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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

Can I install Custom ROM on my Legend that already has S-OFF

So here's the thing. I've been trying to downgrade and root my Android 2.2 Legend for many hours now and have been failing as the adb could not push the flash_image and misc1-2.img files for reasons unknown to me (said adb: not found despite the files being there).
Anyways, I rebooted into the Fastboot mode and found that my phone's NAND is unlocked as the fastboot says S-OFF. I thought of giving another try by temp rooting with Visionary+ and then trying to Perm Root it. To my surprise, after rebooting and even uninstalling Visionary+, apps requiring root access function properly. Does this mean Legend 2.2 with HBOOT 1.01 has been permanently rooted?
I also installed the ROM Manager and it did manage to install the ClockworkMod. However, whenever I try to back up my current firmware, it says backup cache could not be found.
Also, I wanted to know since its showing that my phone is rooted and has ClockworkMod, will I be able to install ROM without any issues?

If it says adb: not found then you probably don't have problems with the files to be flashed not found but with the adb binary not found.
In older versions of the Android SDK it was in tools directory but since r09 it is in platform-tools instead.
Many of the guides found in the internet refer to the old directory names.
From your HBOOT Screenshot you can perfectly see that your phone is S-OFF.
Did you install Clockworkmod permanently already? (e.g. when you reboot your phone into recovery mode from hboot screen you have clockworkmod recovery and not the default Attention sign)
If yes, then you should be fine installing a custom rom from the rom manager or by hand.
The problems with backuping your current firmware using the nandroid backup that comes with clockworkmod fails here too, though I don't know why.
Maybe you want to just backup your settings with Titanium Backup instead of the whole rom.

Could his hboot be used to s-off the phones which have the vodafone ota hboot 1.0?

ThauExodus said:
Could his hboot be used to s-off the phones which have the vodafone ota hboot 1.0?
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Yeah i wonder the same??
Sent from my Legend using XDA App

IIRC, The S-OFF dev did ask for 24 hours access to an HBOOT1.01 phone to pull off everything he needed and have a play then he'd look at S-OFF for 1.01. See the original S-OFF thread.

I can boot into recovery mode from hboot screen but I have to enter by pressing Vol Up + Power button to enter as clockworkmod shows an exclamation mark in a triangle.
When I enter the recovery mode, it shows E:can't open /cache/recovery/command.
Also, can anyone tell me what will wipe cache partition do in recovery?
I'm willing to help if any Legend dev wants to know more about my phone's Hboot 1.01 with S-off.

I think this message is normal E:can't open /cache/recovery/command
Can you try to backup your hboot and your radio?

sorry for being a n00b. how do i do that?

I tried installing a custom firmware but I can't as the Legend reboots and shows an icon of installing from the microSD and stopping mid-way with a question mark.
I was trying to install Blayo's latest ROM

Hboot 1.01.s-off. Now, that's a new thing. It'll be good if you can help devs on the hboot side with your s-off.
Sent from my Legend using XDA App

psyionx said:
Hboot 1.01.s-off. Now, that's a new thing. It'll be good if you can help devs on the hboot side with your s-off.
Sent from my Legend using XDA App
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As I said, I'm willing to. Only if someone would direct me on how to do it.

@legendusr
Would you try to backup your hboot, and posting it here?
Maybe this could work:
(instructions by XDA user OzJD)
Power off phone, Connect your phone to PC, Hold back button while turning phone on (to get to fastboot mode)
On the PC:
Code:
fastboot oem saveprt2sd hboot -n hboot.bin

Or you can maybe try to make nandroid backup....

[Q] Killed my phone somehow. I can get to recovery but...

My phone wont boot. just stays at the g2 screen. I can get in to CW recovery 3.0.2.4 but i get E:/Can't mount /cache/recovery errors. I went and tried to restore a backup but it fails at Formating the system dir. I even tried to just flash a CM nightly and still fails at that point.
Looks like i just need to reinstall CW recovery. But I haven't been able to find any help. all the search i've found says to download from market then install.
Btw this started after doing a battery pull when my phone locked trying to install Plants Vs. Zombies
Vision pvt eng s-off
hboot-0.76.200 (pc1010000)
microp-0425
radio-26.03.02.26_m
eMMc-boot
Aug 20 2010,16:51:01
Is there a way I can push and install CW via ADB?
Thanks for your help.

