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[Q] Help with Brick

I had a problem flashing Nova HD.
Not sure if it was because the recovery was 4.0.0.5
Anyway, recovery couldn't restore nandroid. It said couldn't mount /system
Then I tried to flash a stock rom through smartflash.
The flash errored.
Now, I can even get the S/W update screen for smartflash. When I hold down volume and press power, I get three short honks from windows and smartflash does nothing.
Is there anything I can do. The phone is non responsive when I turn on the power button and wont boot to recovery either.
In advance thank you for any suggestions.

fezzawinkle said:
I had a problem flashing Nova HD.
Not sure if it was because the recovery was 4.0.0.5
Anyway, recovery couldn't restore nandroid. It said couldn't mount /system
Then I tried to flash a stock rom through smartflash.
The flash errored.
Now, I can even get the S/W update screen for smartflash. When I hold down volume and press power, I get three short honks from windows and smartflash does nothing.
Is there anything I can do. The phone is non responsive when I turn on the power button and wont boot to recovery either.
In advance thank you for any suggestions.
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U need to hold the volume key only when you connect it to the computer for the smart flash method and not volume+power keys...maybe thats the problem...
Try again with only the volume down key pressed and connecting it to the computer....
Hope it helps mate

Thanks. I did try that.
I think that the answer may be to use NV Flash recovery mode (which I did not previously know about).
Battery out. Hold VOL_DWN+VOL_UP & plug in USB connection from computer:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/335416-nvflash-setup-instructions-drivers-links-active/

Missing CWM recovery??

After flashing kingdroid v3.0 i dont see CWM in my system... it went missing
How to reflash the whole v3.0 properly or how to install the recovery seperately?

can you reboot into CWM recovery?

Press and hold the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons simultaneously. This will reboot your device into recovery mode. What recovery do you see?

nothing
nope as if it never got installed with the rom itself
vol+ menu + power didnt see nothing... hmmm this is so weird everything else works fine with root access ???

thienthancongtu said:
nope as if it never got installed with the rom itself
vol+ menu + power didnt see nothing... hmmm this is so weird everything else works fine with root access ???
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Press vol up+home button+power button and keep holding all three buttons until your device switched on.
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Optimus 2X ignoring recovery

I'm trying to get into recovery mode for the Optimus 2X(Stock ROM), but I can't seem to get into it.
I hold down the power button and the volume down button and I don't let go. And always one of the following happens :
1.
It goes into SW Upgrade, and I need to remove the battery.
2.
The LG Loading bar freezes for a bit, and this causes a factory reset on my phone.
I don't understand if I'm doing anything wrong, but from how it looks from my perspective its as the phone is ignoring the recovery mode.
I've looked online and through the forums, but I was unable to find a similar issue.
Does anyone know what i could try?

1. Have you installed CWM recovery, TWRP recovery etc?
2. The correct way boot into recovery is : 1st press and hold vol down button, then press and hold power button and release both once you see the blue LG halo.
If you haven't installed recovery yet, Do that using NVFlash tool. You can find that in Development section sticky!! or just search it!

RknDroidFreak said:
1. Have you installed CWM recovery, TWRP recovery etc?
2. The correct way boot into recovery is : 1st press and hold vol down button, then press and hold power button and release both once you see the blue LG halo.
If you haven't installed recovery yet, Do that using NVFlash tool. You can find that in Development section sticky!! or just search it!
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I haven't installed any recovery, I thought that the one fron Android itself would've worked.

Problem with Download Mode

Long story short, I have the I8190L version of the phone, currently on stock ROM. I got the phone a few weeks ago and I have rooted it right away, there were no problems while rooting, I used the Galaxy S3 mini toolkit and used the "Flash Insecure Boot Image and Root device" option, with SuperSU 1.25. Fast forward to right now, I want to install CyanogenMod, so I went and tried to boot my phone into Download Mode, to try and flash CWM recovery in order to install the Cyanogen ROM, but I simply can't start download mode, when connected to the USB pressing the Vol up + menu + power sequence, the phone just starts normally (The OS will load completely). adb reboot download doesn't work too, vol up + vol down + power and plugging in the usb cable doesn't work.. I did several hard resets and I removed root too, noone of those worked. I don't know if that is relevant, but I installed a patched google play (4.1.10 Chelpus version), I could not find a way to remove that. I can't reroot too because I would need to start my phone in download mode. Anyone knows what is happening?

Gin123 said:
Long story short, I have the I8190L version of the phone, currently on stock ROM. I got the phone a few weeks ago and I have rooted it right away, there were no problems while rooting, I used the Galaxy S3 mini toolkit and used the "Flash Insecure Boot Image and Root device" option, with SuperSU 1.25. Fast forward to right now, I want to install CyanogenMod, so I went and tried to boot my phone into Download Mode, to try and flash CWM recovery in order to install the Cyanogen ROM, but I simply can't start download mode, when connected to the USB pressing the Vol up + menu + power sequence, the phone just starts normally (The OS will load completely). adb reboot download doesn't work too, vol up + vol down + power and plugging in the usb cable doesn't work.. I did several hard resets and I removed root too, noone of those worked. I don't know if that is relevant, but I installed a patched google play (4.1.10 Chelpus version), I could not find a way to remove that. I can't reroot too because I would need to start my phone in download mode. Anyone knows what is happening?
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are you connecting your phone to PC before you go to download-mode???
try this: download-mode (Vol up + Menu + Power) and now connect your device with your computer!
flash CWM or whatever you want...
HTH
JackoMJ

That did not work, when it is about to go to download mode it seems that it fails and either boots the OS or just turns off (depends on how much I hold the buttons), and since adb reboot download doesn't work I think something got corrupted (adb finds the device and reboots it, but it just starts up normally).

I'm not sure why, but noone of the articles I read mentioned the actual CORRECT download mode sequence, which is: Volume Down + Home + Power buttons, and then click on Volume Up, it is working now. Thanks.

Gin123 said:
Long story short, I have the I8190L version of the phone, currently on stock ROM. I got the phone a few weeks ago and I have rooted it right away, there were no problems while rooting, I used the Galaxy S3 mini toolkit and used the "Flash Insecure Boot Image and Root device" option, with SuperSU 1.25. Fast forward to right now, I want to install CyanogenMod, so I went and tried to boot my phone into Download Mode, to try and flash CWM recovery in order to install the Cyanogen ROM, but I simply can't start download mode, when connected to the USB pressing the Vol up + menu + power sequence, the phone just starts normally (The OS will load completely). adb reboot download doesn't work too, vol up + vol down + power and plugging in the usb cable doesn't work.. I did several hard resets and I removed root too, noone of those worked. I don't know if that is relevant, but I installed a patched google play (4.1.10 Chelpus version), I could not find a way to remove that. I can't reroot too because I would need to start my phone in download mode. Anyone knows what is happening?
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dwnload mod: vol down + menu + power
recovery mod: vol up + menu + power
push till it vibrates and 2-3 sec longer...
oh you solved it already sry

Gin123 said:
I'm not sure why, but noone of the articles I read mentioned the actual CORRECT download mode sequence, which is: Volume Down + Home + Power buttons, and then click on Volume Up, it is working now. Thanks.
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Well if you looked at the screen you would know what to press after vol down+home+power

oh my God,
you are all right.
i mixed up step one and two of Download-Mode - sorry
first you have to push Vol Down + Menu + Power (few seconds)
start odin as admin
second you connect your device to PC
third you push Vol Up
fourth you flash via Odin.
I often flash ROMs via Odin and / or use CWM so that works automatically ....
JackoMJ

reboot to recovery no command error

im on rooted 4.4, all works fine but the exchange,, trying to replace the email 4.4.2 apk, so my eschange will work, when i try to boot into recovery, i get "no command error"
can anyone plese help?

ericizzy1 said:
im on rooted 4.4, all works fine but the exchange,, trying to replace the email 4.4.2 apk, so my eschange will work, when i try to boot into recovery, i get "no command error"
can anyone plese help?
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what are you using to reboot into recovery?
here's the failsafe way to access recovery:
power off the phone, press and hold volume down + power for a few seconds then release to access bootloader menu. press volume down to highlight recovery, then volume up to select it.

Q9Nap said:
what are you using to reboot into recovery?
here's the failsafe way to access recovery:
power off the phone, press and hold volume down + power for a few seconds then release to access bootloader menu. press volume down to highlight recovery, then volume up to select it.
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thats exactly what i did and still got the error. even tried with adb, no luck

ericizzy1 said:
thats exactly what i did and still got the error. even tried with adb, no luck
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strange, are you unlocked and using twrp/cwm or locked and using slapmymoto? if you're unlocked, i'd recommend reflashing twrp/cwm recovery image, sounds like it may be corrupt. if you're locked, i can't help as i haven't messed with any of the locked device stuff.

im on a locked device, used slapmymoto, thanks for trying,can anyone else help?

Why do you need to be in recovery. You should have write protect off already. If you are trying to flash something you can't without safestrap and the zip needs yo be made for safestrap. Just manually move the emails and change the permissions
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Press Power + Volume Up at the same time when it shows "no command" (And if that doesn't work try Power + Volume Down )

ericizzy1 said:
im on a locked device, used slapmymoto, thanks for trying,can anyone else help?
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If the button presses while rebooting to get to where you can select recovery doesn't work... You could try Quick Reboot -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot to reboot into recovery, or open a command prompt on your PC.. and issue the command.. adb reboot bootloader then pick recovery from there.. If those ways also error with that same message you are seeing now, then your phone doesn't has a problem with its recovery partition.
As others have said, if you are rooted with Write Protection disabled (SlapMyMoto v1 thread tells you to run MotoWPNoMo first, to disable write protection, then follow its process), you should be able to go in, rename the old APK, and replace it with the new one (and set the attributes the same) without needing to be in recovery.
Then again, if you rooted with SlapMyMoto .5 (before the MotoWPNoMo was available), or you never did the MotoWPNoMo process that would explain why you want recovery... you're trying to boot to "recovery" so that you can boot with the Write Protection disabled so you can make this change.

ericizzy1 said:
im on a locked device, used slapmymoto, thanks for trying,can anyone else help?
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Power off your Moto X
Next, boot into bootloader mode by holding Volume Down and Power
At the bootloader screen, use Volume Down and scroll to Recovery, then press Volume Up to select it
Once you rebooted into recovery mode you will see No Command. Hold Volume Up and press Power to show the recovery menu

apm_ said:
Power off your Moto X
Next, boot into bootloader mode by holding Volume Down and Power
At the bootloader screen, use Volume Down and scroll to Recovery, then press Volume Up to select it
Once you rebooted into recovery mode you will see No Command. Hold Volume Up and press Power to show the recovery menu
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That almost didn't work for me, till it did.
I was holding down volume up first, and about half a second to a second later the power button (while not having released volume up button). That didn't work.
I pressed both buttons exactly together, and it worked.