Hello XDA Developers
I fear I am currently in a state of denial, but I still hope you fine folks can help me (even if it's only to get to the final state of grief... acceptance)
My problem in a nutshell:
- system image is fine
- recovery image is broken
- device is stuck in a recovery bootloop
- apx is working but i have no NvFlash backup image available
Here's what happened:
1. I have accidentally flashed the wrong version of TWRP (JB instead of ICS, even though i still have the 9.4.2.21 Bootloader) with fastboot.
(reason for this was because i kept getting the stupid boot loop with CWM that you can fix with)
Code:
adb shell dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 count=13
2. The device booted fine after the flashing process but i could (for now obvious reasons) not enter recovery mode, so I booted all the way, powered down the device and selected restart -> recovery
Now i am in what appears to be the good old boot loop:
The prime wants to boot up recovery, fails, reboots.
Holding vol-Down does not give me the option to start fastboot - it just states the Bootloader Version and says "Bootin recovery kernel image"
Holding Vol-Up brings me to APX and NVFlash should work, but i cannot for the life of me find my blob.img - i think it is still on my internal sd card. :crying:
Is there any hope left for me? Is there any method i am unaware of to skip the recovery boot or at least get to fastboot?
This just feels so unreal because the working system is "right there" hidden behind the recovery partition, i just cannot get to it because i'm stuck in the blasted bootloop again.
Thanks a bunch
Christoph
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Hello,
I have a Wileyfox Spark since few months. At the beggining it was running with CM. Two weeks ago, I made the update from CM to Android Nougat, but after giving a try I dislike it. So I have tried (for the first time) to flash another ROM (CM or Lineage) but it is a pain.
As I was unable to root my device, I have used adb and fastboot to install twrp.
Here are the commands I enter :
Code:
adb reboot-recovery
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot reboot
Then I press to volume down button to display the recovery menu but, instead of displaying the menu, the device boot again and again until I'm tired and I release the button. Then the phone boot normaly on Android...
For information, if I apply all these actions except the fastboot flash I can enter the recovery menu.
Am I wrong or missing something ?
Thanks for your help.
Slepwobo said:
Hello,
I have a Wileyfox Spark since few months. At the beggining it was running with CM. Two weeks ago, I made the update from CM to Android Nougat, but after giving a try I dislike it. So I have tried (for the first time) to flash another ROM (CM or Lineage) but it is a pain.
As I was unable to root my device, I have used adb and fastboot to install twrp.
Here are the commands I enter :
Code:
adb reboot-recovery
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot reboot
Then I press to volume down button to display the recovery menu but, instead of displaying the menu, the device boot again and again until I'm tired and I release the button. Then the phone boot normaly on Android...
For information, if I apply all these actions except the fastboot flash I can enter the recovery menu.
Am I wrong or missing something ?
Thanks for your help.
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Same here,but try releasing the Power-Button once it starts, helped for me booting into TWRP anyways.
BTW, how'd you manage to root that thing before? I am not able to do jacksh**t.
thanks a lot!
I can help you to get back booting up that phone again as it was. Is it still with that problem? I suspect you entered fastboot, unlocked bootloader and flashed TWRP on bootup the phone needed the stock recovery in order to factory reset due to the unlocking of bootloader. This way it boots to TWRP and runs the Open Recovery Script to decrypt and reset the device. This becomes impossible at certain progress and thus phone keeps on going to TWRP instead of booting. I shall address the issue well if you're still in need of this. I'm using the same phone also here
Sent from my Wileyfox Spark using XDA mobile app
I've been following the tutorial found at https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/device-reviews-and-information/blu-life-one-x-2016-t3287428 but since the rules say not to post questions in general I figured I'd make a thread here instead of asking in that thread.
I've gotten to the part where I'm flashing a custom recovery. I have no problems flashing it but after rebooting and then rebooting into recovery I'm shown the stock recovery page. I'm sure it's because my phone's rewriting CWM and TWRP with the stock recovery, but I've been unable to find a way around it. The steps I've done to try and reboot into CWM/TWRP (I've tried both):
Use the adb reboot recovery command. This results in booting into stock recovery.
Use the fastboot boot cwm.img command to boot directly into the recovery mode. This results in the phone booting normally.
Shutting down the device and holding VolUp, VolDown, and Power simultaneously at boot. This results in the phone being stuck/frozen with a "Meta mode" text found at the bottom left of the screen.
Shutting down the device and holding VolUp and Power simultaneously at boot. This results in showing "Boot into recovery, bootloader, or stock" menu. Selecting recovery results in the phone booting normally.
