After a whole 24 hours of using Lollipop and found the phone was unusable (phone would ring, but not give any other indication of an incoming call) in some ways, and lacking in other features, I decided it was time to go back to 4.4.4.
So I followed the instructions from Google(/android/nexus/images) , downloaded the 4.4.4 Occam factory image, and installed Minimal ADB and Fastboot. It took a while playing with drivers to get the device to show properly with the adb devices command, but it finally did, and was able to command it to reboot bootloader.
Everything still looking good. Still following the instructions, did the oem unlock, wiping it to factory settings, and then ran flash-all.bat. It went through that, the phone restarted into the bootloader, this time showing the Kitkat loading images instead of Lollipop, I think I'm home free.
I'm in the bootloader again now and notice adb devices is no longer showing the phone, so I try oem lock, and the phone screen updates to show locked. Odd, but it worked. I now used the volume buttons to select power off, and power off the device.
Powering on, the phone shows the Kitkat white "Google" on the screen, but that's it. I try powering it off again, and it restarts itself. I try getting it to display in adb devices, and nothing. The phone has been sitting at this screen for half an hour now with no change.
Using volume down+power I'm able to get it back into fastboot mode, but nothing will work from there. Start, recovery mode, and power off all result in the same thing: phone looks like it's turning on, but sits forever just showing the white "Google" on the screen. Abd devices still shows no devices attached, yet the phone still accepts oem lock and unlock commands, so I tried to run flash-all.bat again, but it just gives a 'command write failed(unknown error)'.
I'm kinda stumped now, and I haven't been able to find anything on this kind of issue. I'm hoping someone might have some experience or be able to suggest something my limited experience hasn't exposed me to before.
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After a whole 24 hours of using Lollipop and found the phone was unusable (phone would ring, but not give any other indication of an incoming call) in some ways, and lacking in other features, I decided it was time to go back to 4.4.4.
So I followed the instructions from Google(/android/nexus/images) , downloaded the 4.4.4 Occam factory image, and installed Minimal ADB and Fastboot. It took a while playing with drivers to get the device to show properly with the adb devices command, but it finally did, and was able to command it to reboot bootloader.
Everything still looking good. Still following the instructions, did the oem unlock, wiping it to factory settings, and then ran flash-all.bat. It went through that, the phone restarted into the bootloader, this time showing the Kitkat loading images instead of Lollipop, I think I'm home free.
I'm in the bootloader again now and notice adb devices is no longer showing the phone, so I try oem lock, and the phone screen updates to show locked. Odd, but it worked. I now used the volume buttons to select power off, and power off the device.
Powering on, the phone shows the Kitkat white "Google" on the screen, but that's it. I try powering it off again, and it restarts itself. I try getting it to display in adb devices, and nothing. The phone has been sitting at this screen for half an hour now with no change.
Using volume down+power I'm able to get it back into fastboot mode, but nothing will work from there. Start, recovery mode, and power off all result in the same thing: phone looks like it's turning on, but sits forever just showing the white "Google" on the screen. Abd devices still shows no devices attached, yet the phone still accepts oem lock and unlock commands, so I tried to run flash-all.bat again, but it just gives a 'command write failed(unknown error)'.
I'm kinda stumped now, and I haven't been able to find anything on this kind of issue. I'm hoping someone might have some experience or be able to suggest something my limited experience hasn't exposed me to before.
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ADB needs a booted up android to work, it wont work in bootloader mode. Another requirement is that usb debugging must be enabled in dev options. Fastboot works only in bootloader mode and doesnt need usb debugging.
Download wugfresh toolkit.. Use it to restore your device and DISABLE FORCE FLASH
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So I have had this US beta streak since around January, the one that says 'Dell Confidential' at boot up, but it's never really worked correctly. I purchased it from a person that I know that got it through some sort of beta testing; the details weren't provided and I didn't press him for them. Anyways, I am currently trying to get the clockwork recovery flashed and able to be booted into, although the streak is giving me every possible problem I can imagine. I'll try to provide as much background info as I possibly can.
Firmware: 1.5
Baseband Version AUS_090716_01_BOSS_EVT2_3135
Kernel Version 2.6.27
Build Number QTC_3135
OEM Version: AustinBuild_090724_03_boss_evt2_3135_FixTouchSuspend
Under About Phone > Status
IMEI 011954000020995
IMEI SV 00
Service Tag FF8R6K1 (which dell.com cannot find)
The Problems:
When I try to get into bootloader to get into fastboot, by holding the camera button down while hitting the power button, rather than going into the screen that is shown in all of the different tutorial threads, I instead go into some sort of a diagnostic menu that doesn't have an option for fastboot, as much as I have seen. There is a picture attached below.
I (think) that I can get the phone recognized by adb, although I am not totally positive. When in cmd in windows, and I type adb devices, instead of getting the proper serial number of my devices, it shows instead 0123456789ABCDE (I may not have that exact, but it does start at 0 and ends in hex at E or F, I can't remember right now and don't have it connected at the moment.)
There was one time where I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to where it said that it successfully flashed the img, but when I go to try and boot into recovery by holding both volume up and down at the same time, and then hitting power, the phone just hangs at a blank, black screen. It will stay there for 30 minutes and not do a thing, I can't see it via adb or fastboot.
So I then gave recovery.alt.img a shot, was able to successfully flash that, or so it told me that it was successful, but still the same problem: just a black screen.
The reason that I think that it actually was working was that after flashing the recovery image both times, I sent the command adb reboot recovery, and the phone reboots, but not into recovery, just into android. adb reboot-bootloader doesn't work at all and returns an error or nothing, I can't remember.
I then focused my attention on trying to get fastboot to work, assuming that adb was not working at all. This is where fastboot gets strange. The only way for me to get the command 'fastboot devices' to show anything at all is by holding the volume down button prior and then hitting the power button to start it. This puts the phone into essentially a 'soft brick', which my friend calls 'safe mode', where it gets totally stuck at the 'Dell Confidential' screen and will not progress past it no matter what.
So, once I am in 'safe mode', I am able to then issue a 'fastboot devices' command, which ... partially works? I hope that my totally unsure tone of voice was able to be conveyed through that message, because the info returned once that command is sent is totally confusing to me. Unlike before, where I feel as though the Streak is just lying to me by saying 0123...DEF for the device ID, for fastboot devices it just gives me a question mark .. yes, simply a ?
The weird thing is that it will follow commands. I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to the streak, it gave me a read out that said successful, and I got very excited. And then I pulled the battery, put it back in, held both the volume buttons, and .... the same result, the black screen. So, not allowing myself to be deterred, I got right back into fastboot, or at least my quasi working version of fastboot which may not be working at all, and flashed recovery.alt.img, which turned around and told me that it was successful as well. This time, not allowing myself to get excited, I pulled the battery and, with both volume buttons held down, hit power to try to get into recovery.
Again, I was let down and found only a blank screen. At this point, I have no idea what else to try. With the bootloader not being where it's suppose to be, not really being able to get into fastboot or adb (I think), I turn to xda to try and find some answers. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong or might be missing. I am hoping that it is something that is really obvious that I feel very stupid, like I'm hitting the wrong set of volume buttons, but ... I don't think it's that easy.
Again, I feel as though the phone was getting the commands from fastboot because I sent fastboot reboot recovery, and the phone rebooted, just not into recovery but android. Same thing for bootloader, it just didn't work at all
Also, as for android 1.5 itself, almost nothing works. This appears to be running a very early edition of android where most apps just end up with: Sorry! No applicatons can perform this action, so the One touch root is kind of out of the question.
I was able to do the dialer unlock method to get EMList, but the similarities end there. I don't have the Unknown sources option or anything else after leaving dialer.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated and will be accepted and followed (within reason). I'm just at the point where I'm hoping that it's not totally broken and that with determination and hard work and some critical thinking I (we) will be able to get it working again. Hopefully it isn't a paperweight.
