All,
I have been on here for months, but this my 1st post. I have an Atrix that has been rooted, boot loader unlocked, Tenfar's recovery, but running stock ROM 1.8.x. I have not done any "tampering" with or ROM updates or anything like that. The phone in a few weeks and it has been working flawlessly.
However, this morning when I woke up, the phone is just sitting there dead. My wife said she heard a weird beep a few hours earlier. It will not power up via battery and the power button does not appear to work either.
I attached it to the wall charger an it will come up to the motorola and display "unlocked" but will not go past that screen. I also noticed that no charge led is lit up at all ... Strange ? I was able to get into recovery and I tried for a restore using Tenfar's CWM but after it completed and I went for a "reboot phone now" it just went back to the black screen and never booted at all.
Any thoughts ? Thanks in advance !
-Nathan
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All,
I have been on here for months, but this my 1st post. I have an Atrix that has been rooted, boot loader unlocked, Tenfar's recovery, but running stock ROM 1.8.x. I have not done any "tampering" with or ROM updates or anything like that. The phone in a few weeks and it has been working flawlessly.
However, this morning when I woke up, the phone is just sitting there dead. My wife said she heard a weird beep a few hours earlier. It will not power up via battery and the power button does not appear to work either.
I attached it to the wall charger an it will come up to the motorola and display "unlocked" but will not go past that screen. I also noticed that no charge led is lit up at all ... Strange ? I was able to get into recovery and I tried for a restore using Tenfar's CWM but after it completed and I went for a "reboot phone now" it just went back to the black screen and never booted at all.
Any thoughts ? Thanks in advance !
-Nathan
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Could be simply that your battery is dead. If you have a friend with an Atrix the first thing to try is an alternative battery.
If that doesn't help the second thing to try would be a full rom flash and full wipe via fastboot.
This happened to me as well. The phone will not charge during boot so what I did was enter fastboot with hardware(or an option like that) and I got past it started up in a couple minutes.
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It appears to be the battery ... I tried it with a different one and it booted without issue. Very strange as it appears to have died all of the sudden. Just glad it is not the actual phone. Anyway, thanks for the info, much appreciated !
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Hey folks,
I'm having some issues with my ATT Atrix. The phone keeps rebooting at the "Rethink Possible" screen. I bought this phone off of somebody on CL. I actually had the phone make it past the att screen a couple times. It made it to the setup up Motoblur screen but when I clicked start it just skipped it and takes me to the "Emergency Calls Only" screen. However the phone would just restart eventually at this screen as well. When the screen timed out I could not get the screen to turn back on at this point unless I unplugged the USB cord and plugged it back in. When the phone was on the Emergency Calls screen, my computer did recognize the phone and it did launch the motorola website. While I had the phone at this screen it did say that it had to force close android.process.com. I am coming from a captivate with rooting and flashing roms so I am familiar with Android. I am just trying to figure out where the problem could be with my Atrix. I am hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. Thanks for your time!
Your best bet will be to SBF that back to stock. Have you tried that yet? If not search for RSD Lite and SBF in the forums. There are several links and guides.
Is it unlocked?
I am not sure if it is unlocked as I cannot get past the emergency call screen. However, I will search SBF and research that option of setting it back to stock. I know when I flashed roms on the Captivate I would enter into recovery mode. I see in the Atrix that I would have to use Fastboot? The only reason I am worried about flashing a rom is that the phone reboots on its own so I would not want to hard brick it if it rebooted during a flash.
If it's unlocked you should see the word "unlocked" in the upper left corner of the boot logo screen, unless it was unlocked then flashed back or fruitcake in which case it will not say unlocked.
You should not have issues flashing from recovery if you have enough juice in your battery, which you maybe don't if you have been letting it sit rebooting. The rebooting is more than likely caused by an issue with a kernel, ROM, etc. Think of recovery as being similar to the BIOS on a PC. You enter into BIOS before the OS boots, etc., and this is before all the hardware has initialized and drivers have loaded, so the problem causing the reboots should not exist at that time. I would definitely try flashing a different ROM, and also a stock kernel.
It never said unlocked when I got the phone to turn on. I am having trouble getting the phone to turn on this time. I have downloaded RSD Lite and the 4.5.91 .sbf file to flash. I am just having trouble getting the phone started. Are there any ways to force the phone on. When I press the power button the green LED stays lit but nothing comes on the screen. When I plug into the charger it shows the moto symbol then goes to the Battery charging screen. Im not sure if the battery is correct because it says BHX5 1500mAh on the battery. Thanks for your help guys!
Update: I can get the phone into Fastboot and then Android Recovery Mode when the phone is plugged into the wall charger. However when I connect the phone to the computer via USB it just shows the green led when the phone is powered on. Anyway I can get the phone to boot into Fastboot while connected to the computer via USB?
Bump. Any way to get the phone to turn on when plugged into the computer or anyone know why there would be an issue of the phone turning on when plugged into the wall charger but only showing the green led when plugged into the computer? The battery shows 100% charged. Thanks
Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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Did you fastboot -w before flashing the sbf? (Guess you don't really need to when flashing a sbf)
What may also help is flashing the boot.img file from whatever ROM you are using via fastboot.
Don't know if this will help, but it solves an issue when flashing to a different ROM from CM7, so maybe will help for you.
I know this might sound dumb, but do you have a sim card installed? Also, try to boot into recovery and just do a factory reset. @CaelanT already pointed out that this should be unnecessary since you flashed an sbf but it wouldn't hurt to try.
nishith611 said:
Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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EDIT: I reread the OP and realized he had already tried to bypass the start screen.
That is not the correct battery. That is actually a battery used for the Droid X/X2. It seems they have pulled a switch-a-roo on you. (Probably because the Atrix battery could be used as an "Extended" battery in the DX/DX2) Anyways, it should still work but you can find the correct battery online, it should be a BH6X and should have a capacity of 1880/1930mAH.
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...Im not sure if the battery is correct because it says BHX5 1500mAh on the battery. Thanks for your help guys!
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Thanks for the reply. I tried to get the phone into recovery mode. I get to the Exclamation Point screen but it gives me no options for a factory reset. I saw that you have to touch the lower right hand side of the screen, but this doesn't do anything for me.
As far as flashing the boot.img file for the rom that I used. I flashed the stock 4.5.91 motorola rom. How can I find boot.img and would I flash it using RSD?
Also would it help if I flashed a custom rom instead of the stock Motorola 2.3.4 rom?
Could the battery not being the BH6X rom be the issue for it not getting enough power to stay on by itself?
Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it!
No, the sim card was not installed during the flash. However, I did install the sim card afterwards but the phone boots up and goes to the big green battery charging screen and does not go any further. However when the sim card is not plugged in I can get the phone to go to the Emergency Call screen.
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As far as flashing the boot.img file for the rom that I used. I flashed the stock 4.5.91 motorola rom. How can I find boot.img and would I flash it using RSD?
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The following are the instructions for flashing the boot.img. this was the solution to bootloops when trying to restore to a different ROM after CM7, but as I said previously, you never know if it will help or not:
1.Open up the Zip file of your current Blur ROM (Ninja, CherryBlur, Alien, etc.)
2.extract the boot.img file and copy to the directory where your fastboot is.
3.Pull phone battery & reinsert
4.Power on phone and go straight to Fastboot mode (Power + Vol Down)
5.Type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (exclude quotation marks)
6.Once flashed, reboot phone using "fastboot reboot"
Sorry, don't know how to extract the boot.img from a sbf. Did a quick search and couldn't find instructions. Not something I have done before. Maybe someone else can help with this. I don't even know if this will work, but anything is worth a shot when you are stuck.
<edit> Which CWM are you using?
You can flash Romracers via fastboot if you are not using it. This may help you get into recovery.
Update: I got the phone to recognize the sim card and make phone calls and get wifi active. But the phone still reboots by itself. I can use all the functions of the phone except it just reboots by itself. I got into the About phone section and it says
Android: 2.3.4
Kernel: [email protected] # 2
I can get into the Android Market as well as everything else. Could this be a hardware issue that causes the phone to reboot by itself within a minute or so?
