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how to boot into CWR

hi, i have trouble booting into recovery. what i do is press "n" and power and it always goes to "Boot Menu" ... can someone tell me what that is and what it does ? ( i know i can boot into it by pressing power and selecting reboot and recovery just trying to find out how to from power-off) thanks.

I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Thanks for trying to help. i was experiencing boot-loop i think.. ( i wasn't even able to turn my NC off at all. it just kept booting up and being stuck on the Cyanogenmod loading screen every time when i turn it off by holding down power), thats why i needed to boot into recovery from power-off. how it happened was i upgraded to cm9. i wiped cache and dalvik and formatted boot, system and data before flashing. ( i know some instruction here tells to do a wipe data/factory reset. i didnt do that ) I fix it and went back to cm7 by putting in a bootable sd with CWR in the two seconds that it stays off... but the strange thing was that once again i did it my way (wipe cache/dalvik and format boot, system, data) and this time it worked~ no boot-loop. now i wonder what really caused boot-loop the first time even when i had the bootable sd card in it didn't even boot into recovery itself i had to push "n" like crazy ... to get in ...
k8108 said:
I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Glad you got it fixed.
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also if you have cwr on a bootable sd card you can use rom manager to flash cwr internally, so you wont need a bootable sd card, if you want to get into cwr just use rom manager and select reboot into recovery, i use to have cwr on my sd and didnt like it because you would have to take out the sd card everytime you boot, but this way is much easier, you can back up in rom manger instead of doing it the manual way...holding n and power button, hope this helps

Can't get to the Recovery

Hi!
I rooted my Droid 2 with SuperOneClick and everything seemed fine. Then I installed the Bootstrap Recovery and reboot to the recovery and made a backup. After that I intalled the CWM9 room and rebooted, but I after the Motorola logo it won't go further. I've waited a long time and nothing. I've tried to go to the recovery but it doesn't work holding the X and power button, the /!\ doesn't appear. I can only go to the bootloader holding the UP arrow. How can I solved this, I've been looking on google and I didn't find anything.

Try holding both the volume up and down buttons while powering on
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First boot can take around ten minutes. Did you wipe data and cache before flashing? Found it's also best to format and remount system as well when going to ICS roms from GB.

[SOLVED] [Q] Huawei U8180 First time Modder Problem

[SOLVED]
I rooted this, installed clockworkmod, then went and got an cm7 dated april something 2012 u8160 rom from psyke83 website.
installed it through clockworkmod install from sd card option with success (also clicked option to backup everything).
yet when phone reboots it hangs on the blue arrow in a circle spinning around, sometimes reboots n repeats but it never goes past that.
I have tried going into recovery mode holding down volume buttons and power
and I get 1 of 2 errors:
with sd card in:
firmware update
step 1/2
unpacking
update failed
with sd card out:
purple screen.
I am a first time android modder, can someone please, please tell me how to fix this. I can access the sd card with a reader if need be to put whatever files on it that I should.
Thank you.

Start the phone by pressing volume up + power OR volume down + power. You should be able to boot to recovery with one of those combinations (other one boots to fastboot most probably). After that do the wipe data/cache and try to reboot once again.
What was wrong in the beginning was that you did not wipe data/cache. That made the CM use old OS's data files which obviously won't work.
The unpacking thing was caused by pressing volume up + volume down + power. That causes the phone to go to upgrade mode if there is an update package found.

Nope. still goes to the blue arrow circling then freezes then reboots....

mrw187 said:
Nope. still goes to the blue arrow circling then freezes then reboots....
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You are right about me not wiping the data/cache though...

But in your phone forum, are there tutorials on how to boot to recovery? Do you have any other hard keys on the phone?

there is one other button but that didn't work either.
I cannot find a forum for Huawei model u8180 (

mrw187 said:
there is one other button but that didn't work either.
I cannot find a forum for Huawei model u8180 (
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Hmm, would this work?

yay!!
it was volume up + power + cancel button (? maybe home button? not sure on what this button is but its the biggest).
wiped all data n cache n then it booted properly.

