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Preparing to use a custom recovery and write_raw_image/flash_image

In preparing for the official EVO release, where all us regular ppl will finally get the phone, have a few questions which there might be answers for or there might not yet be.
I know toast posted he is running a custom recovery.
What custom recoveries will work on the EVO? Will all the currently available recoveries need to be updated/modified to run on the EVO?
In creating an update.zip to flash partitions (load a new boot.img) through the custom recovery, is there a flash_image binary (samsung moment style) or are there commands, with partition information hard coded into the recovery, like write_raw_image ? If both exist, is there a preferred method?

I'm curious how we even get to a stock recovery on this phone...any idea?
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spurnout said:
I'm curious how we even get to a stock recovery on this phone...any idea?
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Turn off (completely). Hold volume down while powering on, and keep holding it until the bootloader screen appears. Use volume keys to navigate up/down in the list, and press power button to select "Recovery". It'll take you to a black screen with a red icon in the middle, and shows no menu -- but if you press all three buttons (vol down+vol up+power), it'll show a recovery menu that we're all used to, with blue letters.
This will only work to apply a signed HTC update.

maejrep said:
Turn off (completely). Hold volume down while powering on, and keep holding it until the bootloader screen appears. Use volume keys to navigate up/down in the list, and press power button to select "Recovery". It'll take you to a black screen with a red icon in the middle, and shows no menu -- but if you press all three buttons (vol down+vol up+power), it'll show a recovery menu that we're all used to, with blue letters.
This will only work to apply a signed HTC update.
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Awesome, thank you very much.

How to boot into System Revovery/nandroid/ from a power off situation.

I was trying out a new setup on my phone when it got stuck on the Motorola M. I found that you can boot into System Recovery with out going through the app and doing a recovery boot. This is not the factory manual reboot procedure.
***Boot into System Recovery**
Steps
1. If stuck in M logo screen or Dexter's screen, pull battery
2. Insert battery and hit power button
3. As soon as you hit power button hold the Volume up button down until the unboxing logo comes up.
**Updated with info provided by 3rdstring**
And now you can use nandroid to go back to a earlier version of dexter's or what ever you have on your card.
I would also recommend to wipe the dalvik cache, and cache partition. You do not need to do a factory reset.
Hope this helps others out, no need to reflash to stock version when your phone bricks.
**Factory Reboot steps***
To Manually Reset
If there are significant problems with your device or you are not able to follow the steps above please use the following process to manually reset the phone:
Turn off phone
Press Power key + Camera Key + GalleryKey to power on the phone and bring up the recovery screen
When the Triangle/Exclamation point screen appears, press Volume Up + Gallery Key down and tap the camera key to show the recovery menu.
When the recovery window appears, use the volume up/down keys to navigate the menu and the camera key to enter your selection.
Select Wipe data/factory reset
Select Reboot Phone

You should only need to hold in the volume up button while powering on the phone to boot into OpenRecovery once it's installed either via Dexter's System Recovery app or through the directions on ModMyMobile.

Hi thanks very much doing your discovery unbrick my other xt720
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Sorry your wrong hold power then volume.
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Brian5475E said:
3. As soon as you hit power button hold the Volume up button down until the unboxing logo comes up.
**Updated with info provided by 3rdstring**
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I do believe that is what I said. Tested it myself. Hold the power button to turn on like normal, then just hold the volume up button down.

[Q] HELP!! Samsung Nexus S Crashed, Cant do anything

Hi
I have a Samsung Nexus S for past 5 months. I recently upgraded to the ICS. Last week, I was listening songs on my phone and all of a sudden out of nowhere the phone re-started.
After couple of minutes, saw a message on screen saying “encryption unsuccessful, you have lost all your data. This phone will now need to rebooted”.
Underneath this message, there was only 1 option of REBOOT NOW. I had to press the button since I had no other option.
After this the phone restarted but never went past the start up animation screen. After couple of days, I gave it another shot and after going past the welcome screen, it gave me the option to register the phone again. But as soon as that screen comes up, I get all these small messages saying, email has stopped, music has stopped, android process has stopped, calendar has stopped................ at this point the phone virtually hangs itself and I can’t do anything.
Can someone please advise what is wrong with my phone and how can I fix it?
Any help would be very much appreciated.

Try this, power the phone off, now press and hold the volume up & power botton at the same time, a menu should appear, now use the volume up/down buttons till "RECOVERY" is highlighted green, now press the power button, the phone will now reboot and in to recovery and show an android on the screen, at this point you need to press and hold the power button then press volume up briefly, a menu should appear, use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "wipe data/factory reset" and press the power button, now use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "Yes -- delete all user data" once this is done select "reboot system now", this process will wipe the phone and put it back to factory settings, it won't delete usb storage though so you may need erase usb storage once you're up and running again.

d.chatten said:
Try this, power the phone off, now press and hold the volume up & power botton at the same time, a menu should appear, now use the volume up/down buttons till "RECOVERY" is highlighted green, now press the power button, the phone will now reboot and in to recovery and show an android on the screen, at this point you need to press and hold the power button then press volume up briefly, a menu should appear, use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "wipe data/factory reset" and press the power button, now use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "Yes -- delete all user data" once this is done select "reboot system now", this process will wipe the phone and put it back to factory settings, it won't delete usb storage though so you may need erase usb storage once you're up and running again.
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I would wipe cache while you're in there too.
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i tried doing that. i cant get into recovery mode, when I press volume \up and power i get into that screen where it displays all the options such as recovery, bootloader etc etc. I select recovery (I dont see a android exclamation sign instead for a split second I see android and a triangle) and press volume down/up + power button, nothing happens. after some time it reboots and hangs itself at the animation screen..........any suggestions? your help is much appreciated.

puriaditya1234 said:
i tried doing that. i cant get into recovery mode, when I press volume \up and power i get into that screen where it displays all the options such as recovery, bootloader etc etc. I select recovery (I dont see a android exclamation sign instead for a split second I see android and a triangle) and press volume down/up + power button, nothing happens. after some time it reboots and hangs itself at the animation screen..........any suggestions? your help is much appreciated.
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I think that you have to push clockworkmod recovery image like when you root your device.
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is there any 'how to' guide to do that?

puriaditya1234 said:
is there any 'how to' guide to do that?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
Check this thread.
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yeah, try using clockwork recovery.
that's much more usfeul than the stock one

i tried doing clockwork recovery, I cant unlock the bootloader, i did all the steps ie installed android drivers, went to command prompt, typed the command, I can see the option of unlocking bootloader on android but when I select yes, it still says locked. I guess I will have to give up on this phone.

puriaditya1234 said:
i tried doing clockwork recovery, I cant unlock the bootloader, i did all the steps ie installed android drivers, went to command prompt, typed the command, I can see the option of unlocking bootloader on android but when I select yes, it still says locked. I guess I will have to give up on this phone.
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Try using one click root v6 by shabbypenguin. That will work for you. Its what I used and its so easy. Just look for it here on xda
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[Q] Abnormal Circumstance Rooting

I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?

use adb:
Code:
adb reboot

dswilson777 said:
I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?
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power button doesn't work either? I thought that functioned as the 'enter' button... Imnuts' post will work for sure, but I have to ask why are you in the stock android recovery? unless you meant CWM?

Thanks imnuts, what is the easiest way to adb reboot?

My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.

dswilson777 said:
My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.
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ADB (Android Debug Bridge, I think) is tethering your phone to your pc and pushing/pulling files or forcing commands to your phone using the command terminal... it doesn't work right away as you need the latest android sdk files, java/jdk files, and altered C:/ path directory (assuming you're running windows, I think thats how it works if anyone can help me out here )
does the power button work as a 'select' button though? also can't you just battery pull and restart the phone or does it restart right into that recovery? just an FYI that is the stock android recovery which you can't (or rather shouldn't) be doing anything in, CWM is recommended... I vaguely recall there being another button that would work like the search button but I'm not sure

Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?

dswilson777 said:
Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?
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CWM is Clockwork Mod, its the custom version of that recovery that will allow you to flash files and change options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804
you can flash superuser (what gives you root access) easily in there and just reboot and presto you're rooted... I haven't seen any tutorials on how to use CWM since its fairly easy, to boot into it just hold power+volume up+home until 'Samsung' appears then let go of power and hold the other two until it comes up, then use volume keys and power button to navigate and select
Odin is required to install CWM first though and this thread gives a little info on that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160580
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[Q] Unable to boot

Hey. I'm having an issue. Currently running latest cm-nightlys, well I was. I wiped/factory reset wiped dalvik and cache. Upon installing ROM, Paranoid Android 4.0 Beta 3 It just stood there. Frozen. I felt so cold and alone I waited 10 minuets, still nothing. I held down the power button/volume up to get back to recovery but I was unable to....By the way i'm on clockwork MOD 6.0.xx It's probably my fault, I should've installed TWRP instead. I can get to fast boot....I HATE setting up ADB, but I have it installed, not the full version. Can someone HELP?!!? I'm unfamiliar with the comands, and so forth... Thanks in advanced

power button + volume up doesnt take you into recovery. power button + volume down takes you into the bootloader(fastboot), then scroll down with the volume key and choose recovery(while still in the bootloader).

Your install of paranoid wasn't frozen, takes over 15 min to install PA, and the status bar doesn't move either while installing. It is stated in PA ROM section.
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simms22 said:
power button + volume up doesnt take you into recovery. power button + volume down takes you into the bootloader(fastboot), then scroll down with the volume key and choose recovery(while still in the bootloader).
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Power button + volume up takes you into safe mode does it not?

BirchBarlow said:
Power button + volume up takes you into safe mode does it not?
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No. Holding down power off in Android asks you if you want to reboot in safe mode.
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