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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?
Sent from my SNES

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?
Sent from my SNES
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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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Custom Recovery issue

EDIT- Typed captcha in the title bar. Sorry for my retardness.
Having an issue. I used this method to root my Verizon GSIII. I installed ROM manager and plan on installing a custom rom but when i attempt to install and reboot into recovery, it reboots and says "secure fail: keanel" on the top left and the center is giving me the "system software not recognized-go to Verizon store" error. Anybody have any ideas. Im fairly new to rooting and probably made some simple stupid mistake.
i have been been able to get back to the normal rom by booting to download mode and hitting volume down to restart. I cant seem to get to my custom recovery. it goes to the same screen if i try to install a custom recovery from rom manager. i seem to have both clockwork mod recovery and TWRP installed when go to recovery setup in rom manager.

fridayfan13 said:
EDIT- Typed captcha in the title bar. Sorry for my retardness.
Having an issue. I used this method to root my Verizon GSIII. I installed ROM manager and plan on installing a custom rom but when i attempt to install and reboot into recovery, it reboots and says "secure fail: keanel" on the top left and the center is giving me the "system software not recognized-go to Verizon store" error. Anybody have any ideas. Im fairly new to rooting and probably made some simple stupid mistake.
i have been been able to get back to the normal rom by booting to download mode and hitting volume down to restart. I cant seem to get to my custom recovery. it goes to the same screen if i try to install a custom recovery from rom manager. i seem to have both clockwork mod recovery and TWRP installed when go to recovery setup in rom manager.
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You haven't unlocked your bootloader.
Install ez unlock v. 1.2, 1.4 has some issues, hit unlock then you're done. Then you won't get that Verizon message again.
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worked. Thanks so much.

[Q] Need help recovering my S3 -- TWRP ADB Sideload not working

I pulled a boneheaded move and ended up formatting my phone from within the TWRP menu. Now the stock operating system is gone.
I wanted to put on one of the Gummy Nightly builds, but I'm new to TWRP and selected the wrong options while wiping.
So now I have the Gummy ROM on my PC, the phone is connected to my PC and in TWRP (in the advanced adb sideload feature), but adb will not recognize my phone.
When I check device manager, SAMSUNG_Android_SCH-I535 is there, but with a yellow "cauton" symbol. When I look at properties, it tells me that "The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28).
I went out to the Samsung page and got the exe to unpack drivers on my machine... I've tried "update driver" and pointing to the root of the directory containing the Samsung drivers, but my PC claims none of them are applicable.
So what I'm looking for here is:
(1) How do I get this ROM on my phone so that I can install the zip and have a working OS again?
(2) Assuming that using the ADB Sideload feature of TWRP is my best option, how do I get the device drivers for my galaxy s3 installed to my windows 8 PC and get adb to detect it?
Thanks in advance.

Ok, so it seems to have gotten worse.
I cannot get my windows installation to recognize the phone without it being able to boot an android OS, it seems.
I had it in TWRP 2.6.0.0, but as I was trying to reboot to see if I could get into download mode (my thought being to change out TWRP for Clockwork; I seem to remember Clockwork Recovery having a "mount as USB" option which TWRP seems to lack), it tried to root the file system.
After that, the screen went black and nothing happened... the phone was unresponsive. I would remove the battery and replace it to have it vibrate once and then not respond to any key presses.
I removed the battery, SD card, and SIM card, replacing only the battery and got it to turn on and show a Samsung Galaxy SIII logo... but it's just sitting there... I'm assuming it's frozen because there's no OS to boot on the internal storage.
Please help me recover my phone!

Ok, so I've found I can still get into download mode, but not into recovery.
Recovery seems to lead to a black screen with nothing on it.
Trying to boot normally leads to the statis Samsung Galaxy SIII logo.
Can I fix my phone from the download menu?
Please help me.

Install kies and at the end of the install make sure you check install unified drivers. Then flash root66 through Odin. After that you should be good to install ROMs again.

ThePagel said:
Install kies and at the end of the install make sure you check install unified drivers. Then flash root66 through Odin. After that you should be good to install ROMs again.
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Thanks for the reply!
Sorry, I'm a little out of date on the flashing and stuff -- I was just over in the thread where the poster thought he half softbricked his phone and was asking about 4.1.2 vs. 4.3
I see this at the top of my screen sitting here in download mode:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I535
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YES (6 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
It seems my bootloader got relocked somehow -- is this why my phone just goes to black screen when I attempt to boot into recovery -- even if I have TWRP or CWR installed? Odin claims I just pushed philz custom CWR to my PDA section, but it still won't go into recovery.
What are my options here?

