I have my Desire rooted S-OFF running CWM 2.5.0.9 and phoenix 1.3 ROM. I have been trying to upgrade to CWM 3.0.0.5. I tried following directions website and chose renaming my file as update then installing it from recovery. Now the phone will not boot into recovery although it is otherwise fully functional. Any thoughts on how to begin to remedy this? ROM Manager still says I am running 2.5.0.9.
The phone will boot into the FASTBOOT/HBOOT white screen but when I select RECOVERY it hangs at the splash screen. I posted this at the Teamuscellular site but it appears after maintenance I can no longer post over there so posting here in hopes of a faster response.
Download this and install the image. Will flash it all for you no problem. Make sure you get the .img.
I followed the instructions listed ... even tried custom recovery with unRevoked but I get the same result. Going to try reflashing 2.5 to see if I can get back into recovery at all.....
Boot into the fastboot screen and flash the new recovery from there via usb.
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You r soff so you use android flasher to install custom recovery img.
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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...
Hi,
I have CWM 2.5.0.1 on my desire after I rooted it with unrevoked in august.
I tried couple of times to update it to newer version and saw it working but after rebooting the desire and going into recovery with power button + vol. minus, I always see that it came back to the older version.
How to update it so it stays the updated version forever ?
Flash it properly and not through ROM Manager/a ZIP file
How to flash it properly ? Please explain.
Thanks
When you root with unrEVOked flashes a permanent version of a custom Recovery - either CWM or AmonRA (if you choose custom). If you then use ROM Manager (which is rubbish) it will load the latest one as a 'fake flash' which won't be there next time you load recovery.
You'll need to run unrEVOked again and flash the new CWM image if you want it
Thank you for explaining this to me.
Ok, Tried what you said with unrevoked and at the end unrevoked gives me an error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new ?
I have baadnewz insertcoin 1.8f dhd rom and already rooted from august.
checked and still on the boot the recovery is 2.5.0.1 of CWM.
I choose custom recovery and tried to flash 2.5.0.7 CWM.
Can't understand what wrong with it.
Why do you need the new version? If you've already got CWM then just stick with it
Because I have an old version that causes some problems when I flashed insertcoin dhd rom.
Also tried with adb in fastboot and got an error that said signature verifaction error.
I'm stuck with cwm 2.5.0.1 :-(
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Go get Android Flasher and then just use that to flash the recovery image.
Hi all,
I tried to install the latest cyanogenmod -6.1.2.-DesireHD rom to DHD, and tried the steps given below, after that at the time of reboot the phone hangs shows only HTC logo on white back ground.
The steps followed are :
1. rooted the phone using Visionary( r14 ) as mentioned and tesed with the terminal emulator.
2. Installed engineering version of HBOOT to get S-Off, it was done successfully.
3. Installed RomManager premium and installed clockworkmod recovery 3.0.0.5.
4. Took the backup and installed cyanogenmod -6.1.2.-DesireHD.
Installation is proper and after rebooting it shows the HTC logo with white background initial picture and hangs.
I tried to restore the phone back to normal by selecting backup image from the restore option of clockworkmod recovery here also the same thing hapend.
Can any one help me getting back the phone.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
cjag
The problem is your clockworkmod. Put CM7 rom to your SD, do a full wipe and flash. It will work. Other option is to flash older clockworkmod in fastboot, search for instructions.
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HI,
Thanks for the reply i am able to get the phone working, i took LeeDrOiD HD v2.0.0 rom copied it to my SD card and installed it through clockworkmod recovery. It working fine.
Thanks,
cjag
Hi all, I'm looking for a little help.
I have a GSM Desire that I rooted a while back with Unrevoked and selected a custom recovery image which at the time was AmonRa. I've been running LeeDroid for a while, updated a couple of revision of ROMs with no problem and have now moved onto CM7 RC2.
After looking in ROM Manager which I'd never used before, it tells me my current recovery is ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 and if I click on reboot into recovery it reboots into ClockworkMod. However if I press the powere button and reboot into recovery I end up in AmonRa 1.7.0.1-R5.
So first is this expected as if not how do I resolve it?
Second, how can I go about reflashing to a later version of AmonRa? I've tried using Unrevoked again but it seems to stop at "Running root" after pushing the image and rebooting the phone.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Rom Manager has it's own fake flash recovery which just loads the recovery once, temporary recovery if you would like to call it that. The AmonRA that you have is a permanent recovery installed. That is why you get the two different recoveries.
As it stands, the only way to flash a permanent recovery image (the one you want to update) is to use fastboot or to use a utility. This requires S-Off.
Using unrevoked on an already rooted rom is a no go.
Hello everybody, first post, please take care .
Hi all,
I've S-OFF my HTC Desire with revolutionary and all is working as expected, recovery and custom rom (ICS). But I'm very interested to have a touch recovery (like 4EXT). I've tried to install by using the provided application, and all seems installed correctly, but when I tried to switch back on recovery, (vol down, then recovery in the menu), I get HTC logo during 1 sec, then back in the menu. I've reinstall a working recovery with revolutionary, but it seems that I cannot change my recovery anymore.
I've also tried to install the official Clock Mod recovery, but I get exactly the same result.
Is there a way to change the recovery image after using Revolutionary to root and S-OFF my HTC Desire?
Thanks
Olivier.
Try to flash a recovery image manually using android flasher or adb.
via xda app
stankyou said:
Try to flash a recovery image manually using android flasher or adb.
via xda app
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You cant flash a recovery image via adb. You can only flash a recovery image via fastboot.
OP should read the adb and fastboot faq available via my signature.