Hi all,
I messed up with my HTC One Max (international GSM Single SIM 16GB)
* i flashed the wrong boot.img (secure kernel)
* Now the phone is turning on .. blank screen and turning off.. repeating
* There is no recovery installed, i can enter into it in between bootloop
* Vol - and power button is not helping as its a wrong boot.img so am pretty much stuck here as am not able to flash RUU n stuff to get back to stock
* Phone is locked and non rooted.
Can someone help me or am I bricked beyond repair?
Any thoughts please.
or like xperias... is there a way I can get back to stock from using some tool in PC?
i dont know how and if i can enter into fastboot as well in this condition.. Kindly help me out here with your thoughts.
palimatix said:
Hi all,
I messed up with my HTC One Max (international GSM Single SIM 16GB)
* i flashed the wrong boot.img (secure kernel)
* Now the phone is turning on .. blank screen and turning off.. repeating
* There is no recovery installed, i can enter into it in between bootloop
* Vol - and power button is not helping as its a wrong boot.img so am pretty much stuck here as am not able to flash RUU n stuff to get back to stock
* Phone is locked and non rooted.
Can someone help me or am I bricked beyond repair?
Any thoughts please.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you can find the last OTA zip you had and pull the firmware.zip file out and flash that in ruu mode. You likely need to hold volume up and power until it reboots then quickly start holding volume down to get to bootloader.
dottat said:
If you can find the last OTA zip you had and pull the firmware.zip file out and flash that in ruu mode. You likely need to hold volume up and power until it reboots then quickly start holding volume down to get to bootloader.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hi..
am able to get into RUU mode using " You likely need to hold volume up and power until it reboots then quickly start holding volume down to get to bootloader".
But in this mode how can I copy the update zip to SDCARD.. or sideload? Am frantically searching in forums now for any any firmware zip for international GSM which i can use
Thanks for showing me a ray of hope. Please bear with me to help me out here, my first time with HTC rooting stuff
palimatix said:
hi..
am able to get into RUU mode using " You likely need to hold volume up and power until it reboots then quickly start holding volume down to get to bootloader".
But in this mode how can I copy the update zip to SDCARD.. or sideload? Am frantically searching in forums now for any any firmware zip for international GSM which i can use
Thanks for showing me a ray of hope. Please bear with me to help me out here, my first time with HTC rooting stuff
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can find your current software version on your bootloader screen. Then go looking for the update that matches.
You need to pull only the firmware.zip out of the update/otapkg.zip. You will the do the following from your pc. Make sure phone is connected and shows fastboot USB and that your firmware.zip is copied into your fastboot/adb folder.
Fastboot of rebootRUU
Fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
If it says anything about flushing immediately run the last command again.
When complete issue
Fastboot reboot
dottat said:
You can find your current software version on your bootloader screen. Then go looking for the update that matches.
You need to pull only the firmware.zip out of the update/otapkg.zip. You will the do the following from your pc. Make sure phone is connected and shows fastboot USB and that your firmware.zip is copied into your fastboot/adb folder.
Fastboot of rebootRUU
Fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
If it says anything about flushing immediately run the last command again.
When complete issue
Fastboot reboot
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can access only this RUU mode, photo of current state/screen attached. I'm not able to go into fastboot since (power + vol-) not working.
adb is not detecting any device with the command............. "adb devices"
palimatix said:
I can access only this RUU mode, photo of current state/screen attached. I'm not able to go into fastboot since (power + vol-) not working.
adb is not detecting any device with the command............. "adb devices"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's stock recovery. Hold power and volume up for 60 seconds. Does it reboot? If so, and you time it right you should be able to hold volume down and get into fastboot/bootloader.
A second option would be to see if the device shows up as an adb device if you chose to update via adb. If it does then use the command adb reboot-bootloader
Related
My phone is S-ON, this means that in order to install a kernel i need to use the FlashGUI app. I tried using a new 3.6 sense ICS rom, so i flashed the kernel and applied the zip in recovery. However, i didnt know that the ROM would not work with S-ON, so i tried flashing a new rom (d3rp rom to be specific) That worked, but when i booted up i was stuck a black screen, I think this is because I am on an ICS kernel. Next, I try to do a nandroid restore, but that doesnt seem to work. Whenever I nandroid restore I get stuck at "restoring recovery partitions" - it just stays there for so long, i waited half an hour then i did a battery pull. tried flashing the rom, no luck. What should I do? thank you..
