My data was wiped when trying to boot into recovery - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
My data was wiped when trying to boot into recovery and I will tell you exactly what I did:
turned off my Lenovo Tab 10 device
holding "volume up" button and then "power" button at once
released power button after seeing Lenovo logo and hold "volume up" button until I saw Android logo and the text lower:
Wiping data... Format... or something like that. I really want to figure out what I did wrong because I don't want to accidentally lose my data again. And it's very weird that I didn't find any topic which is related with my problem.
P. S. before that I successfully booted into fastboot mode and unlocked bootloader.

pranciskus2 said:
hello,
my data was wiped when trying to boot into recovery and i will tell you exactly what i did:
Turned off my lenovo tab 10 device
holding "volume up" button and then "power" button at once
released power button after seeing lenovo logo and hold "volume up" button until i saw android logo and the text lower:
Wiping data... Format... Or something like that. I really want to figure out what i did wrong because i don't want to accidentally lose my data again. And it's very weird that i didn't find any topic which is related with my problem.
P. S. Before that i successfully booted into fastboot mode and unlocked bootloader.
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when you unlock bootloader in all devices they do a factory reset and every thing wil erased in bootloader unlock process it warn you in a message.

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Ive done following the steps by running RunMe.bat but no joy
Now my device is semi-bricked as it stucks in the lock-screen, slide-to-unlock leads to screen-lock
I couldn't get into recovery mode by doing:
1. Hold Reset key and power up, release reset key
2. Hold Power and vol+
3. Hold Power and vol-
Seeking advices for (un)rooting or at least normalize the situation
Thanks
I have the same issue, did you ever figure out what's wrong?
awdrifter said:
I have the same issue, did you ever figure out what's wrong?
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Are you still having this problem? I did the same to mine - You get into the recovery by doing the following:
Switch device on FIRST.
When the little Android logo shows, hold POWER + VOLUME UP for about 2 seconds, and then LET GO. You need to let go before the device switches itself back off again.
Once in recovery, do a Wipe User Data/Factory Reset. It looks like it freezes on Formatting /data but just leave it a while and it will move on. This fixed this problem for me (and when I booted up, device was rooted...!)
Having done the upgrade to 4.1 though, this same method no longer roots the device but also doesn't semi-brick it. Just reboots it a few times with no changes

Cant reboot recovery!

