Hi people,
Today I unlocked my Lenovo ZUK Z2 Plus and installed latest twrp recovery 3.3.1 successfully(no errors until now, butter smooth). After that I flashed "CARBON-CR-7.0-OPAL-RELEASE-z2_plus-20200122-0608" without installing GApps. This time the ROM booted successfully. I was able to use the phone and make calls.
Then I installed the GApps " open_gapps-arm64-9.0-stock-20200131.zip" downloaded from OpenGApps.org. This time around, when I booted after installing GApps, the phone showed the welcome screen, but got suddenly turned off. After that the phone just shows ZUK logo and keeps rebooting.
To fix this, I went to recovery again, wiped clean DATA & DALVIK CACHE & CACHE & SYSTEM & VENDOR partitions, hoping I would start from the beginning and again install only ROM and not GApps and hoping I would be able to use the phone.
Now this time around, even though I wiped every partition that TWRP shows, the phone just kept rebooting without starting Android OS. So I cleaned again everything using TWRP(cleaning DATA procedure) and then transferred ROM zip files to phone and again flashed only ROM. Still the phone kept rebooting.
Now I got pissed off. I flashed factory ROM using QFIL method. This time after the boot animation it went straight to "Shutting Down" dialogue and again the phone restarted.
CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS EXACTLY WRONG WITH MY PHONE?
WHAT COULD HAVE GONE WRONG THAT EVEN AFTER CLEANING ALL THE PARTITIONS AND FLASHING USING THE FACTORY PROCEDURE, THE PHONE STILL KEEPS REBOOTING?
Is there any other partition that needs to be cleared(which the TWRP does not list)?
Can somebody just tell me how to get out of this?
(Please explain the steps and the reason for each, as I am a noob in this matter).
WAITING FOR ANYBODY'S PROMPT RESPONSE AS MY PHONE IS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE. THANKS IN ADVANCE.
what ZUI version you flashed with QFIL ?
AndroidUser5 said:
Hi people,
Today I unlocked my Lenovo ZUK Z2 Plus and installed latest twrp recovery 3.3.1 successfully(no errors until now, butter smooth). After that I flashed "CARBON-CR-7.0-OPAL-RELEASE-z2_plus-20200122-0608" without installing GApps. This time the ROM booted successfully. I was able to use the phone and make calls.
Then I installed the GApps " open_gapps-arm64-9.0-stock-20200131.zip" downloaded from OpenGApps.org. This time around, when I booted after installing GApps, the phone showed the welcome screen, but got suddenly turned off. After that the phone just shows ZUK logo and keeps rebooting.
To fix this, I went to recovery again, wiped clean DATA & DALVIK CACHE & CACHE & SYSTEM & VENDOR partitions, hoping I would start from the beginning and again install only ROM and not GApps and hoping I would be able to use the phone.
Now this time around, even though I wiped every partition that TWRP shows, the phone just kept rebooting without starting Android OS. So I cleaned again everything using TWRP(cleaning DATA procedure) and then transferred ROM zip files to phone and again flashed only ROM. Still the phone kept rebooting.
Now I got pissed off. I flashed factory ROM using QFIL method. This time after the boot animation it went straight to "Shutting Down" dialogue and again the phone restarted.
CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS EXACTLY WRONG WITH MY PHONE?
WHAT COULD HAVE GONE WRONG THAT EVEN AFTER CLEANING ALL THE PARTITIONS AND FLASHING USING THE FACTORY PROCEDURE, THE PHONE STILL KEEPS REBOOTING?
Is there any other partition that needs to be cleared(which the TWRP does not list)?
Can somebody just tell me how to get out of this?
(Please explain the steps and the reason for each, as I am a noob in this matter).
WAITING FOR ANYBODY'S PROMPT RESPONSE AS MY PHONE IS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE. THANKS IN ADVANCE.
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Greetings buddy,
For my interest, i would like to know that the carbon rom u flashed was based on Android 9 or Android 10????
arielcasari said:
what ZUI version you flashed with QFIL ?
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zui 2.5 st which is meant for indian users.
Naresh Rawat said:
Greetings buddy,
For my interest, i would like to know that the carbon rom u flashed was based on Android 9 or Android 10????
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android 9.0.
what could be the problem... what do you think?
AndroidUser5 said:
android 9.0.
what could be the problem... what do you think?
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I m at job so i reply late. No offense please ???
Ok plz let me know that if ur device boots up to fastboot mode. If yes then repeat the whole process but this time try installing different twrp. U can also use (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=38683) tool kit for flashing. (DO NOT TRY TO RELOCK BOOTLOADER USING THIS TOOL) Also use flame gapps.
Will catch u soon regarding ur issue.
Peace out n TY???
Naresh Rawat said:
I m at job so i reply late. No offense please
Ok plz let me know that if ur device boots up to fastboot mode. If yes then repeat the whole process but this time try installing different twrp. U can also use (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=38683) tool kit for flashing. (DO NOT TRY TO RELOCK BOOTLOADER USING THIS TOOL) Also use flame gapps.
