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Need some help.
I just sideloaded the 4.3 update to phone and now it's stuck on the 'X' loading screen.
My phone was rooted, but all stock (including the bootloader). I used the sideload ADB command and everything went fine, but the phone now won't boot.
How do I fix this?
did you data wipe(factory reset) before flashing?? if not, you have too.
I applied the OTA...didn't think I had to
Any idea on how I fix it now?
Really don't want to lose all my data
Install a custom recovery and wipe or apply factory image
favaroooo said:
Install a custom recovery and wipe or apply factory image
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Is there a way I can fix it without wiping everything?
theprodigy85 said:
Is there a way I can fix it without wiping everything?
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I do not think because you have to change recovery you must unlock the bootloader and unlock bootloader wipe the phone
theprodigy85 said:
Is there a way I can fix it without wiping everything?
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no, its the data(and other stuff) causing it not to boot. same thing when flashing custom rom, you wipe when fkashing different roms. and going from android 4.2.2 to 4.3, theres many changes, enough to consider it a different rom.
Shoot...I should have done more research before doing this.
I did a factory reset through the stock bootloader...but it's still looping on the 'X' screen.
Can someone walk me through this or point me to a guide?
Bootloader is currently unlocked and I'm able to get into the factory recovery.
theprodigy85 said:
Shoot...I should have done more research before doing this.
I did a factory reset through the stock bootloader...but it's still looping on the 'X' screen.
Can someone walk me through this or point me to a guide?
Bootloader is currently unlocked and I'm able to get into the factory recovery.
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are you flashing a zip or an img file??
simms22 said:
are you flashing a zip or an img file??
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Initially, I flashed the OTA zip.
I'm okay with just restoring everything back to factory at this point...
Try to restore using the factory image
theprodigy85 said:
Initially, I flashed the OTA zip.
I'm okay with just restoring everything back to factory at this point...
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yea, the zip youd want to wipe data/factory reset, then flash the rom. dirty flashing wont help since the changes are big enough.
theprodigy85 said:
Initially, I flashed the OTA zip.
I'm okay with just restoring everything back to factory at this point...
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I bought my ole lady a Nexus 4 for Valentines day, anyway, today she got the OTA update and let it install the update. Now mind you she is 100% stock, adb debugging was not enabled, and her bootloader was still locked. (She would not let me touch her Nexus 4 lol) When the device rebooted it stuck on Android Upgrading finishing boot. So I said well let me see what I can do, this is what I did to fix it.
I use only Ubuntu so this may not work on windows i do not know. I Booted the device to the bootloader, connected it to my laptop via USB. I opened a terminal and typed in "sudo fastboot devices" and entered my password when promted and this gave me the device ID and fastboot letting me know fastboot was working. I then typed in "sudo fastboot reboot" and the device rebooted but was stuck on the bootanimation. I opened the internal storage up on my laptop in my file explorer and made a copy of her internal storage. Next I booted the device back into the bootloader then opened a terminal and typed in "sudo fastboot oem unlock" and the device gave me the unlock warning and the yes or no options. I selected yes so it would factory reset. After it did the factory reset the device reboot and booted to the setup welcome screen. Hope this helps others, also thanks to my good good friend Ljjehl for reminding me to use "sudo".
Edit: If you open the command promt with Administrative permissions in Windows this will work in Windows as well. Go to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe and right click on the cmd.exe file and select run as administrator. Then CD to the location with your fastboot.exe command. Thanks to another good friend TheBr0ken.
Thanks for the help...
I just ended up flashing each of the 4.3 components from the factory image. Just annoyed that I lost everything...
I'm stuck at the same screen. I received the OTA update, I didn't do anything special. My phone is unlocked and rooted (or WAS) but that was months ago, the rest is stock.
I think having encryption on my phone may have made it do this. I don't think Google anticipated doing the update properly for encrypted phones. Now I fear I've lost everything because even if I could connect, all data is encrypted...
similar problem
After starting to OTA update it was going smoothly, i was making breakfast, came back to find my screen at the "starting apps" screen frozen. The little circle that rotated wasnt doing anything so i left it there for awhile longer and still nothing. It would not move off that screen so i held power button down and restarted. now its stuck at the X screen also.
Yeah, I'm stuck there too. Already tried Factory Rest, didn't work. So what can I do?
I was on stock 4.2.2 and unrooted. I used the 'Google Services Framework' hack to force the 4.3 OTA update. The update downloaded successfully, phone restarted to apply the update and then restarted again. And now its stuck at the Google screen and keeps on restarting :crying:
I dont have the USB drivers installed on my PC too.
Same Problem
I have a nexus 4 (stock and unrooted),after 4.3 update,it is lagging during phone lock on/off (2 sec/5 sec).Hence I restarted my phone,and it stuck at "x" logo.Did clean data 3 times and then its working.
The problem is,in 2 days,I have experienced and done above thrice?
What could have gone wrong?
Hi guys,
I've just found how to correct this problem. All you have to do is to correctly wipe your phone before flashing factory image.
So :
Fastboot erase boot
Fastboot erase recovery
Fastboot format cache
Fastboot format system
Fastboot format userdata
I've just unbrick a n4 this way 15 minutes ago.
I have found the problem in recovery where you can see error log saying "cannot mount cache"
So formating correct the issue.
Hope it can help, fingers crossed.
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Hi guys,
I'm experiencing a very big problem with a friend of mine's nexus 4. I've done the same thing in the same order with my phone (nexus 4 too) five minutes before and it worked.
We installed 4.4 stock rom downloaded from official google website via fastboot and all went well on my device. The problem was that we repeated the same identical procedure on my friend's nexus 4 and it went well except for the fact that the phone only had 5gbs available after the flash, so we red on the internet that we had to repeat the procedure using "fastboot -w update" instead of flashing every single file contained in the zip folder.
So it's now that borns the real problem. We've erased all partitions (fastboot erase cache, userdata, system, bla bla) and reflashed all. But from this point it stucks on android 4.4 loading logo.
We've tryied to repeat the operation and we've noticed that "fastboot erase bootloader" command answers with "Failed (remote: bootloader partition does not exist)". So we tryied to install cwm recovery and flash from sideload, it works and loads cyanogenmod logo but stucks on it again, tryied to flash everything possible and it works but after don't start.
The strange thing is that the bootloader appears to not exist but if i do the command: fastboot flash bootloader C:\...\bootloader.img it works and says "writing... OK" so i really don't know what could be the problem.
Please guys help us, my friend is on the point to sell his phone but we both are SURE that if it still can enter on recovery and on bootloader it could be restored!!! But we don't know why! Tryied every possible solution on the web, and nothing worked for now...
Thanks to all in advance!
Install the latest twrp recovery, enter it and go to the wipe menu, chose the format data option. Then give a rom a try.
meangreenie said:
Install the latest twrp recovery, enter it and go to the wipe menu, chose the format data option. Then give a rom a try.
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Hi, thanks for the answer. Fortunately i've just resolved the problem. It worked after I wiped data from the STOCK recovery (it was the first thing i've done with the cwm several times but unsuccessfully). Now it works perfectly. Thanks again :victory:
fdm91xda said:
Hi, thanks for the answer. Fortunately i've just resolved the problem. It worked after I wiped data from the STOCK recovery (it was the first thing i've done with the cwm several times but unsuccessfully). Now it works perfectly. Thanks again :victory:
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For future references. Most likely the reason why your phone didn't boot up is because you 'erase' a partition and left it unformatted. The 'erase' command wipe out the partition so no data is there and it can't access it. If you erase userdata, then there would be no accessible internal storage and the phone cannot boot.
Which is why after you erase it, you need to either flash something over it or format the partition to make it blank: fastboot format userdata (this is what Format DATA option in TWRP is).
Hello everyone,
My new LEX727 (US version) was on 5.8.020s ROM and tried everything mentioned in the thread but cannot unlock the bootloader to install TWRP. Therefore I flashed it to CN version 5.8.018s ROM with no problem. After reboot, the phone prompts "To start Android, enter your password". Of course I have no idea about the password as I have never setup one.
I tried fastboot but the phone is not recognized by my PC (adb devices doesn't show connection). I can still enter Recovery Mode (Vol up + PWR) and fastboot (Vol down + PWR) mode.
Please help!! ...>_<...
I think it has something to do with device encryption. I suggest you search OnePlus forums, as users there had same problems after re-locking bootloader. Good luck!
dennytsai said:
Hello everyone,
My new LEX727 (US version) was on 5.8.020s ROM and tried everything mentioned in the thread but cannot unlock the bootloader to install TWRP. Therefore I flashed it to CN version 5.8.018s ROM with no problem. After reboot, the phone prompts "To start Android, enter your password". Of course I have no idea about the password as I have never setup one.
I tried fastboot but the phone is not recognized by my PC (adb devices doesn't show connection). I can still enter Recovery Mode (Vol up + PWR) and fastboot (Vol down + PWR) mode.
Please help!! ...>_<...
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Wipe the data partition
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Wipe the data partition
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Sorry for replying late. I boot into stock recovery mode, wide the data and reboot. The password prompt is gone and boot successfully.
Thank you very very much for your help!!!
I seem to be having a similar problem
I got the bootloader unlocked no problem, twrp and lineage rom installed no problem
But I'm trying to change to a different rom and upon booting it asks for a password... I've tried Omni rom and paranoid android, I tried a couple default passwords with no luck, and wiping data didn't work either
I'm not sure what else to try, any help? Much appreciated
cass89 said:
I seem to be having a similar problem
I got the bootloader unlocked no problem, twrp and lineage rom installed no problem
But I'm trying to change to a different rom and upon booting it asks for a password... I've tried Omni rom and paranoid android, I tried a couple default passwords with no luck, and wiping data didn't work either
I'm not sure what else to try, any help? Much appreciated
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Look like you have installed last version of TWRP 3.2.1-1. if that it's correct you Can Not to flash any EUI/Nougat Rom, just Oreos Rom or you gonna get Encrypted Data. If you want/need going down to EUI or Nougat Rom, you must to flash TWRP 3.2.1-0.
No, my twrp says it's 3.2.1-0... if it's encrypted then formatting data should work hopefully, I'll try that when I get access to my computer again for a backup
Can you please share the commands ?
I followed a youtube video:
(1) Boot phone to fastboot mode(hold Power+Volume Down button), connect to PC
(2) C:\adb>fastboot oem unlock-go （success）
(3) C:\adb>fastboot boot twrp-3.2.3-1-zl1.img
It enter twrp and ask for password (Mount, Decrypt Data), I believe same as what you saw.
Can you list the command you ran (to wipe data and reboot)? I guess like these:
fastboot oem unlock-go
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.3-1-zl1.img
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot reboot
Any special thing to do when you issue "fastboot reboot" command? Like hold the Power+Volume Up button?
Thanks!
dennytsai said:
Sorry for replying late. I boot into stock recovery mode, wide the data and reboot. The password prompt is gone and boot successfully.
Thank you very very much for your help!!!
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Hello guys, my phone one plus 5 has stopped working when I wanted to change to a ROM called (Resurrection Remix) which does not give any problem according to the users of the forum. I have another version of (Resurrection Remix) in my ONE PLUS TWO and without any problem. The topic is the following I have done all the steps as they are indicated but at the time of restarting the phone when the installation is finished, a load loop has started and never ends. I've been searching the internet all day to unbricke the phone but it's impossible, I try to install different ROMs and I still get nothing.
Sorry for my bad English, my language is Spanish
Link video YOUTUBE : https :// w w w. youtube .com/watch?v=0prJgT2erSU Delete the spaces of the link, being a new user does not let me post links
I had this same problem, and can almost promise this will unbrick it. Unfortunately this will put your phone back to how you had it when you first unboxed it, but it will work again.
1. Download the official OOS 4.5.5 zip
2. Wipe cache/dalvik/system/data in TWRP and flash the stock zip.
3. Within TWRP, flash the stock OP recovery image. You do this the same way as a zip, but click images in the bottom right while browsing for the file. Choose recovery as the partition of course.
4. Go to TWRP power options and boot to Bootloader/fastboot
5. Hook up to your PC and run the command to lock your bootloader "fastboot oem lock" (this will wipe your device and encrypt it again. I believe at this point the stock recovery will come up, do another factory reset to be safe.
6. Start your phone, at this point it should load up like new and all you have to do is unlock bootloader again and flash TWRP through fastboot so you can root again.
I don't have an answer for why ResurrectionRemix bricked your phone, but it did for me too. I followed the decrypt instructions to the T, but the same thing happened and I spent an entire Saturday trying to get my phone running again. I would guess that ResurrectionRemix is not to blame, and any other Lineage based ROM would end in the same result.
Good luck.
ArkAngel06 said:
I had this same problem, and can almost promise this will unbrick it. Unfortunately this will put your phone back to how you had it when you first unboxed it, but it will work again.
1. Download the official OOS 4.5.5 zip[/URL]
2. Wipe cache/dalvik/system/data in TWRP and flash the stock zip.
3. Within TWRP, flash the stock OP recovery image.[/URL] You do this the same way as a zip, but click images in the bottom right while browsing for the file. Choose recovery as the partition of course.
4. Go to TWRP power options and boot to Bootloader/fastboot
5. Hook up to your PC and run the command to lock your bootloader "fastboot oem lock" (this will wipe your device and encrypt it again. I believe at this point the stock recovery will come up, do another factory reset to be safe.
6. Start your phone, at this point it should load up like new and all you have to do is unlock bootloader again and flash TWRP through fastboot so you can root again.
I don't have an answer for why ResurrectionRemix bricked your phone, but it did for me too. I followed the decrypt instructions to the T, but the same thing happened and I spent an entire Saturday trying to get my phone running again. I would guess that ResurrectionRemix is not to blame, and any other Lineage based ROM would end in the same result.
Good luck.
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WOW Many thanks, my friend, finally my phone has revived. Again thank you very much has served me very much.:good:
Hey guys, I flashed Orange fox and installed pixel experience, after setting my fingerprints I found that my phone is encrypted.
When I try to update my system to latest pixel experience, Orange fox is asking me for a password.
To upgrade my system, I downloaded the newer rom and try to install it via fastboot.
When I reboot to fastboot and type "fastboot devices", it first shows my device correctly, but when using the commands again, it gives me a bunch of question marks. After the third time I use this command, it did not print anything. I tried three cable and 5 ports over 2 PC, getting the same result.
So I changed my plan to flash MIUI first, but the miflash tools also cannot recognize my device, what should I do?
Custom ROM are not designed to be flashed in fastboot mode. Your best bet is now try to flash MIUI again using MiFlash (fastboot ROM). If it doesn't work, you will have to take it to a service center.
Btw, update OrangeFox to latest version and please disable secure startup when setting up your phone to avoid having to do all of this again.