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[Q] Can't get into recovery (to make a back up of stock ROM)

---- PLEASE MOVE POST TO WILDFIRE S - Questions section. wrong post sorry!!----
Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this!
I have tried to do research on my problem but can't solve it...
The problem is that i can't get into recovery to backup my stock rom.
Specs: HTC Wildfire S, marvel A510e, S-on, Bootloader unlocked, Rooted, Radio-7.54.39.28M, Andriod 2.3.5, HTC sence: 2.1, ClockworkMod 5.0.2.8, Super SU.
I followed the guide: "How to root the Wildfire S with S-ON"on Andriod forums by CafeKampuchia, thumbs up for him It got me this far but, now I want to do the thing for which I rooted my phone in the first place: Installing a costum ROM. Therefore I want to backup my stock ROM.
Installed CWM ROM manager, if use backup current ROM option, the phone reboots and i get the HTC letters on my screen these. After a few sec's they dissapear and my screen goes black and my buttons on the bottom light up. I can touch those but nothing happens besides that it buzzes.... When I it boot the normal way again and use the option 'manage and restore backups' in CMW ROM manager, it shows that there has been made a backup. Not shure if I can trust it though....
When I open in HBOOT (1.09.0099) and push recovery the same thing happens. When I boot the normal way and try to boot into recovery trough CWM ROM manager same thing happens again.
I saw a other topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229&page=2 i tried to flash this recovery to see if a older version might work, but now i have got a problem flashing... See picture: View attachment 1031874. Anyway that is not my main problem, what i really want to make it clear: is to back up my stock ROM.
Many thanks in advantage!

wait for device，you boot your phone to fastboot，and is works
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I think your hboot is very high， you downgrade it to 1.030000 may be works.

Hey pal if I was you I wouldn't use rom manager, I've known it to have issues over both wildfires. Turn off your phone the normal way. Pull out the battery for 10-20 seconds or so, put it back in and hold volume down + power. Once your hboot is finished scanning the sdcard scroll down to recovery and select it with power. You should go into clockwork mod. Then scroll again with the rockers down to backup and hit it you can do as many backups as your sdcard will carry. So do that and you should have one you can trust. Also before you install your new custom rom read the main page throughout to see if it needs set up in any specific way, like with a special sdcard partition or something. And most important don't forger to wipe your cache, dalvik cache and factory reset the Device from clockwork mod recovery ! This will avoid bootloops good luck
sent from my android powered beast!

It would be best if you were to ask in the Wildfire S forum...just saying.

Downgrade HBOOT will downgrade Android?
gq455402012 said:
wait for device，you boot your phone to fastboot，and is works
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I think your hboot is very high， you downgrade it to 1.030000 may be works.
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Hey, I'm would like to try this but when i searched for a tutorial one said: "In this tutorial, I will show you how to downgrade Any HBOOT and Radio to "around" HBOOT 1.03.001 and Radio 7.48.36.1 or less with S-ON. How amazing is that!
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage that you bring to your android device! This will Downgrade you to Android 2.3.3!" Found in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25255527
As it says i will downgrade my android aswell, this does not work for me because my main goal is to back up my stock ROM. correct me if i'm wrong.

heavy_metal_man said:
Once your hboot is finished scanning the sdcard scroll down to recovery and select it with power. You should go into clockwork mod. Then scroll again with the rockers down to backup and hit it you can do as many backups as your sdcard will carry.
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Hey Thanks!
As you can read,
When I open in HBOOT (1.09.0099) and push recovery the same thing happens.
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i tried to get into recovery trough HBOOT already.
The other tips are usefull

Try booting to recovery via adb or terminal emulator.In both cases the code is
su
reboot recovery
Sent from my Optimus Me using xda premium

Your bootloader cannot be the issue. Go to here. And try there install recovery options. Also what happens if you cold boot the device with volume up + power?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325730
[INDEX] roms/recovery/guides/kernel/root/...
sent from my android powered beast!

adb reboot recovery
nerot said:
Try booting to recovery via adb or terminal emulator.In both cases the code is
su
reboot recovery
Sent from my Optimus Me using xda premium
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Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.

install recovery options?
heavy_metal_man said:
Your bootloader cannot be the issue. Go to here. And try there install recovery options. Also what happens if you cold boot the device with volume up + power?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325730
[INDEX] roms/recovery/guides/kernel/root/...
sent from my android powered beast!
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Ok thats good to know, about the bootloader so no downgrade?
What do you mean with intall recovery options? I can't find such a manual there...
Cold boot with volume up + power makes my device boot up as usual.
I tried to install
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229
other version of cmw recovery, by following the guide instead of flashing. That gave me the following error.
CID incorret! Update fail! Press <power. to reboot.

ok how did you install your recovery to install super user? did you just use rom manager to do it? as far as i know it only installs a tempoary recovery. which would explain why you are only getting to it through rom manager. ok do you have adb installed onto your pc?
ok take the pg76img.zip attached to this post and put it on the root of your sdcard. then boot into bootloader (not fastboot) and your phone should say it found an update. flash it and it will install clockworkmod to your phone properly. then remove the pg76img.zip from your sdcard and boot back into bootloader, select recovery and with any luck you`ll be sorted. then follow my post above and you`ll be sorted pal
then, go to here and thank alquez for the recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229

samkuiper9 said:
Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.
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If usb debugging isnt the problem then use terminal emulator from the phone itself, again with the the same lines.
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Terminal emulator: not permited
nerot said:
If usb debugging isnt the problem then use terminal emulator from the phone itself, again with the the same lines.
Sent from my Optimus Me using xda premium
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Thanks, tried this but when i type in reboot recovery the terminal emulator says: not permited!
What to do?

samkuiper9 said:
Thanks, tried this but when i type in reboot recovery the terminal emulator says: not permited!
What to do?
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Are you sure you typed in "su" before "reboot recovery"?

nejc121 said:
Are you sure you typed in "su" before "reboot recovery"?
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Absolutely Super SU asked to grant permission and i did..

freezing emulator
samkuiper9 said:
Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.
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Sorry made a mistake here, i tried to use adb commands while in hboot. When i tried it when the phone was on as usual i could use SU command and the # logo showed up bit than my terminal froze and i couldn't write anything else.
Than i tried it again this time only using the commands as follows:
cd c:\android
adb shell
su
reboot recovery
Difference is that the first time i typed: adb shell su. all together this freezes it up...
Anyhow it sitll doens't work.. i get an empty line in cmd, thats all..View attachment 1033568
But this could be because now a flash of a recovery img doens't work it gives: Waiting for device...

heavy_metal_man said:
ok how did you install your recovery to install super user? did you just use rom manager to do it? as far as i know it only installs a tempoary recovery. which would explain why you are only getting to it through rom manager. ok do you have adb installed onto your pc?
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I didn't use rom manager, i used a recovery img from CWM: ahttp://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/nd flashed it with sdk, trough cmd promt. So yes adb files are in place and working.
heavy_metal_man said:
ok take the pg76img.zip attached to this post and put it on the root of your sdcard. then boot into bootloader (not fastboot) and your phone should say it found an update. flash it and it will install clockworkmod to your phone properly. then remove the pg76img.zip from your sdcard and boot back into bootloader, select recovery and with any luck you`ll be sorted. then follow my post above and you`ll be sorted pal
then, go to here and thank alquez for the recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229
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In my last quote i posted the link of the exact same file. So this didn't work either, same error.. Thanks anyway.

Why don't you try reflashing the recovery via fastboot flasher?It worked for me when I screwed up and flashed the wrong recovery
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Hmm. Fastboot flasher sounds like your best bet then.
sent from my android powered beast!

try this one
OK，use this one one-click flash recovery5.026 in the attachment. .just download and then decompression to anywhere，connect your phone to computer with ADB driver，and then found runme.bat，and automatic to flash recovery.when finished you can see recovery on your phone like the picture in the attachment.

How to Root Nexus 10 on Win/Mac/Linux! [Step-by-Step VIDEO Tutorials]

Here's a video tutorial on how to root your Nexus 10 for noobs!
Windows video tutorial:
Mac video tutorial:
Linux video tutorial:
All the files you need in one zip (adb+SuperSU+fastboot+Windows drivers):
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Nexus10/Nexus10RootNew.zip
Step-by-Step tutorial with photos here:
http://nexus10root.com/nexus-10-root/how-to-root-nexus-10-easiest-method/
Also, if you get stuck on bootloop after unlocking bootloader (This happened to me couple times), do a factory reset in stock recovery to fix:
Thanks to shimp208 for the sideload method and working CWM, ChainFire for awesome SuperSU and to all the developers who are worked on CWM recovery!

So the CWM that was just updated by Koushik on CWM does not work properly or does it work? Was asking based on this
While CWM Recovery is still being fixed
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Edit: There's no driver issue if it were on a Mac right? Especially adb sideloading the CWM SuperSu zip?

How do I flash the stock recovery? CWM isn't working and I tried to update the driver like in the video but couldn't find the "manta" that I needed to update. I'm just stuck in bootloop animation now. I'm downloading the stock image right now to try and flash it back to stock..

johno86 said:
How do I flash the stock recovery? CWM isn't working and I tried to update the driver like in the video but couldn't find the "manta" that I needed to update. I'm just stuck in bootloop animation now. I'm downloading the stock image right now to try and flash it back to stock..
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If you go into fastboot mode then choose recovery to get to the screen with the red triangle, keep pressing the power button and volume buttons randomly until the stock recovery pops up. From there do a factory reset and it'll work, I just did it to mine!

I flashed the CWM recovery img so when I do what you say it takes me to the bootloader screen and says Downloading. No red triangle. It boots into CWM and then after 20 seconds restarts itself and hits the bootanimation loop. Any clue what to do next? Trying to flash the stock image but having issues using cmds in windows cmd
*edit
I cleared cache through cmd and i got to the red triangle...thank ****ing the lord. DTWAZERE, I will remember tonight. Thank you for your help.

johno86 said:
I flashed the CWM recovery img so when I do what you say it takes me to the bootloader screen and says Downloading. Any clue what to do next? Trying to flash the stock image but having issues getting it into fastboot now...
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Thing is it will delete the CWM recovery when you leave it so you'll have to reflash it, which is why this is so unstable!
I had the exact same thing as you and this is what I did:
Press the power button to turn it off while it says downloading
Hold both volume buttons down and power on to get into fastboot
Choose recovery
Press power and volume buttons randomly when the red triangle appears until you get stock recovery
Choose Factory Reset
Reboot
You should be able to get back into the rom that way,
to root it you need to boot into fastboot again, reflash the recovery, and sideload the superuser apk

dtwazere said:
Thing is it will delete the CWM recovery when you leave it so you'll have to reflash it, which is why this is so unstable!
I had the exact same thing as you and this is what I did:
Press the power button to turn it off while it says downloading
Hold both volume buttons down and power on to get into fastboot
Choose recovery
Press power and volume buttons randomly when the red triangle appears until you get stock recovery
Choose Factory Reset
Reboot
You should be able to get back into the rom that way,
to root it you need to boot into fastboot again, reflash the recovery, and sideload the superuser apk
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Yeah this is exactly what I did and it worked. I'll wait on flashing anything until there's a stable recovery. I was fairly confident in what I was doing until that happened. Not being able to input commands from cmd prompt made me sick so I'll wait for a dev to release something that works without having to quickly install the drivers again within a 15-20 second timeframe. Too much stress.

cant boot
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?

lc684760 said:
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?
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Heh im having the same issue.

lc684760 said:
I got a huge problem.
I follow the step and going on. Ive seen the done in CWMR. But the tablet cant boot.
It stops in the second animation( X mark) cant boot in os.
Anyone can help me?
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I'm having the same issue. Stuck on the 2nd splash screen with the Nexus Logo.
I received successful messages after every entry.

deevooneh said:
I'm having the same issue. Stuck on the 2nd splash screen with the Nexus Logo.
I received successful messages after every entry.
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sucks. But we can boot in fastboot and downloading . I think we may have some tricks to fix.

i did everything, and it all went successfully after a few tried. Now i am stuck with the JB X load screen.
How do i get the stock google rom and how do i flash it?

lc684760 said:
sucks. But we can boot in fastboot and downloading . I think we may have some tricks to fix.
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Ok. Let me know if you figure something out. Hopefully we didnt brick it.

deevooneh said:
Ok. Let me know if you figure something out. Hopefully we didnt brick it.
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I just called service phone. But goole play agent told me that they didnt know how to deal with that. Its the new device. They dont know much. Damn it!

lc684760 said:
I just called service phone. But goole play agent told me that they didnt know how to deal with that. Its the new device. They dont know much. Damn it!
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How do we get back to stock? Might need to reattempt this.

