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Trouble with Recovery...

I finally got my "Alltel Bee" rooted last nite using super one click. Before I roll out any custom roms etc, I'd like to make sure I get a backup, and my phone is hanging on the alltel logo whenever I try to boot into recovery (whether I boot in from Rom manager or from Hboot.) I always end up pulling the battery and rebooting the phone.
I do have an idea as to how I got to this point, and I have only myself to blame, but in my frustration of trying to root this thing I did try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743289 and recovery has hung like this ever since.
I've got root now, and have installed Rom manager, used that to flash clockwork recovery, yet I still have the issue. After a few google searches, I've seen some suggest that fixing file permissions can fix this, and I've done that as well with no change.
Where do I turn next?

So after some more searching and reading and such, I've discovered that even though I have root access, booting into HBOOT shows S-ON still. Could this be the issue in my inability to get a recovery written? Anyone know how to deal with it?

How do you know it is a hang in recovery? If you see the triangle and nothing happens, just click the power button once and usually you will land in the recovery mod menu.

I don't get the triangle at all. I get the initial Alltel logo and that's it. I've waited several minutes before pulling the battery before, but I don't get to the triangle or the menu.

Super one click will only do a temp root. There are no hard roots for the bee that i am aware of. DO NOT TRY UNREVOKED AS IT IS FOR THE BUZZ AND COULD YOUR BEE OR A FROYO BUZZ
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Doh! Thanks, I guess I'll wait patiently. (My network switches from Alltel to AT&T inside of 2 months, at which time I'll be provided an Aria.)
Still, it would be nice to customize this thing a bit before it turns into an mp3 player

Send me a boot.img from the bee and I'll get you a recovery
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Even though i dont have the bee would yoi mind clarifiying jacob
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If I get a boot image from a shipped rom, I can extract the kernel and build a recovery image
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I'm more than willing to help, How do I pull what you need?
I also have the SDK installed, I've been looking into writing some code for this new toy...
edit: I think I have what I need to get this pulled. Ill see if I can find some time for it this weekend.

willing to help
just starting out. complete noob
But if i can help in any way let me know. in the same boat as the original poster. our section of Alltel is being acquired by at&t and switching to the aria. but would love to help any way i can
Would love to get my "bee" rooted to play with it some more to get familiar with it all

Just got through doing a romdump. Which files do you want?

I am also having this issue... has anyone successully extracted a recovery image for the bee?

[Q] New User - Clockworkmod Recovery Q

Hi Everyone. First off I'd like to thank everyone that participates here for all of the valuable information. I am a new Android user and the information I have found here has been the best
I have a problem and I was wondering if it was me or if maybe it is a known issue. I have perm rooted my phone (thanks to bcnice's info!) and installed ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.1.4. I noticed if I turn my phone off and connect it to the charger it will boot into CwM each time and stop charging (the LED goes out). If i select "power off" from within the recovery menu it will turn off (the LED comes back on) but then it will boot right back into clockwork and the LED turns off again. Is this normal? Should I reflash clockwork? I guess it isnt the end of the world but it is a little annoying.
Thanks!

I believe it any issue with everyone on the shift right now.
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Yep, this is just the way it is for now.
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Yeah its within the recovery itself its a known issue with cwm and wh havent heard anything about a fix so for now we have to charge powered on
tarsus said:
Hi Everyone. First off I'd like to thank everyone that participates here for all of the valuable information. I am a new Android user and the information I have found here has been the best
I have a problem and I was wondering if it was me or if maybe it is a known issue. I have perm rooted my phone (thanks to bcnice's info!) and installed ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.1.4. I noticed if I turn my phone off and connect it to the charger it will boot into CwM each time and stop charging (the LED goes out). If i select "power off" from within the recovery menu it will turn off (the LED comes back on) but then it will boot right back into clockwork and the LED turns off again. Is this normal? Should I reflash clockwork? I guess it isnt the end of the world but it is a little annoying.
Thanks!
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strapped365 said:
Yeah its within the recovery itself its a known issue with cwm and wh havent heard anything about a fix so for now we have to charge powered on
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Itll still charge powered off..
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Another question - is Dalvik cache being wiped correctly with this recovery?
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Yes.
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3 vibrations and blinking orange light

I wanna ask a question. Earlier, I used 4ext Recovery Control (the app,not actual recovery) , but i was changing the recovery theme. Anyway I chose 'reboot into recovery' to check out how the theme looked, and my phone went black and vibrated 3 times, and the orange light blinked continuously. I took out the battery and put it back in and pressed power, and same thing..black, vibrate x3, blinking light. So i took out battery again, waited bout 5 minutes, put it back and pressed vol dwn + power and it booted into hboot menu, where i entered recovery and selected reboot and it powered up normally, thank goodness! But my question is, is that a sign of something bad that i should be aware of in the future? I do have the bad chip, and i thought it was a goner! Has anybody else experienced this? Im kinda scared to be messin around now.. just wondering if y'all have seen this before.
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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.

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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.
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Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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jjbadd385 said:
Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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Nothing like an easy fix!

Yea i had just reversed the Htcdev unlocked bootloader, a few days ago. I was happy I had my phone True rooted, s-off, eng. Hboot..and that happened! I damn near had a panic attack!
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I also had the three fast vibrations and blinking orange led. I downgraded from Gingerbread to stock Froyo, rooted using Visionary and gfree. I then changed the engineering bootloader to 0.85.2007. I got into hboot, and verified I was S-off with that bootloader. I installed Clockwork mod recovery, and was able to create a recovery image. But, when I tried to make a backup of the rom, I got a black screen, When I tried to flash a rom I just got the orange symbol. I tried to reboot, and that’s when I first got the vibrations and orange light. I was able to restart with a battery pull, So I thought there was something wrong with my clockwork mod recovery. I reinstalled it again with the same results. I followed advice I saw in another post and pushed volume down and power and waited for the bootloader. I still had the original stock rom on there. It recognized it after a few tries, and updated. When it said reboot by pushing the power button, I got the vibrations and orange light again. It erased everything I had put on there. I wanted to see if I still had S-off, so I went to the bootloader, and I still have S-off, but the bootloader changed back to to 0.86.0000. When I tried to reboot via the power button this time, I was still getting the vibrations and orange light, and could not get it to restart. I let it charge for a while, and then pulled the sdcard in and out, along with the battery pull, and got it to restart.
I’m still new at this, so I’m not sure what I should do next. Should I try another sdcard with the stock rom? Should I try to reinstall Visionary first?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I really don’t want to stay on Froyo .

I think u should be ok to flash another rom. I was told it can be a result of holding volume up + power. Do you know if you might have did that by accident? Also, have you had any problems with your volume buttons sticking or anything? Since i had the problem, i have flashed several times, so maybe for me it was an isolated incident. I dont want u to blame me for anything, but my opinion is you should be ok to flash a rom, just be careful not to press the vol button while rebooting.
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Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
Thanks,
Erin

EMcTx said:
Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
Thanks,
Erin
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Now when you ask me if it will hurt anything, I am still quite new myself, and I dont want to tell you anything that would cause you to brick your phone. Do you know what emmc chip you have? Its been stated that some chips are more likely to mess up than others. If I could tell you anything, it would be to read what others have done, read the guides til you understand more..because there is no way to be sure that you won't brick your device. I have 2 mt4g so i took more chances than i should have. but go to the Ultimate Rooting, s-off guide in the wiki section, if you are choosing to continue. Im sorry i cant be of more help but i am only slightly ahead of you on this journey of learning ...
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Before I did anything to the phone, I verified the emmc chip, it is the "good one".
This is actually my second phone. I bricked my first one in November, and it had the "bad" chip. I didn't know about that problem until I had rooted it already. I was waiting for the ICS roms to get going before I did anything. That's why I've waited so long. I ran gfree verify through adb but got su: permission denied. It seems that the gfree didn't take, although I do have the backups gfree created.
I may try to see if I can undo them in a couple of days. I need a break from the stress it creates .
Thanks again for your input.

I know what ya mean about the stress it causes...I wanted to stop, then i would lay there and think..I can do this! Then i would stop..then start again! But what really helped me more than anything, was just reading posts by other users, about similar issues. It helped me get a better grasp of what I was doing. But whatever u decide, good luck.. I think you will get it, provided you remain patient. If ya have anymore questions just ask here and if I can help I will...
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My phone still vibrates 3 times and flashes the orange light everytime I reboot. The only way to get it restarted is to do a battery pull and wait 5 minutes. I tried to flash the stock rom again through hboot. This time I used a different freshly reformatted sd card. I just don't know what to try next. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
Erin

I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.

EMcTx said:
I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.
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Very good, I have been following ur progress, so post back your results ..
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It's definitely the gfree. I tried it two other times, with the same results. I was able to use the gfree method on my other phone, it just had the bad chip, so it died a few days later. I'm going to have to try another way to root the phone.

okay, I used the VISIONary method to root, and I now have S-off. No more vibrations and blinking lights.

Please help stuck on CWM Recover and can't reboot or turn off phone!!!

Please help!
I am running ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
I'm running cyanogenmod 7.2 and I wasn't really trying to do anything. Just checking the options in recovery mode because I am preparing to sell this phone.
But now I can't get out of recovery. If I select reboot now I just get the clockwordmod recovery logo and it just sits there. Same thing if I select turn phone off.
Has this ever happened to anyone before?! Please help.
Again I wasn't trying to flash anything...change anything...really do anything. And I've been running CM7 for quite a while without issue so not sure why this is happening now.
Any help much appreciated!
Yes I do have a nandroid but it isn't very current so I'd prefer not to use it (not sure it would work anyway) if I don't have to.
Thanks in advance!

Did you use trackpad to select reboot?

How about a battery pull?
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siloner said:
How about a battery pull?
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Yeah I guess I was worried that would completely brick the phone but it actually did the trick. Thanks.
Still curious what I can do to prevent this from happening in the future...as I would like to sell a fully functioning stable phone.
Thanks though and sorry for the panic post!

