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[Q] phone to pc screen :(

dont kno if im posting this in the correct section or not but can some one plz help? i was trying to flash the stock files for my samsung vibrant with odin, but it froze so i unplugged and tried to reboot my phone but the phone to pc screen came up. ive tried holding the volume buttons + power to get back to download mode, but it just reboots and goes back to it, can anybody help?

Did you hold the power button down till it disappears and then release the power button immediately as it disappears?

hadnt tryin releasing the power button right away but i just tried and still no luck

Johnz is right. To make sure, unplug & plug back in the usb cable, then hold down the volume keys & power, wait till the screen flashes to black, then release power.

Unplug and pull the battery.
Install battery.
While holding both volume buttons, plug in usb cable.
Have odin ready to go, it seems to help. The phone should power up directly to download mode, once odin sees it, hit start.

i dont get what im doing wrong because ive tried what u guys said but after the screen flashes black when it comes back on its the phone to pc screen. ive also noticed that if i pull the battery while the usb cord is connected the phone stays on at that screen until i remove the usb cord, is that normal?

i just read that if the normal ways dont work that means ur phone is hardware locked. looks like im gonna have to try to send it back to tmobile and hope for the best

Try the above, but also hold the home key. I did the exact same as you, and this enabled me to get back to download mode, so I could Odin.
1) Remove battery, SIM, and sd card.
2) Plug in USB Cable.
3) Hold down Vol +/- as well as home.
4) Press power button for 2 seconds, then release.
This should get you into download mode. Then you can Odin back to whatever you were intending to do.

thanx for all the help guys but nothing seems to be working for me

Just throwing out an update incase anyone was wondering, I got my replacement phone yesterday and it turned out to be hardware locked as well. Tried to flash the fix for it and it failed and bricked my phone! So after calling tmobile they will be sending me another replacement and hopefully that one wont be locked as well

I had the same problem trying to get into Download Mode, I got into download mode and using ODIN tried to flash update. The process was stick for 10 min.
So I unplugged USB and got this phone to PC icon. All I had to do to fix it was to go into download mode again by holding both vol +/- keys and pressing power button until screen goes black then release the power button as soon as the screen went black. If you hold the button longer it will go into recovery mode. Then open ODIN again and re-connect USB and ODIN will detect COM port. However you have to make sure that all samsung usb drivers are installed. That is it. Then flash the update and you all set. The phone will reboot and you are back up and runing.

ttabbal said:
Unplug and pull the battery.
Install battery.
While holding both volume buttons, plug in usb cable.
Have odin ready to go, it seems to help. The phone should power up directly to download mode, once odin sees it, hit start.
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there is another way to this method, that works on any vibrant i've tried it on and also the captivates, had to help a friend restore his yesterday.
remove battery, sd and sim cards
plug in usb cable to pc and phone
hold down the volume buttons only
pop in the battery
if it comes up to the battery charging icon, pull the battery and put it back in again, should go right into download mode.
again, this works on any vibrant i've tried it on, and the captivate as well, good luck.

boot loop after trying to flash twrp 2.2.1

Okay so I seem to have run into a little problem I was planning on updating cleanrom up to 1.2.5 but was on cwm. I had managed to switch over successfully to twrp 2.2.0. I went ahead and used goo manager to download the updated zip of 2.2.1 and tried flashing it thru twrp. Now I am stuck in google bootloop and cant get into recovery or more importantly bootloader. I have been trying last 30mins to hold power and both volume buttons but it either keeps rebooting back to the google screen or not doing anything at all just have to repress to to turn it off but it will turn back on automatically. I tried hooking it up to my usb and labtop but it looks like it wont even recognize it. I just fully charged it so I am good for now just a little worried cant get out of this mess.

I ran into a problem like that with clockwork recovery it kept on rebooting in recovery but I could still go into download mode I was at work away from my computer so I had no choice but to keep trying that three button magic until it finally restored a backup I had on my external card.just keep on trying to pull the battery then try to go into recovery. You might 've gotten a bad download
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problem is I cant get into recovery. or the green screen to get to bootloader. It just completely stuck in a bootloop on the google screen mocking me... I am really contemplating opening it up and taking out battery but is that a good idea? Or is there anything else I can do?

so I pulled off the back cover but really dont want o disconnect the battery might mess something up but I cannot get the device to shut off.

disconnecting the battery does nothing it shuts it off and keeps it off but when I connect it to the charger the battery symbol pops up for a second and then goes completely blank. I went ahead and tried again to boot into bootloader pressing power vol up + down and all combinations of power vol -, power vol +
power turbo press vol +/- but no luck still in google screen.

If you're in a bootloop you need to connect your Nexus 7 to a computer. Then you will be able to access recovery via the Power button and volume buttons.

is it going to make a difference that everytime i try to reboot it just the black google screen? I have tried it connected to the wall charger and connected usb to the labtop but nothing.

clago87 said:
is it going to make a difference that everytime i try to reboot it just the black google screen? I have tried it connected to the wall charger and connected usb to the labtop but nothing.
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It's supposed to do that when you're trying to go to recovery from bootloader without the USB cable plugged into a computer, may need to have the drivers installed on said computer. It's an issue with the nexus 7 bootloader and every one of them does it. What your experiencing is perfectly normal if you tried to go to recovery from bootloader with the bolume buttons and then got the google screen bootloop.
If it doesn't work when you plug it in and try, then try unplugging it, manually rebooting with it plugged in first, or vice versa
Update: I can get on Team Viewer and remotely reboot you into recovery through the PC if you want, or at least give it my best shot.

ok so i disconnected battery and have the device off. I should then try connecting it to the pc and try booting up holding down all buttons?

clago87 said:
ok so i disconnected battery and have the device off. I should then try connecting it to the pc and try booting up holding down all buttons?
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Have you installed the right drivers on the computer you're using, for ADB and the device drivers, when you unlocked and rooted?
Answer to your question is yes try that. But I wouldn't be disconnecting and reconnecting it, I can't recommend that and then learn tomorrow that static zapped something important.

yea I am getting nothing by connecting to pc. I have all the drivers adb and fastboot installed when I rooted and unlocked couple weeks back but it looks like device is not being recognized or read at all by the pc.

connecting to the pc holding the volume + button gets it recognized for a second and tries to install a driver apx but unsuccessfully.

I am not making any progress whatsoever kinda sucks starting the weekend like this. I have gone thru some bad stuff with my atrix but nothing like this were I cant even access my bootloader boot into recovery or even fastboot. Should I try and get it to just stay off and see if overnight it works its own magic? Hate going to sleep witht his on my mind but I think with a clear mind in the morning something good will happen.

I can get it to stay off by holding both vol+ and vol- but trying to turn it off with just the power button just keeps it turning back on/off...

so I slepted on it thru the night let the tablet rest but went back this morning and I still cant get into bootloader or recovery. Is there anything I can do?

Has anyone else had this problem where they cant boot into recovery or bootloader? It's like the power button and vol keys are unresponsive even though they still work to turn on the device.

are you sure that you flashed the right recovery? but you should still be able to get the bootloader. are you pressing power + volume down(volume down, not both volume buttons. i noticed you wrote both volume buttons) to get into the bootloader?

I think I chose the right recovery the first version downloaded thru goo manager but it was the 2.2.0 version. I had the option on the of downloading the 2.2.1 zip or the .img but i downloaded the .img to just to flash with the current version of twrp that was working. There have been times were I have not been able to get into recovery on my atrix or htc but I've always been able to get into the bootloader this is the first time I've been locked out of my device kind of got me scared its not even a month old. So you say to get into bootloader you dont have to hold down both volume buttons? I will try again to power back up using the volume down and power button at same time... Wish me luck

clago87 said:
I think I chose the right recovery the first version downloaded thru goo manager but it was the 2.2.0 version. I had the option on the of downloading the 2.2.1 zip or the .img but i downloaded the .img to just to flash with the current version of twrp that was working. There have been times were I have not been able to get into recovery on my atrix or htc but I've always been able to get into the bootloader this is the first time I've been locked out of my device kind of got me scared its not even a month old. So you say to get into bootloader you dont have to hold down both volume buttons? I will try again to power back up using the volume down and power button at same time... Wish me luck
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good luck!
yea, only power button and the volume down button.

quick question before I connect the battery does it make a difference whether or not I have it plugged in charging or connected to the PC while trying to boot into bootloader?

Hard brick [EU-axon mini 7] ?

Hi, I get this phone yesturday... I've installed last firemware ( 6.0 to 7.0.1 ) and after I tried with Tuliptool to install recovery but after this my phone dont show recovery when I tried so I was thinking I've forget to Unlock it before... and obvously I tried to unlock ( with tulip ) but I got error message in cmd ( I don't remerber... ) and now it show only Zte and it bootloop on it so I didn't have recovery, I can't use edl because I can't boot.. so there is something I can do or I bricked it in less than 1 day.. ? :S

Got the same problem

EDL can only be entered once the phone is completely off. You need to hold down volume up + volume down and then plug in the usb cable (dont touch the power button). The phone wont do anything, it will still look off but you will hear the device plugged in tone in Windows and will be able to find the device in zadiag. Also after a few attempts Windows stopped showing the device and I had to restart Windows before it worked again. Can you get this far?

