh with his Nexus Root Toolkit (google search or xda search for this if you dont have it, i dont think i can post links due to my low postcount) - typical filepath: C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\data
By the files in there, I mean drilling down inside the tgz to where the image files were inside so that files like bootloader-grouper-4.13.img, image-nakasi-jop40c.zip etc were extracted into the directory and sitting alongside the fastboot.exe - NOT in a subfolder.
Once its all here, running flash-all.bat (this is provided by google in the nakasi-jop40c-factory-6aabb391.tgz) from the command line or by double clicking on it from explorer should kick off the process. After about 2-3 minutes, it was complete, and my Nexus then booted up within about 3 minutes after that.
Also worth noting, device remained unlocked, but I lost root/root binary
I was running Gummy's 4.4 ROM and wanted to try a stock ROM. Downloaded Malladus and its GAPPS. I booted into recovery wiped and tried to flashs. The ROM would not flash, it sat on the install screen for about 20 minutes. I decided to hold down the power button and try and get back into recovery, wipe again and restore my backup. Now I can't get back into recovery no amount of holding the volume down and power button will get me there. It boots to the LG logo and thats it. I'm pretty much dead in the water unless anybody has some ideas.
The G2 is finicky about pushing the power+volume down buttons just right to get into recovery. What I've found that works is to hold power until the phone shuts down. Then, power it on by holding power+volume down. When the LG logo appears, release the two buttons and then immediately hold them back down again.
OK I'm back in business. After dozens and dozens of button holds, I finally got it to boot to the LG factory reset screen. I chose yes to a factory reset and it immediately booted into TWRP. I restored my backup which was thankfully still there and all is right with the world. Strangest thing I've seen in all my flashing days on 4 different phones.
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what works for me to get into recovery is holding down the vol and power while it boots, the second you see the lg screen release the vol down and power, then hit ONLY the power button.. for some reason I get better results that way..
I recently updated my Samsung Galaxy Tab A T280 to the latest firmware and I lost my root. So this afternoon I re-rooted it. Or I attempted to, anyway. Everything seemingly went fine, and I booted into TWRP just fine. I went to flash the ROM and I also selected wipe cache/davlik cache to be done as well, and tapped reboot. My device then turned off and when it started the reboot, it got stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A logo screen and would not move or power off by holding the power button (I tried for a LONG time by using a rubber band to hold it down so I didn't have to, with no luck), and every other combination of buttons wouldn't do a thing, except for holding power + vol down, which made it turn off and back on, but it wouldn't finish rebooting and it just got stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Tab A logo again. So then I thought that maybe plugging it into a charger might not be a bad idea, and after holding down power + vol down again, it turned off and turned on and showed a battery with a charging symbol. I've had it plugged in for an hour and it does not show a charge or do anything except for go back to that boot logo if I unplug it from the charger and again hold down power and volume down separately.
I know it's not hard bricked because it is somewhat responsive so I think there's a chance to fix it, hopefully. I just want it to turn on and fully reboot into anything or in any way that will allow me to be able to fix the issue. My computer will not recognize the device so ADB is not an option right now unless I'm wrong.
Thanks a lot guys, I am so confused and could really use some advice.
What firmware did you install
Try to install original firmware via software "Samsung Smart Switch" on your PC with connected tablet.
I too recommend that you try installing the last firmware that you were on via Odin. Also, when you hit that screen lock issue after a firmware flash, where only the Samsung logo appears do this:
1. press and hold Home + volume up and volume down along with power button (that's all 4 buttons). Hold it there for at least 20 seconds and it should power off.
2. Once the device powers off keep holding the buttons but let go of the volume down button.
3. Once the tablet starts to power back up again release the power button and then in about 1 to 2 second release the rest of the buttons.
This should get you back into recovery. You should at least be able to restore any backup, that you should have already, on your external micro SD.
Good luck.. : )
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the above post is 100% right. Reboot back into recovery and you'll be good to go. Also twrp has a option to reboot back to recovery so this doesn't happen, just a fyi for future knowledge. Best of luck..
You tried to flash a rom with twrp?
You need to flash stock firmware with odin.