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[Q] How to boot into Clockwork Mod Recovery from Power Off

I have done a restore backup and now my device is caught in boot loop.
I can only get into the stock recovery.
What can I do at this point?

I don't think you can get into ClockworkMod from power off since it's not a 'real' recovery (signed bootloader etc.)
You will probably have to flash an SBF file.

*** Update: Nevermind, got it, found out that there is a newer version of RSD Lite (v4.9), it worked.
I was afraid so.
I am not able to use the RSD Lite, here's my scenario:
* Using RSD lite v4.5.3
* Windows 7 (32 bits)
When I choose he SBF file and click on Start, I get error "Unable to retrieve initialization values from INI file..."
I just installed the RSD, I haven not changed any INI files.
Any hints on what to do?

Just remove your RSD Instalation and
download and install that other version RSDLite-4.7+patch
apply the patch copying the file to the instalation directory os RSD
and be happy....
you will be able to apply any SBF that you want.

My HTC Desire Z is stuck at the HTC logo. If I press VOLDOWN+POWER, I enter the HBoot menu, in which I CANNOT move anyhting, I can only watch it start the recovery after a few seconds. No button responds (it's been always like this, even when the phone was ok).
Is it normal? Is there a way to change to CWM from there? I'm sure I managed to start it, but with a random combination which I can't replicate.
I have a nandroid backup on the SD, but I can't use it...

Buddy you are on the wrong area.

Ouch! I just searched for the "boot into CWM" and didn't notice this thread was in the Motorola section :-/

[Help] Broken Defy

Last chance i see to save my phone is by posting here...
So, what i did:
1. Downloaded and installed ClockworkMod 2.5.1.8 (com.kb7sqi.defy.boostrap.old.apk)
2. Made a full BackUp (stored on PC and SD-Card)
3. Wipe data/factory reset + Wipe cache
4. Selected "CyanogenMod 7"-ROM for install
5. Install succeded -> chose "Reboot"
6. Defy stuck at Boot-Loop for like 30 Mins.
7. Removed battery -> held volume down + power button
8. NO ClockworkMod showed up ... instead "Android system recovery <2e>" shows up
9. Wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache doesn't do anything at all
10. only other options are "reboot system now" (, which got me stuck at Boot-Loop again) and "apply sdcard:update.zip" (where do i have to get the update.zip?)
So, i tried to connect my Defy via USB (installed Motorola Defy USB-Drivers and RSD Lite (tried 4.7+, 4.9 and 5.0). None of the RSD Lite Versions could recognize my phone while it's in "Android system recovery <2e>". So i can't "flash" a stock-rom (sbf-Files)...
I tried downloading an update.zip (CookieCutter ROM i found in another forum) and placed the file in the root-directory of my SD-Card. When i chose "apply sdcard:update.zip" i get the Errors:
"E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted."
So please, i need your help... how can i save my phone and put it back into the old state? ... thanks in advance
Quick Edit:
I managed to get into "BootLoader" by holding volume up-button, but as soon as it starts it says "Battery Low - Cannot Program" and exits... i charged my defy for hours... "should" be no problem... if it even charges correctly, i don't know... if i connect it via USB to charge it, i got a white light and black screen... nothing seems to charge at all...

I think there is only one thing you can do: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026

You defy is not bricked.
But in the state your device is, it cannot charge the battery.
You need to charge the battery with another phone or charger in order to flash an sbf with RSD lite.
Or you can try this hack: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026
It was worked form me some time ago...

Thanks for the hope, i'll try this workaround tomorrow, hope it goes well.
So when i actually get the BootLoader working my PC and therefore RSD Lite should recognize my phone and then i just can flash my device with any official .sbf and it works? And when it's flashed i can reinstall ClockworkMod and install my old backup? :X

Do not be afraid. Your Defy is not briked. What should you do after you manage to charge your phone, if your battery is to low:
1) boot it in stock recovery (Vol Down + Power); the Android with a exclamation mark will appear on the screen; you'll have to press both volume buttons (if you had froyo)/press the right lower corner on the screen(if you previously had eclair)
2) wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik cache
3) restart your phone in bootloader (Vol Up+ Power)
4) connect it to your pc and start RSD Lite 4.9
5) Flash the SBF with RSD Lite (choose one from this topic, maybe you can find there the version that was on your Defy before you tried to put CM7, you might find there also other useful tips)
To install CM7 you need to upgrade your software to Froyo, if you are on Eclair, then install 2nd Init v1.4.2 from this topic and then install CM7. It won't work without 2nd Init and kb7sqi recovery mod doesn't have also the 2nd Init modules. However before upgrading to CM7 you can read this topic as there you'll find all the steps required to install CM7.

You should borrow another battery or charge using desktop charger first.
Try wipe data & cache first from stock recovery. If it doesn't make any change, you can try flash with full sbf. Once had this problems too. Solved with full sbf flash + wipe data & cache.

Good News, i got it charged with the trick and successfully installed the stock ROM via RSD Lite. But now i always get "MD5 mismatch!"-Error when i want to restore my backup created with Clockworkmod :S...

Check if your folder, where the nandroid is stored, contains any spaces in the name. If so remove the spaces.

Yeah, i already did that and tried to fix it with:
# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-05-23.16.30.06
# rm nandroid.md5
# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5
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but without success... :S

Solved Battery Low Cannot program
pull ur battery out and put in and connect it with wall cherger motorola original.!
that's done.
works for me//
hit thnx. for me

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem but my phone USB-port really doesnt work.
I managed to put the orig. Froyo and changeged the bootlogo but did a mistake with erasing CWM. Now the Defy is stuck in Bootloop.
I can only reach the Bootloader and the Android Recovery System.
I need a working update.zip to flash the phone via SD-card.

Start over again follow forum rds lite sfb flash then root again
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o_Honk said:
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem but my phone USB-port really doesnt work.
I managed to put the orig. Froyo and changeged the bootlogo but did a mistake with erasing CWM. Now the Defy is stuck in Bootloop.
I can only reach the Bootloader and the Android Recovery System.
I need a working update.zip to flash the phone via SD-card.
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On stock recovery do a full wipe it should get you out the boot loop

mckarty said:
On stock recovery do a full wipe it should get you out the boot loop
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I have similar problem. I stuck in boot loop. I am able to go into stock recovery and did a data wipe & cache wipe. Still I am in boot loop. RSDlite also does not shows my phone. Tried in several PCs with different USB cable. But no luck. If there is a possibility to flash stock rom with update.zip, please help me with update.zip. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Q] i think i got soft brick

hi i am new here because i usually use the forum iandroid...this is israeli forum and my english is awful so i am soory for that (and that is also a reason why i using the israeli forum).
i have a problem and i think the people here can help me more.
i changed my firt time rom to cm7 rco and everything worked excellent (cm7-i will donate to you in the future don't worry ). and now i tried to change to rc1 v2. and i did it in this way: backup, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe in the advanced, and then install from a sd card zip- the rom and then and google apps. and finally reboot but here goas the problem:the phone started to do loop he turn on and turn off, and blue led was showing and after it the green and no led, and again the blue, green, nothing. i entered the boot menu and there i did boot and then normal. the phone wasn't even opened at all! i take off the battery and put it. and from nowhere the motorola log was showed and a white led and new loop was started: white led with the motorola log, no led no log, blue led with log, green led with log, white led with log and again and again. so i enered the recovery and did a restore, and then reboot but the loop with the white led appeared again. now i entered the bootmenu.
what i can do from here? i hope i was clarfied my self.

I think you'd better start from scratch.
1. Since you have a backup of everything, I suggest you flash Nordic in the bootmenu using RSDlite.
2. Boot into the OS, copy 2ndinit 1.4.2.apk, cm7 rc v2 and gapps to your SD card.
3. Then root using superoneclick (usb debugging ON), reboot, install 2nd init, turn usb debugging OFF, reboot twice, in the second reboot, set default boot as 2nd init, wipe cache, wipe data, flash the files from recovery and you are good to go..
Hope this helps

hi
thank you for your help
but i the rsdlite doesn't recognize my Defy, i entered the bootloader and it's said battery low cann't programm. i will try first of all to bring my battery back to live ( isaw in this forum one way to do it with USB cable). and then i will try to flash the nodrich with rsdlite.
i succeed to save my phone i flashed nodrich and i charged my battery with that way http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026&highlight=battery+low.
now i will do root and then 2ndinit recovery and then flach the rom.

wolvish i did in the seond reboot what you have told me to do: set default boot as 2nd init and now the phone isn't opened at all...why? only the M logo is being showed. i didn't have time to wipe or change rom...
what should i do now?
i don't how but i succeed to get to the boot menu again but this time i did in the boot normal and phone opened successfully, wolvish is it must open with boot-> 2nd init? or it is o.k that it is opened with boot->normal?

Bircked phone please help////

Okay so i rooted and installed cm7 usind init 2 i think and wel li did a factory rest from recovery (stock) and its been on the motorola screen for 10 min now please how would i go about and fixing....WHEN I TURN IT ON THE LED FLASHES FROM BLUE TO GREEN THEN TURNS OFFF

If you can go into 2nd init >recovery> custom recovery > full wipe, factory reset.
also after that clear cache partitions...and in advanced clear davlik...
after that reboot and keep pressing the vol up key untill the bootloader appers...now connect usb and open rsd lite 4.9 (install all the motorola drivers before that..) , select your sbf file to full flash to your regions FROYO official rom or any other froyo rom ..(NORDIC..)

rachit2588 said:
If you can go into 2nd init >recovery> custom recovery > full wipe, factory reset.
also after that clear cache partitions...and in advanced clear davlik...
after that reboot and keep pressing the vol up key untill the bootloader appers...now connect usb and open rsd lite 4.9 (install all the motorola drivers before that..) , select your sbf file to full flash to your regions FROYO official rom or any other froyo rom ..(NORDIC..)
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Ok after I did rsd it said it was a success and now it won't boot for **** it stays black
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[help] stuck at boot animation

Hello everybody I have an Sony Xperia Arc S (LT18i), I come from HTC,Samsung and Kindle Fire so I'm new with Sony devices.
The Arc S is a second-hand from my brother, I thought I would give it an ICS ROM so I flashed FXP 133 CM9 and it works great without any problem (with flashing), but it wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be and I don't want to use a buggy CM10 yet.
So I did some research and I found a reply somewhere that flashing the CM9 Baseband 72 would make the ROM smoother, so I flash Baseband 72 via FlashTool and then it won't go pass the boot animation. I thought that maybe the ROM corrupted and so I flash CM9 Stable ROM and Kernel but it's still the same, stuck at CM9's boot animation, and I wiped it clean before flashing
I know you're suppose to wait a while in first boot, but it's 20 minutes and still no boot, I can put it to fastboot,flash mode and CWM, but if you can't power it on, you can't flash it with FlashTool right? And I can't charge it, whenever I plug my Arc in the charger, it boots to the bootanimation and stuck there again.
I doubt it's something wrong with the partition or whatever it is cuz' CWM gives me "no MTD partition: userdata" and "no app2sd partition found"
Conclusion: I can't flash a firmware (maybe cuz' I can't power it on, hope there is another way) but flashing a ROM or Kernel just won't work, right now I'm plugging my charger in but still the CyanogenMod man is looking at me.
HELP NEEDED! PLEASE!

pmdisawesome said:
Hello everybody I have an Sony Xperia Arc S (LT18i), I come from HTC,Samsung and Kindle Fire so I'm new with Sony devices.
The Arc S is a second-hand from my brother, I thought I would give it an ICS ROM so I flashed FXP 133 CM9 and it works great without any problem (with flashing), but it wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be and I don't want to use a buggy CM10 yet.
So I did some research and I found a reply somewhere that flashing the CM9 Baseband 72 would make the ROM smoother, so I flash Baseband 72 via FlashTool and then it won't go pass the boot animation. I thought that maybe the ROM corrupted and so I flash CM9 Stable ROM and Kernel but it's still the same, stuck at CM9's boot animation, and I wiped it clean before flashing
I know you're suppose to wait a while in first boot, but it's 20 minutes and still no boot, I can put it to fastboot,flash mode and CWM, but if you can't power it on, you can't flash it with FlashTool right? And I can't charge it, whenever I plug my Arc in the charger, it boots to the bootanimation and stuck there again.
I doubt it's something wrong with the partition or whatever it is cuz' CWM gives me "no MTD partition: userdata" and "no app2sd partition found"
Conclusion: I can't flash a firmware (maybe cuz' I can't power it on, hope there is another way) but flashing a ROM or Kernel just won't work, right now I'm plugging my charger in but still the CyanogenMod man is looking at me.
HELP NEEDED! PLEASE!
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now I am guiding to you an almost new territory here but try this :
Download JJ hybrid 3.2 stable from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535971
Download ICS stock recovery kernel from here : http://www.mediafire.com/?t75gje77zciea6x
Remove your SD card..read it through a card reader and extract the jj hybrid stable zip and copy the extracted folder into \clockworkmod\backup
Now put SD card back into the phone and keep the phone turned off
Keep the Menu button(the right most button) pressed while attaching the USB cable to the phone. No need to turn the phone on. U will notice a blue led light on the side of the phone. it means the phone has been connected into the fastboot mode.
Open the flashtool. Let it identify the phone. Then click on the lightning icon on top and choose 'fastboot mode'
On the next screen click on 'select kernel to flash'
Direct the browse screen to the ICS stock recovery kernel which u downloaded.
Once its done in a few seconds, remove the usb cable and turn on the phone.
As soon as u see the SONY logo press volume key down to enter into CWM
Wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik
Then go into backup and restore >> restore >> choose the folder you had copied which should be there.
reboot when done..it would flash JJ hybrid on your phone which is a good enough ROM..but if you need CM9 you can proceed after that..Atleast you have a restore now to get back to normal in case something goes wrong..

iwarind said:
now I am guiding to you an almost new territory here but try this :
Download JJ hybrid 3.2 stable from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535971
Download ICS stock recovery kernel from here : http://www.mediafire.com/?t75gje77zciea6x
Remove your SD card..read it through a card reader and extract the jj hybrid stable zip and copy the extracted folder into \clockworkmod\backup
Now put SD card back into the phone and keep the phone turned off
Keep the Menu button(the right most button) pressed while attaching the USB cable to the phone. No need to turn the phone on. U will notice a blue led light on the side of the phone. it means the phone has been connected into the fastboot mode.
Open the flashtool. Let it identify the phone. Then click on the lightning icon on top and choose 'fastboot mode'
On the next screen click on 'select kernel to flash'
Direct the browse screen to the ICS stock recovery kernel which u downloaded.
Once its done in a few seconds, remove the usb cable and turn on the phone.
As soon as u see the SONY logo press volume key down to enter into CWM
Wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik
Then go into backup and restore >> restore >> choose the folder you had copied which should be there.
reboot when done..it would flash JJ hybrid on your phone which is a good enough ROM..but if you need CM9 you can proceed after that..Atleast you have a restore now to get back to normal in case something goes wrong..
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Thanks, it works. Now my Arc is alive again
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