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[Q] Nexus 7 Stuck on cm10 Start Up Help!

Okay so i was watching a video on youtube on how to get cm10 on my nexus 7, i bought the nexus 7 off a friend who rooted it for me and he had clockword recovery or whatever you call it set up on it. So the video said to download rom manager and then i went to download and downloaded the stable cm10 with gapps. Then it rebooted and what not and now its been stuck in the cyanogenmod spinning circle start up for about 2-3 hours now. So i held the volume and power button to get to the fastboot thing and shut the nexus off and then i restarted it and then.. the google sign came with the unlock icon and then the cyanogenmod circle came again -.- Please help if you can, sorry if any of this doesnt make any sense im new to all this. Thankyou in advance.

Power off fully, then hold the Vol+Pwr buttons down until it goes to the fastboot menu. Vol down to select recovery. I would do a factory reset and reflash the ROM + gapps.

davisac said:
Power off fully, then hold the Vol+Pwr buttons down until it goes to the fastboot menu. Vol down to select recovery. I would do a factory reset and reflash the ROM + gapps.
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Yea i did that right, it goes into the fastboot menu and i go to recovery mode. And when i click the power button, all that happens is that the black screen with google and the unlocked logo show up, and it stayed like that for like 2 hours again -.-
Do you know why that happens?

If you reflashed the rom I'm guessing a bad download.
ETA: Did you make a nandroid before installing? If so restore that.

Oh okay. So u suggested to do a hard reset. How exactly can i do that? My nexus wont load past the load up screen, on some occasions it goes past the google and unlock logo but then a cyanoggenmod spinning circle thing comes and then that just stays there.

Go to the bootloader (vol dwn+pwr), and plug into computer. Then select recovery mode.
Do a factory reset from there. Then reinstall CM10.

davisac said:
Go to the bootloader (vol dwn+pwr), and plug into computer. Then select recovery mode.
Do a factory reset from there. Then reinstall CM10.
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Oh okay, actually im really glad u just said this because i just tried this way. I powered off my tablet, then turned it on with vol dwn and power to get into the bootloader. Then i plugged my tablet into my laptop and now the volume keys wont let me scroll down to recovery mode. Pretty much the volume button becomes useless to scroll. Any help?

If the Vol buttons aren't working I'm out of ideas besides: try again? Otherwise you're going to have to wait for someone smarter than me. Sorry.
ETA: Found this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796 Maybe it'll help you.

wait do i have to have the latest drivers for nexus 7 installed on my pc b4 i plug it in? If you do know, let me know where i can find them. If you dont no worries ill wait for someone else, thanks for your help so far.

Hey don't know if you got your Nexus working again but I saw this thread about the buttons not working. Not sure what version bootloader you have.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840675

Make sure you wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache!!
When I first flashed CM, I got the infinite boot animation as well. I rebooted into recovery, did a wipe of my caches, and it was fine from that point on.
Also, when going from one rom from another, you gotta do a factory reset if you didn't already.

Yea I forgot to clear all the data.. nvr again but I can't get into recovery thats the problem. I have the 3.34 bootloader and it doesn't go to recovery and I tried plugging into my pc and then the volume rockers become useless. Any help plz?
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I have the same problem. I'm searching everywhere for a solution. I hope I find one soon.

Raja094 said:
Okay so i was watching a video on youtube on how to get cm10 on my nexus 7, i bought the nexus 7 off a friend who rooted it for me and he had clockword recovery or whatever you call it set up on it. So the video said to download rom manager and then i went to download and downloaded the stable cm10 with gapps. Then it rebooted and what not and now its been stuck in the cyanogenmod spinning circle start up for about 2-3 hours now. So i held the volume and power button to get to the fastboot thing and shut the nexus off and then i restarted it and then.. the google sign came with the unlock icon and then the cyanogenmod circle came again -.- Please help if you can, sorry if any of this doesnt make any sense im new to all this. Thankyou in advance.
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I had the same problem this morning. After about an hour of messing with stuff I used mskip's toolkit to uninstall then reinstall the drivers. I
then rebooted into the bootloader without a cable and then connected the cable and the buttons were still responding. After that I updated
the bootloader to the latest release and I was about to boot into recovery.

[Q] cant boot into bootloader from power off!