If you are stuck on the boot animation (X) screen... power off your device and enter fastboot mode and then type fastboot -w... I has this problem and this fixed it!
NOTE: fastboot -w will wipe your internal storage completely

dtwazere said:
If you go into fastboot mode then choose recovery to get to the screen with the red triangle, keep pressing the power button and volume buttons randomly until the stock recovery pops up. From there do a factory reset and it'll work, I just did it to mine!
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deevooneh said:
How do we get back to stock? Might need to reattempt this.
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Stock is here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantarayjop40c
Still need a way to get CWM stable, so we have time to copy to sd

craigacgomez said:
If you are stuck on the boot animation (X) screen... power off you devices and enter fastboot mode and then type fastboot -w... I has this problem and this fixed it!
NOTE: fastboot -w will wipe your internal storage completely
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THIS WORKED!!
Youre a genius. thanks!

When I try to install the manta drivers manually and tell it to search the same area that it searched and found the android bootloader drivers for fastboot mode it says that the drivers couldn't be found and installed. Am I missing something? Also if i try to do fastboot flash recovery it gives me an error message stating that it cannot determine the image filename for the recovery image.

Well i guess i did it the long way around.
Went to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantarayjop40c
and downloaded the Nexus 10 file. extracted, and the actual files in the Nexus10Root folder.
Opened the flash-all.sh and entered each command manually because it was erroring out running the script.
After the 3rd command it booted right into android!

[Q] How do I revert ODIN to custom bootloader and recovery?

I have a toro/i515/Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (the CDMA/LTE one) running a mostly stock (but rooted and with busybox) Jelly Bean JRO03O (Android 4.1.1).
I screwed up my build.prop (and can't boot normally), so I attempted to boot into CWMR 6. To my surprise, cold booting holding the Vol + button started to proceed with a normal boot. So I cold booted with the Vol - button held.
And that shocked me even more. I'm staring at ODIN Mode. WTF? When did ODIN get on my phone? What happened to the bootloader where I could select booting into recovery, or the bootloader, or normal booting?
I've been scouring Google and this forum, and many other forums, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to boot this thing into a custom recovery so I can fix my build.prop through adb.
I'm at a loss. I suck at using ODIN (I only started using it recently when I bought my GTab2 10.1 GT-P5113).
How am I supposed to hack my phone when I can't use ADB, fastboot, or a custom recovery (booting normally hangs also)?
The only thing I don't want to do for a repair is a full wipe. I don't have a way of backing up my data without ADB.
I've tried enclosing various boot, bootloader, and recovery images (img files) into tar files (archives) and sending them to the phone via ODIN using the PDA and/or the BOOTLOADER button(s). I've tried to see if Wug's Toolkit would talk to my phone via ODIN.
Nothing seems to change.
Help!!! Please!!!
Any of the following will do:
1. Tell me how to get adb working.
2. Tell me how to revert ODIN back to the normal boot/bootloader (that works with fastboot) - this would be best. ODIN sucks.
3. Tell me how to get to my files via ODIN.
Please help. This sucks.

*sheepish grin* - I forgot about holding BOTH Vol + and Vol - at the same time while cold booting.
(I can at least get into fastboot mode now)...

From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
Or
From fastboot, flash stock but dont flash userdata.img.
Sent from my i9250

The very same thing happened to me today.
I was on 4.2 JB (custom stock rom, only rooted) and I received a software update....it failed at doing it and then said something about not losing root. I checked YES and boom....wont boot. Stuck at ODIN...
Odin recognizes it but fails at flashing.
Fastboot works and boots into cwm recovery....but it wont boot into android...
What should I do...?
Sorry if I am rude by asking here.

dragoncius said:
The very same thing happened to me today.
I was on 4.2 JB (custom stock rom, only rooted) and I received a software update....it failed at doing it and then said something about not losing root. I checked YES and boom....wont boot. Stuck at ODIN...
Odin recognizes it but fails at flashing.
Fastboot works and boots into cwm recovery....but it wont boot into android...
What should I do...?
Sorry if I am rude by asking here.
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From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
i said this on the post before yours.

