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[Q]Accessing Recovery With Broken Power Button

So I have a bit of an issue. Over the weekend my power button stopped working like it has for many people.
I finally got to a computer last night and was able to turn it on using a method I had read about.
I was using madaco's desire port but I didn't have the option for wake with trackball baked into it. Which I need to have my phone usable. So I had another ROM baked on his site with that option in it but I forgot to tick the option to have the .zip signed. (I'm using an older recovery, had been to lazy to update)
I didn't realized it wasn't signed until I had go into recovery, wiped everything and then attempted to flash at which time it said no because it wasn't signed. So I said F it I'll do it in the morning.
So today I realized I can't boot the phone up because I had wiped everything, including the ext partition. It just sits at the X screen with the unlocked paddle lock on it. Due to this I can't access it with ADB to get to recovery.
If I restart the phone and put it into HBOOT I can't select recovery because you have to press the power button to select the option.
I also tried finding a fastboot command to boot into recovery but didn't locate one.
SOO
Does anyone have a clue how I can get this damn thing into recovery? I'm normally really good with this stuff but I am stumped at this point.
And before anyone says it I can't exchange it because my screen is cracked.

If you can grab a kernel and and recovery image on your PC you can boot them using
fastboot boot <kernel image> <recovery image>

Is that going to get me to a point where I can flash a new rom on it? I was running all of my cache on SD so when I wiped it is messed the rom up.
It already has Amon_RA recovery on it, the release prior to the newest one. So do I really need to flash another one to it?

All I can think of is possibly reverting to stock via the passimg method, but I can't remember if you need to use the power button to confirm during the process?
Once you have a working ROM, you can root via superoneclick, and install superboot to boot into recovery.
Problem is, you'll then have a stock recovery...
Once you're booted and rooted though, you can always use adb, or ROM Manager right?
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danger-rat said:
All I can think of is possibly reverting to stock via the passimg method, but I can't remember if you need to use the power button to confirm during the process?
Once you have a working ROM, you can root via superoneclick, and install superboot to boot into recovery.
Problem is, you'll then have a stock recovery...
Once you're booted and rooted though, you can always use adb, or ROM Manager right?
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Yeah that's the route I'm thinking about taking. But I think there are option you have to use the power button to confirm.
I'm messing around with different boot.img right now to try and get it to boot. If I could just get the damn thing to boot I'd be all set cause I can use adb from that point. But right now when it stops at the X screen ADB can detected the phone but if you try to access the shell you get "failed to link /system/bin/sh
Thanks for the input man

If your bootloader is unlocked, you can re-image with fastboot.
Also, if you're not unlocked, I'm pretty sure the passimg only selects options with the volume keys...
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I went with the superboot method. When I ran the .bat files it restarted the device and put it into recovery. I flashed a fresh ROM from there.
It's made it to the boot animation so I'll see if it fully boots up in a minute .

Okay, I'm back in action. Thanks for the in put guys.

Great!
D'ya need an unlocked bootloader to use superboot (I've never used it)?
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Just discovered this gem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825909
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danger-rat said:
Great!
D'ya need an unlocked bootloader to use superboot (I've never used it)?
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I'm pretty sure you do. It says you'll probably need to as a foot note in the directions for superboot.
I may be wrong, I haven't kept up on much relating to rooting the Nexus since it first came out.

I think you're probably right... Thanks!
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Why can´t I get root access?

Okey, before FRG83D I rooted my phone with SuperOneClick. Then I decided to go back to the original ROM, and update to FRG83D. As you know, this revoked my root access. So now I unlocked the bootloader and ran Superboot. However I don`t get rooted. My suspicions are that because my old Superuser apk is left, something goes wrong. Plz help me figure this out!

Well all need a root for 2.2.1
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Well all need a root for 2.2.1
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Are you telling me there is NO way to root 2.2.1 ? :O

No, I think the other guy is just thinking of a root-without-unlock method.
You are already unlocked. So it's just a matter of changing the system correctly to root it. Easiest way is to probably flash an already rooted stock build over it. (I assume you want to remain stock)
Or at least you need to find the correct way to root 2.2.1, which is hard because there are probably a lot of people out there looking for a root without unlocking, so that will pollute your search results.
Edit: Of course, I could be way off base and not know what I'm talking about.

Yup, flash a rooted stock rom, like Geo's.

I still don't know why people love to make things harder on themselves than it needs to be lol.

Okey, this is kinda crazy, because Adblock is working and has all permission, but nothing else!
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MrSvedberg said:
Okey, this is kinda crazy, because Adblock is working and has all permission, but nothing else!
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Not familiar with Adblock, but if it is similar to AdFree it just works by replacing your /system/etc/hosts file with one that directs every advertising address to the loopback address, thus preventing the apps from loading. If that file was in place before you lost root, it will continue to block ads for you.

Okey, but if I just want to flash CM, what do I do? Can't get to recovery :/
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You're unlocked, right? Super easy :-D
Download a recovery *.img (or extract it from a recovery .zip).
Reboot your N1 to fastboot mode (press and hold VOL-DOWN while powering on - press Power to select Fastboot USB when the option is presented).
Connect your USB cable.
Run fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (replacing "recovery.img" with the appropriate file name). When complete, you have an aftermarket recovery again.
Boot to recovery and install whatever ROM you want

codesplice said:
You're unlocked, right? Super easy :-D
Download a recovery *.img (or extract it from a recovery .zip).
Reboot your N1 to fastboot mode (press and hold VOL-DOWN while powering on - press Power to select Fastboot USB when the option is presented).
Connect your USB cable.
Run fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (replacing "recovery.img" with the appropriate file name). When complete, you have an aftermarket recovery again.
Boot to recovery and install whatever ROM you want
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Thx a lot m8, but could you dumb that down just a little bit? Still a bit n00b in the area x)
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Those steps are broken down a bit more specifically (including prerequisites) in this thread, which I found from the NexusOne Wiki, which is a great place to look for such common information.

Done it, and I'm 110 % sure I did it right! Still does not work!
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What part are you having trouble with?

Can't boot into recovery...
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Can't boot into recovery...
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I'm afraid you'll have to be more descriptive than that.
HOW are you trying to boot to recovery? There are several methods:
1) Issue the adb reboot recovery command
2) Boot to the bootloader (press and hold Volume-Down while powering on), use the volume keys to scroll down to Recovery, and the power button to launch it.
3) Use an application like Quick Boot to reboot directly to recovery from the OS, though that may require a working root.
Have you tried these methods? If so, what happened? What did you see on the screen?

Number 2. Just seeing an Android and a triangle.
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Number 2. Just seeing an Android and a triangle.
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Then that is the stock recovery. Flashing a third-party recovery was not successful. Did you receive any error messages from the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command?
Your bootloader IS unlocked, right? You have a padlock icon on the bottom of the screen immediately after poweron?

The flash was successful, no error messages. And yes, the padlock is there.
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The flash was successful, no error messages. And yes, the padlock is there.
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What recovery image are you trying to use?

Cant get into stock recovery sucessfully

I have a stock Android 2.3.6 galacy exhibit 4g and when I boot up into recovery, an update is automatically found, installed and then reboots the phone doing the same thing every time recovery is booted into. My problem is, I cannot find this update package in my internal sd storage to save my life nor do I even know what the update package would be called. Can anyone please help?
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korruptedimage said:
I have a stock Android 2.3.6 galacy exhibit 4g and when I boot up into recovery, an update is automatically found, installed and then reboots the phone doing the same thing every time recovery is booted into. My problem is, I cannot find this update package in my internal sd storage to save my life nor do I even know what the update package would be called. Can anyone please help?
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I'm not certain but it might be called update.zip, because if I remember that's the only name that will flash in the stock recovery. As for finding it, just try searching for update.zip. it should be on the root of the sdcard(no folder) because that's the only way I thought it could install. Any ways I'm probably wrong but at least you can try.
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theAPANT said:
I'm not certain but it might be called update.zip, because if I remember that's the only name that will flash in the stock recovery. As for finding it, just try searching for update.zip. it should be on the root of the sdcard(no folder) because that's the only way I thought it could install. Any ways I'm probably wrong but at least you can try.
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i tried that too. it was unsuccessful. im almost out of ideas. does anyone have a clue about multi csc code that can automatically apply upon booting into stock recovery and then make it automatically reboot the phone?

