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Recovery Image dissapeared

I had Cyanogen's 1.4 recovery image and one day it suddenly just wasn't there. I hadn't even rebooted to recovery mode in weeks and have no idea how it happens. Now I have the red, white, green screen and can't flash anything.
This randomly happened, I hadn't flashed anything or even messed with the phone in a long time. Anyway, how can I get my recovery image back? Since I need a new one I might as well upgrade to RA's.
I'm pretty sure I have root, since it says I have CM 4.2.12 and all the root functions still work. I'm just missing the recovery image.
Any ideas?

Dunno what you did, but to flash RA's image..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
read instructions in the thread, take about 2 minutes. Do it through adb since there's c+p

Can't do it through adb since I don't have any recovery image

Lemeja said:
Can't do it through adb since I don't have any recovery image
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As long as you still have root you should be able to do it using adb while you're phone is running ie: not in recovery

This is strange...I can't even run fix_permissions, it says access denied.

Just cannot load ANY ROM

Okay so im sure the answers for this are here in this forum, but this forum is huge and Ive been working on this for 2 days now. Just got a G1. Want to put ANY rom on it at this point. Ive tried following the "[GUIDE] STOCK-2-CYANOGEN" sticky in the development forum several times, to a T, and cant seem to even get past the 3rd step.
Ive started this over and over again - here's my process. Put DREAMIMG.nbh on my newly formatted FAT32 2GB SDcard. Reboot, get into bootloader, flash the phone with the update. Phone restarts, I enter my google info in, Im on the phone. I place cm-recovery-1.4.img on the sdcard root (ive tried two others and they have the same outcome) Now I root, which took awhile to work in the first place.. enter enter, telnetd, enter, go to market and download telnet. connect localhost. I type this:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd sdcard
flash_image recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img
cat cm-recovery-1.4.img > /system/recovery.img
....everythings gravy, no errors thrown, etc. I put the Hard SPL update.zip on the root of the sdcard, i shut phone off. Attempt to go to bootloader, it stalls on the G1 splash screen, and Ive waited up to 30 mins, before i ultimately have to remove the battery. I cannot load into, or add a new recovery console so I can even continue attempting to flash ANY rom. SO, I start from scratch...over, and over again. Unroot the phone, reload original bootloader, and they work. 2 days in circles!
Now I normally can figure these types of things out, especially with research that this forum has plenty of, but im at my wits end. WTH am i doing wrong I cant follow these guides any better than word for word! Man Ill PAY someone to just get a rom loaded for me at this point heh

wow that guide is old use this one
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Main_Page#Upgrading_from_Vanilla:_Installing_your_first_mod

okay this is where Im getting hung up on. I did all of that, and once I turn off my phone to install the actual OS, this part "Flash Android1.6 & CyanogenMod latest", i hold home and press power, then the Tmobile G1 splash appears and just hangs... Never proceeds to the recovery option or anything for that matter, without taking out the battery. It doesnt do this when I have it stock, just after i flash cm-recovery-1.4.img

I've no idea if you'll get different results, but you could try flashing Amon_RA's recovery instead of cyanogen's. Just change cm-recovery-1.4.img to recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img (or whichever version you choose).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669

Okay so I just used Amon_Ra's, followed the instructions and flashed it via terminal, with no errors, just the same as cm_recovery reacts. Shut off fone, and tried home+power. Its frozen on the G1 splash............... How is it if I actually just revert it back to unrooted stock, the recovery console works fine..but any of the updated ones I need to use to get a ROM just will NOT work..?? Please help, im seriously going on like 17 hours with this thing...I genuinly will pay someone if we get this figured out! So very desperate!

hmm strange.
in terminal type
su <enter>
reboot recovery <enter>
Or from command prompt if you have adb setup
adb reboot recovery <enter>
see if that gets you into recovery correctly.