Do a full wipe then install the derp rom.,
iTzLOLtrain said:
Do a full wipe then install the derp rom.,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ive done that, I get the HTC logo for a few seconds then a black screen.
go to your pc or laptop and xtract the boot.img from your zip file next copy into the same folder that your fastboot drivers are in and then boot the evo into bootloader and then connect your usb cable now press power and you should now be in fastboot usb next on your pc or laptop your going to open up your cmd next you will typ your command to get your fastboot drivers working for example on my laptop i will typ cd\rootevo3dnew press enter now my fastboot drivers are working next i will typ fastboot flash boot boot.img press enter this will flash your boot.img this will allow your evo to boot next you can disconnect from usb next on the evo press volume down and the press power to reboot hope this helps
jslim38 said:
go to your pc or laptop and xtract the boot.img from your zip file next copy into the same folder that your fastboot drivers are in and then boot the evo into bootloader and then connect your usb cable now press power and you should now be in fastboot usb next on your pc or laptop your going to open up your cmd next you will typ your command to get your fastboot drivers working for example on my laptop i will typ cd\rootevo3dnew press enter now my fastboot drivers are working next i will typ fastboot flash boot boot.img press enter this will flash your boot.img this will allow your evo to boot next you can disconnect from usb next on the evo press volume down and the press power to reboot hope this helps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used a slightly different method but i pretty much did what you said here and help from another guy, thanks!
So, I've unlocked my bootloader, and I just wanted to get rid of this bloatware. Do I just need to flash the recovery from adb then flash the superuser .zip from recovery?
TheBiles said:
So, I've unlocked my bootloader, and I just wanted to get rid of this bloatware. Do I just need to flash the recovery from adb then flash the superuser .zip from recovery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Fastboot the recovery and then install a custom ROM. Since you've already wiped out your ability to recieve OTA you may as well go for something a bit better than ASUS stock + su.
This guide I prepared should be of assistance:
----
* Install ADB and Fastboot onto your system, as well as the universal USB naked driver which you can find on this forum.
* Search for DotTech install ADB and Fastboot - follow this guide, it's probably the easiest way to get a working fastboot and ADB environment up and running.
* Enable USB debugging on the tablet under developer options.
* Set up the universal driver, you'll need to reboot your TF201 and hold the POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons until you see some text in the top corner. Do NOT press volume up to go into Recovery Image mode or you'll just walk into a dead end.
* Shortly after you'll see three icons, press volume down ONCE and then volume UP once, the USB icon in the middle should be highlighted and you should see text saying "Entering Fastboot Protocol" or similar.
* Plug the USB cable into the tab and the PC, test whether you have a working fastboot install by typing fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot, if your tablet reboots without you touching it, then you've got working fastboot access. Remove the cable, reboot to fastboot mode as described above.
* Meantime, download openrecovery-twrp-2.1.3-tf201.blob from the team win site, and stuff it in the same directory that you set up Fastboot/ADB, rename it to twrp.blob. Plug your tablet back in and then issue the command fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash recovery twrp.blob , if this goes to plan you'll see a couple of lines of text on the command window which will tell you that it's been successfully flashed in. YOU STILL DO NOT HAVE ROOT THOUGH, SO NO SILLY STUFF
* Finally, download the ROM of your choice, place it in the base /sdcard directory, then reboot the tab and hold POWER and VOLUME DOWN, when you see the text, this time hit VOLUME UP, and you'll be sent into the team win recovery suite, at this point you can wipe and flash the newly prepared ROM as per normal.
----
Hope this helps.
So I have a Telus version of the HTC One X+ 64GB. I have been pretty familiar with flashing roms on samsungs. Wasn't the case so much with the HTC. So I decided to unlock boot loader, root, and flash a custom recovery. Decided to flash this rom from this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219520 not understanding how the boot.img works well guess what I didn't flash that. Now I'm stuck on the Panandriod 3+ boot logo. The phone from my understanding don't seem to wanna charge. Just gets a slow blinking red notification light. When I was able to get into recovery when the battery had charge I was unable to get the ad card to mount so I could add the boot.img to the phone to get fast boot to flash it. I have all the drivers installed on the PC but unsure if maybe the reason that recovery is unable to mount is because of HTC Sync is installed on the PC as well?
The whole reason for trying to flash a rom on this HTC is because I have the HTC One Developer Edition on the way and I wanted to learn as much about flashing HTC as I could so I wouldn't mess up and brick my HTC One when it came. Nowwwww I'm not so confident.
Two days research I have a little more knowledge but still unable to find a good thread or resource to fix this problem. I was able to get some charge thru to the phone when I selected recovery and it went to a black screen with the notification light pulsing red. It seems like its not fully bricked. I tried to use Cmd in windows to try and communicate and see if he phone would respond to the fast boot commands but to no lunch Cmd cannot find the phone. Do anyone know where I could start? Is there a tool kit that can send me back to stock? It was running 4.1.1 any help in the right direction would be great. Thank you guys.
You HAVE to flash the boot.img! Flash it in fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Without the new boot.img (which is the kernel) your Rom will not run.
Download the pizza boot.img
sixcarnage said:
You HAVE to flash the boot.img! Flash it in fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Without the new boot.img (which is the kernel) your Rom will not run.
Download the pizza boot.img
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey thanks for replying
I downloaded the pizza boot.img but the issue I'm facing is charging it seems either very very slow on black screen or maybe it's not charging? But main issue is that PC cannot find the One X+ I will try this command but where do I place the pizza boot.img on windows?
The only thing is getting me is I'm getting the sound from windows when you connect a device when I plug the phone in USB but the cmd so far that I have tried even the All in one toolkit don't seem to see that the phone is connect USB in fast boot or boot loader mode. Think this is due to not enough charge? Plus should I just leave it in custom recovery to charge which is a black screen due to it says not enough charge to flash to charge my device?
sixcarnage said:
You HAVE to flash the boot.img! Flash it in fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
Without the new boot.img (which is the kernel) your Rom will not run.
Download the pizza boot.img
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Corrected.
Gene1985 said:
Two days research I have a little more knowledge but still unable to find a good thread or resource to fix this problem.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can hardly believe you didn't find anything that help you with this issue on this forum.
First is your SDK/ADB tool install on your computer?
It's not that complicated to flash the boot.img. Take the pizza boot.img and put it in your platform-folder of your SDk tool. Reboot your phone by holding Volume down and pressing Power button. In bootloader plug in your USB cable and at the prompt confirm that your computer is seen by typing this >fastboot devices if you have your serial confirmation then simply proceed with this at the prompt>fastboot flash boot insert_pizza_name_boot.img (enter) again at the prompt>fastboot erase cache (enter) the for rebooting >fastboot reboot (enter)
If you need more infos, you have everything required in my signature to help you.
Do you have the latest TWRP
Lucky Thirteen said:
Corrected.
I can hardly believe you didn't find anything that help you with this issue on this forum.
First is your SDK/ADB tool install on your computer?
It's not that complicated to flash the boot.img. Take the pizza boot.img and put it in your platform-folder of your SDk tool. Reboot your phone by holding Volume down and pressing Power button. In bootloader plug in your USB cable and at the prompt confirm that your computer is seen by typing this >fastboot devices if you have your serial confirmation then simply proceed with this at the prompt>fastboot flash boot insert_pizza_name_boot.img (enter) again at the prompt>fastboot erase cache (enter) the for rebooting >fastboot reboot (enter)
If you need more infos, you have everything required in my signature to help you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks Lucky, I noticed tonight I went thru everything in issues and I noticed that I didn't correctly have SDK set up right on my windows. Hopefully that this is the issue and that when I set it up right that I can fix this problem. This has been far different then Samsung to fix hahaha thanks again and kinda my bad for posting the question. But hopefully that works.
sixcarnage said:
Do you have the latest TWRP
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No I don't have TWRP I have the recover that came in the noob tool kit. The none touch screen one lol. But I understand a fair bit on what I should have done. I'm gonna try and follow luckies link for the SDK set up and see if I can send the zip file to the phone then flash it in recovery. Just I hope the thing can charge. I had it on the charger for 4 hours today and it still said that there was not enough charge to flash I tried charging it in the boot loop and in recovery.
