Goodday everyone,
Last year I soft-bricked(stucked at bootloop) my phone and I was trying to get it done. I tried all the method I saw online but none worked until I discovered one method that worked.
THE METHOD
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First of all I downloaded a custom rom(NokDroid v1.1) from xda. I used phil rcovery to install the rom. But after this the Nokia logo just get stuck without it booting fully, only my recovery mode was accessible, I thought to myself since I have changed the ROM, probably it might be that the bootloader image is corrupt so I used a trick to boot into my phone. what I did was this:
1.After somethings I did, I unknowingly made my phone to boot straight to my recovery without me using any button combination and I didn't know what happen to my bootloader
2.Discovery this I renamed a bootloader image I found in NokDroidv1.1 system.zip folder to recovery.img and push the bootloader image into my phone to replace my recovery using fastboot.
In summary, I replaced my recovery With NokDroid bootloader image.
And whoa..... it worked, I boot into my phone but my problem now is that i have no recovery and if i needed it I would have to boot it in back and by doing this I would have no booloader.
So my question is:
*. Has anyone tried this method before.? (Did I invent this method?)
*. Secondly is there anyway I can get my phone to have both bootloader and recovery?
*.Why did my phone boot straight to recovery?
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Hey guys,
I was using Limonchelo mod so far, and thought I'd swap to VIBE 3.5 (downloaded and tried installing it from here needrom, soryr if this is considered advertising, but I'm really not advertising them at all).
Ok, so anyhow, there was a recovery file, which I had to put into TWRP/Backup, and a boot.img file, which I had to flash.
Somehow, I flashed boot.img in Recovery partition as well, and now I can't boot TWRP, nor will the Android itself boot.
So practically, have 4 partitions, out of which, 2 of them (Boot & Recovery) have this boot.img flashed upon, which appearently, doesn't work! While trying to boot my phone, it remains STUCK at the lenovo - powered by android screen.
So, in short:
- Android doesn't boot (infinite loop at lenovo screen)
- Flashed the boot.img which doesn't boot over Recovery, so TWRP won't boot neither (same thing as above happens)
I could follow some guide and perhaps unbrick my phone with it, but I wouldn't like to **** things up further, and rather hear the opinion of a person that has more experience than me.
I would require some assistance with this matter, if anyone has done something similar or stupid like me before , I'd appreciate the help! xD
Thanks in advance!
Can you access fastboot mode?
When yes: Try to install the recovery: fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG
And install Boot: fastboot flash Boot Boot.img
hey,
thanks for your reply, I wasn't able to access anything at all, however, I've fixed it using SP flash tool, dl-d some random firmware and just installed it, luckily it worked, so if anyone does sth as stupid as I did, this'll save ya. there's also a guide on YouTube for it.
Few days ago I tried to root Moto X using Kingroot Method. I followed also Steps but when I rebooted my phone, it was booting only in Fastboot an Recovery. I thought it went into bootloops so I was trying to flash TWRP recovery but it gave me error as mentioned in Image 1 (attached). so I went to service center. People over there did something nd told me that partitions are broken so will have to change the motherboard.
I didn't agree with them and again tried to flash TWRP recovery but now m getting different error (Attached - Image 2). nd I think people at service were right.
so my questions are is there any chance to flash anything to device now?? or changing the motherboard is the only option available???
I am able to access only fastboot. nothing other than that not even custom recovery.
You need to flash the recovery while in fastboot and the first image shows that you're in the stock recovery
3nd image shows nothing really, but that you're in fastboot. Try flashing twrp while in fastboot. Plenty of info here.
Thnx for ur reply....Successfully flashed TWRP and ROM....
Hello Guys,
Yesterday I tried to root my Moto 2g.
Unlocked it's bootloader,Installed Twrp and installed supersu. Also downloaded a custom mod(the most famous one I guess) and installed it,only to find out that the phone would no longer boot
but keep looping on the unlocked bootloader warning screen.While thinking that I had downloaded a non-compatible mod I Installed another one.After that,booting the phone would Instantly
take me to the recovery mode and keep looping the Teamwin logo.
I decided not to mess anymore with it and reinstall the stock firmware for moto 2g. After Installing it the Motorola logo comes up and then I am taken to the fastboot screen once again with the error saying:
"Fastboot reason,Fell through from boot recovery mode".Tried to flash CWM to see If I could get into recovery mode from there but I would get CWM logo loops exactly the same way they appeared with Teamwin logo.
Seems like phone is dead to me but still have a bit of hope,although the only place I can get is fastboot.
Edit:I tried to fastboot flash boot boot.img the stock image and I got and error saying that boot.img(10mb) exceeded the partition limit
shatterbb said:
Hello Guys,
Yesterday I tried to root my Moto 2g.
