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Boot into recovery by holding vol down + power?

I can't really find the answer I'm looking for by searching...I've tried...I just rooted my xoom once I have clockwork on it can I boot into recover by using vol + power method or do I need to use a adb to flash roms and kernels? I'm so use to my evo
Sorry if its been answered clearly already...flame away if it makes you feel better ;-)
Thanks guys.
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Abracastabya said:
I can't really find the answer I'm looking for by searching...I've tried...I just rooted my xoom once I have clockwork on it can I boot into recover by using vol + power method or do I need to use a adb to flash roms and kernels? I'm so use to my evo
Sorry if its been answered clearly already...flame away if it makes you feel better ;-)
Thanks guys.
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You can manually boot into recovery using the button combo. I do it all the time. The only time I've used adb on my xoom was when I rooted 3.1
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you can also get Quick Boot (free in market) and reboot directly to recovery from within android. most roms and kernels have instructions for installation that include clockworkmod. some also have instruction for adb. but for the most part clockworkmod is where you will be flashing from now that your rooted.

Awesome! Thanks a bunch guys
Also I'm assuming that quick boot will boot you into clockwork recovery, correct? Or do you not even need clockwork and can boot into the xooms stock recovery and wipe and flash from there?

Abracastabya said:
Awesome! Thanks a bunch guys
Also I'm assuming that quick boot will boot you into clockwork recovery, correct? Or do you not even need clockwork and can boot into the xooms stock recovery and wipe and flash from there?
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Yes it will. Quickboot is awesome.
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lrs421 said:
Yes it will. Quickboot is awesome.
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Use CW Recovery for flashing but stick with version 3.2.0.0...don't "upgrade" to 4.0.0.x, which doesn't recognize your external sdcard. Quick boot has several options, including recovery, which takes you right to android recovery where you will access CW Recovery.

okantomi said:
Use CW Recovery for flashing but stick with version 3.2.0.0...don't "upgrade" to 4.0.0.x, which doesn't recognize your external sdcard. Quick boot has several options, including recovery, which takes you right to android recovery where you will access CW Recovery.
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I already flashed the one from ROM manager which is 4.0.0.x....I bookmarked the 3.2.0.0 thread last night...I'll dl it and give it a spin thanks!

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.

[Q] download mode not working...

I tried searching, but the search is down?
I have spent several hours looking.
I used odin (phone went into download mode without issue) to put my phone back to stock so I could get the ota update.
Went back into download mode with Odin to install CWM, this "passed" and after a restart my phone went into samsung recovery, not CWM.
Now my phone will not go into download mode? I tried different cable, ports, etc.
any help?

so what is it doing since it's not going into download mode.

it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.

Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.

Morrisme said:
it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
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I would try using odin v1.82... My experience with this tool has told me that our charge doesnt always "play nice" with other versions... Also try redownloading the latest CWM, you could of had a bad download.
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Cilraaz said:
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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If you happen to flash a ROM that doesn't include the script that the kernel calls for the overwrite, then you could have ended up with CWM on a stock kernel.

stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.

shrike1978 said:
There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
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/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is, root, boot up, delete the script power off, re root and you're good
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.

shrike1978 said:
There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
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You think this would work on the nexus... Seems its kind of a universal method...?
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Locked BL Stock 2.20 Phone...Can't Boot to Stock Recovery

Now I know that there isn't any luck to get my phone rooted at this time, but I can't even get into stock recovery at the moment to even make a nandroid. I've been flashing for a while and have a GNexus and I was picking up the One X because I was switching carriers. I know even on a locked everything you could still get to the Recovery, I had a locked Motorola Droid X2.
Has anyone ran into the issue with a fully stock phone and can point me in the direction of where to solve the issue? I've been searching for a few hours with no avail.

drant22 said:
Now I know that there isn't any luck to get my phone rooted at this time, but I can't even get into stock recovery at the moment to even make a nandroid. I've been flashing for a while and have a GNexus and I was picking up the One X because I was switching carriers. I know even on a locked everything you could still get to the Recovery, I had a locked Motorola Droid X2.
Has anyone ran into the issue with a fully stock phone and can point me in the direction of where to solve the issue? I've been searching for a few hours with no avail.
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I don't think there is a recovery for completely stock one x... not one that lets you make a backup anyways

absolutelygrim said:
I don't think there is a recovery for completely stock one x... not one that lets you make a backup anyways
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Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?

drant22 said:
Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?
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That means theres no recovery installed

My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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bts0uth said:
My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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hold power until it flashes 5 times and turns off, then just keep holding volume down and you should get into bootloader

red triangle is stock recovery

bts0uth said:
My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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Turn off fastboot in settings->power

I didn't think you could nandroid without custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) on ANY phone. And you can't get custom recovery without root or an unlocked bootloader or both.
If the phone arrived with 2.20, nandroid isn't possible. I would be surprised if stock recovery did anything more than factory reset.
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Can you not unlock via HTC and then load a custom rom?
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drant22 said:
Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?
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When you get to the triangle hold vol up+down+power. You will have your stock options.

Slybone said:
Can you not unlock via HTC and then load a custom rom?
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Not if its a AT&T version and came with 2.20.
If it came with 1.85 or lower you can root the device (super fun adb procedure) then apply SuperCID, that will let you trick HTCDev into thinking its a different device, and unlock the bootloader. Then more adb fun and you can install TWRP, then flash custom ROMs.
Its not like a Samsung phone where you can download Odin, boot into download mode, flash a kernel, start CWM, and flash a ROM all before your first boot.
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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.