I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).
After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.
And that's where I am at... looking back, I could have summed that up.
Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.
jon_f said:
I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).
After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.
Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.
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Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.
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Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
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If you mean from the boot menu (achieved by holding power+volume down - not sure of the actual name), again, I don't seem to have the option to "flash recovery". From fastboot, I have the options to HBoot Mode (vol down) or Reset Device (menu).
Leechoonhwee said:
You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.
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Within RomManager, it does indicate I have the ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1 and it did say "Successfully flashed Clockwork recovery". Maybe I need to throw it at the wall. That seems to make problems go away.
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Hi everyone,
i just tried to root my unbranded stock 2.1 desire with unrevoked - everything worked fine, there were no errors during the process and after that the phone started clockwerk recovery.
I rebooted the device - and everything seemed to be ok (Root working fine, just did a Titanium backup) but when trying now to enter clockwerk recovery again, the phone is always stuck in the bootscreen (htc logo) and the only way to get back is to pull out the battery.
Does anyone have an idea what could cause this and what i could to to fix this? I waited for more than 15minutes, but nothing is happening and i see no way to enter recovery (and then flash a new rom) again.
Thanks in advance,
jp
demonxxl2 said:
Hi everyone,
i just tried to root my unbranded stock 2.1 desire with unrevoked - everything worked fine, there were no errors during the process and after that the phone started clockwerk recovery.
I rebooted the device - and everything seemed to be ok (Root working fine, just did a Titanium backup) but when trying now to enter clockwerk recovery again, the phone is always stuck in the bootscreen (htc logo) and the only way to get back is to pull out the battery.
Does anyone have an idea what could cause this and what i could to to fix this? I waited for more than 15minutes, but nothing is happening and i see no way to enter recovery (and then flash a new rom) again.
Thanks in advance,
jp
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What process are you using to enter Recovery?
Entering Fastboot (Power+Vol down) and then selecting Recovery from the Menu....
By the way, after entering fastboot (and before i can select Recovery) there are always a few textlines showing up (too fast to read, but i think somthing like p99xyz.zip is mentioned), it seems like he is searching or updating something....
demonxxl2 said:
Entering Fastboot (Power+Vol down) and then selecting Recovery from the Menu....
By the way, after entering fastboot (and before i can select Recovery) there are always a few textlines showing up (too fast to read, but i think somthing like p99xyz.zip is mentioned), it seems like he is searching or updating something....
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Yeah that is normal. The text always scrolls there, nothing to worry about.
So when you highlight Recovery and press "Power" it just goes to HTC Screen and doesn't get any further?
If so, it sounds like your recovery has been corrupted somehow?
****I am not 100% sure about the advice I am going to give, so take no responsibility, wait for someone else to confirm****
1. Try reinstalling the permanent recovery via unrEVOked again.
If that doesn't work try:
2. Reinstall a stock RUU which should reset your phone back to stock, ensure it is an original one with a stock Eclair image (not FROYO).
**** AGAIN I am not 100% sure about the advice I am going to give, so take no responsibility, wait for someone else to confirm****
So for some reason last night I wasn't in my right mind (think alcohol) and I installed the latest RUU on my rooted inc. I *think* I was thinking with S-OFF i would keep root..
Yeah... F Me..
So right now I have a stock OS.. which to me is slow as all hell..
I cant boot into a recovery - phone vibrates 3 times.
I tried tossing the original recovery back on there (from adryln) - no love.. same thing.
adb - root denied..
Tried unrevoked - no love.. never installed the recovery partition correctly it seems (waiting for root)
So how the hell do i get this thing back to a point where I can re-root... or at least get clockwork back on here. Anyone go through this?
from the unrevoked wiki:
When I try to get into Fastboot by pressing VOLUME UP and booting the phone, my phone instead buzzes three times and acts dead. What happened?
The S-OFF update also enables Qualcomm Diagnostics mode on your phone, which is entered by doing what you just did. You can exit this mode (and boot normally) by removing the battery and USB cable.
That's fine and dadny.. but clockwork wont push back...
thanks
Cal
Edit: I think Im getting somewhere.
I repushed the original recovery. still got the 3 buzzes when trying to go from hboot to recovery.
pulled the battery
flashed the original recovery again
rebooted - this time i got the trianagle! woohoo - stock recovery took.
rebooted. copied over clockwork zip.
hboot - flashed clockwork recovery.
Rebooted hboot > recovery - and whalla clockwork was there...
flashed superuser - rebooted back to hboot > recovery and clockwork was there.
wipe data/cache
restoring from a heavily customized backup atm.. will update..
Edit again...
Restore completed.. I hope nobody had to go through that panic..
lesson learned : dont drink and flash..
How can i remove this topic?
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So for some reason last night I wasn't in my right mind (think alcohol) and I installed the latest RUU on my rooted inc. I *think* I was thinking with S-OFF i would keep root..
Yeah... F Me..
So right now I have a stock OS.. which to me is slow as all hell..
I cant boot into a recovery - phone vibrates 3 times.
I tried tossing the original recovery back on there (from adryln) - no love.. same thing.
adb - root denied..
Tried unrevoked - no love.. never installed the recovery partition correctly it seems (waiting for root)
So how the hell do i get this thing back to a point where I can re-root... or at least get clockwork back on here. Anyone go through this?
from the unrevoked wiki:
When I try to get into Fastboot by pressing VOLUME UP and booting the phone, my phone instead buzzes three times and acts dead. What happened?
The S-OFF update also enables Qualcomm Diagnostics mode on your phone, which is entered by doing what you just did. You can exit this mode (and boot normally) by removing the battery and USB cable.
That's fine and dadny.. but clockwork wont push back...
thanks
Cal
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Make sure you're pushing volume down and power for recovery. Volume up and power makes it vibrate, that's for Qualcom diagnostics I believe.
I was.. then selecting recovery once in hboot/fastboot. I never had an issue there.
it was once i selected recovery...
even now, holding down and power gets me 3 buzzes still..
but.. my rom is back
DjCalvin said:
I was.. then selecting recovery once in hboot/fastboot. I never had an issue there.
it was once i selected recovery...
even now, holding down and power gets me 3 buzzes still..
but.. my rom is back
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Have you tried flashing cwm from ROM Manager?
setexascustoms said:
Have you tried flashing cwm from ROM Manager?
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At the Time I could not.. Didnt have root. (even downloaded superuser and it couldnt add the zip to /sdcard for root.. not that it would have mattered at the time.. no recovery)
Im all set now though..
end result was I had to flash the stock recovery multiple times before I could flash clockwork back...
DjCalvin said:
At the Time I could not.. Didnt have root. (even downloaded superuser and it couldnt add the zip to /sdcard for root.. not that it would have mattered at the time.. no recovery)
Im all set now though..
end result was I had to flash the stock recovery multiple times before I could flash clockwork back...
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Well I'm glad you figured it out.
Hi all. First let me begin by saying I'm NOT new to rooting and I have a pretty good knowledge of what I'm doing.
Here is my problem. I WAS rooted before, and used Rom Manager/Clockwork to preform Nandroid backups etc.
I recently received a replacement EVO (cracked housing) and wanted to root again, which I have, with SU permissions and S-OFF using the latest version of unrEVOked. (this is after the December update to 3.70 with hboot 2.10) No problem with rooting, however when I want to do a nandriod back up, thru Rom Manager, (or alternative methods) I get stuck on the white EVO boot screen. I CAN NOT boot into recovery? Weird right?
EDIT: When I try to enter recovery in any fashion, it hangs on the white EVO screen...forever until I do a battery pull.
EDIT: Sorry, I CAN enter bootloader, however once there, I attempt to enter "recovery" and it bounces me back to the menu. This happens both via ROM Manager and the traditional way of "POWER" button and "Vol Down".
EDIT (again): Okay..I used Amon RA to preform a nandroid back up,(which worked) and now I'm stuck in a bootloop! Ugh! Trying to restore my Nanadroid backup using RA..hopefully that works and I can revert back to Clockwork.
Jesus...
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
skbgiants said:
Hi all. First let me begin by saying I'm NOT new to rooting and I have a pretty good knowledge of what I'm doing.
Here is my problem. I WAS rooted before, and used Rom Manager/Clockwork to preform Nandroid backups etc.
I recently received a replacement EVO (cracked housing) and wanted to root again, which I have, with SU permissions and S-OFF using the latest version of unrEVOked. (this is after the December update to 3.70 with hboot 2.10) No problem with rooting, however when I want to do a nandriod back up, thru Rom Manager, (or alternative methods) I get stuck on the white EVO boot screen. I CAN NOT boot into recovery? Weird right?
EDIT: When I try to enter recovery in any fashion, it hangs on the white EVO screen...forever until I do a battery pull.
EDIT: Sorry, I CAN enter bootloader, however once there, I attempt to enter "recovery" and it bounces me back to the menu. This happens both via ROM Manager and the traditional way of "POWER" button and "Vol Down".
EDIT (again): Okay..I used Amon RA to preform a nandroid back up,(which worked) and now I'm stuck in a bootloop! Ugh! Trying to restore my Nanadroid backup using RA..hopefully that works and I can revert back to Clockwork.
Jesus...
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
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I'm in the exact same boat as you...
UhQ said:
I'm in the exact same boat as you...
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Let me know what you do to fix it. I'm just going to put the 3.7 RUU on sd card and restore to default? Here is the link. Hopefully this works.
http://goo-inside.me/evo/stock/RUU/
I have the exact same problem!!!! I cannot boot into recovery! It throws me back to the main hboot screen. It freezes when I try to do a recovery and I need to return this stupid phone because it keeps freezing and re-starting on it's own and I've tried flashing the oem rom many times already. I have "s-off" and Sprint will know I've rooted the phone ... please help!!
I just get stuck with the evo screen but like all of you i can not get to recovery... any ideas
Do you guys have working ROMs on your phones and just can't get into recovery? Or can you not boot up at all?
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Looks like your recovery didn't flash. Put this file on the root of your sdcard, boot into the bootloader and select yes to update, the reboot. This installs CWM 3.0+.
I'm in a similar situation after initially using Unrevoked, and I've tried flashing AmonRa and Clockwork from a PC36IMG.zip. Neither has gotten me a recovery screen.
Beyond that I can't seem to get a ROM to boot more than once. I can install ROMs with varying degrees of success, but invariably a reboot leads to the phone simply hanging at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. Flashing a new ROM generally works. Once. But then I'm constantly afraid of my phone rebooting for any reason, and I know it'll mean that I have to wipe the bastard and start all over again.
Any suggestions on the recovery issue? Perhaps fixing that will fix my reboot problems.
RandomViolence said:
I'm in a similar situation after initially using Unrevoked, and I've tried flashing AmonRa and Clockwork from a PC36IMG.zip. Neither has gotten me a recovery screen.
Beyond that I can't seem to get a ROM to boot more than once. I can install ROMs with varying degrees of success, but invariably a reboot leads to the phone simply hanging at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. Flashing a new ROM generally works. Once. But then I'm constantly afraid of my phone rebooting for any reason, and I know it'll mean that I have to wipe the bastard and start all over again.
Any suggestions on the recovery issue? Perhaps fixing that will fix my reboot problems.
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Try installing clean, wipe everything. With TB, backup the apps, ect. When you restore, restore only apps and data, not system settings.
Just to be sure I 'wipe everything' properly, which steps are you suggesting? Should I choose Clear Storage from the bootloader menu?
Just for clarification, I've tried to RUU several times and it has not fixed the issue.
I just used a modified HBOOT to allow me to erase my recovery, system, and userdata partitions via fastboot. After that, I flashed AmonRa 2.3 in Bootloader and it worked! I now have a working AmonRa recovery. I'm attempting to flash CM7 now, and I'll let you know if that works.
I can't take credit for thinking of this, I used someone else's guide, but I'll happily post the software and the steps if people are interested.
The fix was apparently temporary. The attempt to flash CM7 led to my Evo hanging at the white screen after rebooting.
The only way I've managed to boot into a ROM is pretty crazy... I flash the 3.70 RUU from a PC36IMG.zip version at bootloader, then I flash clockworkmod, then I flash SprintLover's ROM. If I flash in that sequence, I can get SprintLover's to work, but it will hang at the white evo 4g screen if I reboot. It's insane!
Anyone have any advice? This **** is bananas.
teh roxxorz said:
Looks like your recovery didn't flash. Put this file on the root of your sdcard, boot into the bootloader and select yes to update, the reboot. This installs CWM 3.0+.
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What I have done so far:
(the good):
#1 I used the "clear storage" from hboot and it works.
#2 I re-flashed "RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed" from my PC via USB and this works too! It gets the phone back to factory settings wiping out everything and booting up normally.
(the bad):
#1 The phone still freezes and turns off sporadicly.
#2 I have lost root BUT the HBOOT screen still shows security is off (S-OFF) so still I cannot return the phone to Sprint!
(the ugly):
#1 From the "HBOOT" screen I choose "FASTBOOT" which takes me to the "FASTBOOT" menu, from there I choose "BOOTLOADER" and it throws me back to the "FASTBOOT" menu creating an endless loop.
#2 From the "HBOOT" menu I choose "RECOVERY" and it re-starts but it than freezes at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. I then have to take the battery out to re-boot the phone. Again another loop!
Any Ideas or any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
dns213 said:
What I have done so far:
(the good):
#1 I used the "clear storage" from hboot and it works.
#2 I re-flashed "RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed" from my PC via USB and this works too! It gets the phone back to factory settings wiping out everything and booting up normally.
(the bad):
#1 The phone still freezes and turns off sporadicly.
#2 I have lost root BUT the HBOOT screen still shows security is off (S-OFF) so still I cannot return the phone to Sprint!
(the ugly):
#1 From the "HBOOT" screen I choose "FASTBOOT" which takes me to the "FASTBOOT" menu, from there I choose "BOOTLOADER" and it throws me back to the "FASTBOOT" menu creating an endless loop.
#2 From the "HBOOT" menu I choose "RECOVERY" and it re-starts but it than freezes at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. I then have to take the battery out to re-boot the phone. Again another loop!
Any Ideas or any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever Jump down to Q&A and download the S-ON tool. You need to load up a recovery image, CWM or amon_ra and flash that ^ then re-run the 3.70 RUU and you should be set.
Hi,
So I'm relatively sure I just bricked my device, but I'm hoping I am just stupid and there actually is a way to fix this. So I have a T-Mobile G2 and I wanted to load CyanogenMod 7 on it. I have rooted like 5 phones before and am not incredibly knowledgeable, but know enough to get things done. So I...
Rooted successfully (perm root) and installed ROM manager to flash clockworkmod. Took like 4 tries (apparently common with G2), but it finally flashed. I wiped dalviks cache and deleted all user data. I went to install CyanogenMod 7 from SD card. Halfway through install, the phone shut off. I was left with a half-baked ROM that rebooted every 10 seconds. No big deal right? Just hop back into ClockworkMod Recovery and reinstall ROM. I get access to ClockworkMod and try to select a menu item. None of them work. They just bring up the ClockworkMod hat logo. It appears as though ClockworkMod 7 is broken.
Obviously I can't reflash ClockworkMod as I can't get access to the half-baked unstable OS. Is there something I can manually do (or anything at all!!) to get the ability to reinstall ClockworkMod without ROM Manager to complete the CyanogenMod 7 installation? Thanks!
Were you able get out of this half baked clockworkmod had logo screen?
Were you able get out of this half baked clockworkmod had logo screen?
Whenever I did this I just nandroid backed up. Got back to the older rom and tried again. always worked for me.
I get access to ClockworkMod and try to select a menu item. None of them work.
I get access to ClockworkMod and try to select a menu item. None of them work. They just bring up the ClockworkMod hat logo.
i just had this same thing happen to me on my buddy's G2. would love to know why clockwork is doing this.
envy270 said:
I get access to ClockworkMod and try to select a menu item. None of them work. They just bring up the ClockworkMod hat logo.
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This might be a silly question, but are you using the power button or the trackpad to select the menu items?
Also, do you have S-OFF and/or the engineering hboot 0.76.2000?
hey guys, i've just flashed CyanogenMod 7.0.3 to my device and the wifi turns on, can see wifi networks and accepts my WEP password, however hangs at "Obtaining IP address...", eventually disconnecting and trying all over again.
I was previously running the 7.0 release with no problems and in my newb naivety i failed make a backup of the ROM.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: Now i cant boot into recovery. I just get the bootloader screen (i think? the white one with the skateboarding Androids at the bottom?) and selecting Recovery just sends me back there. This has now gone from an expected easy fix to something thats starting to get me worried. Can anyone help?
Do a full wipe and re-install the rom again, chances are something corrupted the 1st install which does happen apparently.Don't worry too much mate, over the past 2 weeks ive installed and re-installed about a dozen times and on a few occasions been in exactly the same spot your in.
thanks, but no can do. I cant boot into recovery and thus cant wipe and re-install...
Dumb question, you are holding down the volume(down) and power button at the same time to get into recovery mode??
Wow that's weird, try going into ROM Manager and flashing a different version of Recovery.
thanks for the responses guys. Yeah im doing the vol down + power to get to recovery. I cant get further than the white skateboarding Android screen. ROM manager doesnt let me flash new recovery versions because there aren't any.
You can flash a older recovery, scroll to the bottom when in RomManager and select All ClockworkMod Recoveries and try to flash something like 3.0.0.6
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yeah when i do that i get "No legacy recoveries found"
EDIT: i turned on my mobile data and now i can choose older recoveries from ROM manager but i still cant boot there regardless of which one i choose
PS can a mod change the title of the thread cos i realize now my problem is more to do with booting into recovery rather than the wifi issues. Thanks
reading around it seems like i need to use fastboot to reflash the recovery.img from my computer. will try it tonight