Just looking for a bit of guidance.
Got my hands on a HTC Magic 1.6 after my sister upgraded her contract, always fancied having a play around with Android so I set out.
Tried loading the sappimg.nbh on to the SD, booting up by holding POWER + VOL - but I always get update failed so I download the Android SDK.
Loaded fast boot from command prompt and got the message:
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY
I was able to go in to backup/restore and make a Nandroid backup which shows on the SD card itself.
Now my problem is when i run "adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" at command prompt it isnt doing anything.
The phone is in recovery mode; but if I reboot it and try and hold HOME + POWER it just boots to a screen with an ! mark, a triangle around it and the phone.
My SD card is blank when I start, do I need files on this? Do I need the recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G image already on there?
Any help would be great I'm sure I'm missing something blatently obvious.
If I get this step done, I'm guessing it's then just a case of loading my ROM on to the SD card; booting in to recovery and running update.zip?
Cheers.
Okay.
So I went ahead and stuck the recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G on the sd card itself.
Went through the process again and I'm now able to boot in to Recovery mode by holding POWER + HOME.
Do I need to leave this on the SD card at all times? Just incase I want to boot in to recovery and change the rom?
Also, I'm guessing now it's just a case of downloading my choice of ROM and flashing?
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I'm having some problems with my Magic 32a. I flashed it, and loaded a JACHeroski Magic ROM from http://theunlockr.com/downloads/android-downloads/android-roms/ and it all worked fine, if a little slowly. I figured I would try to load a newer hero rom on insted, so I got the MyHero 1.1.3 rom and loaded the zip file onto my sd card. I then went booted holding end and home, selected wipe phone, then load any zip. However, I got an error saying Update failed, no signature (or something along those lines).
Unfortunately, instead of loading my nandroid backup, made just before I wiped, I accidentally backed up again. Then, stupidly, I deleted both backups on my computer.
I followed the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537508 to set up fastboot on my ubuntu 9.10 computer, and tried to flash the recovery image RA-magic-v1.2.3 (stored in the same folder as the fastboot program file) using the command .../android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools/fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img after booting the phone into fasboot mode, and I get the error that the file could not be found. I also have the file stored in the root of the sd card in the phone, but I get the same error. Although before I could boot into recovery mode using end and home, this now doesn't work. I can still however boot into fastboot mode.
I've tried wiping, loading a myhero rom named update.zip from both the sd card and the .../android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools folder but with no success.
If I just leave the phone to boot, the same thing happens as did when I first tried to load the myhero rom: It shows the HTC logo, then goes to the Hero logo and plays a sound. Then the screen goes black, and then the hero and sound happens again. It loops between the hero logo and the sound ad infinitum, as far as I can tell.
I'm a bit crap at all this terminal command stuff, and I am pretty new to ubuntu, and this is my first android phone (which I only had for a day before it stopped working).
Is it possible to fix myself, or will I have to send it off to HTC? It seems to just be a software problem, and I haven't done anything to the phone other than what I said above.
Thanks to anyone who can help
Hi to everyone , I connected my phone via usb to my computer and from my fault i deleted internal sd memory data and now phone wont boot , what should i do now ? . Thnx for your time ...
So many views and none can help or answer ??
You haven't provided enough information. What exactly have you deleted? The contents of the bootloader (pink screen)? Or the actual contents of the SD card?
I delete all data and partitions from internal sd /memory , for example it has 2GB internal sd and 512 RAM when i did that , it had 4GB but when i unplug it from pc wont boot after that.
Did you try to do this: http://android.modaco.com/topic/341374-custom-you-data-partitions-size/ ??
Can you still go into recovery mod?
If not, then you need to go into bootloader (hold Vol+,Vol- and Power until the screen turns pink), connect the usb cable and tell me what files you have in the "image" folder.
If you can boot into recovery mod(hold Vol+ and Power), then from Recovery Mod go to mount and storage, mount the sd card and copy a custom Rom (this should do http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1147103) in the root directory, then go to install zip from Sd card and select the zip that contains the Rom.
Let me know how you go.
I cant go into recovery mod and bootloader because phone dont start or boot , even if i connect it to pc cant read sd card , i think from deleting all this , phone lost all os and now it need to send it to huawei to reinstall it or ??
Recovery.img is located in the bootloader, that memory is not accessible from Recovery or any other tool...In less you actually deleted the files from bootloader (pink screen).
If nothing happens when you hold VOL+,VOL- and Power, then send it back to warranty.
i switched my phone off,then on and it get stuck on the ideos animated screen..
i removed the battery,then turned it on but still,then i tried to hard reset with +-power,i got a pink screen,i removed the battery again(couldnt turn it off)and then i turned it back on,it again got stuck on loading screen...I havent any roms installed,i have rooted it thogh,what's wrong? does rooting,void warranty?
So you can boot to bootloader mode(you can exit from this mode only if you remove battery). Then you can flash again the rom. Try to find an official rom, better the rom that device has before, if you know which you had. In rom's zip file there is a folder called dload. Put this folder on the external sd card, boot to bootloader and the installation will begin automatic.
do i need to have the sd card formatted or it doesnt matter?
i go to recovery mode,i connect the phone to the pc,i rename the original recovery.img to .bak,copy the recovery image(clockwork),dissoconnect the phone from pc,remove battery,enter recovery mode but yet again i get the pink screen....What am i doing wrong?
by the way i have the sd card removed.
I don't know what you have done, but you don't need the recovery to flash a stock rom.
You don't need to format sd card also, just put the dload folder on root of your sd.
If you successfully flash the stock rom it will put all files in the right place, so after you can root the device and replace the stock recovery with a custom one.
i installed a custom rom but still after reboot,the phone stays on log screen(ideos animated)...
So, you have a completly different situation from the user created this thread. You should make a new thread or mentioned here, beacause this lead to confusion.
I think that accidentaly you pushed both vol buttons and for this bootloader mode appears.
Try to use adb or an app for this(QtADB, android commander, Ultra ADB gui) to be sure and to avoid to use the button combination. Of course you need to connect device with adb for this. You can do it from windows command prompt too, by writing adb shell -> reboot recovery.
If you stack at animated screen try to do wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache first. The first boot maybe delay before it gets you to the home screen.
recovery.img change
I need help with this also
I have nothing in my folder at all??
What should i do??
Thanks
katu2006 said:
Did you try to do this: http://android.modaco.com/topic/341374-custom-you-data-partitions-size/ ??
Can you still go into recovery mod?
If not, then you need to go into bootloader (hold Vol+,Vol- and Power until the screen turns pink), connect the usb cable and tell me what files you have in the "image" folder.
If you can boot into recovery mod(hold Vol+ and Power), then from Recovery Mod go to mount and storage, mount the sd card and copy a custom Rom (this should do http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1147103) in the root directory, then go to install zip from Sd card and select the zip that contains the Rom.
Let me know how you go.
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Hi to everyone , I connected my phone via usb to my computer and from my fault i deleted internal sd memory data and now phone wont boot , what should i do now ? . Thnx for your time ...
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man i have the same problem how did your go ...?
I just got the new CWM recovery update through Rom Manager today, and it said it was successfully flashed, but the phone only hangs on the HTC logo when goingto recovery. I can still do fastboot and boot to Android tho, so I'm now gonna try to figure out how to get my recovery back before something bad happes xD
anyone have advice or know where I can download a standalone copy of CWM 5.0.0.1 for G2?
Wish me luck I'll keep updating as things progress
okipokey, solved my own issue. Just had to reflash back to an older recovery and try again a couple times before it stuck.
Time to test out the new recovery!
I decided to flash the upgrade as well. The flash went perfectly. However, I couldn't boot into recovery while within Android. I had to power off and boot into the bootloader and then select recovery... Whenever I tried to reboot to recovery via the Android UI, it restarted and hung at the boot splash screen.. It didn't even work if you selected the option from the ROM Manager itself... I rolled back to previous version as well and its working again. It may be a bug... Early adopters nightmare....
Same here just reinstalled the new version and it worked second time round
must be a bug they havn't quite worked out. Next time I'll do a fastboot flash instead for a low build number.
First time I flashed I tried it from a battery pull through HBOOT and it still hung. Reflash to 3.5 and then back to 5.0 fixed it like you guys
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I decided to flash the upgrade as well. The flash went perfectly. However, I couldn't boot into recovery while within Android. I had to power off and boot into the bootloader and then select recovery... Whenever I tried to reboot to recovery via the Android UI, it restarted and hung at the boot splash screen.. It didn't even work if you selected the option from the ROM Manager itself... I rolled back to previous version as well and its working again. It may be a bug... Early adopters nightmare....
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try just reflashing version 5 I had the same problem,but rebooted the phone reflashed version 5 from the rom manager and now is all good
I just sent the dev a comment about it on his Google+
maybe he'll have a fix out soon
Nice one, seems a "double flash" fixes it have just tested 3 or 4 times,seems to be working
yessir, seems to me that if it's a bug its really minor. I can see this being a problem if someone accidentally screws up something on their phone right after flashing the recovery, but not very likely and they'd still be able to reflash through fastboot
Seemed to flash the new version ok. But then, when trying to boot into recovery for the first time, the phone hung on the HTC logo boot splash. Pulled battery, and booted into recovery ok after that.
that's interesting that some of you didn't hang after the battery pull while mine did. Maybe it depends which version we're upgrading from?
stuck at htc
hey i also had this problem and i can't get my g2 to boot up at all. It hangs at the htc screen. I don't know how to fix this issue as i was trying to restore a backup from recovery right after the update. i can't get into recovery or anything else...all i get is the htc screen. Any ideas how I can fix this?
Luis
Any sign of a changelog?
I have no idea how to get to a changelog...can you tell me how?
biglou421 said:
I have no idea how to get to a changelog...can you tell me how?
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found this
-From Mr.Dutta via G+
I've just finished releasing updates to a bunch of devices to ClockworkMod Recovery 5.
Major changes:
Backups now use tar over yaffs for everything except mtd partitions. Backups got way faster.
Backups now preserve the filesystem type at time of backup. Restores will restore the appropriate filesystem type at restore.
Please update to ROM Manager 4.4.0.3 or higher and try out the new recovery!
Troubleshooting:
Flashing issues: If a recovery does not flash properly, enable erase recovery in settings and try flashing it again. Recovery flashing can be finicky at times.
Bugs: Report them to me! You can always revert back to the older recovery too from within ROM Manager!
So far no issues here while playing around.
my issue is i can't get back to android at all now. i went into rom manager to restore a backup and was told there was an update, then it reflashed the recovery. When i tried to restore my backup it froze and i have not been able to get past the htc screen at all.
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my issue is i can't get back to android at all now. i went into rom manager to restore a backup and was told there was an update, then it reflashed the recovery. When i tried to restore my backup it froze and i have not been able to get past the htc screen at all.
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can you get into the HBOOT?
pull the battery, put it back in, hold the volume down button and then hit the power button. you should come to a white screen with some options
In the case you want to update your recovery using fastboot method, heres what you'll need:
CWM 5.0.0.1 for G2 (Vision)
HTC Sync drivers
ADB fastboot from Android SDK
Make sure your phone is all the way off by pulling the battery. Get into the HBOOT by holding down the volume down button and then hitting the power. use the volume keys to navigate and the power button to select. Choose "FASTBOOT"
Rename the recovery that you downloaded from CWM to "recovery.img" and put it in your ADB and Fastboot folder
plug your phone into your computer and pull up a command line for your adb/tools/ or adb/platform-tools/ folder where you should have ADB and Fastboot.
under the command line type in:
fastboot devices
<list of devices>
If you do not see your device make sure the cable is plugged in and your drivers are installed. if still nothing try a different cable til you get it to be recognized by the computer.
Once it's recognized do:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
when its done:
reboot
I flashed through ROM manager. On suggestion, I checked the box for "erase recovery - recovery will be erased prior to flashing". On first reboot to recovery it sticks at HTC screen. Pulling battery and vol. up+power then entering recovery the 2nd time works just fine.
Hope this helps.
Hello
I followed this guide to root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17135571
I did everything as given but when i pressed the Up Volume + Power and then down volume, it is stuck in "Starting Fastboot protocol support"
i dont see any recovery. How can i do this?
hi,
After reboot (Vol and Power) you have to wait 3 sec. and you will see a text in the left corner. You can toggle whit vol- and confirm with vol+.
Try it again!
Thanks dude. Got it. But have another problem
When i am in recovery mode when i want to flash the zip file i get the following
Failed to mount /sdcrd (no such file or directory)
Any idea how i can make sure recovery mounts the SD Card?
do you have a SD Card in your xoom? If not then there's the problem, you need a SD Card.
I have a Micro SD Card new one. This is detected in File explorer
Got it working. It looks like the recovery image was not flashed correctly. Its done now and all working fine
thanks for your support
I installed ClockworkMod Recovery using ROM Manager and I'm trying to boot into recovery, when it restarted it verified the stuff then got stuck on "Replacing Stock Recovery with Clockwork Recovery", it's now been like that for 8 hours.
It's the White version and I don't use the phone with it so it has no SIM card at the moment.
Do you have root? If it won't continue, download the recovery from here. Make sure there is no images folder on your memory card.
Then boot your phone while holding vol+ vol- and power. When your phone is in pink screen, plug it into computer and copy recovery.img and backup the exisisting one and then overwrite it. Then reboot the phone by taking battery off, and boot it while holding vol+, you should be done.
That worked I now have clockwork mod recovery but when i select reboot system now it boots back into recovery. How do I now apply miui image when I don't already have it on the sdcard.
Just tried applying at it keeps rebooting into recovery.