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[Q] Can't Flash ClockWorkMod Recovery

I have a Streak 7 (unlocked WiFi + 3G/4G) with Stock Honeycomb. I previously Rooted it and had CWM Recovery installed (not sure which version, but I think it was 5.something). Somehow, I seem to have reverted to the stock recovery. I don't know how this happened, but I noticed it first when I tried to make a backup last week. I have tried several times to flash CWM recovery (both versions 5.0.2.7 and 5.0.2.8) but I keep getting the stock recovery when I boot to recovery. Otherwise, everything seems to operate normally.
I use fastboot to flash recovery and get the following:
C:\Android ADB Streak\Streak\Win32>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (4402 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.507s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.355s]
finished. total time: 1.863s
On the Streak screen, I see:
Starting Fastboot USB Download Protocol
Flashing StorMgr partition recovery
Read after write partition recovery
then I reboot the Streak:
C:\Android ADB Streak\Streak\Win32>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.002s
But when I boot into recovery, I get the stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong?

wdwray said:
I have a Streak 7 (unlocked WiFi + 3G/4G) with Stock Honeycomb. I previously Rooted it and had CWM Recovery installed (not sure which version, but I think it was 5.something). Somehow, I seem to have reverted to the stock recovery. I don't know how this happened, but I noticed it first when I tried to make a backup last week. I have tried several times to flash CWM recovery (both versions 5.0.2.7 and 5.0.2.8) but I keep getting the stock recovery when I boot to recovery. Otherwise, everything seems to operate normally.
I use fastboot to flash recovery and get the following:
C:\Android ADB Streak\Streak\Win32>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (4402 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.507s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.355s]
finished. total time: 1.863s
On the Streak screen, I see:
Starting Fastboot USB Download Protocol
Flashing StorMgr partition recovery
Read after write partition recovery
then I reboot the Streak:
C:\Android ADB Streak\Streak\Win32>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.002s
But when I boot into recovery, I get the stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong?
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You press/hold +Vol button, press/hold the power button till the menu comes up. You then select option #2 and press the power button. That will take into CWM.

Thanks. I feel like a clone:cyclops:; I forgot about selecting option 2. Although it would be helpful if each Android device didn't have a different way of getting to Recovery.

Thank you very much .... But when I select option 2 "install update .... " my device freeeze on boot !!!!!!!!!!
Can you give me a solution please .. thanks

kdultimate said:
Thank you very much .... But when I select option 2 "install update .... " my device freeeze on boot !!!!!!!!!!
Can you give me a solution please .. thanks
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You've flashed the CWM via Fastboot and your trying to boot into it now?

I would make sure you are at least 60% charge first.

Yes .... Exactly i flashed cwm via fastboot ... Writing recovery ok ... But when i tried to enter " the device freeze on install update package and i cannot make anything... Thanks

kdultimate said:
Yes .... Exactly i flashed cwm via fastboot ... Writing recovery ok ... But when i tried to enter " the device freeze on install update package and i cannot make anything... Thanks
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There are a few different CWM versions, so it's possible that you used a version not compatiable with your ROM.

The same was happening to my streak but i installed version 3.0.x.x and it worked with that one
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File system slow in recovery. Can't flash ROMS.

Hello!
Having a pretty big problem, as I am trying to help my girlfriend get her phone all recovered and usable again for her. On our HTC Ones, we both use Android Revolution HD and were updating to the latest (4.4 version). With my phone, the installation of TWRP 2.6.3.3, then the rom went completely fine.
On her phone, it is going terribly. I made one mistake and forgot to copy the ROM over to the device before I wiped her system, so I don't have the new file to flash. I attempted to flash the old ROM, which was sitting on her device, but it is extremely slow to the point of we waited about an hour or two and it never installed. I have attempted to sideload, but the file is copying much slower than expected. Heck, everything involving the filesystem is running slow, even data wipes! I tried a full system erase, so now I am at a position where we have no flashable ROMS on the device.
I have tried both adb push and adb sideload to send the file, and both never successfully complete, even after waiting hours.
Where do I go from here? Any idea why flashing roms and file system is running so slow?

Change USB port/cable/computer and try push/sideload again
sent from my mobile device

SaHiLzZ said:
Change USB port/cable/computer and try push/sideload again
sent from my mobile device
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I tried this already. I know this is not the cause as installing a zip of a new rom literally takes about 2 hours to write to the system.
Even a fastboot flash recovery takes about 30 seconds on her device, tested with multiple cables on two macbook pros. My HTC One flashed normally in less than a second...

When I flashed recovery:
MacBookownloads limitin$ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (9184 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.333s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.696s]
finished. total time: 2.029s
When I flashed her phone with the same recovery file (TWRP 2.6.3.3):
MacBookownloads limitin$ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (9948 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.450s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 35.708s]
finished. total time: 37.158s
Same phone. Some hboot version. Only thing I had to do to hers first (I had done mine previously) was use revone to s-off her device, which was successful after a few attempts.

Help htc butterfly s , iam an expert in android but i failed :(

hii ...
i have HTC butterfly s phone is boot looping ,,,
issue :
when entering OS i can see the lock screen for 3 seconds then reboot.
solutions tried :
1- tried to wipe from TWRP recovery when it reaches /data >>> reboot.
2- tried to install another ROM without wiping >>>> reboot
3- tried to install CWM recovery , it says completed in fastboot (CMD) but recovery is not changing.
4- tried to lock the boot loader again , it says no such file or directory .
5- tried to boot in safemode but i see the lock screen for 3 seconds then reboot
iam stuck ... please help
thank you

hello
it happened to me the same, I just download it stock rom that is here, you have to see the version of your phone to know which is for yours.
greetings and good luck
all credits to the creator of the post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663295

GAVANA said:
hello
it happened to me the same, I just download it stock rom that is here, you have to see the version of your phone to know which is for yours.
greetings and good luck
all credits to the creator of the post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663295
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hi .. thanks for reply ,,,
i downloaded stock rom 2.21 and tried to flash it from recovery when it tries to install the rom when it reaches to writing /data phone reboots
you mean something else ?
thanks ...

i want to add one thing ,,,
i have TWRP recovery 2.6.0.0 and i want to change it to CWM , i try to install from fastboot and it says successful but when i go into recovery its not changed !!!!!!
recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (12364 KB)... OKAY [ 1.794s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.983s]
finished. total time: 2.777s

hwoarang626 said:
i want to add one thing ,,,
hello
at first I was the same with the recovery, but install this and it worked well, and use that version of android stock for now
but if you want to upgrade later (OTAS), you would have to have stock recovery and unroot your device, saludos
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2730482 .
i have TWRP recovery 2.6.0.0 and i want to change it to CWM , i try to install from fastboot and it says successful but when i go into recovery its not changed !!!!!!
recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (12364 KB)... OKAY [ 1.794s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.983s]
finished. total time: 2.777s
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hello
at first I was the same with the recovery, but install this and it worked well, and use that version of android stock for now
but if you want to upgrade later (OTAS), you would have to have stock recovery and unroot your device
regards
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2730482

its the same ,,, i tried to install the recovery you gave me but it did not install the recovery , Iam still stuck with a recovery that is not doing anything .
thanks

one more point ,,, i noticed that my /system is empty ...

hwoarang626 said:
one more point ,,, i noticed that my /system is empty ...
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Since no one else is really helping you I will.
So what I gathered is your Rom bootloops and you've tried installing stock Rom but still no luck so you want to switch recoveries but you can't get twrp to flash...?
1. Are you S-Off or S-On? If you are s-on you must flash boot.img with this command
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
2. To flash a recovery made for your device you must place it in fastboot and enter this
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
3. Place Rom on internel storage if you choose cwm because it doesn't support external sdcard like twrp. For latest twrp, message @kairi_zeroblade... If you can't place on internal with cwm then you must do a sideload with the Rom same goes for twrp.
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xXminiWHOOPERxX said:
Since no one else is really helping you I will.
So what I gathered is your Rom bootloops and you've tried installing stock Rom but still no luck so you want to switch recoveries but you can't get twrp to flash...?
1. Are you S-Off or S-On? If you are s-on you must flash boot.img with this command
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
2. To flash a recovery made for your device you must place it in fastboot and enter this
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
3. Place Rom on internel storage if you choose cwm because it doesn't support external sdcard like twrp. For latest twrp, message @kairi_zeroblade... If you can't place on internal with cwm then you must do a sideload with the Rom same goes for twrp.
Want to support InsertCoin? Just get our donate key
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thank you for your help ,,,
im S-ON
fastboot flash boot boot
.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'boot' (6104 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.830s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.590s]
finished. total time: 1.420s.
fastboot flash recovery
cwm6.0.4.5.img
sending 'recovery' (12364 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.430s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.990s]
finished. total time: 2.420s
i did what you said but nothing changed im still on TWRP recovery 2.6.0.0 and my room is boot looping

hwoarang626 said:
thank you for your help ,,,
im S-ON
fastboot flash boot boot
.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'boot' (6104 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.830s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.590s]
finished. total time: 1.420s.
fastboot flash recovery
cwm6.0.4.5.img
sending 'recovery' (12364 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.430s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.990s]
finished. total time: 2.420s
i did what you said but nothing changed im still on TWRP recovery 2.6.0.0 and my room is boot looping
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Not sure if you can enter this command without a-off but try
Code:
fastboot erase cache
Then repeat the previous post....
If that doesn't work I'd try firewaters universal s-off tool and obtain s-off and try that command or see if it fixes your issues with your device. if that fails your best bet would be to ruu.. if you can't do that either you got a useless device till s-off exploit Is found if that's the reason why it's messing up.... Or donate it to someone who could fix it (me)
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xXminiWHOOPERxX said:
Not sure if you can enter this command without a-off but try
Code:
fastboot erase cache
Then repeat the previous post....
If that doesn't work I'd try firewaters universal s-off tool and obtain s-off and try that command or see if it fixes your issues with your device. if that fails your best bet would be to ruu.. if you can't do that either you got a useless device till s-off exploit Is found if that's the reason why it's messing up.... Or donate it to someone who could fix it (me)
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i tried this and no luck ,,,
actually i tried every thing but the problem is that the data does not change in the phone ,, i even formated (real format fsck) to /data and it was showing its empty but after reboot everything went back ,,, iam fixing android phones since htc desire but never faced anything like this ,,,
thank you for your help ,, and what you mean by donate and get it fixed ?

hwoarang626 said:
i tried this and no luck ,,,
actually i tried every thing but the problem is that the data does not change in the phone ,, i even formated (real format fsck) to /data and it was showing its empty but after reboot everything went back ,,, iam fixing android phones since htc desire but never faced anything like this ,,,
thank you for your help ,, and what you mean by donate and get it fixed ?
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Seem like you fried your "/data" partition from what you just mentioned above. The only way I could see you fix is ruu. Cause HTC won't fix it if you send it in with a custom recovery at which you can't change.
And what I meant is since the device is rendered completely useless, unless you can get a run to ruu. You'd donate it to me this way i could try and fix it...
Sent from my HTC0P4E1 using Tapatalk

xXminiWHOOPERxX said:
Seem like you fried your "/data" partition from what you just mentioned above. The only way I could see you fix is ruu. Cause HTC won't fix it if you send it in with a custom recovery at which you can't change.
And what I meant is since the device is rendered completely useless, unless you can get a run to ruu. You'd donate it to me this way i could try and fix it...
Sent from my HTC0P4E1 using Tapatalk
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i think im facing the same problem here, do u know where we can find the RUU, I searched the whole internet and i could not find, im ready to donate if u fix my problem and provide me with the RUU.
Regards

mr_wehbe said:
i think im facing the same problem here, do u know where we can find the RUU, I searched the whole internet and i could not find, im ready to donate if u fix my problem and provide me with the RUU.
Regards
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There is no RUU for this phone, as far as I know. The closest thing to RUU is flashing everything by hand, but this seems to have failed in this case, unfortunately.

Flash recovery FAILED (remote: no transfered data)

Hello,
1. I think I may have bricked my phone, here's what I did. I was S-OFF, Super CID. Installed new M4 RUU, the only one I could find and then decided to install Stock_SixthSense-M4_5.11Base.
2. I had an error at the end of it 'unable to mount /system'.
3. Tried to start adb sideload to try a different ROM, couldn't start either.
4. Rebooted phone to booloader, tried to start recovery TWRP, screen flashing not starting.
5. Tried to reinstall recovery and this:
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'recovery' (9432 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.188s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: no transfered data)
finished. total time: 1.219s
What is happening? Please help!

calbertuk said:
Hello,
1. I think I may have bricked my phone, here's what I did. I was S-OFF, Super CID. Installed new M4 RUU, the only one I could find and then decided to install Stock_SixthSense-M4_5.11Base.
2. I had an error at the end of it 'unable to mount /system'.
3. Tried to start adb sideload to try a different ROM, couldn't start either.
4. Rebooted phone to booloader, tried to start recovery TWRP, screen flashing not starting.
5. Tried to reinstall recovery and this:
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'recovery' (9432 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.188s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: no transfered data)
finished. total time: 1.219s
What is happening? Please help!
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Try to run the RUU again. If it is successful, then you are back to stock. There is a HTC One Mini forum which will have more expertise than this forum.

