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[Q] Cannot enter recovery mode, but phone boots fine

Hey guys,
I'm having a rather strange issue, that seems to have happened overnight. Between yesterday and today, my phone started to act funny out of the blue - random reboots, shut-offs. I figured I might as well try a new rom, and tried booting into recovery mode. To my surprise, it wouldn't work. The phone hangs at the white screen that says "htc" in green. Any idea how I can get back into recovery?
I'm running CyanogenMod 6.1.1.
Thanks.

Try installing ROM Manager from the Market and reflashing the recovery image from there.

No dice, unfortunately Is there a way to force flash somehow? I seem to be stuck. Even factory reset doesn't work :/

If you are using official recovery 3.0.0.5 have you tried turning phone completely off and then plug in your power cable? It shouldn't even boot into the htc screen but go straight to recovery.
Just a thought and goodluck
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Just tried that - the led turns orange and the phone seems to stay off, but actually freezes. Unless I pull the battery, it won't turn on.

Damn. Don't know what to say. Adb maybe?
Good luck
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Well this isn't strange at all. I can flash recovery 2.5.1.3 and all is well (I can get to recovery mode, etc.). It won't let me flash 2.5.1.4. And with 3.0.0.5 I have the same issues as in the initial post -.-

Phone restarts and won't turn on

For the past several months my phone would restart randomly when I used 3G, GPS or sometime just from heavy usage. It would turn off, boot to the white HTC screen but then the screen went black and it would vibrate 3 times and a led would blink. At that point the only way to turn it back on was to pull the battery and power on (although that usually didn't work until after a few tries or letting it sit for a while).
It has done this with both CM7.1 and decks 1.3 and with the Tiamat 3.3.7 & 4.1 kernels. I flashed Mason .14 on Tuesday hoping it might fix the problem. It did at first but after 24 hours it was back to restarting randomly, only this time it was worse. I was also getting a lot of force closes and it would restart even it was sitting unused. It would take hours until I could get it to successfully boot again. I attempted to do a full wipe and install CM7.2 yesterday only to find out I can not boot into recovery, attempting to do so causes the phone to turn off (I tried both through holding the power button and selecting recovery and through the bootloader).
As of right now my phone will not turn back on at all (going on 4 hours), I've had it successfully boot twice only to immediately turn off, other times it gets stuck on the white HTC screen.
I am still able to access the bootloader so I'm thinking my best option may be to place a PC36IMG.zip on my sdcard and see if I can't flash back to stock and then load CM7.2. My concerns are a) not sure if that will even work b) if the phone were to turn off in the middle of that would it completely brick my phone?
Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to provide as much info as possible. Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Can't boot into recovery? Have you tried reflashing your recovery? Get a PC36IMG file of your desired recovery (preferably amonRA, or drellisdee) and flash it thru bootloader. It only takes a second to flash, so I wouldn't be too worried about it shutting off while flashing it.
That's all I got.
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scottspa74 said:
Can't boot into recovery? Have you tried reflashing your recovery? Get a PC36IMG file of your desired recovery (preferably amonRA, or drellisdee) and flash it thru bootloader. It only takes a second to flash, so I wouldn't be too worried about it shutting off while flashing it.
That's all I got.
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Unfortunately that doesn't work. Flashes the recovery just fine but I still can't access it. I did manage to get my phone to boot into android after trying, not sure if that's a coincidence or not.
So I'm left with my original option, flashing a stock PC36IMG.zip. Also this might be a dumb question but can I rename anything PC36IMG.zip and flash? If so I could just rename Calkulin's format all, flash that and then repeat the process with CM7.2. Anyone know if this will work?
Edit: Should probably also ask if anyone knows what is causing this, is it a kernel issue?

Just a thought, maybe a bad battery or a bad usb?
Did you try the battery in another phone? Or, another battery in your phone?
Sounds like it may also be going for the reboot of death... If your recovery is corrupted and getting random reboots, maybe your internal storage is going bad...
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Just a thought, maybe a bad battery or a bad usb?
Did you try the battery in another phone? Or, another battery in your phone?
Sounds like it may also be going for the reboot of death... If your recovery is corrupted and getting random reboots, maybe your internal storage is going bad...
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I was able to flash back to stock and it is still having similar problems. Turns off during any sort of data usage both 3g and Wifi. The fact that it has happened on multiple ROMs, multiple kernels, and multiple radios makes me think it is something hardware related. I guess I will talk to sprint and see what they can do.
BTW does anyone know of a method to flash an S-On zip file as a PC36IMG in the bootloader? I am still S-Off because I can't go into recovery to flash.

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BTW does anyone know of a method to flash an S-On zip file as a PC36IMG in the bootloader? I am still S-Off because I can't go into recovery to flash.
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Well after going back to stock but still being S-Off I decided to try reflashing Amon_RA and I eventually got it to boot into recovery. It was similar to booting into the OS, I just had to pull the battery and wait 30+ mins before trying and then boot into bootloader and select recovery. It was a PITA since I needed flash a couple things but it worked. Got it back to S-On and took it to Sprint. Of course they didn't bother checking for any of that haha but I was able to get a replacement EVO.

