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[Q] Cannot boot to recovery (on two completely separate phones).

I flashed CM10 onto my phone a couple weeks ago, everything went smoothly. Today, I reverted back to stock and locked the bootloader so that I could receive the stock JellyBean update. Well I download the update, reboot phone into fastboot, attempt to go into recovery and I get the red triangle !. I know this is an issue with the phone apparently not finding a recovery boot but why didn't my reverting to stock reinstall the stock recovery? Does anyone have any guides they suggest to get stock recovery back? (I've found a few but thought I would ask).
Now, this is understandable that my phone can't boot into recovery since I flashed CM recovery onto it and whatnot, but I attempted to boot into recovery on my girlfriends phone (same phone, NEVER BEEN UNLOCKED OR FLASHED) and it can't boot into recovery either... Is something going on here or am I just missing a huge piece of the puzzle? I don't really want to have to flash anything on my girlfriends phone to fix it, she's not into the tinkering and would rather not have her data reset. Any help would be appreciated.
And for the record, I did a search to figure this out but at the very least I can only find solutions for people who have flashed CM or similar and nothing pertaining to the problem my girlfriend's phone has.

Tried reflashing recovery already? How did you "revert" to stock?
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nktje said:
Tried reflashing recovery already? How did you "revert" to stock?
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Used this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1848566
It worked, I'm on stock ICS, but I didn't do ANYTHING after booting into ICS again and attempting to install JB and booting into recovery. Did I miss something? How do I "flash recovery"?

Unzip the factory image you get from developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Then use fastboot to flash the recovery.
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
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I think you are confusing a few things here. First off, the Android with the red triangle IS the stock recovery main screen. (If you want to flash the update manually, you need CWM -- go into fastboot mode and type: fastboot flash name-of-recovery.img, where name-of-recovery is the recovery that you downloaded and want to flash.) Second, you need the stock recovery for an update to install over-the-air, but you need a custom recovery if you want to flash it manually.

Muffinabus said:
Today, I reverted back to stock and locked the bootloader so that I could receive the stock JellyBean update.
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this happened. you installed stock recovery when you reverted, whats the surprise?
and you dont need to relock bootloader to successfully update through ota. seems to me know the op needs to refine his searching skills.
nktje said:
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
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just press vol up+power to bring up the stock recovery menu.
edit: damn efrant, i got this man
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nktje said:
Unzip the factory image you get from developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Then use fastboot to flash the recovery.
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
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So in the context of my girlfriend's phone where nothing has been done to it in the 4 months she's had it, why would it be giving the recovery error? Also, does flashing the recovery wipe the phone?
It's funny too because I just got the JB OTA but I'd still like to get this figured out.

Muffinabus said:
So in the context of my girlfriend's phone where nothing has been done to it in the 4 months she's had it, why would it be giving the recovery error? Also, does flashing the recovery wipe the phone?
It's funny too because I just got the JB OTA but I'd still like to get this figured out.
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run the update manually (found on the Update link on efrants sig) through cwm, that should give you a more detailed description of whats going on.
flashing a recovery doesn't wipe the device. unlocking will, btw. its not an error, its the stock recovery!
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bk201doesntexist said:
run the update manually (found on the Update link on efrants sig) through cwm, that should give you a more detailed description of whats going on.
flashing a recovery doesn't wipe the device. unlocking will, btw. its not an error, its the stock recovery!
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Alright, I think I got it... so the android with the red ! triangle IS stock recovery? I just remember on my Nexus S being able to boot into recovery and load up a stock .zip update manually without any custom recovery mod. Is this not possible on the Galaxy Nexus then? So what does the stock recovery DO other than sit there and reboot after a minute?

Muffinabus said:
Alright, I think I got it... so the android with the red ! triangle IS stock recovery?
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Correct! As was mentioned by bk201doesntexist, hold power and press volume up to access the menu.
Muffinabus said:
I just remember on my Nexus S being able to boot into recovery and load up a stock .zip update manually without any custom recovery mod. Is this not possible on the Galaxy Nexus then?
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No, that does not work on the GNex.
Muffinabus said:
So what does the stock recovery DO other than sit there and reboot after a minute?
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Have a look at the menu, and you can see the options.

efrant said:
Correct! As was mentioned by bk201doesntexist, hold power and press volume up to access the menu.
No, that does not work on the GNex.
Have a look at the menu, and you can see the options.
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Thank you! I feel like an idiot now. I honestly thought it'd be the same as the Nexus S where you were able to do this...

