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Flashing Rom help!!!

Im fully rooted, and I was able to flash to Fresh's rom. I guess not deleting the Pc36*** file, when it rebooted, i panicked (lol) and reinstalled the stock rom...
Now I have absolutely no idea how to get back to the green recovery screen where I can flash from zip...
Is it me, is it a adb thing?
Any help is greatly appreciated....

if you have a custom recovery: power the phone off, hold volume down and then press the power button. Continue to hold volume down. Make sure the pc img is off the sd card, wait for it to go through the motions then enter recovery

elegantai said:
if you have a custom recovery: power the phone off, hold volume down and then press the power button. Continue to hold volume down. Make sure the pc img is off the sd card, wait for it to go through the motions then enter recovery
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This is the recovery that I have, i think/guess..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7082915&postcount=275
recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.1.img - Credit Amon_RA and androidspin.com
Where do i go from here partner?

yeah, so try doing what I said above. Turn off phone, hold volume down, press power and release and continue holding down. You will get to hboot and it will scan for the pcimg and should not find it and present you with a menu. Go to recovery and that should be it

elegantai said:
yeah, so try doing what I said above. Turn off phone, hold volume down, press power and release and continue holding down. You will get to hboot and it will scan for the pcimg and should not find it and present you with a menu. Go to recovery and that should be it
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I did so, and its just sitting idle with the phone & red triangle. My only option from here is vol up and power to take me to the blue reboot screen...
Thanks for the help by the way...

hmmm, I would have thought you would have a custom recovery from Part II of toast's rooting guide. Have you unlocked your nand through that procedure?
in any case, you can always download rom manager from the market, and that will allow you to install a custom recovery and boot into recovery from android. I am not sure if the new version requires nand unlock so make sure you have done part II of toasts root guide

elegantai said:
hmmm, I would have thought you would have a custom recovery from Part II of toast's rooting guide. Have you unlocked your nand through that procedure?
in any case, you can always download rom manager from the market, and that will allow you to install a custom recovery and boot into recovery from android. I am not sure if the new version requires nand unlock so make sure you have done part II of toasts root guide
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I was able to flash from the green recovery screen tho. Im not understanding this. I even updated the radio and wimax thru the same green screen...
Thanks for your help..

how were you flashing before? did you use clockwork recovery (i think thats what it's called) through rom manager?

I dont think that I have clockwork on my phone. I was able to vol dwn/power, hboot would see the PC36*** because I was not informed to delete it, and instead of updating i selected NO, and it took me to the green recovery screen...

Ok, so I would try flashing the recovery from the second part of Toast's rooting guide. If you can do that, then you can just use the volume + power thing to get to hboot, then select recovery and it should take you into the recovery that you flashed. From that recovery you can wipe flash backup, and all that good stuff.
you dont need to do the whole part 2 over, just the part about flashing the custom recovery.

Help with Android system recovery

I have rooted the phone and was able to flash a new rom with no problem. Now I tried to do a full root and now my phone just stayed in reboot recovery mode, with a black screen w/ an EVO and an "!". I can not get my phone into "Android system recovery" in yellow letters at the very top mode

So when you boot while holding down the VOL DOWN and Power can you get into hboot, can you then go into recovery?

you have to use toasts EVO recovery and push the files to it. Im guessing you never did nand unlocking

Sirchuk said:
So when you boot while holding down the VOL DOWN and Power can you get into hboot, can you then go into recovery?
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I can get the phone to reboot recovery with no prob
super-6-1 said:
you have to use toasts EVO recovery and push the files to it. Im guessing you never did nand unlocking
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I tried to do NAND unlock, once i put the phone in reboot recovery the phone just sits in reboot recovery mode

Mods close this thread, I had to load the shipped rom and start from scratch, but now i'm fully rooted with NAND.

[Q] How To Nandroid Restore? *Without Computer*

I am on CM6 Nightlies and I flashed the Gala S Theme. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop. Is there a way to nandroid restore without a computer?
Thanks.

This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.

hecklbrg said:
This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.
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ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.

If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...

jahnile said:
If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...
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He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)

brndnwbb said:
ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.
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you can run the older method of recovery from when before we could flash nand, i dont have the link, but a search should turn it up.

thecodemonk said:
He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)
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This takes me to Android System Recovery
-Reboot System Now
-Apply sdcard:update.zip
-wipe data/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
i'm not even sure, which recovery i have. i used toastcfh method to root.
is that amon ra?

Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!

wipe
hooover said:
Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!
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and that would just wipe the theme?
and not everything else?

[Q] Boot into recovery without Vol(+) button?

I got my phone a bit damp while skiing and now the + vol button doesn't work. I would like to keep playing around with Roms however the inability to flash an update.zip to boot into clockwork mod worries me too much.
Is there anyway to get into the standard recovery without holding the + and pushing power? Or possibly hard-flash clockwork mod?
Gas
---Solved, flashed recovery using unREVoked, works well now. Thanks everyone, back continuous unadulterated flashing---

Well, ROM manager can boot into recovery, but obviously that requires a working ROM.
Regards,
Dave

Install ROM Manager from the Marketplace, use the custom clockwork recovery image in my sig (fake flash). You can then install the custom recovery image from the root of your sd card using ROM Manager. To flash ROMs in the future, in ROM Manager, select the 'Install ROM from sd card option'. You can then use the trackpad to navigate through the recovery menu options instead of the Vol key.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Yeah I know I can get there from Clockworkmod, but the rom needs to be working. I'm worried about flashing anything else in case one of the roms is broken.
I've read that unrevoked rooted phones can do it, can I use the unrevoked method even though I'm already rooted with Paul's riskfree?

If you turn on your phone while pressing the "Back"button on the right of the (OJ)optical joystick, your phone boots in "Fastboot"
Then you select "Bootloader" by pressing the powerbutton
If one of your vol buttons still works, you can press it untill you've selected recovery
Et Voila

Marcell-o said:
If you turn on your phone while pressing the "Back"button on the right of the (OJ)optical joystick, your phone boots in "Fastboot"
Then you select "Bootloader" by pressing the powerbutton
If one of your vol buttons still works, you can press it untill you've selected recovery
Et Voila
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I can get to the recovery screen, black phone with red exclamation mark in triangle. It is at this screen I need the vol(+) button. Hmmm...not too confident about flashing roms anymore

ClassicalGas said:
I can get to the recovery screen, black phone with red exclamation mark in triangle. It is at this screen I need the vol(+) button. Hmmm...not too confident about flashing roms anymore
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Use UnrEVOked to permanently flash a recovery image onto your phone.
Regards,
Dave

From terminal
su
reboot recovery
Also works

Where to from here?
I have been reading up on fastboot, in which I should be able to restore a nandroid backup if flashing a rom fails. This doesn't need the recovery console, there is some contingency I guess.
Has anyone used unrevoked on a prerooted device? are the steps the same?
Gas

For instructions for flashing a permanent recovery image (UnrEVOked) are pretty straightforward. Please see the following link for more information:
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709146
Just make sure you have HTC Sync uninstalled beforehand. To remove UnrEVOked, simply flash your original RUU file, which will also return you to stock and remove root.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

[Q] [Q&A] Flashed TWRP but keep going to Stock Recovery?

I rooted a while back with Stump. I recently used flashify to flash twrp recovery as I want to install a lollipop ROM. It was successful and when I restarted the phone as prompted by the app, I went to the TWRP recovery screen.
1) When i manually power off the phone and try to boot into recovery I end up on the Stock recovery page rather than TWRP recovery. The only way i can get back to twrp is by reflashing it in the flashify app. Any idea what is going on?
2) While I was in twrp i explored and tried to create a backup. Any reason why twrp failed to recognize my external SD card and would not let me mount it? My computer and phone both access it without issue.
Thanks for the help.

If you want answers, you need to provide more info, not just ask for help and not give the required info.
What phone model.
What Rom are you running? Lollipop or KitKat and what version.
What steps are you doing to try and get into TWRP.
You don't need to reflash it every time with flashify, open flashify hit the menu button, the 3 dots in the top right and guess what, reboot options.
Can't help you with the backup in TWRP not saving to your SD Card, but you could backup to internal, then reboot and copy the backup to your pc then try and copy it to SD Card.

Sorry for not being more specific.
Verizon VS985
Still running rooted stock 4.4.2
I'm holding down power/volume down to try and manually enter twrp.
I'm worried about relying on the app in case something goes wrong while flashing and I need to get directly to recovery manually. I was going to do the backup to internal and copy method but that leaves me out of luck if I need to restore from the ext SD in the event of a bad flash that stops me from booting the phone.

If you are rooted, download Quick Boot from Google Play Store and and use it to boot into recovery, or as @samorgs said, just use the 3 dots button to access into the boot option. If you can boot it into recovery mode through that, it means you have TWRP installed already. So it is normal to go to stock recovery screen manually. Same as my phone, I off my phone, hold down power+volume down and wait till LG logo appear, release power button and hold it back (still holding volume down) and it will bring me to stock recovery page, proceed with YES to factory reset and this will not wipe your data BUT brings you to TWRP recovery.
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So, just to be clear, in order to get to TWRP manually you have to select factory reset from the stock recovery page (reached by using power+vol down while the phone is off). This will not wipe any data but will in fact bring you to the TWRP screen?
Is this always this case with our model? Can anyone confirm this?
Thanks!

dynamite972 said:
So, just to be clear, in order to get to TWRP manually you have to select factory reset from the stock recovery page (reached by using power+vol down while the phone is off). This will not wipe any data but will in fact bring you to the TWRP screen?
Is this always this case with our model? Can anyone confirm this?
Thanks!
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Not exactly how you described it. You have to hold Volume down and the power button until the device's screen turns on, and then as soon as it does, you press them again. (volume down and power.) only holding volume down and power will take you into download mode.
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