I'm helping a friend with his Nexus S 4G by sprint. We are rooted, SU is installed, CWR is flashed but volume up and power keeps going back t o fastboot. Please help.
Go down to recovery and click power in fast boot?
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I know that much but it doesn't go to recovery menu right from an OFF state. I have to get to it when the phone is on from rom manager. I'd like to be able to press the up and power button and then go to recovery in fastboot. As of now it gives me the android and the box symbol meaning that it doesn't have CWR. Confusing.
really weird when i had this problem all i did was install CWR from ROM manager
It just won't stick, I have to keep flashing the latest CWR recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135248&page=3
Might help you.
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Feeshie said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135248&page=3
Might help you.
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Thank you very much, this was the fix. This post specifically
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19531979&postcount=30
just rename the file "install-recovery.sh" which is in the /etc folder. You can only access it with a root file manager (rootexplorer $4 on the market)
make sure your new file is not ending with .sh
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So I got the s-off with the
Guide to permaroot, s=off AND s=on!!!!! Im using rom manger but I cant go in to recovery....everytime I go to the bootloader and go to recovery it just reboots the phone. What should I do?????
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well since u already know that by going into recovery, the long way, not rom manager shortcut way (witch we all know has it's issues), u have to hold down the power and vol down buttons at the same time, after powering off the phone, you should wait a little bit until it refreshes the status, and then try to select recovery with vol down for scrolling and power for select, once in recovery you can do your magic with the trackball,
i really hope for your sake that this is the problem, and not another that will have to make you repeat the whole rooting process all over again.
Pull the battery then hold down volume and then the power button.
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Pull the battery then hold down volume and then the power button.
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o yea, i forgot about that one, since mine worked just fine without pulling out the battery.
myster503 said:
So I got the s-off with the
Guide to permaroot, s=off AND s=on!!!!! Im using rom manger but I cant go in to recovery....everytime I go to the bootloader and go to recovery it just reboots the phone. What should I do?????
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Make sure you have installed clockworkmod recovery. You can double check by going into Rom Manager and using the top option to flash the current recovery (2.5.1.2)
after it has flashed succesfully you should be able to use the "reboot into recovery" option in Rom Manager without a problem.
Everytime i go to recovery from rom manger or bootloader it reboots the phone. what's wrong????
Nothing is wrong. "Recovery" is a standalone, bootable program. It is its own operating environment, and is not an Android App.
I know, im trying to get into recovery to put a new mod on my phone but its reboots everytime I push recovery.
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myster503 said:
I know, im trying to get into recovery to put a new mod on my phone but its reboots everytime I push recovery.
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Are you sure you have installed CW recovery?
Well the rom manger is telling me I have the lastest (2.5.1.2)
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myster503 said:
Well the rom manger is telling me I have the lastest (2.5.1.2)
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Try installing it again through rom manager. And are you sure you are rooted fully? Try going into Terminal Emulator and type su. Tell me what happens.
Rom Manager only knows what .img files are on the SD card repository it keeps for flashing. It cannot tell you the state of flashed content.
My guess is a failed flash of ClockworkMod Recovery. Re-flash, either with Rom Manager or with fastboot.
Ok I checked if I was rooted and yes it gives me superuser. The rom manger the same as before.
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Re-flash, either with Rom Manager or with fastboot.
(There's an echo in here.)
Is fastboot in bootloader??? Whats fastboot
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When you click recovery, THE PHONE REBOOTS INTO RECOVERY.
Let it sit there after the reboot and see if you end up in recovery...
myster503 said:
Ok I checked if I was rooted and yes it gives me superuser. The rom manger the same as before.
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So if you tried flashing the recovery again thru Rom Manager and it says it was succesfull, I am not sure why you wouldnt be able to get into recovery either by using rom manager or by holding down the volume button and hitting power button. Then choose recovery and it should put you there. Unless you dont have a recovery, then it cant work. It should at least try to boot you into stock or something.
My suggestion would be to set up adb/fastboot and trying to enter recovery that way. If it still doesnt work then you can try pushing the recovery.img via fastboot and see if that works.
Here is a guide for adb/fastboot that takes 2 minutes to set up.
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Is fastboot in bootloader??? Whats fastboot
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Fastboot is a client/server application. The client is the phone, the server a Linux or Windows workstation with the Android SDK installed. The interconnection is a USB cable.
If you have the SDK, or you've read about it, you may have read of a tool called "adb". Fastboot is like adb. Except adb requires a running Android OS with USB debugging turned on. Fastboot doesn't. It just requires the bootloader to be running. No Android required.
For more information, try using a) Forum search, and b) Google search. They're great tools.
THANKS EVERYONE FOR THEIR HELP!!!!! It's working......
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it always fills me with tears when a storry ends with a happy end...
I have went thru the 'one click process' with what I thought was success. Now I can't seem to get SU permissions. I have read a few threads but I just can't figure out how to flash theSU fix.
A bit of help would be awesome.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000546&highlight=plugged+recovery
You need to flash the su fix with clockwork recovery. So reboot to recovery, hold volume down + power buttons, volume down to "recovery" once there go to "install zip from sd card" navigate to the su fix and hit the power button, volume down to yes, press power button, let it do its thing, when done use back arrow til you get to reboot system, push power and it will reboot and once booted you should be good to go.
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Thanks for the guidance. Will try tonight and post results.
i am beginning to wonder if the phone has root access now....
How do I flash the zip from stock android recovery?
Man I am getting frustrated.!!!
Brenardo said:
i am beginning to wonder if the phone has root access now....
How do I flash the zip from stock android recovery?
Man I am getting frustrated.!!!
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You don't have full root access if you didn't flash a custom recovery.
Did you use Captainkrtek's one click?
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You don't have full root access if you didn't flash a custom recovery.
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Not true at all. Root has nothing do with recovery, except for the fact that you need root to flash a custom recovery. You can be properly rooted and run stock recovery all day long. I am assuming the OP is having issues flashing a new recovery, because rom manager isn't being granted su by the superuser app. Is this accurate?
I would really suggest doing it the long way as you will benefit from it in the long run. All you really need to know is how to use adb. Have a look here for that http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
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Whoops your right, I just think of that as part of full root. But if he has root why won't su work properly? That doesn't make sense...
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I had issues after I rooted getting the superuser app to grant privileges to Rom Manager. I couldn't flash clockwork recovery because superuser just wasn't popping up asking for permission. I have no idea why. Tried rebooting a few times as was suggested in the root/s-off guide, to no avail. I finally got it to pop up by just clicking around inside the rom manager app. Can't remember exactly what I pressed, but all of a sudden it popped up, and after I clicked yes, I could flash clockwork recovery no problem.
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Whoops your right, I just think of that as part of full root. But if he has root why won't su work properly? That doesn't make sense...
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It's because Su the application, and being able to Su to root, are technically different things. Su the app needs a patch to work on TB.
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Hey I have a question. I just rooted my device and flashed a stock rooted Tom / kernel.
However now it seems as though the recovery (CW) is not sticking? It would just boot into the.Google screen and just stay there, and now it just boots back into the bootloader. And clockwork is nowhere to be found. Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
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kevlars9 said:
Hey I have a question. I just rooted my device and flashed a stock rooted Tom / kernel.
However now it seems as though the recovery (CW) is not sticking? It would just boot into the.Google screen and just stay there, and now it just boots back into the bootloader. And clockwork is nowhere to be found. Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
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The stock rom will overwrite recovery on boot - this is done automatically. To prevent this delete/rename /etc/install-recovery.sh
Sticking at the Google screen is an issue with the ROM/Kernel combination you've chosen. Re-flash CWM and re-flash your ROM. If you're interested what's "sticking" you can likely adb shell logcat and see what is hanging or failing.
Thank-you. Will I have to repush the recovery and than rename the file? Or can I just edit the file the way my phone is now?
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kevlars9 said:
Thank-you. Will I have to repush the recovery and than rename the file? Or can I just edit the file the way my phone is now?
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If you're rooted as long as you can boot you can rename/delete the file. Otherwise just:
-Flash CWM
-Flash your ROM (or boot if you can boot without issue)
-Rename the script (/etc/install-recovery.sh - name it whatever you want) - you'll either need to remount rw or use something like root explorer to make it easier
-You'll likely need to flash CWM again. You can do this via Rom Manager or manually via fastboot
At this point it should "stick" in the sense that it will not be overwritten on boot any longer.
One more question where is the location of the script that needs to.be edited in root explorer. As in the location.
Seriously thanks!
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kevlars9 said:
One more question where is the location of the script that needs to.be edited in root explorer. As in the location.
Seriously thanks!
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Ok, I am a noob in the GS4G scene (Veteran in the HTC side of the house), but I have successfully downloaded ROM Manager and flashed Clockwork Recovery. When I try to back up my current ROM, it takes me back to the Galaxy S 4G factory recovery (Blue Letters). When I click on the Reboot into Recovery in Rom Manager, it does the same. Even when I try to manually enter Clockwork (holding power button and vol key down), takes me to the same recovery.
Maybe I am missing something, but I cant seem to figure it out. I have tried flashing CWM several times thinking that it was not sticking, but nothing.
Anyone has an insight in this? Thank you in advance for your help.
BTW, I have the GS4G rooted via SuperOneClick method.
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Ok, I am a noob in the GS4G scene (Veteran in the HTC side of the house), but I have successfully downloaded ROM Manager and flashed Clockwork Recovery. When I try to back up my current ROM, it takes me back to the Galaxy S 4G factory recovery (Blue Letters). When I click on the Reboot into Recovery in Rom Manager, it does the same. Even when I try to manually enter Clockwork (holding power button and vol key down), takes me to the same recovery.
Maybe I am missing something, but I cant seem to figure it out. I have tried flashing CWM several times thinking that it was not sticking, but nothing.
Anyone has an insight in this? Thank you in advance for your help.
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Dont use rom manager. Delete everything to do with rom manager and follow the instructions on this link and you'll have cwm in no time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
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I put the update.zip in the root of my SD Card and the Recovery file in system/bin file using Root Explorer. When I try to reboot into CWM, nothing, takes me to the original recovery. The are no other instructions on the threat.
How am I supposed to flash that update.zip file?
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I put the update.zip in the root of my SD Card and the Recovery file in system/bin file using Root Explorer. When I try to reboot into CWM, nothing, takes me to the original recovery. The are no other instructions on the threat.
How am I supposed to flash that update.zip file?
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Never mind, I got it. Thank you for your help.
marcos.lennis said:
Never mind, I got it. Thank you for your help.
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No problem, glad I could help. And to really get you phone flyin check out all the goodies in the sgs4g bible located in the development section. Have fun
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I am having issues with rooting via kernal. I tried to flash a kernal with Cwm but it would just hang. Pulled battery and tried again. It may be a problem with Cwm? Could someone tell me what color latest cwm should be and is it supposed to have a back up option on it? Tia!
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cookemandan said:
I am having issues with rooting via kernal. I tried to flash a kernal with Cwm but it would just hang. Pulled battery and tried again. It may be a problem with Cwm? Could someone tell me what color latest cwm should be and is it supposed to have a back up option on it? Tia!
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latest CWM is the orange 4.0.1.4 version... if you're having problems rooting just flash a superuser.zip, search the dev section for it as myself and others have posted it recently
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Thanks. When. I flashed cwm yesterday it said passed but I now have a blue recovery and it says something about samsung recovery which I am assuming is the stock recovery. I will try to reflash again when I am near a windows machine.
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Thanks. When. I flashed cwm yesterday it said passed but I now have a blue recovery and it says something about samsung recovery which I am assuming is the stock recovery. I will try to reflash again when I am near a windows machine.
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use this CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804 and flash the attached superuser.zip
Thanks dude is will try it when I get some time!
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OK I tried to reflash cwm with odin with more times with different usb ports and a stock cable. Once with auto reboot and once without and both times said success and both times I booted into recovery and it is the stock recovery! This phone is no og droid that is for sure! Any suggestions? All I really want is pb and j to kill bloatware if the new update is coming soon now that Steve kondik is with samsung I will just wait!
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OK I tried to reflash cwm with odin with more times with different usb ports and a stock cable. Once with auto reboot and once without and both times said success and both times I booted into recovery and it is the stock recovery! This phone is no og droid that is for sure! Any suggestions? All I really want is pb and j to kill bloatware if the new update is coming soon now that Steve kondik is with samsung I will just wait!
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ok well this should do it:
1. power off phone and take out battery
2. open odin on your pc
3. hold volume down button and connect to pc, should show download mode and should show up in odin, let go of volume down
4. put battery back in, uncheck 'auto reboot' and put the CWM file in PDA
5. push start and let odin flash the file, should only take a few seconds
6. unplug phone from pc, then remove battery
7. put battery back in
8. hold volume up, home button and power button until you see 'Samsung' then let go of power button
that should get you into CWM and you can work from there, since you don't have a custom kernel to make CWM 'stick' on your phone do not let the phone boot up or you will need to odin CWM again... you basically get one try with it
That must be my problem i will try
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I am flashing the kernal via cwm should I still flash the SU file or will PBJ keep root access?
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That must be my problem i will try
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I am flashing the kernal via cwm should I still flash the SU file or will PBJ keep root access?
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it should root you but in case it doesn't no big deal just flash the superuser.zip
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It rooted fine without thanks again!
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unable to load su zip file using CWM
The phone is a charge with CWM 4.0.1.4 installed. When attempting install su 2.3.6.3 efgh from the sd card with CWM the result is an error message relating to bad package.
Has anyone had success with this su ? Thanks Dan
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The phone is a charge with CWM 4.0.1.4 installed. When attempting install su 2.3.6.3 efgh from the sd card with CWM the result is an error message relating to bad package.
Has anyone had success with this su ? Thanks Dan
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might have been a bad download, maybe re-download and try again
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