Is it possible to flash just the recovery image to my Samsung Galaxy S using Odin (or Heimdall)? Presumably I'd have adb shell root access on my phone when in recovery mode after that, without tainting the phone at all when it is running normally?
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Hi XDA, as title says, i cant get boot into recovery...
I have an HTC Dream (Spanish version of G1), and Im having problems with the recovery boot.
I have root done on the phone and i've tried to install a new recovery via Clockwork app, adb shell, also via Fastboot and via "RECOVERY FLASHER"...
All of them look to finish succesfully, but I still cant boot onto recovery.
Every time I try to boot on recovery, the phone gets hang on the company logo... until I get out the battery to turn it off.
I dont know what can I try more...
Any idea ?
Thanks
If you cannot boot into recovery by holding down Home and Power, then you're bricked, I believe. What were you trying to do?
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I can boot normally, and I run apps that need root correctly, but I want to boot into recovery to flash a custom ROM...
Clockwork mod needs to reboot into recovery to reflash a Custom ROM, so I cant get another rom that way neither.
Any idea (again)?
Do you have terminal on your phone? Download amon RA recovery 1.7.0 for HTC Dream and use that instead Clockwork because it is most recommended. Rename it to recovery.img and move it to the root of your SD card.
Go to terminal on your phone and type:
cd sdcard
flash_image recovery recovery.img
Now try to boot into recovery mode.
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If you have root access, then you can try to (re-)install your recovery image using adb.
Open a shell using the command
adb shell
and then from there you can try to flash the recovery image by entering
flash_image recovery recovery.img
where recovery.img is the name of the recovery image you want to install and it should be located in the current directory.
Edit: two people same ideas ... ;-)
Both things re-done...
Nuthin'
Anything else ?
Thanks for the answers anyway
Bump...
Any help ?
Fastboot is working for me, but I have the default SPL and I cant use "fastboot flash new_recovery.img" ---> Not allowed.
Theres a way to flash another SPL using phone terminal, or using fastboot ?
Thanks
I'm not sure, but if I was in the same boots as you, I would download the DREAIMG.nhb and flash that in fastboot. Once done, you'll be on Stock RC29. Yep, you're going to have to root again and re-install a custom recovery.
This is also safe to do since you're on HBOOT-0.95.000.
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Thanks for everything guys...
But now im looking for a "Howto unbrick G1"...
I dont have fastboot, recovery boot or normal boot...
hey guys i finally finished unlocking the bootloader on my 2.2.1 FRG83D build N1 but i couldnt get recovery.img to push to the N1 through adb.second option was to run "install-superboot-windows" for FRG83D build on bootloader screen from PC,soon as i did that N1 booted to the phone and i checked in the app menus and i have the latest "SUPERUSER" app.i really want to flash custom ROMS now.DO I HAVE RECOVERY or how do i get recovery now cuz i really wanna get started with flashing custom roms.any suggestions would help.thanx
1. Get a teminal emulator from the market and reboot recovery. or
2. Get quick Boot from the market and install/use that to boot into recovery or
3. Power down the phone and push the trackball+power to boot into recovery
If none of those 3 options work for you, your recovery did not flash and you will need to either reflash it. (making sure fastboot sees your phone with fastboot devices)
Or you could download ROM manager from the market. Using that, you can install clockwork recovery from the app itself.
Know-Fear said:
1. Get a teminal emulator from the market and reboot recovery. or
2. Get quick Boot from the market and install/use that to boot into recovery or
3. Power down the phone and push the trackball+power to boot into recovery
If none of those 3 options work for you, your recovery did not flash and you will need to either reflash it. (making sure fastboot sees your phone with fastboot devices)
Or you could download ROM manager from the market. Using that, you can install clockwork recovery from the app itself.
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i dont think i have any recovery,i just tried installing clockwork recovery and try to get in the recovery,it froze my N1 and i had to hard reset the N1.
Flash the recovery via fastboot, not adb...
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Hi All,
I had an N7000 device which is encrypted (phone and SD) in order to fulfil company mail syncing policy (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, with Goods for Enterprise and MobileIron installed). I had been on stock ROM all the while (4.1.2), until last weekend I decided to root it and remove all the bloatwares. Being unaware of the complication of flashing an encrypted device, I did the following while my phone remain encrypted:
1) flash the Philz recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901191&nocache=1), latest TW version. I copied the flashable zip to SD card and flashed via stock recovery. It failed. I can locate the zip file in SD card but it just failed to flash (can't recalled the error message. some sort of verification failed or (bad))
2) I proceed to flash using ODIN. It was successful and I got the Philz recovery with yellow triangle on the startup.
3) I installed the TriangleAway apps and it prompt me that SuperSU is not available on my phone which could bricked my phone if I proceed.
4) I installed SuperSU, and when applying the root, I select custom recovery. It turned out my phone become soft brick (phone stuck at startup N7000 screen with yellow triangle). However I still able to get into Philz recovery mode and download mode.
5) Tried to reflash the same Philz recovery latest TW version using recovery mode but failed . I tried to mount the /data and /emmc but never success. I reflash the same version of Philz recovery with Odin successfully but phone still soft bricked. I end up flashing older version of Philz recovery (TW version as well) and the phone able to boot as normal finally.
6) I run the SuperSU again and this time choose root Normal mode. Then I applied the Triangle away successfully and removed the bloatwares with clean master.
7) Afterwards, I noticed my company mail syncing is gone and decided to unroot (remove SuperSU). Finally syncing is back as normal again.
8) I tried to create nandroid backup through Philz recovery but failed when it trying to backup some partition (can't remember exactly which one)
My questions:
a) Is it normal I not able to mount /data and /emmc partition in recovery if my device is encrypted?
b) Is encrypted phone not able to do nandroid backup?
c) If I want to flash custom ROM on encrypted device, what are the correct steps?
d) Can I flash a custom ROM then unroot the phone so that the Microsoft exchange Sync, MobileIron, Goods for enterprise would work normally? As I understand, these apps not working if root is detected.
Thanks in advance for help!
I installed CWM recovery successfully, my phone's bootloader is also unlocked, but now my cwm is gone, i cannot boot into recovery mode! Any suggestions? do i need to install CWM again? will the root disappear if i do so?
Did you change your kernel?
If you reinstall cwm your root shouldn´t be gone (idk how you installed your recovery, so can´t say for shure ^^), but even if it does, it´s about 5 minuits to re-root your device via recovery
So I flashed a firmware way back and now I wanted to install a recovery inorder to install a custom rom. But my device\ doesn't go to fastboot mode.
I tried installing TWRP via APP and it says its flashed but its not booting into recovery.
is there any method to flash a custom recovery?
PS- Tried using ADB Shell too