flashed a mod, stuck in boot-loop,
want to boot back into CWM, but I can't seem to do it.
I can get into download mode, but if I hold up + power it just does a weird vibrate once a second and never boots into anything.
Am I missing something here or how can I either get adb to recognize it (sometime in the boot sequence or download mode) or boot straight into cwm?
In lieu of an expert, I think you need to release buttons after vibrate
Assuming you have correct buttons, I have seen up+/home/pwr to boot into recovery, but that may be from pwr off state
Well I finally got it.
Had cmd open and kept hitting up then enter then up then enter on the adb reboot recovery command really fast throughout the boot-loop, when the att logo came up it caught it and rebooted right into CWM.
I wish I knew how to hard-boot this thing into recovery, but I guess that ghetto adb worked for now, lol.
rugmankc said:
In lieu of an expert, I think you need to release buttons after vibrate
Assuming you have correct buttons, I have seen up+/home/pwr to boot into recovery, but that may be from pwr off state
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oh I didni't know about home, Jesus christ you gotta have some fingers to hit all three of those buttons across this damn phone, lol.
It kept going to boot-loop when I released, I'll try again just for practice some time with the capacitive home button this time.
Glad you got it
I am not hands on with this gem yet, but have been scouring everything I can find to learn more on it--just too much time still on TMO contract. I want ATT with it, since my TMO coverage here in Dayton Oh seems spotty, at least on my N1 running ICS.
Saw a guy in the hospital waiting room surfing web on a Samsung, couldn't tell model or carrier, should have asked. I had no data connection at all. Sucks--
orangekid,
You need to do a some searching.
Your post is almost looking like a joke.
Search is your friend, try it.
maybe have a look at this thread and read.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526431
When you're in a bootloop use this command
adb wait-for-device reboot recovery
Will work 99% of the time.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
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orangekid,
You need to do a some searching.
Your post is almost looking like a joke.
Search is your friend, try it.
maybe have a look at this thread and read.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526431
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Here's the problem I've had searching this forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1546727
maybe you could help me out?
jamesd86 said:
When you're in a bootloop use this command
adb wait-for-device reboot recovery
Will work 99% of the time.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
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thx! I will def keep this in mind, looks a lot easier than having to find that exact microsecond when my device is ready to receive adb commands...
orangekid said:
Well I finally got it.
Had cmd open and kept hitting up then enter then up then enter on the adb reboot recovery command really fast throughout the boot-loop, when the att logo came up it caught it and rebooted right into CWM.
I wish I knew how to hard-boot this thing into recovery, but I guess that ghetto adb worked for now, lol.
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I wasn't stuck in a bootloop or anything, just wanting to do backups before I really started tweaking my phone. But I used this method as well. Couldn't figure out the button combo so just did it in adb.
Use quickboot since you got root to boot into recovery in future
It's both volume keys + power to boot into recovery.
life saver
jamesd86 said:
When you're in a bootloop use this command
adb wait-for-device reboot recovery
Will work 99% of the time.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
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thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Related
I tried to not start a new thread but ... I'm at a loss so here's the sitch..
I rooted, unlocked, and installed CWM using ViperMOD tool here
I got successful on upon running the program. Confirmed root, proceeded to unlock and install CWM. Like I said, the messages informed me of no errors and got successful. HOWEVER, when I power off the prime and attempt to button combo into recovery, the phone just boots up. I don't see text to even press the volume up button.. the only text I see is the asus kernel splash and boot ani..
I then went to RM and tried to flash CWM that way.. again i got successful but button combo's aren't working or I'm just not getting it right.. (thought, you should know I tried bout every damn combo I could think of, AFTER reading an trying what is suggested.) So then I tried rebooting into recovery via RM.. phone just reboots. I then tried installing touch recovery via RM.. got successful but again, no way to boot into recovery.
According to RM my current recovery is 5.8.x.x
I read another way to install CWM via BLOB, but I've also read installing anything BLOB after installing CWM will lead to a brick. Obviously I'm trying to avoid that. For the love Android, if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be really happy. Thank you!
*EDIT****UPDATE**
This is a little confusing as i just watched yet another how-to vid.. and this one showed booting into recovery from power on .. and I don't believe it but it worked. Finally saw the 3 text lines at the top when Asus spash showed up. I powered off the Prime and tried again.. no problems whatsoever.
I'm sorry for starting a new thread.. believe me, I started searching yesterday and gave up at 11:30 last night.. started my quest again this morning and no dice so I started a new thread. Again.. Jerdog, I'm sorry man. Ugh.. feeling pretty bad about this thread now. If it can be deleted, please do. Otherwise close.. :-\
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Coreym said:
I tried to not start a new thread but ... I'm at a loss so here's the sitch..
I rooted, unlocked, and installed CWM using ViperMOD tool here
I got successful on upon running the program. Confirmed root, proceeded to unlock and install CWM. Like I said, the messages informed me of no errors and got successful. HOWEVER, when I power off the prime and attempt to button combo into recovery, the phone just boots up. I don't see text to even press the volume up button.. the only text I see is the asus kernel splash and boot ani..
I then went to RM and tried to flash CWM that way.. again i got successful but button combo's aren't working or I'm just not getting it right.. (thought, you should know I tried bout every damn combo I could think of, AFTER reading an trying what is suggested.) So then I tried rebooting into recovery via RM.. phone just reboots. I then tried installing touch recovery via RM.. got successful but again, no way to boot into recovery.
According to RM my current recovery is 5.8.x.x
I read another way to install CWM via BLOB, but I've also read installing anything BLOB after installing CWM will lead to a brick. Obviously I'm trying to avoid that. For the love Android, if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be really happy. Thank you!
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I had the same issue with the TF101, TF201 is the same...POWER OFF completly, now POWER ON HOLDING POWER AND VOLUME DOWN until white writting comes up on TOP LEFT OF SCREEN, then let go of power and volume down and press VOLUME UP you should see "ENTERING RECOVERY IMG"
i did a quick vid and put on YOUTUBE for you check it out,
hope it helps
LNKNPRKFN said:
I had the same issue with the TF101, TF201 is the same...POWER OFF completly, now POWER ON HOLDING POWER AND VOLUME DOWN until white writting comes up on TOP LEFT OF SCREEN, then let go of power and volume down and press VOLUME UP you should see "ENTERING RECOVERY IMG"
i did a quick vid and put on YOUTUBE for you check it out,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOiCogOQJ0&list=UUdwXLQixIUNxzkX0zHVsYpQ&index=1&feature=plcp
hope it helps
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Thanks dude.. Yeah, this was a stumper for me. As I did the button combo right, and maybe just maybe I let go too soon when seeing the asus screen, but I can tell you I tried endlessly last night and never saw the little text in the top left corner. Just watched zedo's vid and he started from power on.. so I tried, and it worked. Now i see the little text everytime I button combo..
Oh well.. really glad I got it figured out.. and thank you so much for the reply and help. Really!
Coreym said:
Thanks dude.. Yeah, this was a stumper for me. As I did the button combo right, and maybe just maybe I let go too soon when seeing the asus screen, but I can tell you I tried endlessly last night and never saw the little text in the top left corner. Just watched zedo's vid and he started from power on.. so I tried, and it worked. Now i see the little text everytime I button combo..
Oh well.. really glad I got it figured out.. and thank you so much for the reply and help. Really!
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I must have NVFlashed my TF101 100x cause i thought CWM didnt do on because i use quickboot and it didnt go to recovery and i didnt know how to get it there but then i figured it out, so since my prime is the same its GRAVY, at least you got it now!!!
food for thought: i have flashed my sgs and my maguro countless times both combined, and i never ever encountered such an error. Either adb reboot recovery, native rom option or if neither are available, button combo.
/offtopic: i'm eager to see what nvflash can do. definately more powerful than fastboot
Hi all,
My Transformer Prime will not boot past the initial Asus screen. It's remains stuck on this screen but when I hold power down, the device reboots. I am not able to get into recovery using power and vol down, then vol up. I cant turn the device off, it reboots every time. When I try to hold vol down while rebooting, the normal white writing doesn't appear, it just continues in the same loop at the Asus screen. I dont even get as far as the EeePad splash screen. I'm at a loss for what to try. I can get into recovery or fastboot and it wont connet to the pc. Am I screwed? All of the advice I can find needs recovery etc. The problem started when I tried to wipe the device. Could it have deleted the recovery image, rom etc? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
santiago84 said:
Hi all,
My Transformer Prime will not boot past the initial Asus screen. It's remains stuck on this screen but when I hold power down, the device reboots. I am not able to get into recovery using power and vol down, then vol up. I cant turn the device off, it reboots every time. When I try to hold vol down while rebooting, the normal white writing doesn't appear, it just continues in the same loop at the Asus screen. I dont even get as far as the EeePad splash screen. I'm at a loss for what to try. I can get into recovery or fastboot and it wont connet to the pc. Am I screwed? All of the advice I can find needs recovery etc. The problem started when I tried to wipe the device. Could it have deleted the recovery image, rom etc? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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First, this belongs in q&a or general. Your problems have nothing to do with development.
Secondly, I posted a link a while back in the EOS3 ROM thread in reference to recovering from the exact scenario . The post includes which tools, drivers, and the process in detail on how I recovered down to the command for fast boot flashing the recovery ( which had a specific value for the device ).
EDIT:
Here is my detailed post. Try that and see if fastboot works for you. I was literally in the exact same boat not terribly long ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33197007&postcount=508
MODS please move to the appropriate section.
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Aso I forgot to ask.... were you already on a JB boot loader? If you were on ICS, make sure you download the ICS blob for twrp from the link and not the JB blob. That's crucial because if you flash the wrong recovery, you are screwed lol.
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santiago84 said:
I am not able to get into recovery using power and vol down, then vol up. I cant turn the device off, it reboots every time. When I try to hold vol down while rebooting, the normal white writing doesn't appear, it just continues in the same loop at the Asus screen.
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I'm confused, you say here you cannot access the boot menu or recovery selection.
santiago84 said:
I can get into recovery or fastboot and it wont connet to the pc.
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But here you say you can access recovery and fastboot which you would not be able to if what you said first was true.
lilstevie said:
I'm confused, you say here you cannot access the boot menu or recovery selection.
But here you say you can access recovery and fastboot which you would not be able to if what you said first was true.
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He likely wiped all of his partitions ( including recovery ) like I did by accident. Fast boot was a pain in the arse for me until I used the -i command along with the new drivers. Hopefully my post resolved his issue.
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Thank you for your response so far and apologies for putting the thread in the wrong section. The instructions given were great, only I am unable to get into fastboot. When I try and turn on the device holding vol down, it just boots normally. It doesn't give me the white writing and options I had before. I can't seem to turn the device off either. When I hold the power button it reboots, but doesn't shut down. What can I try to get into fast boot?
Thanks
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
pyraxiate said:
He likely wiped all of his partitions ( including recovery ) like I did by accident. Fast boot was a pain in the arse for me until I used the -i command along with the new drivers. Hopefully my post resolved his issue.
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Sorry, it was a typo. I meant that I cant get into recovery or fastboot. No matter what I try. Ive never heard of fastboot disappearing. Any thoughts?
santiago84 said:
Sorry, it was a typo. I meant that I cant get into recovery or fastboot. No matter what I try. Ive never heard of fastboot disappearing. Any thoughts?
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Did you do the nvflash process at any time and keep the blob files?
If you didn't and you cannot get to fastboot then I'm afraid that you are hard bricked
flumpster said:
Did you do the nvflash process at any time and keep the blob files?
If you didn't and you cannot get to fastboot then I'm afraid that you are hard bricked
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No I didnt do the Nvflash. I unlocked and rooted a while ago, before nvflash was around and havent looked back since. Has anyone ever heard of fastboot being deleted? Ive always been able to get into it.
santiago84 said:
No I didnt do the Nvflash. I unlocked and rooted a while ago, before nvflash was around and havent looked back since. Has anyone ever heard of fastboot being deleted? Ive always been able to get into it.
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Try holding the down and power button while its on to force shut down, then keep holding volume down as it reboots?
Also, what were you in the process of doing right before the issues began? Did you install something with a different bootloader? You could have wiped bootloader which means you are hosed . . . ..
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda app-developers app
pyraxiate said:
Try holding the down and power button while its on to force shut down, then keep holding volume down as it reboots?
Also, what were you in the process of doing right before the issues began? Did you install something with a different bootloader? You could have wiped bootloader which means you are hosed . . . ..
I
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I've tried holding the buttons down while it reboots but nothing happens. If I hold the vol up and vol down while pressing power, the device turns off completely.
The problem started when I tried a factory reset in CWM. It crashed after a few seconds and the device rebooted. Not there doesnt appear to be anything on the device. I havent heard of CWM doing this before.
santiago84 said:
I've tried holding the buttons down while it reboots but nothing happens. If I hold the vol up and vol down while pressing power, the device turns off completely.
The problem started when I tried a factory reset in CWM. It crashed after a few seconds and the device rebooted. Not there doesnt appear to be anything on the device. I havent heard of CWM doing this before.
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try volume up + power,if you see APX and you dont have nvflash then sent it back to ASUS and there is a charge to repair it.Sorry, happens to me
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
santiago84 said:
Sorry, it was a typo. I meant that I cant get into recovery or fastboot. No matter what I try. Ive never heard of fastboot disappearing. Any thoughts?
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Without fastboot and nvflash there is no hope for recovery except for calling asus and requesting an RMA.
It sounds like your device has the boot to recovery flag, but with a broken recovery, something which the bootloader has no exit path from.
pyraxiate said:
You could have wiped bootloader which means you are hosed . . . ..
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Without a bootloader you will not get any output from the device, the bootloader is what displays the asus splash screen. Without it the device would just drop into apx mode.
lilstevie said:
Without fastboot and nvflash there is no hope for recovery except for calling asus and requesting an RMA.
It sounds like your device has the boot to recovery flag, but with a broken recovery, something which the bootloader has no exit path from.
Without a bootloader you will not get any output from the device, the bootloader is what displays the asus splash screen. Without it the device would just drop into apx mode.
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This is probably a silly question but if I send it back to asus for rma should I just claim complete ignorance as to how this happened? Or should I come clean? Has anyone done a rma before? Any idea of time scales or cost etc? Thanks
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santiago84 said:
This is probably a silly question but if I send it back to asus for rma should I just claim complete ignorance as to how this happened? Or should I come clean? Has anyone done a rma before? Any idea of time scales or cost etc? Thanks
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Do not lie but don't tell the whole truth if you know what I mean
Don't go into too much info and get straight to the point, also don't show any technical knowledge.
"It doesn't turn on any more, it just flashes on a screen showing Asus".
"It wont turn off"
If you are lucky and they just look at it and not check what has happened they might just switch motherboard rather than messing with it.
Also try to run the battery out first. Harder to check
You shouldn't be covered at all because you agreed to that when you unlocked, but you might get lucky while staying truthful
p.s. I find my grandmother can get away with it more than me
Hello all, I'm very new at rooting so bear with me please!
I've been trying to follow the instructions to boot my phone into stock recovery in order to flash clockworkmod for the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G. One of the steps is to reboot the phone into "stock recovery" by holding the volume up and power buttons at the same time. My phone will simply continuously restart itself while the power button is held. There is no screen that appears where I can click the button for updating my sd card to install the clockworkmod software, though this is what all the forums are telling me to do in order to boot into stock recovery. I've tried several times, and my phone always just restarts as if I'm not trying to do anything fancy, just goes right to my main screen with no changes. Help please?
-Zach Agnew
Zagnew18 said:
Hello all, I'm very new at rooting so bear with me please!
I've been trying to follow the instructions to boot my phone into stock recovery in order to flash clockworkmod for the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G. One of the steps is to reboot the phone into "stock recovery" by holding the volume up and power buttons at the same time. My phone will simply continuously restart itself while the power button is held. There is no screen that appears where I can click the button for updating my sd card to install the clockworkmod software, though this is what all the forums are telling me to do in order to boot into stock recovery. I've tried several times, and my phone always just restarts as if I'm not trying to do anything fancy, just goes right to my main screen with no changes. Help please?
-Zach Agnew
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I believe the problem your having is that your holding the power button too long. You only need to hold the volume up and power buttons until you see tiny blue or other tiny text in the upper left hand corner of the screen saying the phone is entering recovery mode. This should take you into the stock recovery. Let me know if you still have questions .
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shimp208 said:
I believe the problem your having is that your holding the power button too long. You only need to hold the volume up and power buttons until you see tiny blue or other tiny text in the upper left hand corner of the screen saying the phone is entering recovery mode. This should take you into the stock recovery. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Yeah I gave it a shot. When the phone restarts, the first thing on the screen is the Exhibit 4G logo, there's never any tiny text in a corner or anything like that :/
Even if I only hold the buttons briefly, the phone either turns all the way on to my main screen, or doesn't turn on at all if I don't hold the buttons long enough. I really wanna get into ROMing after seeing how great rooted phone apps were. I'm not sure what's blocking my phone from getting into the stock recovery.
Zagnew18 said:
Yeah I gave it a shot. When the phone restarts, the first thing on the screen is the Exhibit 4G logo, there's never any tiny text in a corner or anything like that :/
Even if I only hold the buttons briefly, the phone either turns all the way on to my main screen, or doesn't turn on at all if I don't hold the buttons long enough. I really wanna get into ROMing after seeing how great rooted phone apps were. I'm not sure what's blocking my phone from getting into the stock recovery.
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Do you have adb setup on your computer? If you do you can type the command:
Code:
adb reboot recovery
From adb to reboot into recovery mode.
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shimp208 said:
Do you have adb setup on your computer? If you do you can type the command:
Code:
adb reboot recovery
From adb to reboot into recovery mode.
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I have a mac computer that uses "terminal", is this similar to what you are referring to?
Zagnew18 said:
I have a mac computer that uses "terminal", is this similar to what you are referring to?
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Yes since Macs use OSX which is based on Unix it should work. Just make sure you follow this guide to setting up ADB and fastboot on Mac if you haven't done so already http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237.
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda premium
shimp208 said:
Yes since Macs use OSX which is based on Unix it should work. Just make sure you follow this guide to setting up ADB and fastboot on Mac if you haven't done so already http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237.
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Worked like a charm, thank you for your help!
So I need help again... I downloaded the file "cwm.6012.t679.zip" and dropped it on my sd card. When I booted the phone into stock recovery, I tried to apply that update so I would have clockworkmod recovery. Keeps saying signature verification failed. Any other suggestions? If it's not one thing, it's the next....
Zagnew18 said:
So I need help again... I downloaded the file "cwm.6012.t679.zip" and dropped it on my sd card. When I booted the phone into stock recovery, I tried to apply that update so I would have clockworkmod recovery. Keeps saying signature verification failed. Any other suggestions? If it's not one thing, it's the next....
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If you can post the link to the guide your using I can try and take a look. Also try removing the extra periods from the file name so instead of "cwm.6012.t679.zip" try "cwm6012t679.zip".
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shimp208 said:
If you can post the link to the guide your using I can try and take a look. Also try removing the extra periods from the file name so instead of "cwm.6012.t679.zip" try "cwm6012t679.zip".
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Here is the guide:
http://dottech.org/91097/how-to-roo...t-4g-and-install-clockworkmod-recovery-guide/
Tried eliminating the extra periods, still got the same response. As soon as it tries to validate the update, it tells me the signature cannot be verified.
Zagnew18 said:
Here is the guide:
http://dottech.org/91097/how-to-roo...t-4g-and-install-clockworkmod-recovery-guide/
Tried eliminating the extra periods, still got the same response. As soon as it tries to validate the update, it tells me the signature cannot be verified.
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You can also try a different procedure for obtaining root access or use ODIN to flash this Clockworkmod Recovery .tar file from here. You can find other rooting procedures for the Galaxy Exhibit 4g from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26859796
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shimp208 said:
You can also try a different procedure for obtaining root access or use ODIN to flash this Clockworkmod Recovery .tar file from here. You can find other rooting procedures for the Galaxy Exhibit 4g from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26859796
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I found some posts in the forums on my phone's model number. (SGH T759) Further research indicates there may be no clockworkmod recovery available for this device. A combination of various root apps have made this phone a powerhorse, so it's a shame there were no further developments for this phone in particular. I appreciate your effort to aid my case. You were very helpful.
-Z
I recently changed my framework-res.apk and now I'm stuck at the boot animation. I don't want to completely reset my device with a kdz. I've looked around and haven't found much about recovery. I have the original apk file, but I just need a way to push it. Anyone have a way?
Mars11_ said:
I recently changed my framework-res.apk and now I'm stuck at the boot animation. I don't want to completely reset my device with a kdz. I've looked around and haven't found much about recovery. I have the original apk file, but I just need a way to push it. Anyone have a way?
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Do you have cwm installed ? If not you can try: phone powered down , hold vol+ home + power, should bring up message saying something about service center..
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw, remount /system
rm /system/framework/framework-res.apk
exit
adb push /path-to/orginal/framework-res.apk /system/framework
adb reboot
Thanks for the reply. I didn't read about CWM before this happened, otherwise this would be easy. I've held down every button combination at boot that I can think of and get nothing like that. When holding vol- + home + power I get an Android and a progress bar that causes the phone to reboot after no more than 10 seconds. Nothing shows up in the device manager during that time either.
Mars11_ said:
Thanks for the reply. I didn't read about CWM before this happened, otherwise this would be easy. I've held down every button combination at boot that I can think of and get nothing like that. When holding vol- + home + power I get an Android and a progress bar that causes the phone to reboot after no more than 10 seconds. Nothing shows up in the device manager during that time either.
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unfortunately vol- , home and power will(probably already did) hard/factory reset your phone
Lelus said:
unfortunately vol- , home and power will(probably already did) hard/factory reset your phone
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Well crap. Well it's still not booting..
I can get into fastboot through omap4boot. If I can get a cwm recovery img for my device I should be able to fix it.
Mars11_ said:
I can get into fastboot through omap4boot. If I can get a cwm recovery img for my device I should be able to fix it.
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fastboot + cwm recovery only works if you've unlocked bootloader
easiest way to restore your phone now is by s/w mode ,either lg tool or offline method
or "vol+ and home and power" and the rest from 2nd post in this thread
Mars11_ said:
Thanks for the reply. I didn't read about CWM before this happened, otherwise this would be easy. I've held down every button combination at boot that I can think of and get nothing like that. When holding vol- + home + power I get an Android and a progress bar that causes the phone to reboot after no more than 10 seconds. Nothing shows up in the device manager during that time either.
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All you have to PRESS is volume down, nothing else.Merely press it because if you hold it down, it won't boot into recovery
...My first post...done son...WOOHOOO
fredo5580 said:
All you have to PRESS is volume down, nothing else.Merely press it because if you hold it down, it won't boot into recovery
...My first post...done son...WOOHOOO
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When do you press it?
Lelus;4003I 246 said:
fastboot + cwm recovery only works if you've unlocked bootloader
easiest way to restore your phone now is by s/w mode ,either lg tool or offline method
or "vol+ and home and power" and the rest from 2nd post in this thread
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I had cwm before i unlocked boot loader...install with 9 installer.apk and choose test version (stable version won't boot)..plus if you have a CWM backup( they r also in the forums as well) adb restore is 50 times faster than using LG Update tool.
fredo5580 said:
I had cwm before i unlocked boot loader...install with 9 installer.apk and choose test version (stable version won't boot)..plus if you have a CWM backup( they r also in the forums as well) adb restore is 50 times faster than using LG Update tool.
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But I don't have any ADB and can't boot into the ROM, I'll just use the LG Update tool. I have a thread detailing what working modifications I did and how I did it, so I can get all those working. Thanks guys.
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When do you press it?
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Wh. I you see flashing LEDs..no flashing LEDs means no CWM if you don't have it( it comes and goes sometimes FM) try pushing recovery.IMG thru adb
fredo5580 said:
I had cwm before i unlocked boot loader...install with 9 installer.apk and choose test version (stable version won't boot)..plus if you have a CWM backup( they r also in the forums as well) adb restore is 50 times faster than using LG Update tool.
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there are two types of cwm recovery, one uses 2nd boot and other recovery partition , if bootloader is locked and phone won't boot you can't use neither and cwm backups are useless
Mars11_ said:
But I recve any ADB and can't boot into the ROM, I'll just use the LG Update tool. I have a thread detailing what working modifications I did and how I did it, so I can get all those working. Thanks guys.
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As a young developer I HIGHLY recommend becoming very familiar with ADB, it saved a BUNCH of times on my Galaxy S...its great if you can get the hang of it, all commands are the same for all devices, the help section is sort of sketchy, but with a lot of trial and error, I picked it up nicely
fredo5580 said:
As a young developer I HIGHLY recommend becoming very familiar with ADB, it saved a BUNCH of times on my Galaxy S...its great if you can get the hang of it, all commands are the same for all devices, the help section is sort of sketchy, but with a lot of trial and error, I picked it up nicely
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Yes, I know how useful ADB is and use it frequently, but in my phone's state it's not starting and won't ever start.
Mars11_ said:
Yes, I know how useful ADB is and use it frequently, but in my phone's state it's not starting and won't ever start.
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The best thing to do (if you haven't done so already) is to flash the kdz (thanks cmahendra and everyone else for y'all hard work) and start from scratch. Second, install artas182x (thanks Artas!) cwm and make a backup. I had to learn the hard way too
kuma82 said:
The best thing to do (if you haven't done so already) is to flash the kdz (thanks cmahendra and everyone else for y'all hard work) and start from scratch. Second, install artas182x (thanks Artas!) cwm and make a backup. I had to learn the hard way too
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Yeah, I've now done that. Thanks for the tip though.
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To the OP i am currently in the same boat as far as not being able to boot and not being able to access adb. Have you figured anything out or are you still stuck? Before chimes in I do have CWM( the lights flash on reboot) but when i press the -vol button the phone does nothing.
Try connecting in s/w upgrade mode ( holding vol + while inserting usb to phone) it should load some drivers and you should be able to connect in adb. If not connect in every mode possible, to load any drivers(they will still load even though your phone isn't showing any signs of life as long as you have the installed LG drivers previously)
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I have Sony Xperia Z2 with Cyanogenmod 12 20150305
I cannot boot into any recovery based applications, but the phones regular functions work fine.
I have tried with the phone off and the down and up volume buttons, I have tried with apps that reboot to recovery, I have tried with the advanced power button on CM, I have tried with adb reboot bootloader/recovery and I have tried by just trying to install an update from the CM Updater.
What do I do to get this into Recovery? Otherwise the phone is fine, but it now means I can never update the phone ever again which I am not happy about as this version of CM12 is not great.
here is your answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2/help/music-crashes-phone-cm12-t3048191
voison said:
here is your answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2/help/music-crashes-phone-cm12-t3048191
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What do they mean by:
"Adb reboot recovery
Fastboot boot recovery
Camera button"
Do I press the camera button? Hold it? When? For how long?
mansonitefirefox said:
What do they mean by:
"Adb reboot recovery
Fastboot boot recovery
Camera button"
Do I press the camera button? Hold it? When? For how long?
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Adb is android development bridge and it allows you to run commands from a computer. A command that may work is adb reboot recovery
Fastboot is a mode you can put your phone in to run commands from a computer. A command is fastboot boot recovery
Press camera button when led turns on when the phone boots.
All these methods assume you have working recovery. In the previously quoted thread, the last comment was a guy saying there is an issue with recovery in cm12.
o0 Matt 0o said:
Adb is android development bridge and it allows you to run commands from a computer. A command that may work is adb reboot recovery
Fastboot is a mode you can put your phone in to run commands from a computer. A command is fastboot boot recovery
Press camera button when led turns on when the phone boots.
All these methods assume you have working recovery. In the previously quoted thread, the last comment was a guy saying there is an issue with recovery in cm12.
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Well obviously that wont work. The first post states that adb reboot recovery doesnt work
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Well obviously that wont work. The first post states that adb reboot recovery doesnt work
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Ow ok, so when you post ' what do you mean by.... ' and i posted what I meant by it you just say it won't work? I wasn't saying it would work, I was answering your question.
Sorry my mistake, I thought you wanted an answer to the question you posted that i quoted. I didn't know I was meant to read your mind.
Get recovery
Fastboot recovery
Fixed
Wow rocket science. This seems like a firstly easy thing to fix, maybe you should get the basis down first before you start paying with cm.
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Ow ok, so when you post ' what do you mean by.... ' and i posted what I meant by it you just say it won't work? I wasn't saying it would work, I was answering your question.
Sorry my mistake, I thought you wanted an answer to the question you posted that i quoted. I didn't know I was meant to read your mind.
Get recovery
Fastboot recovery
Fixed
Wow rocket science
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and once again Ill say, that doesnt work.
cant get to fastboot.
adb reboot recovery just turns the phone off and nothing happens.
mansonitefirefox said:
and once again Ill say, that doesnt work.
cant get to fastboot.
adb reboot recovery just turns the phone off and nothing happens.
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If you can't get to fastboot your doing it wrong.
It sounds like your recovery is broken. I know how to fix your issue. It'll take 2 minutes. Here's a hint, iv already said it.
o0 Matt 0o said:
If you can't get to fastboot your doing it wrong.
It sounds like your recovery is broken. I know how to fix your issue. It'll take 2 minutes. Here's a hint, iv already said it.
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I promise you, you havent. I have tried everything mentioned in this thread and the one posted by the guy who replied first who didnt bother to read my post
mansonitefirefox said:
I promise you, you havent. I have tried everything mentioned in this thread and the one posted by the guy who replied first who didnt bother to read my post
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How do you get into fastboot and what happens?
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How do you get into fastboot and what happens?
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Normally I would get into fastboot by turning the phone off, turning it back on and then repeatedly pressing volume up when the purple light comes on. This does nothing and the phone just boots like normal. I have also tried holding power up, pressing it sooner, pressing it later, volume down, both, both and camera, camera... anything and everything.
Alternatively I would get to fastboot with fastboot.exe by the command fastboot reboot. All that does is turns the phone off, it never comes back on and my cmd is left saying < waiting for device > forever.
If I turn the phone back on after doing fastboot reboot, it just boots up like normal.
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Normally I would get into fastboot by turning the phone off, turning it back on and then repeatedly pressing volume up when the purple light comes on. This does nothing and the phone just boots like normal. I have also tried holding power up, pressing it sooner, pressing it later, volume down, both, both and camera, camera... anything and everything.
Alternatively I would get to fastboot with fastboot.exe by the command fastboot reboot. All that does is turns the phone off, it never comes back on and my cmd is left saying < waiting for device > forever.
If I turn the phone back on after doing fastboot reboot, it just boots up like normal.
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Ok so so all the above answers are....
... DRUM ROLL....
Wrong
You get into fastboot by turning you phone off, holding volume up(or down not sure from memory) and plugging a usb cable into your phone. The led light will stay blue and you can release the volume button. BTW the other end of the usb cable goes into a computer. Once you have successfully booted into fastboot you can run fastboot commands.
I think the only way you can recover now is restore the sony ftf, relock bootloader and unroot your device.
Sorry about the sarcasm, your just wasting everyone's time if you don't understand the basics.
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Ok so so all the above answers are....
... DRUM ROLL....
Wrong
You get into fastboot by turning you phone off, holding volume up(or down not sure from memory) and plugging a usb cable into your phone. The led light will stay blue and you can release the volume button. BTW the other end of the usb cable goes into a computer. Once you have successfully booted into fastboot you can run fastboot commands.
I think the only way you can recover now is restore the sony ftf, relock bootloader and unroot your device.
Sorry about the sarcasm, your just wasting everyone's time if you don't understand the basics.
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Wow, this must be super embarrassing for you.
Because that doesn't work.
Congrats on making a big grandiose statement that is flawed.
mansonitefirefox said:
Wow, this must be super embarrassing for you.
Because that doesn't work.
Congrats on making a big grandiose statement that is flawed.
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It's not flawed. Its not wrong.
I'll just leave this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/issues/guide-to-install-xperia-fastboot-driver-t2447283
I know is not from three z2 forum but the process is the same.
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It's not flawed. Its not wrong.
I'll just leave this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/issues/guide-to-install-xperia-fastboot-driver-t2447283
I know is not from three z2 forum but the process is the same.
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I have already done that, why don't you understand. I follow all the normal processes to get fastboot or recovery or bootloader to fire up like they used to a matter of days ago, but now they don't work. I am looking for solutions outside the norm here because my phone is operating outside the norm.
Look, just... nevermind. You are clearly not helping. Please stop replying.
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I have already done that, why don't you understand. I follow all the normal processes to get fastboot or recovery or bootloader to fire up like they used to a matter of days ago, but now they don't work. I am looking for solutions outside the norm here because my phone is operating outside the norm.
Look, just... nevermind. You are clearly not helping. Please stop replying.
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You know when I asked you how to get into fastboot you said the wrong thing right?
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You know when I asked you how to get into fastboot you said the wrong thing right?
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Apart from the fact that I didn't... right?
fastboot reboot and reboot with volume up to get to bootloader followed by volume up and down to get to fastboot and then power button do work, or at least they did last week.
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You know when I asked you how to get into fastboot you said the wrong thing right?
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fixed it myself with http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool/ you sarcastic waste of space
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Normally I would get into fastboot by turning the phone off, turning it back on and then repeatedly pressing volume up when the purple light comes on.
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This is not how you get into Fastoot. The method you explained above is how to get to the recovery. I think you have fastboot and Recovery mixed up.
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You get into fastboot by turning you phone off, holding volume up(or down not sure from memory) and plugging a usb cable into your phone. The led light will stay blue and you can release the volume button. BTW the other end of the usb cable goes into a computer. Once you have successfully booted into fastboot you can run fastboot commands.
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This actually the correct way to get into Fastboot.
As o0 Matt 0o sugested read this for the basics.
The kernal CM uses doesnt have a good recovery like TWRP in it. If you can boot into to your ROM (CM) install this app and use it to install the recovery then you can boot into the recovery by "Turning the phone off, turning it back on and then repeatedly pressing volume up when the purple light comes on".
mansonitefirefox said:
fixed it myself with http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool/ you sarcastic waste of space
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Ok good to know. By the way now you know how to booting flashmode. This is the other volume key to fastboot.
I hope you understand flashmode and fastboot now and how they differ from recovery. If you listened to me with an open mind last night, you could have fixed your problem I 2 minites.
I am 100 percent positive you could have fastboot a new recovery or kernel to fix your issue. You wouldn't have lost your data or anything and you'd be up again in about 2 mins.
Help yourself by learning the basics and understanding the key terms first. I think someone else also said I was right about fastboot.