Cant get into recovery console - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After many attempts to get into my recovery console, i'm just frustrated. i have flashed and tried at least 1000 times and still cant get my phone into recovery mode. help me please.

I absolutely love de amount of detail that you put on here, its enough to tell you that you have no root access.

Can you get into bootloader? (camera+power)

i do have it tho thats the thing. i have cyanogen 4.2.5 but after installing that a couple of weeks ago i have not been able to access my recovery console but once.

rp1783 said:
Can you get into bootloader? (camera+power)
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i just tried and it seems that i cannot access that either. this is truly annoying

well try to redo the root method.Can you get ADB?

I pulled my battery and retried to get into my recovery console. and i don't know how but it worked. thanks guys for the help.

chdrummerdude said:
I pulled my battery and retried to get into my recovery console. and i don't know how but it worked. thanks guys for the help.
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Oh no...
Happy holidays lol

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Boot Loop and Can't open Cache

After uninstalling astrid task manager my phone rebooted then started to boot loop (g1 screen then reboot).
I went into cyanogens recovery image (1.3.1) and I get E: Can't open CACHE. I can't do anything it's just stuck at this to reboot I have to take the battery out.
From what I've read I should be able to reformat my sd card and then it should work. Is this true? Assuming it does will I have to reapply the cyanogenmod image to get my phone working again?
Only problem is that I can't get XP or Win 7 to recognise the sd card anymore. I *should* be getting a new one tomorrow though.
I still have access through adb is there anything I can do before I get a new sd card?
I'm running:
HardSPL + Latest radio
Cyanogens Recovery Image 1.3.1
Cyanogens Mod 1.3.6.1
Update - I can get in via adb definitley now, I can mount the sd card and all the files are still there but I still have no idea how to recover to a workable phone.
digital006 said:
After uninstalling astrid task manager my phone rebooted then started to boot loop (g1 screen then reboot).
I went into cyanogens recovery image (1.3.1) and I get E: Can't open CACHE. I can't do anything it's just stuck at this to reboot I have to take the battery out.
From what I've read I should be able to reformat my sd card and then it should work. Is this true? Assuming it does will I have to reapply the cyanogenmod image to get my phone working again?
Only problem is that I can't get XP or Win 7 to recognise the sd card anymore. I *should* be getting a new one tomorrow though.
I still have access through adb is there anything I can do before I get a new sd card?
I'm running:
HardSPL + Latest radio
Cyanogens Recovery Image 1.3.1
Cyanogens Mod 1.3.6.1
Update - I can get in via adb definitley now, I can mount the sd card and all the files are still there but I still have no idea how to recover to a workable phone.
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So recovery mode isn't starting at all? Try booting the phone without the SD card in. It might give you a lot of errors, but might be able to get you to boot in the first place. That's first priority.
lukekirstein said:
So recovery mode isn't starting at all? Try booting the phone without the SD card in. It might give you a lot of errors, but might be able to get you to boot in the first place. That's first priority.
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I can get into recovery mode but the only command that works is Alt + L.
I don't have my phone on me because I'm at work but will try it later tonight.
Thank you very much!
Try to do a wipe. Alt+w. If that doesnt work i suggest getting into fastboot and flashing the cyanogen recovery image 1.3.1. Instruction are in the thread for fastboot. To get into fastboot press (Camera + Power) if that doesnt work try (Back + Power).
I tried to do a wipe but no luck.
Is fastboot the three skateboarding android guys I've heard of?
At the moment I'm just trying to get a lot of information so when I go home I can make a start at fixing it.
So far I really love the attittude of people on the forum, it's pretty awesome.
Argh when I try to boot into fastboot I just get the normal tricolour screen and not 3 android skating guys.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm using the hardspl btw
OK so I've done some more reading, I apparently need the engineering spl for fastboot. Which is ok but I can't get the recovery console to work to flash a new spl. This is really frustrating.
Arg so according to the spl thread I have the stock spl which sucks because I could have sworn I used the hardspl, I have the files on my hdd for gods sake. So now if I'm correct I'm ****ed. I looked over the Hayuko guide I used and it definitely said HardSPL (http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cach...=35&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a).
I'm stuck now.
Last post before I go to bed. I hope someone can help. If I don't hear anything then I'm off to t-mobile to see if I can get a new phone. If they can't then it's off to ebay.
You'll need the engineering spl or hard spl to flash a rom have you ever flashed a modified rom. Or are you stock. Do you have a2sd. I would imagine if your able to get to fastboot or some kinda recovery your not bricked. You can get an insurance replacement and use that phone as a test phone. Its fixable, need some more info.
soulife said:
You'll need the engineering spl or hard spl to flash a rom have you ever flashed a modified rom. Or are you stock. Do you have a2sd. I would imagine if your able to get to fastboot or some kinda recovery your not bricked. You can get an insurance replacement and use that phone as a test phone. Its fixable, need some more info.
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I figured out what happened. I updated to the latest radio which pretty much reset my spl.
My SPL is now stock but still working, recovery image isn't though, main os isn't either.
Is it possible to flash Hard SPL from the normal SPL.
Try putting DREAIMG.nbh at the root of your sdcard and go into your spl and flash it.
wigwag said:
Try putting DREAIMG.nbh at the root of your sdcard and go into your spl and flash it.
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Ok it's doing it. But so far it's stuck on a full bar.
Succesful now booting into android
dude I owe you so much! <3
Spoke too soon when it gets to the android screen it still reboots
I can get into android but it keeps rebooting.
You said a few posts back you have adb setup, what does logcat say is goin on when it reboots.
digital006 said:
After uninstalling astrid task manager my phone rebooted then started to boot loop (g1 screen then reboot).
I went into cyanogens recovery image (1.3.1) and I get E: Can't open CACHE. I can't do anything it's just stuck at this to reboot I have to take the battery out.
From what I've read I should be able to reformat my sd card and then it should work. Is this true? Assuming it does will I have to reapply the cyanogenmod image to get my phone working again?
Only problem is that I can't get XP or Win 7 to recognise the sd card anymore. I *should* be getting a new one tomorrow though.
I still have access through adb is there anything I can do before I get a new sd card?
I'm running:
HardSPL + Latest radio
Cyanogens Recovery Image 1.3.1
Cyanogens Mod 1.3.6.1
Update - I can get in via adb definitley now, I can mount the sd card and all the files are still there but I still have no idea how to recover to a workable phone.
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Your computer is probably not reading it because it's may not be assigned a drive letter. Try this... Go to control panel...Administrative tools...Computer management...Disk management...scroll down until you see your sd card partition. Right click on it and there should be something there that says assign a drive letter. Maybe this could help.
Clay
DCOCH13 said:
markbencze said:
Mark, have you had yours or heard of anyone saying their keyboard reverts back to samsung default? Even if I flash one of your keyboard mods, it still does it. Never did on X16. I'm on att.
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Nope. Definitely a first. You mean stock color?
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markbencze said:
DCOCH13 said:
Nope. Definitely a first. You mean stock color?
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Back to this.
How the hell we end up in this thread lol
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DCOCH13 said:
markbencze said:
Back to this.
How the hell we end up in this thread lol
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Looks like alexender kb
Mods bring us back to jedix17! Lol
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respect, teach & coach, have fun and say thanks!
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markbencze said:
DCOCH13 said:
Looks like alexender kb
sent from my Jedi powered Note ll
respect, teach & coach, have fun and say thanks!
the Jedi way
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Sorry. That's the theme I'm on. Have always been on this theme so I guess I have no clue what factory kb looks like. I ran your mods before with no trouble. Not a big deal... just like the flaming skull kb of yours.
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DCOCH13 said:
markbencze said:
Mark, have you had yours or heard of anyone saying their keyboard reverts back to samsung default? Even if I flash one of your keyboard mods, it still does it. Never did on X16. I'm on att.
Crap!!! Forgot to thank you in advance.
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All good man. Alexander is solid!
Try flashing again. Hopefully she sticks this time!
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cM RECOVERY NOT FLASHING WITH TELNET

I hit enter key twice on home screen. it does nothing. then i type telnetd it searches for that contact. i hit enter once. then i hit home. then i download telnet. i type exactly whats in the guide. then reboot and hold power home it hangs at tmobile g1. i reinstalled the nbh 2 times already so thats not the issue anymore. I can get to basic setup but not recovery. if i just hit power button it goes to regular home. if i hold home and power it hangs. it hung all night on charger last night. and i did it agian now and its hanging
Are you following this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563679
to the t
I actually had to un root and and im trying to re root.
my phone messed up big time but it wasnt brciked. I couldnt get to recovery b4 I unrooted or now
I had the new radio and the newest spl 10.95.3000 or something like that. but now im back on stock. Tmobile told me they will push out the 1.6 not the cupcake to me in 3 days so i cant even wait to get cupcake to do one click...im ****ed bro i need help lol
So what happens when you type the commands in telnet for the recovery image.
I hit enter after each one and it moves to next command line. nothing else. after the final one i hangs for like half a second like it did something. but its so fast unless you pay attention you wont notice it. then i immediately hit home key then power off and try to go to recovery where it hangs. but if i don't try to go to recovery it wont hang it boots fine.
I would try to redownload the recovery image. What was the initial problem why you unrooted and want to root back.
k ill try to. Re do the recovery image. And see what happens
Phone froze up and wouldn't go to recovery while I was rooted. Couldn't get to fastboot either
bansawbanchee said:
Phone froze up and wouldn't go to recovery while I was rooted. Couldn't get to fastboot either
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Yea I just read your other thread. See what those evil thoughts will do to your phone. lol. Yo you get down on madden.
Na. No madden. Not since I had a ps2. Lol yea. What u think is wrong with this **** phone? I'm typing from g1 so I can't get the new recovery on phone yet till I get home. Fucvkin rc29 sucks no usb mount no pics....**** phone. Help pls. What could it be if its not the recovery image?
bansawbanchee said:
Na. No madden. Not since I had a ps2. Lol yea. What u think is wrong with this **** phone? I'm typing from g1 so I can't get the new recovery on phone yet till I get home. Fucvkin rc29 sucks no usb mount no pics....**** phone. Help pls. What could it be if its not the recovery image?
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It kind of sounded like your recovery went bad somehow, but can't say for sure. The first thing I would have tried would have been to reflash the recovery while you still had root access but I know you already flashed RC29. Another thing you can try is the one click method and see if that will work so you don't have to go thru telnet.
I thought I cant one click root in rc29? Only cupcake?
bansawbanchee said:
I thought I cant one click root in rc29? Only cupcake?
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no it should work on all of them pre-donut. the flaw was discovered while on cupcake though

crap, radio flash help

Well I was flashing the froyo radio just now through fastboot, it sent successfully, and wrote successfully, I waited a few minutes before touching the phone, then went to boot into recovery... As soon as I hit recovery, it vibrated like 4 times quickly, and now my phone is stuck on the multi colored x with the lock on it. I do not want to touch it until I consult with you guys to see what to do next.
Edit: going into fastboot, I can still see the phone using fastboot-windows devices.
Sorry, i'm not trying to be impatient, but i'm at work, and I need to leave, however I don't want to touch my phone. So if anyone has a second to tell me what to do do that would be extremely appreciated
can you get into fastboot or recovery?
Not with it locked as it is... I didn't want to pull the battery and then try booting it until I heard from someone.
Tostino said:
Not with it locked as it is... I didn't want to pull the battery and then try booting it until I heard from someone.
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I believe you should be fine in pulling the battery and trying to boot into recovery or fastboot.
It worked! In recovery now. God I was scared I bricked my phone 0_0.
Thank you for giving me the encouragement I needed lol, I was terrified to pull the battery .
Tostino said:
It worked! In recovery now. God I was scared I bricked my phone 0_0.
Thank you for giving me the encouragement I needed lol, I was terrified to pull the battery .
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try downloading the radio update file from rod's thread and place it in SDcard. then use the recovery to update your radio.

Force Reboot Recovery/Download

Is there a file in the android system that, sort of like an autoexec.bat, lists what to do on startup? For example forcing the system into recovery or download on power on?
I flashed the latest Vibrant firmware and did so with the option to repartition, which Im now finding out was not the right way to flash this one.
Long story short, it didnt contain the dbdata directory information and now, I am unable to boot and unable to get to download. I still have ADB access, it just isnt responding to ADB reboot download, it just comes right back up booting into recovery to flash the last stage of odin before it starts up.
Is there a way to force the phone back into download mode or force it to stop rebooting into recovery?
Pull battery out and USB to use the hardware buttons to manually get into download mode?
P.S. wrong forum
Aren't there some apps that can do that? I do it manually but like you said its not working for you, p.s im downloading that firmware
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iwillkillyou said:
Aren't there some apps that can do that? I do it manually but like you said its not working for you, p.s im downloading that firmware
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OP said that he isn't able to boot so I believe he's stuck on the loadup to Android.
zephiK said:
Pull battery out and USB to use the hardware buttons to manually get into download mode?
P.S. wrong forum
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Manual buttons arent seemingly working, so far ive tried every conceivable combination of vol up down and power, even if all I do is plug the phone in Im back in recovery before the battery turns green.
(ps. I know, but I had a billion percent better chance not getting a mouthbreather response, despite the definite chance of flame posts lol)
Viralblack said:
Manual buttons arent seemingly working, so far ive tried every conceivable combination of vol up down and power, even if all I do is plug the phone in Im back in recovery before the battery turns green.
(ps. I know, but I had a billion percent better chance not getting a mouthbreather response, despite the definite chance of flame posts lol)
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Try every step here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771247
Have you successfully gotten into Download mode with hardware buttons before? Or are you one of those vibrants with "locked download?"
I have a feeling mines locked, Ive never used the buttons to successfully get into download mode, just adb reboot download
EDIT: Tried the posts suggestions, problem is second I plug in the USB and the battery pops up it goes right to recovery. Even if im holding the buttons before hand.
Viralblack said:
I have a feeling mines locked, Ive never used the buttons to successfully get into download mode, just adb reboot download
EDIT: Tried the posts suggestions, problem is second I plug in the USB and the battery pops up it goes right to recovery. Even if im holding the buttons before hand.
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x_x don't know what to tell you then. With locked hardware, you have to be really careful because if something goes wrong you cant manually get back in there. Do you have Clockwork Recovery? try restoring to a previous nandroid backup.
zephiK said:
x_x don't know what to tell you then. With locked hardware, you have to be really careful because if something goes wrong you cant manually get back in there. Do you have Clockwork Recovery? try restoring to a previous nandroid backup.
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I was working with that a bit, but it just kept getting to datadata and being unable to wipe or flash to it due to the odin botch. I tried wiping it clean and it just wouldnt let me do that to reflash.
So now im stuck at the samsung recovery screen without the ability to get into clockwork or flash lol
This smells like 130 bucks for a new phone I think... brick number two >.>
Viralblack said:
I was working with that a bit, but it just kept getting to datadata and being unable to wipe or flash to it due to the odin botch. I tried wiping it clean and it just wouldnt let me do that to reflash.
So now im stuck at the samsung recovery screen without the ability to get into clockwork or flash lol
This smells like 130 bucks for a new phone I think... brick number two >.>
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Why did you change update.zip? Update.zip should always lead to Clockwork :|
zephiK said:
Why did you change update.zip? Update.zip should always lead to Clockwork :|
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I didnt! But when I was formatting and it failed to reapply the nandroid completely cause of the section it couldnt mount, now when I hit reinstall packages it just reboots. Same with shell, it just yells at me and tells me to die in a fire.
if you didnt figure this out, the way to fix it is to first flash WITH ODIN the original JVD firmware and check repartition, then flash the new one IN ODIN without the repartition box checked.
first update includes the dbdata that the phone is looking for.
Yeah, I figured it out now, but Odin is seriously the devil if your phone doesnt have the hardware buttons enabled.
Now heres a question, if I can still get into stock recovery... is there a way to like, you know, recover using the stock system? lol
BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS that Tmo is letting me warranty out my phone for free, shipping me a new one, and gave me a loner while I wait.
TMo for the win.
Viralblack said:
BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS that Tmo is letting me warranty out my phone for free, shipping me a new one, and gave me a loner while I wait.
TMo for the win.
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lol looks like you and I are in the same boat man. Hardware lock FTMFL. I have never been able to get into download mode, or recovery mode with the hardware keys, only with adb reboot recovery/download and terminal emulator app with SU privs. I wish there was a jumper we could reset to unlock it haha that'd be the s*# son. Good old pentium 133 in the palm of the hands, but no . Atleast they are taking care of the people who don't do things properly.
I did the same thing and ended up with the same problem, but i was able to get in into download mode. When i would plug it in it would try to boot into recovery after the battery screen i would use the keys to make it boot to download mode instead of recovery, it was a *****, but i got it, though idk if there is another way for people with locked down phones.

[Solved]Stuck in bootloader, cant get to recovery

got a dilema here. Went to flash a rom and half way through the flash, the phone rebooted its self. got back into the bootloader but cant get back into recovery. When i try to get to recovery it just goes back to the bootloader.
in sdk, i did adb devices and the device doesnt show
How do I reinstall a recovery again, Hope i didnt screw myself here.
drlzanej said:
got a dilema here. Went to flash a rom and half way through the flash, the phone rebooted its self. got back into the bootloader but cant get back into recovery. When i try to get to recovery it just goes back to the bootloader.
in sdk, i did adb devices and the device doesnt show
How do I reinstall a recovery again, Hope i didnt screw myself here.
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If you have not tried this.. try it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
Not sure it will help but its worth a try
I would try to push these also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236418
budeone said:
If you have not tried this.. try it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
Not sure it will help but its worth a try
I would try to push these also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236418
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Thanks budone, lol I just panicked bro, had the recovery.img in the wrong folder. When I tried to push it. ( noob mistake) kinda red in the face. Thanks man
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Very glad to hear you are up and running. Last month somehow I pushed the wrong img to a phone.
Took me a while to figure wtf happened. :highfive:

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