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[Q] Shutdown & Cold Boot into Recovery

I boot directly into recovery mode every time I shut down and or cold boot my phone. I'm not too sure why, but if I can get help on how to get a log that will show if and or why it is happening, thank you.

into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.

botnryan said:
into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.
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Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan

botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?

castro25 said:
botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?
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im guessing youre talking about when i pretty much bricked it after applying a theme? Well, i had it on (looping) and pulled the battery and immediately reinserted it. you shouldnt have to hold down the power button for it to come back on, and it SHOULD boot into bootstrap recovery. Now the 2nd time i bricked my first d2g, this didnt work, therefore i couldnt fix it. Hopefully it works for you. Try plugging it in to charge and then pulling/reinserting the battery too.

fKngFtd said:
Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan
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This is a safety feature so if you've messed up your phone but not too bad you can get into recovery and fix your mistake.
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How do you wipe bootstrapper recovery? In case I ever have to return my GF's D2G I would like to get it back to stock before I take it in.

[Tip] Getting into CWM Recovery w/ Radio on SDCARD

Hello all,
Just found a neat little work around for getting into recovery when you have a radio on your SDcard. You don't need a card reader or anything for this one. Tonight I accidentally flashed a Sense kernel while trying to get CM7 up and running. I got stuck at the HTC screen and it refused to boot any farther. So I had the choice of going to walmart and buying an SDCARD reader, but I thought that I could find a way around it, and I did. Sorry if this has already been posted.
Steps:
1. Connect to a charger and remove the SDCARD from the phone, replace the battery and then boot into Hboot screen. Normally this would ask to update the radio if an SDCARD with a PG05img.zip file was inserted, and regardless of whether you accepted or declined, you were forced to reboot, with no way to get into recovery.
2. Remove the battery from the phone. Hboot will stay powered up while connected to your charger.
3. Reinsert the SDCARD and replace battery.
4. Select recovery and your phone will boot into recovery for you, and you can restore a backup, or reflash your rom, or whatever you were trying to accomplish before you got into a bootloop or bad rom install or whatever.
Again, I don't know if this has been posted before, but I thought it was a cool little workaround for those times you need to get to recovery but can't due to the PG05img.zip file still being on your SDcard.

Hey nice find!

Neat, I didn't realize HBoot would stay up without a battery.

This is a nice find. We should have a tips and tricks sticky for the bolt.
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or you can use ADB and type "adb reboot recovery", or if you have the 4 in 1 reboot mod on your rom selecting to reboot to recovery bypasses hboot also
And don't forget rom manager, that has a feature that will boot directly into recovery also

wow nice! I had this same problem and I had to grab my friend's fascinate to delete the radio in order to get into recovery. I was trying the method as you by taking out the battery but I didn't try it at the hboot screen so the phone kept powering off.

Deltaechoe said:
or you can use ADB and type "adb reboot recovery", or if you have the 4 in 1 reboot mod on your rom selecting to reboot to recovery bypasses hboot also
And don't forget rom manager, that has a feature that will boot directly into recovery also
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This method is there for the times you are stuck in a bootloop, but due to the fact that you have a radio (PG05img.zip) on your sdcard, you can't get into recovery to restore a backup. Like if you flash a sense kernel and are trying to run CM7 like I did. This avoids the need to have to use a card reader to remove the file from the root of the sdcard, or using a buddies phone.
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Awesome trick. Still a good idea to rename it or delete it, but this is great for people who inevitably ignore it lol.
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Yeah, I forgot to remove the file from my sdcard before flashing the new rom, and that's what got me in trouble. I usually do delete the file after flashing a radio, but I forgot, then when the kernel didn't agree with the rom, I was stuck.

Or if you have rom manager u can boot up then reboot to recovery ....
Nvm I see what u did lol
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Hmmm, that's pretty cool.

This saved my ass last night. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you, this is helpful.
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whb_3 said:
This saved my ass last night. Thanks for the tip!
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Glad it helped someone :]
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great find! coulda saved me some headaches before, but im sure it will save future ones!

This does not seem to work for me. When I am in HBoot and pull the battery while its plugged into the charger it just shuts off.

I might actually give this a try tonight despite not having this problem yet. Been running das BAMF GB and now with the bricking scare that's been going on, might as well make sure I can recover if need be.

espnaholik said:
This does not seem to work for me. When I am in HBoot and pull the battery while its plugged into the charger it just shuts off.
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Make sure you're using a wall charger and not using an extension cable or any sort of power splitter. I ran into the same issue when using a USB cable and when using a wall charger on an extension power splitter. I plugged straight into the wall and it worked like a champ.

Pretty cool ... hopefully I'll never need it
Seriously though, I had this happen while at work and was freaking out. Lucky for me the IT guy had a micro SD card reader on hand (I do have one at home). But it's good to see this little trick so that if this were to happen to me again while at work I can save myself the embarrassment of having to ask the IT guy for his card reader again lol

I was using a wall charger but I had it plugged into the lamp power outlet in the hotel I'm staying in, guess it wasn't enough power. Ended up getting a micro sd card reader at wally world, phone was stuck at HTC screen after flashing latest gingervitis.

ODIN doesn't actually install Files

ODIN doesn't seem to want to install any kind of odin file that I put into it on my phone.
It gets stuck at dbdata.rfs and then it just remains there for over 2 minutes.
Tried to pop the battery back in once it got there, but that didn't work either.
Also can't get into recovery, by pressing volume down + power key.
You should know my phone died 2 days ago, and I used ODIN to bring it back to life. By died I mean it would bootloop to the recovery and then it finally gave me the bootloader=7 error after which it would just boot into the samsung recovery and nothing else.
Does this mean I will be stuck with a phone that I cannot root or backup or even install a custom rom?

thizzmaster said:
ODIN doesn't seem to want to install any kind of odin file that I put into it on my phone.
It gets stuck at dbdata.rfs and then it just remains there for over 2 minutes.
Tried to pop the battery back in once it got there, but that didn't work either.
Also can't get into recovery, by pressing volume down + power key.
You should know my phone died 2 days ago, and I used ODIN to bring it back to life. By died I mean it would bootloop to the recovery and then it finally gave me the bootloader=7 error after which it would just boot into the samsung recovery and nothing else.
Does this mean I will be stuck with a phone that I cannot root or backup or even install a custom rom?
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try leaving the battery in for the whole flash, also recovery is volume up+home button+power
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

I also tried leaving the battery in for the whole flash process as well, for some reason ODIN is super slow even on my comp which is not the least bit slow for the specs(3.8ghz amd 545 with 4 gb of ram ddr1666) so I do not know why it would be so slow either. when the flash is done it says 134:00 minutes and whatever rom I flash doesn't actually get flashed, it just sticks to the stock ram.
i can't even install a recovery on the phone either, and can't even get root for some reason, maybe the one click root i am using might be outdated or something.

actually just tried to do the recovery mode, but it only got me to the samsung recovery not the clockworkmod recovery. even after I had a successful flash of the odin for the recovery portion.

Are you using the PDA section? Leaving repartition UNchecked?

i was using the phone section, but whats the difference, isn't it all the same? and yes i was leaving the partition unchecked.

thizzmaster said:
i was using the phone section, but whats the difference, isn't it all the same? and yes i was leaving the partition unchecked.
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that's your problem right there, DO NOT use any section except PDA and PIT for flashing stuff with Odin... try again with it in PDA and you should be able to boot into it and it'll work fine

PHONE SECTION = BAD! NEVER EVER use the phone section! It can cause some seriously bad issues, the most problematic being the infamous brick(unrecoverable).

thizzmaster said:
maybe the one click root i am using might be outdated or something.
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These don't work for the Charge.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0

thizzmaster said:
i was using the phone section, but whats the difference, isn't it all the same? and yes i was leaving the partition unchecked.
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...Have you not read ANY of the tutorials??? If you want to brick you're phone (you'd be one of the few and the proud, because you really have to try to do it), then keep on using the phone section and have a $500 paperweight.

hazard209 said:
...Have you not read ANY of the tutorials??? If you want to brick you're phone (you'd be one of the few and the proud, because you really have to try to do it), then keep on using the phone section and have a $500 paperweight.
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Haha. We should let him brick it.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0

That was a little mean on my part... But come on people, please read thoroughly through the tutorials, how to's, and OPs before posting about a problem. Actually even before doing ANYTHING to your phone. Use the search, it's there for a reason. Users and Devs have taken the time to compile all of this for you and you've just wasted their time and insulted them by ignoring it.
Ok. Done ranting. Thizzmaster, sorry for the outburst. For future reference always use the PDA section for .tar.md5 files for your Charge. It matters and there is a difference.

Last time i checked, Most of these superphones are actually super pda's with phone capabilities.

[Q] Atrix 2 dead??!!help!!!!!

my atrix 2 don't know dead or what?
it did't on while pressing the power button and the screen black or nothing appear while i plug in the charger.
Help!!!!!!

say someting in detail please~
say someting in detail please~

My atrix 2 ME865 was running ICS4.0.4 MERetail.I wanna flash it back to 2.3.6,so i download the (InlineFlashing_edison_5.5.175.16_cfc_p3_APBP_CID285.zip) from the droid-developers.
My phone battery is 40% while flashing using RSDlite 5.6.
Everything ok but at the process 5/21 it say "FAIL"
then the phone just black screen.

atrix2 said:
my atrix 2 don't know dead or what?
it did't on while pressing the power button and the screen black or nothing appear while i plug in the charger.
Help!!!!!!
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Have you tried holding down BOTH volume buttons while powering on the device to boot into AP Fastboot, and try to flash the FXZ that way?

I try that but nothing happen.

atrix2 said:
My atrix 2 ME865 was running ICS4.0.4 MERetail.I wanna flash it back to 2.3.6,so i download the (InlineFlashing_edison_5.5.175.16_cfc_p3_APBP_CID285.zip) from the droid-developers.
My phone battery is 40% while flashing using RSDlite 5.6.
Everything ok but at the process 5/21 it say "FAIL"
then the phone just black screen.
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Meretail flashing with at&t rom?
It does not seem like a good idea.
You can downgrade it to http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/5.5.1-EDEM-27-MEARET_cfc.xml.zip with RSd Lite (Made it with RSD Lite 4.7 successfully).

atrix2 said:
I try that but nothing happen.
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So, can you even boot into AP Fastboot, or is your device not powering on at all...?

Solution
seems like ur rom chip in the motherboard has gone bad. same happened to me when trying to flash custom rom to AT&T atrix 2. Went to Motorola service center costed me $160 to get a new motherboard ...but it got fixed and worth the effort....worth a try...

So i was flash the wrong rom.
But i can't flash again because i cannot enter the AP Fastboot,both vol button n power on do nothing.

atrix2 said:
So i was flash the wrong rom.
But i can't flash again because i cannot enter the AP Fastboot,both vol button n power on do nothing.
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Maybe your battery is empty. Never start to flash without full battery (and not correct rom of course).

If you're feeling brave, try THIS...

Thanks for the feedback.
So i can still hold both vol button + power up to enter the bootloader if i flash fail?
I remember it stuck at 5/21 in RSDlite.

atrix2 said:
Thanks for the feedback.
So i can still hold both vol button + power up to enter the bootloader if i flash fail?
I remember it stuck at 5/21 in RSDlite.
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No, the bootloader is locked on the MB865. You mentioned before that trying to boot into AP Fastboot isn't responsive either, right? If you are able to do anything, you need to flash 5.5.1-EDEM-27-MEARET_cfc.xml.zip as xanadu suggested.
Always a good idea to make a CWM backup before flashing any new roms, just in case...

LOCKED??
I think my battery is empty so it black screen when i press the button.
And i got many cwm backup which i backup before my phone cannot boot.
How to restore the cwm backup if my phone can't boot?

atrix2 said:
LOCKED??
I think my battery is empty so it black screen when i press the button.
And i got many cwm backup which i backup before my phone cannot boot.
How to restore the cwm backup if my phone can't boot?
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If you're completely dead in the water, you'll have to find a way to get charge to the battery. You might try The McGuyver Method to get a charge to battery, but be very wary in doing this -you could fry your phone and/or explode your battery. If you're not comfortable doing this (and I don't recommend this if you are not savvy with electrical stuff and 'open phone surgery' you should first try and get your hands on a new OEM battery!

Apex_Strider said:
If you're completely dead in the water, you'll have to find a way to get charge to the battery. You might try The McGuyver Method to get a charge to battery, but be very wary in doing this -you could fry your phone and/or explode your battery. If you're not comfortable doing this (and I don't recommend this if you are not savvy with electrical stuff and 'open phone surgery' you should first try and get your hands on a new OEM battery!
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i tried that method on my defy 3 times .....never had issue.....but still it was quite scary for me every time.....but in the end it worked......risk is needed to be taken ......

Thanks but that way is too dangerous.I was afraid so i will send it to the Motoservice because i got no ideo for the empty battery on a dead phone.

atrix2 said:
Thanks but that way is too dangerous.I was afraid so i will send it to the Motoservice because i got no ideo for the empty battery on a dead phone.
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Before you ship your device off to the netherworld of Motorubbish, try getting a new battery. It may be a faster fix and you won't have to deal with wait tine from Moto. Plus, if you've rooted and Moto is able to determine that you'll have no warranty.
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Apex_Strider said:
Before you ship your device off to the netherworld of Motorubbish, try getting a new battery. It may be a faster fix and you won't have to deal with wait tine from Moto. Plus, if you've rooted and Moto is able to determine that you'll have no warranty.
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Also if you are debating getting a new battery, try to get an external charger, it costs a lot less and you will be able to recover from this a whole lot easier if you have the external charger, otherwise McGyver is the only way out for you...
I would NOT take this into Motorola, especially since you failed a flash, they can see that, the first time they get it to turn on it will go to the recovery screen and say failed flash.... They may NOT give you any support.
I would try the external battery charger.
Here are a couple examples of Atrix2 external battery chargers:
http://www.wirelessemporium.com/p-1...pare-battery-charger-w-usb-port-mid-size-.asp
http://www.wirelessemporium.com/p-102964-universal-spare-battery-charger-w-usb-port.asp

jimbridgman said:
Also if you are debating getting a new battery, try to get an external charger, it costs a lot less and you will be able to recover from this a whole lot easier if you have the external charger, otherwise McGyver is the only way out for you...
I would NOT take this into Motorola, especially since you failed a flash, they can see that, the first time they get it to turn on it will go to the recovery screen and say failed flash.... They may NOT give you any support.
I would try the external battery charger.
Here are a couple examples of Atrix2 external battery chargers:
http://www.wirelessemporium.com/p-1...pare-battery-charger-w-usb-port-mid-size-.asp
http://www.wirelessemporium.com/p-102964-univertssal-spare-battery-charger-w-usb-port.asp
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thats your best bet unless you know someone with the same phone. I have a family member with the same one, so when I killed my battery during a flash I just stole that one for 5 minutes.

A Warning for TWRP 2.3.1.0

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.
Sent from my Liquid ICS Bolt

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.

Dark Jedi said:
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.

Dees_Troy said:
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.