I flashed a ROM boot looped and boot loader wouldn't work, volume down and power, but I got it to work via adb, anyways I still can't get into boot loader even after the fix? I'm just confused now, because if I boot loop again I'm going to have to do all that work over,
Someone care to provide an explanation and fix for this? Please and thank you lol!
Thanks josh

joshracine1 said:
I flashed a ROM b not just press itoot looped and boot loader wouldn't work, volume down and power, but I got it to work via adb, anyways I still can't get into boot loader even after the fix? I'm just confused now, because if I boot loop again I'm going to have to do all that work over,
Someone care to provide an explanation and fix for this? Please and thank you lol!
Thanks josh
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you have to hold down the volume down button, not just press it.

i know lol
simms22 said:
you have to hold down the volume down button, not just press it.
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What I'm trying to say is that it just doesn't work, the bootloadrr will not boot unless done from reboot menu on ROM, holding buttons does nothing just keeps looping Google screen until I let go the boots normal, Lol I'm not a noon just confused that's all! Can I flash stock boot loader zip? Or will that brick me?

VS980 Stuck on LG logo, no adb or fastboot

Hello, I have seem to soft-bricked my device. I was installing a ROM using TWRP (I forgot the version) and it was taking a very long time, then I stupidly shut-off my phone, and when I turned it on, it was stuck on the LG logo. I cannot boot into recovery using Power + Volume Up button, and I have no idea how to fix this!
Thank you.
EDIT: Got into recovery. The whole /system was wiped, I re-flashed CM10.2, now stuck in boot loop of the Cyanogen Mod boot logo,

hiddenfive said:
Hello, I have seem to soft-bricked my device. I was installing a ROM using TWRP (I forgot the version) and it was taking a very long time, then I stupidly shut-off my phone, and when I turned it on, it was stuck on the LG logo. I cannot boot into recovery using Power + Volume Up button, and I have no idea how to fix this!
Thank you.
EDIT: Got into recovery. The whole /system was wiped, I re-flashed CM10.2, now stuck in boot loop of the Cyanogen Mod boot logo,
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It would appear that I did something very similar and is stuck at the logo boot loop. How were you able to get back into recovery?

colinexl said:
It would appear that I did something very similar and is stuck at the logo boot loop. How were you able to get back into recovery?
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Do you have the LG bootlogo coming up, if so try this:
Turn off phone, then when off, hold down power and volume down button until it reaches the LG logo and then release and hold it down again, if that doesn't work, when just hold it down until you see a screen that says something like: Hard reset/ factory reset. For me it took me to my recovery screen, where I just flashed a older ROM onto it. I then later flashed a recovery file. I hope this helps, and if you need it any clearer, just reply

hiddenfive said:
Do you have the LG bootlogo coming up, if so try this:
Turn off phone, then when off, hold down power and volume down button until it reaches the LG logo and then release and hold it down again, if that doesn't work, when just hold it down until you see a screen that says something like: Hard reset/ factory reset. For me it took me to my recovery screen, where I just flashed a older ROM onto it. I then later flashed a recovery file. I hope this helps, and if you need it any clearer, just reply
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Thanks for the reply! I was able to get into the factory reset but had to follow slightly different instructions. The way I've seen it on most wiki sites is that you hold Volume Down and Power button at the same time until the LG logo shows up, then release them and press them down again. This never worked for me.
What I had to do was hold Volume Down and Power button until the LG logo shows up, then release ONLY the Power button while still holding the Volume Down button, then press the Power button again. This method got me into the factory reset consistently and was able to get back into recovery.
Best,
Colin

hiddenfive said:
Hello, I have seem to soft-bricked my device. I was installing a ROM using TWRP (I forgot the version) and it was taking a very long time, then I stupidly shut-off my phone, and when I turned it on, it was stuck on the LG logo. I cannot boot into recovery using Power + Volume Up button, and I have no idea how to fix this!
Thank you.
EDIT: Got into recovery. The whole /system was wiped, I re-flashed CM10.2, now stuck in boot loop of the Cyanogen Mod boot logo,
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any luck finding a solution? I'm having the same problem.

LG G2 VS980 not booting, system folder permission is changed accidentally
My LG G2 VS980 phone was rooted by myself. It was a factory unlocked phone. Then using Root Browser by JRummy apps i have removed some system apps and just for a try i have changed the permission settings of system app folder to ro. Then on reboot my phone was stuck, it turns ON and after LG and Verizon logo, says "unfortunately, phone has stopped" and i could see some basic apps such as file manager, calculator etc. but i cannot use the phone at all. It is stuck. How to get back to the original factory unlocked condition? Any ideas plz!

