Frozen at CWM screen - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was just handed this Nexus 7 16GB wifi by a friend.
It turns on and goes directly to the CWM 6.0.1.9 loading screen.
CWM does not completely load up. ADB is active and the device can be seen by a windows 7 computer.
With the device off, holding volume down and power, volume down, up and power, volume up and power all do nothing but turn the device on and it goes to the CWM loading screen.
I've tried adb reboot bootloader and the cmd window just hangs waiting for the device to respond. It never does.
Sometimes it'll load into APX mode. It can be gotten out of that by holding the power button for 30 seconds and then turning it back on.
To me it almost appears as if the bootloader has been corrupted or wiped.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Stuck on Google logo boot screen -- Bricked??

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
giveen said:
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

[Q] PowerON + VolUP + VolDown does not work on my N7 3G

If powered off, pressing together PowerON + VolUP + VolDown does not power on my N7 3G to bootloader. It gives no response.
After releasing this combination, I have to long press PowerON to power on the N7 3G, as it cannot power on properly.
However, PowerON + VolDown does work, this combination boots my N7 3G to bootloader. It is strange...
Also, after flashing recovery, I tried to make it permanent by
Code:
mv recovery-from-boot.p recovery-from-boot.bak
However, it said "no such files".
I tried to "ls" and could not find anything like "recovery-from-boot.p" and "recovery-from-boot.bak"
But the recovery does stick...not sure why
(I used recovery-CWM-touch-6.0.2.3-tilapia.img)
human-being said:
If powered off, pressing together PowerON + VolUP + VolDown does not power on my N7 3G to bootloader. It gives no response.
After releasing this combination, I have to long press PowerON to power on the N7 3G, as it cannot power on properly.
However, PowerON + VolDown does work, this combination boots my N7 3G to bootloader. It is strange...
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AFAIK, there is no such button combination Pwr+Vup+Vdwn.
What is happening is that you are putting the tablet into APX mode with Pwr+Vup
Once it goes into APX mode, it takes 13 sec of holding Pwr down continuously to cause a reset to occur. It takes another 3-5 seconds after this before the bootloader splash screen shows up.
If you continue to hold down the power button, and press Vdwn within 1 second (be ready for it!) of the bootloader splash screen (B&W Google logo in center of screen + unlocked padlock image at bottom if the bootloader is unlocked) appearing on the screen, the tablet will go to fastboot mode.
If you miss that short-lived opportunity the bootloader will attempt to boot the image in the boot partition (LNX); which is to say: a normal OS boot.
In general you can always force a reboot by holding the power button down long enough (no matter what mode the tablet is in!) - and if you have Pwr+Vdwn pressed within one second of that bootloader splash screen appearing, the bootloader will go into fastboot mode rather than attempting a normal boot.
[REF] Nexus 7 Button Combinations
bftb0 said:
AFAIK, there is no such button combination Pwr+Vup+Vdwn.
What is happening is that you are putting the tablet into APX mode with Pwr+Vup
Once it goes into APX mode, it takes 13 sec of holding Pwr down continuously to cause a reset to occur. It takes another 3-5 seconds after this before the bootloader splash screen shows up.
If you continue to hold down the power button, and press Vdwn within 1 second (be ready for it!) of the bootloader splash screen (B&W Google logo in center of screen + unlocked padlock image at bottom if the bootloader is unlocked) appearing on the screen, the tablet will go to fastboot mode.
If you miss that short-lived opportunity the bootloader will attempt to boot the image in the boot partition (LNX); which is to say: a normal OS boot.
In general you can always force a reboot by holding the power button down long enough (no matter what mode the tablet is in!) - and if you have Pwr+Vdwn pressed within one second of that bootloader splash screen appearing, the bootloader will go into fastboot mode rather than attempting a normal boot.
[REF] Nexus 7 Button Combinations
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Thanks for point this out.
It is strange that many tutorials which I read are having instructions saying this combination can bring your N7 to bootloader. That's why I got confused.

