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[Q] How to boot to recovery?

Hey peeps - another annoying n00b question (sorry)
I have the Doom v3 kernel and stock 2.3.3
Just want to know how I can boot into recovery so I can install a ROM zip?
I have tried every combination of buttons on startup including Power then tapping and holding Back and I cant get into recovery mode.
Please help i really want to try the GingerStation rom

Turn device off. When off press the power button once, then start tapping any hardware button untill device boots into recovery. You can also try doomlords xCharge app from the market.
Sorry i havent been very active in the forums recently. I will be updating rom soon with some cool features and a new name
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I have tried xCharge, all it does is reboots the phone
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Simmo3D said:
I have tried xCharge, all it does is reboots the phone
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You have to turn the phone on, when you see the first image of the android on the screen keep tapping the back button, you will get in trust me I had the same problem

Simmo3D said:
I have tried xCharge, all it does is reboots the phone
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AFAIK you have to boot into recovery the standard way. Like the person above described. Once you do that CWM creates a directory in /cache called "recovery" then xCharge works fine

OmG it worked.. thanks alot guys!!
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hi guys having same problem everything installed ok but wont boot into recovery either way any ideas

brockyneo said:
hi guys having same problem everything installed ok but wont boot into recovery either way any ideas
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Did you try everything from this thread?
eg. Pushing back/wolume button (or maybe other) when the led lights.
If yes. Try get to it using command or reflash boot.img
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I have a stock Play, but I'm not good to reboot into recovery....

akira.pwr said:
I have a stock Play, but I'm not good to reboot into recovery....
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Have you installed CWM?

No, I don't know how to do it...

akira.pwr said:
No, I don't know how to do it...
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Are you rooted?
If not, do you know how to do that?

No, it's completely stock, I've read I have to flash a file in recovery, I've got it, but I don't know how to reboot in recovery with button combination.

To get cwm, root using doomlords easy toolkit, search development
Then install this app and click install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pvy.CWMinstaler
After you have installed that, boot on your phone, and when you see the sony ericsson screen, repeatedly tap volume down until you get into cwm

WOW! It's very easy this way, thanks a lot
Another quick question, now bootloader is unlocked?
Can I flash any custom roms like any other device? (flash in recovery mode)
Thanks again.

That way i showed is to install CWM with a LOCKED bootloader.
This will allow you to flash STOCK based roms, no others
This is not unlocking bootloader, just getting CWM
If you want to unlock your bootloader, you have to go to the sony website or pay to unlock it

Oh, so I can't flash CM roms, but I can with stock based, right?
I knew about Sony website, but I though there was other ways to have the bootloader unlocked.
Well, thank you a lot, now I have to find a good stock based rom.

akira.pwr said:
Oh, so I can't flash CM roms, but I can with stock based, right?
I knew about Sony website, but I though there was other ways to have the bootloader unlocked.
Well, thank you a lot, now I have to find a good stock based rom.
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Yeah!
Before anything, make a nandroid backup!

I have to upgrade to latest fw with flashtool (in Italy we haven't), I'm learning all this night, but most of work is done thanks to you.

akira.pwr said:
I have to upgrade to latest fw with flashtool (in Italy we haven't), I'm learning all this night, but most of work is done thanks to you.
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Happy to help

Need serious help. Phone not booting

So,I tried installing CM10 following instructions from lloirs thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835285).
I flashed the boot.img in the first step because he says it is a better option.
After that I proceeded to flash the CM10 zip file, but the install failed.
After that my phone wouldn't boot, so I did a restore from CWM and now my phone is stuck on the HTC One screen for a good half an hour.
Please help. Really need the phone tomorrow.

v_i said:
So,I tried installing CM10 following instructions from lloirs thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835285).
I flashed the boot.img in the first step because he says it is a better option.
After that I proceeded to flash the CM10 zip file, but the install failed.
After that my phone wouldn't boot, so I did a restore from CWM and now my phone is stuck on the HTC One screen for a good half an hour.
Please help. Really need the phone tomorrow.
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Can you enter into hboot?

andrewnelson23 said:
Can you enter into hboot?
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yes I can.

Had very same problem this morning had my phone stuck for hours cause nandroid on sd card got destroyed somehow. Thank god for drop box And the many other stash backups I made, And for my wife she fixed it.
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flash any other rom.. With the perfect kernel.. and don't panic nothing has happened to ur phone.. have gone through it many times while testing my roms like miui
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Moved to Q&A. Please post all questions there, thanks.

paarthdesai said:
flash any other rom.. With the perfect kernel.. and don't panic nothing has happened to ur phone.. have gone through it many times while testing my roms like miui
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Which ROM would be safe? Because I used the correct Kernel with this as well. Think I should go with the CM9?

for time being use rc 5.0..With kiss kernel.. full wipe first
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you are a lucky man.
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paarthdesai said:
for time being use rc 5.0..With kiss kernel.. full wipe first
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Thanks so much. Ended up installing CM10. But flashing again worked.
Guess I panicked a bit.

[Q] Strange problems with my Gio...

Yesterday, my gio was working totally normal, I was running the CM7 Apocalypse rom. It was acting kind of funny, so I decided to flash back to my stock rom. The flash seemed to go as expected, except now when I boot my phone, its a totally black screen. It plays the sound that it makes when it starts, so its doing something. There is also no recovery. I can get it into download mode, except no matter what rom i flash it still has the black screen. The backlight is on and the screen turns on for download mode, so there isn't anything wrong with the screen. Also, my phone is the GT-S5660M model from Bell. Help?

no matter what rom i flash it still has the black screen
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How do You "flash" without download mode or recovery? Oo

Jaball said:
How do You "flash" without download mode or recovery? Oo
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I CAN get into download mode. I've tried to flash back to stock. I've also tried to flash CWM but none of it worked. I dont think its bricked because when I flashed the stock rom it played the sound it makes when it starts. The screen is just screwed up somehow.

A short search reveals this, apparently we've been there already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619401

Flash your stock rom using Odin....

walaoehh said:
Flash your stock rom using Odin....
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Thats the weird thing, I've already done that a bunch of times and the black screen is still there. The screen isn't damaged or anything. It's like something is persisting across flashes.

Did you wipe before installing stock with Odin?
Which one you're trying to flash? S5660XXKTL_S5660DBTKT1_DBT?

crlgio said:
Did you wipe before installing stock with Odin?
Which one you're trying to flash? S5660XXKTL_S5660DBTKT1_DBT?
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I didn't wipe. Is there a way to wipe if you can't get to CWM? The package I was trying to flash is called S5660MUGKG3_S5660MBMCKG3_BMC.

geckoguy said:
Thats the weird thing, I've already done that a bunch of times and the black screen is still there. The screen isn't damaged or anything. It's like something is persisting across flashes.
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Omg... See how if u choose auto reboot when flashing...

have you tried the Emergency firmware recovery in Kies?

Try redownloading firmware, btw be sure that is for canadian gio ...
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Frankin96 said:
Try redownloading firmware, btw be sure that is for canadian gio ...
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I've tried all of your guys suggestions and none have worked. I guess I'm going to use this as an exuse to get a new phone. Do you guys have any suggestions for a phone around $200? I'm trying to find one that has at least a 1 Ghz processor.

geckoguy said:
I've tried all of your guys suggestions and none have worked. I guess I'm going to use this as an exuse to get a new phone. Do you guys have any suggestions for a phone around $200? I'm trying to find one that has at least a 1 Ghz processor.
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ace plus/ace 2

Xperia U, updated to ics by sony ,dual core
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voetbalremco said:
ace plus/ace 2
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I have found a HTC Sensation online and I think I'm going to get that. Thanks for all your help guys.

[Q] Inescapable Bootloop So Far

I tried to flash cm10.1 from 9.1 stable but nothing would boot after. came to believe that they stopped anzu development at 10.0 so then wanted to flash for just 10.0. but i cannot escape the bootloader and thus cannot load the zip to my sdcard. i have tried flashing lt15i v. 4.0.2.A.042 using flashtool like 10 or more times it says it completes successfully but everytime, bootloop. ive tried the remove battery for 30 seconds and restart computer. still no luck. so pretty stuck now. can anyone kindly point me in the right direction?
ps im right about the 10.1 not being available right? is this what has caused this problem? also forgot to mention i fastboot the 10.0 img as well in the hope this might work and i also fastbooted recoveryimg afterwards.
edit: tried seus it just says i have latest update. pc companion wont connect because phone just keeps looping.
edit 2: i loaded the doomkernel which has allowed me to access cwm i performed a restore from one i had but it just loaded to a black lit screen. at a loss for where to go from here.

cheetaa said:
ps im right about the 10.1 not being available right? is this what has caused this problem? also forgot to mention i fastboot the 10.0 img as well in the hope this might work and i also fastbooted recoveryimg afterwards.
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Our device does not have a recovery partition! Recovery is included in the boot.img. And where did you get that from?

soumya_digi said:
Our device does not have a recovery partition! Recovery is included in the boot.img. And where did you get that from?
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yeah that was actually my next course of action. to get the boot.img for 9.1 and flash that back on, see if that will get things working again. i got the cm from freexperiaproject. let me know if you have any further ideas for me or if you think this will work now when i give it a try. i will post back if i am successful or not.
thanks
edit: correction, i must have got 9.1 from cyanogen.org to be precise.
ps: once and if i get this back in working order, would you mind recommending which build i should go with for best solid usage. ie should i go with the nightly (probably not i would imagine) or like the 7.1.0 stable build or what have you. reason i was trying to go to 10.1 from the stable 9.1 was because of the wifi being dropped after a certain amount of idle time. i figured this had something to do with the build. anyways, let me know i would appreciate it.
edit 2: haha phone is back working, shouldve thought of that solution before, i guess im still learning the ins and out of these systems. do hope to hear back on what build you would suggest. thanks again

Tred to flash the kernel included?
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TheHaso said:
Tred to flash the kernel included?
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yeah thats exactly what i did everythings working again. dont know why i didnt think of it earlier lol, been sick these past days brain isnt working fast enough.thanks for the help anyways man.

[Q] Indefinite boot screen, regardless of ROM

Hi guys,
Hope you can help with the below. Ive recently bought this phone to be used globally.
I had unlocked (HTC dev), rooted, and ROMed, and it was running fine for a few days.
However, it was starting to freeze up on me and i pulled battery to prevent it from overheating. When I got home, I tried reflashing a few roms on it, but regardless of rom, I can't get past boot animation. I have tried with and without, fastboot flash boot boot.img, but either way has not helped get past bootloop.
I had wiped everything, even formatted the SD card but still nothing works. The phone is able to get to HBOOT and recovery, but am I SOL on this? Could it be something screwy with the partitions?
Any ideas? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,

Go to my dev thread n download antivenom sdw give that a shot then reinstall rom
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problem solved
chillybean said:
Go to my dev thread n download antivenom sdw give that a shot then reinstall rom
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thanks man, your roms are awesome btw