[Q] Droid razr m

my phone is a droid razr m (xt907). Whenever i turn it on it has an error com.android.phone isn't working, and text messaging crashes. Whenever i try and factory restore it, it goes to the fastboot screen when i turn it on, and it won't let me boot into recovery.

shadowwolfsl said:
Whenever i try and factory restore it, it goes to the fastboot screen when i turn it on, and it won't let me boot into recovery.
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Try going to the recovery. You used the wrong key combination? Hold BOTH volume keys then press power.
Or if you're unlocked and still on stock ROM, just use a custom recovery and flash another ROM
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11

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Try going to the recovery. You used the wrong key combination? Hold BOTH volume keys then press power.
Or if you're unlocked and still on stock ROM, just use a custom recovery and flash another ROM
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
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I've gone into recovery from it..it constantly starts in fastboot and won't let me get past it..

shadowwolfsl said:
I've gone into recovery from it..it constantly starts in fastboot and won't let me get past it..
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Did you do anything to the phone, ie. try to modify it at all? We need some background info if we're going to help you out.

If the "sticky bit" error was set by your performing a previous fastboot command which failed then you may flash this harmless logo. This is a all in one fastboot/adb file that needs to be unzipped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51243461&postcount=93

Flashed the wrong Kernel version, what now? <SOLVED>

<SOLVED>
I am still pretty new to Android and modding so be gentle..............
Should have know better. Flashed the latest Omega Kernel on my 6T while watching the kiddos practice for an upcoming belt test. I know I don't mulit task!
Flashed the Android 10 version on my Android 9 phone. Realized what I did when it would go past the bootloader unlocked warning. Eventually it went to the qualcomm dump mode then rebooted.
Now I can't get it to do anything. It is stuck on that screen. Power button does nothing. My theory is if I can get into recovery I can just flash the correct previous version of Omega that is on the phone.....but without a working power button I am stuck. Computer does not even see the phone when I plug it in.
What now?
Many thanks in advance.

Use the MSM Tool method to un brick your phone. Look for the forum in the Roms, Kernels... Section.
You're going to loose all data.

I will get over losing my data. I don't have a windows machine at the house. I will have to go to our shop to use that horrible OS. Thanks for the intel.

You can fix this issue in minutes without requiring to run MSM Tool or lose any data. I faced a similar issue myself few days ago and got it running back again by doing the follows:
Boot your device into fastboot mode, download the latest boot.img (stock or any other kernel) and TWRP and type these in command line:
1) Fastboot flash boot.img
2) Fastboot boot twrp.img
3) Your device will boot into TWRP Recovery, so flash TWRP installer zip so it sticks.
4) Reboot to recovery again and flash Magisk or Full Rom OTA.
You should be fine then.

Anwar Syed said:
You can fix this issue in minutes without requiring to run MSM Tool or lose any data. I faced a similar issue myself few days ago and got it running back again by doing the follows:
Boot your device into fastboot mode, download the latest boot.img (stock or any other kernel) and TWRP and type these in command line:
1) Fastboot flash boot.img
2) Fastboot boot twrp.img
3) Your device will boot into TWRP Recovery, so flash TWRP installer zip so it sticks.
4) Reboot to recovery again and flash Magisk or Full Rom OTA.
You should be fine then.
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Thanks, but you missed the part where my power button is not working. The phone is stuck on the 'bootloader unlocked' warning message and the power button does nothing. No way to boot into recovery or fastboot.

PattayaGlock said:
Thanks, but you missed the part where my power button is not working. The phone is stuck on the 'bootloader unlocked' warning message and the power button does nothing. No way to boot into recovery or fastboot.
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Is your power button broken by any chance?
If it isn't, then hold volume up + power button for a few minutes and it will reboot to Fastboot screen.
Edit: Also try volume down + power button if volume up does nothing. Make sure you hold either of the combination for a few minutes until you get a haptic feedback. Google "Boot OnePlus 6T into Fastboot mode" and follow the instructions there. Once in Fastboot, follow what I wrote in my previous reply.

Anwar Syed said:
Is your power button broken by any chance?
If it isn't, then hold volume up + power button for a few minutes and it will reboot to Fastboot screen.
Edit: Also try volume down + power button if volume up does nothing. Make sure you hold either of the combination for a few minutes until you get a haptic feedback. Google "Boot OnePlus 6T into Fastboot mode" and follow the instructions there. Once in Fastboot, follow what I wrote in my previous reply.
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Holding the power button does nothing.
Power + down volume does nothing.
Discovered power + up button WILL turn the phone off. It also just brings it back to the "bootloader unlocked" warning page. It won't bring it to fastboot mode.
Makes sense as recovery is now part of the boot.img instead of a partition. I am assuming fastboot is also part of the boot.img. If that is the case there is no way to get into fastboot with an Android 10 kernel on my Android 9 phone. ..... I think

PattayaGlock said:
Holding the power button does nothing.
Power + down volume does nothing.
Discovered power + up button WILL turn the phone off. It also just brings it back to the "bootloader unlocked" warning page. It won't bring it to fastboot mode.
Makes sense as recovery is now part of the boot.img instead of a partition. I am assuming fastboot is also part of the boot.img. If that is the case there is no way to get into fastboot with an Android 10 kernel on my Android 9 phone. ..... I think
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Go through my reply history. I was on 9.0.17 and had flash RadioActive kernel which was based on/for Android 10 and went into crash dump mode. Doing those steps resolved it.

Both volume buttons + power for a hard shutdown [emoji6]
Anwar Syed said:
(...) Make sure you hold either of the combination for a few minutes until you get a haptic feedback.(...)
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Minutes? [emoji50] We don't want users dislocating their fingers [emoji51]
Wrapped with delicious Fajita [emoji896]

Timmmmaaahh said:
Both volume buttons + power for a hard shutdown [emoji6]
Minutes? [emoji50] We don't want users dislocating their fingers [emoji51]
Wrapped with delicious Fajita [emoji896]
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Should've said seconds, my bad, but your reply is hilarious...lmao xD

Turns out holding all 3 buttons did the trick....in a weird FUBAR kind of way.
1st time it popped into fastboot. Figured what the hell, tried to reboot, nope.
2nd time just booted back to the warning screen.....okay, freaked out again.
Got back into fastboot, flashed twrp, rebooted to the warning screen. SH*T!
Got back to fastboot, flashed twrp, damn thing booted into the os as if nothing had ever happened.
Held my breath, downloaded the correct kernel, rebooted to recovery, flashed, rebooted system. Everything is good.
Guess the a/b partition maybe?
Anyway, problem solved, headache over, NO DATA LOST.
Thank you everyone!

All 3 buttons did it....in a wierd FUBAR kind of way.
1st time fastboot popped up. Figured I would try reboot, nope.
2nd time just booted back to warning screen, uh oh.
3rd time fastboot, flash twrp, booted back to warning screen.
4th time fastboot, twrp, booted into OS like nothing ever happened.
Held my breath, downloaded the correct kernel update, recovery, flashed, rebooted and I am good to go.
Thanks everyone for your help!

Sorry for the dual post, I am in BOTARD mode apparently. Didn't see the post and thought I forgot to send......missed page 1 of 2!

PattayaGlock said:
Guess the a/b partition maybe?
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That would be my guess. It should just switch to the functional slot if the other isn't (properly) booting but I've experienced this system to behave quite erratically. I presume these are childhood diseases of a relatively new Android partitioning system.
Back in the 'old' system all you should've done was boot to recovery (which couldn't be corrupted by the OS!) and dirty flash either a working kernel or the original (stock) ROM that includes the kernel.
Anyway, glad you retained all your data! Thanks for updating the title and OP with a solved tag

PattayaGlock said:
<SOLVED>
I am still pretty new to Android and modding so be gentle..............
Should have know better. Flashed the latest Omega Kernel on my 6T while watching the kiddos practice for an upcoming belt test. I know I don't mulit task!
Flashed the Android 10 version on my Android 9 phone. Realized what I did when it would go past the bootloader unlocked warning. Eventually it went to the qualcomm dump mode then rebooted.
Now I can't get it to do anything. It is stuck on that screen. Power button does nothing. My theory is if I can get into recovery I can just flash the correct previous version of Omega that is on the phone.....but without a working power button I am stuck. Computer does not even see the phone when I plug it in.
What now?
Many thanks in advance.
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hello
I have the same problem with my phone, I have read all your comments about how to fix it, but I didn't understand how you fixed it, only holding the 3 bottons? and waiting to get into recovery or what?
tnx

My phone is sony xperia z1. I rooted this phone. and flashed wrong kernel after that the phone was not responding. Even though I pressed the power button, nothing appeared on the screen, please help me