Will catch u soon regarding ur issue.
Peace out n TY
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i have already tried using twrp 3.2, but no luck. I will try flame gapps and will let you know. i will try this coming saturday.
Dhanyavad.
Naresh Rawat said:
I m at job so i reply late. No offense please
Ok plz let me know that if ur device boots up to fastboot mode. If yes then repeat the whole process but this time try installing different twrp. U can also use (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=38683) tool kit for flashing. (DO NOT TRY TO RELOCK BOOTLOADER USING THIS TOOL) Also use flame gapps.
Will catch u soon regarding ur issue.
Peace out n TY
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I again flashed the Stock ZUI 2.5. ST ROM using QFIL. But before doing this I had moved the SIM Card to another fone, so this fone was without any connection. This time the fone booted up successfully. Then I reflashed the Carbon ROM mentioned before and flashed Flame GApps Basic edition as suggested by you. This time the fone booted up successfully. But as soon as I connected the fone to internet, it downloaded something from Google Play Services in the background and again it started the same problem.
SO BASICALLY WHEN IT DOWNLOADS SOMETHING FROM GOOGLE IN BACKGROUND, IT STARTS THE REBOOTING NONSENSE.
I searched the internet for this and some articles on the internet suggested that "Google Dialer" component is causing reboot. Those articles suggested that if the "Google Dialer" is not set as the default dialer, it reboots. BUT HOW TO SET IT AS DEFAULT, WHEN IT STARTS REBOOTING IMMEDIATELY AND IT DOES NOT GIVE ENOUGH TIME?
EVEN THE EARLIER GApps 9.0 stock package that I flashed had warned to set the "Google Dialer" as default, but upon boot up it kept rebooting.
Even initially I started this UNLOCKING AND CUSTOM ROM FLASHING exercise after the factory ROM started rebooting after updating "Google play services".
So this seems to me an issue from Google.
Has Google done this on purpose to make people switch older phones to new ones?(Because I own a total of 3 android devices and only this device is rebooting not the other ones).
Looking forward to your reply.
Greetings Buddy..how's life going??
Ok once again I hv read ur op regarding ur problems. Let's start from the beginning. Boot up to twrp and format the data first before wiping everything. Try flashing lineageOS 16 using official gapps. (Flash gapps along with the flashing ROM, same time. Because flashing gapps after ROM's 1st reboot may result synchronise error or sometime bootloop). If successful, then flash ur carbon ROM and see whether it boots up to normal or still gives such error.
BTW sorry for my late replies. Till then peace out
Naresh Rawat said:
Greetings Buddy..how's life going??
Ok once again I hv read ur op regarding ur problems. Let's start from the beginning. Boot up to twrp and format the data first before wiping everything. Try flashing lineageOS 16 using official gapps. (Flash gapps along with the flashing ROM, same time. Because flashing gapps after ROM's 1st reboot may result synchronise error or sometime bootloop). If successful, then flash ur carbon ROM and see whether it boots up to normal or still gives such error.
BTW sorry for my late replies. Till then peace out
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I am now not able to boot any ROM. Just keeps rebooting after the ZUK splashscreen. Hence, I again reflashed the Recovery properly, using the procedure as before. Now I am not able to boot into the recivery, too.
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Hi all. I'm in a real pickle here and hoping someone can tell me how to get out of this mess. It's a bit of a long story, but I'll summarise as best I can.
I've had my Galaxy Note 2 LTE (N7105) for a year and I rooted it pretty much the day after I got it. I'm not new to rooting at all (fourth Android device since 2010, all rooted), but I still feel like a noob at times. Over this 2014 Easter period I had time off so I decided to change ROMs.
I was previously using CM 11, which I had been using pretty much since I rooted. And I had updated CM at least once a month, sometimes more frequently. So I was looking for some new ROMs, downloaded about 5 and tried them out. The last two I tried was OmniROM (a 4.4.2 ROM) and CM 11 Remix (also a 4.4.2 ROM). I was using TWRP 2.7.0.2 to do the wipes, caches, flashes, etc. I had no issues flashing OmniROM, but when I flashed CM 11 Remix, I couldn't get in the first time. I was stuck in a boot loop. I pulled the battery, got back into recovery and tried flashing again. Still boot looping. I think the mistake I made was a Data Format. Either way, I finally got CM 11 Remix to load by first wiping, flashing the ROM, GApps, a sensor fix, a camera fix, Devil Kernel and then Super SU. However once in the ROM I was getting constant Google Play Store / Services FCs. Oh, and yes, I went through the typical brand new Android setups, entering my Google account and so on... I found that if I cleared data / caches on both Google Play Store app and Google Play Services app, it gave me temporary joy but as soon as I tried to download any app in Google Play I'd get the FC. Also, my signal was totally gone. I tried flashing back to OmniROM as it was my last known good and working ROM, but now that was boot looping. I even tried some of the other ROMs from that bunch I had, including AOKP. All would boot loop.
