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[Q] Help! I'm stuck in android system recovery!

hey guys! so i'm stuck in android system recovery and i can't really do anything.
i tried applying the update.zip but it said "signature verification failed".
problems im having.
-im NOT rooted
-everytime i reboot the phone it always goes back to system recovery
-i cant flash an update
-my computer wont even recognize the phone
-i cant go into download mode
please help. ive searched everywhere and there doesnt seem to be a clean answer.
anything helps. thanks.

You are getting that because you didn't properly push the recovery file to system/bin....BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ROOTED. try to wipe cache and factory reset the phone from recovery to get back your android stock. Try to get into download mode using one if the methods in the download guide in the bible. Odin to kc1 with the final cwm from krylon that fbis posted. You will have root.
Please read the bible, especially the opening threads. Also, do not apply update.zip.
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Try outing in recovery using adb
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jager555 said:
You are getting that because you didn't properly push the recovery file to system/bin....BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ROOTED. try to wipe cache and factory reset the phone from recovery to get back your android stock. Try to get into download mode using one if the methods in the download guide in the bible. Odin to kc1 with the final cwm from krylon that fbis posted. You will have root.
Please read the bible, especially the opening threads. Also, do not apply update.zip.
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so i dont know how i can connect to odin if my pc cant read the phone.

reinstall the drivers using the files in the bible useful files section. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554)
restart the computer.
plug one end of the usb to a different port than what you had it before.
take out your sd card and your sim card and put the battery back in.
press the up+down volume keys and connect the usb cable to the phone

xXpatisXx said:
so i dont know how i can connect to odin if my pc cant read the phone.
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oh i also have tried to get into download mode.
i tried:
- the 3 button method
- adb
none of those dont work.
please help =/

what exactly did you do to get into this?

jager555 said:
what exactly did you do to get into this?
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a friend of mine gave me his phone and it was fully functional. but then some certain apps werent working so i tried to reset all the data through the privacy settings. and i had no luck. so i tried going into download mode but instead it took me to the recovery menu. i wiped all cache and user data and i tried to reinstall packages. its been stuck ever since.

ill show you a video of what im going through in just a sec...

also since im in recovery mode. does that mean my phone isnt bricked?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBo3630sNu0

jager555 said:
what exactly did you do to get into this?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBo3630sNu0

download the usb drivers from the bible for your windows machine.. Once installed reboot the pc
once rebooted download odin 1.85 from xda or u can snag it out of my kc1 downlaod i packed it in there
oppen up odin you may have to run as admin...
with your phone powered off
press and hold
vol up and down
then insert usb
once you see the screen with a android yellow box says download your fine if you dont see that screen but odin has a light com port dont fret your ok
download dr honks kb 5 odin off the bible and flash that
it wont have the hacked signature verificaton we will get to that
once you flash the rom via odin and its up and running
go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
download cwm final and recovery record
then download root explorer or equilvent off the market
push the reocery record to the system bin folder
you will prob have to set the system bin folder to read write then change it back to read only after
once u do that reboot phone boot cwm hit reinstall packages enjoy

RaverX3X said:
download the usb drivers from the bible for your windows machine.. Once installed reboot the pc
once rebooted download odin 1.85 from xda or u can snag it out of my kc1 downlaod i packed it in there
oppen up odin you may have to run as admin...
with your phone powered off
press and hold
vol up and down
then insert usb
once you see the screen with a android yellow box says download your fine if you dont see that screen but odin has a light com port dont fret your ok
download dr honks kb 5 odin off the bible and flash that
it wont have the hacked signature verificaton we will get to that
once you flash the rom via odin and its up and running
go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
download cwm final and recovery record
then download root explorer or equilvent off the market
push the reocery record to the system bin folder
you will prob have to set the system bin folder to read write then change it back to read only after
once u do that reboot phone boot cwm hit reinstall packages enjoy
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thanks but i downloaded the drivers and the phone still isnt recognized by the pc or odin. please help!

Can someone please help =[

xXpatisXx said:
Can someone please help =[
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Did you try a different usb port?
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cnote74 said:
Did you try a different usb port?
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yes i tried all 3 on my laptop. i just resorted to buying a usb jig. that works right?

[Q] Cannot boot into recovery. Laggy phone as well.

I was just about to try updating from NScollab 1.0.39 to 1.0.40 and for some reason my nexus s refuses to boot into recovery. It doesn't seem to exist anymore. Im not sure if it is related or not but my phone became very laggy after my first failed attempt to boot into recovery. I tried fixing user permissions and rebooting many many times but it doesn't seem to help.

What does it do when u try to boot into recovery?
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It doesnt do anything. It just reboots into the bootloader.
Thank you for the quick reply
edit:
i tried flashing recovery again through rom manager and now whenever i try to boot into recovery it just hangs at the google logo with the unlocked padlock.

Hmmm
Do me a quick favor.
go here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Ne...de#Installing_the_ClockworkMod_Recovery_Image
and download the 4.0.0.2 recovery image and save it to some directory on ur computer
then follow these steps:
1. Open up command prompt/terminal and plug in phone to computer
2. Type "adb reboot bootloader"
3. It will take you to fastboot mode. Now type "fastboot erase recovery"
4. Then type fastboot "flash recovery ____.img"
( ____ is the name of the recovery img file)
5. Now it will flash and once it says "OKAY" then scroll down using volume down into recovery and see what happens
plz get back to me bout this!

IT WORKS! It went into recovery! Thank you so so much! Is there anything else I should do or am i set to go?

i so hate rom manager! i cant believe that people still use it

shahravi94 said:
IT WORKS! It went into recovery! Thank you so so much! Is there anything else I should do or am i set to go?
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Since it works, you can wipe and flash ns collab lol
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Thank you so much for the quick help! btw i updated recovery from rom manager and i ran into the same problem with it not booting into recovery so i am guessing there is a problem with the latest version of recovery? I'll just reflash through the instructions you gave me.

Yeah prolly a ROM manager issue
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shahravi94 said:
Thank you so much for the quick help! btw i updated recovery from rom manager and i ran into the same problem with it not booting into recovery so i am guessing there is a problem with the latest version of recovery? I'll just reflash through the instructions you gave me.
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the recovery generally doesnt stick if flashing it through rom manager. flash it through fastboot and itll stick.

Hmm thanks for the advice! ill keep that in mind

[Q] asus transformer sort semi brick need help asap please...

ok so ive had my tf101 rooted since i got the thing over a year and a half ago, i was running the megatron rom which was cm9 based and everything was good. today i tried to flash Eos4 and i got F%$ked out the a$$. so i did my standard procedure which was put the rom and gapps package on my device and then i wiped everything (after making a nandroid) and flash the rom along with its gapps. then i went to reboot it then i got shot back into recovery...so i was like wtf. i then found a way where if i hold the power and volume down for about 10 seconds i could cold boot android and once booted fix this problem with my recovery. unfortunately when i go to boot into android my device just bootloops on the boot animation ( ive left for about ten mins just to make sure) then i was like oh well ill just restore my nandroid, but for some reason clockwork mod touch wont let me use my microsd card, and its also not letting me restore from the backup i made earlier, it says files not found. i tried to connect it to my pc so i could just factory reflash it but unfortunately it will not be picked up by my pc through adb or apx.
so here is my main issue,
i just need to boot into android one time successfully so i can change the location of some ROM files and fix this stupid recovery bull****.
or if i could some how factory reset the tablet completely then that would be fine too
or or i could flash a different recovery that actually worked (currently on CWM 5.8.3.4 installed from rom manager which i realize now to be a huge mistake)
and i've tried ever tool on this forum as well and nothing works because it cannot pick up my device.
*** one other side note i am running windows 8 pro 32bit through Vmware (if this can be problematic)
thanks for any help in advance

To fix this, you will need to get your tablet recognized by your computer via ADB (in recovery) or APX mode.
You could have a bad cable, or it could be the VM causing the detection issues.
Is there a way you can connect it to a computer running Windows natively?
Does your computer make the new hardware sound when connecting?
Once you get it detected via one method or the other, here are my suggestions:
APX - Use the Naked Driver 0.72 and replace whatever driver is being used. Then use EasyFlasher to install TWRP 2.2.1.4 (it blows CWM away, and can read internal AND external memory)
ADB - use the Naked Driver 0.72 and replace whatever driver is being used. Then download the TWRP 2.3.2.3 blob from the TWRP project: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/tf101
Call the downloaded file TWRP.blob.
Then run the following from your computer via ADB:
Code:
adb push TWRP.blob /sdcard/
adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/TWRP.blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
reboot
Make sure it is a normal reboot to complete the recovery. Then reboot to recovery and you should be able to see the external card (so long as it is formatted for FAT32).

Thanks for the quick response and it probably is because I am using vmware... Unfortunately I don't have access to a windows machine right now. But I will definitely try to find one
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Ok so now it looks like this... All i did was flash some random ass jb rom I found in my cwm folder... It has been like this for about 15 mins
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** edit I'm assuming it got stuck boot the apps because now a my directories seem F&#cked up too... It now goes sdcard/0/0/0/(everthing else)

That's because your recovery is not compatible with 4.2.1. TWRP recovery 2.3.2.3 or 2.3.3.x should be fine as federuco said, to fix the sdcard/0/0/... issue.
For the stuck at apps thing, usually it's because you didn't wipe everything when changing rom. Make sure to do a full reset, wipe cache dalvik and system.

Lethe6 said:
That's because your recovery is not compatible with 4.2.1. TWRP recovery 2.3.2.3 or 2.3.3.x should be fine as federuco said, to fix the sdcard/0/0/... issue.
For the stuck at apps thing, usually it's because you didn't wipe everything when changing rom. Make sure to do a full reset, wipe cache dalvik and system.
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But my problem is I can't flash another recovery... I can't access the memory on my micro sd card... So like idk what to do
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What happens if you reboot it after it is at the starting apps screen?
If you can get into the OS, install GooManager and install TWRP.

frederuco said:
What happens if you reboot it after it is at the starting apps screen?
If you can get into the OS, install GooManager and install TWRP.
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I can't get into the os that's the problem... I just clean installed Windows via boot camp on my mac... Gunna try a few tools now... Hopefully I can get it back to stock... I'll update in a little bit
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Ok so my computer can sort of detect it... I installed the drivers via brks root kit but when I plug it in in apx mode it says unknown device... Tried all my programs and they all failed...
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Ok so I've tried to to reinstall the drivers... Tried to flash everything in apx and adb but it's not being properly detected By the PC... So I have no idea what to do at this point... If I could somehow either boot into android or flash TWRP
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Use the Naked Drivers.
Let me find the link to the thread....
Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514942
Grab the driver pack in the first thread, update the device using the APX driver when in APX mode.
Then you should be good to go. I have used EasyFlasher via APX with great success.

frederuco said:
Use the Naked Drivers.
Let me find the link to the thread....
Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514942
Grab the driver pack in the first thread, update the device using the APX driver when in APX mode.
Then you should be good to go. I have used EasyFlasher via APX with great success.
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Not to sound like a complete noob at this point but idk how to install these naked drivers
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I think I installed the drivers right but idk can someone please like teamviwer or Google + hangout with me
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Put your device in APX mode. To do so, make sure it's completely powered off (hold the power button 10 seconds), then hold down volume up + power for about 5 seconds. Do that while it's connected through USB. The screen will remain black so you won't see anything on the device, but you will hear a new device found in windows. Go in your device manager and look for either "unkown device" or "NVIDIA boot-recovery driver for mobile devices". If you see the nvidia one, right click and delete it; it should be come unknown. Right click the unknown device, install driver... navigate to where you extracted the naked drivers, and install.
Then use easyflasher.

Lethe6 said:
Put your device in APX mode. To do so, make sure it's completely powered off (hold the power button 10 seconds), then hold down volume up + power for about 5 seconds. Do that while it's connected through USB. The screen will remain black so you won't see anything on the device, but you will hear a new device found in windows. Go in your device manager and look for either "unkown device" or "NVIDIA boot-recovery driver for mobile devices". If you see the nvidia one, right click and delete it; it should be come unknown. Right click the unknown device, install driver... navigate to where you extracted the naked drivers, and install.
Then use easyflasher.
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Not working... :/ I swear it's not me
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Weird Issue With Gtab 2 10.1

Well here is the deal. I was trying to install twrp recovery but couldn't get into odin mode..I tried vol- & pwr, vol+ & pwr..but to no avail. Only way to boot into odin mode is with adb commands, but when I go into odin mode it doesnt display my flash count or model of the tab. Any help would be appreciated..

xViiZe said:
Well here is the deal. I was trying to install twrp recovery but couldn't get into odin mode..I tried vol- & pwr, vol+ & pwr..but to no avail. Only way to boot into odin mode is with adb commands, but when I go into odin mode it doesnt display my flash count or model of the tab. Any help would be appreciated..
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Is your tab being detected by the comp in Odin mode..?

Thanks for the reply..Well I didn't try because I didn't see any of the information in the top left..would reflashing stock firmware like this work or result in brick.
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Similarly in my device also it's not showing flash counter

Guys you are rebooting to boot loader mode for to reboot to download mode via adb type this adb reboot download
or power + vol-
-press thanks if helped--

I have done that command and it boots me into that screen with no info..also I have done that button combination so many times but it just boots me into stock recovery..
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openmatrix said:
Similarly in my device also it's not showing flash counter
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Do u all have the backup on the old rom. IF yes try to restore the old Rom and retry to download and retry to install it again.

Well my tab is stock..I wanted to root and flash twrp recovery
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Yeah its blank only if you use adb or the device reboot options for some reason. I guess since if you use volume buttons it shows a warning screen but doesnt with adb. You can check flash count and stuff in TriangleAway.
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Ohh..well yea I see that now because now I'm rooted on cm10.1 and the flash counter in triangle away is now at 3 but it doesn't show anything in Odin mode..anyways thank you.
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[Resolved] Can't reboot into twrp manually

Running beanstock 4.4 can only get to recovery from ROM manager just keeps vibrating when I hold down power and volume up and down using t989 s2 any ideas want to flash some things but if can't get into recovery manually I'm a little timid
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airdude85 said:
Running beanstock 4.4 can only get to recovery from ROM manager just keeps vibrating when I hold down power and volume up and down using t989 s2 any ideas want to flash some things but if can't get into recovery manually I'm a little timid
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Enable adb debugging in settings, developer options.
Try adb command-
'adb reboot recovery '
before that read about adb usage & install proper drivers in your PC.
Hit thanks rather than typing it now Free