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[Q] [i9023] Blank/Black screen in recovery

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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Hey
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 ?
sorry for my bad English

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..

Xziped said:
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...

Simultaneity said:
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!

Simultaneity said:
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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[Q] Problem with custom recovery

Hello,
I just unlocked bootloader, installed TWRP by fastboot. But my phone hangs in a bootloop..
I cant factory reset because of the errors like "Error mounting data".
What can i do?
In CWM:
Error mounting /data
E: unkown volume for path [/sd-ext]
Skipping format.
......
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Hm. I'm not too awesome with this kind of stuff but whenever I'm stuck in boot loop, I use Wugfresh's toolkit to reflash stock to try again.
Download the toolkit, run in administer mode and power off your phone and power it on into fast boot mode.
Then just click flash stock. It should get you back to original software. I usually use wugfresh to unroot, etc. And it gives an option to flash twrp on, which makes things a lot simpler! Give that a try!
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moomingstarz said:
Hm. I'm not too awesome with this kind of stuff but whenever I'm stuck in boot loop, I use Wugfresh's toolkit to reflash stock to try again.
Download the toolkit, run in administer mode and power off your phone and power it on into fast boot mode.
Then just click flash stock. It should get you back to original software. I usually use wugfresh to unroot, etc. And it gives an option to flash twrp on, which makes things a lot simpler! Give that a try!
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I got back to stock (4.4.2).
And i im going to install TWRP again. I'll let you know!

yooouuri said:
I got back to stock (4.4.2).
And i im going to install TWRP again. I'll let you know!
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Good luck ?
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Easiest way to install twrp if you have root is just download the twrp app and install it from it
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Its very weird.
Back to stock (4.4), updated to 4.4.2. Flashed recovery with fastboot. Booted up the device. Rebooted in the recovery and flashed the superSU zip.
And the phone just boots..
Thanks for helping!

[Q] Bricked? Device

So, I got my moto g a few days ago, and today I decided to unlock the bootloader.
The process went fine, but when it booted up to the startup screen, everything was forceclosing (systemui, etc)
I force shut it down. After that, it would show the boot animation, going to the rippling motorola logo, and then go to a black screen. I am currently flashing to stock using fastboot, I can use fastboot to flash an alternate recovery, but that seemed to do nothing. Stock recovery does not work.
I really hope there's a simple, idiot proof way to fix this.
Anyone know what it could be?

Go into bootloader, flash custom recovery and then flash a custom ROM
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bobcat913 said:
Go into bootloader, flash custom recovery and then flash a custom ROM
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I flashed TWRP, twrp works fine, but I need to transfer a ROM to the phone, using TWRP's sideload feature doesn't work, as my phone does not show up as a device, once in adb. In device manager, it shows up as "Android" and has no drivers, when trying to use the adb sideload feature in recovery.

I ended up fixing it after all, installing the easy universal adb/fastboot drivers, and then adb pushing the rom, and gapps

TWRP Boot Loop

Hi,
I tried yesterday to return my Nexus 5 to a stock image so that I could do OTA updates. I realised after that I also had to return it to stock recovery because TWRP was not letting it work.
using this tutorial, I booted into the latest TWRP image, which only caused my phone to go into a boot loop, only making it as far as the Teamwin screen. The phone will not load the bootloader to do anything with fastboot.
what are my options?

t.holley.os said:
Hi,
I tried yesterday to return my Nexus 5 to a stock image so that I could do OTA updates. I realised after that I also had to return it to stock recovery because TWRP was not letting it work.
using this tutorial, I booted into the latest TWRP image, which only caused my phone to go into a boot loop, only making it as far as the Teamwin screen. The phone will not load the bootloader to do anything with fastboot.
what are my options?
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What do you want to do exactly? Restore stock recovery so that you can take the OTA? If you followed either one of the methods on that thread, you should already be stock, i don't get why you booted TWRP again.

Hi,
As I mentioned, following that tutorial, I just booted into the TWRP image. It wasn't that tutorial I used to flash the stock image. All that I did was get back to the stock android.
I originally did try using their method, but wasn't able to get the .sh script to run so I used another tutorial to flash the android image, but didn't have a boot or recovery that I flashed. I was able to download the update now and tried installing, but it would take me to the TWRP recovery and say that the update failed.
I was following the optional steps at the bottom, thinking that was what I needed to lock everything back up, clearly that wasn't right.

t.holley.os said:
Hi,
As I mentioned, following that tutorial, I just booted into the TWRP image. It wasn't that tutorial I used to flash the stock image. All that I did was get back to the stock android.
I originally did try using their method, but wasn't able to get the .sh script to run so I used another tutorial to flash the android image, but didn't have a boot or recovery that I flashed. I was able to download the update now and tried installing, but it would take me to the TWRP recovery and say that the update failed.
I was following the optional steps at the bottom, thinking that was what I needed to lock everything back up, clearly that wasn't right.
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Just flash the stock recovery image with fastboot
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That's what I am asking...I can't load into anything on the Nexus to use fastboot, it is stuck loading into this TWRP image.

t.holley.os said:
That's what I am asking...I can't load into anything on the Nexus to use fastboot, it is stuck loading into this TWRP image.
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Press and hold power for 30 second, the device will try to boot but just keep holding the power. Then press and hold vol down and power. It doesn't boot into the bootloader?
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Hi,
I tried this again today and was able to get into it. Yesterday it didn't want to boot into it for some reason. Followed the tutorial I posted from the start to re-flash everything, and so far seems to be working. Hasn't loaded into android yet, just stuck on the loading screen, hoping it's just the initial start up that sometimes takes a while.

t.holley.os said:
Hi,
I tried this again today and was able to get into it. Yesterday it didn't want to boot into it for some reason. Followed the tutorial I posted from the start to re-flash everything, and so far seems to be working. Hasn't loaded into android yet, just stuck on the loading screen, hoping it's just the initial start up that sometimes takes a while.
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FYI the TWRP boot loops are due to MTP bug that was never fully fixed from 2860. It's better than it used to be, but still an issue occasionally, especially if connected to power while you try to get in to TWRP.

stuck in loop, possibly a different kind of loop

I was trying to fix my girlfriends nexus 5 that was doing the restart loop after an update. Everything seemed to go fine. Unlocked the bootloader, etc. Flashed the newest rom (6.0.1 (MMB29S) ce1d670f61061c3902f3997510ea55d7 6bfcdfa4f4840898e5d76fa044f5e6a0f71343bf) and then something obviously went wrong (not quite sure, dont think i touched anything) and it's now stuck in a different kind of loop that only loops while it's plugged in. Ive uploaded a video to youtube, but since im a new user i cant actually link it properly yet. Hopefully this wont annoy any mods, I promise it's not spam. youtube . be / yNSoiTPnGZw
Is there any way to get it to stay on for more than a couple seconds to retry the flashing?
Any help is appreciated.

atomkrieg said:
I was trying to fix my girlfriends nexus 5 that was doing the restart loop after an update. Everything seemed to go fine. Unlocked the bootloader, etc. Flashed the newest rom (6.0.1 (MMB29S) ce1d670f61061c3902f3997510ea55d7 6bfcdfa4f4840898e5d76fa044f5e6a0f71343bf) and then something obviously went wrong (not quite sure, dont think i touched anything) and it's now stuck in a different kind of loop that only loops while it's plugged in. Ive uploaded a video to youtube, but since im a new user i cant actually link it properly yet. Hopefully this wont annoy any mods, I promise it's not spam. youtube . be / yNSoiTPnGZw
Is there any way to get it to stay on for more than a couple seconds to retry the flashing?
Any help is appreciated.
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What was your flashing procedure, did u is a toolkit or do it manually, can u get it into bootloader or recovery? What files did u is for update and where did u get them?
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soupysoup said:
What was your flashing procedure, did u is a toolkit or do it manually, can u get it into bootloader or recovery? What files did u is for update and where did u get them?
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First i followed the guide here on xda to unlock the bootloader(guide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905), installed twrp, which went fine. Then i realized that i couldnt (or didnt realize how to via command line) to copy the stock rom and install it via twrp, so then i followed this guide here on xda (tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701) with the factory img (6.01 hammerhead), got to this point in the guide: ★After everything finished, select "Recovery" using the volume buttons. then it stalled out,turned off and now just cycles on and offf through the google logo with the lock picture or if i hold down the volume button it will go into the bootloader briefly then restart, rinse repeat.

atomkrieg said:
First i followed the guide here on xda to unlock the bootloader(guide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905), installed twrp, which went fine. Then i realized that i couldnt (or didnt realize how to via command line) to copy the stock rom and install it via twrp, so then i followed this guide here on xda (tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701) with the factory img (6.01 hammerhead), got to this point in the guide: ★After everything finished, select "Recovery" using the volume buttons. then it stalled out,turned off and now just cycles on and offf through the google logo with the lock picture or if i hold down the volume button it will go into the bootloader briefly then restart, rinse repeat.
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Have u tried messing with the power button, there are a lot of issues on the nexus 5 with the power button causing loops, simply from getting stuck, try playing with the power button a little and see of that helps, it might just need to be replaced
Wait, did u flash the factory img with twrp, or did u flash it using fastboot?
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soupysoup said:
Have u tried messing with the power button, there are a lot of issues on the nexus 5 with the power button causing loops, simply from getting stuck, try playing with the power button a little and see of that helps, it might just need to be replaced
Wait, did u flash the factory img with twrp, or did u flash it using fastboot?
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in the end fastboot, since i coulndt see how i could copy the img over to install via twrp
im pretty sure the button is fine, since it was cycling from the ota update install, then was working fine unlocking the bootloader, but after the flash, it crapped the bed.

Different problem
I had a problem where the google logo keeps on booting up with a slight vibration.This started to happen when my was dropped.I initially thought that was a software issue and thought of installing new ROM's but eventually my device was not detected :crying:
So i took it to repair shop near my house and they said it would cost 2500
I did some google research and found the reason was due to the power button being stucked during the fall.I got that repaired and my device is good to go

siddhu007 said:
I had a problem where the google logo keeps on booting up with a slight vibration.This started to happen when my was dropped.I initially thought that was a software issue and thought of installing new ROM's but eventually my device was not detected :crying:
So i took it to repair shop near my house and they said it would cost 2500
I did some google research and found the reason was due to the power button being stucked during the fall.I got that repaired and my device is good to go
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ok, took it into a shop, got the power button fixed. It must have been on the way out because literally one minute it worked and the second it didnt. now i think ive got it narrowed down. it's saying it's unable to mount /persist. ive tried the various fixes:
e2fsck/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
and
make_ext4fs/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
but all i get is a not found error. not sure what to do from here on.

success!! i ended up stumbling on a bit how to restore the persist partition i didnt try. got a custom rom installs and everything works. thanks to everyone who tried to help!!

stuck in bootloop while flashing cataclysm rom
i tried to flash cataclysm rom in my n5..i unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery using TWRP and flash cataclysm rom following the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...s-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905...after that it was stuck in bootloop...i tried to open recovery but it wont open anymore it will only go back to loop....how can open the recovery? is it safe to flash CWM recovery?..tnx in advance..

When it was stuck in the loop, I had to hold vol up and down with the power button (wait a few secs until it was completely off) then reboot holding down + power till it opened the bootloader. if that doesnt work, try reflashing the bootloader via fastboot. I only found out i couldnt mount the persist partition by looking at the terminal window in twrp after trying to install a rom which kept it in the boot loop. I then used the cmd: make_ext4fs /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist to rebuild it.

jpau11 said:
i tried to flash cataclysm rom in my n5..i unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery using TWRP and flash cataclysm rom following the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...s-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905...after that it was stuck in bootloop...i tried to open recovery but it wont open anymore it will only go back to loop....how can open the recovery? is it safe to flash CWM recovery?..tnx in advance..
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After flashing TWRP, use the volume and power button to select recovery. Once in TWRP, wipe cache, data, reboot.

audit13 said:
After flashing TWRP, use the volume and power button to select recovery. Once in TWRP, wipe cache, data, reboot.
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problems solved!!i flashed TWRP again and it it already to the recovery so i reflashed the cataclysm rom and it worked...my n5 is now working..tnx guys!

jpau11 said:
problems solved!!i flashed TWRP again and it it already to the recovery so i reflashed the cataclysm rom and it worked...my n5 is now working..tnx guys!
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Great to hear it. Congratulations:good: