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how to flash recovery?

im trying to flash godspeed recovery but im a newb so of course i dont know how. it says to flash from recovery and type whatever but it doesnt do anything. someone suggested using rom manager to flash it but that didnt work. how can i flash a new recovery? i have asked twice in the godspeed recovery thread but noone answered so i figured i'd try here. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Someone help, ima newb!!! Lol
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Have you read through Darch's post on how to flash this recovery? Just click on the link in my sig for this particular thread. This is not directly flashable from the sd card. You need to flash it via adb
edit* You have read the thread, do you know how to flash via adb?

Based on your signature, I'm going to assume you are already rooted.
My first question is do you have the Android SDK installed on your computer? My Next question is have you already placed the recovery image on your SD Card (if you are using apps2sd you will want to place it on the FAT partition, but do not place it in any folders)
If you can answer yes two both question above, then go ahead conncect your phone to your computer with the cable and run the sdk in a command window or terminal window (depends on if you are using Windows or Linux) and type the following:
adb shell
flash_image recovery /sdcard/nameofrecovery.img (changing the "nameofrecovery.img" to the name of the image file on your sdcard)
If you run into any problems or if you don't know how to install the sdk post back and I will give you an alternative method to try.

Yes to everything. I tried typing that from recovery and while in the phone with usb debugging on and charge only. It just kept giving me errors.
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cp0020 said:
Yes to everything. I tried typing that from recovery and while in the phone with usb debugging on and charge only. It just kept giving me errors.
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Change from charge only to sync and it should work. Make sure ur in the sdk/tools folder and type adb remount before u type in the adb shell command

If you are still having trouble, you may want to just grab from the market a neat little program called Gscript (paid version) or Gscript Lite (adware) and create a script to flash the recovery image.
Once you install it on your phone the steps are:
Start GScript
Click on the phone's Menu Key and select Add Script
Give your script an easily identifiable name
Make sure there is a check mark in the Needs SU? box
then you can type in the command to flash recovery which would be:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/"nameofimagefile" (changing the name to whatever the name of the recovery image you stored on you sd card is)
then click on save.
The script should now appear in the list of availble scripts - just click it to run it. If SuperUser Permissions pops up requesting permission click on allow and you should see message at the bottom that the window will close in 19 seconds.
To verify if this worked for you go ahead and manually reboot into recovery mode - Power off the phone, then press and hold the home key while pressing and releasing the power button.
Let me know how you make out with this.

Will donate for help.

Just like the title suggests, I need help. I have been working on this for three days and have not accomplished anything.
I have been rooted for six months, flashed many roms, kernels, enabled apps2sd, etc.., etc.., but I do not know how it all works(just to give you a little FYI).
"I do not have a recovery screen anymore." At first I just wasn't able to push a new one, it would tell me "usage flash_image partition.img" or something very similar. I searched for that phrase and found something with it in the G1 forums, tried it(probably should have asked first), and now I don't even have a recovery image. Like I said I've tried almost everything and it may be simple but this is beyond me, someone please help.
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secbrad said:
Just like the title suggests, I need help. I have been working on this for three days and have not accomplished anything.
I have been rooted for six months, flashed many roms, kernels, enabled apps2sd, etc.., etc.., but I do not know how it all works(just to give you a little FYI).
"I do not have a recovery screen anymore." At first I just wasn't able to push a new one, it would tell me "usage flash_image partition.img" or something very similar. I searched for that phrase and found something with it in the G1 forums, tried it(probably should have asked first), and now I don't even have a recovery image. Like I said I've tried almost everything and it may be simple but this is beyond me, someone please help.
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what happens when you hold home then press the power button? Is there any sort of screen if you get a screen you need to install android sdk and flash a new recovery image using adb