majmoz said:
Try to run the RUU again. If it is successful, then you are back to stock. There is a HTC One Mini forum which will have more expertise than this forum.
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The RUU did install properly. It's an AT&T RUU though and there aren't any others which is a bit of an issue.
Still can't get a custom ROM to install with TRWP

calbertuk said:
The RUU did install properly. It's an AT&T RUU though and there aren't any others which is a bit of an issue.
Still can't get a custom ROM to install with TRWP
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I don't know what you are trying to accomplish but here is a possibility: How to : Flash HTC One Mini with out S-OFF and no need RUU Stock ROM and [ROM][M4 - 4.09.401.3] Official Stock Sense 6 Rom v2 & Firmware

Cant install recovery / can't unlock [Xperia Z]

I Unlocked someones Xperia Z and installed Cyanogenmod and TWRP on it some time ago. It was too unstable for their liking so they reset it to its stock settings using Sony Emma (or whatever its called).
Well now that they've got a nexus 6P, they've given the Xperia Z to me, so i tried to install TWRP and i get errors trying to overwrite the recovery.
Upon inspection of the bootloader lock settings i found it to say "bootloader unlockable: Yes", which indicates it is unlockable but not yet unlocked, and it continues to say this no matter how many times i attempt to unlock it.
Below is a demonstration attempt to unlock the phone and install TWRP:
Code:
[email protected] ~/Desktop $ sudo fastboot oem unlock 0xC431F679A4E1ECEB
...
OKAY [ 0.408s]
finished. total time: 0.408s
[email protected] ~/Desktop $ sudo fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.002s
[email protected] ~/Desktop $ sudo fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
sending 'recovery' (10656 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.337s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.339s
[email protected] ~/Desktop $ sudo fastboot flash boot twrp.img
sending 'boot' (10656 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.337s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.563s]
finished. total time: 0.900s
I've also tried it using flashtool on Windows and similarly it doesn't work.
I can't understand why it would work the first time, but now that its been factory reset the unlock doesn't work.

Have you tried with Xperia z dual recovery? (XZ dual-recovery) . It's very simple to install, for more info please refer to the official thread.

aaronkatrini said:
Have you tried with Xperia z dual recovery? (XZ dual-recovery) . It's very simple to install, for more info please refer to the official thread.
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To do that i'd need a custom recovery, and i can't install one because the bootloader is locked and there is no recovery present on the device.
EDIT: ah i just saw the install exploit for unrooted devices. I'll give it a shot.

Didn't work unfortunately :/
I wasn't able to to use dual recovery to unlock the phone.
I downloaded and then installed a 10.3.x.x version of a stock xperia Z rom using flashtool, then i ran the dual recovery setup. EVERY operation reported that the file or folder didn't exist,and that the install had failed.
I was able to root the phone using Root Genius. I then installed TWRP manager and tried to install TWRP from there (this worked on that phone before), but it corrupted the rom so now it just freezes and restarts on the boot animation.

Recovering with Emma does not relock the bootloader. So bootloader should still be unlocked. Recovering with Emma also removes root so you need to root your device before you can install a custom recovery.
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You are indeed right! although the problem appeared to be a locked bootloader at first, it now appears it was a corrupted recovery partition.
I, again, set the phone to a stock 10.1.x.x ROM (it was still corrupted from last time so i had to reset it again using Sony Emma) using flashtool and rooted using Root Genius. I then tried to use flashify to install XZ-dual-recovery but it told me the recovery partition was missing.... so i searched around and found the cure to my woes may be DooMKernel, so i set it up, and everything fell into place from there! below is how i believe it worked:
1. Used fastboot on my PC to install DooMKernel v22 as per the official page instructions
2. successfully booted into TWRP
3. used TWRP to install XZ-dual-recovery
4. successfully booted into CWM recovery
5. used CWM recovery to format all internal paritions
6. used CWM to install ROM and root
Thank you everyone for your help!

My xperia z has the 5.1.1 rom and is rooted.
The boot loader is locked and I couldn´t unlock it.
I cannot get into recovery with PC, neither with the buttons.
I like to install a custom 6.0 rom.
any suggestion?
thxs in advance for your support.