Unlocked it's bootloader,Installed Twrp and installed supersu. Also downloaded a custom mod(the most famous one I guess) and installed it,only to find out that the phone would no longer boot
but keep looping on the unlocked bootloader warning screen.While thinking that I had downloaded a non-compatible mod I Installed another one.After that,booting the phone would Instantly
take me to the recovery mode and keep looping the Teamwin logo.
I decided not to mess anymore with it and reinstall the stock firmware for moto 2g. After Installing it the Motorola logo comes up and then I am taken to the fastboot screen once again with the error saying:
"Fastboot reason,Fell through from boot recovery mode".Tried to flash CWM to see If I could get into recovery mode from there but I would get CWM logo loops exactly the same way they appeared with Teamwin logo.
Seems like phone is dead to me but still have a bit of hope,although the only place I can get is fastboot.
Edit:I tried to fastboot flash boot boot.img the stock image and I got and error saying that boot.img(10mb) exceeded the partition limit
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try flashing the whole Stock Firmware
It might help,
U said u flashed a MOD over stock ROM?
If so, u should have boot first Just After unlocking the bootloader before Flashing any MODs
raj_45 said:
try flashing the whole Stock Firmware
It might help,
U said u flashed a MOD over stock ROM?
If so, u should have boot first Just After unlocking the bootloader before Flashing any MODs
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I did boot after unlocking and normally flashed whole stock firmware.This morning I woke up and the error message in fastboot is 'boot up failed' for bot normal and recovery mode
shatterbb said:
I did boot after unlocking and normally flashed whole stock firmware.This morning I woke up and the error message in fastboot is 'boot up failed' for bot normal and recovery mode
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is this your problem
raj_45 said:
is this your problem
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Ok let me explain the situation better.Last night I used a stock firmware I found and flashed it.When I tried to boot I would see motorola logo once
fore boot mode,Then it would go to recovery so I would see it for a second time and then I would see teamwin logo looping so the phone was not
able to get into recovery mode but only into bootloader.
After That I flashed CWM and the same thing would happen with CWM logo looping now in recovery mode.
Today I woke up and flashed CWM again,and for some reason I could get into CWM and use it normally
So what I did is Installed Supersu and a mod for my xt1068 and tried to boot but phone stuck in the same endless loop again and I also cant get
into CWM again as its logo keeps flashing instead of taking me into the menu.
I believe there is an error with my data folder or partition or w/e.
Most of all I want to be able to get into CWM again
shatterbb said:
Ok let me explain the situation better.Last night I used a stock firmware I found and flashed it.When I tried to boot I would see motorola logo once
fore boot mode,Then it would go to recovery so I would see it for a second time and then I would see teamwin logo looping so the phone was not
able to get into recovery mode but only into boot loader.
After That I flashed CWM and the same thing would happen with CWM logo looping now in recovery mode.
Today I woke up and flashed CWM again,and for some reason I could get into CWM and use it normally
So what I did is Installed Supersu and a mod for my xt1068 and tried to boot but phone stuck in the same endless loop again and I also cant get
into CWM again as its logo keeps flashing instead of taking me into the menu.
I believe there is an error with my data folder or partition or w/e.
Most of all I want to be able to get into CWM again
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So u are not able to get into Recovery
And u can get to Fast boot Mode?
If yes Flash TWRP latest(3..1.0-0)
Boot into TWRP
Reset or Install any Custom ROM like LiniageOS or AOSP
I think it's the problem with SuperSU?
Which MOD did u install?
raj_45 said:
So u are not able to get into Recovery
And u can get to Fast boot Mode?
If yes Flash TWRP latest(3..1.0-0)
Boot into TWRP
Reset or Install any Custom ROM like LiniageOS or AOSP
I think it's the problem with SuperSU?
Which MOD did u install?
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Thanks for the replies,I managed to solve the problem and install Cyanogenmod.I guess everything came up to this:
After the first time I installed twrp I decided to wipe my data folder but somehow it was deleted and the partition became raw type which caused
all the bootlooping problems.
Using CWM I was able to get into recovery mode and then I chose to format my data folder and sd card(as ext4 I guess) and the data folder was
recreated.
After that I normally flashed Cyanogenmod and device booted just fine
Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble. I had a brand new Redmi 4X, and I was advised to install TWRP, root it, and install the Xiaomi.eu rom until LineageOS is released. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed TWRP, managed to get into it once and now I can't do it again. When TWRP loaded it asked me for a password for decryption but it let me just skip it it seems (not sure if that is the problem) but now I can't boot normally, I can't boot into recovery, but fastboot seems to work okay. How do I go about fixing this?
I've tried reflashing TWRP but I still can't get to it, and I don't really know enough about this stuff to know where I've gone wrong.
UPDATE - I think this is to do with dm-verity and having the stock kernel installed. Now it's too late to undo what I've already done, so I hope to god that someone knows how to fix this.
UPDATE - Right, the problem is solved I think. I had to do an awful lot of googling, and I'm not entirely sure what it was specifically that fixed it. But I found a guide that taught me the fastboot command "fastboot boot twrp.img" which saved the day. Even when my phone wouldn't let me into recovery, it allowed me to flash a no-verity.zip which i think is what allowed me to boot, and it allowed me to flash superSU.zip and then the ROM I was aiming for. And now I've booted into the ROM successfully and hopefully I am rooted and all is well. Plus I can access TWRP as normal now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Can you boot into TWRP by pressing the buttons so that you boot directly to TWRP??
Have you tried Command Prompt to boot with commands in to recovery??
And if you get into TWRP you should have everything on the SDCard and then just
format all things except SDCard and then flash from SDCard everything
That is what I would try..and yes it ask for a password but just skip it to get to it
If you can get into TWRP to flash from SDCard then you good to go..if not
Google all the commands for CMD..and plug your phone to the PC and flash everything with the
commands.....
Let us know what is working and what not and what steps exectly you are doing
EDIT
Turn off your device > Press and hold “Power” and “Volume +” buttons at the same time.
After short vibration signal release the power button and wait for TWRP to start.
To boot in stock recovery open “Update” app.
In the setting select “Boot in recovery”.
brljak83 said:
Can you boot into TWRP by pressing the buttons so that you boot directly to TWRP??
Have you tried Command Prompt to boot with commands in to recovery??
And if you get into TWRP you should have everything on the SDCard and then just
format all things except SDCard and then flash from SDCard everything
That is what I would try..and yes it ask for a password but just skip it to get to it
If you can get into TWRP to flash from SDCard then you good to go..if not
Google all the commands for CMD..and plug your phone to the PC and flash everything with the
commands.....
Let us know what is working and what not and what steps exectly you are doing
EDIT
Turn off your device > Press and hold “Power” and “Volume +” buttons at the same time.
After short vibration signal release the power button and wait for TWRP to start.
To boot in stock recovery open “Update” app.
In the setting select “Boot in recovery”.
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Thanks for the reply. I can't get into TWRP. Even if I could get into TWRP how would I get files on the phone to flash them?
Is it possible to flash any rom from the pc directly and if it is will this possibly help? I think it's not booting because the kernel is still stock.
I'm not sure what you mean in the edit, how do I boot into stock recovery without being able to boot the phone (and when I have already flashed TWRP)?
brokemyG2 said:
Thanks for the reply. I can't get into TWRP. Even if I could get into TWRP how would I get files on the phone to flash them?
Is it possible to flash any rom from the pc directly and if it is will this possibly help? I think it's not booting because the kernel is still stock.
I'm not sure what you mean in the edit, how do I boot into stock recovery without being able to boot the phone (and when I have already flashed TWRP)?
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Hii
I just have been reading about this bootloop
Go over here and read all of the 6 pages..will not take much time but could help you out much
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-redmi-4x/development/official-twrp-3-2-1-0-xiaomi-redmi-4x-t3718217
Hey, I have exactly the same problem. Latest stock rom, flashed twrp in fastboot and got into the boot loop. Nothing works. I can only enter fastboot. What exactly did you do then? What is this no-verity.zip? I can't find anything about it.
I had a problem
I unlocked bootloader then installed redwolf recovery and took a nandroid backup. After that i rebooted to system but stuck into bootloop, could not boot to recovery, could not boot into system, So the only thing worked was that i flashed fastboot rom with mi flasher. And syccessfully rebooted to system with bootloader locked and stock recovery. So, if anyone have same problem you can do the same. How do i install recovery safely again? Should i use TWRP only? Should i flash v3.1.0 with lazy flasher or v3.2 directly without lazy flasher? I don't want to stuck into bootloader again, have to get all data deleted.
Hello;
i've got a moto xt1068; suck on bootloader unlocked message
i tried flashing it a few times, with success but it still suck on bootloader.
i flashed twrp but cant boot to it; unless i do:
fastboot boot recovery.img
Thank you.
This was after unlocking boot-loader or flashing custom ROM ?
I remember facing this issue when i rooted device 1st time ...
to resolve this i followed this steps;
1. Unlocked boot-loader
2. Flashed twrp
Now instead of restarting the device, i used to go straight away to recovery ...
mini2015 said:
This was after unlocking boot-loader or flashing custom ROM ?
I remember facing this issue when i rooted device 1st time ...
to resolve this i followed this steps;
1. Unlocked boot-loader
2. Flashed twrp
Now instead of restarting the device, i used to go straight away to recovery ...
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Nothing changes; it still just stock recovery
i can boot to twrp using the fastboot boot twrp.img
but i get an error 7 installing the zip.
also; i use twrp to connect the phone; delete files from internal storage; but when i reboot i find it there; memory protected somehow? weird.