I apologize, I forgot to mention I had done that also, shortly after my last post.. Its not like im not doin the research here hehe. I did the $su, then reboot recovery. it rebooted, and froze at the same splash. I dont have adb, nor know what it is. This shouldnt be this complicated i wouldnt think. Do u think its something wrong with my phone that I cant simply load an alterate recovery image? I mean, it DID work before I had to continually set this thing back to stock..

just fyi, bc ive seen other ppl have this problem..i resolved the issue by reloading dmd64 firmware, then starting over again. I also used recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2 instead of recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2 or cm_recovery. Not sure if this made a difference in addition to updating to dmd64, but i was finally able to boot in to recovery and flash the images

I've got the exact same problem !!!
I've installed and used custom ROMs for over a year now, and last week I tried to upgrade to CM5 and since then, I haven't been able to use any other custom ROM, only the official HTC ADP1.6 stock ROM (which sucks...).
Each time I install one, it freezes on the G1 screen and nothing happens (even restoring my pre-CM5 nand backup does the same, it freezes on G1 screen )
Haven't had time to try yet (and honestly, I'm a bit tired of reflashing my phone, I need it sometimes and those things take a lot of time...), but I'm going to try switching back from Amon Ra's latest to Cyan's 1.4 recovery, reflash adp1.6 and a superD right after it, without rebooting to see if it works.
I'll let you know if it works (and then wait for official Froyo, if it ever comes out for the G1, with its official Apps2SD...)

How do you use clockworkmod rom manager?

I have a Mytouch 3G running test 7 on my phone, and i just installed the clockworkmod rom manger. After, installed it i wanted to flash a new rom, so flashed the clockwork mod recovery, and when i tried to install the new rom from the sd card, it keeps on getting stuck on the mytouch screen, and nothing happens. How do i get into the recovery screen? thanks

First: This belongs in Q & A !!!!111
Which ROM did you flash? Maybe you had to wipe before

right now, i'm running cyanogen test-7, but when i go into the clockworkmod rom manger app and pick the flash rom from sd card, it just says it has to go to the recovery, and then my phone will reset and it would just get stuck on the mytouch screen. So, i just pull out the battery and reset the phone again, and i realized if i press the end button, it will go the rom that is already on the phone. I'm i suppose to push some buttons or something to get to the recovery screen?

No it should flash the rom you select and reboot the phone to boot the new rom without keypress needed.
maybe the wrong device was selected when downloading the recovery image? Try reinstalling clockworkmod recovery from rom manager.

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I have the same problem.
I downloaded and installed Rom Manager from the Market and it has completely screwed up my recovery (I can't get into it at all). I tried flashing Amon's again (through Rom Manager) and it still doesn't work.
HTC G1. CM5.07 test 7 (trying to go to stable!).

Your recovery has been corrupted, you will need to flash it through fastboot.

JAguirre1231 said:
Your recovery has been corrupted, you will need to flash it through fastboot.
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Yes thank you. I erased recovery partition in fastboot then reflashed Amon's.
Working now.

i got into the fastboot screen, but i have 4 options. hboot mode, reset device, restart to hboot, and power down. how do i flash from here?

illmatic282 said:
i got into the fastboot screen, but i have 4 options. hboot mode, reset device, restart to hboot, and power down. how do i flash from here?
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Connect to your PC via USB, and from the command line issue "fastboot erase recovery" and then "fastboot flash recovery filename.img"
More on common fastboot commands here can be found on these forums, i'm not allowed to post links.

i connected my phone to my computer but nothing on my computer pops up. only the new hardware wizzard pops up. what do i do from here? im i suppose to get a adb popup? how do i set up the fast boot? i'm so confused..thanks

some one, please help..i want to be able to flash new roms in the future...thanks in advance

Can I sugges that you try this sticky thread at the top of this forum board.
It contains all you need to know on who to set up fastboot and how to use it - there are a couple of tutorials on it if you read through the thread.

CM 5.0.7 for Dream/Sapphire introduced a bug in flash_image. It causes recovery flashes to fail. It has since been fixed in the latest test of 5.0.8 I believe.

Man i have the same darn bug cant get back into recovery for nothing, and i dont have a pc to fastboot i have a non intel based mac so no adb or fastbooting, i have been doing fine for forever without adb or fastboot but is there any way around this one, i need help bad, im on HTTClay Superbadv1.3 and it has all sorts of bugs but i cant nandroid or bart or flash any rom without recovery, can someone please help!!!
Also is there another way to erase the recovery partition?

Help! home+power = black screen with reboots, no recovery, ROM Loads Normally?

Hey all, Im on Firerat's version of CyanogenMod 5 (latest), same SPL and radio in my sig. I tried to flash Amon's latest recovery, but i got an "Out of Space" error in terminal, so i tried to clear up things on /system, and flashed it through adb. I rebooted into recovery by holding power and home, and it took me to a black screen and it kept rebooting constantly into the black screen, i had to pull my battery out for it to stop. However, the ROM loads just fun with no problems...I tried reverting to my old version Amon RA 1.6.2, and i got no error on terminal, strange thing is the newer Amon Recovery is a smaller filesize...I tried redownloading and installing it but not luck...when i rebooted into recovery, same thing. Am I doomed to a recovery-less G1 or is there hope? =O
Thanks everyone!

If you already have ADB access on your computer
Flash the recovery through fastboot or Droid Explorer

thanks for the suggestion, tried that and same as before it still shows the g1 logo then a black screen, then the g1 logo and logo fades away to a black screen and it goes into a loop where its constantly vibrating and rebooting and showing a black screen the whole time. im confused..

while in adb did you try to command it to reboot to recovery or explore and see if you indeed still have a recovery or not?

Kemekill Products said:
while in adb did you try to command it to reboot to recovery or explore and see if you indeed still have a recovery or not?
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i rebooted into recovery with adb but it was corrupt. i actually solved the problem. i searched deeper and deeper and got creative with search terms to find out that some people have had a similar experience flashing Amon 1.7, the easy solution was to download rom manager from market, flash the clockwork recovery, then from the app flash amon 1.7. all is well again, thanks for chiming in guys

Next time, to avoid any mistakes, flash it through fastboot.
It's the safest/best way to do it.

AustinAce said:
Next time, to avoid any mistakes, flash it through fastboot.
It's the safest/best way to do it.
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yeah lbcoder was talking about that with spls i had no idea same went for recovery images. but next time ill play it safe. i heard it was actually a terminal problem with CM5

[Q] bricked htc magic 32b?

hey guys, i hope somebody can help me...
i tried to load a new rom to my magic and rooted it. after some flashing i cant get into fastboot or recovery menue. i onle see the "htc magic" screen at my vodafone branded magic.
so is there anybody who can help? - i cant establish a connection via usb too

are you keeping hold of home+back whilst turning the phone on to enter fastboot?

I just posted this for someone on the cyanogenmod forum, hopefully it helps...
I had the same problem the night before last, I was flashing the newest ra revovery through terminal and I believe I made some typos or did not wait long enough and of course I forgot to type su the first couple times... silly me
but after trying a couple times I got it back through terminal.
You can try it through terminal, although theres issues with doing this in cyanogen mod 5.0.7, I'm not sure if the newer roms have the same issues.
but I believe the problem was a few people lost their recovery completely (which obviously wont matter to you) I've done it succsessfully from a donut rom, but havent tryed it from anything higher so I cant promise it will work.
if you want to try:
Open terminal emulator
type: su
hit enter and allow superuser permissions.
type: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
(or the name of whatever ra recovery is on your sd card)
hit enter and wait a few minutes just to be sure.
then close terminal and try to reboot into recovery.
if it doesent work the first time check and make sure everything was typed correctly and try again.
Also you can just re-root the phone, that should fix it, its a pain though lol

I just rooted & flashed my Rogers Dream with cm 5.0.8 last weekend and it would freeze on the boot logo (Rogers) and I thought the same thing had happened. I could get to the recovery though.
I realized that you have to install the ROM and the Kernel Patch (I didn't do this) and once I applied the Brian Cook Kernel Patch, the phone booted immediately.
I don't know if this is the same problem you have but hopefully this info will help.
Cheers.

I would try re-rooting if you can. Unlockr . com has kinda an interesting method that might work.
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