Need some help, stuck at boot screen, cant reboot... - HTC Droid DNA

Yeah was on teh m7 custom rom and had just finish transferring files to sd and rebooted. Didnt get far, i wiped the cache and rebooted(wanted to save a contact). Now im stuck on the booting screen. Ive tried holding down the power button for long periods of time, also the power+volume down and nothing.
Stuck at htc one loading screen. I can see htc device in device manager and it gets a little warm(nothing high). Any help is appreciated.
Running beastmode kernal and have never had any issues.

intruda119 said:
Yeah was on teh m7 custom rom and had just finish transferring files to sd and rebooted. Didnt get far, i wiped the cache and rebooted(wanted to save a contact). Now im stuck on the booting screen. Ive tried holding down the power button for long periods of time, also the power+volume down and nothing.
Stuck at htc one loading screen. I can see htc device in device manager and it gets a little warm(nothing high). Any help is appreciated.
Running beastmode kernal and have never had any issues.
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The time it takes to hold down power button varies, 10 sec is supposed to be the rule but I have had to do this several times and have found the time it takes can be very long as well or medium long. I have had to do it several times to get it to finally go on occasion. Point is keep trying it, it will reboot. Be READY when it does to hold in the volume down button to get into recovery. 2 things you can do....wipe cache, dalvik cache and system and restore your back up or wipe all 3 and install 1.06 M7 rom...

rootntootn said:
The time it takes to hold down power button varies, 10 sec is supposed to be the rule but I have had to do this several times and have found the time it takes can be very long as well or medium long. I have had to do it several times to get it to finally go on occasion. Point is keep trying it, it will reboot. Be READY when it does to hold in the volume down button to get into recovery. 2 things you can do....wipe cache, dalvik cache and system and restore your back up or wipe all 3 and install 1.06 M7 rom...
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maybe also try plugging in to AC and then power+vol?

Pwr+Vol Dn for ~ 10 seconds. You'll see the softtouch lights begin to flash, then it'll reboot. Like rootntootn said, be quick with the Vol Dn to get into the bootloader. Once you're in there, you're set.

drumz0rz said:
Pwr+Vol Dn for ~ 10 seconds. You'll see the softtouch lights begin to flash, then it'll reboot. Like rootntootn said, be quick with the Vol Dn to get into the bootloader. Once you're in there, you're set.
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And what should i do when the lights start to flash but nothing else happens ?
I'm having a similar problem.
Stuck on the htc logo and nothing more.
When pressing the vol-down+power the softtouch lights flash but nothing happens.

controvi said:
And what should i do when the lights start to flash but nothing else happens ?
I'm having a similar problem.
Stuck on the htc logo and nothing more.
When pressing the vol-down+power the softtouch lights flash but nothing happens.
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Hold just power until they flash, when the screen blacks out let go of power then hold volume down, not at the same time.
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intruda119 said:
Yeah was on teh m7 custom rom and had just finish transferring files to sd and rebooted. Didnt get far, i wiped the cache and rebooted(wanted to save a contact). Now im stuck on the booting screen. Ive tried holding down the power button for long periods of time, also the power+volume down and nothing.
Stuck at htc one loading screen. I can see htc device in device manager and it gets a little warm(nothing high). Any help is appreciated.
Running beastmode kernal and have never had any issues.
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Next to were u plug in the charger there is a tiny little hole take a small pin , and push in the pin untill the phone resets . But holding down power untill buttons blinks and flash, then letting go .then holding down volume should get you back into boot loader so you can reflash or restore a back up. Once what I posted above didn't work for me keep getting the same as you. So I had a brain storm I pluged cable into pc, started up hasoon2000 all in one tool and clicked on reinstall stock ruu. I don't know why and how this even worked but asoon as the commands stopped runing in the terminal , phone rebooted and was still s_off,rooted, and unlocked . This gets me thinking still today how this fixed my issue when the phone was stuck on boot loop of HTC logo screen lol. It restored it back to my previous state after I first ran moonshine! Lol it was a phone mirical !
Viper DNA, s_off DLX

Flashme14 said:
Next to were u plug in the charger there is a tiny little hole take a small pin , and push in the pin untill the phone resets
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Uh...isn't that the mic?

need your help
hey I have just flashed viper rom sense 5 and I am stuck at htc boot logo saying this build is for development purpose.............
have I done something wrong
I am unlocked tampered s-on
and I flashed viper rom sense 5
plzz help bro

onkar0027 said:
hey I have just flashed viper rom sense 5 and I am stuck at htc boot logo saying this build is for development purpose.............
have I done something wrong
I am unlocked tampered s-on
and I flashed viper rom sense 5
plzz help bro
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S-on so you need to fastboot flash boot boot.img
From the Viper Rom zip or any Rom you flash.
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thank you bro ... you always helped me

A friend of mine asked if I could fix her DNA, it is stock, non rooted S-On. I can get it into boot loader and fastboot, but it will not go into recovery, it just kicks me back to the splash screen in a boot loop. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I know very little about HTC phones
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g.armour said:
A friend of mine asked if I could fix her DNA, it is stock, non rooted S-On. I can get it into boot loader and fastboot, but it will not go into recovery, it just kicks me back to the splash screen in a boot loop. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I know very little about HTC phones
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Did you run the s-on ruu yet?
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No, can you link me to it please? I am on the app with little search function.
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g.armour said:
No, can you link me to it please? I am on the app with little search function.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2935556
Official EXE RUU's (s-on)

Is the hboot and boot loader the same thing? Whenever I go to run the ruu, it comes up saying it is rebooting to boot loader and it stalls out, won't ever reboot to boot loader, and the computer says it is a USB error. I've tried 3 different USB cables.
I'm starting to think this phone is a lost cause.
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if the problem persists and if you cant hold the fastboot usb to pc , you must change the ( Main Flex Cable Connector)
that what im faced in two cases like yours , see the attached photos :
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Black screen with phone to computer icon. Is it bricked?

I've try many times but can't get it to boot to recovery or download mode.
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I am getting the exact same screen...cant get it to recovery or download mode.
its not bricked, I had this many times while pulling the usb or battery while in odin. Plug in the usb and press and hold vol up and down and power. When the screen goes black let go of power while continuing to hold vol up and down. Should bring you back to download mode
I was able to get it into download mode and flash the rom. Thanks
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jerseyboy said:
I was able to get it into download mode and flash the rom. Thanks
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How'd you get it to flash? I got that same screen but in ODIN it just sits at cache.rfs... nothing good happening after that. It is basically frozen.
Regards,
B
OMG I finally got it. I had to leave ODIN open after it stuck at file analysis. I then took out the battery of the phone and put it back into download mode. I click start in ODIN and thankfully... she's flashing back to stock 2.1. I had tried a million different ways... ODIN is not exceptionally stable. No bueno. I think I'm going to keep the stock Kernal cause this was scary... lol.
Regards,
B
I used odin too. Good to know your's working now
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tengtengvn said:
I've try many times but can't get it to boot to recovery or download mode.
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I had the same problem.
What you have to do is run Odin with the usb connected to the phone, then you unplug and plug the usb back in, hold the vol - and + with the power button at the same time, once the screen goes black, release the power button, but keep holding the vol - and + buttons and Odin will recognize your phone. then the phone will be at the downloading screen
That's how it worked for me.
What did you do to get your phone in this state? Try to root ??
vibrantFTW said:
OMG I finally got it. I had to leave ODIN open after it stuck at file analysis. I then took out the battery of the phone and put it back into download mode. I click start in ODIN and thankfully... she's flashing back to stock 2.1. I had tried a million different ways... ODIN is not exceptionally stable. No bueno. I think I'm going to keep the stock Kernal cause this was scary... lol.
Regards,
B
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Yup. The key part is to leave ODIN open.
Please help! I have the same issue. I have been trying for hours with no luck.
I cannot seem to get into download mode. I have tried everything you guys suggested.
Mr_creeper_98 said:
I had the same problem.
What you have to do is run Odin with the usb connected to the phone, then you unplug and plug the usb back in, hold the vol - and + with the power button at the same time, once the screen goes black, release the power button, but keep holding the vol - and + buttons and Odin will recognize your phone. then the phone will be at the downloading screen
That's how it worked for me.
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thank you so much for this. you saved me!
dsint said:
Please help! I have the same issue. I have been trying for hours with no luck.
I cannot seem to get into download mode. I have tried everything you guys suggested.
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Only suggestion I can give is to keep trying, that's how I got my phone out of that dreaded state in the OP's pic.
Man I'm in the same boat. I tried the key combination many times before this. I was flashed bionix 1.2 w/OC and was using ROM Manager to revert back to my previous ROM which was stock and when it was done it rebooted and would stay stuck with the Samsung Vibrant screen. I ended upsing ADB to get it into download mode and the other modes but I tried to use ODIN to restore after it was in download mode and it just seemed stuck. How long does it take to usually load the kernel? Well it was taking so long so I just pulled the USB plug. After I did this I got that cellphone and computer icon. I've tried many times to get it into download mode or restore mode many times with the volume button and power button and haven't had any luck at all. I'll keep trying. I hope this really works.
I have tried every combo mentioned and a few others along with every button combination, I read it has to do with what rom you were using before the phone -> computer icon. I came from bionix 1.3, I would love any help to get this thing fixed before my wife finds out...
This happened to me earlier today instead pull the battery out and usb then put the battery back in open odin attatch the usb to the computer and then hold down volume up and volume down while plugging the usb to the phone finally and it worked might take a few tries and if odin doesn't recognize the phone unplug the usb and plug it back in if it's already in dl mode
if ur device is hardware locked, ur as well as bricked at this point, i cant get mine out
An easier way to get to download mode that I have been using. Have Odin open. Turn off the phone. Hold volume up and plug in the USB. Goes straight into download mode for me every time. Not sure if this will work with the hardware locked phones (I don't have a hardware locked phone - got it on launch day).
vibrantFTW said:
ODIN is not exceptionally stable.
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Old thread, I know. Just my 2 cents. I only found this to be true of Odin v1.0 since v1.3 seems quite stable.
If your using odin and it hangs during flashing never pull the usb always pull the battery out first then the cable the phone will stay on when you pull the batterycuz the usb is giving it power but once the usb is pulled the phone is off and you won't be stuck with the dreaded phone ! Computer screen.
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Possible bricked TF201

