After the most recent ota update with the newest radio, I was able to reroot just fine with superoneclick, but even when rom manager says it has successfully flashed clockwork and ra, it hangs if I try to boot into recovery.
The flash also fails more often than it succeeds, or the phone hands during flash. Do I need to do this through fastboot? Is it as simple as adb fastboot flash recovery recovery.img?
Does anyone know what's going on with this? Has this most recent update locked us out of flashing a custom recovery? That would suck.
Same problems here
Cant mount USB after update
Phateless said:
After the most recent ota update with the newest radio, I was able to reroot just fine with superoneclick, but even when rom manager says it has successfully flashed clockwork and ra, it hangs if I try to boot into recovery.
The flash also fails more often than it succeeds, or the phone hands during flash. Do I need to do this through fastboot? Is it as simple as adb fastboot flash recovery recovery.img?
Does anyone know what's going on with this? Has this most recent update locked us out of flashing a custom recovery? That would suck.
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Nevermind, I'm retarded. Uninstalled rom manager, rebooted, downloaded again from market.
Problem solved.
I had some trouble last time I tried CM7 and reverted to stock. Am gonna try it again but am wondering which recovery to flash?
There were multiple versions of clockwork and there was even an alternate recovery. The problem is some older update.zip files don't work with the clockwork 3 recovery.
Now, considering all factors, which is the best recovery to flash?
I'd recommend the 2.5.1.8 recovery, as it works with new and old (Edify and Amend) .zip files.
Hope it helps
Jack
So... I was rooted using gfree method and had recovery 2.5.1.4 installed running the ice glacier rom. Then I decided i was going to upgrade to a gingerbread rom so I updated my rom manager and flashed the new CW 3.0.2.4 rom and now it wont boot into recovery. When I try to boot into recovery it shows the mytouch logo for a bit, the screen turns black and the phone reboots. I tried to flash the old recovery again but I get an error message saying: An error occurred while flashing your recovery. I can still flash CW 3.0.2.4 and CW 3.0.0.5 but both will not boot into recovery.
I also tried flashing the 3.0.2.4 recovery manually through fastboot flash recovery recovery.img but I still get the same problem. I couldn't find an active download link for the 2.5.1.4 recovery to try to flash manually so I don't know if it helps to do this.
I read on the forum somewhere to revert back to stock recovery using the stock PD15IMG IMG file and try again. This took me back to stock and I was able to boot into the stock recovery. Then i reran visionary for permroot again, deleted my clockworks folder from my sdcard and tried again, but the problem came back.... Mytouch logo then black screen then auto reboot.
My root access still works fine but I cant get into recovery to flash a new rom.... and now I am stuck on a stock rom. :[ After 6 hours of trying to fix the issue I'm still very confused.
Any help / suggestions would be appreciated Thanks.
Its doing this after you go into hboot and select "Recovery"?
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Its doing this after you go into hboot and select "Recovery"?
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Yes, from Hboot and from rom manager, but sometimes if i try from rom manager it will also hang at the white mytouch logo screen.
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Ok. So i have a partially functional recovery again i found the recovery image for 2.5.1.2 and flashed it using fastboot flash. I am now able to get into recovery again and install custom froyo roms, but every time i try to upgrade to a higher version like 3.0.0.5 or 3.0.2.5 no matter which method i use, I still get the same reboot while trying to get into recovery.
Please help. Thanks
I don't know if I'm the only one or just a among a group of unlucky few but I managed to update to 4.1.2 no problems. Was able to restore root, no problems. It flashed the new bootloader 3.41 but now I can not get into Clockworkmod recovery. I tried installed it through rom manager and I tried flashing it through fastboot commands. I even tried the regular and the touch recovery. Is there a work around to this? Are these recoveries not compatible with the new bootloader? I suppose I can flash the old 3.34 bootloader and try again but does anyone actually know the deal here? Please help me out.
EDIT:
Thanks to SilverPosition and his post here . He has provided us with a link to a working CWM Touch Recovery. I've also been told that TWRP 2.3.1.1 found here also works with the 3.41 bootloader.
Thank you everyone for figuring this out
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The only solution I found so far was to reflash the 3.34 bootloader in fastboot mode and then reflash my CWM recovery. Then I was able to get into recovery. What I don't understand is that many have been able to get the 3.41 bootloader flashed and then still have no trouble getting into recovery. So what am I missing? I installed the 3.41 bootloader 2 ways just to test. 1, with fastboot commands with the .img and the other in CWM with the .raw file. Both worked just fine updating the bootloader to 3.41 but no matter what recovery is then broken. Anyone got any input?
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I don't know if I'm the only one or just a among a group of unlucky few but I managed to update to 4.1.2 no problems. Was able to restore root, no problems. It flashed the new bootloader 3.41 but now I can not get into Clockworkmod recovery. I tried installed it through rom manager and I tried flashing it through fastboot commands. I even tried the regular and the touch recovery. Is there a work around to this? Are these recoveries not compatible with the new bootloader? I suppose I can flash the old 3.34 bootloader and try again but does anyone actually know the deal here? Please help me out.
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I have the same issue. I've tried every thing I can think of (except flashing the old bootloader) and nothing seems to work. Can't get into custom recovery (CWM, Goo Manager, TWRP, QuickBoot, ROM Manager), you name it I think I've tried it. I tried to flash CWM 6.0.X.X (can't remember exactly which one) thru the Toolkit but that didn't work either.
i used "fastboot boot recoveryimage.img" to get into cwm-recovery temporarily...
jpcalhoun said:
I have the same issue. I've tried every thing I can think of (except flashing the old bootloader) and nothing seems to work. Can't get into custom recovery (CWM, Goo Manager, TWRP, QuickBoot, ROM Manager), you name it I think I've tried it. I tried to flash CWM 6.0.X.X (can't remember exactly which one) thru the Toolkit but that didn't work either.
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CWM will work with 3.34. I can't get it to work no way no how on 3.41.
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CWM will work with 3.34. I can't get it to work no way no how on 3.41.
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Cannot get TWRP to work with 3.41 either - works nicely with 3.34.
Is it possible to flash just the important stuff of 4.12 and leave out the bootloader (i.e., keep bootloader 3.34)?
Android 4.1.2
Bootloader 3.41
TWRP 2.3.0.0
I got it to work by erasing the stock recovery then flashing TWRP.
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery
I also noticed if you do not erase the stock recovery prior to flashing the custom recovery, it creates a "recovery-from-boot.p" file in the system directory. This file causes your custom recovery to be overwritten with the stock recovery during boot up. You will need to rename or delete this file then flash your custom recovery again to make it stick.
docfreed said:
Cannot get TWRP to work with 3.41 either - works nicely with 3.34.
Is it possible to flash just the important stuff of 4.12 and leave out the bootloader (i.e., keep bootloader 3.34)?
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What I did was flashed the entire 4.1.2 and then flashed the 3.34 bootloader and my old CWM recovery back in if you choose to go that route. Its a lot easier to replace what doesnt work rather than pick and choose what you're gonna flash
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What I did was flashed the entire 4.1.2 and then flashed the 3.34 bootloader and my old CWM recovery back in if you choose to go that route. Its a lot easier to replace what doesnt work rather than pick and choose what you're gonna flash
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Thanks - yes, of course you're right. Are you able to repeatedly boot into CWM, make backups, etc... I hate to redo my whole setup again but I also believe that there's an issue with the 3.41 bootloader.
Did you flash the bootloader and CWM with fastboot?
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Thanks - yes, of course you're right. Are you able to repeatedly boot into CWM, make backups, etc... I hate to redo my whole setup again but I also believe that there's an issue with the 3.41 bootloader.
Did you flash the bootloader and CWM with fastboot?
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Use the bootloaders provided in this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929270
There's 2 threads floating around but 1 of them provides to bootloaders in flashable format and the one I gave you in image format for fastboot flashing.
What I did was downloaded the OTA zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32672323
Downloaded Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the play store. Backed up my su binary and root access with that app.
Then I ran the ota zip in CWM.
I rebooted. went into Voodoo OTA and restored root access
I used root explorer and deleted /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh this way it wouldnt keep attempting to flash the stock recovery on boot.
Rebooted into fastboot mode and fastboot flashed the 3.34 bootloader
rebooted the bootloader
then fastboot flashed cwm touch.
then rebotoed and everything works fine.
Only issue is im on the 3.34 bootloader and not the 3.41 one and just want to know WHY?! lol
tucstwo said:
Use the bootloaders provided in this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929270
There's 2 threads floating around but 1 of them provides to bootloaders in flashable format and the one I gave you in image format for fastboot flashing.
What I did was downloaded the OTA zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32672323
Downloaded Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the play store. Backed up my su binary and root access with that app.
Then I ran the ota zip in CWM.
I rebooted. went into Voodoo OTA and restored root access
I used root explorer and deleted /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh this way it wouldnt keep attempting to flash the stock recovery on boot.
Rebooted into fastboot mode and fastboot flashed the 3.34 bootloader
rebooted the bootloader
then fastboot flashed cwm touch.
then rebotoed and everything works fine.
Only issue is im on the 3.34 bootloader and not the 3.41 one and just want to know WHY?! lol
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Thanks - I'll try this tonight and let you know - I'd also like to know why there's so much issue with 3.41 but I'll be happy if I can update.
janedoesmith said:
Android 4.1.2
Bootloader 3.41
TWRP 2.3.0.0
I got it to work by erasing the stock recovery then flashing TWRP.
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery
I also noticed if you do not erase the stock recovery prior to flashing the custom recovery, it creates a "recovery-from-boot.p" file in the system directory. This file causes your custom recovery to be overwritten with the stock recovery during boot up. You will need to rename or delete this file then flash your custom recovery again to make it stick.
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I removed the "recovery-from-boot.p" file, and erased the stock recovery, then flashed Clockwork Recovery, but still can't boot into Clockwork recovery. It just displays "boot downloaded image" on the top, then after a few seconds, it boots into android os...
I don't know about CWM but I got it to work with TWRP.
janedoesmith said:
Android 4.1.2
Bootloader 3.41
TWRP 2.3.0.0
I got it to work by erasing the stock recovery then flashing TWRP.
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery
I also noticed if you do not erase the stock recovery prior to flashing the custom recovery, it creates a "recovery-from-boot.p" file in the system directory. This file causes your custom recovery to be overwritten with the stock recovery during boot up. You will need to rename or delete this file then flash your custom recovery again to make it stick.
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I don't know about CWM but I got it to work with TWRP.
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I tried exactly this
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-3.41
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery twrp2.2.2.1
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Then into recovery...nothing. Back to the google screen. That's it.
All I did was rename recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-book.bak, reinstalled TWRP from GooManager, and everything works just fine.
You have to disable/delete that file in /system or it will restore the stock recovery every time you reboot.
iElvis said:
All I did was rename recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-book.bak, reinstalled TWRP from GooManager, and everything works just fine.
You have to disable/delete that file in /system or it will restore the stock recovery every time you reboot.
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Nah that's not it. Those files were the first thing I got rid of as soon as I restored root access, before I even bothered to access recovery. If u look a few posts up I told that other member how I installed stuff on my tablet and it included those steps.
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Nah that's not it. Those files were the first thing I got rid of as soon as I restored root access, before I even bothered to access recovery. If u look a few posts up I told that other member how I installed stuff on my tablet and it included those steps.
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Ah--I see that now. I'm not sure which bootloader I'm on, to be honest--I just took the OTA as-is.
I flashed my device with the JZO54K factory image. Then i flashed cwm 6.0.1.0 via fastboot. I can not boot recovery using any method (recovery via bootloader, adb, terminal, various apps) with the 3.41 bootloader. The only way I have been able to use recovery is to downgrade to the 3.34 bootloader from JRO03D.
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I'm in the same ship. Only works using 3.34 bootloader.
Install the factory image or OTA, with 3.41 bootloader stop me from running cwm. Only solution is flash 3.34 bootloader image file to use it again.
Edit: C80 here.
+1, I'm on a C60 revision Nexus 7 and I spent hours trying to figure this out until I flashed back to 3.34 bootloader. Thanks for this!
Hi All,
So I have CM11 installed on my Note 3 with CWM 6.0.4.6 as my recovery. I want to now flash the TWRP recovery and replace CWM.
1) I download the official hlte twrp zip from twrp website
2) Go into cwm recovery and flash the twrp zip
3) But when I reboot, I see that I am still stuck with CWM and the TWRP recovery hasn't been installed
Can someone tell me if there is any step I am missing or what am I doing wrong? I just can't seem to get rid of CWM.
Is it because of CM11? I don't think so honestly (but I maybe wrong).
Thanks for any help that you can give
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Please help
I flashed twrp 2.8.3 last time but when reboot recovery i'm still at 2.8.2. Then flashed latest 2.8.4 it's updated as it should be. Maybe corrupted zip unless you downloaded a few times then i'm not sure.