Hey,
I know there's a fair few threads on this but I've spent the past 7 hours trying to resolve this with all ideas I've found although to no avail.
My phone was on, working as normal although randomly it is now stuck on the Miui logo no matter what I try. It also freezes on fastboot.
The phone isn't detected by the PC now anymore either, the phone is only 6 months old.
Does anyone have any other ideas what I can try?
I've tried safe mode, reboot, fastboot, connecting phone to PC, having someone call me etc, no luck.
Fastboot is not "fast boot", it is a mode to install parts of the operating system from PC.
If your bootloader is unlocked, (unlocked lock icon at the top of the screen when starting the phone) you can download MIUI (Fastboot version) from https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/sweet/ and then extract the archive, and run the flash_all_except_storage.bat file from PC while the phone is in "fastboot" mode and connected to PC via USB.
If your bootloader is locked (no lock icon when starting the phone), then I'm afraid you're gonna have to reboot to recovery mode (hold power button+ volume up when restarting the phone) and select wipe data option which will erase all data and "factory reset" it. If that does not work, then MIUI is corrupted and you have no choice but to visit a Xiaomi phone service center.
You're in luck if you live in europe or china, since there are many official xiaomi stores, but if you're in america, there are currently no official xiaomi stores sadly.
Dathran said:
Hey,
I know there's a fair few threads on this but I've spent the past 7 hours trying to resolve this with all ideas I've found although to no avail.
My phone was on, working as normal although randomly it is now stuck on the Miui logo no matter what I try. It also freezes on fastboot.
The phone isn't detected by the PC now anymore either, the phone is only 6 months old.
Does anyone have any other ideas what I can try?
I've tried safe mode, reboot, fastboot, connecting phone to PC, having someone call me etc, no luck.
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....Boot problems can also have something to do with defective hardware buttons.
Dathran said:
Hey,
I know there's a fair few threads on this but I've spent the past 7 hours trying to resolve this with all ideas I've found although to no avail.
My phone was on, working as normal although randomly it is now stuck on the Miui logo no matter what I try. It also freezes on fastboot.
The phone isn't detected by the PC now anymore either, the phone is only 6 months old.
Does anyone have any other ideas what I can try?
I've tried safe mode, reboot, fastboot, connecting phone to PC, having someone call me etc, no luck.
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Enter recovery. (hold volume up and power) There is an option to reset data there. It will wipe the data in your phone, but should start you from scratch.
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Hi,
I've flashed multiple times before without an issue until today.
First, here's my background information:
Samsung Captivate (ATT)
Was running Continuum 5.4.1 but it felt laggy so I attempted to flash MIUI 1.5.13.
Here's what I did:
I wiped my phone using the Odin One click tool, then flashed CM7's kernel and then performed formats of the cache, system, and data, then installed MIUI RC2. After this step the phone should have restarted, then I planned to shut it down and reboot into recovery and flash 1.5.13 onto it.
My problem(s):
-Boot into recovery/download mode using key combinations is not working.
-The ADB console reports device not found when I try to run adb shell.
-The phone is undetected in Droidexplorer.
-When I attempt to download an app to boot to recovery with the phone says there is no space even though nothing has been installed other then MIUI.
What I would like to do:
Get back to stock with download/recovery modes working.
On a side note: MIUI works, but in a very limited way. I can navigate through it, but it won't allow the installation of applications due to there not being room on the phone (as said before).
Thanks!
Update - my phone was being identified as a Nexus S, so without those drivers my phone could not be debugged via USB. I now have the drivers and can perform ADB commands, however rebooting into recovery and into download mode both result in the phone restarting without going to the download or recovery mode.
Try using ODIN and repartitioning. I have good videos on standard ODIN and Heimdall on YouTube just search them. If you can not get out of this contact me, I have been able to partition debrick in the past and it's actually considered by me far more annoying than standard bootloader JTAG in certain situations. Let's hope yours is easier to bail out of!
First of all thanks for the reply and direction.
Secondly:
After working on this all last night I was able to get the phone recognized by Odin and my computer, now I am stuck at one of two screens depending on what I do.
If the phone is powered off then plugged in, the battery charging screen appears but there is no animation and after unplugging it the battery charging image remains.
If I power the phone on it hangs on the Samsung boot screen.
Repartitioning does sound like the proper direction for me to take, but, when I use Odin it freezes while setting up the connection to the phone.
when the phone is powered off try holding both vol keys and plugging in the cable. That could possibly get you to download mode. If not try vol down/pwr at the same time since you are now on GB bootloaders the keys are a bit different. Let me know what happens and good luck
maybe you should try to build a jig and use it to get into the download mode first. or you can buy it on ebay, just search for "micro usb jig".
I've tried every volume and power combination possible to no avail, I can't get into download mode. I've given in and am exchanging my phone. Thanks for the help anyway guys!
Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
tl;dr
Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
NoDze said:
Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
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Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
xda_fanboy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
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Don't give up yet. Try smartflash and flash stock, or whatever. Seriously. Just keep on trying. I had a Samsung Captivate a year back and something similar happened where I woke up one beautiful morning, tried to unlock my phone: no response. I thought I had an SOD, so I pulled the battery out, reinserted: bootloop. Entered recovery, can't flash anything, unable to mount system/data partitions. Turns out my internal memory/ROM got fried. Yay. But until then, I tried every possible option. Wow, this turned out to be a bit depressing. Just try more stuff. After you've tried everything, and I mean everything, declare the phone dead.
I think i have a similar problem. Just woke up to find my phone to be dead. Tried the usual methods, nothing. Best it could do was from time to time show me a battery sign with a red triangle and a whtie exclamation mark in it. Then sometimes i manage to get into the recovery mode, there i tried practically everything. Used restore, it shows that restore was a success, but when i reboot my phone i get into an endless circle of bootloader icon appearing and dissappearing,
EDIT: somehow from the countless attempt it fired up.
Make sure to have the right bootloader before nvflashing unbrick roms....
xda_fanboy said:
Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
tl;dr
Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Try to flash a new recovery image in apx mode.
And edit the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 partition your self.
seek=6144 count=75 bs=1 / boot-recovery
Thanks for the added input and encouragement folks.
Just reporting an update:
Having been unsuccessful more times than I could count, I decided to physically disassemble the phone (normally Engineering fix #2, but performed out of order on this occasion). I have zero idea why it should have made a difference, as all I did was take it apart and then put it back together, but the phone has groaned back to life.
Of course, then sausage-fingers here managed to tear the digitizer cable when doing the final reassambly... /facepalm
Anyhow, I have a replacement on order, so I'm hopeful that when I receive that in a few days I'm back to a fully functional Optimus 2x!!
I have a MI3 for almost a year now. When I unplugged it from the charger last sunday, the phone totally blocked. Continuously apps block and shut-down (with the white attention: report MIUI or shut down), even the most important, such like the operating system.
The phone now doesn't go past the installation screen (choose language and WIFI etc.). When it does go past that screen, the screen turns black. I tried the recovery mode to reboot and I tried to flash it on my computer. Both didn't work. The computer doesn't even recognize the phone as a device.
Is this a common problem? And the most important question: how to solve it?
Thnx
1st you need to update your usb drivers and see that your pc is now recognizing your device or not...
And now you can flash miui stock rom with fastboot mode..
You can find the full flashing guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-mi-3/help/fix-bricked-xiaomi-mi3-mi4-t3154558
I hope it will help you..
Hi,
So I had a Problem that my huawei (Working Phone) soft bricked himself over night. It was on his charger over night and worked fine on this evening... on the next morning I want to check my calender and the phone was already on the huawei logo... I think ok it does a reboot and locked himself. Than I forced off the device with power + volume up. Reboot instant after that and still stucked so ok I am soft bricked now. After searching a bit on Google it sad delete your cache via recovery. Problem I can't enter recovery or eRecovery only fastboot is available. Going into fastboot try the hisuit from huawei with the result phone not supported. But after that try on the white fastboot screen stand's "entering recovery mode..." so i let it do his thing... After many hours I came back and there it was the emui recovery. I decided to only clear the cache and boot. Again soft lock on logo... After that I tried again fastboot -> hisuit that doesn't work that the phone says entering recovery mode... -> but nothing happened...
I came back after the next work day...
The screen was black and I can't boot it anymore (still lie on my desk since first soft brick so yeah I am 100% proof the display will work) I plugged it in in my pc and it says now USB SER typical driver not found error code from windows...
IT will react when I force it with power + volume up only with dc from pc and reconnect in USB SER
Anyone any ideas to fix this hard brick?
Model: SNE-LX1
FRP and Phone locked
Stock Rom on it !
And If it possible I will let it as stock as possible (as I said it's only a work phone!)
Thanks for all the help !
@Blade8895
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Huawei phones just aren't what they used to be... Some time ago their unlock policy vanished into thin air, then came alligations of spying, a trade ban in the US, and I've even heard rumors about them trying to make phones brick themselves after installing custom software. ?
Sadly, I can only recommend to stay clear of their devices until this whole situation improves...
I actually have the same issue, my phone downloaded the latest update and I scheduled it to auto update at midnight,next morning when I woke up,was surprised coz my regular alarm (from phone) didnt woke me up,so I grab my phone and saw it was dead,but it was full charge, then it didnt open anymore,and I tried to do all the reset or hard recovery technics on the net but it still is bricked. If I plug it on a computer it only says usb ser.. I guess its how the company makes money by destroying their own system,so you'd buy a new one,coz you cant access your data or all your files from the old one,so you would buy a new huawei again,to retrieve your files.
USB SER is testpoint mode. Idk how, but you have closed the service mode contacts. In general, this is solvable, in the service it should not cost a lot of money.
Hi, I'm having a complete disaster today having tried to go from the latest stable Chinese ROM to a global ROM.
I understand that I need to unlock the bootloader, so after a fair while managed to do this. It didn't work on my PC but it did on my wife's. I really should have given up then. Sigh.
I think this unlocking did work as the developer settings say it's unlocked and when the phone boots up (when it did boot up) there was a little unlocked graphic at the top of the screen.
At this stage I thought all would be good. I have downloaded the MiFlash tool (2021.2.26.0) and the ROM below.
Mi 8dipperstableV12.0.2.0.QEAMIXM10.0GlobalDownload2020-11-23
I'm certain that I have the Mi 8 (and not the lite or other version) so this seems like it should flash?
After having to download a fix (something to do with drivers) I can see my phone in the Flash tool and can select the folder with the rom (before the fix any refresh would just cause my phone to say "any key to shutdown"). So I can click "flash" and keep everything crossed.
But, it doesn't work. Initially it seemed to progress but after about 10 minutes, with the status bat at ~95%, it gives a timeout error. I think - though I'm losing track - but I could still boot my phone up at this stage.
I did this a few times and the same thing happened. Then, I got a worse sounding error "Missmatching image and device". I kept trying and got this or some other instant error that I didn't note down.
After this my phone wouldn't boot up, it just goes into recovery mode. I do note that it I press vol up and power I get the option to connect to some windows app (this doesn't work) but curiously if I try flash from this state I get the same issue as above (it seems to work slowly but then times out).
So I'm at a loss and have a broken phone! Any suggestions would be very helpful to say the least!
I'll add that at the moment the phone is stuck with the fastboot logo on, so I can't even turn the damn thing off. I can try but it just boots up again into this screen :-(
Geeze, on about the 20th try the flash tool just hung so I yanked the phone out and now it seems to have worked. I'm keeping everything crossed right now!
Display fastboot logo, maybe it is not bricked.
"It didn't work on my PC but it did on my wife's. ". I had the same problem when I unlock the bootloader. mi 8 not work well with usb3.0, suggest you use your wife's computer with usb2.0. OR patch you PC registry of windows 10 with attached bat file.
Are you a Chinese ?