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[Q] Nexus 7 Won't Boot

Hi, basically i recently flashed the miui rom via rom manager on my nexus 7 and once it had flashed the rom it went to restart and it won't go past the mi boot screen. I also can't go into recovery via fastboot mode as it just goes the google screen.
What Should I do?

Djamel.K said:
Hi, basically i recently flashed the miui rom via rom manager on my nexus 7 and once it had flashed the rom it went to restart and it won't go past the mi boot screen. I also can't go into recovery via fastboot mode as it just goes the google screen.
What Should I do?
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I think you might still be able to re-install the stock ROM.
Go to this thread and scroll down to "Q. I want to send my phone back so I need to flash a stock rom and relock the bootloader". You should probably read the whole post in case I missed something.
Good luck

I don't know if this will help but from what I've read you can't get into recovery through fastboot unless you're plugged into a pc. What you can do is plug your tablet into the pc and then hold the volume up/down buttons as well as the power button. Then just select recovery and you should be able to get into it.
I'm not an expert on this but it has happened to me where I would get stuck at the google screen so I did a lot of reading about it. From what I understand, this is an issue with the bootloader. It was designed that way and this problem will continue as until google decides to fix it.
I hope this helps

bacon_n_icecream said:
I don't know if this will help but from what I've read you can't get into recovery through fastboot unless you're plugged into a pc. What you can do is plug your tablet into the pc and then hold the volume up/down buttons as well as the power button. Then just select recovery and you should be able to get into it.
I'm not an expert on this but it has happened to me where I would get stuck at the google screen so I did a lot of reading about it. From what I understand, this is an issue with the bootloader. It was designed that way and this problem will continue as until google decides to fix it.
I hope this helps
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It won't let me select recovery and when it did earlier it didn't work

[Q] Nexus 10 Bricked :/

Hey,
I need some help with my Nexus 10, it's stuck at the moment.
I ran fastboot oem unlock via the Samsung Google Nexus 10 ToolKit 1.3.0 (updated for 4.2.2) and as soon as it was done it rebooted and was stuck...
Booting normally it gets to the bootlogo and just sits there forever, going round and round and round.
If I try to boot into fastboot it shows that it's unlocked but I can't change change to recovery using the volume rocker it's just a solid static screen, only choice is to start which boots back into the normal boot logo.
I have no way to use adb or fastboot... it's just stuck :/ How do I recover/unbrick this?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hyflex said:
Hey,
I need some help with my Nexus 10, it's stuck at the moment.
I ran fastboot oem unlock via the Samsung Google Nexus 10 ToolKit 1.3.0 (updated for 4.2.2) and as soon as it was done it rebooted and was stuck...
Booting normally it gets to the bootlogo and just sits there forever, going round and round and round.
If I try to boot into fastboot it shows that it's unlocked but I can't change change to recovery using the volume rocker it's just a solid static screen, only choice is to start which boots back into the normal boot logo.
I have no way to use adb or fastboot... it's just stuck :/ How do I recover/unbrick this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Reboot holding Power and both volume buttons and you should be able to get to recovery

brees75 said:
Reboot holding Power and both volume buttons and you should be able to get to recovery
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I'm on the xda-devs irc at the moment and we've got so far... but still its messed up.
- Recovery is dead (can't get into it atm, orange triangle guy every time)
- Flashed stock via fastboot and unrooted, but on reboot I get the triangle guy.
- I can boot into unsecure roms (temporary)
- I can boot into temporary recoverys, clearing cache works but davlik cache and factory reset doesn't work both say "failed"
I'm currently awaiting the guy whos been helping me get back from the shops.

From what I remember you need to either install something or run a command after "oem unlock" for security reasons. Android wont let you boot back into the OS until you have wiped all the data after the unlock.

The orange guy means it's working. There's a button combo to hit at that screen to get the recovery to boot. Once there do a factory reset and your done.
That's why toolkits sick, they teach you nothing and when they break your stuck
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

Can you flash a factory image to it via fastboot?
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

altimax98 said:
The orange guy means it's working. There's a button combo to hit at that screen to get the recovery to boot. Once there do a factory reset and your done.
That's why toolkits sick, they teach you nothing and when they break your stuck
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD
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The pressing 3 buttons at once; cycling to recovery... method wasnt working because there was no recovery accessable what so ever and temporary recoveries weren't working.
That's what a few guys in IRC said too about the toolkits haha
Thankfully some guy by the name of YellowGTO spent some time helping me out and we finally got there in the end, he's awesome and extremely patient
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Can you flash a factory image to it via fastboot?
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
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Okay, updates for everyone just incase someone else gets the problem.
- Factory Images via fastboot flashed fine but never stuck, just kept returning me to triangle dude.
- Fix permissions, did nothing
- Restoring stock recovery did nothing, I still couldn't get to a recovery.
- Temporary recoveries only had limited functionality.
I decided to unlock an already unlocked phone again
I flashed stock, Ran file permissions
Used the temporary recovery to clear the cache/davlik (previously didn't work)
I re-rooted, Installed TWRP 2.4.4.0, this finally stuck.
I double checked that it had stuck by booting the system, rebooting into recovery, powering device of and powering it on to Android. It was all working perfectly.
I then made my backup and put a custom rom and kernel on, it's working lovely now.
It seems that somewhere during the oem unlock it messed up some partitions or something resulting in recoveries and flashing not to work/stick.