So the problem is solved? If you can, mark first post title with [SOLVED].
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huaweiU8180 freeze on boot to recovery
I have tried all the solution but failed the problem is my HuaweiU8180 keeps on hanging wen I try booting to recovery mode now I can't format my phone and I can't install a custom ROM even when the phone is rooted and I hav ROM manager premium installed and I flashed CWM but still someone help me please

[Q] Nexus 7 Stuck on cm10 Start Up Help!

Okay so i was watching a video on youtube on how to get cm10 on my nexus 7, i bought the nexus 7 off a friend who rooted it for me and he had clockword recovery or whatever you call it set up on it. So the video said to download rom manager and then i went to download and downloaded the stable cm10 with gapps. Then it rebooted and what not and now its been stuck in the cyanogenmod spinning circle start up for about 2-3 hours now. So i held the volume and power button to get to the fastboot thing and shut the nexus off and then i restarted it and then.. the google sign came with the unlock icon and then the cyanogenmod circle came again -.- Please help if you can, sorry if any of this doesnt make any sense im new to all this. Thankyou in advance.

Power off fully, then hold the Vol+Pwr buttons down until it goes to the fastboot menu. Vol down to select recovery. I would do a factory reset and reflash the ROM + gapps.

davisac said:
Power off fully, then hold the Vol+Pwr buttons down until it goes to the fastboot menu. Vol down to select recovery. I would do a factory reset and reflash the ROM + gapps.
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Yea i did that right, it goes into the fastboot menu and i go to recovery mode. And when i click the power button, all that happens is that the black screen with google and the unlocked logo show up, and it stayed like that for like 2 hours again -.-
Do you know why that happens?

If you reflashed the rom I'm guessing a bad download.
ETA: Did you make a nandroid before installing? If so restore that.

Oh okay. So u suggested to do a hard reset. How exactly can i do that? My nexus wont load past the load up screen, on some occasions it goes past the google and unlock logo but then a cyanoggenmod spinning circle thing comes and then that just stays there.

Go to the bootloader (vol dwn+pwr), and plug into computer. Then select recovery mode.
Do a factory reset from there. Then reinstall CM10.

davisac said:
Go to the bootloader (vol dwn+pwr), and plug into computer. Then select recovery mode.
Do a factory reset from there. Then reinstall CM10.
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Oh okay, actually im really glad u just said this because i just tried this way. I powered off my tablet, then turned it on with vol dwn and power to get into the bootloader. Then i plugged my tablet into my laptop and now the volume keys wont let me scroll down to recovery mode. Pretty much the volume button becomes useless to scroll. Any help?

If the Vol buttons aren't working I'm out of ideas besides: try again? Otherwise you're going to have to wait for someone smarter than me. Sorry.
ETA: Found this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796 Maybe it'll help you.

wait do i have to have the latest drivers for nexus 7 installed on my pc b4 i plug it in? If you do know, let me know where i can find them. If you dont no worries ill wait for someone else, thanks for your help so far.

Hey don't know if you got your Nexus working again but I saw this thread about the buttons not working. Not sure what version bootloader you have.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840675

Make sure you wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache!!
When I first flashed CM, I got the infinite boot animation as well. I rebooted into recovery, did a wipe of my caches, and it was fine from that point on.
Also, when going from one rom from another, you gotta do a factory reset if you didn't already.

Yea I forgot to clear all the data.. nvr again but I can't get into recovery thats the problem. I have the 3.34 bootloader and it doesn't go to recovery and I tried plugging into my pc and then the volume rockers become useless. Any help plz?
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I have the same problem. I'm searching everywhere for a solution. I hope I find one soon.

Raja094 said:
Okay so i was watching a video on youtube on how to get cm10 on my nexus 7, i bought the nexus 7 off a friend who rooted it for me and he had clockword recovery or whatever you call it set up on it. So the video said to download rom manager and then i went to download and downloaded the stable cm10 with gapps. Then it rebooted and what not and now its been stuck in the cyanogenmod spinning circle start up for about 2-3 hours now. So i held the volume and power button to get to the fastboot thing and shut the nexus off and then i restarted it and then.. the google sign came with the unlock icon and then the cyanogenmod circle came again -.- Please help if you can, sorry if any of this doesnt make any sense im new to all this. Thankyou in advance.
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I had the same problem this morning. After about an hour of messing with stuff I used mskip's toolkit to uninstall then reinstall the drivers. I
then rebooted into the bootloader without a cable and then connected the cable and the buttons were still responding. After that I updated
the bootloader to the latest release and I was about to boot into recovery.

[Q] Can't get into recovery...

For some reason I can't boot into recovery mode. Yesterday I tried to flash the PAC ROM but got stuck in the "PAC is loading" screen. I had to turn off and flash back to stock with RSD light. Now, I can't get into my recovery (TWRP 2.5.0.0). When I use adb to get to recovery I get a screen with a fallen over android with its hood open and a a red triangle with a exclamation mark in the middle. I've tried to re-flash TWRP but that doesn't change anything. I'm assuming this is some kind of error, anybody know what to do? I've also tried to use cwm but I can't get into that either.
Also, how do I not get stuck in that "PAC is loading" screen when flashing?

ImStillLearning said:
For some reason I can't boot into recovery mode. Yesterday I tried to flash the PAC ROM but got stuck in the "PAC is loading" screen. I had to turn off and flash back to stock with RSD light. Now, I can't get into my recovery (TWRP 2.5.0.0). When I use adb to get to recovery I get a screen with a fallen over android with its hood open and a a red triangle with a exclamation mark in the middle. I've tried to re-flash TWRP but that doesn't change anything. I'm assuming this is some kind of error, anybody know what to do? I've also tried to use cwm but I can't get into that either.
Also, how do I not get stuck in that "PAC is loading" screen when flashing?
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The easiest way to get into recovery is to power down, hold all three buttons and select recovery. Try wiping data after flashing PAC. Make sure your boot loader is unlocked.
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Leraeniesh said:
The easiest way to get into recovery is to power down, hold all three buttons and select recovery. Try wiping data after flashing PAC. Make sure your boot loader is unlocked.
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Yup, did all of this, same result. My bootloader is unlocked.

ImStillLearning said:
Yup, did all of this, same result. My bootloader is unlocked.
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couple of things:
1.) battery could be low, and thus unable to boot up. I would suggest plugging it in (outlet, not PC). let it sit for 15 minutes. you should see the battery charging screen. after waiting 15 minutes, try to get into recovery via power+volume up+ volume down, then select recovery
2.) doing the RSD could wipe the recovery - are you able to boot up normally into the ROM? if not, make sure you have all of the drivers installed on your PC, and re-read the installation instructions (I'm sure you already have, but sometimes going over them again might open your eyes up to something you forgot)
I'm not sure where it is, but see if you can boot into safemode (google search for it).
my only similar experience is when I tried to install a custom kernel on PAC, and nothing would display on my screen (despite me hearing notifications). I tried several times to get back into TWRP, but finally got it after pressing the three buttons, waiting about 10 seconds, pressing volume down one time, then volume up once (the pattern to get into recovery)
hope this helps.

RSD flashes your stock recovery again.
Hold volume up + down + power, wait for 5 seconds for the phone to power off.
Then hold the same, volume up + down + power to get into your menu screen, select adb fast boot and flash your recovery. (fastboot flash recovery YOUR_RECOVERY_FILE.img)

Power + Volume Down (-) = Reboot
During reboot:
Press and hold Volume Up (+) = Recovery
Press and hold Volume Down (-) = Fast Boot
Press and hold Volume Up (+) and Volume Down (-) = Boot Menu