bk201doesntexist said:
From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
i said this on the post before yours.
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But there is nothing in my phone....
Internal is empty.
How can I flash something on the phone...
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dragoncius said:
But there is nothing in my phone....
Internal is empty.
How can I flash something on the phone...
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
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dont hijack other people's threads;
read the stickies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

bk201doesntexist said:
dont hijack other people's threads;
read the stickies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959
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Sorry. Didnt mean to hijack...just thought it is the same problem. Already read threads.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

dragoncius said:
Sorry. Didnt mean to hijack...just thought it is the same problem. Already read threads.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
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use adb to push a rom while on a custom recovery. it seems you need to read them again, and pay attention to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

SOLVED
chriv said:
*sheepish grin* - I forgot about holding BOTH Vol + and Vol - at the same time while cold booting.
(I can at least get into fastboot mode now)...
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After posting the above, I meant to indicate that this thread could be closed. I knew exactly what to do now that I could finally get into fastboot.
Maybe ODIN was on my phone all along, but I could almost swear that I used to get into fastboot by holding Vol - while cold booting, and that I could get into recovery by Holding Vol + while cold booting. I don't remember ODIN being there at all.
Anyway, the bottom line:
Fastboot loads with Vol + AND Vol - held down while cold booting.
I was able to reflash boot, bootloader, and custom recovery with fastboot.
I was able to boot into custom recovery from fastboot.
Once CWMR 6 was running on my phone in recovery mode, I was able to mount /system from the recovery menu, to use adb to pull /system/build.prop, to edit it, to use adb to push build.prop back to /system, and finally to use adb to change permissions on build.prop back to 644.
Am I crazy? Was ODIN always on my VzW GNex?
Was it always loaded when holding Vol - down during a cold boot?
Or were the Vol - and Vol + buttons (individually) originally used for booting fastboot mode and recovery mode?
If I had forgotten that, then I haven't be hacking my phone enough, as I haven't been in fastboot in a long time.

chriv said:
After posting the above, I meant to indicate that this thread could be closed. I knew exactly what to do now that I could finally get into fastboot.
Maybe ODIN was on my phone all along, but I could almost swear that I used to get into fastboot by holding Vol - while cold booting, and that I could get into recovery by Holding Vol + while cold booting. I don't remember ODIN being there at all.
Anyway, the bottom line:
Fastboot loads with Vol + AND Vol - held down while cold booting.
I was able to reflash boot, bootloader, and custom recovery with fastboot.
I was able to boot into custom recovery from fastboot.
Once CWMR 6 was running on my phone in recovery mode, I was able to mount /system from the recovery menu, to use adb to pull /system/build.prop, to edit it, to use adb to push build.prop back to /system, and finally to use adb to change permissions on build.prop back to 644.
Am I crazy? Was ODIN always on my VzW GNex?
Was it always loaded when holding Vol - down during a cold boot?
Or were the Vol - and Vol + buttons (individually) originally used for booting fastboot mode and recovery mode?
If I had forgotten that, then I haven't be hacking my phone enough, as I haven't been in fastboot in a long time.
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Odin is on every Samsung phone I believe
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

question/comment to old post
This is an old post I'm responding to but my A500 has been bricked for over a year. I just read, click the lock button and when I did, on the screen is "Bootloader v0.03.12 ICS:: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol and found a related post referencing "Odin". I, too, want to know how that got onto my tablet. Perhaps from the update.zip? Now I can't find any relevant information nor files to download which aren't corrupt or tampered with. Can someone perhaps take a moment to outline a plan of action for me and the significant files? I will gladly "donate" to whomever and by "time". Thx (little grey haired old lady) Smiles4Miles, VMD
chriv said:
I have a toro/i515/Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (the CDMA/LTE one) running a mostly stock (but rooted and with busybox) Jelly Bean JRO03O (Android 4.1.1).
I screwed up my build.prop (and can't boot normally), so I attempted to boot into CWMR 6. To my surprise, cold booting holding the Vol + button started to proceed with a normal boot. So I cold booted with the Vol - button held.
And that shocked me even more. I'm staring at ODIN Mode. WTF? When did ODIN get on my phone? What happened to the bootloader where I could select booting into recovery, or the bootloader, or normal booting?
I've been scouring Google and this forum, and many other forums, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to boot this thing into a custom recovery so I can fix my build.prop through adb.
I'm at a loss. I suck at using ODIN (I only started using it recently when I bought my GTab2 10.1 GT-P5113).
How am I supposed to hack my phone when I can't use ADB, fastboot, or a custom recovery (booting normally hangs also)?
The only thing I don't want to do for a repair is a full wipe. I don't have a way of backing up my data without ADB.
I've tried enclosing various boot, bootloader, and recovery images (img files) into tar files (archives) and sending them to the phone via ODIN using the PDA and/or the BOOTLOADER button(s). I've tried to see if Wug's Toolkit would talk to my phone via ODIN.
Nothing seems to change.
Help!!! Please!!!
Any of the following will do:
1. Tell me how to get adb working.
2. Tell me how to revert ODIN back to the normal boot/bootloader (that works with fastboot) - this would be best. ODIN sucks.
3. Tell me how to get to my files via ODIN.
Please help. This sucks.
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[Q] {Q} Xperia S hard break

Hi,
I've really big problem and i hope that here i get sugestion...
1, I try flash new ROM to my phone. I copy ROM to "SD card" but in wrong version.
After this I into Flashtool get new Kernel and new ver. of TWRecovery. Then I go to recovery and start flashing as every time before...
2, But now I'm in bad sittuation. I can only get into recovery... When i want to go to bootloger, i can't. Every time when I go to bootloger from recovery, i'm back in recovery. Every time is phone reaction the same as I hold power up button+vol. up. And I'm only in recovery.
When I want transfer some ROM to phone, I can't. Cose when I Mount USB massstorage I see phone as "Elementary sys device". I have install ABD device drivers...
Changelog I can't get you, cose it's in "SD card"...
3, Please, Show me "the way" out of this sh*t... I use HTC HD2 few years, all time flashing. Now I use Xperia S for 3 yr. All time flashing. But now I'm in a wrong way ind can't get my phone to standby
Thank you for answers!

magntwo said:
Hi,
I've really big problem and i hope that here i get sugestion...
1, I try flash new ROM to my phone. I copy ROM to "SD card" but in wrong version.
After this I into Flashtool get new Kernel and new ver. of TWRecovery. Then I go to recovery and start flashing as every time before...
2, But now I'm in bad sittuation. I can only get into recovery... When i want to go to bootloger, i can't. Every time when I go to bootloger from recovery, i'm back in recovery. Every time is phone reaction the same as I hold power up button+vol. up. And I'm only in recovery.
When I want transfer some ROM to phone, I can't. Cose when I Mount USB massstorage I see phone as "Elementary sys device". I have install ABD device drivers...
Changelog I can't get you, cose it's in "SD card"...
3, Please, Show me "the way" out of this sh*t... I use HTC HD2 few years, all time flashing. Now I use Xperia S for 3 yr. All time flashing. But now I'm in a wrong way ind can't get my phone to standby
Thank you for answers!
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Boot phone into recovery, then run following command to copy the ROM to phone memory.
Code:
adb push /path/to/ROM.zip /sdcard/
Then flash the ROM via recovery!

Mirhawk said:
Boot phone into recovery, then run following command to copy the ROM to phone memory.
Code:
adb push /path/to/ROM.zip /sdcard/
Then flash the ROM via recovery!
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You mean into terminal command? I need to get phone into fasboot. then I can do what I want.. Now it's dead phone... It was happend when I want to flash yours ROM. But i miss one step, flash boot.img

magntwo said:
You mean into terminal command? I need to get phone into fasboot. then I can do what I want.. Now it's dead phone... It was happend when I want to flash yours ROM. But i miss one step, flash boot.img
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Recovery is TWRP. The one with menu of install, wipe and all. You need to boot into that and use the adb on PC.

Mirhawk said:
Recovery is TWRP. The one with menu of install, wipe and all. You need to boot into that and use the adb on PC.
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Yes, I'm in TWRP, exactly v.2.8.0.1, from topic of your ROM. Bud now I can't connect phone via ABD drivers. I try it via apps and two ways via Commans window.
I'm only in TWRP. I can't get to fastboot, I can't install ROM now, phone reaction is the same as I hold power up+vol up button.
I need one of two ways... 1,get phone connected with PC via fastboot to flash new kernel, boot.img and at least your ROM
2,get phone connected with PC via mass storage, to get some old ROM, flash it and get to fastboot...
For example:

magntwo said:
Yes, I'm in TWRP, exactly v.2.8.0.1, from topic of your ROM. Bud now I can't connect phone via ABD drivers. I try it via apps and two ways via Commans window.
I'm only in TWRP. I can't get to fastboot, I can't install ROM now, phone reaction is the same as I hold power up+vol up button.
I need one of two ways... 1,get phone connected with PC via fastboot to flash new kernel, boot.img and at least your ROM
2,get phone connected with PC via mass storage, to get some old ROM, flash it and get to fastboot...
For example:
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You cannot use fastboot command in recovery, You can use the adb commands only. Did Yo try pushing the ROM to phone?

Mirhawk said:
You cannot use fastboot command in recovery, You can use the adb commands only. Did Yo try pushing the ROM to phone?
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Yes, I was... I have in "sd card" save my last ROM+gapps. As I wrote, two ways when I try it. One is Fail of flash by TWRP, second fall of TWRP during flash.
Ty for "want to help"!

magntwo said:
Yes, I was... I have in "sd card" save my last ROM+gapps. As I wrote, two ways when I try it. One is Fail of flash by TWRP, second fall of TWRP during flash.
Ty for "want to help"!
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Ah apologies, got lost while replying.
Anyways, lets start from basic. Can You try un-installing and installing the fastboot drivers? Because I suspect that's why You are not able to enter into fastboot mode.

Mirhawk said:
Ah apologies, got lost while replying.
Anyways, lets start from basic. Can You try un-installing and installing the fastboot drivers? Because I suspect that's why You are not able to enter into fastboot mode.
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I try it, but no way.. The same.

magntwo said:
I try it, but no way.. The same.
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Can You try using a different PC/Laptop?

Mirhawk said:
Can You try using a different PC/Laptop?
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I tryed my Vaio laptom and Dell laptom from my work. Both wrong... I'm completlly helplessly in this moment.

magntwo said:
I tryed my Vaio laptom and Dell laptom from my work. Both wrong... I'm completlly helplessly in this moment.
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Just a sec, what combination do You use to go into bootloader? Power up+volume up? That is not what Yo do, You disconnect the phone from cable, and then turn off the phone. Then just press volume up, and connect the phone. No other button is needed to be pressed.

Mirhawk said:
Just a sec, what combination do You use to go into bootloader? Power up+volume up? That is not what Yo do, You disconnect the phone from cable, and then turn off the phone. Then just press volume up, and connect the phone. No other button is needed to be pressed.
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Thank you. This is the way.. Now I'm in fastboot.... I gona flash kernel 2.8.0.1, then boot.img from your ROM and finally the ROM

magntwo said:
Thank you. This is the way.. Now I'm in fastboot.... I gona flash kernel 2.8.0.1, then boot.img from your ROM and finally the ROM
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Finally! Follow the procedure here to flash a Kitkat/Lollipop ROM.

Mirhawk said:
Finally! Follow the procedure here to flash a Kitkat/Lollipop ROM.
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Re: one more...
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Originally Posted by magntwo
Sorry, again...
As I wrote, I have in this moment folder with everything, nAOSP 5.0 b12, gapps-lp-20141109-signed, boot-carbon_3-11-14, beta SU v2.44, kernel v2.
As you know, two things, get this folder to phone and get fastboot, in this moment i'll be there, where I want to be
Ty!
Hi, can You please post it in a thread and tag Me? The messages kinda confuse Me!
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Here we're... Thank you.

magntwo said:
Here we're... Thank you.
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Apologies, might have missed out Your quote earlier. So You now have ROM and other stuff in the phone. What problem are You facing Now? Also I would recommend the new released version b14c with kernel from b14d of nAOSP.

Mirhawk said:
Apologies, might have missed out Your quote earlier. So You now have ROM and other stuff in the phone. What problem are You facing Now? Also I would recommend the new released version b14c with kernel from b14d of nAOSP.
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simply... I get to bootloader as we wrote last. Then I flash kernel, and phone died. Now I can only charge or see a Sony logo. I can ONLY this now. no buttons helps, no different cable/slot/PC helps... I'M only in charging mod, after turn on only logo see. no TWRP, no bootloger.

magntwo said:
simply... I get to bootloader as we wrote last. Then I flash kernel, and phone died. Now I can only charge or see a Sony logo. I can ONLY this now. no buttons helps, no different cable/slot/PC helps... I'M only in charging mod, after turn on only logo see. no TWRP, no bootloger.
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So You can't even go into bootloader now? That's weird and also makes this a bit complicated! Because You need to be able to go into bootloader mode to flash a new kernel which has recovery. Hope You are pressing only volume while connecting phone to PC. Drivers are fine as You were able to flash a kernel earlier. Which Kernel did You flash first? If You are able to go into bootloader, then flash this kernel via fastboot mode.

