Hello! I just got my Nexus 7 and I Unlocked/Rooted and I installed the Rom Manager. I made a backup of my tablet wondering: If I can't boot into my rom, how can I restore it? So here's my question. How can I boot into the (Rom Manager?)?
PS: I didn't had my 25$ credit... I contacted google but is there a way to get it? I didn't get anything even when restoring...
The 25 dollar credit requires u go to play store. Hit purchase on an app. Then it should prompt u to enter a credit card and give u yer credit. As far as recovery goes just flash cwm via rom manager. Then within rom manager hit Reboot to recovery.
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I called google about the 25$ and they say that I should have it, but I don't. And there are no way booting into recovery without booting into my actual rom?
Thanks.
(Sorry if i'm not clear, english isn't my native language)
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Hold volume up and down while powering on. Then you can toggle through the volume buttons to find recovery
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Hi there, I got my Transformer about a week ago and the Powerbutton was somehow not ok, it took some power to lock/unlock screen etc yet i didnt really care. now it wont function at all (to turn it of i had to push it against a damn wall).
So i understand its a problem with the button and not the software and I want to go and replace it, problem is that two days ago i flashed modaco's rom. is there any way to return to STOCK WITH the broken powerbutton? how can i go to recovery in that case anyways?
also, maybe i can remap the button to "both volume buttons pressed" or something of the sort?
thanks in advance!
Connect to pc/mac with the android sdk install. Send these commands to it.
Adb reboot recovery
Or
Adb reboot.... It will reboot hold down volume button and it should go into recovery.
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I see, now remains the problem of how to flash it to stock firmware.
I think you can put the stock update zip on the root of your sd card and flash it in recovery.
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But the problem is when choosing what to do in recovery mode. The choice is made by pressing the power button.
When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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david279 said:
When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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Are you sure it safe to just apply an update on a custom ROM? I don't wont it completely bricked.
Oh your rooted. Didn't know that. Kinda don't know now.
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Flash the attachment, reboot your device. This will give you stock recovery
Next you need to download one of the FOTA update (any version will do) from ASUS's site and rename it EP101_SDUPDATE.zip and put it in the root of your MicroSD. Now you need to boot into recovery and press volume up within 5 seconds so it'll flash the recovery ROM.
So i tried to root my phone using one of the tutorials and ended up with a padlock screen on my phone. after researching i ALOT i decided on hard reseting my phone from the recovery menu. but all i see now is the google logo i believe i have deleted the 2.3.4 while reseting. can someone guide me from here. i am a n00b and i have had this phone for just 2 days. thanks in advance
anyone who can help?
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Please be more specific.
What tutorial did you use?
Did you download clockwork recovery?
Do you have the superuser zip?
If you can enable fast boot and fastboot flash recovery you should be able to mount your usb storage in CWM and then install a ROM and the su zip.
stuck on the nexus s boot screen
Babydoll25 said:
Please be more specific.
What tutorial did you use?
Did you download clockwork recovery?
Do you have the superuser zip?
If you can enable fast boot and fastboot flash recovery you should be able to mount your usb storage in CWM and then install a ROM and the su zip.
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i used the one mentioned in addictive tips website (http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-nexus-s-with-a-single-click-using-superboot/). i basically followed what these guys had mentioned.
since this failed i read that the other option is to go through fastboot > recovery > and clear everything but this did not change anything.
can someone give me a step by step guideline on how to continue. i dont mind going back to the stock 2.3.4 android. i just bought the phone yesterday
Which version do you have? The sprint or t mobile? Check if you can go into fast boot hold down volume up and then powerbutton. If not you may have to Odin it if not. That super one click looks old..
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chewbz said:
Which version do you have? The sprint or t mobile? Check if you can go into fast boot hold down volume up and then powerbutton. If not you may have to Odin it if not. That super one click looks old..
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I am in Canada but the model is 19020 A. I can get to the fastboot mode but don't know what to do after that.
I have the 4g so I don't want to give you the wrong information and never encountered this situation so sorry dude. Hopefully a more experanced user can help you out.
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Btw if all fails you can Odin it
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its all good thanks for trying to help
If your ROM flashed incorrectly, it would lead to your phone being in a state where it just shows a GOOGLE with a Padlock; kind of like turning on a computer without an operating system.
You would have to read the instructions on rooting your phone, which involves using fastboot and flash recovery from fastboot (All this is in the rooting guide). Simply reflash the recovery so you boot up back in recovery and try flash the rom again.
The same happened to me, I fixed it buy flashing a stock boot.img
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thanks for the replies. how do i flash from the fastboot mode? when i plug it in to my computer i cant see the drive but my computer can detect the nexus s is plugged in
Set up adb first, they have the guides in the dev section, I used wolverines guide, you'll have to look for the software img, I don't know where it is at for the GSM model. Good luck
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Sounds like you're rooted and have recovery installed, but your OS is hosed.
Flash a ROM.
thanks for the replies guys. i have the adb setup on my laptop. i took it to one of the stores and he said he cant reflash it for some reason. he said he needs to get some software off samsung and it will take him a day. my phone is brand new and i didnt wanna trust him. do u guys think i should use odin? one of my friend has a galaxy s and he said odin should work fine on my phone.
Can you get into the ClockworkMod recovery menu? Turn the phone completely off then hold VolUp and Power until you get into Recovery.
If you get there, you're golden. Just download a ROM (I recommend Deck's) and away you go.
i can get into recovery but it gives me option like wipe everything and i selected that. but when i reboot the phone the same locked screen pops up. anyone from toronto here who i can contact?
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i can get into recovery but it gives me option like wipe everything and i selected that. but when i reboot the phone the same locked screen pops up. anyone from toronto here who i can contact?
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Basically with those wipe commands you make the Rom unuseable. You have to flash a new one or apply it via Odin. There are various guides on this forum section. Odin requires less technical knowledge but is a bit more risky then flashing via recovery. Odin and the Roms for that method can be obtained from samfirmware.com. Zipped roms can be found in the development section here.
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Hi, I get a red triangle when I try to boot into recovery. It is the green droid with his red triangle. I tried to mess around with it but still couldn't figure it out. Someone please help me out.
Thanks.
H.
Did you use a toolkit to flash twrp recovery? I know that the toolkit has a problem with that. Download GooManager from the play store and get twrp from there.
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When the triangle comes, try pressing the power button and then volume up
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hman111 said:
Hi, I get a red triangle when I try to boot into recovery. It is the green droid with his red triangle. I tried to mess around with it but still couldn't figure it out. Someone please help me out.
Thanks.
H.
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Fastboot flash twrp. Then after that if you don't like twrp you can use the zip to flash cwm touch from dev section.
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Did you use a toolkit to flash twrp recovery? I know that the toolkit has a problem with that. Download GooManager from the play store and get twrp from there.
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Hi, should I order and flash selected or add zip from another location?
hman111 said:
Hi, should I order and flash selected or add zip from another location?
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Just flash twrp from the app. I think that's what you're asking...
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If you can get your device into bootloader mode, use the Nexus7 toolkit to flash your device back to stock using stock ROM 4.1.2, your device will be like new again. Then you can re-root or whatever.
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I have had my Nexus 7 with SmoothROM on it for a long time now, I use it here and there, but I noticed it acting kind of glitchy lately especially when using the keyboard. I got 2 notifications from GROUPER (i think thats the name of it...) saying I had an update to SmoothROM (v 4.2) and that google apps needed to be updated... I did the normal crap, wiped everything, flashed the new smoothrom, flashed on the google apps, but when I rebooted it just keeps popping up saying "Unfortunately, the process blah blah gapps has stopped", then when i press ok it says Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped".... and when i press ok on that it just keeps popping back up... will NOT go away no matter what I try...
On top of this... I tried going to fastboot and putting it in recovery mode but then it just goes to the main boot screen that says Google with a lock at the bottom, and it is just stuck there...
So what would be the easiest course of action here? I can't get it into Recovery mode I don't think, although I forgot how to do it in the first place, I thought it had to do with sliding the lock somewhere at the boot screen but I have tried that and nothing seems to work...
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Update: I managed to get into the settings and put USB Debugging on
so now it gets recognized by my computer and I can view and transfer files.... But I still can't get it into recovery mode so what should I do now lol?
Should I be looking for something like this " Google Nexus 7 Toolkit V3.2.0 " ?
Use wugs to restore to stock and start over
If you go back to smoothrom make sure you download it again might have been a bad download
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When you power on your nexus press volume down and up and power button together for a couple of seconds. Your screen will go off and then "Google" will come up. Continue pressing and you will be in the boot loader menu. Go to recovery and install the ROM you want. (Can you get there?) Or else try to install it from your PC with cmd. Let me know if the first way works.
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Same here, I dirty flashed it from stock instead of full wipe. Always do full wipe just in case.
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is the lock under the Google logo open or closed? if you installed a custom ROM, it should be open. if it is closed, the bootloader somehow got locked again.
however, i think the issue you are experiencing is related to gapps. you either have a bad download of gapps or flashed the wrong gapps (some roms require custom gapps). try the volume down+power thing to get to the bootloader, then go to recovery. if you can't, flash a recovery using fastboot or use one of those toolkits to flash a recovery. before you re-flash your ROM and gapps, i'd recommend verifying the MD5 sum, since that will tell you whether the downloaded file is good or not.
Sorry for the late reply guys but as it usually goes my ADHD got the best of me and before I came back to read this i ended up using that Google toolkit thing that I asked about and did what somebody said (option 9) to download and then install the stock ROM (but thank you!!) BUT in case anybody would like to know the lock was open and I could put it in fastboot but it wouldn't boot me into recovery. Hopefully anybody else updating smoothrom that ends up in my position will find this thread. I also suggest just downloaded the ROM and flashing it with the recovery that was my first time using that update ROM thing and it screwed up lol.
Again thanks a ton! Is there any new ROMs out there for the Nexus 7? Anything better than SmoothROM (or stock, lol)?
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Is there any new ROMs out there for the Nexus 7? Anything better than SmoothROM (or stock, lol)?
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Rasbeanjelly with Franco kernel. I think it's the best out there.. I got 5k on quadrant with no overclock anywhere. Games play with no lag, it's very good
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Maybe I'll try that... I'm gonna do quadrant right now I DLed it right after I got stock on but haven't tested it yet
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I have seen a huge difference also in the overall speed of the system, very responsive and fast every second you should try it out
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Currently my phones volume rockers do not work. I've been running on an old ROM that seems to be slowing down,requiring me to reboot more frequently. I'd really like to update to a newer ROM, but I'm worried if I have any issues I can't force my phone into recovery with the power button + volume down combo.
I am very close to just doing an insurance claim on this though. I have a crack on the bottom right of my phone too. That way I can hop on the T-Mobile Jump program
Adb reboot recovery
will let you get into recovery without using the volume buttons.
There are also several apps that will let you reboot directly to the recovery if your already rooted
Such as quick boot (reboot)
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Alex240188 said:
Adb reboot recovery
will let you get into recovery without using the volume buttons.
There are also several apps that will let you reboot directly to the recovery if your already rooted
Such as quick boot (reboot)
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I think I was more worried about if my ROM install didn't go well and it won't boot all together. Before I could still just go into recovery and re-install. If that happens now? adb recovery?
Hmm. Thinking more. As long as a rom boots you are ok. But if you got stuck at a boot loop before you can use adb, you are screwed
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Unfortunately I do not believe there is a way to boot into recovery without the volume buttons unless you are booted into the system. Have you considered restoring to stock and trying for a warranty replacement?
Look above.
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