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Can't boot into recovery!

I just rooted my Nexus 1 Froyo per instructions on theUnlockr.com. I installed ADB first, Then proceded to root. I then flashed a recovery rom: recovery-RA-nexus-v1.7.0.1-cyan.img. This was successful. I then booted phone into recovery mode. Selected recovery and the first couple times I received a black screen with an exclamation point in the middle of a triangle next to green android. I flashed recovery rom once again and this time it allowed me to enter. I made my backup image and even booted into recovery mode again�wiped phone clean and restored image. I thought I was golden! Later I tried to boot into recovery mode again and I received same problem as mentioned above. I tried again no luck. I even flashed recovery rom again and It still dose not work. Why could this be happening? I even went through the steps to root phone again (that went well). But still no recovery mode. I even tried another recovery rom: recovery-RA-nexus-v1.7.0.1.img. It did the same thing. Worked one time and then nothing! I need to fix this before I load custom Roms.
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follow this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636795

Amritttt said:
follow this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636795
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I was able to flash recovery via your instructions but phone STILL will not boot into recovery mode. I hold down the volume key and power.....all I get is triangle with droid net to it. Im going to try and Un-root my phone and start from scratch! Thanks for the help!

you are getting the triangle with the droid because the recovery did not flash correctly, try usung rom manager if for nothing else, just to install Amon/clockwork

Poseidon20 said:
I was able to flash recovery via your instructions but phone STILL will not boot into recovery mode. I hold down the volume key and power.....all I get is triangle with droid net to it. Im going to try and Un-root my phone and start from scratch! Thanks for the help!
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Did you remove the two scripts like you were told? /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and /system/recovery-from-boot.p

you are getting the triangle with the droid because the recovery did not flash correctly, try usung rom manager if for nothing else, just to install Amon/clockwork
Cool thanks for the advice! I did try Rom Manager and used Amon/Clockwork recovery. After flashing the Recovery Image I booted into recovery from Rom Manger. No problem! BUT.....when I rebooted phone from recovery menu I again went in to Rom Manager and tried to Boot back in to recovery and I got the triangle with the Droid next to it. I pulled battery and started phone again. I flashed Amon/Clockwork recovery again from Rom Mang. and again I was able to successfully boot in to recovery. This pattern goes on and on. It seams that every-time I want to boot into recovery I need to flash Amon/clockwork image. Somewhere phone is not retaining the information. Everything looks to work just fine as long as I Flash before I go into recovery. I'm sure this is not the way it should work. Any ideas?

khaytsus said:
Did you remove the two scripts like you were told? /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and /system/recovery-from-boot.p
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Khaytsus,
When was I told to remove the two scripts? Where did this come from? Please let me know what they are for and why removing them would help? Also, if I do need to remove these would it be done by using Root File Manager, finding file and selecting delete? Sorry if I sound new to this.....it's because I am! LOL. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7378018&postcount=47

Poseidon20 said:
Khaytsus,
When was I told to remove the two scripts? Where did this come from? Please let me know what they are for and why removing them would help? Also, if I do need to remove these would it be done by using Root File Manager, finding file and selecting delete? Sorry if I sound new to this.....it's because I am! LOL. Thanks for any help you can provide!
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It's documented in random places, of course the post below also has the same info. I don't know precisely what the two files do, but they apparently try to restore the recovery.
Trust me, it will fix the problem. Remove them, re-flash recovery.

khaytsus said:
It's documented in random places, of course the post below also has the same info. I don't know precisely what the two files do, but they apparently try to restore the recovery.
Trust me, it will fix the problem. Remove them, re-flash recovery.
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Khaytsus,
You saved my Droid! You were right! deleting those 2 files worked. I'm well into flashing Custom ROMs. Your the only one who got it right! Good job! Thanks Again!

khaytsus said:
Did you remove the two scripts like you were told? /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and /system/recovery-from-boot.p
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So, I'm not the OP, but I am having trouble deleting the files despite the fact that they are both say "YES" in read and write in properties. I tried to reflash from ROM Manager and I keep getting an error there. Not sure what to do.
BTW, I'm using a Galaxy Nexus. Would love some help as this is all uncharted terrain for me.

sadako12 said:
BTW, I'm using a Galaxy Nexus. Would love some help as this is all uncharted terrain for me.
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You are in Nexus One Q&A Forum. Did you tryed with Galaxy Nexus Recoveries files and guides ?

ldFxl said:
You are in Nexus One Q&A Forum. Did you tryed with Galaxy Nexus Recoveries files and guides ?
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I tried pretty much everything other than wiping the whole thing again. It's quite unfortunate.

sadako12 said:
I tried pretty much everything other than wiping the whole thing again. It's quite unfortunate.
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If I understand, your problem is that you can't actually flash a custom recovery from ROM Manager ?
Which do you use ?
Are you trying to flash a recovery in recovery mode ?
Please link here files you tried to flash.

ldFxl said:
If I understand, your problem is that you can't actually flash a custom recovery from ROM Manager ?
Which do you use ?
Are you trying to flash a recovery in recovery mode ?
Please link here files you tried to flash.
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I can't flash from ROM Manager. Initially, I didn't want to purchase the download capability. So, first, I used the program tools and flashed from there. I got Clockwork Mod to work, but then when I restarted it and went into "recovery," I got nothing.
Now, I can't flash at all.

The galaxy nexus should have fastboot capabilities, this is the best and safest way to flash your recovery partition
Be sure to use the proper recovery image for your device
If you need help finding it or setting up fastboot let me know
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demkantor said:
The galaxy nexus should have fastboot capabilities, this is the best and safest way to flash your recovery partition
Be sure to use the proper recovery image for your device
If you need help finding it or setting up fastboot let me know
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I have only ever found a guide for a temporary flash. I would follow the instructions and then CWM wouldn't stick. =\

So here is the typical steps to follow
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
And that's it, were you using fastboot to just boot it? Were you doing another method? The more details you give the faster and more accurate your help will be
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demkantor said:
So here is the typical steps to follow
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
And that's it, were you using fastboot to just boot it? Were you doing another method? The more details you give the faster and more accurate your help will be
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I used instructions from http://androidforums.com/internatio...root-samsung-galaxy-nexus.html#enter-recovery.
The ROM wouldn't "stick" and then the USB wasn't even recognized by the end of everything.

Start by booting into your bootloader and writing down everything word for word on that screen here. Next boot to recovery and write down what you see there. Even better upload pics of each. Again the more detailed you can be the more help you can get
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[HELP] My N1 stuck on boot screen!

Obs: My english is BAD.
My N1 stuck on boot screen after I have tried to put the JB by blackrose. When I opened the blackrose not work what the tutorial said. I was trying in various ways until the reboot my N1 he was in boot screen and never left. I need a detailed help because I am a layman in the subject.

Seunico said:
Obs: My english is BAD.
My N1 stuck on boot screen after I have tried to put the JB by blackrose. When I opened the blackrose not work what the tutorial said. I was trying in various ways until the reboot my N1 he was in boot screen and never left. I need a detailed help because I am a layman in the subject.
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Did you change your HBOOT correcty? More details could be useful.
And, did you follow the steps in this guide?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804571

sphinxcs898 said:
Did you change your HBOOT correcty? More details could be useful.
And, did you follow the steps in this guide?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804571
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I don't download the recovery

Seunico said:
I don't download the recovery
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You can use CWM or TWRP. You don't have to use 4EXT. If you use TWRP, I recommend using version 2.2.1.4 because the newer versions have problems with flashing older flash zips.
I used CWM (v. 5.0.2.0) and TWRP (v. 2.2.1.4) on two separate occasions, and they both worked fine for me.
Just download the recovery file (ends with .img) and flash it using:
fastboot flash recovery NAME_OF_RECOVERY_FILE
To get into fastboot mode, turn off the phone (or pull battery) and turn it on while pressing the volume-down button.

Seunico said:
Obs: My english is BAD.
My N1 stuck on boot screen after I have tried to put the JB by blackrose. When I opened the blackrose not work what the tutorial said. I was trying in various ways until the reboot my N1 he was in boot screen and never left. I need a detailed help because I am a layman in the subject.
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I have a nexus 7, but this should be the same.
Install CWM or TWRP ad that guy said, but then copy any rom files onto a flash drive, and then install that rom off of an OTG cable. That should be it.
Good luck.
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phone stuck on att screen after cm11 installation

ok here it goes
This is the first time i touch this Vivid, a few days ago I rooted it withou issues and has TWRP installed, i also did 2 full backups at that time just in case.
This morning i tried to install a new ROM, CyanogenMod 11 - Android 4.4.2 - KitKat. Basically the steps i took were
1. boot into twrp recovery
2. Did a factory reset
3. Did a System Reset
4. Clared cache and Dalvik cache
5. install the rom
6. install PA gapps
7. booted the phone wich got stuck in the htc screen forever
8. remembered that i was s-off and didnt flash the boot.img
9. repeated steps 1 thru 8 and after that flashed boot.img using fastboot
10. rebooted the phone but it was still getting stuck on htc screen
After all this i decided it was not worth it so i went back into twrp to restore my backup, unfortunately after restoring an booting the phone i am able to go past the htc screen, get the beats audio and att splash screen but it stays there, now stuck on att screen.
I have tried also to restore my second backup with basically the same results
any ideas or suggestions on what could i do next?

cantuluis said:
ok here it goes
This is the first time i touch this Vivid, a few days ago I rooted it withou issues and has TWRP installed, i also did 2 full backups at that time just in case.
This morning i tried to install a new ROM, CyanogenMod 11 - Android 4.4.2 - KitKat. Basically the steps i took were
1. boot into twrp recovery
2. Did a factory reset
3. Did a System Reset
4. Clared cache and Dalvik cache
5. install the rom
6. install PA gapps
7. booted the phone wich got stuck in the htc screen forever
8. remembered that i was s-off and didnt flash the boot.img
9. repeated steps 1 thru 8 and after that flashed boot.img using fastboot
10. rebooted the phone but it was still getting stuck on htc screen
After all this i decided it was not worth it so i went back into twrp to restore my backup, unfortunately after restoring an booting the phone i am able to go past the htc screen, get the beats audio and att splash screen but it stays there, now stuck on att screen.
I have tried also to restore my second backup with basically the same results
any ideas or suggestions on what could i do next?
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Do you know if you had the original Gingerbread or had upgraded to ICS? If you were still on GB, then you should be able to run the RUU for that, if ICS there is an RUU you can install. Read all the directions carefully, most things seem easy but have pitfalls if you are not careful enough.

cmerlyn said:
Do you know if you had the original Gingerbread or had upgraded to ICS? If you were still on GB, then you should be able to run the RUU for that, if ICS there is an RUU you can install. Read all the directions carefully, most things seem easy but have pitfalls if you are not careful enough.
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I dont know what i was running originally. However i am back in business!!!
I found the superguide followed it regarding the RUU and luckily i got my phone to work again.
I want to try flashing the CM11 again, i am guessing that either i am doing something wrong or maybe TWRP is not working correctly on my phone and not flashing the rom as it should.
Any known issues with TWRP and the vivid? shall i try another recovery?
Are the following steps pretty much what i should do to flash it
1. factory reset
2. system reset
3. clearing caches
4. flash boot.img (i am s-on)
5. flash rom
6. flash gapps
any suggestion is welcomed

Hboot version from the boorloader?
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rignfool said:
Hboot version from the boorloader?
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it is 1.85.0025
additional info:
After recovering the phone i decided to lock the bootloader and start all over again. I re-root and then, instead of installing TWRP i used CWM and obviously, got a nand backup.
O tried flashing again CM11 and got the exact same results. Stuck in the initial HTC screen forever. Tried to restore my NAND Backup and the result was also exactly the same as before, phone would get the htc screen, then the beats audio and att animations and then will stuck onthe att screen forever.
This is weird, i must be doing something wrong here...

Reading thru a few times. You did indeed flash the image? fastboot flash boot boot.img on command line. Make sure boot.img was extracted from the rom to the folder you are typing that in. You do that after flashing rom and gapps. It has to be done from bootloader not recovery.
How long are you letting it sit. Had a phone that I thought was doing that, just took a few extra minutes to boot up.

"Small mistake"
Sorry for your problem, I think there was a small mistake before installing CM11, and was what you describe in step 3 "Did a System Reset" when the installation instructions say: "Wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache". I'm afraid you can only recover your VIVID through JTAG on any site that offers the service, it seems you deleted your operating system. The other option is to try [unbrick] HTC Unbricking Project By dexter93 developers forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627886;
All the best. Just a recommendation, read, read and read each post and comments to take no surprises. Good luck.:fingers-crossed
I would appreciate your comments

I don't think that post is relevant. You still have access to bootloader and recovery right? Then it isn't bricked.

Yuskow said:
I don't think that post is relevant. You still have access to bootloader and recovery right? Then it isn't bricked.
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Yes i do have access to bootlader and recovery, i actually was able to bring back to life the phone using RUU. So the issue now is not that the phone is bricked but that anything i try to load on it fails, being CM11 or even the NAND backup that i took with this same phone just after installing recovery, nothing seems to work.
I was googling around and so another person that had similar behavior on his vivid but didn't posted if he was ever able to fix it...

Yuskow said:
Reading thru a few times. You did indeed flash the image? fastboot flash boot boot.img on command line. Make sure boot.img was extracted from the rom to the folder you are typing that in. You do that after flashing rom and gapps. It has to be done from bootloader not recovery.
How long are you letting it sit. Had a phone that I thought was doing that, just took a few extra minutes to boot up.
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Yes indeed. I used fastboot to flash the boot.img, i will try to do it again today and make sure that i do this after flashing rom and gapps. I might as well try another rom.
Anyone ROM that you recomend me to try?

You tried reading the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642575,? It's different from what I showed above, there describes another way to recover your vivid by projectisaac:fingers-crossed:

cantuluis said:
Yes indeed. I used fastboot to flash the boot.img, i will try to do it again today and make sure that i do this after flashing rom and gapps. I might as well try another rom.
Anyone ROM that you recomend me to try?
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CM11 kicks ass. http://69.10.54.187/nightly/holiday/ is where you might find the latest nightlies.
Seems to be the only vivid rom that has been worked on for a while.
First time I tried running a custom rom I had a similar issue to what you experience. Do you happen to be on bell? After restoring with the RUU and unlocking again, all went well.
The best guide is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836 but just use it as a guide line and use this software instead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437705
Some people say to run the fastboot command 2x. I've been following that advice. Figured it can't do anything bad.

Yuskow said:
CM11 kicks ass. http://69.10.54.187/nightly/holiday/ is where you might find the latest nightlies.
Seems to be the only vivid rom that has been worked on for a while.
First time I tried running a custom rom I had a similar issue to what you experience. Do you happen to be on bell? After restoring with the RUU and unlocking again, all went well.
The best guide is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836 but just use it as a guide line and use this software instead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437705
Some people say to run the fastboot command 2x. I've been following that advice. Figured it can't do anything bad.
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ok guys i am now officially an idiot.
Problem came down to be that i was using the wrong boot.img, i didnt know that the correct one is INSIDE the rom zip. I tried it once more and now i am running CM11
thanks for your suggestions and sorry for taking your time on this newb learning experience

alosegon said:
Sorry for your problem, I think there was a small mistake before installing CM11, and was what you describe in step 3 "Did a System Reset" when the installation instructions say: "Wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache". I'm afraid you can only recover your VIVID through JTAG on any site that offers the service, it seems you deleted your operating system. The other option is to try [unbrick] HTC Unbricking Project By dexter93 developers forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627886;
All the best. Just a recommendation, read, read and read each post and comments to take no surprises. Good luck.:fingers-crossed
I would appreciate your comments
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Please... Do not scare people like that...
AFAIK... You only need a JTAG if your phone reads qhusb_download... Or something like that...
I have erased my OS literally hundreds of times...
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rignfool said:
Please... Do not scare people like that...
AFAIK... You only need a JTAG if your phone reads qhusb_download... Or something like that...
I have erased my OS literally hundreds of times...
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thanks for clarifying that

Glad you're up and running.

Btw, this ROM is amazing, so much better than the stock at crap
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Stock recovery won't stick

So I'm trying to go to 100% stock I flashed everything else but the stock recovery flashes but when I go to the recovery all I get is a dead android with red exclamation. I tried flashing the twrp and that flashes fine but the stock one from 5.0 & 5.0.1 both don't stick. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
The code I use to flash it is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
Like I said with that code the twrp works but not the stock one.
I'm trying to flash stock recovery so I can use the ota that's was linked earlier in the general section.
Any help I greatly appreciated.

t2noob said:
So I'm trying to go to 100% stock I flashed everything else but the stock recovery flashes but when I go to the recovery all I get is a dead android with red exclamation. I tried flashing the twrp and that flashes fine but the stock one from 5.0 & 5.0.1 both don't stick. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
The code I use to flash it is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
Like I said with that code the twrp works but not the stock one.
I'm trying to flash stock recovery so I can use the ota that's was linked earlier in the general section.
Any help I greatly appreciated.
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Push power and volume up when you see the dead android, that will get you into recovery

gee2012 said:
Push power and volume up when you see the dead android, that will get you into recovery
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Wow......I feel stupid...lol thanks man your a life saver I've been racking my brain last hour lol guess it's always the simplest thing right? Lol...

t2noob said:
Wow......I feel stupid...lol thanks man your a life saver I've been racking my brain last hour lol guess it's always the simplest thing right? Lol...
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We all do stupid things now and then, its called beeing human

The phone works but there's a boot issue and I can't upload android version

Hi, I have this problem: when I boot or reboot the phone it starts in recovery mode, and then I have to press start to actually boot the phone. It is the same when I reboot after an upload to next version, but of course it fails because it doesn't reboot but it goes to recovery mode. That's really tough, because android pie is making me crazy, it is full of bugs, slow and almost unusable. I have rooted the phone and flashed the stock firmware after unlocking bootloader. I don't know what to do, it really is impossible to use this version of Android pie. I don't know if I should re-flash everything, because I have a lot of data and it would be an enormous backup to do with the risk to be lost. Please I beg you help me for this also because I found other useful help on this forum so I am already thankful for all you're doing here. Cheers!

You said you manually flashed the stock firmware? You can maybe try reflashing your boot partition with the stock one.

josno said:
Hi, I have this problem: when I boot or reboot the phone it starts in recovery mode, and then I have to press start to actually boot the phone. It is the same when I reboot after an upload to next version, but of course it fails because it doesn't reboot but it goes to recovery mode. That's really tough, because android pie is making me crazy, it is full of bugs, slow and almost unusable. I have rooted the phone and flashed the stock firmware after unlocking bootloader. I don't know what to do, it really is impossible to use this version of Android pie. I don't know if I should re-flash everything, because I have a lot of data and it would be an enormous backup to do with the risk to be lost. Please I beg you help me for this also because I found other useful help on this forum so I am already thankful for all you're doing here. Cheers!
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What does the recovery look like?
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sd_shadow said:
What does the recovery look like?
Hi. It's the normal recovery, with the green robot and the black background and all the options like start, recovery, ecc and info about the phone
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Gluipertje said:
You said you manually flashed the stock firmware? You can maybe try reflashing your boot partition with the stock one.
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Maybe I missed something during the previous flash, but I can't find out