[Q] stuck in boot loader power button broken - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Tried to flash a kernel and messed up my phone so my problem now is...
My power button doesn't want to (click) and I'm stuck in bootloader mode (loading pj75img.zip) what can I do either restart my phone or turn it back on after the battery is drained... I'm on s-off rooted with TWRP
- thanks in advanced

lilhgarcia1 said:
Tried to flash a kernel and messed up my phone so my problem now is...
My power button doesn't want to (click) and I'm stuck in bootloader mode (loading pj75img.zip) what can I do either restart my phone or turn it back on after the battery is drained... I'm on s-off rooted with TWRP
- thanks in advanced
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I can't remember the command word for word but have you tried to reboot with fastboot?
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You could take out your sd card and like the last post said you can access recovery thru adb or fastboot.. I think its
Adb reboot recovery
Fastboot reboot recovery
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Fastboot reboot will reboot into the system, adb reboot recovery will reboot into the recovery but I believe will only work if the phone previously had USB debugging enabled and its halfway turned on (splash screen?).
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If you can remove the sd card and manage to get into fastboot then I suggest flashing twrp as boot instead of recovery. It should reboot into recovery allowing you to flash a Rom. The kernel will replace twrp and boot to android

om4 said:
If you can remove the sd card and manage to get into fastboot then I suggest flashing twrp as boot instead of recovery. It should reboot into recovery allowing you to flash a Rom. The kernel will replace twrp and boot to android
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Why flash TWRP as boot instead of recovery ?
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Well if the power button isn't working properly and there is no usable rom, the user might be able to power the phone but be unable to access recovery from bootloader. Flashing twrp as a kernel will load twrp upon reboot eliminating the need to select it from bootloader and allow user to flash a new Rom normally. Easier then repeatedly stabbing the power button and causing more unnecessary wear on an already damaged button

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Clockworkmod broken recovery!!!! Help PLease

Hello xda every I have an major problem I tried to flash an rom today via the rom manager app and cleared cache and others that was requires now I cannOt get into recovery mode it's just shows the htc logo and boots up regular but I can acres fastboot I'm on 1.50 s-on all help would be very appreciated other i I searched other threads to no avail
If you tried flashing a rom with a custom kernel through rom manager it won't work. You have to flash that through fastboot. You say that your phone "boots up regular" as in boots into android?
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Sofocused504 said:
Hello xda every I have an major problem I tried to flash an rom today via the rom manager app and cleared cache and others that was requires now I cannOt get into recovery mode it's just shows the htc logo and boots up regular but I can acres fastboot I'm on 1.50 s-on all help would be very appreciated other i I searched other threads to no avail
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Not all of your infmration is easy to follow or understand.
Essentially, if you're looking to flash a kernel or ROM (which many times also include a kernel), there are three basic methods (two seem the easier) with hboot 1.50 and htc's unlock method:
1) For Kernel Flashing: From Android mode, using my application, Flash Image GUI. Put the kernel .zip file on your sdcard, select from inside the application and flash.
If flashing a ROM, pull out the kernel file (usually named boot.img), push to sdcard and flash using Flash Image GUI.
If you're away from a computer and want to flash a kernel, this is a great tool.
2) Load the custom recovery, NOT using the traditional method (reboot recovery, bootloader -> recovery, etc), but a specific method for Hboot 1.5. From the prompt use: fastboot boot c:\downloads\cwm-recovery.img.
This will temporarily boot the custom recovery image and the HTC unlock method will grant it write access to the boot partition while in this mode.
In this temporarily booted recovery mode, when a full ROM (with kernel included) is flashed, the kernel will flash correctly.
3) Boot into recovery using the traditional methods, reboot recovery, bootloader -> recovery, etc, and after the custom recovery has loaded, flash the ROM. Reboot into fastboot mode and then separately flash the kernel from the computer: fastboot flash boot c:\boot.img.
Downside to this method would be if a zImage is included instead of the boot.img for the kernel, won't flash correctly.
If you're issues are with not entering a custom recovery mode when following step 3, there are a few options. If you're able to boot into normal android mode w/o any issues and you seem familar with ROM manager, flash the custom recovery again from there.
My app, Flash Image GUI, also offers the same feature, select the recovery.img or PG86IMG.zip file off the sdcard and Flash Image GUI will flash it.
Another option is to flash it via fastboot: fastboot flash recovery c:\downloads\cwm-recovery.img
Hope that helps clarify!
flonker said:
If you tried flashing a rom with a custom kernel through rom manager it won't work. You have to flash that through fastboot. You say that your phone "boots up regular" as in boots into android?
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yes i meant boots into android regular just cannot get into custom recover I navigate to it and press power the htc logo appears and the phone shuts itself off and booth back into android
Sofocused504 said:
yes i meant boots into android regular just cannot get into custom recover I navigate to it and press power the htc logo appears and the phone shuts itself off and booth back into android
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If the device does not make it past the splash screen this usually indicates a bad kernel (or ramdisk) or bad flash.
Either flash the same recovery file again or download a new recovery file.
Sometimes a bad flash can occur, usually rare. Sometimes the recovery file can corrupt while downloading, usually rare. But these things do occur.
Good luck!

How to boot into recovery?

I currently pull the battery, then turn on volume down and power to go to bootloader and then enter into the recovery. I would like to know if this is the correct way, or if there is another method to enter the recovery. Thanks
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Other than flashing a ROM with an extended menu ( instead of power off and reboot only reboot has several options reboot, hot reboot, reboot into bootloader and, reboot into recovery) the other option would be to download ROM MANAGER but that would only work if you are using CWM and have flashed it via Rom Manager.... otherwise the way you are doing it is fine
It's a tablet dammit! Not a BIG phone....
adb reboot recovery from command or terminal assuming you have the adb.exe in your system32 directory.
Binary100100 said:
adb reboot recovery from command or terminal assuming you have the adb.exe in your system32 directory.
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Forgot about adb. Thanks Binary.
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eggydrums said:
I currently pull the battery, then turn on volume down and power to go to bootloader and then enter into the recovery. I would like to know if this is the correct way, or if there is another method to enter the recovery. Thanks
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Should not have to pull the battery - just turn it off.
If you want it easier (not connected to computer, etc.), you can install ROM Manager, flash recovery their with it, and then I recommend reflashing xBoarders 5.0.2.0 again.
ROM Manager should still work (mine does), but when you enter Recovery from there, you have the other 5.0.2.0 Recovery (RM 5.0.2.6 will not charge when off).
On a related note--do we need to keep fastboot enabled?
Or use quick boot
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Bootloop problems

Hi, I was running Meanrom 36 s-off....everything was great! Then I flashed Paranoid Androids boot.img with Flash Gui and rebooted (intending to do the ROM next). It now reboots to the Meanrom screen and stops. Won't boot into recovery and wont mount. Any way to just get back to Meanrom???
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If you have s-off then there is no real need for flashgui, just flash from recovery
Why are you using the kernel workarounds with S-OFF? Just flash the ROMS normally.
Also, this is why people shouldnt use flash image GUI unless they already know how to do it manually from fastboot. Because if something goes wrong they are screwed
these threads are starting to remind me of that time my neighbor gave his son a box of matches....
I didn't realize that when I began. Its been awhile since I've done this and i suck. Cant reboot into recovery now, just reboots normally then gets stuck on the Meanrom boot screen. Matches? I think I've been handed C4!
okay well the most basic BASIC solution would be to try and restore a nandroid backup, you're s-off so thats not a problem, otherwise boot recovery, use a wipe script and install a rom. After you get the phone going again, never ever touch anything like flash gui again, learn basic adb, read up on the features your recovery offers, learn to trouble shoot your phone using adb tools, from within recovery, just by using the rom, or hell check out the irc channels and watch the devs troubleshoot problems themselves. some of them are more then willing to help if they have the time to do so
How can I restore the backup if I can only boot into bootloader? I completely agree. Hell I don't even want to flash another ROM again! I loved Meanrom....
cmm67 said:
How can I restore the backup if I can only boot into bootloader? I completely agree. Hell I don't even want to flash another ROM again! I loved Meanrom....
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You should be able to boot into the bootloader. Power down the phone by pressing the power button and volume down key for about 15 seconds. The phone will power off and then press and hold down the volume down button and press the power button at the same time for about 5 seconds. Continue to hold the volume key and your bootloader should load. You should then select fastboot and then reboot recovery or recovery can't remember which it shows. The phone will power off and power back on and should boot int recovery. Then you can nandroid provided you nandroid before you flashed the Rom. If you didn't then just flash the Rom again no need to wipe anything Mean Rom wipes davlik already. Then once the Rom is done flashing you should be good.
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yes, I can reboot into bootloader. When I select recovery it just reboots normally and then gets stuck on the Meanrom boot screen. Never opens recovery
I guess that means you need to fastboot recovery
edit: sorry if it seems I left you hanging, in my area wimax is the only means of internet and to top it off im in a spot that struggles to get wimax despite the fact that all around the outside of my house I can perfect signal
cmm67 said:
yes, I can reboot into bootloader. When I select recovery it just reboots normally and then gets stuck on the Meanrom boot screen. Never opens recovery
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Reflash the recovery. You can download it from twrp website...the lastest version you should be able to flash recovery via fastboot using
Fastboot flash recovery (recovery file name)
The direction are on the twrp website. The lastest version is 2.2.2.0 .
Flash thay and then reboot the bootloader and then fastboot
Fastboot reboot recovery
It should then load into recovery
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Thanks! Ended up flashing recovery again in fastboot then could restore my nandroid. I was so lost
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I really appreciate everyone's help!
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phone has custom recovery but no means of flashing a ROM what to do?

so I was having a reboot issue with AOSP ROM's and was trying to go back to stock before I realized there was no RUU for T-mobile devices.
anyway long story short I am now at the point that I can load a custom recovery via fastboot but have no ROM at all on the phone, so when it reboots it just hangs on the HTC one splash screen.
how do I go about flashing a new ROM without usb access?
any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Chad
You still have usb access it's in hboot menu, Your in a mess , but do this .
If you have a custom recovery and can boot into it, do so.... Power off phone and hold vol down and power until u boot Into hboot ....And then choose adb sideload Rom option in your cwm or twrp recovery and download a Rom to your laptop and select sideload Rom.
If you have no recovery, boot Into hboot manually choose fastboot make sure it says fastboot usb that means u have usb recognituon to your phone it will be in red letters .... download and use hasoons2000 toolkit for tmobile m7.... Choose flash a recovery it's at the far top right of the tool kit to script flash cwm recovery.
Then sideload a Rom from pc to phone via recovery..
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lojak29 said:
You still have usb access it's in hboot menu, Your in a mess , but do this .
If you have a custom recovery and can boot into it, do so.... Power off phone and hold vol down and power until u boot Into hboot ....And then choose adb sideload Rom option in your cwm or twrp recovery and download a Rom to your laptop and select sideload Rom.
If you have no recovery, boot Into hboot manually choose fastboot make sure it says fastboot usb that means u have usb recognituon to your phone it will be in red letters .... download and use hasoons2000 toolkit for tmobile m7.... Choose flash a recovery it's at the far top right of the tool kit to script flash cwm recovery.
Then sideload a Rom from pc to phone via recovery..
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I have twrp recovery on the phone, I can get the phone to be recognized in usb fast boot but not in recovery/sideload. if I got s-off couldn't I flash one of the other RUU's and be okay?

Can't flash twrp

Recently bricked my honor 5x used fast boot to get it out of boot loop. (Because I tried to its update my phone with twrp)now when I try to re flash twrp it gets replaced by the stock recovery Everytime . Please help!
Samething happend to me... cannot flash twrp because when i restart phone after flashing twrp, it gets replaced by stock recovery.
What i do now is to boot to twrp instead of flashing using this command:
Code:
fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-0-kiwi.img
Hopefully there is a solution for this flashing problem.
FREAK0N said:
Samething happend to me... cannot flash twrp because when i restart phone after flashing twrp, it gets replaced by stock recovery.
What i do now is to boot to twrp instead of flashing using this command:
Code:
fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-0-kiwi.img
Hopefully there is a solution for this flashing problem.
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you can't just reboot after flashing recovery ...you have to boot directly to twrp after the flash with power + volume up (Skip the fastboot reboot step)
the simple way is to copy kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img to your sdcard
fastboot boot kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
now in twrp choose install / image / then choose kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
next choose reboot / recovery
you now have kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
from then on adb reboot recovery from android
or power + volume up will enter TWRP
clsA said:
you can't just reboot after flashing recovery ...you have to boot directly to twrp after the flash with power + volume up (Skip the fastboot reboot step)
the simple way is to copy kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img to your sdcard
fastboot boot kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
now in twrp choose install / image / then choose kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
next choose reboot / recovery
you now have kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
from then on adb reboot recovery from android
or power + volume up will enter TWRP
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Thanks alot... i wil try it later.
Too many Links is what ADB Says
RootMega said:
Too many Links is what ADB Says
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why are you using adb ?
did you read the instructions i posted
I have the stock recovery.
I cant get into twrp.
I tried to flash then go straight to twrp which gets replaced by stock bootloader
Idk it gets replaced everytime
Okay the adb thing stopped I got into twrp by doing the fastboot thing but when i boot into recovery it goes to the stock recovery.
RootMega said:
Okay the adb thing stopped I got into twrp by doing the fastboot thing but when i boot into recovery it goes to the stock recovery.
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I really don't know why you don't seem to get it
it's this simple
you fastboot boot kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
now while in TWRP copy kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img to the phone
Also copy SuperSU-v2.64.zip (or newer) to the phone
after the files are copied choose Install / Image / kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
next choose install / SuperSU.zip
next choose Reboot / Recovery
you now have TWRP recovery and you can enter it by using power + volume up
or from an app on the phone (I use Quickboot) or from a pc with adb reboot recovery
I have the same problem, i tried with your method but the system continue to replace bootloader, impossible to keep twrp on recovery
Edit : I try to install Root Checker, it detect my phone is root but impossible to access to TWRP, very strange
clsA said:
you can't just reboot after flashing recovery ...you have to boot directly to twrp after the flash with power + volume up (Skip the fastboot reboot step)
the simple way is to copy kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img to your sdcard
fastboot boot kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
now in twrp choose install / image / then choose kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
next choose reboot / recovery
you now have kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
from then on adb reboot recovery from android
or power + volume up will enter TWRP
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Tried this on my KIW-L21, as this is the only way I did not try it yet...
Did not work, unfortunately, I assume the OP could have the same problem as I already posted in the TWRP thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66678377&postcount=509
(It is a shame people spam this thread with unlocking problems, though)
EarlyMon mentioned something about dual recovery partitions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66838009&postcount=529
So regardless how many times I flash TWRP it wont stick until the next reboot to recovery, as it gets replaced by the stock one all the time.
I am thankful for every news on that topic and I would happily help(to the extent I am able to) getting TWRP back onto our phones :good:
P.S.: I am not quite sure if the OP has another problem in flashing the recovery, though.
Nekly said:
Tried this on my KIW-L21, as this is the only way I did not try it yet...
Did not work, unfortunately, I assume the OP could have the same problem as I already posted in the TWRP thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66678377&postcount=509
(It is a shame people spam this thread with unlocking problems, though)
EarlyMon mentioned something about dual recovery partitions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66838009&postcount=529
So regardless how many times I flash TWRP it wont stick until the next reboot to recovery, as it gets replaced by the stock one all the time.
I am thankful for every news on that topic and I would happily help(to the extent I am able to) getting TWRP back onto our phones :good:
P.S.: I am not quite sure if the OP has another problem in flashing the recovery, though.
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So you are booting TWRP
Installing / TWRP.Img in TWRP and Reboot recovery and your not booting to TWRP ?
Just my two cents into this thread: apparently (from my personal experience, and EarlyMon seems to back this up) the Honor 5X for whatever reason allows the installation of TWRP but still keeps Huawei's stock recovery in place, unlike most phones. What's more, it randomly (yeah, guessing it's not random obviously, but I don't have the slightest clue what the pattern might be) decides to boot into stock recovery while I use the same hardware keys that have continuously booted me into TWRP up until that point. This behavior led me to believe I had bricked my phone for a day, lol (I made a recent post about it on this forum, in case anyone cares).
Bottom line: if you can't boot into TWRP even though you made sure to install it correctly, try changing the key combo. Vol down + Power not working for you? Try Vol Up. Neither work? Try Vol Up + Down + Power. Spice it out and it might solve your problems.
clsA said:
So you are booting TWRP
Installing / TWRP.Img in TWRP and Reboot recovery and your not booting to TWRP ?
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That is correct:
Connected Phone to PC
ADB reboot bootloader
fastboot boot kiwi.img
install image kiwi.img
reboot recovery
Tada, Stock eMUI Recovery :[
I really had hoped it would do the trick, though.
Nekly said:
That is correct:
Connected Phone to PC
ADB reboot bootloader
fastboot boot kiwi.img
install image kiwi.img
reboot recovery
Tada, Stock eMUI Recovery :[
I really had hoped it would do the trick, though.
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what version of TWRP are you using ? whats the real file name ?
Has anyone tried flashing TWRP with TWRP Manager from the play store?
Sm0k3d 0uT said:
Has anyone tried flashing TWRP with TWRP Manager from the play store?
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Been there and done that. Same outcome.
clsA said:
what version of TWRP are you using ? whats the real file name ?
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The last approach was done with the one from the first post of the TWRP thread here on XDA(https://goo.gl/53xai9) "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img"
I also tried the TWRP images from https://twrp.me/devices/huaweihonor5x.html but always the same result.
I can try with a specific image, just give me a link and I'll try to flash it. :fingers-crossed:

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