How can I see what recovery I am running?
annndrewww said:
How can I see what recovery I am running?
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Did you change it? If not you're running the stock original recovery!
Turn off phone.
Hold volume up button and power until you see the bootloader come up
Use the volume down button to go to Recovery, press Power to select it.
It'll boot to recovery. If it's stock recovery, you'll see a triangle with an exclamation point.
Press up+power real quick. You'll see the stock recovery.
If it's not stock recovery you'll see whatever recovery you have with the version number on the bottom.
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When attempting to enter recovery mode on my xt907, I get a sideways android figure with a red triangle instead of the normal recovery screen. I have not attempted to root the phone. Everything is stock. I usually boot into recovery once in a while to clear the cache. I have not changed anything since the last successful recovery boot. Any ideas?
Doesn't this always happen... then you have to press vol up and vol down to then enter the recovery menu... this should show you how to get in there... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtzubRAGMWc&desktop_uri=/watch?v=JtzubRAGMWc
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In that screen, hold volume down and tap volume up to get into the recovery menu.
It's very strange - I can't get to recovery by holding down power + vol-up + home buttons. The message comes up that it's booting recovery but then disappears for a second and then either powers off or boots normally.
I can boot into recovery through the toolkit/odin/goomanager however and I've also found that I can boot into recovery if I first go into download mode, press vol-down to cancel download and boot normally and then immediately press the vol-up/power/home button combination.
I have TWRP installed but I previously had philz CWM and this problem happened with both. If i remember rightly the first recovery I tried to install was the original CWM with odin but when I booted into recovery it was still the stock recovery. I'm not sure if this information is necessary though.
Can anyone help me with this or why this could be happening?
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welshyoot said:
It's very strange - I can't get to recovery by holding down power + vol-up + home buttons. The message comes up that it's booting recovery but then disappears for a second and then either powers off or boots normally.
I can boot into recovery through the toolkit/odin/goomanager however and I've also found that I can boot into recovery if I first go into download mode, press vol-down to cancel download and boot normally and then immediately press the vol-up/power/home button combination.
I have TWRP installed but I previously had philz CWM and this problem happened with both. If i remember rightly the first recovery I tried to install was the original CWM with odin but when I booted into recovery it was still the stock recovery. I'm not sure if this information is necessary though.
Can anyone help me with this or why this could be happening?
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When was the last time you updated SuperSU?
Go to the playstore and download/install the latest version reboot the phone normally and after reboot reboot into recovery.
Good luck!
Thanks, that worked. I can now get into recovery with the button combo.
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I tried flashing ClockworkMod Recovery using ROM Manager to a device and then I used ROM Managers "reboot into recovery" option to launch recovery. Unfortunately it seems the flashing of the new recovery was unsuccessful in some way despite ROM Manager reporting otherwise. Thus the device now tries to boot into recovery, fails and then tries to boot into recovery again.
Is there an easy way to make the device boot normally to android so that the recovery can be fixed?
Flash stock recovery via download mode
I tried this, the problem is I can't get it to boot into download mode since even when holding volume down, power and home it tries to boot into recovery.
Arimil said:
I tried this, the problem is I can't get it to boot into download mode since even when holding volume down, power and home it tries to boot into recovery.
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Just hold them down regardless until it does. The 3 button combo will override any flags to boot to recovery.
ashyx said:
Just hold them down regardless until it does. The 3 button combo will override any flags to boot to recovery.
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Thanks, got everything running now.
hi!
is it possible to remove twrp by only flashing the bot image?
i got an XT1642 with stock-rock and twrp. i want to remove twrp but before flashing twrp i was not clever enough to create a full backup.
i would like to extract the boot image from one of the existing stock-roms for XT1641-43 from the filefactory folder.
thanks!
to be more specific:
i want to flash only the boot.img and recovery.img to remove twrp.
is this possible?
Flash stock recovery.img with Fastboot, this will replace TWRP recovery.
ok i've tried this.
but after "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it only shows "no command".
switching back to twrp fixes this.
maybe i got the wrong img?
wuhi said:
ok i've tried this.
but after "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it only shows "no command".
switching back to twrp fixes this.
maybe i got the wrong img?
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Hold power and volume down (or up) button for ~3 seconds. Then leave the volume down (or up) button. The recovery menu should appear.
I do not quite recall if it were the up or down volume button.
tried both (up and down)
but both results in a reboot
ok i got it.
pressing vol + and power only short for 3 times shows the stock recovery.
pressing long forces a reboot.
thanks for yur replies!
I've tried just flashing stock recovery and it didn't work. I believe you have to restore the entire stock rom, though I haven't tried it.
wuhi said:
ok i've tried this.
but after "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it only shows "no command".
switching back to twrp fixes this.
maybe i got the wrong img?
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I am getting the same thing. But I have xt1644 and I got the right rom and flashed. Now getting the "No Command" when I go into recovery. Any ideas?
ny3ranger said:
I am getting the same thing. But I have xt1644 and I got the right rom and flashed. Now getting the "No Command" when I go into recovery. Any ideas?
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In the recovery no command screen, hold down the power button, then press and release the volume up button followed by releasing the power button. That should get you into the menu. That no command screen is normal for stock recovery.
So I just used Sunshine to make my XT907 S-off, aka my bootloader is now unlocked. So my question is now what and where do I go from here? What is the most preferable ROM? What are my new capabilities?
I still can't get TWRP to boot from recovery. I can get into Motorola recovery and or Android recovery, but neither will boot TWRP. I power off, press the volume down, volume up and power button at the same time to boot to Motorola recovery. I select 'recovery' and I end up at the droid screen. I power down again. Press and hold volume down and power button. I get to the droid screen, press and hold volume up and power button. I am in Android recovery, with no recovery option. Just the standard Android recovery. The only thing TWRP comes close to, in choosing my device is the Motorola Razr HD.
I have both the Official TWRP app and the TWRP Manager installed.
Alright. TWRP Custom recovery installed via Fastboot.
I tell you...it really does make a astronomical difference in your device performance, when you can actually clear/wipe the caches and data.