Good to hear it's working for you. The issue is that the stock N10 bootloader does not wipe the data partitions correctly as it should. So after an unlock you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe it. Boot once, then go and flash all your flasheys
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altimax98 said:
Good to hear it's working for you. The issue is that the stock N10 bootloader does not wipe the data partitions correctly as it should. So after an unlock you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe it. Boot once, then go and flash all your flasheys
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That's the thing, the recovery wasn't available in any way shape or form and temporary recoveries wouldn't wipe the cache... the oem unlock went wrong somehow even though it had full power, wasn't interrupted or anything.
I'm glad it's all working now, I thought the device was completely dead at one stage.

I think you had the problem almost everyone runs into:
As you can see in the video, you just have to try for a bit to actually get the recovery menu to open - My heart dropped a little before I knew that as well

anazei said:
I think you had the problem almost everyone runs into:
As you can see in the video, you just have to try for a bit to actually get the recovery menu to open - My heart dropped a little before I knew that as well
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I think you are right and that was his problem..... The toolkit actually told him how to handle this ... but who reads all the that text anyway

N900W8 stuck during boot

Hey all,
I have just run into an issue, I was installing CWM and all seemed well, but then when I had tried to boot into recovery by holding down the buttons.
However, when it would say recovery booting it would flash turn off and reboot.
I figured it was just an issue with how I was trying to get into the recovery so I used ADB to Reboot into recovery, and that went fine but now I am in a boot loop of the phone trying to get into recovery but when it isnt seeing CWM for some reason it just reboots and continues the cycle.
I would appreciate if anyone has any insight as to how I can fix this or lets hope its not this but if Im screwed at this point.
Thanks in advance,
nEmo

Gahh... This is really getting to me, I've tried everything I can think of.
No one out there has any ideas?
I know Im not being very patient but its the only phone I have access to right now
It almost seems like there is either no OS on it (I hadn't wiped anything at this point) so this is the least likely,
or there was something wrong with the version of CWM that I was trying to use.
I think why I can't connect anything or do anything like that is because it keeps trying to look for the recovery
but because CWM isn't properly there it just keeps looking for it and just keeps on going in that loop.
would love to hear from anyone.
Thanks again.

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nemofunk said:
Hey all,
I have just run into an issue, I was installing CWM and all seemed well, but then when I had tried to boot into recovery by holding down the buttons.
However, when it would say recovery booting it would flash turn off and reboot.
I figured it was just an issue with how I was trying to get into the recovery so I used ADB to Reboot into recovery, and that went fine but now I am in a boot loop of the phone trying to get into recovery but when it isnt seeing CWM for some reason it just reboots and continues the cycle.
I would appreciate if anyone has any insight as to how I can fix this or lets hope its not this but if Im screwed at this point.
Thanks in advance,
nEmo
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there is also temporary state for recovery and that might be the cause of this
so try to reflash recovery through adb
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Geeks Empire said:
there is also temporary state for recovery and that might be the cause of this
so try to reflash recovery through adb
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Thanks for the reply, I would love to do that but the part that it actually gets stuck at is before any of the OS is loaded,
What happens is when there is power to it (ie battery or when plugged into a wall socket) it will try to boot as if I had held
down the vol +, Power and home and get the "recovery booting" text, from here the screen turns off and vibrates, a second or two later it reboots and repeats.
I might try to get a video of it tomorrow.
Thanks again,
nEmo

nemofunk said:
Thanks for the reply, I would love to do that but the part that it actually gets stuck at is before any of the OS is loaded,
What happens is when there is power to it (ie battery or when plugged into a wall socket) it will try to boot as if I had held
down the vol +, Power and home and get the "recovery booting" text, from here the screen turns off and vibrates, a second or two later it reboots and repeats.
I might try to get a video of it tomorrow.
Thanks again,
nEmo
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U don't need to load OS to do this just boot to Fastboot and use adb interface
If it was useful please hit thanks
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A Million Thanks!
Thank you my good Sir!!!
Did just the trick, for some reason I totally overlooked Fastboot.
Always helps to have someone to bounce ideas off of, or someone that knows what they are doing ! HAHA
Thanks again!
nEmo

Hi, running into the same problem here
nemofunk said:
Thank you my good Sir!!!
Did just the trick, for some reason I totally overlooked Fastboot.
Always helps to have someone to bounce ideas off of, or someone that knows what they are doing ! HAHA
Thanks again!
nEmo
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Hello, so as the title mentioned, I am in something of a similar predicament. Odin Mode is stuck, and it won't recognize any recovery on the phone. How do you boot into fastboot? Could you describe what you did? Thank you in advance.

Odin mode and recovery mode are two different things. You can't get into download mode where you see the android with the shovel?

Nexus 7 wont start up or go into recovery mode..

Was having issues with my Nexus 7(2013) this morning, rebooted the device and now it gets stuck at the "Google" loading screen.
I can get into the Fastboot loader. I was able to unlock the bootloader.. I have LOCK STATE - unlocked and the unlocked lock showing up on the "Google" boot screen.
I am UNABLE to get into Recovery mode.. either by selecting "Recovery mode" in Fastboot or holding the power and vol up buttons. It just sits on the "Google" boot screen.
I have downloaded and installed the SkipSoft Android Toolkit(mskip).. very nice toolkit BTW. But no matter what I do I'm unable to start the tablet up normally or get into a Recovery mode of any kind.
I have tried to flash TWRP. I have tried to flash the stock ROM. Nothing, still sits at the Google boot screen. Since flashing the stock ROM its been 30 min and still just says "Google".
I'm open to any ideas or anything that you can think of.

Still have TWRP and fastboot access? If so, use the command line fastboot the img using
"fastboot boot <filename>.img"
Reply back; do you get to recovery?

Snuzzo said:
Still have TWRP and fastboot access? If so, use the command line fastboot the img using
"fastboot boot <filename>.img"
Reply back; do you get to recovery?
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No.. I do not get into recovery of any kind. Stock or TWRP after loading it.. just sits at the Google screen.

Quick question; what were your partition setups like? F2fs? Ext4?

Snuzzo said:
Quick question; what were your partition setups like? F2fs? Ext4?
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No idea.. it should be whatever it is stock. Before today I never rooted, flashed or did anything to this device.

FDokinawa said:
No idea.. it should be whatever it is stock. Before today I never rooted, flashed or did anything to this device.
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Answers all of my questions. I know myself I won't be able to help. All I can say is to try relocking and then unlocking again.

Snuzzo said:
Answers all of my questions. I know myself I won't be able to help. All I can say is to try relocking and then unlocking again.
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Thanks for the help.. will give it a shot.

FDokinawa said:
Thanks for the help.. will give it a shot.
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What that should do is wipe internal, could have some corruption there. Try doing the command line fastboot of the recovery.img again. Those are the only few things I can think of short from exercising your warranty.

Snuzzo said:
What that should do is wipe internal, could have some corruption there. Try doing the command line fastboot of the recovery.img again. Those are the only few things I can think of short from exercising your warranty.
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Dont think I can use the warranty.. bought it used(1 hour old) from a friend for $100.. he got it and then decided he didnt like the aspect ratio. His loss, my gain. Until now.. lol
I'll keep hacking at it.. thanks again.

Anytime! You're welcome!

So the original issue I was having was that the screen was not responding to touches. Was unable to slide the unlock button on the screen.
I was able to "Boot to Custom/Stock Recovery without Permanently Flashing it" via SkipSoft Toolkit.. and had TWRP load up. But like before it was not responding to touches.
Starting to think this thing is totally borked.. =/

I'm able to get into TWRP now.. but sits on boot animation screen now. one step forward. Going to try and reload the stock ROM again and see if that helps.

That seemed to work.. at the Welcome screen.
So if anyone else runs into something like this..
Issues:
Flakey touch screen
Stuck on Google bootup screen
Eventually stuck boot loop animation
Get SkipSoft Android Toolkit, donate a couple bucks and keep flashing anything and everything you can. Sorry I can't give you a specific order that works. I would say try the 'ALLINONE'(#8) option first and then download and flash the stock ROM. I did several things in the toolkit a few times over and over. Hopefully I'm good now, if not I will update.

Have you tried reflashing recovery via fastboot?

Exact thing happend to my n4.
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I really need help fixing my Mi 9T using mac. So lost right now.

Hey guys, I've done as much searching for something like this I could and have had no luck.
So I successfully unlocked the bootloader and tried to install twrp, since then I am stuck in a fastboot loop with the occasional screen telling me my software is destroyed. I only have access to a macbook air. Can someone point me in the right direction please? also installing windows on the laptop isn't an option for me. I'm stuck, Please help.

dkunjosh said:
Hey guys, I've done as much searching for something like this I could and have had no luck.
So I successfully unlocked the bootloader and tried to install twrp, since then I am stuck in a fastboot loop with the occasional screen telling me my software is destroyed. I only have access to a macbook air. Can someone point me in the right direction please? also installing windows on the laptop isn't an option for me. I'm stuck, Please help.
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Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac

sauliiin said:
Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac
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Thank you! when pressing vol- and power OR vol+ and power it goes to fastboot. it says system destroyed when I only press power. I dont believe TWRP ever installed.

sauliiin said:
Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac
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Could you point me to info on how to fix this?

dkunjosh said:
Could you point me to info on how to fix this?
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Just flash the twrp and the modified vbmeta.img it will fix the bootloop to fastboot (well there are a lot of tutorials check mauronofrio's xda thread idk if it works on mac so)