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I rooted using z4root & installed recovery using Koush's Droid 2 bootstrap with hopes of trying out Liberty before Fission.
Everything seemed to be going well, I backed up, wiped data/cache, flashed Liberty, and booted into it. No signal or leds, so I decided to go with Fission.
So I installed the Droid 2 Bootstrap app in Liberty in order to reboot into recovery, wiped data/cache, and flashed Fission. But when I went to reboot, I still had the Liberty splash screen. So somehow I figured out how to boot back into clockwork, I think I booted into stock recovery by holding X, (maybe wiped data/cache in there), and then hit reboot from there. But this hasn't gotten me to clockwork subsequently.
This time, I tried wiping all the mounts (boot/system/data/cache) as well as fact.reset/cache before flashing Fission.
Still, I get the Liberty splash.
Now, I think my battery won't charge.
Is there any way to restore my backup without a new battery? Even if i do get a new one, how am I going to boot into clockwork to restore my backup?
Word is once you've gone Liberty, way out is first SBF then anything else. Make sure you don't play with the phone too much as battery will die and you cannot SBF.
Like I said, my battery is already dead.
Is there no way to SBF without a charged battery? Can't I just plug it into the wall?
hijklll said:
Like I said, my battery is already dead.
Is there no way to SBF without a charged battery? Can't I just plug it into the wall?
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There is. But is a bit scary. You can jump the battery via the USB port using usb cable to provide power for the flashing. Few people have done it, it works. But you better buy a 10 bucks desktop charger for Motorola BP6X batteries and recharge the battery. If you aren't tech savvy I do not recommend you to try the USB power jump start method...
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leobg said:
But you better buy a 10 bucks desktop charger for Motorola BP6X batteries and recharge the battery.
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That's what I've done. Now I'm just waiting for it to charge.
Now the question is will I be able to get into Clockwork Recovery, or will I have to RSD/SBF?
Depends on what the issue was exactly that was keeping you out of clockwork. In my experance, if I yanked the battery while it was still on the moto logo, when I booted back it would boot directly into clockwork. However, if you've already whiped all mounts, your only option may be to sbf anyway.
I had the same problem with the battery. What worked for me was to plug the phone in via USB while holding x to boot into the recovery. I let it sit and charge slowly for about an hour or so. After that I was able to boot without my battery losing charge.
If this does not work I suggest buying any usb wall charger / car charger and charging your phone with that.
Good luck.
blakzer0 said:
I had the same problem with the battery. What worked for me was to plug the phone in via USB while holding x to boot into the recovery. I let it sit and charge slowly for about an hour or so. After that I was able to boot without my battery losing charge.
If this does not work I suggest buying any usb wall charger / car charger and charging your phone with that.
Good luck.
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Dang, should have tried that before I bought a battery charger. Oh well.
I am running CWM 4.0.1.5, i seem to be able to run a backup without any problems and while still in recovery i can see the newly created backup folder.
Yet after a restart the folder has gone and i am left with just the one i made a while ago
thats curious, ive never had that happen to me, not even on my HD2...try reinstalling CWM and see if that helps
I have reflashed clockworkmod on top via Rom Manager but still no go, it must be deleting it after
Be careful with 4.0.1.5, it doesn't charge the battery when the phone is off. If the battery is flat, you're stuffed.
The latest is 4.0.1.4 with the blue text.
4.0.1.5 charges fine for me when my phone completely dies
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4.0.1.5 charges fine for me when my phone completely dies
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Same here. The .4 version wont light the led on my phone AND makes me do a battery pull to reboot.
I wonder if this issues could affect trying to flash a recovery?
Matt
All fixed, flashed 4.0.1.4 and now i can charge when off and i can have more then 1 backup made
So this night, I tried to restore an backup of mine. Because I had installed CM 7.10 and it removed all of my contacts so I went to restore my backup.
This backup happened to be an incomplete backup so my phone was somewhat bricked. When I boot my phone I see a black background, with a phone and a red triangle with a red exclamation mark in it.
Luckily I have a second backup, which is complete. But I have to find someway to restore this backup. I´ve copied the backup to my pc. My phone is rooted, and I have tried to write all of the images to the phone, now I get this error:
remote: signature verificition fail
How can I bypass this and restore my phone?
Thanks in advance!
bump...
I was thinking, maybe it's possible to flash a fresh cyanogenmod on it, I'm not sure if that'll work.
Phone model please
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Thanks for the fast reply, I am using a HTC Legend.
Bump, I really need help...
I can't make a backup with cwm. I flashed it from EZ Recovery, but i get stuck on "Backing up system..." wit ha motionless progress bar, forcing me to do a battery pull, corrupting the memory stick. Lost all my data on it once this way, but oh well, I guess this stuff happens when you root your phone and fool around with it. Right now I would just like to make a backup of my phone in its current state and I am completely unable to do so. Can anyone help me?
Did you first off try to re-flash CWM? And does it get stuck if you save to both external SD and internal? Ive had problems before were I had to do hard reset when nandroid to extSD.. though internalSD worked.
Cheers.
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If you let the phone battery run down, it will not, I repeat WILL NOT boot back up out of recovery.
When I plug the charger in it just boot it right back into recovery, which we all know won't charge the battery.
Pull the battery, put battery back in, plug in the charger....boot right back into recovery.
Power off from recovery with charger still plugged in...boot right back up in recovery.
Reboot system from recovery...boot right back up in recovery.
No way to charge the battery without getting out of recovery first.
No way to boot out of recovery without enough juice in the battery.
I had to use the extended battery (spare) to boot up the phone and...well you guest it...to flash the "other" recovery to get it working normal again.
Thunderbolt
Miui
TWRP 2.3.1.0
Works fine on earlier version, if this is a false alarm, then please delete.
Update: After reading through a few forums, TWRP might be able to charge while in recovery. It doesn't work for me.
That's a +1 for 4ext. It let's you charge the battery in recovery.
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Your phone should charge in the powered off state though.
Thought so too but I know for a fact that cwm boots you into recovery as soon as there is enough juice to boot. Then having the screen on starting what little there is left. I know because I dealt with that for a month before I realized that my stock battery finally took a drive and wasn't retaining a full charge anymore.
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Its recovery 101 never mess with recovery unless you have a decent charge. You are just asking for trouble. I agree it makes 4ext look better because you can charge while in its recovery. If you let your phone die in recovery then you deserve it. Not to sound harsh but for the longest time when devs post roms they said make sure your battery is charged before flashing the rom. You think they was joking? lol
I remember having to do that with the Droid Eris.
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I think what he means is, if you let your phone die normally, then plug it in to charge, it will boot to recovery. I had that happen to me when i first tried clockwork touch.
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Let me clear it up a bit.
If there's not enough juice in the battery to boot up the phone. If you push and hold the power button and nothing happen then you're screwed.
As soon as you plug in the charger, it will boot right to TWRP. you can not stop it from booting into TWRP, when you power it off from within TWRP it will boot right back into TWRP as long as the charger is connected.
Bottom Line:
If your battery went dead (under normal usage condition) and you don't have a good spare. You are SCREWED. This is a FATAL bug.
There's no way to charge a dead battery.
DarkJedi thinks that I'm in TWRP while the phone went dead. The answer is NO. The battery went dead under standby.
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Its recovery 101 never mess with recovery unless you have a decent charge. You are just asking for trouble. I agree it makes 4ext look better because you can charge while in its recovery. If you let your phone die in recovery then you deserve it. Not to sound harsh but for the longest time when devs post roms they said make sure your battery is charged before flashing the rom. You think they was joking? lol
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You're not understanding the post. This has nothing to do with messing with TWRP. Battery went dead under normal using condition, has nothing to do with recovery.
Shadow Death said:
Your phone should charge in the powered off state though.
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That's the problem, it will not power down out of TWRP, as soon as you plug in the charger it will boot right back into TWRP.
It has the same cwm bug there used to be. When you plug the phone in to charge it boots into recovery.
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That's good to know, I had been using TWRP on my Thunderbolt so I guess it's time to switch back to 4ext, i just wish there was software keyboard support in 4ext.
Also with a note, I had this problem the op had when using TWRP on my Asus Transformer, actually strangely, while the recovery was installed it would not charge the device at all, not even when turned off. Once TWRP was taken off of it, and CWM back on, it charged properly. After using TWRP I can say for some reason this recovery has some serious game changing bugs.
EDIT: Also, "Boot Manager" doesn't seem to be compatible with restoring backups made with TWRP.
Give this build a shot and see if it fixes the charging:
http://techerrata.com/dees_troy/mecha.img
Ellises said:
That's good to know, I had been using TWRP on my Thunderbolt so I guess it's time to switch back to 4ext, i just wish there was software keyboard support in 4ext.
Also with a note, I had this problem the op had when using TWRP on my Asus Transformer, actually strangely, while the recovery was installed it would not charge the device at all, not even when turned off. Once TWRP was taken off of it, and CWM back on, it charged properly. After using TWRP I can say for some reason this recovery has some serious game changing bugs.
EDIT: Also, "Boot Manager" doesn't seem to be compatible with restoring backups made with TWRP.
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No idea what your trouble with the Transformer were but charging on the Transformer isn't done in recovery and changing recovery wasn't the fix.
The Thunderbolt & most all HTC devices made after it use recovery for charging. There's a handful of HTC binaries & a special init.rc that make the device charge while turned off. None of this is part of the recovery code so it's not inherent to TWRP itself.
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Give this build a shot and see if it fixes the charging:
http://techerrata.com/dees_troy/mecha.img
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my port is busted so i cant test charging but the build does work
Another tester confirmed that it was fixed in that version, so I have updated everything.