Stuck in "Erasing"

I went to factory reset my completely stock and never rooted Nexus 10. It rebooted in to recovery and started "Erasing". It did this for a few hours. If I power it down, it will power back up and go right back to "Erasing" and never erase. If I hold power and volume up on this Erasing screen, I can see "Erasing /data", but it never shows any other status. I cannot boot in to recovery, it will only go to the Erasing screen - I never get the recovery menu. I can boot in to fastboot, but I cannot get the fastboot cli program to recognize the device. I've tried installing drivers for it multiple ways with no success. I figure if I can get in to fastboot I should be able to fix this device, but I'm stuck. Can anyone help?
No one can help here?
ganiman said:
I went to factory reset my completely stock and never rooted Nexus 10. It rebooted in to recovery and started "Erasing". It did this for a few hours. If I power it down, it will power back up and go right back to "Erasing" and never erase. If I hold power and volume up on this Erasing screen, I can see "Erasing /data", but it never shows any other status. I cannot boot in to recovery, it will only go to the Erasing screen - I never get the recovery menu. I can boot in to fastboot, but I cannot get the fastboot cli program to recognize the device. I've tried installing drivers for it multiple ways with no success. I figure if I can get in to fastboot I should be able to fix this device, but I'm stuck. Can anyone help?
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I know the Nexus 10 takes longer to do stuff like that than other devices but I have never had it stuck on erasing for hours. If you hold down the power button long enough, will it reboot? If you can time it right, you should be able to hold the Power + Volume up + Volume down and hopefully get into the recovery. I think it has to be all three buttons. Not just Volume up. At least that takes me to the bootloader screen.
jsgraphicart said:
I know the Nexus 10 takes longer to do stuff like that than other devices but I have never had it stuck on erasing for hours. If you hold down the power button long enough, will it reboot? If you can time it right, you should be able to hold the Power + Volume up + Volume down and hopefully get into the recovery. I think it has to be all three buttons. Not just Volume up. At least that takes me to the bootloader screen.
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If I hold in power, it will reboot. It does not stay powered down. And when it comes up, it goes right in to "Erasing" again. I thought volume down as Fastboot and Up was Recovery (or maybe the other way around). I will try holding in both volume up/down at the same time instead. I might have tried it in my rage when this happened, but can't remember, so will try it for sure when I charge it back up again (it eventually stops because the battery just dies).
ganiman said:
If I hold in power, it will reboot. It does not stay powered down. And when it comes up, it goes right in to "Erasing" again. I thought volume down as Fastboot and Up was Recovery (or maybe the other way around). I will try holding in both volume up/down at the same time instead. I might have tried it in my rage when this happened, but can't remember, so will try it for sure when I charge it back up again (it eventually stops because the battery just dies).
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I've always held all three buttons with my Nexus devices and it takes me to the bootloader. You could be right about volume down being Fastboot and Up being Recovery but I'm not 100% sure. There should be a way of getting out of that though. If you just did a factory reset, I don't think it would have messed with recovery or anything.
jsgraphicart said:
I've always held all three buttons with my Nexus devices and it takes me to the bootloader. You could be right about volume down being Fastboot and Up being Recovery but I'm not 100% sure. There should be a way of getting out of that though. If you just did a factory reset, I don't think it would have messed with recovery or anything.
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From https://source.android.com/source/running.html#booting-into-fastboot-mode
Booting into fastboot mode
During a cold boot, the following key combinations can be used to boot into fastboot mode, which is a mode in the bootloader that can be used to flash the devices:
manta Press and hold both Volume Up and Volume Down, then press and hold Power
Hopefully, this thread is still followed....
So, about 6mos ago, my Nexus 10 stopped working and I couldn't get it back working...eventually moved onto a new tablet, which now I hate....
Anyway, I figured I'd head back to my N10 because I loved it. However, one of the reasons I left it was because it was stuck in bootloop and I was pretty sure it was bricked.
The bad news, I have followed MANY, if not ALL, of the suggestions on getting it back, I just cannot get it to boot. The good news, fastboot connects with the tablet. So, some specifics:
The tablet WILL boot into fastboot and I can send commands and the tablet is unlocked (also, I believe someone said they had issues because they had an older version of ADB and Fastboot. I'm pretty sure I downloaded the 'most current' version 1.4.3). So, with that, I was able to do the fastboot erase functions, such as cache, userdata, system, etc... and then also load the bootloader (mantafm01) and also send the stock .zip file (image-mantaray-....) and the tablet appears to load everything fine. Thumbs up, right? However, when it reboots it stops at the 'erasing' android bot and will not pass that. I left the tablet in that state for a few minutes all the way up to 3 days...no success.
I also tried the above using Wugfresh only to have the same thing occur. So, basically, I am stuck at 'erasing' and I don't know what to do. I feel confident that the tablet has the ability to be brought back to life, I just cannot figure out how/why all of the attempts lead to the same issue.
What I can also tell you is that while fastboot 'sees' the tablet, the tablet does not appear as a device in "My Computer" like it normally did when connecting via USB. I am using the original USB cable and have tried on multiple computers, all to no avail. I've downloaded/installed the drivers, as instructed on many links. Also, while I can get to the 'Recovery Mode' by pressing Power, Volume Up, Volume Down, if I choose "Recovery Mode" on the tablet, it reboots and goes to the 'erasing' screen. I have tried flashing TWRP on the tablet using fastboot as well. And, sometimes, not all the time, the TWRP blue/black screen appears but it will not progress past that screen (i.e., it doesn't go into recovery).
So, if you can, please help. I believe I have followed all of the instructions, but I have to be missing something or not following something correctly. I'm stoked that it looks like it's only soft-bricked, I just can't get it un-bricked.
Thanks in advance!

Help! Stuck on black screen and cannot get to fastboot

I tried unrooting my 6T and something went wrong. Now when it boots it shows the bootloader unlocked warning then goes to black screen and stops. It will randomly vibrate when I press the screen or the power button. My computer doesn't recognize it and I can't even seem to be able to turn it off completely. The only thing I can get it to do is reboot by pressing and holding the power and volume up buttons.
Any advice on how I can force it into fastboot or get my computer to recognize it so I can working on it?
roblpetty said:
I tried unrooting my 6T and something went wrong. Now when it boots it shows the bootloader unlocked warning then goes to black screen and stops. It will randomly vibrate when I press the screen or the power button. My computer doesn't recognize it and I can't even seem to be able to turn it off completely. The only thing I can get it to do is reboot by pressing and holding the power and volume up buttons.
Any advice on how I can force it into fastboot or get my computer to recognize it so I can working on it?
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Keep pressing simultaneously volume up , volume down and power button all three of them until you get the fastboot screen.
It maybe takes a while...
roblpetty said:
I tried unrooting my 6T and something went wrong. Now when it boots it shows the bootloader unlocked warning then goes to black screen and stops. It will randomly vibrate when I press the screen or the power button. My computer doesn't recognize it and I can't even seem to be able to turn it off completely. The only thing I can get it to do is reboot by pressing and holding the power and volume up buttons.
Any advice on how I can force it into fastboot or get my computer to recognize it so I can working on it?
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like the first answer:
hold vol up, vol down and power butten as long as the phone boots into fastboot mode and flash fastboot Rom OR
hold vol up and vol down for about 5-6 seconds, and plug your phone to your computer. if it gets recognized (with typical sound of windows) try msm tool. And be sure you have the qualcomm driver installed.

Phone locked and cant reboot using Volume down and power button

I was attempting to update phone image root as the device updated. I was loading into boot mode to test the update and the system became bricked. It is now stuck at a screen that says Qualcomm CrashDump Mode Attempt to kill init! exitcode=0x0000100 complete_and_exit.
I was loading the image as boot mode, so If I can get the phone to restart it will go back to the working image.
I have tried holding the power and volume down button for over a minuet and the phone would not reboot. It was at a full charge so it will probably take well over a day to run out of power. Any suggestions on how to force the phone to restart?
Hold Volume up + Power button for some time.
ADB reboot
Thanks for the advice. I had ended up leaving my phone at home and let it run dead. Even after charging it for hours I could not get the phone to post. So letting it run dead was a bad idea. I have sent it to OnePlus to get it serviced.

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