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[Q] How To Nandroid Restore? *Without Computer*

I am on CM6 Nightlies and I flashed the Gala S Theme. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop. Is there a way to nandroid restore without a computer?
Thanks.

This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.

hecklbrg said:
This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.
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ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.

If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...

jahnile said:
If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...
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He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)

brndnwbb said:
ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.
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you can run the older method of recovery from when before we could flash nand, i dont have the link, but a search should turn it up.

thecodemonk said:
He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)
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This takes me to Android System Recovery
-Reboot System Now
-Apply sdcard:update.zip
-wipe data/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
i'm not even sure, which recovery i have. i used toastcfh method to root.
is that amon ra?

Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!

wipe
hooover said:
Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!
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and that would just wipe the theme?
and not everything else?

Boot Loop

Where to begin...
I have had ARHD GSM 2.1.2 working flawlessly since I have had the phone. I put the charger in the phone, pulled it out straight away and the Wave Secure app tried to initiate (data backup on charger only). When I put the charger back in the battery (Circles Mod by Hoolm) was stuck flashing battery percentage and charge bolt even when not charging.
I thought it was a good time to do a fresh install anyway so I superwiped lite and flashed ARHD 2.1.5. Reinstalled all my apps from the market fresh and then tried to perform a titanium backup...
The phone turned off and is now stuck in a permanent boot loop. I managed to use mskip toolkit to put it in recovery once and ran superwipe, wipe dalvik, fix permissions, re-flash ARHD 2.1.5 and then reboot.
Now it is stuck in a permanent boot loop and I cannot get it into recovery...HELP!

The only alternate screen I can get to is the ODIN screen by holding vol down and power....it says downloading but nothing happens.

Can you use fastboot from the mobil odin screen?
Flash the recovery.img maybe.
But can you not get into the bootloader menu at all?

Unfortunately, no. It just says "downloading - do not turn off target" where the option to enter fastboot should be.
Jubakuba said:
Can you use fastboot from the mobil odin screen?
Flash the recovery.img maybe.
But can you not get into the bootloader menu at all?
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dont use odin.
turn pull the battery, put it back in, press and hold both vol up and down and press and hold the power button.
that's fastboot mode.

HUGE thank you.
I am in recovery! Now what is best practice to get phone back into working order???
Zepius said:
dont use odin.
turn pull the battery, put it back in, press and hold both vol up and down and press and hold the power button.
that's fastboot mode.
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do you have a nandroid backup? if so, restore that. if you still bootloop, get back to recovery, wipe data and cache.

When I try and go to recovery I get the android bot with a red exclamation point coming out of it. It won't let me get to recovery.
Is this the point where something is definitely wrong and I have to send it to samsung for warranty repair?
I am pretty sure I can flash ICL53f and relock the bootloader.
Zepius said:
do you have a nandroid backup? if so, restore that. if you still bootloop, get back to recovery, wipe data and cache.
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sacksyboy said:
When I try and go to recovery I get the android bot with a red exclamation point coming out of it. It won't let me get to recovery.
Is this the point where something is definitely wrong and I have to send it to samsung for warranty repair?
I am pretty sure I can flash ICL53f and relock the bootloader.
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You don't have the green android with the belly open that has 16 blue squares inside it? If you do, use the volume keys to move between Power off, Start, Restart bootloader, and Recovery mode. Press the power button in the "Recovery mode option." If you don't have this screen, then use fastboot commands, and flash Google Factory Images. You don't need to send it into Samsung for warranty, nothing is wrong. Lol.

I do have the recovery option from fastboot mode.
It is when I select recovery that I get the green android with the belly open and a exclamation point. It will not go any further once I select recovery.
I flashed ICL53F and I still get the exclamation when trying to get to recovery.
anton2009 said:
You don't have the green android with the belly open that has 16 blue squares inside it? If you do, use the volume keys to move between Power off, Start, Restart bootloader, and Recovery mode. Press the power button in the "Recovery mode option." If you don't have this screen, then use fastboot commands, and flash Google Factory Images. You don't need to send it into Samsung for warranty, nothing is wrong. Lol.
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sacksyboy said:
I do have the recovery option from fastboot mode.
It is when I select recovery that I get the green android with the belly open and a exclamation point. It will not go any further once I select recovery.
I flashed ICL53F and I still get the exclamation when trying to get to recovery.
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That is Stock recovery. Are you rooted? Are you on a Stock ROM?
When you hit the volume down or up button you should get some options..., which are they?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Yeah you have to flash a custom recovery.
fastboot flash recovery (recoveryname)
Here's an awesome custom recovery for CDMA

Went to recovery (when it was working) from fastboot. Flashed stock ICL53F.
Options are reboot, recovery etc.
I am not trying to wipe and flash ARHD 2.1.5 GSM but cannot access recovery from fastboot. I get an android robot with an exclamation point.
Diger36 said:
That is Stock recovery. Are you rooted? Are you on a Stock ROM?
When you hit the volume down or up button you should get sonme options..., which are they?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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I've done this.
Used mskip tool to do so and md5 confirms stock download came through okay. Still stuck with trying to access recovery from fastboot to flash ARHD.
anton2009 said:
Yeah you have to flash a custom recovery.
fastboot flash recovery (recoveryname)
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sacksyboy said:
I've done this.
Used mskip tool to do so and md5 confirms stock download came through okay. Still stuck with trying to access recovery from fastboot to flash ARHD.
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Try doing it manually?

Done that too (vol up + vol down + power). No dice.
anton2009 said:
Try doing it manually?
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sacksyboy said:
I've done this.
Used mskip tool to do so and md5 confirms stock download came through okay. Still stuck with trying to access recovery from fastboot to flash ARHD.
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I've lost ya... What is your situation now?
Do you have:
a: Stock recovery (droid on its back with red exclamation mark)
b: CWM recovery through MSKIP's tool
1. ARHD ROM
2. Stock ICL53F
x. a Boot loop
y. Not?

I think I see the disconnect now...
I have "droid on its back with red exclamation mark" (ICL53F - from http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html)
I did not realise that a "droid on its back with red exclamation mark" was an indicator of stock recovery. So I guess I have that. I only used mskip to flash stock ICL53F not CWM recovery. I no longer have a boot loop but get the droid on back with exclamation (stock recovery).
So I should flash CWM, add ARHD zip and flash???
Diger36 said:
I've lost ya... What is your situation now?
Do you have:
a: Stock recovery (droid on its back with red exclamation mark)
b: CWM recovery through MSKIP's tool
1. ARHD ROM
2. Stock ICL53F
x. a Boot loop
y. Not?
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sacksyboy said:
I think I see the disconnect now...
I have "droid on its back with red exclamation mark" (ICL53F - from http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html)
I did not realise that a "droid on its back with red exclamation mark" was an indicator of stock recovery. So I guess I have that. I only used mskip to flash stock ICL53F not CWM recovery. I no longer have a boot loop but get the droid on back with exclamation (stock recovery).
So I should flash CWM, add ARHD zip and flash???
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Yes flash CWM, see if you can boot into custom recovery, and then flash ARHD.

Okay...I'll give it a shot.
I will reply back with results.
anton2009 said:
Yes flash CWM, see if you can boot into custom recovery, and then flash ARHD.
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[Q] Question - Recovery Mode without WCM

I just re-lock the bootloader and i removed the root using nextoolkit.
and before that, i didnt put CWM in my nexus.
anyway, i was looking at fastboot mode, and tried to enter de recovery mode without CWM... when i did so, it just apeared a kind of "android error" with a exclamtion mark. the buttons were freezed and i couldnt do anything. so i waited 5 minutes and it did a automatically reboot
-why my recovery mode showed this "android error"?
-what purpose of a recovery mode without CWM?
-recovery mode only works on root devices?
-did i do anything that can cause me problems by entering the recovery mode and waiting those 5 minutes?
Thank you

The Android with the exclamation mark is the stock recovery.
Stock recovery is useful, but not quite as useful as CWM or TWRP because it doesn't let you flash ROMs or mods, etc.. Stock still lets you do a factory data reset and a few other things.
Recovery works on stock devices (necessarily), but you need to be unlocked to flash a custom recovery and use those advanced features that the custom recoveries offer.

martonikaj said:
The Android with the exclamation mark is the stock recovery.
Stock recovery is useful, but not quite as useful as CWM or TWRP because it doesn't let you flash ROMs or mods, etc.. Stock still lets you do a factory data reset and a few other things.
Recovery works on stock devices (necessarily), but you need to be unlocked to flash a custom recovery and use those advanced features that the custom recoveries offer.
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So my recovery mode is not working properly?
it didnt allowed me to do anything...

marcosdv said:
So my recovery mode is not working properly?
it didnt allowed me to do anything...
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You should be able to navigate the couple options with the volume keys and power button. Its likely its working just fine and you didn't know how to work it.

martonikaj said:
You should be able to navigate the couple options with the volume keys and power button. Its likely its working just fine and you didn't know how to work it.
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there isnt any option...
just a black background with this:
i cant post the link because im a new user
just look for "With my Nexus S (I9023) running on Android 4.0.4 I can't get" on goole images (first image)

marcosdv said:
there isnt any option...
just a black background with this:
i cant post the link because im a new user
just look for "With my Nexus S (I9023) running on Android 4.0.4 I can't get" on goole images (first image)
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That's the stock recovery screen.
Also, this is the Galaxy Nexus forum. You should post and keep posting in the Nexus S forum. And don't cross post...

