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Can't get back into recovery...

I did a search but there were too many random results.
I'm on fresh 0.5.3 and I want to flash the new update but for some reason when I try to get into recovery mode it locks up (tried waiting 15mins) on the white htc evo 4g screen. this is the first time this is happening.
I'm sure that this has happened to someone else so if someone can help a fellow evo user that would be great.

Crazypinoy9 said:
I did a search but there were too many random results.
I'm on fresh 0.5.3 and I want to flash the new update but for some reason when I try to get into recovery mode it locks up (tried waiting 15mins) on the white htc evo 4g screen. this is the first time this is happening.
I'm sure that this has happened to someone else so if someone can help a fellow evo user that would be great.
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i had this same issue while playing around with roms. i just ran the windows recovery batch file found here:
http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-root-instructions
and updated everything properly. which recovery are you using? i use amon-ra, had to make sure it was the proper version. here's the thread i also referred to, which worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721055
make sure you use the portion about getting root after the ota update. let me know how that goes.
edit: i just realized that both links provide the same info. i'd recommend the xda one.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm using the latest amon RA. I tried switching to clockwork but had the same results. I'll definitely try what you suggested and see what happens.
Thanks again!
**Ok so I used the link you provided and hate to admit it but I'm a little confused. I'm still a little bit of a noob when it comes to this stuff. Is there any way you can give me a simple breakdown of what you did to solve this issue? I know it's a lot to ask but I would really appreciate it.**

Crazypinoy9 said:
Thanks for the reply.
I'm using the latest amon RA. I tried switching to clockwork but had the same results. I'll definitely try what you suggested and see what happens.
Thanks again!
**Ok so I used the link you provided and hate to admit it but I'm a little confused. I'm still a little bit of a noob when it comes to this stuff. Is there any way you can give me a simple breakdown of what you did to solve this issue? I know it's a lot to ask but I would really appreciate it.**
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no problem!
i'm assuming you have nand unlocked since you were able to get the fresh rom on it before...
ok, so i'm guessing you're getting the phone with the red exclamation screen?
if so, at this point, go download the files from here:
http://link.geekfor.me/evorecovery
basically, follow the instructions in "Flashing recovery for custom ROMs" here:
http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-root-instructions
that'll give you the recovery menu. once you do that, use the usb toggle option and transfer the files noted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721055 (in the ****ROOTING AFTER OTA 1.47.651.1 (Full Root)**** section)
once you do that, unmount the usb from the recovery on your phone. at this point, you should be able to adb into it via running the "adb shell" command on your command prompt. go through step 5F and on. that should confirm root and nand unlock, with the right amon-ra recovery version.
let me know how that goes. good luck!

shift_ said:
no problem!
i'm assuming you have nand unlocked since you were able to get the fresh rom on it before...
ok, so i'm guessing you're getting the phone with the red exclamation screen?
if so, at this point, go download the files from here:
basically, follow the instructions in "Flashing recovery for custom ROMs" here:
that'll give you the recovery menu. once you do that, use the usb toggle option and transfer the files noted here:
once you do that, unmount the usb from the recovery on your phone. at this point, you should be able to adb into it via running the "adb shell" command on your command prompt. go through step 5F and on. that should confirm root and nand unlock, with the right amon-ra recovery version.
let me know how that goes. good luck!
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Thank you so much! But one thing....I'm not getting that red exclamation point though. it just gets stuck on the white HTC evo 4g boot screen and never goes into recovery.

Crazypinoy9 said:
Thank you so much! But one thing....I'm not getting that red exclamation point though. it just gets stuck on the white HTC evo 4g boot screen and never goes into recovery.
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so, it's stuck at that screen now?
hmm.. it's not looping though, is it?

Can you get into your boot loader?

elegantai said:
Can you get into your boot loader?
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I can pretty much get into the screen has the skateboarding androids and lists the following:
Fastboot
Recovery
As soon as I select recovery it immediately goes to the white loading screen that says "HTC EVO 4G" in black and stops there. If I boot normally into the phone it's fine. For some reason it won't let me into amon-ra.

I very curious in this thread and outcome because I'm trying to flash Amon Ra and get out of Clockwork. However, i ran into not being able to get into Clockwork....but luckily I had ROM manager installed and it finally reloaded Clockwork.
But I need to get AmonRa recovery on my device and I just cant get it to flash....so I'm really interested in the out come of this thread.

Crazypinoy9 said:
I can pretty much get into the screen has the skateboarding androids and lists the following:
Fastboot
Recovery
As soon as I select recovery it immediately goes to the white loading screen that says "HTC EVO 4G" in black and stops there. If I boot normally into the phone it's fine. For some reason it won't let me into amon-ra.
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seems like recovery hasn't been properly installed. did you try running the right pc36img.zip file?

shift_ said:
seems like recovery hasn't been properly installed. did you try running the right pc36img.zip file?
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I just don't understand how this could've happened. I've used the amon-ra recovery with no problems before (flashed damagecontrol and fresh multiple times) which means that it was properly installed. Can it possibly get corrupted some how???

[Q] need help rooting PLEASE

OK I just bought an Incredible a few days ago and tried my luck at rooting. I did a lot of research before hand and I am usually pretty good with this kind of stuff but obviously not good enough. I have tried everything I can find online but nothing seems to work properly. My phone came with stock 2.2 and I rooted with unrevoked 3. The rooting actually worked fine, there is s-off and I have the super user app, I have even been able to download the tethering app and use it. The main problem is that the Clockworkmod recovery screen does not pop up. No matter what I do, even right after the rooting process, my incredible goes to the HTC screen that is all white then a black bar or two appear on it, followed by a complete black screen with two white edges going down the sides. No green text nothing and then it just boots up normally. I have tried rooting on a mac, Windows xp (via boot camp), on a windows 7 computer. Nothing changes. I just wanna know is there something simple that I am just not doing properly, maybe some sort of setting that needs to get adjusted, I have selected charge only, remember this, and usb debugging. Please let me know if it is the fact that it is stock 2.2 and I have to wait until a new version of unrevoked comes out or am I doing something wrong. The phone works fine and everything for the time being but I want to be able to overclock, undervolt, remove bloatware, etc. I greatly appreciate any help that someone could give me. I am to the point of trying to find someone local and paying them, but it seems like no one nearby even knows how to do this or just has an iphone and can jailbreak that...lol....

So you ran unrevoked 3.21 first, which roots your phone and also installs clockworkmod. And then you ran unrevoked forever, which enables s-off. Correct?
How are you getting to recovery screen? Since you have superuser access, download the app Quickboot, which can reboot into recovery. If you flash everything right, and unrevoked had no issues, recovery should definitely be on there.

Download rom manager, titanium backup, and setcpu from market. Use TI to do a batch backup, use rom manager to boot into recovery. You will have to flash a different kernel to get anything out of setcpu, you could just pick a rom that has a modified kernel.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

To get to the recover screen from a powered off stand point:
1. Phone powered off
2. hold down vol -(volume down) and Power button at the same time until hboot comes up.
3. hit the vol -(volume down) once or until Recovery is selected and press the power button once.
4. Should show splash screen of HTC Incredible and then should be in ClockworkMod Recovery.
To get to recovery while phone is running you can download couple apps that will do it. Rom Manager will which you can reboot into Clockword Recovery and many more things. As mentioned before Quickboot will work also.

You say you just got it, is this one of the new Incredibles with an SLCD screen (instead of AMOLED)? They are the ones with "VW3" at the end of the sku. If so from what I have read in the last few days it seems clockworkmod recovery does not support these yet. There are a few posts on this forum about this, try searching "slcd incredible clockworkmod" or some variations. The general idea seems to be that amon ra recovery is working on these phones and that you gotta use that instead of clockworkmod for now.
I have one of these on order and should be able to mess with it this week ...

[Q] Red exclamation mark after bungled update

I'm an idiot, I had a rooted HTC Sense (2.2) Rom installed and tried to do the over the air update last night, now I can get into recovery but I get the red triangle with an exclamation mark in it. I have, no really, searched and tried a few fixes but I'm not getting anywhere.
HTC Desire
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
I tried the modaco solution but skipped the first two steps and started at 3;
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes you have indeed acted stupid...
But don't worry. The red triangle with the exclamation is just the standard HTC recovery screen. This is because the OTA update updates bootloader and recovery to the non modified ones, so you are basically back to stock.
If you can boot the system all you need to do is to use unrevoked again. If you cannot boot into system, you need to use a ruu first.

Thanks very much for your reply, I did backup first within recovery so I guess once I'm rooted again I can restore?

Any pointers? I can't boot and when I rooted last time I used unrevoked3, could you point me to a thread which could help please?

you just have to look for an ruu.exe wich fits to your phone....

Okay, I'm being less of a 'tard I think and I'm trying to make a gold card, but ADB lists my phone as offline (when on the red triangle screen) and wont let me invoke the shell. Am I still missing the obvious?

There's many threads on here.
Search for '2.29.405.5'.
I'm assuming that's the rom you're on.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

That hasn't helped me, I've just got a list of nice custom roms which I can't have until my phone boots

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869048
There you go. Download the file, plug in your phone while booted in fastboot and run the .exe file.

3 minutes is not long enough to justify a thorough search!!!

Totally agreed but bear with him. When people believe their device is "bricked" or f***** they tend to panic

Thank you very much

Sorry, you're right I should have tried harder but am getting in the neck for not having a working phone - thanks so much for your help, I really do appreciate it.

Sorry but I'm still stuck, the RUU won't work in Windows 7 which my PC runs and when I use Parallels on my Mac (the only XP machine I have) it won't detect the phone - is there a way I can do this under OSX?

you need to put your phone into fastboot - power and back button, then connect it to your PC.
turn off any antivirus/firewalls as these can interfere with the RUU.
also, install HTC sync if it isnt already
HTH

also, can you confirm which ROM you were on before the OTA?
and which RUU you are using?

Thanks, forgot about HTC Sync so installing it now - I was on this ROM;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789058
and using the RUU mortenmhp linked to.

I was missing HTCSync, updating now in Parallels, thanks again for the help - feel like a retard this evening.

ok, do you know what the original rom was that was on your phone when new?
sorry for so many questions, but it should help sort it out.

ignore my last post then
glad its getting sorted....

Can't get into Recovery

Hi I'm new to the mytouch slide family coming from a Motorola Defy and I'm having a hard time going into the recovery mode. Everytime I try get the red triangle warning. I've watched videos, read ROM bible and other post and still no luck. My slide is rooted by VISIOnary Temproot but with root at boot selected. I've been at this for 3 days trying not to bother anyone on the forum for a solution but now I need help!!!! Also I have ROM Manager and loaded Clockwork Recovery through ROM Manager.
Thanks-

Under ROM manager the 2nd option says reboot into recovery. Im pretty sure you tried that right? You can also get to this by turning off the phone and hold the vol down button and press power.
Oops. then select recovery
hoped this helped

htccraze said:
Under ROM manager the 2nd option says reboot into recovery. Im pretty sure you tried that right? You can also get to this by turning off the phone and hold the vol down button and press power.
Oops. then select recovery
hoped this helped
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Thanks for the quick reply but yes I've done the the power button with the down vol button and once I select recovery I get the same outcome (Red Triangle). I've even selected the boot into recovery from ROM Manager and the same thing happens (Red Triangle).

Sorry i couldn't be of any help. I did a quick search on yahoo and found this. Seems you aren't alone. Maybe you'll find what you need here.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/28278-cant-get-into-recovery.html
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/181591-red-triangle-explanation-mark.html

htccraze said:
Sorry i couldn't be of any help. I did a quick search on yahoo and found this. Seems you aren't alone. Maybe you'll find what you need here.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/28278-cant-get-into-recovery.html
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/181591-red-triangle-explanation-mark.html
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Thanks I'll take a look.

Still no luck. Someone please help!

Ive never heard of that root method. Are you sure youre rooted? You did say you used a temp root method. Every time you power down youre probably breaking root. First, download an app that needs root, like titanium backup. If it fails to load, you dont have root and that will be why you get a red triangle everytime. I would try rooting using a full proof way listed in the development section. Also, i dont use rom manager but i've heard of issues using that to get recovery.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

guitarist5122 said:
Ive never heard of that root method. Are you sure youre rooted? You did say you used a temp root method. Every time you power down youre probably breaking root. First, download an app that needs root, like titanium backup. If it fails to load, you dont have root and that will be why you get a red triangle everytime. I would try rooting using a full proof way listed in the development section. Also, i dont use rom manager but i've heard of issues using that to get recovery.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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VISIONary is used to temp root the G2. With VISIONary you can select to temp root your phone on boot, so that's what I selected.I tried it on my slide and it worked. May I ask what method you use? I will try the full proof way.
Thanks-

I cant give you a link since im not at a computer, but its called " [UTIL] New Root Method as of 8/13! -> UPDATED 12/30 for NOOBS! <- " and its stickied in the development section. I used this the second time i rooted my phone (decided to update with tmobile's ota and it broke my first root).
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

I think I may have found the solution to my problem but I'm looking for the HTCsync.zip that I cannot find. If somebody know where I could find please let me know.
Thanks-

Htc sync? What would you need that for. As long as you phone is visible to the computer you shouldnt need htc sync. I know i have never used it
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

at the red triangle screen you push vol up + power I believe -- can't remember exactly and no longer have stock recovery to check with. But it is just another button combination.
HTH

Temp root apps don't root your phone, regardless of boot settings. You need to have the eng build flashed through hboot to be able to get into a recovery that will flash self signed zips such as clockwork. No matter what you do, without fully rooting using a method in the development section, you will not be able to flash clockwork or any custom rom. Temp root only allows you to run root apps inside of android.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

Thanks I finally got it rooted!

guitarist5122 said:
Htc sync? What would you need that for. As long as you phone is visible to the computer you shouldnt need htc sync. I know i have never used it
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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As for that, it's the easiest way of obtaining the ADB drivers for the slide, as the slide is only plug n play as far as mass storage, not its adb interface. I'm sure there are other methods, but installing HTC sync is the easiest.

Need help!!! Recovery
I have succesfully root my girlfriends slide and s-off. but i tried to flash cwm 2.5 thru fastboot and now cannot get into recovery neither factory with triangle or cwm. How do i fix this or will i have to unroot bascially and start over to get the recovery .img again? Also, who can help with permanently flashing cw recovery so that i do not have to use the update.zip method.?

poor2rican1 said:
I have succesfully root my girlfriends slide and s-off. but i tried to flash cwm 2.5 thru fastboot and now cannot get into recovery neither factory with triangle or cwm. How do i fix this or will i have to unroot bascially and start over to get the recovery .img again? Also, who can help with permanently flashing cw recovery so that i do not have to use the update.zip method.?
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Did you try to fastboot flash the update.zip? That's not good, you should've flashed the cw2.5 .img file. No, you don't have to reroot or res-off, but download the .img file for the latest clockwork recovery on koush's website, for our device. Then, on your computer, while in fastboot mode and plugged into usb, type
fastboot flash recovery filename.img
obviously replacing filename.img with the actual file name/location.

Please help me figure this out...
I also cannot get into recovery mode. Here's my story:
I have a rooted (Supersonic EVT2-2 SHIP S-OFF; HBOOT-0.93.0000) EVO (I know that this is a MyTouch thread, but I couldn't find any similar issues at the EVO thread) that I'm running Warm 2.2 RLS 4 on. I have it set up the way that I wanted and it is running perfect (enough for me).
Yesterday, I caught a glimpse of the MIUI ROM that has an iPhone theme so I wanted to try it out. So, I used Titanium to back up my apps and data to my SD card (8GB with 3GB open). Then, I went to ROM Manager to back up my ROM. I saw that there was an update for the ClockworkMod Recovery so flashed it up to 3.0.0.5. Then I went to Backup Current ROM, kept the suggested name, and hit OK. After a few seconds, the Splash Screen briefly shows, the phone buzzes and then I'm on the initial Bootloader menu screen (with the three Androids at the bottom).
I highlight Bootloader, then I hit the Power button to go to the next set of menus, and the phone does it's checks. After the checks, I push the Volume Down button to go to Recovery, then hit the Power button. The splash screen (white HTC EVO 4G) shows again, the phone buzzes, and I'm back at the initial Bootloader screen.
Whether I use the Quick Boot app, the ROM Manager app, or the Power and Volume Down method, I cannot get past the Bootloader screen to get into Recovery. All I get is Splash, buzz, then the initial Bootloader. Warm 2.2 RLS4 is a nice stable ROM, but I am starting to feel limited, which is why I rooted the phone a few months ago.
Could someone PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZSSSSSSEEEEE help me with this? I am far from a comp engineer, but I can follow instructions pretty well.
Thanks a million!

njgoodfella2199: You're really going to be better off asking in the EVO forums. Good luck!

Yeah, we don't know much about the evo or how it works compared to our gsm phones. The way rom manager updates it may be different. You might be able to use the same solution, find the img file of the latest clockwork and fastboot flash it, but ask on the evo q&a.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

Desire stuck, no recovery, no boot

Hi
I have got a problem since this morning and I really need some help. Everything was always working fine, I have a rooted HTC desire, running GingerVillain 1.3.
Yesterday I did an update to GingerVillain 1.4 through gingervillain updater.
The update was ok.This morning I take my phone, and try to reboot it.
And now, it is stuck in a bootloop on the green HTC logo.
I can access to hboot (0.80), but when I try to access to recovery to flash another ROM, I have got the green htc logo, then a black screen.
On this black screen, if I use the power button to wak up the screen, then I can see just one line saying : clockworkmod recovery v2.5.1.0. But I can't see any menu on the recovery.
So I can't boot my desire, I can't flash something else, I am kinda stuck...
I tried removing my SD card, and it is the same thing.
Thanks in advance for your help...

Did you check the feedback about GibgerVillain's update?

Yes I did. It seems that I am the only one with this kind of problem.

misterdev said:
Yes I did. It seems that I am the only one with this kind of problem.
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That means you did something wrong. Maybe the copy of the download was foul. Do you have S-ON or S-OFF?

Well, I don't know what I could have done wrong, but I have found a solution.
I went into fastboot, plug in to my PC, then launch a flash with an original ROM (RUU).
After that, a little Unrevoked to get root access and install a recovery, and i started again from draft.
Anyway, thanks for your help.

I'm glad you figured it out.