So after much trying different GApp packages, I decided to best thing to do would be restore it to stock, root again, then go for the custom ROM (hopefully CM 11 Remix) from a nice clean slate. So I did this. I downloaded the Android 4.3 stock ROM from SamMobile here. Installed Odin 3.07, then loaded it up and flashed the stock ROM. All seemed to go great, but when the ROM was done and phone rebooted, I get stuck in another boot loop! This time at the white "Samsung" logo with the glowing blue edges. Not the model number screen. Also my LED light is on blue, if that means anything.
So I found this thread (post at top of page) which suggests I need to flash the PIT file during the stock ROM installation with Odin. So I found the PIT file here, and I'm ready to flash this along with the stock ROM... HOWEVER, I read something somewhere (can't find it now) that implied if I'm on Android 4.3, flashing a PIT is a bad move. Can anyone comment on that? I guessing since the stock ROM is 4.3, I'm technically on 4.3 (even though I can't get into it).
Or if anything else I'm doing immediately stands out as a seriously stupid move, please let me know. I've been without normal use of my phone for a couple days now and ironically I'm at the point where I'm considering going without a phone for the rest of my life... LOL! AS IF I COULD!
Anyways, any help will be much appreciated!
EDIT: I just realised I should have posted in Troubleshooting, not General Questions... If mods want to move this, please do.
i just suggest that you flash the stock odin without the pit and see if its working out or not. sometimes playing with pit files can screw up your device even more...
btw... next time you play flashing... i'm suggesting you make a backup of your working custom. its will save you lots of time if this kind of problem happen.
edan1979 said:
i just suggest that you flash the stock odin without the pit and see if its working out or not. sometimes playing with pit files can screw up your device even more...
btw... next time you play flashing... i'm suggesting you make a backup of your working custom. its will save you lots of time if this kind of problem happen.
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I don't have any working ROM. All I have now is a boot loop.
invertedskull said:
I don't have any working ROM. All I have now is a boot loop.
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I had a problem with my device where I was stuck at boot loader as well, but it was from the rar file of the rom(cm 11) cause I tried downloading it again and it worked.
I suggest you prepare Odin and the stock firmware, wipe factory/cache dalvik, system (advanced), then flash stock firmware, to bring everything back to normal.
Banutu said:
I had a problem with my device where I was stuck at boot loader as well, but it was from the rar file of the rom(cm 11) cause I tried downloading it again and it worked.
I suggest you prepare Odin and the stock firmware, wipe factory/cache dalvik, system (advanced), then flash stock firmware, to bring everything back to normal.
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Hmmm, I'm not stuck at boot loader, just boot loop. Maybe you meant that?
To clarify, all I can do now is...
1. Boot normally and end up in a boot loop (at "Samsung" white logo with glowing blue edges).
2. Boot into Download mode and from there I can use Odin to flash / install.
3. Boot into stock recovery, which I've never used before (only ever used custom recovery).
I've prepped Odin again, ready to flash the stock firmware, but I've never done a wipe / factory reset with Odin. I don't see any Advanced settings? Did you mean I can do it elsewhere? Cos I see I can do wipes / factory reset from stock recovery.
So should I do that AND then go into Download mode and flash stock firmware with Odin?
invertedskull said:
Hmmm, I'm not stuck at boot loader, just boot loop. Maybe you meant that?
To clarify, all I can do now is...
1. Boot normally and end up in a boot loop (at "Samsung" white logo with glowing blue edges).
2. Boot into Download mode and from there I can use Odin to flash / install.
3. Boot into stock recovery, which I've never used before (only ever used custom recovery).
I've prepped Odin again, ready to flash the stock firmware, but I've never done a wipe / factory reset with Odin. I don't see any Advanced settings? Did you mean I can do it elsewhere? Cos I see I can do wipes / factory reset from stock recovery.
So should I do that AND then go into Download mode and flash stock firmware with Odin?
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ohhh my bad, I meant boot loop (stuck at samsung logo), mine was stuck there but then after it restarts and goes into recovery mode
do these following steps and you should be fine with your device.
1. Go into recovery mode
2. Wipe factory/reset
3. Wipe cache
4. Wipe dalvik
5. Advance > format/system
Now you have no rom or any OS to load,
1. Power off the device
2. Open Odin on your PC(right click run as administrator)
3. power on your note in Download Mode
4. Connect your device to your PC via USB
5. odin should recognize your device, something blue like " ID" or something there, you should be familiar with that.
6. click PDA, and find the official stock firmware zip you got it from samsung website, and make sure it fits your device(for example if you have your note from italy you should have ITV)
7. Hit Start and it should finish in 5-10 minutes.
Its the cleanest way with Odin, I did some crap on my device and that's how I return it to normal.
Banutu said:
ohhh my bad, I meant boot loop (stuck at samsung logo), mine was stuck there but then after it restarts and goes into recovery mode
do these following steps and you should be fine with your device.
1. Go into recovery mode
2. Wipe factory/reset
3. Wipe cache
4. Wipe dalvik
5. Advance > format/system
Now you have no rom or any OS to load,
1. Power off the device
2. Open Odin on your PC(right click run as administrator)
3. power on your note in Download Mode
4. Connect your device to your PC via USB
5. odin should recognize your device, something blue like " ID" or something there, you should be familiar with that.
6. click PDA, and find the official stock firmware zip you got it from samsung website, and make sure it fits your device(for example if you have your note from italy you should have ITV)
7. Hit Start and it should finish in 5-10 minutes.
Its the cleanest way with Odin, I did some crap on my device and that's how I return it to normal.
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All good! Cheers man!
I actually went ahead and booted into stock recovery and did the factory reset and partition wipe before I saw your post. And the stock firmware I'd flashed with Odin previously is now booting and I'm finally back in!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just need to root this bad boy and get back to a nice shiny custom ROM.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
invertedskull said:
All good! Cheers man!
I actually went ahead and booted into stock recovery and did the factory reset and partition wipe before I saw your post. And the stock firmware I'd flashed with Odin previously is now booting and I'm finally back in!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just need to root this bad boy and get back to a nice shiny custom ROM.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
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I'm glad to hear that man, peace ^^
Banutu said:
I'm glad to hear that man, peace ^^
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I have another hurdle... Some built in security is stopping SuperSU from running. It's not Knox, but something like it. I get this error message:
"Unauthorized access to a secured area has been blocked. Tap here for more info."
How can I disable this? I've searched on Google already but so far nothing is helping and I can mostly only find info about Knox...
EDIT: It was goddamn Knox all along... And I just disabled it by means of SuperSU. Finally!
invertedskull said:
I have another hurdle... Some built in security is stopping SuperSU from running. It's not Knox, but something like it. I get this error message:
"Unauthorized access to a secured area has been blocked. Tap here for more info."
How can I disable this? I've searched on Google already but so far nothing is helping and I can mostly only find info about Knox...
EDIT: It was goddamn Knox all along... And I just disabled it by means of SuperSU. Finally!
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Lolol, see your finding your way on your own ^_^, I was about to give you this link and suggest you to read the comments as well
http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Fix-Root-Problem-on-Android-4.3-for-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note2-Note3.html
Unfortunately for me I don't have Note 2 =(, I have an S II Plus, I hope to get Note 2 next month can't wait =S
Banutu said:
Lolol, see your finding your way on your own ^_^, I was about to give you this link and suggest you to read the comments as well
http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Fix-Root-Problem-on-Android-4.3-for-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note2-Note3.html
Unfortunately for me I don't have Note 2 =(, I have an S II Plus, I hope to get Note 2 next month can't wait =S
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Heh, yeah, all is well in my world once again!
The Note 2 is a great device man. I am sure you'll love it. The Note 3 looks great also, but I don't like the ribbed sides (I'm fussy) and last I read there's an eFuze that goes off once rooted or something along those lines. That's sh!t.
invertedskull said:
Heh, yeah, all is well in my world once again!
The Note 2 is a great device man. I am sure you'll love it. The Note 3 looks great also, but I don't like the ribbed sides (I'm fussy) and last I read there's an eFuze that goes off once rooted or something along those lines. That's sh!t.
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What do you think about the new oneplus one, do you think I should get that instead?
Sent from my GT-I9105P using Tapatalk
Banutu said:
What do you think about the new oneplus one, do you think I should get that instead?
Sent from my GT-I9105P using Tapatalk
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Hmmm, I haven't seen that one... Feel free to PM me a link.
Help Me!
Banutu said:
I'm glad to hear that man, peace ^^
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My case is the same case of Invertedskull. I already did all steps as you instructed. I wiped data/cache/system and flash a stock room 4.4.2 of Nordic Rom on SamMobile website.
After flashed, the looping still happens. When I put the charger, the looping stops and goes to the main screen normally. Sometimes, it suddenly restarts but not frequently.
OMG! How to stop it. Pls help me.
My Note 2 is N7105 LTE - Optus (Australia)
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My case is the same case of Invertedskull. I already did all steps as you instructed. I wiped data/cache/system and flash a stock room 4.4.2 of Nordic Rom on SamMobile website.
After flashed, the looping still happens. When I put the charger, the looping stops and goes to the main screen normally. Sometimes, it suddenly restarts but not frequently.
OMG! How to stop it. Pls help me.
My Note 2 is N7105 LTE - Optus (Australia)
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If you have access to anything, and don't get JUST the boot loop, then you DO NOT have the same case I was in. You are probably able to recover from this. Try posting on the Tf Forums. The guys over there are "specialists" in Asus Tf tablets, and as you'll see on this thread (http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...-boot-loop-after-doing-routine-cm-update.html), they gave me a lot of help. Not that I was able to recover, but they were awesome dudes.
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My case is the same case of Invertedskull. I already did all steps as you instructed. I wiped data/cache/system and flash a stock room 4.4.2 of Nordic Rom on SamMobile website.
After flashed, the looping still happens. When I put the charger, the looping stops and goes to the main screen normally. Sometimes, it suddenly restarts but not frequently.
OMG! How to stop it. Pls help me.
My Note 2 is N7105 LTE - Optus (Australia)
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mroldman281, You didn't post again, so I don't know, If You found solution, but since I had same simptoms, and after four days of reinstalling different stock roms, wiping and even messing with PIT via Odin etc..I can say, that in my case the reason for boot loop was faulty battery. The phone worked when it was plugged in and restarted soon after i unplugged USB cable, and just lopped afterwards. Replacement battery put everything back in order. And I am one happy Camper!
Hope this info helps someone else with boot loop problem
same problem stuck in bootloop
hey guys i have the same problem bootloop all the time i tryied stock firmware but nothing happend avec i rooted my note 2 and intalled a costom recovery and a many roms but stuck in bootloop i didn't chage baterry , by the way i wiped cache and reset factory and clear dalvick cache but the same always bootloop
what u suggest i do
ps : i can acces to bootloader or download mode it charge normally
woow get back my note 2 lte alone
hey guys i get back my note 2 i don't know how but it was a succes :victory:
first : i tried so many afficial firmware 4.4.2 and costom roms but didn't change the problem of bootloop
then i remembred what version i was in it was 4.1.1 so i download it from sammobiles thenks to them flash it and boooom the note 2 lte start like a charm
i want to thanks everyone for their help even if they didn't help directly but this past 3 days i read almost all the threads about note 2
well i thinks one of the selutions here is to revert back the the original stock firmware like i did so maybe will fix the bootloop
hi friends.. basically i am unable to install any new rom on my Redmi 1s, I searched almost everything but couldn't find the solution.. so i am posting it here... i will try to describe my problem below..
Back a few months i was using CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani.. then a OTA update came i installed it joyfully.. but my joys didn't last longer as a noticed that after booting my Wifi always shows "Turning WiFi On" but never got really opened. So i flashed back to old version... Then i installed Xtreme Music Mod and and the Earpeice Speaker went off... So i thought of flashing again, This time I flashed Flex OS.. was sucessful and then days later i installed xposed and got struck in bootloop due to an improper mod... due to my noobness i staraight away tried to flash flex OS again and then the install was successful but after the initial boot phone worked for like 30 seconds then freezes and reboot.. this happened again and again untill i flashed the CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani again... in middle of all this i tried using Multirom but was unsucessful....
And NOW MY PHONE WON"T ACCEPT ANY ROM OTHER THAN CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani
I tried changing recovery, gone through the Fastboot flashing and doing things a fresh
but every time i install a rom My phone either freezes on "ANDROID IS UPGRADING" or it boots completely and then freezes and reboot...
I hope someone has a solution for this.. coz m dying to use MM ..
Thanks
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hi friends.. basically i am unable to install any new rom on my Redmi 1s, I searched almost everything but couldn't find the solution.. so i am posting it here... i will try to describe my problem below..
Back a few months i was using CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani.. then a OTA update came i installed it joyfully.. but my joys didn't last longer as a noticed that after booting my Wifi always shows "Turning WiFi On" but never got really opened. So i flashed back to old version... Then i installed Xtreme Music Mod and and the Earpeice Speaker went off... So i thought of flashing again, This time I flashed Flex OS.. was sucessful and then days later i installed xposed and got struck in bootloop due to an improper mod... due to my noobness i staraight away tried to flash flex OS again and then the install was successful but after the initial boot phone worked for like 30 seconds then freezes and reboot.. this happened again and again untill i flashed the CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani again... in middle of all this i tried using Multirom but was unsucessful....
And NOW MY PHONE WON"T ACCEPT ANY ROM OTHER THAN CM 12.1-20150603-UNOFFICIAL-armani
I tried changing recovery, gone through the Fastboot flashing and doing things a fresh
but every time i install a rom My phone either freezes on "ANDROID IS UPGRADING" or it boots completely and then freezes and reboot...
I hope someone has a solution for this.. coz m dying to use MM ..
Thanks
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*go to cm12.1 thread
*download and flash firmware.zip from post #3 and flash it
*wipe all in twrp(leave internal,external,usb otg)incase you want to wipe internal too,don't forget to make a backup before on pc.
*flash R31+5.1.1 gapps(i will prefer open gapps)
*wipe cache and dalvik
*reboot
Hi XDA, many threads here have helped me in the past so time to ask another (probably stupid) question. It's a bit of a long story so I apologise in advance.
