Long story short. was flashing roms/mods on a spare Nexus 6 of mine and ended up in a bootloop. Now i'd NORMALLY just boot into recovery/fastboot and fix it or restore a backup but that is where i'm running into my fabolous problem of mine. The volume down button is broke so you can't push it in and or hold it. So what i'm wanting to know is if anyone knows a workaround for booting into recovery or fastboot so i can restore this phone. ANY suggestions are welcome. Thank you!
"adb reboot bootloader"?
dahawthorne said:
"adb reboot bootloader"?
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He's lucky if ADB daemon starts , otherwise he won't be able to adb it.
connect to fastboot while you're in the bootloader, then type reboot recovery
simms22 said:
connect to fastboot while you're in the bootloader, then type reboot recovery
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how can he get to bootloader if the volume down button is dead? lol... I think his only option is to fix that button.
blanco2701 said:
how can he get to bootloader if the volume down button is dead? lol... I think his only option is to fix that button.
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good point, but occasionally during bootloops, itll boot into the bootloader. only other thing i can think of is to power it off, and try to connect it to adb, the try reboot recovery.
nozzleman_85 said:
Long story short. was flashing roms/mods on a spare Nexus 6 of mine and ended up in a bootloop. Now i'd NORMALLY just boot into recovery/fastboot and fix it or restore a backup but that is where i'm running into my fabolous problem of mine. The volume down button is broke so you can't push it in and or hold it. So what i'm wanting to know is if anyone knows a workaround for booting into recovery or fastboot so i can restore this phone. ANY suggestions are welcome. Thank you!
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ya know this is something I always just took for granted but now I'm gonna be checking my volume buttons everytime I flash something...
As painful as this is to admit, this is one time a knowledge of adb and fastboot might be helpful
Can't get get into fastboot if im stuck in a bootloop smart one...try reading before posting a stupid reply/answer like this...
aiiee said:
As painful as this is to admit, this is one time a knowledge of adb and fastboot might be helpful
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nozzleman_85 said:
Can't get get into fastboot if im stuck in a bootloop smart one...try reading before posting a stupid reply/answer like this...
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sure you can, that's an easy one. power your n6 off, then boot up with the power button + volume down pressed, this will boot you into the bootloader. the bootloader is the ONLY place that fastboot works. duh.. :silly:
oh, btw, I AM dumb. broken volume down button, right.
nozzleman_85 said:
Can't get get into fastboot if im stuck in a bootloop smart one...try reading before posting a stupid reply/answer like this...
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LIghten up Percival, it was meant in a humorous fashion.
aiiee said:
LIghten up Percival, it was meant in a humorous fashion.
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My bad...
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nozzleman_85 said:
Can't get get into fastboot if im stuck in a bootloop smart one...try reading before posting a stupid reply/answer like this...
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nozzleman_85 said:
My bad...
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me too. I forget sarcasm doesn't translate in ascii.
Can you not take the back off and use a small pin or pry tool to depress vol down?
aiiee said:
me too. I forget sarcasm doesn't translate in ascii.
Can you not take the back off and use a small pin or pry tool to depress vol down?
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Tried using the Sim removal tool and using the small hole in the Sim tray area, unfortunately it just bent the tool all to hell
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Hm, am i blind or does Moto X 4.2.2 not give anymore the possibility to wipe the cache partition in the fastboot menu?
You need to go into recovery
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rocketsaucev2 said:
You need to go into recovery
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Thats my problem , when selecting Recovery with Volume up key the phone restarts.
Thomas_BA said:
Thats my problem , when selecting Recovery with Volume up key the phone restarts.
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You didn't happen to root using SlapMyMoto, did you?
If so, you might want to read up on what that rooting process does to your stock Recovery.
Thomas_BA said:
Thats my problem , when selecting Recovery with Volume up key the phone restarts.
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Volume up is select. I believe you scroll around with volume down and use up to select. Weird, I know...
Yes that's the way I do it.
By the way I rooted my phone with RockMyMoto.
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scott62185 said:
Volume up is select. I believe you scroll around with volume down and use up to select. Weird, I know...
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Yeah I remember i was stuck on this forever and kept rebooting, took a long time to figure that out. Haha
vikramkhalsa said:
Yeah I remember i was stuck on this forever and kept rebooting, took a long time to figure that out. Haha
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Jaja what is the damn trick?
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Jaja what is the damn trick?
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thats it, vol down is to scroll and vol up is to select.. so you press down until it goes all the way around back to the right option you want and then press up to select it..
vikramkhalsa said:
thats it, vol down is to scroll and vol up is to select.. so you press down until it goes all the way around back to the right option you want and then press up to select it..
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Trying and trying..reboot and reboot..jaja
Thomas_BA said:
Trying and trying..reboot and reboot..jaja
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If you're rooted, you don't have a recovery. Recovery for us bypasses write protection. You shouldn't have done anything to warrant the wiping of the cache. So, don't worry about it.
natezire71 said:
If you're rooted, you don't have a recovery. Recovery for us bypasses write protection. You shouldn't have done anything to warrant the wiping of the cache. So, don't worry about it.
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Yes seams so, i am booting into recovery when i want to change something in /system, which disables the write protection for the time being.
Thanks anyway.
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Silver HTC One for AT&T; bootloader unlocked, rooted, s-on
I tried to flash a 4.1.2 ROM on the phone earlier today through CWM. No errors were given during the process. After the phone restarted the touch screen is now disabled. All three hardware keys seem to be working fine (power, v-up, v-down). Since the touchscreen is not working I cannot get past the initial lock screen. If I try and restart the phone by holding power it takes a long time >5 minutes of holding down power, "To restart your phone continue to press and hold power for 3, 2, 1, comes up and then stays at 1 for a long time.
If I connect the phone to my mac android file transfer opens up and I can see the files on the phone. However, if I try to find the device using 'adb devices' the list of attached devices is empty.
I would like to put a different ROM on and then flash that but because I am unable to do a power down (only restart after a long time) or use adb to re-boot into fastboot or recovery I am stuck.
Anything you guys could give me to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
also I installed HTC sync manager and it launches after the device is attached, but does not indicate that my device is attached.
Thanks!
You need a 4.3 based ROM. Push via ADB and install via cwm or adb sideload
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SaHiLzZ said:
You need a 4.3 based ROM. Push via ADB and install via cwm or adb sideload
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But wouldnt I need adb to recognize my device? At the moment I cannot even get it to show up in devices when it is connected.
slapshot123 said:
But wouldnt I need adb to recognize my device? At the moment I cannot even get it to show up in devices when it is connected.
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Just copy the 4.3 rom via the file manager, then restart with however long it takes. While restarting, keep the vol-down button pressed. You'll reboot to bootloader. From there, go to recovery and select your 4.3 rom.
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But wouldnt I need adb to recognize my device? At the moment I cannot even get it to show up in devices when it is connected.
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Put ur phone on Recovery then try to adb push or Sideload....
OTG cable is also an option!
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SaHiLzZ said:
OTG cable is also an option!
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Can you elaborate on the OTG cable? It may be my best option at the moment because I cannot get the phone to reboot at all let alone into recovery. I tried to restart while holding down power and vol-down (like n1234d said) for about 20 minutes and the phone did not restart.
You could use an OTG cable and a USB drive to get the ROM onto the phone inside recovery. Unfortunately, you still need to reboot to recovery. If the phone can't reboot, I'm not sure what to do.
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Can you elaborate on the OTG cable? It may be my best option at the moment because I cannot get the phone to reboot at all let alone into recovery. I tried to restart while holding down power and vol-down (like n1234d said) for about 20 minutes and the phone did not restart.
