I have a huge problem...
My milestone 2 went through some water hazard and it had a falty display, so I replaced the display and after that I did a SBF flash to return to original firmware, and to conclude this action I need to access the Recovery Menu, but it seems that my keyboard has some falty keys, including the X one...
There is any way to access recovery menu via bootloader mode, usb, any other button combination to access the Recovery Menu?
Thanks!
Yeah...I have the same problem, and I have bad news. Only way I know is to buy a new keyboard
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I don't know if this is in the right section, but I've tried searching everywhere, and have been searching for quite sometime trying to some sort of solution and haven't found any yet. Here's the issue:
I rooted my friends Droid 2, wanted to put the Liberty ROM on there, got ROM-Manager and installed Clockwork Recovery, attempted to use Rom Manager to go into the Recovery and go from there. Instead it booted into the Bootloader, attempted to use hold 'X' and the Power button to get into the recovery. The backlight came on, and it never went into the recovery, just sat at the bootloader. Now to turn the phone on it needs to have the camera button and power button held, but will never go into the recovery. Alas I connected back to the urb cord, and it doesn't read the connection. After looking around, found out, that when I have the phone connected to usb all the drivers show up as unknown......
Ok, so as I was typing this, the usb/drivers suddenly decided to start working(no idea how), but when I try and get it into the recovery console it shows the droid/exclamation point, but no menu.
Any help would amazing, just wanting to get Liberty ROM installed, Or if anyone knows of a ROM that is closest to CyanogenMOD would be even better.
You need to use Koush's Bootstrap for recovery before you even attempt to install clockwork via ROM manager as this is an e-fuse locked phone it's not like the D1 or other HTC droids etc. (Please read a D2 ROM install before flashing anything as it will save you headache and time!)
If you want to get into the stock recovery just hit the search (magnifying glass) key on the keyboard after you get to the android screen with the exclamation mark, this will bring up the menu. You can use the volume keys or the keyboard directional arrows and select with the camera button or the "ok" button.
The camera button on my girlfriend's droid x no longer works. It registers that is being held down (like with focus), but it doesnt register the button click.
This is not a huge issue for her, however, it becomes an issue if I want to work in recovery. My questions are as follows:
1) is this fixable or is this a hardware issue?
2) can I send commands to clockwork through adb?
3) If its unfixable and I can't send commands through adb, is it at all possible to flash a zip without using the camera button? (i'd either want to update to Liberty 2.0 or flash maderstcok.zip to return to stock and replace at verizon).
I would appreciate any help.
The camera button on my girlfriend's droid x no longer works. It registers that is being held down (like with focus), but it doesnt register the button click.
This is not a huge issue for her, however, it becomes an issue if I want to work in recovery. My questions are as follows:
1) is this fixable or is this a hardware issue?
2) can I send commands to clockwork through adb?
3) If its unfixable and I can't send commands through adb, is it at all possible to flash a zip without using the camera button? (i'd either want to update to Liberty 2.0 or flash maderstcok.zip to return to stock and replace at verizon).
I would appreciate any help.
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. Looking at the OP i noticed a "tablet look". Is this on the nexus 7? I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode if i boot into it.besides the thirty second power button hold (bottom half of screen is unresponsive and i cant access the onscreen buttons to reboot from recovery or to go to the advance menu which are located at the bottom). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
chaostrodamis said:
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode (bottom half of screen is unresponsive). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
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TWRP 2.2.2.0 now with USB OTG
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A quick 'google' has answered the question. Anyway, if you cannot use the mouse in recovery for whatever reason (and haven't flashed or done anything, and its unlikely you would since the mouse isn't working) then you can just open up the back of the nexus 7 and take out the battery? Or try holding down power and vol down to get to fastboot (and use volume/power) to reboot back to normal.
Good luck
Mmmm. That is a bit of a dilemma.
I was going to suggest - IF your bootloader is unlocked, you would (in principle) have the option to "soft-boot" different recoveries (even a plain-ole normal OS boot image for that matter) via the command line (or perhaps with a toolkit - I have no knowledge of them).
fastboot boot boot-or-recovery-image-file.img
which would allow you to use just the volume rocker and power button on the alternate recovery. Obviously, you need to have fastboot communications set up (drivers for your PC) as a pre-requisite,
(Nothing about that suggests you need to flash a replacement recovery to the device - soft boot what you need for a single session at a time.). That gives you the option to play around with mouse experiments at your leisure.
In order to do that, though you certainly would need to quit your current boot. Two finger salute for that? Or perhaps doing the reboot through ADB failing the former?
Just an idea anyway. Since you are using multiboot, I might not be aware of kinks between a different TWRP version and getting multiboot kernels to come up - but you said in the OP that you were interested in replacing ROMs, not saving the one that that is there....
cheers
Fallon9111 said:
A quick 'google' has answered the question. Anyway, if you cannot use the mouse in recovery for whatever reason (and haven't flashed or done anything, and its unlikely you would since the mouse isn't working) then you can just open up the back of the nexus 7 and take out the battery? Or try holding down power and vol down to get to fastboot (and use volume/power) to reboot back to normal.
Good luck
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I think the catalog is talking about stick mounts and USB storage. I couldnt find anything on using a mouse in recovery. even youtubed it, only one person shows that a keyboard works on CWM recovery. nothing about TWRP.
So I bought Find 5 from someone and found out it was rooted with Pacman Rom/ TWRP after the fact. Earlier today, I thought I managed to flash the stock firmware back onto this phone using TWRP, but instead I had something new (in my experience, at least) happen to me. after I power it on and plug it into my PC with the OEM cable, it will ask me if I want it to be a media device or a USB storage device and I can see & modify the files/ folders. As for the phone itself, all it will display is the status bar (Battery, signal status) and I can pull it down to access the quick settings. Otherwise the screen is completely blank. When I pull down the quick settings bar try to hit the system settings icon (the "gear" wheel icon), the status bar disappears. and all I can get the phone to do is bring up the power on/ off menu when I hold the power button. I can get it into fastboot (power + volume up), but I can't get it to boot into recovery using the keys (power + volume down), or adb, or fastboot.
I'm honestly at my wits end with this phone right now. I think it's only soft bricked, but I have no clue how to get it to take the stock ROM (or any ROM for that matter) and nothing online seems to mention my problem and I can't even begin to guess what the f**k I managed to do.
Can anyone offer me any help or insight so that I can turn my brick back into a working Find 5?
So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.
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So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.
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I'll give it a shot :good: