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[SOLVED] Problem with recovery

So I rooted using toastcfh's guide and everything works, including root (I was able to delete some of the bloatware ) but I am having one problem. Everytime I reboot into recovery, nothing comes up except for the background (the phone with the red triangle and exclamation point). To get the menu to show up, I have to run the recovery-windows.bat every time I want to use the menu.
Anyone know why it's not sticking and how to fix it? Thanks.

if you read toast's rooting instructions...
WHAT THIS ROOT METHOD SADLY WONT ENABLE YOU TO DO:
- Write to system or recovery while in android
- Flash a custom recovery that can be booted into by holding vol down and powering on
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Thank you.

Gregalous said:
So I rooted using toastcfh's guide and everything works, including root (I was able to delete some of the bloatware ) but I am having one problem. Everytime I reboot into recovery, nothing comes up except for the background (the phone with the red triangle and exclamation point). To get the menu to show up, I have to run the recovery-windows.bat every time I want to use the menu.
Anyone know why it's not sticking and how to fix it? Thanks.
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I was able to delete some of the bloatware
<----- what method did u use to do this i need to know cuz i wana do the same ..i tried root explorer like i always do but it didnt work

mccurt29 said:
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I was able to delete some of the bloatware
<----- what method did u use to do this i need to know cuz i wana do the same ..i tried root explorer like i always do but it didnt work
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Because you dont have rw permissions while in android.
While in recovery do this
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
This displays all apps.. Type this to remove them.
rm Sprint.apk
rm Sprint.odex
You must type exactly as the app appears and it is caps sensitive.

after i type adb remount i get (invalid)
will terminal work???

Simple Guide for Rooting (Tweaks Coming Soon)

I owe much credit to toastcfh, none of this would be possibly without his work on originally rooting the EVO.
Getting Root & Recovery Mode
(My version, dumbed down even more)
You have three options with rooting:
1) Toasts Rooted ROM - Missing Apps in Market
2) Rooted Stock ROM - No 4G Support
3) Unrevoked Root Patch - No system access in recovery (can't remove sprint apps, etc)
To get a rooted stock ROM, you have to start with Toasts, instructions below; you can find details after.
If you want the Unrevoked Root patch, install a file browser on your EVO and install this.
1. Copy this to the root folder of the SD card, you can do this by syncing the Evo as a disc and just copying in windows.
2. Shut off the Evo, and hold the "volume down" button while powering it on until you see a white screen. Every question it asks, just answer yes. DO NOT UNPLUG, let it finish at all costs, no matter how long it takes.
3. Rename the file you copied to the SD card. (to avoid accidental re-flash and save it for later)
4. Download this and unzip to anywhere of you liking on your desktop. Run the setup, if it asks to accept and install a bunch of stuff, hit cancel, you wont be needing most of it. Select available packages and it will show a repository url, the actual url is irrelevant and will be google's be default...we want to expand the list and select SDK Platform 2.1. Accept an install the selection.
What you just did is installed the Android SDK which includes adb, a shell connector for your phone that we need to operate in recovery mode.
5. Hold the Windows key and press "R", type CMD in the run box. (Run the task with Administrative privileges if there is an option)
Type "cd " in the CMD window, do not forget the trailing space, it is important and DO NOT HIT ENTER yet.
Now, with that CMD windows open, go to the folder you installed the android sdk. There will be a "tools" folder, drag the tools folder into the cmd window.
Press enter, this will set your working directory to the tools folder.
6. If you have not installed drivers for your Evo, there is a folder that comes of the sd card called "HTC-Sync", run the setup in there and it will install sufficient drivers automatically.
After drivers are setup sync the phone using the HTC Sync mode, this will ensure we can control the phone using adb.
Go to your CMD window and type "adb reboot recovery", you will see your phone reboot...it will show a red warning icon on the screen afterwards, this is perfectly normal and good to see such.
7. Your phone should not be in recovery mode, but the filesystem will be offline. Download this to setup the shell for us before we can mount the filesystem. Run "recovery-windows.bat", if you are using Vista or Win7, make to sure right click the file and "Run as Administrator"...you will see another CMD window popup and do some work, just leave it open. You should now have the shell setup in Recovery Mode on your Evo.
8. Go back to your original CMD window we setup, type "adb shell" and hit enter, this will set all commands to work right on the phone. You should see a line with just "#", that is what we want.
Now type "mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system" and hit enter.
You should now have your Evo in recovery mode with a shell setup and filesystem mounted. This is where we can begin making changes.
Now that this has all been setup, you may want to go back after making some changes.
Repeat steps 5-8 to re-enter recovery mode with the filesystem mounted.
If you want to continue and do the stock update, check here.
Basically, copy that file to the SD and do steps 5-7.
Then use the onscreen (on the EVO Recovery Mode) to "Flash from ZIP" and select the rooted stock rom update.
WARNING: You must clear user data if the update creates issue, you will know right away.

so this is a third way of rooting, if i used a different way how do i get rid of it and use yours, i'm so tired and confused.

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root rom and activesync?
I'm a complete noob here but: By using this method do I still retain the ability to run ActiveSync/Exchange support? (Didn't think this was in the SDK Platform 2.1)
What about Sense?

What the crap is up with the title of this thread? How us this a tweak or an optimization?
Good noob friendly guide, kinda tldr, but what I did readlooked good!
Change ur title

Neotelos_com;
[B said:
You have two options with rooting:
1) Toasts Rooted ROM - Missing Apps in Market
2) Rooted Stock ROM - No 4G Support[/B]
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Any thought about the third option (i.e. unrevoked, new sticky, apk??) will it do the same things? i read users aren't losing full market, 4g etc.? Someone much smarter than me please weigh in.

adeyo said:
Any thought about the third option (i.e. unrevoked, new sticky, apk??) will it do the same things? i read users aren't losing full market, 4g etc.? Someone much smarter than me please weigh in.
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Yes, adding in right now...just tested and it works well.
I need to check if it allows things to be changed in recovery mode (which is important for removing the Sprint bloatware)

johnsongrantr said:
What the crap is up with the title of this thread? How us this a tweak or an optimization?
Change ur title
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I have plans for adding in tweaks, which will be delayed a bit...
Sorry for any inconvenience.

Neotelos_com said:
Yes, adding in right now...just tested and it works well.
I need to check if it allows things to be changed in recovery mode (which is important for removing the Sprint bloatware)
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If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
Is something different on the Evo that im missing?
can you not do this
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
Then remove the apps like so
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
Not saying this will all work.. But if you have root, shouldnt this work to remove sprint apps.

Jus10o said:
If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
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You can make changes like that but it will not actually save to the NAND.
So...you can remove, but it will come back after reboot.

Neotelos_com said:
You can make changes like that but it will not actually save to the NAND.
So...you can remove, but it will come back after reboot.
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Well thats all kinds of dumb..
I give it a week and there will be something better working.

Nice write up. The only problem is, I don't have the sync software on my sd card because the best buy employee knew about the evo's sd card problem and formatted it, erasing everything on the card. I checked htc's site and they had the drivers for download, but it keeps giving me an error saying it's not compatible. I'm using windows 7 64bit. Any ideas guys?

Jus10o said:
If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
Is something different on the Evo that im missing?
can you not do this
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
Then remove the apps like so
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
Not saying this will all work.. But if you have root, shouldnt this work to remove sprint apps.
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you CAN remove apps like that, using toast's custom recovery. if you do your shell, and mount, in recovery, using adb, you can go to /system/app and rm whatever you want (be careful not to remove anything important, probably wise to pull whatever first, in case you need to push it back)
i had problems when i did an rm on a file, but that is because apparently i forgot to rm it's info in /data/data too. word to the wise

HTC Sync Torrent
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5609530
PLEASE SEED AFTER DOWNLOAD!

New android user here!
So to me it seems like all three have something they're not able to do. Seems best to wait for a root release that your able to take full advantage of, right?
I'm a former WM flasher , I need to learn android still. I want the free hot spot/tethering, more battery life as I need 2 batteries to make it through the day -.- (I kill apps constantly, 4g turned on rarely,ect, ect)
Any feedback is appreciated,
Sean

can someone point me in the right direction to do this using a mac not new to android just the mac os i did pretty much everything but im stuck on the htc sync part HELPPP PLZ thanks

kingcliff00 said:
can someone point me in the right direction to do this using a mac not new to android just the mac os i did pretty much everything but im stuck on the htc sync part HELPPP PLZ thanks
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Try going to Settings -> Applications on the evo and enable usb debugging...if that5 gives you adb access that's all you need

confirmed working with unrevoked root method. It can tether 3G or 4G, depends on how you connected to the Sprint network. 3G was 0.80Mbps DL, 4G was 2.63Mbps DL.
Before using unrevoked root method, I had applied the sdcard patch already. so it doesn't matter if you applied the sdcard patch or not (OTA updated).

You really shouldn't kill tasks. Just cycle the battery a couple of times and turn your antennas off and on when u need them. Especially if u are in spotty 3g coverage. There already one or two official write ups that say task killing is bad I use to do it and got forceloses and errors all the time. Its not about how many tasks you have running I.e. memory, items about cpu and antenna signal that kills you're battery I'll find the link if I can. My battery life is pretty good and I'm a heavy user.
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i cannot get recovery bat file to work. I am at the red exclamation point screen on my evo and i run the bat file as amdmin. it pops up for a second then closes and nothing happens.
Edit: NVM I figured it out. on to the next step.

HtcFacebook.apk

well when i was going delete happy I accidentally killed this off.. would one of you be kind enough to upload it for me

Copied this from /system/app hopefully this is what you need.

tcberg2010 said:
Copied this from /system/app hopefully this is what you need.
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i grabbed it out of the system.img but yes that is what I need.. just cant get back in adb while in recovery lol

lol, i didn't delete anything when i first got su, and i've been afraid to turn my phone off even though i have superuser permissions, titanium, just didn't want to take th chance. Good luck getting back into recovery.
Maybe try using Bloo for Android or Babbler instead

tcberg2010 said:
lol, i didn't delete anything when i first got su, and i've been afraid to turn my phone off even though i have superuser permissions, titanium, just didn't want to take th chance. Good luck getting back into recovery.
Maybe try using Bloo for Android or Babbler instead
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ya i forgot to install busybox the first time so i tried for another day straight got back in and then deleted this like a idiot.. the offical FB app still works from market but I cant sync anyones facebook to my contacts atm.

Dont know if you tried
Get the loop.bat and it makes it pretty easy to get in
sometimes I have to do it 2 or 3 times but thats about the most it takes me to get into adb.
try it, it made rooting this phone the easiest root method on any phone I rooted so far.
did a 3g fender
a bunch of moto droids and one N1
I tried to post the bat file but its not working so here's my second method for you
Open a text program and paste all this in it then save it as loop.bat
:TOP
adb shell
GOTO TOP
This will make it easy to get into recovery for you
watch for the error to show up then you know you got it then you hit
ctrl+c to stop it

I had to use the loop.bat file to get adb in recovery, content for now until someone figures out how to unlock NAND protection.
Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk

Did the same thing. Downloaded that file and it won't let me install it tho.???? Any suggestions?

same problem he is Havin

just wait for the nand unlock and all will be well then

Same problem
I downloaded the file, can someone please explain how to install it using ADB?

Can Someone Verify or Point Me In The Right Direction

Im not stupid and i no how to read, just with this phone being kinda hard it took awhile to find the correct guide to downgrade and root.
i decided to follow this one, being updated this month
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TM...l_Update_Guide#Rooting_the_TMobile_myTouch_4G
is this the correct one to use, cause i dont want to use the visionary app. heard that can be bad news
I also checked the emmc chip thru terminal emulator. and were good to go on that.
Ive already downgraded mt4g back to froyo.
but when copy/ paste commands for perm root, s off, h boot, when i paste line for su
it says failed, file is read only
everything still good with phone, i just want root and cwm
any help, would be appreciated and thanked

1) There's nothing wrong with Visionary or gfree. Don't be afraid.
2) cd to the directory of the file you're trying to run and chmod 777 the file. For instance, if the file was root.sh
chmod 777 root.sh

i remembered reading somewhere that using the visionary app can cause problems with lots of aggravation afterward.
and the phones not mine, im rooting it for a friend. ive rooted quite a few devices already but this is my first htc.
origionaly i ran the command at
C:\android sdk\platform-tools
all the command i had no problem with except when trying to push su
so are you saying i should change to
cd c:\android sdk\platform-tools\su>adb push su /sdcard/ ???
orginally i got back
failed to copy 'su' to '/sdcard//su': read-only file system
is it refering to my comp or android as read only file system?

trevor7428 said:
i remembered reading somewhere that using the visionary app can cause problems with lots of aggravation afterward.
and the phones not mine, im rooting it for a friend. ive rooted quite a few devices already but this is my first htc.
origionaly i ran the command at
C:\android sdk\platform-tools
all the command i had no problem with except when trying to push su
so are you saying i should change to
cd c:\android sdk\platform-tools\su>adb push su /sdcard/ ???
orginally i got back
failed to copy 'su' to '/sdcard//su': read-only file system
is it refering to my comp or android as read only file system?
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I repeat, Visionary is fine.
Android.

I just used visionary today to root my wife's phone. I had to go through the whole downgrade process to get back to 2.2, and everything went very smooth. Now running JB from the codename thread and couldn't be happier with it.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app

Battery life is shaky on that rom, if you want to get the most out of your phone with jellybean, flash the CM10 port by 0.0 or Dark JellyBellyG1. Make sure to clear your batt stats before flashing darkjellybelly because codenamed messes with them.

THEindian said:
Make sure to clear your batt stats before flashing darkjellybelly because codenamed messes with them.
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Unnecessary if he does a full wipe, which he should do between flashes anyway.

estallings15 said:
Unnecessary if he does a full wipe, which he should do between flashes anyway.
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Hmm, a full wipe didn't work for me. I got off Codename and went back to insertcoin which i KNOW has awesome battery life and got mediocre battery life, not really different from Codename. Don't even nag me about the full wipe because I did it! lol.

THEindian said:
Hmm, a full wipe didn't work for me. I got off Codename and went back to insertcoin which i KNOW has awesome battery life and got mediocre battery life, not really different from Codename. Don't even nag me about the full wipe because I did it! lol.
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Flash at 100% and drain it down then recharge. Battery life should normalize after that.

Downgrade and Root Guide..!
this is how i did mine..!
http://minus.com/mu9vZ3P38/
:good:

So I still don't no what I'm doing wrong. I've successfully downgrading.and when using visionary.apk. it says unknown user root. After entering su in terminal emulator. I've tried visionary11 and 14 and a plusversion. All with same results. R/W is checked and hit temp root
I've never had this much trouble rooting any tab or phone

trevor7428 said:
So I still don't no what I'm doing wrong. I've successfully downgrading.and when using visionary.apk. it says unknown user root. After entering su in terminal emulator. I've tried visionary11 and 14 and a plusversion. All with same results. R/W is checked and hit temp root
I've never had this much trouble rooting any tab or phone
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Enable usb debugging in settings and reboot between every attempt with visionary.

estallings15 said:
Enable usb debugging in settings and reboot between every attempt with visionary.
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Enable usb debugging in settings and reboot between every attempt with visionary
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I already have USB debugging enabled, fastboot off. And I restart pull out battory, and even tried uninstalling visionary and reinstaling. There has to be something I'm missing. And just to verify I did downgrade to 2.2.1

trevor7428 said:
I already have USB debugging enabled, fastboot off. And I restart pull out battory, and even tried uninstalling visionary and reinstaling. There has to be something I'm missing. And just to verify I did downgrade to 2.2.1
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Do a factory reset maybe, just to clean the slate.

factory reset is your best bet dude..! save all your data from your memory card onto your computer or something and format your memory card as well. then do a complete factory reset. it really does solve issues. but ofcourse, it's always a pain recustomizing your phone but yea...!

