Here's the sequence of events. I am not rooted, bootloader locked, never flashed anything to the device. Using phone as company intended.
1. Yesterday night I turn off the device only to notice that it is bootlooping. I can't force shut down. Whatever, I do, nothing would shut down the device completely. Pressing power button for over 15 seconds or anything.
2. If I try to go to recovery, it automatically chooses reboot and goes back to bootloop. Only fastboot works.
3. I install Mi flash tool and download ROM and try to install only to get device is locked error because bootloader is locked. This happens at the "Erase Boot" stage.
4. I try this couple of times and just before giving up, I try to go to recovery again. This time however, recovery opens and it doesn't choose anything automatically.
5. I click the "Repair" option and it just boots regularly and goes in as if nothing happened. No delayed boots, no installs or anything. Just regular boot and goes in. Data is intact. I am now using the phone for a while and have not turned off again.
What should I do next? Flash current version of ROM (already have latest) through the Updater app? Anything else?
Unlock bootloader first
If u get this problem again, you can flash easily with mi flash tool (bootloader should be unlocked)
Somewhat similar thing happened when my sim reader was broken, was just restarting and even after removing (if it managed to boot) sim card it said no service thinking there is a card and would crash from what I assume is a nullptr, this phone sucks
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I just flashed the Energy.RAPHAEL.23554.Sense2.1.Mar.30 rom on to my sprint touch pro and everything went fine no problems, the ruu confirmed that the flash was successful and my phone rebooted and now all it will do is continuously reboot itself. I tried every method I know of to try and hard reset it to no avail. It restarts itself, goes to the TOUCHpro logo splash booting screen for maybe 20 to 30 seconds and never goes any further then it restarts again. if anyone out there thinks they can help me PLEASE do so... I'm completely clueless what to do from here. thanks.
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I've been able to go into bootloader mode now and break the reboot cycle but now my pc is failing to recognize the phone. I have vista and I reinstalled mobile device center and it won't recognize it when I plug it in. on the phone in bootloader mode it will change from serial to usb on the display when I have it connected so I don't know where to go from here. any ideas?
thats how bootloader works..once it says USB just run the RUU. itll work fine. may have been a corrupted download, so id re-download it or just grab a different rom to flash.
Alright so I've been running UKB and Cubed kernel for the last 6 days without issue. I've had some random reboots and the phone locking up, but I was just going to deal with it until ViperDNA came out. So this morning comes and I unlock my phone and the phone reboots within 2 minutes. Comes to the lock screen and is completely stuck... Alright it happens. I hard reboot the phone (holding down power and volume down buttom) and reboot the phone. Still, it is frozen at the lock screen. Phone is coming up in ADB devices, but it cannot accept any commands. I reboot into recovery (CWM 6.0.2.1) and try to clear cache/dalvik. Reboot the phone and it's still stuck at the lock screen. I go into fastboot and push the stock kernel, phone boots gets to the lock screen, starts of fine and then locks again. I don't have any earlier restores to go to on the phone as I shifted them to my HDD to save a little space. I feel like an idiot now. Any help would be appreciated.
I also tried to sideload ViperDNA via CWM and it isn't showing up the device in ADB.
EDIT: Also while in Fastboot the computer shows the device as attached via Removable hardware as Android 1.0 it just wont let me sideload or push anything other than a kernel.
This happened to me at one point.. I had to re lock the phone in the all in one tool and reunlock and start fresh.. No problem since
With help from Dr_demento on the IRC channel I was able to get the phone booting again. For future reference of people running into this issue, formatting data helps. You'll unfortunately lose everything, but it's better than locking the phone and then unlocking it again.
Ok, so something seems to have gone very wrong with flashing my phone :S
I managed to get recovery working yesterday, and followed the steps in this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2/general/4-4-4-creating-rooted-update-package-t2933155 , to create a pre-rooted 5.0.2 image. I put it on the external SD card, booted into recovery and installed the flashable zip, then used flashtool to flash with the instructions (though I also cleared Appslog, Cache and Data to get a fresh install). This went fine and everything appeared to be ok. I then tried to get the Xposed Alpha installed, but after that whenever the phone was rebooting it just hung if trying to boot to Android. I tried re-flashing with Flashtool, but still got the same issue. Would boot fine the first time, but then any restart it would just hang and crash out. Tried clearing the cache from recovery, but no difference.
So today, I went into recovery, re-installed the flashable.zip, then powered off the phone and flashed using flashtool, just as I had yesterday. Now though, my phone wont boot. It shows the Sony logo, then a blank screen, then restarts. Even worse, it will no longer boot into recovery. I hold the volume down button when the LED shows, nothing. I try holding the volume down button all the way through several bootloops, nothing.
I've tried to re-flash using flashtool which goes through the process ok, I can hold the volume down button and connect the cable once its in the process of rebooting, and it goes through all the process fine. It then powers off as expected and I can just disconnect and power on the phone. But it's still stuck in the bootloop and I don't have TWRP recovery.
Is there anything I can do to get my Z2 working?
Update - Re ran flashtool, this time not excluding system, only Partition. It now gets a little further, going to "Powered by Android" and giving the purple wavy lines, but after a minute or so it just hangs and restarts again. And still no recovery sadly....
I think I've got it sorted...
Used Flashboot again to do a flash, excluding System and Partition. This time the phone does boot up normally. The downside being that my root was gone. Despite my flashing a pre-rooted image, it seemed to just put a stock image on. And my recovery is still mysteriously gone.
