I've tried searching, but there are so many "variances" in my situ. I figure I'll never find a complete answer.
Contract is up, so I would like to get it back to unrooted, stock with stock recovery.
Background
I got the EVO 4G in December, 2010, I honestly do not recall whether I used Unrevoked or Revolutionary to root it. I thought it was Unrevoked, but found a Revolutionary folder on the PC, it's had ROM manager and CWM since the beginning.
In the two years I've had it, I tried a few ROMs. The last one started getting buggy last month, so I installed a rooted stock rom 2.2.
I installed a stock unrooted ROM 5.07.651.1, then flashed stock - recovery.img.
HBOOT 2.10.0001 S-OFF
After that was all complete, everything looked good...
I did vol down - power and got the red triangle & exclamation point.
The next day I simply turned the phone on and got the red triangle & exclamation point.
Did a battery pull, waited 5 mins same thing.
Waited an hour, battery back in and powered up fine, except I ran Root Checker and it still had root.
I reinstalled ROM Manager and CWM to be able to look at things closer.
Now, I get the red triangle & exclamation point intermittently on boot-up and everytime I try to do a recovery after vol down - power press or through ROM Manager's "Reboot into Recovery" option.
At this point, I'm in over my head, I don't want to brick it, so I'm looking to more experienced folks for help.
Thanks In Advance,
Can you boot into CWM, or is that when you get the red triangle? Sounds like you need to reinstall your recovery. I (and many others) prefer an Amon Ra-based recovery, like Smelkus, over CWM on my OG EVO. Do a search for it here on XDA.
Sent using my HTC EVO LTE and a magic wand
I got the red triangle (as expected) doing vol down & power on. Did not expect it after volume up and power on, CWM would not load either.
The issue was something was corrupted.
I did an RUU with an older version of a stock ROM and recovery, now all is well.
Thanks,
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tried to boot in to recovery and got a screen with a white triangle and a yellow exclamation point inside above an android robot.
the suggestion is to battery pull. anyone else have this issue? if so, what's the procedure on reboot?
thanks.
I think that's the Stock Recovery Menu ( i kept getting it when i was trying to install the Patches from Fresh & used Clockwork Recovery because the two weren't compatible ).
Do you definitely have a Custom Recovery installed?
You pressed the power button instead of the optical trackpad when trying to reboot from custom recovery
Optical trackpad? What Evo has one of those? LMAO!
Flash Clockwork recovery or AmonRa recovery. You have stock (no recovery).
It is hard to answer your question without further specifics.
For example:
1.) Are you rooted?
a.) If yes, what are you trying to boot into recovery for? - flash radio/wimax or rom???
b.) If no, go to Android Development and read how to Root and install a custom recovery.
2.) If you have a custom recovery, what is it?
to put it simpler than this.
1. What ROM do you have?
2. What custom recovery do you have?
3. What step did you do to get into recovery? - from android or from boot up?
*If you pull a battery while trying to flash a radio, you might have the coolest looking paper weight in your part of the town
Hello shawnathan9!
I have similar problem with my Nexus one.
I have a rooted phone (used superoneclick to root)
Installed clockworkmod and flashed it with the recovery image.
Since I wanted to install latest cynogenmod I used clockworkmod to install the latest radio for it. Now when the phone rebooted it is hung diplaying a white triangle with and exclamation mark inside it. I haven't removed my battery yet and have plugged it to a power source. Can you help me ?
You're rooted, but you are trying to access recovery, but you don't have one loaded. Search google for Amon_RA or clockwork recovery to flash. If you have rom manager, you should be able to flash either or and it should work.
I did the unrevolked 3 and got it rooted. Then I booted it up into the recovery mode and ran clockworkmod. Now how do I get a rom (like mikfroyo 4.5) on it? I tried booting and selecting a zip from my sd card(which mikfroyo 4.5 is on it in zip form still) But it would not finish/aborted ? What am I doing wrong? I have the sptint HTC EVO 4 g phone with all the latest hboot ect on it.
charlieborg44 said:
I did the unrevolked 3 and got it rooted. Then I booted it up into the recovery mode and ran clockworkmod. Now how do I get a rom (like mikfroyo 4.5) on it? I tried booting and selecting a zip from my sd card(which mikfroyo 4.5 is on it in zip form still) But it would not finish/aborted ? What am I doing wrong? I have the sptint HTC EVO 4 g phone with all the latest hboot ect on it.
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It did say no sd-ext found, skipping backup of sd-ext. in Clockworkmod. Still getting the white triangle with the yellow ! in it?
bhaismachine said:
Hello shawnathan9!
I have similar problem with my Nexus one.