I've been running CM (one of the nightly builds from about 3 weeks back, don't have the file so I can't say which) on my phone for a while with no issues until a couple of nights ago when it was overheating (charging while playing a game, stupid I know) so I decided to turn it off so it could cool down without taking it off charge.
The following morning I turn it back on to find that it's getting to the blue android head logo of CM and getting stuck there. First thing I do is reboot into TWRP and flash my backup from right after I installed CM. Reboot and... same result. Okay, no biggie right? Time to reinstall CM (the latest nightly build from yesterday) and Google Apps (nano package) via TWRP and reboot again. Still stuck at the blue android head logo. The reinstall was handled after using the Wipe-Factory Reset function of TWRP, as the guide here explains.
At this point I decide to do a bit of research and learn that it's called a softbrick or bootloop and apparently flashing the stock rom can fix it. The LG software suite won't even recognise the device but a friend of mine found this guide so I attempted to run through it. All goes well until it comes time for the software to connect to the phone - I pop it in download mode while putting the USB cable in, the program says waiting for connection, runs for 14 seconds and says it's trying to put the phone into download mode, at this point it fails saying the phone can't be put into download mode.
Some of the comments beneath the article offer fixes like using USB 2.0 instead of 3.0, putting the program into compatability mode for Win7 and running in administrator mode. To be thorough I tried every USB port on my machine (both 2.0 and 3.0) and run the program in compatability mode (with and without admin mode) for several versions of windows. Same result every time.
Another friend then suggests that somehow permissions got borked and it might be worth reflashing SuperSU to the system but at this point I'm at a loss for how to do that. I have the one click root script that I got from god knows where (not this one because that didn't work for me) that has a SuperSU zip in it, presumably it flashes that to the phone when it runs (found this out the hard way because I've been a moron in the past and tried installing SuperSU through TWRP and broke the boot previously, fixed by re-running the one click root script - this was ages ago before even installing CM.)
So right now I can put the phone into download mode manually, get into TWRP and use all its functions as well as connect to my PC and use ADB functions while the phone's in TWRP but can't boot into CM or flash a stock rom. Any help would be appreciated, I've spent a whole day reading guides, asking friends and clumsily trying to fix this only to get nowhere.
Have u tried installing the stock via TWRP? Via zip ... Wipe cache delvik also..
jinderation said:
Have u tried installing the stock via TWRP? Via zip ... Wipe cache delvik also..
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I haven't tried that, I didn't even know it was possible. Could you give me some more detailed pointers on how to do this? I noticed that the stock ROM I have cames as a .TOT file but CM is several files and folders in the zip. Will it install fine from that zipped up TOT file?
Thank you so much for your time.
When the rom is uploaded by the dev its also uploaded in .zip file place it ur system rom just go into twrp recovery flash the the zip file before flashing wipe cache n delvik too its easy as 1,2,3 search here on xda for ur compatible model
jinderation said:
When the rom is uploaded by the dev its also uploaded in .zip file place it ur system rom just go into twrp recovery flash the the zip file before flashing wipe cache n delvik too its easy as 1,2,3 search here on xda for ur compatible model
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Thank you so much. I got it sorted. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out with my stupidity.
Hello,
I flashed a CustomROM and gapps, tried to reboot into system, but my phone does not react anymore since that attempt. The screen is black.
ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-max/development/rom-cm13-unoficial-2016-06-14-universal-t3473016
Gapps: core package from 07-16-16 (arm)
Is there a way to recover it?
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Hello,
I flashed a CustomROM and gapps, tried to reboot into system, but my phone does not react anymore since that attempt. The screen is black.
ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-max/development/rom-cm13-unoficial-2016-06-14-universal-t3473016
Gapps: core package from 07-16-16 (arm)
Is there a way to recover it?
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You have hydrogen or helium?
Which TWRP image did you install exactly?
My device is a Helium 64-3GB bought in China (June/16)
Recovery was flashed using Flasher Toolkit from "en.miui.com" -> /thread-301971-1-1.html
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file name: "twrp-3.0.2-2-hydrogen"
I remember that I might have seen Hydrogen in the text box during installation, if you aim on the detection during the installation.
Tsd560ti said:
My device is a Helium 64-3GB bought in China (June/16)
Recovery was flashed using Flasher Toolkit from "en.miui.com" -> /thread-301971-1-1.html
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file name: "twrp-3.0.2-2-hydrogen"
I remember that I might have seen Hydrogen in the text box during installation, if you aim on the detection during the installation.
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Yeah... Wrong recovery and the install detected your helium as hydrogen leaving you a brick.
My bad... I just added the warning about that in the thread after seeing your question... Should of thought about this scenario but since we have helium twrp for a long time now I I assumed nobody is isuing hidrogen... I knew what you did just wanted to make sure.
