I was on my phone when suddenly it just booted off for no reason, weird right? So now it just stays on the "LG" boot up screen and now do anything. I've tried everything and done everything right (as far as I know) before I get into that let me tell you what my device can do as of now:
Devices DOES have fastboot oem unlock done
Phone was rooted as well and working perfectly (or so I thought until this happened)
ADB doesn't seem to work, but fastboot when connected to the computer does.
Ex: ADB devices (blank)
but fastboot devices (shows phone connected)
I've tried rebooting into recovery (Power + down) doesn't do anything, however, {Power + down} then finger off power then {Power + down} again takes me to "factory reset" option, if done so the phone just hangs and removing battery on way to take it back to fastboot on pc, or bootloop again.
I've done the following steps using [LG-H901] Stock .img Files (Boot, System, and Recovery)
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
then
fastboot flash boot boot.img
and finally
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
I've tried booting the phone and still gets me stuck on bootloop, and doing the same {Power + down} gets to the same "factory reset" option only then freezes my phone if I agree to do so.
Is there something I've done wrong or incorrect? I will provide as much info as requested.
Thanks guys!
Update: Phone booted up to lockscreen after finishing "Android is starting..." procedures, then kept bootlooping and it is now doing "Android is starting.." procedures again. I'll keep it updated if it keeps doing so or anything of the sort.
Did you reply YES when trying to enter recovery? It will ask 2 times and bith times answer YES ... And if you DO have TWRP installed it will boot into twrp recovery.
Double0EK said:
Did you reply YES when trying to enter recovery? It will ask 2 times and bith times answer YES ... And if you DO have TWRP installed it will boot into twrp recovery.
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This is the weirdest thing, phone worked for a bit then shuts off and does the same thing. all files and everyhing was in tact. ANy main reason behind this? I am desperate not to delete everything because i have important photos on there that were still there when it re-started again right now.
So to recap: At the moment doing the {factory reset} got me as far as using phone for like 2 minutes before ****ting out and sending me on a bootloop yet again.
Important Questions:
On all my other devices I am able to connect via usb and read devices, but on this phone I get the message when connecting to my computer "LGE Android MTP Device: Failed" whats this about?
Is there any way to save internal photo album images other than getting this to boot up and pray it stays on long enough to transfer data?
UPDATE 2: Phone has booted up and not froze (yet)? Testing to see if it will keep working so far so good. Unfortunately all my **** was deleted which bummed me out, would have honestly prefered to lose a $600 phone than all the family, friend, ext photos I had on my phone I made the huge mistake of saving to internal memory and never backing up. Smh.
Update 3: Phone is back at it again with the bootloop. I have no idea what is wrong, I've repeated the steps twice and phone doesn't seem to let up. It's fine until I hit that restart or shutdown button then it goes into bootloop heaven. I'm guessing this phone is done for? On an unrelated note it did fall on me, but worked fine afterwards, it was just sudden when it started doing this. Unless anyone has more suggestions I'd be glad to hear them. As of right now, this phone is toast.
You tube how to bake phones in the oven.
It could fix some potentially loose solders..or since everything was already wiped you should get a warranty replacement.. Should still be under factory warranty.
Double0EK said:
You tube how to bake phones in the oven.
It could fix some potentially loose solders..or since everything was already wiped you should get a warranty replacement.. Should still be under factory warranty.
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I am thinking the warranty route. Is there anything specific I should do before doing so? I hear having "fastboot oem unlock" {Bootloader Unlocked} voids the warranty. Is this true that you might know of? Either way thanks I appreciate the information.
Sorry so late..
But you can try to fastboot oem lock it.
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This thread is referring to this method of unbricking:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226470
I am having the same issue from the OP. However, when I get to step 3-5 where I use "adb reboot bootloader", it doesn't bring me to the bootloader (blue screen). At first when I tried to time it right, I got "device not found". However, as I tried more often, the command seems to go through as it returns blank, but the only thing that happens is the phone reboots and displays the "factory reset...formatting data...formatting cache...do not remove batttery...rebooting" again.
I've tried about 20 times now and, instead of bringing me to the bootloader screen, it keeps rebooting everytime I use "adb reboot bootloader. I would appreciate any help I can get.
I started a new thread because I cannot reply to the original thread as I do not have 10+ posts yet
I was thinking maybe I can't boot into bootloader since it cant even boot into recovery? Is that possible?
I'm in the exact same boat as the OP.
qmriis said:
I'm in the exact same boat as the OP.
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well guys you are not alone :crying: i was try to fix my wife phone today and i have the same loop issue like OP. the hard part is the windows won't reconize the phone anymore just for a instance of sec when phone start the format processes t clear format and install and boot at the same screen over and over so way i can get to fastboot or even recovery mode
Hey guys, Today I just finished downgrading to HBOOT 1.4 and got up and running fine on TWRP 1.1.1 and ViperRom's new ICS build. I wasn't having any issues at all. I started reading about TWRP2 though, and felt like checking it out. So I downloaded GooManager and searched for TWRP and got openrecovery-twrp-2.1.3.blob. I touched it to download and it immediately went into recovery to install. However, as soon as it rebooted, it came up with TWRP 1.1.1's logo and a scrolling status bar. This lasted about 2 seconds and then the phone shut off. I left it as is hoping it would come back for about 10 min but nothing. I removed the battery and put it back in and tried to reboot. Booting to system and booting to recovery give zero response and ADB controls don't seem to recognize the device when plugged into USB. Can anybody help? TWRP2 doesn't seem to have a thread here and their site has limited resources for help.
thanks.
Can you boot into the bootloader (hold power and down on startup)?
no I cannot. Phone is completely unresponsive. I didn't think trying to flash a recovery would cause complete system failure.. wth
Just to be clear, before you call it a brick, did you remover battery for 10 seconds and then try to get to the bootloader. Hold down the volume first then the power button and keep holding both until the bootloader pops up. Just making sure...
yeah I did. Pulled the battery, left it out while I went and ate something, then plugged in the HTC charger and tried to reboot and nothing. Tried putting the battery back in and doing the same thing. I guess It's time to go to sprint and beg for mercy
Same thing happened to me. My phone is completely unresponsive after I tried to update to TWRP 2.1. I was on AOKP milestone 5a. The computer responds when I connect the USB, but the phone will not boot at all.
EDIT: Computer doesn't respond either. Think I'm headed to the nearest Sprint store ASAP.
Connect your device to your computer then go into your adb directory in cmd and type. "adb reboot-bootloader" (without the quotation marks)
Are you s-off ? And does the phone show up as qhusb_dload in device manager ? If it does it is bricked. If you still have s-on it can be fixed if you are s-off i am sorry to say you have to get a new phone. I have a phone now that is s-off and bricked and i cant recover it as of now but i am working on it, if i succeed i will post how to do it.
I would recommend trying to keep the bricked phone in case there is a way to unbrick eventually then you have another phone to play with. I just claimed my insurance and told them i dropped the phone in a porta-john at work and i wasn't about to fish it out. So they told me dont worry about sending the bricked phone in and i got my new one next day.
Please help a noob dad with a distraught teenage son who is not as tech savvy as his peers, or his noob dad.
Son and I both have absolutely stock TMo HTC Ones. Mine is fine.
His had all his music on it, and his music was not backed up. (His laptop's hard drive crashed just two weeks ago and he had not gotten around to restoring his music yet. He is not having a good month with tech.)
His phone without warning entered a boot loop. It restarted itself, reached the bootloader/simply brilliant splash page, reached the T Mobile LTE splash page, reached the HTC One Beats Audio splash page, dimmed a bit, went blank, and then restarted the boot sequence. This goes on infinitum, and even after we let the phone battery run down to zero, recharged and started it again.
We can enter the bootloader by pressing volume down and the power key at the point where the screen goes blank after the HTC One Beats Audio splash, and from there we can go to recovery or into fastboot. When in fastboot, the phone can be connected to a computer, where it shows up as an "unspecified" device called Android 1.0. This device does not show up as a storage device - so we don't see the files. It has a driver called MyHTC. The phone screen shows FASTBOOT USB in red, but running adb with the command adb devices doesn't show anything in the device list.
As I said, the phone is absolutely stock - that means it is locked, and never was unlocked. And I understand that unlocking the bootloader to install a custom recovery would wipe the data files, thus defeating the purpose of the exercise.
We won't mind trying a factory reset, or even trying to root the phone, if we can first get to the music and save it. Is there some way to save it?
Now, mind you, two days ago terms like adb, bootloader, Android SDK, custom recovery, etc., were completely foreign to me. These are things I have picked up trying to solve the problem with Google and personal grit. So please bear that in mind when answering.
Is there some way to access the data files on this phone from the bootloader screen or from the recovery screen? If the phone can't be booted up and the phone can't be unlocked without being wiped clean, it seems my son is going to be spending a lot of time and money recreating his music library. Is this true? Have we finally found a situation that Dad can't rescue his offspring from?
Thanks in advance for any ideas...
GenerousDad said:
Please help a noob dad with a distraught teenage son who is not as tech savvy as his peers, or his noob dad.
Son and I both have absolutely stock TMo HTC Ones. Mine is fine.
His had all his music on it, and his music was not backed up. (His laptop's hard drive crashed just two weeks ago and he had not gotten around to restoring his music yet. He is not having a good month with tech.)
His phone without warning entered a boot loop. It restarted itself, reached the bootloader/simply brilliant splash page, reached the T Mobile LTE splash page, reached the HTC One Beats Audio splash page, dimmed a bit, went blank, and then restarted the boot sequence. This goes on infinitum, and even after we let the phone battery run down to zero, recharged and started it again.
We can enter the bootloader by pressing volume down and the power key at the point where the screen goes blank after the HTC One Beats Audio splash, and from there we can go to recovery or into fastboot. When in fastboot, the phone can be connected to a computer, where it shows up as an "unspecified" device called Android 1.0. This device does not show up as a storage device - so we don't see the files. It has a driver called MyHTC. The phone screen shows FASTBOOT USB in red, but running adb with the command adb devices doesn't show anything in the device list.
As I said, the phone is absolutely stock - that means it is locked, and never was unlocked. And I understand that unlocking the bootloader to install a custom recovery would wipe the data files, thus defeating the purpose of the exercise.
We won't mind trying a factory reset, or even trying to root the phone, if we can first get to the music and save it. Is there some way to save it?
Now, mind you, two days ago terms like adb, bootloader, Android SDK, custom recovery, etc., were completely foreign to me. These are things I have picked up trying to solve the problem with Google and personal grit. So please bear that in mind when answering.
Is there some way to access the data files on this phone from the bootloader screen or from the recovery screen? If the phone can't be booted up and the phone can't be unlocked without being wiped clean, it seems my son is going to be spending a lot of time and money recreating his music library. Is this true? Have we finally found a situation that Dad can't rescue his offspring from?
Thanks in advance for any ideas...
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Very well written question... I'd start with a Fastboot command (entered while the phone is connected to pc and phone screen shows fastboot usb) 'fastboot erase cache.' It will return success, failure, or waiting for device. If it returns success enter 'fastboot reboot.' There is a small possibility this will allow his phone to boot normally.
You are correct that unlocking the boatloader erases the phone although there may be alternative if s-off is possible while the bootloader is locked - anyone? And ADB commands only work when the phone is booted into android or recovery not fastboot. And I have no experience with stock recovery but it might be possible to wipe cache there too.
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Thanks very much for the reply.
I tried the command 'fastboot erase cache' and it replied with "******* Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?"
Then, without waiting for an answer to that question, it proceeded - it said "erasing cache" and then "OK [0.575s]" and then "finished. Total time 0.575s."
I interpreted that as success, so I proceeded to enter the command "fastboot reboot." The phone rebooted - into the same boot loop I described earlier.
If you (or anyone) thinks that adb will help, I CAN get the phone into recovery mode as well. The phone allows me the option to wipe the cache partition from there (which I did), but a friend of mine (actually, my ophthalmologist as well) suggested I wipe the dalvik cache. Not only do I not know what a dalvik cache is, but I don't see any option for it on the HTC One recovery menu. I also don't know whether wiping the cache partition from the recovery menu is any different than what I did with the fastboot command - but in either event neither one eliminated the boot loop.
Any more ideas for either getting the phone to boot or saving the music so we can factory reset and then restore the music would be appreciated!
make a full adb backup and then unpack the contents
http://androidforums.com/application-development/163138-how-basic-adb-commands.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572600
holmesnmanny said:
make a full adb backup and then unpack the contents
http://androidforums.com/application-development/163138-how-basic-adb-commands.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572600
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The only abd access he'll have at this point is for sideloading (Does the stock recovery even do sideload?), which if I am not mistaken, allows only a small subset of abd access (not enough to do the backup).
Would be so much easier if the handset was unlocked. A custom recovery would go a long way to recovering any data from the device... I've never had a device I didn't unlock right away so I'm afraid I can't help much beyond giving my doubts regarding the adb solution...
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The only abd access he'll have at this point is for sideloading (Does the stock recovery even do sideload?), which if I am not mistaken, allows only a small subset of abd access (not enough to do the backup).
Would be so much easier if the handset was unlocked. A custom recovery would go a long way to recovering any data from the device... I've never had a device I didn't unlock right away so I'm afraid I can't help much beyond giving my doubts regarding the adb solution...
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PhoenixPath, I'm afraid, was right, and we ended up doing a factory reset. My son restored the phone's contents as best he could, making sure to back up this time, and then powered off, but when powering back on the PIN unlock keyboard doesn't come up.
Sigh.
Any ideas? I'll post another thread on this...
Thanks to all who offered ideas.
Did you even try to do what I said or did you just assume I was wrong in full ?
I guess if you're not really interesting in ideas I guess you'll just choose altogether not to try some.
So my friend was trying to get some stupid game to work on my phone that my phone didn't support, so he tried replacing the build.prop for my Pantech Flex with one for the Galaxy s3. Which needless to say bricked it.
I can start up the phone, and I assume it starts up normally and goes to the lock screen. But everything after the pantech logo is black screen.
Here is what I've tried:
1. Pulling my current build.prop and editing it, then pushing it back with ADB. Pulling it works, but when I push it, nothing seems to happen. It says "Success" but when rebooting the device, my phone is still ****ed up. And when I pull the build.prop back again, it's the one for the Galaxy s3 and not the one I just pushed.
I read that the reason this is happening is because ADB doesn't have root permissions. Not sure if thats true though, as I obviously have rooted my phone.
2. Booting the device into recovery. For a while now, trying to boot into recovery leaves me stuck on the Pantech logo. I think this may be due to me flashing a recovery that wasn't for my device a while back. So I can't get into my recovery to factory reset it.
3. Booting into fastboot mode. The Flex is a strange creature, so there is no standard bootloader apparently so when using "adb reboot bootloader" it reboots into fastboot instead of a bootloader. Meaning on the screen is just white text saying "FAST BOOT mode" and adb disconnects, and fastboot devices sees the device now.
Trouble here is, I have the stock recovery for the Flex. But when I use Fastboot boot recovery.img or Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img or fastboot wipe data or anything in fastboot really, I get a "Not support!!" error. Which I assume means my phone is a piece of **** and can't be used with fastboot.
So now I'm at my wits end and don't know what else to do. I am dead broke and need my phone for work.
Is there anyway I can fix the build.prop or factory reset my phone?
Fukesh said:
So my friend was trying to get some stupid game to work on my phone that my phone didn't support, so he tried replacing the build.prop for my Pantech Flex with one for the Galaxy s3. Which needless to say bricked it.
