I rooted my Motorola Razr XT910 a couple of days ago. The root went fine, installing CWM Recovery went fine too, so did setting up a backup.
But when I installed a custom ROM (cm-10.2-20131016-NIGHTLY-umts_spyder.zip)
The installation all went according to plan until rebooting, according to the guide i could take up to 5mins but after 15mins it still hadn't rebooted. It loads as far as the first flash screen with the "dual-core" motorola logo then disappears. And I can't load into Recovery mode.
Any help would be LOTS appreciated!
When a flash fails, you get stuck in a bootloop. Usually it doesn't block off your recovery, but if fastboot works alright you could reflash twrp/cwm on it. Then, just boot into recovery and restore your backup/try a different ROM.
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I am running 2.2.2 Froyo with 1.77 build.
I unlocked and rooted via Gingerbreak.
I went into CWM Recovery, erased all cache and flashed Alien Rom v3 and immediately flashed the Alien theme over it (I think that is where I made my booboo). The Rom appeared to load perfectly yet when the phone restarted the Moto logo animation appeared to run then the screen would go dark. This process repeats every few seconds non stop.
I can get into Android Recovery, RSD, everything. I tried flashing the 1.8.3 sbf through RS Lite 5.3.1 and while it said "PASS" it still hangs at the Moto animation.
I have no idea what to do. I think I can get out of it as I have done A LOT of searching through the forums and google but I am terrible with CMD.
Any helpful and/or useful advice?
Try restoring a backup, if not try to flash a fruitcake
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009
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Thanks for the thread. However it looks like I need CWM Recovery in order to flash a fruitcake? I cant get the phone to boot past animation so this wont work...
Also I didnt create backups
noxlo said:
Thanks for the thread. However it looks like I need CWM Recovery in order to flash a fruitcake? I cant get the phone to boot past animation so this wont work...
Also I didnt create backups
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Are you unlocked and flashed cwm through fastboot, or did you use the system recovery app?
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System recovery app. I can access Androids recovery (obviously) but not many options...
Did you unlock your bootloader?
I ran into the same issue the first time I tried to flash Alien. Since you're flashing Alien, I assume your bootloader is unlocked (As it's required for Alien).
If you have an unlocked bootloader, do this:
EDITED: Apparently, I'm a new user and can't post links. Go to the address bar and replace the number with 1163342
Use Fastboot to flash the boot.img and the system.img files. This will give you Gingerbread/Motoblur like it comes out of the box. (It's a start!)
Thanks for the link. Will try when I get home. If I can just get past cmd...
i tried to use the recovery and install it but i got stuck in a boot loop. so then i sbfed back to froyo then rooted it then installed the recovery then updated it and got stuck on the "dual core" boot loader. im not sure what im doing wrong. i would post in the thread but i cant since i dont have enough posts
Same exact thing happened to me today. What i did was pull the battery and booted it back up in recovery (power button and down volume button) and did a factory reset. booted it back up and it seemed to work right.
tried that im on my 2nd round of sbf root recovery reflash. of this doesnt work im going to bed i have a 15 hour double shift tomorrow
thanks stx that worked. if anyone can post in the thread that there is a possible bug in flashing this from the p3 preroot it would be cool. it would also be cool if anyone knew how i could sync with facebook too
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i tried to use the recovery and install it but i got stuck in a boot loop. so then i sbfed back to froyo then rooted it then installed the recovery then updated it and got stuck on the "dual core" boot loader. im not sure what im doing wrong. i would post in the thread but i cant since i dont have enough posts
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Did you wipe data before installing? Also could you confirm the MD5 Hash
917649e16b63d99a7ec30e3c6b6f02b3 Eclipse_v0.4.zip
installed it many times from the prerooted confirms it works fine just make sure you wipe once you get into recovery and my sure you plug your phone into the wall before getting into recovery because it will not boot into recovery and get stuck in motorola logo without being plugged in
after I factory reset it it booted fine.
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I'm running into a weird boot loop problem with my Atrix 4g. My phone is unlocked and I recently flashed to the Neutrino 2.5p GT update from 2.5 GT. I would usually do a clean install by doing Moto-fastboot -w, erase system/boot/preinstall and then install from the zip but this time all I did was install from the zip. After installing 2.5p GT from the zip, the phone booted up without any issues.
Now my problem started when I flashed the add ons. I re-downloaded and flashed the following add ons:
Live wallpaper add on
Sync add on
Theme Chooser add on
Deskclock/Default CM7 Alarm add on
GPS Mod (Pulled the US.zip file and flashed it, didn't flash "GPS Mod.zip")
Right Aligned Clock Mod
Lite gapps
After flashing the add ons my phone reboots itself before it can get past the Motorola dual core spash screen. The weird thing is now when ever I try to fastboot into my phone using rom racers tool, it says it's waiting to connect to the phone even though it's connected to my computer. I also tried to get into the android recovery but it keep freezing and rebooting after I select the recovery option.
