I have done a lot of Googling over the past couple weeks trying to solve this issue.
I have two Alcatel OneTouch Elevate phones (5017B). One is working and the other is bricked. I tried to turn off the softkeys using a root app (something I had done successfully before) and it never booted past the Alcatel boot logo screen after that (screen goes black). I can boot into (stock) recovery, and wiping cache and data don't fix the issue. I am pretty sure I have corrupted something.
I have managed to extract all of the partitions from my good phone (system.img, boot.img, recovery.img, etc.), and I can boot into recovery on the bricked phone. However, it is stock recovery, and I have yet to find a twrp or cwm for the phone (I am currently looking into making my own or using one for a different phone with the same chipset).
Does anyone know how I can unbrick this phone or how I can create a bootable sd card so I can start up the phone and try to fix what's broken?
Thanks!
Are you rooted? Does adb detect the device? If so, I can probably help you fix it easily.
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Are you rooted? Does adb detect the device? If so, I can probably help you fix it easily.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes I am rooted. I have not been able to get the bricked phone recognized by adb yet. I have tried to connect while in recovery with no success. When regularly booting (such that it goes to black screen as stated), my computer (Windows) makes the "usb device plugged in" beep sound, but nothing comes up in explorer and adb does not recognize anything when I use 'adb devices'. I am not sure if my device has a download mode; that (I feel like) is my last hope if I can't reinstall my partitions with an SD card or something.
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So, I have CyanogenMod 7.0.3 Stable flashed in my Legend, and it's been working just fine. Until couple days ago when I made some theme changes through Theme Chooser and flashed some theme add-ons. Now the phone is acting just stupidly. It's in a bootloop (sometimes loops in HTC bootscreen, sometimes in the CyanogenMod bootscreen), usb connectivity doesn't work (fastboot usb works, adb/mass storage etc. doesn't). I have tried to wipe the phone and flash that rom/recovery again through fastboot, but fastboot says "remote: not allowed" or something like that. Bootloader works, fastboot works, even recovery works but it's no use 'cause adb driver doesn't recognize the phone.
Please guys, help me. What should I do to get my phone running again? (working CyanogenMod or even a stock without root, I don't care, I just want this thing up and running again)
EDIT: And the weird thing is, that couple times I was able to boot the phone normally using recovery by just sticking the usb cable into the phone. And also, couple times I was able to boot it normally by just using fastboot reboot (I was able to get to the HTC Setup screen and then it would crash and show just black screen with notification bar)
It's possible the you're USB bricked. A quick search of "USB unbrick" should bring the required thread to light (search in development)
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It's possible the you're USB bricked. A quick search of "USB unbrick" should bring the required thread to light (search in development)
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Yeah, I have thought of that! Only problem is that how am I supposed to get the required files (flash_image and .img) to SD card without a way to manage SD card? Can I flash the image using fastboot?
I can't do it inside the phone 'cause I'm in a bootloop and can't boot the phone.
EDIT: Is there a chance to do a wipe and flash a new rom using only fastboot or something?
In theory you can flash without recovery, but only if you're S-OFF. You'll need the ROM in .img format too.
I used a microSD to SDCard reader to transfer the files., they're fairly cheap in high street stores. Or borrow a friends Android phone
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In theory you can flash without recovery, but only if you're S-OFF. You'll need the ROM in .img format too.
I used a microSD to SDCard reader to transfer the files., they're fairly cheap in high street stores. Or borrow a friends Android phone
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Well, am I able to flash those files once they are in the SD card? I mean with S-ON cause I don't have S-OFF?
Or is my phone a complete brick? =( Cause I'm pretty much all out of ideas..
Once you've got the files needed for a USB unbrick on your SD card you'll be fine
if you have recovery access did you try to make apply update from SD card in order to pass in cwm recovery.
if you got a USB brick you can use a multifonction printer to mount your SD on your computer.
So in a nutshell, my problems are:
- My Legend is in a bootloop
- Apparently my phone is USB bricked cause only fastboot works
- I don't have a recovery, when I go manually into recovery (recovery -> POWER + VOL UP) it goes into stock recovery
- And also my phone is S-ON
Could you guys point me into the right direction with this, I really want my phone back working. What should I do?
When you get to the stock recovery, navigate to ans select "flash update.zip from SDcard" That should get you to ClockworkMOD. Once there you'll need to use ADB to push the files required for the USB unbrick procedure to the SDcard (adb push [files-on-pc] /sdcard/) You should no be able to perform the the USB unbrick.
You may need your phone plugged into a PC for it to boot
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When you get to the stock recovery, navigate to ans select "flash update.zip from SDcard" That should get you to ClockworkMOD. Once there you'll need to use ADB to push the files required for the USB unbrick procedure to the SDcard (adb push [files-on-pc] /sdcard/) You should no be able to perform the the USB unbrick.
You may need your phone plugged into a PC for it to boot
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But I'm getting this blue recovery screen with only four options instead of the original green one including option to flash zip. So wtf has happened?
EDIT: In the blue recovery screen it says Can't open cache/recovery/command. And when I choose "apply sdcard:update.zip" it says "signature verification failed" and it aborts the installation.
Fakeflash.
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Fakeflash.
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So I am able to flash roms only using this menu? Am I correct? Just do a wipe and apply update.zip?
Why does it say "verification failed" then?
EDIT: Oh I see, I have to download fake-flash update.zip and apply update.zip takes me to the clockwork recovery? When I put the update.zip to the SD card and apply it, then it should go on with out any "verification failed" errors?
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Fakeflash.
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My main priority is just to get the phone to run normally again, I can worry about the USB Unbrick later. So I just want to do a full wipe and flash Cyanogenmod again. Am I able to do all that is required to run the phone again normally with fakeflash?
Thanks in advance TheGrammarFreak, I really appreciate your help!
The phone won't run normally until you do a USB unbrick.
One of the things that happens with this USB brick is that a flag for advanced debugging gets set. It's a very deep setting, and the setting is read ad the HBOOT level. If this flag is set to on (like it is in a USB brick) the phone will not boot unless it's plugged into a computer. Remember that
In order to get your phone back I believe you will need to plug your phone into the PC and turn it on. It should boot, if not you will need to get to recovery and wipe/reflash (you'll need to do this while plugged into a PC too). Once you have a running system/you're in recovery you can use ADB to push the files needed for a USB unbrick to your SD card.
Assuming you got that far, you should be in a prime position to follow the USB unbrick procedure.
I'm going away tomorrow for a week, and I will not be online at all. If you need more help you will need to get someone else in. That said, I believe that with the information in this thread, the USB unbrick thread, the fakeflash thread and Google you have enough information and help top fix your phone
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The phone won't run normally until you do a USB unbrick.
One of the things that happens with this USB brick is that a flag for advanced debugging gets set. It's a very deep setting, and the setting is read ad the HBOOT level. If this flag is set to on (like it is in a USB brick) the phone will not boot unless it's plugged into a computer. Remember that
In order to get your phone back I believe you will need to plug your phone into the PC and turn it on. It should boot, if not you will need to get to recovery and wipe/reflash (you'll need to do this while plugged into a PC too). Once you have a running system/you're in recovery you can use ADB to push the files needed for a USB unbrick to your SD card.
Assuming you got that far, you should be in a prime position to follow the USB unbrick procedure.
I'm going away tomorrow for a week, and I will not be online at all. If you need more help you will need to get someone else in. That said, I believe that with the information in this thread, the USB unbrick thread, the fakeflash thread and Google you have enough information and help top fix your phone
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Legend is up and running again! Thank you so much TheGrammarFreak!
Same problem here, but slightly different. He doesn't recognize my SD card (tried different ones) anymore ... out of the blue ... so how can I unbrick ??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751265
follow this guide, helped me a lot.
you'll need root access.
I had NOS Google Play ROM on my phone, but now it won't boot up and I forgot to set a backup file. Now I am stuck in TWRP since I can't boot up the phone. Also, I deleted the ROM file from my phone. Yes call me stupid all you want but I seriously need this fixed.
So what happens is, I boot the phone, goes to the boot screen, and shows it is booting, but it never does boot. It's in some kind of an infinite loop.
On top of that, I can't transfer files in TWRP!!
Does anyone know how to fix this? I know there is a fix to this, but I can't seem to get any to work or most just don't make any sense.
If you have boot loader unlocked (most likely) try fastboot flashing boot.img in fastboot mode
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I had NOS Google Play ROM on my phone, but now it won't boot up and I forgot to set a backup file. Now I am stuck in TWRP since I can't boot up the phone. Also, I deleted the ROM file from my phone. Yes call me stupid all you want but I seriously need this fixed.
So what happens is, I boot the phone, goes to the boot screen, and shows it is booting, but it never does boot. It's in some kind of an infinite loop.
On top of that, I can't transfer files in TWRP!!
Does anyone know how to fix this? I know there is a fix to this, but I can't seem to get any to work or most just don't make any sense.
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USB OTG Cable, thumbdrive, rom image on thumbdrive, install from external SD.
Boot into recovery and connect the device to your pc and open a terminal and type in adb devices to make sure the pc recognizes your phone and it should. The just adb push a different Rom to the sdcard wait for that to finish and flash. Or if you can get adb sideload to work you can do that too.
You can use adb push/pull in recovery without mounting anything or at least it works for me...
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My phone is from chinavasion it is galaxy i8550 WIN clone with lower specs it is mocor droid 2.0.5 with a fake jellybean speadtrum sc6820 it is rooted i connected the phone via adb and reboot into recovery i have stock recovery not cwm and i tried fixing it btw i meessed up my build.prop file but anyways i tried to fix it via adb and i got a permission error and i have a backup of my build.prop tho ...i just gave up and rebooted to recovery and wiped data/factory reset and ofcourse it didnt work but i lost my adb drivers i cant turn on usb debugging so i cant use adb and i dont know how to accesss recovery i keep ending up in the speadtrum factory test where u test phone hardware nothing else please help if u can altho i highly doubt it and also when i used adb to reboot in recovery and used a zip file it would say signature verification failed :crying::fingers-crossed: But i trust in xda please help even to give me the phone combination keys to recovery and that give me a zip that will be accepted PLEASE i only had the phone for a month
What exactly were you trying to fix in your stock recovery? Assuming I understand you correctly?
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What exactly were you trying to fix in your stock recovery? Assuming I understand you correctly?
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I just fugured out something the problem occured when i took a backup of my build.prop (original one) from my sd card and replaced it with the one in my system folder and forgot to add permissions to it and i restarted my phone and now its bootlooped. When it happened i tried to fix it before i factory reset my phone and lost access to recovery cuz i use to access it from adb i tried to flash a new one (build file) but i got signature verification failed so i just factory reset and lost my adb drivers so now i cant connect it to my computer to use adb commands to reboot into recovery and idk my combination for recovery it is speadtrum sc6820 .....ps. my phone is rooted and has mocor droid 2.3.5 with 4.2.2 jellybean so u know its a fake jellybean cuz its a cloned phone and i have no cwm :crying:
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You can write the custom recovery to your recovery partition using dd in an android terminal emulator from the play store. You would need to know which partition holds your recovery.
For MY device (your partition is different) it would be as followed in the terminal emulator:
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su
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dd if=/sdcard/customrecovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21
/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 is the partition that holds my recovery on my device - yours will be different!
You can also use this method for the boot.img towards the boot partition as well as data to data partition, and so forth.
If you have CWM and you were smart enough to create a backup of your device, then I would write the custom recovery to your recovery partition, boot in to CWM, and restore your device with your backup. Then, reboot, plug device in to your computer, allow the computer to reinstall the drivers and hopefully at this point you should be able to establish connection with adb/fastboot again.
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Cant do that
How do uexpect me to do all of that when everytime i boot my phone the its stuck on the logo and i Dont have cwm ...my phone is bootlooped
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When it happened i tried to fix it before i factory reset my phone and lost access to recovery cuz i use to access it from adb i tried to flash a new one (build file) but i got signature verification failed so i just factory reset and lost my adb drivers so now i cant connect it to my computer to use adb commands to reboot into recovery and idk my combination for recovery it is speadtrum sc6820 .....
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Because right here according to your quote you mentioned that you resetted your device, lost connection to your adb. Only time you can use ADB is when your phone is running. Only way you can confirm if you lost connection with ADB is if your phone is up and running, you open up command window on pc, then run 'adb devices' and if nothing returns then you have no connection. Otherwise, there is no way to confirm if you lost connection to it. So by your quote above, you made it sound like you got around your bootloop problem but could not connect with using ADB and no longer had CWM on your device.
Try to be more clear next time lol.
Have you tried using fastboot instead of ADB?
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Because right here according to your quote you mentioned that you resetted your device, lost connection to your adb. Only time you can use ADB is when your phone is running. Only way you can confirm if you lost connection with ADB is if your phone is up and running, you open up command window on pc, then run 'adb devices' and if nothing returns then you have no connection. Otherwise, there is no way to confirm if you lost connection to it. So by your quote above, you made it sound like you got around your bootloop problem but could not connect with using ADB and no longer had CWM on your device.
Try to be more clear next time lol.
Have you tried using fastboot instead of ADB?
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no i havent and sorrry i ...i will be clearer when i press power plus volme up i get speadtrum factory test where u test phone hardware but no android recovery
Your phone has a bootloader. You need to access your bootloader, select fastboot, plug your device in your pc, open up command window, then type 'fastboot devices'.
If you get your device serial number returned back to you then you have connection. If it returns blank, then you do not have connection which at this point I will not be able to help you.
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Your phone has a bootloader. You need to access your bootloader, select fastboot, plug your device in your pc, open up command window, then type 'fastboot devices'.
If you get your device serial number returned back to you then you have connection. If it returns blank, then you do not have connection which at this point I will not be able to help you.
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unfortunately looks like u cant help me cuz neither that wont showup
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unfortunately looks like u cant help me cuz neither that wont showup
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I'm sorry bro. Maybe someone else on here will pickup where I left off. Good luck friend.
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While trying to set up a new boot animation, I came across an error which prevented my phone form booting up into the OS and instead showed me the Fastboot screen every time. I tried reflashing twrp, as well as flashing another boot animation into it. While reflashing TWRP for the third time (I didn't really know what to do so I just hoped it would work eventually), it seems like it corrupted some of my phone data, meaning preloader and I believe some other stuff. The phone now won't boot at all, and also isn't getting recognized by SPFlashTool. While plugging it into my PC I can still hear the "connected" and "disconnected" sound though.
Any ideas on what I could do?
I know its kinda late but
Have you tried using adb or fastboot and check if your device is recognized with the adb devices command?
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Have you tried using adb or fastboot and check if your device is recognized with the adb devices command?
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I don't know how to do it But I'm having the same problem the screen is black , can you guys help me ?
Your phone sounds like it is soft bricked.
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I don't know how to do it But I'm having the same problem the screen is black , can you guys help me ?
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Your phone sounds as though it is soft bricked. It can be brought back to life.
Follow here to un-brick your device:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/ulefone-power-5-twrp-root-project-treble-t3943714
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While trying to set up a new boot animation, I came across an error which prevented my phone form booting up into the OS and instead showed me the Fastboot screen every time. I tried reflashing twrp, as well as flashing another boot animation into it. While reflashing TWRP for the third time (I didn't really know what to do so I just hoped it would work eventually), it seems like it corrupted some of my phone data, meaning preloader and I believe some other stuff. The phone now won't boot at all, and also isn't getting recognized by SPFlashTool. While plugging it into my PC I can still hear the "connected" and "disconnected" sound though.
Any ideas on what I could do?
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Just use the spflashtool. Try multiple times and try my updated guide. Make sure you installed the drivers properly AND USE A GOOD CABLE. I had some hard times flashing with spflashtool, but it was just the cable.
Hi there! I'm hoping someone on XDA Developers can help me sort out a root gone-wrong.
I did my best to follow the guide on XDA. I have an Umidigi A9 Pro with 6gb ram. I was successfully able to get the android tools on PC and was able to unlock the bootloader. I went to the Umidigi website to get the ROM. I think I *might* have grabbed the wrong one. Once I got this zip from the Umidigi website, I unzipped the folder and copied the boot.img that was in that root folder to the device. I then went into Magisk and patched the img. I then copied the patched img to my PC then use the commands on the XDA guide to flash the image to the device, the flash was successful (I think). However the device is now stuck in a boot loop. The device displays the Umidigi OEM logo and the android logo; underneath it says in small text:
Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
Your device will boot in 5 seconds
after 5 seconds the screen goes black and then comes back with the same screen. This happens continuously. I have tried holding the volume down, the power button, and several combinations of volume up, down, and power. Holding all buttons down makes the screen stay black, however while plugged into the PC the PC still makes the device connected and disconnected sounds off and on. Whenever I release the buttons, it goes right back to the loop. Windows PC plays the device connected and disconnected sound on and off. The command prompt is not able to affect the device. When I run "adb devices" it doesn't display the phone so it doesn't seem that windows is detecting the device.
ROM: https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=22236&extra=page=1
https://www.umidigi.com/page-Download.html
I'm hoping for some help on this one
Thank you!
It should be obvious that when being in a bootloop ADB cannot function: On Android side the ADB daemon gets started and after seconds closed, and this over and over again.
In the simplest explanation, a bootloop describes when your phone is stuck in a loop of rebooting. The term "bootloop" is just a more common way of saying "reboot loop."
Curious if you ever managed to get this figured out? I'm in essentially the same situation, though I was not attempting to flash a ROM. I successfully managed to get TWRP 3.5.2 installed and then I was trying to get Magisk installed.
My phone data was wiped, which honestly I didn't care about, however I must have done something wrong with the Magisk installation as now I have the rebooting issue.
I'm able to use ADB and have been trying to push a ROM to the sdcard folder of the internal storage. ADB says the file has successfully completed, but nothing is on the phone. I fixed the issue of the storage showing up as 0MB by changing from EX4 to EX2 and then changed it back to 4.
Really unsure of how to flash a ROM if I can't get the file to pushed to the phones internal memory though.
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Curious if you ever managed to get this figured out? I'm in essentially the same situation, though I was not attempting to flash a ROM. I successfully managed to get TWRP 3.5.2 installed and then I was trying to get Magisk installed.
My phone data was wiped, which honestly I didn't care about, however I must have done something wrong with the Magisk installation as now I have the rebooting issue.
I'm able to use ADB and have been trying to push a ROM to the sdcard folder of the internal storage. ADB says the file has successfully completed, but nothing is on the phone. I fixed the issue of the storage showing up as 0MB by changing from EX4 to EX2 and then changed it back to 4.
Really unsure of how to flash a ROM if I can't get the file to pushed to the phones internal memory though.
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I honestly haven't messed with it since. It was a very cheap extra android phone I had laying around. Once it got messed up I pretty much just put it in a drawer and said "maybe another day"