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Just hold the power button and power it off....
then try to get in recovery from bootloader....
the phone wont get recognized via adb if not in recovery mode cause the USB debugging would be turned off....
the phone WILL power off if you keep the power button pressed for 20-30 seconds and should reboot.
SaHiLzZ said:
the phone WILL power off if you keep the power button pressed for 20-30 seconds and should reboot.
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Thanks, but for whatever reason it took holding down the power button for 40 minutes.
fenstre said:
You could use an OTG cable and a USB drive to get the ROM onto the phone inside recovery. Unfortunately, you still need to reboot to recovery. If the phone can't reboot, I'm not sure what to do.
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Thanks for you suggestions, as I mentioned above I got the phone to reboot into recovery after holding down power for an insanely long time. From there I was able to use adb to get everything sorted out.
So my problem is resolved, how do I close/delete this thread? Thanks for all your suggestions.
slapshot123 said:
Thanks, but for whatever reason it took holding down the power button for 40 minutes.
Thanks for you suggestions, as I mentioned above I got the phone to reboot into recovery after holding down power for an insanely long time. From there I was able to use adb to get everything sorted out.
So my problem is resolved, how do I close/delete this thread? Thanks for all your suggestions.
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Haha 40 minutes, yeah right.
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Haha 40 minutes, yeah right.
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Cool, nice productive comment. I can assure you it was, watched two episodes of workaholics waiting for the damn thing.
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Cool, nice productive comment. I can assure you it was, watched two episodes of workaholics waiting for the damn thing.
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I'm pretty sure you unknowingly kept leaving the power/volume buttons because of which the phone finally rebooted when you got it right
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n1234d said:
I'm pretty sure you unknowingly kept leaving the power/volume buttons because of which the phone finally rebooted when you got it right
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Is this really necessary?
slapshot123 said:
Thanks, but for whatever reason it took holding down the power button for 40 minutes.
Thanks for you suggestions, as I mentioned above I got the phone to reboot into recovery after holding down power for an insanely long time. From there I was able to use adb to get everything sorted out.
So my problem is resolved, how do I close/delete this thread? Thanks for all your suggestions.
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Sorry to hear it took a while, thats odd. But you are all done now. Edit your first post and change the subject to [SOLVED] .. thats all
Guys if you are in a complete brick of your phone there's a trick. If you hold the volume down and power button, then right when the logo comes up you just let go of the power and press it again quickly it will try to do a factory reset. I was able to get into TWRP thanks to that and install CM. Just a heads up.
Do you really know what 'complete brick' is?
aaronmy said:
Guys if you are in a complete brick of your phone there's a trick. If you hold the volume down and power button, then right when the logo comes up you just let go of the power and press it again quickly it will try to do a factory reset. I was able to get into TWRP thanks to that and install CM. Just a heads up.
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Hmm... As in the same thing that's listed in Frequently Asked Questions - LG Optimus L90 Q14...
judas1977 said:
Do you really know what 'complete brick' is?
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Well you can't get into a recovery because there is no button configuration so in the case of installing a bad rom and being in a boot loop without USB Debugging, you are basically in a complete brick.
aaronmy said:
Well you can't get into a recovery because there is no button configuration so in the case of installing a bad rom and being in a boot loop without USB Debugging, you are basically in a complete brick.
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I'd say a complete brick is when your phone doesn't turn on in any case and you can't even do a factory reset with hardware buttons. Anything up to that is a soft brick imho. In such an event your suggested 'trick' wouldn't really do anything.
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Well you can't get into a recovery because there is no button configuration so in the case of installing a bad rom and being in a boot loop without USB Debugging, you are basically in a complete brick.
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Yes you can get to recovery with key combos. See the link in my last post. View Q14 in that threads OP.
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shinobisoft said:
Yes you can get to recovery with key combos. See the link in my last post. View Q14 in that threads OP.
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I see so then there is no need for this thread. Thank You.
Key combos. You developers came up with key combos? Yeah. All development stops. Key comb should get ya.
Hello all,
I haven't touched my M7 in about 6 months but I figure it's time I try to fix it. Here are the following symptoms of my problem: it won't boot past the splash screen, it won't boot into recovery, and it doesn't like powering up unless it's plugged into a wall socket.
Is there any way I can RUU this or force it into fastboot or recovery?
press vol down + power button to enter bootloader and then choose fastboot
Sorry should have specified that I already tried that.
Is it unlocked or not? Does it have stock or custom recovery?
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Is it unlocked or not? Does it have stock or custom recovery?
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Custom recovery but stock ROM.
freshlimes said:
Custom recovery but stock ROM.
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Where does power + vol down get you? Bootloader menu or bootloop again?
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Where does power + vol down get you? Bootloader menu or bootloop again?
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Bootloop and then back to being stuck on the splash screen.
freshlimes said:
Bootloop and then back to being stuck on the splash screen.
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Did you try holding the power button for few seconds till capacitive buttons start flashing? After they stop keep holding the power button and press vol down. That should take you to bootloader menu
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Did you try holding the power button for few seconds till capacitive buttons start flashing? After they stop keep holding the power button and press vol down. That should take you to bootloader menu
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Yeah I've tried that too. Also bootloops.
freshlimes said:
Yeah I've tried that too. Also bootloops.
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Hm... How did you get in that situation? A bit more info on your phone and the reason for the bootloop would be very helpfull
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Hm... How did you get in that situation? A bit more info on your phone and the reason for the bootloop would be very helpfull
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Sorry, seems I left out quite a bit. Was up late messing with it to see if I could get anything done and it was probably due to lack of sleep.
I believe it was after I had tried to RUU. Unforunately I don't remember with which .zip file, but I'm going to assume I didn't screw that up as I've had to RUU quite a few times and hadn't messed that up just yet.
freshlimes said:
Sorry, seems I left out quite a bit. Was up late messing with it to see if I could get anything done and it was probably due to lack of sleep.
I believe it was after I had tried to RUU. Unforunately I don't remember with which .zip file, but I'm going to assume I didn't screw that up as I've had to RUU quite a few times and hadn't messed that up just yet.
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Only thing I don't understand is why it doesn't go to bootloader menu
donkeykong1 said:
Only thing I don't understand is why it doesn't go to bootloader menu
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I fail to understand it too. Would be an easy fix if I could get it into fastboot.
freshlimes said:
I fail to understand it too. Would be an easy fix if I could get it into fastboot.
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Well, it's hard to tell, but a hell of a lot easier than now [emoji6]
I did the hard reset to the phone and now it wont turn on. When I charge the phone there is nothing on the screen but the phone getting warmer. any help will be appreciate thanks
Define hard reset?
Why did you reset?
What happens when you power down the phone then attempt to enter recovery?
Sorry, I meant factory reset and I did it because I was planning to give the phone to someone else. The phone is not turning on. thanks
Odd, have you tried holding power down and volume down (or up) for 90 seconds?
This is obviously not normal.
I've had my phone lock up before and this seemed to eventually get it to start up.
mrkhigh said:
Odd, have you tried holding power down and volume down (or up) for 90 seconds?
This is obviously not normal.
I've had my phone lock up before and this seemed to eventually get it to start up.
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Yeah, I have tried that. Thanks
avishayftl said:
Yeah, I have tried that. Thanks
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Okay,
Can you connect to it via adb or fastboot?
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Okay,
Can you connect to it via adb or fastboot?
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I tried adb but I'm getting no device error
On the off chance that you are in a bootloader mode you'd need fastboot.
There are several fastboot reboot commands you could try.
mrkhigh said:
On the off chance that you are in a bootloader mode you'd need fastboot.
There are several fastboot reboot commands you could try.
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I'm getting "waiting for any device" when I try fastboot commands
I think you are out of luck then.