Saturn1217 said:
Yeah I guess I was worried that would completely brick the phone but it actually did the trick. Thanks.
Still curious what I can do to prevent this from happening in the future...as I would like to sell a fully functioning stable phone.
Thanks though and sorry for the panic post!
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Were you using trackpad or power button to select reboot? You never said.
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same problem stuck in cwm recovert 5.0.2.7
Saturn1217 said:
Please help!
I am running ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
I'm running cyanogenmod 7.2 and I wasn't really trying to do anything. Just checking the options in recovery mode because I am preparing to sell this phone.
But now I can't get out of recovery. If I select reboot now I just get the clockwordmod recovery logo and it just sits there. Same thing if I select turn phone off.
Has this ever happened to anyone before?! Please help.
Again I wasn't trying to flash anything...change anything...really do anything. And I've been running CM7 for quite a while without issue so not sure why this is happening now.
Any help much appreciated!
Yes I do have a nandroid but it isn't very current so I'd prefer not to use it (not sure it would work anyway) if I don't have to.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi, I have exactly the same issue on my xperia neo.Cwm version 5.0.2.7.I cannot get out using reboot or power off or battery removal.Even istalled boot loop fix and exit recovery on my sd card and installed.No go, being trying to sort out the whole day.Please help,I am a newbie and I"m despereate to fix. I only did a backup, I even tried restoring this backup
Thanks in advance

Saturn1217 said:
I am running ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0
But now I can't get out of recovery. If I select reboot now I just get the clockwordmod recovery logo and it just sits there. Same thing if I select turn phone off.
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I have this same problem, except it does it every time I boot to recovery. I prefer to use recovery to flash roms over the rom manager, but any tiime i make a selection from the main menu, it just shows the clockwork logo and doesn't go anywhere. Does anyone know how to fix it so that I could navigate recovery?
Thanks

mushav66 said:
I have this same problem, except it does it every time I boot to recovery. I prefer to use recovery to flash roms over the rom manager, but any tiime i make a selection from the main menu, it just shows the clockwork logo and doesn't go anywhere. Does anyone know how to fix it so that I could navigate recovery?
Thanks
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Select with trackpad, not power.
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stock Tmobile mytouch 4g (not rooted) stuck on the tmobile white screen

This is a stock htc tmobile mytouch 4gphone and it stuck on the white mytouch 4G screen. It stay on for a bit and it looks like static tv picture and then it reboots, After it reboots it goes back into the white screen and then it turns black and it has a picture of the phone with a green recycle symbol then it flash's and it another picture of the phone with a red triangle with exclamation point. when I pull the battery out and put it back in and try and go into (guess it like CWM) phone and hold the power button and the volume rocker button it go into recovery and when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. can some one please help me with this.

Use the stickied thread for bricked phones. If you can get into bootloader, you can probably fix it. All the info you need is there.

I think your mobile emmc(nand flash) chip dead
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vidura1991 said:
I think your mobile emmc(nand flash) chip dead
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If he follows the steps in the thread that I told him to read, he MAY be OK. Let the guy hope.
Also, an eMMC is not the same as a NAND chip.

Will the, how to return to stock work for a non rooted phone. I need to know this before I try and download the zip files. I understand how to do it. I just want to make sure that it might work for a not rooted cell phone. Will the phone be able to read a zip file. Also when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. It freeze and you have to pull the battery out. This is a guy that I know and I dont want mess up his phone anymore then it is. I have a rooted samsung galaxy sg2 i777 running [Rom] AOKP(Jellybean 4.1.2) | Task650 & Ktoonsez.

I have MT4G mainboad it is S-ON stuck mutouch 4g screen.i can go hboot.and download glacear radio file.but stuck installing. Can i fix it?
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I don't know if this will work but download the pd15img.zip for either 2.2 or 2.1 (sorry I forgot which the stock 2.x is) or if your on 2.3 download that one but the rom, not the radio. Before you do that format your SD card on the computer to fat32 and then try to install that but it will wipe every thing on your phone.
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Not moving. Stuck all time.
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Mytouch 4g booting track pad light.
This light not moving problem your rom or emmc chip. This is easy. Check your booting light.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kmStXGelLx0
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skywalker311 said:
Will the, how to return to stock work for a non rooted phone. I need to know this before I try and download the zip files. I understand how to do it. I just want to make sure that it might work for a not rooted cell phone. Will the phone be able to read a zip file. Also when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. It freeze and you have to pull the battery out. This is a guy that I know and I dont want mess up his phone anymore then it is. I have a rooted samsung galaxy sg2 i777 running [Rom] AOKP(Jellybean 4.1.2) | Task650 & Ktoonsez.
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If you read that thread you'll find the answer to all of your questions. Stop panicking and do your research. Seriously. This phone has built in way to restore software problems. If the eMMC has crapped out or the bootloader is corrupt, then you're hosed. Otherwise, it's fixable.