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[Q] how to get into recovery mode on D2

I am trying to do an nandroid back up. The instructions say to power off, then hold the "Home Key" and the power button untill you see the triangle.
I am holding the picture of a house next to the menu key. Is that the correct key?
My unit just turns on normally even if I am holding mentioned key, which is the wrong key cause it should not have power until the phone is on and unlocked.
Thanks for help.

chrstdvd said:
I am trying to do an nandroid back up. The instructions say to power off, then hold the "Home Key" and the power button untill you see the triangle.
I am holding the picture of a house next to the menu key. Is that the correct key?
My unit just turns on normally even if I am holding mentioned key, which is the wrong key cause it should not have power until the phone is on and unlocked.
Thanks for help.
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On the Droid 2 you have to go through a different way.
1. Make sure you have Koush's bootstrap app for the Droid 2.
2. Make sure you are bootstrapped via Koush's app.
3. Reboot to recovery through Koush's app.
You navigate menus with the volume buttons. You select with the camera button, and you go back with the power/lock button.

you can also utilize the keyboard arrows, use ok to select and delete to back up.

facelessuser said:
On the Droid 2 you have to go through a different way.
1. Make sure you have Koush's bootstrap app for the Droid 2.
2. Make sure you are bootstrapped via Koush's app.
3. Reboot to recovery through Koush's app.
You navigate menus with the volume buttons. You select with the camera button, and you go back with the power/lock button.
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Ok, got it from the Market and it installed. I started it and did not know what to do, so I hit the first button, then the second button, then went to Backup/Restore and chose backup.
It is working as i type this.
Thank you so much

yes you would select backup. Once you do this it will backup to you backup folder on your sdcard. If you were to need to go back, you would utilize the restore option and select whichever backup you wanted to use.

if your phone is boot looping or anything to get into recovery:
-start up phone
-let the phone go to the bootscreen (the droid eye screen after the M logo)
-pull the battery out while in the bootscreen
-after a few seconds replace battery and boot up phone
-phone will boot into clockwork recovery

jerseyh22accord said:
if your phone is boot looping or anything to get into recovery:
-start up phone
-let the phone go to the bootscreen (the droid eye screen after the M logo)
-pull the battery out while in the bootscreen
-after a few seconds replace battery and boot up phone
-phone will boot into clockwork recovery
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Good advice. I believe there is a flag that gets set when you shut down the phone, and it only gets reset when you successfully boot. That way, if you boot loop, when you try to boot again it goes to recovery.
This also manifests itself sometimes when you flash a rom. Everytime you boot, it first goes into clockwork recovery, which is annoying, but fixable. This problem occurs because you need to bootstrap again which allows the flag to get reset when the OS loads.

only bootlooping when connected USB
I dont know what happened I simply had my phone attached to my pc in USB mode (after transferring music to the sd card via "media sync") and when I switched to 'charge only' and attached my head phones, my phone went into a boot loop. i unplugged USB cord and bootloop stopped... anyone run into this at all? kinda frustrating since now i apparently can now longer attach to my pc.
any help would be greatly appreciated
win xp
OTA stock 2.2
rooted w/bootstrap installed
i already attempted recovery
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update
apparently it was a problem w/my pc! it was giving me problems disconecting or even accessing my portable hdd as well.
so: Problem Solved

[Help] Clockwork Recovery no longer working

Hi,
I just tried flashing new ROM and now the Clockwork Recovery does not work anymore. I can go to Bootloader then select Recovery to be in Clockwork but at there whenever I select a menu such as Wipe data or Install zip, etc.. I get a blank screen, it totally not work.
So please tell me how to re-install it or even remove it as well. Any helps appreciated!
Thanks.

make sure you're not pressing the power button when selecting something, press trackball, lols.

on the first menu when you select "recovery" you have to use the power button to select something.
in the next menu the track ball is used instead.
this is confusing, but this is usually explained in all tutorials, so next time just be careful with reading

ahhhhh Thank you guys for the replies. I have used this tool so many times but don't know why I forgot it, It just was the stupid of mine, the power button is just back
Thanks again!

