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help nexus bricked

then after flashed cyanogen 5.0.4.1 with baked goods the phone can not load more than the system then I wanted to do a wipe and then a restore with the recovery of Amon_Re but the phone did not enter recovery more! I have left the x colored with the sign of the lock at the bottom ... how can I do?
sorry for my bad english
p.s. i can use fastboot and the bootloader is unlocked

Huh? If you can still boot into bootloader, it's probably not bricked.
I'm not sure I understand you, either. Did you flash the recovery or not? Do you mean that when you tried to navigate to recovery, the phone didn't? Idgi.

grainysand said:
Huh? If you can still boot into bootloader, it's probably not bricked.
I'm not sure I understand you, either. Did you flash the recovery or not? Do you mean that when you tried to navigate to recovery, the phone didn't? Idgi.
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i flashed recovery...but today when i tried to do a wipe then phone didin't go in recovery

Have you turned off the phone, take out the battery and insert it again if you must, then hold the trackball down while pushing the start button on top of the phone?
If you get into a white menu press the start button again, wait for a while, then scroll down to "Recovery" with the volume down button, then press the start button. After a while the Amon_Ra Recovery console starts and you can do whatever you want.
//P

pickles said:
Have you turned off the phone, take out the battery and insert it again if you must, then hold the trackball down while pushing the start button on top of the phone?
If you get into a white menu press the start button again, wait for a while, then scroll down to "Recovery" with the volume down button, then press the start button. After a while the Amon_Ra Recovery console starts and you can do whatever you want.
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the problem is that Amon_RA recovery doesn't start

iDance°-->ra1n said:
the problem is that Amon_RA recovery doesn't start
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try to reflash the recovery image

Stea1thmode said:
try to reflash the recovery image
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doesn't work
damn

iDance°-->ra1n said:
doesn't work
damn
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as long as you can still get into bootloader, all is not lost.
you may need to start from afresh,
try a full wipe,
reflash the original images
boot.img
recovery.img
system.img
then you should be good to go,

Problably a bad download. Try downloading amonRa recovery again and fastboot flash recovery recovery you know the rest.If that doesn't work type adb reboot recovery.

Hi
Don't worry it is not bricked. Exact senario happened to me yesterday and this is what I did to correct the problem:
-I left the phone as it was (X+Padlock screen) till battery was discharged.
-Put it on charger
-Press "volume down+Power button" at the same time.
-That will take you to "Recovery" console.
-Restore
-Wipe
-Reflash
My N1 is working like new with the Desire Rom (MoDaCo).

...why do that (discharge battery completely etc) when you can just use an adb command to reboot into recovery?

grainysand said:
...why do that (discharge battery completely etc) when you can just use an adb command to reboot into recovery?
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Exactly. And if you were worried about some strange battery state, simply wipe the battery stats from recovery.
So orig poster, what ever came from this?

go into bootloader then type
fastboot boot recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img
If you can get into the bootloader that should work. if not then you somehow got a damanged recovery image so type after you redownload it.
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img

Recovery problems with 1.33.0004 (Blank screen - black screen)

Hello and sorry for my bad english.
I was using an HTC magic 32B before getting my nexus one.
Recently I decided to give the magic to my girlfriend to remplace her old nokia.
My magic was on custom rom (Super D 1.8) but, when I want to do a hard reset, the phone just reboot.
So I tried to go to the recovery (amon ra custom recovery) to wipe or change the rom to a most recent.
And, instead of having the recovery i have a black screen, juste have to reboot the by pulling out the battery.
Also, when the phone boot i've first the "SFR" logo and then, instead of the bootimage i've only an black screen, juste the time of the bootimage, after that, i juste have to presse the menu button to wake up the device.
I don't understand what it happens bescause before getting my N1 it was working fine...
Juste see on a video i've done, a part of second before pin code asking, there is the "android" displaying...
I can't post the video cause i'm new membre
I hope someone here avec an answer !
Thanks to all the XDA comunity

gniouki said:
Hello and sorry for my bad english.
I was using an HTC magic 32B before getting my nexus one.
Recently I decided to give the magic to my girlfriend to remplace her old nokia.
My magic was on custom rom (Super D 1.8) but, when I want to do a hard reset, the phone just reboot.
So I tried to go to the recovery (amon ra custom recovery) to wipe or change the rom to a most recent.
And, instead of having the recovery i have a black screen, juste have to reboot the by pulling out the battery.
Also, when the phone boot i've first the "SFR" logo and then, instead of the bootimage i've only an black screen, juste the time of the bootimage, after that, i juste have to presse the menu button to wake up the device.
I don't understand what it happens bescause before getting my N1 it was working fine...
I hope someone here avec an answer !
Thanks to all the XDA comunity
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Kind of a strange problem.
Does the phone boot up still?
Did you try reflashing your recovery image? (flash_image recovery recovery.img)
if not
can you get into fastboot?
if so then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img from the command prompt of your pc.
Good luck.

Hello,
thanks for you answer.
I've tried to flash the recovery but didn't works.
I don't try the fastboot mod but I don't have the phone with me for the moment.
I'll try ASAP.
video : youtube.com/watch?v=RJmXjV8E4jw
edit : ok I asked to my girlfriend to try, fastboot works.

gniouki said:
Hello,
thanks for you answer.
I've tried to flash the recovery but didn't works.
I don't try the fastboot mod but I don't have the phone with me for the moment.
I'll try ASAP.
video : youtube.com/watch?v=RJmXjV8E4jw
edit : ok I asked to my girlfriend to try, fastboot works.
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Then we have a shot.
Procedure
1.Turn your phone off. Turn it on by holding Back and Power, or Vol. down and Power. Either way, boot into the bootloader.
You should see the three Androids on skateboards, and the menu title should say "Fastboot".
2.Connect your device to the computer. The display on your phone should now say "Fastboot USB".
3.Open up the shell/terminal on your computer, and type
fastboot devices [enter]Your device should be listed with it's serial number, and should say "fastboot".
4.Change directory to where you have saved your recovery image. I.e. type "cd /path/to/recovery.img in windows prompt, press enter.
5.You may issue a "dir" command (Windows) or "ls" (Unix/Linux) to make sure you are at the right directory, or just skip this step.
6.Type
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img [enter]
Check your phone's display, as recovery is being sent and flashed to your device.
Check your command prompt/shell to make sure the process is over.
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Thanks a lot.
I try it as soon as possible and will post here to say if has work.
Thanks again, I love XDA community

Hello again,
when i try to flash recovery via fastboot i've got this message :
remote: signature verify fail.
I've the 1.7.0G amon ra recovery and a 32B magic with Hboot 1.33.0004
When i try to run the recovery with : fastboot boot recovery.img i've got a reboot, SFR logo and black screen.
Could you help me with these information ?
Thanks

gniouki said:
Hello again,
when i try to flash recovery via fastboot i've got this message :
remote: signature verify fail.
I've the 1.7.0G amon ra recovery and a 32B magic with Hboot 1.33.0004
When i try to run the recovery with : fastboot boot recovery.img i've got a reboot, SFR logo and black screen.
Could you help me with these information ?
Thanks
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Okay... I think that you need the Engineering SPL because right now you should see SHIP S-ON G on your screen. That means it's the standard SPL. To modify anything you need the Engineering SPL. In this case I think you need 2004 from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529019 but to do that you may need to create a goldcard.
So just to verify with you, you cannot boot up your phone at all and you cannot access recovery? What do you get when you connect it to your computer, boot it up and type adb devices in the command prompt?
Also try starting the phone while holding MENU. This sometimes helps.

Thanks for your answer, i don't have the phone in my hands now, i'll ask to my girlfriend to boot it with home.
Adb devices didn't recognize my device.
edit : booting with home holding down bring me à black screen, certainly the "invisible" recovery.

gniouki said:
Thanks for your answer, i don't have the phone in my hands now, i'll ask to my girlfriend to boot it with home.
Adb devices didn't recognize my device.
edit : booting with home holding down bring me à black screen, certainly the "invisible" recovery.
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There is no such thing as an invisible recovery.
It is possible that your recovery was deleted or corrupted.
If you did have a recovery you would still be able to access the device through adb. All you would need to do is place Amon_Ra recovery.img (G) onto your sdcard with another phone or adapter, place it into your damaged device and boot it into your "invisible recovery" and use adb shell devices in command prompt. If you do have a recovery image installed (but no text) you should see your device. If not then you will probably have to start over with the goldcard. If it does detect your device then all you need to do is mount /sdcardflash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (or whatever it's called)

Okay thanks, I'll try this ASAP.
I could put the recovery on the SD directly from the phone, right ?
Cause the phone could boot, just that I can't see recovery, do an hard reset and see the bootimage.

gniouki said:
Okay thanks, I'll try this ASAP.
I could put the recovery on the SD directly from the phone, right ?
Cause the phone could boot, just that I can't see recovery, do an hard reset and see the bootimage.
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Wait! What? If the phone boots then simply put the recovery file on your sdcard and run flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img from adb shell
-or-
from terminal on your phone
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I'll try it,
how can i acces to the terminal of the phone ?
Thanks

gniouki said:
I'll try it,
how can i acces to the terminal of the phone ?
Thanks
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Through teminal emulator?

Ok, done it from the terminal emulator on the phone, seems working but still booting on a black screen

gniouki said:
Ok, done it from the terminal emulator on the phone, seems working but still booting on a black screen
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So you boot up your phone while holding the Home button and it gives you a plane black screen with absolutely NOTHING on it at all?
Hmmm... I would have to say that the next step is either:
Try a different recovery such as Clockwork
Start completely over with the Goldcard
Other than that... I really don't know.

This is exactly that, pressing home while phone is starting gives me a black screen with nothing on it.
I'll try another recovery and will see later for the goldcard.
thanks

gniouki said:
This is exactly that, pressing home while phone is starting gives me a black screen with nothing on it.
I'll try another recovery and will see later for the goldcard.
thanks
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Sounds good. Good luck.

Flashed the clockwork recovery and when trying to launch recovery it stuck on the SFR logo but normal boot still working
Edit : Using ROM Manager app it says that the clockwork recovery is installed...

Bump. I have no clue then man. I can't understand why all of a sudden you have nothing more than a blank (black) screen for recovery. The only thing left for you to try is the goldcard method. It will put your phone right back to the way that it was out of the box. Unrooted and everything. It'll be starting over from square one.
In fact, I rooted a friend Fender last night and I forgot how easy it was once you already had the goldcard. Simply:
place the card into the card slot,
reboot into bootloader,
press the back button and let it do it's thing.
Afterwards reboot the phone to bootloader again
go to fastboot mode and
fastboot flash radio radio.img,
fastboot flash hboot hboot.nb0,
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img.
Then power off the device.
Hold Home and power the device back on and Voila! You should have a recovery screen.
If that doesn't work... well... I would have to see it to believe it.
For details and links to create a goldcard just Google it. Easy to find.

Something I don't understand is that ROM Manager recognize my recovery ... so I've a recovery and it's realy invisible cause i've got this black screen ...

[Q] bricked g2 upon custom rec overy

ok so i wanted to flash clockwork 3.0 but i was still running cm 6.1.1 and now i am stuck at the htc boot screen. i also cant get into recovery please i am begging for help.

please someone i really need help i obviously cant use my warranty obviously so please help me restore this or just get it back to working without a root anything

Dont worry pal.
OK,... AFAIK...... If you have flashed ClockworkRecovery 3, the only ROMs that will work are the 2.3 ROMs,... If you are trying to boot up a 2.2 ROM, it is likely to bootloop.
So boot back into recovery, full wipes, then flash a 2.3 ROM,... If that is what you were planning to do.
If you want to keep your 2.2 ROM on,... flash back to an older Clockwork Recovery,... then try to boot? If you get boot loops, try wiping cache and try again. If it still fails I would just do a fresh flash of your ROM again,... Remember full wipes 1st.

wileykat said:
Dont worry pal.
OK,... AFAIK...... If you have flashed ClockworkRecovery 3, the only ROMs that will work are the 2.3 ROMs,... If you are trying to boot up a 2.2 ROM, it is likely to bootloop.
So boot back into recovery, full wipes, then flash a 2.3 ROM,... If that is what you were planning to do.
If you want to keep your 2.2 ROM on,... flash back to an older Clockwork Recovery,... then try to boot? If you get boot loops, try wiping cache and try again. If it still fails I would just do a fresh flash of your ROM again,... Remember full wipes 1st.
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the thing was i couldnt even get into recovery because i was running 6.1.1 while on cw3 but i hit simlock from fastboot and that worked but thanks

