I tried to use Yemenroot to root my phone and ended up stuck in a Boot recovery and no matter what I try I cant get out of it. What suggestions could anyone give me? Ive tried the factory reset option and the clear cache. neither helped. Thanks in advance!
Stuck in Boot Recovery
- Thread starter trizzypballr
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Not sure exactly what you mean by "stuck".
Are you saying that every time it reboots it boots into the recovery?
If so, then:
- Pull the battery
- Reinsert the battery*
- Boot the phone by holding down Vol-Down+Home+Power*
When it asks you if you want to go into Download Mode, select Cancel (Vol-Down iirc)
The phone should boot into the regular ROM, albeit completely unconfigured, as you have already performed a factory reset (which wasn't needed btw).
If the Stock ROM won't boot you will have to flash the Stock ROM in Odin
*don't have the phone plugged in to a PC at this point or it will spontaneously reboot.
Are you saying that every time it reboots it boots into the recovery?
If so, then:
- Pull the battery
- Reinsert the battery*
- Boot the phone by holding down Vol-Down+Home+Power*
When it asks you if you want to go into Download Mode, select Cancel (Vol-Down iirc)
The phone should boot into the regular ROM, albeit completely unconfigured, as you have already performed a factory reset (which wasn't needed btw).
If the Stock ROM won't boot you will have to flash the Stock ROM in Odin
*don't have the phone plugged in to a PC at this point or it will spontaneously reboot.
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Thanks for responding! Yes you are correct that it boots in recovery. Home+Power+Vol Down brings me up to a Warning screen, says if i want to download a custom OS to hit vol up, if I want to cancel press Vol Down. I press vol down and it puts me back into recovery boot again.
If you are familiar with YemenRoot maybe I just screwed up doing that and can still continue with that to fix it? I ran the program, choose Tar.1 in Oden and hit start. Went back to the command prompt and "pressed any key" to continue. It went to 2). Rooting, but never went any farther. The phone automatically rebooted but into recovery mode. That was where I thought something went wrong and stopped.
EDIT: I went back again and pressed vol up to see where it would take me. It takes me back to the downloading screen like it showed in one of the steps for the root. I ran tar.1 and tar.2 and was able to get the phone usable again. No luck with the YemenRoot though
Tried going through to do it a second time and came up with the same issues. It just sits on (2) Installing root forever and the phone eventually reboots into Recovery again. Im not sure how to get Yemen to work correctly, and no one seems to respond in the yemenroot post that I found on here.
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Well that's a little odd & unexpected.
[Edit] - Oops, I didn't initially see the part about you getting it working [Edit]
I can't help you out with Yemenroot, I've never used it. (But I suspect the stock ROM needs to be booting in order for it to work, so you are going to have to do the Odin Flash no matter what)
I can suggest that if you are going to keep trying w/ yemenroot, I would only minimally configure the (factory reset) stock ROM in case you end up back in the same spot again.
PS if you know how to create Odin .tar.md5 files, you could create a "reduced" stock flash for Odin containing only boot.img & system.img. That way you could "dirty flash" those two in Odin if you got in the same situation again... without needing to do a factory reset.
good luck
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I flashed using odin N900VVRUEOF1_N900VVZWEOF1_VZW. It took the flash but is now stuck on RED Verizon screen. Ity is like it is doing something but not fully recovered?? Any suggestions?
Then how in the world did you root your phone? I thought those were the only ways to get your device rooted?
I used Kingo root when my phone was on MJ7 and I never upgraded thereafter.
Even now my phone is only on the MJE bootloader (it can be rolled back to MJ7).
The version of TowelRoot that I have (v3?) currently seems to work on all stock versions from MI9-NC4, but it wasn't yet released when I rooted.
I'm not planning on upgrading my bootloader past NC2 until such a time as I am going to sell the phone, or there is a way to upgrade only the bootloader components while preserving root in the ROM.* My motivation for that is quite frankly to avoid using the yemen root tool.
*So that the bootloader unlock can be performed immediately thereafter, to regain bootability of a custom recovery. IMO this should be trivial so long as OB6/OF1 bootloader will boot a rooted-stock kernel+ROM from 4.4.x (NC4, NJ6, NK1). Frankly I believe that to be more likely than a 4.4.x bootloader booting a 4.3.x rooted-stock kernel+ROM (MI9/MJ7/MJE).
Why do you not want to use the yemen tool? The one for Windows 10 worked flawlessly for me.
The ends don't justify the means.
No disclosure of method.
No prior or subsequent author activity on XDA
Use of a PC
No Windows 10 box that I am willing to expose to random executables from unknown authors on the internet.
I for sure understand not wanting to risk it. I really didn't either but didn't have another choice other than to stay unrooted.
Use Jasmine ROM 6.1, it is based on OF1 and works fine.
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