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Not able to access recovery after netarchy-toastmod Kernal

So I have the "HTC OTA Froyo 2.2, *FINAL*, build 3.36.651.6 (Rooted) Odexed" Rom, and the new Toastmod Kernal 4.0.3 which works great except now I can't get into clockwork recovery.
Before I added the kernal I had the rom stated above and recovery worked fine. Now when I go to bootloader with the new kernal, and click recovery, my evo just reboots the bootloader.
Any suggestions?

I would try and flash Amon Ra. I think it has to be flashed from bootloader as a pc36.img, but I'm not positive.
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Use Amon RA recovery. Clockwork sucks. There should be a link somewhere in the development forums. Just do a search for Amon RA.
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Link is in my sig. Also, you can flash recovery with fastboot flash.

Thanks guys, I'm giving this a shot right now.

So the RA Recovery is on the root of the SD, but when I go into Fastboot or bootloader, I dont have an option to flash it. The only way I know how to flash is in recovery. However when I select recovery it just reboots the phone into hboot again.....
Guess I need a little more instruction, sorry.

chris17house said:
So the RA Recovery is on the root of the SD, but when I go into Fastboot or bootloader, I dont have an option to flash it. The only way I know how to flash is in recovery. However when I select recovery it just reboots the phone into hboot again.....
Guess I need a little more instruction, sorry.
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You have to run fastboot on your PC after you go to fastboot on your phone, it is in the same place as ADB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6877247&postcount=98

Ok, appreciate it. I'll have to read up on it.

Could I flash the stock kernal from the "Rom Manager" app, or would that not work?

Anyone know how to do a nand backup?

If you do send me a video walkthrough or give me directions please.
I need to back up my phone.
How come rom manager doesn't wanna save my rom and and can't find the update and won't recover from its recovery?
Help me!
Sent from my HTC EVO

1) Boot into recovery
2) Select nand backup
3) ?????
4) Profit

Caspers25 said:
If you do send me a video walkthrough or give me directions please.
I need to back up my phone.
How come rom manager doesn't wanna save my rom and and can't find the update and won't recover from its recovery?
Help me!
Sent from my HTC EVO
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ROM Manager requires you to use ClockworkMod as your recovery. You are probably on Amon RA's recovery.

ROM manager by default uses Clockwork Recovery, but if you scroll to the bottom, you can flash within ROM manager to Amon Ra. Amon Ra is what I use to make nandroid backups.
What you need to do is download quickboot from the market. This just makes it easier to boot into recovery. The manual way to get into recovery is to power down completely, then start your phone while holding the volume down button, then select recovery. Quickboot app gives you the option to boot directly into recovery.
Once booted into recovery, follow these steps:
1. Select Backup/Restore
2. Select Nand Backup
3. Once selected it will immediately ask you "Create Nandroid Backup", press the power button to confirm and it will start your backup.
Hope this helps

How can I switch from clockwork recovery of amon ra recovery?
What do I do? Dang thank you for everything!
Sent from my HTC EVO

Exactly what gotshores stated above. Use rom manager to flash the alternative amon ra recovery. It's the option located at the bottom of rom manager: flash alternate recovery.

Thank you.
Sent from my HTC EVO

Vivix729 said:
1) Boot into recovery
2) Select nand backup
3) ?????
4) Profit
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I'm not making any profit on my nand backups...is the check in the mail? I'm jealous.

SOFT BRICK please help

Hey, I got a soft brick so I'm going to use the unroot method here but I just wanted to make sure it would work.
S-OFF, Hboot 2.1
Also, I'll still be able to root and go back to an old nandroid if this all works out, correct?

It should work. Yes, you will be able to re-root and restore a nandroid once you have completed everything again.
Might throw out your issue first, to see if someone can help you fix without having to go through all that work of unrooting and re-rooting again.

Let's hope so. I'm knocking on wood that I won't have to throw my EVO down some stairs and go get a new one.

Firstly, it is unclear (at least to me) what you mean by "soft brick". Secondly, the link you posted is to a thread that is outdated and was retired by the OP. Or did you mean this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
To answer your second question, with S-off you can just go into recovery, do a wipe and then restore your NAND back-up from there. Try just wiping the cache and dalvik cache before restoring. If your phone still gives you problems, you may need to do a full wipe and do a fresh install of your favorite rom.

Ok things are more complicated than I had originally implied.
I can't boot into recovery--still SOFF but when I try to get into recovery I'm getting the red triangle.
Should I try the fix broken recovery option?

tubazeppelin said:
Ok things are more complicated than I had originally implied.
I can't boot into recovery--still SOFF but when I try to get into recovery I'm getting the red triangle.
Should I try the fix broken recovery option?
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Now we're getting somewhere. Yes, if you can get the recovery to work, it will make the process less difficult for you. Can you boot normally? If so, use ROM Manager to flash the recovery on it. If it doesn't boot into clockwork, try using ROM Manager to flash an alternate recovery (Amon RA) and then try booting into recovery.
If your phone doesn't boot at all, you're going to have to push the recovery image onto the phone via fastboot adb. Worse case scenario would be to run the RUU and start over.

rugedraw said:
Now we're getting somewhere. Yes, if you can get the recovery to work, it will make the process less difficult for you. Can you boot normally? If so, use ROM Manager to flash the recovery on it. If it doesn't boot into clockwork, try using ROM Manager to flash an alternate recovery (Amon RA) and then try booting into recovery.
If your phone doesn't boot at all, you're going to have to push the recovery image onto the phone via fastboot adb.
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Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.

tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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I would download Amon recovery and flash that via adb; I recommend staying away from clockwork - read about too many users running into issues with it, especially that 3.0.0.5 version.

tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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I would suggest using Amon Ra recovery. I like it better, and personally have had far less issues with it. Attatched is a PC36IMG of Amon Ra 2.3. Put it on the main directory of your SD card, name it exactly PC36IMG, and boot to bootloader, and select yes to update. That should flash Amon Ra's V2.3 recovery for you. If it's successful, see if it works. The only problem with this, that I see, is you wouldn't be able to restore your previous clockwork backups. However, if that did go successful, and you were able to boot into a rom, you could use ROM manager to flash clockwork back, then you could restore your backups. Hope you get it booted up.
EDIT: If you do end up needing to unroot, just remember that if you initially used unrevoked to root, or used unrevoked forever at any time, you're not going to be able to turn S on without having a custom recovery. Becase as far as I know, you need to flash the Unrevoked S on tool in recovery if you used unrevoked to begin with. Otherwise S is permanently off.

tubazeppelin said:
Yeah, no dice on getting it to boot. Stick on the HTC EVO 4G white screen and goes nowhere. I got into this mess trying to apply the GPS fix for CM7 and when i tried to nandroid back I got loopy loops.
So should I just use the recovery fix listed there or can I just download CM 3.0.0.5 and push that via fastboot? All my nandroids are via CM.
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Yea, try the recovery fix. If unsuccessful getting CW to flash, remember you can always try to flash Amor RA recovery just to be able to wipe and flash a working rom. Once you get the phone to boot, you can download ROM manager, flash clockwork and then restore to your CW NAND that is stored on your SD card. I've had to do this in the past.

Thanks EVERYONE! Come to the DC area and the beer is on me (or if you're a mobile dev and want a job, hit me up)
Worked like a charm.
PS I copied down the error message I got when it was trying to install, wondering if I should be worried about this:
Microp OK
Radio_v2 FAIL pu
everything else OK
Bootloader FAIL ic
I renamed my recovery file and everything loaded up fine, just wondering if I should be worried about any of that

tubazeppelin said:
Thanks EVERYONE! Come to the DC area and the beer is on me (or if you're a mobile dev and want a job, hit me up)
Worked like a charm.
PS I copied down the error message I got when it was trying to install, wondering if I should be worried about this:
Microp OK
Radio_v2 FAIL pu
everything else OK
Bootloader FAIL ic
I renamed my recovery file and everything loaded up fine, just wondering if I should be worried about any of that
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Really not sure. That goes beyond my scope of trial and error knowledge.

Well thanks anyway.
Looks like booting back into CWM is no longer an option for me--everything defaults to Amon_RA (even when trying to switch through ROM manager). Guess I can't load my old nandroids so I'm stuck rebuilding.
Oh well...worse things could have happened.

tubazeppelin said:
Well thanks anyway.
Looks like booting back into CWM is no longer an option for me--everything defaults to Amon_RA (even when trying to switch through ROM manager). Guess I can't load my old nandroids so I'm stuck rebuilding.
Oh well...worse things could have happened.
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So choosing 'flash clockworkmod recovery' from rom manager doesnt work for you? weird. Try letting it flash, and then instead of rebooting to recovery from within rom manager, boot to recovery manually, from teh bootloader. see if that works.

k2buckley said:
So choosing 'flash clockworkmod recovery' from rom manager doesnt work for you? weird. Try letting it flash, and then instead of rebooting to recovery from within rom manager, boot to recovery manually, from teh bootloader. see if that works.
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Well I tried that the first time and nothing really worked out--got the same loops and had to do the whole dance again.
Tried it again after your post and it worked. Hot damn.
Getting rid of CWM as we speak and going back to RA, which was my first and only recovery for so long.

tubazeppelin said:
Well I tried that the first time and nothing really worked out--got the same loops and had to do the whole dance again.
Tried it again after your post and it worked. Hot damn.
Getting rid of CWM as we speak and going back to RA, which was my first and only recovery for so long.
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So strange, but glad it worked for you. And yea, staying on RA will be your best bet.

k2buckley said:
So strange, but glad it worked for you. And yea, staying on RA will be your best bet.
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Seemed to be an issue with ROM Manager. So weird--I'm so used to everyone over in Heroland swearing by CWM. I'm glad I'm back to a spot where RA is king.
Anyway I uninstalled ROM manager and am just not going to screw with it anymore. GB has a "reboot to recovery" option for a reason.

tubazeppelin said:
Seemed to be an issue with ROM Manager. So weird--I'm so used to everyone over in Heroland swearing by CWM. I'm glad I'm back to a spot where RA is king.
Anyway I uninstalled ROM manager and am just not going to screw with it anymore. GB has a "reboot to recovery" option for a reason.
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Awesome. Thats the way to go, just manually flash everything using RA and you'll be good to go.

[Q] Recovery

I'm having trouble getting into recovery, when i jump into bootloader it says s-off but gets stuck when i scroll to recovery, any suggestions? should i try flashing amon ra? but im just not sure if its rooted right cause i bought this phone off craigslist as a backup phone

EVOlvera said:
I'm having trouble getting into recovery, when i jump into bootloader it says s-off but gets stuck when i scroll to recovery, any suggestions? should i try flashing amon ra? but im just not sure if its rooted right cause i bought this phone off craigslist as a backup phone
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This is Revolutionary root tool,it will help you with your problem,you can use this to recover your phone also,i would suggest running a different recovery....
http://revolutionary.io/

EVOlvera said:
I'm having trouble getting into recovery, when i jump into bootloader it says s-off but gets stuck when i scroll to recovery, any suggestions? should i try flashing amon ra? but im just not sure if its rooted right cause i bought this phone off craigslist as a backup phone
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You can go to the dev section and flash your recovery of choice: amon ra/ amon ra stlye / twrp 2.0 / cwm; just flash it via PC36IMG [explain in the OP of the thread], then flash a rom.

If you r already s-off then you don't need revolutionary. Do what roxxor says
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Yes. Just reflash recovery of choice. I've had it happen.
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[Q] Cannot boot into recovery, how to fix?

Recently I've been unable to boot into recovery, it just displays the splash screen and goes right back to fastboot.
I have tried flashing new/alternate recoveries through Rom Manager but no difference.
I have ADB access. What should be my next step to fix this? Unfortunately without recovery I can't nandroid backup/recovery or I would give that a go.

It displays the white Sprint screen or the Evo 4G screen?

It shows the Evo splash screen for just a second then goes right back to fastboot.
HBOOT-0.97.0000
S-OFF
RADIO-2.15.00.05.02

Try downloading ROM manager from the play store and open the app, towards the bottom there should be an option to flash a custom recovery, you might have to flash a cwm recovery first..
sent from my evol supersonic

Have you tried flashing a recovery via PC36IMG.zip through hboot? Or only via Rom Manager? Sometimes Rom Manager fails to properly flash the recovery.img, one of the bazillion reasons not to use it.
If you haven't, try that first. The phone boots properly, right?
Edit: Here's a PC36IMG.zip of Amon Ra 3.11. It's already named correctly, just download, put on the root of your SD card, boot into hboot, say yes to flash, no to reboot. Then try entering recovery and see if it works. Also, nandroid restoring won't help your recovery. If your phone also won't boot then it might help that problem. Download here.

Thanks! I downloaded the PC36IMG of Amon Ra and it worked great, I guess it was a problem with Rom Manager!

plainjane said:
Have you tried flashing a recovery via PC36IMG.zip through hboot? Or only via Rom Manager? Sometimes Rom Manager fails to properly flash the recovery.img, one of the bazillion reasons not to use it.
If you haven't, try that first. The phone boots properly, right?
Edit: Here's a PC36IMG.zip of Amon Ra 3.11. It's already named correctly, just download, put on the root of your SD card, boot into hboot, say yes to flash, no to reboot. Then try entering recovery and see if it works. Also, nandroid restoring won't help your recovery. If your phone also won't boot then it might help that problem. Download here.
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True that ROM manager sucks but it did flash Amon for me with no problems... but just follow plain James advice
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It's pretty much became a rule that if I flash any recovery in rom manager, I do it at least twice.