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I just got a NexusOne last night from someone who had already rooted it. So I went to erase all data on the phone and now it will not boot up. The phone will just stay at the boot animation. I do not have any of the software on my computer, nor do I know how to get it.
If someone on here can give a step by step instructions on how to fix this I would be super thankful. Also I have tried all of the volume down fixes. I just end up on a screen that says fastboot, recovery, clear storage,simlock with 3 little green droids at the bottom.
baileymeadows1 said:
I just got a NexusOne last night from someone who had already rooted it. So I went to erase all data on the phone and now it will not boot up. The phone will just stay at the boot animation. I do not have any of the software on my computer, nor do I know how to get it.
If someone on here can give a step by step instructions on how to fix this I would be super thankful. Also I have tried all of the volume down fixes. I just end up on a screen that says fastboot, recovery, clear storage,simlock with 3 little green droids at the bottom.
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Don't panic too much.
If you can get that far it isn't bricked.
I can only assume you have some sort of recovery also?
You need to put a rom on your SD card and boot into recovery and flash the rom.
Make sure you wipe again before hand, including the dalvik cache.
All should be good then.
1. Download selected ROM (Cyan, Modaco...etc)
2. Make sure it is on SD Card (root)
3. Boot phone into recovery
4. Wipe Dalvik and Data
5. Flash ROM
6. Reboot
7. Drool over it all day long.
HTH.
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baileymeadows1 said:
I just got a NexusOne last night from someone who had already rooted it. So I went to erase all data on the phone and now it will not boot up. The phone will just stay at the boot animation. I do not have any of the software on my computer, nor do I know how to get it.
If someone on here can give a step by step instructions on how to fix this I would be super thankful. Also I have tried all of the volume down fixes. I just end up on a screen that says fastboot, recovery, clear storage,simlock with 3 little green droids at the bottom.
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Okay, Here we go.. First press and hold down the trackball, then while doing that press and hold the power button. Now, here you should see a white screen with android's on skateboards... Choose the one that says bootloader, by pressing the power key as that selection is highlighted.
Now, Here you should see your bootloader.. Go To Cyanogen Site and thread for 5.0.3 and download the 5.0.3 rom, the gappspassion ere36b 2 file, and I once your done your good to go...
So this is how it goes. Download Files... Press Trackball and hold power.. As soon as you see the screen come up, Press the power button but assure that Bootloader is highlited in blue so thats the direction you'll go. Now after that, use the vol- button and scroll to revovery, once in blue and highlighted, press the power and your on your way to the best part...
Once here, you'll see a black screen with green letters, here choose, usb-toggle, press the trackball and you should see it come up as a disk on your cpu.. From here copy the files i told you to download.. TO THE ROOT OF YOUR SD CARD, MEANING THE WHITE OPEN SPACE, NOT A FOLDER. Once your done with that, eject the device and on the device press the trackball, this will get you out of the usb toggle.Now, scroll with the trackball to flash from sd..
Okay In this order.. FOLLOW THE ORDER...
Flash The 5.0.3 rom first, first do a wipe, (scroll to wipe/factory restore, wipe dalvik cache) now flash the rom, it's easy you'll know.. Once thats done, it'll say done... Flash the gapps-ere36b file.. once that is done... it'll say done... it will land on "Reboot" if it dosn't press the vol- unitl you do see it. Once you reboot your good...
You probably deleted the boot by mistake. Remeber this is just as sensitive as a MAC so be sure to listen to what I said.. You have one more task which is to flash the Radio, but your ok with the one on Cyanogens rom.. When ready PM me and I will continue to help you...
Okay, Here we go.. First press and hold down the trackball, then while doing that press and hold the power button. Now, here you should see a white screen with android's on skateboards... Choose the one that says bootloader, by pressing the power key as that selection is highlighted.
When I highlight bootloader and click on it I get up top in red Fastboot USB and then I get an error sound. It seems that my phone is not being read by my computer when connected via USB. Is there any other way to fix this at all? There are no actions that happen, I am unable to do anything.
