There's a TL;DR at the end !
Hi - I hope you will be able to help me !
I have a XT910 Motorola Razr from Rogers in Canada.
I've had a Nexus S for a long time and I guess I wasn't prepared for a phone that wasn't as friendly to modding and flashing.
Before trying to flash a version of CM10 found here in the forums, I installed CWM Touch and made a nandroid backup - standard stuff.
What I didn't realize until it was too late is that booting into recovery DOES NOT boot CWM Touch - but rather the regular android one - the one that does not allow you to do much other than to factory reset.
I found out about RSD Lite but not until my battery wasn't charged enough and couldn't do anything about the phone.
I searched for the longest time on a LOT on different forums about how I could fix this and resorted to getting a factory cable - which works.
So, now, I can flash stuff using fastboot. Great, right ? Well, I still can't get things working.
RSD Lite doesn't detect my phone, and I believe that's because ADB doesn't detect it as well - so I tried that alternative way to flash fastboot files provided by the eternity project.
I've tried various fastboot packages but to no avail.
The best I can do is to get past the motorola logo - then black screen. Otherwise, I get boot or flash failures and get sent back to fastboot.
When the phone is on the black screen and that I plug a USB cable to my phone, Windows sees the device but it doesn't recognize it - I assure you I've tried all the different drivers to try and get it to work. Nothing.
Worth mentioning - I often get errors "Preflash validation failure" when trying to flash stuff.
I really feel I could fix this issue by flashing an IMG version of CWM touch or some other sort of recovery so that I can recover using a nandroid but they are no where to be found ! I can't believe that all recovery options are installed by APKs.
Any ideas ?
TL;DR, XT910 went boot looping after trying to flash CM10 - resorted to getting a factory cable and even then, can't get the phone back into working condition. Phone is detected by fastboot but not ADB.
Thanks !
first... the battery is the problem
this article can help...
How to Boot your Phone on Low Battery with Fastboot Flash Failure
To boot your phone on low battery where you get stuck on fastboot flash failure, hold down Volume Up and Volume Down then plug in “AC” USB charger to your Droid Razr. This will give you the bootloader menu upon where you can choose “Normal Recovery” to boot. If your phone doesn’t boot here, it will at least re-charge the battery normally instead of being stuck on fastboot flash failure which will re-charge your phone “very very slowly”.
My Razr is 3 years old, was running super slowly (like 15 mins to unlock it), so I figured I would wipe it and rom it. I've done this before, mostly with my OG Droid back in the day, but not on my Razr. So, I rooted it, did a factory reset (backed up everything to my pc first), installed safestrap, told me it wasn't actually rooted, so I did the rooting process again, worked. got in safestrap, wiped, wiped dalvik cache, system, cache, data, created a partition, swapped to that, installed LiquidSmooth, rebooted phone (as per the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2782971), and now I just get the motologo then a black screen. I can get into the built in recovery, tried wiping the cashe and doing a factory reset there, changed nothing. I don't know how to use abd, but I'm downloading a utility for it (Droid Razr Utility), any ideas on what I need to do? I installed liquidsmooth off my sd card, not sure if that is where I ****ed up though. If I take the SD card out, the phone wont even give me the moto logo. When left on the charger, it just sits at the moto logo, it never goes away. Just sits there, screen on. AP Fastboot says "Battery Low" and Matts utilities fails to flash. It wont charge when I plug it in, just sits at the moto logo.
Thanks for the help guys!
Spherousy said:
My Razr is 3 years old, was running super slowly (like 15 mins to unlock it), so I figured I would wipe it and rom it. I've done this before, mostly with my OG Droid back in the day, but not on my Razr. So, I rooted it, did a factory reset (backed up everything to my pc first), installed safestrap, told me it wasn't actually rooted, so I did the rooting process again, worked. got in safestrap, wiped, wiped dalvik cache, system, cache, data, created a partition, swapped to that, installed LiquidSmooth, rebooted phone (as per the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2782971), and now I just get the motologo then a black screen. I can get into the built in recovery, tried wiping the cashe and doing a factory reset there, changed nothing. I don't know how to use abd, but I'm downloading a utility for it (Droid Razr Utility), any ideas on what I need to do? I installed liquidsmooth off my sd card, not sure if that is where I ****ed up though. If I take the SD card out, the phone wont even give me the moto logo. When left on the charger, it just sits at the moto logo, it never goes away. Just sits there, screen on. AP Fastboot says "Battery Low" and Matts utilities fails to flash. It wont charge when I plug it in, just sits at the moto logo.
