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[Q] Stuck at Google log, can't access recovery

After flashing CM 11, I haven't been able to get past the phone set up (instantly crashes). After downloading a CM 10.1 ROM on to the phone and wiping the phone, I also deleted the ROM. Then the phone restarted itself and now I'm just stuck at the Google logo, and cannot access recovery. I remember having a similar issue on the Galaxy S, but don't remember the solution.
Trying to turn the phone off by holding the power button down for ten seconds just restarts the phone in the same state.
Any ideas?

Try to turn it off completely, start the phone in fastboot (bootloader) mode, and then flash the factory image

Holding down the power button for 10 seconds just restarts the phone. Is the battery removable?

faillord_adam said:
Holding down the power button for 10 seconds just restarts the phone. Is the battery removable?
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Hold Volume +- and power

mrhiab said:
Hold Volume +- and power
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That worked, thanks!
You just saved me a lot of time waiting for the battery to die
Just out of curiosity, does flashing the stock ROM keep root and CWM or do I have to install these again?

faillord_adam said:
That worked, thanks!
You just saved me a lot of time waiting for the battery to die
Just out of curiosity, does flashing the stock ROM keep root and CWM or do I have to install these again?
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Is it a flashable zip or are you flashing a factory image?
If your flashing the factory image and you're using the flashall.bat yes you will have to reflash root and a recovery

It was a factory image. Is there a need for a custom recovery or is the default fine?
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Nexus rebooting to recovery repeatedly

So after trying to boot to recovery, my Nexus 7 wifi keeps rebooting . What it will do is it will boot to the bootloader, then immediatly go to recovery, I have CWM 6.0.4.3. The recovery begins to load, however befor options apperar it reboots and restarts this process. It is unresposive to the power and volume buttons. I am not sure how to get it out of this cycle, other than perhaps waiting for the battery to die. Any help would be great, thanks in advance.

twizmwazin said:
So after trying to boot to recovery, my Nexus 7 wifi keeps rebooting . What it will do is it will boot to the bootloader, then immediatly go to recovery, I have CWM 6.0.4.3. The recovery begins to load, however befor options apperar it reboots and restarts this process. It is unresposive to the power and volume buttons. I am not sure how to get it out of this cycle, other than perhaps waiting for the battery to die. Any help would be great, thanks in advance.
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Crack the back casing open and wedge the battery terminals out with something plastic. If you don't feel safe, why not hold power and down to force your way into the bootloader yourself.

kcipopnevets said:
Crack the back casing open and wedge the battery terminals out with something plastic. If you don't feel safe, why not hold power and down to force your way into the bootloader yourself.
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Even after forcing the nexus off, whether by using the power button, letting the battery die, or removing the battery, as soon as it boots it does the same thing, even if I am holding volume down + power.

twizmwazin said:
Even after forcing the nexus off, whether by using the power button, letting the battery die, or removing the battery, as soon as it boots it does the same thing, even if I am holding volume down + power.
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Ah, I see. What was the last thing you did before this started? Before flashing recovery, I mean. Did you check md5 before flashing recovery?

kcipopnevets said:
Ah, I see. What was the last thing you did before this started? Before flashing recovery, I mean. Did you check md5 before flashing recovery?
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I haven't reflashed the recovery in a while, so the recovery itself *should* be fine, in theory. The last thing I did was flash Xenon HD latest, then franco.kernel, via recovery. For whatever reason, Xenon HD would bootloop, perhaps it is incompatable with franco. I then forced it off and used power + vol down to boot to fastboot then recovery, the recovery didn't load all the way, and thus the cycle began.

I have a same problem after flash xenon hd
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ahyar yuniawan said:
I have a same problem after flash xenon hd
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The incompatablility with franco or the recovery loop leaving the device entirely useless?

I got the same problem after flashing XenonHD on my grouper,
I had checked for two weeks and finally I came over it by this way:
1- make sure you have proper ADB drivers on your windows
2- create an executable batch file (eg. boot.bat) with below contents:
:loop
adb reboot-bootloader
goto loop
3- connect Nexus 7 via usb to PC
4- run boot.bat
5- power it on and press Vol - key several times and with erratically, keep trying. it worked for me.
6- after unknown cycles of recovery bootloop finally it enters to Fastboot mode.
7- flash your recovery by desired one (I recommend TWRP) and run your recovery and wipe everything and flash a good ROM
8- good luck

[Q] Help please !! Autostart f bootloop "Recovery Booting screen" after flashing Twrp

[Q] Help please !! Autostart f bootloop "Recovery Booting screen" after flashing Twrp
Long time xda lurker here,
I have just thrown my t mobile note 3 into an autostarting bootloop that i dont know how to recover from. I have successfully used this same process 4 times on 4 devices, S 3, tab 2,galaxy light and lg volt. Although this time i used mobile odin as the flash tool.
I flashed twrp to the note 3 because it didnt have any recovery at all. Ive had this phone rooted for about a year without a recovery. After flashing twrp now it constantly autostarts to the logo screen and in top left corner it says recovery booting then it restarts with the same result. Ive tried leaving the battery out for an hour but when i reinsert it, i dont even have to push power and it starts bootlooping again. I cant get in download mode,safe mode, recovery mode, anything mode. Im at a loss. Any advice,any at would be appreciated. Is there any way to fix this.

Wattavatta said:
Long time xda lurker here,
I have just thrown my t mobile note 3 into an autostarting bootloop that i dont know how to recover from. I have successfully used this same process 4 times on 4 devices, S 3, tab 2,galaxy light and lg volt. Although this time i used mobile odin as the flash tool.
I flashed twrp to the note 3 because it didnt have any recovery at all. Ive had this phone rooted for about a year without a recovery. After flashing twrp now it constantly autostarts to the logo screen and in top left corner it says recovery booting then it restarts with the same result. Ive tried leaving the battery out for an hour but when i reinsert it, i dont even have to push power and it starts bootlooping again. I cant get in download mode,safe mode, recovery mode, anything mode. Im at a loss. Any advice,any at would be appreciated. Is there any way to fix this.
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If the phone turns on by itself when you put the battery in then it's almost certainly the Power switch on the mainboard or the plastic Power button (which is what we interact with).
If that's happening on your phone the first thing to check is the case (if present), to make sure it's not pressing on the Power button.
Next would be to take the phone apart and gently pry the plastic Power button off (there's two legs that hold it in - be careful not to snap them off).
Finally, the Power switch itself - it may just be gunked up, in which case you can try compressed air or electronic contact cleaner (be sure to remove the battery first!) and exercise the switch to get it working.
Otherwise you'll have to replace the switch.

I am going to give that a look right now but it wasnt stuck before flashing twrp. Mobile odin said it was going to restart then it immediately started doing this.
Ok going to check power button now.
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The power button seems to be clean on the board and its free on the case, unfortuanately that wasnt the problem.
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Wattavatta said:
The power button seems to be clean on the board and its free on the case, unfortuanately that wasnt the problem.
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I've had this before and in my case the Recovery is in place but the boot loop will not let you access it.
Try forcing the phone down by holding down power for >8secs. Then as soon as it goes off, press Vol Up + Home + Power to go to Recovery. If it works, Factory Reset and see if it starts.
If that doesn't work, (Factory) then try flashing a ROM from your extSD if you have one, or flash the TWRP Recovery from there.
If that doesn't work either, remove battery and as you put it back in, have Home + Vol Down + Power pressed as you push battery in - just have battery sitting ready to push in with 1 finger holding it, press the 3 buttons and push battery home. Go into DL mode and Odin a firmware. Get the TWRP .tar file from TeamWiz and flash it from Odin after the ROM. Take the tick out of 'Auto Reboot for both processes. Take phone down, restart in Recovery and flash SuperSU.

Ok journeyman16,
Trying those 1 by 1 right now. Hopefully 1 will work, thanks for reply.
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Journyman16 said:
I've had this before and in my case the Recovery is in place but the boot loop will not let you access it.
Try forcing the phone down by holding down power for >8secs. Then as soon as it goes off, press Vol Up + Home + Power to go to Recovery. If it works, Factory Reset and see if it starts.
If that doesn't work, (Factory) then try flashing a ROM from your extSD if you have one, or flash the TWRP Recovery from there.
If that doesn't work either, remove battery and as you put it back in, have Home + Vol Down + Power pressed as you push battery in - just have battery sitting ready to push in with 1 finger holding it, press the 3 buttons and push battery home. Go into DL mode and Odin a firmware. Get the TWRP .tar file from TeamWiz and flash it from Odin after the ROM. Take the tick out of 'Auto Reboot for both processes. Take phone down, restart in Recovery and flash SuperSU.
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Nothing stops the "recovery booting" bootloop. Although for some reason i now have to actually push the power button before the power comes on after a reinsertion of the battery. But still same bootloop. Idk getting really discouraged with this one.
By the way, I do have an ext SD card with 2 nandroid and a titanium backup but they are useless with what it's doing
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Wattavatta said:
Nothing stops the "recovery booting" bootloop. Although for some reason i now have to actually push the power button before the power comes on after a reinsertion of the battery. But still same bootloop. Idk getting really discouraged with this one.
By the way, I do have an ext SD card with 2 nandroid and a titanium backup but they are useless with what it's doing
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That's strange. It might be a timing issue where you aren't doing the DL mode buttons quick enough. DL mode should be available if it gets far enough to try Recovery boot. Did you try having the 3 buttons pressed and holding them down before pushing the battery in? (as in Vol Down + Menu + Power) I ask because it can be awkward to do it all at once - and it takes only a split-second lift of a finger to miss the boot.