I'm by no means experienced with this stuff but since you have the engineering hboot you can try flashing with fastboot.
Works like ADB, but not quite the same.
Grab the fastboot binary from here: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Then throw it in the same folder as adb.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Fastboot#fastboot_--help
The above link will help explain how it works.
If you can get CWM in recovery.img form you can easily flash it.
The CWM image link a little further down in this section might help with that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik..._Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29_using_gfree_v0.5

I'm afraid you may have a device with a hardware defect: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039504

[Q] ADB - HBOOT or FASTBOOT (USB) / HBOOT Version .85

I know this may be hopeless, but I thought I would exhaust all efforts before accepting defeat. I have the MT4G and I have rooted it as well as S-Off. I loaded a ROM on it was working great (Beast V 4) and then it just froze while watching a movie. I had to pull the battery to get it to reboot. It rebooted to the loading screen (Animated Green Droid) and just sat there for 15 min or so. Pulled the batter and it would just stop at the MT4G splash screen. So I booted into HBoot and have:
Glacier PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT 0.85.2007 (PD1510000)
MI CROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMc-boot
When loading Recovery I get:
Clockworkmod Recovery v3.0.2.4
E: Cant Mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Cant Mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Cant Open /cache/recovery/log
E: Cant Mount cache/recovery/last_log
E: Cant Open cache/recovery/last_log
I am able to:
Wipe data/factory reset
Resulting in Date wipe complete and then comes back with same errors seen above
Wipe Cache Partition
Resulting in Cache Wipe Complete and then comes back with same error.
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Resulting in nothing. and then comes back with same error
I then tried the PD15IMG.Zip on the root of the SD Card
Result:
[1] BOOTLOADER - Fail-PU
Leaving the rest blank
Update Fail!
So it seems bricked I know. I have bee reading for hours it seems and here are the questions I pose.
1. I read somewhere if the HBOOT is .86 there is nothing I can do, but it mentioned in the thread if I had .85 there was hope, but the person had .86 so the person involved was done. Plus it was different phone. I am wondering since I have .85 is there something else I can do?
2. Another thread I read the person has used ADB and -w to wipe everything off the device. However everything I can find tells me you cant use ADB in FASTBOOT or HBOOT. Is this true? Or can I? I have loaded different drivers to where device manager will see the device as ADB Device but when I run "ADB Devices" It sees nothing. Therefore cannot run -w on it. However this person somehow did then ran the PD15IMG.Zip and it fixed it. Any ideas on how this could be accomplished?
Any help would be appreciated. I am a novice at this, but I do have SDK loaded. I downloaded the HTC Drivers for the device, but it doesnt recognize my device (assuming since I cant get a full boot) and also drivers that will load the phone as an ADB device just cant see it (I know getting repetitive)
One other thing everything I have seen for screen shots is it shows the Fail-PU for each item. Mine however just stops at BOOTLOADER and then tells me update fail and to just press power to reboot.
Couple things I failed to mention
Phone is Rooted and Obviously S-Off (seen above) - Using the Visionary 11 and Gfree process (Not through SDK, but Terminal Emulator and Astro File)

1. You can try to manually flash recovery and ROM using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and "fastboot flash system system.img" commands. The recovery image can be downloaded from Development forum, the stock ROM system image needs to be extracted from PD15IMG. The flash will fail, though - so don't get your hopes high.
2. You can't use ADB in bootloader, you need the phone to boot the kernel and run the ADBD (ADB daemon) to be able to access ADB.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Fail-PU means dead eMMC chip, and there's no way around it, no matter which bootloader you have. The only hope is when you have cache failures in recovery, but don't have Fail-PU (and in this case, engineering bootloader helps). Fail-PU is one-way ticket.

HELP! Tried to flash new rom,stuck on white screen,b-loader and CWM still there

Hello all!
Please help me
I have pretty good understanding of rooting procedures and custom roms, I have put custom roms on about 10 different phone models, including one previous HTC (CHA CHA)
Tried to flash custom rom, everything goes ok but the phone displays white logo with htc symbol and stays like that.
I still have access to bootloader and cwm recovery.
Sometimes cwm recovery displays message :
E: cant mount cache:recovery/command
E: cant mount CACHE:recovery/log
e:cant open CACHE:recovery/log
Sometimes it does not show though.
I've read that it may be beacuse of emmc chip which gets damaged during taking the battery off when the phone is working.
What to do now ? I tried flashing different roms but nothing happens, when flashing them from CWM i get no error messages,
but when i reboot I get the white screen with htc logo.
Please help ... ;(
This is bootloader info :
*** Unlocked ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_m
eMMC-boot
dec 22 2011
CLOCKWORK MOD IS clockwork mod recovery v2.5.1.2 (MODACO r2)
Another curious thing, it says that it is s-on, but I did dev unlock before !?!?!?!
here is complete history of my actions
I got this desire HD from my friend, he wanted me to put some unofficial 4.0 rom on it.
I remember from when I had htc cha cha that you should first do dev unlock.
Trying to do dev unlock, I selected european RUU but ruu update program told me that it can not be upgraded.
Somewhere on forums , I've read that I could just continue with procedure.So I did.
I got the codes, sent them to HTC and they mailed me the bin file.I got the prompt about unlocking on the phones display, i choose to unlock it.
Then i flashed clockwork mod on it via terminal.
Then i downloaded custom rom and flashed it , but i just get white screen.
Bad thing is I have not made backup (
what to do now please help (((

You have to flash the boot.img separately when flashing roms on a HTC dev unlocked device. That's why it doesent start after a flash. Get it relocked and get S-OFF instead. Search "advanced ace hack kit attn1" on goggle and use it.
Get the ruu for your device and run it from fastboot menu then get S-OFF with advanced aace hack kit.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda premium

OK I have found the aahk thing you told me, when I get home I will try to relock it (usin fastboot oem unlock command ? )
then to unlock the s-on thing....

I send the fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin command and on prompt it says ok but on the phone nothing happens
Also, under device manager phone is registered as android 1.0
anyone help please

When I enter fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
I get ok messages , but nothing happens on the screen of the phone
I repaired the drivers, when i enter other fastboot commands, like reboot, device reacts.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1810058
this guy here in this post says that when messed bootloader its not ok to work with aahk so im bit scared now

I got this problem solved with help from irc channel of aahk ... big big thans to them...they gudied me to downgrade and flash the stock rom
i saved the log I can send it to who needs it...

trouble help please!
hi, i upgrade my evo 3d from sprint to ICS (2.89.651.2 710RD).
in the 13th step about bootloader unlock,(when i put fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin) the pc says ok, but nothing happens in the device, can you help me please?

retrorobot said:
Hello all!
Please help me
I have pretty good understanding of rooting procedures and custom roms, I have put custom roms on about 10 different phone models, including one previous HTC (CHA CHA)
Tried to flash custom rom, everything goes ok but the phone displays white logo with htc symbol and stays like that.
I still have access to bootloader and cwm recovery.
Sometimes cwm recovery displays message :
E: cant mount cache:recovery/command
E: cant mount CACHE:recovery/log
e:cant open CACHE:recovery/log
Sometimes it does not show though.
I've read that it may be beacuse of emmc chip which gets damaged during taking the battery off when the phone is working.
What to do now ? I tried flashing different roms but nothing happens, when flashing them from CWM i get no error messages,
but when i reboot I get the white screen with htc logo.
Please help ... ;(
This is bootloader info :
*** Unlocked ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_m
eMMC-boot
dec 22 2011
CLOCKWORK MOD IS clockwork mod recovery v2.5.1.2 (MODACO r2)
Another curious thing, it says that it is s-on, but I did dev unlock before !?!?!?!
here is complete history of my actions
I got this desire HD from my friend, he wanted me to put some unofficial 4.0 rom on it.
I remember from when I had htc cha cha that you should first do dev unlock.
Trying to do dev unlock, I selected european RUU but ruu update program told me that it can not be upgraded.
Somewhere on forums , I've read that I could just continue with procedure.So I did.
I got the codes, sent them to HTC and they mailed me the bin file.I got the prompt about unlocking on the phones display, i choose to unlock it.
Then i flashed clockwork mod on it via terminal.
Then i downloaded custom rom and flashed it , but i just get white screen.
Bad thing is I have not made backup (
what to do now please help (((
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To flash a custom rom with an unlocked bootloader you have to flash the rom in CWM first and then flash the boot.img of the rom in fastboot.
Follow this:
Get the boot.img file from inside the .zip file and place it in the PC, somewhere where u can easily find it.
Put the zip in the sdcard
Boot in CWM. Full wipe and flash the rom
Go to advaced options and reboot bootloader
Toggle to fastboot and plug the phone to the PC (you will see fastboot usb in red)
Open a CMD as admin or Terminal as root in the PC
Navigate in CMD to the folder where the boot.img file is located
Type: fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then reboot, and you should be ok....:good: