First off id like to say thanks in advance to any replies and also apologize if this has been posted previously (i searched and could not find anything that was helpful) I lurked around these forums when i had my x1 and im hoping you guys can be as helpful for me as you are for everyone else. anyway onto the issue
I used the superboot method to root my ATT US Streak. My intentions were to update to 2.1 following the steps in the "eclair working on my u.s. unlocked streak!" thread (wont let me put a link since its my first post)
after using fastboot to root the phone will boot up and function fine but recovery and fastboot no longer work. i tried flashing Koush's custom recovery and other things that require fastboot and the terminal just says "sending..." nothing happens no errors or anything, the cmd prompt just sits there and i need to remove the battery to reboot the device.
i then downloaded the Rom Manager apk from the market and flashed the clockwork recovery from there (it said i did anyway). when i load the recovery from boot (volume keys + power and its the stock recovery) and chose option 2 to flash modaco custom rom or even the stock dell rom it just goes to a black screen and i once again need to remove the battery to reboot.
the phone itself is still functioning fine when it boots up and everything works the way it should other than the home, menu, and back button lights flash in random orders, thats just annoying though. again any help is appreciated
so what should i try next?
EDIT: woke up this morning and now the device will not turn on. i tried starting to fastboot and recovery but still nothing. plug it into my pc and i get the "found new hardware wizard" for a Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM.
first real brick? ha that would be my luck
EDIT 2: a kid just ran through my work, grabbed my phone and threw it on the ground. it screwed up the 30 pin connector on the phone and the charger. im going to hurt somebody. phone is booting again though... put sd card back in and still boots fine
SOLVED: Dont know the technical reasons behind it but i had to reinstall the drivers and switch usb ports for every fastboot and recovery procedure
removed SD card and its booting up normally. any thoughts?
Hi,
My device started boot looping while trying to restore to stock ROM to update to a new ROM.
I wen't through the nvflash process successfully (meaning nvflash wrote the images to the device) but it continue with the loop.
Eventually, it powered down and now it will not power up at all. Battery is fully charged.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
OK, so I figured out that the device was stuck in APX mode.
nvflash doesn't seem to be fixing the problem, so I'm trying adb. It doesn't seem to see the device at all. I'm sure I'm missing step on how to work with adb.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting adb connected properly?
Thanks.
I'm trying to get adb working following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902860
but it cannot see the device. The drive is installed fine but the device does not show up.
I know that if I can get into the device I can put it in debug mode, but I'm not sure how to do this now. I'm thinking this could be my problem, that the device is not in the correct "mode"
Any ideas?
Thanks.
did you get this resolved? i'm having the same problem.
williec30 said:
did you get this resolved? i'm having the same problem.
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Nope, still playing with nvflash.
Trying this now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974422
pgonza02 said:
Nope, still playing with nvflash.
Trying this now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974422
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i was able to get the device back into apx mode and run the nvflash utility again.
williec30 said:
i was able to get the device back into apx mode and run the nvflash utility again.
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I've been able to do that a couple of times, but after nvflash completes, just get into a TapNTap logo loop and eventually just powers down. When I am able to turn it back on, it goes straight into APX mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12089833&postcount=92
kostyamat said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12089833&postcount=92
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Do you mean to install CW from external micro SD?
Thanks.
This is Where I Stand
1. nvflash from TNT lite post
2. Completes and reboots, goes into GTab screen, no Viewsonic screen
3. TapNTap screen and then to n animation
4. Reboot and go to #3. Haven't counted but at some point it just powers off.
I have tried installing CW from the external SD card but cannot get to it.
Have tried adb but cannot get it to connect.
I'm totally out of ideas...I'm thinking that if I just let it sit there, it'll just work
This is Where I Stand
1. nvflash from TNT lite post
2. Completes and reboots, goes into GTab screen, no Viewsonic screen
3. TapNTap screen and then to n animation
4. Reboot and go to #3. Haven't counted but at some point it just powers off.
I have tried installing CW from the external SD card but cannot get to it.
Have tried adb but cannot get it to connect.
I'm totally out of ideas...I'm thinking that if I just let it sit there, it'll just work
Finally Worked
I have no idea what made it work.
I decided to just take a break and left the tablet connected to the computer through USB but powered down. Came back a couple of hours later and when I turned it back on, I got the Viewsonic screen.
After that, I was able to reboot and go into CW and do a factory reset, which put it in a really old version. It was all easy from there.
pgonza02:
As I understand, you can now power off and reboot you GTab.
Can you recall what were your steps to get to this point?
I'm stuck in APX mode for almost a month! I don't know what else to try...
Thanks in advance.
I tried many things, including:
Install CW by replacing the image for partition 9 with the update.zip for CW (basically rename update.zip to whatever the img file is called)
Add CW to external SD card and attempt to reboot.
Eventually I just left the tablet alone and when I came back I turned it on I saw the Viewsonic birds (this seemed to be the key, when it was not working I never saw it)
I read a thread somewhere that mentioned that nvflash has the ability to redirect output through the HDMI out so you would not see it in the main screen. My guess is that what's happening is that the output of something, that is taking time to complete, is going out that way and I just could not see it. By leaving it alone, whatever it was, completed. This is just a guess, maybe someone with more knowledge can confirm.
Sorry I couldn't give you more details.
Boot loop and black screen
I'm having the same problem. In fact, I'm unable to boot into APX mode.
I have the cover off and read about a hardware reset button. I tried pushing the
reset button (k2) but nothing happened. I also read that I can disconnect
the batter. But, I don't see where the battery wire can be just disconnected
without soldering.
Any ideas?
