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[Q] Can't get into recovery (to make a back up of stock ROM)

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Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this!
I have tried to do research on my problem but can't solve it...
The problem is that i can't get into recovery to backup my stock rom.
Specs: HTC Wildfire S, marvel A510e, S-on, Bootloader unlocked, Rooted, Radio-7.54.39.28M, Andriod 2.3.5, HTC sence: 2.1, ClockworkMod 5.0.2.8, Super SU.
I followed the guide: "How to root the Wildfire S with S-ON"on Andriod forums by CafeKampuchia, thumbs up for him It got me this far but, now I want to do the thing for which I rooted my phone in the first place: Installing a costum ROM. Therefore I want to backup my stock ROM.
Installed CWM ROM manager, if use backup current ROM option, the phone reboots and i get the HTC letters on my screen these. After a few sec's they dissapear and my screen goes black and my buttons on the bottom light up. I can touch those but nothing happens besides that it buzzes.... When I it boot the normal way again and use the option 'manage and restore backups' in CMW ROM manager, it shows that there has been made a backup. Not shure if I can trust it though....
When I open in HBOOT (1.09.0099) and push recovery the same thing happens. When I boot the normal way and try to boot into recovery trough CWM ROM manager same thing happens again.
I saw a other topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229&page=2 i tried to flash this recovery to see if a older version might work, but now i have got a problem flashing... See picture: View attachment 1031874. Anyway that is not my main problem, what i really want to make it clear: is to back up my stock ROM.
Many thanks in advantage!

wait for device，you boot your phone to fastboot，and is works
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I think your hboot is very high， you downgrade it to 1.030000 may be works.

Hey pal if I was you I wouldn't use rom manager, I've known it to have issues over both wildfires. Turn off your phone the normal way. Pull out the battery for 10-20 seconds or so, put it back in and hold volume down + power. Once your hboot is finished scanning the sdcard scroll down to recovery and select it with power. You should go into clockwork mod. Then scroll again with the rockers down to backup and hit it you can do as many backups as your sdcard will carry. So do that and you should have one you can trust. Also before you install your new custom rom read the main page throughout to see if it needs set up in any specific way, like with a special sdcard partition or something. And most important don't forger to wipe your cache, dalvik cache and factory reset the Device from clockwork mod recovery ! This will avoid bootloops good luck
sent from my android powered beast!

It would be best if you were to ask in the Wildfire S forum...just saying.

Downgrade HBOOT will downgrade Android?
gq455402012 said:
wait for device，you boot your phone to fastboot，and is works
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I think your hboot is very high， you downgrade it to 1.030000 may be works.
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Hey, I'm would like to try this but when i searched for a tutorial one said: "In this tutorial, I will show you how to downgrade Any HBOOT and Radio to "around" HBOOT 1.03.001 and Radio 7.48.36.1 or less with S-ON. How amazing is that!
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage that you bring to your android device! This will Downgrade you to Android 2.3.3!" Found in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25255527
As it says i will downgrade my android aswell, this does not work for me because my main goal is to back up my stock ROM. correct me if i'm wrong.

heavy_metal_man said:
Once your hboot is finished scanning the sdcard scroll down to recovery and select it with power. You should go into clockwork mod. Then scroll again with the rockers down to backup and hit it you can do as many backups as your sdcard will carry.
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Hey Thanks!
As you can read,
When I open in HBOOT (1.09.0099) and push recovery the same thing happens.
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i tried to get into recovery trough HBOOT already.
The other tips are usefull

Try booting to recovery via adb or terminal emulator.In both cases the code is
su
reboot recovery
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Your bootloader cannot be the issue. Go to here. And try there install recovery options. Also what happens if you cold boot the device with volume up + power?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325730
[INDEX] roms/recovery/guides/kernel/root/...
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adb reboot recovery
nerot said:
Try booting to recovery via adb or terminal emulator.In both cases the code is
su
reboot recovery
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Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.

