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Hi guys,
I've done a fair amount of reading in this forum today, but I can't seem to find an answer for my situation. I'm working on a co-worker's Kindle Fire. He tried rooting the device, and it obviously failed. I have no idea what he's done thus far.
My problem:
The device does not turn on when it's not plugged in to a computer or power source. (I'm guessing this is due to a dead battery, but I'm not 100% on this. It's charging with a wall charger as I write this.)
When plugged into a PC, the device powers on to the infamous yellow triangle screen that says to "Press the power button to boot into recovery." After being plugged into the PC for about 15-20 seconds, the device will power itself off and then back on. From then on, it will reboot every 10 seconds or so.
I've attempted running KFU to see if it will detect the device before it shuts itself down, but no luck there. I have tried pressing the power button while the triangle screen is present, but it doesn't change the power button LED to red to indicate it's been pressed.
Hopefully I've given enough details to work with. Your help is greatly appreciated.
are you holding the powerbutton.
try holding for 10 seconds it should turn the led orange and boot nto recovery.
i not then hes wiped recovery as well.
not a problem but you need to use fastboot to install a new recovery.
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would try to follow this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24406516&postcount=2
Thanks for the suggestions guys. It turns out that the device had a very very low battery and this was causing the constant rebooting when attempting to get to recovery.
I let the device charge for 30 - 45 minutes, used the KFU to install TWRP. From that point I could flasht the ROM, gapps, and it booted up successfully. CyanogenMod 9 works like charm.
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its always the simple things. lol
glad you sorted it
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(I speak spanish , so srry for my bad english)
Hello Friends, ok i'm really noob in all of this.
I have a acer a500 tab, I buy this with the last update. My tablet always worked very good, but, one day, i press the power button to unlock the screen but nothing happen, the tablet was turn on but not worked, so i press the button to turn off the tablet and reset this, but when the tablet present the acer logo is freez in this.
I try to hard resets and put a thousand update.zip into a sd card, but nothing work, because appear a red triangle with the android pet.
I never connect my tablet with usb to my pc.
I dont have idea what is a RA Revamped, or a ADB, UID...
Im really noob, help me please. Really ty.
Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
deetea48601 said:
Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
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hold power down for 20 seconds. let phone sit for 1 minute. now hold power and volume down. this should bring you to a white reset screen. press power 3 times.
gentlemandroid17 said:
hold power down for 20 seconds. let phone sit for 1 minute. now hold power and volume down. this should bring you to a white reset screen. press power 3 times.
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i tried that and nothing happened.
When you plug in USB does charge light come on. Sounds like a battery went dead.
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I've heard some people are having issues with the charge port and/or cord also. Maybe try another cord and make sure it's plugging in tightly? I think the last person covered everything else.
gentlemandroid17 said:
When you plug in USB does charge light come on. Sounds like a battery went dead.
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No charge light at all =/
I had the same problem, it occured while switching from cwm to twrp. i used the unbuntu method ( i think you mean this right here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142)
are you sure you were in fastboot mode? because i wasnt and it should say so in the top left corner if you were.
try different cords/ usb ports or even pc's to charge it. my mac couldn't find it at all, my windows did.
UnknownCloakedMan said:
I've heard some people are having issues with the charge port and/or cord also. Maybe try another cord and make sure it's plugging in tightly? I think the last person covered everything else.
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Cord charge my tab just fine, therefore im assuming the cord is fine... i think
i have the same problem
deetea48601 said:
Today, I attempt to root my G2 and i done so successfully. After I attempted to add a recovery via Flashify as told to me from someone from this site and it softed bricked my phone to where i only powered on to fastboot mode. After researching further I attempted the ubuntu fix for the situation and after I cant turn my phone on and there is no charge light indication. HELP PLZ
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I have the same problem my phone is completly dead i don't know what else can i do, the linux tutorial doesn't work because the pc don't detects the phone
did tou guys check if the twrp image you downloaded was correct size? Wonder if a bad download could cause this.
bachera said:
did tou guys check if the twrp image you downloaded was correct size? Wonder if a bad download could cause this.
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For me the brick happened when i was flashing KK with TWRP, during the flashing appears something that said "couldn't not mount system" and the phone shut down and never power up again , no usb no charge, no linux, no nothing, when i plug my device in windows appears that the devices cannot install the drivers, and i've tried all the drivers and still doesn't work
Hold power down until phone is completely off. Then, hold power and down volume until you see LG logo. As soon as you see the LG logo, release and then quickly press power and down again. Hold until you see a white screen. Then go from there.
techbeck said:
Hold power down until phone is completely off. Then, hold power and down volume until you see LG logo. As soon as you see the LG logo, release and then quickly press power and down again. Hold until you see a white screen. Then go from there.
