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[Q] Motorola RAZR i XT890 stuck in CWM recovery mode

HI,
I unlocked the bootloader for Motorola XT890 and installed Jellybean ROM. I had to install CWM to get root access. After installing CWM, i am stuck in CWM recovery mode. The phone reboots into CWM recovery. Would appreciate any help as i have tried flashing ROM's but it gets aborted , exitrecovery, delete cache etc.

Maybe try resetting your phone so you remove CWM. Try to reset CWM if you can. If you can't you should just erase the recovery and reflash it with fastboot.

Daniel120201 said:
Maybe try resetting your phone so you remove CWM. Try to reset CWM if you can. If you can't you should just erase the recovery and reflash it with fastboot.
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HI Daniel,
Apologies for sounding stupid - Factory reset\wipe data option only shows me wipe data and no factory reset option. On your second option. How do i erase recovery and reflash in fastboot? Is there a link that i can follow the steps
thanks,
Saurav

yeah you're right about the second opinion. Remove recovery and reflash it with fastboot
good luck mate

Daniel120201 said:
yeah you're right about the second opinion. Remove recovery and reflash it with fastboot
good luck mate
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Hi Daniel, How do i remove recovery - Please help

dunno lol. If you can't find how just do the flashing without removal

Hey sauravrc!, do you solve this?
I´m in the same situation, my XT890 only reboot into CWM automatically... and if I try to access to Recovery option since the Bootloader only loads the M logo (Motorola logo).
Please, any suggestion to do? Remind I don´t have access to Android OS.

Pressed factory reset by accident

Now it's my turn. Pressed factory reset by accident in boot loader. Can get to TWRP but it says E: Unable to mount storage
e:Unable to mount /sdcard/TWRP/twps. when trying to read settings file. etc...
Advanced File manager in TWRP shows /sdcard/TWRP
Any ideas???? If I try to mount data in TWRP my Mac wants to initialize.
Thanks
TWRP shows internal storage 0 mb

I flashed the stock recovery, then ran it and somehow it booted right into CM11. Everything was lost, but it's working again.

Factory reset wipe everything! Including SD card.

null0seven said:
Factory reset wipe everything! Including SD card.
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Possibly, but how come CM11 was still on there? I think that the Boot Loader in Moonshine's factory reset is not compatible with CM11. Luckily the stock recovery fixed things for me.

808phone said:
Possibly, but how come CM11 was still on there? I think that the Boot Loader in Moonshine's factory reset is not compatible with CM11. Luckily the stock recovery fixed things for me.
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I had the same issue, pressed by mistake factory reset in bootloader some time ago. I was pressing vol down to reach recovery, there was a slight lag and I pressed it a second time the immediately I've pressed power...so cursor has jumped 2 rows then executed. I've solved it only by flashing stock recovery and resetting to factory settings again, then flashed TWRP.
Now why you still had CM11...well not 100% sure but in TWRP when you wipe to factory the system partition is not formatted. I've paid attention once to the messages during a wipe and it was formatting data, cache, dalvik and android secure but not system. A reason can be that while flashing any ROM, the install script formats system at the beginning so theres no need to do that with factory reset.
Now I can only think that the factory reset from bootloader does the same and system is not wiped. Theoretically it is correct...system is read only especially on a stock non rooted device and resetting it to factory practically means that any trace of personal settings/aps and so on should be erased. And those are not stored on the system partition. There is also no hidden place on the phone where a recovery image of the original android OS is kept so this is not like on the laptops where you reset to factory and Windows is reinstalled from the recovery partition. My guess is that the factory reset just wipes all partitions that contain personal data and settings and leave system intact. So after a wipe and reboot is like you first start it.
You still had CM11 cause the wipe didn't format system...If anyone has a better explanation I would be glad to hear it. So From my point of view nothing went wrong and has nothing to do with the Maximus recovery or it's compatibility with CM11. It would have happen the same if you have used any other stock recovery

Factory reset, resets youre phone to original settings.
Anyway, its good that the phone works.

null0seven said:
Factory reset, resets youre phone to original settings.
Anyway, its good that the phone works.
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Yes. And it is not formatting system when doing this. So any os is installed will be kept
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Rapier said:
Yes. And it is not formatting system when doing this. So any os is installed will be kept
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I don't want to try it again but I wonder if moonshine's factory reset is incompatible with cm11?

Dont understand what do you mean by "incompatible". The factory reset from bootloader is not the same thing as the one from a custom recovery. You shouldn't do a factory reset from bootloader regardless of the ROM you're using
Moonshine is an S-Off method, I didn't used it myself so I don't know what factory reset option is in there
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I never said anything about the custom recovery. If you should never use it, why is it there and why does it make the SD card not available?
Wow, HTC says you can use it here:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-x-att/howto/313779.html
I'm sure you know something others like me don't, but I when I mean "incompatible" I mean that I don't believe that it should make the sdcard unavailable and make the phone think it has zero MB. I think what you might have missed is that I used factory reset from the custom boot loader from moonshine. I was wondering if that factory reset was compatible - that's all.
Again, it was a mistake - it's not like I chose it on purpose. Thank you for the help.

808phone said:
I never said anything about the custom recovery. If you should never use it, why is it there and why does it make the SD card not available?
Wow, HTC says you can use it here:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-x-att/howto/313779.html
I'm sure you know something others like me don't, but I when I mean "incompatible" I mean that I don't believe that it should make the sdcard unavailable and make the phone think it has zero MB. I think what you might have missed is that I used factory reset from the custom boot loader from moonshine. I was wondering if that factory reset was compatible - that's all.
Again, it was a mistake - it's not like I chose it on purpose. Thank you for the help.
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The reset to factory from bootloader exists because on stock ROM there's no custom recovery that has that option....so it's in bootloader. For it to work properly though, you must have the stock recovery also. If you have a custom recovery like twrp/cwm and use the wipe from bootloader it'll mess your sd cause phone is not able to perform the wipe properly with that custom recovery. That's why, in order to get back to normal you should flash back stock recovery and perform the wipe from bootloader again.
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Thank you for the clarification. It makes sense. Too bad that reset is so close to the recovery command. It's pretty weird that I didn't have to run the wipe from the stock boot loader again. It ran and rebooted the phone into CM11. Anyway, I am glad I am back to running. Thanks.

Data Partition Corrupted

I just got my Nexus 5 a while ago and I just unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP and as soon as I opened TWRP it basically crashed and rebooted the phone is a boot loop but now when I go to TWRP the log says Unable to mount /data and I can't do anything. Does anyone have the solution? I knew I shouldn't have rooted -_-

Have you flashed a stock cache.img yet? Thats usually the first thing to try.
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Uhh
Not yet right now I'm currently using Wug's Toolkit and seeing if that helps then i'll try that. Do you have the link by any chance?

OH thank GAWD its working again thanks for your help though

what did you do in the toolkit?
Generally the consensus here is to not use toolkits. There are 2-3 "Johnny Opposite" members, but the masses of senior members see them as a bad thing.

I explain what happend.
You opened bootloader, but you flashed twrp instead of start the phone to let stock recovery finish the formating. You flashed twrp and rebooted to twrp. Twrp found the commands in the memory or on the misc partition to do a factory reset then reboot, but that format command is not compatible with twrp, so that commamd was skipped and then twrp rebooted your, because that was the next command in the line. Now your started booting with an unformated cache and data partition. The easiest way to solve the issue is to do a format data in twrp to format data partition then a factory reset to format cache.

So In the toolkit I basically flashed the stock rom and it basically factory reset EVERYTHING so now its working again thanks for the help! Now to try this over again

killerkyman said:
So In the toolkit I basically flashed the stock rom and it basically factory reset EVERYTHING so now its working again thanks for the help! Now to try this over again
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Ok thanks. It is best to do those steps manually
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Yeah so I forgot to reboot before flashing recovery and entering that so now that I crossed that bridge I don't have to worry Wooh thank goodness I thought I totally messed up

Can't stop booting to CWM after factory reset inside android

Hi,
I can't stop rebooting to CWM after I did a factory reset in android.
I had been using bulldroid, but I did a factory reset to give the phone to someone else, and it kept booting to CWM.
So I just installed bulldroid again from .zip file in CWM, and it said it was successful, but after you reboot, it keeps doing the same thing.
How do I get the phone to actually boot to the firmware again so I can use it?

H0wdy said:
Hi,
I can't stop rebooting to CWM after I did a factory reset in android.
I had been using bulldroid, but I did a factory reset to give the phone to someone else, and it kept booting to CWM.
So I just installed bulldroid again from .zip file in CWM, and it said it was successful, but after you reboot, it keeps doing the same thing.
How do I get the phone to actually boot to the firmware again so I can use it?
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Take a look at this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-young/general/tutorial-how-to-fix-cwm-reboot-loop-t2928046
Just look down the thread and you will find the procedure explained in english, too.
Also, see this, too:
https://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-get-out-of-a-clockworkmod-recovery-bootloop.478814/

how to fix android

i format my android phone to have space for my backup firmware when i tap factory data reset it boots to TWRP so i wipe it with TWRP but after i wipe it,it boots back to TWRP so i wipe everything with the system now my phone doesnt boot my system so i try to fix it but my STUPID friend told me to download a different rom because i cant find my stock rom,so i download it and install on my device,now my device doesnt even show the boot screen,i cant even see my battery percentage. okease help me i tried to go to the technician but they dont know the fix please help me

you obviously had no idea what you're doing. had you done any research before doing anything you'd save a lot. now you've bricked your phone, even worse ... hardbricked. you'd be lucky if you can even revive it.
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