Thanks,
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I need help. I was on stock android 4.1.2 while rooted and unlocked with cwm. I was using it this morning when I got the notification for the ota 4.2.2 I accepted it and the device rebooted. I got a message saying if I wanted to install the update because it wasn't signed. It looked like I was in cwm at this point. I said yes, and it proceeded to try and install, halfway through it just rebooted and brought me back to that screen again. I tried a few times before saying cancel. I was then brought to the main cwm menu, I selected device reboot. It booted into android after a lengthy time, but when it loaded android it's a black screen with the clock lock screen widget, and anytime I try to get past the screen shuts off. I don't have any way of booting into cwm, I can't do it by powering down then powering up holding the volume down button had to use rom manager. Please, any ideas on how to un**** this up. I was able to get my computer to list it in adb devices, but when i typed in reboot-recovery it says android debug bridge 1.0.31 and the lists all the commands. After being connected to the computer for a few minutes it just shuts off and won't turn back on unless I plug it into the wall for a few minutes. If while in adb I type adb reboot-bootlader it reboots but not into the bootloader.
Update, about the 3rd time I tried the adb reboot bootloader it worked, I was able to get into fastboot and flash a stock image, works fine now. No idea how it got so bad from just that though
I've successfully rooted my T-Mobile LG Leon, and I've successfully installed TWRP, but for the life of me, I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can RE-boot into recovery from TWRP manager, but I can't actually boot into it from a fully powered-down state. I've tried every combination of the power and volume buttons I can think of, and nothing ever works. Download Mode works, the factory restore menu works, but I CANNOT get into recovery. Is there a very specific set of instructions anywhere that I can follow?
EDIT: Okay, I finally figured it out: You need to actually select to do a factory reset, and it throws you into the recovery menu.
Yeah, it was because the stock recovery doesn't exist as a menu, when you're running stock and enter the adb command "adb reboot recovery" it will reboot to the "factory reset mode" and the actual file of this mode is stored on partition named "recovery". Choosing the factory reset option boots the custom recovery because it replaces the said " factory reset mode" and that's the trick.
You can access recovery from the powered off state by holding volume down and power on until you see the lg sign. Without letting go of volume down, depress on the power button before clicking it back in and holding both buttons in until you see twrp pop up.
If you reboot to recovery now, it''ll probally say secure booting error. Simply go to the Developer options and enable OEM Unlock and that'll make you boot to it
You boot in the download mode by holding the vol up 10 seconds and during this 10 seconds you insert the usb. The LG Leon brand screen will come on a minute then it will go into download mode. It says not to unplug until firmware is done updating. So I guess you should have your custom recovery or whatever before you do this. I have only got this far, and thusly it sits. All Dressd up with no where to go...haha
kruc Ire said:
You boot in the download mode by holding the vol up 10 seconds and during this 10 seconds you insert the usb. The LG Leon brand screen will come on a minute then it will go into download mode. It says not to unplug until firmware is done updating. So I guess you should have your custom recovery or whatever before you do this. I have only got this far, and thusly it sits. All Dressd up with no where to go...haha
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can't find "enable OEM" at all in developer options. have phone hooked computer, and on, it's sending and receiving. No OEM. Isn't there.
See, I'm trying to root this without using KingUser. Since I found that it was pretty easy to do from the very beginning with Samsung, and I just don't see any way to do it here. I can't get ADB Devices command to see the phone.
kruc Ire said:
can't find "enable OEM" at all in developer options. have phone hooked computer, and on, it's sending and receiving. No OEM. Isn't there.
See, I'm trying to root this without using KingUser. Since I found that it was pretty easy to do from the very beginning with Samsung, and I just don't see any way to do it here. I can't get ADB Devices command to see the phone.
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I think I have the same issue, but I rooted my phone using kingroot, I haven't tested the adb commands, I just want to use twrp but no luck, it says Secure booting error and I can't find OEM Unlock option in Developer Menu.
duffycop said:
I think I have the same issue, but I rooted my phone using kingroot, I haven't tested the adb commands, I just want to use twrp but no luck, it says Secure booting error and I can't find OEM Unlock option in Developer Menu.
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I got a good way to get it rooted with SuperSU. Ran a command window script I found out there. It worked and now I have SuperSU root. I also figured out how to get into recovery. It looks as though my phone is not the standard LEON that people are talking about here. It's got a few designations, and the T Mobile site advertises a Leon that seems very similar and is called by the name most are using..
Anyhow my LG Leon is designated as a H320. It also carries a v10 desiganation, v10b. The v10 is variable from a-h or a-i. It would seem that once it is updated to 5.1.1 android it gets upped, and becomes unrootable. Mine being a v10b was rootable, but it took me a while to get used to it, and make the command window work.
