I am a noob to flashing and here is my problem,
I have used the one click and have superuser running. When I go to boot into recovery I get a little droid guy and an exclamation point with a triangle around it. Anyone help?
How are you getting into recovery? Have you installed the custom recovery? Are you using the power on + volume down button sequence? If so you are going to get into the default recovery which will not allow you to flash anything. Follow directions here to install the custom recovery. Once you have the custom recovery installed you can flash away at your hearts content!!
That was indeed the issue. Thanks you!
Glad to help! Thanks for let us know what the issue was and that you resolved it!!
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I had rom manager from clockwork mod and selected download clockwork mod recovery (I wanted to flash a custom rom, and my phone was already rooted). This instantly booted me into clockwork recovery and I can't get back to a normal reboot. If I select reboot, it just gives me the clockwork symbol for a while and then goes back into recovery. If I pull the battery out and reboot it goes straight to recovery. No matter what I do I just get the clockwork symbol with the orange arrow and the hat and nothing happens i just get put back into recovery. I could really use some help and would appreciate some suggestions. If I need new odin/kernel/rom file or whatever please give me a link... I'm not sure where to get them now that megaupload is down...
Thanks for any help guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439337
This explains your issue, search for entropys unbrick thread and follow it, should fix your issue. Don't install ROM manager.
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Unbelievable.
Did you try using home button to select or was that just codeworkx kernel that did that?
..anyway.
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Are you pressing the power button or the home key? If your pressing the power button it would bring you to the cwm symbol that your saying happened. If that doesn't work go to the stickies on the devolvpment section for our phone and download the return to Stock package. Then try to flash that. You should be able to play around with the mounts on cwm to get your computer to recognize it, then flash the return to Stock package. In the future, never use rom manager, it screws up our phone.
Hope this helps.
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striketrue said:
Unbelievable.
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Not really.
After installing .21 when I try to enter recovery mode I get this error. My device is unlocked and not rooted.
And the recovery you flashed was?
I get the same error on my prime. I was on .21 and followed the downgrade to .15 unlock and root procedure. The recovery installed is TWRP
Any help please
Try to flash cwm touch, if that worked then flash twrp with it
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I've flashed latest cwm through Rom manager and I still get the same error
Try fastboot. A few months back I unlocked too and I flashed normal cwm and I had the same problem. I fixed it by flashing cwm touch. You could also flash any custom kernel with fastboot.
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I downgraded to .15 and flashed CMW again and it worked!!
Cant get into recovery mode
My tf-201 is rooted and unlocked. I cannot get into recovery mode.
I have tried holding the power and volume down button to no avail. I have tried, ROM manager as well as goo manager and it only leads me to the dead droid on his back. I dont know what else to try. I have spent the days looking for answers on the web as well as here and am needing some help please.
Catterik said:
My tf-201 is rooted and unlocked. I cannot get into recovery mode.
I have tried holding the power and volume down button to no avail. I have tried, ROM manager as well as goo manager and it only leads me to the dead droid on his back. I dont know what else to try. I have spent the days looking for answers on the web as well as here and am needing some help please.
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'adb reboot recovery' ?
On the device?
'su'
'reboot recovery'
Not sure if these wont mess stuff up (recovery bootloop) on the prime. Works fine on my nexus and on my prime, but my prime isnt unlocked.
Last resort: reflash recovery with fastboot
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Thank you for your response. I tried su and recovery reboot. It did just a basic reboot. I have also tried fastboot pro to no avail. Doesnt seem to matter what I try, all i can do is a basic reboot. no recovery extremely frustrating.
Catterik said:
I have tried holding the power and volume down button to no avail. I have tried, ROM manager as well as goo manager and it only leads me to the dead droid on his back. .
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You may have done this correctly, but just in case.....
Volume down + power
Until you see the three lines of text
Immediately release both buttons and press Volume up
Yup, tried it several times. Problem is I never get the three lines of text. Thanks though.
Catterik said:
Thank you for your response. I tried su and recovery reboot. It did just a basic reboot. I have also tried fastboot pro to no avail. Doesnt seem to matter what I try, all i can do is a basic reboot. no recovery extremely frustrating.
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Whats fastboot pro?
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fastboot pro is just another app I assumed would help me boot into recovery mode.
I cant believe I'm the only person to experience this. Any help is appreciated.
Catterik said:
fastboot pro is just another app I assumed would help me boot into recovery mode.
I cant believe I'm the only person to experience this. Any help is appreciated.
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Reflash recovery through fastboot
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I was having the same problem with not being able to boot to recovery, if you are still having the issue this is what fixed it for me-- re-flash ClockworkMod Recovery to the non-touch version (v5.8.2.0) and then do the boot:
Volume down + power
Until you see the three lines of text
Immediately release both buttons and press Volume up
Good luck.
I updated my phone to me7 and I followed a root procedure. After I used goo manager to install twrp and clicked reboot recovery but when it rebooted it went into downloading mode and won't let me boot normally! It says on the top could not do normal boot. Please help!!!
Yeah mine is doing the same thing. Not really sure what's going on, heh.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
**EDIT**
Nevermind...now when I reboot it goes into the OS like normal. Thanks again, man.
You cant install a custom recovery on the me7 ota. Theres a ton of posts on this already. To get past that turn your phone off and use the button combo for booting into odin(vol down + power). Itll ask if you want to proceed or cancel, hit cancel and your phone will boot. To fix you will either need to flash a stock recovery or use odin and reflash me7.
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This got me back into the phone but now I'll have to reflash the stock img via ODIN?
Anywhere I can find the stock recovery?
BoostinBen said:
This got me back into the phone but now I'll have to reflash the stock img via ODIN?
Anywhere I can find the stock recovery?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
hi guys,
See i started to follow instructions on how to install a custom rom, for my case i went with cm-10.1-20130804-NIGHTLY-i9300, i copied it to my sdcard and booted with the recovery mode, after doing a factory wipe, i think i pressed the wrong button and clicked "install frim sdcard update.zip" or something, now my phone is just showing the animated android logo. should i remove the battery and start all over? or will that screw my system up?
Hope you guys could help.
Regards,
imbennnyy said:
hi guys,
See i started to follow instructions on how to install a custom rom, for my case i went with cm-10.1-20130804-NIGHTLY-i9300, i copied it to my sdcard and booted with the recovery mode, after doing a factory wipe, i think i pressed the wrong button and clicked "install frim sdcard update.zip" or something, now my phone is just showing the animated android logo. should i remove the battery and start all over? or will that screw my system up?
Hope you guys could help.
Regards,
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Just boot back into recovery and install zip from sdcard. You MUST have already flashed a custom recovery to be able to do this, use Philz recovery etc.
Go read the guides in stickies, make sure you fully understand before you flash, otherwise you will brick your phone.
boomboomer said:
Just boot back into recovery and install zip from sdcard. You MUST have already flashed a custom recovery to be able to do this, use Philz recovery etc.
Go read the guides in stickies, make sure you fully understand before you flash, otherwise you will brick your phone.
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thanks a bunch, got it to work now.
Also, quick question, do i need to root my device again after installing the custom rom? I dont seem to see the superuser app after i installed the custom rom.
Regards,
RJ
imbennnyy said:
thanks a bunch, got it to work now.
Also, quick question, do i need to root my device again after installing the custom rom? I dont seem to see the superuser app after i installed the custom rom.
Regards,
RJ
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usually custom roms are all rooted. SuperUser might be moved to the Settings menu instead o app drawer, have a look.
I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong but my sgh959g is boot looping and won't go into recovery. It still goes into download mode so I tried flashing new CWM in odin, but still can't get into recovery. Anybody able to help me out?
Cap'n Jazz said:
I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong but my sgh959g is boot looping and won't go into recovery. It still goes into download mode so I tried flashing new CWM in odin, but still can't get into recovery. Anybody able to help me out?
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Are you using the correct button combo: both volume keys+power until you see the Samsung logo?
And where did you get the CWM you flashed? Hopefully it's for your device!
Also it would be good to know what ROM you were running when this happened. What version cwm were you using? What cwm did you flash? Hopefully you used the the ones over in @mr-cook 's straight talk thread.
And by chance, does the little top hat flash briefly when you try to boot recovery?