install recovery options?
heavy_metal_man said:
Your bootloader cannot be the issue. Go to here. And try there install recovery options. Also what happens if you cold boot the device with volume up + power?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325730
[INDEX] roms/recovery/guides/kernel/root/...
sent from my android powered beast!
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Ok thats good to know, about the bootloader so no downgrade?
What do you mean with intall recovery options? I can't find such a manual there...
Cold boot with volume up + power makes my device boot up as usual.
I tried to install
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229
other version of cmw recovery, by following the guide instead of flashing. That gave me the following error.
CID incorret! Update fail! Press <power. to reboot.

ok how did you install your recovery to install super user? did you just use rom manager to do it? as far as i know it only installs a tempoary recovery. which would explain why you are only getting to it through rom manager. ok do you have adb installed onto your pc?
ok take the pg76img.zip attached to this post and put it on the root of your sdcard. then boot into bootloader (not fastboot) and your phone should say it found an update. flash it and it will install clockworkmod to your phone properly. then remove the pg76img.zip from your sdcard and boot back into bootloader, select recovery and with any luck you`ll be sorted. then follow my post above and you`ll be sorted pal
then, go to here and thank alquez for the recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229

samkuiper9 said:
Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.
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If usb debugging isnt the problem then use terminal emulator from the phone itself, again with the the same lines.
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Terminal emulator: not permited
nerot said:
If usb debugging isnt the problem then use terminal emulator from the phone itself, again with the the same lines.
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Thanks, tried this but when i type in reboot recovery the terminal emulator says: not permited!
What to do?

samkuiper9 said:
Thanks, tried this but when i type in reboot recovery the terminal emulator says: not permited!
What to do?
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Are you sure you typed in "su" before "reboot recovery"?

nejc121 said:
Are you sure you typed in "su" before "reboot recovery"?
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Absolutely Super SU asked to grant permission and i did..

freezing emulator
samkuiper9 said:
Tried booting via adb but it says: error: device not found.
This is weird because i flashed recovery cmw just before and that worked perfectly fine... SDK works fine as far as i know. su command doenst work either.
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Sorry made a mistake here, i tried to use adb commands while in hboot. When i tried it when the phone was on as usual i could use SU command and the # logo showed up bit than my terminal froze and i couldn't write anything else.
Than i tried it again this time only using the commands as follows:
cd c:\android
adb shell
su
reboot recovery
Difference is that the first time i typed: adb shell su. all together this freezes it up...
Anyhow it sitll doens't work.. i get an empty line in cmd, thats all..View attachment 1033568
But this could be because now a flash of a recovery img doens't work it gives: Waiting for device...

heavy_metal_man said:
ok how did you install your recovery to install super user? did you just use rom manager to do it? as far as i know it only installs a tempoary recovery. which would explain why you are only getting to it through rom manager. ok do you have adb installed onto your pc?
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I didn't use rom manager, i used a recovery img from CWM: ahttp://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/nd flashed it with sdk, trough cmd promt. So yes adb files are in place and working.
heavy_metal_man said:
ok take the pg76img.zip attached to this post and put it on the root of your sdcard. then boot into bootloader (not fastboot) and your phone should say it found an update. flash it and it will install clockworkmod to your phone properly. then remove the pg76img.zip from your sdcard and boot back into bootloader, select recovery and with any luck you`ll be sorted. then follow my post above and you`ll be sorted pal
then, go to here and thank alquez for the recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229
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In my last quote i posted the link of the exact same file. So this didn't work either, same error.. Thanks anyway.

Why don't you try reflashing the recovery via fastboot flasher?It worked for me when I screwed up and flashed the wrong recovery
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Hmm. Fastboot flasher sounds like your best bet then.
sent from my android powered beast!

try this one
OK，use this one one-click flash recovery5.026 in the attachment. .just download and then decompression to anywhere，connect your phone to computer with ADB driver，and then found runme.bat，and automatic to flash recovery.when finished you can see recovery on your phone like the picture in the attachment.

