Android 11/R Beta Bricked my P4XL today - Google Pixel 4 XL Questions & Answers

If anyone knows how to fix this please help. I'm researching it now but I'm making this thread in hopes someone knows what I need to do.
I can boot the device and it gets to the lock screen and I can unlock it but then it keeps turning the screen off and going back to the lock screen. If I don't touch it it will continue to do this in a loop. If I press the power button it will turn the screen off and stay off. If I unlock the former process repeats and I can't do anything. I can restart the phone, or power it off. When I go to fastboot mode I can't find anywhere to factory reset it. I try to enter rescue or recovery mode and it justs boots to a screen with a dead android and says "no command".
I'm assuming I'm going to have to use adb to fix it. I've done this with phones in the past but I know nothing about the P4XL and haven't messed with my phones in a geeky manner in quite a while so my knowledge is rusty.
PS. The android 11 beta ran fine for a few days besides some normal bugs. All in all it worked fine. This problem randomly happened today while I was using soundcloud hooked to my JBL boombox.

Evidently I'm the only person in the world who has a bricked Pixel 4 XL with android 11 because I'm not finding any info on how to fix it. I'm not even finding anyone with the same problem.

imucarmen said:
If anyone knows how to fix this please help. I'm researching it now but I'm making this thread in hopes someone knows what I need to do.
I can boot the device and it gets to the lock screen and I can unlock it but then it keeps turning the screen off and going back to the lock screen. If I don't touch it it will continue to do this in a loop. If I press the power button it will turn the screen off and stay off. If I unlock the former process repeats and I can't do anything. I can restart the phone, or power it off. When I go to fastboot mode I can't find anywhere to factory reset it. I try to enter rescue or recovery mode and it justs boots to a screen with a dead android and says "no command".
I'm assuming I'm going to have to use adb to fix it. I've done this with phones in the past but I know nothing about the P4XL and haven't messed with my phones in a geeky manner in quite a while so my knowledge is rusty.
PS. The android 11 beta ran fine for a few days besides some normal bugs. All in all it worked fine. This problem randomly happened today while I was using soundcloud hooked to my JBL boombox.
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When you are in the phase with the dead android and the "no command" hold the power button and just click the volume up button so you can go to the advanced recovery menu and from there hard reset your phone or install via adb an other rom.
Cheers.

Escribis said:
When you are in the phase with the dead android and the "no command" hold the power button and just click the volume up button so you can go to the advanced recovery menu and from there hard reset your phone or install via adb an other rom.
Cheers.
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Thanks! Worked! I found a tutorial on verizon's site saying to do what you just explained but it was saying to release both the power and volume up and when I did that, nothing would happen. Your instructions worked flawlessly. Thank you!

imucarmen said:
Thanks! Worked! I found a tutorial on verizon's site saying to do what you just explained but it was saying to release both the power and volume up and when I did that, nothing would happen. Your instructions worked flawlessly. Thank you!
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You are welcome.
Happy that your problem is solved.
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I had the same issue and it persisted until I gave up and got a replacement through my phone carrier via insurance. You may be out of luck my friend...

EtherealJoey said:
I had the same issue and it persisted until I gave up and got a replacement through my phone carrier via insurance. You may be out of luck my friend...
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You shouldn't root or be installing beta software on your phone if you filed an insurance claim over a soft brick.

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HELP, My phone refuses to boot up.

It started as soon as I received a phone call from my brother and we were in the middle of a conversation when the phone suddenly goes off. I tried to restart it, I even removed the battery and replaced it but when I press the power button I get the initial boot sequence showing the htc logo and then the phone would just go of. I thought that maybe the battery is low but when I plug it to a power outlet it keeps trying to boot but keeps switching off and it just does this over and over.
Please I don't know if anyone has encountered this problem before, I really don't know what to do.
scently said:
It started as soon as I received a phone call from my brother and we were in the middle of a conversation when the phone suddenly goes off. I tried to restart it, I even removed the battery and replaced it but when I press the power button I get the initial boot sequence showing the htc logo and then the phone would just go of. I thought that maybe the battery is low but when I plug it to a power outlet it keeps trying to boot but keeps switching off and it just does this over and over.
Please I don't know if anyone has encountered this problem before, I really don't know what to do.
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Try a Hard Reset using the device buttons:
1. With the phone off. If it’s frozen or unresponsive, pull then replace the battery.
2. Press and hold the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons and power the phone back on.
3. Continue to hold Volume Up and Volume Down until a factory reset screen appears.
Hope this helps!
weepatc said:
Try a Hard Reset using the device buttons:
1. With the phone off. If it’s frozen or unresponsive, pull then replace the battery.
2. Press and hold the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons and power the phone back on.
3. Continue to hold Volume Up and Volume Down until a factory reset screen appears.
Hope this helps!
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But this ill wipe out all my data and I don't know how to back up on windows phone.
scently said:
But this ill wipe out all my data and I don't know how to back up on windows phone.
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At the moment you've lost all your data anyway!!!!
weepatc said:
At the moment you've lost all your data anyway!!!!
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Well I just did that but the problem persist. I should note that occasionally it does complete its boot up and I can use the phone but it can go off at any time and once it does this, i cannot get it to completely boot up. Once it attempts a boot up and goes off I cannot even restart it by pressing the power button until I replace the battery or plug it into a power socket or the computer at which point it will just keep booting up and shutting down.
Something far wrong there. Get a replacement device.
Sent from my HTC HD7 using Board Express
weepatc said:
Something far wrong there. Get a replacement device.
Sent from my HTC HD7 using Board Express
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I think I've fixed it, I flashed my phone and it seems to be working again. Thanks for your help though
Glad to hear you got a result ;-)
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ya I had same issue... (random reboots and then changes not saved). Flashed the phone and all was good.
HD7 stuck in boot screen
scently said:
I think I've fixed it, I flashed my phone and it seems to be working again. Thanks for your help though
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PaullikesWINMO said:
ya I had same issue... (random reboots and then changes not saved). Flashed the phone and all was good.
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Hi, I have got the same problem on my HD7 and I am completely noob to many new words Goldcard, jailbroken, etc. Would you please advise me exactly what you did (i mean flahing procedure) and really appriciate any help.
Well if you have got an O2 HD7, then I would advise you to get one of the O2 ROMS from ansar, download it then press and hold the volume down button when booting up your device, connect the phone to your pc and start the app. More instructions in the HD7 development thread.
There's nothing wrong the phone. Don't hard reset or flash it. It happens from time to time, just give it some time and eventually you will see a battery icon appear. Then after awhile it will boot up.
Again, do not flash or hard reset just be patient. I believe it just needs to drain all the way down as it doesn't have enough power to fully boot.
Not booting up
Hi,
My T Mobile hd7 is been restarting after it shows the htc logo..It was all of a sudden after i connected to my pc this happened ...Tried to flash it with ansar tmobile update..problem persists...Dont knw how to use goldcard..please help me out..
Thank u and Best Regards

Some serius help needed. Bootloop, stuck, bootloader not working etc..

