So I'm kinda new at this, I was attempting to remove root and by a stupid rookie mistake decided to format system, and even stupider, format boot.
now when i power on my phone, i get the white "HTC EVO 4G" Screen, but then it goes into fastboot and just chills there. I can boot into the bootloader screen by holding VOLDOWN when I power up, but even after trying to install roms from there it fails.
Did I brick my phone, or can someone fix it..
Wrong forum... That said how are you installing roms from boot loader? they need to be installed from recovery. Which recovery do you have installed and can you boot into it? I'm assuming you are since you say you are installing ROMs.
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My bad, I wasn't sure..
But I have clockwork recovery mod 2.6.0.1
I guess I wasn't clear though, I'm trying to do it from recovery, but my bootloader is.. odd? I'm not sure. When I power on regularly it goes into fastboot with the options
-bootloader
-reboot
-reboot bootloader
-power down
and yes, I can boot into clockwork recovery
also is there anywhere anyone knows of that i can get a .sbf file for it? A friend said thats what i need
All you need to do is boot in to recovery, wipe data, and flash any rom. You formatted the system and boot partitions so there is nothing for the phone to boot up and that's why it keeps going to the bootloader.
Is it safe to assume you don't have a backup on your sdcard?
You are not bricked. Bricked is a phone does not power on or do anything at all. Ur phone is fixable.
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Hi all,
I tried rooting my Nexus S and now it only roots into Clockwork Recovery. I am completely new to rooting but I am sure that there must be a way to restore factory settings to the phone if it will boot to something and is not bricked.
At this point if I could just replace everything on the phone with whatever comes stock to include the system image and recovery image I would be ecstatic. If someone could help me with step by step instructions to make this happen I would be extremely appreciative.
EDIT: The top of the screen says in red: FASTBOOT MODE - NO BOOT OR RECOVERY IMG
Hobart007 said:
Hi all,
I tried rooting my Nexus S and now it only roots into Clockwork Recovery. I am completely new to rooting but I am sure that there must be a way to restore factory settings to the phone if it will boot to something and is not bricked.
At this point if I could just replace everything on the phone with whatever comes stock to include the system image and recovery image I would be ecstatic. If someone could help me with step by step instructions to make this happen I would be extremely appreciative.
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There's currently no way to flash back to stock recovery, but it will come in time.
When you're in Clockwork recovery and select reboot system it ends up back in Clockwork?
What if you power off the phone, then hold up volume rocker and turn on power, then once in fastboot select reboot? What happens then?
Hobart007 said:
Hi all,
I tried rooting my Nexus S and now it only roots into Clockwork Recovery. I am completely new to rooting but I am sure that there must be a way to restore factory settings to the phone if it will boot to something and is not bricked.
At this point if I could just replace everything on the phone with whatever comes stock to include the system image and recovery image I would be ecstatic. If someone could help me with step by step instructions to make this happen I would be extremely appreciative.
EDIT: The top of the screen says in red: FASTBOOT MODE - NO BOOT OR RECOVERY IMG
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get clockwork img. do a "fastboot flash recovery recovery_clockwork_name" (name of file)
then follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10029195&postcount=19
OMG Thank you SO much. That worked like a charm.
Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere. I wasn't able to find an answer to my question...
My wife has an old MyTouch 3G. We have two months left on our contract before we make the jump to Verizon. So, I decided to try a new ROM on her phone. I downloaded Ginger Yoshi, booted to the Clockworkmod Recover screen, wiped the device, and tried to flash Ginger Yoshi. However, it told me that it was "(bad)". So, I decided to load the recovery that I created. I did that and it said it worked, but now when I boot up the phone, it just gets stuck on the MyTouch 3G splash screen. I tried getting back to the Clockwork Mod Recovery screen, but it just give me the ! inside the triangle screen. I'm totally new to this. Is there anything I can do?
Update: I can get to the "Android system recovery" screen at least. It gives me 4 options.
reboot system now [Home + Back]
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe date/factory reset
wipe cache partition
*bumping thread
Can u get in the fastboot mode? (Power+Back) Then your phone isn't bricked, and you're able to flash/boot a new recovery. I trought fastboot commander can do it.
While using the PA Updater app to upgrade my rom, the app attempted to reboot into recovery to run an openrecovery script. While doing this, I believe it set my "reboot mode flag" to recovery.
The tablet boots with the Google screen and then shows the TWRP splash (I'm on version 2.6.0.0), then it reboots and starts again.
I am able to get to the bootloader, but even if I press start or recovery mode it reenters the boot loop trying to get into recovery. In the bootloader was where I saw the reboot mode flag set to recovery. Is there a way to use fastboot to remove that or am I just going to have to do a wipe with fastboot?
It happened to me once. I pushed the power button for 60 seconds as it supposed to do a kind of battery pull, and it worked.
HunterOrHunted said:
While using the PA Updater app to upgrade my rom, the app attempted to reboot into recovery to run an openrecovery script. While doing this, I believe it set my "reboot mode flag" to recovery.
The tablet boots with the Google screen and then shows the TWRP splash (I'm on version 2.6.0.0), then it reboots and starts again.
I am able to get to the bootloader, but even if I press start or recovery mode it reenters the boot loop trying to get into recovery. In the bootloader was where I saw the reboot mode flag set to recovery. Is there a way to use fastboot to remove that or am I just going to have to do a wipe with fastboot?
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same thing just happened to me... tried Factory Reset and TWRP ran an Open Recovery Script and boom... boot loop... TWRP screen pops up and then goes to loop...
tried pressing powerbutton but no use...
any workaround for this???
Lordificated said:
same thing just happened to me... tried Factory Reset and TWRP ran an Open Recovery Script and boom... boot loop... TWRP screen pops up and then goes to loop...
tried pressing powerbutton but no use...
any workaround for this???
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I've done this twice to my nexus now and I think I found a reliable way to restore to running condition. YMMV
1)Boot the nexus into fastboot (power and both volume keys) when you power up.
2)Attach your usb cable from the PC (or MAC I guess, dont have one to try)
3)start WUG Nexxus Root Toolkit. 'Launch' advanced utilities.
4)Test your fastboot with Quick tools. check the button at Fastboot-Bootloader and click 'List Devices' if the box that pops up is empty then fastboot isn't working (I can't help you there and it must be working to continue).
5)If fastboot shows a device then go to "Boot Temporary" and click 'Custom Recovery'.
6)I selected 'Touch TWRP' but CMW may work as well. This will reboot you into (temp)TWRP and from there you can force a reboot that will reset the 'Recovery' flag that has locked your bootloader.
7)Give it a few minutes (be patient for 5 minutes) and hopefully you reboot to where you were prior to this mess.
Long time lurker and couldn't fix my fails without everyone here.
Thanks to all.
Bill
HunterOrHunted said:
While using the PA Updater app to upgrade my rom, the app attempted to reboot into recovery to run an openrecovery script. While doing this, I believe it set my "reboot mode flag" to recovery.
The tablet boots with the Google screen and then shows the TWRP splash (I'm on version 2.6.0.0), then it reboots and starts again.
I am able to get to the bootloader, but even if I press start or recovery mode it reenters the boot loop trying to get into recovery. In the bootloader was where I saw the reboot mode flag set to recovery. Is there a way to use fastboot to remove that or am I just going to have to do a wipe with fastboot?
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I had the same thing happen to me (though i updated from stock 4.4 to 4.4.2 [and i had twrp installed]). I tried reflashing to stock recovery and a few other things but same problem, it kept booting me into stock recovery. I know this is going to sound crazy, even stupid, but just letting it sit there for 5 minutes (at the stock recovery screen) let it work... I was searching for more things to try and it just started booting.... Checking the bootloader again showed the reboot mode flag set to none.
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I had the same thing happen to me (though i updated from stock 4.4 to 4.4.2 [and i had twrp installed]). I tried reflashing to stock recovery and a few other things but same problem, it kept booting me into stock recovery. I know this is going to sound crazy, even stupid, but just letting it sit there for 5 minutes (at the stock recovery screen) let it work... I was searching for more things to try and it just started booting.... Checking the bootloader again showed the reboot mode flag set to none.
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I guess mine worked because I was still on stock bootloader and adding TWRP was an important key but the 5 minutes seems to be the solution after all the rest.
recovery boot loop:- Is coz, one of your partitions would be facing problems while mounting.. So Wipe the Partition and Format it with Ext-2 file format. and reboot the Mobile. Then it'll stops rebooting.
Do you have a Samsung device?
Be warned - there is no such thing as fastboot mode for most Samsung Galaxy devices - you'll be wasting your time doing this and typing "fastboot devices" for many hours!
If you have problems with your recovery, it works to just reflash the CF-autoroot kit, which happens to flash the cache partition too. My problem was similar to the OP's - a bootloop with TWRP's obviously buggy OpenRecoveryScript, which was installing a ZIP file over and over again.
If you flash the CF-autoroot specific to your device, TWRP will be gone, but the phone will boot normally again - with all your data on it - hooray!
Then you install TWRP or CWM recovery as you did originally.
Stay away from OpenRecoveryScripts! I'll be installing a ZIP file in the traditional, manual way from now on, from an external SD card so I can remove the card if I get another TWRP boot loop.
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Be warned - there is no such thing as fastboot mode for most Samsung Galaxy devices - you'll be wasting your time doing this and typing "fastboot devices" for many hours!
If you have problems with your recovery, it works to just reflash the CF-autoroot kit, which happens to flash the cache partition too. My problem was similar to the OP's - a bootloop with TWRP's obviously buggy OpenRecoveryScript, which was installing a ZIP file over and over again.
If you flash the CF-autoroot specific to your device, TWRP will be gone, but the phone will boot normally again - with all your data on it - hooray!
Then you install TWRP or CWM recovery as you did originally.
Stay away from OpenRecoveryScripts! I'll be installing a ZIP file in the traditional, manual way from now on, from an external SD card so I can remove the card if I get another TWRP boot loop.
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How do you install cf-autoroot when stuck in a boot loop with samsung galaxy S device if there is no fastboot?
My phone is stuck in bootloop too. It shows Twrp at the starting and then restarts. What am i supposed to do? I need help ASAP please
I have unlocked bootloader, flash modified boot.img and recovery but when I boot the device I get 'Your device is corrupt and may not work properly' I then get stuck on the google boot screen. When I go into TWRP recovery it cannot mount anything so I cannot even perform a factory reset.
Please help
did you make a back up?
I didn't unfortunately, I can get into recovery and as long as I leave it as 'Read-Only' it seems to mount everything. I think I need to get a stock image.
Resolved - used a Toolkit to go completely back to stock, kind of scared to try again now.
Follow directions and that won't happen again. Make sure you are on the correct version MDB08K BEFORE you start (you have the OTA), format not wipe in TWRP and you won't get caught in the boot loop.
Failing to do those two things will put you in a boot loop.
What toolkit did you use because i myself have this issue with my nexus 6p
Swatto86 said:
I have unlocked bootloader, flash modified boot.img and recovery but when I boot the device I get 'Your device is corrupt and may not work properly' I then get stuck on the google boot screen. When I go into TWRP recovery it cannot mount anything so I cannot even perform a factory reset.
Please help
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That warning is normal, and should be ignored if you want unlocked bootloader, custom ROMs, etc.
Here TWRP couldn't mount because you forgot to decrypt after flashing the modified boot.img.
If you have further issues, let me know.
A quick advise - Avoid toolkits. They are handy and easy, but if something goes wrong, it will be hard to track down the cause. On the contrary, doing thing manually, will not only make it easy, but will also help you learn more about your Android, and how it works.
I need some help.
Last night I was updating to lineageOS' new nightly update with TWRP in recovery mode. I also like to run a custom kernel on of that for battery life reasons. In doing so, I mindlessly flashed the custom kernel (blackscreen 3.6.2) to the system image partition instead of the boot partition, then went back and flashed SuperSU, wiped the cache as I normally do.
My problem is that when I rebooted the phone it hangs on the stock LeEco boot logo without going past it. In addition I cant get it to go into fastboot or recovery no matter what button combination I use. In addition, I can't get adb or fastboot to detect it from my PC to do anything from there either. My PC does detect a "Portable Devices", listed as a D:\ drive, but this isn't helpful.
I could really use some help. I'd hate to think I bricked my phone with such a mindless mistake. If you know what's up or another post that can help me, please post it.
Pls disregard this post, I managed to boot into recovery when I plugged it in to my PC and turned it on with volume up and power
BlocforLife said:
Pls disregard this post, I managed to boot into recovery when I plugged it in to my PC and turned it on with volume up and power
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thanks,bro.I have same problem, it work for me.