<MK16> Xperia pro CWM? How do I get it?

I don't know how to flash CWM onto my Xperia Pro.
My phone is rooted.
I don't know how to enter fastboot either.
Any help would be nice.
Thanks!

convolution said:
I don't know how to flash CWM onto my Xperia Pro.
My phone is rooted.
I don't know how to enter fastboot either.
Any help would be nice.
Thanks!
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Please ask here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658959
Anyways search for CWM auto installer in the market. It will do the no job.

Once you got cwm installed you need to click on app to open it,and then select install into system.
Once all installed power down device then restart it when you see Sony logo stat pressing/ spamming the back key this will take you into recovery.
You will not see reboot option in menu. Unless you use install a mod.
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cool. now how do u install cwm?
it's so much easier on the gnex cuz of all the dev support. this has been quite a challenge for me so far.
nvm I did it!
Now how do I flash a kernel if I can't enter bootloader cuz my bootloader is locked?

you cant flash a kernel on locked boot loader!
Boot loader must be unlocked.

How should I do it?

Edit: Wrong section, can anyone move it to Q&A?
Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to this kind of stuff but I need help. Recently with CWM I installed ROM "icebean". I installed it successfully but since I had to wipe everything I also lost CWM, I need this to reinstall Google Now and if I may want to switch to other ROMS. The only problem is that I can't get CWM because I have a locked bootloader and I used something called recoverX to install it. Apparently I need the stock ROM to install it but I'm using icebean, so what do I do? I cannot unlock my bootloader because it says "not allowed". Is there a work around this? Also one more thing, the Google Now file is a flashable zip, so does this mean I can use flash tool to install it? Thanks.

You don't need bootloader unlocked for cwm install, you install like Normal app.
Look in theme/app thread for post by pvyparts suggest you use v5 not Latest xparts.
once installed open app and then install cwm in to system.
Once this is installed you get into recovery by powering down phone then restart it but start pushing the back key When you see the Sony logo this will take you to the recovery where you can then install all types of mods etc but they must be flashable zips.
If not then cwm will give you an error.
This requires root which I assume you have as you installed custom Rom.
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Hi, thanks for responding quickly. I did what you said and downloaded x parts v5, I managed to download CWM but the only problem is that I cannot access it. I tried you method and the method I had to do before which was repeatedly press the volume down button, I also tried x parts' method by using their boot to recovery. Before when I installed recoverX I tried using x parts which did not work like now. I would use recoverX but I'm unsure about it, it says to use a stock ROM which I don't have anymore. One thing if it might be useful is that when I flashed the ROM my phone changed from lt15i to lt18i, could this have interfere with anything?

[Q] Phone wont go into CWM recovery..

Hey there. I am trying to get my phone to run cwm. I tried both the touch image and the image that comes with the htc one v toolkit. Fastboot installs it no problems but when I try to go to recovery either by adb command or through the phone direct I get the "This build of HTC is not be distributed" message when I rooted the phone a while back but it just hangs there..
Please help. I really dont like having to hold down the power button for 10+ seconds praying it wont brick.
P.S. I did try to install CWM through the normal way on the play store. I thought it would work cause it detected my phone right and didnt warn me. SU did tell me it was doing something in some .sh file. I uninstalled cwm before trying the fastboot methods.
John

I suggest using the "all-in-one" tool from the Development Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676686
and then use "boot into recovery"

I finally got it to work by using TWRP. had to find one that specifically said CDMA/Virgin Mobile.
Thanks for your help.

johnny2505 said:
Hey there. I am trying to get my phone to run cwm. I tried both the touch image and the image that comes with the htc one v toolkit. Fastboot installs it no problems but when I try to go to recovery either by adb command or through the phone direct I get the "This build of HTC is not be distributed" message when I rooted the phone a while back but it just hangs there..
Please help. I really dont like having to hold down the power button for 10+ seconds praying it wont brick.
P.S. I did try to install CWM through the normal way on the play store. I thought it would work cause it detected my phone right and didnt warn me. SU did tell me it was doing something in some .sh file. I uninstalled cwm before trying the fastboot methods.
John
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i have said in my clockwork mod threads, NOT TO INSTALL IT via Rom Manager as it wont install properly, you need to flash it manually

Lloir said:
i have said in my clockwork mod threads, NOT TO INSTALL IT via Rom Manager as it wont install properly, you need to flash it manually
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^ True, this didn't work for me either, i had to manually install cwm myself.

[PLEASE HELP ME FAST] Cant Install ROM and do anything

Hello people, I need help urgently!!!
So, today I unlocked my bootloader and rooted my xperia arc. Later, I installed Team Win Recovery v2.4.3.0 via fastboot cmd...
And then problems started :
Now i am stuck at KangXperiaProject bringing aokp to xperia logo. After that, I just get blank cellphone screen...
I tryed installing roms, but when they finish, i reboot the phone and the same happens. Tryed wiping everything but still the same...
I can't connect my phone to SEUS, it doesnt find my xperia arc....
PLEASE HELP ME, BECAUSE I NEED MY PHONE FOR TOMORROW URGENTLY!!!!
PLEASE, HELP ME PEOPLE

glefor said:
Hello people, I need help urgently!!!
So, today I unlocked my bootloader and rooted my xperia arc. Later, I installed Team Win Recovery v2.4.3.0 via fastboot cmd...
And then problems started :
Now i am stuck at KangXperiaProject bringing aokp to xperia logo. After that, I just get blank cellphone screen...
I tryed installing roms, but when they finish, i reboot the phone and the same happens. Tryed wiping everything but still the same...
I can't connect my phone to SEUS, it doesnt find my xperia arc....
PLEASE HELP ME, BECAUSE I NEED MY PHONE FOR TOMORROW URGENTLY!!!!
PLEASE, HELP ME PEOPLE
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Flash another kernel and another ROM.
Make sure they are compatible.
Which kernel and ROM are you trying to use?

You must not use SEUS if your bootloader is unlocked. You might brick your device.
Try using flashtool. Get into fastboot mode and flash custom kernel like LuPuS which already has CWM recovery. And then you can fash custom rom you want using Install ZIP from sdcard option in CWM.
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Try this
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297649
Same thing happened to me so I wrote a guide of howto fix

I fixed my problem with flashtool help, now I am with stock iCS rom.
And I have another problem... :
I rooted my phone and now I downloaded x-Parts from GooglePlay market. I installed cwm with it, but when I try option to boot to recovery, it just doesn't boot. It restarts my phone as normal.
Also, tryed with voice_down button but still - no luck.
Maybe anyone know how to fix cwm problem?
Thanks...

glefor said:
I fixed my problem with flashtool help, now I am with stock iCS rom.
And I have another problem... :
I rooted my phone and now I downloaded x-Parts from GooglePlay market. I installed cwm with it, but when I try option to boot to recovery, it just doesn't boot. It restarts my phone as normal.
Also, tryed with voice_down button but still - no luck.
Maybe anyone know how to fix cwm problem?
Thanks...
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Try reinstall CWM, or try other recovery
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Try pressing back key instead of volume down. This will work.
Cheers!!
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glefor said:
I fixed my problem with flashtool help, now I am with stock iCS rom.
And I have another problem... :
I rooted my phone and now I downloaded x-Parts from GooglePlay market. I installed cwm with it, but when I try option to boot to recovery, it just doesn't boot. It restarts my phone as normal.
Also, tryed with voice_down button but still - no luck.
Maybe anyone know how to fix cwm problem?
Thanks...
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since you unlocked your bootloader you can just flash a custom kernel which will have root/recovery