So I guess the issue is worse. The phone won't charge at all the red notification light blinks red but it don't seem to be charging at all I have looked for fixes and it says flash latest compatible recovery but it won't even discover the phone connected to windows with proper HTC drivers installed
Is your phone capable of booting in bootloader mode?
Lucky Thirteen said:
Is your phone capable of booting in bootloader mode?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yea I am able Lucky. But what I tried today was to get RUU to recognize the phone to do that but no go. So tomorrow I'm gonna do a fresh reinstall on a new laptop of windows and install drivers again and all that. But as for boot loader mode it boots. I click recovery and I get a black screen. I can fast boot USB but I'm not quite sure about USB debugging is still turned on. If it where I'm sure I wouldn't have an issue with the PC not seeing the phone connected.
OK try this in bootloader mode with the USB plug
fasboot devices
Do you have a confirmation serial number?
Will do Lucky. Thanks for your time and patience. I will try this over the night. I really like to try and get this fixed and to understand how the htc works with installing roms and tweaks. I really don't wanna mess up my Develeper Edition of the HTC One that's on the way.
If you have your serial confirmation.
Download this recovery HERE
Move this file in your platform-tools folder
Press and hold the Shift key and right click on a empty space of that folder and select Open Command Window Here
In the command window with your phone in FASTBOOT USB mode
Type>fastboot flash recovery TWRP2500.img
(Success)
Type again>fastboot erase cache
(Success)
Unplug your USB cable
Hit one time Power
Select Recovery (Volume down)
Hit Power to Reboot in Recovery
Phone should charge in recovery even if the red light doesn't lit.
Just tried this on my phone with less than 10% and it worked flawlessly, after ~10 minutes my phone was at 13%+
Otherwise you will have to create a batch file and run it while your phone is in FASTBOOT USB mode :
Code:
" @echo off
:start
fastboot getvar battery-voltage
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping /n 6 localhost >nul
goto start
"
That should allow your phone to charge to the minimal required to flash or to re-unlock your bootloader.
Lucky Thirteen said:
If you have your serial confirmation.
Download this recovery HERE
Move this file in your platform-tools folder
Press and hold the Shift key and right click on a empty space of that folder and select Open Command Window Here
In the command window with your phone in FASTBOOT USB mode
Type>fastboot flash recovery TWRP2500.img
(Success)
Type again>fastboot erase cache
(Success)
Unplug your USB cable
Hit one time Power
Select Recovery (Volume down)
Hit Power to Reboot in Recovery
Phone should charge in recovery even if the red light doesn't lit.
Just tried this on my phone with less than 10% and it worked flawlessly, after ~10 minutes my phone was at 13%+
Otherwise you will have to create a batch file and run it while your phone is in FASTBOOT USB mode :
Code:
" @echo off
:start
fastboot getvar battery-voltage
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping /n 6 localhost >nul
goto start
"
That should allow your phone to charge to the minimal required to flash or to re-unlock your bootloader.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks Lucky. I will try this first thing in the A.M I hope that works.
Lucky Thirteen said:
If you have your serial confirmation.
Download this recovery HERE
Move this file in your platform-tools folder
Press and hold the Shift key and right click on a empty space of that folder and select Open Command Window Here
In the command window with your phone in FASTBOOT USB mode
Type>fastboot flash recovery TWRP2500.img
(Success)
Type again>fastboot erase cache
(Success)
Unplug your USB cable
Hit one time Power
Select Recovery (Volume down)
Hit Power to Reboot in Recovery
Phone should charge in recovery even if the red light doesn't lit.
Just tried this on my phone with less than 10% and it worked flawlessly, after ~10 minutes my phone was at 13%+
Otherwise you will have to create a batch file and run it while your phone is in FASTBOOT USB mode :
Code:
" @echo off
:start
fastboot getvar battery-voltage
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping /n 6 localhost >nul
goto start
"
That should allow your phone to charge to the minimal required to flash or to re-unlock your bootloader.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
worked like a charm Lucky. thanks i followed all the steps now im up and running. thanks again.
Great! This is a good news!
Please take the time to edit your OP and change your title to this : [SOLVED] BAD FLASH!!!! NOOB. Possible Brick HELP THANK YOU.
Happy flashing now!
Droid DNA with Supercharged Hatka DNA got stuck in bootloop after running fine for over a year (ROM flashed last February)
I have a *fairly* recent backup if I could get it to boot to recovery, but I would prefer not to considering the 20ish Litecoins walleted on the device. I will be willing to give a whole Litecoin to whoever can fix my problem
Esploded said:
Droid DNA with Supercharged Hatka DNA got stuck in bootloop after running fine for over a year (ROM flashed last February)
I have a *fairly* recent backup if I could get it to boot to recovery, but I would prefer not to considering the 20ish Litecoins walleted on the device. I will be willing to give a whole Litecoin to whoever can fix my problem
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you have adb? If you do the command is adb reboot recovery. Need to know more it just cycles? If so then try to push both power button and and both volumes until it has lights flashing at the bottom and reboots dont let go until it reboots. Other then that I am not sure. I tried to boot to recovery the manual way and it doesnt work. Which is why i Always use that to reboot recovery. Wait, I figured it out. Hold down volume power dont let go until bootloader comes up then let go of both. use volume down and select recovery and bam!
Okay so I tried holding down power and down volume to get into bootloader, it got me there and I could scroll to recovery, but it kept cycling the reboot before it would boot into recovery. I tried plugging it into the computer to use adb, but it just makes the plug/unplug USB sound in Windows. I also tried holding down all three buttons, and it makes no difference.
Esploded said:
Okay so I tried holding down power and down volume to get into bootloader, it got me there and I could scroll to recovery, but it kept cycling the reboot before it would boot into recovery. I tried plugging it into the computer to use adb, but it just makes the plug/unplug USB sound in Windows. I also tried holding down all three buttons, and it makes no difference.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok so if you have fastboot you should be able to use fastboot to flash recovery. If you are going to use a backup then you would need to have the same recovery image you used for the original. My suggestion is go to twrp and get the image. make sure you are plugged in at bootloader and fastboot is selected. IT should say fastboot usb if you are connected correctly on the top. I am assuming you have fastboot? If not my suggestion is to get minimal adb and fastboot it is the easiest. after you have installed run this command.
fastboot devices
it should come up with your device number if it doesnt then you need fastboot drivers. If it does then take the recovery.img you downloaded and place it in the same folder as your fastboot and adb folder. I suggest changing name to make it easier, I usually just change it to recovery.img instead of whatever it downloaded as. Then enter this command
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It should say sending and complete then enter this command
fastboot reboot recovery
bam you are in recovery!
jhr5474 said:
Ok so if you have fastboot you should be able to use fastboot to flash recovery. If you are going to use a backup then you would need to have the same recovery image you used for the original. My suggestion is go to twrp and get the image. make sure you are plugged in at bootloader and fastboot is selected. IT should say fastboot usb if you are connected correctly on the top. I am assuming you have fastboot? If not my suggestion is to get minimal adb and fastboot it is the easiest. after you have installed run this command.
fastboot devices
it should come up with your device number if it doesnt then you need fastboot drivers. If it does then take the recovery.img you downloaded and place it in the same folder as your fastboot and adb folder. I suggest changing name to make it easier, I usually just change it to recovery.img instead of whatever it downloaded as. Then enter this command
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It should say sending and complete then enter this command
fastboot reboot recovery
bam you are in recovery!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll give the fastboot utility a shot, hopefully it works. Thank you
Esploded said:
I'll give the fastboot utility a shot, hopefully it works. Thank you
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
IT is a lifesaver and so is adb once you learn how to use them you will be freed from lots of problems! Good luck.
