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[Q] Cannot get into recovery mode after rooting by using super one click method

Hello all,
I have been using the super one click method to root my HTC Magic Saphhire 32A.
It works well so far albeit need to alter some SU files in the program. Running of terminal emulator with the command prompt SU confirmed that I have the superuser rights.
Now the problem is whenever I use ROM manager to reboot in recovery, the phone restart, HTC logo shows, then the next screen I see is a big asterisk and a phone image, after this I pressed Home + power, the screen manage to switch to Android system recovery utility, BUT with only 3 options:
1) Reboot system now
2) Apply sdcard:update.zip
3) Wipe data/factory reset
And in the end of the screen, there is one line highlighted in red: E: can’t open /cache/recovery/command
After the phone been rebooted, I switched off the phone. And Pressed vol - with power button, same issue happen too with the asterisk sign shows on the screen. After unrooting it, the phone recovery mode are back to normal with the 3 androids in skates appear on the screen.
Have anyone face the same problem? Any ways to sort this out? I am planning to back up my stock ROM, and wanted to try out some cyanogenmod ROM. I tried Googled and read lots of forum post but left without a solution. Any helps are appreciated! Cheers!
p/s: I am a noob in Android OS. XD

I have the legend and these is a process of booting the recovery from there as update.zip. have you tried renaming the ROM update.zip and flashing it from there?
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App

I fiddled with the ROm manger setting by choosing "delete recovery prior to flashing", and now it makes it worse.
I selected "reboot in recovery" in ROM manager and the phone reboot, but just stuck at the HTC start up screen.
I plugged in the phone while trying another recovery reboot, and it still stuck at the HTC screen, but with a red line on the top saying "fastboot USB". Gosh I think i am going no way with this...

E:Can’t open /cache/recovery/command
Same fault here mytouch 3g unlocked at&t 32b downgraded too cupcake and tried
getting E:Can’t open /cache/recovery/command

home and power button down still cant get you in recovery? you cant flash any other working rom?
32b myTouch 3g 2.2.1
Cyanogen Nightly 271
Hboot - 1.33.0006
Radio - 2.22.19.26i
Kernel - 2.6.35.9
ADW 1.3.3
ClockworkMod Recovery
Slideit keyboard

Did you flash custom recovery with ROM manager? Or you just rooted the phone with 1 click method?

Sorry for the late reply. I am just back from overseas business trips. I used Clockmod ROM Manager and did a backup, tried reboot in recovery, and the phone rebooted itself but stuck at the HTC logo now.
I can confirm that the phone is rooted with super user permission.
The reason being the phone didn't manage to get into recovery mode might be due to the missing recovery.img in the phone. Pushing the img file to phone through Clockmod didn't work apparently, so I tried command prompt from PC fastboot flash recovery c:\recoveryxyz.img. It failed too with an error remote failed.
I tried using the terminal emulator in the phone and tried pushing the recovery image again and it didn't happen too. Can some one please help? Cheers!

Download ROM manager and you have option that says install custom recovery it will install Clockwork, and you have flash alternative recovery it installs amon ra's recovery i prefer most

Will try it tonight and revert for the result. Cheers!

I have tried flashing alternate ROM through ROM manager and for once it managed to boot into recovery mode. BUT the device hang right after that, I can't select any of the options and have to pull the battery out to force shutdown.
I tried using fastboot flash recovery *.img remotely through my PC while the phone is in fastboot USB mode, and my command prompt stated FAILED (remote: not allow)
Urgh, I think I might have missed something here... Could some one please help? Cheers!
p/s: my objective is to upgrade my stock ROM android 1.5 to cyanogen ROM. Cheers!

I don't know whether this info helps but here goes:
phone info:
sapphire pvt 32A ship s-on H
Hboot- 1.76.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD - 12
RADIO - 6.35.07.29
AUG 4 2009

callmeneotheone said:
I have tried flashing alternate ROM through ROM manager and for once it managed to boot into recovery mode. BUT the device hang right after that, I can't select any of the options and have to pull the battery out to force shutdown.
I tried using fastboot flash recovery *.img remotely through my PC while the phone is in fastboot USB mode, and my command prompt stated FAILED (remote: not allow)
Urgh, I think I might have missed something here... Could some one please help? Cheers!
p/s: my objective is to upgrade my stock ROM android 1.5 to cyanogen ROM. Cheers!
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OK here is the thing did you chose right model of your phone? HTC magic is 32A and mytouch and something else is for 32B you maybe flashed the wrong one?

Thanks WoblyGoblin for taking your time to help. Yes, I have selected the correct phone model. I chose HTC Magic.

Did you install the recovery?
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

I am stuck in trying to install recovery img into the phone. can't boot in recovery mode, tried ROM manager and remote push of recovery img into the phone.
Please refer to the previous post for more info. Cheers!

Ok here is the solution for you use this guide but download this apk and this recovery.
If you dont have 1.5 android but 1.6 download Terminal emulator from market and when you start it type first:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img

Hello mate,
i just tried the method and I am stuck at FlashRec backup recovery image step.
I clicked on backup recovery image, but there is a command prompt that says:" backup FAILED: Could not run command.
FYI, I am running on Android 1.5. On the edge of giving up rooting and loading a custom ROM now and without a MARKET apps on the phone.

callmeneotheone said:
Hello mate,
i just tried the method and I am stuck at FlashRec backup recovery image step.
I clicked on backup recovery image, but there is a command prompt that says:" backup FAILED: Could not run command.
FYI, I am running on Android 1.5. On the edge of giving up rooting and loading a custom ROM now and without a MARKET apps on the phone.
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Did you try terminal emulator app?
And commands that i gave you?

yes mate, have tried flash_image recovery command from the terminal app and tries to restart in recovery without any result.
I have did a few research and read up and found out that I am stuck with the south east asia Magic model without the google based support, with no market apps and it is perfected SPL.
Quite upset by it. LOL!

callmeneotheone said:
yes mate, have tried flash_image recovery command from the terminal app and tries to restart in recovery without any result.
I have did a few research and read up and found out that I am stuck with the south east asia Magic model without the google based support, with no market apps and it is perfected SPL.
Quite upset by it. LOL!
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Try this

help

Sorry my english is very bad. I tried to root my phone image by replacing''Recovery''to step flash recovery fastboot boot.img boot.img''is the new image can not load MSDOS reported "boot.img''boot file. dc img has put in SKD / tools, and do not know the new Image download file decompression is necessary or is not simply rename a DC? I leave it renamed unsuccessfully boot.img
uphinh.vn/image/stream/143628.jpg ==> link image

I have no idea about your error, but you can't flash recovery.img unless you have an engineering SPL (which you'd have to root to acquire).
Please boot your phone holding home and vol- and post what's displayed on the screen.

SAPPHIRE PVT 32A Ship S-On H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009,21:02:32

possible solution
my phone is:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
i had a similiar problem with yours. stuck in the recovery img and spl issue. my actual statu is a rooted phone with a cutom recovery img but with the original spl and radio(about to change those too).
this is how i did:
as far as i've learned, u dont need to flash your spl in order to flash your recovery.
i intalled FlashRec.apk and then installed RA recovery img from it. there a video on youtube called how to root your magic in one click. try that!
goodluck!

Looks like you have a Rogers Magic, correct?
You have S-ON (security on) so you can't flash anything useful from fastboot.
I use a 32B device, so hopefully a fellow Rogers user can help you :-/
i intalled FlashRec.apk and then installed RA recovery img from it. there a video on youtube called how to root your magic in one click. try that!
goodluck!
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That will work on some 1.5 builds, 4zroot and universal androot are newer alternatives.

AdrianK said:
Looks like you have a Rogers Magic, correct?
You have S-ON (security on) so you can't flash anything useful from fastboot.
I use a 32B device, so hopefully a fellow Rogers user can help you :-/
That will work on some 1.5 builds, 4zroot and universal androot are newer alternatives.
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I tried to use that way, but that backup device''error flaied image invalid"I think I deleted the original recovery of the phone and now my phone is not in recovery mode again, no way to recover it?
if you follow the way of''recovery''Amon_RA img instead only image recovery platforms, the need of the SDK is not it? I think I have not installed successfully because when you type the command ADB ADB device only shows up on MSDOS''attached''List of devices without the S / N of my phone

nhieptieuminh said:
I tried to use that way, but that backup device''error flaied image invalid"I think I deleted the original recovery of the machine and now my phone is not in recovery mode again, no way to recover it?
if you follow the way of''recovery''Amon_RA img instead only image recovery platforms, the need of the SDK is not it? I think I have not installed successfully because when you type the command ADB ADB device only shows up on MSDOS''attached''List of devices without the S / N of my phone
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Just because the backup failed, doesn't mean your recovery is gone. Use home+power and tell us if it's still there.
"adb devices" will show the serial number of all attatched devices, you have it set up correctly. However you can not use adb or fastboot to root your device.

AdrianK said:
Just because the backup failed, doesn't mean your recovery is gone. Use home+power and tell us if it's still there.
"adb devices" will show the serial number of all attatched devices, you have it set up correctly. However you can not use adb or fastboot to root your device.
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because I used the command "erase fastboot recovery" so I think I deleted the original recovery of the phone away and then, when I press home and power it boots up the words "HTC Magic" and stop there

nhieptieuminh said:
because I used the command "erase fastboot recovery" so I think I deleted the original recovery of the phone away and then, when I press home and power it boots up the words "HTC Magic" and stop there
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Oh, and flashrec did that? As in, it removed recovery but couldn't flash a new one?
That's a *****, you could try another root method like universal androot to get to flash the custom recovery image.

AdrianK said:
Oh, and flashrec did that? As in, it removed recovery but couldn't flash a new one?
That's a *****, you could try another root method like universal androot to get to flash the custom recovery image.
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can you give me the link?? thanks for helping

uphinh.vn/image/stream/143628.jp ==> please help me fix this error ? can not load new recovery.img with fastboot

Root Problem

Hello. Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong section. But I've been trying to root the damned phone for 2 days. I got a problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
It's about this article. I have downloaded the SDK.zip for android and have extracted it into C;\AndroidSDK
I have also added the " ;C:\AndroidSDK\tools\ " thingie where it says.
I connect my HTC Magic, select mount for SD, then I'm going to Command Prompt and type adb devices. After that it says that adb is not recognizes as blah blah blah.
What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to install Android 2.1 and I can't root it. :<

When you open the command prompt, try typing "cd C:\AndroidSDK\tools" then run "adb devices".

Oh thanks! It now displays my device's serial number. After that I type fastboot devices
Then I download Amon_RA's recovery file but I don't know what to download from his link. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492

What's your fastboot information? Hold back+power to turn on the device and post EVERYTHING from there.

SAPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.08.29
Dec 8 2009, 17:38:48

Do what DonJuan692006 tells in the next post :0)

You've got a perfected SPL so your not going to be able to just do the "fastboot flash recovery blah.zip" command. Your going to have to go a different route. Do steps 1-5 and 7. At step 5, your going to use this one: "adb push C:\roottools\6.35Radio\Recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img /sdcard" since you have the 6.35 radio. You don't want to mess with your SPL until you get further guidance on here and do some extensive research on the benefits/risks involved. Pay very close attention to what he says.

Well, I created a goldcard and typed fastboot boot recovery-rom.img and it displays a list full of commands. Now what? 8D

The phone displays a list of commands or the command prompt does?

The command prompt does. Also, I have downloaded Cyanogen 6.1 stable( saw it both from the article and your sig ). Now I got to install it, right?

No, you've got to get a custom recovery installed first. You can use the goldcard to flash an engineering SPL so that you can do so from fastboot, but that's the dangerous way. The easy way to get CM 6.1 installed is to follow my suggestion from post #7.

The fastboot boot recovery-rom.img doesn't work. It says remote: not allow

Your killing me. No fastboot commands are going to work since you have a perfected SPL. Stop being hard headed and follow the guide I pointed you to. It'll take 10 minutes and you'll be rooted. Then we'll start getting CM 6.1 installed.

How do I copy the contents of RootTools? o.0 I can;t find it in ym SD card

You don't need to copy them, you just need to extract them to your computer.

Well, how do I find the RootTools folder? :O

Depends where you saved it to when you downloaded it. You have to download it from one of the links at the bottom of the first post in that guide.

Ok, I installed the app and now Im a super user. Now what?

Did you do steps 5 and 7 to get the custom recovery installed? If you know how to use Google talk, add me on there: [email protected]

Yes. I did 5 and 7. I'm at 8. System restarted.... it says: formatting cache:...

Old Dog, New Tricks, Need a Little Assistance

My goal: to install a CyanogenMod or custom rom, and flash a custom recovery, along with something called an "engineering SPL".
Howdy all! You may or may not know me from the Atrix forums, but I'm an avid supporter of xda and have been a member for six months. Recently, I rediscovered an old Mytouch 3g (32B) that my mom had let me have a long while back. Here's what I've got so far, and what I need help with:
Yesterday I spent 14 hours combing the forums and google searching. I am using this guide to basically wipe and start fresh. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807899 I got all that DONE, starting with the sapphire and upgrading to 1.6 then installing the SPL and finally to froyo 2.2.1. (Now keep in mind, I have no data plan on the sim card inserted into this phone, so I have to use froyo in order to skip the google account setup.) When I start my phone using back button + power, it shows:
sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP30000)
RADIO-2.22.27.00
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27
Here's my question. I've tried multiple times to flash an engineering SPL and custom recovery. I have used SuperOneclick to root, and it worked fine. But I can't use any of the methods for flashing a custom recovery from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
because I can't install an engineering SPL (from stock recovery it tells me it isn't signed), don't have access to fastboot (because no SPL), it doesn't work right when running from terminal (tells me can't find flash_image), and to use it via ADB it says I need a custom recovery, which is what i'm TRYING desperately to get lol. I'm not sure where to go from here, I've tried Clockwork Mod recovery and it flashes fine. Then I hit reboot into recovery and get rebooted into stock recovery. So....I dunno what to do at this point. I would appreciate any help I can get, I've spent a LOT of time on this already lol.

Mmm... I notice that is no manual to use flash_image, and this section is not easy to explain...
Note: Many official roms do not have binary flash_image. But it can be installed manually.
1. Download this: http://www.2shared.com/file/sfPPeA5G/flash_image.html
2. Download custom recovery according radio
- AmonRa 1.7.0 G - for radio 2.22.XX.XX
- AmonRa 1.7.0 H - for radio 3.22.XX.XX
- AmonRa 1.6.2 H patched by cursordroid - for radio 6.35.XX.XX
3. Copy flash_image and recovery to root of sdcard
4. Make sure Android SDK Tools configured and run to enter into terminal
Code:
adb shell
5. Copy flash_image into the phone
Code:
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/local/tmp/flash_image
6. Change permissions
Code:
chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/flash_image
7. Flash recovery
Code:
/data/local/tmp/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
8. Turn phone off, then turn on by pressing Home + Power to check recovery (custom recoveries show their versions in bottom line)

Thank you soooo much! I was thinking "oh no one will answer me in such an old forum I'm dooomed!" But I was wrong! Thanks again this worked like a charm, I'm now running Cyanogenmod 6.1 on my mytouch 3g! I'm going to be looking around for the fastest ROM I can find since this only has 192 mb of RAM lol. Thanks again!

5[Strogino] said:
Mmm... I notice that is no manual to use flash_image, and this section is not easy to explain...
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4th thread in the general section :0)
It's sticky also...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756918
110000+ views....

Cant flash recovery

Few days ago I messed the phone little bit, Magic 32A and I had to flash sappimg.nbh from fastboot.
Before that phone was S-OFF with 3.22 radio and 1.33.2010 SPL.
Right now is running Android 1.5, its rooted using UniversalAndroot and right now I cant flash recovery from Rom manager. I get error: "an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands".
Current:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
What I want? Want to get on old situation with 3.22 radio, 1.33.2010 spl and if possible s-off.
Right now Im in mess cause I dont know what tutorial/source to follow. Its been two years since I have done that, besides I didnt had to do goldcard back then.
Can anyone please help cause Im really confused.
thanks

stifler05 said:
Few days ago I messed the phone little bit, Magic 32A and I had to flash sappimg.nbh from fastboot.
Before that phone was S-OFF with 3.22 radio and 1.33.2010 SPL.
Right now is running Android 1.5, its rooted using UniversalAndroot and right now I cant flash recovery from Rom manager. I get error: "an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands".
Current:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
What I want? Want to get on old situation with 3.22 radio, 1.33.2010 spl and if possible s-off.
Right now Im in mess cause I dont know what tutorial/source to follow. Its been two years since I have done that, besides I didnt had to do goldcard back then.
Can anyone please help cause Im really confused.
thanks
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ehhh, I'm kinda lost my self but my advice would be to find a way to upgrade to 2.2.1 and do superoneclick root, then use rom manager. . .
(or "something that just came to mind": Download Terminal Emulator from Android Market.)
(and manually flash a custom recovery. . . If you do have root then "su" should work flawlessly)
(Take a look at my post " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428838 " and download the needed files to flash your recovery)

GeEazy said:
ehhh, I'm kinda lost my self but my advice would be to find a way to upgrade to 2.2.1 and do superoneclick root, then use rom manager.
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BTW, flashing recovery will only stick if s-off is shown or engineering ROM is installed (s-on in this case is fine). Don't waste your time with superoneclick. It will be more trouble than its worth if your going through different versions.
"I didnt had to do goldcard back then."
I have never had to do a goldcard. Barely even know what it is.
You can flash recovery from any version (again provided the phone has either s-off or an engineering ROM installed):
Download and install es file explorer from marketplace (or anything that can be used to install apps)
Download and install busybox from marketplace
Copy and install Univeral Androot to phone Link -> http://bit.ly/9wAKC5 (taken from Link -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807899 )
Install Universal Androot with es file explorer
RUN UNIVERSAL ANDROOT
It should be SET TO 1.5/1.6 already THEN
touch GO ROOT
Wait till its fully installed THEN
Install busybox by:
RUN BUSYBOX APP
Accept superuser request (If it doesn't appear reboot phone and try again OR busybox install will fail).
(Install of newest busybox version is OK)
INSTALL TO /system/bin is OK
TOUCH the X
TOUCH INSTALL
It should say successful
Download Android Dev kit
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Download JavaJDK -64bit is fine for 64bit OS
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
install JavaJDK THEN
install dev kit
RUN android sdk manager
install google drivers & platform tools. Unselect anything else that might be defaulted as selected.
Enable usb dev mode on phone and attach phone to PC
Run windows command prompt in admin mode
Type "CD C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools"
Type "adb devices" (Device check. The phone will show up if everything is properly working OR no device is listed if not. If no device is listed then phone drivers are not working correctly OR phone is not in USB dev mode OR not attached to PC)
[FILES NEEDED:
A. Download cm 4.2.15.1 and extract flash_image from /system/bin/ ||link ->
http://goo.gl/5NPE. (Taken from link ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807899)
B. The recovery you will be using. I recommend Amon RA. Link -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492 || Download the version you need! (for my t-mobile mytouch 3G 32b I use "recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img. You have a 32a so for you it looks like you need the "recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H.img" BUT DOUBLE/TRIPLE CHECK THAT. Not my fault if that's the wrong one. ]
rename the recovery-RA-sapphire-*.img to recovery.img
Either copy flash files directly to SDcard OR
place files on hard drive at c:\
Type "adb push c:\flash_image /sdcard/"
Type "adb push c:\recovery.img /sdcard/"
THEN Type (after each line press enter. Example: type adb shell then press enter.)
adb shell
su (if recently rooted then... touch allow on phone)
mount -o remount, rw /system
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin
cd /system/bin
chmod 777 flash_image
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
(taken from Link -> http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/)
(May or may not need to CLICK OK TO INSTALL ON PHONE. Or was I seeing things?)
Finally, boot phone into and enjoy the new recovery
If you need to do it again, keep the programs installed and put the files in a directory so you have easy access and know they work. Its MUCH faster the 2nd+ time.
***If you mess up your phone while trying to do any of this, that's NOT my fault.