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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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Post Juopunutbear recovery loop

after doing the Juopunutbear s-off i tried flashing a rom into the phone and everything went well but when it rebooted the recovery starting looping. now i cant even use any recovery and cant boot the phone.
any help would do, thanks
htc-dev unlocked and Juopunutbear s-off. and running cwm

Relock bootloader, flash your carriers RUU, follow steps 1 and 4 from my guide. This will clean up everything from cwm and give you wcx recovery. A LOT of people have been having issues with cwm lately. Don't worry, you won't lose s off either.
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slapshot30 said:
Relock bootloader, flash your carriers RUU, follow steps 1 and 4 from my guide. This will clean up everything from cwm and give you wcx recovery. A LOT of people have been having issues with cwm lately. Don't worry, you won't lose s off either.
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Okay, thanks. I'll give that a try as soon as i get the time to do that.

bluerjb said:
Okay, thanks. I'll give that a try as soon as i get the time to do that.
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Okay, let me know how it works out.

There is an issue when a rom uses improper scripts with CWM currently built for this device. If you get stuck in a recovery loop, the fix is to go into fastboot and type "fastboot erase cache"
90% of the time it fixes the issue. There's an updated CWM being worked on (based off CWM6) with a proper recovery kernel and ext4 mounting. it "should" avoid these issues.

[Q] Bricked Incredible S Help

I'm trying to install custom ROM on Incredible s following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
I can't boot past the htc screen. only after getting to this stage did I come across the whole S-ON/S-OFF thing. unfortunately I am stuck with S-ON and no ROM to boot into. from everything I've looked up you can only achieve S-OFF through adb mode and considering I have no android to load I can't exactly do that.
I have Clockwork Recovery v5.0.2.0.
...and no I don't have a nandroid backup. I'm doing this on my brother's phone coming from my GNex where we don't have these problems.
also I've tried running RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_Optus_AU_2.12.980.2_R_Radio_20.2803.30.085AU_3805.04.03.12_M_release_185028_signed.exe but that just fails.
another question would be given the current situation would a nandroid backup solve my problems and if so is there anywhere I could get one as I can't find one online atm.
perhaps would there be a way to force the phone into adb mode?
any help will be greatly appreciated.

osiris231 said:
I'm trying to install custom ROM on Incredible s following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
I can't boot past the htc screen. only after getting to this stage did I come across the whole S-ON/S-OFF thing. unfortunately I am stuck with S-ON and no ROM to boot into. from everything I've looked up you can only achieve S-OFF through adb mode and considering I have no android to load I can't exactly do that.
I have Clockwork Recovery v5.0.2.0.
...and no I don't have a nandroid backup. I'm doing this on my brother's phone coming from my GNex where we don't have these problems.
also I've tried running RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_Optus_AU_2.12.980.2_R_Radio_20.2803.30.085AU_3805.04.03.12_M_release_185028_signed.exe but that just fails.
another question would be given the current situation would a nandroid backup solve my problems and if so is there anywhere I could get one as I can't find one online atm.
perhaps would there be a way to force the phone into adb mode?
any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Could you go to recovery and mount usb? Could that help or is that not usefull with s-on?
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Piccilino said:
Could you go to recovery and mount usb? Could that help or is that not usefull with s-on?
Sent from one of the few remaining Incredible S'
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thanks but I tried that already, didn't work

osiris231 said:
thanks but I tried that already, didn't work
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Are you able to enter the recovery?
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Flash the boot.IMG from the room you last flashed in fastboot with the command
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
And it should boot fine
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Silversniper said:
Flash the boot.IMG from the room you last flashed in fastboot with the command
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
And it should boot fine
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I don't know why but that worked!
I LOVE YOU MAN!
I really don't know what happened here but it's working so thank you so much! so then what is the deal with this whole S-ON/S-OFF thing? don't you need to turn it to off then?

osiris231 said:
I don't know why but that worked!
I LOVE YOU MAN!
I really don't know what happened here but it's working so thank you so much! so then what is the deal with this whole S-ON/S-OFF thing? don't you need to turn it to off then?
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With S-OFF, you can place the rom on your SD card and flash it, no need to extract or run adb. You can flash the whole rom without touching your computer. It is just easier in my opinion.

HTC Raider 4G BOOT!!

Hi there,
I've used for a while with AT&T ROM without any problem.
Successfully rooted and CWM installed.
I tried to flash my phone by this ROM using CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171741
However I failed. My phone didn't work with it.
Now, I cannot go into my CWM anymore. Although I reinstalled it.
I still can access to Bootloader. Select Recovery but it showed some scripts then it couldn't go further.
Anyone can tell me how to fix it?
I am frightened now since my phone is nothing more than garbage now I cannot do anything with my phone
Thank you so much

You're gonna have to relock your bootloader and run the RUU then unlock your bootloader to flash your recovery again, then you'll be able to run your recovery again. Also if you're S-ON, you have to extract the boot.img from the rom you installed and flash it before you install the rom, otherwise the phone won't boot.

Download another recovery to your computer...
Go into hboot... go to fastboot... connect via USB
Fastboot flash recovery (recovery name)
Reboot bootloader... choose recovery
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rignfool said:
Download another recovery to your computer...
Go into hboot... go to fastboot... connect via USB
Fastboot flash recovery (recovery name)
Reboot bootloader... choose recovery
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Preferably TWRP 2.4.2.0

ipagan10 said:
You're gonna have to relock your bootloader and run the RUU then unlock your bootloader to flash your recovery again, then you'll be able to run your recovery again. Also if you're S-ON, you have to extract the boot.img from the rom you installed and flash it before you install the rom, otherwise the phone won't boot.
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Hello,
I did the way you said and it worked!!
Thank you very much.
Note: I think the ROM I flashed had some kind of weird code that led to the problem.
I used AT&T edition for my Bell Canada phone. RUU said failed during the process, however, that's when I reinstalled my CWM and it works again!
Thank you everyone for helping me with this question!

Get away from CWM...
Switch to TWRP or WCX
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declantran93 said:
Hello,
I did the way you said and it worked!!
Thank you very much.
Note: I think the ROM I flashed had some kind of weird code that led to the problem.
I used AT&T edition for my Bell Canada phone. RUU said failed during the process, however, that's when I reinstalled my CWM and it works again!
Thank you everyone for helping me with this question!
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Ur welcome and like do what ringfool said CWM doesn't play well with this device. I personally use WCX but switch recovery cuz most of the time roms flash with errors is because of the recovery.

rignfool said:
Get away from CWM...
Switch to TWRP or WCX
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Yes! CWM really works badly on HTC Holiday.
WCX really rocks! It shows everything precisely and large enough to look haha.
Most of ROMs can be flashed using WCX. CWM cannot open some

TWRP for the win...Is that redundant? Flashed it last night, works flawlessly with the cm10 rom

Someone needs too post a really big sign somewhere in these forums that says DO NOT USE CWM I have seen at least 5 guys in the last month getting screwed because of it. :sad:
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[Q] Can't install CWM

Hello everyone,
i want to install a custom Rom, unlocked the Bootloader and tried to install CWM by using LeBobo's Recovery Flasher v1.4. I get a success-message in the command prompt, but it seems that CWM isn't installed. When i reboot into Recovery i get a broken Android Symbol.
I have attached two Pictures, perhaps you know what to do now?!
Thank you very much!

Getting the broken Andriod symbol is normal.
You need to press Vol+ and Vol- together to get into the menu.
I have found that you need to press and release them both together about 4 times to get in. But I'm only on the stock recovery so CWM may be a little different.
Hope you find a way in!!
Regards
Hill-Climber

Ok, now i'm in... But not CWM. Android System Recovery <3e>... Seems that CWM hasn't been installed

I have also tried and failed with the Lebobo method.
I have not had this confirmed and cannot find the answer but suspect you have to unlock the bootloader before you can install CWM or any otehr custom recovery. Hopefully someone will answer this soon.
Is your bootloader unlocked?

derimp said:
Ok, now i'm in... But not CWM. Android System Recovery ... Seems that CWM hasn't been installed
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I guess that you're not bootloader unlocked but if you are, you can try another tutorial at development thread.
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Hashmutz said:
I guess that you're not bootloader unlocked but if you are, you can try another tutorial at development thread.
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My bootloader is unlocked (i see the Text Screen when booting)... I will try another method this evening...