After 2 days of pure hell, I found this video on youtube...
Rooting the G1 to Amon RA's Recovery
Followed the instructions and it all goes smoothly. So at the end you reboot with home and power and get the Amon Menu. Works. But thats the only time it works. When I power up and reboot, I'm back to the exclamation mark, no menu???
Any advise?
RE:After 2 days of pure hell, I found this video on youtube...
if you type
Alt L do you get a recovery menu?
if so somehow it switched back to the old recovery
(DON"T PRESS ALT W whatever you do or you will wipe your phone.)
kaydendigiovanni said:
After 2 days of pure hell, I found this video on youtube...
Rooting the G1 to Amon RA's Recovery
Followed the instructions and it all goes smoothly. So at the end you reboot with home and power and get the Amon Menu. Works. But thats the only time it works. When I power up and reboot, I'm back to the exclamation mark, no menu???
Any advise?
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I've been wondering and searching how to boot into recovery on the thunderbolt? Not from rom manager but when the phone is off. When i had my original moto droid all i had to do was turn it off then turn it on while holding x and i was in recovery how do i do that on the thunderbolt?
And if someone would be so kind as to explain what hboot is thanx!!
hboot is htc's bootloader, mainly used for flashing radio's and flashing stock ruu's. From what i know if u boot in to hboot, power + volume down button, then click recovery, it will boot into the recovery.
rickyotten said:
I've been wondering and searching how to boot into recovery on the thunderbolt? Not from rom manager but when the phone is off. When i had my original moto droid all i had to do was turn it off then turn it on while holding x and i was in recovery how do i do that on the thunderbolt?
And if someone would be so kind as to explain what hboot is thanx!!
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Let's see if I get this right:
hboot is the default bootloader. Press at the same time, and hold, power and volume down to get into the bootloader.
From within the bootloader you can choose to enter recovery.
the_happy_cannibal said:
Let's see if I get this right:
hboot is the default bootloader. Press at the same time, and hold, power and volume down to get into the bootloader.
From within the bootloader you can choose to enter recovery.
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Yup . Assuming you installed a custom recovery like CWR already tho.
i had to hold both volume up and down buttons
Beastclaw said:
Yup . Assuming you installed a custom recovery like CWR already tho.
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Is there are way to boot into the default recovery (is there are default recovery?)
Every time I attempt this, it defaults to hboot, looks for a radio zip, tells me there isn't one(because there's not one on the sdcard), and only gives me the option to reboot by pressing power. I briefly see the initial menu, with the options for recovery and such under hboot, but I cannot select them with the volume up or down buttons?
Bateluer said:
Every time I attempt this, it defaults to hboot, looks for a radio zip, tells me there isn't one(because there's not one on the sdcard), and only gives me the option to reboot by pressing power. I briefly see the initial menu, with the options for recovery and such under hboot, but I cannot select them with the volume up or down buttons?
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are u sure there is no PB...img on ur sd? That's the only reason this would happen.
Spencer_Moore said:
are u sure there is no PB...img on ur sd? That's the only reason this would happen.
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My mistake, there is. If that radio zip file is there, you cannot move up and down through the menu then? I got a botched ROM here, hangs on the boot animation, no ADB, and no way to read that sdcard outside the phone.
Edit - If I remove the sdcard, I can do a wipe cache&data factory reset, I think? But my ROM files are on the sdcard.
Can you still use cwr without a battery if its plugged in? I know I could on the OG Droid, so if this still works, you can just take the SD card out, go to hboot and select recovery, then put the SD card back in
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akstyle450 said:
Can you still use cwr without a battery if its plugged in? I know I could on the OG Droid, so if this still works, you can just take the SD card out, go to hboot and select recovery, then put the SD card back in
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I just attempted this, without the battery, I cannot even get a pulse from the TB. With the battery in and no sdcard, I can get into CWR from hboot. Second I remove the battery from the phone, it powers off. Doing this with it plugged into the wall AC too.
Edit - This is where I'm at right now. If I remove the sdcard, wipe cash&data, I can boot into a mostly broken ROM. Specifically, the keyboard FCs immediately, I can skip past the HTC setup screens, the virtual keyboard will generate another FC. At the end of the setup screens, it'll go to a blank background with no icons and the status bar on top, showing 3G signal strength, time, etc. There's nothing on the screen but that. If I push and hold power, it brings up the Power menu, to shutdown, restart, etc. Any option thoroughly locks the phone and requires a battery pull. After that, it'll get stuck in a boot loop at the boot animation until I get into CWR again and wipe cache/data. And I've left it go for a good 20 minutes, more than enough time to rebuild the dalvik.
I should add that this was slightly, as in totally, self inflicted. :/ I was switching ROMs, rolled back from the GB leak radio to the froyo radio, and was wiping cash&data to move to a froyo ROM; got interrupted by another task, and forget where I was at. Basically, I wiped cache&data without flashing a ROM afterward.
Edit - Had to wait until I got home from work. Install the card in a sled, delete the zip, everything's good now.
Im just stuck at the Thunderbolt wallpaper. I tried removing the sd card, battery and all that crap but still stuck. Any way I can work around this?
Droid_Evo_8 said:
Im just stuck at the Thunderbolt wallpaper. I tried removing the sd card, battery and all that crap but still stuck. Any way I can work around this?
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Boot into hboot and then into recovery to flash a backup you hopefully made and if not just re-flash your ROM. Happened to me once when I rushed through a new ROM flash and didnt verify the MD5. If you dont have a ROM or a backup saved on your card then you can try to do what the guy above you did and put your card into a reader and put one on there that way.
Power and volume down
THUNDERBOLT
I am using Liquid Thundersense 1.4...I went into the liquid toolbox last night to do a wipe because I was going to flash a new rom. When I said yes to the wipe it turned off and then cam back on at my like main (i guess it is called a bootloader screen) and it will not get any farther than that...I'm not sure what to do about this because the only way the phone responds to anything is by pulling the battery or holding the power and both volume buttons down to restart back to the same damn thing again...I have never had a problem like this so I'm not sure where to go from here...Any help would be appreciated greatly!
I searched everywhere and could find anything this specific
OK I think my terminology was a little off...I guess the bootloader screen is the white screen where you can access fastboot, recovery, factory reset, etc...I still have s-off according to this screen...I can get here by holding down the down volume and the power and I can get to clockwork recovery. But it's when i try to reboot after either one that it gets stuck at that first loading screen
It sounds like you need to put a ROM on your SD card, boot into recovery and flash it from there. Did you not do a wipe and erased your existing ROM? No wonder the phone can't boot anymore.
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laneharts said:
OK I think my terminology was a little off...I guess the bootloader screen is the white screen where you can access fastboot, recovery, factory reset, etc...I still have s-off according to this screen...I can get here by holding down the down volume and the power and I can get to clockwork recovery. But it's when i try to reboot after either one that it gets stuck at that first loading screen
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You are right.
The white screen is the bootloader.
When you get to bootloader navigate to recovery.
if you have made a back up in the past you can go to backup/recovery and recover your old back up.
If not you will have to do what the user above said.
Put a rom.zip file on your sd card and flash it in recovery.
cowisland...thanks i did that and it worked...i must have done the damn wipe wrong or whatever, but i put a rom on my sd and it took care of the problem!
laneharts said:
cowisland...thanks i did that and it worked...i must have done the damn wipe wrong or whatever, but i put a rom on my sd and it took care of the problem!
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I would always go to recovery to wipe don't do it within any rom or even rom manager but just my 2 cents
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CWM won't work on my AT&T SGSII. It installs ok, but when I boot into it, anything I choose just goes to CWM hat logo and stays there until I hit any key. Then it goes right back to menu and I have to pull the battery to reboot into android. The device is rooted and I have no issues other than being unable to flash or nandroid or anything through CWM. It's driving me nuts!. I've tried going back to stock and several kernels and same issue persists. Anyone have any tips on how to address this?
You could try updating cwm in Rom manager from the market place
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faithfulshark said:
CWM won't work on my AT&T SGSII. It installs ok, but when I boot into it, anything I choose just goes to CWM hat logo and stays there until I hit any key. Then it goes right back to menu and I have to pull the battery to reboot into android. The device is rooted and I have no issues other than being unable to flash or nandroid or anything through CWM. It's driving me nuts!. I've tried going back to stock and several kernels and same issue persists. Anyone have any tips on how to address this?
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Using home button to select? If you're using power button it will cause menu to disappear.
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faithfulshark said:
CWM won't work on my AT&T SGSII. It installs ok, but when I boot into it, anything I choose just goes to CWM hat logo and stays there until I hit any key. Then it goes right back to menu and I have to pull the battery to reboot into android. The device is rooted and I have no issues other than being unable to flash or nandroid or anything through CWM. It's driving me nuts!. I've tried going back to stock and several kernels and same issue persists. Anyone have any tips on how to address this?
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You just need to go to school to get a higher education in the
proper useage of Cwm Recovery
I just got an Evo 3D and I am trying to flash a custom recovery image. I used htcdev to unlock my phone, then I flashed the latest Clockwork mod recovery image to the phone using fastboot, but when I try to boot into recovery from the bootloader it just reboots and it never takes me into recovery. Ive tried flashing a few different recoveries in the hopes that I just got a bad file but nothing works. Any ideas?
brandenk said:
I just got an Evo 3D and I am trying to flash a custom recovery image. I used htcdev to unlock my phone, then I flashed the latest Clockwork mod recovery image to the phone using fastboot, but when I try to boot into recovery from the bootloader it just reboots and it never takes me into recovery. Ive tried flashing a few different recoveries in the hopes that I just got a bad file but nothing works. Any ideas?
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Try downloading 4ext from play store, after inatalling it will walk you thru the set up to flash the recovery
Can you get into the bootloader by doing the following:
- Pull out the battery
- Put the battery back in
- Hold the volume down button
- Hold down the power button while still continuing to hold down the volume down button
From there you should go str8 to the bootloader screen rather than the splash screen.
If you get to the bootloader screen, are you able to get into the recovery from the bootloader menu?
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Yea, do the battery pull, you can also unchecked 'fastboot' in settings, power.
"We're coming from a pure power source."
jura69 said:
Can you get into the bootloader by doing the following:
- Pull out the battery
- Put the battery back in
- Hold the volume down button
- Hold down the power button while still continuing to hold down the volume down button
From there you should go str8 to the bootloader screen rather than the splash screen.
If you get to the bootloader screen, are you able to get into the recovery from the bootloader menu?
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I have tried.....but same with question from brandenk
metalfan78 said:
Yea, do the battery pull, you can also unchecked 'fastboot' in settings, power.
"We're coming from a pure power source."
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So since I posted, I have made it to the next step. I have TWRP recovery installed and working, but for some reason the whole boot.img and kernal flashing doesnt work. After trying for another couple hours trying to install MeanROM I have had no success. Flashing the ROM from recovery works fine, but once it gets to the step of updating the kernal, it just freezes and I had to pull the battery (waiting 10+ minutes). After doing so, I could get past the boot screen, but it would never properly load the ROM, I just got an endless status bar and black screen. I went through this process a couple of times before I decided to restore to my original nandroid backup. Even restoring the backup caused it to hang when it got to restoring boot.img. After waiting another 10 minutes I pulled the battery and rebooted and luckily was able to get into the stock Sense ROM, which is better than nothing, but I really wish I could install a ROM like MeanROM.
brandenk said:
So since I posted, I have made it to the next step. I have TWRP recovery installed and working, but for some reason the whole boot.img and kernal flashing doesnt work. After trying for another couple hours trying to install MeanROM I have had no success. Flashing the ROM from recovery works fine, but once it gets to the step of updating the kernal, it just freezes and I had to pull the battery (waiting 10+ minutes). After doing so, I could get past the boot screen, but it would never properly load the ROM, I just got an endless status bar and black screen. I went through this process a couple of times before I decided to restore to my original nandroid backup. Even restoring the backup caused it to hang when it got to restoring boot.img. After waiting another 10 minutes I pulled the battery and rebooted and luckily was able to get into the stock Sense ROM, which is better than nothing, but I really wish I could install a ROM like MeanROM.
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Try 4ext Recovery (see my signature). It will flash the kernel properly for S-on users.
It didnt work for me, I am still on the stock ROM so I dont have root access. Is there a way to flash 4ext through fastboot?
EDIT: I got it installed with fastboot, trying it now. Thank you for the suggestion!
EDIT 2: I worked!!! Seriously, thank you again!
brandenk said:
It didnt work for me, I am still on the stock ROM so I dont have root access. Is there a way to flash 4ext through fastboot?
EDIT: I got it installed with fastboot, trying it now. Thank you for the suggestion!
EDIT 2: I worked!!! Seriously, thank you again!
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Glad I could help. Welcome to the addicting world of flashing a new Rom everyday
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I have have evo 3d with 1.5 s on unlocked bootloader. Yesterday I went into my 4ext recovery, wiped cache+ davlik and wiped data and flashed New_Tribs_Shooter_S_Skinned_ICS_Sense_3.6_Ver_1.3_.zip. after that phone rebooted and only search button lit up. I could not get past white HTC screen. Now I tried to restore my backup, flash stock Rom, flash roms and nothing works. I cannot get past white HTC screen. When I reboot from recovery only search button lights up, when I reboot from h boot they all light up. Please help. Phone still charges, I can still access recovery and h boot menu so I know it's not perm bricked. I'm freaking out guys. I have no computer and for all intents a noob
dfails910 said:
I have have evo 3d with 1.5 s on unlocked bootloader. Yesterday I went into my 4ext recovery, wiped cache+ davlik and wiped data and flashed New_Tribs_Shooter_S_Skinned_ICS_Sense_3.6_Ver_1.3_.zip. after that phone rebooted and only search button lit up. I could not get past white HTC screen. Now I tried to restore my backup, flash stock Rom, flash roms and nothing works. I cannot get past white HTC screen. When I reboot from recovery only search button lights up, when I reboot from h boot they all light up. Please help. Phone still charges, I can still access recovery and h boot menu so I know it's not perm bricked. I'm freaking out guys. I have no computer and for all intents a noob
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Am I not giving enough info on what I've done? Is there another thread I need to read? I'm gonna be art a pc tomorrow and don't know what to do. I know this can be fixed. Any ideas please?
Go to the q&a section, read the sticky were it says how to return to sprint stick / unroot follow that . Then boom you're fixed .
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