This is exactly my problem. I just took a picture of it. this it what it says as soon as i boot into recovery. No options. Nothing. Just reboots
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korruptedimage said:
This is exactly my problem. I just took a picture of it. this it what it says as soon as i boot into recovery. No options. Nothing. Just reboots
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sorry i thought it posted my picture with the link. only place i have to upload it is on facebook but heres the link. if anyone can help, please do.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1306577752552.492490.664252551&type=3&theater

korruptedimage said:
i tried that too. it was unsuccessful. im almost out of ideas. does anyone have a clue about multi csc code that can automatically apply upon booting into stock recovery and then make it automatically reboot the phone?
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I'm not sure really what CSC code is but I think your talking about stock Odin flash able package. That should get you back to stock and flash the stock recovery and wipe everything. However i think it will bootloop after it flashes so you will have to boot into recovery and wipe data. If so check out the wiki. There is all the info you need. I have another idea though. I haven't done this myself but you should be able to push a clockworkmod recovery.img to the phone from a terminal if you have adb also in the wiki. I can't view your pic because I don't have a Facebook but maybe someone else can. Good luck
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That is the stock update pushed by Samsung from what it sounds like. Also sounds like a data packet might have dropped during the downloading of it causing a bad install. For simplicity get cwm Installed and boot thru that and flash from cwm. Wiki has all the info needs.
Wiki please read completely on rooting and install of cwm. Suggest 6.0.1.2 version. Personal preferences on that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Exhibit_II_4G
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Problem solved. I just randimly pushed the 3 buttons on the phone before the rebooting part came up in the script and finally got the menu, took may tries to get to that point but as soon as I got to that point, I was quick to install clockworkmod successfully. Now problem is gone. Hope this thread maybe helps someone else
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korruptedimage said:
Problem solved. I just randimly pushed the 3 buttons on the phone before the rebooting part came up in the script and finally got the menu, took may tries to get to that point but as soon as I got to that point, I was quick to install clockworkmod successfully. Now problem is gone. Hope this thread maybe helps someone else
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I have a similar problem. Which 3 buttons are we talking about? Power+Home+VolUp?

Easiest way, take out battery, push volume up and power, insert battery while holding, when Samsung appears release only power, when the android guy with package appears press menu
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Make sure you push the "Menu" capacitive button (left in the row of four buttons below the screen) when you see the green Android guy and the box. That will get you into the stock recovery menu.
I had to reboot into recovery a couple of times because I missed that part. What a pain!

Is my Nexus completely dead?

Long post but can't really shorten it.
32GB wifi Nexus, rooted and was running Liquid Smooth ROM and Motley kernel, went to update the ROM to rc9 version ,anytime I updated previously I never done full wipe unless using different ROM, anyway flashed the ROM and the gaaps with it and rebooted, immediately and prompted to me to use either apex or Holo HD I choose Holo HD got error saying system ui not responding, tried apex and got the same.
I was on the main screen but couldn't access it, yet I could pull down and enter into settings, everything else looked to be ok, so rebooted back to recovery and tried fixing permission, rebooted and got the same so I though I'll be just restore my nandroid backup, to my astonishment all the data had been wiped, I didn't do a wipe at all so I'm baffled how this happened.
Anyway I done a factory reset and rebooted and went through the setup, got the same system ui not responding, went to settings which could still access, apps and un installed both Apex and Holo HD noticed that Liquid Smooth rc9 had installed but instead of showing the cm kernel it still showed motley kernel.
Back to recovery, factory reset twice, wiped cache and dalvik, rebooted, went through set up process, same system ui error again, went to settings, erased all data, tablet rebooted, set up process same again, system ui, so I'm getting worried so back to recovery and this time I selected format system, data and sd, card and now I think I've completely fuc#ed it up as it just hangs at the Google screen and has stayed like that for over 30 minutes.
Previously asides from the occasional force close issue in the 2 months I've had the Nexus not really had a problem with it and whilst I'm no developer or techy geek I'm certainly no noob when it comes to this type of thing but I'm very concerned now and hoping someone can be of assistance as I sold laptop and primary just use my Nexus (and Galaxy S3)
Thanks
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Strange.. But I didn't understand well, after wiping /system, did you flash the ROM back ?
I think you should flash 4.2.1 factory image using toolkit or whatever, then root etc..again

No all the data had been wiped this is what is baffling me, I didn't do a factory reset I just flashed the ROM and gaaps, as I said initially it was the system ui error I was getting but I think I've fucjed it up by formatting the system, data and sd card as all I can see now is the Google screen at boot, I can still get into clock work mod recovery but I've exhausted all avenues as it were, is there any hope I can get it back working again?
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j3r3myp said:
Strange.. But I didn't understand well, after wiping /system, did you flash the ROM back ?
I think you should flash 4.2.1 factory image using toolkit or whatever, then root etc..again
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Is that Mr skips Nexus 7 toolkit?
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Download Google Stock Image and Flash the System.img File ...Tablet will be fine after that.

manasgirdhar said:
Download Google Stock Image and Flash the System.img File ...Tablet will be fine after that.
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Thanks can you give me more instructions how I go about doing that, any links, etc
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jonny68 said:
Is that Mr skips Nexus 7 toolkit?
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Yes ! Really easy to use. You'll just have to put the tab into fastboot mode give it a try I'm pretty sure it will solve everything and you'll start back with good bases as it is full stock !
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Cheers but I don't see anything in clockwork mod recovery for fastboot mode, I'll go to an Internet cafe tomorrow and do it if I could just get specific instructions.
Thanks again folks for your assistance
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jonny68 said:
Cheers but I don't see anything in clockwork mod recovery for fastboot mode, I'll go to an Internet cafe tomorrow and do it if I could just get specific instructions.
Thanks again folks for your assistance
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Hold power and volume up and down all for like 10-15 seconds. Tablet will boot into bootloader/fastboot mode
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malikadnanm said:
Hold power and volume up and down all for like 10-15 seconds. Tablet will boot into bootloader/fastboot mode
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That is what I've always done but all I can see is - start - restart bootloader - recovery mode - power off, and I cannot see anything for fastboot mode (unless I'm going blind)
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jonny68 said:
Thanks can you give me more instructions how I go about doing that, any links, etc
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First Download and install the fastboot drivers...Download the stock Image here:-
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
then hold volume-(Down) Button and while holding the Button power on the device..it will take you into the bootloader. Now conne4ct the nexus to your PC...Now extract the file you downloaded (the Stock image)..keep extracting the files till you get the system.img file.Use fastboot to flash that(the command):
fastboot flash system system.img

Boot into fast boot, push a stock image. Ta da. Easy stuff. The basics.
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manasgirdhar said:
First Download and install the fastboot drivers...Download the stock Image here:-
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
then hold volume-(Down) Button and while holding the Button power on the device..it will take you into the bootloader. Now conne4ct the nexus to your PC...Now extract the file you downloaded (the Stock image)..keep extracting the files till you get the system.img file.Use fastboot to flash that(the command):
fastboot flash system system.img
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Right cheers ill give this a go tomorrow pretty new to the Nexus used to Samsung
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Right cheers ill give this a go tomorrow pretty new to the Nexus used to Samsung
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Ah..We were all new to this once..you will get the Hang of it..If you need further help please do let me know.Always happy to help.

Please Help

I'm sure you guys get this alot, but unfortunately i have no idea what I did to my phone. I got my HTC one for Sprint in the mail today and already It's not responding. I unlocked it, and rooted it. Tried out a couple of ROM's, it was great until one gave me a problem. Then I tried to Restore a backup and bam now i can't even boot up. What do I do? Is my only option to Unroot/Relock. I'm sorry if this has been asked already or there is a different section I should post in, like I said I'm new to all this fun.
Thank you,
-Connor

Can you get in to the recovery screen? (turn back on while holding video volume down and power) if you can download a rom on you computer and you should be able to put it on your phones storage. Then reflash that rom.
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Yeah I can still get into recovery and everything, except when i wipe everything and install a ROM it still wont get boot properly, its almost as if i didn't have a set up app and thats causing it to not even boot up. I am trying a new ROM at the moment, otherwise I'm out of ideas.
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Can you get in to the recovery screen? (turn back on while holding video volume down and power) if you can download a rom on you computer and you should be able to put it on your phones storage. Then reflash that rom.
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Use Hasoon2000s All in One toolkit for the HTC One along with the ADB Sideload functionality under advanced in TWRP to flash a new ROM to your Sprint HTC One.
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