Your Right.. On Your Way...
baileymeadows1 said:
Okay, Here we go.. First press and hold down the trackball, then while doing that press and hold the power button. Now, here you should see a white screen with android's on skateboards... Choose the one that says bootloader, by pressing the power key as that selection is highlighted.
When I highlight bootloader and click on it I get up top in red Fastboot USB and then I get an error sound. It seems that my phone is not being read by my computer when connected via USB. Is there any other way to fix this at all? There are no actions that happen, I am unable to do anything.
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Okay, So you did the right thing.. Your not doing anything wrong.. Where it says fastboot usb in read it means your still in fastboot you haven't went to bootloader. Press the power button while bootloader is highlighted in blue, once you do that you should end up on the second screen whre you scroll down with the vol- button to highlight recovery.. once there press the power button.. From Here continue on where I left off above..
Don't worry buddy, almost there, NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR NEXUS, so don't panic there little one. You'll be on your way showing everyone diff roms and riding the android wave like your stupid... LOL
It is not working. Fastboot appears in Red. When ipress the power button when bootloader is in blue it just takes me back a screen.
Huh?
baileymeadows1 said:
It is not working. Fastboot appears in Red. When ipress the power button when bootloader is in blue it just takes me back a screen.
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Sorry, I was busy in the Modaco Section which i hope you get to it...
Alright.. Fastbootusb is suppose to be highlighted in red when first reach the fastboot screen i.e. skateboards... Here is where bootloader is highlighted in blue. Here is where you click the power button and it will take you to the next screen. *Here* if you just press the power button again it does take you back a screen to the start, but, YOUR suppose to use the vol- (down) button and scroll to recovery. Then press the power button up top. Then you'll see the screen wipe down and from there your on your way...
This section is recovery.. (the black screen Green letters) Here is where I told you flash the roms.
Wow... gotta love when people, who have no business modding their phones, leap before they look.
uansari1 said:
Wow... gotta love when people, who have no business modding their phones, leap before they look.
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You Should not be Stock Anymore Buddy... Modaco Relased the HTC Desire Sense UI 2.1 rom.. Completly ligit.. Now, i just done know what happened there with Dude.. Hope he's fine..
Hi everybody,
This is my first post here and I seriously hope someone can help me.
I unlocked my phone and was attempting to root it and flash Cyanogen's MOD. I flashed Armon_RA's recovery image into recovery partition using fastboot, but when I try to access it I'm getting an image of an android with a warning sign, which I can't post yet because I'm a newbie and mod's have to check my account... Once there the only thing I can do is remove the battery.
I've downloaded Armon_RA's img twice and from different sources and the same thing happens.
In terms of what I did, I tried to follow a step-by-step guide at androidandme.com, combined with Cyanogen's official Wiki.
I appreciate any kind of help,
Thanks!
BTW I'm on Ubuntu 9.10, in case it helps.
Took me like 4 times to flash the recovery before I got the care bear screen. Just keep flashing!
I just got it working right now and was about to post it had been fixed.
Thanks anyway!
Sorry for undigging this thread, but this thread is the first one which shows up when I searched for "android recovery warning".
I have spent the entire day trying to fix my Nexus One's recovery (I got stuck on the screen with a warning sign as well), with no success. Trust me, I tried (almost) everything possible to flash a new recovery/restore stock recovery.
What did work, though, was running fastboot flash recovery recovery.img 5 times in a row (remember to boot your phone in fastboot mode before sending these commands). That did the trick, and now I'm able to boot in recovery mode (Clockworkmod, by the way).
Thanks!
That warning ! IS the stock recovery.
albundy2010 said:
That warning ! IS the stock recovery.
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This.
Some people seem to be confused about what the recovery looks like.
albundy2010 said:
That warning ! IS the stock recovery.
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GldRush98 said:
This.
Some people seem to be confused about what the recovery looks like.
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So how can I do a hard reset from this stock recovery when there's no menu commands, how do you use the stock recovery?
I have an unrooted S On nexus one that I need to hard reset because it boot loops for some reason, but didn't want to have to root it.
orangekid said:
So how can I do a hard reset from this stock recovery when there's no menu commands, how do you use the stock recovery?
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Push the power button and volume up buttons at the same time
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Two buttons together ...
It is a common misconception that you have to push two buttons at the same time to activate some features. Trying to push them at exactly the same time is hit and miss and causes people to have issues.
In every case the combination is always hold one button down and then click the other button once ... much easier than clicking both together.
In this case I believe the combo is hold down power and then click Volume-Up once. (I may have it reversed).
OzCDN said:
It is a common misconception that you have to push two buttons at the same time to activate some features. Trying to push them at exactly the same time is hit and miss and causes people to have issues.
In every case the combination is always hold one button down and then click the other button once ... much easier than clicking both together.
In this case I believe the combo is hold down power and then click Volume-Up once. (I may have it reversed).
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It most likely is reversed. At least when you want to access the bootloader you want to hold down the volume down button (or maybe it is either volume button) and then turn on the phone. And with fastboot, you hold down the trackball as you turn on the phone.
I believe the volume up and powerbutton at the same was to "ok" the phone to apply an update.zip that was stored on the card (I remember doing that when I was running the Froyo build leaks from google).
OzCDN said:
It is a common misconception that you have to push two buttons at the same time to activate some features. Trying to push them at exactly the same time is hit and miss and causes people to have issues.
In every case the combination is always hold one button down and then click the other button once ... much easier than clicking both together.
In this case I believe the combo is hold down power and then click Volume-Up once. (I may have it reversed).
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bassmadrigal said:
It most likely is reversed. At least when you want to access the bootloader you want to hold down the volume down button (or maybe it is either volume button) and then turn on the phone. And with fastboot, you hold down the trackball as you turn on the phone.
I believe the volume up and powerbutton at the same was to "ok" the phone to apply an update.zip that was stored on the card (I remember doing that when I was running the Froyo build leaks from google).
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OzCDN is correct, it is: hold down the power button and press volume up (the reverse does not work), but pushing them both together still works
Synopsis: Son gave me phone to see if I can fix it. It would only boot in to the coloured screen. I’ve read this forum till I couldn’t see any more to try and fix it.
What I’ve done so far is to back up whatever was on the card, then formatted it FAT32. Downloaded RC7 zip (UK), extracted DREAIMG.mbh to card. I also put the zip file on card but renamed it to update.zip. I've done all this with a card reader.
When starting phone, it goes through the update as below.
DREAIMG.mbh – OK
RADIO_V2 – OK
BOOTLOADER – OK
RECOVERY – OK
BOOT – OK
SPLASH1 – OK
SYSTEM – OK
USERDATA – OK
Update Complete
UPDATE SUCCESS, press action key
Pressing the middle/action key takes me back to the bootloader/tricolor screen:
DREA110 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEPT 2 2008
Serial0
When starting phone with home + power key, it goes to the triangle with the exclamation mark. Pressing alt + L, tells me E: Can’t open /cache/recovery/command. Pressing alt + S gives me:
E: No signature (1 files)
E: Verification failed
Twice it booted up to asking for simcard. Once before I formatted, and once after. There wasn’t a simcard with it and not sure if it’s needed to boot fully.
Is there other things to try, or is it too corrupted to fix?
Thanks in advance
without doing the update.zip part does the phone not boot up with RC7?
Try RC 8 or RC 9... or try flashing this (official cupcake) via recovery.
sergioiacobucci said:
without doing the update.zip part does the phone not boot up with RC7?
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I'm afraid not. it always boots to coloured screen as mentione in my post.
Thank you for your post.
AdrianK said:
Try RC 8 or RC 9... or try flashing (official cupcake) via recovery.
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Many thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find RC 8 and 9 for download and the link to cupcake is broken.
Thanks again.
g0tch said:
I'm afraid not. it always boots to coloured screen as mentione in my post.
Thank you for your post.
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even without holding any buttons?
themapleboy said:
even without holding any buttons?
