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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.
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Hi,
I have a DHD (crazy john/voda AU) which I rooted and installed leedroid on a few months ago, and haven't modified since. It's currently running 1.4 or so (like I said, it's been a while)
However, it's come to the point where I need to get it replaced. The volume buttons stopped working, and the power button doesn't work more than it does (the main way of turning it on is to replug the charger in). The wifi and bluetooth are also stuffed, but that happened a while back.
Is there any way I can get it back to stock without the hardware buttons or should I just send it in and hope? In theory I can get into recovery, but I can't select any options.
You can reboot into Recovery mode using Rom Mananger (ClockWork Mod), just open it up and select the option.
I can get into recovery mode, but since the volume buttons don't work, I can't select any options.
Download Quick Boot from the market. It has an option to boot into bootloader. From there flash the latest recovery 3.0.2.8, you can navigate through recovery using the softkeys.
I personally would just run the 1.32.405.6 RUU and revert to stock that way.
In CWM you can navigate with softkeys, "home/menu - up/down" "back - back" "search - select"
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Ok, I've upgraded CWM and am using the touch buttons to do a backup. I'll get started on restoring it in the morning. Thanks for all the help.
Great info!
Well, I'm royally stuffed. I started following the guide and went to do the downgrade to 1.32. Followed the instructions which said to go bootloader and when I got in the touch buttons didn't work, leaving me stuck. Decided to try hard booting by pulling out the battery, but it won't power up. My options seem to now be wait in the hopes that the power button will co-operate again, or give up and send it in. This sucks
Edit: hell with it, I'll send it in and hope I get lucky.
Just flash the stock RUU. exe from your pc as already suggested simples
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Hello everyone!
I've been trying to find anything about this issue, but nothing seems to work.
I had OTA 2.3.4 android on my t-mobile g2. So i have decided to downgrade it, to install CyanogenMod.
So I followed this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
Everything went fine.
Then rooted it following this guide http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TMobile_G2:_Rooting
Then this http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Vision:_Radio_and_CyanogenMod to install CyanogenMod, but ClockworkMod doesn't seem to work. When I do Wipe data/factory reset, anything in Clockwork doesn't work. Even reboot or power off. This icon with yellow cirlce with hat on it comes on and does nothing. I waited like 20 mins, still nothing. If I push power button it goes back to clockwork recovery with all these options, but nothing isn't working.
I installed it using Rom manager, so its last version 5.0.2.0 (first i had 3.xx version but it acted the same way).
(oh by the way, i tried update it using OTA update from air, it freezes when HTC logo comes on and does nothing, factory reset is the same way)
I have root and S-OFF.
Please, guys help!!!
Disregard this first stuff, although it is probably a good idea to use a 3.x.x.x recovery anyways atm.
Are you sure that you were unable to use CWM recovery properly when you were on an earlier version like 3.0.2.4? The 5.x.x.x versions are a bit buggy I wouldn't bother with them at this point.
Go into ROM manager, hit menu > settings > 'Erase Recovery' set to ON.
then, go back to the main ROM manger screen, hit 'All ClockworkMod Recoveries' > select '3.0.2.4' > OK.
You will then see a progress bar at the top, and then a message saying you've successfully flashed recovery. Now power off, hold vol. dn + Power and enter the recovery again. Try doing some functions and see if it works.
Don't try and do a factory reset etc. through CWM if it does work though, the first thing you should be doing is going to 'backup and restore' > 'backup' to make a nandroid backup of this current setup. If successful, THEN you can wipe data and try to flash the CM7.zip.
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Not sure if you're aware either... You should be using the trackpad to select items in the CWM recovery. Not the power button (turns on/off screen) or menu button (shows/hides menus) or anything. Scroll with the trackpad and press down to select highlighted items with the trackpad. The only 2 buttons you need in CWM recovery for 99.9% of operation is the trackpad and the 'back' button.
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Also as an aside, don't try to accept any OTA's or anything. They won't work and may cause issues when you're rooted.
BTW disregard most of my previous post. I'm 99.9% sure you're just hitting the menu button thinking that its selecting things, but the MENU button just hides the menus, it doesn't select. Like I said, use the trackpad to select the menu items!!!
As I said in my previous post though, I want to reiterate: do a nandroid backup before wiping data. Its just a good idea to have your rooted 2.2 ROM as a nandroid backup to return to if something goes wrong with the flash. Just make it easy on yourself and do a backup, THEN wipe data and flash your .zip.
Duh, stupid me! Its working, actually it was working all this time. I was pushing a wrong button, power button. Use a track pad! Dumba**
Thank a lot!
martonikaj +1 thanks!
impulse7 said:
Duh, stupid me! Its working, actually it was working all this time. I was pushing a wrong button, power button. Use a track pad! Dumba**
Thank a lot!
martonikaj +1 thanks!
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Of course, glad you figured it out. Be sure to make a nandroid backup before and after flashing CM7 .
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.
Had to edit your quote because it won't let new members post outside links.
I've currently attempted to root my Galaxy and everything went well until I tried to back up my applications.
I can't get clockworkmod to work, I hold vol up, power, and home and it shows my the android character laying back with a red ! in Android System Recovery.
Not really sure what to do. I've been searching for possible solutions but I can't find anything.
I followed this method, http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-r...gh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
The FAQ section under it talks about two files that should be deleted as it overrides CWM but file explorer isn't finding them for me.
Just use the Root66 rooting method : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687 .
It sounds like whatever you did, it did not work and you still have stock recovery. Just do it through Odin as described in the thread linked - it is very easy.
Any possible chance of me bricking my phone by adding additional files along with the ones I've added? CWM seems to be working through the ROM Manager app but not working through Vol Up, Home, and Power.
You press power. Wait a second or two, then hold vol up and home.
If you hold power, the phone will never turn on. If you wait too long, the phone will boot into the OS. It's a timing thing.
I've done that and that's how I get sent to Android System Recovery.
I've downloaded CWM through ROM Manager but I can only access CWM right after I download I. It worked last night but today when I tried accessing CWM it sent me to Android System Recovery. I downloaded CWM again then it worked.
For some reason it seems CWM isn't sticking onto my device.
Oh, I misunderstood. To fix that, flash CWM (version 6.0.3.0) again. And when you reboot your device, before your device boots into the OS, drop into recovery mode. It will allow you to disable the script that keeps overwriting CWM for you (you will get this option when you attempt to exit CWM).
Oh wow, I did what you said my phone rebooted. I did vol up, power, and home and got sent into CWM. I think its working now
Thank you so much bro
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Now save yourself time and hassle and flash twrp recovery cwm is.in my opinion troubled... twrp seems to be the rec of choice
With goomanager from market.
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They are crawling out of the woodwork.
There is nothing wrong with CWM. There is nothing wrong (mostly) with TWRP. They both work. Pretty well, in fact. Though, I still have issues with TWRP pretending I pressed the back button when I didn't.
Since you are on TWRP, tell me if you can reproduce this: Go into the timezone settings and start selecting different timezones as fast as you can (also works with typing filenames for nandroids, but this is quicker for reproduction). What happens on my device is I get knocked back into the settings page. It is 100% reproducible, but inconsistent with presses/time required to make it crash. I have seen other people complain about this, but not nearly as many as I would expect, given the severity and prevalence of the bug.
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......