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Well, I really did it this time. In my efforts of messing with the M Preview build and trying to eliminate the "verification failed" startup message I made the mistake of locking the bootloader. Now the phone will not boot into Android or into Recovery. I'm stuck in Bootloader and it won't let me "fastboot OEM unlock" the device because in order to do this you need to boot into Android and tick the box to allow OEM unlocking (which I also unticked before getting into this mess, like an idiot).
EDIT: Got it resolved!
In order to get into Recovery I had to use the following commands in the bootloader:
fastboot format cache
fastboot format userdata
After doing this I was able to boot into recovery. However, recovery showed 0MB available storage and wouldn't mount /data, which prevented me from installing anything. It also wouldn't allow me to copy anything to the SD card using Android File Transfer or ADB sideloading.
To solve this I went into "Wipe" while in recovery and did a full format (the one that requires you to type "yes" before proceeding"
After doing this and booting back into recovery, I had full storage space back and recovery was able to mount /data. At this point I just copy/pasted the 5.1.1 ROM onto the sdcard with Android File Transfer. Once installed, I flashed the ROM and it booted right up.
I then skipped through the setup to get to settings and in developer settings I ticked the box to allow OEM unlocking. After doing that, I booted back into the bootloader and used the fastboot command "fastboot oem unlock" to unlock the bootloader again.
Once that was done I was able to use fastboot commands to flash the M preview all over again.
Hopefully you don't find yourself in this mess, but if you do, I'm hoping the above solution works for you.
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Well, I really did it this time. In my efforts of messing the the M Preview build and trying to eliminate the verification failed startup message I really locked up the phone. I locked the bootloader and now the phone will not boot into either recovery or the ROM. It won't let me "fastboot OEM unlock" the device either because it requires me to go into settings and check the allow OEM unlock. However, since I can't boot into the ROM, I cannot do that.
I'm really stuck here. Any ideas?
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Hope you can RMA it
akellar said:
Hope you can RMA it
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Well.... s**t.
sn0warmy said:
Well.... s**t.
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Is TWRP installed?
WAIT!!
I did the following:
- fastboot format cache
- fastboot format userdata
And the phone now boots into TWRP. It won't boot fully but it will boot into recovery. I'm trying to sideload a ROM now but I can't access the storage.
Edit: enabled ADB sideload so I can ADB push a ROM to the SD card to flash. Does anyone know the exact root folder name for the sd card to pusht he ROM to? Is it /data/media/?
I did something similar this past weekend while trying to do the 5.1.1 upgrade with the OTA files before the Factory images were available.
Try and use the WugFresh tool to wipe the cache and such, and try some of the other obvious settings in the tool.
It was late and I'm not 100% sure what I did but I do remember reflashing the LRX22C from the factory image using the tool. Everything I did was from the tool minus the 5.1 OTA that came through once I was able to get back into the device. From there I was able to unlock the bootloader again.
I was worried myself that I might have to send the phone back but I just kept trying, don't give up just yet. I've been told many times it's almost impossible to brick an android device now a days.
Good luck!
sn0warmy said:
WAIT!!
I did the following:
- fastboot format cache
- fastboot format userdata
And the phone now boots into TWRP. It won't boot fully but it will boot into recovery. I'm trying to sideload a ROM now but I can't access the storage.
Edit: enabled ADB sideload so I can ADB push a ROM to the SD card to flash. Does anyone know the exact root folder name for the sd card to pusht he ROM to? Is it /data/media/?
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Enable MTP in TWRP then drag n drop.
rootSU said:
Enable MTP in TWRP then drag n drop.
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Can't access device storage.
However, I was able to ADB push the ROM to the SDcard. But when I try and install the ROM it gives me a bunch of errors saying "unable to mount '/data'" and "unable to mount storage"
Ideas?
sn0warmy said:
Can't access device storage.
However, I was able to ADB push the ROM to the SDcard. But when I try and install the ROM it gives me a bunch of errors saying "unable to mount '/data'" and "unable to mount storage"
Ideas?
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Assuming you tried ticking data in twrp mounts...
In twrp, try and format data again. If that fails, try to format it as another file system such as f2fs before formatting it back to ext4
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Assuming you tried ticking data in twrp mounts...
In twrp, try and format data again. If that fails, try to format it as another file system such as f2fs before formatting it back to ext4
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Success!
TWRP was also reporting 0mb available storage. I went into Wipe and performed a full format. Booted back into recovery and storage was showingt he full amount again. I was then able to plug the phone in and enable MTP and drag/drop the 5.1.1 ROM onto the SD card. Just flashed it and it booted right up!
I'm going to update the OP with all this info just in case someone else runs into the issue and needs help.
Thanks for your help!
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Well, I really did it this time. In my efforts of messing with the M Preview build and trying to eliminate the "verification failed" startup message I made the mistake of locking the bootloader. Now the phone will not boot into Android or into Recovery. I'm stuck in Bootloader and it won't let me "fastboot OEM unlock" the device because in order to do this you need to boot into Android and tick the box to allow OEM unlocking (which I also unticked before getting into this mess, like an idiot).
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Hi,
I faced the same condition like you experienced, with some differences:
- the phone stuck in "Google" logo
- stock recovery is accessible from bootloader
- I am unable to mount sdcard or install rom from sd card, but could conduct adb sideload
However, am stuck with verifying update package showing :
E: footer is wrong
E: signature verification failed
any ideas what to do next?
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So my N6 was still on 5.0 (has not been updated to 5.1). I decided to try the M preview. I downloaded the preview, and began the process as follows:
1. reboot into bootloader
2. fastboot oem unlock
3. flash-all (success on loading the bootloader and radio, but error on updating the image)
4. hence i followed to flash individually:
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
5. and comes the stupid thing ! --> fastboot oem lock (really really regret why I did this)
6. and then once reboot, it stuck in Google logo forever
However, I am still able to access:
- bootloader (fastboot recognize the device, but wouldn't allow me to fastboot oem unlock)
- able to go to stock recovery, and as mentioned above:
I am unable to mount sdcard or install rom from sd card, but could conduct adb sideload
However, am stuck with verifying update package showing :
E: footer is wrong
E: signature verification failed
I tried to adb sideload the M preview image and 5.1 LMY47I but both showing the above error....
hope you can shed some light on this...
Please does anyone have a solution to this? please help me
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Please does anyone have a solution to this? please help me
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A solution to what? Keep in mind your problem may be different from the OP's issue, so if you want people to help you it's necessary to provide plenty of information, such as what you were trying to do, how you tried to do it, and any other information that you believe may be useful.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
A solution to what? Keep in mind your problem may be different from the OP's issue, so if you want people to help you it's necessary to provide plenty of information, such as what you were trying to do, how you tried to do it, and any other information that you believe may be useful.
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OK What i was trying to do was to flash a stock recovery, i start it by running the flash-it all.bat file in the factory image zip, it changed the user interface of the bootloader after first reboot and and had an error for "archive: recovery.sig not found" (something like). the phone status shows Software Version: Modified and fastboot oem unlock dont give the confirmation.
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now my phone wont even boot to the bootloader, everything turned black. please hellp!!!!:crying::crying:
If you can't even get into the bootloader (volume down and power) you may have to have the device serviced. Do you get a response when you type "adb devices"?
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now my phone wont even boot to the bootloader, everything turned black. please hellp!!!!:crying::crying:
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Maybe it just crashed at a black screen? Does a very long press of the power button (over 10 secs) cause it to react?
Or maybe the battery is empty? Try connecting the power supply for some time.
i did that but no response.
Iambenqazy said:
i did that but no response.
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The very dead battery is a real possibility. The thing is, using the charger that came with the phone isn't going to help. If you think the battery being dead is a possibility, you would need to plug the phone into a USB port on a PC, that is a very slow charge. Leave it on there overnight then unplug and replug. If the led at the top of the screen lights or the battery icon shows on the screen, you have hope. At this point using the original charger should get the battery going again. In this case, plan on replacing the battery.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
Here's the story. Got Google Fi package and Nexus 6 today. Decided I'd load Android M preview on Nexus 6. did all the fastboot stuff to get the developer preview installed, then while still in fastboot mode I installed TWRP, then locked fastboot, then rebooted into TWRP. Pushed ROM zip to /sdcard through adb, tried wiping everything failed. Tried flashing zip, everything failed. Decided to reboot. TWRP asked me if I wanted to install SuperSU, i chose to because I thought I might need it to get TWRP working. After rebooting got message "Your device has failed verification and may not work properly" then it powers off. I can boot into fastboot/recovery, but in recovery the touchscreen doesn't work so I can't do anything. Booting normally gives the failed verification message. Tried fastboot format userdata, which I believe is what caused the touchscreen to cease registering in TWRP.
Is there any way for me to recover this thing? Back when I had a Galaxy Nexus, and even with my S5, there's nothing really that can be done that would completely brick the thing. I'm pretty dumbfounded that a Nexus device would be so easily bricked...it's not like I don't have experience with this stuff, I've been rooting and developing Android apps for years.
I have a feeling I have to return the thing, but Amazon has no more stock, and if I buy directly from Google or Motorola I'll have to pay sales tax.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
claytonjn said:
Here's the story. Got Google Fi package and Nexus 6 today. Decided I'd load Android M preview on Nexus 6. did all the fastboot stuff to get the developer preview installed, then while still in fastboot mode I installed TWRP, then locked fastboot, then rebooted into TWRP. Pushed ROM zip to /sdcard through adb, tried wiping everything failed. Tried flashing zip, everything failed. Decided to reboot. TWRP asked me if I wanted to install SuperSU, i chose to because I thought I might need it to get TWRP working. After rebooting got message "Your device has failed verification and may not work properly" then it powers off. I can boot into fastboot/recovery, but in recovery the touchscreen doesn't work so I can't do anything. Booting normally gives the failed verification message. Tried fastboot format userdata, which I believe is what caused the touchscreen to cease registering in TWRP.
Is there any way for me to recover this thing? Back when I had a Galaxy Nexus, and even with my S5, there's nothing really that can be done that would completely brick the thing. I'm pretty dumbfounded that a Nexus device would be so easily bricked...it's not like I don't have experience with this stuff, I've been rooting and developing Android apps for years.
I have a feeling I have to return the thing, but Amazon has no more stock, and if I buy directly from Google or Motorola I'll have to pay sales tax.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Did you lock the bootloader just to be clear?
bricked? no, you just didnt read up in information properly. you relocked your bootloader. as of android 5.0, you have to enable unlocking the bootloader after you boot up in the developer section. since you relocked your bootloader before you checked if your device will boot, you can not unlick your bootloader again, which means you can not use twrp either. what you can try is using fastboot to wipe your cache and data. if that doesnt work, id try to get an rma.
gee2012 said:
Did you lock the bootloader just to be clear?
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Yes. I still remembered all of the flashboot commands from my Galaxy Nexus. It didn't even occur to me to look anything up.
simms22 said:
bricked? no, you just didnt read up in information properly. you relocked your bootloader. as of android 5.0, you have to enable unlocking the bootloader after you boot up in the developer section. since you relocked your bootloader before you checked if your device will boot, you can not unlick your bootloader again, which means you can not use twrp either. what you can try is using fastboot to wipe your cache and data. if that doesnt work, id try to get an rma.
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If a device is unusable, without any way to recover it, it's essentially a paperweight, or bricked. So if my only option is an RMA, then it is bricked. I don't mean to sound rude or argumentative by the way... I appreciate your help. Just clarifying the semantics.
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have you tried fastboot oem unlock again ?
uicnren said:
have you tried fastboot oem unlock again ?
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Yes, it says it needs to be enabled in developer options
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when you get the failed verification message, what happens after that?
does it ever make it to the M preview?
Also if you wait a little while after that message, you may be able to use adb commands again.
I had the same thing happen with M and TWRP and was able to recover it.
uicnren said:
when you get the failed verification message, what happens after that?
does it ever make it to the M preview?
Also if you wait a little while after that message, you may be able to use adb commands again.
I had the same thing happen with M and TWRP and was able to recover it.
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It says it will reboot in 5 seconds, but after 5 seconds the screen just goes blank. It appears the device is off, but maybe not.
Do you know what adb commands I would need to use to recover from this state?
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claytonjn said:
Yes. I still remembered all of the flashboot commands from my Galaxy Nexus. It didn't even occur to me to look anything up.
If a device is unusable, without any way to recover it, it's essentially a paperweight, or bricked. So if my only option is an RMA, then it is bricked. I don't mean to sound rude or argumentative by the way... I appreciate your help. Just clarifying the semantics.
Debt from my Developer Edition Galaxy S5 using Tapatalk
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technically, its not bricked, not yet anyways. as many people have fixed this issue using fastboot to wipe cache and data.
well, let it sit for a few minutes after the message, it may just boot normally. That verification message appears with M preview for many users.
you may also see HERE for another possible solution.
if adb is working, chances are pretty good its booting into android, in which case you wont need to do anything else, but let it boot (be patient, it can take several minutes), then retick the selection to allow oem unlock.
simms22 said:
technically, its not bricked, not yet anyways. as many people have fixed this issue using fastboot to wipe cache and data.
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Unfortunately that is not working for me (Not allowed in locked state!)
uicnren said:
well, let it sit for a few minutes after the message, it may just boot normally. That verification message appears with M preview for many users.
you may also see HERE for another possible solution.
if adb is working, chances are pretty good its booting into android, in which case you wont need to do anything else, but let it boot (be patient, it can take several minutes), then retick the selection to allow oem unlock.
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ADB works when I boot to TWRP, but when I try to boot normally, after the device will boot in 5 seconds message, the screen goes blank and adb does not work. I let it sit like that for more than 30 minutes. Curiously, when the screen goes blank my PC does chime indicating hardware has been attached.
Can you still get into twrp? If so just move a ROM over to it and flash that, enable OEM unlock restart and unlock boot loader...
claytonjn said:
Unfortunately that is not working for me (Not allowed in locked state!)
ADB works when I boot to TWRP, but when I try to boot normally, after the device will boot in 5 seconds message, the screen goes blank and adb does not work. I let it sit like that for more than 30 minutes. Curiously, when the screen goes blank my PC does chime indicating hardware has been attached.
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If you have TWRP, boot to bootloader and use the following fastboot commands:
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
Then boot to TWRP, connect to PC. Download a ROM to your PC and drag and drop in the root of internal storage. Then flash the ROM from TWRP, boot up, enable OEM unlock. Then boot back to bootloader and:
fastboot oem unlock
You should be good after that.
holeindalip said:
Can you still get into twrp? If so just move a ROM over to it and flash that, enable OEM unlock restart and unlock boot loader...
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I can boot into TWRP. At first it was "working" but it couldn't mount /data so I couldn't really do anything (that was the first thing I tried.) Now however when I boot to TWRP it doesn't respond to touch at all... I can get into a shell with adb, but I haven't figured out anything to do from there.
claytonjn said:
I can boot into TWRP. At first it was "working" but it couldn't mount /data so I couldn't really do anything (that was the first thing I tried.) Now however when I boot to TWRP it doesn't respond to touch at all... I can get into a shell with adb, but I haven't figured out anything to do from there.
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Follow my instructions listed above.
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Follow my instructions listed above.
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II'm attempting that now.but fastboot format userdata and fastboot format cache fail. after booting into twrp the Nexus shows up in My Computer, but internal storage does not. I can push a ROM zip to the device with adb, but haven't figured out how to flash it yet because touch doesn't work...
SUCCESS! I was able to flash the ROM .zip using ADB in TRWP using
Code:
ADB push ROM.zip /sdcard/.
ADB shell
twrp install /sdcard/ROM.zip
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
claytonjn said:
SUCCESS! I was able to flash the ROM .zip using ADB in TRWP using
Code:
ADB push ROM.zip /sdcard/.
ADB shell
twrp install /sdcard/ROM.zip
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
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glad you got it back, persistence pays off.
Lesson learned today? QUIT RE-LOCKING YOUR BOOTLOADER!
You can lock boot loader, you just have to make sure your phone boots first before locking it
Hello XDA,
Ok, so I'm going to try to explain the best I can. My roommate has a Nexus 6 (Project Fi if that matters). She went to install an update, although I'm not sure which one. She said she thinks it was "7 something". I'm assuming it was 7.1.1 since that is the one that I was last notified about on my phone and she said the notification appeared only a few days ago. After she installed it the phone was stuck in a bootloop (the spinning colored balls screen).
I Googled solutions and tried wiping system cache from recovery mode. That didn't work, so I asked if she had anything important on the phone and if I could do a factory reset. She said I could go ahead and do it, however that did not work either. So then I plugged the phone into my computer and fired up a terminal session to flash a factory image to the phone. I entered "fastboot oem unlock" so I could proceed . It came back with the "see developer options" message. Ok, cool, but I can't get into the settings app to enable OEM unlocking.
So since I did the factory reset and can't boot into the OS, is there any way to enable OEM unlocking from the bootloader? I'll keep looking for answers in the mean time.
Thanks in advanced.
EDIT:
Found a thread with the OP having similar issues. I tried "fastboot format cache" and "fastboot format userdata" which both failed with "Not allowed in locked state!". Even though I got the errors I tried (out of desperation) to boot to TWRP with "fastboot boot ~/Downloads/twrp-3.1.0-0-shamu.img" which failed with "FAILED (remote failure)".
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Tried downloading 7.1.1 OTA image and sideloading via "adb sideload shamu-ota.zip" from the bootloader recovery mode. Failed with "error: no devices/emulators found".
Sideload an OTA image. That should resolve the bootloop so you can enter Android to unlock the bootloader.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Sideload an OTA image. That should resolve the bootloop so you can enter Android to unlock the bootloader.
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Thanks for the reply. I tried it and it failed with "no device found". The command "adb devices" gives me an empty list. Not even ????????.
If ADB isn't seeing the device you potentially have a hardware issue.
i got same problem.
no oem unlock cuz is in bootloop
locked
erasing
@luisq93: Yours is a different issue. The solution for you is to do...nothing.
The erase part of the factory reset MUST complete, or you may end up with unusable internal storage until an uninterrupted factory reset is completed. So all you can do is be patient.
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@luisq93: Yours is a different issue. The solution for you is to do...nothing.
The erase part of the factory reset MUST complete, or you may end up with unusable internal storage until an uninterrupted factory reset is completed. So all you can do is be patient.
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like 2 month and half patient?
cuz the erasing changed language 2 months ago and nothing more... from italian to English, maybe i should just wait... thanks for the advice.
@luisq93: How long did you leave the N6 running the very first time the device started erasing? I'm willing to bet you only gave it a few minutes, became impatient, shut the device down to restart it and upon restarting encountered the erase mode again. Consequently you thought it bootlooped and put it in your drawer.
Until you let erase mode complete, every time the device boots it will immediately enter erase mode, because the erase must complete to avoid corrupting the internal storage. Erase mode, especially on an encrypted phone, may take a while. I had one instance on another of my devices take an hour.
So the solution to the erasing "bootloop" is to do nothing except plug the N6 into its charger and leave it alone.
Hi,
so i got a situation here that xiaomi mi a2 (6x) out of nowhere rebooted to factory recovery with message "cant load android system. your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message you may need to perform factory reset deleting all data stored on this device"
Now after turning it off and on, it shows black screen "failed to boot" with option to power off or restart.
When restarting it goes to factory recovery again with that message and option to factory reset or try again (restart)
Now i cant perform factory reset before backing up the data, but i cant find the way to backup.
There is no custom recovery to download files from phone. When tried to flash custom recovery found out i cant because bootloader locked. And when found the way (dont know i it works) to unlock it without loosing data - cant do even that because developer options must be enabled to allow unlocking and debugging, so i get message in adb console FAILED (remote: Flashing Unlock is not allowed.
Is there any other way to keep the data before doing factory reset ?
Maybe try to flash with miflash keeping the data
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Maybe try to flash with miflash keeping the data
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unfortunately miflash cant do anything with locked bootloader as well. Just when starts to flash, gets error with bluetoth_a.
After research i noticed that miflash does nothing special at all just automated flash commands. In rom directory you can find flashing .bat files and run them in adb console.
When did that got all the data log, that bluetooth a is the first file that is tried to flash and stuck on locked bootloader.
Hello. Did you manage to solve your problem?
I have the same saituation.
Hi, unfortunately the only way i found is EDL mode.
https://youtu.be/i3OU4DOd7aY
When you keep those pins shorted, plug usb to your pc, and then , simply said, pc sees it as another device that can be flashed with everything locked.
So i flashed with miflash with keeping files option, but all that was saved is locking pattern. All media files lost.
Anyway, now i rooted and installed custom recovery to avoid any incident like this.
andjar said:
Hi, unfortunately the only way i found is EDL mode.
https://youtu.be/i3OU4DOd7aY
When you keep those pins shorted, plug usb to your pc, and then , simply said, pc sees it as another device that can be flashed with everything locked.
So i flashed with miflash with keeping files option, but all that was saved is locking pattern. All media files lost.
Anyway, now i rooted and installed custom recovery to avoid any incident like this.
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you should edited rawprogram0.xml to not flash userdata (for saving your data)
Well if i only had this info 2 moths ago...
At leats others with this problem can find solution here now.
Hi All,
I'm hoping someone will be able to help as I've spent most of the day chasing my tail it seems.
My 'stock' (non-rooted/non-flashed) Pixel 5 went into a boot loop randomly last night.
I've restarted, I've gone into the recovery mode and have tried to flash an OTA via ADB (which may not sound like much but is an achievement for someone with my limited technical skills), it's getting to 94% and then I'm receiving an error on the cmd prompt saying 'adb: failed to read command: No error' but on the phone itself it says that is was a 'success' status 0.
I've tried the current OTA and the developer version and I'm getting the above issue on both.
I tried copying the 'zip' to a USB stick and have plugged that in using the USB A to USB C dongle that comes with the pixel but I'm receiving an error stating that it cannot be initiated.
Can anyone suggest a possible next step? I have some files that I've realised don't go to my cloud backup and they are important to me so I'd like to if possible not have to wipe the device.
Many thanks.
Are you using the latest ADB from the android SDK?
You can always try the factory image and remove the -w from the flash-all.cmd file.
l7777 said:
Are you using the latest ADB from the android SDK?
You can always try the factory image and remove the -w from the flash-all.cmd file.
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to respond. Everything was downloaded yesterday so is up to date. I re-downloaded just now and checked again and am still getting the same.
(~94%) adb: failed to read command: No error on cmd
Install from ADB completed with status 0 on the phone.
Is there a simple guide on how to flash-all (for someone as not technical as me) that you can point me towards?
Have you try to flash your new firmware on the web? Go to web https://developers.google.com/android/images. Click on Flash and follow instructions.
did you try a different cable or usb port? borrow your friend's pc perhaps?
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Are you using the latest ADB from the android SDK?
You can always try the factory image and remove the -w from the flash-all.cmd file.
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Hi, thanks for this, I'll try another sideload with the April update and attempt it from another laptop, if that still doesn't work then I'll try the flash as you suggest.
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did you try a different cable or usb port? borrow your friend's pc perhaps?
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I tried a different cable and port but not another laptop. I'll try that next after trying the April update.
Thanks.
tinhsoftware said:
Have you try to flash your new firmware on the web? Go to web https://developers.google.com/android/images. Click on Flash and follow instructions.
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Hi, no not yet. I think this will be the last step before I factory reset. Will try another cable, laptop and the April OTA this evening when I have time.
Thanks.
WFHbot said:
Hi, no not yet. I think this will be the last step before I factory reset. Will try another cable, laptop and the April OTA this evening when I have time.
Thanks.
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Also a note on trying to use the web flash utility. Make sure to look at the advanced options on the installation page, it gives you an option to flash the latest update without wiping your device at all.
That could help in getting the phone running again so you can recover your important files, before deciding to do a compete wipe, if that's what you have planned.
Just look around the settings carefully before flashing and everything should go well .
The same thing happened to me, it must have been the April update, I updated my phone, everything seemed to work and then all of the sudden I was watching a video last night and the phone rebooted itself and kept being stuck in boot, it won't load the os but it keeps restarting itself.
I tried accesing recovery mode but on the bootloader screen it won't let me use the volume keys to start the phone in recovery mode or to try and hard reset it, while on the bootloader screen it resets itself... :/ I'll give google a call
Chad_Petree said:
The same thing happened to me, it must have been the April update, I updated my phone, everything seemed to work and then all of the sudden I was watching a video last night and the phone rebooted itself and kept being stuck in boot, it won't load the os but it keeps restarting itself.
I tried accesing recovery mode but on the bootloader screen it won't let me use the volume keys to start the phone in recovery mode or to try and hard reset it, while on the bootloader screen it resets itself... :/ I'll give google a call
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That sucks. Hopefully they'll be able to do something more than just a factory reset.
I've tried sideloading the April update and that also failed at 94%. Will try another laptop in a while and see if that works, then try the flash as suggested above, if not then it's a factory reset for me.
ProjectAlly said:
Also a note on trying to use the web flash utility. Make sure to look at the advanced options on the installation page, it gives you an option to flash the latest update without wiping your device at all.
That could help in getting the phone running again so you can recover your important files, before deciding to do a compete wipe, if that's what you have planned.
Just look around the settings carefully before flashing and everything should go well .
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Thanks, will have a look around and see what I can work out. It's looking like I'll have to go this route...
DO I need to unlock the bootloader do do this flash?
tinhsoftware said:
Have you try to flash your new firmware on the web? Go to web https://developers.google.com/android/images. Click on Flash and follow instructions.
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Thanks, will have a look and see if this works.
DO I need to unlock the bootloader do do this flash? If so, would this wipe the device?
WFHbot said:
Thanks, will have a look and see if this works.
DO I need to unlock the bootloader do do this flash? If so, would this wipe the device?
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You do not need to bootloader unlock to use official firmware. You've been trying to do an OTA update, you can try the factory images above. Use the "link" to get a download, unzip, edit the flash-all.bat file, remove the -w from the fastboot flash update line.
Code:
fastboot -w update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
Code:
fastboot update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
l7777 said:
You do not need to bootloader unlock to use official firmware. You've been trying to do an OTA update, you can try the factory images above. Use the "link" to get a download, unzip, edit the flash-all.bat file, remove the -w from the fastboot flash update line.
Code:
fastboot -w update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
Code:
fastboot update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
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Thanks, I tried that. Edited the file and tried running the flash-all.bat file but it's giving me an error:
Setting current slot to 'b' FAILED (remote: 'Fastboot command (set_active: ) is not allowed when locked')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Am I missing a step? Should the phone be on a certain menu when running the bat file?
l7777 said:
You do not need to bootloader unlock to use official firmware. You've been trying to do an OTA update, you can try the factory images above. Use the "link" to get a download, unzip, edit the flash-all.bat file, remove the -w from the fastboot flash update line.
Code:
fastboot -w update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
Code:
fastboot update image-redfin-rq2a.210405.005.zip
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Is that a fact? I haven't had a bl unlock for many years now but I thought I could only do an OTA flash from fastboot with a locked bootloader. I know I can factory reset but other than that .. So if I loaded the beta 12 I could go back and flash a factory image? I would certainly flip the OEM switch first just in case.
bobby janow said:
Is that a fact? I haven't had a bl unlock for many years now but I thought I could only do an OTA flash from fastboot with a locked bootloader. I know I can factory reset but other than that .. So if I loaded the beta 12 I could go back and flash a factory image? I would certainly flip the OEM switch first just in case.
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That's a good question. I assumed it was possible otherwise why have a factory image available. The consensus seems to be mixed though.
OP: I just did an update from January to April and yes I also got the error at 94% from ADB but the phone reported status 0. Booted up no problem. Have you tried booting into safe mode? Is USB Debugging on? Can you get a logcat of the attempted boot?
l7777 said:
That's a good question. I assumed it was possible otherwise why have a factory image available. The consensus seems to be mixed though.
OP: I just did an update from January to April and yes I also got the error at 94% from ADB but the phone reported status 0. Booted up no problem. Have you tried booting into safe mode? Is USB Debugging on? Can you get a logcat of the attempted boot?
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Hi,
I've tried booting into safe mode by keeping the volume down button pressed but no luck.
I'm pretty sure that the USB debugging is enabled, but not 100% certain.
How would I go about getting logcat of the attempted boot?
Thanks for all the help thus far.
WFHbot said:
Hi,
I've tried booting into safe mode by keeping the volume down button pressed but no luck.
I'm pretty sure that the USB debugging is enabled, but not 100% certain.
How would I go about getting logcat of the attempted boot?
Thanks for all the help thus far.
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You'll have to factory reset in recovery. I had something similar happen yesterday morning. The reboot was done by me on the way to work though. A factory reset fixed it. Of course all user data was wiped, but Google backups did a good job of restoring almost everything I wanted restored (except for apps not on the G Play Store of course). You'll need to sign into everything again, but most things won't be lost including root.