Hi. To start with I bought a phone from a friend which I knew was faulty but decided to take my chances and try to fix it. He claims he did nothing to the phone but don't know for sure. Phone is in constant bootloop, Goes until splash screen and reboots. Worst yet to come - even bootloader menu restarts on constant basis when i try to get into it. Meaning it goes into bootloader but restarts in few seconds before i can get to factory reset. Computer is not picking up this device but i also don't have any drivers installed but don't even know how to install them with a phone in this state. Is there anything i can do about it? Been with Samsung for the past few years and here is everything completely different so don't know much about adb but am a quick learner and can follow any steps! I can provide picture of bootloader if it would be any helpful.
michal_alton said:
Hi. To start with I bought a phone from a friend which I knew was faulty but decided to take my chances and try to fix it. He claims he did nothing to the phone but don't know for sure. Phone is in constant bootloop, Goes until splash screen and reboots. Worst yet to come - even bootloader menu restarts on constant basis when i try to get into it. Meaning it goes into bootloader but restarts in few seconds before i can get to factory reset. Computer is not picking up this device but i also don't have any drivers installed but don't even know how to install them with a phone in this state. Is there anything i can do about it? Been with Samsung for the past few years and here is everything completely different so don't know much about adb but am a quick learner and can follow any steps! I can provide picture of bootloader if it would be any helpful.
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Send a picture of the bootloader while I find the drivers you need
Seems like battery is completely dead as it only reboots when there is power supply connected, but then it won't turn off (any charging light don't come on, not sure if it should though). Just now i've seen a vodafone logo for a very short second when I connected to pc from charger. But phone rebooted again just after.
HTC_Phone said:
Send a picture of the bootloader while I find the drivers you need
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edit. downloaded drivers (4.8) but that didn't change anything and windows still doesn't pick up device.
After connecting my one to computer for past 3 hours its started more frequently boot and showing Vodafone menu but still restarts shortly after. Vodafone logo shows on and lights on soft buttons starts flashing like 3 times and than it keeps rebooting. Does it mean anything?
michal_alton said:
Seems like battery is completely dead as it only reboots when there is power supply connected, but then it won't turn off (any charging light don't come on, not sure if it should though).
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Have you checked this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481211
michal_alton said:
After connecting my one to computer for past 3 hours its started more frequently boot and showing Vodafone menu but still restarts shortly after. Vodafone logo shows on and lights on soft buttons starts flashing like 3 times and than it keeps rebooting. Does it mean anything?
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That almost sounds like your POWER button is stuck!! Are you able to completely power off, and it stays off.
I think i know what it is. Power button stuck and keeps restarting device. Although i can feel pressing it, this is what it looks like.
nkk71 said:
Have you checked this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481211
That almost sounds like your POWER button is stuck!! Are you able to completely power off, and it stays off.
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Didn't see your comment but this is exactly how it looks to me. I can't switch off phone and in bootloader it acts like i was pressing power button. Although it operates normally meaning that it can be pressed down. Arranged warranty repair with HTC and they are collecting phone tomorrow.
michal_alton said:
Didn't see your comment but this is exactly how it looks to me. I can't switch off phone and in bootloader it acts like i was pressing power button. Although it operates normally meaning that it can be pressed down. Arranged warranty repair with HTC and they are collecting phone tomorrow.
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Good luck mate, but definitely sounds like the power button is stuck
It's been fixed under warranty by HTC. They replaced motherboard on mine HTC. So all good

My One keep restarting and stuck at HTC screen

Hey guys,
So I have had my One more than a year, never root, never install any mod in it, just simple, daily use. It worked well till last night when some weird thing happened:
- At first, the Back, Home and HTC buttons keep flashing along with the screen. When I unlock my screen pass lock and go to the home screen, it showed a notification like "To restart the phone, keep pushing the power button for (x) second" with x is the count down number. After that, the phone is automatically rebooting, then the problem happen again.
- After a few times, I manage to shut it down properly then turn the phone up. As I notice, as long as I doing something with the phone such as calling somebody or checking facebook or simply sliding the home screen, thing is normal. But as I stopped using it, that weird notification pop up again
- The phone keep restarting after that, again and again. Sometime it boot successful, but when Im go to the home screen, the notification shows up and my phone restarts again. As I couldnt turn off my phone, it is drained and out of battery.
- This morning, I put the cable in and try to charge it, and My One now stuck at the first HTC logo screen then restarting and then stuck again. That looping process is drive me crazy. As I try to pull out the cable, the phone is not working (Obviously) since it is out of battery.
- As I hold down Power and Volume down, I can enter bootloader screen. I saw a "locked" banner and cannot navigate through the menu and can not press Fastboot or anything. After 2-3 seconds, the phone is shut down and keep looping.
Long story shot, can anybody tell me how to fix this. As I have a lot of pictures that havent been backed up, I really appreciate if I can keep everything without doing a factory reset. Oddly enough, I cant even do a factory reset since the bootloader is not working.
Please help.
Have you tried a factory reset?
On boot, bottom down n power will take u to fastboot.
You can do a factory reset from there.
HTC sync can save your stuff.
Sent from my HTC One_M8
mashk said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
On boot, bottom down n power will take u to fastboot.
You can do a factory reset from there.
HTC sync can save your stuff.
Sent from my HTC One_M8
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As I mentioned above, I can hardly do anything from that fastboot screen. Up, down and power button is not working as I cannot navigate to recovery or factory reset. Even pushing power button wont do.
When I connect the phone to PC, nothing happen. It is because the phone is out of battery i suppose?
The problem is when I start to charge the phone, it will keep looping. But if I dont, the phone is death and I cant do anything.
I honestly dont know. I suspect you have
Fast boot selected under Settings>power.
You've got to try till you can get into fastboot otherwise send it for repairs.
Sent from my HTC One_M8
evelucife said:
Hey guys,
So I have had my One more than a year, never root, never install any mod in it, just simple, daily use. It worked well till last night when some weird thing happened:
- At first, the Back, Home and HTC buttons keep flashing along with the screen. When I unlock my screen pass lock and go to the home screen, it showed a notification like "To restart the phone, keep pushing the power button for (x) second" with x is the count down number. After that, the phone is automatically rebooting, then the problem happen again.
- After a few times, I manage to shut it down properly then turn the phone up. As I notice, as long as I doing something with the phone such as calling somebody or checking facebook or simply sliding the home screen, thing is normal. But as I stopped using it, that weird notification pop up again
- The phone keep restarting after that, again and again. Sometime it boot successful, but when Im go to the home screen, the notification shows up and my phone restarts again. As I couldnt turn off my phone, it is drained and out of battery.
- This morning, I put the cable in and try to charge it, and My One now stuck at the first HTC logo screen then restarting and then stuck again. That looping process is drive me crazy. As I try to pull out the cable, the phone is not working (Obviously) since it is out of battery.
- As I hold down Power and Volume down, I can enter bootloader screen. I saw a "locked" banner and cannot navigate through the menu and can not press Fastboot or anything. After 2-3 seconds, the phone is shut down and keep looping.
Long story shot, can anybody tell me how to fix this. As I have a lot of pictures that havent been backed up, I really appreciate if I can keep everything without doing a factory reset. Oddly enough, I cant even do a factory reset since the bootloader is not working.
Please help.
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looks like an hardware defect, maybe your power button is stuck?
alray said:
looks like an hardware defect, maybe your power button is stuck?
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I dont think so man. It seems working normal for me. But thanks anyway
evelucife said:
I dont think so man. It seems working normal for me. But thanks anyway
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"To restart the phone, keep pushing the power button for (x) second" with x is the count down number.
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Because this is exactly the message we usually get when holding the power button for more then 5 sec...
and that would explain the reboot issue
looks like the "power" key is always active
definitively sounds like an hardware issue imo
and your issue is even present in bootloader what confirm that this is an hardware defect.
alray said:
Because this is exactly the message we usually get when holding the power button for more then 5 sec...
and that would explain the reboot issue
looks like the "power" key is always active
definitively sounds like an hardware issue imo
and your issue is even present in bootloader what confirm that this is an hardware defect.
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Yeah u has a point. Any idea how to fix that? Or I have to bring it to someone else to fix it.
evelucife said:
Yeah u has a point. Any idea how to fix that? Or I have to bring it to someone else to fix it.
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You'll probably have to send it for repair. Better to contact HTC and see how much it will cost...
alray said:
You'll probably have to send it for repair. Better to contact HTC and see how much it will cost...
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Thanks man. I will see if i can do.

Updated to Android P, now phone won't boot unless ...

