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Help with Recovery.img

I wanted to try Cyanogens new Rom when I bumped into snag on the first step.
I cant get in Recovery mode! I have done it befor to get root access but I dont know what happened. It always freezes at the Rogers Logo when I hold Home and push power.
I have very little knowledge of this stuff but Ive tried to install Cyans Pimped recovery.img but It keeps telling me cannot load recovery.img. I think I only tried through fastboot though, I have attempted to through adb shell but I'm not 100% how that works, so I assumed it failed.** Oh and I also Tried erasing my old Recovery Image, which was successful but didnt help anything
I have root access and I own a Canadian HTC Dream. I have Cupcake, Thanks for your help in advance ^^

Hi, it sounds like you erased the standard recovery image, but haven't sucsessfully flashed a new one, which is why the phone will have.
Try flashing it on your phone using the terminal. First grab "terminal emuator" or "Better Terminal".
Put the recovery image on the root of your SD card and name it recovery.img
Open terminal and type:
su <- when the prompt appears, choose always allow
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
It's done when the cursor drops down to the next line. Turn the phone off and hopefully recovery will be working.

Hey thanks for the response but still having the same problem.
When I type su it always says Access Granted Courtesy of yada yada. Im assuming this isnt a problem. I flashed my recovery.img and it didnt give me a response. I guess it worked but yet, Still Freezes on Rogers Logo.
I found the Right Recovery.img for a Rogers Dream but now I cant seem to flash it into the Phone. When I type the cmd in Terminal It doesnt give me any errors. But when i go to Erase it in Fast boot it says the remote partition does not exist. Can anyone figure this one out? Im probably doing something small and stupid wrong but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like you have few different tutorials mixed up. You don't type cmd in terminal. cmd is Windows command to get into command prompt, from there you type your adb commands so if we assume that you placed your NEW recovery image in the root of you sd card and named it recovery.img you would type
From your computer
Window's key +r
cmd
adb shell
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery
OR
From terminal
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
and wait for # to appear, then type
reboot recovery and see what happens
There's a way to do it from fast boot screen as well, you can find a tut in developement section.
Good luck

Hey thanks, That does clear a few things up. I just ended up resetting my phone and it was a breeze from there. Thanks for your help.

How to flash stock recovery.

Hi guys,
I have to send me N1 to htc for fix some problem.
I have RA recovery with lock bootloader, and I want to flash the original, but "fastboot" way doesen't work (signature fail ).
How can i flash it in other way?
Ty
(sry for my eng )

Just flash the stock rom with the recovery image like frf92 original.

evilkorn said:
Just flash the stock rom with the recovery image like frf92 original.
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How? Through recovery? Because "fastboot" hates me, and won't work.

I'd suggest using a passimg for frf85b and then maybe updating to 91 (or just leave it at 85), you can always re-root when you get it back.
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got it, thk to cyanogen wiki
Plug the phone into the computer
Reboot into fastboot by holding TrackBall + Power (you should see three Androids on skateboards and the words 'fastboot USB' in red)
On the computer, open a command prompt cd to the sdk/tools directory (we will assume the SDK is located in C:\android-sdk and the recovery file is in the root of the sdk/tools directory for the following steps)
With the phone connect via USB, open up a cmd prompt
Code:
adb reboot recovery"
Code:
adb devices
​A device name and 'recovery' should be returned
Code:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
​recovery.img is located on android-sdk/tools dir
Code:
adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
​This permanently flashes the recovery.img to your phone, you can now boot into it by holding Vol- while powering on the device
Reboot

nrdmtt said:
got it, thk to cyanogen wiki
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Thanks for searching!
I hope this encourages other users new to ADB, flashing ROMs, etc. to continue to search after asking for help.
Way to go nrdmtt!!

[Q] Cant install recovery on my rooted Hero

the error i get every time i try every method i have found... yea i searched... it just keeps saying when i get to the flash_image recovery command
it says that command doesnt exist?
can some one help me out?

