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Cant get into recovery

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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exile20 said:
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.

myster503 said:
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...

Has anyone flashed TWRP 2.0 recovery?

Has anyone here attempted to flash the TWRP 2.0 touchscreen interactive recovery?
If so, how's it going?

I have and its working nicely.
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I also have it and its great.
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How did you guys flash it?
I was thinking about flashing it from the Terminal app. My pwr button broke yesterday and I'm trying to get a recovery to last me thru next week before I send my phone in for repair.

nickmv said:
How did you guys flash it?
I was thinking about flashing it from the Terminal app. My pwr button broke yesterday and I'm trying to get a recovery to last me thru next week before I send my phone in for repair.
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Could always get quick boot from the market reboot into recovery and user the flashable zip qbking made.
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ZiggSVO said:
Could always get quick boot from the market reboot into recovery and user the flashable zip qbking made.
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How can he use his power button to select the file? I think he says that his power button is broke. Just flash this through fastboot. Download image in team win recovery site for google nexus s
Nexus S + CM9 kangs = Awesomeness

mixtapes08 said:
How can he use his power button to select the file? I think he says that his power button is broke. Just flash this through fastboot. Download image in team win recovery site for google nexus s
Nexus S + CM9 kangs = Awesomeness
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Hah yeah that's why I mentioned. I'm starting to think of scrapping this plan and just getting it to stock 4.0.3 (that's an official release now, so I can keep ICS on it for the meantime) and locked before I send it in. I can do that process from fastboot.

Bootloader with broken volume down button?

Hi,
I broke my volume down button on my phone (HTC Pro7/Gold C aka. Arrive). I want to flash the ROM, but I can't enter the bootloader.
Any way I can do that?
Thanks

Install quickboot from the market and use it to go to recovery, bootloader, etc...
You must be rooted though.
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wesamothman said:
Install quickboot from the market and use it to go to recovery, bootloader, etc...
You must be rooted though.
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Where is it? I found something for droids, but not windows phones...

Powering on

Hey guys i just got this phone from a random on craigslist and hes unlocked the bootloader and stopped there. I dnt know what method he used but in order to power on the device i have to use certain button combos. Example it boots straight to recovery so i reboot now and while its rebooting i have to hold both volume buttons and the power until a white lettered screen pops up and use volume up to power on. And tips? Ty in advance.
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debage39 said:
Hey guys i just got this phone from a random on craigslist and hes unlocked the bootloader and stopped there. I dnt know what method he used but in order to power on the device i have to use certain button combos. Example it boots straight to recovery so i reboot now and while its rebooting i have to hold both volume buttons and the power until a white lettered screen pops up and use volume up to power on. And tips? Ty in advance.
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on the white-lettered screen try and choose Bootloader. if you can get there you can flash either CWM or TWRP recovery, then flash a working system, or else do a full firmware flash with RSD Lite. or if he already flashed a custom recovery you could boot there and try flashing a working ROM.

Hes got cwm on here. And from what i can tell just rooted the stock rom. Ive never seen a device having a method to power on except maybe a semi tethered jailbroken iphone. Idk
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Any suggestions for roms for when i get this figured out?
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The device should turn on normally, unless he did something to put it in a bootloop. That's why i figured your basic option was to do a stock restore of some kind.
Check the dev. sections, but rooted stock is basically the only option at present. There are starts on CM9 and CM10 builds, but i don't think they do a whole lot besides boot up. There is a deodexed version of stock that you can flash, and at least apply some tweaks and such

Right on thanx man ill try it and see what happens.
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Ok new topic. I think the dude i got the phone from unlocked the bootloader but didnt root it. He said it was rooted. But when i dl rom manager it said i wasnt. So i guess my question is how do i root the thing?
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Ah ok, if the bootloader is unlocked, just flash either CWM or TWRP recovery thru Fastboot, then boot into recovery and flash SU.
Edit: after flashing recovery, make sure to boot straight into recovery by holding the volume up button while rebooting. If you boot into the system, it will probably overwrite your flash with stock recovery.

Hes already installed cwm. I cant use regular boot methods. When i reboot the phone it boots into recovery. Thats when i hold down all the buttons to bring up the boot options screen. So basically all i have to do is flash the su file? Btw I tried doing that along with flashing a kernel and cm9 it wouldnt boot into the rom.
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debage39 said:
Hes already installed cwm. I cant use regular boot methods. When i reboot the phone it boots into recovery. Thats when i hold down all the buttons to bring up the boot options screen. So basically all i have to do is flash the su file? Btw I tried doing that along with flashing a kernel and cm9 it wouldnt boot into the rom.
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I'm not sure how you're sending all these messages from a dead phone...
But regardless, CM9 doesn't really "work" per se. It boots, sure... but nothing else works.
You're going to have to flash one of the stock backups people posted around. I know there was a .win backup of everything - which you'll need TWRP to restore.

Nexus 5 not able to start up

Hi all,
I need help, after I use nexus root toolkit I turn my phone to recovery mode now my phone is not able to start. Can someone help me how to recover my phone to normal?
thanks.

Y u use toolkit ....
Cannot start as in how? Do you have fastboot or recovery access and where does it get stuck at? Have you flashed a factory image?
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mchaisheng said:
Hi all,
I need help, after I use nexus root toolkit I turn my phone to recovery mode now my phone is not able to start. Can someone help me how to recover my phone to normal?
thanks.
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1) This should be in QA
2) You shouldn't use a toolkit, this being one of many examples of why not to
3) The solution: As long as you can get in to fastboot (power and vol down), use this method to flash the factory images and a custom recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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Thanks, I have solved the issue. Many to all.
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