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Going into CWM

Hey guys... Just rooted my Nexus 7 and for that matter any android device for the first time. I followed ToolKit 2.0 and did the one step for unlocking boot, rooting, flashing CWM and all option and successfully rooted. But however i am having trouble going into CWM mode.. Can someone please help me. I tried going into the power button and volume down button mode and with the volume keys went to 'Recovery Mode' but then the device just goes blank and then Google comes up written and nothing else happens. I then installed this app called ROM Manager via which i am able to boot into CWM. So how do i do it without the app. Please help me out guys.. Thanks a lot

In Google Nexus 7 ToolKit 2.0, try option 10.....

jshashwat93 said:
Hey guys... Just rooted my Nexus 7 and for that matter any android device for the first time. I followed ToolKit 2.0 and did the one step for unlocking boot, rooting, flashing CWM and all option and successfully rooted. But however i am having trouble going into CWM mode.. Can someone please help me. I tried going into the power button and volume down button mode and with the volume keys went to 'Recovery Mode' but then the device just goes blank and then Google comes up written and nothing else happens. I then installed this app called ROM Manager via which i am able to boot into CWM. So how do i do it without the app. Please help me out guys.. Thanks a lot
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You need to plug the device into a powered USB port on the computer and manually entering recovery will work. It's a glitch in the nexus bootloader for the time being.
Also, the Trinity kernel toolbox app and maybe goo manager work for going to recovery, and the roms advanced power menus with the reboot to recovery option will work. The app quick boot may work too. But for using the volume rockers you need to be connected to USB

You could also use adb "adb reboot recovery"
If you don't have a pc near you, download the Android Terminal Emulator and type
su (hit enter and grand the superuser permission)
reboot recovery (enter)

Me too sometimes my device wouldn't want to go into recovery from the bootloader. I would have to pass from an app such as Rom Manager to reboot in recovery or it would get stock on Google logo.
What I did to solve is to :
./fastboot erase boot
./fastboot format system
./fastboot format cache
./fastboot format userdata
then from there I could boot into recovery and flash any rom I wanted to.

I'm pretty pissed because clockwork has been nothing but trouble on the Vision the Ville and now the Grouper and I keep forking pocket change to koush for his little touch recovery and it is still buggy. I can't believe this problem of not getting f to recovery from fastboot without needing anything else.
so I'm doing a fastboot erase recovery to wipe off that clockwork and then fastboot flash recovery teamWINifitaintbrokedontfixit.img
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[Q] Help! Kernel Stopped Nexus 7 from booting!

My Nexus 7 is at Android 4.2.1 and after installing the Elite Kernel to make it boot faster with CLockWork Mod, its stuck at the X animation. I can still access fastboot mode and clockwork recovery mod but I still can start the device. Please help

reflash your rom in your cwm recovery.

Tried
simms22 said:
reflash your rom in your cwm recovery.
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I just tried doing that and it said it was succesfully installed but I need to reboot. After tapping reboot system my Nexus 7 is still stuck in that X animation and wont boot.

1100G19 said:
I just tried doing that and it said it was succesfully installed but I need to reboot. After tapping reboot system my Nexus 7 is still stuck in that X animation and wont boot.
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go into the bootloader/fastboot and try booring from there. you also might need to wipe data/factory reset then reflash your rom. also, sometimes force rebooting from a bootloop will boot it(long press the power button while in the bootloop, hold the power button for 10-20 seconds).

I had this happen to me yesterday when trying to flash a custom kernel to use with CM 10.1. The way I was able to fix it, was to pull the boot.img from the ROM zip and flash it through fastboot in the bootloader. The short and simple way is this:
Open the command prompt or terminal in the folder where fastboot is on your computer, extract the boot.img from the zip file of the ROM your using and place it in the folder with fastboot, then on your Nexus 7, hold in power + volume up + volume down to turn it off. Then hold down volume down and press power to boot into the bootloader. Once there, type in the command prompt/terminal: fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot and you should be good to go.

Can I just remove the ROM?
simms22 said:
go into the bootloader/fastboot and try booring from there. you also might need to wipe data/factory reset then reflash your rom. also, sometimes force rebooting from a bootloop will boot it(long press the power button while in the bootloop, hold the power button for 10-20 seconds).
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So if I back up the devices files with CWM and factory reseting it will remove the backup, so is there a way to send the backup onto my laptop?
Also is it possible to just remove the rom because I feel like my life would be easier if I unintalled it.
Thank You!

Hmmmmmm
Hanger84 said:
I had this happen to me yesterday when trying to flash a custom kernel to use with CM 10.1. The way I was able to fix it, was to pull the boot.img from the ROM zip and flash it through fastboot in the bootloader. The short and simple way is this:
Open the command prompt or terminal in the folder where fastboot is on your computer, extract the boot.img from the zip file of the ROM your using and place it in the folder with fastboot, then on your Nexus 7, hold in power + volume up + volume down to turn it off. Then hold down volume down and press power to boot into the bootloader. Once there, type in the command prompt/terminal: fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot and you should be good to go.
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Its a bit complicated. Also how do I get the boot.img to my computer from my nexus 7 because when I connected the Nexus 7 folder is not under "My Computer"
Thank you

Sounds like you need to go to fastboot and flash 4.13 bootloader.
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Dont know
rebel1699 said:
Sounds like you need to go to fastboot and flash 4.13 bootloader.
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How do I flash 4.13 bootloader?