You are pre 4.3 I'll help you more in the morning if no one else does first.

ThePagel said:
You are pre 4.3 I'll help you more in the morning if no one else does first.
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Ok, thanks -- I appreciate that someone's willing to help! Googling stuff is just getting me more and more confused.
I'll stay tuned for help and turn off my phone so I don't screw things up further in the meantime.
My desired result here, I think is to have my bootloader remain unlocked (as I was under the impression it was, since I was running TWRP with rooted stock ROM), with CWR as the custom recovery software and Gummy as my current ROM.
Side note: I've noticed I don't even get a battery indicator on the main screen now when I press the home button -- is this because of whatever's causing my recovery to not work (and the potential lack of an OS)?
Thanks in advance.

corrosivefrost said:
Ok, thanks -- I appreciate that someone's willing to help! Googling stuff is just getting me more and more confused.
I'll stay tuned for help and turn off my phone so I don't screw things up further in the meantime.
My desired result here, I think is to have my bootloader remain unlocked (as I was under the impression it was, since I was running TWRP with rooted stock ROM), with CWR as the custom recovery software and Gummy as my current ROM.
Side note: I've noticed I don't even get a battery indicator on the main screen now when I press the home button -- is this because of whatever's causing my recovery to not work (and the potential lack of an OS)?
Thanks in advance.
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Once you in download mode, can your Odin see your phone?

buhohitr said:
Once you in download mode, can your Odin see your phone?
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I believe it can. After TWRP stopped working, I tried to replace it with CWR and the digital flash count went up (Odin showed no errors on the flash) -- recovery still won't work though, holding vol+/home/power simply gives me a black screen after I see the SAMSUNG logo with the recovery boot text in the upper left.

corrosivefrost said:
I believe it can. After TWRP stopped working, I tried to replace it with CWR and the digital flash count went up (Odin showed no errors on the flash) -- recovery still won't work though, holding vol+/home/power simply gives me a black screen after I see the SAMSUNG logo with the recovery boot text in the upper left.
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What stock version do you have on your phone right now?

buhohitr said:
What stock version do you have on your phone right now?
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None? :silly:
I think before this fiasco, it was running whatever version was previous to the new VZW update.
It was the fact that the new update was trying to install and failing repeatedly (because my bootloader was unlocked, I think?) that prompted me to look into finally switching to a ROM. However, my unfamiliarity with TWRP led to me formatting my phone (everything, it seems, including the SD card)... so I'm not really sure what' "on the phone right now". :\
I'm really not sure what kind of state anything is in at this point -- other than Odin seemingly working and being able to get into download mode.
Again, short version of what happened:
(1) Accidentally did a full wipe (factory reset?) in TWRP -- this wiped the ROM I was going to install with TWRP off the phone.
(2) While trying to ADB sideload from TWRP and telling TWRP to reboot, TWRP tried to install supersu.
(3) After (2), I was unable to get back into recovery mode. I got into Odin and tried to flash philz customer clockwork recovery and it seemed successful. Reboot and attempt to enter recovery still fails. Samsung logo with recovery mode text appears, but then the screen goes black.
(4) Normal boot leaves the screen stuck on the Samsung Galaxy SIII logo indefinitely.

corrosivefrost said:
None? :silly:
I think before this fiasco, it was running whatever version was previous to the new VZW update.
It was the fact that the new update was trying to install and failing repeatedly (because my bootloader was unlocked, I think?) that prompted me to look into finally switching to a ROM. However, my unfamiliarity with TWRP led to me formatting my phone (everything, it seems, including the SD card)... so I'm not really sure what' "on the phone right now". :\
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OK, download this image and flash with Odin(you should be using Odin version 3.07) http://goo.im/devs/invisiblek/i535/stock.vzw_root66.tar This should bring your phone back from the dead.
Edit: after you have your phone up and running, download goo manager and install cwm recovery since your phone is pre rooted already.

buhohitr said:
OK, download this image and flash with Odin(you should be using Odin version 3.07) http://goo.im/devs/invisiblek/i535/stock.vzw_root66.tar This should bring your phone back from the dead.
Edit: after you have your phone up and running, download goo manager and install cwm recovery since your phone is pre rooted already.
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Ok, that looks like some version of the stock vzw ROM with root already installed?
This is what ThePagel seemed to recommend as well before I ended up with more questions about what was going on before I did it.
What part of Odin do I flash to? PDA again, just like a custom recovery?

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corrosivefrost said:
Ok, that looks like some version of the stock vzw ROM with root already installed?
This is what ThePagel seemed to recommend as well before I ended up with more questions about what was going on before I did it.
What part of Odin do I flash to? PDA again, just like a custom recovery?
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Yes, it's pre rooted stock image and yes flash with PDA.

buhohitr said:
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Yes, it's pre rooted stock image and yes flash with PDA.
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Standard auto-reboot and f_reset_time options? nothing else necessary?

corrosivefrost said:
Standard auto-reboot and f_reset_time options? nothing else necessary?
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Correct. When you click on PDA and select the image, give it time to showup in Odin cause the size is big.

buhohitr said:
Correct. When you click on PDA and select the image, give it time to showup in Odin cause the size is big.
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Alright, I'll give it a shot and report back.
Thank you!

corrosivefrost said:
Alright, I'll give it a shot and report back.
Thank you!
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If that doesn't work you'll need to flash the bootchain first. I don't have a link but I could find it if you need to use it.

ThePagel said:
If that doesn't work you'll need to flash the bootchain first. I don't have a link but I could find it if you need to use it.
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Yes if the bootloader is still locked he needs boot chain can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439

ThePagel said:
If that doesn't work you'll need to flash the bootchain first. I don't have a link but I could find it if you need to use it.
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It did work! Hooray!
buhohitr said:
Yes if the bootloader is still locked he needs boot chain can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
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Didn't need to go that far -- but now that I'm back up and running, signed into google play, and downloaded goo manager, can you point me in the right direction for getting it to install cwm recovery?
Thanks guys!

Can't install recovery 4.2.2 version

Hey.
So i've got myself in the hands of a galaxy tab 2 10.1 3g version, and wanted to install a custom rom to get rid of all bloatware. I find the rom "slimkat" too be something i wanted to try, but when i try to install a recovery with odin3 (v.309 & v3.12.3) it does not seem to work. Even tho odin says it passed, when i try to get into recovery it's the stock android recovery and it won't allow me to install a rom or the recovery zip file either. Says something is wrong with verification. And when i try to redo the odin again it says it's a custom and not samsung thing at the download screen.
What am i doing wrong? Using a P5100 and android 4.2.2 stock.

€ric said:
Hey.
So i've got myself in the hands of a galaxy tab 2 10.1 3g version, and wanted to install a custom rom to get rid of all bloatware. I find the rom "slimkat" too be something i wanted to try, but when i try to install a recovery with odin3 (v.309 & v3.12.3) it does not seem to work. Even tho odin says it passed, when i try to get into recovery it's the stock android recovery and it won't allow me to install a rom or the recovery zip file either. Says something is wrong with verification. And when i try to redo the odin again it says it's a custom and not samsung thing at the download screen.
What am i doing wrong? Using a P5100 and android 4.2.2 stock.
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did you unchecked autoreboot in odin options??

smart-t78 said:
did you unchecked autoreboot in odin options??
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Yes, but how am i suppose to go into recovery even after? If i turn it off by power button it starts itself normal and i' m not able to go straight to recovery... :/

€ric said:
Yes, but how am i suppose to go into recovery even after? If i turn it off by power button it starts itself normal and i' m not able to go straight to recovery... :/
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uncheck autoreboot in odin options. if recovery install is passed in odin, unplug the tab and boot in to recovery directly from download mode with power + vol.down button

Blank TWRP on Sm-g530h

Hello guys. I need your help badly.
I am using Galaxy Grand Prime smg530h
The problem is when I push the power button, my phone automatically boots to recovery mode which is Twrp, yeah I was my only problem last time. I guess I wipe something using twrp, my phone says "NO OS INSTALLED" . Then I googled some ways to fix so I installed a custom rom using twrp. I though my problem was solved but still when I turn on my phone it automatically boots recovery. I googled again and did something. But a big problem shows up, When I turn on my phone, it boots automatically to twrp but after the samsung logo flashes, black screen appears. Its just blank but the my phone black light is on and I think im on twrp since everytime I touch the screen it vibrates.
Please help me

Htxenuj said:
Hello guys. I need your help badly.
I am using Galaxy Grand Prime smg530h
The problem is when I push the power button, my phone automatically boots to recovery mode which is Twrp, yeah I was my only problem last time. I guess I wipe something using twrp, my phone says "NO OS INSTALLED" . Then I googled some ways to fix so I installed a custom rom using twrp. I though my problem was solved but still when I turn on my phone it automatically boots recovery. I googled again and did something. But a big problem shows up, When I turn on my phone, it boots automatically to twrp but after the samsung logo flashes, black screen appears. Its just blank but the my phone black light is on and I think im on twrp since everytime I touch the screen it vibrates.
Please help me
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Have you tried to re-install everything including your recovery? Perhaps even your bootloader or try to flash your ROM manually from fastboot or adb.

