OK, so I installed the toolkit on my laptop, and so far have managed to unlock and root my phone.
Here is the problem.
When I boot to recovery, My phone comes up green, then the red triangle. Volume up and power gives me the Android system recovery (3) and a message on the bottom
E:Cant open /cache/recovery/command. all I can do is reboot the phone.
Ideally what I want is to be able to backup the phone, install a new kernel/rom and be able to restore it if I mess up.
Tried to search for help on the forum, but it didnt do me any good. Is there a newbie guide how to do this?
Thanks in advance
Larry
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Hello all,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but I thought I'd give it a try.
I own a Desire myself and the rooting / flashing a new ROM process was pretty easy so I thought I can help a friend out and put a custom ROM on his new Motorola Defy. Turns out I sucked at it. *ahem*
Right, the problem is as follows:
I got the brand new device, used SuperOneClick to root it, tried ROM Manager to install ClockworkMod CWM and it said Defy isnt supported in ROM Manager. So I google'd and it came up with this [german] (not allowed to post links), which basically gave me CWM.zip with an apk in it, which installed "System Recovery" and gave me the option to "Install System Recovery" and Reboot into Recovery - successfully bootet into CWM 2.5.1.8 , alright.
I did a nandroid backup and then wiped everything, selected the ROM on the sdcard to install MIUI 1.9.9 ROM, which worked fine. After it finished installing, I chose reboot system now.
Now what happens is:
I try to boot normally: I Only get the Motorola logo on screen and nothing ever happens
I boot into recovery like I used to know (Power + VolDown), I get a screen with a yellow exclamation mark and the android robot on it. Figured out that both volume keys take me to Android System Recovery Utility. I wiped everything again, that didn't help. I tried giving it the CWM.zip as an update.zip but it refuses that because it's apparently not properly signed. I can't do anything else in there. It also gives me a couple of errors "E: Can't moint CACHE:recovery/command" (/caller, /log)
Please, can anybody help me out? It seems I can't boot any ROM from it right now, nor do I know how to get CWM back in to at least even restore the nandroid backup (which I still have).
I would love to, at the end of the day, have a rooted device with CWM running and MIUI 1.9.9. If that doesn't work, at least can I restore the CWM backup somehow to have to stock ROM running?
I would really appreciate any help very much and realize I may be in over my head, it just seemed too easy on the Desire I previously used. Thanks a lot!
I recently got a defy and the person i got it from said it was rooted already. Super User was present but he didn't have Rom Manager, I went to the market and downloaded it. when I try to boot into recovery it hangs on the Triangle screen. I pulled Bat, and tried to boot into recovery and using rom manager and got the same thing. I have sdk and adb tools already loaded on my computer but I am still extremely new to all of this. I tried to root again with super 1 click but that doesn't work. Is there another way of rooting, Even if its more difficult I dont mind I just want to get this figured out. Thanks in advance
It probably is rooted. The thing is, we have a locket bootloader so default recovery can't be changed. You can install 2nt init. You will have to reboot and next reboot again. There are guides it you are ensure. It's an app in the market. Next go to rom manager, select install => defy => already installed cmw. And afterwards you can use it.
Read through the all-in-beginners-guide and you will find all answers.
You should press both Vol UP and Vol DOWN at the same time on the triangle screen to acess the recovery menu
Follow this
hey if you are stuck follow this thread to install CM7 on your defy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079150
it will work i have also followed this.
and if u still have prob then message will solve this for u dude.
Regards,
Cheat.
I rooted my phone last week, but I have only been able to access the recovery mode through the ADB script each time. I was able to install a custom ROM (he latest version of HaXpresso) and subsequently back it up, but now I cannot enter recovery mode at all. Even the ADB script method gives me an error message and will not progress beyond the triangle screen. I even tried superoneclick, which verifies the fact that my phone is rooted. I'm hoping to flash a different custom ROM but can't seem to figure out how.
Hi, long time lurker of the forums here, but not sure how much help I will be. If you're at the recovery triangle screen, try hitting the power button, maybe waiting a little bit before you do. Not sure why, but my Espresso sometimes gets stuck at the triangle screen ( the ClockwordMod one, not the red recovery one ), and pushing the power button gets the ClockwordMod menu to show.
Also, if you can still connect to the phone via adb, this ( Android Commander ) might help you in terms of flashing another ROM or something, but just make sure you know what you're doing, or probably wait until someone more knowledgable than me chimes in :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202893
Anyways, in case I didn't help, what method did you use to root your phone? If anyone can help, knowing that might help them... help.
I picked up the Galaxy Nexus from Verizon yesterday and attempted the unlocking and rooting procedure on droid-life.com. It looked like it was working, but now I can not get into recovery. When I try, I end up stuck on the screen with Andy and a red yield sign. I can get into the bootloader and run fastboot from my computer. The phone does still boot up completely.
I've seen posts about using Terminal Emulator and flash_image to restore the recovery, but Terminal Emulator says it can't find su. So something must have failed with the rooting.
Is there any information I can gather to help with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm out of ideas. My only other rooting experience was on my OG nearly two years ago and it went flawlessly.
Download the image in this thread and flash via fastboot. Make sure to delete /system/reboot-from-recovery.p afterwards.
Android screen with red exclamation point is the stock recovery image. Press power and either up or down volume to get into the recovery.
But yes, you'd want to flash clockwork mod like the guy above me said. Also rename or delete that file he wrote, otherwise on every boot, your recovery will go back to stock recovery.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Oh. I hadn't found any documentation on the stock recovery so when I saw Andy open with a red yield and exclamation sign, I assumed it was bad. Thanks for the help!
EDIT: Got it thanks.
Hi guys,
I just bought my One X today. Since it is my first android i am quite noob in all the issues regarding flashing/rooting.
I already unlocked the bootloader, install the clock recovery and then when I try to flash the new rom, i forgot not to extract the zip file so things start to mess up.
Now I am stuck at the HTC boot up screen. I have tried all the methods at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...very_-_what_to_do_in_the_event_of_a_bad_flash
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but it doesn't work.
The problem is that when i type a command into cmd it keep showing waiting for device
So I don't know what to do now. I really appreciate your help if you could provide step by step.
Thank you so much
OK so as a noob you thought you'd try too root your 1st android phone after having it just one day??? oops! Lesson learned, next time read up loads first and maybe get used to the phone first before trying too root it. Anyway. . .
After installing Clockworkmod did you (as instructed in all the manuals I have read!) do a backup? If so just remove the usb, turn your phone off and go to the cwm boot menu and select restore. Fixed
recovery?
i see you have flashed recovery..
can you get to it??
Press POWER + VOL DOWN until it reboots and keep holding until u get to HBOOT..
from there select recovery and see if that shows up..
if you can get to Recovery, then you can either flash a CUSTOM ROM, or go back to STOCK recovery and then run RUU (a program provided by HTC that will restore you phone to stock) but you also have to relock the boot loader..
based on your choice more info may be required to help you
My best guess is that you have a messed up kernel...