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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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Won't boot into and from recovery.

When I select to reboot to recovery the phone attempts to reboot and never shows the google screen. I have to enter the bootloader and enter recovery from there. After i install what I need to install and click "reboot to system" in the recovery, the phone does the same thing. It just goes to a black screen. I have to re-enter the bootloader again and select "Start" to boot into the ROM.
What could be the issue here? Do I need to reflash the bootloader?

What rom are you on. Stock doesn't give you an option to boot into recovery. I'd try and re-flash the rom

jd1639 said:
What rom are you on. Stock doesn't give you an option to boot into recovery. I'd try and re-flash the rom
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PSX. This started to happen after I flashed CWM so I switched back to TWRP but it seems like clockwork might of screwed something up. Might have to flash the factory img.

biggiephat said:
PSX. This started to happen after I flashed CWM so I switched back to TWRP but it seems like clockwork might of screwed something up. Might have to flash the factory img.
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I would try flashing the recovery image in fastboot. That should fix up the recovery issue. Cwm seems to have some issues right now.

jd1639 said:
I would try flashing the recovery image in fastboot. That should fix up the recovery issue. Cwm seems to have some issues right now.
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That did not work. Still cant turn on the phone unless i go into the bootloader when attached to AC adapter and click start from there.

biggiephat said:
That did not work. Still cant turn on the phone unless i go into the bootloader when attached to AC adapter and click start from there.
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I would try flashing the entire factory image then. But i think you have something else going on if you need to have it plugged in to start it up

[Q] I might have hard bricked my nexus

I have a nexus 5.
16GB model.
5.1.1
Rooted.
TWRP 2.8.6.1
I was about to flash CM 12.1 .
I pressed wipe but it froze, I left it that way for about an hour and decided to research about what is happening. A lot of comments on some thread I read said that turning it off and then on worked for them and I did the same. Now all I get is a flashing Teamwin logo. The only accessible feature of the phone is the Power off/Start/Bootloader/Restart Bootloader thing-y. Whichever of them I press I get the flashing Teamwin logo.

Just wait it takes awhile

@bigglongruler

bigglongruler said:
I have a nexus 5.
16GB model.
5.1.1
Rooted.
TWRP 2.8.6.1
I was about to flash CM 12.1 .
I pressed wipe but it froze, I left it that way for about an hour and decided to research about what is happening. A lot of comments on some thread I read said that turning it off and then on worked for them and I did the same. Now all I get is a flashing Teamwin logo. The only accessible feature of the phone is the Power off/Start/Bootloader/Restart Bootloader thing-y. Whichever of them I press I get the flashing Teamwin logo.
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Well you still have access to the bootloader luckily. Best part about a Nexus is that they're difficult to actually brick. Boot your phone into the bootloader and either fastboot flash recovery to reinstall twrp or use fastboot to reflash the stock system images.

davehasninjas said:
Well you still have access to the bootloader luckily. Best part about a Nexus is that they're difficult to actually brick. Boot your phone into the bootloader and either fastboot flash recovery to reinstall twrp or use fastboot to reflash the stock system images.
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Thanks man, that's exactly what I needed. I tried to re-flash TWRP but had the same problem but when I flashed the stock system images everything went back to normal.

bigglongruler said:
Thanks man, that's exactly what I needed. I tried to re-flash TWRP but had the same problem but when I flashed the stock system images everything went back to normal.
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Glad I could help, and that your phone is up and running again.
Take care.

Hi guys, I need Help. Honor 4c CHM-U01 Pakistan, stuck on Logo screen

Hi guys,
I was trying to root my phone(EMUI 4.0, Marsh mellow), first i unlocked bootloader, then installed twrp, everything was right till then, when i installed SU, and rebooted the phone got stuck at logo screen.
Then I installed another rom, which changed phone model to HI6210SFT, but wifi and bluetooth was not working.
So, I installed another rom, this time indian version, bluetooth, wifi, sim were working fine, but still Model remained HI6210SFT.
Then i got another rom, this time the pak version, after flashing that, the phone is now stuck at boot screen, nothing works.
I can go into Fastboot, TWRP, but not into UPDATE mode.
I tried flashing multiple roms, still phone is stuck.

Xaadi Xhahid said:
Hi guys,
I was trying to root my phone(EMUI 4.0, Marsh mellow), first i unlocked bootloader, then installed twrp, everything was right till then, when i installed SU, and rebooted the phone got stuck at logo screen.
Then I installed another rom, which changed phone model to HI6210SFT, but wifi and bluetooth was not working.
So, I installed another rom, this time indian version, bluetooth, wifi, sim were working fine, but still Model remained HI6210SFT.
Then i got another rom, this time the pak version, after flashing that, the phone is now stuck at boot screen, nothing works.
I can go into Fastboot, TWRP, but not into UPDATE mode.
I tried flashing multiple roms, still phone is stuck.
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You nerd to flash stock ROM...

hassanjavaid8181 said:
You nerd to flash stock ROM...
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How, can you explain please?I tried flashing at least 4 different roms, the only one booted the phone but the problem was the phone had no connectivity, i cannot go into UPDATE mode, so tried flashing via fastboot. but still no luck, its stuck on the first screen...
any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance

hassanjavaid8181 said:
You nerd to flash stock ROM...
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all those 4 roms were stock.

Xaadi Xhahid said:
all those 4 roms were stock.
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Flashed it via dload method?

hassanjavaid8181 said:
Flashed it via dload method?
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no, via FASTBOOT method, System.img, recovery.img, boot.img
I tried the dload method, but the phone doesnt go into UPDATE mode, instead it goes to twrp on pressing Vol +, Vol - and power button

Xaadi Xhahid said:
no, via FASTBOOT method, System.img, recovery.img, boot.img
I tried the dload method, but the phone doesnt go into UPDATE mode, instead it goes to twrp on pressing Vol +, Vol - and power button
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You will have to flash stock recovery then use dload method
Dload will not work on twrp..

hassanjavaid8181 said:
You will have to flash stock recovery then use dload method
Dload will not work on twrp..
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It should work, dload method doesn't use normal recovery. I think it uses eRecovery.

Thanks, I will try your methods, and will update if i get lucky.

Xaadi Xhahid said:
Thanks, I will try your methods, and will update if i get lucky.
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First of all install TWRP from Here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8lite/orig-development/twrp-t3583180
Now Download the MM Rom From Here
http://www.carbontesla.com/2016/07/download-honor-4c-b530-marshmallow-update-india/
Now wipe all partitions from TWRP
and flash the MMRom.zip through twrp it will boot your device normally.
For more info go to this link
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-4c/how-to/installing-p8lite-roms-honor-4c-t3617942

try using adb
Xaadi Xhahid said:
Hi guys,
I was trying to root my phone(EMUI 4.0, Marsh mellow), first i unlocked bootloader, then installed twrp, everything was right till then, when i installed SU, and rebooted the phone got stuck at logo screen.
Then I installed another rom, which changed phone model to HI6210SFT, but wifi and bluetooth was not working.
So, I installed another rom, this time indian version, bluetooth, wifi, sim were working fine, but still Model remained HI6210SFT.
Then i got another rom, this time the pak version, after flashing that, the phone is now stuck at boot screen, nothing works.
I can go into Fastboot, TWRP, but not into UPDATE mode.
I tried flashing multiple roms, still phone is stuck.
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you can use adb if your custom recovery is working, the do a sideload

brianjb_jbbrian said:
you can use adb if your custom recovery is working, the do a sideload
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What about if the recovery is not working?

arczangel said:
What about if the recovery is not working?
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You can flash stock recovery via adb fastboot..

arczangel said:
What about if the recovery is not working?
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Extract ur exact stock rom using Huawei extractor and then flash the system.img and cust.img

Device stuck at bootloader unlocked screen

Today I had a strange issue with my Oneplus 7 pro GM1913 running OOS 9.5.5, device unlocked, twrp and rooted. My device ran out of charge and was turned off. When I plugged into the charger, it boots up and for a few second the oneplus logo and charge the device for some time page came in and then the bootloader unlocked screen came in. I haven't charged the device offline after the battery ran out, it was my first time and i thought it was supposed to be like that. But after some time also it was on the same page. Then i plugged out the device and it was stuck on that page. I tired hard reboot, tried to connect to computer. Nothing was successful. Computer showed unknown device and failed to successfully connect. Not recognised as adb device shown nor fastboot device. Then atleast I tried entering into fastboot mode by pressing power button + volume up. At that time it rebooted into system and then everything was okay. But then i noticed i also lost the twrp recovery. Then i had to flash twrp through magisk manager.
Anyone has any idea what happened? Thanks in advance

You have to flash magisk again after flashing TWRP.

deborok said:
You have to flash magisk again after flashing TWRP.
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Yeah I did everything and it was working properly for a week amd then this happened

sachinkjohn1 said:
Yeah I did everything and it was working properly for a week amd then this happened
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flash stock boot. img

zams85 said:
flash stock boot. img
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It's working now.. But I just want to know whether this happened to anyone else? Or the reason for this?

sachinkjohn1 said:
It's working now.. But I just want to know whether this happened to anyone else? Or the reason for this?
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I got stuck there once I was trying to flash twrp somehow. Same fix

Stuck at the bootlogo
Hey guys, i hope i get some help from here.. tried to root my one plus 7 pro international version installed twrp everything worked fine... and after that i tried to reboot in system mode.. now im stuck at the bootlogo with the red middle dot and the 2 white ones. i cant even turn it of now.. no command are working... can anybody help me to fix this pls?
Thanks!!!

I had exactly the same problem. System was running fine with just Magisk installed (I boot TWRP with fastboot on a computer).
Then I ran completely out of charge, and the OP7Pro wouldn't boot anymore: at power on, it shows briefly the OnePlus logo, then displays the boot loader unlocked warning for a very long time (a few minutes), then goes to the bootloader menu.
I can boot TWRP and unlock the data partition. I will try flashing the stock boot and see what happens (and report).
Edit: I had to reflash stock boot and system to have the device boot again.

hi guys,please need help;I have just unlock bootloader on my one plus 7 pro and i was fastboot it with twrp img but i didn't install the twrp recovery one my phone so now the phone blocked on de bootloader unlock screen, I tried to switched of but always back on the same screen, please need help how to do ,thanks

whenever i boot i am stuck at this screen. I flashed the wrong boot.img. How to fix this?

saransh186 said:
whenever i boot i am stuck at this screen. I flashed the wrong boot.img. How to fix this?
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Enter fastboot and flash the correct boot.

@soka said:
Enter fastboot and flash the correct boot.
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Unable to enter fastboot
Everytime i switch on the device this is the only screen i see

saransh186 said:
Unable to enter fastboot
Everytime i switch on the device this is the only screen i see
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I figured it out. basically when i get to the above attached image I was required to hold volume up+down+power key until the fastmode doesn't comes up. It will take 20-25 seconds. So you will be required to hold it for that long.