Thanks for the help guys!
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Let it sit over night pluged it. It is NOT charging. AP fastboot still says battery low, so matts utility fails to flash. What do I do? really need help!
Spherousy said:
My Razr is 3 years old, was running super slowly (like 15 mins to unlock it), so I figured I would wipe it and rom it. I've done this before, mostly with my OG Droid back in the day, but not on my Razr. So, I rooted it, did a factory reset (backed up everything to my pc first), installed safestrap, told me it wasn't actually rooted, so I did the rooting process again, worked. got in safestrap, wiped, wiped dalvik cache, system, cache, data, created a partition, swapped to that, installed LiquidSmooth, rebooted phone (as per the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2782971), and now I just get the motologo then a black screen. I can get into the built in recovery, tried wiping the cashe and doing a factory reset there, changed nothing. I don't know how to use abd, but I'm downloading a utility for it (Droid Razr Utility), any ideas on what I need to do? I installed liquidsmooth off my sd card, not sure if that is where I ****ed up though. If I take the SD card out, the phone wont even give me the moto logo. When left on the charger, it just sits at the moto logo, it never goes away. Just sits there, screen on. AP Fastboot says "Battery Low" and Matts utilities fails to flash. It wont charge when I plug it in, just sits at the moto logo.
Thanks for the help guys!
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It happens to me every time my battery charge reach zero, and looks like becomes a common problem, here also.
If you are able to boot in safestrap, do it, then plug the phone in and wait until safestrap shows 20-30 % battery charge! After that reboot and wait the OS to boot normally. The phone needs a OS to charge, but will charge while is under safestrap.
If you can't boot in safestrap. Charge the phone for about two hours (it will show m logo) unplug it and reboot with power + vol. up + vol. down! The phone should pass through m logo to safestrap, and you will be able to charged it under safestrap.
sui_iuris said:
It happens to me every time my battery charge reach zero, and looks like becomes a common problem, here also.
If you are able to boot in safestrap, do it, then plug the phone in and wait until safestrap shows 20-30 % battery charge! After that reboot and wait the OS to boot normally. The phone needs a OS to charge, but will charge while is under safestrap.
If you can't boot in safestrap. Charge the phone for about two hours (it will show m logo) unplug it and reboot with power + vol. up + vol. down! The phone should pass through m logo to safestrap, and you will be able to charged it under safestrap.
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It never goes past the M logo, I can't get into safestrap. If I could, I would be able to change to my safe partition and boot, but I can't. It's like its stuck trying to boot into a partition with a failed flash on it. Using recovery to factory reset isn't helping at all. And because the battery is now low (it was 100% when I started this, RAZRs just die SUPER fast), Matts Utility wont flash it.
Spherousy said:
It never goes past the M logo, I can't get into safestrap. If I could, I would be able to change to my safe partition and boot, but I can't. It's like its stuck trying to boot into a partition with a failed flash on it. Using recovery to factory reset isn't helping at all. And because the battery is now low (it was 100% when I started this, RAZRs just die SUPER fast), Matts Utility wont flash it.
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It's been "charging" for 12 hours now, still says "Battery low" in AP Fastboot. Still can't flash it. When I try to normal boot, I still just get the M and then it goes to a black screen.
Spherousy said:
It's been "charging" for 12 hours now, still says "Battery low" in AP Fastboot. Still can't flash it. When I try to normal boot, I still just get the M and then it goes to a black screen.
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You can normally boot only once in the short period after unplugging the phone and only if the phone is charged enough - about two hours. You need to be patient, everything you doing with the phone while it charges can brake the magic. After normally booting to safestrap quickly plug the phone again to charge.