In the end, just to get things completely back to a stable/stock starting point for later on, I ran a repair from PC Companion. Seems I was in the none rooted position anyway so figured I'd get myself to a more certain position. At least this way I can wait for someone to come up with a root for 5.0.2 so I can root and get recovery back.
Handset: Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro.
Steps done:
1. bought on aliexpress with some suspicious bloatware preloaded.
2. was unsure if bootloader is locked, so flashed modified bootloader and TWRP as per this guide: http://en.miui.com/thread-276565-1-1.html
3. flashed latest xiaomi.eu dev build: xiaomi.eu_multi_ido_6.5.26_v7-5.1
4. boot, reboot
5. flash SuperSU via TWRP: UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip
6. booted and used several days, few reboots. All working fine, except apps closing in background and bluetooth earpiece losing connection. Described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-3/help/redmi-3-pro-impressions-closing-t3397186
Where problems have started:
7. Decided to get stable xiaomi.eu release. Maybe forceclose and BT issues are resolved?
8. booted to TWRP and flashed STABLE release from xiaomi.eu: xiaomi.eu_multi_ido_V7.3.1.0.LHPCNDD_v7-5.1.zip
9. also flashed SuperSU without restart: UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip
10. After restart, I get boot loop.
It does very short boot attemps: when powered on, it vibrates and displays MI logo for a second, then reboots. Repeats it quickly 2 or 3 times and switches off.
Unable to go in to download mode, as volUp + Pwr will also give bootloop.
VolDn+Pwr will load fastboot after one reboot. MiFlash utility finds the phone, but throws an error on flash attempt (file not found or something).
If restarted with all VolDn+VolUp+Pwr buttons pressed, it will not turn on the screen at all, but appears on MiFlash utility and I am able to flash it. But still bootloops after that.
If I flash it with original bootloader, not the modified one as per guide (on step 2), I am able to boot in to china MIUI, and also in to bootloader menu. But of course TWRP does not work.
How do I do it with locked bootloader:
1. flash TWRP?
2. flash stable xiaomi.eu release?
3. get root?
Of course all of this is needed only until stable CM comes out.
Also, if bootloader is unlocked, is it displayed somehow? For example my old motorola would show a nasty warning during boot.
Short update. I have managed to install the latest xiaomi.eu ROM.
Unmodified bootloader is needed.
Flash TWRP via MiFlash separately, after MIUI is installed and booted.
Then flash SuperSU and you're good.
EDIT: I lost all my data since the phone was encrypted, but I recovered it flashing in fastboot mode
My Redmi 3 pro is stuck in a bootloader after trying to root it for the first time.
power off doesn't do anything.
power and volume up doesn't do anything
power and volume down shows a Fastboot logo with a cartoon, but I don't know what to do here and if it is useful.
After 1-2 minutes in fastboot logo it starts again in bootloop.
I've tried to press both volume up and down and power and keep it pressed for several bootloop cycles. It looks like the phone switched off, or at least the screen was black.
After restarting it again bootloop
I think soon the battery will drain and the phone switch off
I really don't know what to do
I have a Umidigi Crystal (2/16) and it´s not booting anymore.
How that came is a long story.:crying:
I got the phone, wanted to root it and while I was enabling usb debugging in developer options, I noticed you can root it from there as well.
I have no idea whether thats a Umidigi special or if that was seen on other phones too, basically I had a slider option to enable root access.
After a reboot, SuperSU was installed automatically, root checker, file explorer and rom toolbox worked fine with it but I actually rooted to get Xposed Installer.
That worked very well too, only did I want to have a custom recovery to prepare my phone in case of a bootloop.
So I followed these instructions.
I hadn´t unlocked the bootloader by the time and since the instructions said I would have to unlock it I did that first using these instructions.
Everything worked as expected but from this point on, on the pre-bootanimation picture my screen would say
Code:
Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
Booting in 5 sec...
As everything else was the same as before, I just ignored it.
Then I moved on to installing TWRP by, again, these instructions.
The process seemed to work but after finishing, I was unable to boot into recovery mode, my phone would just boot into the normal OS(which still worked by the time).
I wanted to get around that by using this app but because of the unlocked bootloader my phone was factory reset
and I had to root again.
I was going for the same way I already did it beforehands and I was asked to reboot again.
After that point, my phone was stuck in the pre-bootanimation screen saying it´s orange state thingy again and would just stay there forever.
I tried installing the stock rom from here ((2/16 - V1.0_20171026)) to get rid of the root setting I enabled.
Now I get the pre-bootanimation screen with the orange state text again and after 5 seconds it keeps the background image but the text disappears.
Thats where it´s stuck for like 3 hours now.
When I press the power key a couple of seconds, that loop starts again, I can´t turn the phone off.
Things I can still do:
•Reboot (holding the power button, still get stuck the same way though)
•Access a PC, the internet, an SD Card and electricity
•Charge the phone
•I still have all the drivers on my PC properly installed
Things I can´t do
•Keep the phone turned completely off
•Boot into fastboot, recovery or normal OS
•Get the PC to recognize my phone (not even the adb)
What I want (if possible in that order):
•Boot into literally any OS
•Use the current OS or any custom rom
•Have root access without the developer option method
•Have TWRP
•Unlocked Bootloader
I know, I ask for a lot but this is the only phone I have right now and I badly need it.
Getting it to boot again is really the primary goal here.
Thanks so much to everyone who tries to help me, it really means a lot