So I was restoring the stock boot image so I could flash magisk, and I ran into a bit of a problem. I tried booting it up after flashing, and it's stuck on the boot screen so I'm assuming I flashed a bad boot. This wouldn't normally be a problem, except that my volume up button doesnt work meaning I can't boot back into recovery mode/bootloader. Is there a way to get to the bootloader or recovery screen without using the volume up button?
I think you might have accidentally flashed the stock boot image to your recovery. Have you checked the option to flash the boot image and not recovery?
frosted.efizzle said:
I think you might have accidentally flashed the stock boot image to your recovery. Have you checked the option to flash the boot image and not recovery?
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I'm pretty sure I flashed to boot, I can turn it on and it just shows the blu logo. Before I had a custom boot image though and it's not showing that anymore though.
I'm assuming that custom boot image came prerooted right? You might need to flash the rom that came with the custom image to boot. An easier way to get Magisk which I've done is to flash rom, then flash the unSU zip to remove traces of root then you can flash Magisk like normal.
frosted.efizzle said:
I'm assuming that custom boot image came prerooted right? You might need to flash the rom that came with the custom image to boot. An easier way to get Magisk which I've done is to flash rom, then flash the unSU zip to remove traces of root then you can flash Magisk like normal.
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I would do that, except with the volume up button broken I'm unable to get to recovery mode, and without being able to boot into the system I can't use adb
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I was having issues and wanted to switch to the systemless SU so I decided to start over fresh. used toolkit to restore stock image and unrooted. tried to install newest twrp using toolkit but it kept coming up with bugdroid with red triangle and exclamation mark. Did some research and few places said you have to go back to lp. so I downloaded factory image and went back to lp unrooted and locked bootloader. unlocked, rooted and installed twrp everything was good. I extracted the newest 6.0.1 factory image and installed each component separately except for the recovery. now I am on 6.0.1 and try to go to recovery and bugdroid with red triangle and using toolkit I cannot get the newest twrp to stick. my sdk is updated.
any ideas on what to do?
thanks
jdpeck said:
I was having issues and wanted to switch to the systemless SU so I decided to start over fresh. used toolkit to restore stock image and unrooted. tried to install newest twrp using toolkit but it kept coming up with bugdroid with red triangle and exclamation mark. Did some research and few places said you have to go back to lp. so I downloaded factory image and went back to lp unrooted and locked bootloader. unlocked, rooted and installed twrp everything was good. I extracted the newest 6.0.1 factory image and installed each component separately except for the recovery. now I am on 6.0.1 and try to go to recovery and bugdroid with red triangle and using toolkit I cannot get the newest twrp to stick. my sdk is updated.
any ideas on what to do?
thanks
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Never trust a recovery installed by a tool kit. Grab the recovery img from the site and flash it manually.
all i have now is stock recovery. whats the best way to manually install twrp
go into fastboot and flash it. you have to be in your bootloader to flash via fastboot. you put the file in the same window as your fastboot program, then type.. fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img, and that will flash twrp. if you type fastboot boot recovery recoveryname.img then itll only boot into recovery one time, thats what your toolkit did.
Wugfresh Toolkit works great for me and I used it for 6.0.1
Make sure you flash permrecovery file provided by the toolkit, it prompts this during the steps.
If the copies of factory img or recovery provided by the toolkit are not working one easy way is download your own, the toolkit allows you to use your own files and not the one it obtains.
jdpeck said:
I was having issues and wanted to switch to the systemless SU so I decided to start over fresh. used toolkit to restore stock image and unrooted. tried to install newest twrp using toolkit but it kept coming up with bugdroid with red triangle and exclamation mark. Did some research and few places said you have to go back to lp. so I downloaded factory image and went back to lp unrooted and locked bootloader. unlocked, rooted and installed twrp everything was good. I extracted the newest 6.0.1 factory image and installed each component separately except for the recovery. now I am on 6.0.1 and try to go to recovery and bugdroid with red triangle and using toolkit I cannot get the newest twrp to stick. my sdk is updated.
any ideas on what to do?
thanks
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Don't use toolkits. I recommend yoiu follow @simms22's solution.
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when you have root, you can always use an app, like flashify, to flash twrp recovery. but you need to have root first.
arcane spade said:
Wugfresh Toolkit works great for me and I used it for 6.0.1
Make sure you flash permrecovery file provided by the toolkit, it prompts this during the steps.
If the copies of factory img or recovery provided by the toolkit are not working one easy way is download your own, the toolkit allows you to use your own files and not the one it obtains.
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I have tried with and without perm recovery checked, I had the newest twrp img file so I choose other and selected it, I even used the option for one time recovery boot with twrp and then flashed twrp within it like I was updating twrp and still nothing. I am going to try fast boot itself without the tool kit.
Is there any other part of the stock factory image that would update the recovery? I didn't install it coming from lp but it still went back to stock instead of staying on twrp
jdpeck said:
I have tried with and without perm recovery checked, I had the newest twrp img file so I choose other and selected it, I even used the option for one time recovery boot with twrp and then flashed twrp within it like I was updating twrp and still nothing. I am going to try fast boot itself without the tool kit.
Is there any other part of the stock factory image that would update the recovery? I didn't install it coming from lp but it still went back to stock instead of staying on twrp
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no. but when you flash the full factory image, stock recovery will replace twrp. if you just want to update, flashing the system.umg and boot.img will work, and youll keep twrp.
This is why we don't use toolkits.
Boot to bootloader mode
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery filename>
Where <recovery filename> is the path and filename of the twrp image you downloaded
After flashing use the arrow keys to boot into your newly installed recovery
Take a backup of your phone
Use recovery to boot android
Reboot to recovery with custom power menu options, or by opening a console on your phone and typing in reboot recovery
Post here to tell me that I am right, and thank me.
If you don't reboot to recovery from the bootloader, it will likely be restored back to the OEM recovery.
scryan said:
This is why we don't use toolkits.
Boot to bootloader mode
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery filename>
Where <recovery filename> is the path and filename of the twrp image you downloaded
After flashing use the arrow keys to boot into your newly installed recovery
Take a backup of your phone
Use recovery to boot android
Reboot to recovery with custom power menu options, or by opening a console on your phone and typing in reboot recovery
Post here to tell me that I am right, and thank me.
If you don't reboot to recovery from the bootloader, it will likely be restored back to the OEM recovery.
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well, thats how you should flash recovery. but its not the reason that we dont use toolkits. we dont use toolkits for several reasons.. 1. they mess up 2. doing it properly is just as fast if not faster 3. newbs think that toolkits are made for them to use. well, they are wrong. toolkits teach you absolutely nothing, which is the worst for beginners.
simms22 said:
no. but when you flash the full factory image, stock recovery will replace twrp. if you just want to update, flashing the system.umg and boot.img will work, and youll keep twrp.
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thats why after going to lp and getting twrp working I flashed system, boot, and newest radio independently and skipped over recovery but for some reason it reverted back.
just using fastboot by itself worked great thanks for the help
jdpeck said:
thats why after going to lp and getting twrp working I flashed system, boot, and newest radio independently and skipped over recovery but for some reason it reverted back.
just using fastboot by itself worked great thanks for the help
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if you skipped the recovery.img, your recovery should have stayed.. oh, never mind, i just remembered a file that you need to remove after the first boot, or itll install the stock recovery after the first reboot. its called recovery-from-boot.bak. if you remove that on first boot, youll be fine
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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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
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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
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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)?
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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)?
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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.
It all started when I tried to temporarily boot into the TWRP img file. It didn't work so I tried flashing the file to boot_a. Then I installed TWRP through the installer (stupidly didn't wipe the caches) and... Well. When I try to boot into System through TWRP, it gets COMPLETELY stuck at the powered by Android logo screen. No amount or combination of button holding will shut it off and I actually had to let the battery (thank you SO MUCH for non-removable batteries by the way, smartphone manufacturers >_>) drain before it would actually boot again. Rebooting it into Download mode will get it stuck in there too where every time I hold the power button and shut it off, it will just reboot right back into Download mode again. And now, here's probably the worst part. I CAN'T UNLOCK the critical partition to flash when in Download mode, so I can't use the OST tool! When I try to unlock it, it just complains that flashing unlock is not allowed even though the rest of the bootloader is completely unlocked.
TL;DR - When I power the phone up it goes straight into TWRP. Booting to System totally freezes it and the Bootloader puts it in a loop when I try to power it off. Critical partition is locked for some reason. I CAN get around the bootloader loop though and get back to TWRP by switching active slots and rebooting.
Did you flash the TWRP installer to your active boot partition or your inactive one? If you flashed it to the active one, you can't get into system anymore because TWRP is your boot partition.
If you are on Oreo, and you flashed to the inactive slot, and then patched the active slot, you have to reboot into the active slot recovery and flash the Magisk installer to disable verification of the partitions.
If you can get into the bootloader, and you still have the unlock key from nokia, do fastboot flash unlock <unlock.key>, and then fastboot oem unlock_critical. Then you should be able to flash using OST.
THMSP said:
do fastboot flash unlock <unlock.key>, and then fastboot oem unlock_critical. Then you should be able to flash using OST.
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This unlocked it! Thank you! <3
I also did have an issue with the OST tool complaining that the updater was out of date, but changing the .mlf file and leaving it unpacked when I opened it in OST seemed to make it work perfectly. My phone is now booting just fine and back to stock!
Now I just need to solve the original problem I had. How can I install TWRP to recovery since the img file wouldn't temporarily boot last time?
EDIT: Apparently unlocking the critical partition seemed to solve the problem of the TWRP image file not temporarily booting as well!
S5Guy said:
EDIT: Apparently unlocking the critical partition seemed to solve the problem of the TWRP image file not temporarily booting as well!
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No, thats because you flashed back the May firmware, where fastboot boot was still working properly. It only broke after the august update. If you want TWRP on newer security patch versions, you can get it here: https://bit.ly/nokia-nb1 in the folder "Boot Images". Those images are prepatched, you can safely flash them to your active boot partition. It also contains stock images for restoring before updating.
THMSP said:
No, thats because you flashed back the May firmware, where fastboot boot was still working properly. It only broke after the august update. If you want TWRP on newer security patch versions, you can get it here: https://bit.ly/nokia-nb1 in the folder "Boot Images". Those images are prepatched, you can safely flash them to your active boot partition. It also contains stock images for restoring before updating.
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Yeah looks like you're right. Letting it update back to Android 9 deleted TWRP and made fastboot boot for TWRP nonfunctional again.
Wait, so can I use that TWRP boot image you specified to boot temporarily to TWRP and then run the installer zip? Or will that not work and I'll have to flash the img directly from the bootloader?
S5Guy said:
Wait, so can I use that TWRP boot image you specified to boot temporarily to TWRP and then run the installer zip? Or will that not work and I'll have to flash the img directly from the bootloader?
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You have to flash it directly to your boot partition. fastboot boot will work for nothing (and even if it worked those images would just send you directly into the system)
THMSP said:
No, thats because you flashed back the May firmware, where fastboot boot was still working properly. It only broke after the august update. If you want TWRP on newer security patch versions, you can get it here: https://bit.ly/nokia-nb1 in the folder "Boot Images". Those images are prepatched, you can safely flash them to your active boot partition. It also contains stock images for restoring before updating.
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Alright! fastboot flash boot_a (TWRP image) worked! Thank you so much for all the help. <333
Hello,
So I did a mistake by flashing TWRP into the boot partition... Now whenever I reboot my phone it enters TWRP. How can I fix that or is it bricked? I can't find anywhere on the Internet stock boot images, only some modded kernels or something like that. Can anyone tell me how can I get stock boot.img and flash it so that I can use my phone again?
Aspect13 said:
Hello,
So I did a mistake by flashing TWRP into the boot partition... Now whenever I reboot my phone it enters TWRP. How can I fix that or is it bricked? I can't find anywhere on the Internet stock boot images, only some modded kernels or something like that. Can anyone tell me how can I get stock boot.img and flash it so that I can use my phone again?
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Downllad zip or tgz file for your extract firmware, ectract boot img and then flash by fastboot to boot