I have tried to get back to an older ROM on my streak 5 (from CM7) and I did the usual of flashing a matching recovery to the update.pkg I'd copied to my SD card.
Since then I have a major problem. I can get into fastboot ok, and I seem to be able to flash recoveries etc but I am unable to get into ANY recovery when doing the volume down boot menu. I have tried factory reset's etc but all to no avail. All the recoveries I flash end up going to a blank screen with the lights on but never arrive at a menu - have I bricked my phone !!
Please, any help will be very gratefully received.
Power button and both volume buttons, all three together gets you into recovery menu.
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Managed to sort it! Phew!!
Chirunavvutho said:
Power button and both volume buttons, all three together gets you into recovery menu.
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Thanks for the reply, however it was not the menu I could not get to, instead, when I selected option 2 (update from update.pkg) the streak then went to a blank screen, dimmed the buttons and then froze.
I ended up fixing the problem by downloading the qdl recovery tool from http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/Tools/repairtool.zip, unzipping it to my hard disk then installing the driver for the Qualcom modem and then running the repair. All sorted now - very relieved for sure
hey i have a similar kind of problem...can't access to fastboot mode...dell logo appears and then restarts by saying factory resetting...this continues again n again...is there any solution????
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The official o2 2.1 update has bricked my streak
Well I say bricked, it won't get past the dell logo. I can get into fastboot and recovery but both stock recovery and clockworkmod but I can't update the SD card with the original stock rom to unbrick it. As its bricked I can't get into the OS to mount the SD card. I can flash via fastboot but not sure of a command that will allow me to flash to the sdcard. I have tried fastboot -i 0x413c flash sdcard update.pkg/zip but this doesn't work. From what I can tell you can only flash to the internal memory? Any ideas?
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Rob
Same thing has happened to me. The official 2.1 update rebooted after install and can't get past the Dell logo screen.
I have tried all the recovery roms various Update.pkg.'s no luck....
All can't boot past Dell screen. :-( bricked? Thanks o2...
Streak was unrooted, no custom roms, or recovery images had been done. What pita....
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Same thing has happened to me. The official 2.1 update rebooted after install and can't get past the Dell logo screen.
I have tried all the recovery roms various Update.pkg.'s no luck....
All can't boot past Dell screen. :-( bricked? Thanks o2...
Streak was unrooted, no custom roms, or recovery images had been done. What pita....
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Ok a big f*ck you to O2. But I'm back in business.
M4D4, if you're still stuck this is what you need to do.
Get a micro SD card reader
Put your SD card into the reader
Download the stock 1.6 rom from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6KBABM67
Rename this to update.pkg and copy it onto your SD card
Insert the SD card into the streak
Hold BOTH the volume up AND volume down buttons while holding the power buttons
Now you will be in recovery mode, navigate up and down using the volume buttons. Navigate to number 2 'update software via update.pkg'
Press the camera shutter button ALL THE WAY in
A new screen will ask you to confirm, press the shutter again
Leave the streak updating until it boots into the home screen (note - it will stay at the dell logo a lot longer than usual as it is rewriting the dalvik cache but should take no longer than 10 minutes)
Pat yourself on the back and flip O2/Dell the bird
Yep I think Lots of people have had the same prob - me included -
Follow the above instructions and it should be ok.
use a micro SD reader to upload the DELL version of 1.6 (no others will work) to the root of the card.
Reboot - mine took extra long to come back up... sticks at DELL logo... be patient.
Once thats working - copy the 2.1 ver "Update.pkg" to the SDCARD reboot it again and 2.1 will install.
Turn on by holding down both vol buttons and ON button.
Select option 2 - update from SDCard, screen txt should be blue.
Press the camera button - it should then install 2.1
Once it all reboots - wait for some time (I thought mine had bricked again) paused for a while on the DELL logo, then it came to life... 2.1 up and running
Been stable since then, but there is some lag when selecting apps for the home screen that is a bit crap. Mine was quick before.
Although photos feels a lot quicker
I'm using the leaked 8023 build with the buildrop from 8105.
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ok i think ive come to a conclusion that if i want to flash a regular rom like 351 i need to flash a amss file and a dsp1 file...before i flash the recovery and update....can someone conferm this???
also if thats the case is this something that should be done with 1.9
im having problems with both and my phone is now a paper weight please help me noone is helping me with any problems here!!
You're likely not getting answers because the information is in your instruction manual and on the forums. But, this should help you anyway.
To install 351, or for that matter, ANY official Dell ROM...
1. Download the 351 update package from here. Place said package on the root of the MicroSD card and rename to "update.pkg".
2. Shut down the phone.
3. Place the phone into recovery mode by holding both the volume up and volume down buttons at the same time while holding down the power button. Let go of the power button when the Dell logo appears.
4. If done properly, you should see a menu in white letters on a black background. This is recovery mode. In the menu that should appear there should be an option to flash an update package. Select this option using the volume up and down buttons to highlight your choice and the camera button to select. The Streak should automatically find the update package you put on the MicroSD in step 1 and install it. After that, it's a matter of patience and waiting for the process to finish.
If your recovery image is screwed up, search for multirecoveryflasher on the forums. From there you should be able to install a recovery image easily enough.
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You're likely not getting answers because the information is in your instruction manual and on the forums. But, this should help you anyway.
To install 351, or for that matter, ANY official Dell ROM...
1. Download the 351 update package from here. Place said package on the root of the MicroSD card and rename to "update.pkg".
2. Shut down the phone.
3. Place the phone into recovery mode by holding both the volume up and volume down buttons at the same time while holding down the power button. Let go of the power button when the Dell logo appears.
4. If done properly, you should see a menu in white letters on a black background. This is recovery mode. In the menu that should appear there should be an option to flash an update package. Select this option using the volume up and down buttons to highlight your choice and the camera button to select. The Streak should automatically find the update package you put on the MicroSD in step 1 and install it. After that, it's a matter of patience and waiting for the process to finish.
If your recovery image is screwed up, search for multirecoveryflasher on the forums. From there you should be able to install a recovery image easily enough.
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ive done it like that and got stuck in a boot loop now my phone wont work no more and im tryin to figure out what i did wrong
Are you able to get into Fastboot mode?
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Are you able to get into Fastboot mode?
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yes i am....
Ok, did you flash one of the stock recovery images, or one of the two that were modded (Streakmod and Clockworkmod)? I would restore one of the default images, whichever one was last on your phone, then do the update.
The fact you can get into fastboot means the phone isn't bricked, so that's good news.
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Ok, did you flash one of the stock recovery images, or one of the two that were modded (Streakmod and Clockworkmod)? I would restore one of the default images, whichever one was last on your phone, then do the update.
The fact you can get into fastboot means the phone isn't bricked, so that's good news.
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i've flashed 351 recovery and i kept gettin the boot loop....then i flashed the 345 and same thing....then i flashed streakmod and flashed 1.9 and i get the same lock ups when i boot and boot loops.....
also
when my phone is in data mode and i try and reboot it that causes alot of problems with loading idk why but that might help
Download the update.pkg and the recovery again. They may have been corrupted. Then pull all the data off your external SD Card and do a full format (FAT32) on it. Once the format is complete load the update.pkg to the phone and try again.
Long story short, I got all the way to the point of flashing the ROM, after the black screen issue with recovery. So I did all the necessary wipes, the onto the formatting. When I tried to flash ROM, I realized I inserted a sdcard without the ROM I wanted. (THIS IS WHERE I BRAIN FARTED AT) I pulled the battrey instead of just replacing the sdcard that had the ROM. Now when I power on all I get is the lg logo. When I try to go to recovery the lg logo flashes, then just black lit screen and keys lit up. It won't go into emergency mode either, that's my main concern.
Tell me if I'm doing emergecy mode right also, I'm holding down: back arrow key, volume down, and power. Is there an amount of time I need to hold these keys
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Long story short, I got all the way to the point of flashing the ROM, after the black screen issue with recovery. So I did all the necessary wipes, the onto the formatting. When I tried to flash ROM, I realized I inserted a sdcard without the ROM I wanted. (THIS IS WHERE I BRAIN FARTED AT) I pulled the battrey instead of just replacing the sdcard that had the ROM. Now when I power on all I get is the lg logo. When I try to go to recovery the lg logo flashes, then just black lit screen and keys lit up. It won't go into emergency mode either, that's my main concern.
Tell me if I'm doing emergecy mode right also, I'm holding down: back arrow key, volume down, and power. Is there an amount of time I need to hold these keys
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press home+power+volume down .. it is not mistake when u forgot to plug sd card..your procedure is strange but try this combination..
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press home+power+volume down .. it is not mistake when u forgot to plug sd card..your procedure is strange but try this combination..
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I had the sdcard in the phone, I didn't have the ROM on the card.
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Does it stay on this black screen with the keys lit up? If so have you pressed the camera button and if so does it reset to the lg logo then back to the black screen? If so if I am correct there may be an issue with display drivers or something. I had the issue as well and it was a pain to get it going correctly again. But anyways what I had to do was to get a different recovery for the phone then have the images of the recovery screen to know what key combinations to press. Once I had that I just flashed the new recovery onto the phone and it restarted and eventually got a new recovery with the screen actually showing up for the recovery. Anyways after I did that I could go from there and I use the latest IHO as it has the necessary display drivers for the phone. I am not sure about other roms as I have only used IHO. Anyways I found how to do this here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/op...black-screen-custom-recovery-custom-roms.html be sure to register to be able to get access to the forum to see the necessary details. I kind of had to improvise though as I couldn't seem to get access to the phones command prompt always told me waiting for device. Well I hope this helps if you need further details let me know and I will try to help you out.
Hi guys,
I tried to unlock the bootloader of my Nexus 10 before rooting it. Unfortunately, it didn't work and I can't use it anymore (I either have the "Loading X" forever or a dead droid while trying to go to the recovery mode).
I'm used to do that kind of modifications (only on Samsung Galaxy S and S3 though) and I don't know what I did wrong (but I usually flashed with Odin).
Anyway, I used this tool (after enabling the usb debug and allowing unknown sources) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001868
I installed the drivers on my PC (menu 1 in the tool), then I could see my device in ADB MODE (in the tool menu). I tried to unlock the bootloader (3rd option in the menu) and it was written completed. My device reboots and nothing happens. I can access the fastboot mode (is it the download mode ?).
I have Odin.
Can someone help me to get a working device ?
Thank you very much.
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Hi guys,
I tried to unlock the bootloader of my Nexus 10 before rooting it. Unfortunately, it didn't work and I can't use it anymore (I either have the "Loading X" forever or a dead droid while trying to go to the recovery mode).
I'm used to do that kind of modifications (only on Samsung Galaxy S and S3 though) and I don't know what I did wrong (but I usually flashed with Odin).
Anyway, I used this tool (after enabling the usb debug and allowing unknown sources) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001868
I installed the drivers on my PC (menu 1 in the tool), then I could see my device in ADB MODE (in the tool menu). I tried to unlock the bootloader (3rd option in the menu) and it was written completed. My device reboots and nothing happens. I can access the fastboot mode (is it the download mode ?).
I have Odin.
Can someone help me to get a working device ?
Thank you very much.
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Easy fix. Get to the dead droid recovery menu and then press all 3 buttons on the top. You will get into the blue recovery options. Choose factory reset.
Sometimes unlocking the bootloaders scrambles a few things on this device and it goes into boot loop. After the factory reset, you'll be fine. PM me if you still have issues.
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Blueback22 said:
Easy fix. Get to the dead droid recovery menu and then press all 3 buttons on the top. You will get into the blue recovery options. Choose factory reset.
Sometimes unlocking the bootloaders scrambles a few things on this device and it goes into boot loop. After the factory reset, you'll be fine. PM me if you still have issues.
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Okay, thank you very much. I didn't know I had to press the 3 top buttons again after the dead droid screen, I thought it failed loading the Recovery Mode.
I have to setup my account etc again so I guess it is safe to say it worked.
Additionally, I tried this method after the recovery : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015467
and it worked fine. My device has an unlocked bootloader and is rooted.
hey if someone could help me im stuck myself, after i had the dead android in recovery mode i tried to flash software with the toolkit in fastboot and now when i go to recovery its just a blank screen till i hold the bottom combo again and it takes me back to fastboot
Blueback22 said:
Easy fix. Get to the dead droid recovery menu and then press all 3 buttons on the top. You will get into the blue recovery options. Choose factory reset.
Sometimes unlocking the bootloaders scrambles a few things on this device and it goes into boot loop. After the factory reset, you'll be fine. PM me if you still have issues.
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Hey,
I'm having the same problem. I get to the dead droid instead of recovery and tried hitting all three buttons again but it's just looping again.
Any ideas?
maximepull said:
Hey,
I'm having the same problem. I get to the dead droid instead of recovery and tried hitting all three buttons again but it's just looping again.
Any ideas?
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It sounds like you didn't actually perform a factory reset. The key combination to get into stock recovery from the dead android screen is Power + Vol-Up. That will bring up the option to factory reset.
So if your powered off or bootlooping, hold the Power + Vol-Up + Vol-Down until you're back in the Bootloader. Use Vol buttons to select Recovery Mode and tap Power. When the droid w/ the Red "!" appears, hold the Power button and quick press the Vol-Up button. This should take you into stock recovery. Select Factory reset. Reboot. After a few minutes, the device should boot normally.
Good luck.
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It sounds like you didn't actually perform a factory reset. The key combination to get into stock recovery from the dead android screen is Power + Vol-Up. That will bring up the option to factory reset.
So if your powered off or bootlooping, hold the Power + Vol-Up + Vol-Down until you're back in the Bootloader. Use Vol buttons to select Recovery Mode and tap Power. When the droid w/ the Red "!" appears, hold the Power button and quick press the Vol-Up button. This should take you into stock recovery. Select Factory reset. Reboot. After a few minutes, the device should boot normally.
Good luck.
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Ok found a video showing that when you get to that part where there's the dead droid (the red !), you don't press hold hold all three buttons but tap them until the recovery screen shows up.
So finally did that but I still have the same problem.
My initial problem was, I received my N10, open the box, turned it on and it started freezing and rebooting. Can't get past the wifi step.
Tried hard and many times to finally get to enter my gmail account, etc
Updated to 4.3, problem persisted so I figured, maybe the factory flashed a bad rom?
So I unlocked it, rooted it and tried flashing older stock versions, same problem.
Tried flashing CM, same; PA, same...
Tried deactivating location service as suggested elsewhere: same; uninstall chrome: same
Even CM withouf GAPPS wouldnt work
So basically, I have a $500 brick. Completely useless as it freezes every 30 seconds.
Decided not to return the device because although I am Canadian, I live in SE Asia and had a visiting friend bring it to me. Way past the return period and the overall experience would be a real pain in the butt... Don't know what to do. Really hoping Kit Kat will solve it but I have doubts.
What do you think?
Sorry. I don't know enough about these things to give more in depth troubleshooting advice. I just recently got my N10 & unlocked it and based on your original post, I thought that's where you needed help. But it sounds like you got past that and got it unlocked.
Have you tried downloading a factory image directly from Google and installing that? If it's locking up on a fresh install of any ROM, it very well may be a hardware issue. You may have to file a warranty claim if possible.
maximepull said:
Ok found a video showing that when you get to that part where there's the dead droid (the red !), you don't press hold hold all three buttons but tap them until the recovery screen shows up.
So finally did that but I still have the same problem.
My initial problem was, I received my N10, open the box, turned it on and it started freezing and rebooting. Can't get past the wifi step.
Tried hard and many times to finally get to enter my gmail account, etc
Updated to 4.3, problem persisted so I figured, maybe the factory flashed a bad rom?
So I unlocked it, rooted it and tried flashing older stock versions, same problem.
Tried flashing CM, same; PA, same...
Tried deactivating location service as suggested elsewhere: same; uninstall chrome: same
Even CM withouf GAPPS wouldnt work
So basically, I have a $500 brick. Completely useless as it freezes every 30 seconds.
Decided not to return the device because although I am Canadian, I live in SE Asia and had a visiting friend bring it to me. Way past the return period and the overall experience would be a real pain in the butt... Don't know what to do. Really hoping Kit Kat will solve it but I have doubts.
What do you think?
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Have you tried downloading a factory image directly from Google and installing that?
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^ that's your solution. If you dont know how to just pm me
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So, I got my Venue rooted, and was changing the boot animation, had one I liked but it had pixelation from bad quality png files. I made a new one with better files, all the right resolution settings etc. anyways, I am now stuck in bootloop. I never imagined needing to make a backup for a boot animation so I am stuck for now. Can't access recovery mode, get the dead droid with the red exclamation mark. I have attempted to adb pull or push with no success, or even update to 4.3 from fastboot. I am completely out of ideas besides a warranty exchange from Dell, which I would rather not do. Anybody have something for a possible fix?
Anybody?
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when you see the dead droid press volume up and down quickly back and forth and it should show up the recovery screen. From there I believe you could flash something with the update.zip. I could be wrong though..
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when you see the dead droid press volume up and down quickly back and forth and it should show up the recovery screen. From there I believe you could flash something with the update.zip. I could be wrong though..
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I appreciate the attempt, but nothing happens with hitting the buttons, I have a second, identical venue and will attempt to pull the system files, recovery etc. over and flash them to the soft bricked one, hopefully that will work.
Dabesiv said:
I appreciate the attempt, but nothing happens with hitting the buttons, I have a second, identical venue and will attempt to pull the system files, recovery etc. over and flash them to the soft bricked one, hopefully that will work.
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I know for a fact there's a button combo to get past the droid with a ! . I do it with my droid razr m but I forgot how to bypass it.
when at the droid on its back screen press volume up and power button for 2 seconds to enter recovery mode.
Its kinda tricksy but all you have to do is at the ! Hold the vol + down then hold power at the same time. Let go of both pretty quick and Bob's you're uncle. It may take bunches of tries.
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thanks guys, I am away from the device for a week but will try when I get home
you guys rock
I can't wait for this!
FIXED!!
Got past the dead droid boot thanks to you guys, everything is up and running perfectly again. Thanks guys!!
Hey friend, how did you solve it?