Bigger problems...

OK guys so I started a new thread because the situation has changed with my problems. OK so I originally posted a thread about the accelerometer, I thought maybe restoring to stock might fix it. So I flashed the zv7 on the irc with the lgnpst on the irc. And every time its the same problem, the phone hangs at the 4glte section of the stock boot animation. Also i cannot get into the boot loader. I can still get into download mode though. Any ideas?
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Look here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38887359
It should get you set
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Just factory reset in stock recovery.
What is Optimus Prime's full name?
Optimus G. Prime

I can't get into recovery either using adb or hardware keys
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nvm I got it thanks guys. its running but restoring to stock still didn't fix the problems back to a doner phone I guess.

Chyrio said:
OK guys so I started a new thread because the situation has changed with my problems. OK so I originally posted a thread about the accelerometer, I thought maybe restoring to stock might fix it. So I flashed the zv7 on the irc with the lgnpst on the irc. And every time its the same problem, the phone hangs at the 4glte section of the stock boot animation. Also i cannot get into the boot loader. I can still get into download mode though. Any ideas?
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Not sure if it's the same issue or not, but it sounds fairly close. When I powered off the LG logo would show with screen grayed not black as a power out should be.
Try this. Unplug the phone and hit the power button until the phone goes black, not gray, black, hold the power button for say a count of 40 or longer. This should stop the LG logo cycling. leave the phone alone for about twenty minutes. Do not plug it in to a power sources as that will start the cycling again.
After about twenty minutes hit the power button once.
I'm not saying this will resolve your issue, but I had the issue you're describing, and tried everything I could think of to get into recovery. Like you I was able to get into download mode, which made me certain I should be able to get into recovery with the right set of button pushes. Tried it for hours before resigning myself to LGNPST, when I did the above though it booted right up with no problem.
Discovered completely by accident. I was in the process of starting the LGNPST process receiving some help on IRC when I I hit the power button after the delay off and it all worked out. Didn't have to go through the process. The help I got was the twenty minute delay. The folks over on IRC deserve a lot of credit for the help they give btw.
The problem started after I flashed the ZVB rooted rom zip. Since then If I try to power down while it's plugged in, or not, the same thing happens. Rebooting is not problematic, but powering down is. It's not a big deal now though since the fix is easy enough for me.
Give it a try can't hurt.

same issues...
I had same issues, I flashed back to original root back from which i started from, then flashed the stock rooted zip, then the radio update, even though ur told to do the opposite way, the reason i did was cause the radio update flashes the new bootloader, just make sure after u flash the radio update wipe the cache and dalvick casche also. I did that and it booted right away,

[Q]Rogers Galaxy S3 constantly restarting even in recovery/download mode

So tonight out of the blue, my Rogers Galaxy S3 restarted itself. This isn't totally unusual, as sometimes this will happen once or twice a day, but never has it been too bad.
First off, I've been running Cyanogenmod 10.0, and again, has been relatively problem free. The first major issue I had was a week or so ago when I woke up to my phone having seemingly restored it's default settings on its own. Apps and all my other data were intact, but widgets, app settings, etc, were all cleared.
Now tonight, my phone can rarely boot into CM, and when it does, the power menu will appear shortly thereafter before restarting itself once again. If the phone is plugged in, I can't get anything other than the charge indicator to come on the screen for more than a second. The phone also does this when trying to boot into recovery mode or download mode.
I'm at a total loss as to what to do here, so I'm going to be leaving the phone off with the battery out over night. Appreciate any feedback in the meantime.

Also having a similar problem: phone boots up, will barely enter the bootloader/TWRP/boot animation for hyperdrive ROM. Also with rogers. I believe it might be SDS but I need to re install the stock firmware and can barely boot into the bootloader without the phone dying (battery is charged though). Any help greatly appreciated!
EDIT: managed to boot up for long enough to install "eMMC check" and apparently I have a 'sane chip'.

There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Domoo said:
There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Well, after pulling most of my hair out, that does seem to be the issue. Would explain why the power menu would come up the few times it did manage to boot. I managed to get it working for a while, but the button seems to be really delicate since picking my phone up and barely touching it reset it again.
I guess now I need a solution to the power button sticking, but at least it doesn't seem to be SDS.

Okay, that makes sense. When I leave the phone completely stable it's fine.
However, I have tried unrooting and reinstalling stock firmware. However, my system status in bootloader is still custom, when I boot up the rom I still have superuser installed. I tried installing two different stock firmwares for Rogers and the same problem. Any help would be great, I really want to send this in for warranty ASAP.
EDIT: After using ODIN to install stock rom, I still had Superuser. I installed SuperSU and then preformed it'sfull unroot. After that i cleared data and cache from stock recovery and the phone is now at original status and seems to not be randomly rebooting/dying. Weird.