Hey guys,
Iv got a stock US tablet Z, SGP311 on 10.4.1.b.0.109
Iv tried holding power and volume + while booting to get into stock recovery, iv tried tapping Vol+ a few times while booting, iv tried holdin Vol+ for 3 seconds and then hitting power......i cant get this damn thing into recovery!
Can someone help??
Snazarian said:
Hey guys,
Iv got a stock US tablet Z, SGP311 on 10.4.1.b.0.109
Iv tried holding power and volume + while booting to get into stock recovery, iv tried tapping Vol+ a few times while booting, iv tried holdin Vol+ for 3 seconds and then hitting power......i cant get this damn thing into recovery!
Can someone help??
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There is no Recovery Mode in the XTZ's stock firmware. Here is how to access the available functions of the stock firmware.
1. Power On
Press and hold the POWER button until notification light flashes once, then release POWER button.
2. Power Off
Press and hold the POWER button until menu appears, then select "Power off" and "OK".
3. Restart
Restart device to turn off all running applications and to free up memory.
3.1. Simultaneously press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER buttons for 10 seconds.
3.2. After the notification light flashes three times, release the buttons.
3.3. The device will power off automatically.
3.4. After the device is powered off, power on the device.
4. Reset
Reset device to its original settings to free up memory.
Don't forget to back up any important data saved on the device!
4.1. Go to Settings > Backup & reset > Factory data reset > Reset tablet.
5. Enable Safe Mode
5.1. Power off the device.
5.2. Press and hold the POWER button until the notification light flashes once.
5.3. Wait until the Xperia™ logotype disappears.
5.4. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button.
5.5. The device will restart in Safe Mode.
5.6. To exit Safe Mode, restart the device.
6. Flash Mode
6.1. Power off the device.
6.2. Connect a USB cable to the device.
6.3. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button.
6.4. Connect the USB cable to a computer.
6.5. Wait until the notification light flashes red-green once, then release VOLUME DOWN button.
6.6. To exit Flash Mode, disconnect the USB cable.
7. Fastboot Mode.
7.1. Power off the device.
7.2. Connect a USB cable to the device.
7.3. Press and hold the VOLUME UP button.
7.4. Connect the USB cable to a computer.
7.5. Wait until the notification light flashes red then solid blue, then release VOLUME UP button.
7.6. To exit Fastboot Mode, disconnect the USB cable.
8. Service Menu
8.1. Start the Contacts app.
8.2. Go into Settings.
8.3. Touch the blank area at middle bottom of screen for at least five seconds then stop touching screen.
8.4. "Enter service mode" button will be displayed.
8.5. Press the "Enter service mode" button.
8.6. Enter *#*#7378423#*#* (*#*#SERVICE#*#*).
8.7. Service menu will be displayed.
8.Notes.1. Enter *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#INFO#*#*) to display testing information.
8.Notes.2. Enter *#*#73556673#*#* (*#*#SELLMORE#*#*) to toggle Demo Mode activation on/off. WARNING! Activating Demo Mode will delete all personal content (photos, etc.) and settings.
How do you flash CM then ?
Cat McGowan said:
There is no Recovery Mode in the XTZ's stock firmware.
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Thanks for telling ! I had been looking for this information for a long time.
Apparently, my service info says "bootloader unlock allowed: yes", I wonder if it means that I actually unlocked it or that the device would accept me to do it.
I moreover wonder how one can manage to install CM or root its device without using Recovery Mode. I saw on your signature you rooted your device. May I ask how you did that ?
ducasse.isidore said:
Thanks for telling ! I had been looking for this information for a long time.
Apparently, my service info says "bootloader unlock allowed: yes", I wonder if it means that I actually unlocked it or that the device would accept me to do it.
I moreover wonder how one can manage to install CM or root its device without using Recovery Mode. I saw on your signature you rooted your device. May I ask how you did that ?
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It means your bootloader CAN BE unlocked.
To install a ROM, such as CM, you first unlock your bootloader, then move the ROM zip to your device. After that, you flash the included kernel from the zip with fastboot. Then, you boot into the included recovery from the kernel and flash the whole ROM.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk
Felimenta97 said:
It means your bootloader CAN BE unlocked.
To install a ROM, such as CM, you first unlock your bootloader, then move the ROM zip to your device. After that, you flash the included kernel from the zip with fastboot. Then, you boot into the included recovery from the kernel and flash the whole ROM.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk
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I finally found a solution to my problem : I unlocked the device using flashtool-0.9.11's gui procedure, instead of flashtool's fastboot. It succeeded and I can successfully flash anything I want on the device.
I found your rational approach to my problem useful. It helped me isolate a solution. Thanks !
Hi there
I know this is an old thread. But my problem is same. I got this devide called sony experia tablet z lte ntt docomo x variant
My problem is that it got a lock screen and i have forgot the password. So i want to reset it.
But the problem is how do i do that, there isnt a recovery on this thing.
I was playing around with the buttons and i dont know how ,or which combination i pressed the tab booted to a factory reset screen but i wanst sure to reset that time so i exited from that and tablets lock screen appeared.
And now i cant figure out that how to do this again. Please help me
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Hi there
I know this is an old thread. But my problem is same. I got this devide called sony experia tablet z lte ntt docomo x variant
My problem is that it got a lock screen and i have forgot the password. So i want to reset it.
But the problem is how do i do that, there isnt a recovery on this thing.
I was playing around with the buttons and i dont know how ,or which combination i pressed the tab booted to a factory reset screen but i wanst sure to reset that time so i exited from that and tablets lock screen appeared.
And now i cant figure out that how to do this again. Please help me
......
Press and hold the Power and Volume Down keys for 10 seconds.
The device will reset and restart.

Xperia Z Tablet won't turn on, red LED.

tablet: Xperia z1 tablet, sgp311, lollipop 5.0.2
It stopped booting after I had wiped the Dalvik cache, system, data, cache and then TWRP(Custom recovery) asked my if I wanted to install super user and now my tablet wont turn on now, It has a red notification light but thats it. When I hold the power button and the volume up button all that appears is the sony screen then it turns off. If I hold the power button and volume up button for longer it does the three led flashes but then it just shuts down.
I can put my device into fastboot mode and access it using flashtool in fastboot but not flashmode.
Anyone have any suggestion on how to fix this?
you've wiped everything including android (system partiton) hence why its not booting.
to get it into flash mode make sure its turned off, then press and hold the volume down key while inserting the usb cable. is your bootloader unlocked? (guess it must be if youve flashed TWRP)
podycust said:
you've wiped everything including android (system partiton) hence why its not booting.
to get it into flash mode make sure its turned off, then press and hold the volume down key while inserting the usb cable. is your bootloader unlocked? (guess it must be if youve flashed TWRP)
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Thanks I managed to flash android 5.1.1 onto my device, I downloaded it through flashtool.

Can't power up the phone directly to the system with power key

Hello
Only way to start Android in flashed Moto E xt1021 is going to bootloader mode and selecting "Normal Powerup", otherwise it boots to TWRP.
With the phone power off, then
pressing and holding the power key,
the "bootloader unlocked" warning appears, then
releasing the power key,
TWRP starts.
I tried flashing these two roms:
Cyanogenmod cm-13.0-20160708-NIGHTLY-condor.zip
Stock XT1021_Retail_US_51_Optimized_v1.0a_Non-Deodexed.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/development/rom-stock-motorola-lollipop-rom-t3167111
Tried flashing with latest TWRP and Cyanogenmod recovery but the problem is always the same. Can't power the system directly with the power key.
Please tell me any hint on how to solve this
Must add that originally I ota upgraded to lollipop then unlocked the phone and flashed it.
I can't find how to boot the phone directly to system, reflashed many times and nothing...
Any ideas??
Nothing?

LG G5 can't boot into recovery.

