This thread is for the service of all those who are stuck in bootloops (AKA the infamous "Stuck at Dell Logo") after trying some warranty-voiding activities on their cellphone.
I take no credit for any of the solutions below, they have all been discovered and posted by various people, and I have merely collated them into this one single thread.
That being said, there are various things you can try, in increasing order of complexity, to get past the bootloop issue. If one of these methods does not work for you (no single solution worked all the time for me), perhaps one of the others might help.
Note that after applying any of these methods, you will need to wait at least 10 minutes to see whether your phone's bootloop issue is resolved or not.
METHOD 1 : Simple Factory Reset
Power off your phone.
While holding down both volume buttons, power it on again.
From the recovery menu that appears, select option 1, "Factory Reset", using the volume up/down buttons, and then press the camera button to actually do the reset.
Your phone will say that a factory reset is in progress, following which it will reboot. Let it do so in peace.
METHOD 2 : Factory Reset, Reinstall ROM, Factory Reset
Requires ClockworkMod Recovery. Install it on your phone first, if it doesn't already have it. Since the installation is done via fastboot, it doesn't require the phone to be booted into a ROM.
Perform a Factory Reset as per Method 1 above
Power off your phone.
While holding down both volume buttons, power it on again.
From the menu, choose "Update from SD", which will take you into the ClockworkMod Recovery screen.
Flash the ROM of your choice (it _is_ already on your SD card, isn't it?).
After the ROM is flashed, select to reboot now from the ClockworkMod main menu and then HOLD both volume keys down immediately after choosing the reboot option, and keep held until you return to the recovery menu.
Perform another factory reset per method 1.
Let the phone reboot.
METHOD 3 : Using "adb shell" to delete the contents of the "/data" partition. Solution originally proposed in a thread by cue_32
Connect your bootlooping phone to your computer via USB.
Run "adb shell" on your computer (requires you to have the Android SDK tools installed). This will give you a shell into your phone.
In the adb shell, run the following commands:
Code:
cd /data
busybox_1P8P1 rm -rf *
After the "rm" command above has run to completion, run the "ls" command in the shell and if it returns anything except "lost+found" then run "rm -r <name>" where <name> is the directory/folder name you see.
Reboot the phone and wait.
METHOD 4: Formatting partitions using ClockworkMod Recovery. Solution originally proposed by DJ_Steve.
Go into clockworkmod
Select "partitions" menu item
Format /system
Format /data
Format /cache
Press the "Power" button to go back to main menu.
Choose the "select zip from sd" menu option
Select the required update zip from sdcard and flash it
Select to reboot now from clockwork menu and then HOLD both volume keys down immediately after choosing the reboot option, and keep held until you return to the recovery menu
Choose "factory reset" as per method 1 and let the phone reboot.
If anybody has a method - not listed here - which worked for you, please let me know and I'll add it to the list.
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***DO NOT RESTORE IF YOU'RE STUCK IN A "POWERING OFF" LOOP AFTER UPDATE FROM VERIZON***
I'm on a rooted ThunderBolt, and I attempted to do the update, but the update failed. (Android character with exclamation mark (!) )
And was stuck on a loop--keeps says "Shutting down" each time I reboot into the Android operating system.
So, this is what I did to stop the "Shutting down" loop.
1) Once you are in ClockWorkMod Recovery, scroll down to "Wipe cache partition".
2) Select "Wipe cache partition" using the home key or power button.
3) Now, scroll down to "Yes - wipe cache".
4) Press the home key or power button to perform the wipe.
5) When done, restart your phone.
6) Your ThunderBolt will boot into the Android operating system and will say that the UPDATE FAILED.
7) Choose Cancel to stop the update.
8) Restart your phone one last time and you'll see that the "Powering Off" loop is gone.
Hope this helps!
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Looking for "Install new RUU (from 5-12-11), while retaining your apps, sms, contacts, system, etc"? SEE POST #4 below for tutorial.
Thanks
Did you attempt to reapply the update or just ignore the update then?
Do not download the OTA update If you are rooted!
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iflynavy said:
Did you attempt to reapply the update or just ignore the update then?
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No, but I found a better solution that you may like...
Following the steps below will get you up and running with the new update, plus keeping your data, programs installed, contracts, sms, etc...
YOU DO NOT NEED to use apps like MyBackup Pro
1) Use ClockWorkMod or ROM Manager to backup your current ROM.
2) Go to this thread, and download (the RUU which has been rooted): PG05IMG_Mecha_VERIZON_WWE_1.13.605.7_Radio_1.16.00 .0402w_NV_8k_1.41_9k_1.64_release_182727_signed.zi p
3) Rename the downloaded file to PG05IMG.zip
4) Transfer PG05IMG.zip to the root of your microSD card.
5) Restart or pull the battery out to turn off the phone. (Using the "shut down" option may put your phone in hibernation -- depending on the option you set).
6) Power on the phone by pressing and holding down the power button and pressing and holding down the volume-down key.
7) Your phone should boot-up in like HBOOT and will attempt to detect PG05IMG.zip. Just press yes to install it.
***NOTE*** Your current ROM will be erased! See Step #1
8) After your new rooted ROM is installed, set it up like normal, and afterward, delete the PG05IMG.zip from your microSD card.
***NOTE*** Next, we're gonna do Advanced Restore from ClockworkMod.
9) Restart or pull the battery out to turn off the phone. (Using the "shut down" option may put your phone in hibernation -- depending on the option you set).
10) Power on the phone by pressing and holding down the power button and pressing and holding down the volume-down key.
11) Choose "RECOVERY" (highlighted in green).
12) You should now be in ClockworkMod Recovery, choose backup and restore.
13) Next, choose Advnaced Restore.
14) Choose the backup that you made earlier.
15) Now, choose "Restore data".
16) Finally, restart your phone and all of your data, apps, contacts, sms, settings, and whatever else, will be restored.
Hope this helps!
I personally never even worry about ota's anymore. with how many people are out there working on custom roms usually you can find one that includes the ota way before its even released. so just find one of those and save all your setting and apps with titanium backup or my backup pro.
Tried the 2.1 superboot batch file with my 2.2 dell streak in an attempt to root it. Just stuck at the dell logo screen for 30 min. popped the battery out and entered fastboot mode.
Would like to root it and get DJ Steve's 1.9 on.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
flash Streakmod through fastboot then install 1.9.0.zip with it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840326
got the recovery to work OK.
entered fastboot -i 0x413c flash recovery ./update-1.9.0.zip
...and there it hangs. Streak just shows FASTBOOT_MODE
ok, multiple steps you need to perform in order make this happen (assuming you have SD card reader on your PC). 1. If update-1.9.0.zip is not already on your SD card, remove SD card from your Streak, insert into PC card reader and copy update-1.9.0.zip file to root. If already on your SD card skip step 1. 2. take battery out, reinsert, power up holding power and both volume buttons down till 4 option Dell menu loads Select option two with volume buttons, once highlighted push camera button at that point should have Dell logo with small triangle with yellow exclamation point next to it if you loaded Streakmod correctly. Push power button blue Steakmod menu should load; look at pictures on Streakmod thread I provided before.
If Streakmod loaded correctly select wipe cache partition using volume buttons and push camera button, once done go to advanced using volume buttons to move camera button to select. Select wipe dalvik cache push camera button, once done go back using arrow key on Streak. Select apply sdcard:update.zip push camera button once on that menu, select choose zip from sdcard, push camera button. Once on that screen navigate to update-1.9.0.zip using volume buttons, once highlighted push camera button follow on screen instructions from there.
Good luck hopefully you will be running some 1.9.0 goodness soon.
I think you are doing something wrong buddy...
OK, you know to get into fastboot pressing the camera button and power button...
Wait at least 10 seconds after pressing fastboot mode on the Streak's screen before you plug the USB cable in from the computer...
NOW, you should have a folder on your PC (hopefully in the C: root to make it easier to find with the command prompt) named Fastboot, or StreakMod or Clockwork or something of that.
Inside that folder are several other files (fastboot.exe, some .bat files, some adb shell files, etc) that are needed to carry out the functions when you have your Streak connected.
