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[Q] Recovery mode not working, solution?

Hi All,
recently i discovered that my recovery mdoe is not working..neither from Rom manager or manualy going into Hboot recovery....when i select 'recovery' it throws to the main menu of the hboot....
the last time it was working when i had 'SR 3.3.3, 9.01, kernel 32.17, build 3.21.605.1, hboot 0.92'
have a backup till here..
later i installed ziggy's kernel 32.25 ck2....and now found out tht my recovery mode is not working...
becoz of tht i cannot go back or restore my old backups...i wanna avoid fact resets n all since tired of doing all the settings yet yet again...
pls suggest how can i get back to recovery mode

Have you tried fixing permissions?
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while you are in bootloader try flashing a recovery .img.
you can grab one from here: http://adrynalyne.us/files/recovery/
also please post questions in the q/a forum

lafester said:
while you are in bootloader try flashing a recovery .img.
you can grab one from here: http://adrynalyne.us/files/recovery/
also please post questions in the q/a forum
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Thanks!!...taking a clue from you i re-ran the unrevoked installer...finally got my recovery working... "fixing file permissions" didnt work as it gave me error...but now all is well

[Q] Help installed battery mod and loop?

Please bring me back. I installed CM9 pre5 but forgot to update kernel to get CMW with 3 fingers and now I installed battery mod beta4 and phone justs loops.
I made a backup when I updated before installing battery mod but I don't know how to get phone back into clockwork mod since i didn't install kernel for it after CM9 update.
I need instructions to get phone back up please save me.
Thanks for your fast input...

The Cm9 update includes the kernel. Just three finger boot into recovery.
Sent from my SPH-D700 CM9 ANDROID 4.0.4

Great but what if?
wow that was fast and accurate, many Thank You Zeinzu. I did not know it had CWM on CM9 thinking you had to flash kernels like nyan 5 or shadow cm9 6.3.3 to get it to work.
If by any chance that 3 finger didn't work I would need to use odin to:
via ODIN
1.To begin, download the CWM 5.0.2.7 tar file from the link above.
2.Run ODIN and make sure Re-Partition is unchecked.
3.Click PDA and choose the recovery you downloaded.
4.Boot your phone into Download Mode. (Power it off and holding down the 1 key on the keyboard, press the Power button.)
5.Connect the device to your PC and once you see it connected in ODIN, hit the Start button to begin the flashing process.
6.Once the recovery is flashed, the phone will reboot
does F.Reset Time checkboxes need to be selected?
or
odin back to OFFICIAL SPH-D700-FC09-8Gb-REL.tar then I need to root it again? lost here never had to go back so just wanted to know from the Pro's...
Thanks m8 =)

lanboy said:
wow that was fast and accurate, many Thank You Zeinzu. I did not know it had CWM on CM9 thinking you had to flash kernels like nyan 5 or shadow cm9 6.3.3 to get it to work.
If by any chance that 3 finger didn't work I would need to use odin to:
via ODIN
1.To begin, download the CWM 5.0.2.7 tar file from the link above.
2.Run ODIN and make sure Re-Partition is unchecked.
3.Click PDA and choose the recovery you downloaded.
4.Boot your phone into Download Mode. (Power it off and holding down the 1 key on the keyboard, press the Power button.)
5.Connect the device to your PC and once you see it connected in ODIN, hit the Start button to begin the flashing process.
6.Once the recovery is flashed, the phone will reboot
does F.Reset Time checkboxes need to be selected?
or
odin back to OFFICIAL SPH-D700-FC09-8Gb-REL.tar then I need to root it again? lost here never had to go back so just wanted to know from the Pro's...
Thanks m8 =)
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Nooooo!!! Once on mtd (cm9 is mtd) do not flash another recovery.... there Is no flashable or .tar for cwm for mtd roms.. cm9 installed the recovery you should stick with (there is a touch recovery, but its buggy imo)
If you cantget to the recovery you will need the fc09 with victory.pit wth repartition an auto reboot checked...

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flastnoles11 said:
Nooooo!!! Once on mtd (cm9 is mtd) do not flash another recovery.... there Is no flashable or .tar for cwm for mtd roms.. cm9 installed the recovery you should stick with (there is a touch recovery, but its buggy imo)
If you cantget to the recovery you will need the fc09 with victory.pit wth repartition an auto reboot checked...
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Thank You Flashnoles you also saved me from bricking my phone.
I got confused into thinking I needed to install extra kernals on CM9 to get CMW but I followed Zeinzu advice and was saved. I was just about to odin a CMW.tar when I had my doubts and decided to ask the kind m8's of XDA.
Does CM9 stock kernal have the 3 Button Reboot or you only get that with Nyan Colonel v5 or ShadowKernel CM9 v0.6.3.3 because I try to do a fast reboot but keep getting volume going up or down?
I noticed when I installed the Nyan Colonel v5 it installed TeamWin Recovery Project (twrp) instead of CMW but I reverted back using restore-cwm.zip. Is this the "touch recovery" you were reffering to because I also found it buggy and was not confident using it for Recovery and tools?
So If a new CMW version pops up the only way to get it is to odin back to stock BML to install it then use Restore in CMW to get back to your saved Rom?
Could I use epic4g-fc09-sdcard-utility-v3.tar to temp bypass MTD and install CMW updates?
Thank You again both for your advice and great responses...
Lanboy
=)