I have a rooted phone (used superoneclick to root)
Installed clockworkmod and flashed it with the recovery image.
Since I wanted to install latest cynogenmod I used clockworkmod to install the latest radio for it. Now when the phone rebooted it is hung diplaying a white triangle with and exclamation mark inside it. I haven't removed my battery yet and have plugged it to a power source. Can you help me ?
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That is part of updating the radio. Just let it finish and it will reboot into recovery. The phone has to go to that screen to update the radio. You may be able to save it by booting into that screen and just let it sit there for a while...eat dinner...take a dump...do whatever and come back and see if your phone is in recovery. I would turn it off and charge it first to make sure you have enough battery to finish the update.
I have the same experience, when I updates to Gingerbread (OTA).
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That is part of updating the radio. Just let it finish and it will reboot into recovery. The phone has to go to that screen to update the radio. You may be able to save it by booting into that screen and just let it sit there for a while...eat dinner...take a dump...do whatever and come back and see if your phone is in recovery. I would turn it off and charge it first to make sure you have enough battery to finish the update.
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Hello thank you so much for your information. I will leave the phone in that mode (screen hung with triangle an exclamation mark inside + android green logo below) and plug in the charger, until tomorrow morning. Then I have a question if tomorrow the phone still hung in that screen mode, what I have to do?
If you can give me solution, I would be very thankful. Happening in August 23, 2011.
Android_maniac said:
Hello thank you so much for your information. I will leave the phone in that mode (screen hung with triangle an exclamation mark inside + android green logo below) and plug in the charger, until tomorrow morning. Then I have a question if tomorrow the phone still hung in that screen mode, what I have to do?
If you can give me solution, I would be very thankful. Happening in August 23, 2011.
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After 2 days, trying to download updates firmware (OTA) GingerBread on HTC Evo 4G, I failed because the phone has been rooted, I found a "superuser permision" app. in the the All apps menu.This meant it is a rooted android phone, which will not permitted to update firmware OTA, is this true? If yes, this is the cause of screen hung at triangle with exclamation inside, and android green logo below.
August 26,2011.
Thats what my phone is doing the clockworksmod menu will not come up only see the
white triangle with the exc symbal with the android symbal. have to pull the battery out ot reset but phone still loads up and works.
My EVO 4G will no longer boot into recovery, it just sits at the white HTC EVO 4g screen and never goes anywhere past that. Nothing has changed on my phone except I did get an upgrade for Superuser, it is running version 2.3.5 and the Su binary v 2131230734. This is the only thing that has changed on my phone but for some reason I cannot boot into recovery anymore. I am using clockworkmod 2.5.0.1 recovery and in Rom Manager, doing reboot in Recovery it is staying at the white HTC Evo 4g screen. I have also tried holding the volume down button when powering on the phone and choosing recovery and from there it is doing the same thing. I have tried reflashing clockwordmod in rom manager and still no success. At this point I am not sure which direction to go since I would like to backup my current rom install a different rom since my wifi tether suddenly stopped working. Does anyone have any suggestion on a fix for this? Thank you.
My phone does this every once in a while. A battery pull usually solves it. I don't know man.
Maybe you should try and battery pull for about 30 seconds to a minute, if that doesn't work, I would flash a different recovery and try again.
I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).
After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.
And that's where I am at... looking back, I could have summed that up.
Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.
jon_f said:
I finally decided the other day that I would like to flash custom roms, in particular Cyanogen. After enough reading and watching some "How to's", I ran Visionary+ (v14) and all seemed to work smoothly. Having root/super user access, I took the next steps of downloading Rom Manager and flashing a Clockwork recovery rom, rebooted into recovery but after one selection, I was presented with an exclamation mark on a black background. Now, I'm not one to dabble too much with new equipment, so after the freak out, I thought I'd practice on the old HTC Hero (GSM).
After gaining root access, again with Visionary+, and all the other malarkey, when booting holding power and volume down, I am not presented with the option to enter recovery.
Is there anywhere that I am going wrong? As I feel I am so close to getting my head around this. I'd love to have another bash. Any help would be appreciated.
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Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.
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Sounds like Clockwork Recovery has not flashed correctly, you might have more luck flashing with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
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If you mean from the boot menu (achieved by holding power+volume down - not sure of the actual name), again, I don't seem to have the option to "flash recovery". From fastboot, I have the options to HBoot Mode (vol down) or Reset Device (menu).
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You must wait until the clockwork recovery is fully downloaded and installed. I tried that 3 times before I finally managed to get it installed due to internet issues.
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Within RomManager, it does indicate I have the ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1 and it did say "Successfully flashed Clockwork recovery". Maybe I need to throw it at the wall. That seems to make problems go away.
I have a rooted (Supersonic EVT2-2 SHIP S-OFF; HBOOT-0.93.0000) EVO that I'm running Warm 2.2 RLS 4 on. I have it set up the way that I wanted and it is running perfect (enough for me).
Yesterday, I caught a glimpse of the MIUI ROM that has an iPhone theme so I wanted to try it out. So, I used Titanium to back up my apps and data to my SD card (8GB with 3GB open). Then, I went to ROM Manager to back up my ROM. I saw that there was an update for the ClockworkMod Recovery so flashed it up to 3.0.0.5. Then I went to Backup Current ROM, kept the suggested name, and hit OK. After a few seconds, the Splash Screen (white HTC EVO 4G) briefly shows, the phone buzzes and then I'm on the initial Bootloader menu screen (with the three Androids at the bottom).
I highlight Bootloader, then I hit the Power button to go to the next set of menus, and the phone does it's checks. After the checks, I push the Volume Down button to go to Recovery, then hit the Power button. The splash screen shows again, the phone buzzes, and I'm back at the initial Bootloader screen.
Whether I use the Quick Boot app, the ROM Manager app, or the Power and Volume Down method, I cannot get past the Bootloader screen to get into Recovery. All I get is Splash, buzz, then the initial Bootloader. Warm 2.2 RLS4 is a nice stable ROM, but I am starting to feel limited, which is why I rooted the phone a few months ago.
Could someone PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZSSSSSSEEEEE help me with this? I have been reading forums and Googling this issue for hours and I can't find an answer. I am far from a comp engineer, but I can follow instructions pretty well.
Thanks a million!
Try using ROM Manager to reflash your recovery, that should fix it for you.
Fourth times the charm! WHEEWWW!!!
It's seems to be working now and I'm backing up my ROM as I type. I went into ROM Manager and flashed it again and this time I went into Recovery straight from ROM Manager (I had did it indirectly via the ROM backup before) and I saw a orange and black menu, instead of the green and black. COOOLLLL!!!!
I tried to go into recovery from the Quick Boot app and that works too, NIICCEE!!!
I guess after you flash the ClockworkMod Recovery, you have to "initialize" it by going to it directly from ROM Manager, or else any other method you try won't work? I'm not sure but it seems like it.
A good lesson, glad I can fully enjoy the EVO again.
Cheers!
Glad you got it figured out
I'm sorry I accidently had posted this question in the development forum. Mods please delete that thread.
Guys I need your help. I had 4.0.4 and then I unlocked and rooted my phone to get Jelly Bean (installed V1) following the walkthrough (the day it was released). Tonight I wanted to get to V3 so I made my backups (note not nandroid, just on Titanium & Go Backup) and tried to boot into Recovery Mode. Did the whole vol & power thing and got to the Fastboot mode. Selected Recovery Mode from the menu and was hoping to get to the screen where I can wipe and do the nandroid backup and all. But it shows the Google lock screen (unlocked icon) and then shows the android guy on its back, chest open and a red triangle. I remember having this a while ago when I was unlocking the phone and flashing JB on it but it was no problem. This time it just stays on this red triangle for a while and then the phone reboots (no menu for wipe, backup etc) but the kicker is that it stays stuck on the nexus jelly bean (the "x") animation forever and does not move from there. I've tried to wait it out for over 15 minutes and nothing. I can't even go back to stock on this as I'm using Wugs toolkit and the phone is not recognized in the list devices (I have Win8). I need to get this working as soon as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Did you try ODIN back? I had this problem, but instead of the red triangle, I had the EXCLAMATION mark between a PC and phone icon. Somewhere along the line I messed up with the files and soft-bricked my phone. ODIN would be your last bet, but for me, nothing worked.
Got a replacement next day (covered by warranty)... Good luck, dude...
I met the same problem when I flash JB (JRN84D ROM) from 4.0.4. When I saw "red triangle", I just kept pressing power and press volume up and then it brought me to recovery page. However, be careful, after I did data wipe, I lost all of kernels, rom, cwm recovery...in my phone. it was my first time to flash a phone so I must have done something wrong so now I have 4.1 but re-locked and don't know how to root it again and get CWM back. But at least, you can try power and volume up when you see "red triangle" to enter recovery mode.
sueshake,
thanks for that handy tip with the power and vol up combo. At least now I have some access to phone...thanks
will keep u updated on the progress
You are welcome. Be careful if you want to do superwipe. I guess I almost bricked my phone by doing that. Fortunately, I did flash 4.1 stock rom successfully before wiping data, though I am not sure how I made it from 4.0.4.