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i've tried all the possible combinations of buttons and no one works, i've been holding the power button for a whole minute and nothing happened, and the other combination either, nothing seems to work i give up
It's just power you press after the logo, not power and volume down.
pimfram said:
It's just power you press after the logo, not power and volume down.
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There's no logo, 'cause it doesn't turn on by any means , no matter what button or combination i press, there's no response.
Thanks
Have you tried getting into download mode?
pimfram said:
Have you tried getting into download mode?
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i've tried everything, download mode, linux, recovery, lg mobile, and nothing works i think it's completly brick, i hope one day someone comes with the solution, because i went today to SAT and they don't even know what happened with my phone, and i bought it in another country so they don't want to get involve
So all you get is a black screen with you boot? There's probably a way to push whatever file might be missing or even an entire ROM but I lack the knowledge on how to do that. I remember I had to work some magic on my Galaxy Nexus but I used a toolkit so I'm afraid I've got no really useful information for you.
This also happened to me!
I am in the same state.
I rooted the LG, I installed the custom Rom, I installed an updated GAPPS and it wasnt working. I then went and installed another GAPPS overtop and I got stuck in boot loop. After I tried recovery from ADB I tried to restore from TRWP and it didnt take. After I rebooted nothing turned on, no LED, I tried ALL button combinations and nothing comes on at all. I am wondering if the phone died and now will not charge...I started with 60% but the last time i saw it it was down to 15% just thinking maybe it died completely and without any software to boot it wont charge...I have had it on charge for 8 hrs since and still nothing...
Please help!
Bobert the great said:
I am in the same state.
I rooted the LG, I installed the custom Rom, I installed an updated GAPPS and it wasnt working. I then went and installed another GAPPS overtop and I got stuck in boot loop. After I tried recovery from ADB I tried to restore from TRWP and it didnt take. After I rebooted nothing turned on, no LED, I tried ALL button combinations and nothing comes on at all. I am wondering if the phone died and now will not charge...I started with 60% but the last time i saw it it was down to 15% just thinking maybe it died completely and without any software to boot it wont charge...I have had it on charge for 8 hrs since and still nothing...
Please help!
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I'm afraid to tell you, but our phones die there's nothing to do to saved them, we just have to keep them in that state meanwhile the solution comes up, because in this very moment there's nothing we can do
So i was trying the new beta for PA android and when i was on recovery wiping as usual, the wipe process just froze there for a while, i decided to leave it till it worked again but to no avail it didnt budge at all, so i commited the ultimate sin, and powered it off by holding the power button...
when i tried again tu turn it on the tablet would go thru the google with the padlock screen and then show me a black screen with a little logo of clockworkmod and a version number below, the screen itself has no use since no matter what button i press it does nothing, other than that the tablet keeps rebooting after that.
when i try any combination of buttons to access either the real recovery or the bootloader the tablet just plain ignores that im trying to turn it on, just doesnt work, it just turns on if im not pressing anything besides the power button.
to sum up to all my problems i would love to keep trying and see if at anypoint it will turn to bootloader, i havent seen the notification of the tablet being charged... meaning that i dont know if it has enough battery to last me the remaning ideas i had.
So in a nutshell
-no bootloader
-no fastboot
-no recovery
-cant tell if battery or not
Please if anyone knows how to fix or at least get me to a bootloader i would fix everything else, but i really need the guidance here
Have you tried another charger and cable? A simple idea, but not one to over look.
Without bootloader menu or recovery, not much you can do. I'd work on getting into one of those first. Not much you can do until then.
Osivanlou said:
So i was trying the new beta for PA android and when i was on recovery wiping as usual, the wipe process just froze there for a while, i decided to leave it till it worked again but to no avail it didnt budge at all, so i commited the ultimate sin, and powered it off by holding the power button...
when i tried again tu turn it on the tablet would go thru the google with the padlock screen and then show me a black screen with a little logo of clockworkmod and a version number below, the screen itself has no use since no matter what button i press it does nothing, other than that the tablet keeps rebooting after that.
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Are you able to get adb to recognize the device with "adb devices"?
KJ said:
Have you tried another charger and cable? A simple idea, but not one to over look.
Without bootloader menu or recovery, not much you can do. I'd work on getting into one of those first. Not much you can do until then.
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Yeah ive tried 4 other chargers, and nothing new, i know that the os itself takes care of the charging as does the recovery in some cases, but since i have non i dont know if its gonna charge at all or not and trying doesnt sound really appealing since i should save battery in case theres a solution and needs battery power
but thanks for the answer
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Are you able to get adb to recognize the device with "adb devices"?
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Dont really know how to check, i mean i could get into the tools and try the command Adb Devices but how should i even begin to test? i mean shouldnt i be in a adb static platform on the device? if i try to get into bootloader it just doesnt turn on, and when it does it goes straight to the black screen with the clockworkmod symbol and numbers
Thanks for the answer
Osivanlou said:
Dont really know how to check, i mean i could get into the tools and try the command Adb Devices but how should i even begin to test? i mean shouldnt i be in a adb static platform on the device? if i try to get into bootloader it just doesnt turn on, and when it does it goes straight to the black screen with the clockworkmod symbol and numbers
Thanks for the answer
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if you have enough battery and can get pc to see is thru adb. you may be able to fastboot a new rom onto the device. You can from pc Request device to go into bootloader or fast boot from the PC..
This is your only shot.. I Would suggest borrow a friends Nexus 7 Full Battery . If you do not know how to do any of this . Use skips root kit and use the unbrick or factory reset. it will force your device into fast boot and flash a new rom.
Good Luck
erica_renee said:
if you have enough battery and can get pc to see is thru adb. you may be able to fastboot a new rom onto the device. You can from pc Request device to go into bootloader or fast boot from the PC..
This is your only shot.. I Would suggest borrow a friends Nexus 7 Full Battery . If you do not know how to do any of this . Use skips root kit and use the unbrick or factory reset. it will force your device into fast boot and flash a new rom.
Good Luck
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yeh i know how to use the skip toolkit, yet i hope i have enough battery for the test, because the only friend that i know owns a nexus 7 left the country a few months back, so the battery sounds like its gonna be hard to get. Anyways, as u were saying theres a posibility that while the tablet is rebooting and rebooting it might be able to be found on the adb devices? and use the fastboot, cuz if thats true u would be the hero ive been waiting for...
imma check and tell u later,
thanks for the answer
Hi,
My brother is having trouble with his Nexus 4 and I was hoping I could get some help here.
The phone won't go past the boot animation, with the 4 floating balls.
It keeps showing that forever (left it for 20 minutes with charger, phone got really hot but did not get past the animation)
- Never rooted or changed firmware. Only updates from Google. (It was on 5.1.1/5.1/5.0.1)
- Sent to a shop, which claimed it can't be fixed (I do not know the reason they gave him).
My brother thinks it is because a weight was accidently dropped on the phone, but the problem only started 3 days after the incident.
No outer damage can be seen on the device, other then a small brake in the back glass.
Thanks in advance to anyone who will try to help
possibly?
Did you just update and it got stuck at the booting up????
opeller said:
Hi,
My brother is having trouble with his Nexus 4 and I was hoping I could get some help here.
The phone won't go past the boot animation, with the 4 floating balls.
It keeps showing that forever (left it for 20 minutes with charger, phone got really hot but did not get past the animation)
- Never rooted or changed firmware. Only updates from Google. (It was on 5.1.1/5.1/5.0.1)
- Sent to a shop, which claimed it can't be fixed (I do not know the reason they gave him).
My brother thinks it is because a weight was accidently dropped on the phone, but the problem only started 3 days after the incident.
No outer damage can be seen on the device, other then a small brake in the back glass.
Thanks in advance to anyone who will try to help
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Do you have data on it that you want to keep? If you don't you can try booting into the bootloader and unlock it. Then try flashing a factory image. This will wipe all the data on the phone though so that should probably be a last resort.
ChainFires Son said:
Did you just update and it got stuck at the booting up????
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No, it did not occur after an update.
theminikiller said:
Do you have data on it that you want to keep? If you don't you can try booting into the bootloader and unlock it. Then try flashing a factory image. This will wipe all the data on the phone though so that should probably be a last resort.
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I have no important data on it.
Which is the safest way to do this? I'd appreciate it if you would be detailed or refer me to a guide, as I want to be careful.
Where should I download the factory image from?
As the name of it states, I wish to get the one from Google, without any changes or addons from users.
Follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/how-to-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2010312
You can download factory images from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
opeller said:
I have no important data on it.
Which is the safest way to do this? I'd appreciate it if you would be detailed or refer me to a guide, as I want to be careful.
Where should I download the factory image from?
As the name of it states, I wish to get the one from Google, without any changes or addons from users.
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First we should check if you can boot into the bootloader at all. First turn the device off. Then hold down both the volume buttons and then press and hold the power key. Keep holding all the buttons until you see some different colored text. If that happens we should be able to install a factory image, if it still gets stuck on the Google logo I unfortunately don't have any more ideas.
Tried pressing both volume keys and power button. Google logo show for a second, then black for 2 second, thank flashing red notification light every 1/2 second until I let go of the buttons.
When I release the buttons, the phone goes back to charging battery screen.
I see people suggesting that the red light flashing means a battery problem, but the device keeps trying to boot up while it is not plugged to the charger, unlike what happened to them
Any Ideas why this is happening or what the red light means in this case?
You need to press volume down+power button to get into bootloader. Unplug the charger before doing this.
harishmenace said:
You need to press volume down+power button to get into bootloader. Unplug the charger before doing this.
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Oh it was just volume down, not both. Heh, sorry.
Use the Nexus Root Toolkit (NRT), it's the easiest way to unlock, root, flash and manage your SuperUser needs!
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
Not sure, but maybe?
You can try using the nexus root kit & unlock your bootloader and see if a factory reset can work. If it does you can always relock it again ☺..Flashing a factory image can work too also ...
Tried volume down+ power button while unpluged from charger.
Google logo show up with vibration, then goes away after 2 seconds, like before, but then the screen goes blank. But red led not flashing.
What should I do now? Even just to use the Nexus Root Toolkit I have to allow Developer mode, which I can't as the phone will not boot up.
opeller said:
Tried volume down+ power button while unpluged from charger.
Google logo show up with vibration, then goes away after 2 seconds, like before, but then the screen goes blank. But red led not flashing.
What should I do now? Even just to use the Nexus Root Toolkit I have to allow Developer mode, which I can't as the phone will not boot up.
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I'm you can't get into the bootloader then I am unfortunately not aware of any way to help you. If you can't even get into the bootloader I think it is a high probability that it is a hardware problem.
I understand. Thank you for your attempt to help me so far, I apriciate it
Anyone else has any Idea what I can try?
opeller said:
I understand. Thank you for your attempt to help me so far, I apriciate it
Anyone else has any Idea what I can try?
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First you have to ensure "The Situation" of your phone, diagnostic is very important to decide the kind of medicine or treat. Your N4 booting, stuck on google-logo with red blink, then black screen.
To check : Connect your N4 to PC on linux check on terminal command $ lsusb if output
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode),
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on windows (XP/Vista/7)
Qualcomm something QDL Mode or something like this on "device manager"
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there is a big hope to revive but very long journey. You are lucky since N4 is very popular device.You can obtain required file like MPRG8064.hex and friends
x1123 said:
First you have to ensure "The Situation" of your phone, diagnostic is very important to decide the kind of medicine or treat. Your N4 booting, stuck on google-logo with red blink, then black screen.
To check : Connect your N4 to PC on linux check on terminal command $ lsusb if output
on windows (XP/Vista/7) there is a big hope to revive but very long journey. You are lucky since N4 is very popular device.You can obtain required file like MPRG8064.hex and friends
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Hi, thank you for your will to help.
When I turn on the Nexus 4 and connect it to my pc, it show the device as Nexus 4 in device manager.
What do you want me to do?
opeller said:
Hi, thank you for your will to help.
When I turn on the Nexus 4 and connect it to my pc, it show the device as Nexus 4 in device manager.
What do you want me to do?
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detected as Nexus 4 mean your device well alive. any respons from the phone if you check with adb command ? if the phone give respond to adb you can ask phone to turn to recovery $ adb reboot recovery ...
opeller said:
Tried volume down+ power button while unpluged from charger.
Google logo show up with vibration, then goes away after 2 seconds, like before, but then the screen goes blank. But red led not flashing.
What should I do now? Even just to use the Nexus Root Toolkit I have to allow Developer mode, which I can't as the phone will not boot up.
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That sounds like the battery is completely empty. Put the device on charger over a night and try then to boot into the bootloader.
Once I had these symptoms (red light flashing) on my N4, it was enough to charge the battery for one hour. Then it booted properly. It's worth trying.
x1123 said:
detected as Nexus 4 mean your device well alive. any respons from the phone if you check with adb command ? if the phone give respond to adb you can ask phone to turn to recovery $ adb reboot recovery ...
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How do I do that?