So this figures. After waiting forever to get root on my Tablet S, I am now stuck on the boot animation screen. It seemed like it rooted fine. I even installed Titanium BackUp and got the superuser permission screen. Then after about 2hrs, I rebooted the device and now its stuck. :crying: Is there anything I can do to fix it?
UPDATE--- Forget it. I fixed it. While it was still on the boot animation screen, I was still able to use the AiO tool to root/unroot. Unrooting did not work. Then I tried rerooting. In the AiO tool it appeared to reroot, but it still was stuck on the boot ani. I then thought about using Condis Flashing tool. After it did 2 separate downloads, one about 182mb and another about 224mb, it pushed the files to the tablet and it reboot just fine. WooHoo! I do have to reroot again, but this time Ill make sure I do the backdoor recovery listed in the AiO tool. So anyone that is getting stuck on the boot ani screen, this is definitely worth a try!
UPDATE #2 --- I never had to reroot since the files it downloaded were the pre-rooted files for 4.0.3 R5A. So my advice to anyone who gets stuck is dont do the factory reset. Playing with Condis AiO Tool and his Flashing Tool should be able to fix the device. Another hint is if. Flashing tool doesnt work the 1st time, dont give up. Just delete the entire folder that was extracted after you downloaded the Flashing Tool, and extract it again. Dont overwrite it, you must delete it completely and start from scratch.
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I have been trying to get my rooted Galaxy Nexus to load the CWM Touch recovery image, and I just can't seem to get it to stick. I originally just tried to install the basic non-touch version from Rom Manager. When it rebooted, I got the red ! and a dead robot. So I booted into fast boot, and flashed the touch recovery. After flashing if I go straight to recovery, I do get the CWM recovery and can backup. My problem is that if I the reboot the phone, I can never get back to it again. I always end up at the red ! and a dead robot.
I read on another thread to rename the file "/recovery-from-boot.p" to "recovery-from-boot.p-bak" and that it might require reflashing the image. I moved this file and re-named it, reflashed, booted into android. Then powered off and booted into recover mode, just to see the red ! again.
It seems that when I first flash I can go into it, but anytime after that it just dies. Anyone have a deeper knowledge of what is going on here and care to point me in the right direction? I could probably just go ahead and flash a new image to the phone but I don't feel good doing that while the recovery image seems to need re-imaging every time.
Hi there,
You're correct, you need to rename/delete that file to make cwm stick on the nexus.
If you reboot the phone before removing that file, the file will update your settings to point to the old recovery instead of cwm.
Since you've just renamed it, reinstalling cwm should do the trick.
You're renaming the wrong file. You need to rename or delete install-recovery.sh from system/ect
Hey,
I'm kind of a newbie developer so please bear with me!
I have a WileyFox Storm, that runs Cyanogen OS 13 (kipper) as stock. A while back, I tried rooting it, and in the process installed TWRP Custom Recovery (which is a custom one made for the Storm). Well, the process of rooting didn't work (multiple times), so I gave up.
Right, it comes to today where my device can receive an OTA update. I pressed install, where it rebooted back into recovery. As it turns out, I forgot about the TWRP CR which was still there, thus, I could not update my device.
I now want a way to install the stock recovery (just the recovery), without having root access, and preferably without factory resetting my device (I have done this too many times and it just pisses me off!).
I assume I just install the .zip from CM's website, and side load the recovery.img using ADB but I simply do not know enough.
Please help, thank you!
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Root has nothing to do with flashing ADB so you can go ahead and sideload it as long as you have the correct drivers for your phone
And my phone won't factory reset if I just sideload the recovery.img?
Yep you are correct
Tried to install a recovery and now I'm stuck in a bootloop. is there anything i can do?
i am recovering from a bootloop as well right now.
a flash with a wrongly prepared prerooted image went astray and sent my 621 in a sony loop
i was able to get a running system with the xperia companion but without root and recovery.
tonight i will have to go the way of re-obtaining root again (flashing downgrade, rooting, recovery ..)
luckily was able to run backups before my failure - i hope you can recover your former settings as well.
zuz242 said:
i am recovering from a bootloop as well right now.
a flash with a wrongly prepared prerooted image went astray and sent my 621 in a sony loop
i was able to get a running system with the xperia companion but without root and recovery.
tonight i will have to go the way of re-obtaining root again (flashing downgrade, rooting, recovery ..)
luckily was able to run backups before my failure - i hope you can recover your former settings as well.
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I don't think the xperia companion will help me cause I flashed an older recovery so it only stays on for like 5 seconds now. I'll give it a try but I don't think it'll work
Hi all,
I tried to root my ohone using this walkthrough:
https://romprovider.com/sony-xperia-xzs-root-twrp/#Download
I managed to unlock bootloader and then flash everything it said without any errors but then the phone wont boot past the sony start screen. Ive been trying to flash back a stock ROM. Used "emma" and flashed firmware it offered in program. It said successful but still wont boot.
Can anyone please spell out how I resolve this in layman terms? Im pretty good with PCs but the language around rooting and these instructions are always a bit unclear to me being a noob to this.
I cant boot to TWRP on the phone just not the OS. Have tried clearing cache and resetting through twrp..
Thanks for any help!
Boot into TWRP and wipe data partition. If it still doesn't boot then try this guide here https://forum.xda-developers.com/xzs/how-to/tutorial-step-step-guide-to-gain-root-t3612624.
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Boot into TWRP and wipe data partition. If it still doesn't boot then try this guide here https://forum.xda-developers.com/xzs/how-to/tutorial-step-step-guide-to-gain-root-t3612624.
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Thank you. Wiping the data partition didnt work. I haven't had luck with the flash tool in that walk through either. When I download latest version from link it is a version that doesn't have Xperifirm built in. I downloaded xperifirm seperately but when I try any of the roms it downloads it fails with an error about missing sin or something like that. I will check the error again. Thanks
OK seems I have a stable phone again after using emma again and managing to load properly. Will do the twrp and root parts again. Also I think I botched the back up step in that link. Im going to follow it again.
https://romprovider.com/sony-xperia-xzs-root-twrp/#Download
Thanks
Now the phone boots after loading magisc and drm but the wifi wont work. It wont allow me to toggle it on.
Any suggestion on where I went wrong or how to restore wifi?
Success!!!
So I recently tried to unroot my device with flashing official ROM on it. Apparently I used the wrong file because my phone got bricked. I tried using XiaoMiTool by Francesco but it didn't help. I spent a lot of time trying to fix it so ill post what worked for me. I downloaded a lot of ROMS but none of them worked for me there was either flash error or device mismatching and I couldn't find right flash official software anywhere. I downloaded another ADB fixing program which worked, I downloaded Szaki/XiaomiADB fastboot tools which worked perfectly. I simply connected my phone searched for my phone code name (tucana) downloaded ROM from there, wiped all data off and finally flashed OS on my device. I also have a question, are there any android software fixing programs for phone repair companies or something similar?
Have good day and stay healthy,
MX8MC8
id suggest to unbrick with mi flash tool.
I did that always when i was stuck on something, it ofcourse removes your data but saves the device so its still the profit probably... After succesfull rom installation you can flash again.
Also you do this in fastboot mode
When I was stuck in the same way the solution I found was to flash whatever rom then when the phone bootloops, go into recovery, and format data. Afterwards it will boot to startup screen and take forever to load up. Anyway that is my solution, before that I would have to flash stock recovery to boot for the first time then flash a custom recovery back.