Hello, this is my first post here and I'm hoping I can get some help. I spent most of last night searching for an issue similar to my own but I was unsuccessful.
I rooted my G2 and have installed mimicry. However, I am having issues with CWM 5.0.2.7. Whenever I choose to reboot into recovery, the main CWM menu shows up fine. However, if I choose any of the options (e.g. install from SD/card), it takes me to a blank screen with the CWM logo on it and nothing else happens. The phone is stuck on that screen until I take the battery out and reboot. Any ideas on what could be wrong?
Thanks.
are you selecting with power button or track ball?
also consider a touch recovery as you have a touch screen phone.
and more specifically my guess is you will be much happier with 4EXT RECOVERY
demkantor said:
are you selecting with power button or track ball?
also consider a touch recovery as you have a touch screen phone.
and more specifically my guess is you will be much happier with 4ext
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Haha, wow. I used the track ball to select and it worked. All the guides I've read said to use the power button to select. I really appreciate your help.
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OK so i let rom manager update clockwork recovery and now I can get into clockwork recovery but when i pick an option my screen goes black. I can hit home or power and it goes back to the first screen, but I can't flash or get access to anything past the first screen.
Lol, we need to make this issue into some sort of slide joke (anyone?).
Anyway, 2.5.0.1 doesn't use the power button to select things anymore. Use the trackpad on your phone to scroll and select things. We all freaked out the first time this happened to us
KCRic said:
Lol, we need to make this issue into some sort of slide joke (anyone?).
Anyway, 2.5.0.1 doesn't use the power button to select things anymore. Use the trackpad on your phone to scroll and select things. We all freaked out the first time this happened to us
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lol xD
I did this too when I first got the slide. You can still use vol keys to select but power button won't get you anywhere, nor will home or menu haha
Wondering if anyone could help with my problem. I was trying to flash the new market apk, but when I reload into recovery, none of the recovery options work. It will go to a black screen, then if I press power again, it will return to the clockwork recovery menu. To top things off, because it wipes my ROM when I initiate the bootloader (is this a regular thing? it has always happened to me since I've rooted), it tries to load the stock ROM then fails to load all the way. Any help would be appreciated. I tried deleting esprimg.zip as was suggested in someone else's thread, but that didn't do anything. Thanks in advance.
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I'm an idiot, apparently. For some reason, you're supposed to click on the trackpad to verify when you're in clockwork recovery. Was that always the case?
chairhome said:
Wondering if anyone could help with my problem. I was trying to flash the new market apk, but when I reload into recovery, none of the recovery options work. It will go to a black screen, then if I press power again, it will return to the clockwork recovery menu. To top things off, because it wipes my ROM when I initiate the bootloader (is this a regular thing? it has always happened to me since I've rooted), it tries to load the stock ROM then fails to load all the way. Any help would be appreciated. I tried deleting esprimg.zip as was suggested in someone else's thread, but that didn't do anything. Thanks in advance.
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As for wiping when booting into hboot, delete anything that's ESPRIMG.zip or .nbh. I don't know why that wouldn't have fixed it.
For the rest, in clockwork, the trackpad is used for selection, not the power button. You can still use the volume keys for selection, in addition to the trackpad, but you have to push the track pad in to actually select the highlighted option.
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MusicMan374 said:
As for wiping when booting into hboot, delete anything that's ESPRIMG.zip or .nbh. I don't know why that wouldn't have fixed it.
For the rest, in clockwork, the trackpad is used for selection, not the power button. You can still use the volume keys for selection, in addition to the trackpad, but you have to push the track pad in to actually select the highlighted option.
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I just figured it out before I read this. Thank you for the quick response though, I really appreciate it. This would have been the perfect solution if I didn't figure it out. I don't know why I thought that it was power for selecting on clockwork as well. Thanks so much!
chairhome said:
I just figured it out before I read this. Thank you for the quick response though, I really appreciate it. This would have been the perfect solution if I didn't figure it out. I don't know why I thought that it was power for selecting on clockwork as well. Thanks so much!
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No problem, yeah lots of people make that mistake at first, since stock recovery uses the power button. Did you get the whole wiping when booting into hboot fixed though?
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No problem, yeah lots of people make that mistake at first, since stock recovery uses the power button. Did you get the whole wiping when booting into hboot fixed though?
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Not really. I guess a workaround for now is to just boot straight into recovery when I need to flash a zip (through ROM manager), and since I deleted esprimg.zip, it won't try to load it and wipe when I do go into the bootloader.
chairhome said:
Not really. I guess a workaround for now is to just boot straight into recovery when I need to flash a zip (through ROM manager), and since I deleted esprimg.zip, it won't try to load it and wipe when I do go into the bootloader.
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I had that problem once when my battery came out in the middle of a ROM flash. It wouldn't even boot into hboot, it went straight to recovery on every boot until I flashed a ROM again.
Hi im sorry if this question has been asked before..I was trying to install [ROM] Warm Z TwoPointTwo - [RLS 1 - 02/23/2011] - Yabba Dabba Doo via Rom Manager Premium. It started the flashing progress and looked like it was going to go through but then it said installation aborted. The phone booted up and when it got to my home screen it looked like my phone just did a factory wipe. All my apps were gone and I had to sign back into google as if I just got the phone out the box. Please help.
First of all WELCOME!!!
Im assuming that you are rooted correctly with s-off so do this for me. Place the .zip of the rom on to your SD card (not in a folder of the sd card, on the root of it) . Now, turn your phone off. Now, hold the volume down button and while still holding press the power button to turn on the phone. You should be taken to a bootloader screen. now press the volume down button to scroll to "recovery" now press the power button to select. Your phone should reboot into recovery. Now goto wipe and wipe the first 3 options listed by pressing the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select. Once completed goto where it says flash zip on sd card (something along those lines ) find your zip then press the powerbutton to select it. Now select reboot or power off phone and you should be good to go with the rom.
Also pat yourself on the back for killing a kitten...
you should have checked this thread out first but your new. So PLEASE, for the sake of the XDA community. Visit THIS THREAD TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING ROM FLASHING AND BACKING UP
oh ok ill try that and sorry I shouldve checked the other threads but ill try what you said and Ill post back thanks
Kelsey Jones said:
Hi im sorry if this question has been asked before..I was trying to install [ROM] Warm Z TwoPointTwo - [RLS 1 - 02/23/2011] - Yabba Dabba Doo via Rom Manager Premium. It started the flashing progress and looked like it was going to go through but then it said installation aborted. The phone booted up and when it got to my home screen it looked like my phone just did a factory wipe. All my apps were gone and I had to sign back into google as if I just got the phone out the box. Please help.
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Welcome. You will like Warm Z, but, in my opinion, you will love Warm TwoPointTwo RLS-5, but to each his/her own.
Shut down your EVO. Now press and hold the volume down button and then press the power button. You will enter the bootloader screen. Select recovery. I don't know what recovery you have (Clockworkmod or amon RA) so the menus will be slightly different. I'm an amon RA user. Anyway, select the wipe menu and wipe the following at least twice:
Data/factory reset
cache
dalvik cache
DO NOT REBOOT
Maneuver to the flash menu and then select the rom you're going to flash and flash it. Afterwards, reboot and be patient. You may appear to hang at both the white HTC screen and the Warm splash screen. That's normal. Once you've gotten to your homescreen, login with your credentials. You should be good to go now.
Yes I use WarmTwoPointTwo RLS 5 as well. Great ROM with sooo many customization options. I attached a screenshot of my main screen. See all the transparency with beautiful widgets live weather wallpaper? I love it!!!
blakeboys said:
First of all WELCOME!!!
Im assuming that you are rooted correctly with s-off so do this for me. Place the .zip of the rom on to your SD card (not in a folder of the sd card, on the root of it) . Now, turn your phone off. Now, hold the volume down button and while still holding press the power button to turn on the phone. You should be taken to a bootloader screen. now press the volume down button to scroll to "recovery" now press the power button to select. Your phone should reboot into recovery. Now goto wipe and wipe the first 3 options listed by pressing the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select. Once completed goto where it says flash zip on sd card (something along those lines ) find your zip then press the powerbutton to select it. Now select reboot or power off phone and you should be good to go with the rom.
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I tried your method and the message i got in recovery is
Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported.
Amend scripting was deprecated by Google in Andriod 1.5
It was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery.
Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update binary) to create working update zip packages.
Installation Aborted.
ok I think I've seen this before. check this thread out that should help (post 3). Post back to let us know, then we can go from there.
ok it seemed to work this time. i had to choose a different recovery but now im at the warm z boot animation screen....just waiting for it to go to the home screen. thanks for all your help guys
exactly how long does it take to go to the home screeen
Kelsey Jones said:
ok it seemed to work this time. i had to choose a different recovery but now im at the warm z boot animation screen....just waiting for it to go to the home screen. thanks for all your help guys
exactly how long does it take to go to the home screeen
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Upon first load it can take up to 5 minutes....any more than that you probably have a bootloop, so re-flash then install the rom again.
Kelsey Jones said:
ok it seemed to work this time. i had to choose a different recovery but now im at the warm z boot animation screen....just waiting for it to go to the home screen. thanks for all your help guys
exactly how long does it take to go to the home screeen
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YAY!!!!!! The first initial boot may take a few minutes just be patient just as you been thus far.
After it boots up your good to go! Might want to install titanium backup premium for your apps so when you flash other ROMs you can easily batch restore your apps.
Also, Once you customize the rom to your liking reboot into recovery and do a NANDROID backup. Once you have a backup you can flash other roms and if you dont like them all you have to do is a NANDROID Restore and you will have everything back to normal as if you never flashed anything at all
So have fun and try different ROMs, a caveat it is ADDICTING! Ask anyone here. So good luck and try Warm twopointtwo (see my signature)
blakeboys said:
Yes I use WarmTwoPointTwo RLS 5 as well. Great ROM with sooo many customization options. I attached a screenshot of my main screen. See all the transparency with beautiful widgets live weather wallpaper? I love it!!!
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NICE! Sorry for disappearing. I had to go and pick up one of my daughter's friends and will be dropping them off at the mall momentarily.
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Kelsey Jones said:
I tried your method and the message i got in recovery is
Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported.
Amend scripting was deprecated by Google in Andriod 1.5
It was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery.
Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update binary) to create working update zip packages.
Installation Aborted.
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Flash amon RA 2.3 and get in the habit of not using ROM Manager. It is far too easy and effective to do your flashing directly from within recovery. Be sure to make a nandroid backup everything you make a significant change to your setup because you can always nandroid restore to what you had prior to the changes you've made.
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okay it went to the homescreen. this is a beautiful ROM thanks to all that helped me
Oh Dang...I'm behind on my replies....sorry. Normally, I read backwards from the last reply, but this time, I didnt. My apologies to the those who've already answered your questions and helped you out. Take care.
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Kelsey Jones said:
okay it went to the homescreen. this is a beautiful ROM thanks to all that helped me
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No Problem, Glad we could help and thanks for posting your question in the Q&A and not the General Forum.
FIXED!
I haven't been doing anything with my HTCZ phone(s) root wise for a long time. Everything has been working OK. I booted into recovery mode today and found out that CWM doesn't seem to work. I get the menu starting with "-reboot ...." with bluish text and I can traverse the various menu entries but when I choose an menu entry (POWER) all I get is the CWM hat logo but nothing happens. When I press POWER again I come back to the initial menu.
Whats up with that? Rom Manager doesn't report any problems. I have tried reflashing CWM but it does not help.
I get no errormessages in CWM.
What am I missing? Any help much appreciated.
Try using the track pad rather than the power button
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When I upgraded to the CWM Touch Recovery it works. BUT when I turn off the telephone and then insert the charger the phone is booted into CWM Touch Recovery. That is annoying. I remember I tried touch recovery long time ago and when back to the old one because of this. Anyways I'll settle for this for now.
When I had my DZ I found that the power button never worked properly in CWM. Always used the trackpad, both for moving up/down and for clicking.
Kinda wish I could still have a trackpad in newer phones But with CWM and TWRP having touch support it's not so bad.
Guys, I just installed a pre-rooted image ( I9505XXUBMGA) and it's working fine, but I have no recovery of any kind? I tried installing CWM by flashing through Odin, but trying recovery keys means it just goes to a black screen and then reboots once you let the keys go and boots into the phone as per normal - also tried installing Goo manager and TWRP but no joy there either.
A bit of an oddity is that after installing the above, I installed ROM manager, which subsequently detects TWRP (even though it was uninstalled at this point) but selecting 'reboot to recovery' means it reboots into CWM!! I definitely can't get CWM through the recovery key combination though....
I'm pretty stuffed without any kind of recovery at all, so am not sure where to go from here? Help anyone?
DekHog said:
Guys, I just installed a pre-rooted image ( I9505XXUBMGA) and it's working fine, but I have no recovery of any kind? I tried installing CWM by flashing through Odin, but trying recovery keys means it just goes to a black screen and then reboots once you let the keys go and boots into the phone as per normal - also tried installing Goo manager and TWRP but no joy there either.
A bit of an oddity is that after installing the above, I installed ROM manager, which subsequently detects TWRP (even though it was uninstalled at this point) but selecting 'reboot to recovery' means it reboots into CWM!! I definitely can't get CWM through the recovery key combination though....
I'm pretty stuffed without any kind of recovery at all, so am not sure where to go from here? Help anyone?
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Instead of holding power + volume the whole time, try letting go of the power button as soon as you feel it vibrate but keep the volume up pressed. Once you see the first splash screen with Recovery Booting in the upper left, you can go ahead and let go of the volume button as well.
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Instead of holding power + volume the whole time, try letting go of the power button as soon as you feel it vibrate but keep the volume up pressed. Once you see the first splash screen with Recovery Booting in the upper left, you can go ahead and let go of the volume button as well.
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Jeez, it's always the simplest of things!! Slightly different than my old S2 then...... thanks, bud, you saved me hours of hair pulling!! Any recommendations for an app that'll detect the CWM? I thought ROM manager would, but obviously not..... not in my case anyway.... not the end of the world, as long as CWM is working, that's the main thing!
Edit: Cancel the above, I got ROM Manager working......