bycoo222 said:
what happens when you hold home then press the power button? Is there any sort of screen if you get a screen you need to install android sdk and flash a new recovery image using adb
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Yes there is a screen, it's the green HTC w/ white background. It will just sit there forever. I am at work right now so I can't do it yet but when I get home I'll try it, hopefully that works.
BTW, from my phone I can't tell if you have a donate button. I was serious about that.
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Try downloading the RUU and then re-rooting your phone. It will be wiped clean from the RUU install then you'll be able to push a new recovery img over. If you don't want to do that my other suggestion is if you can't manually flash the recovery try downloading RomManager from the market and using that to flash a recovery.
As far as why you can't flash a recovery where are you placing the recovery.img when you try? are you doing it from your computer or from your sdcard using a terminal emulator? If its from your computer make sure that the recovery.img is in the tools folder and make sure you type it word for word (caps included) if your trying to do it from the terminal emulator and its on your sdcard the same applies as it must be letter for letter and word for word, but before you can type anything you have to gain root access in the terminal you do this by simply typing su and then enter. SuperUser Permissions will ask you if its ok to use root click ok then type in what you need to.
Since you said you've been trying to flash it I assume you know what to type but if you need it again just ask I'll post it up for you. Hope this helps.

Here's something I wrote a few days ago to help someone who was trying to flash a custom recovery might be helpful.
Flashing a custom recovery is pretty easy there is a couple of ways to do it some find it easier to do by putting it on the sd card and flashing it through a terminal emulator or if you have your htc sync and adb set up already you can throw it on your sd card and type this
Code:
adb remount
Code:
adb shell
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
You should see this below
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
#
Reboot into recovery and you should be all set to go. The other way by using the terminal emulator you'll just type in this in:
Code:
su
Accept Root access request from SuperUser Permissions then type:
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-darchstar.img
You should see the same output to know you did it correctly. Hope this helps.

secbrad said:
Yes there is a screen, it's the green HTC w/ white background. It will just sit there forever. I am at work right now so I can't do it yet but when I get home I'll try it, hopefully that works.
BTW, from my phone I can't tell if you have a donate button. I was serious about that.
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No donate needed
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Also try quick boot to get in to recovery
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Thanks
Thanks everyone for all you help. I ended up being able to do it through terminal. I guess next time I won't wait three days to ask for a thirty second fix.

my friends Galaxy

Hi guy. A friend brought his Galaxy asking if I can unlock the screen cause someone used a wrong pattern many times and now the system is asking for an email account. the problem is he has no data plan.
I tried to do it using wifi, but I can't connect the phone cause never ask me for a connection password ... any Idea how I can unlock the screen???

You can remove security from your wifi to be connected anytime and then use his phone and then add the wifi security again.

Alright try this if USB Debugging is enabled.. connect to computer and adb shell into the device. So...
- Su
- rm /data/system/gesture.key
- rm /data/system/password.key
- reboot
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AlwaysDroid said:
Alright try this if USB Debugging is enabled.. connect to computer and adb shell into the device. So...
- Su
- rm /data/system/gesture.key
- rm /data/system/password.key
- reboot
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thank you man! as I am at work now, as soon as I get home I try that
I'll let you know how it goes...

erpurohit said:
You can remove security from your wifi to be connected anytime and then use his phone and then add the wifi security again.
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thanks for your reply... but wifi connection is at the office, so I cannot

As I think usb debugging is not checked I decided to return his phone back... may him fight his own battle

install a ressurrection edition via ODIN. this should work

0. Do a nandroid from current recovery, if applicable/available.
1. boot into recovery and try adb from there. if not continue...
2. flash devil kernel via Odin with no wipes.
3. boot into recovery and use the built in Aroma file manager to delete i files i told you about.
4. Then reflash the rom he was on to remove kernel.
You may lose his data, so be aware, and dont be mad at me if you do!
Also when you remove the lock, the pattern will still be present, but ANY random pattern will unlock it,.

[Q] Broken Screen..

Hi everyone, unfortunatly i broke my screen, my phone was rooted and i was using CM7
i would like to recover my files, but due to the my broken screen i can't see anything so i can't mount usb storage,
I also heard that if i activate usb debugging mode i can acces my files easily.. but debugging mode wasn't activated..
and finally I heard that through Recovery Mode, i can mount usb storage, but once again i cannot see or do anything ..
so can you help me please ?
thanks a lot for your help, and thanks to everyone on this forum for their help and their roms etc !

AW: [Q] Broken Screen..
Search on google for a pic from the the right recovery version then you navigate blind witch the picture.
If this dont work you can force the into recovery mode and plug it to the PC. You can save your data using adb without enabling usb debugging
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i think that differ on alternate versions of CWM
on my phone:
6x volume down, power, 2x volume up, power. but i'm running cwm6x so don't know if it works

KUN1 said:
Search on google for a pic from the the right recovery version then you navigate blind witch the picture.
If this dont work you can force the into recovery mode and plug it to the PC. You can save your data using adb without enabling usb debugging
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kronos111 said:
i think that differ on alternate versions of CWM
on my phone:
6x volume down, power, 2x volume up, power. but i'm running cwm6x so don't know if it works
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Hi thanks a lot for your answers, i think i was on cwm 3.0, i found some screenshot, and yes it's the same, thanks i will try it !
how can i save my data with adb without enabling usb debugging ?
thanks a lot !

AW: [Q] Broken Screen..
Go into recovery and plug it to the pc. Open cmd and navigate to your adb folder. Then type "adb devices" you should now see your phone listed as some random numbers. If not you did something wrong.
If you see your device type this "adb pull /sdcard C:\…" and the whole sd should be copied to the directory.
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KUN1 said:
Go into recovery and plug it to the pc. Open cmd and navigate to your adb folder. Then type "adb devices" you should now see your phone listed as some random numbers. If not you did something wrong.
If you see your device type this "adb pull /sdcard C:\…" and the whole sd should be copied to the directory.
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thanks a lot !! with this method can i also save my contacts, notes etc ? thank you so much !!

AW: [Q] Broken Screen..
The contacts are normally saved with your gmail account.
With this command you push your whole sd to the pc but i think if you want also the app data you have to use another command and you need root.
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KUN1 said:
The contacts are normally saved with your gmail account.
With this command you push your whole sd to the pc but i think if you want also the app data you have to use another command and you need root.
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thanks a lot, i dont think my contacted were synced.. i will check that too
i'm root so i'll search for that feature,
i dont have my phone untill a week, so i'll test and i'll tell you !
thanks a lot for all your helps !

thanks a lot, i finally could save all my files and reset my phone
i started the phone in recovery mode, i connected it to pc with adb drivers, but i wasn't able to copy or mount anything, i installed android commander software, so i was able to have screenshot from my phone while browsing the recovery, i mounted usb storage, i copied all my files
then i wiped the phone
and i checked if everything was deleted with androidscreencast, i was able to see my phone's screen live, and with the mouse i could browse my phone ( the touchscreen didn't work too )
thanks a lot for your help !

[Q] help stuck in factory mode

my phone is stuck in factory mode how to turn this off

You mean 'recovery' mode? Or 'download' mode?
To turn it of from those mode, you need to press power button continously till your phone is off.

no factory mode efs folder corrpt also my imei has changed

can someone help please

What have you done? recovery mode or factory mode. We want to help you but we don't know what you mean.

factory mode comes up need to change to user mode plus I didn't back up efs folder so carnt recover imei as changed to

You sure factory mode? As far as we know there's no factory mode. And please use dots (.) and comas (,)...
What have you done with the EFS folder? We need to know.
There's some people in the SII forum that had IMEI messed up. Not formatted. But they bring it back by Linux. I don't know if your EFS formated or just messed up.
ask "Benzonat0r". He is a developer that have experienced formatted IMEI partition.
Sorry if I don't help much. But I'm trying to help you. I don't have enough skills.

yes 100% factory mode its says in factory mode change to user mode ,efs folder is messed up.

david32*2010 said:
yes 100% factory mode its says in factory mode change to user mode ,efs folder is messed up.
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Tell us from which country you are, so people may help you in native language.
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im in the uk

Do this (u need to be rooted):
using ES File Explorer or Root Explorer:
Open the file “factorymode” in /efs/FactoryApp directory, it probably says OFF. Change it to ON (yes ON is the correct setting to turn it off) then reboot your phone.
Also, you can use adb shell to do this too:
Code:
adb shell
su
echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
then reboot your phone
Also, you can do it via terminal emulator:
Code:
su
echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
then reboot your phone

Thanx tryed but didnt work
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david32*2010 said:
Thanx tryed but didnt work
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are you sure? what did you find in "factorymode" file?

In factory mode file says off
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david32*2010 said:
In factory mode file says off
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change it to ON to get rid of factory mode then reboot (YES CHANGE IT TO ON NOT OFF!!!)

thank you done it and working now thanks a lot