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me.
I got a TF201 recently and it was rooted so I decided to try and flash it back to factory setting, I went into recovery mode and found there was a backup on there from when it was first made so I restored it to that.
I then clicked the button to reset the system and it gets to the Asus logo but doesn't go any further.
I tried booting into recovery again (power and vol down key) and all I get to is a menu that says "wipe data" or "fastboot USB download protocol", but no matter what I do I can't get past that screen!
Have I properly bricked it? or is there some way I can save this?
Joey#2 said:
Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me.
I got a TF201 recently and it was rooted so I decided to try and flash it back to factory setting, I went into recovery mode and found there was a backup on there from when it was first made so I restored it to that.
I then clicked the button to reset the system and it gets to the Asus logo but doesn't go any further.
I tried booting into recovery again (power and vol down key) and all I get to is a menu that says "wipe data" or "fastboot USB download protocol", but no matter what I do I can't get past that screen!
Have I properly bricked it? or is there some way I can save this?
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I will try to help you later but for now can you please tell me where the "NVIDIA" logo is when you switch it on bottom center or bottom right?
flumpster said:
I will try to help you later but for now can you please tell me where the "NVIDIA" logo is when you switch it on bottom center or bottom right?
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its bottom center
Joey#2 said:
its bottom center
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You are still on ICS bootloader.
I would advise you doing the nvflash process before leaving ICS because with them files backed up you can never hard brick your prime.
http://androidroot.mobi/t3_nvflash/
What rom do you want to install on there?
Here is a quote from another post I made.
Ok, you are on the ICS bootloader at the moment. The first thing we are going to do is flash a version of TWRP recovery on there which will allow you to install a rom off the external SD.
Power off the prime and put yourself into fastboot mode by holding power button and volume down the same time until a few icons appear on the screen. At this point press volume down to go over to the usb icon and then press volume up. It will look like the prime has frozen. Plug the prime into pc and make sure you have the drivers installed. If you do not please install them from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426502
Next follow this post to flash ICS twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34477681&postcount=5705
Only use the file in that link to install it while on ICS bootloader. Later on you are going to flash hairybean 1.3 which will take you up to Jellybean Bootloader. If you use this file after that you will brick your tablet.
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flumpster said:
You are still on ICS bootloader.
I would advise you doing the nvflash process before leaving ICS because with them files backed up you can never hard brick your prime.
http://androidroot.mobi/t3_nvflash/
What rom do you want to install on there?
Here is a quote from another post I made.
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Right I'm confused by this bit here:
Plug the prime into pc and make sure you have the drivers installed. If you do not please install them from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426502
Next follow this post to flash ICS twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=5705
I have done everything upto there and I downloaded the drivers from that link but I don't know how to install them? do you mean install them onto my PC or onto the tablet? because my tablet doesn't appear in Windows when I plug it in.
Joey#2 said:
Right I'm confused by this bit here:
Plug the prime into pc and make sure you have the drivers installed. If you do not please install them from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426502
Next follow this post to flash ICS twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=5705
I have done everything upto there and I downloaded the drivers from that link but I don't know how to install them? do you mean install them onto my PC or onto the tablet? because my tablet doesn't appear in Windows when I plug it in.
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When you go to the bootloader where the icons are and you plug the prime into PC it should show up in device manager. If the drivers are not installed it will show unknown device in device manager. If they are installed they will be up the top somewhere under asus or android devices saying something like asus bootloader interface.
flumpster said:
When you go to the bootloader where the icons are and you plug the prime into PC it should show up in device manager. If the drivers are not installed it will show unknown device in device manager. If they are installed they will be up the top somewhere under asus or android devices saying something like asus bootloader interface.
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right I've done that now and also I've run that Zip file you said to use "ICS TWRP Updater.zip" it came up saying it was successful and then I rebooted my device and went into fastboot USB again and its sitting on the same screen.. now what?
Btw apologies I'm a beginner when it comes to this sort of stuff
Joey#2 said:
right I've done that now and also I've run that Zip file you said to use "ICS TWRP Updater.zip" it came up saying it was successful and then I rebooted my device and went into fastboot USB again and its sitting on the same screen.. now what?
Btw apologies I'm a beginner when it comes to this sort of stuff
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Well that should have now given you a recover option as the first icon when in bootloader. Are you not getting that ?
flumpster said:
Well that should have now given you a recover option as the first icon when in bootloader. Are you not getting that ?
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Nope its just sat on the same screen as before where I can select wipe data or fastboot USB
Oh wait.. You are on ICS.. It's been so long.
I think the way to get into recovery on that is to hold the power down and volume down button to turn it on and then press volume up when the message appears. I don't think you had the recovery icon on ICS.
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Oh wait.. You are on ICS.. It's been so long.
I think the way to get into recovery on that is to hold the power down and volume down button to turn it on and then press volume up when the message appears. I don't think you had the recovery icon on ICS.
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That doesn't work either I just get to the same screen as before, I can seem to get into the boot menu at all just the wipe data and usb fastboot menu
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That doesn't work either I just get to the same screen as before, I can seem to get into the boot menu at all just the wipe data and usb fastboot menu
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Well I have some blob files here that should take you to either the 4.1.1 bootloader and a custom recovery or the 4.2.1 bootloader and a custom recovery but when you upgrade to them you will lose the ability to ever make your nvflash backups.
It all depends what rom you want to go to and if you want to go this route.
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Well I have some blob files here that should take you to either the 4.1.1 bootloader and a custom recovery or the 4.2.1 bootloader and a custom recovery but when you upgrade to them you will lose the ability to ever make your nvflash backups.
It all depends what rom you want to go to and if you want to go this route.
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If you could somehow manage to get my tablet back up and working with 4.1.1 on it you sir would be a hero and a legend in my eyes, I'm happy to go this route if it somehow works.
Joey#2 said:
If you could somehow manage to get my tablet back up and working with 4.1.1 on it you sir would be a hero and a legend in my eyes, I'm happy to go this route if it somehow works.
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I am going to give the script a quick test on my machine first so that I know it works this end.
I have not really seen your problem before so cannot guarantee this will fix you but it's worth a go if you are up for it.
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I am going to give the script a quick test on my machine first so that I know it works this end.
I have not really seen your problem before so cannot guarantee this will fix you but it's worth a go if you are up for it.
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Yeah definitely it's not working at all ATM so ill try anything
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Yeah definitely it's not working at all ATM so ill try anything
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Here we go.
Make a folder on a drive like d:/fix and place the following zip in it (not on desktop).
Extract it there and run the Attempt_Fix.bat file.
http://flumpster.lolcakes.com/android/Fix%20for%20ICS%20Guy.zip
Follow the onscreen instructions to get into fastboot mode. When it gets to the writing 'staging' part that is where is should pause for about 5 minutes and a blue line should fill on the screen. Do not turn it off at this point.
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If everything completes correctly and the blue line filled all the way then when you continue at the end it should restart and stick on the Asus screen.
Hold down volume down and power button for 10 seconds and keep holding and see if the icons reappear.
flumpster said:
Here we go.
Make a folder on a drive like d:/fix and place the following zip in it (not on desktop).
Extract it there and run the Attempt_Fix.bat file.
http://flumpster.lolcakes.com/android/Fix%20for%20ICS%20Guy.zip
Follow the onscreen instructions to get into fastboot mode. When it gets to the writing 'staging' part that is where is should pause for about 5 minutes and a blue line should fill on the screen. Do not turn it off at this point.
If everything completes correctly and the blue line filled all the way then when you continue at the end it should restart and stick on the Asus screen.
Hold down volume down and power button for 10 seconds and keep holding and see if the icons reappear.
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right we might be getting somewhere now i now have RCK and android on this screen, now what?
Joey#2 said:
right we might be getting somewhere now i now have RCK and android on this screen, now what?
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click up on RCK.. you now have recovery.
Now you have to pick a rom and put it on microsd.
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click up on RCK.. you now have recovery.
Now you have to pick a rom and put it on microsd.
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I suspected you would say that, I selected RCK and its sat on that same screen saying "booting recovery kernel image.. I have a feeling its not meant to do that
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I suspected you would say that, I selected RCK and its sat on that same screen saying "booting recovery kernel image.. I have a feeling its not meant to do that
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No it isn't.
When you switch the prime on now where is the NVIDIA logo this time. If it is bottom right it has definitely updated the bootloader.

Does anyone know how to Force shutdown htc one?

Every once in awhile when i try install a custom rom it freezes when i try to reboot it. When this happens i have to wait until my phone's battery dies. My phones not bricked or anything its just frozen. does any know how to force shutdown htc one? Thanks:laugh:
Miilkman said:
Every once in awhile when i try install a custom rom it freezes when i try to reboot it. When this happens i have to wait until my phone's battery dies. My phones not bricked or anything its just frozen. does any know how to force shutdown htc one? Thanks:laugh:
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yep.
This is going to sound crazy but it works.
put phone under a bright light source
press and hold power
lights will eventually blink
phone will shut off
a bright light? lol ok ill try
Miilkman said:
a bright light? lol ok ill try
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yes. It's necessary to overwhelm the ambient light sensor.
gunnyman said:
yes. It's necessary to overwhelm the ambient light sensor.
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Thanks it worked! <3
I read somewhere also that if you hold power button and volume up as well as volume down all at the same time for a few seconds when phone is frozen, it boots the phone like a pulling battery out reboot effect.
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I read somewhere also that if you hold power button and volume up as well as volume down all at the same time for a few seconds when phone is frozen, it boots the phone like a pulling battery out reboot effect.
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True, but there seems to be some kind of safety feature HTC built into the phone to prevent you from accidentally restarting your phone like that in say your pocket. The ambient light sensor is checked before the reboot will take place, hence the recommendation of rebooting with a light pointed at the sensor or at least in a brightly lit room.
gunnyman said:
yep.
This is going to sound crazy but it works.
put phone under a bright light source
press and hold power
lights will eventually blink
phone will shut off
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thank you guys , this really works ...4 a moment i tought my phone is gone ...so keep up the good work :good::good::good:
I never knew that the phone checks the ambient light sensor before it reboots. I usually just hold the power and volume up button for about 10 seconds
Uh I just usually hold power until the back and home button starts blinking then it will stop to tell you the phone is off. I thought the guy who said the thing about ambient light was being sarcastic
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Watoy said:
Uh I just usually hold power until the back and home button starts blinking then it will stop to tell you the phone is off. I thought the guy who said the thing about ambient light was being sarcastic
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and 9 times out of ten that will work, but for some reason, from recovery, or when old aroma would get stuck, it didn't, unless you held the phone under a bright light.
gunnyman said:
and 9 times out of ten that will work, but for some reason, from recovery, or when old aroma would get stuck, it didn't, unless you held the phone under a bright light.
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this is excellent information to know, thank you.
gunnyman said:
yes. It's necessary to overwhelm the ambient light sensor.
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Confirm this is true!
I was stuck in the aroma when I was flashing the kernel. I tried for hours to shut it down (tried everything, like hold down for minutes, all combination of holding buttons, etc..) but nothing works. At last I found this post and followed the instructions...
Additional info: The Light sensor has to be stimulated for couple second (may due to some buffer on the sensor reading). The last time I succeeded when I pointed a LED light to the sensor for about 10 seconds and then hold down the power button.
Thanks gunnyman! (Say thanks with words and Thanks button! XD)
alternate method to holding down buttons
I had to find a way to restart the phone when it was in TWRP and frozen. This was caused by using an outdated version of TWRP and no combination of buttons or bright lights was working. If you have access to a computer and are comfortable using adb, this method worked for me.
1) Get and install the latest adb files. I use something called minimal adb and fastboot.
2) Connect your phone, open a command prompt in the directory where your adb is located
3) Type "adb devices" and your phone SHOULD show up
4) Type "adb reboot" or "adb reboot-bootloader" and the phone will reboot either normally or into the bootloader, whichever you prefer.
5) ?????
6) Profit.
thanks all, power and vol up and down worked like a charm
Reinaldo33897 said:
I read somewhere also that if you hold power button and volume up as well as volume down all at the same time for a few seconds when phone is frozen, it boots the phone like a pulling battery out reboot effect.
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this worked. even when my phone wasn't frozen.
Help, unable to re-flash recovery after getting stuck at TWRP
tolik75x said:
I had to find a way to restart the phone when it was in TWRP and frozen. This was caused by using an outdated version of TWRP and no combination of buttons or bright lights was working. If you have access to a computer and are comfortable using adb, this method worked for me.
1) Get and install the latest adb files. I use something called minimal adb and fastboot.
2) Connect your phone, open a command prompt in the directory where your adb is located
3) Type "adb devices" and your phone SHOULD show up
4) Type "adb reboot" or "adb reboot-bootloader" and the phone will reboot either normally or into the bootloader, whichever you prefer.
5) ?????
6) Profit.
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Hi there, am also stuck on frozen TWRP screen, all was well and good for a while but then my damn stock rom downloaded an android update over wifi between reboots (didnt notice) and applied it without asking and now TWRP is non-responsive to touch. Have tried following the above but for some reason now fastboot wont recognise the device, it just says device not found when i try the above (when booted into stock rom). Have tried booting into TWRP and pushing the recovery flash, at the moment its not working either (can get into and out of TWRP as described above). Is it pertinent that during the process i get "ADB server is out of date. Killing:*Daemon started successfully? I have updated android studio to latest but still get this message for some reason...Any help much appreciated. Just trying to get a working recovery so i can flash rom.
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Maybe my question above is in the wrong thread? I can confirm that holding down both up and down volume buttons an then power does the same thing as taking the battery out in other models (restart).
snorglamp said:
Hi there, am also stuck on frozen TWRP screen, all was well and good for a while but then my damn stock rom downloaded an android update over wifi between reboots (didnt notice) and applied it without asking and now TWRP is non-responsive to touch. Have tried following the above but for some reason now fastboot wont recognise the device, it just says device not found when i try the above (when booted into stock rom). Have tried booting into TWRP and pushing the recovery flash, at the moment its not working either (can get into and out of TWRP as described above). Is it pertinent that during the process i get "ADB server is out of date. Killing:*Daemon started successfully? I have updated android studio to latest but still get this message for some reason...Any help much appreciated. Just trying to get a working recovery so i can flash rom.
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Maybe my question above is in the wrong thread? I can confirm that holding down both up and down volume buttons an then power does the same thing as taking the battery out in other models (restart).
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Fastboot commands work in the bootloader / fastboot USB
adb commands work in TWRP / recovery
If you can get to the bootloader fastboot USB reflash TWRP or relock the bootloader and flash the same version firmware you have now again
and then flash TWRP
Hi cIsA, thanks for your reply and for distinguishing that after replacing the recovery with TWRP only adb commands will work. Havent had this problems with other phones I have modded. When you say get to the bootloader, one does that by holding down volume down and power no? That takes me to TWRP. I thought recovery and bootloader were the same. So this mean i cant run fastboot commands after installing TWRP? I have re-posted my question in the TWRP thread for this device as I think I may be off topic given the thread title.
snorglamp said:
Hi cIsA, thanks for your reply and for distinguishing that after replacing the recovery with TWRP only adb commands will work. Havent had this problems with other phones I have modded. When you say get to the bootloader, one does that by holding down volume down and power no? That takes me to TWRP. I thought recovery and bootloader were the same. So this mean i cant run fastboot commands after installing TWRP? I have re-posted my question in the TWRP thread for this device as I think I may be off topic given the thread title.
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try shut down / then power + volume down / this should load the bootloader not TWRP
from TWRP choose reboot bootloader...does this get you to fastboot usb ?
This is the bootloader
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

[Q] boot loop does not stop help!!

I have no idea what happenned but I am in a "boot loop" and have pulled battery and every other soulution i have seen does not work. I cannot get into anything. I cannot plug in and run ODIN or get to download or recovery screen.... Am I toast??? will Sprint do anything if I walk in as a dummy?? I am a dummy !!
JF
VansHighTops said:
I have no idea what happenned but I am in a "boot loop" and have pulled battery and every other soulution i have seen does not work. I cannot get into anything. I cannot plug in and run ODIN or get to download or recovery screen.... Am I toast??? will Sprint do anything if I walk in as a dummy?? I am a dummy !!
JF
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That doesn't sound good.
What were you trying to do when this happened?
What stage does your phone get to when trying to boot up (if you can use a camera to take a picture of it, that'd help out a lot)?
What does the phone say when you try booting into Download Mode or Recovery?
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topherk said:
That doesn't sound good.
What were you trying to do when this happened?
What stage does your phone get to when trying to boot up (if you can use a camera to take a picture of it, that'd help out a lot)?
What does the phone say when you try booting into Download Mode or Recovery?
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I cannot boot it gets the three lines of text Blue Red and Yellow
RECOVERY BOOTING
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
SET WARRANTY BIT : RECOVERY
Then it reboots again and again and again.... pulled battery and every other trick listed on the internet !!!
VansHighTops said:
I cannot boot it gets the three lines of text Blue Red and Yellow
RECOVERY BOOTING
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
SET WARRANTY BIT : RECOVERY
Then it reboots again and again and again.... pulled battery and every other trick listed on the internet !!!
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Well, none of those three items are inherently bad.. The "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" is common when using a custom recovery (like twrp). The "set warranty bit : recovery" is, unless I'm mistaken, just telling Knox that your phone has a "not stock" recovery (i.e. setting Knox to 0x1). That is normal when running a custom recovery.
When it is rebooting, can you hold down the power button to turn off the phone completely? Or does it not register the power button long enough to actually do anything?
When you take the battery out and put it back in, does the phone try to start up right away or do you have to press the power button in order to start it up?
Is that literally the only text you're seeing? I get a full debug screen before that information telling me how I restarted the phone (i.e. hard reset vs. soft reset) and if the reset was caused by an error... I caught a screen shot of it down below (sorry for the picture quality, the Asus TF101 isn't well-known for it's camera quality).
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Edit: Added less-potato-quality screenshot (still not great, though).
looks like you have the engineering bootloader correct? I would take out your usb plug then take the battery. wait a min or to.put it back in.hold volume down,home button,and power untill the phone vibrates then release the power button while still pressing the volume and home key.
johntheman_692003 said:
looks like you have the engineering bootloader correct? I would take out your usb plug then take the battery. wait a min or to.put it back in.hold volume down,home button,and power untill the phone vibrates then release the power button while still pressing the volume and home key.
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This what I had to then use Odin flash your recovery it worked for me
This happened to me. It it wouldn't boot up into recovery. The blue recovery booting words would come up and all that other stuff but then would quickly go to black screen and boot loop again so I couldn't get into recovery to do a restore or reset and couldn't even just power on the phone. The way I fixed it was 1 pulled battery 2 with battery out held down volume up, home and power button 3 while keeping these held down with one hand inserted battery with other hand. It was tricky but it let me go into down load mode where I re flashed my recovery and fixed the problem. Give it a try and I hope everything works out for you.
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Did ya fix it yet? @VansHighTops Just out of curiosity.
Hello, this is my first time posting here. If I should be posting somewhere else, please let me know. I'm having the same exact problem. I have KitKatKiller ROM installed. I opened up ROM manager and it said that my CWM recovery had an update so I updated it (no auto-reboot, I don't know if there should have been one) and then later on I rebooted because I updated xposed framework. Ever since then it has been just boot looping saying its going into recovery and that's it. I've tried all the above suggestions and nothing. Any more ideas?
EDIT: It just randomly started working. Sorry for crying wolf. (Note: It looped for about 30 minutes) Thank you all!
thatguy450 said:
Hello, this is my first time posting here. If I should be posting somewhere else, please let me know. I'm having the same exact problem. I have KitKatKiller ROM installed. I opened up ROM manager and it said that my CWM recovery had an update so I updated it (no auto-reboot, I don't know if there should have been one) and then later on I rebooted because I updated xposed framework. Ever since then it has been just boot looping saying its going into recovery and that's it. I've tried all the above suggestions and nothing. Any more ideas?
EDIT: It just randomly started working. Sorry for crying wolf. (Note: It looped for about 30 minutes) Thank you all!
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Never use Rom manager.
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Fastboot and Download Mode

I can't access download mode and fastboot doesn't work either after screwing up something while upgrading to lollipop and installing twrp. This is what I get when holding the up and pluging the usb in. Use to go to the update screen...
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I'm stuck at the moment, but the phone does boot up but coping files to the internal memory won't work. Any ideas or help will be deeply appreciated.
Try this first:
1) Remove battery and disconnect USB Cable
2) Press and hold Volume Up
3) Insert battery while Still pressing volume up
4) Insert USB Cable while Still pressing volume up
5) With a little luck you're in download mode and able to flash KDZ with LG flash tool
If not, it seems like fastboot should be working from that screen. I remember going through that on my G2. Make sure your drivers are working. Reinstall them, reboot computer. If you can get your computer to recognize it in fastboot you should be able to flash the partitions manually. Sounds like just laf is needed, at least to get you to download mode so you can KDZ.
Edit- hmm you upgraded to lollipop, I believe I read that Verizon removed fastboot. Maybe some more ideas will come.
hawkswind1 said:
Try this first:
1) Remove battery and disconnect USB Cable
2) Press and hold Volume Up
3) Insert battery while Still pressing volume up
4) Insert USB Cable while Still pressing volume up
5) With a little luck you're in download mode and able to flash KDZ with LG flash tool
If not, it seems like fastboot should be working from that screen. I remember going through that on my G2. Make sure your drivers are working. Reinstall them, reboot computer. If you can get your computer to recognize it in fastboot you should be able to flash the partitions manually. Sounds like just laf is needed, at least to get you to download mode so you can KDZ.
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Thanks for the reply,
I tried all those mentioned, the fastboot looks like it working but when i shoot over the file it just hangs there then gives an error to the lines of "to many lines" I can't recall exactly.
UPDATE: Now I can't boot into the system all, it goes straight to Fastboot now
Lazereth said:
Thanks for the reply,
I tried all those mentioned, the fastboot looks like it working but when i shoot over the file it just hangs there then gives an error to the lines of "to many lines" I can't recall exactly.
UPDATE: Now I can't boot into the system all, it goes straight to Fastboot now
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doubt i can be of assistance, but this is a verizon device?
if you cant get download mode to come up, your laf partition is jacked. im not sure how you would fix that from recovery though, as adb is disabled, or was for me anyway.
bweN diorD said:
doubt i can be of assistance, but this is a verizon device?
if you cant get download mode to come up, your laf partition is jacked. im not sure how you would fix that from recovery though, as adb is disabled, or was for me anyway.
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I found an article using Ubuntu going to give that a try an see what happens. I'll report back if it works or don't.. wish me luck!
Lazereth said:
I found an article using Ubuntu going to give that a try an see what happens. I'll report back if it works or don't.. wish me luck!
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gl!
you may want to have the boot img handy too, im skeptical that all your issues came from laf, just a guess though. jacked kernel may be kicking it back, and jacked laf is defaulting to fastboot thats not there.
bweN diorD said:
gl!
you may want to have the boot img handy too, im skeptical that all your issues came from laf, just a guess though. jacked kernel may be kicking it back, and jacked laf is defaulting to fastboot thats not there.
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Roger that, I have all files ready including boot.img, just waiting on Ubuntu to install. I'm about to get medieval on this bad boy...
Lazereth said:
Roger that, I have all files ready including boot.img, just waiting on Ubuntu to install. I'm about to get medieval on this bad boy...
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lol
No dice at all with linux... Hello paper weight...
anyone have any ideas please let me know... this is bad...
Can you get into twrp? if so I flashed the laf img from usb otg. I loaded everything on my usb and flashed from twrp. just have to mount usb storage.
mopartonyg said:
Can you get into twrp? if so I flashed the laf img from usb otg. I loaded everything on my usb and flashed from twrp. just have to mount usb storage.
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I can't, the screen shot in the first post is all I get no matter how I try to boot the phone, even plugging it in sends it right to that screen.
Have you tried pulling battery, volume down then power to get into system recovery screen? Then maybe factory reset, just thinking outloud here.
mopartonyg said:
Have you tried pulling battery, volume down then power to get into system recovery screen? Then maybe factory reset, just thinking outloud here.
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Tried that as well, nothing
Lazereth said:
Tried that as well, nothing
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Crap I will keep thinking, sorry
Lazereth said:
Tried that as well, nothing
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Maybe try to contact @nitroglycerine33 he had the usb yanked while flashing with lg tool (very bad) and fixed it. Maybe he can point you in the right direction.
I sent him a PM, this issue kept me up all night... I cant think of anything.
I fixed the exact same issue by removing the battery, then taking out the SIM card and my external SD. Once those were gone, I pressed and held Vol Down and Power, then put the battery back in while continuing to hold the two buttons. Shortly after the battery was put in, the phone vibrated and went to its traditional recovery menu. From there, I just selected Wipe Cache, and I was then taken to my original TWRP I had. Redoing the process for installation of Jasmine went flawlessly the second time around and am currently running it right now.
nericollin said:
I fixed the exact same issue by removing the battery, then taking out the SIM card and my external SD. Once those were gone, I pressed and held Vol Down and Power, then put the battery back in while continuing to hold the two buttons. Shortly after the battery was put in, the phone vibrated and went to its traditional recovery menu. From there, I just selected Wipe Cache, and I was then taken to my original TWRP I had. Redoing the process for installation of Jasmine went flawlessly the second time around and am currently running it right now.
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Thanks for replying, I tired that several times but it keeps taking me back to the fastboot. This is insane...
mopartonyg said:
Can you get into twrp? if so I flashed the laf img from usb otg. I loaded everything on my usb and flashed from twrp. just have to mount usb storage.
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will flashing the laf get fastboot or download mode back to restore from kdz? I currenty get a fastboot error, but have access to recovery. Can you walk me through it a little? Thanks!
similar issue
i have a similar issue here as well.
the message i get is "boot certification verify"
the screen then shuts off and the led flashes blue and red
Ive tried everything mentioned in the posts above..
How do you access fastboot?

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