Also charge the phone only in the network not by usb.
If this method fails only way to charge the phone enough to flash it with Matts Utilities is via factory cable.
My wife was using her phone (completely stock, no mods whatsoever) and it started shutting down processes (contacts, calendar, etc). She held the power button down to manually shutdown and then rebooted shortly after. The next day, it started to do it again, so she did the same thing only this time it stuck on the "M" logo screen. When she brought it home, I held the power & vol down buttons in for 2 minutes and the phone began to reboot but still stuck on the "M" logo screen.
I began searching vigorously online for a solution and have tried everything. **NOTE** - I am completely unsure what version of software the phone was running before this happened. The first thing I tried was RSD Lite with the JB Stock file from Team US Cellular. The flashing fails during certain lines of the .XML file. I took suggestions from other users to delete the lines it fails on and let the file continue the flash. Once it reboots, it is still stuck on the "M" logo screen. I then tried all the other stock firmware files I could and the same result each time.
Next, I tried using ADB and Fastboot tools. My PC recognizes the phone when plugged in and running command "adb devices" shows the phone listed, but whenever I try to run a pull or other command, I get error:closed. I've tried all the solutions of making sure ADB files are updated, running the list of commands to get the daemon connection reset, etc. I can't push/pull anything using adb. I tried using mFastboot with no luck either.
I tried the above steps over and over for 3 days straight, hoping I missed something simple. My final option was to boot into Recovery Mode and run Wipe Data/Factory Reset. When I select that option, about 3 lines of command begin to run and the phone reboots and goes back to being stuck on the "M" logo screen. The command lines and reboot literally happen within 2 seconds. That tells me Factory Reset is corrupted, but I'm not 100% at this point.
Does anyone have any insight on if there is anything I can do at this point? It wouldn't be such a big deal to lose the phone, but we have pics/videos of our 2 year old that we never got backed up at home or in the cloud and they're very important to us. Unfortunately, the phone did not have and SD card. I'm honestly out of ideas at this point and have never felt so defeated.
I got brave and decided to just unlock the phone and attempt to install TWRP on it and that doesn't even work. It says it flashed it, but whenever I choose Recovery, it never boots to TWRP. It continues to use the stock recovery screen. I'm assuming this thing is just completely done for?
Hey guys,
So really in need of a little help. My OnePlus X started acting strange when it refused to take charge when it was booted into OS (Lineage). However, I noticed that if the phone was off, it would boot immediately upon connecting a cable. So it seemed as if nothing was wrong with the port or the cable (tried various cables and chargers). A little more digging revealed that the phone charges in Fastboot mode. Anyway, I decided to factory reset it and for some reason it was stuck in a boot loop.
I then tried to restore back to stock using Mega Unbrick Guide which worked in the past. Now my problem is that its stuck in fastboot, wont boot into the OS. I can boot to the recovery and fastboot. In recovery when I choose Install from local, i get no browser to search the SD for zip files, nor does the phone detect for me to use adb sideload.
Any ideas as to why this is so?
Thanks!
I have a Verizon Ellipsis 7 tablet that is stuck in a boot loop. When I turn it on, I get the "Powered by Android" screen and then the screen goes blank but lit, and never gets to the next stage. I tried entering Factory Mode and cleared the eMMC, but after doing that I can't even get back into Factory Mode. (I spoke to a Verizon rep and he said clearing the eMMC likely cleared too much, and it now lacks the proper kernels to start up.)
I believe this whole fiasco may have started when I used the wrong charger after having not turned on the tablet for months. I stupidly ignored the warning, and the problems started soon after (although it worked perfectly normally for about a day first). I now have the correct charger and have fully charged the device overnight, but nothing's changed.
I am trying to flash the device and install TWRP, from my Mac computer. However, since I can't get the device into Factory Mode, I'm not sure how to access it from my Mac. Simply connecting the device doesn't seem to make it discoverable. Is there anything I can do, or am I SOL?