Legend Won't Boot to Recovery

Hey guys,
I'm trying to boot into recovery mode on my Legend, but I've had no success as of now. I've tried using Rom Manager to boot to recovery and I've tried backing up my current Rom as well, but all I get is a phone with a red exclamation mark beside it. I've tried booting into fastboot, (Holding down the volume down button and power button) and hit the "Recovery" button, but still no luck. Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.
PS: Sorry for posting two threads in two days.
EDIT: Solved. For those having a similar problem, all I had to do was run the recovery once from my PC using the file "Recovery-windows" in the Legend tools. It had to push the recovery files into my Legend again because I factory reset it a couple weeks ago. I've been trying to fix it for hours, love getting to the bottom of things.

This also works:
When you get to the red triangle of doom press volume up and power. Then using the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select choose "install update.zip" (something like that, I honestly can't remember what of actually says) then observe as your phone ends up in recovery.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Hi,
I am new to HTC legend. I have a similar problem, can you please tell me what uyou refer to by "run the recovery once from my PC using the file "Recovery-windows" in the Legend tools." What program is that and how do I get it?
Thanks in advance.

Collectric: have you tried holding the volume up button and then pressing the power button?
For me it takes a few moments of pressing power but then a green box appears and i can move on.
Sent from my Legend using XDA App

Of course I pressed power and volume down, that's basic.
Unfortunately, I made a stupid mistake and tried to replace the recovery file using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423
which was prepare for Samsung phone (having the naive thought that Android is the same Android for every one ).
Since then I lost the possibility to go into recovery mode, and the author of the above mentioned program is not answering me, so now I am tryoing to look for a way to "recover" recovery mode ....
Thanks anyhow...

Well when I rooted my phone with theunlockr.com they gave us a legend tools folder and it has the recovery tools to push the recovery files into the phone which worked for me and I can then go into recovery freely I'll give you the link soon.
Sent from my Legend using Tapatalk
EDIT: Okay here it is http://theunlockr.com/2010/06/07/how-to-root-the-htc-legend/ make sure you download ONLY the "Legend Rooting Tools" and ONLY that you don't need anything else. Unzip the Legend Root Folder in the root of C:/ Also please do not follow the steps they mentioned as your phone is already rooted.
Here are the steps you should do:
1. Unzip the Legend Root Folder to "C:/"
2. Go to the folder in the "C:/" it should be called "R4-legend-root"
3. Put your phone in recovery mode using the power + volume down and click recovery in the PHONE not the PC.
4. When you're on the red triangle of doom (Make sure you are!) click "Recovery-windows" in the PC (Again located in the r4-legend-root folder which you unzipped)
5. A black box should come up pushing the files to your phone
6. Your phone should be in recovery mode
7. You can now go into recovery mode freely using ROM Manager instead of the computer like I do.
PS: Sorry for the late reply I was off on vacation.

Many thanks man, no need to apologize...
Well, the whole point is that strangely enough I CAN'T go into recovery mode on my phone...
Since that stupid act of trying to work with the Samsung program, when I press power and volume down I get into "Factory mode" which gives me the options to test my device, clear the flash and Reboot.
I don't even have the option to go into recovery mode...
I can try and copy all those files manually, as my phone is rooted. I will copy the files from PC into my SD then move them with my phone "total commander" into the proper folders in the root flash.
Does it sound like a plan?
Thanks again

Hi,
As you probably guessed, root is read only, so I met a dead end. I have no way to go into recovery mode thus can't replace any file in root.
I tried to reboot to recovery using "adb reboot recovery", the phone reboots and get stuck with green HTC on the screen - I had to remove battery, put back, press power with volume down to enter "Factory mode", select reboot and get again normal operation.
Any innovative idea?
Thanks in advance...

Maybe you can try to reroot your phone using the unlockr.com method. But I'm not a specialist at these kinds of issues, I wish to be more help. But is there any you can try to reroot your phone using theunlockr.com method?

Yes, I am working on it but I am not so optimistic as, on the way, they also instruct to go into recovery mode. Anyhow, till I discover something better I'll give it a shot.
Many thanks on your assistance.

As I suspected, its a vicious circle, all the repair methods eventually end in the recovery mode. To recover recovery mode I have to go into recovery mode - sad but seems to be true. I will try to open a new thread maybe there is some Android sage with some trick in the sleeve for me....
Thanks again

I'm sorry I couldn't be of help. If you do manage to get it fixed please tell me how you did it because it would be very useful to know recovery mode is essential for every phone. Thank you and sorry again.
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HTC Legend doesn't boot into recovery even after pushing recovery files through PC
Hi guys, I have a rooted HTC Legend and was trying a new ROM "New Sense ROM" and after I installed it, I am not able to root into recovery mode even the ROM Manager says "Successfully installed Clockwork Mod Recovery". It gets stuck at /!\ Red Exclamation Mark. I tried pushing recovery files to phone using PC from 'r4-legend-root' folder which I got from www.theunlockr.com but it simply doesn't woirk. What may be the problem? Please Help.

asifisbest said:
Hi guys, I have a rooted HTC Legend and was trying a new ROM "New Sense ROM" and after I installed it, I am not able to root into recovery mode even the ROM Manager says "Successfully installed Clockwork Mod Recovery". It gets stuck at /!\ Red Exclamation Mark. I tried pushing recovery files to phone using PC from 'r4-legend-root' folder which I got from www.theunlockr.com but it simply doesn't woirk. What may be the problem? Please Help.
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when at the /!\ screen press; volume + and powerbutton, and see if that helps

I had a problem with the red exclamation mark when trying to load the recovery image on my phone after rooting with the method on theunlockr.com.
To solve it download a recovery image from here, rename it "update.zip" and placed it in the root of your sdcard.
Then boot up your phone and attempt to load recovery as before by pressing the power button and volume DOWN. When you get to the red exclamation mark screen, press and hold volume UP and the power button. This should bring up the Android system recovery. Select flash update.zip and this will flash and load the recovery image.
See here.

adrianwallis said:
I had a problem with the red exclamation mark when trying to load the recovery image on my phone after rooting with the method on theunlockr.com.
To solve it download a recovery image from here, rename it "update.zip" and placed it in the root of your sdcard.
Then boot up your phone and attempt to load recovery as before by pressing the power button and volume DOWN. When you get to the red exclamation mark screen, press and hold volume UP and the power button. This should bring up the Android system recovery. Select flash update.zip and this will flash and load the recovery image.
See here.
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Hey, I've been doing this for few months now every time I need to enter recovery after I recovered from a bootloop for installing CM7.
However, is there a way to permanently remove this 'wrong' feature by having to manually click update.zip every time? Can I just restore my Legend back to the original state where it would automatically enter recovery without having to press "Vol Up + Power Button" combo and applying update.zip?
Thanks!

chongyixiong said:
Hey, I've been doing this for few months now every time I need to enter recovery after I recovered from a bootloop for installing CM7.
However, is there a way to permanently remove this 'wrong' feature by having to manually click update.zip every time? Can I just restore my Legend back to the original state where it would automatically enter recovery without having to press "Vol Up + Power Button" combo and applying update.zip?
Thanks!
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If you look at the top line of the bootloader screen it will have the phrase
'S-ON' somewhere; this means 'security on'. The result is that the /system and /recovery partitions are read-only.
There are instructions here on how to S-OFF the Legend. (xda discussion thread here)
I haven't done it myself. Personally, I felt that the risks of bricking and the time spent researching and doing it outweighed the benefits of a writeable /system and /recovery partition.

adrianwallis said:
If you look at the top line of the bootloader screen it will have the phrase
'S-ON' somewhere; this means 'security on'. The result is that the /system and /recovery partitions are read-only.
There are instructions here on how to S-OFF the Legend. (xda discussion thread here)
I haven't done it myself. Personally, I felt that the risks of bricking and the time spent researching and doing it outweighed the benefits of a writeable /system and /recovery partition.
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So are you saying that this "extra step" resulted from the fact that my phone is still S-ON? If that is so, I guess the benefits of this read-only system allows me to flash ROMs much easier (without having to connect to ADB).
Thanks!

I'm not sure if this is gonna help, but you can try pressing the "BACK" button while pressing power on?

trackpad don't click how install new rom?

hey thanks for reading my mytouch 4g track pad doesn't want to click what is another way to install a rom on recovery thanks

You can install it from the Rom Manager app, I think its a premium feature though.. I always do it from boot recovery and from there all I am aware of is the trackpad button you are trying.

use the camera button to press instead of the trackball...

Before you start, I recommend backing up your text messages and call logs, as these can be restored to any ROM I've tried so far. I recommend using SMS Backup & Restore and Call Logs Backup & Restore by Ritesh Sahu, both available free from the Android Market. Also, back up your apps using Titanium Backup, as it is faster to restore user apps from backup than having to install them again from the Market.
You do not need to purchase premium for ROM Manager to install a ROM from it. To install a ROM from ROM Manager:
1. Download the ROM of your choice.
2. Copy the ROM's ZIP file to your SD card (I recommend you place it in the root of the SD card, i.e., inside no other folder).
3. Open ROM Manager on your phone.
4. Under ROM Management, select Install ROM from SD Card.
5. Select the ZIP file for your ROM from the list.
6. In the ROM Pre-Installation popup window, check all three check boxes, and tap OK.
7. In the Reboot And Install popup window, tap OK. Your phone will reboot into recovery, back up your current ROM, and install the selected new ROM. This process can take from 5 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the current ROM being backed up and the new ROM being installed.
8. Enjoy your new ROM! Note that on first boot on a new ROM, it will take a long time because the OS is rebuilding the cache.
ETA: Anecdotal evidence time! I just flashed from Virtuous Unity 1.31.0 to RoyalGinger 3.0 just for the fun of it, and it took 11 minutes from hitting OK in step 7 until the ROM booted into initial setup.

the camera button works the same as the trackpad in recovery so its easier...

Please can someone help!!!
I run Virtuous Unity 1.31. All the buttons on my myTouch 4G/Glacier worked fine until last week when I flashed a new kernel (Virtuous Custom Kernel v3).
Here are my problems now:
Trackpad: Before, my trackpad woke the system up but now it doesn't. I've flashed the trackpad wake mod and it still doesn't fix it.
Note: Other than failing to wake the system up, the trackpad's functions are working. It scrolls up/down/side to side just fine through menus, etc.
Power button: In recovery mode, it acts strange - it won't execute the selected menu item. Trackpad scrolls up/down/side to side fine.
Note: Outside of recovery mode, the power button works just fine.
In desperation, I've even flashed a different ROM (Cyanogenmod 7) and the trackpad wake issues I've mentioned above persists in this ROM too.
Please can someone tell me what I should do. I really will appreciate any help you can offer me.
Thank you so much!!!

I use the trackpad to scroll and select in recovery, not the power button.. thats for the hboot menu

In HBOOT, all the commands seem to work for me. I can use Power to execute a selection. But in Recovery, it doesn't work for anything. When I use the trackpad to select, it does nothing. If I use the Power button to execute a highlighted item, it brings me to the circle with hat icon. I have to use the button on the right side of the phone (camera button?) to select a highlighted item. There is something wrong and I can't figure out what to do. Please help!
VoiD_Dweller said:
I use the trackpad to scroll and select in recovery, not the power button.. thats for the hboot menu
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how to flash CM7?

would anyone be willing to write a guide detailing with steps how to go about flashing CM7 to your droid2?
I have the latest GB update running and rooted on my droid2 so that shouldnt be an issue.

This can be a lengthy (and easy to screw up) process the first time, so I don't recommend doing it on your lunch break, before you have to go to work, while driving, anytime you may need your phone for calls or whatever. So basically when you have an hour free and don't need your phone.
If you want to try to save all your apps and app data, I suggest getting Titanium Backup Pro, so you can restore your stuff after you flash, but it's optional.
Get this:
Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap
Yes, it costs money, yes it's required.
And this:
ROM Manager
Install and open up ROM Manager, select Download Rom, Select Google Apps, choose one (I just picked the most current one), hit Download, you can select GTalk if it pops up (I did but you can skip it), once finished DLing, exit the app.
Go here and get the latest build (2011-09-08 at the time of this post, might be a newer one):
Droid 2 CM7 with Gingerbread Leak Kernel
DL the .zip, connect D2 to computer via USB, select mass storage from USB options, move the DL'd .zip to your sdcard. While not necessary, it's more convenient to place this .zip on the root of your sdcard (meaning not in a file folder, just drag and drop it on /sdcard/)
Unhook phone from USB, open Droid 2 Bootstrapper App, touch Bootsrap Recovery, grant Superuser permissions, touch ok when it says success, touch Reboot Recovery.
When phone is rebooted you will be at the Clockwork Recovery Screen.
**Optional, but highly recommended** Use volume down button to select Backup and Restore (also called Nandroid on some versions), hit the camera button to choose, then hit the camera button to choose Backup, then wait for it to do it's backup. Should you screw something up or decide not to want to keep CM7, you can wipe data and cache and then restore this backup and everything should be as it was now, before you flashed CM7. Once it's done backing up, go back to the main clockwork recovery screen by hitting the power button until it's back.
Volume button down to Wipe data/factory reset, camera button to select, volume button down to yes, camera button to select. Wait for it to finish, go back to main clockwork recovery screen. I always select wipe cache partition too and do that, but someone will probably tell you that's unnecessary.
From the main clockwork recovery screen (which you can get back to at anytime if you're in the wrong menu by pressing the power button) go to install .zip from sdcard (not apply sdcard update.zip), then volume arrow down until you find CM4D2-GB-20110908.zip (or whatever the name of the build you DL'd), hit the camera button to select, volume button down to yes, then camera button again. Wait for it to flash.
Now you need to flash the Google Apps you DL'd from the ROM Manager. Go back to the main clockwork recovery screen, select install .zip from sdcard, go into clockworkmod/ (it may be hard to see, my file list isn't alphabetized, yours might not be either), then download/, then goo-inside.me/, then gapps/, then whatever version of Google Apps you DL'd should be there. Hit yes to flash, wait for it to finish.
Power button back to the main clockwork recovery screen, then select Reboot Now. Wait for your phone to reboot. It may appear to bootloop (get stuck on the Cyanogen 7 skate boarding android graphic), but let it go. Mine took upwards of 5 to 10 minutes on that screen before it finally got into the android setup, so hastily pulling the battery because you're tired of waiting may cause problems.
Optionally you can flash JakebitesMods[Mods] if you want, I did. He's got some settings that make CM7 run better in there. Flash them the same way you did CM7 or Google Apps. DL the .zip, put on sdcard, boot into recovery, install .zip from sdcard, so on. Same process, just use this DL instead of CM7.
This should get you going, about as detailed as anyone is going to throw out there. If you have problems, post here.
I'm not the dev, don't take any credit for any of the projects listed above, am extremely not responsible for anything you might screw up, and just I'm just trying to help.
Good luck!

Awesome
thankyou for the write up, least now i can try this and see how it works

after trying multiple times, mine always gets stuck in the bootloop after the flash no matter what i try, so if anyone can get this to work let me know

How long do you let it sit before giving up?
Did you wipe data and cache as stated above? Not doing so will result in a bootloop because it can't make the data previously on there work with the data you're putting on there.
If you still can't get it to work after rewiping the data and cache, try accessing the stock (different than clockwork) recovery and wiping the data from there. With the phone off, hold the X button on the physical keyboard and turn the phone on. Once it gets to the screen with the ! mark, hit the magnifying glass on the keyboard, then volume down and wipe cache and data, both of the options. This might take a little bit. Reboot phone and wait.
If that still doesn't work, you may have a corrupted DL of the rom, the gapps, or the JakeMods if you got them. Try reDLing those files and try the steps listed above.
I am able to get into clockwork recovery if I have the phone plugged into an ac outlet when booting up, I don't know if you're able to, but you can try it if you can't get into the clockwork recovery.

I finally got it to work, i just cleared data/cache every single time i installed something and it finally worked