[Q] cant access the recovey thing.. - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

'hey guys/girls.
Im new at installing custom ROMS and all that.
I got my desire rooted with unrevoked 3.0 and it worked fine.
I installed a custom ROM and it worked fine,but i didnt like it so I tried a new one.
I can´t remember the name of it but I didnt like that either. Again i found a new ROM i´d like to try but when I turn off my phone and turn it on again trying to get to Hboot/recovery mode or what its called nothing happens i just stay turn off until i remove my finger from volume down buttom, then it just start then phone normally.
Do any one know what to do?

There are a couple of ways.
Way 1
1) Turn off your phone
2) Hold vol down + power until it loads the bootloader
3) When it's finished checking SD card, move to recovery using volume keys and press power to select recovery
4) It should load into recovery
Way 2
1) Have the Android SDK installed with the platform-tools downloaded and working
2) Make sure you plug your phone cable in your phone and PC
3) Open up command prompt or terminal (depending on your OS)
4) Type "adb reboot recovery" (no quotes) and it will reboot to recovery.

i have similar problem, cant access recovery anymore. that happened after installing a custom rom (leedroid). when i try to access recovery phone just hangs up on that red triangle. to turn it on again i have to pull of the battery. btw, phone works normaly itself only problem is that i cant access recovery to install some other rom :/

Drunk Moose said:
i have similar problem, cant access recovery anymore. that happened after installing a custom rom (leedroid). when i try to access recovery phone just hangs up on that red triangle. to turn it on again i have to pull of the battery. btw, phone works normaly itself only problem is that i cant access recovery to install some other rom :/
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The red triangle is the stock recovery, so you're actually in recovery there.
Download a recovery and read this. Should get recovery back on your phone again.

but i had normal recovery i installed dozens of custom roms :/ and now phone just stucks in that screen with phone and triangle :/

How the hell can you install custom roms with the stock recovery.

thats the point, i had normal recovery and now i cant access it im using custom roms from the times desire was released and now almost after a year this **** happened :/

Ok... 2 posts ago I linked you to an article that can get the a custom recovery back onto your phone.

can u explain me info in that link a little? what .zip file do i need and where to get it? and WTF is terminal?

1) Download Clockwork Recovery or if you have PVT4 download Amon_RA (GSM)
2) Put it on your SD card
3) Download terminal emulator from the market
4) Type "su" (without quotes) and press allow when it comes up
5) Type "flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" (without quotes) and it will write the file to your phone.
To check which PVT you have, boot into bootloader. Turn off phone and hold vol down + power.

installed better terminal emulator pro. downloaded img, renamed it to recovery, inserted it to sdcard in terminal typed:
su (enter)
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (enter)
and terminal says:
flash_image: not found

Did you put the img into a folder?

no, in the root of sd card

Weird. I don't know. Just tinker around with it. I tried it once and it worked for me. Check spelling, check in a file manager to see if the file is there.

i think i get this. thing is my rom does not have flash_image. now looking how to get it.
yep, there is no flash_image in system.

Are you using the new Sense ROMS/Gingerbread? If so 'Fast Boot' mode will screw with getting into recovery. I have to hold down volume while replacing the battery or turn off fast boot from within settings....
OFC if you have no recovery image anymore this won't help one little bit
KYI

yes im using new leedroid gb. i turned off that fast boot, its not that :/ now trying to push flash_image through adb, but it says "failed to copy....bla bla bla...: out of memmory" getting little desperate

If I was you I would back everything up. Contacts, SMS all that good stuff. I would then use an RUU and get the stock rom back on and just root that. Could of done it by now really.

Ok 2 problems:
1. to the topic starter. The reason you can't access recovery is that your rom uses fast boot up(sleep mode). When this is activated the phone doesn't really shut down when you tell it to, so it also cannot actually enter recovery or fastboot. Just turn it off in the settings menu and you'll be fine.
2. to Drunk Moose.
You have the original htc-recovery installed. I bet that you rooted back before unrevoked, and you probably have been using fakeflash since then. Try making rom manager dl cwm and choose reboot to recovery from rom manager. It should enter clockwork mod. If that is the case, this means that your phone have a modified version of the stock recovery, which allows test-keys. if that is not the case, and you still get the triangle, you somehow overwrote your recovery with a stock one.
Either way to fix this, you need to replace the recovery image with a cwm one. This can only be done in 2 ways for the desire:
1. Use unrevoked even though your phone is rooted and it'll flash it using a known exploit.
2. run alpharev to gain s-off. When you have s-off you will be able to flash the recovery through fastboot or from the system like described by meaple.
The reason it doesn't work for you when you do like meaple descriped, is that the commands tell the phone to use a custom binary called flash_img and passes it the parameters "recovery" and the "recovery.img" file. Then the binary will tell the android system how to write the img file to the recovery partition(it cannot do this entirely by itself). However this bynary is very unlikely to be included on your rom(like you figured out yourself ), so you need to place it somewhere you can access it from the terminal. And even if you had had the file, you wouldn't have been able to do so, as the recovery partition is write-protected doing runtime, when you are s-on.
So I'll recommend that you do one of the 2 mentioned solutions(I'll be glad to provide further help)
edit: and for god sake don't just flash a ruu every time you are in doubt... There are almost certainly an easier solution, and by doing s-off, you can avoid ever having to run a ruu again, as you can restore the system 1 partition at a time if you feel like it.(sorry this was not directed at you but people in general, as meaple just suggested doing so)

in fact i was just trying to use unrevoked bu it stucks on bootloader, tells to check for drivers, despite the drives is installed. :/
p.s. and yes i have rooted my desire almost a year ago there was no unrevoked
any other suggestions? or just try to install ruu?
and about the rom manager, it gets me to the same red triangle. btw the recovery was fine till i installed leedroids rom about a month, and i noticed it only few days ago, when i tryed to update my rom.

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Stuck In Recovery with Red Triangle When I use EVO recovery it doesnt do anything

Ive been trying to do this and I run in the shell, "adb reboot recovery" I have put all the files needed on my SD CARD "flash image" "mtd-eng" and "PC36IMG" and "recovery" but when I run the windows recovery as administrator and i try double clicking it, the CMD comes up and does its thing real fast but nothing changes on the EVO sceen. Any ideas why this isn't working?? I am not getting into the recovery menu.
Are you following these insturctions clearly? Scroll to the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690762
You need to boot into recovery, then go into shell and run those apps. There's no need to load anything on your SD car. Just copy over the files and .bat to your tools folder where adb is and everything will be set.
I've been following this guide from step 45 onward and its pretty detailed and im still getting stuck at that part.
http: //forum.xda-developers. com/showthread.php?t=701004&highlight=accessing+shell
i had this problem yesterday. download simple root, then it has an extras menu. in there should be flash recovery image and select clockwork mod.
the phone should be at the home screen when you do so. it worked for me,
i was having a helluva time with the same red triangle
Do i still need to drop those 4 files onto my SD card, then run simple root "flash recovery" Clockwork mod.
i didn't, i rooted using a different method, but was having trouble flashing the recovery image, so i only used simple root just for the recovery and it worked.
Im having the same problem right now and hopefully this simple root works with the Aria Fingers crossed

[Q] White HTC screen after .. [RESOLVED]

Hi all,
I need a little help here. I have an European DesireZ (stock 2.2/1.34).
I've followed ianmcquinn's guide which is basically doing a temp root using visionary (I used r14) and then using gfree to get perm root. I did that with no visible issues and I also flashed an ENG hboot while I was there, then I rebooted.
Now, when my DesireZ boots, I get a while screen with the green HTC logo and nothing else. I can get into hboot fine:
Code:
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.76.20000
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
System Info says:
Code:
SN-HT0Axxxx
...
OS Ver.-1.34.405.5
CID-11111111
eMMC-unknown 2223MB 4554751 Sectors
I can get into stock recovery (Black screen with a red /!\) then using VOL-UP + Power get into the menu.
I've done a factory reset, wiped all caches and data with no result. Also did a Factory reset from hboot. There seems to be a progress bar there but I don't see it filling in.
On the windows side, I see the android 1.0 device while in hboot and the adb devices while in recovery but "adb devices" gives me my S/N followed by offline.
Tried swaping cables too.
Any hints on what may have gone wrong and what I could try next?
I figured if I could flash Clockwork recovery 3 using hboot I could flash a GB rom and might fix it ...
Thanks in advance, DouD
The red triangle that you are getting is the stock recovery what you need to do is
flashing a clockworkmod recovery as you said
so get the recovery image and put it in your adb folder (tools)
navigate to that folder and type this command "fastboot flash recovery <name of the file>.img "
after that on your phone go to recovery and flash the rom if you already have it on your sd card. if not you can download the rom put it in your adb folder and type this command "adb push < rom name> sdcard/ " obviously you dont need to type <>
and please be careful only flash recovery 3 and above if you are planning to install CM7 otherwise get the 2.5.1.3 recovery and you should be fine.
Hey bahmanxda,
Brilliant, that worked.
As adb wasn't too happy about my device to be listed offline, I was holding back from doing the fastboot sequence, it appears that it worked perfectly and I'm now running CM7 - 17.
Thanks a lot
Glad to see you got it all working properly again!
Not sure what happened to cause your issue though. Had you tried any other rooting methods before? Did you make sure none of the options were selected in Visionary when you did the temproot?
ianmcquinn said:
Glad to see you got it all working properly again!
Not sure what happened to cause your issue though. Had you tried any other rooting methods before? Did you make sure none of the options were selected in Visionary when you did the temproot?
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Hi Ian,
that was the/my first attempt on that Desire Z.
Nothing was checked in Visionary, made sure of that. I tapped temproot, it did it's attempting thing, then came back to the menu and I pressed the home hey so I could start the Terminal Emulator.
At that point I think HTC Sense crashed because I had the white screen with the HTC logo on it and it slowly loaded my home screen. I was like meh, and started the Terminal Emulator and typed su, got the elevation request and a success, proceeded with the rest of the steps.
Then I rebooted (long press on power button, selected 'Restart') the device vibrated twice for a second or two then I got into hboot (I was pressing Vol Down). I admired the versions and checksums for a minute and selected reboot in the fastboot menu and got the white HTC ever since.
Once I did the fastboot and loaded CWm 3 I attempted a NANDroid backup and got a "E:failed to mount /system (invalid argument)" error (tried CWm 2.5, ditto).
At that point I just flashed a new rom and everything went fine.
I think I might have broken something by pressing VolDown while restarting?? Anyhow the scripts worked great and I don't think anything went wrong there. Someone else with an 1.34 EU DesireZ should give it a try, just to make sure.
Thanks for the scripts and guide Ian, they really simplified the whole process and even when you know adb and the long way it's great having a nice bundle like that.
DouD

[Q] HELP! I've Killed my phone, dead!

I have seached similar posts but everything suggested thats works for everyone else isn't working for me.
So, I went and rooted my phone, but it wouldn't let me flash any ROM, so I went and done the good old S-Off, and it let me flash a ROM thanks to the good old updated clockworkmod. However, there was a fault, i couldn't hear anyone when I called out.
So, I then desided to try another ROM, to see if it would fix it. But it wouldn't install any, it wouldn't even reinstall the current one. Then I pressed format \boot (and the rest of the format options on the clockwork mod) (not sure why), and it wouldn't allow me to boot into anything but ClockworkMod which wouldn't let me flash.
So, having a generic HTC Desire, I thought to use an RUU to restore it (no goldcard), so I plugged it in, and ran the RUU and it DID recognise the phone, then part way through a hazard sign showed up on the right hand side of the loading bar on the phone, and at the end the application RUU on my pc showed an error [110] FIle Open Error and now my phone doesn't move past and HTC logo with a hazard sign in each corner.
Cant boot into recovery or fastboot or anything....
HELP!!
UPDATE
Used PC - Fastboot, but its stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo
I hope you have found a solution
(You had wipe all cashs, calvin before you flashed the new roms?)
cstarrs said:
Used PC - Fastboot, but its stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo
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If you still can get to fastboot, then there my be a possibility to recover it. RRU will run from the fastboot screen. Insert your goldcard (if you have one) to be sure that it will work.
If you're still S-OFF (you should be if you had an alpharev HBoot), you can flash a recovery through fastboot. You can use fastboot commander to do so (requires java sdk). Boot into fastboot (back button + power), plug phone in via usb, run fastboot commander and flash recovery. Then flash a ROM.
recovery MD5Sum: 835b2f180869b00116d1e5b9a430ed4d

[Q] Clockwork Recovery

Hi, My DHD volume buttons no longer work and I've been reticent to send it off to get fixed as I can do with out the volume controls as opposed to being without a phone for 2-3 weeks.
However I used Rom manager to boot into CWR and was in the process of upgrading to revolution 5.2.4 from 5.1.8.
I ran the full wipe script then my fat fingers rebooted the phone rather than flashing the rom.
I now cant get back into CWR to flash the new rom. It just sits at the boot logo, obviously as all other partitions have been wiped.
Is there any other way I can force the phone to boot into CWR, perhaps using the sdk tools or similar?
I've tried adb devices, but it doesnt show up. Is there an external way to force the phone into flashing a new ROM or booting into CWRM ?
Thanks
Ron
I would like to help, first lets try using adb, command would be adb reboot recovery
Hi, thanks for the help.
As mentioned in OP. I have powered the phone on and have have already attempted this, but the device is not recognised by adb.
tools>adb reboot recovery
error: device not found
My question is how to get the device to be recognised if its simply sitting at the boot image?
R
Sorry I over looked that, it seems to me if adb (which is an sdk tool) won't recognize the device as being attached, i don't see any other sdk tool doing any different, also as far as I know there is no alternate method to scrolling through the boot loader that would allow you to choose recovery and flash a zip other then the volume keys , so it seems the solution is, to send the phone off, get the volume keys fixed, and then you will be able to get back into the boot loader, and select recovery, and reflash a rom. Other than that, I don't see any other method, if adb doesn't recognize the device as being plugged in, I am assuming you attempted to boot into boot loader as well, and see if adb recognized the device?
EDIT: stupid question you can't boot into boot loader without volume key
I just want to confirm that I need do nothing else other than configure the sdk and ENV path etc, such that if i can run adb and get the deafult output, eg switches fr command line options etc...
then all I should need to do is turn phone on and connect via usb to computer. I dont need to edit any config files for specific phone versions or whatnot?
If not then Ill try and bring it to a vodaphone shop and see if they can fix the volume button...
R
if you get the volume buttons fixed, we don't even need adb, I was simply thinking adb since your volume buttons are broken. Once the volume buttons are fixed, you simply need to boot into boot loader, then to recovery, mount USB mass storage, put a new rom on there, wipe the phone, flash the rom and your good
Good luck mate, do some mediation meanwhile and learn to keep patience, so when your phone is back, you can treat it gently while in the recovery.
You will be alright once your vol keys are fixed.

[Q] Problem whit tutorial: "Permanent Root with Visionary/gfree"

Hi, I have a problem with this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928160
I did all the steps, and when I rebooted my phone the screen shows me a white screen with the logo HTC (Desire Z), and it does not continue.
I have installed the hboot, eng boot, and it works, but I do not know how to use it or copy it in the sd as an image of a rom. Can I install the rom from hboot?, Can I install a recovery from hboot?.
Greetings and thank you very much.
There always used to be a post about "Do not ever use Visionary to root your device" as it has a high chance of bricking your phone. Indeed, in the article you posted, it states to use a different method. The best and safest method I understand is in the Wiki.
Recovery will depend on whether you can get into the recovery. Try press the trackpad while powering on. If you get into that, you have a chance of recovering your phone.
Craig
1. you shouldn´t have used visionary
2. if you really got a eng hboot do the following: download a recovery.img (here a link):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...sion#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD
...then start a cmd.exe and type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
afterwards you should have a custom recovery, enter it mount usb storage put a rom (.zip) on your sdcard unmount and flash it.

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