Unfortunately for me one of many things I tried before getting it rooted, was ADB fastboot. And since this told me to wait for too long, I pulled the plug on it and pulled the battery to get back into "normal" operations. Perhaps I should have waited, because after finding out a few things about the phone, I discovered the true way to get it into recovery:
The real way into recovery for my phone, is to (from power off state) hold the volume up, a few seconds, then plug the USB cable which is going to the computer into the phone. While holding the volume up until it comes to recovery. This will activate the recovery, (Now for me it activates that fastboot command line...and does nothing else). This was the bit of information I could have used from the beginning, that no one knows. All these places tell you to hold the power and volume up, and then let off power when the screen changes, but that never worked even once. You just hold the volume, and plug the USB from computer. This works.
For me it goes into a "FASTBOOT" header at the bottom of the screen that never changes.
I believe it does this because of my unsuccessful attempt to fastboot it before. And it does not have the right driver to get recognized in the computer. So I'm screwed as far as the recovery goes now.
It is rooted though. And it doesn't seem to have any alternate ROMS available anyways. so we're dealing with the loss of the recovery.
When I do try to use an app such as TWRP manager or CWM (ROM) Manager to reboot into recovery, I get a "boot certification verification -1" error instead of the fastboot line at the bottom of the startup screen and it boots normally from there. So many people asked about this "boot certification verification -1" and NO answers are available anywhere online. So that's where it stands for this phone right now.
Anyone know what driver I should use to get the thing recognized in the computer? I have downloaded a zipped fastboot tools, and it won't get recognized inside the driver manager as "android" only as "unknown device" so I can't use that route....I'm thinking about doing a factory reset to try to erase the fastboot attempt. That may not help though. Anyone?
kruc Ire said:
I got a good way to get it rooted with SuperSU. Ran a command window script I found out there. It worked and now I have SuperSU root. I also figured out how to get into recovery. It looks as though my phone is not the standard LEON that people are talking about here. It's got a few designations, and the T Mobile site advertises a Leon that seems very similar and is called by the name most are using..
Anyhow my LG Leon is designated as a H320. It also carries a v10 desiganation, v10b. The v10 is variable from a-h or a-i. It would seem that once it is updated to 5.1.1 android it gets upped, and becomes unrootable. Mine being a v10b was rootable, but it took me a while to get used to it, and make the command window work.
Unfortunately for me one of many things I tried before getting it rooted, was ADB fastboot. And since this told me to wait for too long, I pulled the plug on it and pulled the battery to get back into "normal" operations. Perhaps I should have waited, because after finding out a few things about the phone, I discovered the true way to get it into recovery:
The real way into recovery for my phone, is to (from power off state) hold the volume up, a few seconds, then plug the USB cable which is going to the computer into the phone. While holding the volume up until it comes to recovery. This will activate the recovery, (Now for me it activates that fastboot command line...and does nothing else). This was the bit of information I could have used from the beginning, that no one knows. All these places tell you to hold the power and volume up, and then let off power when the screen changes, but that never worked even once. You just hold the volume, and plug the USB from computer. This works.
For me it goes into a "FASTBOOT" header at the bottom of the screen that never changes.
I believe it does this because of my unsuccessful attempt to fastboot it before. And it does not have the right driver to get recognized in the computer. So I'm screwed as far as the recovery goes now.
It is rooted though. And it doesn't seem to have any alternate ROMS available anyways. so we're dealing with the loss of the recovery.
When I do try to use an app such as TWRP manager or CWM (ROM) Manager to reboot into recovery, I get a "boot certification verification -1" error instead of the fastboot line at the bottom of the startup screen and it boots normally from there. So many people asked about this "boot certification verification -1" and NO answers are available anywhere online. So that's where it stands for this phone right now.
Anyone know what driver I should use to get the thing recognized in the computer? I have downloaded a zipped fastboot tools, and it won't get recognized inside the driver manager as "android" only as "unknown device" so I can't use that route....I'm thinking about doing a factory reset to try to erase the fastboot attempt. That may not help though. Anyone?
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I dunno, I have the H340AR, with this phones happens the same that with the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3, there are, 3G versions, 4G versions, regional versions, etc.. GA3 have 7275R, 7275B, 7272L, 7272T, I dunno, maybe if we could get a device tree for a H340 and an H320 we could make some TWRP and CM compiling, but I just can't figure it out how to make a device tree or even where to begin..
I successfully rooted my H340AR with Kingroot, it works like a charm. I haven't tried fastboot and I tried to install TWRP in this link https://dl.twrp.me/c50/ but I get that F error "Secure booting error". I guess I have my bootloader locked, so I'm trying to figure out how to unlock my bootloader.
I'm trying to contact with some developers and see if anyone can help me build a device tree.
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Hi, I have that same phone H340AR LTE. I rooted it with Kingroot and also tried to use TWRP to gen into recovery and got that Security error. I only pulled out the baterry and turn it on again so it booted normally. I made a factory reset because I read that it could be a problem of OTA firmware update. Then I installed TWRP and BusyBox again and tried to get into recovery from TWRP option. When I did that, it showed up the Android lying in his back with a red triangle. I pulled a out the battery again and yes, it seems very dumb and simple but it worked and could reboot the phone.
However, I can't get into recovery from TWRP yet. I read that the problem with us not being able to unlock the bootloader(we don't have the OEM option) is because Leon has Lollipop 5.0.1 and OEM is for 5.1.1
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I've successfully rooted my T-Mobile LG Leon, and I've successfully installed TWRP, but for the life of me, I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can RE-boot into recovery from TWRP manager, but I can't actually boot into it from a fully powered-down state. I've tried every combination of the power and volume buttons I can think of, and nothing ever works. Download Mode works, the factory restore menu works, but I CANNOT get into recovery. Is there a very specific set of instructions anywhere that I can follow?
EDIT: Okay, I finally figured it out: You need to actually select to do a factory reset, and it throws you into the recovery menu.
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when i pressed factory reset all it did was to a factory reset even though i flashed twrp.img successfully... help?
lg leon h345 lollipop 5.1.1
This device has a locked bootloader. If you flash a custom recovery on it, it will not boot into recovery, but will report a security issue. You will lose all recovery functionality, including factory reset, adb, fastboot. If your phone fails to boot, you have a brick.
So let me begin with what I'm running.
Stock bootloader-locked.
Nougat 7.1.2 Beta from Google (On the beta program)
No root. Completely stock.
When I updated to 7.1.2 I started having this problem, the phone did not start up right after the update. It took a few hours to finally get the phone to come on, when I did I opted out of the beta and went back to 7.1.1, flashed back, phone started, yay!
Except.....
Now if I shut the phone down now I cannot get it to power on at all, doesn't respond to anything, no stock bootloader by pressing power+vol down, nothing.
The only way to get this phone to load up is I have to wait until the battery fully dies, charge to full and then power on the phone and it will start. Even after all this I still can't power down and enter stock recovery/bootloader.
Any idea on what's going on?
Chewmasey said:
So let me begin with what I'm running.
Stock bootloader-locked.
Nougat 7.1.2 Beta from Google (On the beta program)
No root. Completely stock.
When I updated to 7.1.2 I started having this problem, the phone did not start up right after the update. It took a few hours to finally get the phone to come on, when I did I opted out of the beta and went back to 7.1.1, flashed back, phone started, yay!
Except.....
Now if I shut the phone down now I cannot get it to power on at all, doesn't respond to anything, no stock bootloader by pressing power+vol down, nothing.
The only way to get this phone to load up is I have to wait until the battery fully dies, charge to full and then power on the phone and it will start. Even after all this I still can't power down and enter stock recovery/bootloader. Any idea on what's going on?
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Interesting. You can't button press and get into bootloader? That's hard wired. Maybe a bad power button? I was going to suggest wiping cache from recovery as a first step, but you NEED recovery mode to do anything. At a minimum I would go into Dev Settings and allow both OEM unlocking and USB debug straight away. This way you can use ADB, and if you end up in a bootloop you can still unlock the bootloader and flash images and maybe a recovery . Do you know which 7.1.1 build you are on? Set up ADB/fastboot and try adb reboot recovery from within the OS. Maybe get you into recovery so you can at least wipe cache to start. Later, you may also be able to sideload an OTA from stock recovery (if adb reboot works). If the OTA doesn't fix it, you may need to do a factory reset. ADB will also allow you to pull any valuable files off the device.
I've actually signed up again and am running the beta 7.1.2 OTA Google beta program.
Security patch: January 5/2017
Baseband version: angler-03.79
Kernel version: 3.10.73-geac7D674
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Tue Dec 13 10:11:12 UTC 2016
Build Number: NPG05F
I've been back and forth with 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and it does the same thing with each build.
I tried unlocking with Wugs toolkit but as soon as I get to power off device and go into bootloader I can't get the bootloader screen to show up and I need to wait until the phone dies and charge to 100% and then start the phone regularly.
I do have ADB installed on my PC but anytime I need to get into bootloader I'm screwed.
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....I do have ADB installed on my PC but anytime I need to get into bootloader I'm screwed.
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Thanks for providing lots of good info on where you are at.... most ppl dont. I'm also on 7.1.2 but with zero issues. OK gotcha, so using NRT, under advanced tools you have tried rebooting to both bootloader and recovery, and it failed. You didn't say YES, I enabled USB Debug/ OEM Unlock in developer options. By any means possible get into your OS and enable OEM Unlocking and USB Debugging now before it's too late. You've got to get into your bootloader/recovery and you are still locked with no access to ADB. There is a great driver install/ diagnostic tool in NRT to help you confirm all drivers are there and working. Sounds like you are ready to unlock/wipe in an effort to recover your phone. I think you can recover from this, but you'll probably lose your userdata.
I have the phone up and running right now. I have already went into developer options and checked OEM unlock and have debugging enabled.
When I go into NRT and go to unlock, it connects etc but when it comes to the point of power off device and boot into bootloader the screen is blank. My PC only recognizes the phone as an Android Interface after this and then I have to wait until the phone completely dies and a recharge to power up the phone.
I would try NRT again right now but I'm scared I will be without my phone all day tomorrow.
Damned if I Do, Damned if I don't.
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I have the phone up and running right now. I have already went into developer options and checked OEM unlock and have debugging enabled. When I go into NRT and go to unlock, it connects etc but when it comes to the point of power off device and boot into bootloader the screen is blank. My PC only recognizes the phone as an Android Interface after this and then I have to wait until the phone completely dies and a recharge to power up the phone.
I would try NRT again right now but I'm scared I will be without my phone all day tomorrow.
Damned if I Do, Damned if I don't.
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When the phone is not responsive and you have been discharging it, have you tried holding the power button down for at least 2 minutes? In many cases this forces the phone to restart, but it takes a long time. That may shorten the wait between getting the phone back up.
Did you only start using NRT after the problem, or it was working fine beforehand in bootloader mode (fastboot). There is a separate driver for fastboot, I'm trying to see if that was working before. Since you are trying to unlock, it sounds as if you are past trying to save any data on the phone. NRT uses both ADB and fastboot, but you may have better luck using the command line from your PC. In my previous post I linked to Google's ADB/Fastboot binaries. Instructions are pretty basic. If you can get that setup you can try communicating with the device from the command line. Even if the is screen off, try sending fastboot devices.
Tried everything, gave up bought a used 64gb Nexus 6p.
Last time fiddling with the phone Everytime I touched the power button the red LED blinked.
I'm thinking either the motherboard or the battery.
Hi, just bought a phone for my son secondhand, it's going to be sold again if I can't fix this! The phone was sold cheap as it had software issues (of course) so I figured I could fix these and get it going (install custom recovery, ROM etc). I'm slightly stumped at the moment, so maybe you can help me.
The phone's defaulting to the bootloader screen, lots of info on this but the key thing I noticed was that it says 'the device is locked status code: 2'.
Clicking 'start' takes me a 'warning unlocked bootloader screen' then it runs through the 'hello moto' startup screen and back to bootloader
Clicking 'recovery' - there is definitely no working recovery on it, I just a get the dead robot with 'no command' underneath.
Clicking 'Factory Mode' allows me so far through the startup (after the bootloader unlocked warning), and you can get so far through setting it up, but because the battery is so low (it's permanently on with the bootloader when plugged in) it never seems to charge up enough, and either way the screen freezes at or around the final setup steps and then it reverts back to bootloader. I thought if I got into developer options and security, I could enable the USB debugging, OEM unlock etc, but no go there.
I've installed Motorola USB drivers but it doesn't seem to be registering on the PC (Windows 10).
There is some suggestion on other forums (less reputable!) that the locked status code may mean the bootloader has been relocked, but this seems contrary to what the phone is telling me.
Any ideas welcome, thanks - it's a lovely phone, just not much use at the moment.
GitManMatt said:
Hi, just bought a phone for my son secondhand, it's going to be sold again if I can't fix this! The phone was sold cheap as it had software issues (of course) so I figured I could fix these and get it going (install custom recovery, ROM etc). I'm slightly stumped at the moment, so maybe you can help me.
The phone's defaulting to the bootloader screen, lots of info on this but the key thing I noticed was that it says 'the device is locked status code: 2'.
Clicking 'start' takes me a 'warning unlocked bootloader screen' then it runs through the 'hello moto' startup screen and back to bootloader
Clicking 'recovery' - there is definitely no working recovery on it, I just a get the dead robot with 'no command' underneath.
Clicking 'Factory Mode' allows me so far through the startup (after the bootloader unlocked warning), and you can get so far through setting it up, but because the battery is so low (it's permanently on with the bootloader when plugged in) it never seems to charge up enough, and either way the screen freezes at or around the final setup steps and then it reverts back to bootloader. I thought if I got into developer options and security, I could enable the USB debugging, OEM unlock etc, but no go there.
I've installed Motorola USB drivers but it doesn't seem to be registering on the PC (Windows 10).
There is some suggestion on other forums (less reputable!) that the locked status code may mean the bootloader has been relocked, but this seems contrary to what the phone is telling me.
Any ideas welcome, thanks - it's a lovely phone, just not much use at the moment.
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OK, some progress, I have now unlocked the bootloader, so have the UNLOCKED Status Code:3 which is good, unfortunately has not yet helped with my issues. I can't use ADB, but MFastboot tool is working, so can run commands from that (hence me getting to that stage). Tried reinstalling firmware, may try and do this again now bootloader unlocked....
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OK, some progress, I have now unlocked the bootloader, so have the UNLOCKED Status Code:3 which is good, unfortunately has not yet helped with my issues. I can't use ADB, but MFastboot tool is working, so can run commands from that (hence me getting to that stage). Tried reinstalling firmware, may try and do this again now bootloader unlocked....
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I have now managed to flash stock firmwares using Mfastboot tool, but hasn't unfortunately fixed the boot up issues. However, I have now worked out how to access the recovery, by reading other posts on different Motorola phones:
boot to bootloader, power+vol down
in bootloader select recovery using the volume up/down buttons, press power button to select
phone boots into 'recovery,' showing the dead android with no command
at this point hold down the power and volume up, then release volume up but keep power held down
phones boots, by magic, into android recovery, where you can factory reset, wipe cache adb sideload and install from SD card
I now need to try and get a flashable recovery to sideload, as the attempts to flash it don't work for me. The OS I seem to be on is reteu 7.1.1, so I will try and go for a lower version, and see if that allows me to flash the custom recovery I desperately need.
But....things are improving slowly....:laugh:
GitManMatt said:
I have now managed to flash stock firmwares using Mfastboot tool, but hasn't unfortunately fixed the boot up issues. However, I have now worked out how to access the recovery, by reading other posts on different Motorola phones:
boot to bootloader, power+vol down
in bootloader select recovery using the volume up/down buttons, press power button to select
phone boots into 'recovery,' showing the dead android with no command
at this point hold down the power and volume up, then release volume up but keep power held down
phones boots, by magic, into android recovery, where you can factory reset, wipe cache adb sideload and install from SD card
I now need to try and get a flashable recovery to sideload, as the attempts to flash it don't work for me. The OS I seem to be on is reteu 7.1.1, so I will try and go for a lower version, and see if that allows me to flash the custom recovery I desperately need.
But....things are improving slowly....:laugh:
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Never try to downgrade using stock firmware.
tyamamoto said:
Never try to downgrade using stock firmware.
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OK thanks, I read that, but didn't realise it was a thing....should I be able to sideload a custom rom using ADB?