Hey everyone (Again),
So i managed to unlock the bootloader and everything went smoothly but I flashed my recovery i can't get into it now it comes up with an error message everytime i try to get into recovery it says ' Your software cannot be checked for corruption' any way to get rid of this or do i have to re- lock the bootloader just to fix it and get recovery working.
Thanks again.
Anyone?
ZuneYT said:
Hey everyone (Again),
So i managed to unlock the bootloader and everything went smoothly but I flashed my recovery i can't get into it now it comes up with an error message everytime i try to get into recovery it says ' Your software cannot be checked for corruption' any way to get rid of this or do i have to re- lock the bootloader just to fix it and get recovery working.
Thanks again.
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That's not an error message, that's the message you'll see every bit if you unlock the bootloader. Do NOT relock your bootloader after installing custom recovery. Also to get into recovery (provided you installed it correctly and it wasn't erased after it booted info Android) is to turn your phone off (or pull battery) and then hold volume down & power button, one you see the LG logo let go of the power button only (still hold volume down) for about 1 second and then press the power button again and hope (never let go of volume down). It will ask you if you want to reset your phone, select yes two times and you will enter TWRP. If it actually resets your phone, TWRP isn't installed. Usually after installing TWRP you need to pull battery then use above method to boot into recovery, mount system partition and use TWRP file manner to delete come named "recovery from boot.p". You can also go ahead and install SuperSU or magisk (use magisk if you need to be able to pass safety net). Hopefully this helps you, also next time please include what model phone you have and what steps exactly you did as it's easier for others to attempt to help you.
Mines a H850 running nougat as well but thats the only thing it wont boot to recovery because when i hold down the volume down button and the power button the lg logo shows up but then after 4 seconds that google message will pop up and that gets in the way of doing the method to get onto recovery thats my problem
ZuneYT said:
Mines a H850 running nougat as well but thats the only thing it wont boot to recovery because when i hold down the volume down button and the power button the lg logo shows up but then after 4 seconds that google message will pop up and that gets in the way of doing the method to get onto recovery thats my problem
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You have to follow exactly what I posted earlier. If you do that, it will show the factory reset screen which is you have TWRP installed, it will not into TWRP.
1) Power off phone
2) Press and hold volume down (do not let go until you see factory reset screen)
3) Press and hold power button, when you see LG logo, let go of power button for 1 second and then press and hold again.
If you do not follow step 3, you'll never be able to boot to recovery using button combo, it will just go to that message and then boot into Android.
jeffsga88 said:
You have to follow exactly what I posted earlier. If you do that, it will show the factory reset screen which is you have TWRP installed, it will not into TWRP.
1) Power off phone
2) Press and hold volume down (do not let go until you see factory reset screen)
3) Press and hold power button, when you see LG logo, let go of power button for 1 second and then press and hold again.
If you do not follow step 3, you'll never be able to boot to recovery using button combo, it will just go to that message and then boot into Android.
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Thanks for that! I got it working cheers
I'm actually having a similar issue too.
To clarify, I'm using a LG G5 (h830 variant) that is running resurrection remix.
I remember getting into recovery just to flash the updated modem and bootloader zips so I can fix the issue with powering off the device.
Now I noticed after doing that, I cannot get into recovery either with rebooting or with the button combo.
Thankfully I am rooted with magisk and this is probably the first time that I encountered this issue.
I don't want to further risk anything (because my phone is set up and don't want to lose any data) but would flashing twrp through the official app work just fine?
jeffsga88 said:
That's not an error message, that's the message you'll see every bit if you unlock the bootloader. Do NOT relock your bootloader after installing custom recovery. Also to get into recovery (provided you installed it correctly and it wasn't erased after it booted info Android) is to turn your phone off (or pull battery) and then hold volume down & power button, one you see the LG logo let go of the power button only (still hold volume down) for about 1 second and then press the power button again and hope (never let go of volume down). It will ask you if you want to reset your phone, select yes two times and you will enter TWRP. If it actually resets your phone, TWRP isn't installed. Usually after installing TWRP you need to pull battery then use above method to boot into recovery, mount system partition and use TWRP file manner to delete come named "recovery from boot.p". You can also go ahead and install SuperSU or magisk (use magisk if you need to be able to pass safety net). Hopefully this helps you, also next time please include what model phone you have and what steps exactly you did as it's easier for others to attempt to help you.
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YOU SAVE MY LIFE!!!
i ran fastboot oem lock with custom firmware and the phone did not boot anymore and also does not enter in recovery mode
after 3 days installing many types of firmwares with this simple reset metod the phone boot again! :good::good::good::good:
jeffsga88 said:
You have to follow exactly what I posted earlier. If you do that, it will show the factory reset screen which is you have TWRP installed, it will not into TWRP.
1) Power off phone
2) Press and hold volume down (do not let go until you see factory reset screen)
3) Press and hold power button, when you see LG logo, let go of power button for 1 second and then press and hold again.
If you do not follow step 3, you'll never be able to boot to recovery using button combo, it will just go to that message and then boot into Android.
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I know this is old,Just wanted to say thank it worked for me...
Been a while since I used LG and never with official bootloader unlock so I was thrown off by resetting to recovery as at first i never had the lg screen just the bootloader warning start
For those T-Mo G5 (H830) with unlocked bootloader, you will not see any LG logo. Once you see the lcd backlight comes on, immediately release the power button and press it again, all the while holding down the vol down button.
When you see the bootloader unlocked phone is unsafe msg by LG on the screen, it will already be too late and past the stage where you can boot to recovery. Simply power down and redo in that case.
(Needed to do the above as the latest Magisk 20.0 broke root and adb on H830, thus there was no way to get into recovery other than using the physical buttons. The Magisk Canary version of 20.1 works though.)

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