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).
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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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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!
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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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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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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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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 ??
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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).
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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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So this phone has been sitting in my closet for over a month and want to try and find a way to get it back to working. I am pretty sure it happened flashing a euro ROM and it not recovering or I re-partitioned a 2.2 odin ROM (can't remember). I have tried every trick posted on this forum with no luck. Here is the way it boots the second I connect the USB to the phone and/or when trying to do the volume up/down and power button. I can access the phone view adb and tell it to reboot download, but just goes right back to recovery. I even tried pushing the update.zip but no luck as it can't mount e:/.....
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Now I remember a link to a Youtube video that actually fixed the vibrant I have now and for the life of me can't find the link. He did something different that the other 10002831 videos showing how to access download mode.
Anybody have advice or is this one truly BRICKED??
This is what un-bricked my Vibrant.
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
Just follow the steps and it should fix your phone.
MrDragomir said:
This is what un-bricked my Vibrant.
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
Just follow the steps and it should fix your phone.
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Problem is it won't go into download mode.... the second the USB is plugged into the phone it boots into recovery.... I see the battery symbol for maybe a split second and it goes right into recovery; doesn't require any buttons to be pushed.
adb reboot download = reboots into recovery...
Have you tried reinstall packages and then trying to get into download mode?
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RickCain said:
Problem is it won't go into download mode.... the second the USB is plugged into the phone it boots into recovery.... I see the battery symbol for maybe a split second and it goes right into recovery; doesn't require any buttons to be pushed.
adb reboot download = reboots into recovery...
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I had a similar problem once. Here's what worked for me:
Take your battery out
Plug in USB cable
Hold both volume buttons
Put battery back in (while still holding the volume buttons)
I'm pretty sure that was it, but if not try fiddling with those steps a bit. The gist is that you should be holding the volume buttons when the battery goes in, which gets the phone into download mode right away.
Had a similar problem and that seemed to clear it up.
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crazygamer1 said:
I had a similar problem once. Here's what worked for me:
Take your battery out
Plug in USB cable
Hold both volume buttons
Put battery back in (while still holding the volume buttons)
I'm pretty sure that was it, but if not try fiddling with those steps a bit. The gist is that you should be holding the volume buttons when the battery goes in, which gets the phone into download mode right away.
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I have tried for a good five hours combined over a two day period and have come to the conclusion the buttons don't do much. The only thing I do know is the up and down are no reversed...
The only thing I don't get is some instructions say to hold the vol down, home, and power. I assume that is only for the EU versions as the home button on the vibrant is a soft key.
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Have you tried reinstall packages and then trying to get into download mode?
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can't reinstall packages when the phone doesn't see the sdcard.....
I just wish I could find that youtube video as they guy had a special way to getting into download mode that was different than any other one on the internet.
RickCain said:
can't reinstall packages when the phone doesn't see the sdcard.....
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with phone off, hold both vol +/- and plug in usb cable. that looks like a voodoo error where all ur data is on ext4 still...but yeah that will get u into download mode
jumaaneface said:
with phone off, hold both vol +/- and plug in usb cable. that looks like a voodoo error where all ur data is on ext4 still...but yeah that will get u into download mode
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Nada... just boots straight to recovery
The only way that i was able to get into download mode was to hold just volume down and power while the phone was off.
So pull battery.
Install battery.
Hold Volume down+Power button.
Then connect usb.
Or you can try to hold volume down+power button+plug in usb at the same time.
I tried every other way of getting into download mode but none worked.
Hope this some how helps you.
So, as long as the USB is plug in, the phone immediate enter recovery? Even when the phone was originally off, then the USB is plugged in later?
PaiPiePia said:
So, as long as the USB is plug in, the phone immediate enter recovery? Even when the phone was originally off, then the USB is plugged in later?
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Yes, the second the USB is connected it goes straight to that screen in the OP. I don't have the opportunity to hold the vol up/down as it boots instantly (and holding them prior to connecting the USB ends in the same recovery screen)....
I have since bought a new Vibrant but would like to get this one working so it can be sold....
Well I actually FIXED this phone!!!! I followed the below instructions in the past but failed to read it completely...... You must following step 4 to the tee and not press the re-install packages until you are constantly forcing the push from ADB. Needless to say it pushed the update file and then I removed the battery and instantly got into download mode and flashed back to stock.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You need the Samsung USB driver and you can get it from Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
First Part
1. Download update.zip from the link below. This was post by another member.
The post is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
2. Place the update.zip in tools folder so you can push it into your phone by using adb command
3. Plug usb into the phone and your phone should be on the Android system recovery <2e>
4. Use your volume button to select reinstall package, don't press power button yet.
5. constant "adb push update.zip /sdcard" from computer , you will get permission denied.
6. While you are constantly pushing the adb command from computer. press the power button on the phone so it install update.zip from sdcard.
7. This is the part where it force adb push into sdcard without permission
8. once the update.zip install completed. unplug the usb cable from the phone and take the battery out.
9. put the battery back to the phone then press on both volume button.
10. While holding both volume button , plug in your usb cable and it will boot to download screen.
If you need use Odin to flash your phone to original stock rom. Go to the Second Part
5. constant "adb push update.zip /sdcard" from computer , you will get permission denied..... not sure what you mean by that thx
Try taking out the sim card while entering download mode, that's what did it for me, and don't make any odd facial expressions and keep a good posture. Gremlins...
Is your phone Loki? Use Odin. You'll be Thor!
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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
Tapatalked from my HTC DNA - Carbon
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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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Hi
My G9 Power is stock ROM and is just over 2 years old, It's running fairly standard stuff and isn't rooted. . Last night I was responding to a message when it shut down. It had plenty of charge, at least 60%.
Rebooting it just results in the boot looping - splash screen for a few minutes, then blank, then restart. I deliberately left it doing that all night to exhaust the battery, which happened earlier.
It is recognising a cable is plugged in but my memory tells me that a light comes on the say it's charging, which isn't happening now - but that may be because of the stage it's in in booting (though it doesn't come on when the phone is off either). There is no haptic feedback when I plug in the cable, or sound.
So while I'm no expert I have previously replaced ROMs on an old phone, so I thought of Recovery. I can get to the menu which includes recovery, which is headed (in red bold) AP Fastboot Flash mode (Secure). The options are Restart, Bootloader, Barcodes, Recovery and Start. Barcode shows me barcodes and start goes back into the loop but Recovery doesn't do anything at all.
How can I get round this as I can't use ADP unless it's in the recovery menu can I?
Or is it dead, terminally?
Any ideas appreciated...)
GeoffUK said:
Hi
My G9 Power is stock ROM and is just over 2 years old, It's running fairly standard stuff and isn't rooted. . Last night I was responding to a message when it shut down. It had plenty of charge, at least 60%.
Rebooting it just results in the boot looping - splash screen for a few minutes, then blank, then restart. I deliberately left it doing that all night to exhaust the battery, which happened earlier.
It is recognising a cable is plugged in but my memory tells me that a light comes on the say it's charging, which isn't happening now - but that may be because of the stage it's in in booting (though it doesn't come on when the phone is off either). There is no haptic feedback when I plug in the cable, or sound.
So while I'm no expert I have previously replaced ROMs on an old phone, so I thought of Recovery. I can get to the menu which includes recovery, which is headed (in red bold) AP Fastboot Flash mode (Secure). The options are Restart, Bootloader, Barcodes, Recovery and Start. Barcode shows me barcodes and start goes back into the loop but Recovery doesn't do anything at all.
How can I get round this as I can't use ADP unless it's in the recovery menu can I?
Or is it dead, terminally?
Any ideas appreciated...)
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Your best bet might be to follow Post #3 in this thread. You will likely lose anything that wasn't backed up. But it might be useful in salvaging your phone.
Instead of the link in that thread, you probably need the newest firmware from this: https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/motorola/cebu/official/RETGB/ (I'm guessing you're in the UK, based on your username and the spelling of "recognising"). Extract the file and then run the commands from the first link.
