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[Q] Help with ClockworkMod 5.5.0.4

Can someone help please? I installed CWM Recovery thru ROM Manager. Rebooted in recovery to back up my ROM and now I can't get out of recovery. Every time I select Reboot System it reboots me into recovery.

Try here (if you can use NVFlash)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1519635&highlight=boot+into+cwm

Like many others, When I saw the thread over in the Dev section about the 5.5.0.4 recovery, I jumped right in and fired up Rom Manager before reading any further in the thread.
Unlike many others, I don't get the same results. My TF101 reboots to the OS with no problem. However trying to reboot to recovery from recovery doesn't work. I have to hold the vol. down button just like a cold boot into recovery.
The only difference might be, that I had stock recovery prior to installing 5.5.0.4, due to having to recover from another soft brick condition after trying to install the CM9 Nightly that is now available over on the official Clockworkmod site. That one had failed miserably for my device.
Good luck with solving your problems with the new recovery. Wish I could explain exactly why mine seemed to work as advertised when most others didn't. But I don't know.
I do have the problem with the Removable MicroSD not being visible. Only the built in "Fake" SD Card.
Update:
I now have the reboot into recovery problem. I used the wipe data option from the VOL DWN/PWR button start up, and now have that annoying boots into recovery problem like everyone else. I hope that and the SD card problem gets fixed in the next version.

Thanks, got everything back to normal with NVFlash method I found by watching this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VMHXeYMgPy4
Lesson learned!! :/

Curious where the thread in the Dev section went to, I cant find it this morning...
Unfortunately, some of us cannot use NVFLash to fix this problem.
So, is it too much to ask that the Dev who wrote Rom Manager and CWM actually look in to this for us?
I too installed the newer CWM through Rom Manager and need to cold boot to get in to the OS otherwise it recovery boot loops.

sandiegopaneraiguy said:
Curious where the thread in the Dev section went to, I cant find it this morning...
Unfortunately, some of us cannot use NVFLash to fix this problem.
So, is it too much to ask that the Dev who wrote Rom Manager and CWM actually look in to this for us?
I too installed the newer CWM through Rom Manager and need to cold boot to get in to the OS otherwise it recovery boot loops.
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Thread was closed. I was on it this morning and wanted to post a reply saying NV Flash work for me and I couldn't because it said the thread was closed.
I read the whole thing and apart from NV Flashing the was no other solution
How do you know you can't NVFlash?

yea , this morning the thread in the Dev section went to general , and now closed.
Perhaps we should follow this until everything is clarified.
the nvflash only work for b60 and some b70 tablets , most of b70 and b80 cant be flashed with this tool

I'm working on something to fix this, but I still need a little more testing.

gee one said:
I'm working on something to fix this, but I still need a little more testing.
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ok, then waiting
any clue where to attack the problem?

Some people reported the new recovery worked when flashed over stock recovery.

any help you can supply on this would be greatly appreciated. it's very uncomfortable not being able to count on your recovery.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

robb13 said:
Some people reported the new recovery worked when flashed over stock recovery.
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too late for us

I was up until 1am following the thread and posting my process, specs.
I am even more curious as to how the thread which was still pretty calm turned in to something that deserved being deleted.
In any event, I think we all understand that what we do is at our own risk. But CWM and Rom Manager have been the gold standard of reliability for quite some time. Once something is a trusted means by which to do something its even more disappointing to see that it no longer works.

the first post was moved because it was not exactly a development post
then, in the general section, I do not know why it closed, there is no explanation

so if microsd is not recognized, i can install rom from internal, right?

gandda12 said:
so if microsd is not recognized, i can install rom from internal, right?
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Install what??
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

yeah, check out the troubleshooting thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530337

Can my Nexus be fixed?

Hello all
I suspect that either my Nexus has a hardware fault (internal memory) or I bricked it somehow.
For the past few weeks the phone has been getting stuck on the google boot screen quite a lot - It takes several attempts
to start up each time so I've been trying to keep the battery from running down.
The other day while I was attempting to switch roms I put the stock img on my SD card but when I went to flash it CWM
couldnt mount my (internal) SD Card. Senior forum member Caliban2 suggested that it could be my recovery so I installed CWM 6.0.0.7 non-touch using fastboot and, like magic, the phone started up -though I suspect this may have been luck.
I rebooted the phone out of curiosity and it got stuck on the google boot screen - no amount of battery pulling and restarting could coax
it back to life, so I went into CWM again to discover that it could not mount the SD Card, I was getting the 'cannot mount' and 'E:Unable to open ums lunfile(no such file or directory)' error messages. My windows 7 PC could see the phone but said that their was non memory inserted. Out of curiosity I installed CWM 5.0.2.0 but that produced the same results.
So now my phone appears dead, is the internal memory or something related to it is broken? I have seen things on here about using an unbricking tool in Debian Linux or flashing stock using odin but I confess that I have not tried these solutions and don't fully understand them (yet).I wussed out and dropped the phone into a local repair workshop, I imagine they will be trying these same steps themselves and they say it will take them a few days to get back to me.
My problem is that I need a phone for work and I gave my backup phone (HTC Hero) to my dad recently. Should I just take the plunge
and go out today and buy a new phone? Or is there a reasonable chance that these guys can fix my nexus s, or that I might be able to?
I'm a relative 'noob' at this so I thank you all for your advice in advance, it's much appreciated.
Derek

Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.

Thanks, will do. It's in the shop at the moment, I suspect this is probably what they're doing now.
Perhaps subconsciously I'm just looking for someone to tell me it's irreparable so I can rush out
and pick up a Galaxy Nexus.
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Hey Harbb
Just wanted to give you an update on this, got it back from the shop who said they would need to send it to Samsung for a hardware repair, didn't expect it to work but fastbooted the stock bootloader, radio and image to the device and it's now working!
I've already moved onto a Galaxy Nexus on contract but at least now I can make a bit of money back off my old phone.
Thanks again for the advice
Derek
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Stuck in CWM

Good afternoon fellas.
Have a customers phone here who decided to install an update for his rooted system by SD Card and has essentially "bricked" his device from what it looks like, or soft brick. It will load every time to CWM Recovery but I cannot mount the SD card through commands which will not allow me to run a new rom or flash the backup that was made. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advanced valued community.

drneely said:
Good afternoon fellas.
Have a customers phone here who decided to install an update for his rooted system by SD Card and has essentially "bricked" his device from what it looks like, or soft brick. It will load every time to CWM Recovery but I cannot mount the SD card through commands which will not allow me to run a new rom or flash the backup that was made. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advanced valued community.
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Have you tried to mount system in mounts and storage in cwm ? If so have you also tried flashing backup? If its not mounting I'm not sure if it will work but scripts usually these days via roms and such will auto mount. But try this.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

I have tried it and it says error cant mount sd card. the computer sees the phone and registers it has storage but it says storage corrupted and I can't seem to get the sd card to mount no matter what

Can you be a little more clear about the issue??
SD card not detectable?? Which recovery the phone has??

drneely said:
Good afternoon fellas.
It will load every time to CWM Recovery but I cannot mount the SD card through commands which will not allow me to run a new rom or flash the backup that was made.
Thanks in advanced valued community.
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It was already said in the OP

Not trying to be rude by any means, the phone just loops through CWM even after factory reset, after loading the recovery made and an unmountable sd card through CWM commands

drneely said:
I have tried it and it says error cant mount sd card. the computer sees the phone and registers it has storage but it says storage corrupted and I can't seem to get the sd card to mount no matter what
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have you tried other sd card to check if it mounts or not?

rediculously enough......no
Just tried and same error

maybe the CWM recovery is broken, try with kdz to flash a stock rom and start all over, if kdz recognize the phone

where would I find KDZ, my google search turned up nothing that looked usable

try this links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861854
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473781
original firmware:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944881
root with superoneclick 2.3.3 only with exploit on auto, maybe it will not work the first time, for me worked 3rd time if I remember, dunno maybe it was superoneclick maybe Iam noob

unfortunately none of these seem to look or read like theyll work for me, phone is already rooted with custom recovery and I do not want to further damage a customers device

or maybe you need to just reflash recovery

That would mean just adding it to sd and flashing such as roms and gapps do...correct?

try to search other recoverys, follow the tutorial or ask the dev how to, in your case, older rom manager allowed to install amonra or older cwm but now it doesn't, so search forum for a different recovery and ask how to install it, or maybe it is the phone to blame...... do a visual check for the sd port of the phone to see if all is ok, bytheway you didn't mention if the phone boot or not
some blame cwm and rom manager becauze they do not like it or does not know hot to use it or maybe they are just bored, I use cwm for over a year I had flashed over 50 roms through cwm on a single phone and nothing bad happened , thats why the user is allways to blame, because it doesn't apreciate the other people work and doesn't follow the instructions because he knows better, CWM IS GREAT as long as the user does nothing stupid and wants to blame others for his fault, same for other tested and working recoverys

[Q] SD Card Data loss after JB update

I am looking for some guidance and assistance in the following matter.
Did a standard over the air update to JB and from what I can see I lost all my user data from my internal storage.
All my custom directory are gone, DCIM empty.
Been out of the country, not that it matters where I was, and the standard HTC One X device prompted me of a system update. (I have not rooted nor flashed any custom firmware on this puppy yet.)
All seemed to go smooth and the phone started normally. Although I lost all my data.
Android Version:4.1.1
Software Number : 3.14.401.31
First I wanted to ask if anyone has seen this behaviour before?
I tried to do some date recovery with Recover my Files v5 but now see that there is an internal SD mount issue with JB.
What would the best way be to proceed as I am only interested in trying to recover my data?
Thanks in advance.

Internal SD data has been lost or corrupted for some people (including myself a couple times) while flashing custom ROMs. Don't think anybody ever figured out exactly why, but it seemed related to the phone itself (rather than custom recovery or the ROMs themselves). So it wouldn't surprise me if this is the same or similar issue.
Not sure how to recover your data. There was a similar post (maybe last week) and I think somebody mentioned a couple market apps that might be able to recover the data in this situation (since JB can't mount as mass storage to use PC programs like Recuva).

Solved
Thank you Redpoint for your thoughts. I hoped that I would find an easy reply to solve my problem but in the end this is what I knew I ultimately had to do.
Quick summary:
Unlocked Bootloader via HTC Dev.
Flashed Recovery, Team Win Recovery Project 2.4.1.0
Mounted SD as a drive via Recovery.
Ran RecoverMyFiles v5 and recovered the files that I lost.
Now to go ROM shopping and start again. This time I will listen to my own warning and keep a copy online.

Nobody wanted to suggest that because all that stuff includes writing to the sd card which could overwrite your files. Glad you got some recovered
Sent from my VENOMized HoxL

Regalrip said:
Unlocked Bootloader via HTC Dev.
Flashed Recovery, Team Win Recovery Project 2.4.1.0
Mounted SD as a drive via Recovery.
Ran RecoverMyFiles v5 and recovered the files that I lost.
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Ah yes, I always forget that the SD can be mounted as mass storage in recovery.
Nice job. IMO, unlocked bootloader is a great thing. Just probably a bit stressful under the circumstances!

Help getting out of a sticky flash situation

Hello all,
Been a long time dweller and avid reader here. I fell off for a while with my t700. Made the mistake of not checking which TWRP I was on before flashing. So, though everything appeared to
go okay, the OS didn't load. So then I realized my mistake (I was on TWRP 2.6.3-that3) and figured the way around it might be to flash an older ROM, then update TWRP, then go from there. So
I flashed CROMi- XENOGEN 4.7.0. And it also went into a never ending load. I think because I can still get into recovery there is a way out of this? A simple-ish way? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry to get into this issue with such a stupid newb mistake.
Thanks all,
Macros
p.s. I should mention the ROM I was trying to flash was ZOMBI POP 5.1.1

Macros746 said:
Hello all,
Been a long time dweller and avid reader here. I fell off for a while with my t700. Made the mistake of not checking which TWRP I was on before flashing. So, though everything appeared to
go okay, the OS didn't load. So then I realized my mistake (I was on TWRP 2.6.3-that3) and figured the way around it might be to flash an older ROM, then update TWRP, then go from there. So
I flashed CROMi- XENOGEN 4.7.0. And it also went into a never ending load. I think because I can still get into recovery there is a way out of this? A simple-ish way? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry to get into this issue with such a stupid newb mistake.
Thanks all,
Macros
p.s. I should mention the ROM I was trying to flash was ZOMBI POP 5.1.1
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You could go here and update your twrp:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tra...overy-kang-twrp-tf700t-2-8-x-xarea51-t3049395
Follow the instruction on the first post how to install the twrp.....
When you have the latest twrp, you may want to format your /data partition because I believed that it is corrupted while installing the previous ROMs. The format may take a very long time so let it finishes before install your prefer ROM. You should be up running with the new ROM of your choice.... Good lucks,....:fingers-crossed:

Thank you for the help. With a little reading and a couple of failed attempts I got the new TWRP on there. And now it doesn't see the external SD card.....which is where the ROM is. Any ideas about that? I double
checked the card to make sure it didn't get fried. It seems to be fine. And the old TWRP saw the contents just fine. If there isn't a way to activate that, can I somehow transfer the ROM to internal memory instead? Although I hate the idea of not being able to use the SD card for flashing.
Thanks again,
Already been a huge help.
Macros
LetMeKnow said:
You could go here and update your twrp:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tra...overy-kang-twrp-tf700t-2-8-x-xarea51-t3049395
Follow the instruction on the first post how to install the twrp.....
When you have the latest twrp, you may want to format your /data partition because I believed that it is corrupted while installing the previous ROMs. The format may take a very long time so let it finishes before install your prefer ROM. You should be up running with the new ROM of your choice.... Good lucks,....:fingers-crossed:
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Macros746 said:
Thank you for the help. With a little reading and a couple of failed attempts I got the new TWRP on there. And now it doesn't see the external SD card.....which is where the ROM is. Any ideas about that? I double
checked the card to make sure it didn't get fried. It seems to be fine. And the old TWRP saw the contents just fine. If there isn't a way to activate that, can I somehow transfer the ROM to internal memory instead? Although I hate the idea of not being able to use the SD card for flashing.
Thanks again,
Already been a huge help.
Macros
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Is your external uSD formatted in FAT32? Reformat it to FAT32 either in the new twrp or in window to see if it works....
Good luck,
LMK

Nevermind. Updated to the latest, latest TWRP and that fixed the issue. Now to flash the ROM.....