[Q] Phone is going nuts!!! Help!! PLEASE!!!

Ok so, I have been running Hyperdrive RLS16 for quite sometime now with no issues, going on approx 6 months now. Love the rom. Just today out of nowhere my phone started timing out. By timing out I mean, screen started going black as if I was closing it when I was in the middle of using it. This proceeded to happen for at least 15 minutes meanwhile it was constantly rebooting itself as well. After about 15 mins of reboots and screen timeouts, it got to where the phone would not stay on. it would boot up, then when i started using it it would reboot again. So after a battery pull, sd card pull and sim card pull I restarted it and since it seems to be doing ok for the moment. I immediately backed up my rom in clockword mod recovery through rom manager, backed up all my apps and created an update.zip in titanium backup. I downloaded the stockmod slim rom t999 4.3 v3 and the uvuemj4 modem that it requires for data and was gunna try and flash it and everytime i boot into recovery and try to select an option to pick, it randomly starts selecting things and jumping all over the place and then reboots. wont let me wipe data factory reset, or wipe dalvick or cache. wont even let me choose the rom or modem to flash. I tried to update my version of clockwork mod, and nothing. Tried to download goo manager and try twrp but it wont go into twrp it stays in clockwork mod and does the same. Im so confused on what to do to fix this and would like to flash a new rom to see if it will fix my screen timeouts and reboots but I cant get recovery to cooperate in order to do that. Can anyone help me? PLEASE!!!! I thought maybe if i try clockwork mod touch that it may fix the problem, but even if i download it how can i flash it if recovery isint cooperating?:crying::crying::crying:

kbeezy2686 said:
Ok so, I have been running Hyperdrive RLS16 for quite sometime now with no issues, going on approx 6 months now. Love the rom. Just today out of nowhere my phone started timing out. By timing out I mean, screen started going black as if I was closing it when I was in the middle of using it. This proceeded to happen for at least 15 minutes meanwhile it was constantly rebooting itself as well. After about 15 mins of reboots and screen timeouts, it got to where the phone would not stay on. it would boot up, then when i started using it it would reboot again. So after a battery pull, sd card pull and sim card pull I restarted it and since it seems to be doing ok for the moment. I immediately backed up my rom in clockword mod recovery through rom manager, backed up all my apps and created an update.zip in titanium backup. I downloaded the stockmod slim rom t999 4.3 v3 and the uvuemj4 modem that it requires for data and was gunna try and flash it and everytime i boot into recovery and try to select an option to pick, it randomly starts selecting things and jumping all over the place and then reboots. wont let me wipe data factory reset, or wipe dalvick or cache. wont even let me choose the rom or modem to flash. I tried to update my version of clockwork mod, and nothing. Tried to download goo manager and try twrp but it wont go into twrp it stays in clockwork mod and does the same. Im so confused on what to do to fix this and would like to flash a new rom to see if it will fix my screen timeouts and reboots but I cant get recovery to cooperate in order to do that. Can anyone help me? PLEASE!!!! I thought maybe if i try clockwork mod touch that it may fix the problem, but even if i download it how can i flash it if recovery isint cooperating?:crying::crying::crying:
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It sounds like there would be a problem with your digitizer. Or motherboard. Either way it sounds expensive to fix.
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The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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It sounds like there would be a problem with your digitizer. Or motherboard. Either way it sounds expensive to fix.
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kbeezy2686 said:
The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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I don't use cwm so I wouldn't know. But your didgitizer could still act like its working fully and still be broken. Idk man.
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ok well thanks man for your help. Would the digitizer be causing the random reboots as well?
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I don't use cwm so I wouldn't know. But your didgitizer could still act like its working fully and still be broken. Idk man.
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kbeezy2686 said:
ok well thanks man for your help. Would the digitizer be causing the random reboots as well?
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If it's malfunctioning is possible. But there's no telling.
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Can you boot download mode? Odin flash stock firmware. If it continues then it may be a hardware problem.

i havent tried to do that. But i did do a factory reset from my settings instead of through recovery. I did lose quite a bit of stuff because it deleted my backups in titanium and etc but my recovery is working now. No more ghost mode selecting everything. But my phone is still doing the random reboots
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Can you boot download mode? Odin flash stock firmware. If it continues then it may be a hardware problem.
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kbeezy2686 said:
i havent tried to do that. But i did do a factory reset from my settings instead of through recovery. I did lose quite a bit of stuff because it deleted my backups in titanium and etc but my recovery is working now. No more ghost mode selecting everything. But my phone is still doing the random reboots
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Did you flash another ROM and its still rebooting?
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kbeezy2686 said:
The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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Earlier I too felt this type of auto touch in my other device and I figured out that this was happening due to some radio interference at some particular time and particular place which was near a radio station
Whenever I go away or that station time was over it will be working correctly
May be something like this happening just for your information to make sure
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