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Hey everyone,
Basically I was trying to flash a new ROM onto an old Nexus S of mine and when I tried to boot into recovery there was just a black screen. I pressed the power button and a single line saying "Clockwork mod Recovery" and the version number popped up. I assumed that the recovery must've been corrupted so I erased it and installed the latest version using fastboot which seemed to work fine.
Now whenever I try to boot into recovery I just get a blank screen with nothing else. I've tried using other recovery images such as twrp but the same problem happened, I just get the background wallpaper/image and nothing else.
I searched the forums and apparently people were having this issue earlier on when the i9023 was first released but now most custom recoveries are supposed to work with both i9020 and i9023.
Also the touch buttons light up and vibrate whenever I touch them when I'm in recovery mode.
Any help to this problem would be greatly appreciated as atm I have an old ROM which is buggy as hell and I need to get rid of it.
Cheers!
I had the same Issue. If you can boot into the rom, you can try to download the rommanager-app and install the recovery from there.
Hey I tried that already that and instead of booting into recovery it just went into the bootloader and said "No Recovery or Bootloader found".
Any other ideas?
Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
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I have the i9023 and I install rom manager. install CWM and if I reboot into recovery it works and I get in to CWM recovery.. but after reboot into os.. if I go into Rom manager and reboot to recovery it dont work? I just get the android figur and a "!".. then I just can Power + vol up and I'm in bootloader recovery..
Do I have to install CWM every time i want to use it? and can't I access CWM on boot op ?
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Normaly you have to flash the recovery only once.
Try to flash the newer clockwork-recovery with fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
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bedalus said:
Alfiedk: You need to get rid of this file:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
As it re-installs the stock recovery every boot.
I think you can download any custom ROM for your phone, and flash it in CWM recovery, this will also solve the problem
Edit: Did you unlock the phone? Have you tried fastboot oem unlock?
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I havent unlock my phone, but I can get in to bootloader is it then necessary to unlock ?
I try to delete the /install-recovery.sh
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
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Xziped said:
Yes you need to unlock your bootloader, if you dont want to reflash it all the time.
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Then it must be unlock as default.. I havent unlock it.. just delete the install install-recovery.sh and it works every time now.
now I just have to find a ROM to try..
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Did you clicked the first point in rommanager? Install recovery, or you only hit the second button reboot into recovery?
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Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...
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Yes I made sure I selected install clockwork mod. Like I said the problem isn't the same when I do this, instead of a blank screen, when I boot into recovery it goes straight to fastboot and tells me that I don't have a recovery image installed at all...
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what happens when you try to temporary boot into the recovery?
instead of "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img", try to "fastboot boot recovery.img"
Just look for an recovery.img that works temporary and then try to flash it permanently.
I'll try it and get back to you Xziped. If anyone else can think of any other ideas please just throw'em at me, I'm willing to try anything!
Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.
Simultaneity said:
Yeah no help there either. It does the exact same thing temporarily booting into a recovery that it did when I actually had it installed on the phone :\.
I updated ROM manager to the latest and tried installing CWM with that but to no avail. It still says that there is no recovery installed when I do that.
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Sorry but if not even the temporary recovery boots up, i dont know what else we can do
did you try some of the older recoverys? is your bootloader unlocked?
I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next
Simultaneity said:
I haven't tried an older recovery and my bootloader is unlocked.
could it be a problem with my computer as opposed to the phone itself? As in my computer is messing up when trying to flash the recovery?
I've also noticed now that when I boot into fastboot mode the menu just locks up and doesn't respond to anything. Sometimes I have to pull the battery and other times it'll start responding after randomly pressing the power key a lot of times...
I'll try an older recovery next
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Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.
khartaras said:
Use Odin, that might solve your problems. Search for the Nexus S version of Odin in the Dev section here.
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There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!
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There's a version of Odin for the Nexus S!?!? I'll look into that straight away thanks!
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Just look @ http://www.samfirmware.com/ .
There you should find all you need
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So, today I trade my HTC One for a RAZR XT925, $350, and a water proof 32GB Sandisk ultra sd card on Kijiji. I thought it was kinda weird to get all of this stuff, but it seemed fine at the time. Afterwards however, I found out that every time you turn off or reboot the phone, it tried to go into recovery mode or something with the android guy and a bar at the bottom in a loop and always factory reset the phone, so no matter what, every time you turned it off, it'd reset it. After hours and hours of work, I have the bootloader unlocked, rooted, CWM installed, and Cynogenmod also installed. It no longer factory resets it (I think, but i sent a text to a random number and when I rebooted it was still there), however, everytime i power off and power on, it goes into recovery mode. This is very annoying and will make it very hard to sell again, but if I can fix this last thing, I'll have a solid phone until the waterproof S4 comes out as well as having made like $100.
So basically, I need to know what to do to make it boot into the rom by default and not the recovery. Also, I searched it up and someone else had a problem where they kept booting into AP fastboot mode I think, I tried that line, it said successful, but it didnt work. For me, it's booting into the recovery by default.
Does it boot into stock recovery?
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jmcdonald58 said:
Does it boot into stock recovery?
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I root it, unlocked the boot loader, flashed cwm recovery, and installed CyanogenMod. Now it boots into cwm recovery by default and if I click reboot system now, it just boots back into cwm. Only way to get to the system is to go to the boot menu by pressing all three buttons and selecting boot normally.
Stock recovery is gone. Cwm asked to replace it so that the phone doesn't reinstall it on reboot. Cwm doesn't, but when the phone booted it stock recovery, it used to get wiped.
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I root it, unlocked the boot loader, flashed cwm recovery, and installed CyanogenMod. Now it boots into cwm recovery by default and if I click reboot system now, it just boots back into cwm. Only way to get to the system is to go to the boot menu by pressing all three buttons and selecting boot normally.
Stock recovery is gone. Cwm asked to replace it so that the phone doesn't reinstall it on reboot. Cwm doesn't, but when the phone booted it stock recovery, it used to get wiped.
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Strange If it was me I would try a toolkit and redo the whole process something went wrong somewhere wish I could help Good Luck
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jmcdonald58 said:
Strange If it was me I would try a toolkit and redo the whole process something went wrong somewhere wish I could help Good Luck
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No the problem was in stock. When I got it it wasn't rooted or anything, rooting helped fix the problem partially by not making it wipe every time I boot it. Now the only problem is that whenever I boot it up after a shut down or restart, it boots into recovery mode instead of the ROM.
roguezz said:
No the problem was in stock. When I got it it wasn't rooted or anything, rooting helped fix the problem partially by not making it wipe every time I boot it. Now the only problem is that whenever I boot it up after a shut down or restart, it boots into recovery mode instead of the ROM.
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did you ever find a solution for this? I just bought a used phone and am facing the same problem - I can't even boot into recovery, it will just start bootlooping again. Only thing that seems to be working is fastbood mode. (or regular reboot, but then everything is wiped every time)
coldtech said:
did you ever find a solution for this? I just bought a used phone and am facing the same problem - I can't even boot into recovery, it will just start bootlooping again. Only thing that seems to be working is fastbood mode. (or regular reboot, but then everything is wiped every time)
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Fastboot the stock ROM. That should return the phone to it's bone stock condition.
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mentose457 said:
Fastboot the stock ROM. That should return the phone to it's bone stock condition.
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trying right now. RSDLite is giving me an "unknown fastboot command getvar" error...still trying to figure out why.
coldtech said:
trying right now. RSDLite is giving me an "unknown fastboot command getvar" error...still trying to figure out why.
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I wouldnt mess with RSDLite. Google gave us fastboot for a reason.
mentose457 said:
I wouldnt mess with RSDLite. Google gave us fastboot for a reason.
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is there an alternative to flash the stock ROM on a locked device?
coldtech said:
is there an alternative to flash the stock ROM on a locked device?
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Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.
mentose457 said:
Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.
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Thanks for the hint, will give it a try. RSDLite just completed flashing, but the odd behaviour of the phone is still the same. Guess I might just have a broken phone... :/
mentose457 said:
Use this utility: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241788
Use the 'Lite' version as it includes the stock rom.
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After a few hours, I (somehow) ended up being able to enter recovery. On the downside though, now it always goes automatically into fastboot, because everything seems to be screwed up. I even got CWM installed though (unlocked the device because I didn't know what else to do).
Now every time it goes into fastboot, the reason given is: "sticky bit fastboot"
Any ideas left?
Oh btw, I have a german phone, in case that matters somehow. I can't flash in any fastboot way anymore, now I always get some message about a downgraded version. Of course details can be supplied if needed.
edit: was now able to flash CM, no idea what I did so that it didn't give me errors anymore. It still goes into fastboot by default on every reboot though, I always need to select "reboot device" manually every time.
coldtech said:
After a few hours, I (somehow) ended up being able to enter recovery. On the downside though, now it always goes automatically into fastboot, because everything seems to be screwed up. I even got CWM installed though (unlocked the device because I didn't know what else to do).
Now every time it goes into fastboot, the reason given is: "sticky bit fastboot"
Any ideas left?
Oh btw, I have a german phone, in case that matters somehow. I can't flash in any fastboot way anymore, now I always get some message about a downgraded version. Of course details can be supplied if needed.
edit: was now able to flash CM, no idea what I did so that it didn't give me errors anymore. It still goes into fastboot by default on every reboot though, I always need to select "reboot device" manually every time.
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Sounds like you are able to use the phone. That’s good.
The error is saying it can’t downgrade the trust zone (tz) right? That is normal for a phone with an unlocked bootloader. You can simply ignore that.
The sticky bit fastboot problem looks like it can be fixed by issuing this command while in fastboot mode: fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
mentose457 said:
Sounds like you are able to use the phone. That’s good.
The error is saying it can’t downgrade the trust zone (tz) right? That is normal for a phone with an unlocked bootloader. You can simply ignore that.
The sticky bit fastboot problem looks like it can be fixed by issuing this command while in fastboot mode: fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
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the fb_mode_clear was the culprit, thanks a lot!
and the error says: "downgraded security version. update gpt_main version failed. preflash validation failed for GPT" - which is still keeping me from flashing stuff via fastboot.
since I can't fastboot flash at the moment: do you happen to know where I can get the german modem image so that I can flash it using CWM? I think through all the flashing and trying I have a corrupt or wrong modem file (probably the US version). I can not log into the carrier network right now. it asks me for my SIM PIN and unlocks the SIM, but that's it. so I can't make phone calls or anything right now.
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
Himeko7 said:
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
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Try flashing stock google image 5.1 with or without fastboot.
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Try flashing stock google image 5.1 with or without fastboot.
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I did already as I mentioned. But I can't even enter TWRP, as soon I select recovery it reboots. Faulty board/storage?
Himeko7 said:
I did already as I mentioned. But I can't even enter TWRP, as soon I select recovery it reboots. Faulty board/storage?
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You said 5.1.1 that is not out yet only 5.1. Also you do not need TWRP to flash google stock image, if you can get into bootloader as you said, you can flash the image with your PC. or am i missing something ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
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You said 5.1.1 that is not out yet only 5.1. Also you do not need TWRP to flash google stock image, if you can get into bootloader as you said, you can flash the image with your PC. or am i missing something ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
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Sorry I meant 5.1.0 from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
I first flashed TWRP with the idea to install CM from there, but then I can't even enter it (all commands through fastboot work just fine), which is a pretty bad sign I guess. Then I flashed stock 5.1.0, and nothing changed.
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Sorry I meant 5.1.0 from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
I first flashed TWRP with the idea to install CM from there, but then I can't even enter it (all commands through fastboot work just fine), which is a pretty bad sign I guess. Then I flashed stock 5.1.0, and nothing changed.
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That does not sound good at all...
Himeko7 said:
I just got a broken Nexus5 with a boot-loop issue. As soon as the Google logo appears it reboots. I can enter booloader normally but if I select recovery the same happens, reboot. I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP in, same thing. Tried to flash full stock 5.1.1, same thing.
Any ideas?
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Power button issue?
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Power button issue?
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I don't think so, phone stays in bootloader indefinitely until I reboot or try to enter recovery.
Really hope someone can help me on this. I clicked on update and now it shows 12.0-YNG1TAS17L
And when I boot the phone into recovery, it goes to a new screen of Cyanogen Recovery, it is totally different than TWRP that I have in on my phone.
I already make sure the phone "update Cyanogen Recovery" is unchecked. But no matter now many times I reboot, reset the phone. It goes to that new recovery screen.
Now I can't root my phone at all. I tried android-sdk-windows.....etc. It will not work.
Tried install it from recovery, it saids install failed.
IS there a way I can use TWRP instead?
Thanks
benzso63 said:
I already make sure the phone "update Cyanogen Recovery" is unchecked.
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Well, you should have checked that BEFORE the update, not after.
benzso63 said:
IS there a way I can use TWRP instead?
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Yes, there are many ways. Check custom recovery installation.
benzso63 said:
Really hope someone can help me on this. I clicked on update and now it shows 12.0-YNG1TAS17L
And when I boot the phone into recovery, it goes to a new screen of Cyanogen Recovery, it is totally different than TWRP that I have in on my phone.
I already make sure the phone "update Cyanogen Recovery" is unchecked. But no matter now many times I reboot, reset the phone. It goes to that new recovery screen.
Now I can't root my phone at all. I tried android-sdk-windows.....etc. It will not work.
Tried install it from recovery, it saids install failed.
IS there a way I can use TWRP instead?
Thanks
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Use fastboot or a toolkit to reinstall TWRP, after it installs reboot back into TWRP, dont reboot the whole system and TWRP will stick. Otherwise TWRP will be overwritten with the stock recovery.
benzso63 said:
Really hope someone can help me on this. I clicked on update and now it shows 12.0-YNG1TAS17L
And when I boot the phone into recovery, it goes to a new screen of Cyanogen Recovery, it is totally different than TWRP that I have in on my phone.
I already make sure the phone "update Cyanogen Recovery" is unchecked. But no matter now many times I reboot, reset the phone. It goes to that new recovery screen.
Now I can't root my phone at all. I tried android-sdk-windows.....etc. It will not work.
Tried install it from recovery, it saids install failed.
IS there a way I can use TWRP instead?
Thanks
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Read the FAQ:
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Bro, I followed this instructions. Did everything I could but still boot up with stock recovery. It is stuck. I don't know what to do .
As you can see the screen shot when I tried push the superSu to it, it saids error: device not found.
All previous steps I followed without error.
But end up still showing stock recovery.
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I did but it saids device not found.
gsmyth said:
Use fastboot or a toolkit to reinstall TWRP, after it installs reboot back into TWRP, dont reboot the whole system and TWRP will stick. Otherwise TWRP will be overwritten with the stock recovery.
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benzso63 said:
Bro, I followed this instructions. Did everything I could but still boot up with stock recovery. It is stuck. I don't know what to do .
As you can see the screen shot when I tried push the superSu to it, it saids error: device not found.
All previous steps I followed without error.
But end up still showing stock recovery.
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You haven't followed the instructions there, from what I can see you've issued the "fastboot reboot" command after flashing the recovery, which you're not meant to do, you're meant to force a reboot directly into recovery with the power + volume down combo.
Hi Heisenberg, I got the problem solved by using the toolkit. Now I got my TWRP back and rooted. Thanks for the info.
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You haven't followed the instructions there, from what I can see you've issued the "fastboot reboot" command after flashing the recovery, which you're not meant to do, you're meant to force a reboot directly into recovery with the power + volume down combo.
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Hey. I dont understand I flash the custom recovery with odin but when i go into recovery I have stock recovery. I have tried twrp and Clockwork. Non works, The flash process is passed and complete. I wait for the phone to reboot and let it start up shut it down. Then go into recovery mode. I have taken out the battery before it starts up and go into recovery straight away but still stock... what is going wrong? I have heard about bootloader But all say its no bootloader on for s2 plus. Any help is appreciated! Thank you. If something is unclear please ask. :good:I have tried 6 custom recovery's non works. but will flash
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Hey. I dont understand I flash the custom recovery with odin but when i go into recovery I have stock recovery. I have tried twrp and Clockwork. Non works, The flash process is passed and complete. I wait for the phone to reboot and let it start up shut it down. Then go into recovery mode. I have taken out the battery before it starts up and go into recovery straight away but still stock... what is going wrong? I have heard about bootloader But all say its no bootloader on for s2 plus. Any help is appreciated! Thank you. If something is unclear please ask. :good:I have tried 6 custom recovery's non works. but will flash
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Your mistake is you are letting it boot into system before you boot into recovery. It doesn't work like that, you obviously haven't carefully and completely read the instructions to install custom recovery via Odin.
You have to flash the recovery and then boot immediately into recovery BEFORE allowing the device to boot into any other mode, otherwise, it reverts back to stock recovery.
Here is the simplest way to do this without screwing it up.
When you flash the recovery in Odin, make sure the "autoreboot" option in Odin is UNCHECKED, then flash the recovery. When it is done flashing, disconnect the device from PC, then, you have two options, either remove the battery then immediately reinsert the battery then boot into recovery using the button combination or disconnect device from PC then power the device off then boot into recovery using the button combination.
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