Well, I used KFU months ago to root, install TWRP, and install GAPPS to my fire. Worked great. Got the yellow triangle on bootup and could hit the power button to enter recovery. I have not rebooted my kindle in forever, its always on. Well I finally decided I would make a backup of the stock rom and try flashing CM7. I shut down the kindle and then turned it back on, and my yellow triangle screen is nowhere to be found? It just boots up like normal. Where did my FireFireFire go? Was there an update that broke it? I don't have a clue how to go about this now, I have no idea if the TWRP is still installed and theres just no way to get to it, or if I should just try reinstalling the recovery using KFU. Has anyone else had this problem?
insanespain said:
Well, I used KFU months ago to root, install TWRP, and install GAPPS to my fire. Worked great. Got the yellow triangle on bootup and could hit the power button to enter recovery. I have not rebooted my kindle in forever, its always on. Well I finally decided I would make a backup of the stock rom and try flashing CM7. I shut down the kindle and then turned it back on, and my yellow triangle screen is nowhere to be found? It just boots up like normal. Where did my FireFireFire go? Was there an update that broke it? I don't have a clue how to go about this now, I have no idea if the TWRP is still installed and theres just no way to get to it, or if I should just try reinstalling the recovery using KFU. Has anyone else had this problem?
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When you get an Amazon OTA update of the Kindle Fire software, it will overwrite both the bootloader and recovery with the stock versions. I'm guessing that's what happened to your device. You'll have to repeat the process with KFU to get them installed again.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I will just use KFU and try to reinstall the recovery. I just haven't been keeping up on the kindle forum and wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something.
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I don't know how I did it, but everyone else is trying to boot into Clockwork Recovery mode successfully...and the whole pull the battery mode doesn't work 100% of the time...buuuut...I CANT STOP!
I can't stop booting into Clockwork. Every time I turn my phone on, it boots into the Clockwork Recovery, without fault. I've rebooted almost 30 times now and every time its done the same thing. Once it reboots into recovery, it will allow me to reboot the phone and then it boots normally. I really want to fix it, its annoying. The phone still works without any issues, its just really annoying that I have to sit there and watch it boot up to get it to the actual phone.
I don't want to unroot and start over with it all because I've made so many small changes to the phone and made it my own.
Sooo, pleeeeeeeeeease anyone with any info or fixes; let me know!
Mine did that too so I flashed the SBF and started over from scratch. I am afraid to try the D2 Bootstrap again for that reason. For now I can live with it. Did you find a fix yet?
How does this work?
When your device boots up, there is a init.rc script in your boot image that runs various components found in /system. The Droid X recovery bootstrap mimics the "logwrapper" binary. The hijacker then looks for "/data/.recovery_mode", and if it finds it, it unmounts /system to prevent android from starting. It then starts up recovery instead.
That's from Koush's site. Have you tried to delete the .recover_mode file if it clears it up? If you do try may you please post back?
Worked for me! Thanks for that!
Apparently it only happens randomly to some people. My roommate has a Droid2 and his never did it....weird.
kwheel596 said:
Worked for me! Thanks for that!
Apparently it only happens randomly to some people. My roommate has a Droid2 and his never did it....weird.
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Glad it worked. It happened to me too and I just used the sbf file to restore everything. Did you use any mount adb commands before you had that problem?
To be honest I have no idea, I've had android phones for a while so I was just flying through the commands and don't remember what was typed
Unable to remove "ClockworkMod Recovery"
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So, I looked throughout my sd card, and have been unable to find any ".recover_mode" file.. I still get the ClockworkMod Recover screen EVERY time I reboot my device.. I have rooted and unrooted multiple times to try and figure out this problem, as well as searched through this website for answers.. I am not finding any.. HELP!?
Ultimately, I would like to just restore my phone to factory so I can pass it on to a friend..
Thanks in advance for everyone's help!
Chenoaem
Im not able to get into recovery at all... even after flashing recovery using rom manager... and the koush flash doesn't work either. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows the yellow triangle and the ! and the android icon.....what can i do to get around this? The device is rooted using z4root..... thx!
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Im not able to get into recovery at all... even after flashing recovery using rom manager... and the koush flash doesn't work either. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows the yellow triangle and the ! and the android icon.....what can i do to get around this? The device is rooted using z4root..... thx!
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nevermind... forgot to hit the search key! doh!
So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
I would recommend reading the Droid X wiki at the Cyanogenmod website. I had some of the same issues until I followed the downgrade + root method and then installed ROM Manager and CM7 manually through recovery. Good luck!
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So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
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Don't use ROM manager and don't use dxbootstrap (unless you have usb debugging unchecked). I use d2 bootstrap always. And you will have the occasion of it going in to cwm when you boot phone back up. I dealt with it for while. And cwm should be 2502 or something like that when you're just rooted 605. Did you make a nandroid of your rooted 605 before you tried to flash liberty
? Hopefully you did. Go back to that. Then use d2 bootstrap to get in to recovery, wipe data, cache and dalvik, then select install ip from sd card, then choose zip, then scroll via volume down to the liberty file, select that and flash.
I used directions posted over at Androidforums.com under the All Things Root forum for the Dx. I had a couple of hiccups, but it was user error. I now have Liberty 3 running smoothly on my Dx. Check it out, including the guide and ROM lists.
HTH
chaz_
Schwazilla said:
So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
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Just re-flash ur phone dude. do you know how to do that? It's a pain in the butt. but it is always failsafe.
I've got lots of experience flashing on my Samsung Fascinate but flashing on my daughter's kindle fire is proving to be difficult for me. I've got TWRP installed, gotten into recovery and tried flashing a couple different roms. I get the same errors everytime: No md5 file for /sdcard/...(which ever rom I'm trying) then finding and opening update, installing update, then E:Cannot load volume /misc. When I try to reboot it just continues to go back into recovery. I'm not sure it's actually installing the rom though. What am I doing wrong?
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I've got lots of experience flashing on my Samsung Fascinate but flashing on my daughter's kindle fire is proving to be difficult for me. I've got TWRP installed, gotten into recovery and tried flashing a couple different roms. I get the same errors everytime: No md5 file for /sdcard/...(which ever rom I'm trying) then finding and opening update, installing update, then E:Cannot load volume /misc. When I try to reboot it just continues to go back into recovery. I'm not sure it's actually installing the rom though. What am I doing wrong?
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Those errors aren't really errors and are normal, you should be able to press reboot, then system, it will take a few minutes to completely boot up once the logos start doing their thing.
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Those errors aren't really errors and are normal, you should be able to press reboot, then system, it will take a few minutes to completely boot up once the logos start doing their thing.
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I read that those responses are normal but I wasn't sure. When I hit reboot it turns off then back on to the yellow triangle. I leave it alone and it goes back into recovery without me hitting the power button. Thanks for the speedy response by the way.
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When I hit reboot it turns off then back on to the yellow triangle. I leave it alone and it goes back into recovery without me hitting the power button.
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You'll have to set bootmode to normal using KFU. It's probably stuck on FastBoot mode.
KFU? Elaborate if you can please. I'm new to Kindle Fire flashing.
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KFU stands for Kindle Fire Utility.
I strongly suggest that you read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
It's good and informative.
Oh, KFU, Kindle Fire Utility. Didn't make the correlation. I've got that. I'll read the article. I'll take all the learning I can get. Thanks
Got it. I was making it harder than it was. Thanks for the help.
You are welcome
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Ok, I just started experiencing an issue. I suddenly can't get into recovery. Here is a little back history. My N7 was running CNA 3.6.6 (I know, but...), and I was bored so I decided to try ParanoidAndroid. Well, I have that gotta try something else feeling again, and when I try to get into recovery, it will go to the google screen, then go black for about 10 seconds, then go back to the Google screen and boot up. This happens if I reboot to recovery through the power menu, or getting into recovery from the bootloader. I even tried Quick Boot, in hopes it had some magic I didn't. No luck. The same crap. I even switched from TWRP to clockwork recoveries, and the same crap happens (I tried the same things I did originally).