rajbaba2 said:
please someone i really need help i obviously cant use my warranty obviously so please help me restore this or just get it back to working without a root anything
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Can you boot into Hboot screen (phone off then volume-down + power)? If yes try to select recovery from the Hboot screen, it should reboot into recovery, if it doesn't and something is wrong with your recovery, Do you have an Eng. Hboot? , if yes do you have Andriod SDK set up and fastboot? If yes, boot into Hboot, select fastboot from the options, then plug in your usb. Once your device is recognized by fastboot:
Code:
fastboot devices
should return a serial number + "fastboot"
then reflash ClockWorkMod Recovery 2.5.1.3( you can download it from here:http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html then place the ClockWorkMod Recovery 2.5.1.3( make sure its named recovery.img) into the tools folder in AndriodSDk where Fastboot is located, then run the command :
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
once rebooted your probably gonna be stuck at the HTC screen again, pull the battery, then Volume-down+ power back into Hboot, then select recovery from Hboot screen and it sholud reboot into ClockworkMod recovery, then reflash the rom of your choice.

thanks but i already fixed it by pressing sim lock and i have no idea why that worked and i should probably set up adb now right?

rajbaba2 said:
thanks but i already fixed it by pressing sim lock and i have no idea why that worked and i should probably set up adb now right?
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I would if you haven't.
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Rooted + S-OFF phone ignores 'boot into recovery'

Hi all,
I've followed the howtos in their entirety(temp root > permroot > one click S-OFF > ROM manager > boot into recovery)
I don't get the red triangle warning when attempting to boot into recovery from ROM manager, what it does is it simply will boot normally, not matter how many times I re-flash RM recovery!
Any ideas?

First, check out the link in my signature, and try not to skip anything.
Second, and this might help you, disable fast boot from settings> applications> fast boot. Power off your phone. While holding down volume down key press the power button until you enter bootloader. I'm not exactly a pro here, but booting into recovery with Rom Manager (considering you actually flashed the recovery from it) should be done after turning radio s-off AND eng s-off. Once again, check the guide in my sig

I followed your guide, and I have permroot. It just will ignore any command to enter recovery mode, even though I can enter bootloader fine.

In rom manager, the first button you can press is flash recovery. do that. after it is flashed you can boot into the recorvery

I've pressed that button many times. It says 'completed successfully', but then reboots and boots up normally.

Are you sure you turned Fastboot off?

shivan82 said:
I've pressed that button many times. It says 'completed successfully', but then reboots and boots up normally.
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try flashing recovery from fastboot see instructions here

I'll try that. This may be a stupid question, but where can I get a recovery.img?

shivan82 said:
I'll try that. This may be a stupid question, but where can I get a recovery.img?
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try post #46 once you have successfully flashed that you should hopefully find that you can update via rom manager

Htc dream flashed with wrong radio now stuck on rogers screen

hey i accidently flashed 2.22.23.02 on to my rogers htc dream which i figured out needed a different radio now when i turn on my phone it just gets stuck on the rogers screen and i cant boot into recovery or to the bootloader so is my phone now useless or can i fix it

Re-flash it with the correct one according to your ROM. Then you will be good to go.

well he cant get to recovery or bootloader so how will he flash anything? lol jtag? pretty sure you might be out of luck... unless somehow you can get the orange.nbh to flash to your device...

Oops, missed that. I thought I read that he can.

is there any way i can flash it using my computer

thanojan10 said:
is there any way i can flash it using my computer
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Only if you can get into fastboot or adb..
From the sound of it you had a 3.22.* radio and used recovery to flash a 2.22.* radio.. while both radios work on the phone if you switch them by recovery like that you prob. Have a brick requiring JTAG..
Before giving up hope:
Pull battery + any USB/power wire, replace battery and while holding camera press power..
If you are in hboot, you can restore the phone by fastboot if its an engenering SPL, otherwise a Rogers dreaimg.nbh
If not plug in the USB wire and run on your computer 'fastboot devices' if the phone is found or fastboot USB is on the screen you lucked out (and somthing is wrong with recovery making it fail to load), and can use fastboot to install a valid radio+spl+recovery (make sure you flash all 3 before restarting)
If this isn't working and you can't get into the rom or recovery, you have an ebi0 radio (2.22) with a kernel (recovery) compiled for ebi1 (3.22) and are in boot mode 3 to force the phone to boot into recovery.. Due to the mismatch between the radio and recovery your phone is not able to boot and clear the boot flag to allow normal operation.. Thus without jtag its not possible to enter a useful state.
This is why its recommended to flash radios and SPLs via fastboot when possible since fastboot won't set the boot mode thus allow you at least access to the bootloader in most cases to correct any mistakes.