I am rooted and for the life of me, cannot get my gTab to boot into clockworkrecovery. Followed the instructions to the T to install it but cannot boot into it - any ideas?
I actually used the clockworkmod_microsd option to install to my card - how would i access the internal memory to install from there? maybe that's the problem?
So you extracted the zip file to the root of your external MicroSD (SDCARD2) and restarted while holding down the volume up key... and what happened?
In my case, after doing the initial install when I try to boot in recovery, the viewsonic screen comes up (with no recovery text) and then goes to black. When I eventually try to power up again, the tab goes back to the original ROM.
Initial attempts to install cwm and flash here. One of the Wooters who got a Gtab
Look carefully. The screen should be black except for very small text in the upper left corner of the screen. If intensity is down, you might not see it.
Jefiner said:
In my case, after doing the initial install when I try to boot in recovery, the viewsonic screen comes up (with no recovery text) and then goes to black. When I eventually try to power up again, the tab goes back to the original ROM.
Initial attempts to install cwm and flash here. One of the Wooters who got a Gtab
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Sounds like you're holding the volume down key and ending up in APX mode.
Hi Guys,
I have a Nexus S and I wanted to get ICS. I flashed the 128 mb ICS image manually through fastboot recovery, however, I wanted to go flash some MODS on the phone again but it's not working.
It's going into fastboot and I can choose what I want from the menu but when I choose Recovery, it shows the Google screen, Flashes the Android with a little "Matrix" ball in front of it and then it freezes at a black screen, with the soft buttons lit up.
Could anyone tell me what happened and if it can be fixed?
PS: When I press VolumeUp+Power at the black screen, it resets! and i have clockworkmod installed..
Ok so today my triumph stopped responding so i restarted it (took out the battery). then rebooted. upon reboot phone shuts down and now will hang at the motorola logo for about 10 min before boots but will shut back down due to the battery being dead(but had full charge when this started). Dont know what happened. So i try to get into clockworkmod to flash backup. cant get into it. the only thing i can do is get to the recovery.img file(pressing power+volume down). Other than that nothing.
also tried to boot with power pluged in. it stayed on but would not respond to any touches or button press except the lock button.
I have cwm 5.0.2.6 installed and tickerguy's cm7.
never had this problem till today. Any help would be appreciated.
a new development has occurred. now when i try to access recovery, the phone will just vibrate without stopping.
and i believe its stuck in a boot loop but without recovery i dont know anyway to exit the loop.
Are you able to get into download mode (power off then simultaneously press power button & vol- (should show polling))
Sent from my Triumph using xda premium
Yes i am able to get to download mode
Well after some tinkering (replacing the recovery image, assuming something corrupted it) i can now get to recovery, still takes 10 min to load it though. But i am unable to do anything in recovery because i have to press the menu button to confirm selection but the buttons wont respond. Some help would be appreciated.
I'm usually pretty good at following instructions but I have a problem. I am rooted with TWRP, stock kernel. I successfully applied the 4.4.1 update and used the phone for awhile no probs. Tried re-applying the 4 way reboot menu mod that I'd used successfully on 4.4.0. TWRP says flash was successful. I rebooted and am stuck at the spinning google colored circles. I cant get into recovery mode by holding the volume up/down and power buttons. The phone vibrates briefly when I hold all three but the logo keeps spinning. Pressing power button only does the same. Tried connecting to PC but mac says can't read device and to reboot it. ?help?
Update - Got her to reboot with volume down/pwer, into TWRP, and restored from backup, Back up and running...
Hello, I just unlocked bootloader, flashed custom recovery (clockwork 6.0.4.8), and gained root on my HTC One S. I then attempted to install a custom ROM, (cyanogen 12.1).
After installing and telling Clockwordmod to reboot, I believe I am in a boot loop. The white HTC screen pops up and then goes to black and stays there. When I plug my phone into my computer, I get the connection and chime, and a new device appears in Device Manager called "HTC MTP Device." When I am in fastboot mode, my phone is shown as "Android ADB Interface" in device manager, so this is different. This leads me to believe that my phone is not dead or off, it is on with a blank screen. I do not believe my computer will recognize a device that is not powered on.
I have HTC Sync Manager and I have the option for it to automatically pop up when a device is connected. It pops up, but with an error saying HTC Sync Manager could not connect to your phone.
I am able to hard-reset the phone, by holding down the Power button for several seconds. However, this just repeats the process (White HTC logo screen, then black screen). I am not able to enter bootloader or recovery by holding down Volume and Power. I have tried Volume Up + Power, Volume Down + Power, and Volume Up + Volume Down + Power.
Also adb no longer recognizes my device, so I can not interact with the phone that way either.
Currently, my only idea is to allow my phone to die so I can try booting it into recovery from power off. But if there are any other ideas that would be great.
Right before I rebooted, after installing the ROMs, I got a message saying something like "Root possibly lost, do you want to fix root." I said yes, could this be part of the issue?
I am on Windows 10.
t1j said:
Hello, I just unlocked bootloader, flashed custom recovery (clockwork 6.0.4.8), and gained root on my HTC One S. I then attempted to install a custom ROM, (cyanogen 12.1).
After installing and telling Clockwordmod to reboot, I believe I am in a boot loop. The white HTC screen pops up and then goes to black and stays there. When I plug my phone into my computer, I get the connection and chime, and a new device appears in Device Manager called "HTC MTP Device." When I am in fastboot mode, my phone is shown as "Android ADB Interface" in device manager, so this is different. This leads me to believe that my phone is not dead or off, it is on with a blank screen. I do not believe my computer will recognize a device that is not powered on.
I have HTC Sync Manager and I have the option for it to automatically pop up when a device is connected. It pops up, but with an error saying HTC Sync Manager could not connect to your phone.
I am able to hard-reset the phone, by holding down the Power button for several seconds. However, this just repeats the process (White HTC logo screen, then black screen). I am not able to enter bootloader or recovery by holding down Volume and Power. I have tried Volume Up + Power, Volume Down + Power, and Volume Up + Volume Down + Power.
Also adb no longer recognizes my device, so I can not interact with the phone that way either.
Currently, my only idea is to allow my phone to die so I can try booting it into recovery from power off. But if there are any other ideas that would be great.
Right before I rebooted, after installing the ROMs, I got a message saying something like "Root possibly lost, do you want to fix root." I said yes, could this be part of the issue?
I am on Windows 10.
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Just in case anyone stumbles on this. You can boot into the bootloader by Holding down the Power Button for several seconds, the soft buttons will blink, indicated ensuing reboot, when they stop blinking, hold Volume Down until you get to the bootloader menu. The phone does not need to be powered off for this. From there, adb/fastboot will recognize your phone, and you can factory reset if needed.
However, I figured out my problem. On older HTC models, including the HTC One S, you have to manually flash the boot.img file that is included in the zip for your ROM.
But now I've made it to the cyanogenmod boot screen and am stuck there. sigh. i've been at this literally all day.
In the end, I just flash a different rom, specially Candy5 as found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/rom-t2964931 and it worked.
It's possible I accidentally flashed a rom that was incompatible with my device, not sure.
EDIT: I also switched from CWM to TWRP. Not sure if that helped.
t1j said:
Just in case anyone stumbles on this. You can boot into the bootloader by Holding down the Power Button for several seconds, the soft buttons will blink, indicated ensuing reboot, when they stop blinking, hold Volume Down until you get to the bootloader menu. The phone does not need to be powered off for this. From there, adb/fastboot will recognize your phone, and you can factory reset if needed.
However, I figured out my problem. On older HTC models, including the HTC One S, you have to manually flash the boot.img file that is included in the zip for your ROM.
But now I've made it to the cyanogenmod boot screen and am stuck there. sigh. i've been at this literally all day.
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I have broken volume down button, what can i do? face the same problem
What does it mean by manually flash boot.img? After flashing a custom rom, do not reboot first but flash the boot.img via twrp which can be found in zip for the rom?