Mirhawk said:
So You can't even go into bootloader now? That's weird and also makes this a bit complicated! Because You need to be able to go into bootloader mode to flash a new kernel which has recovery. Hope You are pressing only volume while connecting phone to PC. Drivers are fine as You were able to flash a kernel earlier. Which Kernel did You flash first? If You are able to go into bootloader, then flash this kernel via fastboot mode.
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Ok, I flash it. But I really can't into bootloader. If I hold vol button, conn cable only red, charging light... Now I really don't know what else.

magntwo said:
Ok, I flash it. But I really can't into bootloader. If I hold vol button, conn cable only red, charging light... Now I really don't know what else.
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So You were able to flash the kernel I gave? Then You should be able to boot into CWM recovery. The Kernel logo will be of a Android bot.

Does anyone have a Nandroid Backup I could Use for the Z00AD?

Hey all, little embarrassing coming here for this, but I'm in a little bit of a jam. I'm new to flashing custom ROMs, and I was trying to flash my first today, and managed to screw everything up in the process. I can boot into Clockwork mod via my PC, and I can still do everything I need to from there, but I was stupid, and didn't make a Nandroid backup before doing so. So I was wondering if anyone here could lend me theirs that I could slap onto an SD card, and recover my phone with. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: Just so we're clear, this isn't an attempt to get personal information. I will take any backups you have, with or without an unlocked bootloader, with or without rooting, with or without custom ROM, anything. Heck, I'd prefer to have it as close to stock as possible, so I can do everything myself. I just need a bit of a bailout here.

Shameful self-bump. I could still really use some help here.

fastboot flash stock recovery
adb side load latest firmware in stock recovery
enjoy

timbernot said:
fastboot flash stock recovery
adb side load latest firmware in stock recovery
enjoy
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That's a little hard to do when the device isn't recognized by my PC, and I can't get it to boot into any recovery that isn't Clockwork mod via my PC.

Misinko said:
That's a little hard to do when the device isn't recognized by my PC, and I can't get it to boot into any recovery that isn't Clockwork mod via my PC.
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how do you boot into Clockwork Mod via your pc when the device isn't recognized by your pc?

tabletalker7 said:
how do you boot into Clockwork Mod via your pc when the device isn't recognized by your pc?
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EDIT: Nevermind, seems I ADB recognizes the device with CWM running. Now I gotta see where to go from there.

Now I've encountered problem number 2: I didn't allow USB debugging for the computer I'm using (USB debugging is ticked in the settings [or at least I think it is], but it's not authorized for my PC). So here's the question: Can I authorize it through Minimal ADB and Fastboot?

Triple post, but it's with a question. I'm nearly positive that this whole ordeal is going on because I tried to boot into recovery mode with the TWRP app when no recovery was available. So now the question is, is there any way I can stop the phone from trying to boot into recovery so I can install a proper one?

Turn it off, then press volume up + power when vibrates, release power while holding volume up, then release volume up as well, it should boot into bootloader where you can fastboot a new recovery.

fastmix said:
Turn it off, then press volume up + power when vibrates, release power while holding volume up, then release volume up as well, it should boot into bootloader where you can fastboot a new recovery.
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Tried that. Doesn't work. Like I said, it keeps booting into the psudo-recovery mode thing. I can't even boot into the bootloader from there.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/guide-brick-soft-hard-bricked-zenfone-2-t3284256
that will help you - besides if you are silly enough to think anyone will just give you something like a backup, come on man, I am dumb but even I am not that dumb

Have u tried to boot into Fastboot from your Cm recovery? If not, there is a way to make the stock firmware flushable by twrp or cm recovery. I don't feel like typing the whole process but if u look around the forum for a sec u should find it pretty easily. Once u do that, everything will be factory again.
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jflow36 said:
Have u tried to boot into Fastboot from your Cm recovery? If not, there is a way to make the stock firmware flushable by twrp or cm recovery. I don't feel like typing the whole process but if u look around the forum for a sec u should find it pretty easily. Once u do that, everything will be factory again.
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I have tried booting from CWM, but TWRP overrides it still. I'll look into flashing stock firmware through CWM though.