[Q] Atrix stuck on Moto bootscreen, unable to enter CWM recovery

[pkvlover004]

I'm pretty new to the whole flashing business, so if whatever I asked does not make sense, please be patient. Thanks!

I recently flashed the Neutrino Rom V2.6 from V2.5p2. Got lazy and didn't do a full wipe before flashing (also my battery was at ~5% ) After the installation, I successfully booted into Android, but realized that the fresh ROM didn't have multilingual or sync support (since the Neutrino Rom is a stripped down CM7), so I booted back into recovery (still with low battery)
I subsequently flashed the addons provided by the dev for multilingual and sync support, and when I selected "Go back" in CWM recovery, it displayed a long string of error messages, I believe starting with E:\"........."
Ignoring the error messages, I selected "reboot system", hoping luck would be on my side, but it wasn't
the result of all this is is that I can only "turn on" the phone with it plugged, and it will go through loops at the Moto bootscreen...also if I try to enter recovery by pressing "power+vol down", the screen goes blank and does not enter CWM recovery. Further, I am also unable to charge the battery for some reason, because as soon as I plug the phone into the wall charger, it will go through the Moto bootloop
My question is, is this a hardbrick or softbrick?
If it's a softbrick, is there any way of fixing it, or has somebody else ran into a similar problem?
Please help me out here, like I said, I'm new to the whole world of flashing stuff, so much advice is needed, and any help would be appreciated!

Thanks a lot ahead of time

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

I'm pretty new to the whole flashing business, so if whatever I asked does not make sense, please be patient. Thanks!

I recently flashed the Neutrino Rom V2.6 from V2.5p2. Got lazy and didn't do a full wipe before flashing (also my battery was at ~5% ) After the installation, I successfully booted into Android, but realized that the fresh ROM didn't have multilingual or sync support (since the Neutrino Rom is a stripped down CM7), so I booted back into recovery (still with low battery)
I subsequently flashed the addons provided by the dev for multilingual and sync support, and when I selected "Go back" in CWM recovery, it displayed a long string of error messages, I believe starting with E:\"........."
Ignoring the error messages, I selected "reboot system", hoping luck would be on my side, but it wasn't
the result of all this is is that I can only "turn on" the phone with it plugged, and it will go through loops at the Moto bootscreen...also if I try to enter recovery by pressing "power+vol down", the screen goes blank and does not enter CWM recovery. Further, I am also unable to charge the battery for some reason, because as soon as I plug the phone into the wall charger, it will go through the Moto bootloop
My question is, is this a hardbrick or softbrick?
If it's a softbrick, is there any way of fixing it, or has somebody else ran into a similar problem?
Please help me out here, like I said, I'm new to the whole world of flashing stuff, so much advice is needed, and any help would be appreciated!

Thanks a lot ahead of time

Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!

You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE. SKIP THE FIRST 4 STEPS, read this:

boot to recovery (DISREGARD)
Wipe Dalvik (DISREGARD)
wipe cache (DISREGARD)
factory reset/data (DISREGARD)
boot into fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot
flash ROM in recovery
wipe Dalvik
wipe cache
reboot

This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500

Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.

NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.

 

[wsxyz]

i have the same problem i was trying to connect my wifi it showed ..error...flashing 1-cm7 rc 1 ....neurtrino ee....darkside.....then neutrino gt in that order i flashed........i get the same thing u get the phone just continues to turn on n off on boot animation screen.....no cwm i just shows a black screeen ............anyone can assist us with are problem

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

i have the same problem i was trying to connect my wifi it showed ..error...flashing 1-cm7 rc 1 ....neurtrino ee....darkside.....then neutrino gt in that order i flashed........i get the same thing u get the phone just continues to turn on n off on boot animation screen.....no cwm i just shows a black screeen ............anyone can assist us with are problem

Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?

 

[pkvlover004]

Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!

You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE read this:

This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500

Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.

NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.

Thanks for the reply!
When I plug in the phone without battery, it just goes to the Moto boot screen, and starts the loop again...the usual "?" symbol doesn't appear at all
I've done battery calibration before, where it was required to plug phone into wall charger without battery, and the "?" has always appeared

 

[pkvlover004]

Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?

I CAN select Fastboot from the menu, but it says "battery too low to flash"

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

Thanks for the reply!
When I plug in the phone without battery, it just goes to the Moto boot screen, and starts the loop again...the usual "?" symbol doesn't appear at all
I've done battery calibration before, where it was required to plug phone into wall charger without battery, and the "?" has always appeared

Can you plug in your phone, with the battery in, to your pc and get to the fastboot, recovery, etc menu???

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I CAN select Fastboot from the menu, but it says "battery too low to flash"

Try getting to that menu and let it charge for a while? Have you tried that? ANd I mean, let it charge for about an hour. Charging might take longer than usual because your screen will be on.

 

[pkvlover004]

Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?

Can you plug in your phone, with the battery in, to your pc and get to the fastboot, recovery, etc menu???

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Try getting to that menu and let it charge for a while? Have you tried that?

trying to charge at fastboot menu now
will try fastboot/recovery via USB soon

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

trying to charge at fastboot menu now
will try fastboot/recovery via USB soon

Good luck!

 

[pkvlover004]

update: charging on the fastboot screen now - the battery is a little warm, that means it's getting charged up?

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

update: charging on the fastboot screen now - the battery is a little warm, that means it's getting charged up?

It is possible, but remember your screen is on.

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

I guess you're good now?

Sent from my MB860 CM7 olympus latest nightly 30p Radio. Leave your charger at home!

 

[pkvlover004]

sorry for the late reply...and thanks for all the help
no actually am not, I still can't get the battery charged up, which is the biggest issue right now...
I think if I can find someway to charge the battery without plugging in the phone, it's possible to enter fastboot with a charged battery
otherwise, even if I get to the bootloader menu (fastboot, nvflash, recovery etc etc), when I plug the phone into the computer and select fastboot, it'll still say "battery too low to flash"

 

[Marcelocohenarg]

Just a suggestion...trying to help. What if you find out a fresh charged battery before starting the recover procedure? I dunno if it will work because I dunno if there is some kind of serial number checking at this low level in the phone....I see that under no circunstances could you charge your battery again...

 

[Soldier-2Point0]

Just a suggestion...trying to help. What if you find out a fresh charged battery before starting the recover procedure? I dunno if it will work because I dunno if there is some kind of serial number checking at this low level in the phone....I see that under no circunstances could you charge your battery again...

sorry for the late reply...and thanks for all the help
no actually am not, I still can't get the battery charged up, which is the biggest issue right now...
I think if I can find someway to charge the battery without plugging in the phone, it's possible to enter fastboot with a charged battery
otherwise, even if I get to the bootloader menu (fastboot, nvflash, recovery etc etc), when I plug the phone into the computer and select fastboot, it'll still say "battery too low to flash"

Borrow or buy a battery. Or make a new thread asking how to charge battery. Title on the thread is misleading.

 

[wsxyz]

thanks

Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!

You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE. SKIP THE FIRST 4 STEPS, read this:

This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500

Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.

NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.

i use this method n it worked thanks..to bad my wifi still shows up error after i attempt to connect it it doesn't reboot thats good i think

 

[heavyarms1912]

low battery

Even i am stuck in recovery. No matter how many times i flash a ROM after wipe data/ cache partition and dalvik and then install the ROM i still boot into recovery when the ROM asks to reboot the device.

Here's what happened

1. Had a nandroid backup of older version of CWM mostly 5.0.2.x
2. Based on Nottachtrix thread installed the romracer recovery(updated flashable zip)
3. Updated to Nottachtrix 1.3.1 and successfully booted
4. Figured out that contacts everything weren't synced. So wanted to go back to older CM7 rom using restore ROM
5. Something went wrong during restoration. Data and other wern't restored and i guess only boot had been restored
6. Endless loop into recovery thereafter.

Trying out different things like flashing boot.img, recovery etc battery drained and couldn't flash.

Fasbtoot and other options triggered by using volume buttons and power button works fine. RDS also detects the device but bootloader unknown and other info all were unknown.

Since battery drained i was searching on methods to charge the battery. Had figured out that custom method for charging the phone needs to be implemented.

While playing around again with phone i powered it through directly through charger and opted for linux cold-booting which gave me the battery icon with the question mark on screen. Popped in the battery and it started to charge. So now i know i can charge the battery using this method.

I am yet to make progress on flashing ROM successfully again. Is my backup lost ? Did the error happen because i backed up using an older version of CWM or flashing to Nottachtrix changed something

I even restored successfully to my previous ROM after deleting .android secure from ext SDcard but still it threw me to CWM only :|

Help appreciated.