Hold volume up and hit power you will see the options.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

i have a galaxy NEXUS, but the image i found was nexus S (but the problem is the same)
i found this in another forum, and every body sad it works:
"1. flash that through fastboot, that is the cwm for lte
2. reboot phone,then find the file named /system/recovery-from-boot.p and either rename it to '1recovery-from-boot.p' without the quotes or delete it, (i renamed it)
3. reboot into fastboot mode and then chose recovery, you can then make backups or whatever with out the dead android guy with the red triangle containing the exclamation
i didnt make this up just followed the directions in the above mentioned thread good luck !!!!"
I found the "recovery-from-boot.p" but i couldnt delete it because is in system folder? only with root acces its possible to delete it?

voidthedroid said:
Hold volume up and hit power you will see the options.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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actualy it work, was not that simple... i pressed a lot of times, but in the end, a menu was showed up...
this is normal? this is the stock recovery mode?
thanks

marcosdv said:
actualy it work, was not that simple... i pressed a lot of times, but in the end, a menu was showed up...
this is normal? this is the stock recovery mode?
thanks
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Yes..
And questions in the Q&A please.
Beamed from my Grouper.

Recovery Mode no command on nexus 7

I had the device lying around for a while and was about to update it to 4.4.3 but when I tried to get into recovery mode to flash the zip file it said "no command" with this android logo thingy, the device is rooted with unlocked bootloader, what should I do to fix it?

DarkShoko said:
I had the device lying around for a while and was about to update it to 4.4.3 but when I tried to get into recovery mode to flash the zip file it said "no command" with this android logo thingy, the device is rooted with unlocked bootloader, what should I do to fix it?
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That is stock recovery. It's an Android laying on his back with a red exclamation mark on top of him. I know, it freaked me out too when I first booted into stock recovery because it makes you think something's wrong. When you see that screen, you have to hit Power + Volume Up (or Volume Down?) at the same time to bring up the recovery menu. It may take a couple tries with the buttons, but the menu should pop up eventually.

charesa39 said:
That is stock recovery. It's an Android laying on his back with a red exclamation mark on top of him. I know, it freaked me out too when I first booted into stock recovery because it makes you think something's wrong. When you see that screen, you have to hit Power + Volume Up (or Volume Down?) at the same time to bring up the recovery menu. It may take a couple tries with the buttons, but the menu should pop up eventually.
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and after I get to the recovery stock menu can I just flash the 4.4.3 zip?

DarkShoko said:
and after I get to the recovery stock menu can I just flash the 4.4.3 zip?
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I believe you have to adb sideload it. You can see how in this thread I found by Googling: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929201. I know I can flash the OTA in my Philz custom recovery, but not sure if you can simply flash it using stock recovery.

Stock recovery "vanished"

Hi all, after some modding it seems that my nexus 7 2013 lte custom recovery is vanished. I've tried to flash it via adb, I've flashed the new 5.1 official image, but nothing happen. Every time I try to boot into recovery mode, via adb or power+volume up, all I get is a dead android robot logo with no options.
And, btw, my N7 works perfectly
What can I do?
Thanks

When you flash a new android version you lose root and custom recovery, you need to root and flash custom recovery again as your currently on stock, when that robot is on his back you also have hold down a button combo to access the fastboot / bootloader or recovery, unless you send it the command via adb.
My advice is re-root using cfautoroot and flash custom recovery with flashify.

Ok, thanks! I've flashed twrp (I'm still no-root) and it works fine. Now is there any possibility to come back on stock recovery?

Flashify premium allows you to download and flash stock recovery or bootloader,
if you can't afford it or there not available for dl yet you can alternatively extract the .img files
from the factory image and flash them instead.

Q8-V08 said:
Flashify premium allows you to download and flash stock recovery or bootloader,
if you can't afford it or there not available for dl yet you can alternatively extract the .img files
from the factory image and flash them instead.
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Nothing to do. I've extracted the img file from the factory image and flashed it via fastboot but, when I restart the device in recovery mode, it still shows the green half dead androidbot

^Thats normal. When you get to that screen you have to press volume up, down and power all at the same time, all three buttons. Just keep pressing them all at once a few times and it'll let you into stock recovery. It took me about 10 minutes to get in the first time. Don't hold the buttons, a quick press.

yosmokinman said:
^Thats normal. When you get to that screen you have to press volume up, down and power all at the same time, all three buttons. Just keep pressing them all at once a few times and it'll let you into stock recovery. It took me about 10 minutes to get in the first time. Don't hold the buttons, a quick press.
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So you're saying that normally, on a Nexus 7 with no root and with stock recovery, the combination key to enter in the recovery isn't power+volume up ? Sorry for repeating, but I'm new at modding

I'm saying when you boot into recovery and it gives you the dead android (on it's back I think?) do what I said above.

yosmokinman said:
I'm saying when you boot into recovery and it gives you the dead android (on it's back I think?) do what I said above.
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Done Thank you all!

Yeah it's pita to press, it's why I prefer to launch recovery from flashify or quick boot it's so much easier.
Android seems to love doing things arsed about faced / over complicated it should just be an option in settings, power off like
custom roms along with wireless adb.