My phone bricked itself out of nowhere. I bought it 2 years ago and since all I did weird is install NovaLauncher right when I got it and replace a broken screen with a new one after one year. Since then, it worked just fine until 4 weeks ago.
While watching TV I heard a buzz on the desk. It was my phone giving me the "Your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted" screen out of nowhere. After it powered off, I tried booting it back up. It gave me the same message, so I pressed power to continu. The phone then booted up normally. I tought: "that was weird". The phone worked like nothing happened until last monday. I was having issues with it and decided to reboot it since I didn't do it in a couple days. Then the message appeared but this time, it won't boot. It shows me the Essential logo, after a minute turns into the loading logo (the dots forming a circle) then reboots, giving me the same error message. It also says that it cannot boot and I should factory reset if this goes on.
Today I ordered a new phone but I want some of my data back from the Essential if possible before trying a factory reset. I have audio that I recorded using the Voice Recorder app and I really need those. Photos/video and music are already cloudbased so this doesn't matter, but the recordings are important.
Is there a way I can recover this data using recovery mode or something?
Thank you for your time.
Try booting while holding both the "power" and "volume down (or volume up)" buttons. Perhaps you can get to the bootloader and fastboot...
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eKeith said:
Try booting while holding both the "power" and "volume down (or volume up)" buttons. Perhaps you can get to the bootloader and fastboot...
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I can get to the fastboot menu yes. What do I do after that? I've never done this before
Dufius said:
I can get to the fastboot menu yes. What do I do after that? I've never done this before
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You could try reflashing firmware, just skip the erase user data step
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You could try reflashing firmware, just skip the erase user data step
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ok. How do I do that? I tried to search the forum but couldn't find the right thread
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Hi. I were running a rooted stock rom with the newest radio and spl and ra recovery. I decided to try rom manager(i think thats what its called). I flashed the recovery, i believe it is called clockwork. When i rebooted my phone it just keeps rebooting at the htc logo. I cant enter recovery or anything. Is there a way out of this or can i just throw it in the dumpster?
Can you get into fastboot? Take the battery out and pop it back in. Then try powering on holding down back+power. You should get a screen with three Androids skateboarding. If you can get the port the information here. If you can and it just does the boot loop, do the battery again hitting the back button repeatedly, give that a few tries and see where it gets you.
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DonJuan692006 said:
Can you get into fastboot? Take the battery out and pop it back in. Then try powering on holding down back+power. You should get a screen with three Androids skateboarding. If you can get the port the information here. If you can and it just does the boot loop, do the battery again hitting the back button repeatedly, give that a few tries and see where it gets you.
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Thanks for your reply but i cannot get into fastboot either. Ive tried holding every single key while booting xD. It just keeps doing the same thing. Reboot at the "HTC Magic" screen. I hangs for some seconds so ive also tried to see if i could grab it from adb but without success.
same incident happened to me. cannot reboot back at last sent back to htc centre.....
rickytjp1107 said:
same incident happened to me. cannot reboot back at last sent back to htc centre.....
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Did they take it back under the warranty? Did you mod your phone?
Do you get the blue led & black screen when pressing trackball + power at boot?
I get blue led but no fastboot or recovery
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Can u fix this
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So that means your device isn't fully bricked - your hardware seems to be working, and you should be able to restore the device using JTAG (search the forums). Though I managed to restore mine by resetting some stuff with draining battery and repeatedly trying again. I'd recommend you to try too.
So, I received the samsung bookcase today. When I placed the tab in the case the screen shut off. When trying to power back on, it was unresponsive. When I retried to boot into safe mode? (power + vol down) I get the error message above and nothing happens after. Rebooting from there sends it into a boot loop. When I was able to boot up, I was immediately greeted with every app force closing. Touchscreen was unresponsive too.
Help!
(i/o edition, stock)
Unsure if I should just follow the steps given on other boot loop threads. (I like to think my problem is special). Or contact samsung?
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do a fastboot -w to wipe user data. Read the thread on boot loop
gunzo71 said:
do a fastboot -w to wipe user data. Read the thread on boot loop
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For sure, thanks. Read the threads before I posted, just unsure if this error was a new one.
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For sure, thanks. Read the threads before I posted, just unsure if this error was a new one.
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Mine did the same thing before the boot loop issue. I thought it was my fault because I crammed too many things into my lap top bag and I broke it
Got it back running after multiple combo buttons pressing
After that it went into boot loop and got stuck
You don't have to download any .img files just do afast boot wipe
gunzo71 said:
Mine did the same thing before the boot loop issue. I thought it was my fault because I crammed too many things into my lap top bag and I broke it
Got it back running after multiple combo buttons pressing
After that it went into boot loop and got stuck
You don't have to download any .img files just do afast boot wipe
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Thanks for the help. I would do that to but the moment I got back to my place, my computer's motherboard failed. I ended up just calling samsung and they'll fix it up for me.
Bad day...started off so well with a google campus tour too.
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Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany
verysalty said:
Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany
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Unplug your device. Hold the power button until it turns off. Then hold volume up, volume down, and the power button. It should boot you into recovery.
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I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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NuttyLemonz said:
I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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+1 to that
verysalty said:
Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany
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What did you do before? If you flashed a new ROM / Kernel, most likely they are not compatible.
AndDiSa said:
What did you do before? If you flashed a new ROM / Kernel, most likely they are not compatible.
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nothing.
i was exporting some data from my dropbox to my nexus. after that i lost my icons and had a empty desktop without icons.
after reboot, i was in the loop
my nexus is a stock nexus with 4.1.2 no root.
i will not loose my data
You may have no choice but to flash my friend. Sounds like you had an unlucky gremlin.
+2 to Lemonz post.
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NuttyLemonz said:
I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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... but if it's still locked, you need to unlock and then you will loose all your data
@verysalty: Did you try already to access the system with adb? Do you have debugging option switched on? Then you could try to do a backup of all your data before.
AndDiSa said:
... but if it's still locked, you need to unlock and then you will loose all your data
@verysalty: Did you try already to access the system with adb? Do you have debugging option switched on? Then you could try to do a backup of all your data before.
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Sorry, no debungging mod on...
How can i flash my nexus to stock. easy way please.
The easiest way in my opinion:
- unlock boot loader (you will loose all your data!)
- download factory image from Google
- flash the factory image (fastboot or adb)
I am wondering why synchronizing some files with dropbox is causing a boot loop ???
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AndDiSa said:
The easiest way in my opinion:
- unlock boot loader (you will loose all your data!)
- download factory image from Google
- flash the factory image (fastboot or adb)
I am wondering why synchronizing some files with dropbox is causing a boot loop ???
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My Nexus 7 is alife
i have use the nexus 7 toolkit and unlock the boot loader > flash the factory image > lock the boot loader...
1000x thanks for all you help
verysalty from Hamburg, Germany
Had a very similar issue today
Nexus started rebooting in the middle of different apps 2-3 times last night.
charged it overnight, unplugged it and went to class.
Then progressed to rebooting after only 40 seconds after the lock screen loaded from the reboot
40 secs wasn't enough time to do anything in android so after much research this is how I fixed it:
- in the 40 secs that android worked I pressed and held the power button and powered it down to stop the boot loop.
- when it was finally shut down I pressed and held the power and vol dwn buttons til the recovery menu appeared.
- used the vol buttons to select recovery, then pressed power
- When the android with the red exclamation point (!) showed up I pressed power then vol up and released for the menu to appear.
- Selected and execute Factory Reset. Then wipe Cache. then reboot, fixed the problem so far, now I'm re-installing apps.
I talked with a google rep about the problem, said it could me anything from a poorly written app, to a corrupted boot sequence.
Anyone know what may have caused this, so I don't inadvertently cause it to happen again??
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Nook Tablet --> Nexus 7
HTC HD2 --> Razr Maxx
eodelf said:
Had a very similar issue today
Nexus started rebooting in the middle of different apps 2-3 times last night.
charged it overnight, unplugged it and went to class.
Then progressed to rebooting after only 40 seconds after the lock screen loaded from the reboot
40 secs wasn't enough time to do anything in android so after much research this is how I fixed it:
- in the 40 secs that android worked I pressed and held the power button and powered it down to stop the boot loop.
- when it was finally shut down I pressed and held the power and vol dwn buttons til the recovery menu appeared.
- used the vol buttons to select recovery, then pressed power
- When the android with the red exclamation point (!) showed up I pressed power then vol up and released for the menu to appear.
- Selected and execute Factory Reset. Then wipe Cache. then reboot, fixed the problem so far, now I'm re-installing apps.
I talked with a google rep about the problem, said it could me anything from a poorly written app, to a corrupted boot sequence.
Anyone know what may have caused this, so I don't inadvertently cause it to happen again??
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Nook Tablet --> Nexus 7
HTC HD2 --> Razr Maxx
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I had the exact same issue from your description, I solved it after I read someone else disconnected the battery. Its a pretty quick fix to what looks like an unrecoverable problem loop of switching on, then powering down.
Here's what I did:
Open the back using just my nail on one corner , it snaps off easy pesy, trust me
Use ifixit nexus 7 battery replacement guide , steps 1-6 only, note where they use a tool I used a pair of nail scissors to prise the connector out and back in
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+Nexus+7+Battery/9895/1
Pulling the battery out, as with any android device can work.
Total time 2 mins
It was working again before I put the back cover on.
I had rooted my 8 gig Nexus 4 and decided to go back to stock. I downloaded the correct image files from the google website and flashed them using fastboot as I have done many times before with my GN and Nexus S models.
After I flashed the files and do a re-boot, the phone just hands on the nexus (X) startup logo?
I tried booting back into recovery and I get the upside-down android with the red triangle, at this point I have tried holding the volume up key and pressing the power key, but I can't get the menu screen so I can do a factory reset??? I have tried holding the volume down and power keys, both the volume keys and power keys, but no luck getting the menu screen?
I am totally disgusted with this LG product, I NEVER had this issue with any of the previous samsung nexus products. Am I BRICKED?, any help would be appreciated please.
I even tried re-flashing the google system files again and no such luck.
If the phone turns on it isn't bricked. It also has nothing to do with it being an LG device.
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Which recovery are you using?
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I finally got it to go into the menu screen and did a factory reset and I am fine now. This was one of the worst ones I have worked with trying to flash back to stock. If they would have had a battery you could pull out, I think that would take care of some of the issues. Oh well, I am up and running.
Same problem. Downloaded and installed the Google Nexus 4 image and it said it installed OK, but when I restarted the phone it was stuck at the Google screen.
EDIT: Rebuilt all software on the phone and it is working OK again.
I bought my first phone from Swappa a couple days ago, and figured I would go ahead and by a rooted/unlocked RAZR M and start messing with ROMS.
When I booted the phone, and got connected to my WiFi network it said I had an OTA, so I went ahead and installed it, (now I know that one should avoid OTAs on rooted phones), but now its stuck on the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen. I do a hard reset (power + volume up/down), it boots, its done, I unlock the screen, it shuts down, repeat. I can't get it unstuck.
This is my first experience with any sort of unlocked or rooted phone, so I have no idea what I'm doing.
Please help
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/16812-droid-razr-m-utility-120-windowsmaclinux/ as long as your BOOTLOADER IS UNLOCKED run this
Which option am I supposed to choose (1-6)? I can't boot into it normally, its stuck on the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen.
Kruger2147 said:
Which option am I supposed to choose (1-6)? I can't boot into it normally, its stuck on the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen.
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When your phone turns off hold all three buttons then go into ap fastboot and use option one
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Kruger2147 said:
Which option am I supposed to choose (1-6)? I can't boot into it normally, its stuck on the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen.
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You need to be in fastboot, before connecting the phone to the computer and starting the utility. Brandon gave you the key combo to do it.
I got it fixed, and it upgraded to 4.1.2, then went to install Eclipse ROM, the install failed so I hit ++++ back+++++ and then rebooted from the recovery menu, and now it's stuck in the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen again. Hard reset doesn't work, it reboots back into the Warning screen, and the utility that was posted earlier isn't connecting to recover the device.
What now?
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Kruger2147 said:
I got it fixed, and it upgraded to 4.1.2, then went to install Eclipse ROM, the install failed so I hit ++++ back+++++ and then rebooted from the recovery menu, and now it's stuck in the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen again. Hard reset doesn't work, it reboots back into the Warning screen, and the utility that was posted earlier isn't connecting to recover the device.
What now?
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Boot back into fastboot and use the utility again. The utility won't work unless you're in fastboot, and for heaven's sake, make a backup of your stock ROM, before flashing anything new. If you had a saved ROM, this would be easy. After Eclipse failed to install (it has been well documented that a straight install of Eclipse through TWRP or CWM usually won't install), you could have easily gone to the main menu in recovery and clicked "restore" and restored with zero issues.
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I got it fixed, and it upgraded to 4.1.2, then went to install Eclipse ROM, the install failed so I hit ++++ back+++++ and then rebooted from the recovery menu, and now it's stuck in the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen again. Hard reset doesn't work, it reboots back into the Warning screen, and the utility that was posted earlier isn't connecting to recover the device.
What now?
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always make a backup man, safe yourself some time.
I can get it to boot into Fastboot no problem, but when I go to run the script its not recognizing that the phone is connected. The phone says "Connect USB
Data Cable" even when its connected. I'm not sure which side is failing to see the connection, the phone or computer.
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I can get it to boot into Fastboot no problem, but when I go to run the script its not recognizing that the phone is connected. The phone says "Connect USB
Data Cable" even when its connected. I'm not sure which side is failing to see the connection, the phone or computer.
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Make sure your driver's are up to date
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I'm running Fuduntu Linux, the script worked the first time, but not the second. I'll trying running it on my girlfriends computer with Windows when I get home tonight.
EDIT: Never mind my girlfriend fixed it while as was at work, looks like my computer was being stupid. Thanks for all your help guys.
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how did you get out the stuck mode..
Kruger2147 said:
I'm running Fuduntu Linux, the script worked the first time, but not the second. I'll trying running it on my girlfriends computer with Windows when I get home tonight.
EDIT: Never mind my girlfriend fixed it while as was at work, looks like my computer was being stupid. Thanks for all your help guys.
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hi, can you tell me how did you get out from the stuck mode, i am in the stuck mode now..