[Q] Weird problem with Recovery mode

Guys, when I try booting up my friend's Galaxy W into Recovery mode, it succeeds. But then, when in Recovery mode it ONLY shows the CWM icon with orange hat endlessly. I could not choose anything such as restore or flash zip file as the menu doesn't shows up AT ALL. Then, I try flashing the stock recovery hoping it will fix it but still the same, this time it shows the Android out of the box instead.
Why does this happen? What should I do guys?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Guys, when I try booting up my friend's Galaxy W into Recovery mode, it succeeds. But then, when in Recovery mode it ONLY shows the CWM icon with orange hat endlessly. I could not choose anything such as restore or flash zip file as the menu doesn't shows up AT ALL. Then, I try flashing the stock recovery hoping it will fix it but still the same, this time it shows the Android out of the box instead.
Why does this happen? What should I do guys?
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Stock recovery indeed shows "Android out of the box". Tap on the box (or press menu, I forgot which), and the picture will dim, then the stock recovery menu will appear. If you don't make the picture dim, it will reboot.
Now, as to the original problem, which CWM did you flash? AFAIK *only* Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2 is compatible with Galaxy W. Do not flash any other version, do not flash CWM from ROM Manager app.
I suggest reflashing Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2.

pepoluan said:
Stock recovery indeed shows "Android out of the box". Tap on the box (or press menu, I forgot which), and the picture will dim, then the stock recovery menu will appear. If you don't make the picture dim, it will reboot.
Now, as to the original problem, which CWM did you flash? AFAIK *only* Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2 is compatible with Galaxy W. Do not flash any other version, do not flash CWM from ROM Manager app.
I suggest reflashing Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2.
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Last time, I flashed CWM recovery v5.5.0.4 and it was working until yesterday. Tried flashing stock recovery still nothing changed. Is this hard-brick? What should I do?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Last time, I flashed CWM recovery v5.5.0.4 and it was working until yesterday. Tried flashing stock recovery still nothing changed. Is this hard-brick? What should I do?
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ANYONE? :crying:

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
ANYONE? :crying:
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Try flashing the CWM from arco. And no it's not hard brick
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reddvilzz said:
Try flashing the CWM from arco. And no it's not hard brick
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OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?
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I don't know how to revert back from cwm to stock recovery I guess if you search the forum you will find it, I remember reading one. But why do you want it anyway because cwm is more useful then the stock one.
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SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?
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If you want the stock recovery, flash it with stock rom using odin. This will wipe everything including root and cwm
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reddvilzz said:
I don't know how to revert back from cwm to stock recovery I guess if you search the forum you will find it, I remember reading one. But why do you want it anyway because cwm is more useful then the stock one.
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imadiu said:
If you want the stock recovery, flash it with stock rom using odin. This will wipe everything including root and cwm
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Red,
I would want the stock rather than CWM because doing factory reset on stock recovery is BETTER, right? Or I'm wrong?
Ima,
I have done that but still the problem with Recovery mode, no menu appears on screen. Do you know why?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Red,
I would want the stock rather than CWM because doing factory reset on stock recovery is BETTER, right? Or I'm wrong?
Ima,
I have done that but still the problem with Recovery mode, no menu appears on screen. Do you know why?
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Nope I think doing factory reset on CWM is better. Because in cwm they have options to completely wipe everything so there is none left if you want a clean install. CWM is just like a better and more advance of stock recovery with additional functions.
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reddvilzz said:
Nope I think doing factory reset on CWM is better. Because in cwm they have options to completely wipe everything so there is none left if you want a clean install. CWM is just like a better and more advance of stock recovery with additional functions.
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OK, now I get it. No wonder doing factory reset in stock recovery can result in brick phone.
I'll try flashing the CWM recovery v6 as the CWM recovery v5 was a failure. I'll let you know later. Thanks red!

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK, now I get it. No wonder doing factory reset in stock recovery can result in brick phone.
I'll try flashing the CWM recovery v6 as the CWM recovery v5 was a failure. I'll let you know later. Thanks red!
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Dude... Bricked phones are literally "brick", as in you can't use it. Most likely a failure to start-up, not some glitch or bug that happens to your phone

[Q] HTC One X switches on after half an hour of charging

Hi guys, pretty much as per title. I'd run my phone so it need fully charging, then put it on charge when it's empty. After about 15-30 minutes it just decides to turn itself on and i'm guessing this a is a 'feature' as it did this with the stock HTC ROM and it's doing it with Cyanogenmod.
This really pisses me off and I don't see any point in it, is there any way to turn this off or disable it?
Thanks.

When you ran stock rom, did you also had a custom recovery installed ? If so which one exactly ?

Clockwork Mod.

Can be recovery related. Flash back a stock recovery to try it out.

Mr Hofs said:
Can be recovery related. Flash back a stock recovery to try it out.
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I believe it was/is a bug with custom recoverys that boot the phone when charging.
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I know that's why i mentioned it, it was at least on cwm 5.8.4.0. The latest philz i don't know because my phone is never off !

Thanks guys. How do I flash back a stock recovery? I'm using CM and CWM as recovery at the moment.

Buchtis said:
Thanks guys. How do I flash back a stock recovery? I'm using CM and CWM as recovery at the moment.
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You flash it through fastboot.
But, first you must know which main version you are on, and then download the right one. Do fastboot getvar all, and it will tell you what to look after.

[Q] About Downgrade from 4.4 (CM11) to 4.1.2

If I wanna downgrade to 4.1.2, must I need some particular version of CWM before flash it by odin?
I mean, I saw some post where users have troubles with turning on the phone after flashing it.
Hope you can help me, ty.
I'm on CM11.

jortegat7 said:
If I wanna downgrade to 4.1.2, must I need some particular version of CWM before flash it by odin?
I mean, I saw some post where users have troubles with turning on the phone after flashing it.
Hope you can help me, ty.
I'm on CM11.
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You can use any of the Recoveries for Galaxy Grand- CWM or Philz Touch

4.2.2 is bad and cant go back to 4.1.2
DMJoh said:
You can use any of the Recoveries for Galaxy Grand- CWM or Philz Touch
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Hello,
You can use any recovery as it will be overwritten by odin once you try to flash firmware.
But in my case i was unable to revert back to 4.1.2 from 4.2.2. After flashing 4.1.2 all i can see is "Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082" thats all.
Have to reboot by holding down Volume up + Home + Power button.
I can reboot into recovery (Stock recovery) in this case because Philz recovery was overwritten. but from there all i see is dead droid with "!" mark and nothing can be done from there.
So for now it is not possible to revert back to 4.1.2. If you managed to do so please help me also. 4.2.2 is terrible
Thanks!

hi_blues said:
Hello,
You can use any recovery as it will be overwritten by odin once you try to flash firmware.
But in my case i was unable to revert back to 4.1.2 from 4.2.2. After flashing 4.1.2 all i can see is "Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082" thats all.
Have to reboot by holding down Volume up + Home + Power button.
I can reboot into recovery (Stock recovery) in this case because Philz recovery was overwritten. but from there all i see is dead droid with "!" mark and nothing can be done from there.
So for now it is not possible to revert back to 4.1.2. If you managed to do so please help me also. 4.2.2 is terrible
Thanks!
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I had reverted back to 4.1.2 successfully even after the latest update..
Try a couple of times flashing the 4.1.2. Since the recovery got overwritten flashing is going on.. But might be incomplete. Try again..
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What firmware should i flash?
DMJoh said:
I had reverted back to 4.1.2 successfully even after the latest update..
Try a couple of times flashing the 4.1.2. Since the recovery got overwritten flashing is going on.. But might be incomplete. Try again..
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Thank you for your reply.
I have had tried it for 3 or 4 times now. 3 times i ended up in the boot loop and for 1 time i was stuck on "Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082".
Could you briefly list the steps to downgrade to 4.1.2. I have Nand backup of my stock rom is that of any use?
I really appreciate your help.
Thanks again for your help.
EDIT: It worked. Again i was in bootloop but this time I went back to stock recovery and "wipe/factory rest" then "wiped cache" and yeeeey it worked. Thanks made for the motivation
Thanks!

hi_blues said:
Thank you for your reply.
I have had tried it for 3 or 4 times now. 3 times i ended up in the boot loop and for 1 time i was stuck on "Samsung Galaxy Grand i9082".
Could you briefly list the steps to downgrade to 4.1.2. I have Nand backup of my stock rom is that of any use?
I really appreciate your help.
Thanks again for your help.
EDIT: It worked. Again i was in bootloop but this time I went back to stock recovery and "wipe/factory rest" then "wiped cache" and yeeeey it worked. Thanks made for the motivation
Thanks!
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Thats great, every try is worth an experience.. Kudos :good::good:

Cannot downgrade from 4.4.2....SOLVED!

Cant seem to downgrade from 4.4.2,
After upgrading I tried to restore using a recovery from twrp but phone was just stuck on logo.
I then tried to restore stock recovery which didnt go well either, after flashing via adb I then tried to reboot into recovery to force a update to stock using update app i was still greeted with the team win logo which after a few seconds would just blink every few seconds, I then had a hell of a job restoring the twrp so I could then boot into recovery and reflash sh*tkat.
Phone flashes sh*tkat roms fine and runs backup and restore, so does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? If they could enlighten me I would be most grateful !

Im not sure for huawei mate but for p6 you needed a mid step before you can go down to jelly bean again. And this was all with stock recovery/rom. So search the forum and see if thetes a file like that.
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tileeq said:
Im not sure for huawei mate but for p6 you needed a mid step before you can go down to jelly bean again. And this was all with stock recovery/rom. So search the forum and see if thetes a file like that.
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Hi thaniks for the reply,
yes I thought that if I could re install stock recovery it would enable me to downgrade using hisuite but when I re flashed stock recovery I still got the team win logo showing then the phone would just flash again after about 4 seconds as it couldn't boot to recovery, it was just stuck a recovery bootloop.

See the topic "How to downgrade from B321 to B221"
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blankulus said:
See the topic "How to downgrade from B321 to B221"
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That does not apply to this problem but thanks anyway for your reply

It actually should work for you. You are having trouble going back to stock recovery right? Use custom recovery to flash the file in that post and then you won't have a problem going back to stock recovery. Then you will be able to downgrade to stock 4.2.2
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blankulus said:
It actually should work for you. You are having trouble going back to stock recovery right? Use custom recovery to flash the file in that post and then you won't have a problem going back to stock recovery. Then you will be able to downgrade to stock 4.2.2
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No I know how to flash recovery and use adb, my problem as stated is phone will not boot into recovery when stock is flashed
Quote: then tried to restore stock recovery which didnt go well either, after flashing via adb I then tried to reboot into recovery to force a update to stock using update app i was still greeted with the team win logo which after a few seconds would just blink every few seconds, I then had a hell of a job restoring the twrp so I could then boot into recovery and reflash sh*tkat.

swukjay said:
No I know how to flash recovery and use adb, my problem as stated is phone will not boot into recovery when stock is flashed
Quote: then tried to restore stock recovery which didnt go well either, after flashing via adb I then tried to reboot into recovery to force a update to stock using update app i was still greeted with the team win logo which after a few seconds would just blink every few seconds, I then had a hell of a job restoring the twrp so I could then boot into recovery and reflash sh*tkat.
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If you have custom rom up then you probably have root too. So try this: get an app called rashr from store and allow it root permisions, then get the stock image of the recovery and put it in the storage and flash it with the app. Get the update.app ready too (in dload folder) on the storage too and try to reboot in recovery.
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tileeq said:
If you have custom rom up then you probably have root too. So try this: get an app called rashr from store and allow it root permisions, then get the stock image of the recovery and put it in the storage and flash it with the app. Get the update.app ready too (in dload folder) on the storage too and try to reboot in recovery.
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As I stated its not flashing recovery thats the problem

Thanks for all your help turns out it was the wrong TWRP lol