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[Q] Problem booting into Recovery (ClockworkMod)

Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo

I had the same problem... quit using version 3.0.0.6 and go back to the earliest version, 2.5.1.3 through All ClockworkMod Recoveries. Worked for me.

reeboblue said:
Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo
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You don't have 'fast boot' enabled in settings/application? If so it will not really shut off completely and when you power it up with VOL- it will not work.

i'm also having issues getting cwm to work outside the black screen. i have tried sense/ no sense roms and none have been able to bring up cwm outside the blank screen. i am also running 3.0.0.6 or whatever it is but that has not helped my issue

nyamoV2 said:
i'm also having issues getting cwm to work outside the black screen. i have tried sense/ no sense roms and none have been able to bring up cwm outside the blank screen. i am also running 3.0.0.6 or whatever it is but that has not helped my issue
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did you use the Simple Root method to root your phone?
can you confirm if you have s-off and root?
Read post #2400 in the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406&page=240

reeboblue said:
Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo
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Sounds like fastboot is enabled. If you turn it off you will be able to boot into recovery.

i used the simple one click. yes i have root and s-off. but i'm stuck now. can not see cwm by manually booting into hboot. or through the app and clicking boot into recovery

[Q] Clockworkmod recovery not booting up
I have my phone rooted and ready to flash a custom ROM. I want to install android revolution 4g 4.0. I read that I need to ahve CWM version 3.0.0.6 to flash a 2.3 ROM. Anyways, when i select reboot into recovery in ROM Manager, my phone reboots and shows the HTC logo but then it fades to black screen and does nothing. If i press the power button, the phone reboots normally into the OS. Does anyone know how to fix this so i can install a custom ROM?

I have this exact same issue. Although i can load roms from choosing "Install from sd card" i cannot just boot into recovery and install it from there.
I just recently bought my inspire 4g a week ago.

Mine is 2 days old. Now i cant get it to boot up because it keeps trying to boot into CWM recovery but it cant. Its and endless loop.

Mine wont even load recovery. It reboots the phone but then just fades to a black screen. I cant get back into the OS

flrdast2 said:
Mine wont even load recovery. It reboots the phone but then just fades to a black screen. I cant get back into the OS
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just press power button and it will reboot your phone.

still stuck doing that too. can get the phone to reboot. but stuck at htc screen or black cwm screen. also checked sd card and is corrupted. i was thinking if i could just flash a new rom over to fix boot issue. but i need some screens to blindly walk through to flash. cwm is 3.0.0.5 if that matters. thanks. on a side note. i think i have a new cm7rc2 build on a formated sd card to try and minimize the guess work on what to click

nyamoV2 said:
still stuck doing that too. can get the phone to reboot. but stuck at htc screen or black cwm screen. also checked sd card and is corrupted. i was thinking if i could just flash a new rom over to fix boot issue. but i need some screens to blindly walk through to flash. cwm is 3.0.0.5 if that matters. thanks. on a side note. i think i have a new cm7rc2 build on a formated sd card to try and minimize the guess work on what to click
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do you know how to confirm if you have S-OFF and if your phone is rooted?

no but when in hboot it says s-off in the top of the screen

nyamoV2 said:
no but when in hboot it says s-off in the top of the screen
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OK...I sent you a PM just follow those directions and you will be good.

habanosrus said:
OK...I sent you a PM just follow those directions and you will be good.
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thanks for the help, but i can't get back into the os to make sure that debugging is checked.

nyamoV2 said:
thanks for the help, but i can't get back into the os to make sure that debugging is checked.
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pull your battery and just turn you phone on without going into Fastboot menu.

downloading now. will give update in a few min
also does it matter that my phone will not go past the white htc screen?

nyamoV2 said:
downloading now. will give update in a few min
also does it matter that my phone will not go past the white htc screen?
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Are you saying that your phone shows the white HTC screen then fades to black?
if so, no, it doesn't matter...just press the power button to reboot your phone.

HELP i soft bricked my htc one s (s4)

i have htc one s (s4) tmobile us after buying i unlocked bootloader with the help of hdcdev.com then cwm flashed then
rooted then i installed venom rom all went well.
After that i installed rommanager from market in that i checked download rom option at that time rommanager given
me popup to install cwm recovery. i clicked yes :crying:
After that i am not able to boot into bootloader mode, i also tried all in one toolkit still not get into bootloader mode.
Now its only restarting and going into recovery

baba7444 said:
i have htc one s (s4) tmobile us after buying i unlocked bootloader with the help of hdcdev.com then cwm flashed then
rooted then i installed venom rom all went well.
After that i installed rommanager from market in that i checked download rom option at that time rommanager given
me popup to install cwm recovery. i clicked yes :crying:
After that i am not able to boot into bootloader mode, i also tried all in one toolkit still not get into bootloader mode.
Now its only restarting and going into recovery
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MOD -- please delete this thread, mysteriously i switched off the phone, and restarted it, and it started properly , i am extremely sorry creating this thread

I know it may be crazy, but a similar situation happened to me too.
My HTC One S (S4) had just been unlocked, CWM installed, and installed Venom. I went to use Boot_Flash_Script and then into recovery to Clear Cache. After that point my phone wouldn't boot. It would flash quickly, then have a black screen for 10-15 seconds with the orange LED glow then straight into recovery. Any option to wipe and reinstall the rom didn't work.
Solution: An Aha! Moment... I had forced a shutoff by holding vol up + vol down + top power for 10 seconds. UNPLUG the USB cable! Then after turning it on again with no buttons pushed, it went into Venom.
Whew... Posting an explanation in case anyone else cannot get into hboot / bootloader and thought to have bricked their htc one s. I thought it was bricked until I unplugged the cable and fully shut it off.
:laugh:

TWRP crashing

Well, after trying to install a ROM through TWRP the phone rebooted and froze on the HTC screen. I then go back into bootloader and try to get into recovery but the splash screen pops up and then the phone reboots. I can get into CWM however when trying to sideload any .zips there I get an error. Not really sure what to do at this point. I probably should have stopped playing with it when I fixed it the first time, ha.
Edit: I fixed my problems! Very happy, ended up restoring some of the firmware from the OTA's and TWRP started working again. Just flashed ROM and fully functionally.

Tim3worx said:
Well, after trying to install a ROM through TWRP the phone rebooted and froze on the HTC screen. I then go back into bootloader and try to get into recovery but the splash screen pops up and then the phone reboots. I can get into CWM however when trying to sideload any .zips there I get an error. Not really sure what to do at this point. I probably should have stopped playing with it when I fixed it the first time, ha.
Edit: I fixed my problems! Very happy, ended up restoring some of the firmware from the OTA's and TWRP started working again. Just flashed ROM and fully functionally.
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which ota did you flash? what network provider you on? im having same problems, did you flash ota in twrp?

tr1gg3r84 said:
which ota did you flash? what network provider you on? im having same problems, did you flash ota in twrp?
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My provider is AT&T. I used the UK OTA from this link http://db.tt/LrIEemZ4 . Its part of this thread in general http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2422885. Basically what was happening is that I had flashed a ROM which didn't work out and so it would just hang on the white HTC screen. I figured no big deal I'll just go into recovery and flash another one I know works. That didn't work out. Any time I tried to go into recovery the TWRP splash screen would pop up for a second then the phone would reboot. Which kind of had me puzzled because I flashed ClockWorkMod for recovery and it would at least get me into recovery but still adb sideload was giving me errors so I flashed TWRP again even though it wasn't working either.. I pulled the boot.img out of the Firmware.zip in the OTA and flashed that with fastboot. At that point I had tried just about everything and was about to give up but to my surprise that seemed to fix it. I was able to go into recovery no problem. Sideloaded the ROM and everything went great. I'll probably not be messing with my phone like that for a bit haha. It was the second night in a row that I had wiped an OS off the phone and struggled to figure out how to get it working. Glad its all good now though. Good luck to you!

cant change recovery / device rebooting
Hi, i have a similar problem,
I've unlocked with htcdev everything is fine.
Then I installed Twrp-2.6.0.0.img as recovary.
I'm not able to mount the internal storage, so I had to push the ROMs via ADB.
starting a ROM 1st time seems to be ok.
restart is also ok.
shutdown and power on is rebooting every ~15sec.
I tried to change my bootloader.
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.6-m7ul.img -> volume keys are responding
fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.6-m7ul.img -> volume keys are NOT responding
recovery isn't starting until i run following commands:
fastboot flash recovery Twrp-2.6.0.0.img -> volume keys are responding
fastboot boot Twrp-2.6.0.0.img -> volume keys are NOT responding
but after resetting the device + entering recovery it's there
thanks for your ideas/help

Totally lost, nothing works can't get back to stock

Hey guys...... i'm lost wih this phone..
I followed the guide on unlocking and rooting the nokia and now i'm stuck.
I followed each step without any issues so i don't get it..
First i unlocked the bootloader
I sideloaded TWRP and flashed magisk
Rebooted and flashed TWRP..... no problems there..
Reboot again and it goes straight to TWRP...
Did a factory reset.... Still boots directly to TWRP
Tried to flash stock rom with OST, selected the nb0 files.... and connected the phone when it asked.....i see a progress bar but it doesn't move at all
Tried SP flash tool, that doesn't work at all, as soon as i connect my phone after loading the scatter file i get an error:
ERROR: S_BROM_BROM_DOWNLOAD_DA_FAIL (2004)
I rooted and flashed many many phones but never had so much issues as with this one...
I hope anyone can help me out, i can get into bootloader and recovery

After much trying i finally succesfully flashed back to stock and it boots again in android....
But i can't get the phone in fastboot anymore, when i press volume up and power on it just boots into android
I'm done for now, it works but what a terrible phone to mess with.....

g-member said:
After much trying i finally succesfully flashed back to stock and it boots again in android....
But i can't get the phone in fastboot anymore, when i press volume up and power on it just boots into android
I'm done for now, it works but what a terrible phone to mess with.....
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power on + volume down is for fastboot
power on + volume up is for recovery

I know that, but it's not working anymore

g-member said:
After much trying i finally succesfully flashed back to stock and it boots again in android....
But i can't get the phone in fastboot anymore, when i press volume up and power on it just boots into android
I'm done for now, it works but what a terrible phone to mess with.....
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Just Plugin your Nokia 3 to a charger or USB connection, and try your button again!

TWRP keeps crashing

I unlocked the bootloader on my phone, then flashed twrp. I rebooted to twrp and installed boot.img, TWRPWorkingInstaller.zip, TWRP-BLUE-FIX.zip, and Root.zip. Rebooting worked fine, but I saw that there was a newer twrp (twrp-3.2.1-3-wOOSkernel.img, so I tried installing it from twrp. The problem is that I installed it to the system image partition. After that, everything got wonky, unsurprisingly. Now, if I try to boot to twrp, it loads and I get to the first menu, but I cannot interact with it at all. Then the screen goes black and the led lights up blue. It doesn't respond to anything except shutting it down. I can hold the power button down to power off, but it reboots instead to a black screen with the blue LED. I can also boot into the bootloader. I can reflash twrp. When I restart to recovery then, I get the screen asking if I want to keep the system files locked or swipe to unlock it. The device seems to work fine for about 5 seconds from the time I get to the first twrp menu, then it doesn't respond. About 5-8 seconds later, the screen goes black and the blue led comes on. I also cannot power-off the device. If I try, it reboots.
Is there anything I can do to recover from this? I've got the stock recovery files (OnePlus6Oxygen_22_OTA_009_all_1805172226_f7d1518e0e704ca3.zip), but I can't copy them to the device because it won't boot to the OS.

Yippee38 said:
I unlocked the bootloader on my phone, then flashed twrp. I rebooted to twrp and installed boot.img, TWRPWorkingInstaller.zip, TWRP-BLUE-FIX.zip, and Root.zip. Rebooting worked fine, but I saw that there was a newer twrp (twrp-3.2.1-3-wOOSkernel.img, so I tried installing it from twrp. The problem is that I installed it to the system image partition. After that, everything got wonky, unsurprisingly. Now, if I try to boot to twrp, it loads and I get to the first menu, but I cannot interact with it at all. Then the screen goes black and the led lights up blue. It doesn't respond to anything except shutting it down. I can hold the power button down to power off, but it reboots instead to a black screen with the blue LED. I can also boot into the bootloader. I can reflash twrp. When I restart to recovery then, I get the screen asking if I want to keep the system files locked or swipe to unlock it. The device seems to work fine for about 5 seconds from the time I get to the first twrp menu, then it doesn't respond. About 5-8 seconds later, the screen goes black and the blue led comes on. I also cannot power-off the device. If I try, it reboots.
Is there anything I can do to recover from this? I've got the stock recovery files (OnePlus6Oxygen_22_OTA_009_all_1805172226_f7d1518e0e704ca3.zip), but I can't copy them to the device because it won't boot to the OS.
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Do you have a TWRP backup from when your phone worked on an external drive?

Can you access fastboot? Just use the fastboot ROM files to reflash the OS. Or if that doesn't work try the unbrick tool.

Yeah. I can use fastboot. However, I wasn't able to get to ROM to flash. I'm not sure if I'm using the correct parameters in the command. I googled, but all I came up with was flashing custom ROMs. Where can I find the unbrick tool?
NM. Found the unbrick tool. I may try it. I'll let you know how it works.

Thanks for your help @NateDev!. The Unbrick Tool helped me fix it.

Yippee38 said:
Thanks for your help @NateDev!. The Unbrick Tool helped me fix it.
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Glad you got it solved