Hi all
Pertinent details:
Rooted / safestrapped Bionic with Stock ROM (I honestly can't remember, but I believe it was the ICS leak - may have been JB, whatever it was, it was NOT OTA. I flashed it manually, I believe via recovery) and ROM slot 1 running the Bionic CM11 nightly
Safestrap was updated, as was CM
About a month ago, I dropped the phone, broke the LCD, ordered a new one, and long story short, the phone was disassembled, and sat disassembled for about a month (had other things come up). Battery wasn't completely dead when I put it back together, but the battery wasn't in it either for that month.
Got around to putting it back together, the phone boots to the M logo, and will sit there indefinitely, doing nothing. Strange right? Worked fine even when the LCD was broken - I was able to make a phone call while the LCD was black by memory
I can access AP Fastboot and RSD Lite can see the phone. Recovery mode hangs at the M logo screen, does not proceed beyond it
What I have tried so far:
RSD Lite the JB 9.8.2O-72 official build - result: hangs at M logo, briefly turns off then back on after 4-5 minutes, but will hang at the M logo for the next 30+ minutes, recovery does the same thing
RSD Lite the 246 official build - result: will not flash, MBM fails, MBM loader fails, CDT fails, I stopped removing command lines after that
Moto-fastboot the preinstall.img and system.img from 246 in an attempt to get to recovery and install JB from there - result: hangs at M logo indefinitely, briefly turns off and on as with the JB build when trying to access recovery but just sits at the M logo after that for 30+ minutes
Right now I'm extracting the JB official build and will moto-fastboot system.img/preinstall.img/recovery.img in an attempt to at least get to recovery
Does this sound like a hard brick situation? Any possible solutions? I've done a ton of googling, a ton of reading, and tried a lot of different things, with no progress whatsoever.
thanks!
If you tried flashing the jb fxz first that was the problem. There are two files within that fxz file you have to remove, I any remember off hand which ones but should be easy enough to Google. Good luck
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Here ya go
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/1107-fix-unknown-fastboot-command-oem-phone-connected/
So I'm using myth tools to flash back to stock and when my device is in fastboot it begins flashing the firmware as usual, however when its like around 30% - 40% the screen flashes off and on for an instant, it then finishes flashing the firmware. However when I reboot the phone it boot loops. This happens with every version of stock firmware. Any one have any clues?
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.
Hello everyone,
I had installed CM12.1 around a month back and everything was running smoothly until today. My phone suddenly got rebooted automatically and since than it is stuck in boot loop. Once CM Logo appears it again reboots. When I remove the battery and insert it after couple of minutes it automatically gets on without pressing power on button. It is not switching Off. Because of this I can't even go to custom recovery to flash stock rom. I kept Android Debugging off as it was giving BSOD to my PC. So please help me to recover my phone.
Thank You.
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