Well, short summary : Cyanogenmod 6.3.6 for milestone(milaq)
Androidiani Milestone Openrecovery (based on the Openrecovery by Skrilax_CZ by 89luca89 and Azhad)
Everything was smooth and good. But sometimes I would run into some low memory situations. The recovery menu had some memhack
options. I tried them. This is when trouble started.
Current symptoms :
Phone switches on and does not go past the Motorola M logo. It just stays there. Only way to switch off is to pull battery
Cannot load into recovery. I see a yellow exclamation mark with a small phone icon. And it just stays there. Not the box with an arrow pouring into a phone.
Can load into bootloader. Gets recognized in RSD lite. Can reflash vulnerable recovery upto the point that it needs a restart. It cant restart so it asks me to manually restart which i cannot do.
What should be done? . I've gone through all threads thatt seemed relavent. It always calls to reflash the vulnerable recovery, which I can do but cannot reboot
Thank you in advance.
I hope I'm wrong, but I guess your phone is hardbricked.
Maybe someone with greater knowledge could help you.
(Try to ask around on the #milestone-modding IRC channel)
Erovia said:
I hope I'm wrong, but I guess your phone is hardbricked.
Maybe someone with greater knowledge could help you.
(Try to ask around on the #milestone-modding IRC channel)
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Thank you for your reply. I really hope it isn't hardbricked, I only tried some settings from the recovery menu.
How does the IRC channel work?
I just describe my problem in the common are or do i ask someone specific?
I see in the irc-log you already found it. I hope your problem will be solved.
if nothing will help flash a full sbf firmware with rsd lite....
all data and settings gone, but i think your device will boot again
Erovia said:
I see in the irc-log you already found it. I hope your problem will be solved.
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Thank you very much. You directed me in the right direction. My phone is ficed and running fine now. I'd like to post the problem and the solution here.
Problem : Phone will not boot past M logo. Phone will load into bootloader. Attempts to get to recovery will result in phone stuck at yellow exclamation mark with phone icon, not the typical arrow pouring out of box into phone icon. Phone will not charge.
Solution : In a general scenario, to get to recovery hold 'x' and power up, keeping it pressed until yellow exclamation mark with phone icon comes up. Then press volume up and then press camera key. This will get you to standard android recovery. I use androidiani-openrecovery so I apply the relevent update and load openrecovery. Then you wipe date, wipe cache, wipe dalvik. Then apply cyanogenmod update. And reboot. Softbrick solved.
Now, I was unable to get past the yellow exclamation and phone icon. Pressing volume up and camera button did nothing. I wouldn't budge. Turns out, when I replaced the digitizer on my phone, I placed the camera button upside down. So the camera button would click but would not half click(for focussing). Apparently recovery is loaded when volume up is held down and the camera button is half pressed. Turned the camera button over and voila! recovery. What followed is in the previous paragraph.
So that's how to deal with a softbrick. A bazillion thanks and much respect to nadlabak.
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if nothing will help flash a full sbf firmware with rsd lite....
all data and settings gone, but i think your device will boot again
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That makes sense. That would work I guess
I haven't tried that though as the problem was fixed, described in my last post.
I presume the procedure to flashing a full sbf firmware is the same as the vulnerable_recovery.
PS: Thank you for your great work on the OR minimod :good:
i try my best to add some nice features to OR
and i rescue some devices by flashing a full sbf, if something going wrong when i test something and if it dont pass the M Logo i just reflash 2.2.1 and try again
I rebooted my phone to install a font and now it continues to turn on (HTC logo) and then restart. Tried to get into recovery and it just exits...
I had my phone off at night and turned it on - read a few text messages - and went to replace the ****ty font I installed yesterday.
Just looping.
Any help?
Can't even turn it off lol - I would need to go into bootloader and click power down. It is odd - I didn't do anything and it started up perfectly before 5 minutes I did the fonts.
flash the boot and/or recovery?
pwr2wh8 said:
flash the boot and/or recovery?
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I flashed the recovery with CWM and installed Android Revolution HD 6.1
I was just wondering if it was safe to re-flash the recovery again to see if it would work. I don't want to screw up this phone lol.
EDIT: Got it. Reflashed the recovery and had to reflash the ROM.
I don't know why a simple font change would screw ALL of that up. I don't want to keep flashing this ROM lol it has been about 4 times now.
rowebil said:
I flashed the recovery with CWM and installed Android Revolution HD 6.1
I was just wondering if it was safe to re-flash the recovery again to see if it would work. I don't want to screw up this phone lol.
EDIT: Got it. Reflashed the recovery and had to reflash the ROM.
I don't know why a simple font change would screw ALL of that up. I don't want to keep flashing this ROM lol it has been about 4 times now.
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The ROMS this phone and everything is new. Give it a little time unless you want to guinea pig for use :cyclops:
I had the same thing when I flashed a power menu mod made for this phone but not for my OTA. Really weird thing is when I cleared the cache android booted did its upgrading thing and then restarted and went back to stuck at HTC logo.
nullkill said:
The ROMS this phone and everything is new. Give it a little time unless you want to guinea pig for use :cyclops:
I had the same thing when I flashed a power menu mod made for this phone but not for my OTA. Really weird thing is when I cleared the cache android booted did its upgrading thing and then restarted and went back to stuck at HTC logo.
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I have the same...
What ca I do?
Reflash recovery doesn't help.
It keeps restarting...
:crying:
DannySchaukens said:
I have the same...
What ca I do?
Reflash recovery doesn't help.
It keeps restarting...
:crying:
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You need to reflash what ever was on it. Hopefully you made a backup if not and were on stock find the correct nandroid back or RUU for your phone and flash that. You can also try doing a factory reset that may bring it back.
agreed...try to re-flash everything to stock than go from there to find what is causing the problem.
I tried searching the threads but couldn't find one with a problem like exactly mine. Sorry if I was a lousy searcher, but here goes:
1 I had TWRP and TrickDroid 5.5.1 installed. Working fine.
2 Downloaded TrickDroid 6.0.1, went into recovery, wiped everything/factory reset etc. and installed the new ROM, rebooted
3 Working fine but there is no root
4 Tried wiping everything again and reflashing the same ROM. Rebooted. Same thing: ROM is working but there's no root
5 Read somewhere that flashing a different kernel might work, so I flashed Bulletproof 1.10 through TWRP. At the end of the installation of the kernel, right before reboot, TWRP said that my root seemed to be broken and asked me if I wanted to fix it. I said yes. As soon as I said yes (by swiping), phone shut off. Now it won't even start so I can't get into recovery. Pressing Volume-down+Power won't get me into fastboot either.
—The only sign of life is this: when I long press the power button, the home and back buttons will blink as long as I continue pressing it. When I release, nothing happens.
—When I plug the phone to PC, it sees it as a "HTC MTP device" and looks for the drivers but fails to find them.
I had never any trouble with flashing ROMs before so I got lazy with time, I don't have any nandroid backup, though since I can't get even into fastboot I guess that's the least of my problems?
Please help; did I really just brick my phone?
Just happened to me too man, I'm not sure what to do! Sorry to hijack your thread, just looking for answers too.
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kuboa said:
I tried searching the threads but couldn't find one with a problem like exactly mine. Sorry if I was a lousy searcher, but here goes:
1 I had TWRP and TrickDroid 5.5.1 installed. Working fine.
2 Downloaded TrickDroid 6.0.1, went into recovery, wiped everything/factory reset etc. and installed the new ROM, rebooted
3 Working fine but there is no root
4 Tried wiping everything again and reflashing the same ROM. Rebooted. Same thing: ROM is working but there's no root
5 Read somewhere that flashing a different kernel might work, so I flashed Bulletproof 1.10 through TWRP. At the end of the installation of the kernel, right before reboot, TWRP said that my root seemed to be broken and asked me if I wanted to fix it. I said yes. As soon as I said yes (by swiping), phone shut off. Now it won't even start so I can't get into recovery. Pressing Volume-down+Power won't get me into fastboot either.
