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Recovery Mode

I touched on this in a couple of threads in development and want to get an idea if this is an issue all Inspires. We get into Hboot/Recovery mode by holding the "volume down" and "power" for about 5 seconds. For me though, this doesn't work when the phone is completely shut down. It works great if I does this during a restart though.
Why this matters?...Let's say you flash a ROM and can't get past the white logo (happened to me many a day on the captiavte ) without being able to enter recovery mode the phone will go into an endless bootloop.
Let me know if anyone of you have any issues entering hboot/recovery from shutdown.
******SOLVED*******
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87

fastboot disable!

mattbollenbach said:
yeah, i've noticed its been tricky to get into recovery mode from a solid shutdown. not sure why though.
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Tricky or impossible . I've been trying for the past hour. What did you do to get it to work?

Geesh. An hour later still no luck entering recovery from shutdown.
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So if you have a bad kernel or Rom there is no way to get back? That Is quite worrisome, making me reconsider the captivate...
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hololight said:
So if you have a bad kernel or Rom there is no way to get back? That Is quite worrisome, making me reconsider the captivate...
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.
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Percisely what concerns me.

I'm sure you remember that on the Captivate, you can hold volume buttons and plug in USB to go straight to download mode as well. Maybe the Inspire is the same way?
EDIT: I do have CM installed, but I held Volume Down and plugged in USB and it went into Recovery.

The phone hasn't even been out a week; I'm sure all these things with kernels and radios will become easier and more clarified with time.
As far as booting into recovery goes, I'm still not sure what the deal is.
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Soved. Disabling fastboot corrects things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87

You mean disable fastboot on a working phone... lol. That's the potential issue I think we are concerned with. Isn't fastboot in the settings?
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hololight said:
You mean disable fastboot on a working phone... lol. That's the potential issue I think we are concerned with. Isn't fastboot in the settings?
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Yes but apparently a battery pull while the phone is off works just the same if you forget to disable fast boot (as I'm sure I will do )

I don't know what it is, but I've yet to be able to get it into recovery mode via the buttons. Well...that's not true, I've gotten into recovery after a battery pull by volume-down/power, but that's it.
Been having a lot of difficulties over the last day or so with the sdcard unmounting, usually accompanied with the error in the status bar. And apparently Rom Manager won't do reboot into recovery if it doesn't see the card :-/
So I've had several times now where I've wanted to get to recovery, and have to either get back to the computer for adb or do a battery pull.
Anyone else have troubles getting into recovery? I did disable the fast boot option in settings. (took me a minute to figure out that's what you guys were talking about, lol)

pendo said:
I don't know what it is, but I've yet to be able to get it into recovery mode via the buttons. Well...that's not true, I've gotten into recovery after a battery pull by volume-down/power, but that's it.
Been having a lot of difficulties over the last day or so with the sdcard unmounting, usually accompanied with the error in the status bar. And apparently Rom Manager won't do reboot into recovery if it doesn't see the card :-/
So I've had several times now where I've wanted to get to recovery, and have to either get back to the computer for adb or do a battery pull.
Anyone else have troubles getting into recovery? I did disable the fast boot option in settings. (took me a minute to figure out that's what you guys were talking about, lol)
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I've been seeing this the last day or two as well. Ejecting/Re-inserting SD card will usually remount ok. Anyone else seeing this?
I wasn't able to get to recovery from power off until I turned off fasboot, but then it booted right up with vol-/pwr.

Yea the 8gb card the phone came with, when I do a restart would not mount correctly once I got the phone booted back up, so I put a 16gb card that I had lying around into the phone and it doesn't do it now in a restart. Must be those cards that shipped with the phone, unless yours is doing it on a after market card.
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It's done it several times today. Just a few minutes ago I was browsing inside a zip file on the card with root explorer and then it cut me off with the error message that the SD card was unexpectedly removed.
Oh and I was able to enter recovery from a power off condition as described here (fast boot disabled in settings) But is there a way to do that when its on? Like with the N1 we can press volume-down/trackball/power and it will force a reboot.....anything equivalent on the inspire?

No reboot option in powermenu?
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***Really Solved***
So, pull the battery, take out your SIM (just in case) and your Micro SD card. Then hold down Volume Down and then press and hold (for a moment) the Power button; release the power button after a moment while continuing to hold the Volume Down button. The Bootloader screen will load up and you will now be able to use the Volume rocker to select Recovery. As soon as the phone starts to reboot in to Recovery put your Micro SD card back in. I know this works because I just saved myself from what I though was going to be a Warranty claim.

Restart into recover mode worked best!
lrs421 said:
I touched on this in a couple of threads in development and want to get an idea if this is an issue all Inspires. We get into Hboot/Recovery mode by holding the "volume down" and "power" for about 5 seconds. For me though, this doesn't work when the phone is completely shut down. It works great if I does this during a restart though.
Why this matters?...Let's say you flash a ROM and can't get past the white logo (happened to me many a day on the captiavte ) without being able to enter recovery mode the phone will go into an endless bootloop.
Let me know if anyone of you have any issues entering hboot/recovery from shutdown.
******SOLVED*******
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87
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Thanks a million...after flashing a different rom on my Inspire, I had a hard time getting into recovery mode...it most definitely worked best doing a restart rather than a full shut down!!

I screwed up a flashed a ROM from recovery that probably shouldn't have. I am unable to boot my phone (inspire 4g) and hangs at HTC screen. I can enter HBOOT screen however, recovery mode doesn't work. It's if the files needed to load into recovery aren't there. Any fix for this?
Thanks in advance

to enter recovery on DesireHD/Inspire 4G you must have your device booted up and hold down the power button. After that choose reboot. Then choose Recovery and press Ok. If you have a recovery installed it will reboot into that recovery if you have no recovery im not sure what will happen

Helpppppppp.....

OK nice and simple got my g2x flashed the clockwork via NFFlash rooted after with oneclick everything was fine working great then my screen turned off and wont turn on full battery please tell me its not bricked i dont have or did not have one in when i did the NVFlash So please tell me its not bricked because it was on one second and off the next let me say that if i pull the battery and hold vol up and dow and plug in the usb to the phone i can see it search for the drives is that a good thing like its not bricked good thing and just needs to be reflashed please help??????

Have you read this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046831

has this problem already came up if so I missed it a link would be nice to fix my phone Thanks

I could be misunderstanding your problem here but I think i had a similar issue... first of all make sure you're holding down the power button long enough to boot up. Seems to take 4 or 5 seconds with this phone.
Also when I had the issue i took out the bat, put it back, plugged into a wall charger and then held the power button that worked. But I think really my issue was impatience not holding the power button the first time long enough.

no i am the screen wont say updating or whatever when i hold the up and down button but it looks for a driver ?? and installs the Right driver

helpppppppppp your way to the search button.

Thread moved to proper forum.

You only hold volume down and power. I had the same issue. Holding both volumes will cause the phone to not boot.
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kangxi said:
You only hold volume down and power. I had the same issue. Holding both volumes will cause the phone to not boot.
When Doing what? ...And your device would not turn on as well let me know
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I need to not be bricked

nucentury08 said:
I need to not be bricked
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People in Hell want Ice Water!

So you flashed the recovery before you rooted. Try reflashing the original recovery. I don't know if that will work. You should have rooted then flashed recovery.
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thats what im doing now but gewt stuck at waiting for bootloader to int for some reason

Well your g2x will never go out of the updating screen you have to wait until one click says it has transfered the file. Wait a minute or so after that and unplug the USB and put your battery back in the I would do a master rest.
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thing is my lg screen is black can i still root with a black screen ? like i said only action i get out of the g2x is if i hold the vol up And Down and plug it in then i hear the sound of the computer finding it witch gives me hope

I would try recovering recovery befor trying to root again. I would do the nvflash but pick the original recovery instead of cm. Then after that master reset by original recovery which is hold power and down volume. Recovery will rest your rom. Rooting puts you root permissions I believe into a different partition any ways that's how a master reset does not wipe them. Your problem sounds like more of a recovery issue then root.
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scooter247 said:
I would try recovering recovery befor trying to root again. I would do the nvflash but pick the original recovery instead of cm. Then after that master reset by original recovery which is hold power and down volume. Recovery will rest your rom. Rooting puts you root permissions I believe into a different partition any ways that's how a master reset does not wipe them. Your problem sounds like more of a recovery issue then root.
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It is problem is it stays at Waiting for Bootloader int how long should that be there?

are you holding the volume buttons down and plunging in the usb before you select the version? you have to continue holding them the whole time. should pick it up in matter of seconds.

Desire S Stuck on startup and can't Hard-reset

Hi, i've got a big problem...
After a system crash i pull-out the battery and then pull-in to reset the device.
after that now when i turn on the telephone it remain stucked on the white screen with htc logo. tryed to factory reset but remain stucked after i press on it.
my htc has original rom. no modification. what can i do? i don't really want to spend 3 weeksfor htc assistance.
Thanks

Semi-bricked phone E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
[solved]BRICKed: inside eMMC's dead, with E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
For everyone who Bricked their phone - Help prevent the others
[Guide] How to brick your Desire S

Have i to flash a stock rom? how can i do without remove warranty? in the case it does'nt work i have to take it to htc center

You probobly fried your EMMC chip when you removed your battery.
it would be best to return it in for repair.

I think you may have same problem with me before. No choice but to bring it to repair.
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It was s-off before? Can you boot 2 recovery?

It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
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chris5s said:
It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
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Same problem as topic poster, i,ve been messing a lot with custom roms on win 6.5 phones, but I havn´t done anything fancy on my Desire S , as to rooting or custom roms. (work phone!) Now I´m just curious as how I get a recovery going, when the PC doesent recognice the device when USB connected.
The eng-off file (mine is ON) with the .bat file cant connect to phone, and maybe im better off sending it to repair, but my pride wants me to solve it myself.
-Damn phone just went AWOL last night after an marked Angry Birds update, rebooted it a couple of times, because of a lot of process errors, and then all dead. (white HTC screen on -until morning)
Have the latest FOTA (DK, Nordic)
ROM: SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
Hboot: 0,98.0002
Radio: 3805.06.02.03_M
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo

psudo said:
Same problem as topic poster ....
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo
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Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace

chris5s said:
Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace
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"ROM on SDcard": what format would that be in? RUU.exe or?
I can get into recovery menu (HBOOT) but chosing recovery option results in "a green recycle icon with an arrow on black background" screen, a few seconds then it virbrates 6-8 times, and then fades to black, so to speak!
Factory reset option: Locks the HBOOT screen and nothing but a battery pull, will change that.
I MAY have pulled the battery and not left it out for the 30 sec bricking danger senario, that I wasn´t aware of, until resently.
So the diag. is that is probably bricked!
Thanks for the reply
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Rom on sdcard would have to be *.zip to be flashable. If you're unrooted + stock then you won't have Clockwork recovery or similar.
Tough that factory reset doesn't give any joy. These devices.....
Looking like masonry then, unless someone else can help.
Peace
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surprisingly i got the same issue yesterday after i installed proxuser's official htc rom. Everything started fine went through setup so i assume it's not because of the rom because i don't think the phone would've started up in the first place. Anyway i am about to try and install some different roms and have also copied a backup over from my other desire s.
Will let you guys know if it worked.

[Q][Help]Flash Rom using computer.

Well I have a problem. My SNS's power button broke as if its getting pressed down all the time (powers on when i put in battery). Anyway I thought it might be a software problem so i was going to install a CM9 rom just seeing what that would do. I load up ClockworkMod via rom manager and use the search button instead of the broken power button and do a complete wipe of eveything. Once i was done and was going to install CM9 Clockworkmod said something like "search button disabled" so i couldn't select anything. Anyway I thought if I Remove the batttery and put it back in would be a good idea and then load up Clockworkmod and flash CM9.... but it wasnt. I forgot my power button is broken so i cant do anything at the Fastboot screen, I cant even use the Volume Buttons. So my next choice was use the Android SDK and hopefully flash a rom with adb. Sadly that wont work becuase my coputer will not recognise my phone at all. so im stumped on a phone stuck on either google screen or a frozen fastboot. Any ideas?

Take phone apart and try to free up the power button?
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Rem3Dy said:
Take phone apart and try to free up the power button?
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The button isnt stuck. Its broken. It still clicks when i press it down but the phone recognises it as always pressed down. And taking it apart is pretty darn complicated because I need to take the screen off aswell.

[Q] My xt720 failed to boot

i've been using cm7 for a while now..but suddenly yesterday it is failed to boot..i've tried to use updates.zip but it got stuck at a quarter of the installation..right now it can't be charged at all, as i charged it will restart and restart before the moto signed..can somebody please help me!!!

ikr99 said:
i've been using cm7 for a while now..but suddenly yesterday it is failed to boot..i've tried to use updates.zip but it got stuck at a quarter of the installation..right now it can't be charged at all, as i charged it will restart and restart before the moto signed..can somebody please help me!!!
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Try this first:
Plug the phone in for charging. Hold volume up and camera while powering on to get to the bootloader. After you get to be bootloader press and release the power button to shut the phone off. It should stay powered off while it continues charging. But watch it to make sure it doesn't try to autoboot after a while.
If not/alternatively:
Take off the back cover of the phone. Start charging and keep an eye on the screen. It will charge without booting for something like 10-15min. When it starts to boot, yank out the battery and then put it back. Repeat for 1-2 hours.
Or you can maybe try combining these: and use rubber bands to hold the volume up and camera buttons down so that when it auto-powers-on it will go to the bootloader and you can just press the power button if that happens.
I used to suffer this problem a lot. I ended up getting an external battery charger (you can find them for pretty cheap). Strongly recommended.

Mioze7Ae said:
Try this first:
Plug the phone in for charging. Hold volume up and camera while powering on to get to the bootloader. After you get to be bootloader press and release the power button to shut the phone off. It should stay powered off while it continues charging. But watch it to make sure it doesn't try to autoboot after a while.
If not/alternatively:
Take off the back cover of the phone. Start charging and keep an eye on the screen. It will charge without booting for something like 10-15min. When it starts to boot, yank out the battery and then put it back. Repeat for 1-2 hours.
Or you can maybe try combining these: and use rubber bands to hold the volume up and camera buttons down so that when it auto-powers-on it will go to the bootloader and you can just press the power button if that happens.
I used to suffer this problem a lot. I ended up getting an external battery charger (you can find them for pretty cheap). Strongly recommended.
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it did help in charging the battery but the system won't started, it keeps on restarted after the starhub logo (singapore set)..

OK, so first try to get to open recovery (press and hold volume-up while booting from power off state). From openrecovery make a nandroid backup, factory reset, and try a reboot.
If you can't get into open recovery you can try stock recovery (I can't remember the process off the top of my head)
Do you have ext partition on your SD card?
The last resort is to flash back to stock using a sbf using RSS lite/sbf_flash.

Mioze7Ae said:
OK, so first try to get to open recovery (press and hold volume-up while booting from power off state). From openrecovery make a nandroid backup, factory reset, and try a reboot.
If you can't get into open recovery you can try stock recovery (I can't remember the process off the top of my head)
Do you have ext partition on your SD card?
The last resort is to flash back to stock using a sbf using RSS lite/sbf_flash.
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it didn't work..i've read some articles about it this problem..all i need is update.zip that compatible with xt720 can anyone please help???

I don't think there are any update.zip that work -- the milestone xt720 recovery never had that vulnerability (unless you've flashed the xt720mod.sbf). And as far as I know all updates for XT720 have gone via Motorola's usb software updater program (not ota update.zip) so I don't think there are any correctly signed full system updates sitting around anywhere.
I think you're going to have to flash a stock sbf using RSD lite (windows) or sbf_flash (Linux, macos)

the device can't be detected by computer in it's current state so i can't flash it

Make sure you download moto usb drivers.
Hold down power button, volume button, camera button at the same time bootloader will come up.
Startup rsd lite plug into usb your phone should be recognize.
If not reconnect if this doest work reinstall rsd lite.
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sorry guy but it still can be helped do u have any other idea???

1.Can you get to bootloader.
2. Can you get to open recovery.
Answer yes or no on these questions.
Base on your answers I will come up with some ideas.
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mchlbenner said:
1.Can you get to bootloader.
2. Can you get to open recovery.
Answer yes or no on these questions.
Base on your answers I will come up with some ideas.
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i can only get to bootloader and the android recovery 2e that's it or else it will restart until all the power have drain

If your computer doesn't recognize your phone try a different computer.
Also try plugin and uplugin and plugging again.
Also try hardreset and remove sdcard.
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i've tried them all still not working, i got no idea any more how to solve this,but i did try to use update.zip in from this link
http://androidforums.com/motorola-d...la-droid-frg01b-update-1-2-a.html#post1296035
it loaded only half way.

That is for motorola droid not milestone xt720.
Did you try to install something to have this happen.
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before this happen im using cm7 but it cant move app to sd, so i tried to install the update using openrecovery it was stucked then i chose to restart it and it continue to restart until now.

What update did you install.
You must realize are bootloader is locked you have be careful what you install.
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i dont quiet sure about the update, all i want is to make all the apps movable, but i really dont know the bootloader is locked so how do fixed this?

I hate to be the one to tell you if you can't get into bootloader and be recognized by computer and sbf flash if you can't do this your phone maybe bricked.
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ok, what did u mean by bricked? sorry i cant understand the term

Broke
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