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[Q] Recovery Problems

Hi everyone. I'm having some problems with my Recovery which I can't seem to figure out:
I tried to mod my phone with CM6.1 the other day using ROM Manager. ROM downloaded and started to install, no problems. When it tried to boot up again, it got stuck in a loop at the CM loading screen. When I tried to reboot in to Clockword Mod Recovery, all I got was a picture of a phone with a triangle (can't remember which colour - think it was green). Eventually I realised that was a stock recovery and managed to get my phone restored to my backup but I can't seem to get my recovery to go to anything but the stock one. Rom Manager reports Clockwork Recovery reports ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 installed and I've tried using Rom Manager, Android Commander and UnrEVOked to flash ClockworkMod and Amon-Ra and nothing works - I'm still at the built-in recovery.
Now, If I boot in to recovery, I get the red triangle and a message on screen stating "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command".
If I do use the built-in recovery to flash ClockworkMod as an update.zip, ClockworkMod launches but when I reboot, it's gone again and I'm back to stock.
Any ideas?
Thank you!

"Android Commander and UnrEVOked to flash ClockworkMod and Amon-Ra and nothing works" make sure youre trying to flash a .img file
"Clockwork Recovery reports ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 installed" that because the recovery (.zip) is saved on the SDCARD. When booting Recovery from ROM Manager, youre fake-flashing the file (.zip)
"If I do use the built-in recovery to flash ClockworkMod as an update.zip, ClockworkMod launches but when I reboot, it's gone again and I'm back to stock." thats fake-flashing
what HBOOT are you on??
EDIT: You should S-OFF your Desire "http://alpharev.nl/".
WARNING: When using S-OFF your flashing a custom HBOOT. If that goes wrong, it may brick your Desire. If you use S-OFF, then you can flash a permanent recovery using fastboot

Thanks Chris. Any idea why it would have reverted though? I used to have a permanent version of ClockworkMod until the other week
Edit: HBOOT just says 0.80.0000 and has 3 androids on skateboards
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Go back to stock, download the original ruu for you phone. After that try rooting again.

Rats - had a feeling that may be the answer. Think I'll be able to restore a backup?
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I fake-flash all the time. I once messed up a ROM's installation and got stuck because it messed up the recovery too.
The loop startup is probably caused by older cache from your previous ROM. Just boot up recovery again, clear cache and restore factory settings and then flash your CM again. Should do the trick.

Chris016 said:
what HBOOT are you on??
EDIT: You should S-OFF your Desire "http://alpharev.nl/".
WARNING: When using S-OFF your flashing a custom HBOOT. If that goes wrong, it may brick your Desire. If you use S-OFF, then you can flash a permanent recovery using fastboot
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Flashed my HBOOT with AlphaRev - those guys are brilliant, coding that!
Thank you for your help!

Bingo!
Think I've nailed it now!
I used Fastboot Commander [v.1.0] to flash Amon-RA which took and stayed!
To confirm: I installed AlphaRev bootloader to S-OFF then Fastboot Commander to flash Amon-RA. Hopefully, I'll now be able to flash Clockwork Recovery again (as I use Rom Manager) and be back up and running!
Think I may skip CM6.1...

[Q] Revert to ClockworkMod 2.5.0.5

I've been having trouble with ROM installs and Nandroid backup / restores since I used ROM Manager to update recovery from ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.5 to v2.5.1.2.
I would like to revert back to v2.5.0.5. I have the recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.5-inc.img and recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.5-inc.zip. If I run the .zip file from the 2.5.1.2 recovery, it temporarily shows "ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.5" as the running recovery, but slips back to 2.5.1.2 upon reboot.
At this point my ROM / backups aren't booting. I can get to the adb shell while in v2.5.1.2 recovery. Is there a way to flash back to ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.5 from adb shell?
Thanks,
Dan

I renamed recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.5-inc.zip to update.zip and put it on the root of my SD card. I rebooted into hboot and it ran the update.zip, then booted into ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.5. Unfortunately when I rebooted into recovery again, it was back to v2.5.1.2.
Someone has to have done this before... At this point my phone is dead to me, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm anxious to hear them.

Place this PB31IMG.zip on the root of your sd card and install through HBOOT.
Being an older version, it may or may not work, but is worth a shot.

"No image or wrong image" when trying to boot that from HBOOT. It won't install it.

Xylite said:
"No image or wrong image" when trying to boot that from HBOOT. It won't install it.
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Make sure your sd card is formatted to FAT32 rather than FAT and that your computer didn't inadvertently rename the file to PB31IMG.zip.zip or pb31img.zip.

Thanks for the quick response. The file is named PB31IMG.zip (capitalized properly, no extra .zip extension). The SD card is FAT32. I was able to flash a update.zip this morning using the same setup. Would it be advisable to rename the PB31IMG.zip to update.zip just to get it to flash?
What is this PB31IMG.zip? Is it back to the stock RUU or is it the ClockworkMod 2.5.0.5 Recovery?

It's CWM, downloaded straight from Koush's site and inserted into a zip by me.
Another alternative, if you are able to do so, is to use Unrevoked to install the recovery image.

I thought of the same thing this morning. I'll have to try to get a ROM to boot to use Unrevoked, correct?
I tried running Unrevoked while my phone was in recovery, but the Unrevoked 3.2 tool didn't like that too much.
My problem is that after installing a new ROM or restoring a Nandroid backup, the white HTC Incredible splash screen appears indefinitely. It doesn't seem to hand off into the ROM properly. I have gotten a ROM to boot all the way to the desktop before but it bootloops shortly thereafter.
I guess my path forward at this point is to try to get a ROM to boot to the homescreen, then run Unrevoked. Can I run Unrevoked on an already rooted ROM?

unrEVOked tool reports that it should not be run on any device that is not in perfect working order or it risks permanent damage.
PLEASE!!! Anyone that knows how I can flash back to a prior version of recovery please help.
Maybe I'm doing something else wrong... The only ROM I can successfully flash is Incredibly Re-engineered. Unfortunately this ROM has a bootloop issue after some time (known issue, see the development thread and lots of people have the same problem). To install a different ROM, I'm downloading via ROM Manager (SkyRaider or Virtuous for instance), clearing data and cache in recovery (with system and data mounted), running ROM .zip selected from SD card. After the ROM successfully installs and I choose to reboot, my phone sits on the white HTC Incredible splash screen indefinitely. Is there something else I'm missing to flash from Incredibly Re-engineered to another ROM?

Beware of ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.2 on your Incredible!
Xylite said:
unrEVOked tool reports that it should not be run on any device that is not in perfect working order or it risks permanent damage.
PLEASE!!! Anyone that knows how I can flash back to a prior version of recovery please help.
Maybe I'm doing something else wrong... The only ROM I can successfully flash is Incredibly Re-engineered. Unfortunately this ROM has a bootloop issue after some time (known issue, see the development thread and lots of people have the same problem). To install a different ROM, I'm downloading via ROM Manager (SkyRaider or Virtuous for instance), clearing data and cache in recovery (with system and data mounted), running ROM .zip selected from SD card. After the ROM successfully installs and I choose to reboot, my phone sits on the white HTC Incredible splash screen indefinitely. Is there something else I'm missing to flash from Incredibly Re-engineered to another ROM?
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Well, I've found some success. I couldn't figure out how to install an old version of CWM Recovery outright, but ROM Manager was able to successfully install the "alternate" recovery RA_GNM. I used this recovery to flash SkyRaider 3.5. Luckily, SkyRaider 3.5 comes with ROM Manager v2.5.0.7, which thinks ClockworkMod 2.5.0.5 is the most recent recovery. So I was then able to flash back to CWM 2.5.0.5 using ROM Manager before it realized that 2.5.1.2 was the most recent version.
To summarize, I think my phone is back to normal.
PLEASE tread lightly when upgrading your Incredible to 2.5.1.2!

unable to boot at all

Hi i have the htc desire i have been using different roms and trying the hd roms out lately, the last rom i used was the z port from from roblix i used the data 2 sd version.
i decided i didnt want the data2sd and i wanted to go back to the a2sd like i had been used to so i used gparted to remove all the partitions from my sd card and repartitioned it to the correct thing to use a2sd.......
i went into recovery and wiped all the things from the phone getting ready to flash but after i wiped the phone rebooted.....well it wouldnt
from that point on the phone will not boot normally because i removed the things with wiping all data....and it will not go into recovery either i had amon ra recovery image flashed to my phone.....which all worked hundreds of times before....
all i can do now is get to hboot menu or fastboot menu if i select recovery from there the phone goes off and comes to the first screen where it hangs for ever.
please advise what i can do to fix my phone to get recovery back again

If your S-Off you can flash a recovery again through fastboot. Erm... I can't remember how to do it if your not so you will have to search the forums for the solution or Google it. If you wanted to, you could use an RUU (and a Goldcard if necessary to bypass the verification) but you would have to root again.

i have tried to flash recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img via fastboot and it said it flashed ok but it wont boot to recovery still ..... the phone reboots and just sticks on the first boot screen and does nothing else at all
any other ideas

Try CWM 2.5.0.7? Install an RUU to reset it back then just root it again?

[Q] Unable to boot into Recovery, any thoughts?

I have a rooted Incredible running CM7 Nightly #32 and I was recently switching from a 16GB SD card to a 32 GB card and I'm having issues booting into recovery now.
I copied all files from one card to the other and made sure permissions were preserved. I also made sure to preserve all of the file structures and locations. The SD card is formatted for FAT32.
When I went to perform a NAND backup and flash the newest nightly it will only get as far as the HBOOT, not even to the bootloader. If I try to get into the bootloader it allows me past that first step but when I scroll to Recovery and hit power to select it flashes the HTC Incredible screen and returns to HBOOT.
Any thoughts on what could be the issue?
Other specs:
S-OFF
HBOOT 0.92.0000
RADIO - 2.15.00.07.28
Thanks,
Chris

If your phone still boots and all. You can just flash recovery through ROM Manager.
Or you can still flash recoveries through hboot. Here's
3.0.0.8:
http://dougpiston.com/files/Recovery/PB31IMG-recovery-clockworkmod-3.0.0.8.zip
2.5.1.2:
http://dougpiston.com/files/Recovery/recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-inc_PB31IMG.zip
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Thanks BrettApple that did the trick. I was able to get "into" recovery and finish with the NAND backup.

i'm having a similar problem. at first i just couldn't update past cwm 2.5 through rom manager. it said i was on 3.0.0.8 but when i booted to recovery it was still 2.5.1.2 so i checked erase recovery before flashing in advanced options. now i have no recovery. does anyone have a link to where i can get the latest cwm in pb31 form so i can flash manually through the bootloader?

[Q] cm7r2 hboot, I need help flashing it!

Hi I am new to XDA Developers forums but I rooted my desire about a year ago. Today Im planning to flash the cm7r2 hboot, however im having trouble. I put the PB99IMG.zip on to the root of my sdcard but hboot doesn't detect it. Can someone tell me how to do it or did I do something wrong? please help thanks!!!:good:

BrendanWk said:
Hi I am new to XDA Developers forums but I rooted my desire about a year ago. Today Im planning to flash the cm7r2 hboot, however im having trouble. I put the PB99IMG.zip on to the root of my sdcard but hboot doesn't detect it. Can someone tell me how to do it or did I do something wrong? please help thanks!!!:good:
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- Make sure you have a nandroid backup before attempting any of this
- You need to be S-OFF to flash a different hboot. Search 'revolutionary' if you are S-ON
- If the PB99IMG.zip method doesn't work for some reason, try flashing it manually through fastboot
- Remember you can't just flash cm7r2 hboot without a ROM which is compatible with it, otherwise it won't boot up (phone will get stuck on splash screen otherwise). You must either:
be already on a cm7r2 compatible ROM. After flashing the cm7r2 hboot, reboot into recovery, full wipe and then restore the nandroid
or have a cm7r2 ROM.zip alreay on the sdcard to make it easier. After flashing the cm7r2 hboot, boot into recovery, full wipe and then flash new ROM.zip.

eddiehk6 said:
- Make sure you have a nandroid backup before attempting any of this
- You need to be S-OFF to flash a different hboot. Search 'revolutionary' if you are S-ON
- If the PB99IMG.zip method doesn't work for some reason, try flashing it manually through fastboot
- Remember you can't just flash cm7r2 hboot without a ROM which is compatible with it, otherwise it won't boot up (phone will get stuck on splash screen otherwise). You must either:
be already on a cm7r2 compatible ROM. After flashing the cm7r2 hboot, reboot into recovery, full wipe and then restore the nandroid
or have a cm7r2 ROM.zip alreay on the sdcard to make it easier. After flashing the cm7r2 hboot, boot into recovery, full wipe and then flash new ROM.zip.
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I fastboot flashed it! Thanks For your help!:good: