Hi,
So recently KitKat is released for AT&T Moto X's. Excited, I decided to upgrade the phone to KitKat.
I was previously rooted with RockMyMoto, and before updating to KitKat, I went to unroot the phone through the SuperSU app that was installed.
As I was unsure if it was really unrooted, I opened up Titanium Backup (which required root) and it popped up with an error that Titanium Backup wouldn't work because my device was not rooted.
So with this confirmation (a really noob way to check), I went ahead to download the update through the default system settings app. After the download, I proceeded to install it.
Before installing the update, it said the phone will shut down and proceed with the update, which takes around 20 minutes, and it will be done once it boots up again. And this is where the problem comes. After the phone switched off, the phone just reboots immediately, as if it was just restarting. And after 30 seconds or so, the phone switches off and restarts again. Initially, I thought this was normal, but it kept on restarting and I knew something was up.
I don't know what to do now. I have tried holding down the volume buttons and power button to reboot into recovery, but every time I select the recovery option, the phone just reboots like normal and does not reboot to recovery. I even tried to "race against time" and restore my phone through settings app, but it doesn't allow me to.
What can I do? Please help me
I looked up on the internet, and it seems that I have to remove the OTA cache from the cache folder, but how can I do it? I don;t have root access anymore...
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darylbu said:
Hi,
So recently KitKat is released for AT&T Moto X's. Excited, I decided to upgrade the phone to KitKat.
I was previously rooted with RockMyMoto, and before updating to KitKat, I went to unroot the phone through the SuperSU app that was installed.
As I was unsure if it was really unrooted, I opened up Titanium Backup (which required root) and it popped up with an error that Titanium Backup wouldn't work because my device was not rooted.
So with this confirmation (a really noob way to check), I went ahead to download the update through the default system settings app. After the download, I proceeded to install it.
Before installing the update, it said the phone will shut down and proceed with the update, which takes around 20 minutes, and it will be done once it boots up again. And this is where the problem comes. After the phone switched off, the phone just reboots immediately, as if it was just restarting. And after 30 seconds or so, the phone switches off and restarts again. Initially, I thought this was normal, but it kept on restarting and I knew something was up.
I don't know what to do now. I have tried holding down the volume buttons and power button to reboot into recovery, but every time I select the recovery option, the phone just reboots like normal and does not reboot to recovery. I even tried to "race against time" and restore my phone through settings app, but it doesn't allow me to.
What can I do? Please help me
I looked up on the internet, and it seems that I have to remove the OTA cache from the cache folder, but how can I do it? I don;t have root access anymore...
EDIT: FIXED, PLEASE DELETE
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How did you fix it?
I am having this very same problem. My phone just today went into boot loop. Running KangKat on unlocked 1053 with Faux kernel. No boot logo or anything. The phone just vibrates then after 30 seconds or so, it vibrates again. It does this non-stop.
I can plug my phone into USB and the phone's contents come up on my computer, but I can't get the screen to turn on!! Any ideas?
Recovery
Globalrebel said:
I am having this very same problem. My phone just today went into boot loop. Running KangKat on unlocked 1053 with Faux kernel. No boot logo or anything. The phone just vibrates then after 30 seconds or so, it vibrates again. It does this non-stop.
I can plug my phone into USB and the phone's contents come up on my computer, but I can't get the screen to turn on!! Any ideas?
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Are you able to hold power + volume to get in to your recovery?
Then you can reinstall your nandroid. Or, then you can flash a different rom.
MikeNaples said:
Are you able to hold power + volume to get in to your recovery?
Then you can reinstall your nandroid. Or, then you can flash a different rom.
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Or he can also boot into bootloader with adb by doing adb reboot bootloader then typing fastboot erase cache
serophia said:
Or he can also boot into bootloader with adb by doing adb reboot bootloader then typing fastboot erase cache
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This process seems to work quite well.
I'd recommend to use MFastboot. With your phone off, you can boot into fastboot by holding power and volume down for a few seconds, release and it will boot into fastboot. Connect the usb cable, and first try "fastboot erase cache". If that doesn't work by itself, repeat the process but also use "fastboot erase userdata" (THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA!) but at least there is a chance you might get it to boot normally. It´s like a factory reset, you will have to start from scratch.
I know my answer is out of date but it might be useful for someone coming for this same solution.
Moto x Stuck in TWRP loop
pls help me guys it just goes on restarting it dose not even goes in recovery mode
Guys.. I got struck at unlocked boot loader. Flashed TWRP on 5.1 ( GB retail rom). And its not booting now and not able to flash any rom.. kindly Help...!!!
Just today i flashed CyanogenMod Lollipop 12.1 on the phone. Everything ran smoothly and stuff. I didn't like the boot animation very much so though id flash the default Android L boot animation. Here was my error.
In a hurry i followed the instructions from here not realising this is for the Moto G...!!!
I have philz recovery installed but after flashing the zip i rebooted the phone and it just displays some artifacts during bootup and then the screen goes blank ...!!!! it boots up normal and connecting the phone to the PC shows up the device and sd card. I know the phones working fine coz it unlocks and places calls (randoms touches here and there did that)
Also a major blunder was i FORGOT TO ENABLE USB DEBUGGING...!!!
So now im locked out with no display and no way of enabling USB Debugging.... ANY tips or ideas... I know i have to reinstall recovery.
is there any way of enabling adb without the display...??? PLEASE HELP....!!!!
Why can't you just rsdlite to stock, root, install recovery and start your way from there again.
rsdlite flashing is handled be the bootloader, and if it is actually corrupted then it would be pretty hard to flash back to stock. My suggestion is to see if you can access the boot menu by holding down both volume buttons along with the power button. From there, select AP Fastboot and connect it to your computer.
Rooted ok. I went to install a clockworkmod recovery so I could backup my current ROM before I try flashing something new. Oh, I need SDK, ok, installed. Oh, I need platform-tools, ok, installed.
So I run that and then the phone reboots to a screen saying AP fastboot flash mode. I am able to get the phone working with the 3 button method; phone runs fine, but reboot goes to fastboot screen.
I installed ROM Manager. I think I properly flashed CWM, but no change.
My bootloader was locked. So I worked around, motopacalypse; now bootloader is unlocked.
Currently my computer does not show the phone in Explorer (?!).
I flashed cwm again successfully. No change.
How can I clean up this fastboot problem?
Atrix HD android 4.0.4
System version: 77.12.22.MB886.att.en.us
Also the battery icon has a question mark.
Going with more trial and error; in ROM Manager, I chose reset permissions. A flurry of code goes by. Then it suggests I reboot. I go to shut down, but the phone will not. It now perpetually shows Shutting down spinning circle. What has happened?
Boot loop probably. Just hold all power button forever .after it shuts down,hold all three buttons to get to ap again. Then chose recovery.
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I can't boot into recovery, i have wiped all data through TWRP, and my phone won't get past the lg logo.
What Happened:
I rooted my LG-G4 H811 and installed TWRP too, yesterday, and i thought of trying out a custom rom.
I chose the CM 13 Rom, i downloaded the files.
i put them in the internal memory of the device, (since my phone has an sd card problem, a hardware one) i could've done that using OTG too but i didn't think of it that time.
I go to TWRP using my pc using adb, Because there's no direct method of doing it, not even with the volume buttons. tried them all.
Here's when i messed up
i went to wipe the phone data instead of flashing the rom and gapps first. I ticked all the boxes, and it did clean everything. including the rom files i was about to flash ( genius)
I went back to the main screen and i rebooted my phone and now it's stuck on the LG logo.
I can get into download mode by pressing the volume up button while plugging in a cable
i CANNOT get to TWRP. idk why.
Please help me :crying:
download kdz file with the firmware that you were running before on your phone get yourself into upgrade firmware mode by pressing volume up and connecting USB cable when your phone is turned off and run lgup application to upgrade the firmware and you should be ok unless you experienced bootloop phenomena on you lg4.
Hi there,
I have a Moto G 2 (2014) that I use as a secondary phone and yesterday my phones started to act weird so I decided to reboot it, upon rebooting phone is completely unusable. There is no way to browse through apps or do anything at all as every single app crashes almost immediately. Even the system apps crash constantly.
I thought that factory reset will solve the issue but I can't access it through phone so I tried to use recovery option to reset it to the factory settings without any luck. Bootloader is unlocked with status 3, but there is no way to flash anything, custom rom or recovery. I have followed the steps to flash the recovery from HERE without any luck. Booting the recovery through fastboot gets me through to TWRP or CWM but I can't perform any operation as any wipe command results in error 5.
Erasing through fastboot doesn't do anything either, although shows that operation has succeed when I boot I am greeted with same state I left the phone in, with exact apps I left open etc.
I have even unplugged the battery and left it for few hours to drain the energy from the board without any luck!
Now I was wondering whether it is some sort of memory issue? I never had any issues with the phone it was working well until one day it just sort of died.
Short version
Phone boots - Every app crashes (even system apps)
Unlocked Bootloader
No way to flash or wipe anything
Can boot to custom recovery through fastboot but that's about it (can't perform any operation, constant Error 5)
When wiping through fastboot device still has the old data even the apps that I had open when it crashed.
Sounds like data/internal storage partition is corrupted. Can you access internal storage via mtp on PC?
Many phones were saved by flashing stock ROM, especially partition table/gpt.bin.
Try flashing whole stock ROM, step by step. You can find files and Howto here on xda.
This will reset your phone! Good luck!