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I had a mostly-stock Nexus 7 running 4.1.1 - unlocked, rooted, TWRP installed, but no major /system changes. When the update came in, I figured "what the heck, I'll just see if it applies - worst case I lose root and my recovery console, but it's a nexus, it's easy to get those back". I applied the update, and it worked! It applied and rebooted, worked fine - but it did lose root and recovery as I expected.
So I tried to get recovery back. It won't come back. Here are the ways I tried:
Hold down VolUp+VolDown+Power to get to fastboot mode. Ran
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
(using a number of different copies of both clockwork and TWRP recovery). Each time, the screen went black, google logo came up, but then it booted to AndroidOS
Tried to do
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fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
The flash seemed to look like it did fine, but when I selected "Boot Recovery", it didn't. It booted Android OS
I can get into STOCK recovery using the normal method of selecting it from the menu just fine.
Stock recovery doesn't have ADB running. Fastboot mode doesn't have adb running. Fastboot doesn't have any command for rebooting into recovery apart from the method I mentioned (fastboot boot recovery.img). Booting into AndroidOS reflashes the recovery console with the stock console (I tried to race it running adb reboot recovery, but lost).
I tore my hair out for hours. Nothing I tried would let me boot into a custom recovery. I eventually backed everything up as best as I could using adb (Since luckily Android OS still worked), and reflashed to stock everything. PROBLEM IS STILL HERE! Then I decide to revert the bootloader from 3.41 to 3.34. SUCCESS. 3.34 booted to recovery without any problems at all.
Any idea what the heck is going on here? Anybody else seen this? All the threads I've seen with people having problems booting into recovery end with somebody suggesting "Just get app xyz that will reboot into recovery" - but that is NOT an option if A). you cannot get it to boot or B). you are not rooted/are running stock, because you can't be in AndroidOS and still have the custom recovery flashed UNTIL you are able to get into recovery to actually fix it.
Here's a video of me trying to flash recovery, since nobody will believe me that it doesn't work. Turn off the audio, the bell noise is obnoxious, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHWiu7pO34
I brought up the same concerns when I did a manual flash to 4.1.2 and went through a mess eventually reverting to 4.1.1, using OTA rootkeeper than updating again because on bootloader 3.41 *NO* custom recoveries successfully boot.
how do you flash the old bootloader? if you don't mind me asking.
I have been on boot loader 3.41 for a few days and no issues with twrp. I have flashed a few things since and all is good? Sorry not sure why its not working for some.
ls3c6 said:
I brought up the same concerns when I did a manual flash to 4.1.2 and went through a mess eventually reverting to 4.1.1, using OTA rootkeeper than updating again because on bootloader 3.41 *NO* custom recoveries successfully boot.
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Huh? I have 3.41 and can go from bootloader to recovery with no problems. Even got a video of it if you don't believe me
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You are not alone in this issue, me too, and others more, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932063
I update to 4.1.2 using CWM, didn't lose root. Then changed back to TWRP 2.2.2.0 with bootloader 3.41, now I just updated to TWRP 2.2.3. Everything went smooth even though I'm android noobie.
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how do you flash the old bootloader? if you don't mind me asking.
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fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-3.34-grouper.img
(or whatever the actual filename is). Then you do:
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fastboot reboot-bootloader
You should at that point see the correct version listed in fastboot
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Huh? I have 3.41 and can go from bootloader to recovery with no problems. Even got a video of it if you don't believe me
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I think the issue comes from going back to stock recovery without a rooted AndroidOS. Either one by itself seems to be fine. If you still have the CWR or TWRP recovery already flashed, 3.41 can boot to that. If you have root in AndroidOS, you can always re-flash recovery from ROM Manager or something, and that will work fine. And you can boot to recovery from Android OS (so long as you have root).
If you have stock recovery and no root, your only option is fastboot. And that fastboot flash and boot commands do not work. They look like they work - but they don't. So if you already HAVE a custom recovery, it probably won't even break it.
If you really want to do a proper test / prove this, go back to stock recovery with 3.41. Turn the tablet off completely. Boot up holding the three buttons and go into recovery to see that it can go into the stock recovery console. Then reboot with the three buttons again (don't boot AndroidOS), and run the fastboot boot command to run a custom recovery. If that works, I'll eat my hat.
(well, really all that means is that the problem isn't occurring on all systems. Doesn't mean it's not happening to me and many others)
The problem might not be that 3.41 can't boot to recovery -it might just be that 3.41 can't FLASH or BOOT a recovery console through fastboot. Many people will never notice that because:
A). They already have a recovery console flashed, so it still works
B). They flash their recovery from ROM Manager, GooManager, or whatever
If you lose root, you no longer have B as an option. If you also lose your recovery console, you can't get root access back without fastboot, so you have to use fastboot.
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I think the issue comes from going back to stock recovery without a rooted AndroidOS. Either one by itself seems to be fine. If you still have the CWR or TWRP recovery already flashed, 3.41 can boot to that. If you have root in AndroidOS, you can always re-flash recovery from ROM Manager or something, and that will work fine. And you can boot to recovery from Android OS (so long as you have root)[...]
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Not sure you've got it right. At least on my N7. My first try was flashing the update.zip in another thread without updating my ROM at all. Running Paranoid Android (2.1799 then) and TWRP. Not sure when in the mix I updated TWRP though.
Thought it might have been a problem with the update.zip, so downloaded the full update.zip from google and tried installing bootloader*.img from that via fastboot.
No change. Reverted to 3.34 without any playing around with deleting files and all is good.
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I had a mostly-stock Nexus 7 running 4.1.1 - unlocked, rooted, TWRP installed, but no major /system changes. When the update came in, I figured "what the heck, I'll just see if it applies - worst case I lose root and my recovery console, but it's a nexus, it's easy to get those back". I applied the update, and it worked! It applied and rebooted, worked fine - but it did lose root and recovery as I expected.
So I tried to get recovery back. It won't come back. Here are the ways I tried:
Hold down VolUp+VolDown+Power to get to fastboot mode. Ran
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
(using a number of different copies of both clockwork and TWRP recovery). Each time, the screen went black, google logo came up, but then it booted to AndroidOS
Tried to do
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
The flash seemed to look like it did fine, but when I selected "Boot Recovery", it didn't. It booted Android OS
I can get into STOCK recovery using the normal method of selecting it from the menu just fine.
Stock recovery doesn't have ADB running. Fastboot mode doesn't have adb running. Fastboot doesn't have any command for rebooting into recovery apart from the method I mentioned (fastboot boot recovery.img). Booting into AndroidOS reflashes the recovery console with the stock console (I tried to race it running adb reboot recovery, but lost).
I tore my hair out for hours. Nothing I tried would let me boot into a custom recovery. I eventually backed everything up as best as I could using adb (Since luckily Android OS still worked), and reflashed to stock everything. PROBLEM IS STILL HERE! Then I decide to revert the bootloader from 3.41 to 3.34. SUCCESS. 3.34 booted to recovery without any problems at all.
Any idea what the heck is going on here? Anybody else seen this? All the threads I've seen with people having problems booting into recovery end with somebody suggesting "Just get app xyz that will reboot into recovery" - but that is NOT an option if A). you cannot get it to boot or B). you are not rooted/are running stock, because you can't be in AndroidOS and still have the custom recovery flashed UNTIL you are able to get into recovery to actually fix it.
Here's a video of me trying to flash recovery, since nobody will believe me that it doesn't work. Turn off the audio, the bell noise is obnoxious, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHWiu7pO34
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Found the solution to the the issue (sorta), I too went through all this trouble as you did in your OP.
I did not have to do anything other then straight up flash this version "recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.1.5.b8147-grouper.img" via fastboot and bam! recovery works. Link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32810167&postcount=228
Problem is with previous versions of 6.0.1.0 (Official) and TWRP 2.3.1
I still prefer TWRP, but hey This is better then the alternative (No recovery at all)
Now we need to figure out what changed between CWM 6.0.1.0 and 6.0.1.5 and get the other guys (TWRP) to fix their **** for us poor saps that seem to be a minority in the Nexus 7 world having this issue.
I would love to know what actually the fix is and why only some have these issues with older versions of CWM and TWRP.
Yes, another one of these threads, but I need some help.
I got the bootloader unlocked, flashed twrp into recovery using fastboot. Unfortunantly the device rebooted into stock which I'm reading got rid of twrp. One problem is I can't figure out how to get twrp on there, and to stay on there, so I can use it.
Ignoring this issue I just continued. The guide simply said flash cm11. I searched around for a little bit on how to do this with fastboot (since my twrp wasnt working), but ended up doing the stupid thing of running:
fastboot flash system cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-ghost.zip
I know my problem is that I flashed the system with just a zip update file. I should've performed an update.
But now I can't figure out how to find the stock system image for my phone, the actual img file, so I can flash the system again. I have a sprint moto x.
Thanks for any help!
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Yes, another one of these threads, but I need some help.
I got the bootloader unlocked, flashed twrp into recovery using fastboot. Unfortunantly the device rebooted into stock which I'm reading got rid of twrp. One problem is I can't figure out how to get twrp on there, and to stay on there, so I can use it.
Ignoring this issue I just continued. The guide simply said flash cm11. I searched around for a little bit on how to do this with fastboot (since my twrp wasnt working), but ended up doing the stupid thing of running:
fastboot flash system cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-ghost.zip
I know my problem is that I flashed the system with just a zip update file. I should've performed an update.
But now I can't figure out how to find the stock system image for my phone, the actual img file, so I can flash the system again. I have a sprint moto x.
Thanks for any help!
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Update. I got it up and running again on stock. But am still confused about the flashing twrp so it sticks and the flashing cm11. Thanks again
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Update. I got it up and running again on stock. But am still confused about the flashing twrp so it sticks and the flashing cm11. Thanks again
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you should be able to install TWRP by using the command, "mfastboot recovery twrp.img"
regarding CM11, I don't think is needed anymore to go from CM10 to CM12. it was at one time, but I believe CM or TWRP made some updates so that step is no longer necessary.
but before we can help you further, let us know what ROM you are on now and what ROM you want to be on next.
also, this thread is very helpful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/general/official-collection-firmwares-fxz-sbf-t3146628
Ok I got TWRP on there. Now I would like to get to lolipop 5.1 one way or another. I've always liked CyanogenMod (of course) but want to try CyanHacker. http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/rom-cyanhacker-lollipop-ghost-t3033367
Right now I'm on a stock sprint rom I got with kitkat 4.4.4
Here's what I was going to do: (copied from forum)
1. mfastboot flash the latest TWRP if you aren't already at that point. I won't help you on fastboot things as you should already know- look around in the forums for info.
2. BACKUP YOUR STUFF- don't want to lose things without being able to get them back, right?
3. Flash the downloaded CM11 snapshot.
(Heres where I'm stuck. This is where I soft bricked it last night. I tried just now to apply the update using twrp and it just fails. It also fails at rooting my phone.)
4. Let CM11 fully boot and go through the setup screen- just skip everything and get to the homescreen.
5. Reboot into Recovery and wipe EVERYTHING- system, data, dalvik cache, cache, etc.
6. Flash your Lollipop ROM.
7. Flash PA-gapps.
8. Flash SuperSU.
9. Wipe cache/dalvik cache.
10. Reboot.
11. ???
12. Profit.
Thanks for any help!
I currently have PacMan rom 4.4.4 KitKat installed on my Moto X and when I went to update to a new rom I found that TWRP didn't work. I can boot into recovery mode, but the splash screen just displays and never actually enters the recovery. I have to hold the power button down until the phone reboots to get out of it. I currently have TWRP v2.8.7.0 installed. I tried some of the older versions of TWRP and none worked. I also tried updating to the unoffical TWRP 3.0.2 and that behaved the same. Lastly, I tried Philz CWM recovery v6.57.9. That loaded and I was able to navigate the menu but once I selected a option that performed a task, it would freeze. If anyone can help me out it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks
frew415 said:
I currently have PacMan rom 4.4.4 KitKat installed on my Moto X and when I went to update to a new rom I found that TWRP didn't work. I can boot into recovery mode, but the splash screen just displays and never actually enters the recovery. I have to hold the power button down until the phone reboots to get out of it. I currently have TWRP v2.8.7.0 installed. I tried some of the older versions of TWRP and none worked. I also tried updating to the unoffical TWRP 3.0.2 and that behaved the same. Lastly, I tried Philz CWM recovery v6.57.9. That loaded and I was able to navigate the menu but once I selected a option that performed a task, it would freeze. If anyone can help me out it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Had a similar problem on my XT1060 Dev Ed., lost all my data coz of it. Only method which worked was to flash a stock firmware via RSDlite or manually through mfastboot.
Try option 5 from here with complete data wipe.
Try to go to bootloader first and load it from there. Already saw this working some times.
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varunpilankar said:
Had a similar problem on my XT1060 Dev Ed., lost all my data coz of it. Only method which worked was to flash a stock firmware via RSDlite or manually through mfastboot.
Try option 5 from here with complete data wipe.
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This worked perfectly, thanks.
UPDATE: I was able to install stock recovery through BOOTLOADER (it started working again) and I tried sideload 4.1.7.zip that way. It seemed to work for a while, but unfortunately, sideloading crashed. Same for 4.1.6, update fails around 45%. Phone says INSTALLATION FAILED. Any thoughts?!
Hi guys,
I'm a longtime flasher of phones, but my wife today jacked up her 3T beyond the point that I know what to do. In short:
Her phone was rooted, had an unlocked bootloader and TWRP installed. She updated (despite my endless begging never to do that) the OTA, which crashed her phone. Duh. Not smart. The problem: the phone would not restart the OS anymore. Upon restarting, the phone immediately jumped to TWRP and hung at the splash screen (which takes a while to load, but she doesn't know that). She panicked, rebooted the phone a bunch of times before giving it to me.
I was able to get into TWRP eventually, and figured I'd manually install the newest 3T firmware. This is what I did:
First, I updated TWRP through TWRP, to the most recent version. This was successful. Then, this happened:
Downloaded 4.1.7 from the OnePlus website
Placed it on the phone's internal storage
Went into TWRP, wiped Dalvik, Cache, System etc. (leaving Internal Storage in tact)
Flashed the firmware
I've done this thousands of times, never fails. Except now.
After flashing (which was supposedly successful, as I did not receive error messages), I hit 'reboot' and TWRP told me 'NO OS INSTALLED - WANT TO REBOOT ANYWAY?'
That is bad, right? So, I did not reboot, stayed in TWRP and ended up trying to wipe internal storage, thinking I could then add the .zip with the firmware again later and try flashing again. Just a clean phone, you know? I was wrong. I cannot copy anything to the phone right now, so I can't flash anything (because I can't put anything on the phone).
I'm trying to sideload things now through TWRP (adb sideload) and regular fastboot (either the firmware 4.1.7 or 4.1.6 - I've even tried flashing the stock recovery through fastboot to try and get the stock back, so I can sideload the firmware through there), but nothing works.
If anyone knows what to do, or can give me an outline on what to try, I'd be very helpful. The situation right now:
3T, without OS or ANYTHING on the phone
With functioning TWRP
Only recognized in the command prompt when in TWRP, not when in BOOTLOADER
Phone does not allow things to be copied to the phone via my laptop.
On behalf of my extremely upset wife, I thank you!
@Donaghy
copy the downloaded 4.1.7 to a usb pendrive.
connect it to the phone using otg cable.
wipe Dalvik, Cache, System in TWRP.
select install, storage (pendrive), click on the OOS 4.1.7 zip file.
After the flashing is completed, reboot to recovery (not system).
Phone will boot again to TWRP.
Wipe cache and dalvik, reboot. (ignore NO OS INSTALLED - WANT TO REBOOT ANYWAY?)
If you see the rotating red dot, then all's ok. leave it for 5-10 mins to boot.
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@Donaghy
copy the downloaded 4.1.7 to a usb pendrive.
connect it to the phone using otg cable.
wipe Dalvik, Cache, System in TWRP.
select install, storage (pendrive), click on the OOS 4.1.7 zip file.
After the flashing is completed, reboot to recovery (not system).
Phone will boot again to TWRP.
Wipe cache and dalvik, reboot. (ignore NO OS INSTALLED - WANT TO REBOOT ANYWAY?)
If you see the rotating red dot, then all's ok. leave it for 5-10 mins to boot.
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Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, as per my update (in green, above the post) I have returned the phone to stock recovery. I have tried sideloading 4.1.7 and 4.1.6, but both installations (via adb sideload, via stock recovery) crash around 46%. Phone says installation failed.
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Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, as per my update (in green, above the post) I have returned the phone to stock recovery. I have tried sideloading 4.1.7 and 4.1.6, but both installations (via adb sideload, via stock recovery) crash around 46%. Phone says installation failed.
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Try connecting ur phone to a different usb port and then sideload.
If stills fails, get back from stock to twrp recovery and follow the steps i mentioned.
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Siddk007 said:
Try connecting ur phone to a different usb port and then sideload.
If stills fails, get back from stock to twrp recovery and follow the steps i mentioned.
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Thanks, I will. I did just realize my bootloader is still unlocked, so this may be causing the crashing of the sideloading of the official firmware (who knows). I am now going to try to lock the bootloader again, ADB sideload the firmware, and then unlock the bootloader again.
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Thanks, I will. I did just realize my bootloader is still unlocked, so this may be causing the crashing of the sideloading of the official firmware (who knows). I am now going to try to lock the bootloader again, ADB sideload the firmware, and then unlock the bootloader again.
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Check this, if in stock recovery there is option to install from USB? It it does, then update using otg pendrive
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Check this, if in stock recovery there is option to install from USB? It it does, then update using otg pendrive
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I don't own an OTG cable. The only USB option there is, is within the ADB menu in the recovery.
EDIT: locking the bootloader seemed to have made things worse, as I now cannot get the .zip files with the firmware on it to be accepted by ADB/the phone... God, this is a gigantic mess..
I remember there was some adb version (don't remember which one exactly) that had sideloading of large files broken. Try using the newest version from Android SDK.
Edit: just realized you locked your bootloader. Not a good step at all.
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I remember there was some adb version (don't remember which one exactly) that had sideloading of large files broken. Try using the newest version from Android SDK.
Edit: just realized you locked your bootloader. Not a good step at all.
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Yeah, some douche somewhere else on the internet said it should be locked. In someone else's thread... I'm trying to unlock it now again through fastboot.
UPDATE: alright, bootloader is unlocked again. I think I have the most recent minimal ABD and fastboot, but I'll check to be sure.
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Yeah, some douche somewhere else on the internet said it should be locked. In someone else's thread... I'm trying to unlock it now again through fastboot.
UPDATE: alright, bootloader is unlocked again. I think I have the most recent minimal ABD and fastboot, but I'll check to be sure.
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Btw, which stock recovery are you using?
It should be of the version 4.1.7 you are going to sideload
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Btw, which stock recovery are you using?
It should be of the version 4.1.7 you are going to sideload
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Whichever is the most recent one that is on the OnePlus website. I downloaded the .img off of their website.
I've had a similar issue, and I tried a billion times on trying to reflash Stock OOS 4.1.0, and sadly nothing happened. I then tried LineageOS by SultanXDA, nada.
So then, I said "Scr*w my data, I'm going to start anew", and I tried the Unbrick Tool, and Voila, new phone with OOS 3.5.X. Not the latest, but it's working.
I suggest you try that mate, you can find it over here.
Cheers!
P.S. - Love your profile pic.
If you sucessfully flashed 4.1.7 then I'd just reboot into system. TWRP sometimes says "No OS installed" if /system was wiped prior to flashing.
Regardless, I recommend you do these things now (if you havent already) and report back:
-Unlock bootloader (fastboot oem unlock)
-Flash TWRP* recovery, not stock. (fastboot flash recovery twrp.img)
-Boot recovery (fastboot boot twrp.img)
-Wipe data + system + cache + dalvik from TWRP
-ADB sideload in advanced section of TWRP
-from your PC: "adb sideload oos417.zip"
-from TWRP: reboot into system (ignore "No OS installed")
If you follow this and its succesful, everything will be fixed
* flash the twrp by xda member eng.stk, not the official one: the only place I can find his TWRP is in the 3/3t toolkit zip. So extract the v5 zip and use the "TWRP_recovery.img": https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1cephDrsyt_ZzJ1cXpUUlVhSzg
Edit: Instead of doing all this manually, you may want to use the toolkit. See if your device is recognised
Thanks for the help, everybody!
I used the unbrick tool, which worked! I got the phone 'alive' again.
New problem: Right after successfully booting the phone again, I set up the phone (so: clean install, no root, stock recovery, straight out of the box, you know what I mean) and then proceeded to download the OTA that OnePlus pushed to the phone (4.1.7). It downloaded quickly, but the installation has been stuck for almost an hour.
The phone says 'Updating, please wait - do not turn off your phone', and the blue bar is filling. Well, not filling, as it has been stuck at about 10% for an hour.
Is this normal? If not, what can I do? Thanks again!
I turned the phone off and was able to successfully sideload 4.1.7 via ADB. Upon updating, the phone gave me a notification (blue and white letters) that the "DECRYPTION IS UNSUCCESSFUL. The password you entered is correct, but you have to perform a factory reset to use your phone".
So I did another factory reset in recovery, rebooted, and it's up and running, with 4.1.7 on it! I can't believe we got it back from the dead. Thanks everyone, for your help! Really appreciate it!
Hello guys!
