Whenever I try to boot into recovery to install a ROM, it automatically does the HBoot. I don't have the option to go to Recovery. What did I do wrong?
Sounds like you need to press the other volume button when you boot into recovery. I can't remember which one is correct...volume up or volume down...try the opposite of what you are doing now.
Can I delete the PC36IMG.zip file? I feel like that is the culprit.
Yes. I renamed mine, but you can delete it.
Yeah basically the bootloader will look for PC36IMG.zip every time you enter it so if it's there it will go through that process all over again. Either rename it or delete it and your problem will be solved.
I have flashed clockworkmod, but also dont see how to directly boot into it.
When I power-on, if I press down, it goes to hboot. It I press up, I think it goes to fastboot.
The only way I can get into it, is to use rom manager, or go hboot and then choose the recovery option.
Can someone tell me what the official buttons are?
You need to take the pc36img off your sd card or rename it. Then press volume down to recovery then power button. Will then boot to a black screen with a red triangle and a EVO in the background. Then run your batch file as admin from your Evo-Recovery file. You should now been in your Recovery Mode
Yes from HBoot you need to choose recovery (assuming you renamed pc36img). That is how I did it. Once you have a custom ROM installed on the phone, download ROM manager and flash the recovery from the app. Then use quickboot to boot to recovery if you need to. But installing custom ROMs from Rom Manager is easiest.
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'hey guys/girls.
Im new at installing custom ROMS and all that.
I got my desire rooted with unrevoked 3.0 and it worked fine.
I installed a custom ROM and it worked fine,but i didnt like it so I tried a new one.
I can´t remember the name of it but I didnt like that either. Again i found a new ROM i´d like to try but when I turn off my phone and turn it on again trying to get to Hboot/recovery mode or what its called nothing happens i just stay turn off until i remove my finger from volume down buttom, then it just start then phone normally.
Do any one know what to do?
There are a couple of ways.
Way 1
1) Turn off your phone
2) Hold vol down + power until it loads the bootloader
3) When it's finished checking SD card, move to recovery using volume keys and press power to select recovery
4) It should load into recovery
Way 2
1) Have the Android SDK installed with the platform-tools downloaded and working
2) Make sure you plug your phone cable in your phone and PC
3) Open up command prompt or terminal (depending on your OS)
4) Type "adb reboot recovery" (no quotes) and it will reboot to recovery.
i have similar problem, cant access recovery anymore. that happened after installing a custom rom (leedroid). when i try to access recovery phone just hangs up on that red triangle. to turn it on again i have to pull of the battery. btw, phone works normaly itself only problem is that i cant access recovery to install some other rom :/
Drunk Moose said:
i have similar problem, cant access recovery anymore. that happened after installing a custom rom (leedroid). when i try to access recovery phone just hangs up on that red triangle. to turn it on again i have to pull of the battery. btw, phone works normaly itself only problem is that i cant access recovery to install some other rom :/
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The red triangle is the stock recovery, so you're actually in recovery there.
Download a recovery and read this. Should get recovery back on your phone again.
but i had normal recovery i installed dozens of custom roms :/ and now phone just stucks in that screen with phone and triangle :/
How the hell can you install custom roms with the stock recovery.
thats the point, i had normal recovery and now i cant access it im using custom roms from the times desire was released and now almost after a year this **** happened :/
Ok... 2 posts ago I linked you to an article that can get the a custom recovery back onto your phone.
can u explain me info in that link a little? what .zip file do i need and where to get it? and WTF is terminal?
1) Download Clockwork Recovery or if you have PVT4 download Amon_RA (GSM)
2) Put it on your SD card
3) Download terminal emulator from the market
4) Type "su" (without quotes) and press allow when it comes up
5) Type "flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" (without quotes) and it will write the file to your phone.
To check which PVT you have, boot into bootloader. Turn off phone and hold vol down + power.
installed better terminal emulator pro. downloaded img, renamed it to recovery, inserted it to sdcard in terminal typed:
su (enter)
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (enter)
and terminal says:
flash_image: not found
Did you put the img into a folder?
no, in the root of sd card
Weird. I don't know. Just tinker around with it. I tried it once and it worked for me. Check spelling, check in a file manager to see if the file is there.
i think i get this. thing is my rom does not have flash_image. now looking how to get it.
yep, there is no flash_image in system.
Are you using the new Sense ROMS/Gingerbread? If so 'Fast Boot' mode will screw with getting into recovery. I have to hold down volume while replacing the battery or turn off fast boot from within settings....
OFC if you have no recovery image anymore this won't help one little bit
KYI
yes im using new leedroid gb. i turned off that fast boot, its not that :/ now trying to push flash_image through adb, but it says "failed to copy....bla bla bla...: out of memmory" getting little desperate
If I was you I would back everything up. Contacts, SMS all that good stuff. I would then use an RUU and get the stock rom back on and just root that. Could of done it by now really.
Ok 2 problems:
1. to the topic starter. The reason you can't access recovery is that your rom uses fast boot up(sleep mode). When this is activated the phone doesn't really shut down when you tell it to, so it also cannot actually enter recovery or fastboot. Just turn it off in the settings menu and you'll be fine.
2. to Drunk Moose.
You have the original htc-recovery installed. I bet that you rooted back before unrevoked, and you probably have been using fakeflash since then. Try making rom manager dl cwm and choose reboot to recovery from rom manager. It should enter clockwork mod. If that is the case, this means that your phone have a modified version of the stock recovery, which allows test-keys. if that is not the case, and you still get the triangle, you somehow overwrote your recovery with a stock one.
Either way to fix this, you need to replace the recovery image with a cwm one. This can only be done in 2 ways for the desire:
1. Use unrevoked even though your phone is rooted and it'll flash it using a known exploit.
2. run alpharev to gain s-off. When you have s-off you will be able to flash the recovery through fastboot or from the system like described by meaple.
The reason it doesn't work for you when you do like meaple descriped, is that the commands tell the phone to use a custom binary called flash_img and passes it the parameters "recovery" and the "recovery.img" file. Then the binary will tell the android system how to write the img file to the recovery partition(it cannot do this entirely by itself). However this bynary is very unlikely to be included on your rom(like you figured out yourself ), so you need to place it somewhere you can access it from the terminal. And even if you had had the file, you wouldn't have been able to do so, as the recovery partition is write-protected doing runtime, when you are s-on.
So I'll recommend that you do one of the 2 mentioned solutions(I'll be glad to provide further help)
edit: and for god sake don't just flash a ruu every time you are in doubt... There are almost certainly an easier solution, and by doing s-off, you can avoid ever having to run a ruu again, as you can restore the system 1 partition at a time if you feel like it.(sorry this was not directed at you but people in general, as meaple just suggested doing so)
in fact i was just trying to use unrevoked bu it stucks on bootloader, tells to check for drivers, despite the drives is installed. :/
p.s. and yes i have rooted my desire almost a year ago there was no unrevoked
any other suggestions? or just try to install ruu?
and about the rom manager, it gets me to the same red triangle. btw the recovery was fine till i installed leedroids rom about a month, and i noticed it only few days ago, when i tryed to update my rom.
My phones stucked on Fastboot and it doesnt let me to go(select) recovery or anything.It only read PD99IMG.zip files and hardware keys only work to select yes or no(update or not).I was on CWM recovey and i flashed CWM img.But still phones doesnt let me to get into recovery! Still can reads PD99IMG.zip and only doing that. What should i do?I also tried RUU.exe.But it tell me to connect phone via usb even it still connected.
TIA
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Flashed CWM recovery image through Android Flasher and able to get into recovery! So i restored previous backed up CM.Everything perfect except these things.Now POWER BUTTON DOESNT RESPOND CORRECTLY and STILL CAN'T GET IN TO RECOVERY BY HOLDING VOLUME DOWN+POWER BUTTON. But ROM Manager CAN get in to recovery! What is now?
1st power button didn't work.Then i gave a factory reset. Nothing changed.After few hours,power button begun to respond, but not correctly. I mean,when i press on power button,screen doesn't off. But when i long press on power button and after few seconds,phone respond(show the power button long press menu).Also i can select Power off,reboot etc..This seems a software problem.What shold i do?
Ah.Another thing,I think i have Stock Hboot.Should i flash CM Hboot because i have a CM rom?
TIA
crazykas said:
My phones stucked on Fastboot and it doesnt let me to go(select) recovery or anything.It only read PD99IMG.zip files and hardware keys only work to select yes or no(update or not).I was on CWM recovey and i flashed CWM img.But still phones doesnt let me to get into recovery! Still can reads PD99IMG.zip and only doing that. What should i do?I also tried RUU.exe.But it tell me to connect phone via usb even it still connected.
TIA
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look at my guide
bortak said:
look at my guide
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Thank you very much sir!I already read your guide. This is the part i want.
" [2] ADVANCED BOOT PROBLEMS
S-OFF
"I'm S-OFF, I can't boot recovery and my phone doesn't
boot"
For one reason or another, your recovery image is corrupted
and when you try to boot into recovery, all you get is the
HTC screen and your phone doesn't boot. It is relatively
simple to fix, and there is more than one way to go about
doing this. All you need to do, is to flash a new recovery
image.
Possible causes
- I have no idea, however if somebody has an explanation
then feel free to PM me.
Repairing recovery, booting phone:
NOTE: If you have a PVT4 Device, go to "Flashing custom
recovery". If you are unsure, check just to be safe.
#METHOD 1#
Method One uses Android Flasher to flash the recovery
image.
[STEP1] - Battery pull. Hold the BACK button and the
POWER button to boot into FASTBOOT mode.
[STEP2] - Download Android Flasher
[STEP3] - Download the recovery image . Put it in a place you
can remember.
[STEP4] - Run android flasher, tick "Recovery", and press
"Begin"
[STEP5] - Browse to where you downloaded the recovery
image, select it, and press "open"
[STEP6] - repeat [1] from [STEP4] onwards
#METHOD 2#
Method two uses cmd and requires Android SDK to be set
up.
[STEP1] - Battery pull. Hold the BACK button and the
POWER button to boot into FASTBOOT mode.
[STEP2] - Download the recovery image . Rename it to
"recovery.img" for simplicity, and place it in the following
directory:
Code:
C:\
[STEP3] - then in cmd type the following commands
Code:
cd c:\android-sdk\tools
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
fastboot oem gencheckpt (this command boots you into recovery, ignore the feedback from
[STEP4] - repeat [1] from [STEP4] onwards"
Im trying with AndroidFlasher .Problem is link to recovery.img is not working.Can you tell me the full name of recovery i should google and download?
TIA
download ClockWorkMod recovery for bravo then you can flash any custom rom... 4ext is highly recommended but you should download it via app (download from here)
Is it really necessary to open another thread about your problem?
kotag82 said:
download ClockWorkMod recovery for bravo then you can flash any custom rom... 4ext is highly recommended but you should download it via app (download from here)
Is it really necessary to open another thread about your problem?
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If link is down then use any other recovery from the recoveries section.
Hi,
I am having an issue accessing Recovery to make a backup of my current ROM from HBOOT on my HTC Droid Incredible running Cyanogenmod 7.1.0. My phone was rooted using the unrEVOked method listed on the Cyanogenmod web page. I have attempted three methods to access recovery:
1. I load ROM Manager v5.0.0.6 on the phone and then select "Backup Current ROM." The phone reboots into HBOOT v0.92. I use the Volume Down button to highlight "Recovery" and then hit the Power button to select.
2. I load ROM Manager on the phone and then select "Reboot into Recovery." Once in HBOOT, the same steps from method one above.
3. While the phone is turned off I hold Volume Down and Power on the phone to boot into HBOOT directly. Once in HBOOT, the same step from method one above.
However, once I select "Recovery" from within HBOOT, it doesn't actually go into Recovery. Instead, it changes, possibly reloads HBOOT and says "FASTBOOT" at the top, and the selections are different - "Recovery" is no longer an option.
All that to say - I can't make a backup of my current ROM using HBOOT. Suggestions on how I can fix this?
Go into ROM Manager, advanced options, check erase recovery. Now flash recovery in ROM Manager. Reboot into recovery.
tried, unsuccessful
PonsAsinorem said:
Go into ROM Manager, advanced options, check erase recovery. Now flash recovery in ROM Manager. Reboot into recovery.
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I tried doing that just now, unfortunately, no success. When booted into HBOOT it starts out at the FASTBOOT screen. I select BOOTLOADER which causes the white screen to appear briefly before giving me the bootloader options. However, upon selecting recovery it just flashes the HTC white screen again and puts me back in the FASTBOOt screen.
Assuming your s-off, flash cwm recovery thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip. http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip. If that dosent work flash back to stock recovery http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/Stock_4.08.605.2/PB31IMG.zip, then reboot and flash back to cwm. Heres how to flash in hboot if you dont already know http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79
After a good 20 min of trying to enter the re-captcha i can finally post:good:
I have a HTC one X and i was running cyanogen 10 alpha 2. I wanted to go back to the stock rom but after using the restore function my phone is hanging on the HTC one loading screen. (i made this backup before installing the cyanogen rom)
I only have the stock(odexed) rom as .zip on my sd card but after installing this from the zip the phone hangs on the loading screen.
