So I bricked my N4 somehow (I don't know if it is soft or hardbricked).
I was running latest N5X AOSP 6.0 Lollipop and everything was fine, when i decided to try the AICP 0.1 experimental LP. I made a clean install but it the first boot ended in a black screen. Then i rebooted into recovery and made a factory reset and since then Im stuck in an infinite bootloop.
So here is what i tried so far:
Flashed newest Factory Image via Fastboot and ADB. Result: Bootloop
(Flashed with flash-all.bat and every img by myself, i even tried without flashing cache.img and userdata.img, but everytime i ended in a bootloop that goes longer than 30 minutes)
I tried several Toolkits but nothing helps everytime I reboot its a bootloop.
But somehow when i flash the N5X AOSP 6.0 and let it boot for some minutes and then just shut it down and boot again i can see its optimizing my apps but when it comes to start them i just stays there...
I also tried to format my /cache with TWRP into FAT and back to Ext4 (that was one solution i found) but that doesnt seem to work too..
I am very frustrated and hope someone can help me
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I had CM11 M6 installed. I wanted to flash this kernel called Furnace. I used the AOSP version, not sure if I should've used stock. Before I flashed it, I tried to wipe the cache. It was taking about 5 minutes so I force rebooted it. After I did that, my phone would be on the LG boot screen for about 3 minutes (before it was about 5 seconds) then I would see the CM boot screen. Overnight I tried wiping the cache again. When I woke up, I was on the lock screen. I flashed Furnace and then I was stuck on the LG boot screen. I went back into recovery and tried resetting to factory or whatever it's called and it took awhile to format /cache but it eventually did. Still, I was stuck on the LG boot screen. For some reason I thought installing a new recovery would help (I had CWM before). I pushed a TWRP recovery file for my device to my phone. I then put this command in the adb shell: dd if=/sdcard/recoveryfilename.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery (recoveryfilename.img was replaced with what it was named). I rebooted into recovery from the old recovery, and on the top left it said secure booting error. I tried restarting and booting into recovery, no luck. Now I'm not really sure how to flash a new recovery because I can't get into recovery. I'm pretty sure to fix my booting problems I need to reflash CM, which will flash CM's kernel...?
Also, when I try to use fastboot commands on my computer, I get ERROR: could not get pipe properties
Can I use adb while it's in this boot state? Please help!
By the way, I'm using a mac
Edit: Looked around on the Furnace Kernel thread, I guess I used a too new version of the kernel for CM11...
Edit: Found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142, gonna try it out soon...
While on a developer preview of Android N with my unlocked rooted phone and TWRP 3.0.2-1, I accidentally ran the September OTA. The OTA failed, but left a mess behind with the phone rebooting 4-5 times a day.
Today, I decided to fix the problem, so I flashed the latest official image (NRD90U). Complete wipe, but since I have backups, I considered it to be no big deal. Turns out it was
The phone is now a boot loop (corrupt warning -> google logo -> corrupt warning -> google logo...). Reflashing changes nothing. Trying to boot (fastboot boot) TWRP (any version) does not work (it just goes into the boot loop). Tried to downgrade back to 6, same problem. Nothing seems to work.
Somehow, something is still ****ed up on the phone, but I have no idea what. This seems to be very similar to this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/help-help-help-hard-bricked-6p-t3428225/page3), but there does not seem to be a solution.
Is it definitely bricked or is there anything I can do from fastboot to try and fix this? I am unlocked. I just need a stupid TWRP so I can restore my backup and hopefully get back to a working state from there.
PS: I'm sure I downloaded the right image and flashed it properly.
So a while ago I had dirty flashed the Oreo update from this link: OREO open to give it a try and see if I could actually get away with a dirty installation. Phone was working ok but battery drain has been enormous, around 30-50% worse than with Android 7.1 especially on idle so I thought ok time to do a proper factory reset by wiping everything (Dalvik, cache, system).
Now, I selected Factory Reset from within the OS (not TWRP) but during the first reboot it booted into TWRP asking me for decryption password, I did a wipe so it forgot all about it but now it only boots into TWRP no matter if I do an Advanced Factory Reset wiping everything via TWRP's menu, phone starts, shows the LG logo for a couple of sec and then TWRP screen shows up.
I am thinking I should flash a stock Oreo recovery in order for the boot to the OS but not 100% sure if this will cause more trouble.
mclisme said:
So a while ago I had dirty flashed the Oreo update from this link: OREO open to give it a try and see if I could actually get away with a dirty installation. Phone was working ok but battery drain has been enormous, around 30-50% worse than with Android 7.1 especially on idle so I thought ok time to do a proper factory reset by wiping everything (Dalvik, cache, system).
Now, I selected Factory Reset from within the OS (not TWRP) but during the first reboot it booted into TWRP asking me for decryption password, I did a wipe so it forgot all about it but now it only boots into TWRP no matter if I do an Advanced Factory Reset wiping everything via TWRP's menu, phone starts, shows the LG logo for a couple of sec and then TWRP screen shows up.
I am thinking I should flash a stock Oreo recovery in order for the boot to the OS but not 100% sure if this will cause more trouble.
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Flash the oreo update zip from westwood or zefie. You can find it in the rom and development section. Search for v20a
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Flash the oreo update zip from westwood or zefie. You can find it in the rom and development section. Search for v20a
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Thanks but being impatient, I tried flashing the stock recovery. This seemed to free the booting and reset process, phone showed the LG logo, then for 2 seconds "Deleting" then LG Logo again and I thought the factory reset was in progress. After like half an hour still stuck in LG logo I realized I've probably soft bricked it. Phone only starts and gets stuck in LG Logo. So I entered bootloader and re-flashed TWRP but unfortunately now I can't find a way to boot into recovery (the irony). Phone just starts and gets stuck in LG logo forever, only thing i can do is use Power+Vol down to reboot into bootloader but no way to boot into recovery or even shut it off. Any way to enter recovery at this state and flash the OREO zip?
I realize I should have just waited for instructions but coming from consecutive unlocked Nexus devices i thought the steps and processes would be similar...
Try to discharge the phone completely (to shut it off) and enter download mode (I don't know any other method to do it). With LG UP flash stock kdz from your model, if you search a bit you will find it. This should work. If it don't work I've seen a couple of posts with the same problem as yours, search for the solution there, but if you can enter download mode it should work LG UP.
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Try to discharge the phone completely (to shut it off) and enter download mode (I don't know any other method to do it). With LG UP flash stock kdz from your model, if you search a bit you will find it. This should work. If it don't work I've seen a couple of posts with the same problem as yours, search for the solution there, but if you can enter download mode it should work LG UP.
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Thanks for the quick reply. With a bit of Googling I found that you can use volume down to enter stock recovery. This confused me as when I did it I expected to see the TWRP welcome screen. Instead I saw the stock recovery screen which only gives you the option to do factory reset. I did it and then rebooted again into recovery and all of a sudden I saw the TWRP screen! I remember there is something weird with how TWRP sticks to the system or not, again very confusing compared to Nexus devices. Anyway, since I managed to enter Recovery I copied the OREO flashable zip to internal memory and flashed and phone booted fine, now I am waiting to set up a fresh 8.0 installation :good:
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Thanks for the quick reply. With a bit of Googling I found that you can use volume down to enter stock recovery. This confused me as when I did it I expected to see the TWRP welcome screen. Instead I saw the stock recovery screen which only gives you the option to do factory reset. I did it and then rebooted again into recovery and all of a sudden I saw the TWRP screen! I remember there is something weird with how TWRP sticks to the system or not, again very confusing compared to Nexus devices. Anyway, since I managed to enter Recovery I copied the OREO flashable zip to internal memory and flashed and phone booted fine, now I am waiting to set up a fresh 8.0 installation :good:
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OREO flashable zip? I am searching it for a long time, where did you find it?
Yesterday I tried to get rid of the ugly green UI on the TicWatch E following https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/other-smartwatches/ticwatch-e-chinese-version-ticwear-t3781183 . It worked, and my watch looked beautiful. But Bluetooth didn't work correctly. This wasn't a new issue, as the very first day I got the watch, I had the same issue. I tried to reboot, and many other solutions but had to reset like the first time. This time, it booted into TWRP as I had rooted my watch. I proceeded as normal, wiping the user data partition and cache, and rebooting. This time, the watch didn't reboot but went into TWRP instantly. I tried to reboot a couple of times, but ended up in TWRP every time. So I decide to do the most idiotic thing: try to reset again. This time, the watch simply shut off and dint respond to pressing the button. No sound, no vibration, nothing. Thankfully, it showed up in Mediatek flashing tool, so I followed https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/other-smartwatches/ticwatch-e-chinese-version-ticwear-t3781183 and got it to boot up. I messed up in flashing the userdata.img as well, but I doubt itll have any consequences as I then erased that partition using fast boot. Now, it has been showing the weird circle-throwing-ball animation for the last 4 hours.
For anyone finding this thread, this 7z worked for me
mega.nz/#!tw4hEZyA!xZD7RkSvnuXKcOayeHSvU3DMUat_NGLi0WI3nwIGU1A
Model WF12066
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Yesterday I tried to ...
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drive.google.com/open?id=1cLp_ALZhG-xdqd3fSj5xD7xj5UWfz95p
To explain more, that previous link was for android 5. It got the watch up and booting again. I found an Android 7 ROM on XDA, spliced in the img files and that booted too. Managed to get into TWRP and load my backups. Rerooted and enabled the black menus.
Above is a dump from my ticwatch e after all is said and done (except for userdata, that's still from the same link from above). The recovery is TWRP, system and boot are my restores from TWRP (running oreo), oem is preserved (to keep my oem.prop changes). The rest of the img files are from that mega link above (filename TicwearToAndroidWear.7z). Note: I haven't tested it, but if my SP Flash reading skills need some work, you should be able to replicate my steps ( download TicwearToAndroidWear.7z, replace recovery with TWRP, splice in the boot, system, userdata from forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/other-smartwatches/rom-kernel-t3786600, then find a TWRP backup to restore from. I can probably provide my boot and system WIN files if my img files don't work.
Hi all,
I hope someone can guide me through. My MI A1 device has suddenly stopped booting for no reason. To fix up I tried many thing but with no luck.
here is link to one of the thread I have followed
Reddit thread
This guy exactly had the same issue as mine but on different model and I followed all the instruction as in this thread.
Summary of things I tried so far (Including instructions from the thread I mentioned) :
- Try mi flash tool to flash stock rom (Which succeeds and nothing actually works )
- Tried my luck with lineage os 17 and GPAPPS but no luck. (Interestingly, when I Install LOS and I the reboot device, it boots in LOS recovery fine but when I try to boot system it just keep rebooting and then finally stops at charging screen.)
PS. One more observation, when I flash it with MIflash tool with stock rom and it boots up for the first time, an intermediate screen with circle logo and erasing text appears just like when we get update screen not sure why!
Guys, this is my last bet on XDA. I almost wasted my whole day searching for solution on #Youtube and other forums, nearly read a ton of things but still no luck!
Please Help!
UPDATE :
Here is a little more progress,
So, I tried flashing the original stock rom boot image with fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
and as usual first it just got rebooted with no luck but later somehow booted the device. I tried the same with recursion OS ROM and then again flashed boot image and just like prev attempt it rebooted first & then booted normally.
Also, when device was booted normally, I received a call and when I tried to pick it, It just got rebooted and I am where I started!
I really don't get the point why it boot when I manually boot it with fastboot and its not able to boot itself.
Anyone knows, why this is happening? Is there a way to clean whole and then install? am I doing something wrong here?
Update :
Yes, confirmed when I flash the boot image from fastboot it does boots up. the only problem is after a few seconds/minutes it just reboot and goes back to problematic state.
This thing is really pissing me off! Can someone help?
Update:
After a few more attempts now, it seems like the device is completely broken! It only boots up in fastboot and does not even boot in recovery ( Volume up + Power)
I also tried with pushing twrp recovery image with fastboot but even though the command succeeds the device just reboots with MI logo continuously.