Hello I accidentally put a pattern password while being half asleep. Well that doesn't matter but I want to remove it. I tried going into Clockwork Recovery v6.0.2.7. I get in to the menu and I use the volume rocker to go up or down. Also the menu/home button also goes up and down. The power button doesn't select neither does the search button. The back button doesn't do anything.
I am using LG Optimus T (p509) and using Cyanogen Mod 10.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096721
I have been trying to either figure out the password and trying to use Recovery.
Please and Thank you.
I would give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1409304
Sent from my LG-P509
Well the thing is I stupidly tried to use KPZ and put it back to normal but its always giving me Upgrade Error 500. If I pull of the battery and turn it out like normal it will go to the Tmobile Stick Together logo then reboot back into the Clockwork Recovery v6.0.2.7
Just flash some other rom in clockwork recovery
Junior Einstein said:
Just flash some other rom in clockwork recovery
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... or restore a nandroid from before you messed it up.
Junior Einstein said:
Just flash some other rom in clockwork recovery
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Well the thing is that was the first thing I tried but I guess the volume rocker is to go through the menu. Also, the menu and home button also can be used to go through the menu. Only two buttons left is the search and the power button. Neither can be used to select/enter.
MarkTMO said:
Well the thing is that was the first thing I tried but I guess the volume rocker is to go through the menu. Also, the menu and home button also can be used to go through the menu. Only two buttons left is the search and the power button. Neither can be used to select/enter.
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You could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723 to flash another recovery, and then make a factory reset, to delete the security
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Well I wanted to make a nandoird backup....BUT when I boot into clockwork recovery, the volume up and down, move the option, but the power button makes the screen black out and nothing happens.
If I press the power button again, it turns the screen back on at the main menu.
Tried double pressing, etc.
I tried all the other face buttons, but no joy.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
I've had the same issue at times and getting to clockwork recovery through rom manager fixed my issues. How are you trying to access CWM? Powering off first then power button and volume down key? Try vice versa and see if that fixes your issue. Let us know...
Taykiin said:
I've had the same issue at times and getting to clockwork recovery through rom manager fixed my issues. How are you trying to access CWM? Powering off first then power button and volume down key? Try vice versa and see if that fixes your issue. Let us know...
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I was rebooting into recovery through the rom manager into recovery.
When I boot up through power and VOL DWN I get a whole different looking interface...the mech interface and it tries to do an update.
UPDATE:
THEN I realized that the update file is in the sdcard dir....
I am so dumb....
I deleted it, then it went into the mech, interface, did recovery, then it went into the orange clockworkmod menu, then I could backup....
Thanks for the response!
Yep that'll do it! Remove that puppy!
I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?
use adb:
Code:
adb reboot
dswilson777 said:
I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?
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power button doesn't work either? I thought that functioned as the 'enter' button... Imnuts' post will work for sure, but I have to ask why are you in the stock android recovery? unless you meant CWM?
Thanks imnuts, what is the easiest way to adb reboot?
My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.
dswilson777 said:
My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.
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ADB (Android Debug Bridge, I think) is tethering your phone to your pc and pushing/pulling files or forcing commands to your phone using the command terminal... it doesn't work right away as you need the latest android sdk files, java/jdk files, and altered C:/ path directory (assuming you're running windows, I think thats how it works if anyone can help me out here )
does the power button work as a 'select' button though? also can't you just battery pull and restart the phone or does it restart right into that recovery? just an FYI that is the stock android recovery which you can't (or rather shouldn't) be doing anything in, CWM is recommended... I vaguely recall there being another button that would work like the search button but I'm not sure
Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?
dswilson777 said:
Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?
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CWM is Clockwork Mod, its the custom version of that recovery that will allow you to flash files and change options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804
you can flash superuser (what gives you root access) easily in there and just reboot and presto you're rooted... I haven't seen any tutorials on how to use CWM since its fairly easy, to boot into it just hold power+volume up+home until 'Samsung' appears then let go of power and hold the other two until it comes up, then use volume keys and power button to navigate and select
Odin is required to install CWM first though and this thread gives a little info on that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160580
blazing through on my Acer A500 via XDA app
I have a Captivate which I had been running SlimICS 4.04 and wanted to try SlimJB so I downloaded the device and common files and flashed through CWMR. It rebooted after flashing the device file (pretty sure it wasn't supposed to do that) and got stuck at the splash screen 9not what I would call a boot loop, it just sits there ... forever). I can get into CWMR and use the volume up/down to cycle through the options, but the power button will not select anything. This is with CWMR Touch 6.0.1.1. Ideally I would just like to be able to reflash the ROM if there's a magic key combination to get CWMR to process a command.
I can get into download mode if using Odin will be necessary.
Thanks
Oh, and I would have posted in the SlimJB section but as you can all see this is my first post.
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I have a Captivate which I had been running SlimICS 4.04 and wanted to try SlimJB so I downloaded the device and common files and flashed through CWMR. It rebooted after flashing the device file (pretty sure it wasn't supposed to do that) and got stuck at the splash screen 9not what I would call a boot loop, it just sits there ... forever). I can get into CWMR and use the volume up/down to cycle through the options, but the power button will not select anything. This is with CWMR Touch 6.0.1.1. Ideally I would just like to be able to reflash the ROM if there's a magic key combination to get CWMR to process a command.
I can get into download mode if using Odin will be necessary.
Thanks
Oh, and I would have posted in the SlimJB section but as you can all see this is my first post.
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I had the same problem, the home button is now the select button and back is the back button
Tetryl said:
I had the same problem, the home button is now the select button and back is the back button
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Oh for goodness sake, that was way too easy ...
Thanks very much, re-install complete and happily rebooting.
Yeah, I ran into both problems (post count) and the key press issue. The dev went on vacation without starting a Q&A thread, and thanks to XDA's lovely policy, we newbs are stuck here.
Is there anyway to enter clockworkmod recovery without having to use EZ recovery app? I thought when I enter recover by holding the volume up, menu, and power it's suppose to automatically boot into clockwork? Or am I wrong? I went away from Android for a while and just got a Galaxy S3 and rooted it. Any help is great. Thanks!
No you are right. If clockwork is installed that's a way to get into it. The button combo. But the trick is...hold them for a second until the phone vibrates and you see like three or four blue words in a tiny font at the top of the screen. When you see them. Release the keys. If you keep holding them you go past recovery and into full boot.
Sent from a GlaDos Baked Potato
Yes the blue text on the upper left of screen is when its safe to release vol up and home. Otherwise you can just hold them until you are in recovery. If neither works then something isnt right. You do not need an app to get into recovery.
steveojp said:
Is there anyway to enter clockworkmod recovery without having to use EZ recovery app? I thought when I enter recover by holding the volume up, menu, and power it's suppose to automatically boot into clockwork? Or am I wrong? I went away from Android for a while and just got a Galaxy S3 and rooted it. Any help is great. Thanks!
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Its the home button you want to hold, not menu. And you need to hold the button combo from a powered off state, or catch it right when you do a reboot.
Hey people my first post so you can call me whatever you want
Here is the thing:
I rooted the phone, installed a custom ROM and such, on the process I guess I installed this Clockwork Mod Recovery v5.8.3.1.
Well I wanted to change the ROM so I downloaded the new one (lastest trickdroid) and follow the steps, BUT!, when trying to acces the fastboot thing on that menu that can't remeber the name of, I jsut can't get into it.
When I tart the phone pressing volume down + power, instead of going to that menu it goes to clockwork mod. I was suposed to "Flash the stock boot.img from the ROM with fastboot", but well I dont know what I did or wahtever, I can't aces that menu.
What should I do?
bobyd said:
Hey people my first post so you can call me whatever you want
Here is the thing:
I rooted the phone, installed a custom ROM and such, on the process I guess I installed this Clockwork Mod Recovery v5.8.3.1.
Well I wanted to change the ROM so I downloaded the new one (lastest trickdroid) and follow the steps, BUT!, when trying to acces the fastboot thing on that menu that can't remeber the name of, I jsut can't get into it.
When I tart the phone pressing volume down + power, instead of going to that menu it goes to clockwork mod. I was suposed to "Flash the stock boot.img from the ROM with fastboot", but well I dont know what I did or wahtever, I can't aces that menu.
What should I do?
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I am having what seems like the same issue with my phone. Just posted a thread not too long ago asking for help. One person (a SR. Member) informed me to try to restore using a NANDROID backup (which I dont have). Going off of his advice, if you have the backup, try that. If not, we both seem to have the same problem. Good luck with your issue, I will be checking both our threads for solutions from now on!
fragkiller1 said:
I am having what seems like the same issue with my phone. Just posted a thread not too long ago asking for help. One person (a SR. Member) informed me to try to restore using a NANDROID backup (which I dont have). Going off of his advice, if you have the backup, try that. If not, we both seem to have the same problem. Good luck with your issue, I will be checking both our threads for solutions from now on!
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Well, it seems we have the same problem then, we could make a club or something.
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Hey again, I found some useful information that allowed me to get into my bootloader! If you are still stuck in CWM, use the volume down button to go down to the "advanced" button at the bottom of the list. Since this is a button that leads to another list and not a direct action, you can hold down the power button when highlighted over it and turn the phone off. From there, just hold Volume Down and Power as you would normally do to boot into the bootloader. Hope this helps since it worked for me!
So:
-Navigate to "advanced" (Just highlight over it)
-Hold power button for 10-15 seconds
-Phone should power off
-Volume Down + Power to boot into Bootloader
-Profit?? (Just Kidding )
Again, hope I could be of some assistance!
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well I dont know what I did. I just turned the phone off normally. Then did the power + b down, held it for about 6 seconds, relesead the power then the volume and BOM, bootlader appeared, hmmm okay I guess
Have a look at fragkiller1 thread for fixing your issue.
well now I can't even get into CWM sigh
A brief flash of a screen appears now while booting it, but it just skips to the actual OS. I have the fast boot disabled ohh man what do now? DId I mess up something?
fragkiller1 said:
Hey again, I found some useful information that allowed me to get into my bootloader! If you are still stuck in CWM, use the volume down button to go down to the "advanced" button at the bottom of the list. Since this is a button that leads to another list and not a direct action, you can hold down the power button when highlighted over it and turn the phone off. From there, just hold Volume Down and Power as you would normally do to boot into the bootloader. Hope this helps since it worked for me!
So:
-Navigate to "advanced" (Just highlight over it)
-Hold power button for 10-15 seconds
-Phone should power off
-Volume Down + Power to boot into Bootloader
-Profit?? (Just Kidding )
Again, hope I could be of some assistance!
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I did what you told me but when highlighting advanced and pressing the power button it enters the menu advanced, then the phone just noramll reboots and the OS loads.
I would have edited the post but I can't.
bobyd said:
I did what you told me but when highlighting advanced and pressing the power button it enters the menu advanced, then the phone just noramll reboots and the OS loads.
I would have edited the post but I can't.
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Try holding Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it but quickly let go of power when it turns off.
Darknites said:
Try holding Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it but quickly let go of power when it turns off.
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thanks it worked perfectly. I thought it only worked powering off and turining it on and holding volume down.
edit: sigh now I have another problem, after using fastboot usb with the Boot_Flash_Script from trickdroid, the phone is stuck at the the screen that says"this build is for development pourpuses only..." and it won't go further
edit2: I think I falshed a ROM for VilleC2 when I have a Ville, is there a way to fix this? the phone now is stuck at loading the screen with red words
bobyd said:
thanks it worked perfectly. I thought it only worked powering off and turining it on and holding volume down.
edit: sigh now I have another problem, after using fastboot usb with the Boot_Flash_Script from trickdroid, the phone is stuck at the the screen that says"this build is for development pourpuses only..." and it won't go further
edit2: I think I falshed a ROM for VilleC2 when I have a Ville, is there a way to fix this? the phone now is stuck at loading the screen with red words
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Ya, make sure you got the right rom and get yourself back into the bootloader and you should see recovery there then do a full wipe and flash the rom and also if you feel you might of flashed the wrong boot.img reflash it to make sure.
So it's over, all solved.
I tried to install a new ROM but CWM got me an error mounting the SD, then I installed another recovery (TWR) and installed the new ROM (viper one s) flashed the boot.img and now everthing works wonders, for now.
Thanks a lot Darknites for trying to help me I really appreaciate that
bobyd said:
So it's over, all solved.
I tried to install a new ROM but CWM got me an error mounting the SD, then I installed another recovery (TWR) and installed the new ROM (viper one s) flashed the boot.img and now everthing works wonders, for now.
Thanks a lot Darknites for trying to help me I really appreaciate that
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Np dude glad you got it sorted but ya TWRP is way better for the sd mount and if you have 1.09 or lower Hboot it can also flash boot.img.