Hi to all! I did a lot of nonsense. I wanted to make a permanent root. I made the last point of the instructions chrulri and the device is no longer boot. I decided to do all over again. But after installing SDE, the device is no longer to enter in the menu recovery and not load firmware. The device simply hangs at the first appearance of the logo archos. What do I do?
Hello,
I own an Android tablet KO PARA1 FULL and experiencing a strange problem. This is a chinese atm7029 quadcore tablet (16gb, 1gb ram, without bluetooth, only wifi, bu supports 3g dongle), running android 4.1.1 nad 3.4.0+ kernel, which came prerooted. After some time I've decided to install backup programs on in to make a full backup of the device for the case something would go wrong, and after some trying I descovered, that there is something like recovery for that purposes which seemed a good solution for me. I decided to install CWM, which I managed to install without problems and made some backups on my device. Everything was fine, I did some factory resets through the time, some restoring processes from my previously backup states of the device, was always able to activate CWM recovery menu through Reboot to recovery or through combination of Volume down a Power button...
Until last saturday. I was normaly surfing the internet, reading mails and afterwords I powered my tablet off (it is draining battery in sleep mode, but its another story..). After a while wanted again to write a mail, so I powered it on. In that momet seemed the screen too dirty for me and I tried to cleen it little bit throug the bootup process. Unfortunately I obvious confused the system with it and after boot it was not responding properly. I did not wait enough and after a while powered it off with power key pressed for a long time, to make a new boot.
But when I powered it on again, it stayed stuck in boot logo and did not boot at all. I've tried a copple of times to boot it again with no cuccess, stayed stuck in boot logo for more then 10 min...
Afterwards I decided to make it boot up with the help of computer. I downloaded adb and drivers and somehow managed to make it boot up. I thing I was too excited to see it boot up again, that during boot up process I desconected my device from computer...
My worries were reliesed and I thought it would be a good idea to make a restore from backup to prevent some strange behaviour, so wanted to boot into recovery, but nothing had happened. After some repeated clicks on Boot into recovery button, as well as app called rebooter with nothing happening, I decided to try it out through button combination. It has not worked as well Next try was to reset to factory settings. But when I go through the menu, I can click on reset to factory settings button, seeing warning that I will lost ma data, then I can push the button to make it happen, but nothing is happening. I see only the screen with the button, can touch it 100 times and the tablet stays on, fully funcional. making no factory reset as it done before.
I did a lot of reading and searching, but have not find answer for my problem. I flashed recovery images from my backups (using flashify, flash gordon, adb shell, terminal emulator), from all previously functional states of the device. I refleshed the CWM recovery downloaded from the internet for my chipset, which previously did the job just perfect, with no success...
I am still not able to reach recovery menu. For me it seems like the bootloader would be locked, but I did not find the answer how to unlock it without to be able to start in some recovery state to use fastboot command to unlock it.
Otherwise, my device is functional, still rooted, i can use it without any other problems. But not be able to do recovery from my backups, even do a factory reset.
How can I restore my access to recovery mode? Is it somehow possible?
Hopfully it is not too much information (tryied to follow the intructions and wrote everything I thought would be important to know about) and you will not be bothered to read all my story and pull me out of my darkness with helpfull suggestion.
Thanks a lot in advance
Steve
I have a Umidigi Crystal (2/16) and it´s not booting anymore.
How that came is a long story.:crying:
I got the phone, wanted to root it and while I was enabling usb debugging in developer options, I noticed you can root it from there as well.
I have no idea whether thats a Umidigi special or if that was seen on other phones too, basically I had a slider option to enable root access.
After a reboot, SuperSU was installed automatically, root checker, file explorer and rom toolbox worked fine with it but I actually rooted to get Xposed Installer.
That worked very well too, only did I want to have a custom recovery to prepare my phone in case of a bootloop.
So I followed these instructions.
I hadn´t unlocked the bootloader by the time and since the instructions said I would have to unlock it I did that first using these instructions.
Everything worked as expected but from this point on, on the pre-bootanimation picture my screen would say
Code:
Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
Booting in 5 sec...
As everything else was the same as before, I just ignored it.
Then I moved on to installing TWRP by, again, these instructions.
The process seemed to work but after finishing, I was unable to boot into recovery mode, my phone would just boot into the normal OS(which still worked by the time).
I wanted to get around that by using this app but because of the unlocked bootloader my phone was factory reset
and I had to root again.
I was going for the same way I already did it beforehands and I was asked to reboot again.
After that point, my phone was stuck in the pre-bootanimation screen saying it´s orange state thingy again and would just stay there forever.
I tried installing the stock rom from here ((2/16 - V1.0_20171026)) to get rid of the root setting I enabled.
Now I get the pre-bootanimation screen with the orange state text again and after 5 seconds it keeps the background image but the text disappears.
Thats where it´s stuck for like 3 hours now.
When I press the power key a couple of seconds, that loop starts again, I can´t turn the phone off.
Things I can still do:
•Reboot (holding the power button, still get stuck the same way though)
•Access a PC, the internet, an SD Card and electricity
•Charge the phone
•I still have all the drivers on my PC properly installed
Things I can´t do
•Keep the phone turned completely off
•Boot into fastboot, recovery or normal OS
•Get the PC to recognize my phone (not even the adb)
What I want (if possible in that order):
•Boot into literally any OS
•Use the current OS or any custom rom
•Have root access without the developer option method
•Have TWRP
•Unlocked Bootloader
I know, I ask for a lot but this is the only phone I have right now and I badly need it.
Getting it to boot again is really the primary goal here.
Thanks so much to everyone who tries to help me, it really means a lot