I'm asking this for a friend as he has little experience with hacking phones, but did successfully root his Desire.
There is currently no ROM installed because I did a factory reset but didn't install a ROM.
When trying to boot into recovery, it shows the standard HTC screen, after a while I get a black screen with an image of a phone and a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it. So I can't flash a new ROM either.
I can get into the bootloader (where you are given the option to boot into recovery).
What would be the best course of action to fix this problem?
I was thinking flashing a RUU will probably fix it, but does this not require the phone to have a ROM and be booted into it?
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tried to boot in to recovery and got a screen with a white triangle and a yellow exclamation point inside above an android robot.
the suggestion is to battery pull. anyone else have this issue? if so, what's the procedure on reboot?
thanks.
I think that's the Stock Recovery Menu ( i kept getting it when i was trying to install the Patches from Fresh & used Clockwork Recovery because the two weren't compatible ).
Do you definitely have a Custom Recovery installed?
You pressed the power button instead of the optical trackpad when trying to reboot from custom recovery
Optical trackpad? What Evo has one of those? LMAO!
Flash Clockwork recovery or AmonRa recovery. You have stock (no recovery).
It is hard to answer your question without further specifics.
For example:
1.) Are you rooted?
a.) If yes, what are you trying to boot into recovery for? - flash radio/wimax or rom???
b.) If no, go to Android Development and read how to Root and install a custom recovery.
2.) If you have a custom recovery, what is it?
to put it simpler than this.
1. What ROM do you have?
2. What custom recovery do you have?
3. What step did you do to get into recovery? - from android or from boot up?
*If you pull a battery while trying to flash a radio, you might have the coolest looking paper weight in your part of the town
Hello shawnathan9!
I have similar problem with my Nexus one.
I have a rooted phone (used superoneclick to root)
Installed clockworkmod and flashed it with the recovery image.
Since I wanted to install latest cynogenmod I used clockworkmod to install the latest radio for it. Now when the phone rebooted it is hung diplaying a white triangle with and exclamation mark inside it. I haven't removed my battery yet and have plugged it to a power source. Can you help me ?
You're rooted, but you are trying to access recovery, but you don't have one loaded. Search google for Amon_RA or clockwork recovery to flash. If you have rom manager, you should be able to flash either or and it should work.
I did the unrevolked 3 and got it rooted. Then I booted it up into the recovery mode and ran clockworkmod. Now how do I get a rom (like mikfroyo 4.5) on it? I tried booting and selecting a zip from my sd card(which mikfroyo 4.5 is on it in zip form still) But it would not finish/aborted ? What am I doing wrong? I have the sptint HTC EVO 4 g phone with all the latest hboot ect on it.
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I did the unrevolked 3 and got it rooted. Then I booted it up into the recovery mode and ran clockworkmod. Now how do I get a rom (like mikfroyo 4.5) on it? I tried booting and selecting a zip from my sd card(which mikfroyo 4.5 is on it in zip form still) But it would not finish/aborted ? What am I doing wrong? I have the sptint HTC EVO 4 g phone with all the latest hboot ect on it.
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It did say no sd-ext found, skipping backup of sd-ext. in Clockworkmod. Still getting the white triangle with the yellow ! in it?
bhaismachine said:
Hello shawnathan9!
I have similar problem with my Nexus one.
I have a rooted phone (used superoneclick to root)
Installed clockworkmod and flashed it with the recovery image.
Since I wanted to install latest cynogenmod I used clockworkmod to install the latest radio for it. Now when the phone rebooted it is hung diplaying a white triangle with and exclamation mark inside it. I haven't removed my battery yet and have plugged it to a power source. Can you help me ?
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That is part of updating the radio. Just let it finish and it will reboot into recovery. The phone has to go to that screen to update the radio. You may be able to save it by booting into that screen and just let it sit there for a while...eat dinner...take a dump...do whatever and come back and see if your phone is in recovery. I would turn it off and charge it first to make sure you have enough battery to finish the update.
I have the same experience, when I updates to Gingerbread (OTA).
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That is part of updating the radio. Just let it finish and it will reboot into recovery. The phone has to go to that screen to update the radio. You may be able to save it by booting into that screen and just let it sit there for a while...eat dinner...take a dump...do whatever and come back and see if your phone is in recovery. I would turn it off and charge it first to make sure you have enough battery to finish the update.