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Whenever I get to the bootloader screen I can’t turn the phone of at all apart from taking the battery out. Pressing the power button will take it through the update (see my firs post) and when all done it goes back to bootloader screen. To turn phone off I have to remove battery again.
Kind regards,
remove the memory stick then from off boot your phone w/o pressing any buttons (just power) what happens?
themapleboy said:
remove the memory stick then from off boot your phone w/o pressing any buttons (just power) what happens?
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Pressing the power button without the memory card, nothing happens at all.
g0tch said:
Pressing the power button without the memory card, nothing happens at all.
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I'm sorry to say but to my knowledge you're screwed, as far as i know. I'm far from a professional but on my check list:
-unrooted
-stock spl/radio
-no recovery
-and dream.img doesn't work
your next option is a jtag, if that doesnt work im pretty sure it's some type of hardware issue. sorry i couldnt be of more help
Many thanks for trying to help. I've no idea what jtag is but will try and google it.
Kind regards,
After an exhaustive searches the last 24 hrs, it seems that unless one can get the phone recognized by your PC, or can boot it past the boot loader, there appears to be no chance for it to be resurrected.
Unless anyone knows better.
Kind Regards to all,
jtag - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
vixsandlee said:
jtag - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
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Many thanks for the link but it's way over my old head.
Kind regards,
this may sound a little simple and forgive me if its stupid, but are you sure your camera button isnt stuck down?
There is hope!
I had exactly the same problem and cured it by downloading the US image (RC29 I think) rather than the UK one. Put the dreamimg.nbh in the root of your SD card then boot up the G1 whilst pressing the camera button.
Even though my phone is from the UK (I am in Ireland) this worked a treat and gave me a working (abeit back to basics) phone. From there I rooted it again then went through to my chosen ROM.
Hope this works - let me know.
Mike
sergioiacobucci said:
this may sound a little simple and forgive me if its stupid, but are you sure your camera button isnt stuck down?
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Many thank for your replies. Sorry for late post but was away. The camera button seems to work, at least it gives a definite click. I now handed phone back to my son but will see him tonight and relay the messages. Will post if I can get it to work.
Kind regards,
I tried downloading 2.3.1 through rom manager, but it failed for some reason. So I accidentally downloaded it through the phone, and as soon as it began installing, I got a little Android image with a triangle that has an ! in it...How can i please fix this?
edit:i tried holding down the up and power keys with no luck...someone please help
monkeytuner said:
I tried downloading 2.3.1 through rom manager, but it failed for some reason. So I accidentally downloaded it through the phone, and as soon as it began installing, I got a little Android image with a triangle that has an ! in it...How can i please fix this?
edit:i tried holding down the up and power keys with no luck...someone please help
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You might get more help if you rename your topic title to something more descriptive.
Second, try searching the forum; this has been discussed in numerous threads on both this forum and the developer's section, along with how to fix it.
Try the threads about the update, or dialing a certain code to force it manually (that's where I learned the timing trick to get into stock recovery on the NS). On the screen you're at, try pressing and holding power, then pressing/holding volume up, that should get you into stock recovery.
Also, if you can get into fastboot, you can fastboot flash the CWM recovery back to the device. If you made an nandroid before doing anything, you can at least go back to the device's state before you tried the update.
i could not find anything on this issue on google or here
i tried doing vol up and power, but its still at the screen, and my computer doesnt recognize my phone
use the instruction on the topic to ROOT the phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875875
and in one of the steps you can use the ADB to push a good ROM back into the phone to be re-flashed
Try just pulling the battery.
If not, you'll have to use fast boot from the SDK. Just follow the howto at the top of this forum to flash original images.
thank you so much!
i locked my bootloader again, and i've been trying to get the 2.3.1 update, but everytime i do try, it freezes at the android warning sign. i also tried installing it via rommanager when i was rooted...whats going on?
any ideas what could be wrong?
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i could not find anything on this issue on google or here
i tried doing vol up and power, but its still at the screen, and my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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monkeytuner said:
any ideas what could be wrong?
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Are you able to get into Fastboot?
I wonder if part of your problem is that you relocked the bootloader. (Why'd you do that anyways? No advantage, imo.)
Fastboot oem unlock will completely wipe your phone, I mean WIPE EVERYTHING, including the sdcard (photos, music, some apps' data, etc), but such a wipe might get you back to stock firmware and stock recovery, then at least you could boot up. You could also then reflash CWM.
Before doing that, let's try this if you haven't:
Turn off phone.
Hold vol-up, then press/hold power.
You should then be in fastboot mode.
The timing's critical (on my phone anyways) for this step: Select recovery, and have your hands on the power button and volume button ready to push.
Watch the screen very closely, for a bout a half second or so, the screen will flash a box with an arrow dumping out onto the android dude. While that screen is showing, press/hold the power button, then press/hold the vol up button. Important to do the power button FIRST this time (at least it is on my phone).
You should then be able to get into the stock recovery.
Once there, maybe we can figure out where to go, but we need to know how messed up your phone is at this point.
Once in Recovery, you could try wiping cache if it's an option, then trying to reboot. Worth a shot, but not likely to work.
You could also do the factory reset wipe in there, this one shouldn't wipe your sdcard if there's anything critical/valuable on it. It will reset all your settings and logins and wipe the apps you've installed, though. Again, might let you boot up normally.
Alright so this is what Im looking for,
i was on a phone call last night and my phone screen just went blank, the touch button are glowing but screen is just blank dark. So i went into recovery and it gave me bunch of error, so i thought to hard reset it.
Ive been searching every where its tell me to hold the vol down and press the power and when the logo comes up release it, and a few other ways but nothing is working.. phone boots fine, goes thru that samsung animation and then then the black screen. Please help.
Almost...
Hold:
Volume UP
Middle button
Power button
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
junooni.1980 said:
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
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Vol down power and home key for download
junooni.1980 said:
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
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Well, that is the menu that your looking for if you want to do a hard reset (WIPE). If it not working, then your phone is toast. Unless you want to try flashing it with another ROM using Odin. Which may work. (but very doubtful) There are tons and tons of threads here for you to researh your problem, but it sounds to me like the SD card has gone tits up. Wen u try to do a hard reset (wipe) what comes up on the screen after you select wipe??
But Vol up, middle button, and pwr is in fact the menu your looking for to do a Hard reset. (wipe)
If in fact your SD card is having issues, there is a thread floating around here somewhere, where some people have had sucess reviving their phone (and SD) using a series of flashes or something that may work.
Grashoper said:
Well, that is the menu that your looking for if you want to do a hard reset (WIPE). If it not working, then your phone is toast. Unless you want to try flashing it with another ROM using Odin. Which may work. (but very doubtful) There are tons and tons of threads here for you to researh your problem, but it sounds to me like the SD card has gone tits up. Wen u try to do a hard reset (wipe) what comes up on the screen after you select wipe??
But Vol up, middle button, and pwr is in fact the menu your looking for to do a Hard reset. (wipe)
If in fact your SD card is having issues, there is a thread floating around here somewhere, where some people have had sucess reviving their phone (and SD) using a series of flashes or something that may work.
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Ok so i tired flashing with Odin, and it was success but after rebooting it still the same thing...button are lighting up but black screen. Can any one guide me to the right direction please??
Your phone is dead.
You will have to bring it to a store for an exchange for a new one.
urfase said:
Your phone is dead.
You will have to bring it to a store for an exchange for a new one.
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I agree, go exchange. you should see the common unable to mount error in the recovery to confirm it's toast
junooni.1980 said:
Ok so i tired flashing with Odin, and it was success but after rebooting it still the same thing...button are lighting up but black screen. Can any one guide me to the right direction please??
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Just flash your phone with odin to a 2.1 firmware (stock firmware, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846913 ) it should do the trick, if it's entering recovery and then let's you install a new firmware you're ok, but before installing a new firmware just take the battery out for 15-20 sec so the phone has no power to keep residual info from your previouse firmware.