Knowing this, what is the best way to go about getting my phone out of this boot loop? Would this be a job for NvFlash? (I'm unfamiliar with NvFlash, so this is just a guess)
Try to do a factory reset in recovery.
That should fix it
My problem is getting into recovery mode to do a factory reset. Right now my phone freezes and then restarts the boot loop process whenever I choose the recovery option. Are there any alternative ways of getting into recovery mode besides holding the power button + vol down and scrolling down to the recovery option?
I ran into the same problem the other day. I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314607 to reinstall recovery.
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Can you get into Fastboot?
Try:
fastboot -w
fastboot reboot
That worked for me when I was stuck in a boot loop(going to stock)
Yeah. There was a boot problem on 2.5p. The problem was quickly fixed, but now there is a new 2.6 version that blows all previous away.
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ce12373 is right. The new 2.6 is sweet. You might also try pulling the battery, that seems to help a lot of people.
I would get into fastboot and do a full wipe then reflash from what i have read he suggest in the OP of the rom thread to do a full fastboot wipe
Hey, guys. This is my first post. I am now on my second SGS 4 verizon replacement and today I tried to root it, get twrp, and then CM. I rooted it with odin by using the method where you drop the files onto your phone, reboot, delete the files, and finally reboot. I got root. But when I started up goomanager, the twrp download didn't start so I downloaded ClockworkMod. I rebooted into recovery after installing the Gapps and CM but decided that ClockworkMod was too intimidating so I rebooted. Then, I went into rom toolbox, and flashed twrp 2.5.x.x. After that, I tried to reboot into recovery but what happened was it went into download mode right after the blue letters say rebooting into recovery. Now, I am freaking out because I am rooted but can't get twrp so I can't get CM and touchwiz is awful. Please, any help is much appreciated. I am lost and inexperience! Should I go to VZ and have them reset my phone and start from scratch?
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Hey, guys. This is my first post. I am now on my second SGS 4 verizon replacement and today I tried to root it, get twrp, and then CM. I rooted it with odin by using the method where you drop the files onto your phone, reboot, delete the files, and finally reboot. I got root. But when I started up goomanager, the twrp download didn't start so I downloaded ClockworkMod. I rebooted into recovery after installing the Gapps and CM but decided that ClockworkMod was too intimidating so I rebooted. Then, I went into rom toolbox, and flashed twrp 2.5.x.x. After that, I tried to reboot into recovery but what happened was it went into download mode right after the blue letters say rebooting into recovery. Now, I am freaking out because I am rooted but can't get twrp so I can't get CM and touchwiz is awful. Please, any help is much appreciated. I am lost and inexperience! Should I go to VZ and have them reset my phone and start from scratch?
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There's no custom recovery for the new updates, hasn't been for awhile, won't be any time in the immediate future or ever.
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So I'd been having some problems lately with my phone hanging on the Samsung screen on boot. Been running CM11 1/1/2014 nightly most recently. Decided to try using TWRP instead of CWM. That didn't seem to help my issue, so I tried installing CWM again. I used an app called Recovery Tools to download the touch version of CWM. After it said it installed, I tried to boot into recovery and got the error "Unauthorized software found. Please contact Verizon." (paraphrased a little).
Doing some research it looks like that error typically comes up when the bootloader is locked. Now, obviously I had my bootloader unlocked (well, Loki'd) because I was running CM11. Any help fixing this? I'm able to bypass the warning screen on boot if I hold down vol up + power like I'm going into download mode, but then hit vol down to cancel to boot up the phone. Once booted everything is ok, but any reboot just brings that up again. Using ROM manager to flash CWM recovery seems to work ok and it says its installed, but same issue. So does trying to flash TWRP from Goo.
If I were to run this tool that I used to root and loki before (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301720) to install a recovery, would I be able to get everything going again? I think that somehow the recovery I installed wasn't Loki'd, although I picked the right one for my device.
Thank you in advance for any replies.
The fix I found was by pure dumb luck. I ended up trying to flash a recovery with Odin. Odin failed but reboot back into the os. I then used the twrp manager app from the playstore (mainly because goomanager wasn't downloading the recovery at the time) to flash the latest twrp recovery and all was good. Even though Odin failed at flashing the recovery I still think it helped somehow. I haven't thought much about why but I might have to now.
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You could probably try using ODIN to get back to stock MDK and then Re-Root and install a recovery after.
Edit: And then flash CM11 again.
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Will this one-click stock ROM work?
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p... S4 (Verizon) (SCH-I545)/Stock ROMs/One-Click
or, which of the files on this page are what I would want? (about 1/3 of the way down for SCH-I545)
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/
I was actually able to reflash TWRP w/ their app from the Play Store. Still get a lot of boot hangs on the Samsung logo though. Seemed to happen less with CWM, but now I'm too scared to try to install a different recovery. I appreciate all your help guys.