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[Q]Bootloader>Recovery, Hangs at Google boot.

Attempted to flash update to current CM 7 Nightly build, from Nightly10. When doing so, Bootloader>Recovery(System hangs on Google load screen), Battery is then pulled. Attempts are made without SIM card. Also initiated with ROM Manager v3.0.0.7 +Fix Permissions, with same results.
No luck with returning to previous ROM, or cleaning Cache and Dalvic-cache for same reason.
All other ROM flashing attempts have been flashed on my Nexus S, great success.
Side Note: CM 7 Nightly10 is running great! Boots/Loads with no issue.

Red Fox said:
Attempted to flash update to current CM 7 Nightly build, from Nightly10. When doing so, Bootloader>Recovery(System hangs on Google load screen), Battery is then pulled. Attempts are made without SIM card. Also initiated with ROM Manager v3.0.0.7 +Fix Permissions, with same results.
No luck with returning to previous ROM, or cleaning Cache and Dalvic-cache for same reason.
All other ROM flashing attempts have been flashed on my Nexus S, great success.
Side Note: CM 7 Nightly10 is running great! Boots/Loads with no issue.
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dont use rom manager, rom could be corrupted while downloading. download it manually then flash from recovery.

simms22 said:
dont use rom manager, rom could be corrupted while downloading. download it manually then flash from recovery.
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What could cause, or any suggestion on how to fix/pass the system freeze on: Power+VolumeUP>Recovery= Google ... .. ... (snooze, thinking, snooze)
Much help is greatly appreciated, updating to the latest and greatest is inspiring.
Sent from my Nexus S

Red Fox said:
What could cause, or any suggestion on how to fix/pass the system freeze on: Power+VolumeUP>Recovery= Google ... .. ... (snooze, thinking, snooze)
Much help is greatly appreciated, updating to the latest and greatest is inspiring.
Sent from my Nexus S
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ahhh, i misunderstood you first. try flashing the recovery again.

simms22 said:
ahhh, i misunderstood you first. try flashing the recovery again.
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I just tried the recovery OS ROM, no progress, still freezing the same. Could you please explain this recovery, that you suggest?
If the system doesn't make it to the next stage/screen, w/the android. I feel like something is missing to pass go, and collect $100 big one's, LOL!
Sent from my Nexus S

Note: I also attempting this through, ROM Manager. As Bootloader triggers same results. ROM's are all DL'ed from http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?device=crespo (Blank Stare)
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adb update:
cmd
cd c:\androidsdk\tools
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
ENTER
Figured it out through trial, and error.
Hope this helps fellow XDA members.
Thanks for your efforts, and taking the time to help with this issue.
Sent from my Nexus S

Red Fox said:
adb update:
cmd
cd c:\androidsdk\tools
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
ENTER
Figured it out through trial, and error.
Hope this helps fellow XDA members.
Thanks for your efforts, and taking the time to help with this issue.
Sent from my Nexus S
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I do have exactly the same problem.
Which recovery.img did you flash?

stiefa00 said:
I do have exactly the same problem.
Which recovery.img did you flash?
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Here is the recovery.img that I flashed:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C933QJOO
Same recovery.img used when rooting, here is the source:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/12/17/how-to-root-the-samsung-nexus-s/
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Another alternative, Terminal Emulator:
- install recovery to sd-card(no folders)
- Terminal:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/name-of-recovery.img
-=Edit=-
Phone should pause for a second and then show you a new blank line. Turn it off and back on. Holding down VolumeUp and Power to ensure it flashed correctly. Done.
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thx, got it!

Dunno if mine is the same problem.
My recovery seems to "reset" itself after every reboot. I have done it from ROM manager also also fastboot.
1. I flash the recovery
2. reboot
3. recovery comes up fine
4. reboot again, it show me this triangle sign with a exclamation mark inside.
So i need to fastboot/ROM manager everytime I want to go into the clockwork recovery.

ykphuah said:
Dunno if mine is the same problem.
My recovery seems to "reset" itself after every reboot. I have done it from ROM manager also also fastboot.
1. I flash the recovery
2. reboot
3. recovery comes up fine
4. reboot again, it show me this triangle sign with a exclamation mark inside.
So i need to fastboot/ROM manager everytime I want to go into the clockwork recovery.
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Dude, this is discussed in multiple threads already.
The OTA 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 updates place a new script in the /etc folder that checks the crc on your recovery image at every bootup. If it fails, a backup copy of stock replaces it.
If you want to stay on Clockwork, you need to rename the file /etc/install-recovery.sh to something like /etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

Ah ok thanks! I din know where or what term to search for this.

recovery rom problem cyanogenmod7

Hi
I installed Cyanogenmod 7 and with it i added and Nscollab and I decided to change it.
Now the problem is that everytime i try to get into recovery from phone and from rom manager it displays the startup google logo and it stucks there.
iv'e heard that you can flash rom from computer. if anyone knows about program or any solution Please help me

Try to flash newest recovery form ROM manager. Sometimes it will not stay there after first flash, so try couple of times. If not, there IS the way to flash *img files from fastboot via PC. Google fastboot with other keywords, and there should be plenty of guides to do that ...
But first method should work just fine ...

Fastboot flash recovery
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yessir, if rom manager doesnt work then go:
fastboot flash recovery iLikePie.img
IN FASTBOOT MODE
and you should be good!

i tried that, i said by phone(via fastboot) and it just leads me nowhere, it comes back to same menu only and reboot and power-off works :\

What exactly did u try? Go here and try to flash it...

i cant get into the recovery. via the fastboot and via rom manager
when i tried to flash with the fastboot, i pressed on the recovery button and it shows the google startup logo, returns to the menu and it leads me nowhere.
when i tried to flash with rom manager, it reboots, and leads me to the startup google logo and stuck there. what im trying to say is that i dont have access to recovery menu (the backup, install from zip file etc).

Noahsoskha said:
i cant get into the recovery. via the fastboot and via rom manager
when i tried to flash with the fastboot, i pressed on the recovery button and it shows the google startup logo, returns to the menu and it leads me nowhere.
when i tried to flash with rom manager, it reboots, and leads me to the startup google logo and stuck there. what im trying to say is that i dont have access to recovery menu (the backup, install from zip file etc).
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Try reflashing recovery from rom manager. It takes a few try for it to stick. When rom manager says it flashed. Reboot recovery from within rom manager. And keep trying till it sticks. Shouldn't take more than 3times
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So you tried to flash recovery.img from fastboot and everything went smooth? After that you still can't go into recovery? Strange, that should work :S

it worked! the only button i didnt try it was the reboot into recovery,
thank you very much and all of you who helped me

Noahsoskha said:
it worked! the only button i didnt try it was the reboot into recovery,
thank you very much and all of you who helped me
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Glad it worked for u
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Bricked my Nexus?

Hi guys,
A little help would be appreciated here as I think i've bricked my SNS just now..
I was following this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878446 in an attempt to flash clockworkmod to then flash something else however:
I get to step 14 after booting into recovery and a whole bunch of e:/ errors are shown, mainly around the Cache when in the cwm recovery screen.
I attempted to flash the stock ROM as per this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063664 (Android 2.3.6/GRK39F/XXKF1 Radio/KA3 Bootloader)
However this error'd and went back to the cwm screen with the e:/ errors.
The phone will now not boot past the Google logo with the unlocked padlock on the screen.
Any ideas atall? I've tried factory wipe/cache/devlik wipe ect but the errors are still showing?
Thanks in advanced!

i had experienced same problem " E:/ errors"
try use newer or older version of recovery , that's how i solved it ...
can you still be able to enter fastboot ? if so , you can flash new recovery img via adb
if you can't ,that's gonna be kinda problem , i suggest you try Odin ...although it could be little more complicated then recovery

qtwrk said:
i had experienced same problem " E:/ errors"
try use newer or older version of recovery , that's how i solved it ...
can you still be able to enter fastboot ? if so , you can flash new recovery img via adb
if you can't ,that's gonna be kinda problem , i suggest you try Odin ...although it could be little more complicated then recovery
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Thanks for replying.. How do I get into Fastboot if it doesn't boot though? + what command do I use to get there from a Mac?
I've used odin before so am aware of how it works, but wouldn't know which files to flash if you know what I mean?
Edit: Im using cwm 3.0.0 by the way, not sure if that helps?

adaimespechip said:
Thanks for replying.. How do I get into Fastboot if it doesn't boot though? + what command do I use to get there from a Mac?
I've used odin before so am aware of how it works, but wouldn't know which files to flash if you know what I mean?
Edit: Im using cwm 3.0.0 by the way, not sure if that helps?
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To enter fastboot when phone is off just hold the volume up button and the power button at the same time
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smok3thekid said:
To enter fastboot when phone is off just hold the volume up button and the power button at the same time
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Oh! Yes sorry, I can do that indeed..

[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?
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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
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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.
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Xziped said:
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
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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?
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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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Just look @ http://www.samfirmware.com/ .
There you should find all you need
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Boot loop when flashing viper rom

i tried to reinstall viper rom in cwm recovery along with the ics gapps package, everything flashed fine but when i tried to boot the phone up it has become stuck in a boot loop and i cannot enter recovery (it starts to load then it reboots and resumes its boot loop). i re flashed cwm recovery, but the same error persists. in dire need of suggestions, need this thing working by tomorrow morning.
thanks in advance

Have you flashed the boot .img Before you flashed the ROM ？
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You should try to get into the Bootloader mode , this will be possible even though you are in a bootloop. After you got into Bootloader mode you should flash using the AIO Toolkit the TWRP recovery (I think the AIO Toolkit can do that via Fastboot USB)
After that you can mount your sd card in TWRP and push a Nandroid of someone (You can find plenty of nandroids on the forums using the search, but search for TWRP nand) and restore it. AFTER all this you should read the instructions given on every rom thread you wanna flash. Google apps flashing on viper rom? srsly?

i already flashed both cwm and twrp manually before i posted, but went ahead and gave the toolkit a shot, it installs twrp no problem, but it still crashes and resumes the bootloop whenever i try to boot into recovery. and before you try to give people crap about installing an extra package, i flashed the gapps because the google services framework was not working, and your method (stated so far) was unhelpful. maybe check your tone next time

a448y901 said:
Have you flashed the boot .img Before you flashed the ROM ？
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You don't flash before you flash after
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OK if you can get in recovery try to reflash the ROM without wipe and let it go threw and then click reboot into boatloader and just hold the bottom volume
After you get in there put the boot IMG in what ever folder you have you fastboot on your computer and hold down shift and click the right on the mouse and click command prompt and type fastboot flash boot boot.img it will load it after type fastboot erase cache and then fastboot reboot and just let it do its thing it will probably reboot twice and it will load right up
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fixed the issue myself, rather simple. erased the cache via fastboot and bam, able to boot into recovery

HidaKureku said:
and before you try to give people crap about installing an extra package ... maybe check your tone next time
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Wassup, bro, you mad?
The dude was trying to help, so don't poke him. You're a house guest, so respect the house rules and respect people who try to help you. And if you can't swallow a little irony or a joke, at least check your own tone!
Cheers!

sorry just noticed this thread is 2 years old...