hi all
how can i get into Recovery mode
i try holding down Home and Power
but it not working
Are you trying to do this when the phone is off? The correct procedure is to switch the phone off completely, hold down "Home" and then turn the phone on whilst keeping "Home" held down.
Regards,
Dave
thx
thanks
yes ido
but i get hero screen and still untel remove battery
To be honest, I never tried accessing the recovery console prior to flashing Cyanogens modified recovery image, so I've no idea what the "stock" recovery console would look like.
I suggest you might like to try using adb and fastboot to see if you can boot Cyanogens recovery image. If so, flashing your hero with it permanently is a good idea! (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4257045&postcount=38 and http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/291486/25-08-installing-the-patched-recovery-image-on-your-device-permanently/ ).
Regards,
Dave
Hi there . Can some1 help me with my HTC hero . I boot it in recovery mode but it comes out in fastboot USB . I dont know how to bring it back to recovery mode again ?
Are you just holding down home and the power button to try and get into recovery mode? If so you've probably got an older version, like mine, and to get into the recovery mode you're gunna have to hold the vol down button and power button to get to recovery mode.
What I often do to boot my htc hero in recovery mode is that i use Droid Explorer . It used to work but for some reasons that It turned into fastboot usb mode . Screen comes out with HERO in the middle and a little red box on right top corner said fastboot usb (and i have to take the battery out to restart it ). Hope you know how to bring it back into recovery mode .
goodboy_duc said:
What I often do to boot my htc hero in recovery mode is that i use Droid Explorer . It used to work but for some reasons that It turned into fastboot usb mode . Screen comes out with HERO in the middle and a little red box on right top corner said fastboot usb (and i have to take the battery out to restart it ). Hope you know how to bring it back into recovery mode .
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Droid explorer actually doesn't work on my computer, can't seem to get it installed. If I were you I'd go ahead and try the vol down and power button option to enter recovery mode or reinstall droid explorer and see if that'll switch it back to recovery. Of course if you have a custom rom loaded I've noticed that many of them give you the option to reboot>reboot in recovery. That's also pretty helpful.
Try home+power button to start, but first install Rom manager and root your phone...
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Hello all. I'm a brand-noob (my phrase, thank you) here.
I have received a Verizon HTC Eris phone that boots to the red triangle with exclamation point (three droids on skateboards prior to the triangle screen). I have no information on what was done on this phone prior to my receiving it. I have read here that the three droids means that it has been rooted, and that the red triangle means a stock recovery is on it.
I can only "Up Volume + Power" to get this - "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command". Other than that, I can't seem to get to anything else on the phone.
Now, upon connecting via usb to my computer (Windows 7), I can get Windows to recognize the "Android Phone", but not specifically an HTC Eris. I do not have HTC Sync installed. I have used ADB to root another phone (MyTouch), but this phone does not show up when I check for devices via "adb devices".
I am hoping someone can offer some simple steps that I can do to work towards fixing the phone. Thanks everyone for your time. !
This may help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992916
Good luck.
Thanks for the reply phone_cell. I had already read/seen that post.
I cannot see any boot information at all, it shows the skateboarders, then the red triangle. The phone shows up on my computer, but only as an "android storage device". I'm not sure how I can check anything via my computer. I have installed PDAnet prior, and read that it should have installed the phone drivers. ? I installed HTCSync on a different computer and it doesn't see the phone.
If there is no way to fix this phone, then I understand. I would like to think that there are ways (standard methods ?) to check and/or re-install a phone (any phone) back from something like this. ? ...Thanks again for your time and expertise!
I was happy to try to help you. I recommend you send a PM to bftb0. If your Eris can be brought back to life, bftb0 will know what to do.
Bummer. bftb0 does not receive private messages, or at least not from me. Maybe someone could relay the forum post.
I am still digging and digging to try and figure something out. If I could get my computer to communicate properly with the phone, I'm sure I could re-install/fix the boot problem.
Anyone have ideas on how to install a usb device that's stuck in recovery?
As always, thanks thanks thanks. And thanks.
I made a post asking bftb0 to lend you a hand.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15386610&postcount=33
Are you able to get it into fastboot mode? To do so, the phone needs to be completely off first...pulling the battery if needed. From there, first hold down the green send/call button then press and hold the red power/end button at the same time. Holding both should bring you to the fastboot screen which has three small skateboard andy's at the bottom and the word FASTBOOT highlighted in red. If you get there, post what the top two green lines say. Post #4 in the thread phone_cell gave shows an example of what you'll see. I would also try and follow bftb0's directions in post #5 about using the "Official" RUU utility to install usb drivers but make sure to stop before actually flashing anything to the phone. After that, download the fastboot tool and then with the phone connected through usb, see if the command "fastboot devices" lists your device ID.
Getting that far is promising and you can proceed with bftb0's directions in that thread to flash with HBOOT, load a recovery, hopefully eventually get a custom ROM flashed.
Hey MongooseHelix (great nick). Thanks for your reply.
No, the phone does not boot into fastboot, or anything else. There's plenty of resources here for all the different methods for booting and such. I've read hundreds of threads and pages. I've tried them all (and to success on other phones). It only gives me the recovery-stuck-ness.
The more I think about it, the more I think it has something to do with me not having this certain phone installed on my computer prior to receiving it. ? What would other people do to remedy something like that..? Find a working model to get the drivers working? Hmmm. Thanks and thanks again folks.
If you haven't already, how about installing the android-sdk(try the exe if on windows):
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Then run the SDK Manager.exe from the SDK directory. I'd download the latest SDK tools, SDK platform-tools, and the USB driver for Windows. Make sure to add the tools and platform-tools directories to your path...instructions at the end of Step 5:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html#sdkContents
With the phone on and connected through usb, see if running "adb devices" from the command prompt recognizes the Eris.
Yes, I had the android-sdk installed prior to receiving this phone. I did run it and update everything within it (per everything I researched online). But, the phone still doesn't show up via "adb devices". I feel like because the phone is stuck in recovery, it's not letting the computer do anything hardware-wise with it. ? Not sure.
Not sure what else to suggest. Without access to recovery, fastboot, or hboot along with not being able to connect through a comp, it unfortunately sounds like it might be hard-bricked. I'm certainly no expert at reviving an Eris so someone may know a way to to fix things...maybe bftb0 will come work his magic. Good luck and if I find or think of anything else I'll let you know.
The red triangle screen is indeed a splash screen for the stock recovery.
The next question is whether you are able to proceed beyond the "splash screen" and attempt to perform a "factory reset" procedure using the stock recovery menus.
There are two ways you get past the stock recovery splash screen, and it depends on which version of the stock recovery is installed on your phone have.
(1) press & hold Vol-Up+End simultaneously (with the "red triangle" splash screen showing)
or
(2) press the Home(soft-key)+End simultaneously (with the "red triangle" splash screen showing)
Do either of those cause the <2e> recovery menu to appear on the screen? If so, perform a "factory reset" using that menu, and THEN see if you can get alternate startup modes to occur (after powering off the phone before each trial):
End (only) => Does anything boot now?
VolDown+End => HBOOT
Send+End => FASTBOOT
VolUp+End => Recovery boot (red triangle screen again) **only works if HBOOT > 1.49.xxxx
Please do not say "I tried everything" in your reply. It is extremely non-specific, and conveys no information about what you actually attempted.
bftb0
Many thanks for the reply. !
With the recovery splash screen showing, upon holding "Volume Up + End (power)" I get = E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command Now, I am able to clear that message by pressing "Volume Up + End" again, however it just goes back to the recovery splash screen.
I held down Home (on the glass) + End (power) and nothing happened.
?? Any suggestions ?
Also... my reference to "tried them all" in my earlier post meant that I have tried just about every combination of simultaneous key pressing upon powering up (booting from no power) the phone. I am also familiar with the recovery menus on other phones - I have not seen it show up on this one (per my most recent post as well).
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I get = E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
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That message is quite normal. However, what usually happens is that the (stock) recovery <2e> menus appear immediately after that message.
I guess this suggests that there is something wrong with the phone (hardware) or the recovery.
I'll give it some thought (check this thread every so often), but I don't see an immediate way out of your situation.
bftb0
Well, I certainly appreciate the replies. Thanks!
Does
VolDown+Send+End
do anything interesting - either from a phone off condition, or when the "can't open /cache/recovery/command" message is on the screen?
Was there a (properly formatted) SD card in the phone when you performed all the prior button-pressing experiments?
Booted with "Volume Down + Send + End" = same, straight to recovery splash screen.
I then "Volume Up + End" to get "e:can't open /cache...." and tried "Volume Down + Send + End" = no changes.
I have an sd card in it that I used to root a MyTouchSlide recently. It has ClockworkMod recovery on it (update.zip). I have done every procedure I've mentioned in this thread with and without the sd card in the phone.
I just reread the whole thread.
I understand that you tried all the standard button-press-startup methods, and the only thing you can get to work (partially) is the first part of the standard recovery boot. What you didn't say explicitly is, what exactly happens when the standard button-press operations fail:
- nothing at all (screen stays black, not a single LED blips, etc)? or,
- every start sequence results in the recovery splash screen? or,
- the three skating droids appear but the screen freezes that way? or,
- other?
Here is what you are up against:
The standard recovery does not start up an "adbd" daemon, so worrying about drivers is not likely to get you anywhere: under normal circumstances, "adb" simply doesn't work with a standard recovery.
There are two exceptions to this:
(1) The (leaked) HTC "Root ROM" does start an adbd daemon (but "adb shell" won't work)
(2) The Leak-V2 recovery had a race condition that allowed less than 20% of the folks who tried it to get an adbd daemon to persist. (Search for "tereg" root). It's a huge long shot.
Whether either of these apply to you is indeterminate, as we know neither the bootloader version that is on your phone, nor the version ofthe (damaged?) recovery on the phone.
One more question, and then some straws to grasp at:
- when you plug the phone into the charger, do you see the amber/green LED light up?
- repeat every one of the "standard-button-press" sequences, but make sure that before each start sequence, you pull the battery, press all buttons, wait 10 secs, and then reinsert the battery. Long shot, but what have you got to lose?
bftb0
- what exactly happens when the standard button-press operations fail:
The three skating droids appear (for a few seconds, as per a normal-type boot is beginning) but then the screen freezes to the recovery splash screen.
- when you plug the phone into the charger, do you see the amber/green LED light up?
Yes, I see the amber/green light. The light seems to operate as if it is charging normally.
I will try your 10 + second-battery-pull-button-combinations method here in a while.
Really appreciate the thoughts/help on the matter. !!!
somehow i managed to get my phone into safe mode it says that in bottom left of screen.i am wondering what does safe mode do. i couldnt find anything in settings that was not there before nothing different in apps menu.so what is the purpose of safe mode.
I believe safe mode means that the phone will boot and only allow access to factory installed apps and setting to trouble shoot issues. On the evo 3d you hold the down volume when the splash screen appears. To take it out of safe mode just pull the battery, replace and reboot.
Just sharing this with All as everybody is not aware of this..
Every Android phone has a safe mode just like we have in windows. This Safe mode can help you uninstall any app which is causing instability of the system. Once you boot your phone in Safe mode it will only run with Stock Apps comes with the phone however you have option to uninstall any downloaded app from App Manager.
To enter in to safe mode in Galaxy S3
Switch off your phone Completely
Switch it on using power button
once you see Samsung logo start pressing the the left touch button at bottom..
You will see you phone will boot in safe mode and a safe mode text will be watermarked on bottom left.
To come out of Safe mode in Galaxy S3 ... Just reboot your phone normally.
Hope this will help
Posted .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28315455&postcount=2
http://www.tested.com/news/feature/...ds-safe-mode-to-save-a-phone-from-boot-loops/
but i will forward this for inclusion in the INDEX .
jje
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Safe Mode Galaxy II
this one is really simple, at least in my instance.
1 power off
2. remove battery for 1 minute
3 install battery
4 power up and no safe mode.
must be my feng shui luck
Zhi Hai
I did boot into safe mode on my SIII twice by accidental. I know it is there but just do not know how I did. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Holding Options button (bottom left) while resetting or powering on will bring you into Safe mode. That could happen by accident.
GoLfWRC said:
I did boot into safe mode on my SIII twice by accidental. I know it is there but just do not know how I did. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
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Yeah .. mine too .. while restart, it went into safe mode several times. After restarting back, all my joined contacts were gone and i had to login to social apps again
Im stuck in safe mode.. I tried the normal reboot... no dice.. any other options