You will need to have platform-tools installed.
Hope it helps.
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Extract the file and then run the commands from the first link.
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no, always take the flash commands out of flashfile.xml from insode the firmware zip.
@GeoffUK That would be my advice, too. Download the firmware and flash it. A bootloop is mostly related to a corrupt /data partition and flaahing the firmware will erase /data.
If you have any questions about it just ask.
or try this tool
Rescue and Smart Assistant (RSA) - Lenovo Support DE
support.lenovo.com
WoKoschekk said:
no, always take the flash commands out of flashfile.xml from insode the firmware zip.
@GeoffUK That would be my advice, too. Download the firmware and flash it. A bootloop is mostly related to a corrupt /data partition and flaahing the firmware will erase /data.
If you have any questions about it just ask.
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Thanks for this important correction.
Thanks for the prompt and useful reply.
I'd have quite happily tried the suggestion but I can't identify the correct file in the link https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/motorola/borneo/
Also, when I plug the phone into the PC there is not a glimmer of recognition on the PC (though the phone knows it's been connected) so I don't think it is sufficiently connected to do anything with - don't forget I cant boot to any menu, recovery or otherwise. I've tried different cables etc.
Lastly, I ran it down to zero battery yesterday. I don't think it is even charging as it was plugged in overnight and on the occasion I can get a display the battery state is showing 0% (i,e, when I first plug in the cable).
I'm not about to spend a lot of time or money trying to fix it but I have just ordered a new charging port dock as that was cheap enough and seems reasonably easy to replace.
I'll report back once that is done, meantime would appreciate any more thoughts people may have.
Thanks again.
GeoffUK said:
don't forget I cant boot to any menu, recovery or otherwise. I've tried different cables etc.
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But you can see a screen like this?
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"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",
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Yes (sometimes)
This is the 'bootloader screen' or 'fastboot mode'. To open that screen:
device is powered off: hold Power+Vol- to boot into fastboot mode
device is powered on (but bootloops): hold Power+Vol- for 10-15 sec. to boot into fastboot mode
In that mode you can use the LMSA to flash a new firmware. In case it won't work you have the option to flash the firmware manually (with my help).
Hi, thanks for your patience.
I can get it to boot to the exact screen you show but it won't go any further, on any button press on the phone. I can scroll up and down from Start and see the other options but selecting any of them doesn't look like it does much. The PC doesn't seem to see the phone.
But I'd be happy trying anything!! I realise the phone contents are probably lost.
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Hi, thanks for your patience.
I can get it to boot to the exact screen you show but it won't go any further, on any button press on the phone. I can scroll up and down from Start and see the other options but selecting any of them doesn't look like it does much. The PC doesn't seem to see the phone.
But I'd be happy trying anything!! I realise the phone contents are probably lost.
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Once you're getting to that screen, that's a good sign. You need to leave it at that screen and then use Rescue and Smart Assistant (RSA) on your Windows computer to reinstall the firmware on your phone.
In fastboot mode you are able to flash a new firmware. Download the tool linked above and install it. You get instructions by the tool. Try it and for any questions write a post here.
RSA is running and I am logged in but it needs the IMEI which I don't have.
It does say if you know your phone supports Fastboot you can connect directly via Fastboot mode but it doesn't explain how.
Will the tool also link me to the right firmware?
OK, I found the original box which has the IMEI on.
I'm now downloading the firmware.
Well that completed successfully but I'm afraid it didn't fix the problem....
I don't think the phone is holding charge. It was still looping at the boot screen though it has now stopped doing that and is just blank. I'll leave it on charge overnight but I'm not expecting much!
I have the charge port part arriving in the next few days so I guess that's the next step.
Thanks for your help, I'm really grateful!
Still looping?
No, it's just dead. I think if I plugged it in it'd still be looping
sounds like a hardware issue...
Yep, new phone. I'll try this part I've ordered before giving up.
Thanks for all your help though.
no problem! I hope you will manage to fix the issue.