lanboy said:
Thank You Flashnoles you also saved me from bricking my phone.
I got confused into thinking I needed to install extra kernals on CM9 to get CMW but I followed Zeinzu advice and was saved. I was just about to odin a CMW.tar when I had my doubts and decided to ask the kind m8's of XDA.
Does CM9 stock kernal have the 3 Button Reboot or you only get that with Nyan Colonel v5 or ShadowKernel CM9 v0.6.3.3 because I try to do a fast reboot but keep getting volume going up or down?
I noticed when I installed the Nyan Colonel v5 it installed TeamWin Recovery Project (twrp) instead of CMW but I reverted back using restore-cwm.zip. Is this the "touch recovery" you were reffering to because I also found it buggy and was not confident using it for Recovery and tools?
So If a new CMW version pops up the only way to get it is to odin back to stock BML to install it then use Restore in CMW to get back to your saved Rom?
Could I use epic4g-fc09-sdcard-utility-v3.tar to temp bypass MTD and install CMW updates?
Thank You again both for your advice and great responses...
Lanboy
=)
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MTD uses a completely different recovery. The recovery is overwritten whenever you flash a rom or kernel. When thee is a new recovery, you will automatically get it when you update cm9.
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Help Please, Semi-bricked, no recovery, Odin does see i747

Hi thanks for helping a brother out... Rooted my i747 a few weeks ago, installed a few roms, recently switched to KyanROM. I used recovery, installed the ROM and now I just get the Samsung splash screen, then nothing, just a black screen.
Odin recognizes the device, but I can not do anything with it. It hangs on <ID:0/008> SetupConnection.. if I try to install the PIT file or install another rom through that method.
I likely need a jig, but I'm hoping for a software solution instead of a hardware.
Any thoughts??

I'm assuming you cant get into cwm/twrp?
Hold power - home - volume up. Its a bit tricky at first
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well you shouldnt be trying to install PIT file. it will format all your partitions including recovery partition....
the reason it is stuck at samsung boot logo is because you didnt do a factory reset before installing your new rom.
none of our roms or Stock odin images wipe your data partition, you MUST wipe data when switching between different firmware versions, especially if going to an older firmware version. (ie JB to ICS or ICS update to older ICS.)
As for odin getting stuck... try rebooting your computer and try a different USB port. Flash CWM recovery with odin, boot to recovery, Factory reset, then see if it boots. if not, flash a rom in CWM or stock with odin.
** note: factory reset from STOCK recovery will wipe your SDcard.
CWM factory reset wont.

Thanks, ya, I realized I goofed right away... I managed to get the phone recognized through the Samsung GS3 QCom ToolKit, and I flashed a stock rom. Thanks...

S3 T999 wind CWM Cannot Get Into Recovery Mode ????

hi
S3 T999 wind CWM Cannot Get Into Recovery Mode ????
i flash this clockworkmod.TAR with odin 3 time
i can get stock system recovery with VOL UP + Home button + power
but i unable to get clockworkmod.Recovery
plz help

i can get this recovery
Android system recovery <3e>

CWM is being overwritten with stock recovery when you reboot. This question is asked and answered several times each day, try searching (or just check my signature - but don't flash my CWM as it's for T999).

First, look for these files and if there, delete or rename them.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Then install it. Or you can use the pull the battery method.

thank you very much friend its work for me

Stock recovery won't go away? Uncheck auto reboot in Odin. After you flash CWM, manually reboot the phone into recovery (vol up + home).
When you exit CWM, it will ask you to disable stock recovery.

saqi4you said:
Stock recovery won't go away? Uncheck auto reboot in Odin. After you flash CWM, manually reboot the phone into recovery (vol up + home).
When you exit CWM, it will ask you to disable stock recovery.
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after reboot again same andorid system recovery ??????
so i have to do it again

CWM 6.0.1.2 will ask you if you want to disable the stock recovery when you attempt to exit. Select yes. Problem solved.

THANKS!
Aerowinder said:
CWM is being overwritten with stock recovery when you reboot. This question is asked and answered several times each day, try searching (or just check my signature - but don't flash my CWM as it's for T999).
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:victory:
I could kiss you! Could not find adequate recovery files for my T999, had that reboot to android recovery issue. Thanks so much. Writing up an article on my site and featuring you (this thread) on it.

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saqi4you said:
hi
S3 T999 wind CWM Cannot Get Into Recovery Mode ????
i flash this clockworkmod.TAR with odin 3 time
i can get stock system recovery with VOL UP + Home button + power
but i unable to get clockworkmod.Recovery
plz help
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i just gave up with cwm recovery and used twrp flashed with odin and it worked i did that because my phone was bricked and no matter how many times i tried to flash cwm recovery it wouldnt let me enter recovery mode so i tried to use twrp and it worked on my first attempt

I'm glad you solved your issue, but CWM is not to blame.

Help unbricking my phone please

Hello,
I recently received the OTA update and accepted, however it messed up some apps and I went to flash a stock LJC firmware via ODIN. The issue I have is ODIN keeps failing at the sboot.bin portion. I was previously rooted using mrRobinsons root method (flashing a rooted .tar file). I can't enter recovery mode because the phone gives me the error message "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery in Kies and try again." I'm not at all familiar with Kies and any help would be incredibly appreciated.

If you can get into download mode and use odin, then can you download twrp 2.4.1.0 tar and use it with the PDA button in odin? Un-check auto reboot in odin, then when flash ends and sitting there a few seconds, pull the battery, hold voldown home and power, and put the battery back in while holding all 3. (Yeah I know it requires a 3rd hand haha).
It should boot into new twrp.
The download for twrp is google twrp2, then select sprint gn2, then on the download page find openrecovery*2.4.1.0*.tar
If you can do that then you should be able to flash a kernel and rom and firmware from there by just putting them on the sd card. I would use the ma7 one and not try to go back to ljc at least until you get working again and get more comfortable with flashing and recovering from bad flashes like this. I would try the ma7 rom and all-in-one firmware zips not the ma7 update.zip in your case. The update.zip requires a stock recovery to run and possibly a stock everything else too.
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Remember don't wipe data. Flashing the twrp recovery, rom, kernel and firmware should be fine.
If you want to try something even safer just on the off chance your rom is ok just not bootable, you can try flashing just twrp and kernel snd see if it boots. If not then go back into twrp and flash the rom. The data may or may not be compatible with ma7 but nothing we can do about that. If the apps all crash then you could try flashing a ljc based rom and see if the data works on that. All else fails you may have to wipe data from twrp.
In all cases always wipe cache and dalvik from twrp each time you flash anything else.
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Thanks for info but I can't seem to find a .md5 type file when I download the zipfile for twrp recovery. I try extracting and it's just an image file. Should I just select that as the PDA file to flash via odin? And I tried using Kies in the interim but my phone was stuck on the "connecting" animation when I plug my phone in.

Might be making progress... I'm working on an emergency recovery via Kies and it's about half way through. I really hope this at least lets me boot up the phone beyond just ODIN mode. Thanks for the help again KeyofR I'm going to keep searching for a md5 file of twrp recovery in the mean time.
EDIT: I think Kies is failing at the same part as ODIN when I tried to manually flash a LJC stock recovery (the sboot.bin portion). If anyone has a link to a md5 file of twrp recovery that would be awesome, I can't seem to find that type only "image" files.
EDIT #2: Bless you lol I just ran the actual .zip file in odin and it worked. I'm hoping I can just flash a stock rom I'll live with a complete wipe, I have everything important backed up. Thank you very much again!

What I said was grab the tar file not zip or md5. And don't unpack it. Just save it. In odin next to PDA browse an select that tar file. That will flash twrp to the recovery partition. You may need to do the crazy battery pull three finger salute battery insert thing to boot into twrp the first time. I don't know why that is, it just is sometimes. If you don't it tries to boot the regular os and if that succeds it somehow puts a stock recovery back and you have to flash twrp on again. Once you've booted into twrp one time, no more problem, just a one time thing.
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How is this against the rules? I'm lost. Oh well
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It was posted in the development section.... Questions or ask for help go in q&a ... that's why its not a ROM or kernel ....
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Where do I get twrp2 tar
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bigbird2 said:
Where do I get twrp2 tar
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From the twrp website ... you shouldn't need it use goo manager to install it ...
When you open goo press menu and install open recovery script ...
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Thanks!!!
I bricked my GN2 today for the first time....found your solution below within a few minutes of searching XDA and bam...Im back up.
Many thanks!
KEYofR said:
If you can get into download mode and use odin, then can you download twrp 2.4.1.0 tar and use it with the PDA button in odin? Un-check auto reboot in odin, then when flash ends and sitting there a few seconds, pull the battery, hold voldown home and power, and put the battery back in while holding all 3. (Yeah I know it requires a 3rd hand haha).
It should boot into new twrp.
The download for twrp is google twrp2, then select sprint gn2, then on the download page find openrecovery*2.4.1.0*.tar
If you can do that then you should be able to flash a kernel and rom and firmware from there by just putting them on the sd card. I would use the ma7 one and not try to go back to ljc at least until you get working again and get more comfortable with flashing and recovering from bad flashes like this. I would try the ma7 rom and all-in-one firmware zips not the ma7 update.zip in your case. The update.zip requires a stock recovery to run and possibly a stock everything else too.
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Remember don't wipe data. Flashing the twrp recovery, rom, kernel and firmware should be fine.
If you want to try something even safer just on the off chance your rom is ok just not bootable, you can try flashing just twrp and kernel snd see if it boots. If not then go back into twrp and flash the rom. The data may or may not be compatible with ma7 but nothing we can do about that. If the apps all crash then you could try flashing a ljc based rom and see if the data works on that. All else fails you may have to wipe data from twrp.
In all cases always wipe cache and dalvik from twrp each time you flash anything else.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium
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