Hi,
I got in fastboot by accident while rebooting for a switch back from ART to Dalvik on OmniROM.
But it appears to be completely stuck. It shows ***fastboot... and notihing happens.
Hard reset by holding down power does nothing (tried for 10secs, 20secs, 60secs).
adb does not detect the device.
My last resort: wait unitil the battery is empty.
Does anyone have a better solution?
Many thanks,
Bastiaan
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I think I may have bricked my phone. I have a Verizon Note 3 - rooted - running Kit Kat with Safe Strap. In the power menu (accessed when I hold the power button down) I accidentally selected boot into recovery mode. Now my phone is stuck in an endless boot loop. It powers on to the 'Note 3 - Custom' screen with blue text at the top that says "Booting recovery..." then it shuts down and starts over again and refuses to actually boot into recovery mode. I've tried taking out the battery and sim card, with no luck... the same result. Can anyone think of a way to troubleshoot given that I cant even get the phone to boot at all? Thank you.
schafur said:
I think I may have bricked my phone. I have a Verizon Note 3 - rooted - running Kit Kat with Safe Strap. In the power menu (accessed when I hold the power button down) I accidentally selected boot into recovery mode. Now my phone is stuck in an endless boot loop. It powers on to the 'Note 3 - Custom' screen with blue text at the top that says "Booting recovery..." then it shuts down and starts over again and refuses to actually boot into recovery mode. I've tried taking out the battery and sim card, with no luck... the same result. Can anyone think of a way to troubleshoot given that I cant even get the phone to boot at all? Thank you.
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It doesn't sound like your phone is bricked... it just sounds like you're stuck in a bootloop, which is usually fixable.
Try removing the battery again and leaving it out about 10 mins... also press down the power button on the phone for 10 seconds or so with the battery out to discharge any remaining power still in the device. Put battery back in after a bit and see if you can boot into stock recovery (by pressing volume up+home button+power button all at same time). If it lets you boot into stock recovery, see if just wiping the cache allows it to boot back up. If that doesn't work, pull battery... reinsert... boot back into stock recovery and do a factory reset (that will wipe all your data as I'm sure you know, so that's why I thought wiping cache first may be worth a try--even though wiping cache alone probably won't work). Hopefully, you have made a TWRP backup in safestrap that you can use to restore if you have to factory reset.
If you can't get into stock recovery manually.... or if you can and wiping cache or factory reset doesn't work, then you could boot into Odin mode (by pressing volume down+home button+power button all at same time), and restore the phone back to KitKat 4.4.2 with Odin. Droidstyle has put together a great guide to help restore the phone which you can find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46461911
I hope this helps you get it fixed. Good luck!
I was reading through older forum posts and came across this thread which may help with some other ideas if you couldn't get into stock recovery to fix it with a wipe.... ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56087194 ).
A couple of the suggested fixes in the thread may be easier than using Odin to go back to stock.
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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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!
Hello Everyone,
I have a big problem, my new Yotaphone 2 (YD206) is stuck at the startscreen. It just displays the logo "Yotaphone 2", it is not frozen however, it appears to be starting up every moment, but just stays that way.
What caused it, is that I deactivated and activated Google Launcher 3, after that it crashed, and from that moment on it is stuck at the startscreen. I tried to hard reset it by holding volume up and power button, but there's no reaction.
I'd be very thankfull for any hint or advice what to do.
How long it will reboot itself? Just try hold power up or power down only. Hope when it self reboot, it will enter recovery or downloading mode.
If you're sure that you reactivated Launcher3 again, it should work. Go to recovery (power & vol up) and delete cache. If in this way it doesn't boot, I think you've to go to recovery again and install a third party launcher using an .apk from PC and pushing it with adb. I don't know if it will work, but it is the only thing I can think of before telling you that you have to do a factory reset wiping your data.
Hi.
My phone auto-boots when I insert the battery and then stays stuck at the mi logo till the battery is exhausted.
I tried pressing power key + combos.. to forcefully close phone or start recovery but nothing works.
I can't go into fastboot or recovery. I had a custom ROM (Lineage 14.1) before and I was trying to factory reset from TWRP when this issue occurred.
What should I do?
- I have tried using a different battery from a different working Redmi 2 phone but that didn't work.
Please help.
Model: (HM2014818)
SOLVED.
Holding the power button for some time (15 secs) with Vol down enabled me to start fastboot.
From there, just flashed recovery and done.
Hello guys, been a while, but I got myself into trouble. For a while I had rooted the phone but one time I rebooted and it supposedly no longer had root. Today I got a notification that magisk updated, so I decided to try it. I booted into recovery and tried to flash. Nothing happened. I tried wiping davlik cache and tried again. What ended up happening instead was that the phone was unresponsive. I attempted to reboot, but instead I got stuck in a bootloop.
I realize the most effective way to get out of it is to flash the firmware via Odin, but since I didn't make a backup I want to avoid that if possible. The problem is that other than the soft reboot (power + volume down) I cannot power off the phone to access recovery mode! I've searched and searched, but have only found ways to soft reset, which doesn't help me access recovery mode.
Is there a way to power off the phone while stuck in a bootloop? Or, alternatively, is there a way to boot into recovery while in a bootloop?
It's so frustrating to not be able to something as simple as a battery pull since the phone is sealed. Is there a way to replicate that to be able to power it off?
Any help would be appreciated.
Hold the power button for 10 seconds.
skiptomylou11 said:
Hello guys, been a while, but I got myself into trouble. For a while I had rooted the phone but one time I rebooted and it supposedly no longer had root. Today I got a notification that magisk updated, so I decided to try it. I booted into recovery and tried to flash. Nothing happened. I tried wiping davlik cache and tried again. What ended up happening instead was that the phone was unresponsive. I attempted to reboot, but instead I got stuck in a bootloop.
I realize the most effective way to get out of it is to flash the firmware via Odin, but since I didn't make a backup I want to avoid that if possible. The problem is that other than the soft reboot (power + volume down) I cannot power off the phone to access recovery mode! I've searched and searched, but have only found ways to soft reset, which doesn't help me access recovery mode.
Is there a way to power off the phone while stuck in a bootloop? Or, alternatively, is there a way to boot into recovery while in a bootloop?
It's so frustrating to not be able to something as simple as a battery pull since the phone is sealed. Is there a way to replicate that to be able to power it off?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Hold Vol down and power for soft reboot. As soon as the screen goes off to reboot quickly switch to recovery combo (bixby + up + power) it should boot to recovery
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Hold Vol down and power for soft reboot. As soon as the screen goes off to reboot quickly switch to recovery combo (bixby + up + power) it should boot to recovery
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What if Vol down and power don't work, adb, fastboot and device manager don't see it, any other combinations tried too, wait for full discharge don't option. Help plz
Did you manage to get out of this?
Im really scared i bricked my phone now. Everything was working fine but after i did a normal reboot it suddenly would not start up.
Screen is black and the only way i can get a response from the phone is the soft restart (vol down + power).
I need to get into recovery somehow so i can restore my nandroid backup but vol up + bixby + power doesnt work (i assume the phone is on and frozen or something?)
I managed to fix my phone. After leaving it for 24 hours the battery was fully drained. After charging again i could boot to twrp and restore my nandroid backup.