I would find/create a custom "stock" ROM that doesn't automatically rewrite custom recovery modes with the stock recovery but I need to be able to load a custom recovery in order to install .zips. Any help in getting my phone as far away from stock as possible after reading about how the dev sells my data would be greatly appreciate.
I am having the exact same issues...why has no one in the entirety of the internet addressed this ??? We can't be the only two...
if your botloader is locked the system will keep replacing twrp with stock
Hi guys,
I think I made a huge mistake Any help appreciated...
I was following the Magisk and TWRP guides to try and root my phone. I thought it was all going well, but then when trying to flash TWRP, it didn't let me flash it to recovery, it said 'no partisan'. I found on a forum post to try the command 'fastboot getvar current-slot' (this returned a) then 'fastpool flash_a twrp.img'.
I tried this but then TWRP got stuck on the loading screen. I then realised that I couldn't boot into my Android version anymore as I'd flashed TWRP directly onto the boot partition! So I went about trying to flash my stock Android version back onto the phone... I then did this:
'fastboot boot_a boot.img' I stupidly then rebooted. I now am stuck with a perpetually spinning Google loading boot image. I can't launch into recovery mode as I have none, and when holding the power button and volume up it shows an info screen saying "PRESS POWER BUTTON TO PAUSE" and then it goes to the perpetual loading screen again.
I also can't do any more fast booting because adb cannot connect anymore...
Am I completely doomed?
silkt said:
Hi guys,
I think I made a huge mistake Any help appreciated...
I was following the Magisk and TWRP guides to try and root my phone. I thought it was all going well, but then when trying to flash TWRP, it didn't let me flash it to recovery, it said 'no partisan'. I found on a forum post to try the command 'fastboot getvar current-slot' (this returned a) then 'fastpool flash_a twrp.img'.
I tried this but then TWRP got stuck on the loading screen. I then realised that I couldn't boot into my Android version anymore as I'd flashed TWRP directly onto the boot partition! So I went about trying to flash my stock Android version back onto the phone... I then did this:
'fastboot boot_a boot.img' I stupidly then rebooted. I now am stuck with a perpetually spinning Google loading boot image. I can't launch into recovery mode as I have none, and when holding the power button and volume up it shows an info screen saying "PRESS POWER BUTTON TO PAUSE" and then it goes to the perpetual loading screen again.
I also can't do any more fast booting because adb cannot connect anymore...
Am I completely doomed?
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I ended up eventually un-bricking my phone by booting into safe mode and re-connecting the ADB. I then successfully ran 'flash-all.'
I flashed a custom rom on my Android device, but on trying to reboot it, the device doesn't boot up and gets stuuck in the boot screen. Even the [Volume up + Power] or [Volume down + power] brings me to the same stuck boot screen. I can neither go to the recovery mode, the factory reset mode, nor can I enter in the fastboot mode. I have the full backup of the device, but I find no way to restore it, even ADB doesn't work. Is there any fix for this problem?
Everything I did priror to this:
Unlocked the bootloader
Flashed the "patched boot image" for root with Magisk
Some tweaking after root, for better battery life
Flashed the custom ROM.
After then the phone doesn't boot up. Any hhelp would be highly appreciated.
@suyash821
I think it's a case for the electric waste.
HI,
I inherited this phone. ( D6503 )
Fixed a few hardware problems, now looking at software improvements.
I have unlocked the bootloader , but for the life of me I cannot get a recovery on this phone??
I have previoiusly done flashing on nokia, motorola and Nexus, but I am having no luck with this sony
I am able to connect using ADB, and can get to fastboot, but it stops there.
Issuing '' fastboot boot twrp.img'' ( to try and boot temporarily to twrp ) gives me a blank screen.
issuing ''fastboot flash recovery twrp.img'' does the same.
I cannot get a bootloader screen at all, even using the key combinations.
I cannot boot any recovery at all.
Is there someone here who can put me out of my misery
I am not looking to perform anything fancy, I just want to flash the latest lineage to see how it performs
Many Thanks in advance.
pootler.
Anybody???
I have rooted the z2 by dropping down to 5.11, installed the twrp app, then flashed recommended version of twrpl
Then when I power off the phone, and press the power and volume down buttons, instead of booting into twrp after 7 or so seconds, it just reboots after abour 2-3 seconds???
Can anybody help?-------please
I have even tried rooting , then installing twrp by either 1) fastboot or 2) twrp app.
I then installed NDR utils, to reboot to recovery - it still reboots to main system??
HEEELLPP !
I also tried flashing TWRP with 1) fastboot and 2)the twrp app,
I then installed NDR utils ( i have root ) , and it still wont boot into recovery, just straight into system???
HEELLPP!!
Thread closed on request of OP @pootler