Stuck with no working recovery - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I had a working SkyRaider 2.5.2 and then tried to upgrade to 3.0 RC2.
install from clockworkmod worked fine, reboot worked fine. Then I rebooted into recovery mode, and when I did, I could not select any of the menu items. My optical tractball is dead, both in recovery mode and android. So I tried reinstalling clockworkmod, no go. Everthing else is working fine. SO I reverted back to stock pre leaked OTA, and install orginal recovery etc. bombs out when I try and use the stock recovery, i get a red triangle. Not sure what to do now.

corefile said:
I had a working SkyRaider 2.5.2 and then tried to upgrade to 3.0 RC2.
install from clockworkmod worked fine, reboot worked fine. Then I rebooted into recovery mode, and when I did, I could not select any of the menu items. My optical tractball is dead, both in recovery mode and android. So I tried reinstalling clockworkmod, no go. Everthing else is working fine. SO I reverted back to stock pre leaked OTA, and install orginal recovery etc. bombs out when I try and use the stock recovery, i get a red triangle. Not sure what to do now.
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if the trackball is shot, take it back to big red for a replacement
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Red triangle is stock recovery i thought?
Try flashing stock 2.1 from HBOOT

jdkoreclipse said:
if the trackball is shot, take it back to big red for a replacement
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You are correct, the tractball is shot. BUT the problem is, I want return to S-ON to return in, and I can't find a way to do that when your track ball is busted!! I can't boot into recovery and select the s-on update.

corefile said:
You are correct, the tractball is shot. BUT the problem is, I want return to S-ON to return in, and I can't find a way to do that when your track ball is busted!! I can't boot into recovery and select the s-on update.
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Jeepers, thats sucks man, sorry to hear this. But to be honest man. I would just send the phone back with S-OFF. call the *611 for a refurb replacement, they will take care of you, and I have heard people doing this and being fine.

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I NEED HELP: [Q] S-ON and phone boot loops... did i brick my phone?

i was going between ROMS trying out different versions. then i installed Vision BaconBits 0.3 on a Modaco DESIRE Z rom (i know, i know) & now the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
then i noticed i couldn't revert back to the stock ROM like i've done before. i wiped & tried again, but to no avail.
says MAIN VERSION is older or something like that.
i even tried the Modaco ROM again too, but nada. it fails.
oh yeah... and for some reason i got S-ON again. i'm like wtf?
so... did i brick my phone? or is there a way to get it going again?
btw, i did install ClockworkMod Recovery for G2 & did a back up before i tried out the DESIRE Z ROM.
DJ ELITE said:
i was going between ROMS trying out different versions. then i installed Vision BaconBits 0.3 on a Modaco DESIRE Z rom (i know, i know) & now the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
then i noticed i couldn't revert back to the stock ROM like i've done before. i wiped & tried again, but to no avail.
says MAIN VERSION is older or something like that.
i even tried the Modaco ROM again too, but nada. it fails.
oh yeah... and for some reason i got S-ON again. i'm like wtf?
so... did i brick my phone? or is there a way to get it going again?
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it sounds like your phone is screwed!if there truly is no way to fix this return it for hinge issues or something,even pop the hinge if you have to lol
Try to get into clock work wipe if you can the system should try to reinstall stock , or see if you have adb access and then you can go from there . Good luck
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DJ ELITE said:
btw, i did install ClockworkMod Recovery for G2 & did a back up before i tried out the DESIRE Z ROM.
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So your not able to Volume Down + Power and get into clockwork still? If so then why couldnt you just restore the backup you made.
thx for the expedient reponse...
bled82 said:
Try to get into clock work wipe if you can the system should try to reinstall stock , or see if you have adb access and then you can go from there . Good luck
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the phone boot loops. how do i get in CWM?
userfriendlyme said:
So your not able to Volume Down + Power and get into clockwork still? If so then why couldnt you just restore the backup you made.
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i can def do the Volume Down + Power. how does that get me in to CWM?
I'm still new to this so take my advice with a grain of salt but I think that "Main version is older issue" can be avoided by using the hex editor to change the build number on the ROM. Try changing the version with the hex editor as per this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
and then try to flash it. Hopefully thats all you need to do.
pull the battery, wait a couple seconds and put back in. now hold the volume down button and press power. the phone will boot into fastboot. use volume down key to select recovery and hit the power button to confirm. if CW is still on your phone it will load, if you have s-on idk if it will load without su privilages or not im not a dev but try it.
edit: i have soft bricked my g1 like 10 times, the main thing to remember is backup, wipe wiPE WIPE! and follow instructions to a T.
DJ ELITE said:
i can def do the Volume Down + Power. how does that get me in to CWM?
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If you can get vol dwn + pwr to work, then you can scroll to recovery. from there, you should be able to restore your backup from rom manager. If it's not in that one, then hold trackpad button + power and scroll to recovery.
if you can get into the clockwork recovery and can successfully get adb to recognize the phone, try the downgrade from OTA. it will restore your phone back to out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
you might need a usb microsd reader to get the files onto and off of the sd card
thx for the reponses...
Azrael3123 said:
I'm still new to this so take my advice with a grain of salt but I think that "Main version is older issue" can be avoided by using the hex editor to change the build number on the ROM. Try changing the version with the hex editor as per this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
and then try to flash it. Hopefully thats all you need to do.
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yikes... sounds a lil too experimental to me. thx for chiming in tho. truly appreciated.
EdTeach1680 said:
pull the battery, wait a couple seconds and put back in. now hold the volume down button and press power. the phone will boot into fastboot. use volume down key to select recovery and hit the power button to confirm. if CW is still on your phone it will load, if you have s-on idk if it will load without su privilages or not im not a dev but try it.
edit: i have soft bricked my g1 like 10 times, the main thing to remember is backup, wipe wiPE WIPE! and follow instructions to a T.
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yeah... i don't see CMW.
digikid said:
If you can get vol dwn + pwr to work, then you can scroll to recovery. from there, you should be able to restore your backup from rom manager. If it's not in that one, then hold trackpad button + power and scroll to recovery.
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in RECOVERY i don't see ROM MANAGER. just the standard:
Rebooty system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
thx for the response.
pr0naLd said:
if you can get into the clockwork recovery and can successfully get adb to recognize the phone, try the downgrade from OTA. it will restore your phone back to out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
you might need a usb microsd reader to get the files onto and off of the sd card
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i'm using my old HTC Rhodium to rename/transer files on the SD.
unfortunately... no CMW that i can see.
I can understand your hesitation but if you read through the post you will see that many people have tested it and it should work fine. At this point its the only way to downgrade to stock due to the "Main version is older" issue and, assuming you truly can't access clockwork recovery, I don't see what other method there is. Whats really got me twisted is the S-on part; I could've predicted some issue by flashing BB onto the Z rom but I wouldn't have seen that coming. Is it even possible to flash anything while S-on is enabled?
maybe you can use an offical update.zip that is signed. i dunno
DJ ELITE said:
in RECOVERY i don't see ROM MANAGER. just the standard:
Rebooty system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
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Hmmm...then you didn't install the CWM recovery. You should try to flash the rom that shipped with the phone. You can get it here. To do that, you need to get it onto your memory card as update.zip, then boot to recovery and choose "Apply sdcard:update.zip" and then you should have a bootable phone again.
thx for the reponses...
Azrael3123 said:
I can understand your hesitation but if you read through the post you will see that many people have tested it and it should work fine. At this point its the only way to downgrade to stock due to the "Main version is older" issue and, assuming you truly can't access clockwork recovery, I don't see what other method there is. Whats really got me twisted is the S-on part; I could've predicted some issue by flashing BB onto the Z rom but I wouldn't have seen that coming. Is it even possible to flash anything while S-on is enabled?
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don't get me wrong, i feel u. i may have no choice but to try that. i'm getting desperate.
however, the current ROM loaded is the Modaco DESIRE Z w/the Vision BaconBits 0.3 updated to it... and after that, it kept boot looping. plus the fact that i have S-ON.
supergear said:
maybe you can use an offical update.zip that is signed. i dunno
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have em. renamed em. tried em. (e.g.: PC10IMG.zip[, updated.zip)
oh that sucks
I was stuck in the same boat as you were. I had a stock rom permarooted and messed up editting on of the /system/ files. and got stuck with endless reboot. i then flashed this: [ROM] Desire Z Sense on the G2 (via HBOOT) because it was the only rom out at the time. It successfully loaded, but i wanted to go back to stock. i then flashed the OTB rom and got stuck with a desire z rom with s-on. No other rom would flash so i proceeded to temp-root and do the downgrade from OTA.
You lost root. Have to install the PC10.img and re-root.
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But in order to edit the files necessary to flash down to the stock ROM, he needs to have at least temp root so he can pull and edit the misc.img (I think). If he has S-on and is stuck in a boot loop, how can he access visionary or terminal emulator in order to set up that temp root? I think that's the biggest issue unless I'm missing something.
Shouldn't the stock rom have everything that's needed? Plus it's signed so it should flash with s-on.

Trouble with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3.

I flashed the most recent ClockworkMod to my phone using ROM manager so I could do a ROM backup, and now my phone will not go into recovery mode. When I get into the boot menu and try to go into recovery, it goes into the splash screen and stays there.
Has anyone else had this happen with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3? It took my phone quite a while to boot after that, and it put me into panic mode for a good moment.
I'll be flashing Amon_RA now to do my backup/ROM flashing. The latest updates to ClockworkMod keep doing crazy, crazy things to my poor EVO. Has anyone else experienced this?
YES! I was flashing a rom earlier tonight with the latest clockwork from rom manager and it messed up everything. Tried a bunch of different things. Still hangs on splash screen. How long did you have to wait?
yes also nothing wanted to flash had to go back to clockwm.. 2.5.0 where everything was petfect lol
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same here, went to flash a few zips and installations kept aborting. just flashed amon ra and no problems now. hopefully they fix whatever happened to clockworkmod before ppl go crazy lol
my evo is doing that as i type this, i will definitely be switching to amon ra (as soon as my evo stops freaking out) until it gets fixed.
Alfred F. Jones said:
I flashed the most recent ClockworkMod to my phone using ROM manager so I could do a ROM backup, and now my phone will not go into recovery mode. When I get into the boot menu and try to go into recovery, it goes into the splash screen and stays there.
Has anyone else had this happen with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3? It took my phone quite a while to boot after that, and it put me into panic mode for a good moment.
I'll be flashing Amon_RA now to do my backup/ROM flashing. The latest updates to ClockworkMod keep doing crazy, crazy things to my poor EVO. Has anyone else experienced this?
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same thing happened to me and I thought I bricked my phone-took a few hrs to sort out. very disappointing
how did you solve the issue? my phone is basically in a bricked state...
ricankng787 said:
how did you solve the issue? my phone is basically in a bricked state...
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can you boot into HBOOT? if so flash back to an older version of ClockworkMod.
taintbad said:
can you boot into HBOOT? if so flash back to an older version of ClockworkMod.
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yes I can boot into hboot, how would i push files onto the phone? and flash from there?
ricankng787 said:
yes I can boot into hboot, how would i push files onto the phone? and flash from there?
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I used the ClockworkMod from unrevoked
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
place the appropriate file on the root of the sdcard using a card reader and boot into HBOOT.
I got out of it by crossing my fingers and doing a battery pull, then booting normally. Thankfully it worked, so I had the chance to use ROM Manager to flash Amon_RA, but I can't guarantee it would work for everyone's.
hope this helps some one I went to appmarket and romanager and uninstalled update then went to app to flash back to older version 2.5
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I hope so too. At this point I'd probably recommend that everyone with trouble either go back to 2.5 or even suggest switching to Amon_RA... nothing but problems with 3.0. !

SOFT BRICK please help

Hey, I got a soft brick so I'm going to use the unroot method here but I just wanted to make sure it would work.
S-OFF, Hboot 2.1
Also, I'll still be able to root and go back to an old nandroid if this all works out, correct?
It should work. Yes, you will be able to re-root and restore a nandroid once you have completed everything again.
Might throw out your issue first, to see if someone can help you fix without having to go through all that work of unrooting and re-rooting again.
Let's hope so. I'm knocking on wood that I won't have to throw my EVO down some stairs and go get a new one.
Firstly, it is unclear (at least to me) what you mean by "soft brick". Secondly, the link you posted is to a thread that is outdated and was retired by the OP. Or did you mean this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
To answer your second question, with S-off you can just go into recovery, do a wipe and then restore your NAND back-up from there. Try just wiping the cache and dalvik cache before restoring. If your phone still gives you problems, you may need to do a full wipe and do a fresh install of your favorite rom.
Ok things are more complicated than I had originally implied.
I can't boot into recovery--still SOFF but when I try to get into recovery I'm getting the red triangle.
Should I try the fix broken recovery option?
tubazeppelin said:
Ok things are more complicated than I had originally implied.
I can't boot into recovery--still SOFF but when I try to get into recovery I'm getting the red triangle.
Should I try the fix broken recovery option?
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Now we're getting somewhere. Yes, if you can get the recovery to work, it will make the process less difficult for you. Can you boot normally? If so, use ROM Manager to flash the recovery on it. If it doesn't boot into clockwork, try using ROM Manager to flash an alternate recovery (Amon RA) and then try booting into recovery.
If your phone doesn't boot at all, you're going to have to push the recovery image onto the phone via fastboot adb. Worse case scenario would be to run the RUU and start over.
rugedraw said:
Now we're getting somewhere. Yes, if you can get the recovery to work, it will make the process less difficult for you. Can you boot normally? If so, use ROM Manager to flash the recovery on it. If it doesn't boot into clockwork, try using ROM Manager to flash an alternate recovery (Amon RA) and then try booting into recovery.
If your phone doesn't boot at all, you're going to have to push the recovery image onto the phone via fastboot adb.
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Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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I would download Amon recovery and flash that via adb; I recommend staying away from clockwork - read about too many users running into issues with it, especially that 3.0.0.5 version.
tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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I would suggest using Amon Ra recovery. I like it better, and personally have had far less issues with it. Attatched is a PC36IMG of Amon Ra 2.3. Put it on the main directory of your SD card, name it exactly PC36IMG, and boot to bootloader, and select yes to update. That should flash Amon Ra's V2.3 recovery for you. If it's successful, see if it works. The only problem with this, that I see, is you wouldn't be able to restore your previous clockwork backups. However, if that did go successful, and you were able to boot into a rom, you could use ROM manager to flash clockwork back, then you could restore your backups. Hope you get it booted up.
EDIT: If you do end up needing to unroot, just remember that if you initially used unrevoked to root, or used unrevoked forever at any time, you're not going to be able to turn S on without having a custom recovery. Becase as far as I know, you need to flash the Unrevoked S on tool in recovery if you used unrevoked to begin with. Otherwise S is permanently off.
tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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Yea, try the recovery fix. If unsuccessful getting CW to flash, remember you can always try to flash Amor RA recovery just to be able to wipe and flash a working rom. Once you get the phone to boot, you can download ROM manager, flash clockwork and then restore to your CW NAND that is stored on your SD card. I've had to do this in the past.
Thanks EVERYONE! Come to the DC area and the beer is on me (or if you're a mobile dev and want a job, hit me up)
Worked like a charm.
PS I copied down the error message I got when it was trying to install, wondering if I should be worried about this:
Microp OK
Radio_v2 FAIL pu
everything else OK
Bootloader FAIL ic
I renamed my recovery file and everything loaded up fine, just wondering if I should be worried about any of that
tubazeppelin said:
Thanks EVERYONE! Come to the DC area and the beer is on me (or if you're a mobile dev and want a job, hit me up)
Worked like a charm.
PS I copied down the error message I got when it was trying to install, wondering if I should be worried about this:
Microp OK
Radio_v2 FAIL pu
everything else OK
Bootloader FAIL ic
I renamed my recovery file and everything loaded up fine, just wondering if I should be worried about any of that
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Really not sure. That goes beyond my scope of trial and error knowledge.
Well thanks anyway.
Looks like booting back into CWM is no longer an option for me--everything defaults to Amon_RA (even when trying to switch through ROM manager). Guess I can't load my old nandroids so I'm stuck rebuilding.
Oh well...worse things could have happened.
tubazeppelin said:
Well thanks anyway.
Looks like booting back into CWM is no longer an option for me--everything defaults to Amon_RA (even when trying to switch through ROM manager). Guess I can't load my old nandroids so I'm stuck rebuilding.
Oh well...worse things could have happened.
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So choosing 'flash clockworkmod recovery' from rom manager doesnt work for you? weird. Try letting it flash, and then instead of rebooting to recovery from within rom manager, boot to recovery manually, from teh bootloader. see if that works.
k2buckley said:
So choosing 'flash clockworkmod recovery' from rom manager doesnt work for you? weird. Try letting it flash, and then instead of rebooting to recovery from within rom manager, boot to recovery manually, from teh bootloader. see if that works.
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Well I tried that the first time and nothing really worked out--got the same loops and had to do the whole dance again.
Tried it again after your post and it worked. Hot damn.
Getting rid of CWM as we speak and going back to RA, which was my first and only recovery for so long.
tubazeppelin said:
Well I tried that the first time and nothing really worked out--got the same loops and had to do the whole dance again.
Tried it again after your post and it worked. Hot damn.
Getting rid of CWM as we speak and going back to RA, which was my first and only recovery for so long.
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So strange, but glad it worked for you. And yea, staying on RA will be your best bet.
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So strange, but glad it worked for you. And yea, staying on RA will be your best bet.
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Seemed to be an issue with ROM Manager. So weird--I'm so used to everyone over in Heroland swearing by CWM. I'm glad I'm back to a spot where RA is king.
Anyway I uninstalled ROM manager and am just not going to screw with it anymore. GB has a "reboot to recovery" option for a reason.
tubazeppelin said:
Seemed to be an issue with ROM Manager. So weird--I'm so used to everyone over in Heroland swearing by CWM. I'm glad I'm back to a spot where RA is king.
Anyway I uninstalled ROM manager and am just not going to screw with it anymore. GB has a "reboot to recovery" option for a reason.
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Awesome. Thats the way to go, just manually flash everything using RA and you'll be good to go.

Can't get into recovery.

I installed the Virtuous Unity V1.31 rom and I didn't like the way the "Email" app worked to I installed "tools_gapps-gb-20110307-signed". I still didn't like the way this rom was working so I tried to go back into recovery and I get get on the HTC boot logo. I have to pull out the battery to make restart. The phone works fine, but I can't get into Clockwork to restore my backup. Does anyone know how I can get back into recovery? The weird thing is i can backup this rom from Rom manager perfectly, but can't restore (gets stuck on the boot screen).
Did you recenlty update cwm? I know a few people were having problems after upgrading. Take the battery out, put it back in and hold volume down+power to enter the bootloader and see if you are able to get to recovery that way.
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I installed the Virtuous Unity V1.31 rom and I didn't like the way the "Email" app worked to I installed "tools_gapps-gb-20110307-signed". I still didn't like the way this rom was working so I tried to go back into recovery and I get get on the HTC boot logo. I have to pull out the battery to make restart. The phone works fine, but I can't get into Clockwork to restore my backup. Does anyone know how I can get back into recovery? The weird thing is i can backup this rom from Rom manager perfectly, but can't restore (gets stuck on the boot screen).
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How did u get to recovery? Vol down+power or reboot into recovery option?
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I had to use Rom Manager to back up my rom, but it wouldn't let me do anything else. Somehow it started worked normally in the morning. I think it was the new update to clockwork..
rviperx said:
I had to use Rom Manager to back up my rom, but it wouldn't let me do anything else. Somehow it started worked normally in the morning. I think it was the new update to clockwork..
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There was an update changing it from 5.0.0.1 to 5.0.1.0 its all sorted itself out now,just tested 3 times rebooting to recovery and 3 times using adb worked everytime

[Q] cannot get into recovery

one similar thread was close, but no cigar....so here goes
EVO 4G rooted Unrevoked with amon ra 2.3, phone has been working just great since November, only thing I have done to it is flash some Roms, right now its running the Express RC1, I tried flashing the latest version of Express but it wouldnt take, but thats another story.
I was planning on flashing to another ROM so I connected the phone to PC and copied folders from sd card to PC folder, then I went into recovery and was going to backup again but with nandroid, and saw that the recovery menu prompts were different than what I normally see on other phones I work on, which I use Amon Ra 3.11, SO.. I decided to "upgrade" to the 3.11, so I rebooted to bootloader, then fastboot, went to command prompt and sent the flash of recovery.img to the phone, it said it was completed and I went to switch to recovery and it hung up on the splash screen.
After waiting for too long I pulled the battery and tried again, same problem, so I pulled it again and tried flashing it with Android Flasher, same thing, no luck. I did some searching and looked into ROM manager, but that only works with Clockwork, and I have Amon Ra.
I've tried periodically these same steps over again and cannot get it flashed, nor can get into recovery, getting to the bootloader is fine, booting the phone is fine, and works fine, but recovery just wont do.
I have also read that I could just upload an RUU and install that, but that would eliminate the nandroid, and as last resort will do it, but is there some other way I can get to recovery?
Edit: regarding clockwork, could I also install clockwork thru ROM manager, then come around and install amon ra? sounds like I could but...?
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one similar thread was close, but no cigar....so here goes
EVO 4G rooted Unrevoked with amon ra 2.3, phone has been working just great since November, only thing I have done to it is flash some Roms, right now its running the Express RC1, I tried flashing the latest version of Express but it wouldnt take, but thats another story.
I was planning on flashing to another ROM so I connected the phone to PC and copied folders from sd card to PC folder, then I went into recovery and was going to backup again but with nandroid, and saw that the recovery menu prompts were different than what I normally see on other phones I work on, which I use Amon Ra 3.11, SO.. I decided to "upgrade" to the 3.11, so I rebooted to bootloader, then fastboot, went to command prompt and sent the flash of recovery.img to the phone, it said it was completed and I went to switch to recovery and it hung up on the splash screen.
After waiting for too long I pulled the battery and tried again, same problem, so I pulled it again and tried flashing it with Android Flasher, same thing, no luck. I did some searching and looked into ROM manager, but that only works with Clockwork, and I have Amon Ra.
I've tried periodically these same steps over again and cannot get it flashed, nor can get into recovery, getting to the bootloader is fine, booting the phone is fine, and works fine, but recovery just wont do.
I have also read that I could just upload an RUU and install that, but that would eliminate the nandroid, and as last resort will do it, but is there some other way I can get to recovery?
Edit: regarding clockwork, could I also install clockwork thru ROM manager, then come around and install amon ra? sounds like I could but...?
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You should try that, that's easier way for you. Then flash amon ra properly. Always check md5 sum of download, the file could have been corrupted.
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Ok cool will give that a try later tonight thanks
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Well that didnt work either, went to the ROM manager, and flashed the clockwork recovery, rebooted into recovery but it never got there just hung up on the HTC splash screen before it, and I left it there for about 15 minutes.
I can reboot and its working fine, just cant get into recovery, what now?
Maybe RUU install?
gellybelly said:
Well that didnt work either, went to the ROM manager, and flashed the clockwork recovery, rebooted into recovery but it never got there just hung up on the HTC splash screen before it, and I left it there for about 15 minutes.
I can reboot and its working fine, just cant get into recovery, what now?
Maybe RUU install?
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Did you go in applications then settings and see if fastboot is unchecked. Or pull out the battery, then hold the power button and volume down and see when you get to the screen with three androids on the bottom, scroll to recovery and choose it by clicking power button?
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volk9029 said:
Did you go in applications then settings and see if fastboot is unchecked.
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Fastboot is checked.
Or pull out the battery, then hold the power button and volume down and see when you get to the screen with three androids on the bottom, scroll to recovery and choose it by clicking power button?
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yeah already followed this, many times, just hangs at HTC splash
gellybelly said:
Fastboot is checked.
yeah already followed this, many times, just hangs at HTC splash
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Fastboot needs to be unchecked., not checked.
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Right, and I unchecked it when i saw it checked and still same hang up
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Try fastboot erase recovery through FASTBOOT, then flashing a Recovery image again. Won't hurt to try.
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Have you tried to go back to 2.3?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
cuetzpallin said:
Have you tried to go back to 2.3?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
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shortydoggg said:
Try fastboot erase recovery through FASTBOOT, then flashing a Recovery image again. Won't hurt to try.
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Alright finally it worked, I went into fastboot and erased recovery then installed 2.3 after downloading, thanks guys, not sure why it didnt work earlier, maybe installing over it was not liked, either way all done!

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