RAZERZDAHACKER said:
Have you tried to re-install everything including your recovery? Perhaps even your bootloader or try to flash your ROM manually from fastboot or adb.
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Hmm. Can you show me a guide sir? On reinstalling? 'cos I dont know what to do since I am stuck on a blank screen.

Htxenuj said:
Hmm. Can you show me a guide sir? On reinstalling? 'cos I dont know what to do since I am stuck on a blank screen.
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There is already a guide available for how to flash stock rom, which you can check out here. You can get the stock rom from sammobile, the official samsung firmware resource which you can check out here.
Good luck!
Edit: You can then try to reflash twrp and if it doesn't work, post about it in the twrp thread for your device.

RAZERZDAHACKER said:
Have you tried to re-install everything including your recovery? Perhaps even your bootloader or try to flash your ROM manually from fastboot or adb.
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Samsung doesn't use fastboot, they use download mode and flash with Odin. Be familiar with these kinds of specifics about a device if you're going to give advice, otherwise you might tell someone something very wrong unintentionally.
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Droidriven said:
Samsung doesn't use fastboot, they use download mode and flash with Odin. Be familiar with these kinds of specifics about a device if you're going to give advice, otherwise you might tell someone something very wrong unintentionally.
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Adb: Recover > Update from ADB
Fastboot: Boot to download mode > fastboot access on most devices (confirmed on my S4)

RAZERZDAHACKER said:
Adb: Recover > Update from ADB
Fastboot: Boot to download mode > fastboot access on most devices (confirmed on my S4)
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adb works on Samsung, fastboot does not.
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RAZERZDAHACKER said:
Have you tried to re-install everything including your recovery? Perhaps even your bootloader or try to flash your ROM manually from fastboot or adb.
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How can I boot to Download mode since I am stuck at blank screen?

Htxenuj said:
How can I boot to Download mode since I am stuck at blank screen?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYA3ZMlDO3Q

Htxenuj said:
Hello guys. I need your help badly.
I am using Galaxy Grand Prime smg530h
The problem is when I push the power button, my phone automatically boots to recovery mode which is Twrp, yeah I was my only problem last time. I guess I wipe something using twrp, my phone says "NO OS INSTALLED" . Then I googled some ways to fix so I installed a custom rom using twrp. I though my problem was solved but still when I turn on my phone it automatically boots recovery. I googled again and did something. But a big problem shows up, When I turn on my phone, it boots automatically to twrp but after the samsung logo flashes, black screen appears. Its just blank but the my phone black light is on and I think im on twrp since everytime I touch the screen it vibrates.
Please help me
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i have 2 of this devices,they all go to same trouble,never show twrp. no change no picture just blank (seems grey into black)

Suryo75 said:
i have 2 of this devices,they all go to same trouble,never show twrp. no change no picture just blank (seems grey into black)
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It fix by using cwm, twrp is not compatible with twrp especially g530h which is has xxu based

Suryo75 said:
It fix by using cwm, twrp is not compatible with twrp especially g530h which is has xxu based
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Can you help with a working link for CWM for 530H? I cant seem to find anything apart from TWRP

dv8ted said:
Can you help with a working link for CWM for 530H? I cant seem to find anything apart from TWRP
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Just visit link with quote cwm for g530h

dv8ted said:
Can you help with a working link for CWM for 530H? I cant seem to find anything apart from TWRP
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CWM is a dead project, it is no longer supported, that is why you are only finding TWRP. If you want custom recovery, use TWRP, it is a much better recovery than CWM anyway.
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dv8ted said:
Can you help with a working link for CWM for 530H? I cant seem to find anything apart from TWRP
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try this

Is their any solution to use twrp on g530h xxu based?
On flashing many custom roms through cwm, their is nothing on screen but gray broken lines.
Please help if anyone have it's solution.