Never been in a brick myself but read this thread and you should be back booting in no time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-max/how-to/guide-install-global-miui8-root-t3435594
And install proper twrp, please... or you won't be able to install any helium rom.
The device gets recognized in MiFlash, but after flashing the twrp and the stock rom, the device still does not boot.
Any proposes on my mistake?
EDIT: I just started the procedure again, unplugged the battery, connected the "jumper" and the phone booted properly.
After some failed reboots, it randomly booted into TWRP (now the right one, at least i hope so. gonna check this later) and I installed the latest RR (love the design).
So now, its just the ugly 3G-bug left and a little OC would be nice
Tsd560ti said:
The device gets recognized in MiFlash, but after flashing the twrp and the stock rom, the device still does not boot.
Any proposes on my mistake?
EDIT: I just started the procedure again, unplugged the battery, connected the "jumper" and the phone booted properly.
After some failed reboots, it randomly booted into TWRP (now the right one, at least i hope so. gonna check this later) and I installed the latest RR (love the design).
So now, its just the ugly 3G-bug left and a little OC would be nice
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Great job:good:
I unlocked an H812 (2017 version... serial starts with 702) several months ago and successfully flashed a stock Nougat ROM. Everything was working great until now. This past week, it randomly started shutting down. Yesterday, it got to the point where I could no longer boot into the OS. I think I got to the unlock screen once, and then it shut off. Now it simply boot loops. There is no SD card in the phone. I couldn't figure out how to get into Safe Mode from TWRP, so I did a factory reset. Still boot loop. I then did a factory reset + wiped the internal drive, and then reinstalled Stock N ROM. Still boot looped. Tried reinstalling the ROM again. Still in a boot loop. I know LG G4 has hardware issues. However, I can boot into TWRP just fine, the temperature doesn't look crazy at all, and it can stay in TWRP indefinitely without shutting down.
Something I noticed after wiping the internal drive is that when I'm finished installing N stock, it says it's successful, but when I checked the File Manager to look in the internal SD card, it still shows it as blank (with the exception of a TWRP folder). Is this normal? Isn't the operating system supposed to be installed on this? Why is it telling me that it's finished installing, and yet nothing is there. For fun, I tried booting up, and I'm still in a boot loop. But I assume it's because I have no OS? Or does the internal sd populate with files upon bootup?
I also used used fastboot and flashed the 4 core image (H811 because GPT compatibility said H811). And I also flashed the 4 core TWRP. I tried installing the stock N again, and file manager still shows no files or folders on internal sd except for TWRP folder. Phone still stuck in boot loop (no OS)?
Please, someone help!
I spoke with LG in case it is a motherboard issue, and they said they only replace the 2015 and 2016 model motherboards for free.
threehappypenguins said:
I unlocked an H812 (2017 version... serial starts with 702) several months ago and successfully flashed a stock Nougat ROM. Everything was working great until now. This past week, it randomly started shutting down. Yesterday, it got to the point where I could no longer boot into the OS. I think I got to the unlock screen once, and then it shut off. Now it simply boot loops. There is no SD card in the phone. I couldn't figure out how to get into Safe Mode from TWRP, so I did a factory reset. Still boot loop. I then did a factory reset + wiped the internal drive, and then reinstalled Stock N ROM. Still boot looped. Tried reinstalling the ROM again. Still in a boot loop. I know LG G4 has hardware issues. However, I can boot into TWRP just fine, the temperature doesn't look crazy at all, and it can stay in TWRP indefinitely without shutting down.
Something I noticed after wiping the internal drive is that when I'm finished installing N stock, it says it's successful, but when I checked the File Manager to look in the internal SD card, it still shows it as blank (with the exception of a TWRP folder). Is this normal? Isn't the operating system supposed to be installed on this? Why is it telling me that it's finished installing, and yet nothing is there. For fun, I tried booting up, and I'm still in a boot loop. But I assume it's because I have no OS? Or does the internal sd populate with files upon bootup?
I also used used fastboot and flashed the 4 core image (H811 because GPT compatibility said H811). And I also flashed the 4 core TWRP. I tried installing the stock N again, and file manager still shows no files or folders on internal sd except for TWRP folder. Phone still stuck in boot loop (no OS)?
Please, someone help!
I spoke with LG in case it is a motherboard issue, and they said they only replace the 2015 and 2016 model motherboards for free.
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Refer to FAQ # 5a in the UsU unlock thread.
Did you do a clean flash of the rom? If not, wipe cache, dalvik cache, system and most important, format data, before installing the rom again.
I note you did not mention flashing the appropriate gapps for the rom version you're trying to boot up. Maybe an idea if you didn't.
If all else fails, go to IRC (Support / IRC Channel paragraph in the UsU unlock thread OP) and get help directly from steadfasterX.
sdembiske said:
Refer to FAQ # 5a in the UsU unlock thread.
Did you do a clean flash of the rom? If not, wipe cache, dalvik cache, system and most important, format data, before installing the rom again.
I note you did not mention flashing the appropriate gapps for the rom version you're trying to boot up. Maybe an idea if you didn't.
If all else fails, go to IRC (Support / IRC Channel paragraph in the UsU unlock thread OP) and get help directly from steadfasterX.
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Yes, I did a clean flash. wiped cache, dalvik cache, system, and also formatted data (yes, formatted, not just wipe). I did not flash gapps because I flashed a stock Nougat ROM (the same one that has been working for months).
I'm really hoping to know whether it's normal for file manager to be blank and not show the Android, data, folders and all that. I want to know if those folders populate upon a successful bootup, or if they're supposed to be there right after the ROM says it's successfully flashed. That way I can tell if there is an issue with the ROM not installing (which if that is the case, of course I can't boot up).
I have been posting on the UsU thread, but steadfasterX said to flash 4 core boot rom and 4 core TWRP. I did that, but still no boot up. And I *think* there is no boot up because I have no operating system? Again, what is supposed to be in file manager after a ROM flash? I asked steadfasterX but have not gotten an answer.
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Yes, I did a clean flash. wiped cache, dalvik cache, system, and also formatted data (yes, formatted, not just wipe). I did not flash gapps because I flashed a stock Nougat ROM (the same one that has been working for months).
I'm really hoping to know whether it's normal for file manager to be blank and not show the Android, data, folders and all that. I want to know if those folders populate upon a successful bootup, or if they're supposed to be there right after the ROM says it's successfully flashed. That way I can tell if there is an issue with the ROM not installing (which if that is the case, of course I can't boot up).
I have been posting on the UsU thread, but steadfasterX said to flash 4 core boot rom and 4 core TWRP. I did that, but still no boot up. And I *think* there is no boot up because I have no operating system? Again, what is supposed to be in file manager after a ROM flash? I asked steadfasterX but have not gotten an answer.
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I know when I've clean flashed a rom in TWRP, I show no files in Internal in the USB connection screen. If you didn't get an error indicating no OS installed, I wouldn't worry about that for now.
Again, refer to FAQ #5a. Did you immediately flash the baseband file after the rom flash? Did you re-install the N modem? etc, etc. You may have to re-install the bootloader stack etc. Go through all the steps.
And again, go to IRC if all else fails.
Note: Please learn to use the Thanks button (bottom right of post), when members answer your questions or provide useful information when trying to help. It's an XDA courtesy - please learn to use it.
sdembiske said:
I know when I've clean flashed a rom in TWRP, I show no files in Internal in the USB connection screen. If you didn't get an error indicating no OS installed, I wouldn't worry about that for now.
Again, refer to FAQ #5a. Did you immediately flash the baseband file after the rom flash? Did you re-install the N modem? etc, etc. You may have to re-install the bootloader stack etc. Go through all the steps.
And again, go to IRC if all else fails.
Note: Please learn to use the Thanks button (bottom right of post), when members answer your questions or provide useful information when trying to help. It's an XDA courtesy - please learn to use it.
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Here's what I've done now at this point. I tried creating and flashing a 2 core boot image via fastboot, and then flashing the 2 core TWRP. Still bootloop.
I flashed the v29a N modem and UsU kernel for my device (H812), then went to TWRP and flashed stock N ROM again. Still bootloop.
I flashed N stock modem again, then baseband package for my model. Still bootloop.
I'm about to extract my MM modem and flash that.
Beyond that, I don't know what to do. I had zero issues with the UsU method originally and everything went fine and has been fine for the last couple of months since I did it.
Well, roadblock again. I attempted to extract modem from the kdz with SALT in FWUL, and after a while, I get a popup window that says: "This KDZ has an ARB of: arb-detect-error" and then it says "Select partition(s) to EXTRACT:"
Except there are no partitions to select. And my only options are "Deselect All" "Extract" and "Abort." If I try "Extract," I get the error, "No partition selected or abortioned by user."
I did make sure I had the latest version of SALT.
Gave up on salt to extract the kdz and turned to Windows. I didn't know what else to do. I was able to extract the .dz, and then extract the modem_32768.bin file. Transferred it to FWUL, renamed it modem_32768.img, and then typed
Code:
fastboot flash modem modem_32768.img
Rebooted, and still have boot loop.
I'm going to investigate this bootloader stack thing (I don't even know what that is). But again, I really don't understand why this all worked fine for a couple of months.
threehappypenguins said:
Gave up on salt to extract the kdz and turned to Windows. I didn't know what else to do. I was able to extract the .dz, and then extract the modem_32768.bin file. Transferred it to FWUL, renamed it modem_32768.img, and then typed
Rebooted, and still have boot loop.
I'm going to investigate this bootloader stack thing (I don't even know what that is). But again, I really don't understand why this all worked fine for a couple of months.
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