I can start up the phone, and I assume it starts up normally and goes to the lock screen. But everything after the pantech logo is black screen.
Here is what I've tried:
1. Pulling my current build.prop and editing it, then pushing it back with ADB. Pulling it works, but when I push it, nothing seems to happen. It says "Success" but when rebooting the device, my phone is still ****ed up. And when I pull the build.prop back again, it's the one for the Galaxy s3 and not the one I just pushed.
I read that the reason this is happening is because ADB doesn't have root permissions. Not sure if thats true though, as I obviously have rooted my phone.
2. Booting the device into recovery. For a while now, trying to boot into recovery leaves me stuck on the Pantech logo. I think this may be due to me flashing a recovery that wasn't for my device a while back. So I can't get into my recovery to factory reset it.
3. Booting into fastboot mode. The Flex is a strange creature, so there is no standard bootloader apparently so when using "adb reboot bootloader" it reboots into fastboot instead of a bootloader. Meaning on the screen is just white text saying "FAST BOOT mode" and adb disconnects, and fastboot devices sees the device now.
Trouble here is, I have the stock recovery for the Flex. But when I use Fastboot boot recovery.img or Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img or fastboot wipe data or anything in fastboot really, I get a "Not support!!" error. Which I assume means my phone is a piece of **** and can't be used with fastboot.
So now I'm at my wits end and don't know what else to do. I am dead broke and need my phone for work.
Is there anyway I can fix the build.prop or factory reset my phone?
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Also, maybe there is a way to set up a VNC server of some sort to use the phone from the computer??
Hello XDA.
After whipping my Moto E out the other day, I noticed that turning it on results in it just... laying there and showing me the "WARNING - BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED" message.
Around 1 1/2 years ago, it just turned itself on after clicking the power button once. Now, not even Fastboot mode helps, as choosing any of the options listed there results in the warning mentioned above. For clarification, here is everything in short:
The phone does NOT turn on normally
Using any option in the Fastboot boot menu restarts the loop (i. e. instantly goes back to warning message)
NEITHER does Minimal ADB and Fastboot recognize the device, NOR does the phone recognize the connection to any PC (I've tried 4 different PCs)
Since Fastboot is unresponsive, suggestions to restore stock recovery are useless to me
Suggestions to perform a factory reset are also useless, since Fastboot is unresponsive.
So, am I right if I suppose that this is a hard brick? Or is this somehow salvageable? If so, please help me...
Thanks in advance!
DeBedenHasen said:
Hello XDA.
After whipping my Moto E out the other day, I noticed that turning it on results in it just... laying there and showing me the "WARNING - BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED" message.
Around 1 1/2 years ago, it just turned itself on after clicking the power button once. Now, not even Fastboot mode helps, as choosing any of the options listed there results in the warning mentioned above. For clarification, here is everything in short:
The phone does NOT turn on normally
Using any option in the Fastboot boot menu restarts the loop (i. e. instantly goes back to warning message)
NEITHER does Minimal ADB and Fastboot recognize the device, NOR does the phone recognize the connection to any PC (I've tried 4 different PCs)
Since Fastboot is unresponsive, suggestions to restore stock recovery are useless to me
Suggestions to perform a factory reset are also useless, since Fastboot is unresponsive.
So, am I right if I suppose that this is a hard brick? Or is this somehow salvageable? If so, please help me...
Thanks in advance!
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If its stuck on boot, its definitely not hard brick.
What was the android version when you wiped data?
Was there any custom recovery you used to wipe data?
You possibly wiped /system too, wiping system can result in bootloop.
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If its stuck on boot, its definitely not hard brick.
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That's a relief. Thanks.
What was the android version when you wiped data?
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I'm not sure about it, but I think it was 4.x.
Was there any custom recovery you used to wipe data?
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No, there wasn't.
You possibly wiped /system too, wiping system can result in bootloop.
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Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. The phone's been rooted for almost 2 years now, and 1 year ago, it turned on perfectly fine.
But let's assume that actually happened somehow, how do I recover from this?