jhr5474 said:
IT is a lifesaver and so is adb once you learn how to use them you will be freed from lots of problems! Good luck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ADB tool is no help, computer will not recognize my phone even with all the HTC drivers installed. I'm at my wit's end, starting to believe something in the phone's hardware is messed up because nothing is working
Esploded said:
ADB tool is no help, computer will not recognize my phone even with all the HTC drivers installed. I'm at my wit's end, starting to believe something in the phone's hardware is messed up because nothing is working
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which adb drivers did you install and you need the fastboot drivers also. I have never found a phone that would not accept a fastboot command what OS are you on?
jhr5474 said:
Which adb drivers did you install and you need the fastboot drivers also. I have never found a phone that would not accept a fastboot command what OS are you on?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I only installed the HTC Sync and the ADB utility, I didn't know about ADB drivers. I'm on Windows 7
Esploded said:
I only installed the HTC Sync and the ADB utility, I didn't know about ADB drivers. I'm on Windows 7
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All this stuff has been asked and answered a hundred times... Look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2131284
Get your ADB and Fastboot working. You will be fine.
sdamark said:
All this stuff has been asked and answered a hundred times... Look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2131284
Get your ADB and Fastboot working. You will be fine.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ADB and fastboot don't help, since it won't connect to any computer. I'm starting to think this is a hardware issue
I figured out what caused this. About a month ago, I was deleting unnecessary files, and it had been a year since I'd flashed my custom ROM so I forgot what the process involved. I accidentally deleted the 'sdcard' folder, and the phone became a ticking time bomb for it to stop working. I bricked it didn't I?
Esploded said:
I figured out what caused this. About a month ago, I was deleting unnecessary files, and it had been a year since I'd flashed my custom ROM so I forgot what the process involved. I accidentally deleted the 'sdcard' folder, and the phone became a ticking time bomb for it to stop working. I bricked it didn't I?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, If you have twrp use adb push and push a rom to your phone and then flash it and your fine.
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Esploded said:
Okay so I tried holding down power and down volume to get into bootloader, it got me there and I could scroll to recovery, but it kept cycling the reboot before it would boot into recovery. I tried plugging it into the computer to use adb, but it just makes the plug/unplug USB sound in Windows. I also tried holding down all three buttons, and it makes no difference.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you can get into your rom, go to settings..power and at the bottom disable fastboot
Esploded said:
ADB and fastboot don't help, since it won't connect to any computer. I'm starting to think this is a hardware issue
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1. Charge your phone (about 24 hours).
2. Let him rest (about 24 hours) without turning on.
3. Connect device to PC with original wire (Win7 preferred).
There is possibility that your BB will recognize phone.
I am very new to this, I rooted my Moto G4 and now I need to download SUHide in order to play Pokemon Go. When I try to enter recovery via my fastboot/abd folder I get a < waiting for any device > message. When I hold down the power + volume down button my phone just turns on as normal without entering bootloader even though my bootloader is unlocked. I tried downloading an app that loads recovery for me but when I tried that I got a "no command" screen with a little green robot.
From what I've read, it's possible I didn't flash my trwp properly? I don't know how this is possible since I just rooted my phone. I would appreciate some help, I'm afraid to take any random guesses at the risk of ruining my phone. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious or not giving enough info, I'm not very tech savvy.
levijoseph said:
I am very new to this, I rooted my Moto G4 and now I need to download SUHide in order to play Pokemon Go. When I try to enter recovery via my fastboot/abd folder I get a < waiting for any device > message. When I hold down the power + volume down button my phone just turns on as normal without entering bootloader even though my bootloader is unlocked. I tried downloading an app that loads recovery for me but when I tried that I got a "no command" screen with a little green robot.
From what I've read, it's possible I didn't flash my trwp properly? I don't know how this is possible since I just rooted my phone. I would appreciate some help, I'm afraid to take any random guesses at the risk of ruining my phone. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious or not giving enough info, I'm not very tech savvy.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try power plus volume up button to go to fastboot mode.
If it not working then connect your android to pc and enable adb. Type "adb devices" enter then type "adb reboot bootloader" and enter. It boots your android in fastboot mode.
If adb commands not working then install adb and fastboot drivers and try again.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
In most devices, volume up + power boots up the recovery options, volume down + power boots the device into fastboot mode (volume buttons first plus power, pressing power button first would boot the device normally).
levijoseph said:
When I try to enter recovery via my fastboot/abd folder I get a < waiting for any device > message. When I hold down the power + volume down button my phone just turns on as normal without entering bootloader even though my bootloader is unlocked.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How did you install the custom recovery? Try flashing the recovery.img again (I'm guessing, since you have root, that you did not "flash" (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) TWRP but just "boot" (fastboot boot recovery.img) it and installed SuperSU).
Ashwinrg said:
Try power plus volume up button to go to fastboot mode.
If it not working then connect your android to pc and enable adb. Type "adb devices" enter then type "adb reboot bootloader" and enter. It boots your android in fastboot mode.
If adb commands not working then install adb and fastboot drivers and try again.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay, so that did work, and I was able to enter fastboot mode. However, once I scrolled down to "recovery mode" and tried to enter, I got the same "no command" screen.
rolland.arriza said:
In most devices, volume up + power boots up the recovery options, volume down + power boots the device into fastboot mode (volume buttons first plus power, pressing power button first would boot the device normally).
How did you install the custom recovery? Try flashing the recovery.img again (I'm guessing, since you have root, that you did not "flash" (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) TWRP but just "boot" (fastboot boot recovery.img) it and installed SuperSU).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used the official moto g4 root guide on this website to root my phone and I'm pretty sure I booted, not flashed, the recovery img (mine is named twrp-3.0.2-0-athene). So, I tried using the command you provided to flash the recovery img and I got a < waiting for any device > message in the command prompt. My phone is plugged in and my recovery img is in the adb / fastboot folder. Any idea what this means? Thank you for the help guys
edit: If it helps to know this, my phone has usb debugging enabled and it is recognized by my pc. I type adb devices and my moto g4 serial number does indeed show up.
levijoseph said:
I am very new to this, I rooted my Moto G4 and now I need to download SUHide in order to play Pokemon Go. When I try to enter recovery via my fastboot/abd folder I get a < waiting for any device > message. When I hold down the power + volume down button my phone just turns on as normal without entering bootloader even though my bootloader is unlocked. I tried downloading an app that loads recovery for me but when I tried that I got a "no command" screen with a little green robot.
From what I've read, it's possible I didn't flash my trwp properly? I don't know how this is possible since I just rooted my phone. I would appreciate some help, I'm afraid to take any random guesses at the risk of ruining my phone. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious or not giving enough info, I'm not very tech savvy.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you are trying to flash twrp recovery on your android then rename your twrp to recovery.
Boot your android in fastboot mode,
Navigate to folder that you have recovery. Press shift and right click and click on open command here and type "fastboot devices" and enter
"fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It flash your recovery to your android.
Ashwinrg said:
If you are trying to flash twrp recovery on your android then rename your twrp to recovery.
Boot your android in fastboot mode,
Navigate to folder that you have recovery. Press shift and right click and click on open command here and type "fastboot devices" and enter
"fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It flash your recovery to your android.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did all that, getting:
(bootloader) slot-count: not found
(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found
(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found
(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found
error: cannot load 'recovery.img'
Also, per the suggestion of other users on these forums, I tried to hold down power and press volume up during the "no command" screen after attempting to enter recovery. That sent me into Android Recovery but it's not the twrp platform I used when originally rooting my phone.
How did you unlock the bootloader? have you tried: fastboot oem unlock?
You need to "allow oem unlocking" on developer options (which I guess you already did). Then reboot in bootloader: (a) adb reboot bootloader. In fastboot, you need to unlock the bootloader first: (b) fastboot oem unlock (or unlock-go). Then you can try to flash that recovery.img: (c) fastboot flash recovery "name of the file.img"
edit: fastboot oem unlock restores the device to factory settings. You need to configure and enable again "usb debugging" and "oem unlocking" (which are disabled by default). You can then proceed to fastboot flash