Journyman16 said:
That's strange. It might be a timing issue where you aren't doing the DL mode buttons quick enough. DL mode should be available if it gets far enough to try Recovery boot. Did you try having the 3 buttons pressed and holding them down before pushing the battery in? (as in Vol Down + Menu + Power) I ask because it can be awkward to do it all at once - and it takes only a split-second lift of a finger to miss the boot.
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Yes i have tried it a hundred times at least, lol. I was holding the buttons then pressing it against my leg to insert the battery fully.
I dont understand it either. Im at the point of just leaving the battery out for about 8 hrs then trying again, basically a hope and a prayer situation.
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After my 2 1/2 hrs of sleep i put the battery back n and it went in download mode thankfully.
Tried to start it normally but it just loops to logo without recovery booting on thr screen.
Guess i wiped it somehow with mobile odin. Idk.
Thanks for all the help.
Ill be using regular odin when i get home to restore it.
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Note 3 is working better than new
As an update, I ended up putting the tweaked ROM with custom kernal on my device and it just purs along at lightning speed now.That's an absolutely wonderful ROM. I highly recommend it. Only problem is if the battery dies it goes into a bootloop but as soon as I connect the charger it boots up. Not a ROM problem I don't believe though. Oh well thanks for the help guys.

Bricked sprint v20 using dirtysanta root method still have fastboot

Any help softbricked sprint lg v20 i still have fastboot access

What is your phone doing exactly? Bootlooping in TWRP or something else?

comp101inc said:
Any help softbricked sprint lg v20 i still have fastboot access
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Make sure you follow all the OP directions , I did it yesterday and everything worked flawlessly

Got it working thanks you guys
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softbricked LS997, me too
comp101inc said:
Any help softbricked sprint lg v20 i still have fastboot access
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I'm also in the softbricked state of routing the Sprint V20 in the dirtysanta way. The phone system will not boot, and it will continue to twrp. I installed the LS997 rom and superSU on twrp but it is not installed and only twrp will boot. Have you found a solution?

I battled this for hours and hours yesterday.
Pull the battery for a few seconds then replace it.
Hold volume down and power button at the same time. As soon as you see the LG logo - release and repress the buttons. Continue holding them until the factory reset screen comes up.
Push volume down to move to yes - then push power button to select.
Repeat above line a second time. Don't worry. If you have TWRP recovery installed it will not reset.
If you don't get the button push right and end up back in TWRP recovery without seeing the factory reset screens - just pull battery and try again.
Once you go through the 2 factory reset screens - it will bring you back to twrp recovery one last time but will remove the looping into recovery.
In TWRP Select reboot - system and it should load normally now.
It will take a while and you will be stuck on static screen. Try tapping the power button just to turn screen off. If screen turns off - lay phone face down to block light from entering sensor by front facing camera for a few seconds then tap power button to turn screen back on.
If after 15 to 20 minutes it doesn't load. Pull battery and replace. Push power button and it should load this time assuming you wiped and flashed a rom properly.

I just rooted and flashed using this method and all appears to be well. @midmadn are you saying I can expect to be in the static screen for up to 20min?

Possibly on first boot. I usually give it 10 to 15 then pull the battery. It has always booted after the battery pull and in a short amount of time. Maybe a few minutes.

Usually you can hear the boot sound or when screen turns off then cover sensor and press power all good.... You may hear the woman talking also after boot to set up handicap or something
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Random reboots and now black screen

Hey guys my wife's S7 edge (SM-G935W8, Canadian variant) started rebooting and boot looping for a few days until it suddenly rebooted and stayed on with a black screen and the notification LED stayed blue until the battery died. Even holding home, power and volume down didn't do anything...
The phone was never rooted and completely stock. I just tried reinstalling stock firmware with Odin and everything went well as I got a pass but it still won't boot and gets stuck with black screen and blue LED.
Does this sound like a dead phone? I can't get into stock recovery, only download mode once the battery dies.
Just wondering if it's fixable.
Thanks

Dave O said:
Hey guys my wife's S7 edge (SM-G935W8, Canadian variant) started rebooting and boot looping for a few days until it suddenly rebooted and stayed on with a black screen and the notification LED stayed blue until the battery died. Even holding home, power and volume down didn't do anything...
The phone was never rooted and completely stock. I just tried reinstalling stock firmware with Odin and everything went well as I got a pass but it still won't boot and gets stuck with black screen and blue LED.
Does this sound like a dead phone? I can't get into stock recovery, only download mode once the battery dies.
Just wondering if it's fixable.
Thanks
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As the device switched off press the Power Button together with the Volume Button down, when the device vibrates, release the Power button and only keep the volume down button until the device starts up to the start screen appear.

ArthurC1 said:
As the device switched off press the Power Button together with the Volume Button down, when the device vibrates, release the Power button and only keep the volume down button until the device starts up to the start screen appear.
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Hey sorry for the late reply... I did try that. I can't even force a reboot when it's stuck.
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Dave O said:
Hey guys my wife's S7 edge (SM-G935W8, Canadian variant) started rebooting and boot looping for a few days until it suddenly rebooted and stayed on with a black screen and the notification LED stayed blue until the battery died. Even holding home, power and volume down didn't do anything...
The phone was never rooted and completely stock. I just tried reinstalling stock firmware with Odin and everything went well as I got a pass but it still won't boot and gets stuck with black screen and blue LED.
Does this sound like a dead phone? I can't get into stock recovery, only download mode once the battery dies.
Just wondering if it's fixable.
Thanks
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You can enter download mode right ?
why don't you try installing TWRP recovery with ODIN
Go to TWRP website... and find your device
download .img.tar file
open odin and insert this file in AP tab and in the option tab (disable "auto reboot" )
( plug your phone via usb to your PC.)
on the log it will show (added)
hit start
once installed...press and hold vol down + home +power key (while it restarts) press and hold vol up + home+power key
You will now enter TWRP Recovery...swipe to allow modifications
wipe - > advanced wipe -> except sd card...select everything and wipe them (all your data will be gone)
now install any custom rom from this site..

Heroyt said:
You can enter download mode right ?
why don't you try installing TWRP recovery with ODIN
Go to TWRP website... and find your device
download .img.tar file
open odin and insert this file in AP tab and in the option tab (disable "auto reboot" )
( plug your phone via usb to your PC.)
on the log it will show (added)
hit start
once installed...press and hold vol down + home +power key (while it restarts) press and hold vol up + home+power key
You will now enter TWRP Recovery...swipe to allow modifications
wipe - > advanced wipe -> except sd card...select everything and wipe them (all your data will be gone)
now install any custom rom from this site..
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I didn't try TWRP but I did try stock firmware from Samsung and Odin, said it passed but I couldn't boot the phone... Doesn't OEM unlock have to be checked in order to install TWRP tho? This phone was completely stock and never rooted.
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Dave O said:
I didn't try TWRP but I did try stock firmware from Samsung and Odin, said it passed but I couldn't boot the phone... Doesn't OEM unlock have to be checked in order to install TWRP tho? This phone was completely stock and never rooted.
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yes i know but have you tried it ? i thought advanced wipe might help as it will remove everything.

My S7 edge is also having similar issue. It just died 4 days ago at 5 percent battery and red LED kept blinking. I tried to hard reboot using Power + Vol Down, it didn't work. I couldn't get into the Download mode either. It doesn't charge when connected to the charger, not detected on any computer as well. Any thoughts?

ilikered said:
My S7 edge is also having similar issue. It just died 4 days ago at 5 percent battery and red LED kept blinking. I tried to hard reboot using Power + Vol Down, it didn't work. I couldn't get into the Download mode either. It doesn't charge when connected to the charger, not detected on any computer as well. Any thoughts?
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I don't know but the more I Google it the more I see people saying it's a bad motherboard...
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Dave O said:
I don't know but the more I Google it the more I see people saying it's a bad motherboard...
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I plugged it in last night, after the battery was completely drained. It's been a week since the issue.
It was fine till this morning. I inserted the SIM cards and then connected to the laptop. I thought I would backup the data using smart switch before doing a factory reset. The backup went fine till 75% and then boom again turned off. This time there's a lot of battery left, and I might have to wait 4-5 days before it can be drained completely. But I'm now hopeful that it'll eventually turn on and when it does I'll immediately do a factory reset before doing anything else. I'm suspecting that a rogue app might be causing it. This time it might have happened while that app is being backed up. The LED is constant Red this time indicating the state it was connected to the laptop at the time of incident.

It turned on again last night when I connected the charger. It was showing the charging symbol. After 5-6 minutes of charge I tried to hold Vol - + Power buttons briefly to reset the device and it went off again. It's lying like a brick currently.

No sign of life again!