Long story short: Phone won't boot past "Unlocked Bootloader" warning; Recoveries won't stick; Unknown Error & Freezing when trying to Flash System.img
I own an ATT Locked Moto X, but went ahead and unlocked it by purchasing the oem code. No issues there.
I decided to go ahead and try rooting it too, and was able to flash TWRP as my recovery. Still, everything seemed to be looking good, until I tried hard rebooting (to see if root would last). Upon rebooting, I could not get past the warning sign, notifying me that the bootloader was unlocked. I waited, and waited, and restarted again, but all progress stopped there. I would be the first to admit that whatever happened was probably my fault; perhaps I flashed some files in the wrong order, or entered a wrong command into fastboot. I don't know, and frankly don't care. My only question is how to get out of this mess and back to rooting, or at the very least, back to stock ROM now that I'm unlocked.
Booting into recovery only leads to the red triangle over an open android mascot, with the "Android Recovery" title. So clearly TWRP didn't stick; I tried reflashing, but nothing lasts past reboot. Then I tried flashing Philz Touch instead, which, upon exit, notified me that root was not enabled. So I rooted, rebooted, and was finally able to see Philz Tough again, even though I still can't boot normally. That time, both Philz Touch as well as root seemed to have stuck.
With that minor victory I downloaded the latest firmware for my model and tried to flash the components over, thinking I had somehow corrupted the existing OS files, but here's where it gets particularly frustrating. I am able to flash every file except for system.img, even though I am using moto-fastboot, which I understand is a common mistake. I get no specific error code, simply "Unknown Error," upon which the phone is frozen in fastboot. The phone remains unresponsive until I hard reboot [back into fastboot], and see that, once again, Recovery is back to stock. So now I'm baffled. I can't seem to find a way to flash the system file, factory resetting doesn't work, and my recoveries are constantly reverted back to stock. Does anyone have any advice, or suggestions for what I could try next?
You try RSD lite?
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southern87 said:
You try RSD lite?
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I was already downloading it just as I saw your post, as my last-ditch effort. It also failed, but it gave me "Unknown USB Error," which is all I needed, it seems. I tried a different USB slot on another side of the computer, and lo-and-behold, the flash finished.
I'm not sure what saddens me more, the fact that I pushed off making this post for hours, only to have the solution less than an hour after I do, or the fact that I never thought to try a different USB port... In any case, sorry for the uselessness of this post. I think I'll save rooting for another day though...
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new twrp's won't work
Hi there,
I just tried to root my htc mini 2 with and it says that it is tampered now and I can't reboot my recovery. So I tried the newest twrp and some in between because I've read in this forum that somebody had the same problem and he just got the newest twrp but that didn't work for me at all.
Is there any way to undo the whole thing by replacing the twrp with the original one or do I have to wait till there is gonna be a root for the htc mini 2?
When I try to recover everything it says that this build is for development purpose only...
Does somebody have an idea?
I would appreciate it a lot if somebody has an idea.
Hornochse7958 said:
Hi there,
I just tried to root my htc mini 2 with and it says that it is tampered now and I can't reboot my recovery. So I tried the newest twrp and some in between because I've read in this forum that somebody had the same problem and he just got the newest twrp but that didn't work for me at all.
Is there any way to undo the whole thing by replacing the twrp with the original one or do I have to wait till there is gonna be a root for the htc mini 2?
When I try to recover everything it says that this build is for development purpose only...
Does somebody have an idea?
I would appreciate it a lot if somebody has an idea.
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When the bootloader says "tempered" means that it was unlocked. when you see " this build is for development purpose only" its referring to TWRP because you now using a custom recovery. Not sure the nature of your problem but to undo, simply boot into boot loader and flash original recovery.img you can find in the forum.
I can't you open TWRP?
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When the bootloader says "tempered" means that it was unlocked. when you see " this build is for development purpose only" its referring to TWRP because you now using a custom recovery. Not sure the nature of your problem but to undo, simply boot into boot loader and flash original recovery.img you can find in the forum.
I can't you open TWRP?
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Thank you for the quick respond and I wanted to try and undo everything but no my problem is that my phone completely froze in the twrp screen. I can't do anything, I can't unlock it nor shut down my phone or start the bootloader... that kind of sucks. Any suggestions now? Is it possible to open the htc one mini 2 and take out the battery? or do I have to wait till it runs out by it self and than start it again?
Hornochse7958 said:
Thank you for the quick respond and I wanted to try and undo everything but no my problem is that my phone completely froze in the twrp screen. I can't do anything, I can't unlock it nor shut down my phone or start the bootloader... that kind of sucks. Any suggestions now? Is it possible to open the htc one mini 2 and take out the battery? or do I have to wait till it runs out by it self and than start it again?
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Read this tread. Someone had the same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/help/rooting-htc-one-mini-2-t2880936
Unresponsive after boot up from dead battery
THanks to U-ra I get the enjoy my fav DSP Viper!!!
Cheers Man,
I have a small niggling problem that I can't work out, My battery tends to die alot, once I place the phone on charge after a flat battery, the phone auto boots to Twp, I am really cool with that but the annoying thing is buttons and screen are unresponsive? I can't do a thing, just have the Twp menu. The power of button does turn the screen off/on but thats its. Tried doing factory resets, reboots holding down power, vol buttons. Just nothing.
only way around it is to use adb and reboot command.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...recovery-twp-2-7-1-0-one-mini-2-t2801370/page 4 here's the answer, so far
@u-ra is there any clue about getting official twrp support? (I was thinking about that problem of the self-booting recovery when phone is off and plugged in)
gibihr said:
@u-ra is there any clue about getting official twrp support? (I was thinking about that problem of the self-booting recovery when phone is off and plugged in)
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I'll try to get to it this weekend.
HELP TWRP stuck at swipe to unlock
Hello all,
for unknown reason the phone restarded and now is stuck at swipe to unlock but it is not working. I try to hold power+volume down, but no way to turn it off. What can I do?
Thanks in advance
PS: well, it restarted... I don't know what happend but now it's ok
sorry for sounding like a newb
i have the verizon htc one remix, which i believe is the same as the one mini 2 . will this work on it?
akubenz said:
i have the verizon htc one remix, which i believe is the same as the one mini 2 . will this work on it?
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you can try but i think someone here couldn't unlock bootloader trough HTC Dev.
Help: Stock rom updated between boots, TWRP non responsive, fastboot doesnt recognise
Hello to anyone that can help or in a similar situation,
Have brand new HTC one mini 2, rooted. Am trying to install cyanogenmod and followed the instructions on their page. All went well and was ready to flash the rom from TWRP. Decided to do a backup to SD first and then apply super user. Forced to reboot and accidentally let it boot to android (stock rom). Didnt notice the last time i had it booted wifi downloaded a system update which was automatically applied next time i booted into the stock rom after backup and Superuser in TWRP. Rebooted to recovery (TWRP) as soon as i could, but TWRP is no longer responding to touch. I realise i have probably updated the phone to a point where TWRP is no longer working, and i have to use something else to flash my rom. Am trying to flash an updated TWRP or Clockworkmod recovery, but fastboot/adb no longer recognise the device when booted into the stock rom, and when i boot into TWRP (non-responsive) it also doesnt recognise the device attached, even if i catch it before the screen goes black from inactivity. Any suggestions greatly appreciated....
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Hello to anyone that can help or in a similar situation,
Have brand new HTC one mini 2, rooted. Am trying to install cyanogenmod and followed the instructions on their page. All went well and was ready to flash the rom from TWRP. Decided to do a backup to SD first and then apply super user. Forced to reboot and accidentally let it boot to android (stock rom). Didnt notice the last time i had it booted wifi downloaded a system update which was automatically applied next time i booted into the stock rom after backup and Superuser in TWRP. Rebooted to recovery (TWRP) as soon as i could, but TWRP is no longer responding to touch. I realise i have probably updated the phone to a point where TWRP is no longer working, and i have to use something else to flash my rom. Am trying to flash an updated TWRP or Clockworkmod recovery, but fastboot/adb no longer recognise the device when booted into the stock rom, and when i boot into TWRP (non-responsive) it also doesnt recognise the device attached, even if i catch it before the screen goes black from inactivity. Any suggestions greatly appreciated....
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A kind member replied to me in another post indicating that fastboot commands only work in the bootloader, and that adb commands only work in TWRP which is why I am having problems re-flashing TWRP (requiring the "fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img" command). However I thought TWRP replaced the bootloader, so I seem to be locked out of re-flashing TWRP because i have TWRP. This seems not to make a lot of sense, can anyone else confirm or otherwise explain what I have misunderstood about that? As stated neither adb nor fastboot recognises the device is attached to the computer any more, so commands are not executing...
snorglamp said:
Hello to anyone that can help or in a similar situation,
Have brand new HTC one mini 2, rooted. Am trying to install cyanogenmod and followed the instructions on their page. All went well and was ready to flash the rom from TWRP. Decided to do a backup to SD first and then apply super user. Forced to reboot and accidentally let it boot to android (stock rom). Didnt notice the last time i had it booted wifi downloaded a system update which was automatically applied next time i booted into the stock rom after backup and Superuser in TWRP. Rebooted to recovery (TWRP) as soon as i could, but TWRP is no longer responding to touch. I realise i have probably updated the phone to a point where TWRP is no longer working, and i have to use something else to flash my rom. Am trying to flash an updated TWRP or Clockworkmod recovery, but fastboot/adb no longer recognise the device when booted into the stock rom, and when i boot into TWRP (non-responsive) it also doesnt recognise the device attached, even if i catch it before the screen goes black from inactivity. Any suggestions greatly appreciated....
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I think I have found the solution for myself: I went back into the stock rom and did a factory reset (from within android booted up as normal), which after completion rebooted me into TWRP which now works fine (is responding to touch again, and i can flash the Cyanogen image now). Hopefully this helps someone else in this situation one day, or maybe I am the only idiot that needed to ask hehe. I should clarify that after flashing TWRP I lost access to the fastboot screen and could not push anything over ADB or fastboot commands from windows (plugged in via USB). Holding down volume down and power booted directly into TWRP, and i had no way to get to fastboot screen. After doing factory resent from within the Android OS, holding volume down and power booted me to the fastboot screen, and only when I selected "Recovery" did it take me to TWRP, and I was again able to run fastboot and ADB commands from PC. Weird (or maybe not if you know more than me), but there it is...
snorglamp said:
A kind member replied to me in another post indicating that fastboot commands only work in the bootloader, and that adb commands only work in TWRP which is why I am having problems re-flashing TWRP (requiring the "fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img" command). However I thought TWRP replaced the bootloader, so I seem to be locked out of re-flashing TWRP because i have TWRP. This seems not to make a lot of sense, can anyone else confirm or otherwise explain what I have misunderstood about that? As stated neither adb nor fastboot recognises the device is attached to the computer any more, so commands are not executing...
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Sorry, but it seems to me that you don't know the difference between bootloader and recovery. I apologize if you do. If not, search in CM wikis or ask here for explanations.
corbeau56 said:
Sorry, but it seems to me that you don't know the difference between bootloader and recovery. I apologize if you do. If not, search in CM wikis or ask here for explanations.
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I do indeed know the difference between the bootloader and recovery, its just that the bootloader (Hboot) was not longer accessible in my situation and TWRP (the recovery) was imposing itself when you would normally expect to find the bootloader (i.e. my bootloader was for all intents and purposes replaced by my recovery, while I am sure this is not true in fact, it was in effect). As I say, doing a factory reset from within the OS restored the bootloader (HBoot) and I was able to continue modding. I am today extremely happy with my fully secured cyanogenmodded HTC One Mini 2 via TWRP recovery method. I hope that is somewhat clearer.
Can you enter bootliader now? I got stuck in a bootloop once and couldn't enter bootloader because I continued pressing power and Volume down like I did on my One S. For Mini 2, we have to hold the Volume UP and Power buttons until HBOOT appears, then release the buttons.
corbeau56 said:
Can you enter bootliader now? I got stuck in a bootloop once and couldn't enter bootloader because I continued pressing power and Volume down like I did on my One S. For Mini 2, we have to hold the Volume UP and Power buttons until HBOOT appears, then release the buttons.
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That may well have been an alternative solution to my problem, however it was fixed by the factory reset and volume down and power then took me to HBoot (this would appear to contradict what you have said above, but maybe volume down and power does different things depending on how what you have done to the phone, not sure), so I cannot confirm whether or not that also would have worked for me. Good suggestion though, especially if you are not in a position to do a factory reset. and it would certainly be easier if it worked...I am convinced my problem was the result of a conflict between the TWRP version i installed (downloaded from here) and the android update that occurred between boots.
I am indeed able to get into bootloader/hboot and successfully flashed cyanogenmod from TWRP. I can confirm post flashing TWRP and Cyanogenmod, holding volume down and power takes me to HBoot (and then the option to go to fastboot or recovery).
Holding power up and power just loads cyanogenmod for me now as if I had just pressed power.
I thought I should confirm whether or not holding volume up vs volume down with power results in bootloader vs recovery loading. For me, they both took me to TWRP.
Also, TWRP doesnt seem to work on HTC One Mini 2 after you do anything to set up your phone. It just doesnt recognise touch input any more so you cant do anything with it. However the fix i noted earlier (factory reset) even works with other roms installed, confirmed for cyanogenmod 11 and 12 nightlies as at the date of this post. After factory reset TWRP works again, but if you go through the setup steps and start installing apps, TWRP goes unresponsive again. I hope we might get an official TWRP update soon!
Hey all. Appreciate any help, because Im out of ideas here. A friend brought me his Vzw G2 yesterday morning, which he had bricked trying to install cm12 (He's had it rooted and unlocked since he got it), and he apparently tried to install a cm12- compatible twrp, and thats when he got a secure boot error. I fixed it just by using the lg flashing tool and a tot and restoring it to stock, but when I tried to flash it, I ran into the issue of twrp wouldn't flash anything, some drinks were had, and out of drunken stupidity last night we tried to dd a new copy of twrp, from twrp's shell onto it, which sent it back into a brick. Now, its worse, download mode cant even be accessed. I've been at this all day trying to fix it. Trying to go to recovery takes it to fastboot, but, it goes blank after about 10 seconds, and then no fastboot connection can actually be made to the device so I cant use fastboot. I'm on linux, so it does show all of the devices partitions under /dev, so I tried another post's idea of manually dding the entire bootstack onto the device, partition by partition, but that didnt seem to change anything. It's on the 39a lollipop update. Any one have any other suggestions?
Any luck?
No, sadly still nothing. I've tried re-dding a few times, but I cant think/read anything else to try.
I have update my rooted OP 3T by flashing the complete rom through TWRP.. But the problem is whenever I flash the Supersu version : SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815 or SR3-SuperSU-v2.79-SR3-20170114223742, I am getting bootloop.
Please anyone advise me.
I checked that without flashing SuperSU phone is able to Boot safely.
Thank you in advance.
It's normal if it bootloops once or twice
But if it's more than that then it's problematic
So which one is it
Another thing you can try is try magisk root instead of supersu and see if gets the same result
Phone was stucked in bootloop for an hour without any reboot.
I am not fond of magisk yet... So dont have any plan for it.
Just want to know if this happens to only me or there are many others with same issue.
Edit:
Finally installed Magisk for root... Issue closed.
help!?
hi guys i am amber
yesterday i was trying to unroot my device [op3t] i locked the boot loader but after that my device started
bootlooping i was able to get to fastboot but none of the commands were working i can not boot into recovery coz there is no recovery on my device i am not able to flash any thing .
plzz can anyone help me
amber sachdeva said:
hi guys i am amber
yesterday i was trying to unroot my device [op3t] i locked the boot loader but after that my device started
bootlooping i was able to get to fastboot but none of the commands were working i can not boot into recovery coz there is no recovery on my device i am not able to flash any thing .
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That is not the proper way to unroot (go back to stock). Relocking the bootloader while rooted was asking for trouble. There is a guide on how to return to stock in the Guides section.
Also, fastboot commands will only work while in fastboot mode, if the phone is looping, or otherwise stuck on any other screen/mode, than fastboot commands will not work. It's also a bit irrelevant, as your ability to flash anything with a locked bootloader is very limited. That's the whole purpose of a locked bootloader.
I'd start by making sure you are in fastboot, get fastboot working, and unlock the bootloader again. Then follow the proper process to return to stock.
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That is not the proper way to unroot (go back to stock). Relocking the bootloader while rooted was asking for trouble. There is a guide on how to return to stock in the Guides section.
Also, fastboot commands will only work while in fastboot mode, if the phone is looping, or otherwise stuck on any other screen/mode, than fastboot commands will not work. It's also a bit irrelevant, as your ability to flash anything with a locked bootloader is very limited. That's the whole purpose of a locked bootloader.
I'd start by making sure you are in fastboot, get fastboot working, and unlock the bootloader again. Then follow the proper process to return to stock.
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well i tried unlocking bootloader but it says failed (remote: oem unlock not allowed)
Iam i stuck here for ever ?
can u tell me the command that i can try on an phone with a locked bootloader
I forgot this is an edit the first time Gentlemen, I am absolutely at wit's end now I am no geek with a capital G however I have been modifying phones for some 3 years now and I can't even tell you how many times I flashed ROMs my beloved 3T 3T has had been acting glitchy lately like when I would reboot the circle that turns - instead of just turning evenly it would twitch, it was such a small thing I ignored it but I think now that that's must be have been indication something was not right few other things like that. I flashed the Freedom ROM cuz I'm so sick a Google and Google Assistant when I came out I was in a bootloop so I wiped everything except OTG everything and formatted data did the ROM Flash again the a boot Loop still abides and I've done it a dozen times now sometimes a couple of times it it just it kept recycling the bootloop another time and got hung up on the OnePlus it just sat there on the logo and if I miss something obvious I do apologize I'm tired and I'm at wits end because I'm not used to not being able to solve my own problems I guess so any help at all or just even a heading in the right direction would be so much appreciated that I don't even know how to call it quantify it thank you
By the way I seldom post or even post questions but when I do I always pretty much say the same thing you guys are the best this is the one place I can come for Andrew Android advice or or guidance and I just I absolutely trust what I read so thank you thank you thank you thanks for being there
Edit - I'm so tired I forgot the first time I went to reflash the ROM it told me that my 3T was in fact not a 3T that it was a three and I read someplace so I'm XDA that that's just Corruption of the install script so I downloaded it again I ran 7-Zip it said it was coherent so I flash it again if that's important but thanks again
Help required
kunal1540 said:
it's normal if it bootloops once or twice
but if it's more than that then it's problematic
so which one is it
another thing you can try is try magisk root instead of supersu and see if gets the same result
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sir, i have oneplus 3t a3010. Last night my phone was crashed and after crashing it restarts and jumps to recovery mode. In recovery mode i wipe all data and restart my phone. But i still doing the restart thing. Please help, what to do now.
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My oneplus 3 is stuck in recovery mode
My bootloader is locked
Everytime i switch on my phone there is a message
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