I tried to install a KitKat Rom but ended up having my One boot up and reboot to recovery. Unfortunately I decided not to make a backup because I felt I had gone through the motions enough times to know what I was doing, and now I can only boot to the Rom that won't work. I found another rom that I used before sitting in my computer, but I can't seem to use adb to push it (unless I'm doing it wrong) into my phone's storage so I can use recovery to boot into it. Help!
TunedTimbre said:
I tried to install a KitKat Rom but ended up having my One boot up and reboot to recovery. Unfortunately I decided not to make a backup because I felt I had gone through the motions enough times to know what I was doing, and now I can only boot to the Rom that won't work. I found another rom that I used before sitting in my computer, but I can't seem to use adb to push it (unless I'm doing it wrong) into my phone's storage so I can use recovery to boot into it. Help!
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First kitkat roms require s-off and the newest version of TWRP 2.6.3.3
so you can update your recovery and get s-off and reflash the kitkat or you can push the old rom you have to the phone.
http://rumrunner.us/ for s-off
recovery is here - http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m7
ADB Push from Recovery
adb push rom.zip /data/media/0/
the file you push must be in the same directory as ADB
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I had a mt3g and was always able to get to recovery manually. I recently bought a vibrant, rooted using adb, installed clockwork mod recovery, and did a nandroid. I am unable to get recovery manually. Ive tried every combo of vol^ volv that I could find on these posts. Im ready to start having fun, but am worried for this reason. Any help would be appreciated. Heres my question.
If I start flashing, and my phone gets stuck (vibrant screen, galaxy screen, bootloop, etc.), is there any way I can get recovery without having to do it manually? Would I be able to reboot recovery with adb without mounting? Is there's any other way?
Also, if there is a way, how do I get into clockwork mod recovery so I can restore with nadroid? Would I have to have clockworkmod update zip on my sd and reinstall packages thru stock recovery first? Thank you for any help. Im lost!
make sure you have your clockwork recovery on the root of the internal memory and have it named update.zip
open terminal or command prompt and type adb shell. you will get $ type su to get # type reboot recovery then when in samsung recovery select reinstall packages and you will be in clockwork.
Ok, so I can do this on the computer even though the phone can't be mounted? It will recognize the devise and reboot anyway? Sorry, I'm new to adb.
My recovery image seems to be messed up since I can't boot into it. My phone will boot but everytime it does ADW crashes over and over not allowing me to do anything. What can I do to go about getting the recovery fixed again and reflashing to try to smooth everything out?
*Edit*.I think I may have thought of a work around. I emailed my self the launcherpro.apk and installed it through gmail. Now I can access my phone. Now I just need to flash a working recovery..
I do appreciate your help though Riley.
You can try downloading ADW Launcher, putting it on your SD card and boot from recovery, then flash the launcher. It is a far shot, but if launcher is the only problem, maybe reflashing it will do the trick.
** EDIT ** My apologies. I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to a corrupted recovery image that you had made of your ROM!
You say you can't boot into recovery/ what's your phone do or say when trying to boo4 in recovery? You may have to push new recovery image via fastboot.
CGriffiths86 said:
My recovery image seems to be messed up since I can't boot into it. My phone will boot but everytime it does ADW crashes over and over not allowing me to do anything. What can I do to go about getting the recovery fixed again and reflashing to try to smooth everything out?
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If you have USB debugging turned on you can flash Amon_RA via an adb shell using the flash_image tool - exactly the way the original Eris rooting process worked. With your phone looping, it will run very slowly, but will still succeed.
If you have the S-OFF bootloader installed, you can flash the recovery with fastboot.
I'll have an XDA admin move this thread to the Q&A forum.
Ok guys..I got launcher pro installed so I can actually access my phone now. I attempted to Flash a recovery with Rom Manager and it says it succeeds but it will never boot into it. I do have the bootloader with the "off". Is there a market app or something that can easily flash the recovery? I only ask because I am not at my PC with the android sdk stuff.
CGriffiths86 said:
Ok guys..I got launcher pro installed so I can actually access my phone now. I attempted to Flash a recovery with Rom Manager and it says it succeeds but it will never boot into it. I do have the bootloader with the "off". Is there a market app or something that can easily flash the recovery? I only ask because I am not at my PC with the android sdk stuff.
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If you can't get to a PC to use adb, you could use a root shell in a terminal emulator to flash recovery using flash_image. That's kind of painful/tedious though - almost enough so to make it worth your while to just wait until you get back to your PC.
It is technically feasible to put together a flashable ROM to re-flash the recovery, but I'm not aware of anyone having done so for the Eris.
Oh ok..well I have RA Eris 1.6.2 recovery on my sd card. So I can just flash it via the termninal emulator, right?
** I tried to install via terminal and it says "header is the same, not flashing recovery". Do you think I could install the stock Eris recovery and reflash Amon's?
UPDATE!!: I got a recovery to flash..YAY..thanks guys
CGriffiths86 said:
Oh ok..well I have RA Eris 1.6.2 recovery on my sd card. So I can just flash it via the termninal emulator, right?
** I tried to install via terminal and it says "header is the same, not flashing recovery". Do you think I could install the stock Eris recovery and reflash Amon's?
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are you using "flash_image"? If so, where is it from? To my knowledge (the statically linked version from Amon_RA - /sbin/flash_image) is a pretty simplistic program - it performs no checks, and will let you flash total garbage to any named partition on your phone. (Which is why you should verify the md5 of the recovery image before you flash it, BTW; you can use the AFV app for that)
so I have the latest software, used the HTC unlock method, was rooted and had the TWRP recovery working just fine, I'm an idiot and flashed the CM recovery through RM and of course it didn't work, so I've tried every which way I can find to re-flash the TWRP and even tried flashing AMON but it will not go into recovery with any of them after it says it successfully wrote the recovery.
TWRP and CM just wait for a minute then reboot normal, AMON reboots then sits at the HTC screen... forever and i have to pull the battery.
I tried uninstalling RM to see if it was F'ing with it, didn't matter.
not sure what to try next to get a working recovery back onto the phone, I'm still rooted just running the stock ROM, I had loaded an alternate ROM successfully last week, just didn't like it. So I know all is 'working' as expected I just F'd up the recovery part now
any help??
afaik if you used the HTC unlock you need to fastboot flash it, or maybe hboot zip it? What have you tried so far?
I've tried using fastboot to flash amon and TWRP, same result
tried doing TWRP as a zip as well
what's weird is each method seems to "work" i get that it's pushing, writing, completed, no errors with any of them but then it just won't go into recovery and if i change to different recoveries I get different reboot behaviors just none of them work.
that's where I'm stuck, I feel like I've tried all the methods it just refuses to actually go into recovery when it's loaded.
another thing I thought was weird though, when I reflashed TWRP, and then go into RM it would say at the top that I had the latest version of CM installed like it didn't take? I uninstalled RM and tried it all again, same result.
morellox said:
I've tried using fastboot to flash amon and TWRP, same result
tried doing TWRP as a zip as well
what's weird is each method seems to "work" i get that it's pushing, writing, completed, no errors with any of them but then it just won't go into recovery and if i change to different recoveries I get different reboot behaviors just none of them work.
that's where I'm stuck, I feel like I've tried all the methods it just refuses to actually go into recovery when it's loaded.
another thing I thought was weird though, when I reflashed TWRP, and then go into RM it would say at the top that I had the latest version of CM installed like it didn't take? I uninstalled RM and tried it all again, same result.
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*my opinion*
delete rom manager
boot into recovery using adb
"adb reboot recovery"
or terminal emulator
"reboot recovery"
or the app "quickboot"
does that work?
I've tried all those except Quickboot... *trying now......*
annnnnd
same thing with the app...
I'm thinking at this point I almost need to just write everything over again? use a flashable zip in the bootloader and just have it write everything over again, I was going to do a new rom anyways bored with the stock again.
so I need to find that I guess? re-write everything go back to fresh and start over
1. Make sure u r not flashing CDMA recovery over a GSM device, or vice versa.
2. How did u get ur device rooted in the first place?
3. Last resort, relock ur device and apply the correct RUU, then unlock and root again.
Sent from my HTC EVO 3D X515m using XDA App
1) good there
2) I followed a tutuorial where I pushed the recovery and the SU file after doing the HTC official unlock method, worked great at first, I'm the idiot that pushed the CM recovery over top of it and now I can't get a working recovery back on.
3) do I really have to relock first, I've seen the simple tutorial on doing so, I was hoping maybe I could find an all in one flashable ROM that would at least get me back to operational on all partitions and then re-work that one with a new ROM later or something, not possible?
This is of no help to you but - I had the same error. TWRP v1.0.3. I tried everything in the book to get it to work... but got stuck at the HTC splash screen like you. And I tried installing the 1.13 PG86IMG and then my device turned off while installing the PG86IMG (it was fully charged during flashing, I checked). Be careful with what you do.
I was unlocked with AlphaRev's tool, running my own ROM.
mine hung like that if i flashed AMON, but i could still pull the battery and go back into the bootloader to flash at least TRWP using FastBoot so I could get back into the phone
ugh
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mine hung like that if i flashed AMON, but i could still pull the battery and go back into the bootloader to flash at least TRWP using FastBoot so I could get back into the phone
ugh
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htc unlock method has proven to be a bit shady for the community in that it doesnt allow all the features/functions the revolutionary (and prior unrevoked) unlock method does.
most developers unlocked with revolutionary and haven't performed the htc unlock method so it has been hard to gather technical details on the htc unlock method.
one item we can eliminate in the effort to narrow down your issue: there is no working Amon RA recovery for the EVO 3D. not sure where you obtained Amon RA recovery. TWRP was created to pick up the torch from the Amon RA recovery as he retired from developing his recovery to support emmc devices.
stick to either flashing the twrp or cwm recovery images. there are only a handful of ways to load a custom recovery and only a handful of ways to boot the device into recovery mode.
i'd follow a logical pattern and work your way through the avaiable options. by following the available options one step at a time you should be able to narrow down which methods work and don't work. sorry it has been difficult as this htc unlock method is newer to the community we aren't as familiar with it as we are the revolutionary method.
ways to flash a custom recovery:
1) fastboot - fastboot flash recovery c:\downloads\recovery.img
2) bootloader - PG86IMG.zip file containing recovery.img and android-info.txt
3) flash_image - while in normal android mode (my app Flash Image GUI works well for this)
ways to boot into recovery mode:
1) turn device completely off and unplug USB. vol down + pwr loads bootloader. select recovery from the menu
2) from android mode: adb shell reboot recovery
3) from android mode: use a 3rd party app like quick boot.
this is all off the top of my head so it might not be an *exhaustive* list but it should cover all the common approaches. hope that helps and keep us updated! good luck!
damn...
I really appreciate everyone's help here I've been a part of various forums for a REALLY REALLY long time... from the days of Nextel, then I was a Palm Lover for a few years and now Android.
this obviously isn't urgent as my phone is working just fine, I just can't flash a new ROM since I can't get any recoveries working.
unfortunately I'm pretty sure I've tried all the methods listed above, I'm going to probably sit down sometime this weekend and systematically go through each method one more time just to be sure. TWRP worked for me just fine in the beginning, I flashed a ROM more than once, reverted back to my old ROM, made back ups, cleared cache's all the stuff I'd need to do.
thanks everyone, I'll keep trying
and no one knows of a flashable 'rom' that would have all the different partitions included in a zip or something like that? like.... what is in place of recovery in a stock phone? I can always unroot and start over but I did use the HTC unlock method so I hope that even works
got one to work! followed this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239455
I don't have much experience rooting, but what I did was unlock hboot 2.09.0000 so far, with twrp installed to recovery, but I tried to flash beanstalk and grappa subsequently without rebooting and I think that might have caused it to not work. In the process of trying to fix the boot loop, I also wiped all data, including my backup for the stock rom. Therefor I do not know how to get a new rom onto my phone. I have a folder with adb, fastboot, adbwinapi.dll, and the beanstalk and grapps. I tried typing adb push "beanstalk file name here" /sdcard and that doesn't seem to do anything. It just gives me a big list of adb commands. Any ideas?
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I don't have much experience rooting, but what I did was unlock hboot 2.09.0000 so far, with twrp installed to recovery, but I tried to flash beanstalk and grappa subsequently without rebooting and I think that might have caused it to not work. In the process of trying to fix the boot loop, I also wiped all data, including my backup for the stock rom. Therefor I do not know how to get a new rom onto my phone. I have a folder with adb, fastboot, adbwinapi.dll, and the beanstalk and grapps. I tried typing adb push "beanstalk file name here" /sdcard and that doesn't seem to do anything. It just gives me a big list of adb commands. Any ideas?
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It looks like you didn't get S-off yet. If you haven't, your issue is that you didn't push the kernel in with ADB. There is no real reason to not go S-off, go get it and then flash whatever you want. If you don't want to do the S-off then you need to learn how to push the kernel in before you flash a ROM that requires it, and Beanstalk requires it since it is CM based.
Since you're on hboot 2.09 there are two you could use for S-off:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321072
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498684
To get a working Rom on your phone, download meanbean (s-on friendly) to your pc. Boot your phone into recovery and connect to your pc. Select mount in TWRP and mount usb storage. You should see your phone on your pc. Drag the Rom to your phone then unmount, install the Rom with TWRP. That should get you up and running. Then get yourself s-off. Life is easier.
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So I just got my One a few days ago and decided to root, unlock my bootloader, and flash a new rom. I unlocked, rooted, flashed twrp recovery and before I flashed a new rom, i wiped and ended up removing the roms from storage. Now i have no os to boot up into. No way to transfer a rom to the phone because clockwork and twrp dont support usb storage, adb sideload keeps failing, and ruu's wont install...on stock 4.3 ota from att....plz help.....
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So I just got my One a few days ago and decided to root, unlock my bootloader, and flash a new rom. I unlocked, rooted, flashed twrp recovery and before I flashed a new rom, i wiped and ended up removing the roms from storage. Now i have no os to boot up into. No way to transfer a rom to the phone because clockwork and twrp dont support usb storage, adb sideload keeps failing, and ruu's wont install...on stock 4.3 ota from att....plz help.....
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I use a usb OTG in TWRP almost everyday
and if sideload is failing it's likely because you don't have the drivers installed properly
and so you know the unlock is what wiped the phone not TWRP (unless you choose advanced and selected to wipe the sdcard which no one does)
get you drivers working
to test from recovery on the phone and command on the PC do adb devices and make sure you device is listed.
then in twrp you choose advanced/adb sideload
Connect phone to PC
Open command line where you have the file of ROM assuming you have ADB in Path of system, if you have not just copy the ROM to same place you have ADB files.
Type:
adb devices
(verify you phone are detect)
adb sideload name_of_the_rom_file.zip
(Wait the file is transfered to phone and recovery flash)
jm5503 said:
So I just got my One a few days ago and decided to root, unlock my bootloader, and flash a new rom. I unlocked, rooted, flashed twrp recovery and before I flashed a new rom, i wiped and ended up removing the roms from storage. Now i have no os to boot up into. No way to transfer a rom to the phone because clockwork and twrp dont support usb storage, adb sideload keeps failing, and ruu's wont install...on stock 4.3 ota from att....plz help.....
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Thank you....
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