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[Q] Rooted HTC Inspire won't boot into clockwork recovery

Alright, guys, see if you can help me. Ive got a rooted HTC Inspire with the latest version of clockwork installed. I tried to flash a ROM of cyanogenmod7 onto my phone earlier from a download through ROM manager, but now my phone won't boot. It powers on, vibrates, shows the "HTC" on the screen, then repeats the whole process. I can't boot into clockwork recovery, either. I hold down both volume buttons and hit power then the phone vibrates 5 times. The green LED comes on, but no screen image is displayed.
Any clue on how to fix this, or even better, get into clockwork?
Also, i apologize if this question has already been asked.

Have you tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868
EDIT: You need to hold only the volume down then power till you see the white screen. Not both volume buttons.

aeshaw95 said:
Alright, guys, see if you can help me. Ive got a rooted HTC Inspire with the latest version of clockwork installed. I tried to flash a ROM of cyanogenmod7 onto my phone earlier from a download through ROM manager, but now my phone won't boot. It powers on, vibrates, shows the "HTC" on the screen, then repeats the whole process. I can't boot into clockwork recovery, either. I hold down both volume buttons and hit power then the phone vibrates 5 times. The green LED comes on, but no screen image is displayed.
Any clue on how to fix this, or even better, get into clockwork?
Also, i apologize if this question has already been asked.
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yeah just follow the GENERAL FIXES section in the thread that kirk123 posted

aeshaw95 said:
Alright, guys, see if you can help me. Ive got a rooted HTC Inspire with the latest version of clockwork installed. I tried to flash a ROM of cyanogenmod7 onto my phone earlier from a download through ROM manager, but now my phone won't boot. It powers on, vibrates, shows the "HTC" on the screen, then repeats the whole process. I can't boot into clockwork recovery, either. I hold down both volume buttons and hit power then the phone vibrates 5 times. The green LED comes on, but no screen image is displayed.
Any clue on how to fix this, or even better, get into clockwork?
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There's a guide stickied to this general section that should help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
For one thing, I don't think holding down *both* power buttons does anything on this phone.
Vol-down (only) + power gets you to hboot.
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Yes, it's updating now in recovery. Thanks everyone! I knew that there was something I was doing wrong, as I had the same issue last night.
Thanks again for all the help!

[Q] Can't get into CWM recovery after installing MIUI 1.9.23

This post belongs to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278053 but since I don't have enough posts to reply there, here's my issue.
On my Infuse 4G I had Serendipity VII, then flashed over MIUI 1.9.23 which I downloaded from the abovementioned thread. Backed up rom, wiped data and cache, rebooted all good. But when it comes to enter into recovery to flash the MIUI zip again (as per the instructions at the thread above), my phone is stuck at the "Samsung" logo.
Tried battery pull, various hardware button combos, no luck so far. What is the correct hardware button combination to get into CWM from boot? I thought it was volume up + power on, but that didn't work. Tried volume up + home button + power on, no luck either.
So as of now... I'm with a dead Infuse.
Any help would really be appreciated
Thanks!
- Adriano

Same here, I can't even get into the blue CWM recovery. If I don't hold any buttons the phone will go into MIUI like normal but I want to get into recovery to backup and restore.

for me it's even worse... my phone is stuck at the Samsung logo.

Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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I've tried going into Rom Manager and re-flashing recovery for the "Galaxy S i9000" and it says it's successful but I still can't get into recovery.
So I do have a working MIUI phone but now I seem to be stuck on this ROM

florelui001p said:
Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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thank you so much! followed your instructions and now I'm in CWM... reflashing...

Kernodle said:
I've tried going into Rom Manager and re-flashing recovery for the "Galaxy S i9000" and it says it's successful but I still can't get into recovery.
So I do have a working MIUI phone but now I seem to be stuck on this ROM
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ROM Manager's recovery is worthless...
Use the instructions given above for the three-finger-salute in order to enter kernel recovery.
Entering recovery from boot can be tricky sometimes.
Sounds like Mikey somehow broke the "reboot recovery" command.

Entropy512 said:
ROM Manager's recovery is worthless...
Use the instructions given above for the three-finger-salute in order to enter kernel recovery.
Entering recovery from boot can be tricky sometimes.
Sounds like Mikey somehow broke the "reboot recovery" command.
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Yeah I've 3 fingered about 10 times now, pulled battery, tried rebooting into recovery from MIUI power menu and from RM menu, made sure to wait for the second SAMSUNG to appear, etc but still have not been able to get into CWM recovery. The logo just stays up forever.
Dang I don't really want to Odin back to stock anyone have thoughts as to how I can get this fixed?

Took me awhile to figure it out, I'm on Miui too and recovery works just fine.
This is what you should be doing:
1. Hold all the buttons down. (Volume Up + Down + Power)
2. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of the power and keep holding both volume buttons until you get into CWM.

himynamesnoah said:
Took me awhile to figure it out, I'm on Miui too and recovery works just fine.
This is what you should be doing:
1. Hold all the buttons down. (Volume Up + Down + Power)
2. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of the power and keep holding both volume buttons until you get into CWM.
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Yup. Same works for any CWM-enabled kernel back in Samsung-firmware-land.

Ok well I got this fixed ghetto style.
I used SGS kernel flasher to put the Bedwa gingerbread kernel, then after reboot the female robot voice said there was not enough space in the partition.
However, at this point I was [finally] able to 3 finger my way into CWM - the red one, not the blue that MIUI was showing, and from there I could reinstall Infused from the SD card. Still no idea why the MIUI kernel would not let me into recovery!

ok figured to let you guys know how did it go for me after I was able to boot into CWM (thanks again florelui001p for the tip btw) -- was able to flash MIUI and after the reboot things went fine.
Played a bit around with MIUI (first time I was trying an MIUI rom), didn't quite like the complete reskinning of the plain vanilla android UI (don't get me wrong, the quality and amount of the work that must be behind MIUI is impressive, it's just me that I prefer things more "barebone" style).
So after my brief experience with MIUI, I tried to restore a couple of CWM rom backups I took earlier today -- and CWM was unable to restore either one... sweet. So I went for flashing the latest Infused (as of now) 2.3.3 -- and no surprise there. A great rom for the Infuse. So far with the Infuse aside from the stock rom, I've been on Infused, Serendipity VII and MIUI. Still hoping/waiting for CM7... used to love it on my old Nexus One.
- Adriano

adri72 said:
ok figured to let you guys know how did it go for me after I was able to boot into CWM (thanks again florelui001p for the tip btw) -- was able to flash MIUI and after the reboot things went fine.
Played a bit around with MIUI (first time I was trying an MIUI rom), didn't quite like the complete reskinning of the plain vanilla android UI (don't get me wrong, the quality and amount of the work that must be behind MIUI is impressive, it's just me that I prefer things more "barebone" style).
So after my brief experience with MIUI, I tried to restore a couple of CWM rom backups I took earlier today -- and CWM was unable to restore either one... sweet. So I went for flashing the latest Infused (as of now) 2.3.3 -- and no surprise there. A great rom for the Infuse. So far with the Infuse aside from the stock rom, I've been on Infused, Serendipity VII and MIUI. Still hoping/waiting for CM7... used to love it on my old Nexus One.
- Adriano
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No problem! Glad to see you got everything up and running
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i've tried all the things u said but no success. then i've tried to enter download mode and after going to recovery with vol up + home + phone worked

Three finger does still work in MIUI/CM7, but it seems REALLY finicky for some reason.

Entropy512 said:
Three finger does still work in MIUI/CM7, but it seems REALLY finicky for some reason.
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I've never had a problem. Here's a trick I use to get into recovery "100% of the time, every time":
Make sure your phone is unplugged from any charger/USB. Remove, and replace your battery. Place your phone on it's side, volume buttons down, on a desk/table. Press down until you feel the volume buttons depressed, and keep holding the phone with pressure. Press and hold the power until you see the Samsung logo, keeping your phone mashed against the table. When you see CWM, you can release the pressure on your phone, reconnect to cables, do whatever.

After flashing 1.9.30, I cannot access clockwork recovery from ANY method, 3 finger salute won't work, trying from MIUI won't work, reflashing clockwork from ROM manager won't work.
What am I suppose to do?

Have you tried the steps below?
florelui001p said:
Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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The caveat is to wait for the second time the Samsung logo appears, and then release all buttons.
- Adriano

this worked for me.
LG_iiNsTiiNcT said:
Okay so if you were one of the few people who lost recovery for some weird reason "ME" no need to unbrick to stock and re-flash I have a solution.
1: Download sgs kernel flasher
2: Download CWM community kernel
3: Flash kernel via sgs kernel flasher "unchecked the reboot button" when done flashing turn phone of "SHUTDOWN"
4: 3 finger until the Samsung logo pops up keep holding the buttons the screen will go black then Samsung logo will come up, let go of the power button and keep hold the volume up and down buttons "For about 20 seconds" then let go it should boot into Red CWM after a few seconds.
5: Go to install zip from SD card go all the way down and run update.zip it will boot back into RED CWM run update.zip again and it should now boot into GREEN CWM
6: From here Re-Flash MIUI "New Release would be smart", Wipe Fact,Wipe Cache, Wipe Dalvik, Flash, reboot at sign of Samsung logo pull battery, 3 finger into blue recovery and flash again.
7: Presto you should be set and have recovery back.
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I posted a fix in the main MIUI thread. Also copied above!
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clockworkmod recovery

Is there anyway to enter clockworkmod recovery without having to use EZ recovery app? I thought when I enter recover by holding the volume up, menu, and power it's suppose to automatically boot into clockwork? Or am I wrong? I went away from Android for a while and just got a Galaxy S3 and rooted it. Any help is great. Thanks!

No you are right. If clockwork is installed that's a way to get into it. The button combo. But the trick is...hold them for a second until the phone vibrates and you see like three or four blue words in a tiny font at the top of the screen. When you see them. Release the keys. If you keep holding them you go past recovery and into full boot.
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Yes the blue text on the upper left of screen is when its safe to release vol up and home. Otherwise you can just hold them until you are in recovery. If neither works then something isnt right. You do not need an app to get into recovery.

steveojp said:
Is there anyway to enter clockworkmod recovery without having to use EZ recovery app? I thought when I enter recover by holding the volume up, menu, and power it's suppose to automatically boot into clockwork? Or am I wrong? I went away from Android for a while and just got a Galaxy S3 and rooted it. Any help is great. Thanks!
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Its the home button you want to hold, not menu. And you need to hold the button combo from a powered off state, or catch it right when you do a reboot.

S3 wont flash custom recovery

Got a buddy that has a S3 and he ODIN back to stock and hes rooted but everytime he goes to flash CWM recovery it does the process like normal but when he goes to recovery, its just the stock recovery
any help?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439

Make sure you have USB debugging on and allow unknown applications before trying to flash the recovery. Just a simple check that I have forgotten in the past myself lol
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Jason Roach said:
Make sure you have USB debugging on and allow unknown applications before trying to flash the recovery. Just a simple check that I have forgotten in the past myself lol
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what he said. Also, some of the videos were a bit confusing, but the more reading I did, I found that it may be important to wait for a "Pass" green sign to show up at the end of each ODIN step, THEN wait 10-15 minutes after you get the pass before moving on to the next step. I had messed up one device once, and did these extra steps (debug mode and waiting for pass patiently) and was successful the second time around.

olufadi1 said:
what he said. Also, some of the videos were a bit confusing, but the more reading I did, I found that it may be important to wait for a "Pass" green sign to show up at the end of each ODIN step, THEN wait 10-15 minutes after you get the pass before moving on to the next step. I had messed up one device once, and did these extra steps (debug mode and waiting for pass patiently) and was successful the second time around.
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I always unplugged the phone and restart Odin for each flash or Odin get stuck or something
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steve0mac,
I'm embarrassed to admit what mistake I made... but maybe it will help you and someone else. After I flashed my choice of custom recovery in ODIN and got a “Pass,” I pulled the battery/usb, etc... and then went to boot back into the custom recovery…
Here’s the silly mistake I made -- I would continue to hold in the power button along with the volume up and home button... thinking that I needed to have all of them pressed in until the custom recovery booted up. I finally figured out that you have to let go of all the buttons after you see the Samsung logo briefly appear on the screen. (Alternately, you can also just let go of the power button after the Samsung logo flashes quickly across the screen and then continue to hold down the volume up and home buttons until the custom recovery boots up--- this isn't necessary, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything).

mattnmag said:
steve0mac,
I'm embarrassed to admit what mistake I made... but maybe it will help you and someone else. After I flashed my choice of custom recovery in ODIN and got a “Pass,” I pulled the battery/usb, etc... and then went to boot back into the custom recovery…
Here’s the silly mistake I made -- I would continue to hold in the power button along with the volume up and home button... thinking that I needed to have all of them pressed in until the custom recovery booted up. I finally figured out that you have to let go of all the buttons after you see the Samsung logo briefly appear on the screen. (Alternately, you can also just let go of the power button after the Samsung logo flashes quickly across the screen and then continue to hold down the volume up and home buttons until the custom recovery boots up--- this isn't necessary, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything).
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That is a common mistake and is posted several times in the root thread. Hold too long and it skips recovery. :laugh:

cannot boot or get into recovery

So this is the first time i've borked one of my phones. I have a verizon GS3, i had TKrom b4.0 installed, decided i didn't like it and went to restore my previous backup. It didn't do something right cuz it still had the custom splash screen from TKrom, and it wouldn't go past that. I then clean flashed the newest carbon nightly 10-9-2013 and it said my phone appeared to not be rooted, so i swiped to install su (probably my error) Anyway now it won't boot up or go into recovery (TWRP). Any help would be greatly appreciated, i know this site is filled with knowledgeable induviduals so i don't doubt someone will have the answer. Thanks so much..

Well if you can't get into recovery then your only option at this point is Odin. You can get into download mode right (Power + home + Vol down)
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Yeah i can get into Odin, but i'm not sure what to do after that.

How are you trying to get into recovery ?

hallstevenson said:
How are you trying to get into recovery ?
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by holding down volume up+home button+power at the same time. But i ended up doing odin back to stock and redoing root/recovery, luckily i wasn't hard bricked(phew)... Anyways thanks for the help guys

On my son's S3, I couldn't get into recovery one day using that. What ended up working was holding down those (3) buttons and when it vibrates, release the power button but keep the others held down until the splash screen for the recovery tool shows.