mokee92 said:
factory reset is your best bet dude..! save all your data from your memory card onto your computer or something and format your memory card as well. then do a complete factory reset. it really does solve issues. but ofcourse, it's always a pain recustomizing your phone but yea...!
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Hell ya I hate factory reset without root lol. I was hoping I was doing one tiny lil thing wrong. Which was a super easy fix. Lol well if anyone can think of anything else. Let me no. Its my buddies phone. So can't try now. Any other ideas will be thanked too

[Rom][Pre-Rooted][7.0][G920v] Offical nougat pre rooted rom

most of members the old method didn't work with him so i decide to make a pre rooted rom
*Do It AT YOUR OWN RISK!* I am not responsible for ANY damage to your device
Here is the video in how to install it all link that you will need it i put it in description of the video
please don't forget to hit thanks it takes 5 days from me to upload it
[YOUTUBE]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS0Ggcq0TfU[/YOUTUBE]
also you can open the video from here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8OT36kfo24

Tears of Joy . Woks Perfect.. Thank you @faw_wal

DDwhite said:
Tears of Joy . Woks Perfect.. Thank you @faw_wal
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You Welcome

Many thanks faw_wal

I could place it in writing. the steps to follow
I do not know which file I should download first.
Additional I would like to know if you could share a script or a way to remove verizon apps, and keep a clean phone as if it were a total samsung

Thanks for this faw_wal

zpeady said:
Many thanks faw_wal
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Enjoy

jotademanuel said:
I could place it in writing. the steps to follow
I do not know which file I should download first.
Additional I would like to know if you could share a script or a way to remove verizon apps, and keep a clean phone as if it were a total samsung
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I'm sorry but it's a lot of steps to write it follow the video if video show to you black screen tonight i'm gonna to fix this problem

no-go
Tried many times, unable to get past the mounting of /system. Hard lock-up.
Edit: Had root on 7.0 finally. Looked like I was using the wrong sboot. I have too many...
Note: Tried to update superSU after I had everything how I wanted it. Lost root. Had to start over. Use caution...

I have gotten my phone rooted thanks for your help.
Now we need to find a way to bypass the system rw,remount freeze, which I think is being controlled by smu_protection or something like that.

EvilRubberDuck said:
Thanks for this faw_wal
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AndroidFan16 said:
I have gotten my phone rooted thanks for your help.
Now we need to find a way to bypass the system rw,remount freeze, which I think is being controlled by smu_protection or something like that.
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I think you phone now is rooted and you can mount system as rw just start adb
write adb shell then write su it will ask to get root from your device and then retry if doesn't work with download any explorer app like root explorer and you can edit system from it

lyphe said:
Tried many times, unable to get past the mounting of /system. Hard lock-up.
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did you get root in super su ?

It works for the mount /system via adb? because I did it from root explorer but it freezes again, if works via adb, tell me, Im now in the 5.1.1 android rom version

does not work video ((

faw_wal said:
You Welcome
I think you phone now is rooted and you can mount system as rw just start adb
write adb shell then write su it will ask to get root from your device and then retry if doesn't work with download any explorer app like root explorer and you can edit system from it
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Tried it on both, including
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /system
Freezing up
Especially with Amaze. Tried to write on the system partition and it hangs until I do a fresh reboot.

Has anyone tried if Samsung pay still works after root?

Ok, I'm in this nougat rom now, but the writable system still as a dream for us. I'll go back to the stock and enjoy of my Samsung apps instead of freezing my phone. Has someone knowledge about change the imei of this device? I want root for this. Or, if you know how to reboot the lollipop rooted rom correctly, can you explain me how?
Sent from my SM-G920V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

faw_wal said:
did you get root in super su ?
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Edited original post. Finally got it working, but then lost it trying to update superSU binary.

ok i will corporate with @AndroidFan16 to figure what is the problem and when solve it i will publish it here

aceisaneight said:
Has anyone tried if Samsung pay still works after root?
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Unsure if it "works" or not, as I never use it. However... It is bothering me to add my VISA-XXXX to Android Pay after boot. I'd say fairly good chance it does, simply because this root has thus far not touched /system for most of us. I do believe that is the red flag for SafetyNet/Pay (but I dunno. It does ask me however...)