So I tried TWRP and have had extremely bad luck. I thought I bricked the phone at first, then it was stuck in a boot loop, THEN TWRP could not read from the internal memory, and to top it off, when I finally got the phone to boot up, I went ahead and bought a sim card and got it hooked up to ATT, and when I inserted the sim card, it automatically rebooted the phone into TWRP and reset everything (deleting all my apps and stuff) and got stuck in a boot loop.
I had an old phone and used clockwork mod recovery without any issue. Does anyone know where to find a CWM recovery image for the z5 compact?
Actually, if anyone has even the STOCK recovery I would be forever grateful. I would rather stock than TWRP at this point. I don't want to risk my phone being reset and having everything deleted again.
Same issue, unable to boot rom, TWRP has no access..
thegreatyashu said:
So I tried TWRP and have had extremely bad luck. I thought I bricked the phone at first, then it was stuck in a boot loop, THEN TWRP could not read from the internal memory, and to top it off, when I finally got the phone to boot up, I went ahead and bought a sim card and got it hooked up to ATT, and when I inserted the sim card, it automatically rebooted the phone into TWRP and reset everything (deleting all my apps and stuff) and got stuck in a boot loop.
I had an old phone and used clockwork mod recovery without any issue. Does anyone know where to find a CWM recovery image for the z5 compact?
Actually, if anyone has even the STOCK recovery I would be forever grateful. I would rather stock than TWRP at this point. I don't want to risk my phone being reset and having everything deleted again.
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I am experiencing the same issue. I would like any working recovery/rom at this point. My Wife has the identical phone. Can I make a copy of hers to help the OP and my phone out?
I followed the following;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/development/rom-cyanogenmod-13-sony-xperia-z5c-t3339930
and have tried a few times now. As well as other versions of TWRP..
On a side note I wouldn't mind testing new roms/features being implemented by developers. Please let me know where the best place to get involved would be.
Thanks in advance,
David.
found a boot.img and TWRP that worked for me..
So after a lot of flashing I found one that works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/orig-development/twrp-z5-compact-t3235161
at least I can get twrp working for now..
I still can not get CM installed. Each time I get 'Error executing updater binary in zip'. I will have to do some more reading tomorrow.
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I have a slight problem with my phone right now. I got the great idea to try and build a rom just for myself in kitchen based off the Telus 1.15.661.11 base. Everything appeared to work correctly, I got my rom flashed and working fine, haven't had any problems with it besides a FC issue with the HTC Sense input but i just uninstalled it as i use swiftkey anyways.
The problem is I can no longer access TWRP, I can get into the bootloader fine just when i select recovery it shows the TWRP logo then goes to a black screen and then proceeds to boot into the system. I have no idea how to fix it and but here's what I've tried so fair:
-Reflashing the recovery via fastboot
-Flashing a rom via fastboot (Can't be done gives me some remote denied error, i assumed because its still s-on?)
-Reflashing boot.img via fastboot (Figured it was worth a attempt?)
-Trying to reboot into recovery (Same thing happened, went from black screen to boot. Also i should note I could not get the phone to reboot via adb but could via the cwm rom manager (I just used it to reboot nothing else))
-Factory Reset from bootloader (didn't appear to do anything)
The one thing I have not tried is an RUU, however this was because first off i had difficultly locating one (I had the link somewhere but lost it) and second I don't think there is one for Telus (Although i would assume an ATT one would work?). Also ill try to locate the rom that i flashed, and maybe someone would be able to look at it and see what went wrong. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated to try and help restore my recovery.
EDIT: So i ran the ATT RUU and it failed towards the end of the process and I went through the recovery process. Then i re locked and unlocked my bootloader and after that i went to reboot into recovery and it works again. So im not sure what happened but if anyone has some insight it would be nice to know for the future.
I tried to install CWM recovery by flashing the zip file in TWRP. It seemed to have flashed fine, but I cannot get into recovery now. When I try, the screen "flashes" and "flickers" a few times before going black. I've used odin to install the .tar file that I originally used to root the device and in goes through the process just fine. However, when I pull the battery and try to go into android stock recovery, it does the same thing ("flashes & flickers and then goes black"). When I try to boot the phone as normal (not into recovery) it boot loops between the blue samsung swirl and the verizon 4g logo.
I was on cleanrom 4.7 if that helps at all. I would greatly appreciate anyones assistance concerning this matter.
Edit: Found a .tar file for TWRP and was able to load it through ODIN. Once into TWRP I was able to restore a backup I made earlier today. Thought I would edit the post in case someone ran across the same problem.
Romans8vs1 said:
I tried to install CWM recovery by flashing the zip file in TWRP. It seemed to have flashed fine, but I cannot get into recovery now. When I try, the screen "flashes" and "flickers" a few times before going black. I've used odin to install the .tar file that I originally used to root the device and in goes through the process just fine. However, when I pull the battery and try to go into android stock recovery, it does the same thing ("flashes & flickers and then goes black"). When I try to boot the phone as normal (not into recovery) it boot loops between the blue samsung swirl and the verizon 4g logo.
I was on cleanrom 4.7 if that helps at all. I would greatly appreciate anyones assistance concerning this matter.
Edit: Found a .tar file for TWRP and was able to load it through ODIN. Once into TWRP I was able to restore a backup I made earlier today. Thought I would edit the post in case someone ran across the same problem.
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My first time through a bootloop I ran into the same issue and had the same fix.
Hi folks, mid last week I woke up to a non responsive Galaxy S2. It's been happily running stock Vodafone ICS for over a year, and somehow spontaneously went soft brick on me. Gets stuck at logo screen or goes into boot loop.
Download mode is accessible. I can flash through Odin (1.85 and 3.09) and it reports success. I have successfully put CWM (various versions) on it can can boot into them fine.
Recovery mode is also accessible and appears to be working fine. I can access external SD card no problem.
Attempting to flash through zip from external SD aborts with Mode 7, reporting bad zip or unable to read source file. I have tried removing asserts from install script (educated myself to the risks and made sure the ROM was correct!!) and multiple versions of CM (10.1.3 stable, 10.2 nightly) and multiple versions of CWM recovery (6.0.2.9 is what I've been using mostly, as recommended by CM guide)
Tried running GS2ROMNukeV2.12.zip which reported successful wipe, then attempted zip install from SD with same result (aborted mode 7). Repeated wipe and attempted stock (I9100TDVLSK_I9100THUTLSD_I9100TDVLS3_HOME.tar) from flash through Odin. Reported success, phone booted into recover and applied KOR CSC successfully, then reboot and still stuck at logo screen/boot loop.
I have attempted the fix in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449771 as best I could wish the resources I could find, but it's hard to follow to the letter with the links broken!!!
I have not tried repartition with PIT as I'm not sure where to get an appropriate PIT file. Advice on this appreciated!
I want to make this clear because people seem to not want to believe it: I did not soft brick my phone flashing it. My best theory at this point is some kind of memory corruption or hardware failure that's causing a boot loop. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This week I will probably take it in to a repair shop and hope for the best, but tomorrow is a public holiday and I've got nothing to lose by trying any more suggestions.
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If memory serves me right this is due to an old version of Recovery, i had the same thing, updated recovery and it flashed zip fine. just as you know. :fingers-crossed:
Hi guys,
I was rooting my girlfriends m4 aqua as it is having awful memory problems due to the small internal memory space and I had been hoping to partition some across from the SD card.
Anyway I successfully unlocked bootloader and put TWRP recovery onto it. From here I then put Supersu.zip into the internal memory and installed it through TWRP. It was successful but then when I went to turn the device on it was just stuck on bootloop at the wave screen.
I have also tried to flash the original rom back onto the device but it's not making any difference and it still wont load up.
Any advice is greatly appreciated! I can still boot into TWRP recovery but stupidly I didn't back up before installing supersu which i should have done...
Cheers,
How long have you waited after flashing SuperSU? It can take a while to boot after you flash anything on this phone. Or you could use Flashtool to have a fresh start
I waited around 1-2 minutes... don't tell me it worked and I was just impatient
Sounds like that's exactly the problem. First boots after flashing pretty much anything can take up to 10 minutes. Just give it some time.
hey guys did you end up finding a fix??
So I was an idiot and I used EZ-Unlock v1.2 on my rooted Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-i535 running stock android 4.4.2. After going through the unlock process, I restarted my phone. It wouldn't even attempt to turn on. So after a little bit of research, I found this guide. I followed the guide for adding the debrick image to an sd card and getting the phone to boot from the sd card. After that, I tried following the steps for putting the debrick image onto the internal storage. Everything seemed to go well, but when I restarted my phone, it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S3" splash screen and won't progress. And since it can boot from internal storage, it won't even try to boot from the previously working sd card. I am able to boot into Odin mode though. So how would I go about fixing this, if possible?
P.S. I did have Safestrap installed on my phone if that makes a difference with anything.
P.P.S I found out that EZ-Unlock isn't compatible with my version of android after I did the unlock process.
killer13666 said:
So I was an idiot and I used EZ-Unlock v1.2 on my rooted Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-i535 running stock android 4.4.2. After going through the unlock process, I restarted my phone. It wouldn't even attempt to turn on. So after a little bit of research, I found this guide. I followed the guide for adding the debrick image to an sd card and getting the phone to boot from the sd card. After that, I tried following the steps for putting the debrick image onto the internal storage. Everything seemed to go well, but when I restarted my phone, it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S3" splash screen and won't progress. And since it can boot from internal storage, it won't even try to boot from the previously working sd card. I am able to boot into Odin mode though. So how would I go about fixing this, if possible?
P.S. I did have Safestrap installed on my phone if that makes a difference with anything.
P.P.S I found out that EZ-Unlock isn't compatible with my version of android after I did the unlock process.
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Have you had any luck with this?
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Try to boot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset, if that doesn't work, continue reading...
Now that you got ya' bootloader working and you can enter Odin, I decided to look up the firmware on sammobile, here is what I got, download the files, remove your battery for 5mins, after 5mins, reinsert and boot into download mode, on Odin, you know the procedure (hopefully), let it flash, once it is done, boot to recovery and wipe data/factory reset, if you don't, you will be stuck in a bootloop. Now, hopefully, it should boot!
I had to install twrp then I was able to restore the my backup from safestrap. Always make a backup!
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