Also tried through other apps too, like Rom Manager, Rom Toolbox, and TiBu. Everything works, but I am bored with this rom... I have tried turning it off, plugging the N7 into a PC and trying to get into recovery. Again, I can get into the bootloader, but as soon as I select recovery, it goes black, then fully reboots...
Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried re-flashing a recovery image, eg TWRP 2.3, from fastboot?
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BillGoss said:
Have you tried re-flashing a recovery image, eg TWRP 2.3, from fastboot?
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Thanks for the reply. I will give this a try (gotta wait until after 10pm...or 17 minutes!). Again, thanks, hope this works.
MetalWych said:
Thanks for the reply. I will give this a try (gotta wait until after 10pm...or 17 minutes!). Again, thanks, hope this works.
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Scheiße, I reflashed TWRP in fastboot, and I am getting the same result. I think my N7 forgot it has a recovery!? I will try flashing clockwork through fastboot and see if this works. Thanks for your help...
Edit: Clockwork does not help. There is no recovery for me. I am now at a loss. Hopefully someone will have some suggestions...
Finally got my recovery back...damn latest bootloader!
Yeah, this has sucked. I have spent several hours figuring out what the hell went wrong. It turns out its the latest bootloader. Others are having this issue. So, I had to go back to stock (which will erase EVERYTHING) and then had to re-root. Now that my bootloader is back to JRO03D, I am back up and running.
So, the first time I did this route, I decided to take the update and re-root my N7, and ran into the same issue. I could not get into recovery. So, I had to do it all over, this time not taking the update and not updating the bootloaders, and I am now back and already have a ROM running and everything installed.
If you want to go this route, here are a couple of links that will help...
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28544-guide-nexus-7-bootloadersrecoveriesrootback-to-stock/#entry764328 and go to the Back To Stock section. The next part is for rooting (if you wish to do this yourself)...
http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/misc/how-to-unlock-and-root-the-nexus-7/
I will post this in case anyone has a need for this info...
Unable to get into Recovery after 4.1.2 upgrade... - xda-developers
Any help?
So I flashed to CM12 and was loving it until today. I went to change my theme and noticed you can download themes from playstore so i did. Once I applied it everything went to ****e. For example I cannot open things like playstoreand other apps,ES file explorer doesn't recognize my internal memory, etc. I tried to reboot into recovery but I cannot do that either, all that happens when it reboots is a dead looking droid with its stomach open and a red exclamation triangle pops up on screen. After a few seconds it reboots again to home screen. So i dont think I'm completely bricked but cant do much now without getting into TWRP. Pics below are of my mojo screen during reboot into recovery and the theme i applied that caused all these issues. Please help!
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So I flashed to CM12 and was loving it until today. I went to change my theme and noticed you can download themes from playstore so i did. Once I applied it everything went to ****e. For example I cannot open things like playstoreand other apps,ES file explorer doesn't recognize my internal memory, etc. I tried to reboot into recovery but I cannot do that either, all that happens when it reboots is a dead looking droid with its stomach open and a red exclamation triangle pops up on screen. After a few seconds it reboots again to home screen. So i dont think I'm completely bricked but cant do much now without getting into TWRP. Pics below are of my mojo screen during reboot into recovery and the theme i applied that caused all these issues. Please help!
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The dead Droid is just the stock recovery reporting that it has nothing it can do. You will need to start over, reflash CM12, and this time flash TWRP recovery to the MOJO. Once you're up and running again, reboot into TWRP and take a backup; if you'd done that last time, before installing the theme, all you'd have to do is boot into TWRP and restore your backup.
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The dead Droid is just the stock recovery reporting that it has nothing it can do. You will need to start over, reflash CM12, and this time flash TWRP recovery to the MOJO. Once you're up and running again, reboot into TWRP and take a backup; if you'd done that last time, before installing the theme, all you'd have to do is boot into TWRP and restore your backup.
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That's the problem I can't reboot into TWRP to do anything. I'm trying to do it the PC way but can't figure it out.
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