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[Q] Problem booting into Recovery (ClockworkMod)

Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo

I had the same problem... quit using version 3.0.0.6 and go back to the earliest version, 2.5.1.3 through All ClockworkMod Recoveries. Worked for me.

reeboblue said:
Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo
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You don't have 'fast boot' enabled in settings/application? If so it will not really shut off completely and when you power it up with VOL- it will not work.

i'm also having issues getting cwm to work outside the black screen. i have tried sense/ no sense roms and none have been able to bring up cwm outside the blank screen. i am also running 3.0.0.6 or whatever it is but that has not helped my issue

nyamoV2 said:
i'm also having issues getting cwm to work outside the black screen. i have tried sense/ no sense roms and none have been able to bring up cwm outside the blank screen. i am also running 3.0.0.6 or whatever it is but that has not helped my issue
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did you use the Simple Root method to root your phone?
can you confirm if you have s-off and root?
Read post #2400 in the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406&page=240

reeboblue said:
Please help this newbie out!... I recently rooted my Inspire 4G with attn1's hack kit. That went smooth without issue and I have tried a variety of custom ROMs thanks to this great community, but I have noticed a random issue with booting into ClockworkMod Recovery since... I installed Rom Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.6 and the problem is that sometimes I can boot into recovery and sometimes not. It only seems to work is the first time I reboot immediately after flashing ClockworkMod, then subsequent reboots the phone just boots normally. (I hold volumn down and press power.) I have also tried installing Amon's Recovery (supersonic 2.3) manually using Fastboot - it seems to install without error but when I try holding the down volume button and hitting power - phone just boots normally. So it seems I am stuck with a ClockworkMod install that does not really work with reliability.... I am lost now trying to figure out why this is happening.
Can someone that has seen similar issues provide some tips/suggestions?
TIA
-Reebo
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Sounds like fastboot is enabled. If you turn it off you will be able to boot into recovery.

i used the simple one click. yes i have root and s-off. but i'm stuck now. can not see cwm by manually booting into hboot. or through the app and clicking boot into recovery

[Q] Clockworkmod recovery not booting up
I have my phone rooted and ready to flash a custom ROM. I want to install android revolution 4g 4.0. I read that I need to ahve CWM version 3.0.0.6 to flash a 2.3 ROM. Anyways, when i select reboot into recovery in ROM Manager, my phone reboots and shows the HTC logo but then it fades to black screen and does nothing. If i press the power button, the phone reboots normally into the OS. Does anyone know how to fix this so i can install a custom ROM?

I have this exact same issue. Although i can load roms from choosing "Install from sd card" i cannot just boot into recovery and install it from there.
I just recently bought my inspire 4g a week ago.

Mine is 2 days old. Now i cant get it to boot up because it keeps trying to boot into CWM recovery but it cant. Its and endless loop.

Mine wont even load recovery. It reboots the phone but then just fades to a black screen. I cant get back into the OS

flrdast2 said:
Mine wont even load recovery. It reboots the phone but then just fades to a black screen. I cant get back into the OS
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just press power button and it will reboot your phone.

still stuck doing that too. can get the phone to reboot. but stuck at htc screen or black cwm screen. also checked sd card and is corrupted. i was thinking if i could just flash a new rom over to fix boot issue. but i need some screens to blindly walk through to flash. cwm is 3.0.0.5 if that matters. thanks. on a side note. i think i have a new cm7rc2 build on a formated sd card to try and minimize the guess work on what to click

nyamoV2 said:
still stuck doing that too. can get the phone to reboot. but stuck at htc screen or black cwm screen. also checked sd card and is corrupted. i was thinking if i could just flash a new rom over to fix boot issue. but i need some screens to blindly walk through to flash. cwm is 3.0.0.5 if that matters. thanks. on a side note. i think i have a new cm7rc2 build on a formated sd card to try and minimize the guess work on what to click
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do you know how to confirm if you have S-OFF and if your phone is rooted?

no but when in hboot it says s-off in the top of the screen

nyamoV2 said:
no but when in hboot it says s-off in the top of the screen
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OK...I sent you a PM just follow those directions and you will be good.

habanosrus said:
OK...I sent you a PM just follow those directions and you will be good.
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thanks for the help, but i can't get back into the os to make sure that debugging is checked.

nyamoV2 said:
thanks for the help, but i can't get back into the os to make sure that debugging is checked.
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pull your battery and just turn you phone on without going into Fastboot menu.

downloading now. will give update in a few min
also does it matter that my phone will not go past the white htc screen?

nyamoV2 said:
downloading now. will give update in a few min
also does it matter that my phone will not go past the white htc screen?
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Are you saying that your phone shows the white HTC screen then fades to black?
if so, no, it doesn't matter...just press the power button to reboot your phone.

[q] help!!! Flashed clockwork recovery

Hi Everybody,
I unlocked a Samsung Nexus S 4g, managed to installed clockwork 3.0.2.4 and now when I reboot, it got stuck on the loading screen where it shows "google" and the and the padlock at the bottom. Please help me fix this.
This is my friend's phone. It seems that it does not recognize the sdcard.
Thank you for your help if you can provide any advice.
DUO

Have you ever taken the phone apart? I normally only see that when the NFC/"SIM" daughter board isn't connected. Also, can you boot into bootloader?
Duoxxx said:
Hi Everybody,
I unlocked a Samsung Nexus S 4g, managed to installed clockwork 3.0.2.4 and now when I reboot, it got stuck on the loading screen where it shows "google" and the and the padlock at the bottom. Please help me fix this.
This is my friend's phone. It seems that it does not recognize the sdcard.
Thank you for your help if you can provide any advice.
DUO
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How did u root the phone? One click or manually? U prob didn't install recovery right.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

Boot into fastboot.
Download the recovery image again. Make sure it's the correct recovery for your NS model (don't use the NS4G recovery on the NS GSM). Flash it using fastboot.
Then go into recovery, do a full wipe and flash a ROM.

Idk why, but my friend had the same problem. He downloaded an older version of CWM recovery through ROM Manager, rebooted into recovery after and was able to install CWM 4.0.1.4 after. Idk if that will help but it worked for him
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

Fixed it!!!!
Thank you guys for all your help. I had to unrooted and make sure it loads completely and do the whole process of rooting it again with the newest Clockwork recovery for the ns4g.
It took me a good couple of hours and bring my friend home mad at me, but she will be happy today when I get back her phone.
I wanted to thanks all of you for your help. I'm new to this forum but I appreciate your prompt response. I guess I'm going to stick around more often.
Thanks again

Duoxxx said:
Hi Everybody,
I unlocked a Samsung Nexus S 4g, managed to installed clockwork 3.0.2.4 and now when I reboot, it got stuck on the loading screen where it shows "google" and the and the padlock at the bottom. Please help me fix this.
This is my friend's phone. It seems that it does not recognize the sdcard.
Thank you for your help if you can provide any advice.
DUO
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When you unlock your Phone, everything is wiped.
After you install recovery, you have to start your Phone by holding the Vol Up and Power button.
Go to recovery - mount your SDCard, copy the ROM that you want to flash and flash it.
You are not stuck on the Google Bootscreen - there is no ROM to boot from.

brainmaster said:
When you unlock your Phone, everything is wiped.
After you install recovery, you have to start your Phone by holding the Vol Up and Power button.
Go to recovery - mount your SDCard, copy the ROM that you want to flash and flash it.
You are not stuck on the Google Bootscreen - there is no ROM to boot from.
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Thanks alot, it really got me worry but I was able to mount sd card and complete the whole process, now it is running the latest MIUI port for it.

I had a similar issue only that when I would click to flash the zip for clockwork in bootloader it said "file does not exist" I had to run a cmd prompt on my comp to install the clockwork mod.
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[Completed] Lost twrp recovery by flashing another recovery on LG G2 VS980

