Hello,
I have just got the new Doogee DG900 & I might have ruined it already.
I was trying to be sensible & create a backup of the stock ROM. I followed directions to create a custom recovery using MTK droid tools & SP flashtool but now I think that I am stuck in a boot loop. The screen constantly flashes from black to grey but will not load.
By holding power & volume up I am able to get to a menu that gives me a choice between recovery, fastboot & normal boot but it will not let me select one.
I have e-mailed doogee requesting a ROM that I can flash but no reply & it seems to be too new for any firmware to be on the internet.
Any suggestions?
So you still have the backup?
It didn't let me make one. It would not let me enter recovery mode to finish the process.
According to various forums other doogee models have required different weird combinations of button pushes, eg: when I get to that menu I mentioned with the three options I should press the volume down button five times & then the power button or press the power button twice, the volume down once & then the power again.
I am hoping that there is some strange combination that I have not discovered yet that works for this model so that I can enter recovery mode & then factory reset but I have experimented a lot & not found it.
(2014-11-05, 18:29)leesnose Wrote: [ -> ]It didn't let me make one. It would not let me enter recovery mode to finish the process.
According to various forums other doogee models have required different weird combinations of button pushes, eg: when I get to that menu I mentioned with the three options I should press the volume down button five times & then the power button or press the power button twice, the volume down once & then the power again.
I am hoping that there is some strange combination that I have not discovered yet that works for this model so that I can enter recovery mode & then factory reset but I have experimented a lot & not found it.
I'm not sure who gave you this info, but it's not true. If they entered recovery that way it was in spite of their strange button presses, not because of.
Yes, when you get to the menu you should be able to navigate with vol+ and vol-, one of them goes through the 3 options, the other one selects the option. If I'm remembering correctly, it's vol+ to navigate and vol- to select, but it may be the other way around.
You don't make a backup through recovery. You make it with SP Flash Tool and MTK Droid Tools. See the "Ultimate backup tutorial" in the tutorial section. But since you're bricked now, that won't help, it will just backup what's currently there (eg, the soft-bricked ROM)
Although I could not get into the recovery mode at the first step I did press on with the rest of the instructions but I was stopped because I did not have a files.md5 as they said.
I wonder if I made a mistake when making the cwm recovery. I wonder if there is another way to get into the recovery menu. I cannot use the adb terminal because it will not power on far enough.
I don't know about those guides. Maybe follow the CPA guides and you'll be better off.
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You will likely have to wait for the stock ROM to be released from Doogee or another user to have DG900 and upload their backup.
I will certainly look here first next time.
Let us hope that someone uploads their ROM soon.
The phone is fairly new. But I guess someone will get the ROM up within the next week or two.
My best guess is that you flashed a modified boot.IMG. Do you remember flashing boot.IMG? Just flashing recovery should not have caused this unless it was an incorrect scatter.
I might well have flashed the boot.img at the start that I made as well as the recovery.
There has been a bit of a development in that I tried flashing the boot.img & recovery.img & after I unplugged it from the computer I was able to turn it on & it booted normally.
I got a message saying the storage was corrupted (not the external SD card, which I had already removed) and would I like to format it. It did nothing when I said yes.
No problems are solved however because when I try to turn it off it just goes straight back to the flashing grey & black screen. The only way I can stop this is by flashing again.
This happens when I try anything that involves turning it off - ie. telling it to restart or trying a factory reset from the settings.
It does mean that I can access it from a pc if there is anything useful I can do to affect it from there.
Any advice on how to repair corrupted internal storage?