I recently updated my Mi A2 via OTA update by using Express VPN to connect to India. Everything was fine until I powered off my device. It would not turn back on (no boot animation or anything).
However, I then proceeded to plug in the charging cable. After doing so, my screen lit up and I was able to get my phone to boot.
Now the problem remains that every time I turn my device off, it won't boot unless I plug it in to a power source.
Please, anyone experienced this? Is there a way to fix it? Would an update further down the line fix an issue like this?
Please, I can use my phone normally when it's on but this thing with the not being able to boot is just bugging the freak out of me.
I've had a problem like this before, hold power only gives a vibration and doesn't boot, just keep holding the power button
It freaggin worked
Nebrassy said:
I've had a problem like this before, hold power only gives a vibration and doesn't boot, just keep holding the power button
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I honestly didn't expect this to work but it's as you say. My phone would just vibrate and nothing more.
Following your instructions, I held the power button longger than usual and it finally booted. You sir are a legend. Thank you !!
But it would be awesome to know why this happens though. Was it due to something in the pie update? and will I need to be holding down the power button considerably longger (around 5-6 seconds) moving forward. Or will it boot like normal now?
Again, before anything else. Thank you
IjazCI said:
Yes. On pie i do have this issue. Its normal
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Well I hope it gets fixed down the line. Thank you!!
In India, I received notification that I got pie update, I downloaded, installation process was done but when my device rebooted there was only blank screen and when I press power button, it vibrates, but after pressing buttons and volume button. . . My device successfully booted into 8.1.0 lol I don't know what happened, anyone know how fix it?
Yube0 said:
I honestly didn't expect this to work but it's as you say. My phone would just vibrate and nothing more.
Following your instructions, I held the power button longger than usual and it finally booted. You sir are a legend. Thank you !!
But it would be awesome to know why this happens though. Was it due to something in the pie update? and will I need to be holding down the power button considerably longger (around 5-6 seconds) moving forward. Or will it boot like normal now?
Again, before anything else. Thank you
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I'm not sure why this happens, I don't know if it started right when I updated or when I made some modifications to system, but I solved it by flashing the update again in recovery
Yube0 said:
I recently updated my Mi A2 via OTA update by using Express VPN to connect to India. Everything was fine until I powered off my device. It would not turn back on (no boot animation or anything).
However, I then proceeded to plug in the charging cable. After doing so, my screen lit up and I was able to get my phone to boot.
Now the problem remains that every time I turn my device off, it won't boot unless I plug it in to a power source.
Please, anyone experienced this? Is there a way to fix it? Would an update further down the line fix an issue like this?
Please, I can use my phone normally when it's on but this thing with the not being able to boot is just bugging the freak out of me.
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It's a strange uncommon issue !
Nebrassy said:
I'm not sure why this happens, I don't know if it started right when I updated or when I made some modifications to system, but I solved it by flashing the update again in recovery
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Hi bro,
May i know how did you do that.
How did you flash update through recovery?

device turns off and starts to bootloop, possible power button/battery issue

Hello,
Last night my g6 shut down out of nowhere and gave me a scare this morning by bootlooping (device still has stock ROM and locked bootloader). I managed to get to the home screen a few times and it would instantly turn off when I moved the device, then start looping again until I powered it off from the recovery menu. Finally, I was able to enter the passcode and retrieve some data but now I don't dare touch it or put it to sleep. There is a crack right on the power button from fall damage, so I'm thinking the button might be sticking sometimes. When I hold the volume keys and enter the recovery menu it just boots again no matter which option I pick. Lastly, when it is plugged in and shuts itself off, there is a blinking white LED at the top which I've read is battery-related. I would greatly appreciate any help at all. Thanks you in advance.
sfb123 said:
Hello,
Last night my g6 shut down out of nowhere and gave me a scare this morning by bootlooping (device still has stock ROM and locked bootloader). I managed to get to the home screen a few times and it would instantly turn off when I moved the device, then start looping again until I powered it off from the recovery menu. Finally, I was able to enter the passcode and retrieve some data but now I don't dare touch it or put it to sleep. There is a crack right on the power button from fall damage, so I'm thinking the button might be sticking sometimes. When I hold the volume keys and enter the recovery menu it just boots again no matter which option I pick. Lastly, when it is plugged in and shuts itself off, there is a blinking white LED at the top which I've read is battery-related. I would greatly appreciate any help at all. Thanks you in advance.
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What you describe sure sounds like hardware issues. But to rule that out I would honestly completely reflash the phone back to stock. Leave the bootloader unlocked of course. See if that doesnt resolve your issues. If the issues persist, its much more likely that the hardware has failed.
theseeker2654 said:
What you describe sure sounds like hardware issues. But to rule that out I would honestly completely reflash the phone back to stock. Leave the bootloader unlocked of course. See if that doesnt resolve your issues. If the issues persist, its much more likely that the hardware has failed.
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thank you for the response, It actually has lasted the whole day without issues so I guess the post is resolved. I will try this though just in case.

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