Just download rom manager from the market and use it to flash. You can do clockwork or amon ra
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You should be entering "flash_image recovery" either using a terminal emulator on your phone OR using adb shell. Both of which you should enter the "su" command to get the substitute user (hash sign "#").
Try this:
Open up terminal emulator on your phone and type "flash_image"
Regardless of whether you get root (#) or not ($) you should get a response saying "usage: flash_image partition file.img" So it'll look something like this:
Code:
$flash_image <- this is what you enter
usage: flash_image partition file.img <-this is what gets returned to you
$
Let me know what response you get.

AbKc0rax said:
the error i get every time i try every method i have found... yea i searched... it just keeps saying when i get to the flash_image recovery command
it says that command doesnt exist?
can some one help me out?
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As the other posters have said, rom manager from the market is your easiest choice,
as far as flashing a recovery manually, put the recovery image of your choice
on your sd card, and either from the terminal emulator, or from adb shell,
you need to make sure you have the # prompt, indicating you have
superuser rights. If you just see $ you need to type su first.
Once you have the # prompt, the command would be
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
(replace recovery.img with the exact name of the recovery image you
are trying to flash). as the filenames are case sensitive, I usually rename
the recovery image to a more manageable form, (ie: I rename clockwork to
clockwork.img or amonra to amonra.img, shortening the names and ensuring
that I don't have an issue with missing a capitalized letter).

How to flash stock images.

this guide is for those who still have Clockwork Mod Recovery still on device you can thank bogdi1988 for his work and orginal guide here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12185475&postcount=76
BUT THIS MAY WORK FOR OTHERS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MOUNT SYSTEM AND DATA AND THOSE THINGS FROM ADB
but to simplify I did this :
stock images
recovery.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/recovery.img
boot.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/boot.img
Once in recovery mount everything you can system , data , cache , everyrthing besides sd card
then go into command prompt and type adb shell make sure its working if you still have root it will show # if not it will show $ I believe no biggie as long as it picks up in shell.
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2 /sdcard/boot_orig.img
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 /sdcard/recovery_orig.img
select reboot from the recovery. now it will reboot and it will format misc and it will reboot again.
bogdi1988 suggest flash all images over again in fastboot
in this order
system.img
recovery.img
boot.img
thanks go to everyone who has a dell streak 7 that was willing to try all these hacks and risking your devices for the greater good of the streak
P.S. I will post system.img in a second
Also for fastboot help thank bogdi1988 again heres his post that helped me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11929063&postcount=23

I have read and tried everything
I attempted the adb method but can't get into fastboot... I believe I got the adb commands correct and I don't get an error but my the restore is not taking... at the reboot it goes right back into CWM 3.0.2.0 here's my adb shell read out...
C:\android\platform-tools>adb shell
~ #
C:\android\platform-tools>adb shell
~ # flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2/sdcard/boot_orig.img
flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2/sdcard/boot_orig.img
usage: flash_image partition file.img
~ # flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1/sdcard/recovery_orig.img
flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1/sdcard/recovery_orig.img
usage: flash_image partition file.img
~ #
I don't know what else to do, I can't find a thread that stays on track long enough to follow this issue all the way thru... please help... I have read and tried everything, i can't find a clear set of alternatives... am i missing a step?

ya, i'm stuck in the same situation. I either get a "error -1" or it says "usage: flash_image partition file.img"
does getting "usage: flash_image partition file.img" mean the file was successfully flashed?

dfspot said:
I attempted the adb method but can't get into fastboot... I believe I got the adb commands correct and I don't get an error but my the restore is not taking... at the reboot it goes right back into CWM 3.0.2.0 here's my adb shell read out...
C:\android\platform-tools>adb shell
~ #
C:\android\platform-tools>adb shell
~ # flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2/sdcard/boot_orig.img
flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2/sdcard/boot_orig.img
usage: flash_image partition file.img
~ # flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1/sdcard/recovery_orig.img
flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1/sdcard/recovery_orig.img
usage: flash_image partition file.img
~ #
I don't know what else to do, I can't find a thread that stays on track long enough to follow this issue all the way thru... please help... I have read and tried everything, i can't find a clear set of alternatives... am i missing a step?
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You are missing the space between mmcblk3pX and /sdcard.

ok, thats what i thought. when i do it the other way i get the "failed with Error: -1" any ideas on that. also if i send it back to t-mobile under the warranty, they won't send it back as damaged since i had CMW installed o it will they?

thatruth132 said:
this guide is for those who still have Clockwork Mod Recovery still on device you can thank bogdi1988 for his work and orginal guide here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12185475&postcount=76
BUT THIS MAY WORK FOR OTHERS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MOUNT SYSTEM AND DATA AND THOSE THINGS FROM ADB
but to simplify I did this :
stock images
recovery.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/recovery.img
boot.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/boot.img
Once in recovery mount everything you can system , data , cache , everyrthing besides sd card
then go into command prompt and type adb shell make sure its working if you still have root it will show # if not it will show $ I believe no biggie as long as it picks up in shell.
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2 /sdcard/boot_orig.img
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 /sdcard/recovery_orig.img
select reboot from the recovery. now it will reboot and it will format misc and it will reboot again.
bogdi1988 suggest flash all images over again in fastboot
in this order
system.img
recovery.img
boot.img
thanks go to everyone who has a dell streak 7 that was willing to try all these hacks and risking your devices for the greater good of the streak
P.S. I will post system.img in a second
Also for fastboot help thank bogdi1988 again heres his post that helped me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11929063&postcount=23
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great how to

white99 said:
ok, thats what i thought. when i do it the other way i get the "failed with Error: -1" any ideas on that. also if i send it back to t-mobile under the warranty, they won't send it back as damaged since i had CMW installed o it will they?
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humz mine wont flash at all

Guys,
If someone can help people struck here like me, it would be great.. i get the same -1 error message... when i run the second command. the first one passes through and i get a # for flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2 /sdcard/boot_orig.img.
When we downloaded the file boot.img, how would boot_orig.img work? am i missing something?
The second command throws me an error..
Guys really waiting for help... bricked my streak in hours after i brought it..

where are you at in la

I need a little bit of help for an ex-ipohone user
Hey guys sorry to ask u a noob question, but can anyone give me an ideea how to remove/unistall CWM Recovery so i can send back my Streak 7 for repair? I have installed CWM thru fastboot an i am currently on stock 2.2.2 rom. Or if there is a thread that i didnt find please a little help would be much apreciated.

i have figured it out eventualy after 20 hrs of brain scratching ived used NVflash and worked fast and easy

thatruth132 said:
this guide is for those who still have Clockwork Mod Recovery still on device you can thank bogdi1988 for his work and orginal guide here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12185475&postcount=76
BUT THIS MAY WORK FOR OTHERS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MOUNT SYSTEM AND DATA AND THOSE THINGS FROM ADB
but to simplify I did this :
stock images
recovery.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/recovery.img
boot.img
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2252176/boot.img
Once in recovery mount everything you can system , data , cache , everyrthing besides sd card
then go into command prompt and type adb shell make sure its working if you still have root it will show # if not it will show $ I believe no biggie as long as it picks up in shell.
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2 /sdcard/boot_orig.img
then type : flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p1 /sdcard/recovery_orig.img
select reboot from the recovery. now it will reboot and it will format misc and it will reboot again.
bogdi1988 suggest flash all images over again in fastboot
in this order
system.img
recovery.img
boot.img
thanks go to everyone who has a dell streak 7 that was willing to try all these hacks and risking your devices for the greater good of the streak
P.S. I will post system.img in a second
Also for fastboot help thank bogdi1988 again heres his post that helped me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11929063&postcount=23
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OMFG I would so kiss you right now. I was stuck where I could only load up CWR and nothing else was working. You are my hero. *sigh*

No biggie just hit that thanks.button
Sent from my Dell Streak 7 using XDA Premium App

The links are down, any mirrors?

Same need files links re not working

IMG Reposted?
Hi Folks,
A couple of people have posted that the boot, recovery, and system image links respond with a "404 not found" error. This is still the case.
I recall reading somewhere else that the images may still live on the SD card on the device. If this is true does someone know where in the file structure they may be?
If not, does anyone know where to obtain the images?
Currently I'm in CWM reboot hades on my Dell Streak 7. Tried the Dell OTA update for Honeycomb...didn't know that was a BAD thing until it was too late.
I've tried flashing boot and recovery images from a backup I'd made earlier, but no luck, so thatruth's excellent guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1006829 doesn't help much...unless I can get the recovery and boot images.
So to reiterate:
I can get to CWM and clear the caches and flash a recovery.
I can communicate with the device via ADB and have flashed it with the backup images.
I can mount the internal SD card via CWM and my pc.
After flashing with the backup images, Fastboot still does not recognize that the device is connected, and the device does not apper to go through the 'format steps'.
Cheers,
L2

Found 'lightly modified' roms (thank you DJ Steve!) for a T-Mobile streak on another XDA thread. Flashed using adb, and tadaaaa, it booted! sliiiight problem. Will not boot into recovery and no wireless.
Managed to install rom manager (AKA ClockWorkMod) via ADB but CWM wan't an internet connection to install the recovery rom. grrrrr.
One of the other modifications (aside from root) by DJ Steve is the installation of 'BusyBox', This actually seems to complicate things for me because I don't really know how to issue ADB commands from the BusyBox shell. I get a lot of 'invalid command' and the like... I was able to install CWM OUTSIDE the adb shell (adb install rommanager) but once I'm in the shell (adb shell)I don't know how to issue the proper commands.
What I want to do is either remove busybox, or use ADB inside busybox to flash the CWM recovery rom, then flash my backup roms. (and hopefully return to full functionality.)
Any suggestions on how to use ADB commands inside of busy box to flash a rom?

Can anyone upload the stock rom images? I need to flash back to stock :\

[Q] Problems flashing from Clockworkmod to Amon_RA

Hi.
I am having problems flashing Amon_RA on my Nexus One.
I am currently running CWM 3.0.0.5 installed via ROM Manager, and i have switched back and forth between Amon_RA and CWM many many times before, using Rom Manager, but now it does not seem to work.
My phone is S-ON and running Newest MIUI Rom from MIUI.us.
I flashed from RA to CWM yesterday, and since that I have been sitting 6 hours trying to get RA back...
I did not find any working solutions searching the forums either, allthough more people seem to have the issue occationally.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this, or at least what's causing it??
I would be Very grateful!
Edit: In Rom Manager, after attemting to flash Ra, it sais the flash was successfull, and displays that Ra is installed, even after reboot, it tells me Ra is currently installed, but booting into recovery still brings up CWM...

Flash it from fastboot.

It works!
albundy2010 said:
Flash it from fastboot.
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Tried, but did not work.
But, I EVENTUALLY FOUND A SOLUTION!
From here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nexus_One/Recovery_Images
For locked bootloader - flash_image using ADB only
Using "blind" flash_image method works for locked bootloaders, requires root and is sSLCD uitable for Nexus users that lost the ability to see their screen. Adapted from here.
Download Amon_RA's Recovery from one of the versions above - NOT INCLUDING 1.7.0.1 - to C:\.
Rename Amon_Ra's Recovery Image to simply recovery.img.
Download flash_image.zip and extract flash_image file to C:\.
Turn off the phone (possible by pulling the battery).
Press Volume Down + Power or Trackball + Power, the phone will boot into bootloader.
Select "BOOTLOADER", press Power.
Select "RECOVERY", press Power. The phone is working, but the screen shows nothing.
On the computer... Open a command prompt/terminal & navigate to the Android SDK Tools folder.
Type in the following commands:
Code:
adb shell
mount -o rw /system
mount -o rw /sdcard
exit
adb push C:\flash_image /system/bin/flash_image
adb push C:\recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
adb shell
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
rm /system/recovery-from-boot.p
reboot recovery
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Now I wonder, Why did I suddenly have to use this method to flash, when i have flashed both RA and CWM using Rom Manager hundreds of times before???
Edit: The guide above is for SLCD N1, mine is a AmOLED N1, yet, it was the only method i found that actually worked... Strage :/

CWM 3.xxx has been known to fubar things up here and there.
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