Edit: I can get the vol up and down buttons to work while the phone is working but the power button is not responsive to let me power the phone off. Could a hardware issue with the power button be causing the constant reboot loop?
Update: I got the phone to function with the OS working just fine (phone calls, texts, emails, etc..) but it keeps restarting on its own. The power button still does not work however, could this be a hardware issue? Thanks
Last night I tried rooting my phone and all that jazz. The battery has no juice and the phone won't do anything, wont even indicate that it's charging. i can't get ANYTHING from the rezound. I plug it in and here a few beeps, but that's it. I think I need the P58IMG stock for this or something, but nothing is doing anything. I'm sorry for incorrectly posting, but I leave for school in 10 minutes!
You can't let the battery drain all the way down. Leave it on the charger for a bit, then pull the battery. Let it sit for a hot minute, then try booting again.
Ok, It's been on the charger since 7:35 this morning and i'll get home at 3 pm and hopefully it boots up. Do I need a external battery for this? I just need it to boot into hoot and recovery, then i can do it from there. I have the stock htc rezoned battery. I'll let you know when I try to but at 3pm or earlier because that when I get home from school
Also I have clockwork recovery on my rezound and I found out that clockwork doesn't charge a completely dead battery via usb. How would I flash AmanRa recovery when the battery is dead, thanks.
I read on here somewhere that a couple people got theirs going by connecting to PC and using a reboot command in adb. Don't know that command offhand.
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You want this post.
IrvChynaman had some troubles and did some pretty extensive troubleshooting on it.
Just came across the adb command:
adb reboot bootloader
One person said they typed that about 5 times before they booted into bootloader. (someone also said they thought the phone was charging even though the light wasn't lighting up so that may be why this works, once there is enough juice the phone can boot into bootloader or something) From there you should be able to reboot phone and then once it's booted you should be able to charge.
Once you are charged you might want to flash Amon Ra recovery to avoid this issue in the future. Otherwise just make sure you never drain the battery to the point of phone shutting off.
Thank you, I will try this out now. Hopefully it works, I'll keep you updated! Thank you guys!
UPDATE: Ok, so I follow the instructions the post says. I type in the command in where everything is ADB, etc and the recovery.img.. it my computers beeps, beeps again and the orange light comes on for 3 seconds and turns off.
If you still don't have it charging you can try looking through this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22370748#post22370748
There are different methods posted in there that have worked.
Look at my comment in the thread. If you can get into the shell with 'adb shell' as I did, there is still hope.
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Just came across the adb command:
adb reboot bootloader
One person said they typed that about 5 times before they booted into bootloader. (someone also said they thought the phone was charging even though the light wasn't lighting up so that may be why this works, once there is enough juice the phone can boot into bootloader or something) From there you should be able to reboot phone and then once it's booted you should be able to charge.
Once you are charged you might want to flash Amon Ra recovery to avoid this issue in the future. Otherwise just make sure you never drain the battery to the point of phone shutting off.
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i woke up to this this morning. it wouldnt turn on. i did nothing but put touch recovery on it last night before i went to bed. i had to hit it with adb reboot bootloader 5+ times and it finally booted. thank you so much for this. i was freaking out. lol
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spoke to soon. its still not working. i managed to get it to boot so im going to try this next http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22370748#post22370748 if not its going back. its only been 1 day and i already broke it lol.
I had this problem about a month ago on my Rezound. I just pulled the battery and let it sit for a bit. I then put the batter back in and plugged the phone into my laptop. I then used
adb reboot
and my phone turned on and it was able to charge.
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I had this problem about a month ago on my Rezound. I just pulled the battery and let it sit for a bit. I then put the batter back in and plugged the phone into my laptop. I then used
adb reboot
and my phone turned on and it was able to charge.
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Sorry to open this thred again but i a day ago i tried to install twrp 2.2.0 on my rezound and everything works fine and after i install TWRP 2.0.8 and it still having no problem but today i boot my phone to TWRP recovery and selected Reboot System and then my phone powered off and did no reboot my system. i was panicked so i pulled my batery out and pull it back nothing is working it is not recognized by laptop, when plugged in the wall sector or on computer the led didn't even light up.
Please I really need ur help Whatever u hav just tell me. Thanks in advance.
Hey guys, Today I just finished downgrading to HBOOT 1.4 and got up and running fine on TWRP 1.1.1 and ViperRom's new ICS build. I wasn't having any issues at all. I started reading about TWRP2 though, and felt like checking it out. So I downloaded GooManager and searched for TWRP and got openrecovery-twrp-2.1.3.blob. I touched it to download and it immediately went into recovery to install. However, as soon as it rebooted, it came up with TWRP 1.1.1's logo and a scrolling status bar. This lasted about 2 seconds and then the phone shut off. I left it as is hoping it would come back for about 10 min but nothing. I removed the battery and put it back in and tried to reboot. Booting to system and booting to recovery give zero response and ADB controls don't seem to recognize the device when plugged into USB. Can anybody help? TWRP2 doesn't seem to have a thread here and their site has limited resources for help.
thanks.
Can you boot into the bootloader (hold power and down on startup)?
no I cannot. Phone is completely unresponsive. I didn't think trying to flash a recovery would cause complete system failure.. wth
Just to be clear, before you call it a brick, did you remover battery for 10 seconds and then try to get to the bootloader. Hold down the volume first then the power button and keep holding both until the bootloader pops up. Just making sure...
yeah I did. Pulled the battery, left it out while I went and ate something, then plugged in the HTC charger and tried to reboot and nothing. Tried putting the battery back in and doing the same thing. I guess It's time to go to sprint and beg for mercy
Same thing happened to me. My phone is completely unresponsive after I tried to update to TWRP 2.1. I was on AOKP milestone 5a. The computer responds when I connect the USB, but the phone will not boot at all.
EDIT: Computer doesn't respond either. Think I'm headed to the nearest Sprint store ASAP.
Connect your device to your computer then go into your adb directory in cmd and type. "adb reboot-bootloader" (without the quotation marks)
Are you s-off ? And does the phone show up as qhusb_dload in device manager ? If it does it is bricked. If you still have s-on it can be fixed if you are s-off i am sorry to say you have to get a new phone. I have a phone now that is s-off and bricked and i cant recover it as of now but i am working on it, if i succeed i will post how to do it.
I would recommend trying to keep the bricked phone in case there is a way to unbrick eventually then you have another phone to play with. I just claimed my insurance and told them i dropped the phone in a porta-john at work and i wasn't about to fish it out. So they told me dont worry about sending the bricked phone in and i got my new one next day.
Help Needed guys ! I have (I9100XWLSK_I9100ODDLSA_INU) flashed on my s2 and is rooted (temp recovery + push SuperSu method).
From the past few days there had been severe battery drain and root issues, also the phone used to freeze every now and then. So i un-rooted and rooted it by the same method mentioned earlier.
Today my phone froze again so i restarted it and after the restart the phone got stuck on the Samsung logo(device info) it stayed there for a while hence i removed the battery and booted it up, now it got stuck at the Samsung boot animation( a loop) so i waited for a while and it continued to be in a loop. I again removed the battery and tried booting my phone, that's when the phone stopped responding. (no recovery, no download, no battery symbol on device when i put it for charge but the phone heats) i tired booting with a different battery but no luck! What might have gone wrong ? How can i fix it ?
That sound kinda dead.
Does it heat up near the camera?
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Help Needed guys ! I have (I9100XWLSK_I9100ODDLSA_INU) flashed on my s2 and is rooted (temp recovery + push SuperSu method).
From the past few days there had been severe battery drain and root issues, also the phone used to freeze every now and then. So i un-rooted and rooted it by the same method mentioned earlier.
Today my phone froze again so i restarted it and after the restart the phone got stuck on the Samsung logo(device info) it stayed there for a while hence i removed the battery and booted it up, now it got stuck at the Samsung boot animation( a loop) so i waited for a while and it continued to be in a loop. I again removed the battery and tried booting my phone, that's when the phone stopped responding. (no recovery, no download, no battery symbol on device when i put it for charge but the phone heats) i tired booting with a different battery but no luck! What might have gone wrong ? How can i fix it ?
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I think you need a mobo replacement.Sorry.Or you can try a JIG first.
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That sound kinda dead.
Does it heat up near the camera?
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Yes! it heats near the camera.
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I think you need a mobo replacement.Sorry.Or you can try a JIG first.
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Ohh ! Will give it try, Hope it works.
Hello, I have an HTC Amaze for over a year now. It was working fine, I rooted it CWM 5. and I installed Android revolution custom ROM. Until 2 weeks ago my battery was giving me some trouble, so i put away the phone for a bit, I bought a new battery then I notice the phone wasn't coming on. SO i charge for an entire day it still wasn't charging. I carried it to the shop. They said, that they don't know whats wrong with the phone.
I came home and decide am going to fix it my self i tried powering it into recovery mode, hard reset. screen is still blank, at lease that is what I thought. I look closely and then i notice the phone was in recovery mode but no lights were on in the screen. So normally I thought what anyone would of thought, the bulb in the screen or some kind of wiring went bad. The i tried wiping cache davlik install new new rom. Nothing worked. and this was defficult because I had to use a flash light to see on the screen. Lastly, i just click reboot and then the phone lights up perfectly and HTC logo comes up and then it blanks off again. So can anyone help? any advise
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Lastly, i just click reboot and then the phone lights up perfectly and HTC logo comes up and then it blanks off again. So can anyone help? any advise
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Find the way to install adb and communicate with the phone via adb and fastboot. If you can do that, you will be able to install anything necessary to get the phone working again.
First however, remove the battery, wait a few seconds, reinsert the battery and charge the phone overnight. Next day, try and start phone usual way--see what happens.
If NOTHING happens and you get a black screen, remove battery again for a few seconds, reinsert, and this time hold the power button in for AT LEAST 20 seconds.
See if that starts the phone.
If you get absolutely nothing again, find the "Unbricking Project" thread, but if you get any kind of screen, see if you can boot to recovery and restore anything. If you get a screen but can't do any kind of restore at all, find instructions for adb and fastboot I mentioned earlier, so you can install a new recovery and flash a new rom..
I did everything you said. Except I complete forget how to flash recovery and custom rom from my pc but when I type command in fastboot "adb devices" it was successful.
However, I charge the phone and I got into the recovery mode again and the wipe everything and then click backup and recovery. I rebooted the phone and it came on as if its a brand new HTC Amaze. I had the phone working i rejoice for a bit and then I realize I forget to put in my sim card. So i turn the phone off, put in the sim card. The same problem again. No led, no light in the screen, the phone atomatically boots into recovery mood.
One more thing. when booting into recovery mode. the phone doesn't go where I see the 3 android at the bottom and you see, fastboot, reset etc. It goes straight to cwm screen.
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One more thing. when booting into recovery mode. the phone doesn't go where I see the 3 android at the bottom and you see, fastboot, reset etc. It goes straight to cwm screen.
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I think that is what you should see when you boot into recovery.
Do whatever you did before to get the phone lit up again, then change the display settings to maybe 3/4 brightness for instance. Reboot the phone normal reboot and see if it comes back with light.
If it does, maybe you are fixed enough to install the sim.
Do you possibly have a nandroid backup saved somewhere, you could put it back in the phone via recovery?
The phone is lit up again like you asked me to do. It was hard to see in recovery mode. But i used a flashlight to look on the screen of the AMAZE then i flash a new custom rom. After multiple tries I got it up. SO its up and the brightness is at its highest point. But I dont believe thats the problem. I just need to figure out how the light stays off when in recovery mood but comes on when booted normally. Its as though the recovery is broken. How do I fix it? if its broken