I have an unlocked bootloader, and I installed CWM recovery for the Photon q/asanti in the ROM Manager app. I want to install CM11, but when I try to go into recovery, the Motorola dual core screen comes up, and it never goes away unless I turn the phone off. What am I doing wrong? This is really frustrating because I'm so close lol
Get a recovery designed for the HD and flash that.
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It is, and I can verify that it's installed too.
If you can't get into it, it's not installed.
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Well then I guess the app I "installed" it with is wrong.
But I have a hard time believing that. I think something is preventing it from coming up, because I get stuck on the boot screen immediately after trying to open it. The boot screen shoudn't appear at all. I've also tried giving up and resetting my phone to factory, but it just reboots. I'm bummed because it is running slow and apps are stopping, and I need this phone.
That isn't my phone by the way, it's just a picture to show the screen it gets stuck on when I try to open the recovery.
Can you get into ap fastboot?
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Well then I guess the app I "installed" it with is wrong.
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Neither CWM or TWRP are official for this phone, so you can't install them through their apps. The recovery you attempted to install is for a close relative of the HD, but it's not correct. Get a correct recovery out of the Dev section and flash with fastboot.
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Would that be why it gets stuck on the boot screen when I try to open the recovery? The only reason I used it was because it's supposed to work with my phone and some others witht the same codename. Do you know any good tutorials on how to flash a recovery with fastboot? Because I can get into fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2232476
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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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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..
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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... :/
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Hey guys
I'm trying the whole time to accces recovery on the Moto G, but everytime I try this, the phone always reboots to Android. I tried Flashing CWM and TWRP, then it says in my fastboot flash mode: mismatched partition size. I never can go to recovery because it always reboots when I try to acces s it. And I want to install CWM or TWRP for flashing roms but nothing changes, the problem stays... Could anyone help me or has anyone also experienced this annoying problem?
Cheers
I will write a guide for it tomorrow. I don't have time right now.
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When you flash cwm go straight to the recovery if you see a red sign with no command hold pwr+up for 2 secs it should boot into cwm
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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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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
God I'm stupid.
So I flashed a 4.4.3 theme on a 4.4.4 ROM, and I was stuck at the boot animation.
I went to recovery, found out I don't have any ROM's on my phone, so I figured I should flash through fastboot.
I downloaded the stock 4.4.4 image, tried to do the flash-all.bat, got an error.
I extracted the RAR inside it, manually flashed recovery, system, boot etc.
I can now only enter fastboot. Whenever I try to go to recovery or start the phone the screen just goes black, and all I can do is hold down the power button and restart to fastboot.
I sure hope you guys can help me, I don't have the money to buy a new phone
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God I'm stupid.
So I flashed a 4.4.3 theme on a 4.4.4 ROM, and I was stuck at the boot animation.
I went to recovery, found out I don't have any ROM's on my phone, so I figured I should flash through fastboot.
I downloaded the stock 4.4.4 image, tried to do the flash-all.bat, got an error.
I extracted the RAR inside it, manually flashed recovery, system, boot etc.
I can now only enter fastboot. Whenever I try to go to recovery or start the phone the screen just goes black, and all I can do is hold down the power button and restart to fastboot.
I sure hope you guys can help me, I don't have the money to buy a new phone
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Do you know what error you got when you did the flash-all?
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Have you tried flashing stock 4.4.3 or even 4.4.2 completely in fastboot? Including recovery again??
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Do you know what error you got when you did the flash-all?
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I don't remember really, something about missing .sig files I think
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Have you tried flashing stock 4.4.3 or even 4.4.2 completely in fastboot? Including recovery again??
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I'm trying the Nexus Root Toolkit, and before that I managed to install TWRP 2.7.1.1 and boot to recovery.
However, I can't boot to the system.
I also downloaded 4.4.3 and going to attempt to flash it.
The missing Sig error is normal and nothing to worry about
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It's all fine.
Luckily a friend called me on Skype and I told him about my bricked device, he suggested to use NRT.
Thanks for the help guys!