—The only sign of life is this: when I long press the power button, the home and back buttons will blink as long as I continue pressing it. When I release, nothing happens.
—When I plug the phone to PC, it sees it as a "HTC MTP device" and looks for the drivers but fails to find them.
I had never any trouble with flashing ROMs before so I got lazy with time, I don't have any nandroid backup, though since I can't get even into fastboot I guess that's the least of my problems?
Please help; did I really just brick my phone?
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Dude, just hold the volume down button and then press the power button...the back and home button will keep flashing and then it will stop...should take you into fastboot..navigate to recovery and try to load a rom up using the SD card mount method...hope it works out for you man!
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Just happened to me too man, I'm not sure what to do! Sorry to hijack your thread, just looking for answers too.
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No need to apologize, that's why we're here. Please report back if you can find a solution.
Google told me that HTC's RUU tool could possibly help unbrick it, so I've downloaded the European variant ("RUU_M7_UL_JB_50_HTC_Europe_1.20.401.1_Radio_4A.13.3227.06_10.27.1127.01_release_308001_signed_2_4"). I fiddled a bit in the Device Manager in my PC and somehow got it to recognize the phone as "My HTC" under "Android ...", then ran the program. HTC logo appeared on the phone's screen so I got excited but after 10 minutes of waiting RUU told me it was the wrong variant and exited. Back to nil. I'm now downloading another variant of the RUU. We'll see if it helps. (I can't for the life of me figure out how to make my PC recognize the phone again though; I'm back to "MTP device, failed to install drivers" phase. Frustrating.)
kuboa said:
No need to apologize, that's why we're here. Please report back if you can find a solution.
Google told me that HTC's RUU tool could possibly help unbrick it, so I've downloaded the European variant ("RUU_M7_UL_JB_50_HTC_Europe_1.20.401.1_Radio_4A.13.3227.06_10.27.1127.01_release_308001_signed_2_4"). I fiddled a bit in the Device Manager in my PC and somehow got it to recognize the phone as "My HTC" under "Android ...", then ran the program. HTC logo appeared on the phone's screen so I got excited but after 10 minutes of waiting RUU told me it was the wrong variant and exited. Back to nil. I'm now downloading another variant of the RUU. We'll see if it helps. (I can't for the life of me figure out how to make my PC recognize the phone again though; I'm back to "MTP device, failed to install drivers" phase. Frustrating.)
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Dude, just hold the volume down button and then press the power button...the back and home button will keep flashing and then it will stop...should take you into fastboot..navigate to recovery and try to load a rom up using the SD card mount method...hope it works out for you man!
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Dude, just hold the volume down button and then press the power button...the back and home button will keep flashing and then it will stop...should take you into fastboot..navigate to recovery and try to load a rom up using the SD card mount method...hope it works out for you man!
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That doesn't work for me unfortunately, the capacitive buttons just keep on flashing. I can get my PC to recognize it as "HTC Android Interface" but the second RUU failed, too. Glad yours got fixed, though.
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That doesn't work for me unfortunately, the capacitive buttons just keep on flashing. I can get my PC to recognize it as "HTC Android Interface" but the second RUU failed, too. Glad yours got fixed, though.
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hold it under a bright light and try again
kuboa said:
That doesn't work for me unfortunately, the capacitive buttons just keep on flashing. I can get my PC to recognize it as "HTC Android Interface" but the second RUU failed, too. Glad yours got fixed, though.
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if you can get still have adb access use Hasoon's AIO Toolkit to reboot to bootloader/recovery and go from there. otherwise hold power and volume down button with the screen facing a very bright light.
Aldo101t said:
hold it under a bright light and try again
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Whoa! That really did it. Excuse me for swearing but what the f* a bright light has to do with anything?
Thanks, anyways! Phew.
(Now I should figure out why I'm losing my root when flashing this ROM)
kuboa said:
Whoa! That really did it. Excuse me for swearing but what the f* a bright light has to do with anything?
Thanks, anyways! Phew.
(Now I should figure out why I'm losing my root when flashing this ROM)
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just reflash superuser, i think it was left out by mistake
Aldo101t said:
just reflash superuser, i think it was left out by mistake
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I tried that but didn't work. Anyways, that's a far less scary problem than a bricked phone, I'll figure it out. Thanks again.
Aldo101t said:
hold it under a bright light and try again
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hi there.. im having the same problems. i cant access recovery and my computer wont let me access the files on my phone neither. when i boot on the phone it goes right into the bootloader and won't go anywhere else. please help! many many thanks
Bricked after attempted TrickDroid update
I’m having the same problem.
Attempted to update Trickdroid 6.0.1 to 7.0 last night.
My phone now constantly hangs on the boot screen.
I can get to the fastboot and bootloader menus via long press volume down and power but anything from here simply reboots the phone back to the boot screen.
I’ve tried connecting the phone to the PC and using Fastboot and the One all in one kit but the device is never recognised.
Basically I’ve bricked my phone and need help!!
kuboa said:
I tried searching the threads but couldn't find one with a problem like exactly mine. Sorry if I was a lousy searcher, but here goes:
1 I had TWRP and TrickDroid 5.5.1 installed. Working fine.
2 Downloaded TrickDroid 6.0.1, went into recovery, wiped everything/factory reset etc. and installed the new ROM, rebooted
3 Working fine but there is no root
4 Tried wiping everything again and reflashing the same ROM. Rebooted. Same thing: ROM is working but there's no root
5 Read somewhere that flashing a different kernel might work, so I flashed Bulletproof 1.10 through TWRP. At the end of the installation of the kernel, right before reboot, TWRP said that my root seemed to be broken and asked me if I wanted to fix it. I said yes. As soon as I said yes (by swiping), phone shut off. Now it won't even start so I can't get into recovery. Pressing Volume-down+Power won't get me into fastboot either.
—The only sign of life is this: when I long press the power button, the home and back buttons will blink as long as I continue pressing it. When I release, nothing happens.
—When I plug the phone to PC, it sees it as a "HTC MTP device" and looks for the drivers but fails to find them.
I had never any trouble with flashing ROMs before so I got lazy with time, I don't have any nandroid backup, though since I can't get even into fastboot I guess that's the least of my problems?
Please help; did I really just brick my phone?
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Deano1889 said:
I’m having the same problem.
Attempted to update Trickdroid 6.0.1 to 7.0 last night.
My phone now constantly hangs on the boot screen.
I can get to the fastboot and bootloader menus via long press volume down and power but anything from here simply reboots the phone back to the boot screen.
I’ve tried connecting the phone to the PC and using Fastboot and the One all in one kit but the device is never recognised.
Basically I’ve bricked my phone and need help!!
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go to fastboot, use HTC all in one kit by hasoon to flash TWRP, go in twrp, Wipe everything including data, system, cache, dalvik cache, again go on HTC kit and put command of adb sideload, go on TWRP advanced menu and sideload roam. once sideload gets transferred, it will start installing and try different rom like ARHD 10.1
I can't belive it, but the bright light thing actually worked for me!
Thanks!
I was in the same situation with an HTC logo and flashing back and home keys. When I tried volume down + power under a bright light, it came back to life in bootloader. Not sure what the bright light has to do with it but glad it worked.
Bright light solution is from twrp sleep bug.. I read it before.. Good luck
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ayan15 said:
Bright light solution is from twrp sleep bug.. I read it before.. Good luck
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
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The bright light trick is not a bug, and it has nothing to do with TWRP. It happens because HTC built in a "pocket protection" so that the phone will not reboot on its own in your pocket. The proximity sensor needs light shining on it for a hard reboot to work. (Sometime they're not sensitive enough and it takes a brighter light than you would expect)
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Hello everyone.
I don't know what happened but my device entered in the infamous bootloop. I tried to erase cache, partition, reinstall a rom, install a different rom and nothing.
My true problem is that last night I made a horrible mistake: I erased everything including my SD card, which contained the data for boot to recovery. Right now I can only see the SONY logo when I power up my device and nothing else.
I tried to install recovery via fastboot flash boot boot.img but I can't keep my device in fastboot. I mean, I connect my device and hold Volume Up but after a few seconds it continuous to the SONY logo and stays there forever.
Am I missing something? What can I do to reintall a recovery if I can't access my phone data?
Thank you.
How to install recovery in a phone which can't start [Solved]
I just figured it out! I installed Sony's stock rom following this guide and my phone is alive again.
bbabel said:
I just figgured out! I installed Sony's stock rom following this tutorial and my phone is alive agaoin.
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Good you managed to fix it and posted it back here with a solution. So few people do it. On the side note, link you provided does not work, please fix if you can
kwitu said:
Good you managed to fix it and posted it back here with a solution. So few people do it. On the side note, link you provided does not work, please fix if you can
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Thank you. I just fixed the link and now it works.
I have a Samsung galaxy note 9 sm,-n960f with TWRP 3.2.3 Cowrite unofficial recovery. I backed up my phone. But when I tried to restore the backups I got an error message. So I decided to TWRP 3.3.1. It was successfully flashed. But when I booted into recovery, the phone just keeps recycling the flash screen without going into recovery mode. It has been doing this for the past two hours. Could someone please tell me what to do. I can't stop it. Please help.
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I have a Samsung galaxy note 9 sm,-n960f with TWRP 3.2.3 Cowrite unofficial recovery. I backed up my phone. But when I tried to restore the backups I got an error message. So I decided to TWRP 3.3.1. It was successfully flashed. But when I booted into recovery, the phone just keeps recycling the flash screen without going into recovery mode. It has been doing this for the past two hours. Could someone please tell me what to do. I can't stop it. Please help.
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prepair to go back to dl mode to flash back twrp 3.2.3 tar with Odin.
hold bixby and vol down while plugging usb from computer in the phone.
time yourself that when see/feel the phone reboot to plug usb at that moment( while holding bxby + vol down)
btw did u flash twrp 3.3.1 using image option in twrp or did you flash it with odin?
I flashed it in trwp.
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I flashed it in trwp.
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dont flash it in twrp. also you might have chosen the wrong target partition... did u remember selecting recovery or boot?
A million thanks to you. I got it working again. I did exactly what you said and it worked like a charm.
The main issue that got me into this problem is the backups I created with this recovery. Whenever I tried to install them, I get an error. Is there something that I'm doing wrong?
When I had my note 3, I never had this problem. Is there a bug in this 3.3.2 i unofficial recovery. Could you tell me what to include in my backups and what to include in my restore.
Thank you for your assistance.
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A million thanks to you. I got it working again. I did exactly what you said and it worked like a charm.
The main issue that got me into this problem is the backups I created with this recovery. Whenever I tried to install them, I get an error. Is there something that I'm doing wrong?
When I had my note 3, I never had this problem. Is there a bug in this 3.3.2 i unofficial recovery. Could you tell me what to include in my backups and what to include in my restore.
Thank you for your assistance.
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3.3.1 based twrps are pretty much betas if you ask me . stick to good old 3.2.3-0
also when backing up various partitions. skip "system image". so check box any or all others including system but no need to select "system image" its not needed and cant be restored anyways.
Thanks again. I will try that.
Hello my friend. I need your help again. I just got myself in a big mess. I did a full wipe in recovery. Before I restored the backups , I accidentally rebooted the phone and now I am stucck in a black circle and a small white symbol inside the top side of the black circle.
I tried booting into download mode.so that I could rry to refalas the recovery please help help me.
Tank
Baluki2017 said:
Hello my friend. I need your help again. I just got myself in a big mess. I did a full wipe in recovery. Before I restored the backups , I accidentally rebooted the phone and now I am stucck in a black circle and a small white symbol inside the top side of the black circle.
I tried booting into download mode.so that I could rry to refalas the recovery please help help me.
Tank
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hold:
vol down + power
the instant you see or feel phone shutdown really quickly hold:
vol up + bixby + power
if u miss it try again. timing is key.
Ok. I will do that.
Thanks again.