Please help! Bricked after following directions below to update to the official lollipop from the soak lollipop.
I tried this method, but after running updateme.bat and tried to boot to fastboot, I got a battery with question mark inside and nothing else. Tried to boot to fastboot manually but it showed beginning of boot animation then shuts down. If I try again, again, beginning of boot animation then shuts down.
PLEASE help me! Tried up/down/power, but just takes me to the partial animation then shuts down. Tried down/power same thing.
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Originally Posted by SamuriHL
WARNING: You must read this whole post. I am not responsible for anything this does to your device. You assume ALL risk in this process.
What is this?
A process to get you to the latest build of 5.0. The so called ".6" build.
But I'm the ".5" release or I'm on 4.4.4 but have modified my system partition. OMFGZ PONIES!
Not to worry...this process should fix you up.
Requirement:
You MUST be bootloader unlocked if you on the 5.0 .5 build. If you do this on a locked bootloader it WILL FAIL. fastboot oem unlock is probably useful. So is this page:
https://motorola-global-portal.custh...-your-device-a
Download:
SamuriHL's Nifty Scriptie
Install:
Unzip the contents of the zip to your C:\ drive. That means the root of your C: drive. If you put it somewhere else and it fails to work, sucks to be you.
Usage:
o) Put your phone in AP Fastboot mode (Power off, hold volume down, press power)
o) Connect to USB 2 with your OEM USB cable
o) Ensure the latest USB drivers are installed
o) Run the UpdateMe.bat script
o) FOLLOW DIRECTIONS - It should be noted that as soon as you run it, it'll start flashing so do not run the script until you are ready to go.
o) After the update is sideloaded, boot to fastboot mode instead of booting the device
o) Run the FixMeUp.bat script
o) FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
gni said:
Please help! Bricked after following directions below to update to the official lollipop from the soak lollipop.
I tried this method, but after running updateme.bat and tried to boot to fastboot, I got a battery with question mark inside and nothing else. Tried to boot to fastboot manually but it showed beginning of boot animation then shuts down. If I try again, again, beginning of boot animation then shuts down.
PLEASE help me! Tried up/down/power, but just takes me to the partial animation then shuts down. Tried down/power same thing.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SamuriHL
WARNING: You must read this whole post. I am not responsible for anything this does to your device. You assume ALL risk in this process.
What is this?
A process to get you to the latest build of 5.0. The so called ".6" build.
But I'm the ".5" release or I'm on 4.4.4 but have modified my system partition. OMFGZ PONIES!
Not to worry...this process should fix you up.
Requirement:
You MUST be bootloader unlocked if you on the 5.0 .5 build. If you do this on a locked bootloader it WILL FAIL. fastboot oem unlock is probably useful. So is this page:
https://motorola-global-portal.custh...-your-device-a
Download:
SamuriHL's Nifty Scriptie
Install:
Unzip the contents of the zip to your C:\ drive. That means the root of your C: drive. If you put it somewhere else and it fails to work, sucks to be you.
Usage:
o) Put your phone in AP Fastboot mode (Power off, hold volume down, press power)
o) Connect to USB 2 with your OEM USB cable
o) Ensure the latest USB drivers are installed
o) Run the UpdateMe.bat script
o) FOLLOW DIRECTIONS - It should be noted that as soon as you run it, it'll start flashing so do not run the script until you are ready to go.
o) After the update is sideloaded, boot to fastboot mode instead of booting the device
o) Run the FixMeUp.bat script
o) FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
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Use power and both volume buttons and release power button. You might have to try several times but eventually you should be able to get the bootloader to come up happen to me and it took me about 10 minutes to get it to come up then download my multi tool from the development section and choose stock restore option as soon as you hit enter the first time hit Ctrl C choose the option of no and press Enter then it should start the script and allow you to restore the stock
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Hello, I posted a thread a few days ago on how my power button died. Well, now the ROM has died too! When I start up my N1, the screen is stuck at the boot screen, although things have already loaded (trackball already lights up). This means I can't see what i'm pressing on the phone. So I decided to try and flash a new ROM.
But, wait a minute... my power button doesn't work. How am I supposed to select 'Bootloader' from FASTBOOT and then select 'Recovery'? I couldn't think of a way other than flashing from FASTBOOT. However, FASTBOOT can only flash images, not ROMS. So I need a Nandroid backup image to get my phone working again. Sadly, I don't have one of those - I haven't made a backup image in awhile.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Please help me! I want to be able to use my N1 again. Thanks!
1) Install the Android SDK.
2) Turn on your phone and plug it in to your computer.
3) Open a command prompt in the /tools directory of the SDK folder.
4) Unlock your bootloader by typing fastboot oem unlock
5) Go to http://developer.htc.com/ and download a full Nexus One system image.
6) Extract all the files in the zip file to your /tools directory.
7) Flash whichever ones you want by typing fastboot flash <name-of-partition> <name-of-image>.img
I have two droid 3's and I rooted them both and went to install a blue theme on one of them from the rom manager app and it worked great, so I did it on my second one, too. When it was in the reboot process it never finished bootoing and it stopped at the red M. All it shows is the boot logo, not the boot animation. I have tried flashing it with rsd lite, but it always fails. Is there any other ideas as to what I should do?
You need to get rsdlite working(does it work on the other phone?). Get the drivers installed from motohelper (or reinstall) if needed, get the phone into ap fastboot and sbf to stock and go from there. Check this thread on users with the same issue.
Willis111 said:
You need to get rsdlite working(does it work on the other phone?). Get the drivers installed from motohelper (or reinstall) if needed, get the phone into ap fastboot and sbf to stock and go from there.
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Yes, the theme works on the other phone. I will get the drivers and try again and will get back to you. Thanks for the help so far.
RaTTeDH said:
Yes, the theme works on the other phone. I will get the drivers and try again and will get back to you. Thanks for the help so far.
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I meant rsdlite, have you ever used it with either phone without having an issue? I edited my previous post, added a link you might want to check out.
Instead of RSD Lite, I'd suggest using the quick unbricking script. It works for XT862 (maybe why Willis didn't recommend it). I have a mirror of it below. It's a ~450MB .zip file that is NOT flashable from the phone, but must be unzipped onto your desktop where you then boot into AP Fastboot, connect with the stock cable, and run a batch file from the download and it'll restore the phone's software to box stock in about 5 minutes.
http://minus.com/mB0zknQrL/
I have never used RSDLite before. So I do not know if it works. But when I am flashing it with the stock 5.6.890 it fails at step 5. It reboots the bootloader. But it fails always at step 5. Let me try the other replys...
redsox985 said:
Instead of RSD Lite, I'd suggest using the quick unbricking script. It works for XT862 (maybe why Willis didn't recommend it). I have a mirror of it below. It's a ~450MB .zip file that is NOT flashable from the phone, but must be unzipped onto your desktop where you then boot into AP Fastboot, connect with the stock cable, and run a batch file from the download and it'll restore the phone's software to box stock in about 5 minutes.
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I have downloaded this and tried this. When I run the application moto.fastboot.exe it takes like 30 seconds and when I run the batcch file it immediately finishes and says moto fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable file or command. And finishes immediately. Sigh.
redsox985 said:
Instead of RSD Lite, I'd suggest using the quick unbricking script. It works for XT862 (maybe why Willis didn't recommend it). I have a mirror of it below. It's a ~450MB .zip file that is NOT flashable from the phone, but must be unzipped onto your desktop where you then boot into AP Fastboot, connect with the stock cable, and run a batch file from the download and it'll restore the phone's software to box stock in about 5 minutes.
http://minus.com/mB0zknQrL/
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The unbrick script will flash a vzw rom to your xt860 and have you stuck at the M logo anyways so I wouldn't suggest trying that. If you haven't used rsdlite before and are having trouble with it now you probably need to install the drivers from the motohelper software.
1./ download the drivers (from motorola)
2./ shutdown phone and turn it on by hold m + power
3./ select ap fastboot mode, enter and plug your phone into the computer ignoring any add new hardware
4./ start the driver install and follow it through
5./ unplug and replug your phone with computer leaving it fastboot mode.
Rsdlite should show your device under listed devices when you start it up at this point and allow you to flash w/e rom. I would suggest using the iucell or brazil retail fastboot files from the xt860 fastboot thread to get your phone up.
I fixed it using CMD in Windows flashing some stuff. Thanks guys!
Hey guys,
I have rooted my Moto X 2014 (XT1097) with Chainfire auto root method about 6 months ago and I decided to accept the OTA update I got today from TELUS (22.121.11.en.CA). If I remember correctly I was on 5.0.1 before accepting this OTA.
Now the phone is stuck in the custom boot logo screen that I installed after rooting and even if I try to shut it down, it just boots up and gets stuck in the logo screen.
What should I do? I can access the bootup screen by holding power and volume down.
bobitza said:
What should I do?
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Let me reply myself so that maybe others can use this info to fix their devices as well.
Step 1: You need to install the ADB platform tools (should be plenty of threads about that)
Step 2: You need to find a system.img and a boot.img to match your needs. I have a XT1097 with TELUS in Canada, so I have found this thread and downloaded the big .zip file (big thanks to Steve-x!). For US people the graffixnyc site has images for XT1095 that you can use. Move those .img files where your fastboot.exe file is found
Step 3: Boot your device in bootloader mode (hold power and volume down) and connect it to your PC
Step 4: Install the images with the fastboot command by typing this in a cmd window
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
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Or in the case of the TELUS image, the system image is split into 7 files ... just flash system them one after the other. Steve mentioned something about the recovery.img, but wasn't sure how to flash that so I did it this way.
Step 5: (Optional) If you had something else installed you will get some errors, here's how to fix them. Boot back in the bootloader and choose Recovery, then when you see the screen with the "sick" Android, keep Power pressed and tap on Vol Up to enter Recovery Menu. Choose to delete data and delete cache. Reboot.
If you used Steve's image you should be booting into TELUS Android 5.0.1, just before the cursed update. You can even do now the 5.0.1+ update OTA. You're back in stock ROMs world
Glad you got it fired up again. I haven't taken the OTA yet myself with my Moto X's, was hoping to get the entire image with Motorola Device Manager.
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Man i'm having nothing but issues. I've done everything that i was supposed to do, but i cant get the files to load.
New member here. I just got the phone today, and it's activated, running 5.0. When I check for an update, it shows that there is one, and I download the update. However, after the phone restarts to begin the update, it stops on the system installation screen (it says "error" very quickly, and the android falls over). When the phone restarts, it says that the update couldn't be installed. I've wiped the cache and have done a factory reset, but neither work. Any help would be much appreciated.
Update: Tier 2 tech support from Verizon says the phone has been rooted (I bought the phone used). Is there any way to completely unroot the phone?
Usually a root program can unroot the phone, like if that phone have the root program "SuperSu" on it, there is an unroot function within the program. However, this is not recommended, when the rooting is done and you don't know what the original owners did, there are probably other system files that were changed and the OTA update will detect it and it won't work regardless.
What you should do is flash the factory stock firmware for the device. This will completely return the phone to stock 5.0 and also erase everything in the phone:
1. Download the adb/fastboot files, which is the program used to flash firmwares to android devices:
http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Adb Fastboot Files
2. Download the Verizon 5.0 stock firmware:
http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Moto X 2014&folder=Official Firmware
3. Download and install the Motorola fastboot driver:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59139823&postcount=2
4. Boot the phone into fastboot mode:
While the phone is turned off, press and hold Vol - and Power. Release Power while still holding Vol - and you will see the bootloader menu appears. Connect the phone to the computer and leave it on this menu, here you can use fastboot commands.
Your computer will begin to install the fastboot driver for your phone right now, go to Computer's Device Manager and make sure you see in top of the list "Android device" and then "Motorola ADB Interface" below it, or something very similar related to ADB.
5. Extract both the files from the ADB/Fastboot files (step 1) and files from the Verizon firmware (step 2) into the same folder. Run the batch file "XT1096_5.0_LXE22.46.11_cid2_CFC.xml.bat", it will run a series of commands that will wipe the phone and install the stock firmware. If all the commands ran successfully you have a fresh install like out of the box.
Note: In the bat file, there is a command called "fastboot erase userdata", this command delete all of the user's apps and files, if you want to keep them you can delete that line from the bat file, however, you might get an error later on if your apps data does match with the version of the firmware you just flashed on the phone (in which case you can have to boot into recovery and wipe data (which will wipe everything) or wipe cache to fix the errors.
6. After installation is done, press Vol+ to select "Normal Power up". For some goofy reason, Vol+ is the select key Motorola phones, not Power. Now you can try doing the OTA update again.
Warning: Do not install the older version firmware (4.4.4) to your phone. There are reports from people who downgrade the version on their Motorola and when they receive over the air update it hard brick their device.
Hi guys !
We had unlocked the bootloader and after that, had installed twrp but it didn't start in a few attempts. The "Your software cannot be checked for corruption" screen appeared. I had read somewhere that it's just a warning about the risk of installing custom OS and I just should go factory reset, so I did (and that was a stupid idea, I know). And then the bootloop started to happen. My PC can't see my phone and I can't turn it off in any way
To turn it off just hold the power button... while its bootlooping, it will shutdown. Connect the phone to the pc and enter the bootloader. type fastboot devices, if the pc sees it with a question mark but cannot apply the driver, download the bootloader interface driver and set it manually, now retype fastboot devices and your pc will see it in fastboot, after that, reflash twrp or your recovery of choice, wipe all, format data and install your rom of choice.
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To turn it off just hold the power button... while its bootlooping, it will shutdown. Connect the phone to the pc and enter the bootloader. type fastboot devices, if the pc sees it with a question mark but cannot apply the driver, download the bootloader interface driver and set it manually, now retype fastboot devices and your pc will see it in fastboot, after that, reflash twrp or your recovery of choice, wipe all, format data and install your rom of choice.
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i cant turn off, is stuck on fastboot... how i can unbrick???
hold the vol- button and connect usb cable to a computer. it will connect in fastboot mode. From there you can flash twrp again.
Verity. said:
hold the vol- button and connect usb cable to a computer. it will connect in fastboot mode. From there you can flash twrp again.
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I am having a similar issue after flashing the TWRP image - phone when into boot loop - resetting did not help. Now, it continues to reboot at the LG logo.
I was able to get it into the fastboot menu (once in like 50 times) - but am unsure of how to repeat the steps (to get it into fast boot)
Can you list the steps, and at what time do you press the vol- button, and when to connect USB cable?
Many thanks in advance
MrJoker8989 said:
I am having a similar issue after flashing the TWRP image - phone when into boot loop - resetting did not help. Now, it continues to reboot at the LG logo.
I was able to get it into the fastboot menu (once in like 50 times) - but am unsure of how to repeat the steps (to get it into fast boot)
Can you list the steps, and at what time do you press the vol- button, and when to connect USB cable?
Many thanks in advance
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i have the same issue, cannot enter fast boot mode
Any news?
@Vargrimst @MrJoker8989
xVeenix said:
Any news?
@Vargrimst @MrJoker8989
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unfortunately not, i believe i'll have to trash the phone
Vargrimst said:
unfortunately not, i believe i'll have to trash the phone
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Hey! Don't lose your hope yet. I managed to fix my phone!
So first of all just to be clear - my problem was that after trying to flash ROM using Custom Recovery (in my case it was OrangeFox Recovery) my phone was stuck in bootloop and it did turn on by itself after forcing shut down.
What I did to fix it:
1. I've waited for battery to discharge
2. I've downloaded and installed on my PC:
- LG UPPERCUT - Download here - XDA
- LG Mobile Drivers - Download here - LG.COM
- Android Fastboot Drivers (not necessary needed but i wanted them just to be sure) - Download here - drive.google.com
3. After that I went to search for stock KDZ for my model and my region here (lg-firmwares.com)
4. When everything was downloaded and installed I took my phone and while holding Vol+ I've connected USB cable to my phone (make sure the second part is connected to PC before pluging in to phone) and after few seconds my phone booted into Download Mode
5. Now you need to run LG UPPERCUT - if your phone is listed in upper list then you good to go and if not, check your drivers and errors in Device Manager - select your KDZ in "BIN File", change checkbox from "REFUBRISH" to "UPGRADE", click "Start" and wait.
Your phone will reboot few times but after hitting 100% in Uppercut it will take 2-5 min and boot to stock OS!
xVeenix said:
Hey! Don't lose your hope yet. I managed to fix my phone!
So first of all just to be clear - my problem was that after trying to flash ROM using Custom Recovery (in my case it was OrangeFox Recovery) my phone was stuck in bootloop and it did turn on by itself after forcing shut down.
What I did to fix it:
1. I've waited for battery to discharge
2. I've downloaded and installed on my PC:
- LG UPPERCUT - Download here - XDA
- LG Mobile Drivers - Download here - LG.COM
- Android Fastboot Drivers (not necessary needed but i wanted them just to be sure) - Download here - drive.google.com
3. After that I went to search for stock KDZ for my model and my region here (lg-firmwares.com)
4. When everything was downloaded and installed I took my phone and while holding Vol+ I've connected USB cable to my phone (make sure the second part is connected to PC before pluging in to phone) and after few seconds my phone booted into Download Mode
5. Now you need to run LG UPPERCUT - if your phone is listed in upper list then you good to go and if not, check your drivers and errors in Device Manager - select your KDZ in "BIN File", change checkbox from "REFUBRISH" to "UPGRADE", click "Start" and wait.
Your phone will reboot few times but after hitting 100% in Uppercut it will take 2-5 min and boot to stock OS!
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thanks, i'll try, i'm not sure about booting into download mode, as i've tried everything let's hope this time goes better... but what about the old flashing, like.. i went in a bootloop because i tryied to install Twrp, will lg uppercut overwrite everything to stock?
Yes. It will flash full Stock LG Firmware with Recovery
Vargrimst said:
thanks, i'll try, i'm not sure about booting into download mode, as i've tried everything let's hope this time goes better... but what about the old flashing, like.. i went in a bootloop because i tryied to install Twrp, will lg uppercut overwrite everything to stock?
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