I unlocked and rooted my GSM Galaxy Nexus using the pocketnow.com guide and flashed ClockworkMod, made a Nandroid and then tried to flash AOKP maguro build 28. As soon as I try to flash the ROM, it boots me into recovery mode and then immediately Andy pops up, laying on his back with an exclamation mark in a red triangle on his chest.
I was scared I bricked my phone, so I pressed the three buttons all at once and I got to system recovery. I had the option to either wipe the phone or to reboot.
How do I fix this? I don't want Andy on his back, I want him on his feet feeding me with messages of how he is installing the ROM.
Thanks bunches in advance.
cws
search around, if u don't remove the file inside /system named recovery-from-boot.p, everytime u reboot ur phone it reflash the stock recovery overriding ur cwm recovery...remove the file (backup it somewhere on ur sdcard/pc), and flash the recovery again..this time it should stick and u can flash roms
I found the file in the cwm backup folder, thats hardly it. But I wouldn't know where else to look for it. Where should the system folder be?
clockworkstop said:
I found the file in the cwm backup folder, thats hardly it. But I wouldn't know where else to look for it. Where should the system folder be?
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u have to brwose ur phone with root explorer (or some other file browser with root capabilities), mount the /system folder as R/W and delete/move the file recovery-from-boot.p
Done. Still the same problem.
clockworkstop said:
Done. Still the same problem.
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di u reflashed the cwm recovery after removing/move that file?
Yes, in fact I did.
Maybe I'm missing the fastboot file?
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I'm not sure where to go from here, I rooted my Nexus, installed CWM, and everything was fine. Until my dumbass decided to reboot to recovery from ROM manager, didn't think it would hurt anything. Now, whenever I try to load recovery from my bootloader, the android pops up with the swirling ball for a second, then comes up an android laying down with a red triangle with an ! in it.
I tried factory reset, started from step 1, locked the bootloader and unlocked and rooted again. If I flash CWM, it will work the first time, but anytime after that my little hazardous android symbol pops up again unless I flash CWM again. I'm new to all this obviously, so any help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I would recommend just flashing a factory .img threw adb. That should do it.
Send, Finally From Lte Galaxy Nexus
I agree. This link helped me do it for mine just a few mins ago.
LTE Instructions:
https://plus.google.com/107538503004482952974/posts/K8wozE8zhzq
GSM Instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373995
irb123 said:
I'm not sure where to go from here, I rooted my Nexus, installed CWM, and everything was fine. Until my dumbass decided to reboot to recovery from ROM manager, didn't think it would hurt anything. Now, whenever I try to load recovery from my bootloader, the android pops up with the swirling ball for a second, then comes up an android laying down with a red triangle with an ! in it.
I tried factory reset, started from step 1, locked the bootloader and unlocked and rooted again. If I flash CWM, it will work the first time, but anytime after that my little hazardous android symbol pops up again unless I flash CWM again. I'm new to all this obviously, so any help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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You're not bricked. Flash CWM and then use Root Explorer or another file browser and navigate to /system and delete reboot-from-recovery.p
You will now be able to boot into recovery.
Awesome thanks for the replies you guys are great. The ordeal ended up causing my phone to reject the sim card for some reason...just got back from Verizon. I'm trying the file manager route first but it's telling the file is read only?
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Nevermind...hit the r/w...like I said...noob. Checking recovery now thanks again...
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Andrew C said:
You're not bricked. Flash CWM and then use Root Explorer or another file browser and navigate to /system and delete reboot-from-recovery.p
You will now be able to boot into recovery.
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What if I don't have the reboot-from-recovery.p file in my /system folder?
ironcx said:
What if I don't have the reboot-from-recovery.p file in my /system folder?
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Follow the instructions for How to install CWM in this post. Once you've done that, you'll be able to find the reboot-from-recovery.p in /system. Just delete it and you'll be good.
I tried using the franco kernel app to install the kernel on my rooted Galaxy Nexus. There was the "download the .zip" option and the "we'll flash it for you" option. Of course I took the easy option which was probably stupid on my part. My phone downloaded the kernel and then rebooted. Now that it has rebooted... it wont get beyond the black screen that says "Google" and has the little open lock image at the bottom.