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Hello thank you so much for your information. I will leave the phone in that mode (screen hung with triangle an exclamation mark inside + android green logo below) and plug in the charger, until tomorrow morning. Then I have a question if tomorrow the phone still hung in that screen mode, what I have to do?
If you can give me solution, I would be very thankful. Happening in August 23, 2011.
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Hello thank you so much for your information. I will leave the phone in that mode (screen hung with triangle an exclamation mark inside + android green logo below) and plug in the charger, until tomorrow morning. Then I have a question if tomorrow the phone still hung in that screen mode, what I have to do?
If you can give me solution, I would be very thankful. Happening in August 23, 2011.
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After 2 days, trying to download updates firmware (OTA) GingerBread on HTC Evo 4G, I failed because the phone has been rooted, I found a "superuser permision" app. in the the All apps menu.This meant it is a rooted android phone, which will not permitted to update firmware OTA, is this true? If yes, this is the cause of screen hung at triangle with exclamation inside, and android green logo below.
August 26,2011.
Thats what my phone is doing the clockworksmod menu will not come up only see the
white triangle with the exc symbal with the android symbal. have to pull the battery out ot reset but phone still loads up and works.
Okay, so I backed up and tried to use CM7, flashing it with a Recovery I don't remember the name. It looked a lot like Clockwork's Recovery. The bar didn't advance, it just said out of nowhere that flashing was done (I thought it was weird since it was too quick)
When I turned my phone on, the motorola logo would show up and nothing happen. I researched and found the way to get into the Recovery. Now I have these options:
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe partition
This isn't the same Recovery screen so there's no way to restore the backup, and I can't find a way to flash something new. What should I do?
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There's no clear indication but I take it I should try this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853674), since I can also get to the bootloader, am I right? Don't let me brick this phone further.
Yea, I was thinking if I'm on this situation as well. Since my SonyEricsson X10mini pro has this custom recovery installed where you can boot into it by repeatedly pressing the back button(even if bootloop occured), and you're safe to restore if anything goes wrong with your phone during modding. But this CWMrecovery doesn't have that as it only accessible via the app menu to boot into recovery, so if Defy fail to boot then you're stucked, end up you need to flash sbf file again as there's no restoring option under stock recovery.
Does your led turn blue for about a second while booting? it should do it while on the motorola logo.
If so press Vol.down with the led still blue and you'll enter custom recovery.
If still you can't do anything i guess the easiest thing to do would be to flash another SBF in the bootloader.
It didn't flash the blue LED, so I flashed another SBF, and it works fine now. Thanks guys. I'll try flashing CM7 again today.
Hi,
I rooted my phone about a year ago and recently wanted to update it and try a new ROM. Since I have no idea what the compatibility of of my old ROM I made a NAND backup then I reset it to the factory RUU version 3.29.651.5 and my phone was back to normal in the boot loader S was set as S-on.
I then proceeded to use the autoroot v2.5 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448. In the cmd prompt it said it was flashing the firmware, then said it was waiting for the device to boot up; however, the device did not boot up, I waited for approx 60 min and it was stuck on a black screen with the HTC logo in the middle and a small warning (triangle with exclamation point) in each corner. Now, it is permanently stuck on that screen. Even if I try to hold the volume down to get to the boot loader when it starts, it still goes to this screen.
What can I do to try to get out of this? I cant go back to my recovery to get my backup.
Thanks
Sorry if I incorrectly used some of the terms in this post.
alibabazhang said:
Hi,
I rooted my phone about a year ago and recently wanted to update it and try a new ROM. Since I have no idea what the compatibility of of my old ROM I made a NAND backup then I reset it to the factory RUU version 3.29.651.5 and my phone was back to normal in the boot loader S was set as S-on.
I then proceeded to use the autoroot v2.5 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448. In the cmd prompt it said it was flashing the firmware, then said it was waiting for the device to boot up; however, the device did not boot up, I waited for approx 60 min and it was stuck on a black screen with the HTC logo in the middle and a small warning (triangle with exclamation point) in each corner. Now, it is permanently stuck on that screen. Even if I try to hold the volume down to get to the boot loader when it starts, it still goes to this screen.
What can I do to try to get out of this? I cant go back to my recovery to get my backup.
Thanks
Sorry if I incorrectly used some of the terms in this post.
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The first time I tried to Root my phone, I had the same problem with Toasts Root method. That's stock Recovery you're seeing.
I ended up having to use Unrevoked Linux version and swore I would never unroot again, and I haven't.
I've tried using unrevoked and several other methods. The problem is I think most of them rely on the phone being on with USB debugging enabled. I unfortunately can't get there. The one ray of hope I have is that the device is recognized in my device manager as "Android USB device - HTC bootloader". Is there any other way I could fix this?
alibabazhang said:
Hi,
I rooted my phone about a year ago and recently wanted to update it and try a new ROM. Since I have no idea what the compatibility of of my old ROM I made a NAND backup then I reset it to the factory RUU version 3.29.651.5 and my phone was back to normal in the boot loader S was set as S-on.
I then proceeded to use the autoroot v2.5 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448. In the cmd prompt it said it was flashing the firmware, then said it was waiting for the device to boot up; however, the device did not boot up, I waited for approx 60 min and it was stuck on a black screen with the HTC logo in the middle and a small warning (triangle with exclamation point) in each corner. Now, it is permanently stuck on that screen. Even if I try to hold the volume down to get to the boot loader when it starts, it still goes to this screen.
What can I do to try to get out of this? I cant go back to my recovery to get my backup.
Thanks
Sorry if I incorrectly used some of the terms in this post.
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Are you holding power and volume down at the same time. Sounds like you are just holding volume. When you get to the bootloader I'd you see s-off all you will need to do is flash a PC36IMG of the recovery of your choice(I recommend twrp). Good luck!
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Also, no need to unroot for any rom. Once you are rooted you can flash anything you want. Compatibility wise, you may need to update a radio but that is just flashed in recovery.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I am holding power and volume down. Powering it on normally and powering it on while holding volume down both go to the same screen.
Hey guys, I've managed to semi-brick my one x. Not too thrilled right now to say the least.
I was halfway through rooting the device when it ran into a communication error. It now is in a endless restarting loop, so with no idea a tried the factory reset from the HBoot menu. I've managed to get TWRP 2.3 in recovery mode, but I'm not sure where to go from here.
I don't really care weather it gets back to the stock ROM or a custom mod, either of those would be preferred than the shiny brick I have at the moment.
Thanks,
Hi folks,
I'd appreciate some assistance in identifying the problem with my sm-p605. The color balance (RGB) on it went all bonkers. Red was alright, but the green and blue were almost completely faded. When I booted into download mode the colors were right, so I figured it's gotta be a software problem. I tried re-installing the firmware, first through Kies, but it got disconnected in the process, so I found stock firmware on sammobile and flashed it with Odin with a PASS. After that, the device would get stuck in a boot loop with "recovery booting....." written in the top left corner whether I tried to boot it normally or in recovery mode. But the download mode still worked so I tried flashing a custom recovery. I don't know if a device needs to be priorly rooted for that, but I flashed CF Auto Root and TWRP both with a PASS. After that, the device still wouldn't boot into recovery mode. It would say "recovery is not seandroid enforced". I tried several supposedly compatible versions of the recovery with the same result. But now it does boot normally into the OS except none of the things I flashed stuck. It's still the same non altered system it was before I did anything with it, even though I re-installed stock firmware twice now, second time even with Kies. So what's going on?
I took a screenshot of the app drawer after all this, and the colors are alright when viewed on a computer screen, so it might be a hardware issue after all, although I don't have a definite conclusion since capturing and displaying aren't the same part of the OS. There are other issues with it being non responsive when I'm trying to wake it up. I still want a fresh ROM so I can know for sure and I'm not able to install one, be it custom or stock. Any ideas?
I'll try to be clearer. Current ROM I have is stock 4.4.2, but it's barely usable, so I wan't a fresh one. I cannot get into recovery mode. If I flash stock firmware, I cannot boot into either the OS or recovery. If I flash custom recovery on top of that I still can't boot into it, but I can boot into the OS, which reverts itself like I never flashed fresh stock. So I'm stuck with what seems to be a corrupt OS with no way of installing a new one. Is there something I can try?
If you can flash a custom recovery. Boot into it and try factory reset. Either that or try a custom ROM if any are available (font have tablet)
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Factory reset was the first thing I tried, I wish it had been that simple. I can flash a custom recovery, but I can't boot into it. The only thing it acomplishes is breaking the bootloop from stock recovery, so I can boot back into the OS, which stays the same no matter if I flashed new stock (it boots up already user configured). To install custom ROM I need custom recovery, unless there are some methods of installing that don't require flashing from storage.