On my LG G2 VS980 I lost my TWRP recovery by trying to flash CWM Touch. Now when it boots into recovery I see a black screen with some tiny writing that instantly disappears back into a black screen and stays there until I hold power down for about 15 seconds. Originally I had stock 26A (KitKat), rooted with Stumproot and used Autorec to put TWRP on and that worked fine. Then I flashed CyanogenMod 12.1, that worked fine. Today I decided since I had CyanogenMod, I would try out their Touch recovery instead of the older TWRP. I downloaded Flashify and the latest CWM Touch recovery and downloaded Flashify and flashed the recovery with no error messages. I gave it root permission (the built-in CM root permission) and then booted into the mess I have now. I have tried to flash TWRP, but it does the same exact thing- same for trying CWM regular (non-Touch) recovery flash. None of the button combinations except power + up buttons do anything except boot into the regular phone or they boot into the broken recovery that shows the white writing that turns to the black screen of death. I tried going into settings and turning the developer settings on that says Update Recovery When Updating ROM, but that doesn't change anything. I also tried using ROM Manager, but it never worked flashing, even before. (It still does the same thing, it acts like it flashes, says its successful, then the recovery is the same. Useless.)
One thing that is odd is that I tried to use Autorec again. I downloaded the latest version from Play Store and when I tried to flash recovery with it it told me my phone was not supported- that it only works on VS980 model!?! That IS my model. So that's the gist of it. I really would appreciate any help at all. I love my phone.

AndyGumpp said:
On my LG G2 VS980 I lost my TWRP recovery by trying to flash CWM Touch. Now when it boots into recovery I see a black screen with some tiny writing that instantly disappears back into a black screen and stays there until I hold power down for about 15 seconds. Originally I had stock 26A (KitKat), rooted with Stumproot and used Autorec to put TWRP on and that worked fine. Then I flashed CyanogenMod 12.1, that worked fine. Today I decided since I had CyanogenMod, I would try out their Touch recovery instead of the older TWRP. I downloaded Flashify and the latest CWM Touch recovery and downloaded Flashify and flashed the recovery with no error messages. I gave it root permission (the built-in CM root permission) and then booted into the mess I have now. I have tried to flash TWRP, but it does the same exact thing- same for trying CWM regular (non-Touch) recovery flash. None of the button combinations except power + up buttons do anything except boot into the regular phone or they boot into the broken recovery that shows the white writing that turns to the black screen of death. I tried going into settings and turning the developer settings on that says Update Recovery When Updating ROM, but that doesn't change anything. I also tried using ROM Manager, but it never worked flashing, even before. (It still does the same thing, it acts like it flashes, says its successful, then the recovery is the same. Useless.)
One thing that is odd is that I tried to use Autorec again. I downloaded the latest version from Play Store and when I tried to flash recovery with it it told me my phone was not supported- that it only works on VS980 model!?! That IS my model. So that's the gist of it. I really would appreciate any help at all. I love my phone.
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Hi AndyGumpp
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
I see you've solved your problem here http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...lipop-lost-t3324510/post65560638#post65560638 I'll close this thread now. Apologies for the late reply.
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[Completed] Moto E 1st Generation Boot Animation UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER Boot Loop Please Help!

Hi, I'm new to XDA. Sorry if I did something wrong already. But I have a problem, I tried installing a new boot animation to my moto e 1st gen (bootloader was unlocked, it was rooted too). Now whenever I turn the phone on, The WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED image shows up, but there is no boot animation. I cannot access anything, I can only go into recovery mode and CWM. I have tried factory reset using Recovery Mode (No success, just does WARNING boot loop again ) I have also tried factory reseting through CWM, till no success. I am giving up, I just recently bought this phone. NAY help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

rakibshahid said:
Hi, I'm new to XDA. Sorry if I did something wrong already. But I have a problem, I tried installing a new boot animation to my moto e 1st gen (bootloader was unlocked, it was rooted too). Now whenever I turn the phone on, The WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED image shows up, but there is no boot animation. I cannot access anything, I can only go into recovery mode and CWM. I have tried factory reset using Recovery Mode (No success, just does WARNING boot loop again ) I have also tried factory reseting through CWM, till no success. I am giving up, I just recently bought this phone. NAY help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Hello,
Can you tell us what firmware was your phone running? Also what recovery do you have on your phone?
If stock, you may try flashing stock firmware via fastboot.
-Vatsal

Vatsal said:
Hello,
Can you tell us what firmware was your phone running? Also what recovery do you have on your phone?
If stock, you may try flashing stock firmware via fastboot.
-Vatsal
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Thanks for responding so quickly! But I fixed the problem a few minutes after posting this . But there is a new problem, I downgraded from Android 5.0.2 to Android 4.4.2. After doing this the phone worked perfectly. Then a few minutes later it installed a system update for 4.4.4 and now the phone is hard bricked. I can't access recovery mode, CWM, or even turn the phone on now. Before charging the phone, if I held the power button for a long time, the LED lit up and turned back off. Now there is no response from the phone at all no matter what I do.
Also, I had ClockWorkMod and stock recovery on my phone (Is stock recovery the one that shows up when you hold power+volume down? If so I had both CWM and stock) But now I can't access either recovery modes. If it at least went into stock recovery, I'd flash stock firmware, root it, install CWM, and flash a Lollipop zip. (I like Lollipop, I don't know why there are so many people that hate Lollipop )
Any help would be much appreciated. All i need now is a way to flash files without going into recovery mode on phone.

black screen when booting into twrp

does anyone know how to fix this issue im having.i was on android 6.0 when trying to boot into twrp recovery would only have a black screen,only once in a blue moon it will boot into twrp regular.i updated to 7.0 thought it might fix the issue but it is the same .ive tried all the twrp versions through adb,but when booting into twrp just presented a black screen,ive tried factory reset,reflash firmware,still the same.The only way to get to twrp normal is to adb (fastboot/boot/twrp.img/,on my computer

You're doing MUCH better than i am. After loading twrp & making a backup, it appears the bootloader corupted when i tested it with the restore. Now, if i try & reboot, all it does is vibrate. If it's pluged in while rebooting, it'll vibrate & the red led blinks. In other words, hard bricked. I got 2 disney tickets offered to anyone who can un-hardbrick it. I've un bricked several Samsung's, but the Zp3ultra has me stumped. If i were you, i'd try reloading the original OS.

hillg001 said:
You're doing MUCH better than i am. After loading twrp & making a backup, it appears the bootloader corupted when i tested it with the restore. Now, if i try & reboot, all it does is vibrate. If it's pluged in while rebooting, it'll vibrate & the red led blinks. In other words, hard bricked. I got 2 disney tickets offered to anyone who can un-hardbrick it. I've un bricked several Samsung's, but the Zp3ultra has me stumped. If i were you, i'd try reloading the original OS.
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Hey funny you should say that. I'm actually on my second Asus 3 ultra. The same thing happened to my first one got stuck during a firmware update, or corrupted firmware zip.,now the phone won't boot to twrp or bootloader, just vibrates like yours. If I plug the charging cord in vibrates then just get those red led notification light blinks,computer won't even recognize the device so can't flash the bootloader back to the phone to fix, so I guess it's hard bricked paperweight. I only had it for about a week before the brick, had to buy a new one. The thing that's funny to me the first one would boot to twrp no problem, now this new one seems to boot to twrp but just presented a black screen, it's in twrp recovery because you can feel the vibrations for the buttons, just can't see the screen. I would love to be able to fix the bricked one it's brand new, and can't send for warranty because I'm in the US, sucks.

If you have the address for the foreign country's location of manufacturing, you can send it in for repairs. That's what we are working on doing. The horrible thing is, after reading about stories of other customers, Asus really rakes you over the coals price wise for the repair, & then does similarly for return shipping. So we are still trying to find a way around the high shipping prices, at least.
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gubbilo144 said:
does anyone know how to fix this issue im having.i was on android 6.0 when trying to boot into twrp recovery would only have a black screen,only once in a blue moon it will boot into twrp regular.i updated to 7.0 thought it might fix the issue but it is the same .ive tried all the twrp versions through adb,but when booting into twrp just presented a black screen,ive tried factory reset,reflash firmware,still the same.The only way to get to twrp normal is to adb (fastboot/boot/twrp.img/,on my computer
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What stock keeping unit (SKU) is your phone? WW, TW, CN, or JP?
What version of TWRP did you flash?

hillg001 said:
You're doing MUCH better than i am. After loading twrp & making a backup, it appears the bootloader corupted when i tested it with the restore. Now, if i try & reboot, all it does is vibrate. If it's pluged in while rebooting, it'll vibrate & the red led blinks. In other words, hard bricked. I got 2 disney tickets offered to anyone who can un-hardbrick it. I've un bricked several Samsung's, but the Zp3ultra has me stumped. If i were you, i'd try reloading the original OS.
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i got the same problem when i use TWRP to install the oldest rom from asus website UL-ASUS_A001-WW-13.6.6.17-user.zip, the installation completed but i got black screen the same signs like you did, i offer 50 Euros for those who could help me unbrick my zenfone ultra
thanks a lot in advance!!!
Cordially
CHUNG

qbchung said:
i got the same problem when i use TWRP to install the oldest rom from asus website UL-ASUS_A001-WW-13.6.6.17-user.zip, the installation completed but i got black screen the same signs like you did, i offer 50 Euros for those who could help me unbrick my zenfone ultra
thanks a lot in advance!!!
Cordially
CHUNG
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i think the mistake people may be making is flashing stock rom through twrp
twrp only for supersu zip and other things imo
stock rom just flash through the stock recovery apply update from sd (microsd card) need to make sure the recovery and rom match
can you get to stock recovery? also charge it first to a good 80 to 90 if not 100 percent

gubbilo144 said:
does anyone know how to fix this issue im having.i was on android 6.0 when trying to boot into twrp recovery would only have a black screen,only once in a blue moon it will boot into twrp regular.i updated to 7.0 thought it might fix the issue but it is the same .ive tried all the twrp versions through adb,but when booting into twrp just presented a black screen,ive tried factory reset,reflash firmware,still the same.The only way to get to twrp normal is to adb (fastboot/boot/twrp.img/,on my computer
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After you get that black screen, just press once the power button to close and then press it again to open, just like you do when you normally close and open the screen. You will see after that the twrp interface.

qbchung said:
i got the same problem when i use TWRP to install the oldest rom from asus website UL-ASUS_A001-WW-13.6.6.17-user.zip, the installation completed but i got black screen the same signs like you did, i offer 50 Euros for those who could help me unbrick my zenfone ultra
thanks a lot in advance!!!
Cordially
CHUNG
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read your post again...noticed...
one thing-if you were on ww-14 i.e. android nougat then cannot simply flash the ww 13 marshmallow as I believe the bootloader is different - think that is why the flash did not work (know this from other zenfone forums where you cannot simply downgrade by flashing a previous android level rom) if it was not a case of downgrading then maybe because of using twrp for stock rom instead of the update process using stock recovery
I tried to flash ww 13 when on ww 14 through stock recovery and it was giving me an error (saying version is not ww which was not the case anyway)-found out through other forums that it is because one cannot downgrade in that manner - therefore I think cause of flash error is the bootloader version. For downgrading one needs the raw file. I found raw file for our ultra (WW13 level) at a Vietnamese site and the flashing tool but have not tried it (no reason to) but am keeping it just in case.
you can get stock recovery from here (note the ww 13 or ww 14 types pick the right one)
https://mega.nz/#F!9tEj2azZ!QKmvc-VJZR1Iqk6H7alQnQ
flash it through fastboot
need to have fastboot drivers installed
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
or
https://androidmtk.com/download-minimal-adb-and-fastboot-tool
make sure path variable has fastboot folder in it in environment variables of computer
preferably have recovery image in that folder too so you don't have to type some long path names
power off
volume up press and hold then press power
get to bootloader fastboot mode
connect by usb
open command prompt window in folder where fastboot installed
check fastboot devices to verify phone is seen
filename.img = filename of the twrp.img
twrp flash recovery filename.img
if successful then
twrp boot filename.img
may have to press power or volume up to get to the screen
while in stock recovery better to do factory reset too before update
then apply update from sd card
btw I have successfully used the twrp march version 3.2.1 (also at the above mega link) with the latest stock ww 14 (from jan 8 2018) backed up restored successfully, rooted, and have xposed as well
a note on twrp restore if ever having to (just don't check system image restore in twrp when restoring)
trying to do miui port

Can anyone help me???My device isn't opening after twrp flashing.when I reboot I see dark screen,not twrp recovery... please somebody help me,fast.....

Same problem with my iball tablet
Even flashing stock recovery doesn't give me recovery back i have also tried philz recovery but no luck i need help too