Questions:
Has anyone seen this?
Did I brick this thing (I really hope not)?
What steps can I do to try to get it back working?
Or does it just take a long time 20+ minutes to download/install/whatever once it reboots?
patriot95 said:
I tried using the franco kernel app to install the kernel on my rooted Galaxy Nexus. There was the "download the .zip" option and the "we'll flash it for you" option. Of course I took the easy option which was probably stupid on my part. My phone downloaded the kernel and then rebooted. Now that it has rebooted... it wont get beyond the black screen that says "Google" and has the little open lock image at the bottom.
Questions:
Has anyone seen this?
Did I brick this thing (I really hope not)?
What steps can I do to try to get it back working?
Or does it just take a long time 20+ minutes to download/install/whatever once it reboots?
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i think that flash a new rom would solve this
patriot95 said:
I tried using the franco kernel app to install the kernel on my rooted Galaxy Nexus. There was the "download the .zip" option and the "we'll flash it for you" option. Of course I took the easy option which was probably stupid on my part. My phone downloaded the kernel and then rebooted. Now that it has rebooted... it wont get beyond the black screen that says "Google" and has the little open lock image at the bottom.
Questions:
Has anyone seen this?
Did I brick this thing (I really hope not)?
What steps can I do to try to get it back working?
Or does it just take a long time 20+ minutes to download/install/whatever once it reboots?
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I did this last night to see, and it didn't work. I had to pull the battery, and reboot. I then just downloaded the new zip, and rebooted into Recovery to flash it as I normally would.
I wanted to do this... but with my root toolkit it looks like my phone doesn't have usb debugging on (which it was before I tried to flash this kernel). And I can't turn my phone on to turn it on... so hmm.
RMarkwald said:
I did this last night to see, and it didn't work. I had to pull the battery, and reboot. I then just downloaded the new zip, and rebooted into Recovery to flash it as I normally would.
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This is what I want to do. Is I pull the battery and restart... I'm still stuck at the same screen though.
patriot95 said:
This is what I want to do. Is I pull the battery and restart... I'm still stuck at the same screen though.
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Pull the battery, hold Vol Up/Vol Down/Power to get into Recovery. Do you have the ROM zip file or another kernel on your SD card? You could just re-flash the ROM zip file over your existing installation, which would leave your data alone and install the ROM's kernel. Wipe /cache and Dalvik Cache before flashing.
EDIT: When you get into the bootloader, hit Vol Up until Recovery shows up, then hit the Power button to boot to Recovery.
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Pull the battery, hold Vol Up/Vol Down/Power to get into Recovery. Do you have the ROM zip file or another kernel on your SD card? You could just re-flash the ROM zip file over your existing installation, which would leave your data alone and install the ROM's kernel. Wipe /cache and Dalvik Cache before flashing.
EDIT: When you get into the bootloader, hit Vol Up until Recovery shows up, then hit the Power button to boot to Recovery.
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This is KIND of what I'm doing. I can't access my phone from the computer because of the damn usb thing... but I'm going to try to flash back to stock and see if that works.
It's booting now and it's been on the start screen for a minute or two. How long should it take on a stock flash? Just curious how long to wait before yanking the battery and trying again.
How did you flash stock, using fastboot or a zip? These are the stock images correct?
I boot into Recovery Mode and did the factory reset.
I also have a su.zip on my sdcard that I think is the rooted image that was used when I used the WugFresh root toolkit. But I'm not sure.
Shouldn't the Factory Reset... do a Factory Reset?
Edit: I see it's just data not an actual factory reset as I am thinking.
patriot95 said:
I boot into Recovery Mode and did the factory reset.
I also have a su.zip on my sdcard that I think is the rooted image that was used when I used the WugFresh root toolkit. But I'm not sure.
Shouldn't the Factory Reset... do a Factory Reset?
Edit: I see it's just data not an actual factory reset as I am thinking.
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If you don't have a ROM or kernel zip file on your SD card, you'll want to put one there. Factory Reset already reset any data you have, so you'll want to flashing a ROM would be recommended here.
You can use ADB to push files to your SD card. You'll need to get into Recovery, mount /data (which is under Mounts and Storage menu), then open a command prompt window and change directories to your Android SDK folder, specifically Platform-tools. Then use ADB to push the zip files to your SD card:
adb push <name of file>.zip /data/media
EDIT 2: You'll want to download and put the zip file in your SDK - Platform-tools folder before you use ADB to push it there.
You can then flash the ROM via Install file from SD card.
Does this make sense?
EDIT: The su.zip is just to get root access, not a full ROM zip.
RMarkwald said:
If you don't have a ROM or kernel zip file on your SD card, you'll want to put one there. Factory Reset already reset any data you have, so you'll want to flashing a ROM would be recommended here.
You can use ADB to push files to your SD card. You'll need to get into Recovery, mount /data (which is under Mounts and Storage menu), then open a command prompt window and change directories to your Android SDK folder, specifically Platform-tools. Then use ADB to push the zip files to your SD card:
adb push <name of file>.zip /data/media
You can then flash the ROM via Install file from SD card.
Does this make sense?
EDIT: The su.zip is just to get root access, not a full ROM zip.
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It makes sense... but I'm a little new so I will try this. Might take me a while.
By the way... these captcha images suck.
Thank you for the help... I am re-rooting my phone now. I was able to get back to stock.
Good job, glad to help!
RMarkwald said:
Pull the battery, hold Vol Up/Vol Down/Power to get into Recovery.
EDIT: When you get into the bootloader, hit Vol Up until Recovery shows up, then hit the Power button to boot to Recovery.
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I LOVE YOU!
(I did the same thing with the auto-flash kernel and was stuck. I totally forgot that you had to hold BOTH up/down with the power button.)
Franco's app SUCKS!
Thanks my man!!! :good:
BTW...Jelly Bean rocks!
Hello guys i have tha same problem with patriot95 (black screen Google and one small lock lower) ... my device is optimus 3d p920 and i cant reboot it .
can you help me ? PLz
This is a problem with the toolkit...
Do you have any adb and fastboot downloaded? No? Download it. There's more than enough instructions on that.
You didn't need to factory reset AT ALL. All you needed to do was just re-flash your ROM and you would've been good to go.
Next time learn how to use adb and fastboot command please. Then, there will be less chance of messing it up and not being able to fixing it.
Hi, sorry this thread is kinda old already but I don't really want to start new thread about same problem. So, similar to OP, I stupidly use the 'autoflash' option from franco app, and I'm stuck now. But I can still have access to CWM recovery. I was using the stock 4.2.2 takju before. I already tried to re-flash stock kernel -> fail. Tried re-flash stock rom - fail. Tried wipe cache and dalvik then flash deodexed 4.2.2 -> also fail. Please help me, I really need to use my phone right now.
Are you flashing a 4.2.2 kernel with a 4.2.2 ROM?
What ROM and kernel?
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I flashed the stock 4.2.2 rom from the google website but it doesn't work. Then I tried the stock 4.2.2 from this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737849 but also failed.
I also flashed the stock kernel from this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151154
I just rooted my phone everything seemed to go the way its supposed to. I have superuser and have downloaded titanium backup and it works fine. I wanted to back up my phone so I can have a stock back up but when I went into fast boot and tries to access clockwork I got the android on his back with the red exclamation mark. I'm not sure what happened. I was able to access it once. Maybe a reboot did something. I'm not new to rooting but I'm new to the galaxy line. Thanks so much for any help its appreciated geeatley.
I rooted using the dev kit v7.0 I'd that helps any.
cyaiphone said:
I just rooted my phone everything seemed to go the way its supposed to. I have superuser and have downloaded titanium backup and it works fine. I wanted to back up my phone so I can have a stock back up but when I went into fast boot and tries to access clockwork I got the android on his back with the red exclamation mark. I'm not sure what happened. I was able to access it once. Maybe a reboot did something. I'm not new to rooting but I'm new to the galaxy line. Thanks so much for any help its appreciated geeatley.
I rooted using the dev kit v7.0 I'd that helps any.
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Nexus line.
have you tried reflashing cwm recovery via fastboot?
flash CWM via fastboot.
and why do you need a backup of stock? You can always re-flash the stock images to go back to completely stock. Restoring a rooted nandroid backup won't put you back to stock anyways...
OK makes sense. Is there a how to and link to the cwm download? On HTC you used to just download the file rename it pc86img and reboot into fast boot and let it update. Is it the same for the nexus?
cyaiphone said:
OK makes sense. Is there a how to and link to the cwm download? On HTC you used to just download the file rename it pc86img and reboot into fast boot and let it update. Is it the same for the nexus?
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Similar, except you put it in a folder on your PC and flash it over USB with the command line.
martonikaj said:
Similar, except you put it in a folder on your PC and flash it over USB with the command line.
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Crap is there a how to any how to do this? I've never used adb or command prompts.
cyaiphone said:
Crap is there a how to anywherebonnhow to do this? I've never used adb or command prompts.
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Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
And look for the "Setting up ADB for our device:" then "Obtaining Root Access and Custom Recovery:".
Can you boot into the OS? If you can, download Rom Manager from the Play Store and use that to install CWM Recovery.
Did you delete recovery-from-boot.p from /system? I had to do this to "permanently" install the recovery. My first Samsung phone, my first Nexus device, so not sure if this has been a regular thing ... never had to "permanently" install a recovery up until then. That fixed my issue as my recovery was only sticking once per boot ... was blowing my mind for a couple hours.
Not sure if root via toolkit solves this, but I did a manny root and had to do this. Hope it helps.
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- remount /system in read/write mode (use something like the Root Explorer app or ES File Explorer; both have root modes (check the app's settings) for remounting /system as writable)
- rename the /system/recovery-from-boot.p to /system/recovery-from-boot.p-bak
(note: you could delete it, but renaming is much safer since its easily reversible)
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Could also, apparently, rename it. I just reinstalled recovery, deleted, and haven't had a single problem since.
What bleedblue said; now go into fastboot, and reflash cwm.
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i ve recently rooted my phone, it was on 4.0.2; everything works perfectly fine.
i just wanted to try jelly bean and when i tried to install it, after selecting whether to erase cache and backing up, phone rebooted and when it opened up i got this screen with a droid laying down on the ground with an exclamation mark on it.
whenever i try to restore my phone with clockwork or galaxy nexus root toolkit, i get stuck on that screen.
if i plug the battery out and start my phone, it openes up without any problems.
what did i do wrong?
kallshak said:
i ve recently rooted my phone, it was on 4.0.2; everything works perfectly fine.
i just wanted to try jelly bean and when i tried to install it, after selecting whether to erase cache and backing up, phone rebooted and when it opened up i got this screen with a droid laying down on the ground with an exclamation mark on it.
whenever i try to restore my phone with clockwork or galaxy nexus root toolkit, i get stuck on that screen.
if i plug the battery out and start my phone, it openes up without any problems.
what did i do wrong?
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similar problem even i had but in my case when the screen with android excamn mark use to come it had some thing to do with enable/ disable when i press power button it use to show to cwm screen and last two line says recovery mode disabled etc and if i wait it says its enables after it says enables button use to work just try that not very sure in your case myte work
actually i couldn't fully understand what you meant
no one knows anything about this problem?
Using Root explorer, go into system/ and after you do Mount R/W, rename the file recover-from-boot.p to recover-from-boot.p.bak or delete it.
Then go into Rom Manager and Flash CMR and reboot into recovery.
From then on, you will never see that red triangle again when you boot into recovery, neither do you have to flash CMR everytime you have to boot into recovery.
Hope this helped.
rename (or delete) this file: /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.
This will prevent the ROM from overwriting CWM with the stock recovery. If you want to have the stock recovery so that future updates will install automatically, leave the ROM as is.
brealorg said:
rename (or delete) this file: /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.
This will prevent the ROM from overwriting CWM with the stock recovery. If you want to have the stock recovery so that future updates will install automatically, leave the ROM as is.
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so if i rename or delete this file, in future i cant get stock updates then?
kallshak said:
so if i rename or delete this file, in future i cant get stock updates then?
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considering you're wanting to overwrite the stock recovery with CWM, you wouldnt anyways.
another question, is this action reversible?
i mean, if i ever want to bring my phone back to unrooted and stock state?
i ve tried to look it up with search but couldnt find the answer
you didnt search very hard then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
might've missed some key words on search. thx for your help
so i was running aokp rom on my verizon galaxy nexus and i was changing fonts with an app and it worked several times but then i decided to check off all these boxes and replace their fonts too, instead of the few that were already checked off when i first downloaded the app and when i went to reboot my phone it didnt boot up all the way. It vibrated and i see the screen kinda lit up but theres no logo cus i remember turning off boot logo in settings for faster boot ups. I can get into clockwork mod recovery but i dont know whats wrong or what to do. i never made any backups with clockwork but i did with titanium backup pro. i tried searching the forums here for boot loop and i couldnt find an easy to understand answer. i managed to clear cache and delvik cache but that didnt help. there are no roms on my sd card to flash. i dont care if i lose everything and go back to stock ... I JUST NEED IT TO WORK! please please help!
use GNex Toolkit to push a new rom to you phone, and flash it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400871
dreyy said:
so i was running aokp rom on my verizon galaxy nexus and i was changing fonts with an app and it worked several times but then i decided to check off all these boxes and replace their fonts too, instead of the few that were already checked off when i first downloaded the app and when i went to reboot my phone it didnt boot up all the way. It vibrated and i see the screen kinda lit up but theres no logo cus i remember turning off boot logo in settings for faster boot ups. I can get into clockwork mod recovery but i dont know whats wrong or what to do. i never made any backups with clockwork but i did with titanium backup pro. i tried searching the forums here for boot loop and i couldnt find an easy to understand answer. i managed to clear cache and delvik cache but that didnt help. there are no roms on my sd card to flash. i dont care if i lose everything and go back to stock ... I JUST NEED IT TO WORK! please please help!
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1. If you have the AOKP rom zip on your phone's sdcard, try to install the zip again, this will fix the issue.
2. If it doesn't work try to wipe data and factory reset
3. If it still doesn't work or you don't have the zip download the app given below
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
put device into bootloader mode. Open the app click on the left bottom Launch button under Advanced Utilities. Before proceeding download the stock rom version that you want to put on your device from Google. Using 7-zip open the tar file lets say you downloaded yakju-jop40d-factory-279cdc5d.tar. opening it you will see a white file, double click it to see yakju-jop40d folder from this folder extract everything. Now you will find a zip file in the files you extracted, unzip it and you will find the files you require for your phone to run. Select from Boot/Flash Image flash permanent, select boot and find the boot.img file you extracted from the zip, then select system and select system.img. Now if it worked get into recovery and fctory reset your phone and try to run it. I personally tried it and it worked for me.
if you get an error message saying your device wasnt found on fast boot. then you need to get your drivers installed. This app has an option for installing the drivers.
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And if it still doesn't work try the guide below
Heres what you need to do in order to go back to stock - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895 - instead of installing the drivers from this guide you can use the tool mentioned above.
Best of Luck
People who suggest a toolkit to noob users are the most lazy.
@OP, go read this thread/first post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959
You don't need to go back to stock, you don't need a toolkit, you just need a rom zip on your PC, ADB, and a custom recovery. Done.
Sent from my Nexus
I think setting up adb is more painful for a noob, this tool provides the options to use adb as well
ibrahim_5 said:
I think setting up adb is more painful for a noob, this tool provides the options to use adb as well
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yeah its sooooooo hard to drop 3 files into a folder and open a command prompt there.....
Pirateghost said:
yeah its sooooooo hard to drop 3 files into a folder and open a command prompt there.....
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Hey! I'll have you know that right clicking is hard.