[Q] Questions about rooted phone - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I currently have a rooted phone with the following:
ROM: GorillaSense-DHD-MT4G-v2.2.3
Radio: 26.03.02.26_M
S-Off
Hboot: 0.85.2007
ClockWork Mod 3.0.2.4
After I got permanent S-Off I can only boot into recovery mode through CWM Reboot into Recovery. I have tried uninstalling with Titanium and reinstalling through the Market but it didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Another question. Do I need to upgrade to a newer ROM to fix the ClientLogin vulnerability mentioned at engadget or does 'fixed on the server side' mean that the security tokens (or whatever those things are) handed out can't be spoofed by a server in a wireless network?

4g4win said:
After I got permanent S-Off I can only boot into recovery mode through CWM Reboot into Recovery. I have tried uninstalling with Titanium and reinstalling through the Market but it didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
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a few ways to boot into recovery
1)
turn off the phone > hold the power button down along with the volume down rocker
2)
from the terminal emulator
Code:
$ su
# reboot recovery
3) from the CMD prompt via ADB
Code:
c:\<file_name>adb reboot recovery
or
Code:
c:\<file_name> adb shell
# reboot recovery
as far as your security issues i dunno. I do not use public access wifi routers.

by fixed on the server side, that means it was a problem with Google's servers, not your phones. Google has fixed it.

neidlinger said:
a few ways to boot into recovery
1)
turn off the phone > hold the power button down along with the volume down rocker
2)
from the terminal emulator
Code:
$ su
# reboot recovery
3) from the CMD prompt via ADB
Code:
c:\<file_name>adb reboot recovery
or
Code:
c:\<file_name> adb shell
# reboot recovery
as far as your security issues i dunno. I do not use public access wifi routers.
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I should have mentioned that I can't get into recovery mode using the volume down + power button method. Do you know how I can get that functionality back?
Do methods 2 and 3 require the OS to launch? I am concerned that I won't be able to get into recovery mode if the OS is not available. Is this a valid concern?

4g4win said:
I should have mentioned that I can't get into recovery mode using the volume down + power button method. Do you know how I can get that functionality back?
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What happens when you do it? You don't have "recovery" in menu? Then choose "Fastboot", and there'll be "recovery".

Jack_R1 said:
What happens when you do it? You don't have "recovery" in menu? Then choose "Fastboot", and there'll be "recovery".
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Nothing happens. It boots normally with my finger is holding down the volume down button. The phone only boots into the recovery menu when I select the recovery option in Clockwork Mod.

4g4win said:
Nothing happens. It boots normally with my finger is holding down the volume down button. The phone only boots into the recovery menu when I select the recovery option in Clockwork Mod.
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Go to "settings>applications>development" and make sure fastboot is UNCHECKED. fastboot will disable booting into recovery mode when enabled...hence...only CWM gets you there.
UNCHECK fastboot then turn off your phone....you should be able to use the 2 button combo
::thanks?did i help?::

rubbamade said:
Go to "settings>applications>development" and make sure fastboot is UNCHECKED. fastboot will disable booting into recovery mode when enabled...hence...only CWM gets you there.
UNCHECK fastboot then turn off your phone....you should be able to use the 2 button combo
::thanks?did i help?::
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You, sir, are my hero.

4g4win said:
You, sir, are my hero.
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Glad i could help....i ran into that problem a while back...

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[Q] Phone Not Going To Recovery! Need Help!

So my rooted Mytouch 4g S=OFF is stuck at the MyTouch screen and stays there, then when i do volume down plus power it takes me to hboot then automatically starts going through my sd card for like 3 files then says do u want to start update volume up yes down no i have tried both in the end it reboots and is again frozen! I tried rebooting it with the vol down and power with my sd card out but i still cant do anything! Please help!
ashmal411 said:
So my rooted Mytouch 4g S=OFF is stuck at the MyTouch screen and stays there, then when i do volume down plus power it takes me to hboot then automatically starts going through my sd card for like 3 files then says do u want to start update volume up yes down no i have tried both in the end it reboots and is again frozen! I tried rebooting it with the vol down and power with my sd card out but i still cant do anything! Please help!
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It sounds like you have a PD15IMG.zip file in the root of your SD card. That's what the bootloader is detecting when it asks you if you want to update or not. Remove that file and it will bypass the update step and take you to the bootloader main menu. There you can select recovery. From there, I would re-download your ROM installation file, full wipe (data, cache, Dalvik-Cache), and re-flash your ROM.
I tried that
i tried that too but it still checks for those but then lets me select recovery but when i click recovery it gives me a picture of a phone and a red triangle thanks though any more help would be much appreciated!
ashmal411 said:
i tried that too but it still checks for those but then lets me select recovery but when i click recovery it gives me a picture of a phone and a red triangle thanks though any more help would be much appreciated!
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I don't think you have a custom recovery yet, download the rom manager from the market and have it flash a recovery for you. When you go back you should see something very different.
If for you already have flashed the recovery, press the power button when you see the lil phone pic and your recovery should come up
mark manning said:
I don't think you have a custom recovery yet, download the rom manager from the market and have it flash a recovery for you. When you go back you should see something very different.
If for you already have flashed the recovery, press the power button when you see the lil phone pic and your recovery should come up
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I cant download anyting because i cant even get to my homescreen
ashmal411 said:
I cant download anyting because i cant even get to my homescreen
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can you get into your phone using adb/fastboot?
flash recovery that way.
saranhai said:
can you get into your phone using adb/fastboot?
flash recovery that way.
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sorry im a noob at this i dont know how to do that thank you for trying to help though if you have anymore please help
ashmal411 said:
sorry im a noob at this i dont know how to do that thank you for trying to help though if you have anymore please help
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google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those. once you get adb set up, connect your phone (USB DEBUGGING ON! enable in settings/applications/development).
type "adb devices" without quotes to see if your device is connected. then type
Code:
su
adb reboot bootloader
the phone should reboot into fastboot, if it isn't in fastboot, manually scroll to it with the volume buttons and select with power button.
now, you need the recovery image, i'll post it at the bottom of this post. after you get the recovery image, move it to androidSDK/tools or wherever your adb/ fastboot folder is located, and rename it to "recovery.img".
now, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it should give you two OKs, if it does, then you're all set, reboot the phone into bootloader, select recovery, and flash a rom on there
saranhai said:
google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those. once you get adb set up, connect your phone (USB DEBUGGING ON! enable in settings/applications/development).
type "adb devices" without quotes to see if your device is connected. then type
Code:
su
adb reboot bootloader
the phone should reboot into fastboot, if it isn't in fastboot, manually scroll to it with the volume buttons and select with power button.
now, you need the recovery image, i'll post it at the bottom of this post. after you get the recovery image, move it to androidSDK/tools or wherever your adb/ fastboot folder is located, and rename it to "recovery.img".
now, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it should give you two OKs, if it does, then you're all set, reboot the phone into bootloader, select recovery, and flash a rom on there
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here's the recovery image:
saranhai said:
google search androidSDK, and install it on your computer.
there are millions of threads out there telling you how to set it up so i'd suggest you read some of those.
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To make it easier for the OP, this thread gives you all you need to know to get ADB up and running.
Also, the above fastboot instructions are correct, but will only work with the engineering bootloader. Hopefully the OP's phone has that.
i cantturn on usb debuggiing because io cant get into my phone
TeeJay3800 said:
To make it easier for the OP, this thread gives you all you need to know to get ADB up and running.
Also, the above fastboot instructions are correct, but will only work with the engineering bootloader. Hopefully the OP's phone has that.
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lol thanks for the tip
ashmal411 said:
i cantturn on usb debuggiing because io cant get into my phone
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was usb debugging on before..?
nope it was not on
ashmal411 said:
nope it was not on
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oh.... that's a problem...
ashmal411 said:
nope it was not on
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ok that's ok, you can still flash recovery through fastboot, which doesn't need USB debugging on.
so steps:
1) download the recovery image and rename to "recovery.img"
2) move the image to wherever your adb/fastboot tools are located
3) open command prompt (in windows)
4) cd to where your adb/fastboot tools are located
5) REBOOT PHONE INTO HBOOT, THEN CONNECT TO COMPUTER
6) manually scroll and select fastboot using the volume and power buttons
7) type
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sure your phone is detected.
8) if it is, type
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
should give you two OKs.
9)once the recovery is in there, flash a rom on

CWM vs TWRP recovery

What is the Difference between CWM vs TWRP recovery and which one is best for the my nexus 7
Any idea?:highfive:
OLYMPIAKOI said:
What is the Difference between CWM vs TWRP recovery and which one is best for the my nexus 7
Any idea?:highfive:
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Both are relatively similar. I would have to take the side of TWRP at least on the N7. Last time i tried to flash something with CWM it didnt wipe correctly or flashed incorrectly and ended up with a courrpt ROM. Had to redownload and reflash with TWRP and it was fine. Dont know what it is with CWM on this device but on my Gnex it was just fine. As of right now i would stick to TWRP. It also doesnt do the whole blob deal for nandroids which IMO isnt quite ready and causes issues. At least in my experience.
Installation
ÜBER™ said:
Both are relatively similar. I would have to take the side of TWRP at least on the N7. Last time i tried to flash something with CWM it didnt wipe correctly or flashed incorrectly and ended up with a courrpt ROM. Had to redownload and reflash with TWRP and it was fine. Dont know what it is with CWM on this device but on my Gnex it was just fine. As of right now i would stick to TWRP. It also doesnt do the whole blob deal for nandroids which IMO isnt quite ready and causes issues. At least in my experience.
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And where should I Flash TWRP?
1. Boot
2. Bootloader
3. Recovery
4. System
5. Userdata
Which Option shouldI choose?
D/L Goo.im from the PlayStore and install TWRP from there.
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OLYMPIAKOI said:
And where should I Flash TWRP?
1. Boot
2. Bootloader
3. Recovery
4. System
5. Userdata
Which Option shouldI choose?
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Reboot to bootloader
open command prompt or terminal
type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-grouper.img
(or whatever its called)
hit enter
You should see something like this:
Code:
[email protected]:~/Downloads$ fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-grouper.img
sending 'recovery' (7064 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.931s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.489s]
finished. total time: 1.420s
[email protected]:~/Downloads$
then use the volume keys to ether select reboot or reboot to recovery
dparrothead1 said:
D/L Goo.im from the PlayStore and install TWRP from there.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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Yep!
I just did it as I had a problem with CWM, in goomanager you just go settings and choose "install open recovery" when it has downloaded you then select "reboot recovery" and that's it.
I think I like it better than CWM already, I like being able to name my backups as I do them, very handy.
ROOT
OK I have istalled TWRP ,
Now, HOW DO I ROOT IT?
OLYMPIAKOI said:
OK I have istalled TWRP ,
Now, HOW DO I ROOT IT?
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Easily with either one of these.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
I've used the latter.
OLYMPIAKOI said:
OK I have istalled TWRP ,
Now, HOW DO I ROOT IT?
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Flash a superuser package or flash a custom ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 7
I have always used CWM on my phone for no reason other than that was what came w/ the kernal or rom pick of the day. Using the Nexus 7 Toolkit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195 I installed CWM, or tried to, ended up going to the play store for touch.
I have tried holding the power key, powerkey + vol, power++ or - vol and can not get into CWM to no avail. Yes it was connected to USB. I have to use Rom Manager to get to it. Just thinking if something/everything locks up there should another way to get to recovery.
Can I have both Twerp and CWM at the same time?
No. One recovery at a time.
But if you have root access all you need to do is get the terminal emulator from the market type :
Su(enter, grant root)
Reboot recovery
Or if you have adb on your computer (which you really should of you're going to be flashing anything) Just make sure you have. Usb debugging on and type: adb reboot recovery.
Btw the button combo is all three buttons(both volumes and the power button to boot into the bootloader the use the volume keys to toggle the option to recovery mode and hit the power button to confirm.
studacris said:
Btw the button combo is all three buttons(both volumes and the power button to boot into the bootloader the use the volume keys to toggle the option to recovery mode and hit the power button to confirm.
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Thanks.....That's what I thought....didn't happen.
studacris said:
No. One recovery at a time.
But if you have root access all you need to do is get the terminal emulator from the market type :
Su(enter, grant root)
Reboot recovery
Or if you have adb on your computer (which you really should of you're going to be flashing anything) Just make sure you have. Usb debugging on and type: adb reboot recovery.
Btw the button combo is all three buttons(both volumes and the power button to boot into the bootloader the use the volume keys to toggle the option to recovery mode and hit the power button to confirm.
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There are also apps like Quick Boot if you don't want to have to type in the terminal window each time you want to go to recovery
studacris said:
Btw the button combo is all three buttons(both volumes and the power button to boot into the bootloader the use the volume keys to toggle the option to recovery mode and hit the power button to confirm.
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Vol Down and power is all it takes for me from a powered down state. The All-Three button is for hot-reboots.
a5ehren said:
There are also apps like Quick Boot if you don't want to have to type in the terminal window each time you want to go to recovery
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+1 for Quick Boot
With the N7 running, I have found that if I hold the power button down with or without combos for 15-20 sec. it'll reboot, not just shut down. And yes, when starting with the power & -vol it starts in fastboot. I guess I assumed that it would behave just like my sg4g....live and learn .
I'm using ROM Manager to get to TWRP. Haven't decided which I like best twrp or cwm.
My thanks for putting up w/my noobie questions!
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
TheAtheistReverend said:
Vol Down and power is all it takes for me from a powered down state. The All-Three button is for hot-reboots.
+1 for Quick Boot
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Firstly, love your username.
And You're right about the button combo.. I thought I was in the section for my phone lol.
Apps such as that are useful enough I spose.
Power tool is what I used back when my phone first came out and there was no rom with an extended power menu.
Was written by an xda recognized developer and good friend of mine, flappjaxxx
link to power tool if you wanna check it out

Stuck in CWMod Recovery

Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?
djhaf said:
Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?
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Can you get to the bootloader screen so you can use fastboot? If so try flashing the TWRP recovery, it's a great recovery.
Monk33y said:
Can you get to the bootloader screen so you can use fastboot? If so try flashing the TWRP recovery, it's a great recovery.
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I can press the power button and both volumes and it gets me to download mode... from there, every option i try just gets me back to recovery. when i press start, it sends me to recovery. when i press shut down and then turn it on - recovery. when i press restart bootloader, it still takes me to recovery afterwards. wtf happened here man? never seen this before.
djhaf said:
I can press the power button and both volumes and it gets me to download mode... from there, every option i try just gets me back to recovery. when i press start, it sends me to recovery. when i press shut down and then turn it on - recovery. when i press restart bootloader, it still takes me to recovery afterwards. wtf happened here man? never seen this before.
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If you can at least get to download/fastboot mode, either get the stock recovery.img file or extract the recovery.img file from a custom_recover.zip, such as CMW or TWRP and place it in the directory where you have the fastboot util on your Windows PC, plug in the device into your Windows PC. Then type the folowing in a Windows Command prompt(without the quotes): "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". Once that finishes then try rebooting back to recovery.
If you that doesn't work you may have a damaged bootloader, you can try extracting the bootloader(bootloader-manta-mantalj12.img) from the stock ROM and flashing it with the following command: "fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-manta-mantalj12.img" then you can type: "fastboot reboot-bootloader" to reboot directly to the bootloader.
djhaf said:
Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?
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This happened to me yesterday.
Step 1 - hold down the power+volume up+volume down
Step 2 - plug up USB cable and use fastboot to flash the "touch" recovery version. Usebthe method as before, you might need to point your machine to the "naked driver" in dev section to get windows to see the fastboot device driver.
Step 3 - once you are in touch recovery you can just use the touchscreen instead of power button
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You can just "adb reboot" from any computer with working adb and drivers.
This needs to not be flashed by default from Rom Manager until they get it taken care of. Twrp and cwm touch work just fine.
jmhalder said:
You can just "adb reboot" from any computer with working adb and drivers.
This needs to not be flashed by default from Rom Manager until they get it taken care of. Twrp and cwm touch work just fine.
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Seriously. Can we please sticky a thread or something that says CWM isn't stable on the nexus 10 yet. It would save a lot of people a lot of trouble.
I had the same issue get rid of crappy cwm and flash twrp, flash it by downloading the 1.3 nexus 10 rootkit selecting option 6 i believe with your n10 connected to your pc, it will fix your issue
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I was able to fix it by re-flashing CW touch. thanks guys!