Also within that folder you will place your recovery.img file, you can pick from StreakMod or from Clockwork (I prefer StreakMod) personally.
Now that you are connected, you type for instance in the command prompt window first to get to your folder "cd c:\"here goes the name of your folder"\
Then you type the command "fastboot flash -i 0x413c flash recovery recovery.img" without the quotation marks of course
You should then see on the screen of the Streak that it is doing something and also on your PC screen see that it is sending and writing the info to your Streak
I had no camera after first installing the Aura mod, so I'm posting this to give the steps I used to get my camera working.
First I used the Automatic BootLoader to UnLock my Atrix & install CWM. I did update CWM using romracer's custom CWM (I had to place the .img file in the same folder as the Auto BootLoader files, btw), but I'm not sure that was entirely necessary.
That done, I used CWM to create a backup of my current ROM (which was the stock version). Backup completed, I proceeded to these steps to install the Aura ROM (v1.1.2):
1. Held the VOL Down button while pressing Power until 'Fastboot' appeared
2. Pressed the VOL Down button several times (7, to be exact) until 'Android Recovery' appeared
3. Pressed the VOL Up button to select 'Android Recovery', ie: CWM
4. Wiped Data/Factory Reset (Power button is used to select in CWM, btw)
5. Wiped Cache
6. Wiped Dalvik Cache (in "advanced" menu)
7. Selected "install zip from sdcard" and installed:
7a. Aura 1.1.2
7b. Contacts
7c. Camera
8. Rebooted into CWM by selecting "reboot system now" and holding down the VOL Down button until 'Fastboot' appeared
8a. NOTE: Do NOT reboot normally at this point !! <== Learnt this the hard way
9. Installed Faux123's Kernel (v0.1.6) from here
10. Rebooted normally
Hopefully this helps someone. This n00b had some difficulty following some of the fairly simple instructions in Diviance's Aura thread. I only switched away from Nokia yesterday after 13 years of Symbian.
Apologies if this post is in the wrong place. I tried to add it to the actual Aura MOD thread, but didn't have permission (not enough posts).
I need help trying to figure out why my phone will not factory reset. I unlocked the bootloader and installed stock gingerbread a few months ago. I was planning on selling the phone to a friend of mine, so i needed to factory reset. Any time I would try to factory reset it, the exclamation mark would come up after it restarts.
I tried factory resetting with a new rom, but all my apps and my motoblur account would remain after loading the new rom. the last thing I tried was the Stock ATT 2.3.4 SBF.
After using SBF if booted fine until the lock screen came up with no initial startup guide. and it keeps telling me that " The application LauncherPro (process.android.process.acore) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again" when I press force close, it just pops up again, giving me no time to access the home screen, let alone the menu.
if anyone can help me access and get rid of this program from outside Android, it would be a great help, thanks!
fastboot -w
Im sorry but please bear with me. i also need help setting up ADB for the atrix in order to do it. for some reason I can't access my phone.
There are be a couple of ways to do a factory reset.
1. Using the fastboot (maybe it was moto-fastboot), you can put the phone in fastboot mode. Phone off, press and hold down volume key then press the power button. When the screen says "Fastboot", press the volume up key. Then as mentioned above, do "fastboot -w reboot." This will erase user data and cache then reboot the phone.
2. If you have one of the CWM recovery images installed, do as above, but when "Fastboot" is displayed, press the down volume key until "Android Recover" is displayed. Now press the volume up key. In a few seconds, the recovery menu will be displayed. Select "Wipe data/factory reset".
3. With the phone fully booted, Settings->Privacy->Factory Data Reset
Good luck
yeah my problem now is accessing my phone with adb. it wont find fastboot. saying that fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Is there some kind of package here I can use/find?
Edit: Got it working! thank you guys for the help!!!!
I pushed some numbers on the phone and "poof" the phone went into a menu called "CWM based Recovery v5.0.2.8" which includes:
reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data and wipe cache
advanced
and finally: power off
None of the menu items will actually reboot are start the phone in operable mode; it always goes back the the same menu.
I Have tried the Power + T and Power Volume and nothing helps.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks