Currently my phones volume rockers do not work. I've been running on an old ROM that seems to be slowing down,requiring me to reboot more frequently. I'd really like to update to a newer ROM, but I'm worried if I have any issues I can't force my phone into recovery with the power button + volume down combo.
I am very close to just doing an insurance claim on this though. I have a crack on the bottom right of my phone too. That way I can hop on the T-Mobile Jump program
Adb reboot recovery
will let you get into recovery without using the volume buttons.
There are also several apps that will let you reboot directly to the recovery if your already rooted
Such as quick boot (reboot)
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Alex240188 said:
Adb reboot recovery
will let you get into recovery without using the volume buttons.
There are also several apps that will let you reboot directly to the recovery if your already rooted
Such as quick boot (reboot)
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I think I was more worried about if my ROM install didn't go well and it won't boot all together. Before I could still just go into recovery and re-install. If that happens now? adb recovery?
Hmm. Thinking more. As long as a rom boots you are ok. But if you got stuck at a boot loop before you can use adb, you are screwed
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Unfortunately I do not believe there is a way to boot into recovery without the volume buttons unless you are booted into the system. Have you considered restoring to stock and trying for a warranty replacement?
Look above.
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Hi there, I got my Transformer about a week ago and the Powerbutton was somehow not ok, it took some power to lock/unlock screen etc yet i didnt really care. now it wont function at all (to turn it of i had to push it against a damn wall).
So i understand its a problem with the button and not the software and I want to go and replace it, problem is that two days ago i flashed modaco's rom. is there any way to return to STOCK WITH the broken powerbutton? how can i go to recovery in that case anyways?
also, maybe i can remap the button to "both volume buttons pressed" or something of the sort?
thanks in advance!
Connect to pc/mac with the android sdk install. Send these commands to it.
Adb reboot recovery
Or
Adb reboot.... It will reboot hold down volume button and it should go into recovery.
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I see, now remains the problem of how to flash it to stock firmware.
I think you can put the stock update zip on the root of your sd card and flash it in recovery.
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But the problem is when choosing what to do in recovery mode. The choice is made by pressing the power button.
When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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Are you sure it safe to just apply an update on a custom ROM? I don't wont it completely bricked.
Oh your rooted. Didn't know that. Kinda don't know now.
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Flash the attachment, reboot your device. This will give you stock recovery
Next you need to download one of the FOTA update (any version will do) from ASUS's site and rename it EP101_SDUPDATE.zip and put it in the root of your MicroSD. Now you need to boot into recovery and press volume up within 5 seconds so it'll flash the recovery ROM.
After i tryed flashing kaos droid i think ive managed to brick my nexus 7. It just boots into cwm v6.0.1.0. Ive tryed a number of times holding down the power and the volume buttons together and i CANT get into the bootloader ): . No matter what i do it just boots into the recovery even if i flash another rom it goes back to cwm. I dont know what to do please help? I cant even shut the screen off its been in cwm for over 3 hours now \:
And i was rooted and unlocked before this. Tab was working fine till i flashed kaos droid
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Just use recovery to restore your backup.
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This is about the 15th post I've seen this week about someone screwing up their n7. If there already isn't one there needs to be a step by step video for the correct way to unlock, root, and flash Roms. I suggest others read heavily before doing any flashing. Its bad enough the boot loader is already screwy.
The toolkit does everything for you. All in one method and you're done.
I'm sure its his .img
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I had this problem happen with my Xoom.
Boot into the bootloader from recovery. There should be an option to do so.
In the bootloader flash a different recovery.
Then reinstall your ROM. It should boot.
If that doesn't work I would suggest flashing the stock images in fastboot and starting over.
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I had this problem happen with my Xoom.
Boot into the bootloader from recovery. There should be an option to do so.
In the bootloader flash a different recovery.
Then reinstall your ROM. It should boot.
If that doesn't work I would suggest flashing the stock images in fastboot and starting over.
I will try using the toolbox but i dont think i have access to fastboot from the recovery? I mean im telling you guys my screen has been on for over 4 hours because it just reboots and wont turn off.
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I can not boot into the bootloader my nexus 7 boots directly into cwm. I tryed wiping caches, wiping system, formating everything, restoring a nandroid, flashing another rom..... Nothing is working
When i get home. To my computeer im going to try using the toolkit hopefully it works
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nemesis93 said:
I can not boot into the bootloader my nexus 7 boots directly into cwm. I tryed wiping caches, wiping system, formating everything, restoring a nandroid, flashing another rom..... Nothing is working
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I had a similar problem on my og evo. Try seeing if you can flash the recovery from a computer while booted into cwm. Then it'll reboot into new recovery, you flash rom, and you stop sharding your pants
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I can not boot into the bootloader my nexus 7 boots directly into cwm. I tryed wiping caches, wiping system, formating everything, restoring a nandroid, flashing another rom..... Nothing is working
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Even choosing "reboot bootloader" in recovery?
If that doesn't work, connect to you your computer and using adb type the command
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
kieso said:
This is about the 15th post I've seen this week about someone screwing up their n7. If there already isn't one there needs to be a step by step video for the correct way to unlock, root, and flash Roms. I suggest others read heavily before doing any flashing. Its bad enough the boot loader is already screwy.
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And to you sir I have read and watched other videos/tutorials whatever you may call them. I post on here as a last resort when "i dont know what to do". I cant understand people who post but dont really have nothing helpful to say about the topic. All im asking for is some help please and thank you
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Even choosing "reboot bootloader" in recovery?
If that doesn't work, connect to you your computer and using adb type the command
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
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I dont have a reboot bootloader option but when i go to reboot system it goes straight into cwm like i said.
Also fastboot/adb is not working. When i run a command it says "waiting for device" on my computer
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On a side note, i had tryed everything i formated the sd in cwm and now it appears on cwm as if theres "No files found" but on my computer everything i had previously is still there.
So there is a connection to the storage part of the device but not adb or fastboot
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I dont have a reboot bootloader option but when i go to reboot system it goes straight into cwm like i said.
Also fastboot/adb is not working. When i run a command it says "waiting for device" on my computer
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Hmmm. You should have a working adb while booted into a custom recovery. Are your drivers installed correctly?
Also, the reason why you computer sees the files is because with mtp it caches the files.
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Even choosing "reboot bootloader" in recovery?
If that doesn't work, connect to you your computer and using adb type the command
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
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So far i got adb to work finally! Happy im making some progress.
Now im able to boot into the bootloader so i can run fastboot commands. I currently have NO rom whatsoever installed so im waiting to flash the stock rom using the toolkit. Thank you for your help
Also when i booted into twrp it said i had 3% battery left lol so im just hoping it will work now.
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OP will stop making threads like this if people stop recommending toolkits......................
And definition of brick is beyond repair - unable to boot up, e.g. Black screen when power button is pressed, not even the Google screen.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
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OP will stop making threads like this if people stop recommending toolkits......................
And definition of brick is beyond repair - unable to boot up, e.g. Black screen when power button is pressed, not even the Google screen.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
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Well it was beyond repair for the moment being if i did NOT have access to adb, fastboot, nor the Bootloader i said that three times already.
But whatever i finally got adb to work and was able to fastboot flash a stock image. Thank you so much el daddy for your help i really appreciate it.
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Well it was beyond repair for the moment being if i did NOT have access to adb, fastboot, nor the Bootloader i said that three times already.
But whatever i finally got adb to work and was able to fastboot flash a stock image. Thank you so much el daddy for your help i really appreciate it.
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No problem. I'm glad you got it to work.
And thank you for flashing with fastboot and not a toolkit
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No problem. I'm glad you got it to work.
And thank you for flashing with fastboot and not a toolkit
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Yeah i tryed at first because i was lazy and it didnt work so i did it through fastboot.
Thanks again
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Glad you got it working
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And to you sir I have read and watched other videos/tutorials whatever you may call them. I post on here as a last resort when "i dont know what to do". I cant understand people who post but dont really have nothing helpful to say about the topic. All im asking for is some help please and thank you
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Sorry I wasn't trying to bust your stones. I haven't rooted yet because of all of the posts like yours. I've just seen more problems with flashing on this device then any other that I have with my past Droid devices. What we really need is apx (spelling?) Drivers and n7 files for a sure fire recovery from any disaster
Hopefully I don't have to start another thread.
I too think I bricked my Nexus 7.
I was having trouble and I accidentally cleared a file from the System UI app (its a system required app) which caused me to loose the 3 buttons on the bitten of the screen.
So I went to CWM to do a restore which said it failed.
After that it would not boot.
Its just stuck with the Google logo on the screen.
I held down the power up & down volume buttons and I get a screen that gives me that START button on the top right of the screen with the text in small size on the bottom left.
I can use the up and down volume to make the start button change to recovery mode or bootloader but activating them just goes to Google logo.
Can I recover or is it totally lost?
I also don't remember if I left the Nexus 7 in Debug mode which is usually required to perform custom Roms
Thanks
Rob
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Hey guys,
Regardless of my low post count, I'm not a noob when it comes to rooting\unlocking\flashing. With that being said, I've run into a few problems with my Nexus 4. I was making a nandroid backup of my most recent CM 10.1 nightly and decided to flash back to stock rooted in order to fix my bluetooth issues. When attempting to restore, I received an error stating that my MD5 sum didn't match. This happened to all but one of my backups and it would old restore part of my data before failing on the "working" backup. It would boot just fine, but it was basically a factory image and none of my downloaded applications restored execpt the icons. I realized that this image was pretty unstable so I took it one step further..... I decided to restore to factory stock by flashing the factory images from google (I snagged a copy before google pulled them). I ran the flash-all.bat and it restored everything with no issues.....but now it gets stuck on the nexus "X" during boot. I left it for about an hour and it's still on the "X". At this point, I decided to relock the bootloader and call google.
I realized that something is probably corrupt so I called Google and got an RMA but I won't get a new phone until LG makes more Nexus 4's (Nexi?, lol).
Does anyone have any ideas what could have happened? ANy ideas on how to fix this? I'd much rather fix this damn thing instead of going thru the RMA process.
Boot into stock recovery, clear cache and factory reset. You'll be up and running.
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Maybe I'm more of a newb than I realize, lol.
How do I do that via stock rocovery? I just have the red triangle. I know how to do that in Team Win and CWM, but not in stock.
Boot into the bootloader by holding volume down and power.
Use the volume key to toggle to recovery and press power to select.
When you see the exclamation. Press volume up and power to open the recovery menu.
Then clear cache and factory reset.
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El Daddy said:
Boot into the bootloader by holding volume down and power.
Use the volume key to toggle to recovery and press power to select.
When you see the exclamation. Press volume up and power to open the recovery menu.
Then clear cache and factory reset.
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I went ahead and unlocked the bootloader again and flashed CWM touch in the meantime. I cleared cache and reset. Same result. It's just hanging on boot.
No you need to do this in the stock recovery.
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No you need to do this in the stock recovery.
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If I knew who you were......i'd kiss ya. Thanks man. It's fixed.
Now, just out of curiousity, why does that only work in stock recovery instead of a custom recovery?
Not entirely sure. The stock recovery wipe clears everything including data/media/
There also seems to be an issue with the bootloader not properly wiping the device. Hopefully they can fix the bug in a future update.
No kiss needed. Just a thanks and a virtual high five will do.
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Not entirely sure. The stock recovery wipe clears everything including data/media/
There also seems to be an issue with the bootloader not properly wiping the device. Hopefully they can fix the bug in a future update.
No kiss needed. Just a thanks and a virtual high five will do.
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I see what you mean about not wiping everything.....after all the wiping and flashing, it still had my same custom wallpaper from my CM 10.1 ROM when it booted. Weird.
Thanks again.
That's not because of something not getting wiped.
Its because your wallpaper syncs to Google. It's auto downloaded and applied when signing in for the first time.
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I tried using the Nexus root toolkit in the sticky above, but after i tried to unlock it, it as gone into boot loops and i cant do anything. There is not custom recovery installed yet and when I do try to go to recovery mode, all i see is a little android man with his stomach open with a red exclamation point above him. Does anyone have any tips?
Just click around on volume rockers like up and down a couple of times. Until you will see recovery. Then factory reset and reboot.
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when I choose recovery all i see is the android man with the red exclamation point...
Ok I have fixed my issue following this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089891 for those who find themselves in my position in the future
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I tried using the Nexus root toolkit in the sticky above, but after i tried to unlock it, it as gone into boot loops and i cant do anything. There is not custom recovery installed yet and when I do try to go to recovery mode, all i see is a little android man with his stomach open with a red exclamation point above him. Does anyone have any tips?
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This thread belongs in q&a not in development, move it there man...
Sorry, how do I move a thread?
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Sorry, how do I move a thread?
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You can't, only mods can..
But this thread brings up a good question for someone like me coming from a locked bootloader device with hacked custom recoveries which I knew how to use in dire situations..
Anyways, say I botched my system on the N10 and I am bootlooping, how do get in to custom recovery to flash a different ROM/zip/backup? Stock recovery? I am currently using TWRP - and I like it.
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To access the hidden menu in stock recovery tap the volume down button while holding the power button. You can then factory reset and recover from the bootloop. This is a common issue.
I found a solution
All you need to do is root it or re-root it... It worked like a charm!
so i installed CWM on my verizon G2. I went into recovery and wiped data. When it was formatting cache, it looked like it froze because it was taking forever. So i held the power button down so that i can reboot it. Now whenever i try to boot it back up, it stays on the LG screen for a couple minutes and stays on the ground zero roms boot up screen. Is there a way to get into recovery from boot? I've flashed many ROM's on many phone but i need help please so i can get my phone back up and running. Thank you
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so i installed CWM on my verizon G2. I went into recovery and wiped data. When it was formatting cache, it looked like it froze because it was taking forever. So i held the power button down so that i can reboot it. Now whenever i try to boot it back up, it stays on the LG screen for a couple minutes and stays on the ground zero roms boot up screen. Is there a way to get into recovery from boot? I've flashed many ROM's on many phone but i need help please so i can get my phone back up and running. Thank you
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Turn phone off
Hold power and volume down until lg logo comes on then release and hold power and volume down again until you get into recovery.
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Turn phone off
Hold power and volume down until lg logo comes on then release and hold power and volume down again until you get into recovery.
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That doesn't work for me. I keep getting the factory hard reset screen.
I've flashed things in recovery but I'm always gotten into it from a booted Rom
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That doesn't work for me. I keep getting the factory hard reset screen.
I've flashed things in recovery but I'm always gotten into it from a booted Rom
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Yes. You will get the factory screen. Do it. Press the power button twice. Trust me it will boot into cwm.
This is twrp but watch this video I made if you have doubt's. If you properly installed cwm which you probably did considering you wiped your data. This will work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EC29byGOvg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Yes. You will get the factory screen. Do it. Press the power button twice. Trust me it will boot into cwm.
This is twrp but watch this video I made if you have doubt's. If you properly installed cwm which you probably did considering you wiped your data. This will work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EC29byGOvg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Thanks, you assuaged my fears.
keithce said:
Thanks, you assuaged my fears.
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Trust me the first time I did it I almost had a heart attack as well. Hence why I made the video haha.
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