Phone will not boot into recovery or bootloader

I can't seem to boot into recovery or bootloader.
I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted. I have purity rom installed, and have TWRP recovery installed.
I had this problem a few days ago but I was able to turn the phone off then hold both the up/down volume with the power button to get into bootloader, then from there I was able to choose recovery and get into TWRP. Mysteriously after I did that I could then enter recovery directly.
So now here are my symptoms. I cannot boot into recovery or bootloader directly through the ROM, or by using GOO.im.
If I power down and then use volume + power button, it powers up normally.
Also, even though I had trickster setup with custom settings and had it to "set on boot" those settings are all gone.
Last thing is that when I was able to get into bootloader last week I noticed the setting "secure boot - enable"
Any suggestions?
Update, I could have sworn I had installed ROM Manager, but it wasn't there. I installed it and used it to boot into recovery... Well it worked, now I'm able to get to recovery (TWRP). And I got back into the bootloader as well.
So I'm ok for now, but this is going to happen again I'm sure
your issue is that youre doing it wrong, its power button + volume DOWN to get into the bootloader.
simms22 said:
your issue is that youre doing it wrong, its power button + volume DOWN to get into the bootloader.
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Thanks, that's one issue out of the way... manual bootloader solved.
Now the issue of not being able to boot into recovery or bootloader through rom and settings getting wiped.
oshax said:
Thanks, that's one issue out of the way... manual bootloader solved.
Now the issue of not being able to boot into recovery or bootloader through rom and settings getting wiped.
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what do you mean through the rom? do you have a terminal emulator installed? try this..
su(press enter)
reboot recovery(press enter)
if this works fine, then its your rom at fault. dont use rom manager, that app will eventually cause you more grief then its worth. if you long press the power button, then press reboot, does it give you an option to boot into recovery/bootloader? and what do you mean settings get wiped?
simms22 said:
what do you mean through the rom? do you have a terminal emulator installed? try this..
su(press enter)
reboot recovery(press enter)
if this works fine, then its your rom at fault. dont use rom manager, that app will eventually cause you more grief then its worth. if you long press the power button, then press reboot, does it give you an option to boot into recovery/bootloader? and what do you mean settings get wiped?
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Ok, so by "through the rom" I mean long-pressing power and then using that option to either boot into bootloader or recovery.
by settings getting wiped, I mean settings for the kernel, like custom color settings, vibrate strength settings, etc.
I won't be able to properly test your theory with the terminal emulator because I fixed the problem for now. I can now enter recovery using the long-press power button option.
I have read that sometimes a recovery won't "stick" sometimes if the "secure boot" is set to enable (You can see this at the bottom in bootloader screen). Maybe I need to disable this?
oshax said:
Ok, so by "through the rom" I mean long-pressing power and then using that option to either boot into bootloader or recovery.
by settings getting wiped, I mean settings for the kernel, like custom color settings, vibrate strength settings, etc.
I won't be able to properly test your theory with the terminal emulator because I fixed the problem for now. I can now enter recovery using the long-press power button option.
I have read that sometimes a recovery won't "stick" sometimes if the "secure boot" is set to enable (You can see this at the bottom in bootloader screen). Maybe I need to disable this?
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if you flash recovery via fastboot, it always sticks(unless you use fastboot boot instead of fastboot flash, then itll just boot it once). if you flash it with an app/toolkit, then it might disappear and need to be flashed again.
simms22 said:
if you flash recovery via fastboot, it always sticks(unless you use fastboot boot instead of fastboot flash, then itll just boot it once). if you flash it with an app/toolkit, then it might disappear and need to be flashed again.
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I used adb to flash it originally, I will flash it again tonight through adb.
though when my problem occurs I don't think the recovery is gone, I think that for some reason it can't be reached by long-pressing the power button.
The first time this happened to me I was able to go into bootloader manually, then I went to recovery from there.. .then booted into system. After that I was able to boot into recovery from long-press power.

Volume down button broken want to go in recovery/bootloader mode!!!

I have moto g4 plus , my volume down button i have stock rom in my phone!! I want to install custom recovery but for that I have to install TWRP for that I want to reboot into recovery mode but when power-on my phone they direct switch on but not goes into recovery
PLEASE HELP
mrsojitra said:
I have moto g4 plus , my volume down button i have stock rom in my phone!! I want to install custom recovery but for that I have to install TWRP for that I want to reboot into recovery mode but when power-on my phone they direct switch on but not goes into recovery
PLEASE HELP
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You mean download mode? cause recovery mode is entered by pressing volume up.
I mean i want to access bootloader
strongst said:
You mean download mode? cause recovery mode is entered by pressing volume up.
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I want to access bootloader mod without Volume down key
mrsojitra said:
I want to access bootloader mod without Volume down key
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adb devices
adb reboot bootloader
volume up recovery
you can directly boot to recovery by entering the above commands adb reboot recovery!
abhi212b said:
you can directly boot to recovery by entering the above commands adb reboot recovery!
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but when I connect the charger In switch off condition my phone is charging but not any ADB devices found in PC.
Obviously! it works only when you are switched on and the phone has USB debugging on! so, if your volume down is not working (which works on every ROM, unless it is physically damaged) you should switch on and then connect your phone to PC and switch USB debugging on in developer options and then use ADB commands!
I hope your stock ROM is not rooted?

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