So, I have a blue and white Nexus 6. The blue one has been unlocked, rooted and twrp. The white has been too but has an issue where it sometimes loops at the google logo. The only way to get it running again is to turn off the phone and wait a few minutes.
I've used the wug toolkit (1.9.8 and .9) MANY times to go back and forth from various states of factory and unlocked/locked/rooted/unrooted/unecrypted/etc. They all "work" in the sense that eventually it will boot up but at various points it gets boot looping again. I've done factory resets within the OS and recovery. Same problem.
Has anyone seen this....where a phone will boot loop but temporarily turning off resolves it? Is something corrupted and not recoverable? I really want to keep the white one but have no choice it seems. Is there another file I can flash that isn't in the google factory images?
Desperate!
PS: This seems to have started happening since I got the white phone---I think that first OTA went wonky but have no idea how to start over pre-OTA. The blue one has given me ZERO issues and is unlocked/rooted/twrp.
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I have a brand new AT&T nexus one and I just succesfully installed Cyanogenmod v5.0.5.3 (when I flashed Cyanogens rom it said installation successful) and went to reboot my phone. Now my phone will not boot up and just continuously loops the boot up screen with the little lights forming the X.
I pulled out my battery 2x and the same thing keeps happening and it wont stop looping.
Any ideas on what I can do now?
Thanks.
Nevermind I wiped my phone and it fixed itself.
Hi - need some advice on my Galaxy Ace S5830T.
For some history, I rooted it a year ago and installed clockwork mod recovery. Apart from loading a few apps that need root privelage I haven't done much to it, ie has standard rom etc.
The other day a couple of applications came up with the 'Force Close' Screen (internet, facebook). Normally I just click on OK and everything is fine, but whenever I ran either app I got a force close error straight away. Used my app killer to shut down everything running, still had same problem.
Switched phone off and went to reboot, now it displays initial "samsung" screen with web address, flashes the Telstra logo in a few colours, displays "samsung" in the glowing letters, then hangs for a while. Goes back to Telstra logo and repeats.
I can boot into recovery mode. I tried restoring the boot partition from a backup I made before rooting, but it made no difference.
I've tried wip;e data/factory reset, wiping cache, and restoring the image, but it's still stuck in the boot loop.
The fact that I can boot into recovery means, I assume, that the hardware is still all functional, so can anyone advise what to try from here?
Thanks.
Have just a quick question regarding 64gb Nexus 6. On first boot after doing a factory reset, the boot animation actually shows up twice, so it goes from the spinning dots, then the android logo, back to the spinning dots, shows the android logo again, and boots into the phone. This only happens after factory reset. Has been happening since 5.1 ota. Just flashed the 5.1.1 stock ROM yesterday and it still happens. Also phone is completely stock and not rooted. Just wanted to know if anyone else has seen this. Thanks.
techgirl0814 said:
Have just a quick question regarding 64gb Nexus 6. On first boot after doing a factory reset, the boot animation actually shows up twice, so it goes from the spinning dots, then the android logo, back to the spinning dots, shows the android logo again, and boots into the phone. This only happens after factory reset. Has been happening since 5.1 ota. Just flashed the 5.1.1 stock ROM yesterday and it still happens. Also phone is completely stock and not rooted. Just wanted to know if anyone else has seen this. Thanks.
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Likely the encryption, flashed mine this last weekend and it did that the first time after a reset
I have a security PIN set and it'll run the boot animation, then ask for the PIN code, then start the boot animation again. I would guess that without a security PIN/Password/Pattern set it might behave as you've said.
Here's the deal, I have a sprout8 device (the Indonesian Nexian Journey One) running stock 6.0 with some xposed mods installed on it. Suddenly the device shuts down and when I try to boot it up it only goes halfway through the bootanimation when it shuts down again. I wasn't too worried as I thought it was just a conflicting system issue and I also thought it was time to re-flash fresh stock 6.0 to freshen up my phone anyway. So I went ahead and did it.
Here's where the problems start to show up, I had a hard time booting to recovery through the power + volume up combination. The phone suddenly shuts down on its own as it boots up. I tried it a few times and finally got to recovery. After that, as I flashed stock 6.0 the phone shut down again. I thought it was an issue with my recovery so I tried wiping everything through fastboot and re-flashed recovery through fastboot aswell. From there I tried again to flash stock 6.0 through recovery and again, the phone shut down. I tried a different ROM thinking it was a ROM issue but still got the same results.
After hours of trying to flash a ROM through recovery (retrying over and over as it suddenly shut down while flashing), I finally got a ROM installed. Then I rebooted my phone, but again it freezes halfway through the bootanimation (literally freezing the bootanimation) and refused to do anything. I took off the battery and booted up the phone countless tries trying to get it to boot up. When it finally booted up, I filled in all the Google startup credentials and finally got started on a fresh stock 6.0. However, I tried to restore my previous application data through Android's application recovery on startup but everytime the device installs a new application it would freeze up and shut down. This happened countless times. Then the phone, once again, shut down and could not start the ROM. It would freeze up on the bootanimation.
Then things started to get weird, when the phone turns on it should show the "Nexian" logo in all its glory before going to bootanimation. But here the screen gets all distorted and shows these weird horizontal (and sometimes vertical) lines. Nothing's wrong with my phone screen so I assume it is a system error. From here on, the phone refused to boot. It just shows the Nexian logo and restarts over and over. The same thing happens even after I re-flashed both my recovery and ROM. I even tried using SP Flash Tool to re-flash stock but still the same results.
Now, the device wouldn't even turn on. But when I connect it using USB to a Windows computer, it still gets detected through device manager as an ordinary MediaTek device.
I'm assuming now that it may be a problem with the /system parition where we install our ROMs in. The partition may be (partially) corrupt. Seeing as the device could still boot the ROM a few hours ago but freezing upon updates to the stated partition.
If you guys have any other ideas/solutions I'm all ears.
Hey, sorry to bother everyone with another bootloop thread by I just can't for the life of me work out if I'm doing something wrong, or my device is more of a dud than usual.
So got the phone yesterday, did some ota updates ended up in a bootloop.
Now at this point my bootloader wasn't unlockable as I hadn't enabled it in developer settings.
By some miracle it managed to boot itself back into the OS after an hour of fiddling and i decided to enable the option in developer settings.
Now I've unlocked the boot loader and got all the flashing related fastboot commands working i've
Flashed a stock image using the miflash tool, seems to succeed but then on reb but once it's done i'm still in a boot loop!
I've been able to boot into twrp a few times (though most of the time I can't and am still in a bootloop)
Tried flashing a custom rom, but I always seem to be in a boot loop after attempting that.
Throughout the last few hours i've also managed to hit the os a couple of times but it seems very easy to accidently put it back in a bootloop.
If anyone has advice of something to try, that would be great.
(was trying stock image version 10.0.9.0, going to try and go back to stock Oreo)
Smtih said:
Hey, sorry to bother everyone with another bootloop thread by I just can't for the life of me work out if I'm doing something wrong, or my device is more of a dud than usual.
So got the phone yesterday, did some ota updates ended up in a bootloop.
Now at this point my bootloader wasn't unlockable as I hadn't enabled it in developer settings.
By some miracle it managed to boot itself back into the OS after an hour of fiddling and i decided to enable the option in developer settings.
Now I've unlocked the boot loader and flashed a stock image using the miflash tool which all seems to go swimmingly, but once it's done i'm still in a boot loop!
Throughout the last few hours i've managed to get into the os a couple of times.
I've been able to boot into twrp a few times (though most of the time I can't)
Tried flashing a custom rom, but I always seem to be in a boot loop after attempting that.
Sometimes it goes to a failed to boot screen, while other times it seems to loop endlessly.
If anyone has advice of something to try, that would be great.
(was trying image version 10.0.9.0, going to try and go back to stock Oreo)
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Try some custom kernel, or patched boot img
I've found in 3 Mi A2 phones (mine, gf and family member) the bootloop is actually easy to overcome pretty quickly by waiting. I got the bootloop with all of them when they updated to two updates from what they came with no bootloader unlocked or flashing.
In each case I plugged the phone in, and left it rapidly turning on and off. Make sure to watch the phone, it will possibly come up with an error screen a couple of times so just press to continue trying to boot (also a glitched screen maybe that says fastboot with no options, press the volume control and the option to continue appears again). After a minute or two the phone will get to the normal charging screen, at that point the bootloop is fixed just hold power button until it starts.
Longest I had to wait was coming up to 2m, one time less than 30s.
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I've found in 3 Mi A2 phones (mine, gf and family member) the bootloop is actually easy to overcome pretty quickly by waiting. I got the bootloop with all of them when they updated to two updates from what they came with no bootloader unlocked or flashing.
In each case I plugged the phone in, and left it rapidly turning on and off. Make sure to watch the phone, it will possibly come up with an error screen a couple of times so just press to continue trying to boot (also a glitched screen maybe that says fastboot with no options, press the volume control and the option to continue appears again). After a minute or two the phone will get to the normal charging screen, at that point the bootloop is fixed just hold power button until it starts.
Longest I had to wait was coming up to 2m, one time less than 30s.
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Yeah, A2 have A/B partition and if update is faulty and the phone ends in bootloop, after a few failed boots, it will boot from other partition.
NotOverHere said:
I've found in 3 Mi A2 phones (mine, gf and family member) the bootloop is actually easy to overcome pretty quickly by waiting. I got the bootloop with all of them when they updated to two updates from what they came with no bootloader unlocked or flashing.
In each case I plugged the phone in, and left it rapidly turning on and off. Make sure to watch the phone, it will possibly come up with an error screen a couple of times so just press to continue trying to boot (also a glitched screen maybe that says fastboot with no options, press the volume control and the option to continue appears again). After a minute or two the phone will get to the normal charging screen, at that point the bootloop is fixed just hold power button until it starts.
Longest I had to wait was coming up to 2m, one time less than 30s.
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I think something along these lines is how i managed to get into the phone the first time and enable oem unlocking.
After a lot of playing around I was able to get the phone to boot by flashing the latest Oreo image (9.6.16)
After that tried going to a pie image again from fast-boot image (10.0.8) and once again ended up in a boot loop.
Lastly I flashed a fast-boot image of the latest ota (10.0.10) and managed to boot in.
So phone is at least all working now. Thanks for everyones help. Just hope the next ota doesn't bootloop the phone again.
@NotOverHere: When the phone finally does boot up, do you find it's stable and reboots are fine after that?
Smtih said:
I think something along these lines is how i managed to get into the phone the first time and enable oem unlocking.
After a lot of playing around I was able to get the phone to boot by flashing the latest Oreo image (9.6.16)
After that tried going to a pie image again from fast-boot image (10.0.8) and once again ended up in a boot loop.
Lastly I flashed a fast-boot image of the latest ota (10.0.10) and managed to boot in.
So phone is at least all working now. Thanks for everyones help. Just hope the next ota doesn't bootloop the phone again.
@NotOverHere: When the phone finally does boot up, do you find it's stable and reboots are fine after that?
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Plss post the link of 10.0.10