[Q] Still having recovery issues. Please Help - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I have used the BAmod recovery, clockwork, amon_ra installed using the unrevoked method, and the sd card method...I always get the same results. I can get into the recovery and move up and down to make selections on the initial screen, but once I make a selection I just get a completely black screen. I'm not sure what is happening...any suggestions?

You make selections with the track pad, the power button goes back and at the root menu turns the screen off.
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setexascustoms said:
You make selections with the track pad, the power button goes back and at the root menu turns the screen off.
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Now I feel retarded lol.
Thanks dude!

captndisaster said:
Now I feel retarded lol.
Thanks dude!
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Lol, it happens.
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Quick help about doing a Nandroid backup without a screen

Basically I am trying to do a Nandroid backup on a phone with no screen. When doing the 3 finger salute, I get to the CWM screen I think.
Then I press the rocker down button 5 times, then camera twice. I do that but it doesn't seem to backup. Can anyone verify the keypresses for me please.
Also verify the timing for the 3 finger salute.
FYI I am on CWM 5.0.2.7
That is correct combination for CWM 5.027 and I am on MTD. Pull your sd card and check on a computer. In the clockworkmod\bacckup folder should be a file dated today or when you did the backup.
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kennyglass123 said:
That is correct combination for CWM 5.027 and I am on MTD. Pull your sd card and check on a computer. In the clockworkmod\bacckup folder should be a file dated today or when you did the backup.
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Yeah I did it, but there is no backup in that folder. I didn't know if I was holding the three finger salute too long or what I could be doing wrong. I am sure that I am in CWM, since the lights stay on.
Shouldn't have to hold too long. I hold it for like 4-5 seconds. Or until the capacitive lights come on. I'll take a picture of my phone in recovery or you can Google one.... and then use that as a mental picture....
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ÜBER™ said:
Shouldn't have to hold too long. I hold it for like 4-5 seconds. Or until the capacitive lights come on. I'll take a picture of my phone in recovery or you can Google one.... and then use that as a mental picture....
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I did Google a pic and the pics that I see show that I should be pressing the rocker down button SIX times, not five. I am trying that now.
Milkman00 said:
I did Google a pic and the pics that I see show that I should be pressing the rocker down button SIX times, not five. I am trying that now.
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If this doesn't work, I will just give up. I think the screen shot that showed 6 times was the Epic touch.
Whatever. This is frustrating.
I am using the recovery that flashes as part of TPR 2.2. That is the regular CWM 5.0.2.7 right???
Milkman00 said:
I am using the recovery that flashes as part of TPR 2.2. That is the regular CWM 5.0.2.7 right???
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It only flashes a recovery if you use it to convert to MTD. And it is 6 lines down meaning 5 button pushes.
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OK I am using CWM 5.5.0.4
I got into CWM by rebooting from the power button popup screen
4 toggles down is backup and restore
then the home button twice.
Takes a little over 5 mins for mine to complete it and then it returns to the CWM home screen
MPTonyT said:
OK I am using CWM 5.5.0.4
I got into CWM by rebooting from the power button popup screen
4 toggles down is backup and restore
then the home button twice.
Takes a little over 5 mins for mine to complete it and then it returns to the CWM home screen
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Would have been Useful IF he was on clockwork mod 5.5 he's on the old 5.0.2.7 which has more first menu options.
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ÜBER™ said:
Would have been Useful IF he was on clockwork mod 5.5 he's on the old 5.0.2.7 which has more first menu options.
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Milkman00 said:
FYI I am on CWM 5.0.2.7
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Yes, I guess you are right. I didn't catch that the first read. my apologies.
You might be able to boot to cwm, then connect with adb and tar the individual partitions your self. If you search around you may even be able to find the exact commands cwm runs to make its backups.
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[q] help please!!

Today I went into recovery mode to fix permissions because my phone was running funny. I used the cache wipe script and when i tried rebooting my phone it wouldn't turn on. I decided to take the battery out for a few minutes to see if that would help. It finally turned on but it is stuck on the boot animation. I have tried to get straight into recovery after trying to reboot it but it won't let me. Could someone please help me figure out what's wrong and how I can fix it?
Have you tried holding down both vol down + up and power button same time then releasing power button when the phone vibrates?
arthurgreeeen said:
Have you tried holding down both vol down + up and power button same time then releasing power button when the phone vibrates?
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I've tried that and nothing. I can turn it on now but it gets stuck on the boot animation. I cant get into recovery.
Edit: Finally got it into recovery now I'm going to flash a backup i made yesterday. Thanks for the reply.
Hold the vol up and down with power button at the same time. Let it vibrate once and take finger off power button and once Samsung logo comes on take your fingers off the volume rocker.
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suaverc118 said:
Hold the vol up and down with power button at the same time. Let it vibrate once and take finger off power button and once Samsung logo comes on take your fingers off the volume rocker.
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Thanks for the reply but everything is all set now.
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GalaxySII5191 said:
Thanks for the reply but everything is all set now.
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What ended up happening?
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suaverc118 said:
What ended up happening?
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I have no idea. Once I got it up and running again everything was great. Farewell too the S2 just got the S3
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Your going to have to reflash your custom ROM from your recovery menu
He most likely used TDJ's scripts on the newer CWM versions and borked his recovery. I've done the same thing with my device...
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Download Mode?

Ok so I made the jump to zv9 and after realizing my mistake I want to downgrade with LGNPST and root. Long story short, I've used every button combination on this phone and can't get into download mode. I know it's supposed to be vol(up + down) + power but it's not doing anything other than booting up. Am I doing something wrong? Did I hold it too long? Not long enough? Do i sacrifice a goat to the gods of LG? Someone please help...
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merc616 said:
Ok so I made the jump to zv9 and after realizing my mistake I want to downgrade with LGNPST and root. Long story short, I've used every button combination on this phone and can't get into download mode. I know it's supposed to be vol(up + down) + power but it's not doing anything other than booting up. Am I doing something wrong? Did I hold it too long? Not long enough? Do i sacrifice a goat to the gods of LG? Someone please help...
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lol sacrifice might work but if it fails you can shut off your phone and connect it to the computer but before you pulg it in press and hold that bump in between the volume buttons
javskies said:
lol sacrifice might work but if it fails you can shut off your phone and connect it to the computer but before you pulg it in press and hold that bump in between the volume buttons
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wow...so simple lol. woked like a charm. thanks a lot. guess i have no use for this goat now.
No prob. I'll take it, having some problems with my TV
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javskies said:
press and hold that bump in between the volume buttons
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So I did this and the first time it just booted like normal into the os but it made me log into google and my widgets were missing and then I restarted and did it again and it put me into safe mode. What did I do wrong?
s_mason16 said:
So I did this and the first time it just booted like normal into the os but it made me log into google and my widgets were missing and then I restarted and did it again and it put me into safe mode. What did I do wrong?
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I have never heard of that happening. I would hop on the irc and ask them
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s_mason16 said:
So I did this and the first time it just booted like normal into the os but it made me log into google and my widgets were missing and then I restarted and did it again and it put me into safe mode. What did I do wrong?
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Were you holding down a volume button on accident?
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kc_exactly said:
Were you holding down a volume button on accident?
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I was holding it down on purpose because I wanted to see the download mode.
s_mason16 said:
I was holding it down on purpose because I wanted to see the download mode.
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Maybe your little bump isn't working. Try holding both up and down while plugging into your comp
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javskies said:
Maybe your little bump isn't working. Try holding both up and down while plugging into your comp
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javskies said:
but before you pulg it in press and hold that bump in between the volume buttons
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That worked, but I'm new to doing anything with the lgog so I was just following exactly as I read it.
Glad it worked. I understand why you would want to be careful
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Power button being strange...

Alright so recently I've gotten rid of all custom roms and gone with stock GB27 because I wanted better battery life with my phone. My phone is not rooted or anything at the moment.
However, the other day I did root again and since then my phone started being really weird. I stayed on stock GB27 and just did root so that I could keep the really good battery life but still be on JB. After root I noticed that my phone doesn't register power button presses the same. Sometimes if I just tap the power button it accepts it as me holding it and brings up the power menu asking if I want to turn off, etc. or it just won't respond at all. If it doesn't respond, I press it again hoping it will respond, but then it just reboots after I press it like 3 times hoping for the screen to turn off.
It's really irritating when I can't unlock my device or turn off the screen, especially when the phone turns on and off perfectly if I want it to. I have no issues being able to turn the phone on if it is completely off, it's only when the phone is on that I have these problems. Does anyone know how to fix this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ityscreenoffpr
bigmike6200 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ityscreenoffpr
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Link is broken.
organizedConfoosion said:
Link is broken.
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Go to the play store and type "gravity screen off".
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bigmike6200 said:
Go to the play store and type "gravity screen off".
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Oh wow, this app is incredible. Thank you so much!
organizedConfoosion said:
Oh wow, this app is incredible. Thank you so much!
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No prob. I went for the pro version. Iy is a very useful app. Enjoy.
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Wow thanks bigmike6200! I was having the same problem and posted a thread but no one replied but thanks!
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Cant boot to recovery from power off

I've been a good root user for a while but something isn't right after i used the Installer to flash CM 11 to my Galaxy S4 T-mo.
While i had stock rom i was able to turn my device completely off and reboot into recovery by pressing and holding in the exact order: Vol Up, Home, then Power. And CWM would pop up.
Now with CyanogenMod installed, i try the same process. It says in blue letters "Recovery Booting..." and then everything on screen disappears. I let go of the buttons and after a few seconds the same screen shows without the "Recovery Booting..." in blue letters and then i see the boot.img for CM and the regular boot works fine.
You should know however that if i hold the power button while I'm in CM and tap "Reboot Recovery" it boots into recovery fine. So basically with any root request it works. But the problem with that is if one day if i get a bootloop i cant flash to recovery and restore a backup.
I also tried flashing TWRP instead of CWM but that did not work, the same problem occured with a different recovery.
If anyone has this problem or better, has a fix please reply
Thanks, Essem G
Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button
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Kriptik210 said:
Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button
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The sequence they stated is correct..
OP make sure you let go of all the buttons as soon as you see the 'recovery booting' in blue letters
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serio22 said:
The sequence they stated is correct..
OP make sure you let go of all the buttons as soon as you see the 'recovery booting' in blue letters
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:what: there is no need to hold the home button
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Kriptik210 said:
:what: there is no need to hold the home button
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Well either I was taught wrong or Samsung changed it but that is the way I've been doing it since the s3 and it still works.. That is not the reason its not working
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Well the home button doesn't need to be pressed. I'm not saying it is the problem but the way the OP says he does it, might be the problem.
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Kriptik210 said:
Well the home button doesn't need to be pressed. I'm not saying it is the problem but the way the OP says he does it, might be the problem.
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Sounds to me like they are pressing too long
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serio22 said:
Sounds to me like they are pressing too long
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That or he needs to release the power button. Either way we gave 2 options. Hopefully one works lol.
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Kriptik210 said:
Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button
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Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved
Thanks, Essem G
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Essem G said:
Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved
Thanks, Essem G
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I know the problem has been solved, but out of curiosity, what gave you the idea of that button combo to enter recovery? I only ask because I've seen other questions involving the home button when trying to enter recovery and none of the guides here haven't mentioned using anything other than power+volume up/down for recovery/download mode respectively.
I saw this on galaxys4root.com and it showed a video of that combo working. The very next thing I did was try it myself and it worked. I never knew why or how it changed
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Essem G said:
I saw this on galaxys4root.com and it showed a video of that combo working. The very next thing I did was try it myself and it worked. I never knew why or how it changed
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Gotcha. Like I said, I was just curious. Thanks for elaborating.
Essem G said:
Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved
Thanks, Essem G
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No problem, bro. I really don't know why people say to do it the way you did lol.
lordcheeto03 said:
I know the problem has been solved, but out of curiosity, what gave you the idea of that button combo to enter recovery? I only ask because I've seen other questions involving the home button when trying to enter recovery and none of the guides here haven't mentioned using anything other than power+volume up/down for recovery/download mode respectively.
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It might have been carried over from the s3. Adding the home button doesn't do anything so in retrospect the s4 doesn't even notice. Power + Vol down will take you to Download mode (just an FYI)
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