So i have a backup that is not working after the restore, i have a .zip on my sd card that is not working and i have no sd card access to try other rom .zip. What can i do?
Is it something with the boot.img and the recovery.img?
I read something about RUU? But i'm on osx and i one see .exe?
Thank you!
After restoring you also need to flash the boot.IMG that goes along with your backup.
Goto recovery
mounts
Mount USB storage
Plug phone to Mac and navigate to your sdcard
Open folder clockworkmod
open folder backups
Open folder XXX (corresponds to your backup date)
copy the boot.IMG from the folder
Flash the copied boot.IMG in fastboot the same way as you did when installed the custom rom
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
fvanommen said:
After a good 20 min of trying to enter the re-captcha i can finally post:good:
I have a HTC one X and i was running cyanogen 10 alpha 2. I wanted to go back to the stock rom but after using the restore function my phone is hanging on the HTC one loading screen. (i made this backup before installing the cyanogen rom)
I only have the stock(odexed) rom as .zip on my sd card but after installing this from the zip the phone hangs on the loading screen.
So i have a backup that is not working after the restore, i have a .zip on my sd card that is not working and i have no sd card access to try other rom .zip. What can i do?
Is it something with the boot.img and the recovery.img?
I read something about RUU? But i'm on osx and i one see .exe?
Thank you!
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Hi,
You are into a boot loop because the boot.img you have on your phone is not compatible with the JellyBean Cyanogen mod ROM, or is not correctly flashed. First charge the phone upto at least 50% battery (to be safe). Then try following the steps below:
1. Download this tool>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634786
2. Extract the boot.img from the Custom Rom you are trying to install in a folder on your computer.
3. Extract Fastboot tool into a folder on your computer and replace the boot.img by the boot.img extracted from the Custom Rom in Step.2
4. Turn your phone OFF
5. Turn your phone ON in bootloader mode by holding the power and vol down buttons at the same time, your phone will start in HBOOT mode. It will be displayed somewhere in the middle of the text.
6. Use the volume keys to move up and down the list, and select Fastboot, then press the power key. Now your phone will come in FASTBOOT mode.
7. Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable. Your phone will now display USB FASTOOT instead of just FASTBOOT.
8. Run the tool and select the option to erase the cache and then select the option to continue.
9. Select the option for flashing boot.img and then continue.
10. Select the option to flash clockwork mod recovery.
11. Disconnect the USB cable. Your phone will now again say FASTBOOT.
12. Use the up or down volume key to select HBOOT and press the power button. This will take you back to HBOOT mode.
13. Use the volume keys to scroll to RECOVERY and press the power button.
14. This will take you to Recovery mode, now you can flash the Custom Rom you want using Recovery mode.
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edit: I managed to get to recovery by removing the sdcard, booting to fastboot, then entering recovery and hot-plugging the sdcard back to the slot.
Is fastboot supposed to act like that? What files do I have to delete from the sdcard to prevent it from happening again?
I am using Codefire X AOSP. All worked more or less well (occasional restarts) for the last weeks. However today I had to reboot and now the ROM is stuck at the codefire x logo.
After multiple times trying to reboot I decided to wipe and reflash. But when I press Power + Vol Down the fastboot menu comes up only briefly and then it says it found an update and if I want to install it.
The only two options are Yes (Vol Up) and No (Vol Down). When I press Vol Up the radio is reflashed, then the phone reboots. When I press Vol Down (not update) I get the option Press Power to Reboot. Nothing else.
I tried adb/fastboot but it doesn't seem to find the device. I tried adb both while the phone is in fastboot (or hboot) and while the codefire logo is displayed but it's not detected.
Any idea how I can enter recovery?
Take the radio file off your SD card with a card reader.
Thanks, fortunately I could boot to recovery by removing the sdcard, so after reflashing I'm now able to delete the file.
I think it's strange though that you can't boot to recovery when a radio file is present on the sdcard...
bur2000 said:
Thanks, fortunately I could boot to recovery by removing the sdcard, so after reflashing I'm now able to delete the file.
I think it's strange though that you can't boot to recovery when a radio file is present on the sdcard...
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That is because every time the phone boots into hboot parses for PD98IMG files. If you have one in your sdcard, then does that.