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Stock Nexus 7 - Can't boot to recovery mode

Tried booting holding down the volume down button and power simultaneously and am able to select recovery mode but I just get a screen with the white Google name - recovery mode never starts (I have waited minutes) and I have to hold down the power button to get back to a normal startup. Also tried connecting to my PC via USB and booting holding down the power and the volume up and down buttons simultaneously. Then I get the belly-up Android and the Start selection but the volume keys don't change the selection and the power button does not cause a start - I have to power down by holding the power button in and restart normally. Any ideas?
Dave

sparksd said:
Tried booting holding down the volume down button and power simultaneously and am able to select recovery mode but I just get a screen with the white Google name - recovery mode never starts (I have waited minutes) and I have to hold down the power button to get back to a normal startup. Also tried connecting to my PC via USB and booting holding down the power and the volume up and down buttons simultaneously. Then I get the belly-up Android and the Start selection but the volume keys don't change the selection and the power button does not cause a start - I have to power down by holding the power button in and restart normally. Any ideas?
Dave
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You can use one of the root tool to reflash recovery mode if you don't know how to use ADB (which I don't really know.) You can flash CWM or TWKP or whatever it is. Then you should be able to do whatever you need to do. I have used the galaxy nexus tool kit v7.0.

Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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AMoosa said:
Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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As I noted, I tried this and at the "At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode" point, when I press the volume up button nothing happens, it stays with Start displayed (and pressing Power at that point has no effect - I have to press and hold Power for many seconds to force a shutdown).

sparksd said:
As I noted, I tried this and at the "At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode" point, when I press the volume up button nothing happens, it stays with Start displayed (and pressing Power at that point has no effect - I have to press and hold Power for many seconds to force a shutdown).
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You need to press volume up a few times, until you see Recovery.
This guide worked for me, so thanks AMoosa.

poisike said:
You need to press volume up a few times, until you see Recovery.
This guide worked for me, so thanks AMoosa.
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Yes, I said I tried that and pressing volume up has no effect - it stays at "Start" and even pressing Power at that point has no effect, I have to press and hold power to force a full shutdown.

Same problem here. A full stock re flash didn't help either.
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exact same problem here as well. once i get to the screen with the android laying down, no buttons work and i'm forced to hard reset. just rooted today using wugfresh

nvertigo said:
exact same problem here as well. once i get to the screen with the android laying down, no buttons work and i'm forced to hard reset. just rooted today using wugfresh
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Could you do anything more after rooting?

sikagoon7 said:
That is normal. If you press power and volume up you should get a recovery menu. It is pretty featureless so I assume you were expecting the likes of CWM or TWRP. These are custom recoveries that you need to download. To install them you need to unlock the bootloader and either manually flash them via fastboot or by using an application like goo manager or rommanager. Note that the application method requires root.
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I think he has the same problem I do. "If you press power and volume up you should get a recovery menu."- I can't get to the recovery menu.

sikagoon7 said:
It is pretty useless. Want do you want to use it for exactly?
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Manually load 4.1.2 --
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-nexus-7-android-412

One update - I could get to recovery using adb (adb reboot recovery) but once there adb could no longer see the Nexus (adb devices showed null). Have to try some more when I get home from work tonight.
Manual update to 4.1.2 is original reason for doing this but now I'd like to understand why I can't get to recovery mode the "standard" way.

sikagoon7 said:
You are getting in the standard way. Flash a custom recovery now to use it.
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I meant through the menu selection on the Nexus itself, not through adb. And as I noted, once I got to the recovery screen, adb could no longer see the device.

sikagoon7 said:
Again that is normal.
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Well, with 4.1.2 (OTA) I can now get to the recovery screen by using the simultaneous power + volume button pushes, no adb required.

sikagoon7 said:
Is that's what you were looking for? The side load menu? I thought you were saying recovery didn't work. Recovery has to work for you to even use the power volume up trick.
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Adb was never required to get to recovery. That's the bootloader's job.
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See here -
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-forums-nexus-7-hard-reset-questions
On the final set of workaround instructions, it says "4. Select Recovery using vol buttons and press power button" - I could not "Select Recovery" because at that point my Nexus would not respond to any button pushes.

Install latest nexus 7 bootloader from my dropbox.
http://db.tt/cgk5NmQn
This fixes the boot loader bug and now you can enter recovery from the bootloader screen.
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sikagoon7 said:
Update the bootloader to 3.41. Make sure NOT TO DELETE THE BOOTLOADER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot emphasize this enough!!!!!!!!!!! I bricked my first one this way.
Use fastboot flash bootloader C:\>>>>>>\bootloader-grouper-3.14.IMG
Do NOT erase bootloader before you flash the new one. And after you have flashed the new one type; fastboot reboot bootloader and check the bootloader version to make sure you succeeded.
Good luck!
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Though a series of misadventures I now have the saem problem as the OP of this thread where i can no longer get myself into recovery mode.
I had just doen a full backup and flashed a new version of the kernel when this occurred. Please don't tll me to use my volume keys to select Recovery. As the OP said, the keys no longer work. Theydid once but no longer. My N7 is stuck on the picture of Andy belly-up with Start shown but I cannot scroll up or down nor hit the power key to Start.
I download the file from two posts up but not sure what to do from there. FYI, I was fairly familiar with the ins and outs of Andoird, ADB, etc a year ago when developing apps but I've since retired. DO I need to get the downloaded file onto my device in order to use ADB to perform the fastboot commands above? Could someone please enumerate the steps for me to give me a jumpstart?
Edit: Whew! I got a tip to use Mskips' nexus 7 toolkit and got back into recovery and restored my backup and all is well so far. Knock...knock

AMoosa said:
Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?

junooni said:
After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?
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I have the same--or at least a very similar--problem. I was trying to flash it back to the factory default with Nexus 7 toolkit. In the middle of the process my computer froze and I was forced to reboot. Now when I try to enter recovery I get a tiny "booting failed" in the upper left corner of the screen and nothing more. I can't see my N7 with my computer via USB or adb. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions?

Exacty what happens to me. Trying to manually upgrade to 4.2 without root. I have update.zip on my n7. Do I need usb to be plugged into pc? I tried it both ways... when usb was plugged in I got past the red explanation mark, with option to install from adb, but not from sd. If not connected, nothing past explanation mark.
Probably just wait for ota... don't want to mess anything up.
junooni said:
After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?
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[Q] Stuck sideloading in ClockworkMod

Alright, so I'm using CM Recovery Touch and I accidentally hit sideload when I intended to hit load from sdcard. Now there's nothing I can do to get off of this screen! Can anybody help? Thank you.

Press and hold power button and volume down if you want to go back to recovery or just hold power till it reboots
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Yeah, thank you. I figured it out after a while.

[HELP THREAD] Nexus 4 with 4.3.3 "no command"

Hi to all
I updated my nexus 4.2.2 to 4.3.3 through the ota.
Now i tried to unlock&root with the nexus 4 toolkit(last version 1.6.8)
Never mind what i'm trying to do, when the device trying to get into recovery there is a lying android red icon with: "no command"
I believe this is a soft brick , but the device is working and the android is boot up normally,
I allso tried to press power key and after he was pressed i conitnue to hold him and press volume up, the only thing that happend is
a red light and no recovery menu, i tried every way to use the tool but the recovery isn't back!
Please help me guys!

You are in the future or what?
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Thibaultvw said:
You are in the future or what?
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And it is stock recovery.
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You mean't Android 4.3 and the recovery does this for security.
To access the recovery you have to press volume up and power until it unlocks the menu.
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You didn't read my thread!!!
andyabc said:
You mean't Android 4.3 and the recovery does this for security.
To access the recovery you have to press volume up and power until it unlocks the menu.
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I did press power key and when it's hold I pressed the volume up - it did nothing!

eyalabush said:
I did press power key and when it's hold I pressed the volume up - it did nothing!
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You have to keep pressing it and holding it until it unlocks.
Mine and the others unlocks fine so yours should work.
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For how long?!
andyabc said:
You have to keep pressing it and holding it until it unlocks.
Mine and the others unlocks fine so yours should work.
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For how long should i press?
I tried 10 times at least, and the result: red light...

eyalabush said:
For how long should i press?
I tried 10 times at least, and the result: red light...
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Wait, a red light?
Are you on low battery?
Maybe it is either a low battery command, access denied to to too many attempts or incorrect combination.
Try doing the same to the up and down keys followed by the power.
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Battery are full
The battery are full,
I tried doing all the combination , my recovery is dead!!!
any ideas?

eyalabush said:
The battery are full,
I tried doing all the combination , my recovery is dead!!!
any ideas?
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Pressing the volume up and power key in the same time continuously?
And no I do not mean hold.
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I also have the exact same issue. I never tried entering stock recovery before now and I tried to do it now, after updating OTA to 4.3 and rooting with wugfresh toolkit, 1.6.8. Regardless of how many times I have tried, it just reboots normally and can't access the stock recovery.

aaatoel said:
I also have the exact same issue. I never tried entering stock recovery before now and I tried to do it now, after updating OTA to 4.3 and rooting with wugfresh toolkit, 1.6.8. Regardless of how many times I have tried, it just reboots normally and can't access the stock recovery.
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So you cannot access the recovery using the bootloader?, if so then it is probably corrupted.
I have the stock recovery image file here which you can flash via Fastboot.
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I imagined the same. The toolkit itself, is giving you the option of reflashing the stock recovery, I think that I will try this at first. The weird thing is that the phone boots up normally, works as it should and is rooted successfully.

Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!

Just looked this up for a customer at my shop and works like a champ. Thank you
aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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Excellent. Thanks for that. It was doing my head in.
The question is though will OTA updates still work? And the answer is yes. I flashed back to 4.2.2 and the 4.3 update came through OK. Happy days as I may well pass my N4 on soon and it needs to work 100% for a non tech wife.

aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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Thank you, i was going crazy

No command recovery screen

I have a brand new nexus 7 and I haven't unlocked the bootloader or rooted. I'm trying to sideload the kitkat update but whenever I try to boot into recovery it brings up the no command screen in recovery . From there I tried holding power and volume up and it just boots into the same screen that says no command. Is an unlocked bootloader required to sideload or is there something I'm doing wrong?

Did you try holding the power button and just tap the volume up button instead of holding it? Should work, it's what I did and it got me into recovery to finish the side load
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Press a key (Vol+ or power or.. ) and you should see some options to choose. I was hanging at the same point when I was rooting my device...
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rexant1 said:
Did you try holding the power button and just tap the volume up button instead of holding it? Should work, it's what I did and it got me into recovery to finish the side load
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That's what I needed to do. Thanks. Everything works fine now.

Nougat Recovery Mode

So I tried going into recovery mode and ever since the update it won't allow me. Just shows the android laying down and says "no command" what am I doing wrong? Just trying to wipe cache.
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you need to hold the power button and hit the volume keys from that screen to get to recovery.

uicnren said:
you need to hold the power button and hit the volume keys from that screen to get to recovery.
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That's what I did and I selected "recovery Mode" which was highlighted in red. Then it says no command.
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krntehknik303 said:
That's what I did and I selected "recovery Mode" which was highlighted in red. Then it says no command.
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You need to do that after you select recovery mode.

Sounds like a missing recovery... might need to reflash TWRP

Me too. Untethered Recovery. What can I do?
Sr for my English.

Boot into bootloader then scroll to recovery and press power button to select recovery.
Then u press and hold the power button and click volume down then it will open the recovery options.
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krntehknik303 said:
So I tried going into recovery mode and ever since the update it won't allow me. Just shows the android laying down and says "no command" what am I doing wrong? Just trying to wipe cache.
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Woo hoo! If U using NRT, when U flash recovery, U need uncheck "Also flash pem-recovery-singed.zip"! I think it is problem!
Sr for my English.

truongtuanvu0407 said:
Woo hoo! If U using NRT, when U flash recovery, U need uncheck "Also flash pem-recovery-singed.zip"! I think it is problem!
Sr for my English.
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That's not the problem, it stops morons from accessing it and messing with it then calming that it deleted all their stuff which it's their fault not anyone elses.
@scoot0073 said the exact steps.

Download the latest twrp from twrp.me to your computer. Once you have that boot your phone to the bootloader - power and volume down. After that simply plug in your phone, open a cmd/terminal in the folder where the twrp-xxx file is. then run this.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-1-angler.img
If that version doesn't work, try 3.0.2
That's my suggestion! Hope it works.
PS: The last time I was on Android N I had to decrypt. Not sure if that is still required.

When you see the Android lying on its back, you are in recovery mode. From there, your need to hold power and tap volume up. That will give you the different recovery menu options like install from adb, wipe, etc.
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I have a solution for this..
As it happened with me as well..
Just.. Press and hold the power button
Then.. double click the volume button..
This will surely work for u..!!