All you have to do is download the same ROM on your computer that you have on your phone. If its stock 4.2.1, then download the factory image of it and extract the boot image from the zip file and follow the same steps I outlined, though instead of using: fastboot flash boot boot.img, it would be fast boot flash boot <name of boot image>.img
If you still have trouble, feel free to message me here or on GTalk and I'll walk you through it.
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There's an important lesson to be learned here, and you unfortunately learned it the hard way. Never, ever, blindly flash something. You need to read the OP as well as catch up on at least the last page or two of the thread. Had you done so, you would have noted that Clemsyn's Elite kernels are not compatible with 4.2.1.
I'm not saying this to be a condescending, but rather to save you the possibility of getting into situations like this again. Fortunately, Nexus devices are easily recoverable from various user errors.

can't get into Clockworkmod recovery

Hi,
I was trying to root my nexus 4 using this tutorial. I got to the part where I needed to get into recovery, I hold down both the volume keys and the power button. I got into fastboot mode and selected 'Recovery mode' which is supposed to launch Clockworkmod, am I right? right after I hit the power button to get into recovery a lying bot with a red triangle and an exclamation mark inside it appeared. I let the device to lay down like this for a little bit and it simply rebooted to it's normal state.
When I installed Clockwordmod it came up just fine the first time so I have no clue of what went wrong..
My boot loader is unlocked and I can see that while in fastboot mode.
Any kind of help is appreciated!

prhing said:
Hi,
I was trying to root my nexus 4 using this tutorial. I got to the part where I needed to get into recovery, I hold down both the volume keys and the power button. I got into fastboot mode and selected 'Recovery mode' which is supposed to launch Clockworkmod, am I right? right after I hit the power button to get into recovery a lying bot with a red triangle and an exclamation mark inside it appeared. I let the device to lay down like this for a little bit and it simply rebooted to it's normal state.
When I installed Clockwordmod it came up just fine the first time so I have no clue of what went wrong..
My boot loader is unlocked and I can see that while in fastboot mode.
Any kind of help is appreciated!
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Did you flash recovery in fastboot or with a Toolkit?
In fastboot : fastboot flash recovery recovery-touch-mako.img. recovery-touch-mako is what i renamed the CWM file. Don`t add .img at the end of the name, just recovery-touch-mako or whatever you name it.

I think that you just booted CWM.
The droid with red triangle ils the default recovery. You can flash CWM by typing this : fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Just rename the cwm image in recovery.img and drag it to the ADB/FASTBOOT folder.
I hope it'll help you
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But I've already flashed it and booted into it for the first time. I forgot to tell you that I have a Mac.
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You can try to flash it again with fastboot.
It seems that this is a known issue. Here's a tutorial to force flash a custom recovery but it only work on Windows :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956984
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[Q] how to restore stock recovery and unlock bootloader?

Well, I was using the Unified Android Toolkit (SkipSoft) to restore the system before selling it.
It looks like it flashed everything correctly, I did the following:
1) Unroot
2) flash stock recovery
3) lock bootloader.
I confirmed that the bootloader is unlocked, and root no longer works.
However, when I try to boot to recovery I get the android with an '!' sticking out of his chest. Any ideas??

RedBullet said:
Well, I was using the Unified Android Toolkit (SkipSoft) to restore the system before selling it.
It looks like it flashed everything correctly, I did the following:
1) Unroot
2) flash stock recovery
3) lock bootloader.
I confirmed that the bootloader is unlocked, and root no longer works.
However, when I try to boot to recovery I get the android with an '!' sticking out of his chest. Any ideas??
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That is stock recovery. You have to hit Volume Up (or Volume Down?) + Power at the same time to bring up the recovery menu.

charesa39 said:
That is stock recovery. You have to hit Volume Up (or Volume Down?) + Power at the same time to bring up the recovery menu.
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Right, I thin it confirms I have the stock recovery. I got to it by gettng into fastboot then selecting boot recovery. As far as I know that's the only way to do it.
So, why does it boot to recovery in error and how do I fix it?

I did just try downloading the stock images from google and flashed them all (I needed to unlock bootloader first).
Everything flashed. Still couldn't boot to recovery.
locked bootloader again, still couldn't boot to recovery.
What gives??

Can't recall what stock recovery looks like but I believe you have it, as in the ! You see is the stock recovery just as charesa39 has said
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2670400
Post three here has the steps laid out, in your case though it sounds as you completed your goal if everything is booting
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RedBullet said:
Right, I thin it confirms I have the stock recovery. I got to it by gettng into fastboot then selecting boot recovery. As far as I know that's the only way to do it.
So, why does it boot to recovery in error and how do I fix it?
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It's not an error. That's the way it was intended to work. It was the same on my Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) before installing a custom recovery. I have no idea why it was designed like that. Maybe some safety feature, as in, adding a necessary button combination (Power + Volume Button) so someone doesn't accidentally wipe his or her device? IDK. All I know is, your recovery seems to be normal.
You are correct in that the only way to get to recovery is through fastboot, unless you have enabled the advanced power menu in developer options, or use a ROM or Xposed Module (like myself) that allows you to reboot into recovery.

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.