i have had problems with Rom manager not flashing recovery correct leaving me with no recovery. so i had to manually flash recovery following these steps exact. I have personally bricked 2 ERIS phones lucky me.The first i thoought it was just something i did, lucky i had another to replace it...(the second BRICK eris).
So here is a solution to keep from having a BRICK
USE Amon RA's Recovery PERIOD.
credit to northmendo @droidforums
1. download flash_image Here Updated Link 3/17/10
2. Open the terminal and copy and paste the following commands.
adb shell [hit enter]
su [hit enter]
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system [hit enter]
3. In a new terminal window (don't close the original one).
adb push flash_image /system/bin [hit enter]
exit [hit enter]
4. Now in the original terminal window
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image [hit enter]
5. Now exit all termainl windows and reboot your phone.
6. Download
Amon_RA's recovery Here.
7. Mount your phones sd card and drop recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img on to it and eject
your phone.
8. Open the Terminal and copy and paste the following commands with the phone connected
to your computer.
8. adb shell [hit enter]
9. su [hit enter]
10. flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img
11. To get into recovery turn off you phone and hold the Volume Up + Power until it boots into recovery.
That's it.
ROM Manager and Clockwork recovery does not work for the Eris.
ROM Manager and Clockwork recovery does not work for the Eris (as far as I know).
Edit: Oops, sorry for the double post.
I currently have the clockwork recovery installed on my eris, can I just download amon's recovery image and install it to switch to it? Or do I have to uninstall clockwork recovery and then install amon's?
trishuhh said:
I currently have the clockwork recovery installed on my eris, can I just download amon's recovery image and install it to switch to it? Or do I have to uninstall clockwork recovery and then install amon's?
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try to flash it from rom manager,(under other recoveries) if Rom manager has worked for you with no problems. if it doesnt work follow instructions as listed in 1st post
I wouldn't use clockwork recovery, it messed up my installation to the point i couldn't flash any rom or restore any nand. When i would try to flash anything it would fail, It failed when i tried to use the root rom....After I tried flashing root rom i had a nice looking brick on my desk....(I even changed back to RA but Clockwork had messed up my phone so bad that RA didn't even work either....
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!
Yeah, use Amon's. It does every job you need, and is 100% stable and reliable.
t2noob said:
I wouldn't use clockwork recovery, it messed up my installation to the point i couldn't flash any rom or restore any nand. When i would try to flash anything it would fail, It failed when i tried to use the root rom....After I tried flashing root rom i had a nice looking brick on my desk....(I even changed back to RA but Clockwork had messed up my phone so bad that RA didn't even work either....
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!
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yea you beat me too it, , i only used it because i had it for my DROID and thought maybe devs would try to add it to the list on rom manager.
ok, obviously a bit of an amateur here, how do you know which recovery image you have, i installed amon's, but i'm not sure if clockwork made it to my phone somehow, thinking about unrooting soon, that's why i ask, thanks.
jrhoades858 said:
ok, obviously a bit of an amateur here, how do you know which recovery image you have, i installed amon's, but i'm not sure if clockwork made it to my phone somehow, thinking about unrooting soon, that's why i ask, thanks.
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reboot into recovery and read the bottom
Ok Please help a newbie out here im losing my mind. I downloaded flash, plugged phone into mac and set phone to debugging and mounted. Opened terminal from utilities on Mac. When I enter adb shell it says "command not found" if I try using ./ before adb as suggested on another forum for macs when i enter su it asks for password? Any how please help a brother out. Thanks
I flashed amons ras recovery from my phone it was easier for me I didn't use rom manger or terminal emulater
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Can someone help me get rid of clockwork recovery it showed up after I flashed a rom. How do you flash Amons recovery?
tkryan said:
Can someone help me get rid of clockwork recovery it showed up after I flashed a rom. How do you flash Amons recovery?
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You do exactly what the first post says
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ufccowboyfan said:
Ok Please help a newbie out here im losing my mind. I downloaded flash, plugged phone into mac and set phone to debugging and mounted. Opened terminal from utilities on Mac. When I enter adb shell it says "command not found" if I try using ./ before adb as suggested on another forum for macs when i enter su it asks for password? Any how please help a brother out. Thanks
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When you are doing this, are you in the correct directory? For example, my SDK is installed in /android , so first I would:
cd /android/tools
then
./adb shell
could someone help me with this. i really need to get the stock recovery image on my eris and im alittle noobie at this stuff. if any one could help id be sooooo happy
I'm not sure how to flash amons on a mac. I know for windows you put the recovery.img in the sdk tools folder, boot into fastboot and type
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
To get stock recovery (I assume you want your phone back to stock) then flash the official ruu. Will return your phone to 100% stock. You can find it on a sticky in the Eris general forums I believe.
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I'm not sure on a mac, but on Windows you put the img in the tools folder of your sdk, boot into fastboot and type in adb:
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
To get stock recovery back, simply flash the official ruu found on a sticky in the Eris general forums I believe. Flashing the ruu will unroot your phone.
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I installed Amon Ra as part of the root for leakers instructions some time ago. -- Is there a new version out? (Search was surprisingly not helpful) And what is the best way to update recovery?
Slugdoc said:
I installed Amon Ra as part of the root for leakers instructions some time ago. -- Is there a new version out? (Search was surprisingly not helpful) And what is the best way to update recovery?
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There is no new version out; the first version (v1.6.2) is the only one that Amon_RA published.
IF there was a new version, you could flash it by using adb with the existing Amon_RA. You don't even need to push a version of "flash_image" to the phone, because it is already in /sbin in Amon_RA recovery. Just get the recovery image to your SD card, start an interactive shell (adb shell), and then
flash_image recovery /sdcard/<wherever-you-put-it>/recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img
Yes, you can "flash a recovery partition by using the recovery" - because when you are interacting with it (the recovery boot), it lives entirely in a ramdisk.
The second easiest way is to have the engineering bootloader (1.49.2000 S-OFF) installed on your phone, and flash it with fastboot from the PC, as in
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img
Note that neither of these two methods perform any integrity checks on the recovery image file that the normal "Flash .zip from sdcard" ROM installation method does. Therefore, it is imperative that someone using these methods is extremely diligent in cross-checking image MD5 signatures after it has been transferred to the SD card. Amon_RA also has the "md5sum" utility built into it's shell, BTW.
I mention this last point as a warning to newbs - they seem to routinely corrupt files when they transfer them to the SD card. (I suppose they are not using the "safely remove hardware" controls correctly, or they are getting truncated downloads).
bftb0
Something happened to my Vibrant. Upon a reboot, it stays on the Vibrant screen. I can use the computer to run the command adb reboot recovery, and it would bring me to the regular recovery menu. Is there a way to adb into clockwork since my phone wouldn't boot up fully?
If you still have the recovery update.zip on your sd, you can reapply it from the stock recovery and get into it that way.
Thanks I ended up trying that. I recovered into my first nandroid backup but it's still stuck on the Vibrant bootup screen =(. Any ideas? All I did was I installed BusyBox to install the lagfix in Vibrant7, then ran
adb shell
su
mv /system/bin/userinit.sh /system/bin/used
reboot
You may try doing that again, and then wipe the phone and cache and them restore again. There may be something hung up.
thank you.
thanks! renaming the clockwork recovery zip to "update.zip" and applying it from factory recovery got me back up and running as well.
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blah blah
connect your phone to your computer make sure it is if your computer makes that usb connect sound
then use your cmd promt
type: adb reboot bootloader
your phone should then reboot to normal then DELETE "disable lagfix" file in the VOODOO folder
that should work.
Alright so i wanted to try and jailbreak my ps3 with psfreedom i flashed the update.zip from here psfreedom.com/wiki/HTC_Hero and my phone will not get past the hero screen.
I can still get into recovery rom RA-hero-v1.7.0.1
But when i try to restore from nand i get this " Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via ADB"
So i found instructions on how to restore from adb
1. Go into adb shell
2. mount /sdcard <------ when i entered i get " mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory
3. cd /sdcard
4. cd nandroid
then go into the backup folder and run the nandroid-mobile.sh restore
Why do i get that error on step 2 ?
I can cd to /sdcard but when i try cd to nandroid i get '/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to nandroid"
Please help me ......hope my phone is not perma f**ked
Worry not my friend,... If you can get into your recovery or fastboot then you are not bricked!
I know nothing about the PSFreedom thing but on that WIKI it says
NOTE: This disables ADB and USB Mass-Storage on the recovery rom.
This is not all that bad. You can still flash from sdcard. I recommend you do a nandroid backup and leave it on the sdcard.
If you screw up both your normal rom and recovery, you can still do a full restore through fastboot.
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So you need to research how to restore your nandroid using fastboot.
If worst comes to worst, reflash original/unmodded Amon Ra Recovery, flash a rom, re-download files from that WIKI to ensure no corruption issues, then re try.
Thanks i just re flashed my rom and i can get it to boot everything but im still getting errors when i try to restore. So i'm gonna trying to re flash the recovery img
Thanks
i proceeded to back-up everything on my sdcard and format it then just put the nandroid back up files on the phone. Restore works perfect now... weird
Thanks alot for the help guys
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Hi guys,
weird problem- haven't used my tab in over 6 months, decided to 'unretire' it. I had CM11 installed using CWM recovery ages ago.
Long story short- the tab started, but quickly started acting funny. It restarted itself and got stuck on the boot screen, and now whenever I try to access recovery the screen is on but is blank.
Tried reflashing CWM using ODIN- didn't work. Tried re-flashing TWRP using ODIN- didn't work either (same blank screen).
Any ideas?? I also tried reflashing stock rom through Sammobile but ODIN won't flash it-- keeps giving a 'WriteRawData' error.
anyone have any thoughts? worth mentioning that I can still access download mode, but choosing recovery just gives a blank screen.
Hmm, how about manually writing the recovery.img into your system? Try this:
1. Get the latest twrp from decatf's 5.1 thread.
2. Unzip and copy the recovery.img file to your /sdcard.
3. Either in terminal or adb shell, type in this command
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
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SCH-i605.....never rooted/most current OTA most likely. Boot loop (logo freeze). Treid usual Odin/PIT. Get "cant mount" yad yada error on wipe/reset. Can get to download mode and reset mode. ADB sees phone ...can I side load a recovery file? (Heimdall isn't working)
Thanks
medmike said:
SCH-i605.....never rooted/most current OTA most likely. Boot loop (logo freeze). Treid usual Odin/PIT. Get "cant mount" yad yada error on wipe/reset. Can get to download mode and reset mode. ADB sees phone ...can I side load a recovery file? (Heimdall isn't working)
Thanks
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Flash a recovery via Odin and boot to recovery then factory reset in recovery then wipe cache.
If Odin isn't working then you can try getting a recovery in .img format then use the dd command in adb to push the recovery.img to your recovery partition.
If you have to, download your stock firmware then find instructions to extract the stock recovery.img from the firmware, then you need to find out which mmcblk0 your recovery partition is in, then use the dd command to push the recovery.img to that mmcblk0. You can find instructions for all of that with a Google search if you take your time and search for each thing I mentioned.
Thanks Droidriven! I'll give it a try when I have time this weekend. I'll post back with my ultimate success I hope!