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Having problems with CWM recovery. Any suggestions?

I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?

SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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Its a known issue that is yet to be fixed. You did nothing wrong.
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leelaa said:
Its a known issue that is yet to be fixed. You did nothing wrong.
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Alright. Thanks for the reply!

SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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You need to have a USB cable connected to the Nexus 7, and if you're in fastboot it'll load into recovery. Known bug

Wrong section dude but as said before known bug
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flash twrp recovery, its not buggy and is more functional.

SpencerRelly said:
I used the Nexus 7 toolkit to flash the latest CWM recovery. If I boot into fastboot and choose recovery mode it just hangs on the Google boot animation. I can boot to it from the toolkit though. Anyone else experience this/know what I did wrong?
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It's a problem with the boot loader. For now you will need to be plugged into a computer to go into recovery. It doesn't even have to have drivers or anything installed.
Plug in tablet into computer
Use power and volume buttons to get into recovery
And no, this problem won't be fixed by flashing twrp because it deals with the boot loader.

Just boot to recovery from Rom manager or similar.

I can confirm that quick boot does work to get you into recovery.
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Moved to QA...The Development section is for..........development only, not questions...

Same problem
I've read in other threads that deleting the stock recovery, or modifying it's filename, will fix this problem. Does anyone know if this is true? I can boot recovery through Rom manager or through the power menu. The only worry I have is if I ever get stuck in a bootloop, or brick. It is good to know about the usb trick to load CWM, thanks for that.

Flash TWRP, and use an app like quick boot to reboot into recovery.
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I use TWRP and boot to recovery through the roms power menu. I've been very happy with TWRP though, I use a recovery because of stability and performance. I could really care less if it's touch or if it has themes, so when I recommend TWRP it's because I've been using it so long on my transformer prime and nexus 7 and it has done nothing but work exactly like it should.

veeman said:
It's a problem with the boot loader. For now you will need to be plugged into a computer to go into recovery. It doesn't even have to have drivers or anything installed.
Plug in tablet into computer
Use power and volume buttons to get into recovery
And no, this problem won't be fixed by flashing twrp because it deals with the boot loader.
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Weird because today I tried to get into CWR for the first time since I rooted, and it wouldn't work. I got the red ! triangle [sticking out of the green robot].
I plugged it into my laptop.. [and btw I was holding vol UP/DOWN, press power, in the bootloader then selecting 'Recovery' then <Power>] and this time it showed the "Google" and the unlocked lock.. but then booted into the Android OS.
So I flash TWRP [using Ubuntu, and $ fastboot install recovery {TWRP-filename.img}. And what do you know. It booted perfectly into recovery.
So how do you explain that?

mvmacd said:
Weird because today I tried to get into CWR for the first time since I rooted, and it wouldn't work. I got the red ! triangle [sticking out of the green robot].
I plugged it into my laptop.. [and btw I was holding vol UP/DOWN, press power, in the bootloader then selecting 'Recovery' then ] and this time it showed the "Google" and the unlocked lock.. but then booted into the Android OS.
So I flash TWRP [using Ubuntu, and $ fastboot install recovery {TWRP-filename.img}. And what do you know. It booted perfectly into recovery.
So how do you explain that?
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The only possible ways to boot into recovery from a working system partition is by either using an app that reboots for you/terminal command.
To reboot from bootloader/button combination you need to have a USB connection otherwise it will freeze at the Google logo. This is bootloader related and not recovery related as any recovery (stock/cwm/twrp) show the same behavior.
You can try fully powering off the tablet and try booting by button combo and you will see it freezes. Using the power adapter will completely freeze your bootloader if you try, so you require a USB connection to a computer to get into recovery.

For me to boot into recovery , I have to use the tool kit all the time. Is that what everyone is doing??? Because every time I go to fastboot and choose recovery (with my N7 plugged on the usb) I get the Android with the exclamation point.
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Skunk2 DC said:
For me to boot into recovery , I have to use the tool kit all the time. Is that what everyone is doing??? Because every time I go to fastboot and choose recovery (with my N7 plugged on the usb) I get the Android with the exclamation point.
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I had the same thing, but I flashed TWRP and it works most of the time. let me know if you try it.

[Q] Tried Rooting Nexus 4 following the guide, but now it's not working

I followed the guide from this forum on how to root a Nexus 4, but in the process I think I've broken my phone.
I first tried flashing AOKP and it's GApps, the phone booted fine, and I was able to get to the wifi set up screen, however, I couldn't get wifi to turn on.
So I tried to flash Paranoid Android and it's GApps. But now the phone won't get past the boot screen that comes after the google logo.
I've asked around and Googled around for a solution, but I can't find anything. I've been trying to get this fixed since yesterday.
Can anyone please help me? I just want to be able to use my phone again.