Yesterday I tried to flash the newest Lineage-built to my new G7+ (XT1965-3, bought in Germany via Amazon), but something went wrong and now I'm afraid, I bricked my phone.
It's not my first flash of Lineage, as I did this in the past already on some older Phones (SII, SIII, S5), but it's the first time, that I have a major issue.
So I followed all the steps on the Lineage-Wiki (on Win10).
After flashing the recovery (the lineage-recovery, not TWRP) I wasn't able to enter the recovery-mode, so the phone booted to StockRom. And probably this was the problem: As it didn't react to VolumeDown+Power, I reflashed the recovery a second time. After that the touch-screen is not working any more.
I am able to enter the recovery-mode and I can boot to Stock-Rom, but in both modes the phone does not react to touch, so I can only use the Volume- and Power-Buttons.
Probably I made more mistakes after that: I thought, that a factory-reset would help, but It didn't. I also relocked the bootloader, but as I saw, that it also did not bring any solution, I unlocked it a second time.
Conclusion: I have a brand new phone, with lineage-recovery, an unlocked bootloader but without touch working.
I also tried to flash Lineage, but the sideload got stuck at 47%. So Lineage is not installed and it boots into Stock, where I can not get any further without touch.
Has anyone any idea, what could be the issue and how I can fix it? I would like to start from scratch, but I don't know, what is the exact problem and if i can for example return to stock recovery.
Thank you!
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If it helps: I am able to boot TWRP via "fastboot boot twrp-xxx.img". And in TWRP the touch works!
I could flash lineage directly via TWRP from external sd-card, but i am afraid that after that I won't be able to return if something goes wron.
probably your best bet is to go right back to stock using the LMSA tool and starting fresh. I've seen others encounter similar issues on different devices and always the cleaneast solution was just to role back everything and start over.
Thank you so much. With LMSA I managed to restore everything to stock and touch is working!
So I'm going to start from scratch and finally install Lineage.
Is is indicated to use the Lineage-Recovery, as the Lineage-Wiki says, or would it better to use TWRP?
TWRP gives me the option to flash from sd-card, which seems to me better than via sideload.
joglxv said:
Thank you so much. With LMSA I managed to restore everything to stock and touch is working!
So I'm going to start from scratch and finally install Lineage.
Is is indicated to use the Lineage-Recovery, as the Lineage-Wiki says, or would it better to use TWRP?
TWRP gives me the option to flash from sd-card, which seems to me better than via sideload.
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Glad your back up and running. Take a look in the lineage thread, but it does appear most people lean towards using twrp, shouldnt have an issue with either however.
digitaljeff said:
Glad your back up and running. Take a look in the lineage thread, but it does appear most people lean towards using twrp, shouldnt have an issue with either however.
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I'm having a similar problem. At first touch was fubar but I was able to return to stock using LMSA and now touch works. I can load TWRP with fastboot and even install a custom ROM and TWRP, but installing any custom ROM results in a boot loop during the finding and installing updates part of the phone setup during first boot. I'm tried Evolution X which I was running previously(for about a month, and then a boot loop started yesterday), PixelOS 10, and AncientOS, but all result in the boot loop on first boot after connecting to wifi.
Fixed
I fixed this somehow by manually flashing the latest stock firmware to slot a, and then extracting the evolution x Rom and manually extracting the IMG files inside and manually fastboot flashing those to slot b. I then set b as the active slot and booted up, patched the boot image with magisk, flashed that, and everything works. Not sure why twrp wouldn't do the trick.
Finally had the time to install Lineage. Now everything works.
I followed the instructions someone posted in the [ROM][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 17.1 [nightlies]-thread and the instructions of the lineage-wiki:
1. fastboot boot TWRP
2. sideload the copy-partitions.zip from lineage-wiki
3. factory reset via TWRP (wipe cache, dalvik and data)
4. sideload lineage
5. reboot bootloader
6. fastboot boot TWRP
7. sideload magisk
8. reboot system
Had a little bootloop the first time rebooting the system, but that was because I forgot to wipe data-partition in step 3. Wiping data and rebooting did it for me.
So I have a working Lineage17.1 with root via Magisk.
Thank you for the help!
I had exactly the same problem like you had. Bought a brand new moto g7 plus and after recovery flash, Touchscreen was not working anymore. I could manage to go back to the bootloader, sideloaded TWRP, but side loading lineage worked for me then. It seemed to be stuck on 47 percent, but this seems to be a normal issue, the file was there and after installing, touchscreen worked normally.