Database Info

[Q] Cannot boot into recovery. Laggy phone as well.

I was just about to try updating from NScollab 1.0.39 to 1.0.40 and for some reason my nexus s refuses to boot into recovery. It doesn't seem to exist anymore. Im not sure if it is related or not but my phone became very laggy after my first failed attempt to boot into recovery. I tried fixing user permissions and rebooting many many times but it doesn't seem to help.

What does it do when u try to boot into recovery?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

It doesnt do anything. It just reboots into the bootloader.
Thank you for the quick reply
edit:
i tried flashing recovery again through rom manager and now whenever i try to boot into recovery it just hangs at the google logo with the unlocked padlock.

Hmmm
Do me a quick favor.
go here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Ne...de#Installing_the_ClockworkMod_Recovery_Image
and download the 4.0.0.2 recovery image and save it to some directory on ur computer
then follow these steps:
1. Open up command prompt/terminal and plug in phone to computer
2. Type "adb reboot bootloader"
3. It will take you to fastboot mode. Now type "fastboot erase recovery"
4. Then type fastboot "flash recovery ____.img"
( ____ is the name of the recovery img file)
5. Now it will flash and once it says "OKAY" then scroll down using volume down into recovery and see what happens
plz get back to me bout this!

IT WORKS! It went into recovery! Thank you so so much! Is there anything else I should do or am i set to go?

i so hate rom manager! i cant believe that people still use it

shahravi94 said:
IT WORKS! It went into recovery! Thank you so so much! Is there anything else I should do or am i set to go?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Since it works, you can wipe and flash ns collab lol
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

Thank you so much for the quick help! btw i updated recovery from rom manager and i ran into the same problem with it not booting into recovery so i am guessing there is a problem with the latest version of recovery? I'll just reflash through the instructions you gave me.

Yeah prolly a ROM manager issue
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

shahravi94 said:
Thank you so much for the quick help! btw i updated recovery from rom manager and i ran into the same problem with it not booting into recovery so i am guessing there is a problem with the latest version of recovery? I'll just reflash through the instructions you gave me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
the recovery generally doesnt stick if flashing it through rom manager. flash it through fastboot and itll stick.

Hmm thanks for the advice! ill keep that in mind

[Q] Nexus S stuck on "Google" screen when updating

Hi
I`m a noob needing some help. I recently got my Nexus S (i9020T). I have not rooted my phone or modifyed it in any way.
2 times I have had the update notifyer telling meg that there is a system update available(currently runing 2.3.4)
When accepting the update the phone gets stuck on the Google screen. Nothing happens for a long time. Both times I have ended up pulling the battery and the phone starts up again without problem.
I tried once pressing the "volum up" and "power" buttons and using the recovery option(after puting the updatefile og the root of the phone in usb-mode). The same thing happens.
Anybody have a solution for me. Need a fix as I do want the ICS update when it releases.

Send it back from where you broughtbit
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using XDA App

mintaeroboy said:
Send it back from where you broughtbit
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the phone works then there is no need to send back. Google online "Download 2.3.6 update for T-Mobile" . a website should have it . The file should be 96 MBs long. Download astro file manager because u don't really need the PC to update ur phone... once the update is downloaded just find the file in astro / downloads / ... press and hold on the update and rename to update.zip ... then press and hold again and move to Root of SD ... turn off phone and boot into recovery and install update from zip
Sent From In between Your Moms Boobies

YourMainDude said:
If the phone works then there is no need to send back. Google online "Download 2.3.6 update for T-Mobile" . a website should have it . The file should be 96 MBs long. Download astro file manager because u don't really need the PC to update ur phone... once the update is downloaded just find the file in astro / downloads / ... press and hold on the update and rename to update.zip ... then press and hold again and move to Root of SD ... turn off phone and boot into recovery and install update from zip
Sent From In between Your Moms Boobies
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi
Thank you for the reply.
I have tried this solution. When booting into recovery the phone stops at the Google screen and nothing happens. Have left i alone for up tp 2 hours without anything happening. It's not responding at all. Having to pull the battery to start it up again.

Did you try to reset the phone to factory-reset before updating?

Just tried to. It gets stuck at the Google screen yet again.

thats not good
Now you can do 2 things :
1. Send the phone back to samsung to repair/update
or
2. Root the phone and then reset it back to stock and try again.
If you decide to root your phone, you have to
unlock the bootloader (everything will be wiped)
install custom recovery (ClockWork)
install root
install the rommanager-app from market
download the stock 2.3 from the RomManager (includes stock recovery)
try to update over OTA again
and if it works you can relock the bootloader
this works for my nexus s i9023 ... i hope that this works also on your i9020T, but im not sure

Do you have a link to a walk thru? I've tried some "oneclick roots" but they all gets stuck at "device not found"
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Did you activate usb-debugging on your phone?
Settings - apps - development - usbdebugging
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138755

Yes
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Do you see the Android ADB Interface in your Device-Manager while the Phone is pluged in? If not you have to install the Samsung Driver.

I do see the device when plugged in
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

tstlii1y78 said:
I do see the device when plugged in
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
then you can try it manualy :
download superuser @ http://bit.ly/su2361ef and put it on your sdcard
adb reboot bootloader (the phone should go into fastboot)
download cwm @ http://www.mediafire.com/?xdpvcxiybcrzte5 (5023-green.img)
fastboot boot path-to/5023-green.img
now the recovery should start on the phone
in the recovery choose install zip from sd and look for the su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip and install it.
after that just enter "adb reboot" and your phone should start rooted.
now you can install rommanager over the market and look for an stock-image to revert back and retry to update it OTA.

Try install clockworkmod into your phone.
1. Boot into fastboot mode.
2. Install phone driver.
2.a. Get driver frome some where (try googling PDANET Nexus S driver (for your series)).
2.b. Install & enable adb and fastbott (googling too, there is some tutorial in http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=881).
2.c. unlock bootloader.
2.d. flash clockworkmod.
3. Boot into clockwork mode recovery (in fastboot mode choose recovery).
4. Mount your USB driver.
5. Download stock ROM for your phone.
6. Wipe data, caches, and dalvik caches.
7. Install from SDCard, choose your stock rom zip.
8. Restart phone.
7. Optional -> lock your bootloader (the same way as unlocking bootloader, but change unlock to lock).

[Q] [i9023] Blank/Black screen in recovery

Hey everyone,
Basically I was trying to flash a new ROM onto an old Nexus S of mine and when I tried to boot into recovery there was just a black screen. I pressed the power button and a single line saying "Clockwork mod Recovery" and the version number popped up. I assumed that the recovery must've been corrupted so I erased it and installed the latest version using fastboot which seemed to work fine.
Now whenever I try to boot into recovery I just get a blank screen with nothing else. I've tried using other recovery images such as twrp but the same problem happened, I just get the background wallpaper/image and nothing else.
I searched the forums and apparently people were having this issue earlier on when the i9023 was first released but now most custom recoveries are supposed to work with both i9020 and i9023.
Also the touch buttons light up and vibrate whenever I touch them when I'm in recovery mode.
Any help to this problem would be greatly appreciated as atm I have an old ROM which is buggy as hell and I need to get rid of it.
Cheers!

I had the same Issue. If you can boot into the rom, you can try to download the rommanager-app and install the recovery from there.

Hey I tried that already that and instead of booting into recovery it just went into the bootloader and said "No Recovery or Bootloader found".
Any other ideas?

Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App

Hey
I have the i9023 and I install rom manager. install CWM and if I reboot into recovery it works and I get in to CWM recovery.. but after reboot into os.. if I go into Rom manager and reboot to recovery it dont work? I just get the android figur and a "!".. then I just can Power + vol up and I'm in bootloader recovery..
Do I have to install CWM every time i want to use it? and can't I access CWM on boot op ?
sorry for my bad English

Normaly you have to flash the recovery only once.
Try to flash the newer clockwork-recovery with fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686

Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
Sent from my SNES

bedalus said:
Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
Sent from my SNES
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I havent unlock my phone, but I can get in to bootloader is it then necessary to unlock ?
I try to delete the /install-recovery.sh

Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App

Xziped said:
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Then it must be unlock as default.. I havent unlock it.. just delete the install install-recovery.sh and it works every time now.
now I just have to find a ROM to try..

Xziped said:
Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...

Simultaneity said:
Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what happens when you try to temporary boot into the recovery?
instead of "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img", try to "fastboot boot recovery.img"
Just look for an recovery.img that works temporary and then try to flash it permanently.

I'll try it and get back to you Xziped. If anyone else can think of any other ideas please just throw'em at me, I'm willing to try anything!

Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.

Simultaneity said:
Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry but if not even the temporary recovery boots up, i dont know what else we can do
did you try some of the older recoverys? is your bootloader unlocked?

I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next

Simultaneity said:
I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.

khartaras said:
Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!

Simultaneity said:
There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just look @ http://www.samfirmware.com/ .
There you should find all you need
Sent from my Full Android on Crespo using XDA App

Have root installed cwm recovery won't boot into it though ?

Well as it says I have root rom manager says version 5.5 or whatever is installed yet no matter how I try to boot to recovery I see no cwm? Am I missing something?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA App

Did you just say you installed CWM Recovery with ROM manager?
Did you try
Push and hold Vol down plus power button til you see words at top left corner
Immediately push Vol up within about 5 sec to get into recovery.
or you could use "Transformer reboot to recovery" app from market.
If you don't see CWM recovery do you see stock recovery?

baseballfanz said:
Did you just say you installed CWM Recovery with ROM manager?
Did you try
Push and hold Vol down plus power button til you see words at top left corner
Immediately push Vol up within about 5 sec to get into recovery.
or you could use "Transformer reboot to recovery" app from market.
If you don't see CWM recovery do you see stock recovery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For the love of GOD, if you used ROM Manager to flash CWM, you most likely have version 5.5.0.4... DO NOT USE IT!!!!
Refer to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530337
Use Recovery Installer found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346180
That will install a usable version of CWM and save you a LOT of hassle.

Thanks for the help guys. Ill hit the thanks button on both of y'all since I used both . Worked perfect
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA App

So did you install cwm with ROM manager? If you did, so a normal reboot to sew what happened.

I did install it through ROM manager first but it never would boot to recovery. I tried booting through ROM manager and all it would do is reboot, so then I downloaded a app to recovery boot still just rebooted thats when i posted the question and yall answered. Hope this answered you question for me
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA

stepheng said:
I did install it through ROM manager first but it never would boot to recovery. I tried booting through ROM manager and all it would do is reboot, so then I downloaded a app to recovery boot still just rebooted thats when i posted the question and yall answered. Hope this answered you question for me
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Reason I asked was a lot of peoples have problems with CWM after flashing through ROM Manager. If it's working for you that's good.

No it didn't I ended up flashing the one that the other guy posted the installer for and it worked
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA

[Q] Droid 3 - Signature Verification Error.. CWM not Helpful

Hello friends,
First of all I am sorry if I am posting this in a wrong area..
Secondly, Yes, I have read everything related to this topic.
I rooted my phone...
Trying to upgrade it to DROID35.7.905BloatedDeodexed.zip
I get E: signature verification error..
Then I was told to install CWM.. I install Rom Manager v5.5.1.5
However the "Toggle signature checking" option which everyone is talking about, is not there..
When I select the option "Reboot into Recovery", the phone just normally reboots, and never go to recovery mode.
Can you guys pleassse help me in this regard? Is there any way I could turn off this signature verification option?
Is there a way to do it manually, via command line etc?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

any one ?

Stupid question but are you hitting the right buttons to boot into cwm? Vol up/vol down & power(at least on note)
Sorry if its stupid but I find it best to start simple.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app

Yes I do...
However, when I shutdown phone, then hit power+volUP+volDOWN ... it goes to same android's recovery system, and not to CWM's.
In the CWM I have flashed it again and again successfully..

That's just odd. Maybe go to twrp if cwm isn't working out for you?
Keep in mind I'm no dev or android guru, just taking shots in the dark. When I get a chance ill look more into it and hopefully come up with an answer that sounds like I know what I'm talking about lol.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app

Just installed and used twrp...
In in I hit the "reboot into recovery mode" option..
The mobile restarted into recovery mode, but still same recovery..
Here is what it is writen in recovery mode..
"Android system recovery <3e>"
Android system recovery utility
reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is just no option to Toggle the varification check ..

You may want to start over with a fresh install
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tg9AlfOQ8
I mean obviously find the right file for your phone. I had to do this the first time I installed a rom and it went to hell.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app

Dont u got advance options in clockworkmod recovery
Sent from my Micromax A50 using xda developers app

Nope! nothing seems to work.
In CWM, when I press the option "reboot into recovery mode" .. The Mobile Set just nomally restarts..
It doesn't go to recovery mode that way. :/
One possibility that comes to my mind, is that, thought CWM tells me that it has successfully flashed the mobile set, it just might not have been done.. But I am not sure.. :/

Reflash cwm once more
Sent from my Micromax A50

I have reflashed it like so many times..
When I select the option to "Reboot into recovery in CWM" .. it just normally restarts
While, when I manually select "POWER+VolUP+VolDOWN" buttons.. It goes to the standard
android recovery system.

I think cwm recovery nt prsnt in ur phne
Sent from my Micromax A50

Is there anything extra I have to do for it ?
I have rooted my phone successfully, uninstalled all the bloatwares etc..
I have installed this CWM..
Is there anything else I can do ?

Off ur phne and prss vol up+menu+power and release it on seeing logo and see u can boot in cwm
Sent from my Micromax A50

Ahh last I got this..
Actually Droid3 can not simply work with CWM..
You then have to install this app
http://goo.gl/b4b6L
After installing the bootstrap in this application.. Click on "Reboot recovery" in this very same application..
However, I installed the ics4 update from file DROID3.5.7.905BolatedDeodexed.zip...
It said the install from zip is successful, but when I restarted the phone, It's same old 2.3.4 android !!! :/
Why is this ?