GuyWithBrokenPhone said:
I followed the guide from this forum on how to root a Nexus 4, but in the process I think I've broken my phone.
I first tried flashing AOKP and it's GApps, the phone booted fine, and I was able to get to the wifi set up screen, however, I couldn't get wifi to turn on.
So I tried to flash Paranoid Android and it's GApps. But now the phone won't get past the boot screen that comes after the google logo.
I've asked around and Googled around for a solution, but I can't find anything. I've been trying to get this fixed since yesterday.
Can anyone please help me? I just want to be able to use my phone again.
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How are you flashing? Adb or a Toolkit?
Edit:: How long did you wait? Sometimes it might take awhile, especially with PA.
Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)

Berrydroidcafe said:
How are you flashing? Adb or a Toolkit?
Edit:: How long did you wait? Sometimes it might take awhile, especially with PA.
Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
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I flashed with ClockworkMod.
I left it on from 12AM to 6AM.

GuyWithBrokenPhone said:
I flashed with ClockworkMod.
I left it on from 12AM to 6AM.
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It definitely shouldn't have taken that long. Can you boot into the recovery?
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Just put your phone in fastboot mode and flash factory image.

Okay now I have a new problem. I turned the phone off, booted back on and tried entering recovery mode, but now I have an image of an android with a red ! mark.
I was just about to try flashing an older version of the stock.

That's normal for stock recovery, you won't be able to sort your phone from there, stay in fastboot mode. You can use a toolkit to flash back to stock from there if you need it more noob friendly. Otherwise you can use the flash-all.bat script in the factory images.

GuyWithBrokenPhone said:
Okay now I have a new problem. I turned the phone off, booted back on and tried entering recovery mode, but now I have an image of an android with a red ! mark.
I was just about to try flashing an older version of the stock.
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You mean the android is on it's back, press the volu+ button, press power, and that will take you into the stock recovery.

audit13 said:
You mean the android is on it's back, press the volu+ button, press power, and that will take you into the stock recovery.
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Oh god thank you.
Okay. I'm trying to reinstall Paranoid Android now. I did the sideboot via ADB.
I couldn't seem to get the stock version of android on it though. I made sure to open the tar file and tried to move the .zip "image-occam-jdq39.zip" onto the phone, but it wouldn't accept it. So I'm trying Paranoid android again.
Edit: I got it booted. But now wifi won't work. Neither the speakers.

It didn't work because that's not how you flash a factory image. You need to be in fastboot mode and flash it from a PC using fastboot program. You used fastboot when you unlocked your bootloaders in the first place. You have stock recovery so you can't flash a custom rom, which is why your adb sideload of PA didn't work.
Like I said before you can use the flash-all.bat in the factory image. It runs the following commands which you can also use manually.
fastboot flash bootloader [path-to-bootloader.img]
fastboot flash radio [path-to-radio.img]
fastboot -w update [path-to-system-image.zip]
If that's too difficult use a nexus 4 toolkit to download and flash a factory image automatically. With your phone in fastboot mode, not recovery.
The above will fix your phone, trying to flash custom roms and system image zip in recovery mode will not.

DrFredPhD said:
It didn't work because that's not how you flash a factory image. You need to be in fastboot mode and flash it from a PC using fastboot program. You used fastboot when you unlocked your bootloaders in the first place. You have stock recovery so you can't flash a custom rom, which is why your adb sideload of PA didn't work.
Like I said before you can use the flash-all.bat in the factory image. It runs the following commands which you can also use manually.
fastboot flash bootloader [path-to-bootloader.img]
fastboot flash radio [path-to-radio.img]
fastboot -w update [path-to-system-image.zip]
If that's too difficult use a nexus 4 toolkit to download and flash a factory image automatically. With your phone in fastboot mode, not recovery.
The above will fix your phone, trying to flash custom roms and system image zip in recovery mode will not.
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Doing so now. If I had known about this tool before, I probably would have been done with this a lot sooner.
Currently flashing stock and unrooting.

The toolkit is most certainly the way to go. No mess, perfect every time for me.
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Red triangle

Hi
I messed up so hard. Long story short, I messed up with flashing TWRP recovery and then tried to fastboot flash everything and now I'm bootlooping. When I'm trying to get into recovery, I get the RED triangle Andy. Is there a way for me to fix this?
Thank you

Can you boot into fastboot?

I had this and I was accidentally flashing recovery to boot!
Make sure you've got your commands correct.
Fastboot flash recovery recovery. IMG
Fastboot flash boot boot.img

Finally fixed the problem using the Unified Tool Kit. My recovery was borked, but not my bootloader. Got into the Bootloader and fixed stuff. Awesome.

asianrage said:
Finally fixed the problem using the Unified Tool Kit. My recovery was borked, but not my bootloader. Got into the Bootloader and fixed stuff. Awesome.
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Can you tell me how you fixed your stock recovery? Mine gives me the red triangle too. I haven't done anything to the phone yet.

I booted into the bootloader (power + volume up & down). Run the Unified Tool kit, select the option to load a factory image, and went from there. It is easy if you read everything carefully. Originally, I was running many fastboot command but loaded the wrong one recovery.
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lynseyw said:
Can you tell me how you fixed your stock recovery? Mine gives me the red triangle too. I haven't done anything to the phone yet.
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That is stock recovery. Hold Vol Down and press Power. Boom. Don't feel bad though, I've been doing this for quite some time, and I still had to look up the command to get the menu to pop.

Installing TWRP after May update

Hi all,
Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but I cannot find it.
I successfully installed the May 2016 updates and now I am trying to get root back. I followed the usual steps for installing TWRP
Code:
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery .\recovery\twrp-3.0.2-0-clark.img
fastboot reboot
No errors seen...
Now if I try to reboot into recovery I get the "No command" page. If I then follow the power button and volume up keypress sequence, I am taken to the original recovery and not TWRP.
Any clues what I am doing wrong? I tried this several times today and no joy (yet all the other updates, I have had no problem getting TWRP and root installed).
Thanks.

user7743 said:
Hi all,
Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but I cannot find it.
I successfully installed the May 2016 updates and now I am trying to get root back. I followed the usual steps for installing TWRP
No errors seen...
Now if I try to reboot into recovery I get the "No command" page. If I then follow the power button and volume up keypress sequence, I am taken to the original recovery and not TWRP.
Any clues what I am doing wrong? I tried this several times today and no joy (yet all the other updates, I have had no problem getting TWRP and root installed).
Thanks.
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You have to immediately boot into TWRP after flashing or the system will overwrite it with the stock recovery.
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Thanks for that. Exactly the hint I needed.

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Would you mind telling me what steps you took to get the May update? It's so small that I'm reluctant to do anything major to get it and I'm debating on whether to just flash the stock recovery to give that a try, or whether I'm going to have to flash the unrooted image I've saved using TWRP, then flash stock recovery, then get the OTA. Seems like a lot of work for a tiny update.
user7743 said:
Hi all,
Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but I cannot find it.
I successfully installed the May 2016 updates and now I am trying to get root back. I followed the usual steps for installing TWRP
Code:
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery .\recovery\twrp-3.0.2-0-clark.img
fastboot reboot
No errors seen...
Now if I try to reboot into recovery I get the "No command" page. If I then follow the power button and volume up keypress sequence, I am taken to the original recovery and not TWRP.
Any clues what I am doing wrong? I tried this several times today and no joy (yet all the other updates, I have had no problem getting TWRP and root installed).
Thanks.
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Marnina said:
Would you mind telling me what steps you took to get the May update? It's so small that I'm reluctant to do anything major to get it and I'm debating on whether to just flash the stock recovery to give that a try, or whether I'm going to have to flash the unrooted image I've saved using TWRP, then flash stock recovery, then get the OTA. Seems like a lot of work for a tiny update.
No errors seen...
Now if I try to reboot into recovery I get the "No command" page. If I then follow the power button and volume up keypress sequence, I am taken to the original recovery and not TWRP.
Any clues what I am doing wrong? I tried this several times today and no joy (yet all the other updates, I have had no problem getting TWRP and root installed).
Thanks.
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If you have modified the system in any form, such as using Xposed, then OTA will fail. If the system image is stock that has never been rooted, in theory you should have no issues with stock recovery installed. The OTA is the May security update. Whether you feel it is necessary or not is up to you.

I can't get any further than unlocked bootloader I get no command after trying to get straight into twrp after flash and always goes to factory recovery if that will even boot is there a secret way to boot into recovery directly after twrp flash cause I've been trying for days and days what is going on is there a way to root without twrp first please help it's the main reason I bought this damn thing
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Sherrillface said:
I can't get any further than unlocked bootloader I get no command after trying to get straight into twrp after flash and always goes to factory recovery if that will even boot is there a secret way to boot into recovery directly after twrp flash cause I've been trying for days and days what is going on is there a way to root without twrp first please help it's the main reason I bought this damn thing
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Don't run the last command:
fastboot reboot
Select to reboot into recovery from the menu. If you're getting No command, you may need to flash the stock recovery then reboot the recovery. You should have the menu back. Flash TWRP and reboot into recovery to start TWRP.
HTH
Ooms

Sherrillface said:
I can't get any further than unlocked bootloader I get no command after trying to get straight into twrp after flash and always goes to factory recovery if that will even boot is there a secret way to boot into recovery directly after twrp flash cause I've been trying for days and days what is going on is there a way to root without twrp first please help it's the main reason I bought this damn thing
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1. Periods, dude. Where are they?
2. Flash TWRP again.
3. In TWRP, mount /system (Advanced > Mount > system), and delete:
/system/etc/install-recovery.cfg
/system/etc/recovery-resource.dat
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
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or add the .bak extension to the filenames.
/system/etc/install-recovery.cfg.bak
/system/etc/recovery-resource.dat.bak
/system/recovery-from-boot.p.bak
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4. Reboot straight back into TWRP (Reboot > Recovery) to make sure TWRP sticks.

Can't get into twrp at all tried fastboot reboot and tried recovery mode directly after flash that's the whole issue just says no command upon trying to enter twrp directly after twrp.img flash.
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Says flash successful but I don't think it truly is
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Sherrillface said:
Can't get into twrp at all tried fastboot reboot and tried recovery mode directly after flash that's the whole issue just says no command upon trying to enter twrp directly after twrp.img flash.
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Says flash successful but I don't think it truly is
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Sounds like it's not flashing... what is your bootloader state? Try to start it with fastboot boot recovery.img command.

acejavelin said:
Sounds like it's not flashing... what is your bootloader state? Try to start it with fastboot boot recovery.img command.
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Got it a while ago wrong windroid version.

Sherrillface said:
Got it a while ago wrong windroid version.
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Umm... OK... No offense to @Rapscallion16 but why are you using a generic toolkit on the Moto X??? It has been mentioned many times that using one click tools and other toolkits is not safe with this and most newer Moto devices, doing it manually is pretty simple.
Anyway, glad you got it working. Enjoy...

Can't boot into recovery no matter how many times it is installed

Hey XDA, Recently installed Paranoid Android coming from Chroma and it's not stuck in a boot loop. I can boot just fine every time besides the annoying corruption google warning, but no matter how many times I try to install TWRP it just won't let me boot into recovery. I'm using WugFresh's NRT kit. Can't seem to figure it out. Any suggestions?

carterl96 said:
Hey XDA, Recently installed Paranoid Android coming from Chroma and it's not stuck in a boot loop. I can boot just fine every time besides the annoying corruption google warning, but no matter how many times I try to install TWRP it just won't let me boot into recovery. I'm using WugFresh's NRT kit. Can't seem to figure it out. Any suggestions?
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My suggestion is for you to fastboot flash the TWRP recovery image instead of using a toolkit. You cant see the inner workings of a toolkit and have no idea of what it is doing. The toolkit could be using the wrong commands to install a recovery image to your 6P. Go to www.twrp.me and search for the recovery image for your specific device and download the file. Next, rename the file to recovery.img Then, on your PC, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the TWRP image. Open a command prompt in that folder by pressing and holding the SHIFT KEY + RIGHT CLICK on your mouse and select OPEN A COMMAND WINDOW HERE. Boot to the bootloader on your device and connect it to your PC. Then type this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then type this:
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot reboot recovery
Here is the link to download TWRP for your Nexus 6P
This will reboot your device to TWRP
All of this is based on the assumption that you have a working ADB installation and unlocked the bootloader and have USB Debugging turned on in DEVELOPER OPTIONS.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Same thing, successful install and it won't open. Just shows the dead android when going to recovery.

carterl96 said:
Same thing, successful install and it won't open. Just shows the dead android when going to recovery.
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You get the same results after fastboot flashing the TWRP image? I'd say your next step is to start fresh by fastboot flashing the factory images to return to a fully stock state. Then fastboot flash TWRP again.
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Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought

tech_head said:
Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought
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I thought about that too. What is probably happening is his custom recovery is being patched by the ROM each time he boots into recovery. Thanks for picking up on that. I forgot to include that in my last post.
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tech_head said:
Do not boot directly into system after flashing the custom recovery.
After flashing boot into TWRP. I remember on previous devices that I owned that if you do not boot into the custom recovery after flashing it, you revert to the factory recovery.
Just a thought
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That's correct. After flashing TWRP the next step is reboot into the bootloader using the volume keys and power key , then from there boot into recovery using the volume keys and power key, then the phone can be rebooted from TWRP into Android and then after that TWRP should stick.

If the boot image is not patched, the ROM will overwrite TWRP once you reboot. flashing latest SU from TWRP will prevent this.

Thanks for all the replies guys! All the advice combined got it to work. I did some more research and found that Paranoid doesn't actually come preprooted like all the other roms I've been used to. So using the tool kit I just had it root it with the latest SuperSu and also flash a custom recovery. It has booted into TWRP no problems now a few times. Hopefully it will stay like this. Will keep everyone posted and appreciate the advice. Thanks XDA!