dmo199 said:
EDL can only be entered once the phone is completely off. You need to hold down volume up + volume down and then plug in the usb cable (dont touch the power button). The phone wont do anything, it will still look off but you will hear the device plugged in tone in Windows and will be able to find the device in zadiag. Also after a few attempts Windows stopped showing the device and I had to restart Windows before it worked again. Can you get this far?
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no my phone is just showing ZTE when it is booting then just instant turns off and starts again showing ZTE and it is doing that until the battery is empty

I did have that before, I'm not sure the exact combination I used, charge it up and then remove the cable, hold the power button and either the volume up, or volume down or both for anywhere between 5 and 20 seconds before letting go and seeing if it stays off. If it doesn't work try again and again and again, Its completely trial and error and took me a while to get it to work

dmo199 said:
EDL can only be entered once the phone is completely off. You need to hold down volume up + volume down and then plug in the usb cable (dont touch the power button). The phone wont do anything, it will still look off but you will hear the device plugged in tone in Windows and will be able to find the device in zadiag. Also after a few attempts Windows stopped showing the device and I had to restart Windows before it worked again. Can you get this far?
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I'm not quite sure but on the European version of the Axon you can't do that by holding the buttons.
I understand that the only way to get in edl mode is software, no other choice than rebooting from the OS using the command adb reboot edl. So if you can't make your device completely started first, i guess it's bricked. But maybe i'm totally wrong.

vincent1967 said:
I'm not quite sure but on the European version of the Axon you can't do that by holding the buttons.
I understand that the only way to get in edl mode is software, no other choice than rebooting from the OS using the command adb reboot edl. So if you can't make your device completely started first, i guess it's bricked. But maybe i'm totally wrong.
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I also messed up mine. I did everything until I had android 7, rooted, but lost IMEI. then I, THE IDIOT, tried to re-flash stcok android 6......booom. bricked.......
however.........power the phone off:
hold vol- power for 10 secs. phone should boot into FTM. then power it off by pressing power for about 5 secs. phone is off.
now vol+power and the phone should go to recovery, even if stuck on the logo, my pc reads it as recovery in adb devices......
tomorrow I'll see if I can get out from there. my experience doing this before is that from the recovery the ADB reboot edl works
cheers

I think I bricked my P10 Lite. Need help please

I was messing with my P10 Lite and I accidentally wiped the Vendor partition (not sure if I wiped anything else) with TWRP. After the phone rebooted it said something about a critical error during boot and went into erecovery. It gave me two options( I don't remember the second one) and I chose factory reset. It started doing it's thing but I guess something went wrong because it wasn't able to boot and it started to bootloop.
I managed to get into fastboot once. The bootloader and FRP should be unlocked but I am not sure as I think I semi accidentally used the command to relock the bootloader in the hopes of it doing the automatic low level factory reset. After that restart, the phone wanted to boot up but after the Huawei logo it went into the EMUI logo which I've shown in the pictures. Now I can't use any button combination and can't enter any menu. I also can't shut down the phone as it bootloops into the EMUI logo after I press the power button. I opened the phone and turned it off by detaching the battery cable but after holding the power down key and plugging the usb cable into the phone it still boots into the EMUI logo right after the Huawei logo.
I guess not being able to enter fastboot is the major issue and after hours of googling I am yet to find a solution.
Edit: I am a newb!
Please help!

Why did you delete the vendor partition, you could try plugging the phone into your computer and checking if you can do anything with fastboot while it's showing emui logo?

Alaunus said:
I was messing with my P10 Lite and I accidentally wiped the Vendor partition (not sure if I wiped anything else) with TWRP. After the phone rebooted it said something about a critical error during boot and went into erecovery. It gave me two options( I don't remember the second one) and I chose factory reset. It started doing it's thing but I guess something went wrong because it wasn't able to boot and it started to bootloop.
I managed to get into fastboot once. The bootloader and FRP should be unlocked but I am not sure as I think I semi accidentally used the command to relock the bootloader in the hopes of it doing the automatic low level factory reset. After that restart, the phone wanted to boot up but after the Huawei logo it went into the EMUI logo which I've shown in the pictures. Now I can't use any button combination and can't enter any menu. I also can't shut down the phone as it bootloops into the EMUI logo after I press the power button. I opened the phone and turned it off by detaching the battery cable but after holding the power down key and plugging the usb cable into the phone it still boots into the EMUI logo right after the Huawei logo.
I guess not being able to enter fastboot is the major issue and after hours of googling I am yet to find a solution.
Edit: I am a newb!
Please help!
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Dload method. Put sd card in other phone or some card readers and put appropriate files.

nemanjsb said:
Dload method. Put sd card in other phone or some card readers and put appropriate files.
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I've already tried that. I've placed the appropriate files into my SDcard but I can't use any button commands including volume up+down+power. When I press them my device just boots into the EMUI logo and nothing happens.
Edit: It boots into the EMUI logo even if I only press the power button. Pressing volume down + usb also boots me into the EMUI logo

DaarkZek said:
Why did you delete the vendor partition, you could try plugging the phone into your computer and checking if you can do anything with fastboot while it's showing emui logo?
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I measured once and not trice before cutting... I was also not paying enough attention/in a hurry...

Power OFF the phone.
Press and Hold VOL Down and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into Bootloader (fastboot mode). Does this method work?
or try this:
Press and Hold VOL Up and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into eRecovey mode and then then select "Download latest stock rom and install".

Aalesund said:
Power OFF the phone.
Press and Hold VOL Down and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into Bootloader (fastboot mode). Does this method work?
or try this:
Press and Hold VOL Up and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into eRecovey mode and then then select "Download latest stock rom and install".
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Ok, it seems like not all is lost about my phone. I managed to get into fastboot. In my situation, pressing volume down + usb cable while the battery was plugged into the phone did not work. That was before I opened up my phone's case and disconnected the battery cable.
As I mentioned before, I had opened my phone and disconnected the battery cable because that was the only way to shut it off.
What I did after I disconnected the battery cable was the following:
1 - Hold volume down and don't release it
2 - Plug in USB
3 - Plug in the battery cable into the phone's mobo.
That booted me into fastboot. Right now, the phone says my bootloader in unlocked and my FRP is locked. What would be the best way to flash the new stock OS on my phone?

Aalesund said:
Power OFF the phone.
Press and Hold VOL Down and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into Bootloader (fastboot mode). Does this method work?
or try this:
Press and Hold VOL Up and connect the phone to PC via USB cable. The phone should boot into eRecovey mode and then then select "Download latest stock rom and install".
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I have downloaded THIS and THIS for the new OS but by talking with Alexxxx1 in THIS discussion I learnt that Huawei has implemented a security patch in their latest update, which I've most likely installed, that prevents you from rolling back your OS version. That means I need to install the .386 version, which should be the last if I am not wrong, instead of the .378 correct? Though I heavily dislike patches like this I guess I can't do anything about that...

Lenovo Tab4 8 plus / Tb-8704x only recovery menu

OK so hi guys,
after I tried, search, read tons of stuff, I finally decided to post a thread because I have no clue what else I could do.
I have have a lenovo tab4 8 plus / tb-8704x tablet by my hand and it only boots into the recovery menu like u hold volume down and power.
1. I don't know what happened to it before, I got it like it is.
2. If u plug in powe supply the red led blinks and u can only power it on by holding power for around 10 seconds, then the lenovo logo -> then recovery menu
3. Also If I hold down volume down and power it on it boots into the test app, to test if all stuff works.
4. In the test app I tested the volume buttons and recognized the up button had no response, so I took it apart and measured it. And if I press volume up then I get a good reading (peep). So the volume keys both are good.
5. The I tested flash a stock rom to test if that fixed the problem. I used TB_8704X_S001025_190606_ROW from the lenovo rescue program, but if I try to flash it inside the recovery menu over SD Card it only said wrong footer, error 21.
6. So i decided to use the qfil and the base stock rom TB-8704X_S000026_170707_ROW_QFIL. And after I always get sahara error messages if I use it only windows 10, I booted up an old win xp PC installed version .460 and the Qualcomm drivers, then hold down volume up plugged in USB, clicked the right Qualcomm com port and all went well first try no errors.
7. Then I unplugged the tablet, hold down power until it reboots but still nothing only recovery menu.
That's why I decided to post here, in hope someone can help, has new ideas or something else.
I hope all is good understandable.
//edit I uploaded to images, that's what I get if I boot f.e. the latest stock rom (named as factory_update.zip) from lenovo on an fat32 formatted sd card (exfat will give error and is not been able to mount)

Update:
I also managed to update to the latest rom from lenovo. Then it boots again in recovery mode but a different error.
For testing I've put the sd card with the same lasted update file inside. Then it starts the update process again. It starts install, tries to erase and then error and it boots again and then I'm in a boot loop until I remove the SD (because the image is named factory_update.zip so it's auto starts update process)
Pictures in attachment

Im pretty sure after all my testing, it's a hardware failure so, this thread can be closed.