Hi everyone,
I have a problematic Nexus One. I've googled the issue and read all the corresponding threads and none of them seem to have boot loop issues as bad as mine. At least I dont think so, anyway.
Where should I start? I recently bought the phone off ebay. The seller did clearly state the phone's issues and that he couldn't be bothered fixing it, let alone paying over $200 to send it back to Google to be repaired or replaced (from Australia). Call me a sucker for punishment, but I do like dabbling in electronics so I thought I'd give this a go and hopefully will be successful. It wouldn't bother me if it rebooted once every few days then rebooted again normally but this isn't the case. I'll try to describe it's behaviour as precisely as I an and I sincerely hope the collective expertise on this forum will be able to help me successfully resolve this issue. BTW, I've been using a gorgeous Desire since July.
The Nexus one is running Modaco r21, 4.06.00.12_7 radio, 2.6.32.9 kernel, CMR 2.5.1.0.
1. When the phone has been powered down for at least 5 mins, it will power up as normal. If left alone on the bench or very lightly used ie a few minutes, then pwr button sleep, no problem. If I continue 'sleeping' the phone every few minutes while using it it continues to function normally for a few hours. If I don't 'sleep' the phone and use it continuously, then after about 20 mins it goes into a reboot cycle with the static 'X' going on and off every few seconds then ending up with the continuously on "X" with the unlocked padlock underneath, which is unrecoverable until the battery is pulled.
2. Battery reinserted immediately after removal and the reboot cycle continues. I can boot into the white Recovery or Fastboot sreens but when I select an action like Recovery, the boot loops starts again. Battery pulled and reinserted again, boot loop occurs again. Pull battery and leave it out or powered down with battery inserted for 5 mins, reboots normally. Then point '1' above continues.
3. I have Rom Manager, Titanium and Superuser Permissions installed. I received the phone with Eclair installed and after many attempts managed to install the new radio and Modaco R21. Last night I tried doing a back up via Rom Manager since I cant get into the black Recovery screen and now Titanium and SU are force closing.
This is all I can think of right now and will update with more info as they come to light. I've been trying to install setcpu to see if underclocking will help however I have been unsuccessful due to SU force closing. I am an Android and Linux noob but am always willing to learn. I really would like to get more stability in this phone so I can either use it as my primary or back up.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Edit. I magaed to do a factory reset when it dont momentarily allow me into Recovery mode. Wiped all data and davlic as well.
My first instinct is that the phone has suffered or is suffering from a heat problem of some type.
Do you have the android SDK set up on your computer? You should be able to flash an aftermarket recovery using the "fastboot flash" commands. You could also use the "adb reboot recovery" command to reboot the phone directly into recovery mode.
I'll give your suggestions a try. What fastboot commands should I be entering? I am an absolute virgin with all this.
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I think this thread should have some good information for you
Thanks for the link, mate. I'll have a read and I'm sure there'll be more Q's soon.
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Hi again,
I've installed Android SDK and usb drivers. Where do I go from there? I am a complete newbie at this so please be kind.
julian.kueh i was posting to ask how things have been progressing along this matter?
I got the same problem. No matter what I do, I can get into Recovery. It stay in loop with X
I change twice recover and nothing.
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Last night, I downloaded InnovationsOS v3 from the Nexus One Android Development forum. Prior to this I was using FRF50, and I have a rooted Tmobile Nexus One. I wiped the phone back to factory settings and also wiped the Dalvik cache (as I've been told in the past). Flashing went just fine and within a few minutes I had InnovationsOS after a reboot. (Let me just say, with this one minor exception, InnovationsOS looks incredible and I loved every minute of it).
After install, I set up AdFree which removes ads. I decided to do a quick reboot. The reboot wasn't so quick, and it stuck on the startup screen (the Nexus One/Google logo with the unlocked symbol below) for about 3 minutes. I didn't think this was good, so I tried a battery pull hoping for a normal reboot. Instead, what I got was the android falling out of the box. I tried a battery pull again and attempted to enter recovery, which worked. I wiped, and reloaded FRF50, and rebooted. I got the android and the box image, which wouldn't let me even boot into recovery anymore after several battery pulls. After a couple minutes of being completely stumped (and scared lifeless) I let the phone sit, and somehow it booted into recovery, where I wiped (again) and flashed InnovationsOS (again). After it loaded, it rebooted, and it's been working great since then, with the exception of one minor screen/keyboard bug...I press S, and get Z, or I press delete, and I get enter, etc. Plus hitting OK or Cancel on dialog boxes is impossible and need to use the trackball.
So, I would like to reboot to fix this problem and want to know what will happen, and I want to know what I did wrong above. I know all this sounds completely noob for this forum but I'm willing to learn, which is why I've been experimenting with rooting and flashing roms.
Thanks a lot, any help is appreciated.
Droid 4 running Stock Jb 4.1.2, Safestrap 3.11, Liquid smooth 2.9, CM (last stable)
Everything working fine for a number of months, installed Liquid smooth via -> delete romslot 3, create romslot 3, install Liquid 2.8.
It ran for a number of days no problems. Restarted fine, all features worked great, even the annoying random restart from 2.4 went away.
6 - 10 days in, im surfin' the news sites at work, put it down, screen goes black, i pick it up. Hit the power button cause i realize its off and it just boot loops... so bad i had to vol-/+ pwr, go to flash mode and THEN turn it off b/c it just kept trying to restart, hang on logo.
I got home and decided to AP flash the latest:
9.8.2O-72_VZW-18-2
Blur_Version.98.72.182.XT894.Verizon.en.US for the maserati.
Boot looped a few times, i was able to get it to go into recovery mode, after that it loaded up the stock JB system. First boot it crashed and restarted, second boot it loaded but only the keyboard worked, not the touch screen. Went to the in OS option of factory reset mode + delete storage.
Rebooted, worked. Checked it a few boots, everything is fine. I use Druid 4 Utility Xt894 JB version and apply the root. Works great. Install safestrap, Create new partition, install liquid smooth 2.9. Works for an afternoon... at work today the touch screen stops responding, i restart it a few times. I try to enter recovery mode. Now im in boot loop again...
I've tried re flashing it again, a few times. I tried even going down to the previous release of JB for the phone. STILL 4.1.2!!!! But nothing.... it just boot loops... what did i do wrong? It was running great. No tweaks or anything done to it prior to it having its melt down.
Help please.. ive provided as much information as possible and though i only joined XDA now to post for help, i have read it for a long time as my main source for my phone and have donated to both CM and Liquidsmooth teams previously..
help!!!
I can't see where you are doing anything wrong. You have obviously done your research and have a good idea of what you are doing. I see, after you fastbooted, you went back to Liquid. I think I would try running CM10.1 or even stock for a few days and see if you have the issue there as well. If you do than it sounds to me like it might be a hardware issue. If not, maybe try re-downloading Liquid. Perhaps your zip got corrupted somehow.
I would love too. In fact i would be willing to run it on the stock crappy 4.1.2 if i could get it out of boot loop this time...
It just keeps boot looping on the logo. AP Fashboot flash and BP flash work but recovery and normal boot/reboot mode just goes into M logo boot loop.
I've re downloaded the 4.1.2 jb SBFs from 2 different sources to ensure its not a corrupt file, tried 18_1 and 18_2 software versions...
Is there a way to use the abd shell to get into the filesystem and check whats going on? Is the SBF the last call? or is there another route to see whats going on or just flash EVERYTHING? Like completely back to stock?
I can find my way around a PC file system but im not familiar with linux. Please help me understand, Is it like having CMOS and BIOS settings or equivalent to damaged CMOS firmware? What am i not replacing/reverting by SBF and HOW can i replace/revert BEYOND the basic sbf...
If ya point me in a direction or to someone who can help me out i can do all the foot work just point me in the right direction?
Is this applicable? I found a site talking about using CWM in a ADB shell file push to possibly get access to more features?
The article also goes into reading the busybox / ADB command screen? (sorry for not proper jargin) and see what its doing during the boot loop before it restarts?
Id add the link but i need more posts....
Update: Flashed 18_2 again with a "factory cable" i made, let it boot loop a series of times before it started up into the stock system again.
At first, again the touch screen wouldn't work, random lockups and restarts, etc. Since i just got it into the main system again and i had to leave for the weekend for a trip(no wifi or network), i couldn't mess with it all weekend but i left it on the whole time and kept checking its functionality... gradually its come back to full function. Touch screen works and is accurate, no more lockups, no more restarting, even stopped boot looping when i restart and enter recovery..
Im not sure and i couldn't find any forum converstations or write ups to support to idea but i think after a major crash and you flash new or reflash your SBF, it seems the phone needs time to recalibrate and index? Not sure, but just an FYI. Gonna try loading SS and liquid again.
I was on Cyanogen 10.1.3 stable (at&t), S-off, rooted with Team Win recovery.
I flashed this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582066
which is the unsense with Beats (my reason for flashing)
It flashed fine, but when it loads the OS, it displays a message saying something along the lines of htc.dialer not responding, so i select ok to force close. the phone works fine for 20 seconds, then reboots. cannot open the phone number pad, though, it remains blank. if i select wait, same thing, 20 seconds and reboots.
the power button seems to not work anymore, i press it and nothing happens so i am unable to enter recovery/bootloader, it is just endlessly rebooting.
one thing i didn't do (i should have but i was lazy) was to make sure my firmware and radio was up to date, mainly because i couldn't figure out which version to use. i am on bell canada.
am i completely screwed, or is there some way to save this?
i can follow step by step instructions, and have rooted/flashed several phones throughout the years with no issue, and have flashed this HTC one about 15-20 times with no issue. however, i am not a programmer by any means.
i tried to follow this guide (i don't know if this is for my problem or now) but i couldn't find the adb usb device thing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2503646
if anyone has any suggestion, please let me know!
thank you
EDIT: Nevermind!!! For some reason, the power button randomly started to work again, and after trying 20 times, I was finally able to load recovery and revert back to CM. Whew.
My wife's phone is completely stock, I have never rooted it or anything.
A couple of days ago, she started getting a strange notification with the android icon and something called Smith with the message that it is disabled. Her phone would reboot itself a couple of times a day and now it is stuck in a boot loop. The phone has been stuck in the loop for a couple of hours now, stopping on the white android screen for a second and shutting down, rinse and repeat.
I can get into recovery by ONLY holding down the volume key, which is kind of strange. I also cant select anything in recovery.
Any help would be appreciated, she is about to kill me and switch to an iPhone.
allstarfung said:
My wife's phone is completely stock, I have never rooted it or anything.
A couple of days ago, she started getting a strange notification with the android icon and something called Smith with the message that it is disabled. Her phone would reboot itself a couple of times a day and now it is stuck in a boot loop. The phone has been stuck in the loop for a couple of hours now, stopping on the white android screen for a second and shutting down, rinse and repeat.
I can get into recovery by ONLY holding down the volume key, which is kind of strange. I also cant select anything in recovery.
Any help would be appreciated, she is about to kill me and switch to an iPhone.
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Follow this guide - it should fix you up.
StormyNight said:
Follow this guide - it should fix you up.
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unfortunately this doesn't apply to my situation because the phone has never been rooted
allstarfung said:
unfortunately this doesn't apply to my situation because the phone has never been rooted
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Follow the instructions here then. Be warned though, this will wipe everything, including internal storage.
The Smith file is some file that HTC put into the ROM that expired in mid-August. Ever since then, the app shows as expired when you reboot. Nothing you can really do about it if you are not rooted, but HTC is supposedly working on a fix that they will push via OTA.
However, it shouldn't be causing the bootloops as far as I know. If a factory reset doesn't work, then running the RUU is most likely the way to go.
Hi, this is my first post. I have tried to search and look through the question threads, but nothing seems to be close to the problem I have here, hoping someone can help me.
I have this Xperia TX, recently given by my friend, it can boot up ->sony->ribbon-> entering system->shutting down, it's not like a sudden blackout but more like a command sent telling the phone to shut down, it has the window saying shutting down and vibration at the end, but the shutting down is instant, can't operate yet. I made several approaches trying to fix it, these are what I have been done with it.
-Flashing different stock ROMs using flashtool, the flashing went perfectly without errors, and phone will boot and install new system until the setup wizard (languages, time etc) comes out on screen, and it shuts down right away.
-I used flashtool to unlock BL, succeeded.
-I flashed TWRP, it can boot into TWRP without any problems and working fine.
-I formatted the phone partitions using TWRP, working fine.
-I flashed cm-12.1-20151010, and same thing happened as soon as the system launcher comes out.
-And I flashed stock ROM again, the problem remains.
The phone won't charge the battery, so I tried using a separate charger avoiding 0 battery situation (I do see the battery icon showing 50%+ when it shutting down), and I also tried another lt18i battery (don't want to buy a new one yet in case the phone is dying), and there is no different.
I don't understand the problem, all the operations work fine but can't boot in system, doesn't seem like a hardware thing but what else can it be? I am not hoping to fix it any more at this point, but can anyone tell me what could possibly cause this? Can I read a boot up log somewhere so that I know what happens during booting?
I hope I didn't break any routine or do anything wrong here, if I did, apologies in advance, thank you.