I don't know if this has been posted before or not, but there is a simple solution for those who are having problems getting into Clockwork Recovery after they root their phones. I for one was one of those people...until the solution was brought to my attention last night. WHILE RUNNING THE ROOT PROCESS, when your phone reboots unplug it and pull the battery BEFORE it gets past the initial samsung screen, THEN BOOT INTO RECOVERY and viola!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have Clockwork Recovery. May I remind you that this wasn't thought out by me...I'm just the messenger.
[EDITED] Sorry folks, in case you didn't know already, I forgot to mention a couple things. To get into recovery you need to hold down the VOL DOWN and CAMERA buttons while pressing and hold POWER button down until the recovery screen comes up. There are two types: BLUE TEXT=ANDROID RECOVERY or GREEN TEXT=CLOCKWORK RECOVERY. You are good to go if the text is green.
iceman19631 said:
I don't know if this has been posted before or not, but there is a simple solution for those who are having problems getting into Clockwork Recovery after they root their phones. I for one was one of those people...until the solution was brought to my attention last night. WHILE RUNNING THE ROOT PROCESS, when your phone reboots unplug it and pull the battery BEFORE it gets past the initial samsung screen, THEN BOOT INTO RECOVERY and viola!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have Clockwork Recovery. May I remind you that this wasn't thought out by me...I'm just the messenger.
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Don't forget to add the differences between recovery and clockwork. Recovery is blue and clockwork is green. If it's blue you are not in clockwork. Also to hold down volume down, power, and the camera button at the same time when you boot your phone to get into clockwork.
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mousiluck said:
Don't forget to add the differences between recovery and clockwork. Recovery is blue and clockwork is green. If it's blue you are not in clockwork. Also to hold down volume down, power, and the camera button at the same time when you boot your phone to get into clockwork.
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Thanks for the heads up.
I just did a Full Wipe on the di11... ROM and now when I turn my phone on it stays on the htc screen. I tried to press power volume up and it vibrates and the led light keep blinking. Need help much needed please!
Nvm fixed it I hold down power and volume down and press recovery and it took me to ClockworkMod Recovery. Man that scared me for a second haha.
XAviierG said:
I just did a Full Wipe on the di11... ROM and now when I turn my phone on it stays on the htc screen. I tried to press power volume up and it vibrates and the led light keep blinking. Need help much needed please!
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Keep playing with your phone? LOL
I believe you can download the stock non rooted rom and start all over. From what it sounds like, you erased your OS from the phone.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b50...60.19_26.06.04.06_M_release_166557_signed.exe
Hope someone else chimes in and offers a better solution.
which version of cwm are you using?
XAviierG said:
Nvm fixed it I hold down power and volume down and press recovery and it took me to ClockworkMod Recovery. Man that scared me for a second haha.
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Ahh now I see what you were trying to do. You were trying to flash another ROM but you rebooted after you did a wipe instead of going back to recovery to flash a different ROM.
Hi,
I've been trawling the site looking for answers but to no avail.
No one seems to have a problem the same as mine.
I have an Inspire 4G AT&T
It has been rooted and I have run Coredroid and the latest Leedroid on it.
Everything is running fine except for the volume up button not working.... common problem.
Just in the last couple of days when I do a recovery boot,
There is no clockwork recovery.
There is no Hboot.
I get a constant red blinking light and three vibrates.
If I try to Hboot holding on and up key , I get 5 vibrates and a green flashing light.
Phone will not boot till after about an hour when it happily reboots to Leedroid like nothing has ever happened. Everything runs great apart from this.
Has anyone ever seen a problem like this?
Cannot load any more roms into it till the clockwork mod is sorted
Is you button broken, or is it stuck in one of the up or down positions? If broke, you can always boot into recovery via adb:
adb reboot recovery
Or boot to HBOOT:
adb reboot oem-42
It the button is stuck, then you'll have to disconnect it so it doesn't interfere with the booting process (this breaks seals and voids warranties).
RickEphraims said:
Hi,
I've been trawling the site looking for answers but to no avail.
No one seems to have a problem the same as mine.
I have an Inspire 4G AT&T
It has been rooted and I have run Coredroid and the latest Leedroid on it.
Everything is running fine except for the volume up button not working.... common problem.
Just in the last couple of days when I do a recovery boot,
There is no clockwork recovery.
There is no Hboot.
I get a constant red blinking light and three vibrates.
If I try to Hboot holding on and up key , I get 5 vibrates and a green flashing light.
Phone will not boot till after about an hour when it happily reboots to Leedroid like nothing has ever happened. Everything runs great apart from this.
Has anyone ever seen a problem like this?
Cannot load any more roms into it till the clockwork mod is sorted
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Turn your phone off then hold volume down button then power and see if it works.
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Button down and power gives me a red blinking light and 3 vibrates.
nothing on screen. It could be the button being erratic as I often get volume up on screen when I do get it loading. If the button was getting an up press during boot, how will this affect the startup process ?
I have done some fiddling as suggested and have found the volume up button to be sticking.
Have removed ribbon cable. now all I have to do is make clockwork work without sound buttons.
Changed recovery bootloader to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161710
All is good now. No sound buttons needed...
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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I was trying to flash 3e recovery or whatever and ClockWork Mod and seemed to have almost no luck until I finally decided I'd plug my phone in to the computer after shutting it off. I then held the volume keys and power button to try to get into recovery, but then I got taken to a warning screen I guess telling me about flashing custom OS and it said to press the volume up key to continue or volume down to reboot, so I pressed volume up and now my screen says "downloading..." with a droid shoveling stuff and the bottom says "Do not turn off Target!!!" It's been like this for a while... what is it trying to do? Did I do something wrong or what?
you put your phone in download mode if you are not trying to odin back to stock or hemdaling one of the leaks just unplug your phone from your computer hold the volume up button and power button till your phone reboots
Alright I got out of that, but now my phone just says "Samsung". If I hold the volume up + down + power buttons, the screen will black out and "Samsung" will pop up again, but nothing happens. Am I bricked or something? I'm new to this. I just got my Infuse like two hours ago.
just hold the volume up button and power button once the phone goes black release them if it is stuck on the samsung screen you are soft bricked go to the infuse super thread and look for gtg ultimate unbrick download it and read instructions in the op
edit: i use the first one in the thread that will also give you root plus mod 3e recovery if you want to do custom roms there are some good posts just do a search
Yeah I found that thread in case something like this happened before-hand and got it to work again. Thanks!
your welcome there is a very good guide right below this post it is very hard to brick this phone for roms i would recomend zeus it is quick and stable
That's what I'm going for.
glad i could help i remember that panicy feeling the first time i soft bricked my phone you will like zues there are alot of themes for it too