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[A] Bootloop after flashing a ROM via 3.0.0.5 Recovery image.

What you did .. .. ..
Okay so you've rooted your newly bought MyTouch4G, and you've made sure that s=off and you've flashed Clockwork ROM manager's recovery image that you got from the market. That is all the correct order. But when you flashed a ROM you got stuck in a bootloop.
Am i screwed???
Don't worry you are just in a "soft brick mode", or "limp mode" if you will.
What happened? Why is it doing this?
The Image that you downloaded and installed 3.0.0.5 is for 2.3 (Gingerbread) based ROMs only. [n3rd note] these are ext4 style ROMS. They act and store information differently than 2.2 which are Ext3 ROMs[/n3rd note].
This could also be caused by trying to flash a 2.3 using a older 2.x.x.x version of the Recovery Image. Those will only support the Ext3 style ROMs, which are FroYo (2.2) based ROM.
Okay what do i need to do to fix it, there are two methods.
This is Method one it's the older version.
You must use this method if you do not have the engineering screen
If you are using the 3.0.0.5 Recovery image
To fix your problem you need to flash any 2.3 based ROM, for time sake i will recommend Cyanogen(mod). Link to Cyanogen(mod)'s CM7RC4. While you are there you need to also store the G/Apps.
If you are using the 2.x.x.x Recovery Image
To fix your problem you need to flash any 2.2 based ROM, for time sake i will recommend RoyalGlacier Thread can be found here
- Question: How do i find out what Recovery image i am using
- Answer: Boot the phone into the recovery mode. We'll touch on that in a little bit
Now when you download both of those files you also need to store them to SDCard.
NOTE: If you are using 2.x.x.x and going to flash RoyalGlacier you will not need the g/apps. They have included this in their ROM, and MAKE sure to follow their specific directions for installing the ROM.
- Question: Now how in the world i am going to do that since my phone is in bootloop.
Answer:
Two ways one can do that
1) use a SDcard reader and just plug the card into a main USB port.
2) Mount the SDCard in the phone via the Recovery Image. *** i'd recommend this method since you are going to need to be in recovery anyway ***
Pull the battery from the phone an put it back in, then put the back on the phone. turn the phone on holding the power button along with the volume down rocker button. That will boot the phone into the HBoot (Engineering) Screen. From there you will see an option that says "recovery" [this is what i mentioned earlier, about the different versions] use the volume rocker to select it, then tap the power button to select it. The phone will reboot into what is called the recovery image. From there you will select "mount" then USB. That will mount the SDCard to the Computer.
If you are using the 3.0.0.5 Recovery image
Once you have move Cyanogen(mod) and the g/apps to the SD card unmount the SDCard.
Then navigate to "wipe data/factory reset" you will want to wipe the phone. That will format everything to a fashion that can be written over w/o problems.
Then navigate to "install .zip from sdcard" > " choose .zip " > then flash the main Cyanogen(mod) ROM. Then do the same but flash the g/apps that you downloaded.
Once those are done you can re-boot the phone. That will boot you into cyanogen.
If you are using the 2.x.x.x Recovery image
Please use the link i supplied above to get that ROM up and running once it is done, according to their instructions come back here.
Now i understand that may or may not want Cyanogen nor RoyalGlacier on your phone. Well take care of that
What can i do to prevent this from Happening again?
Once you are up and running (make sure to log into your Google Account) go to the market and download Clockwork ROM manager again, and re-flash the recovery image.
Once you are done with that i HIGHLY suggest upgrading to the newest 3.0.0.6 Recovery image. You can do that one of two ways.
one way is to flash True_Blues method for installing 3.0.0.6 recovery image. Use this thread..
This is the way that i would personally recommend.
The second way is download the 3.0.0.6 recovery image, which i've attached and flash it via the ADB commands. If you want to do it this way you do not need to download Clockwork Rom Manager, you can "just flash it". If you need help with that, if you are using Windows or Mac, see my signature for True_Blue's method on EZ ADB. If you are using Unbutu 10.10 use this This Method to get ADB running. This is the method i used to ADB running on my Linux NetBook.
Download the file that i've attached and store just the recovery image from the .zip to the SDCard, from the ADB commands type
adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
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More information on this process can be found here
That will flash the newest recovery image to your phone
Once you have installed the 3.0.0.6 ROM Manager you can wipe and flash ANY MyTouch4G ROM that you want. It will handle both 2.2 (ext3) and 2.3 (ext4) ROM formats.
This is the New Method - Which is a little easier.
AND YOU MUST HAVE THE ENGINEERING HBOOT
Thanks to TeeJay for inspiring this.
I am going to assume that since you have the Engineering Screen you are more familiar with what you are doing so i'll be more to the point with this walk-through.
you will need to have ADB up and running for this method.
1) Download the attached file and store just the .img to your folder from which you preform all of your ADB commands
2) plug the phone into the computer
3) boot the phone into HBoot
4) from the ADB commands change the drive to the folder where you stored the recovery image.
5) type these commands
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
the screen should say something to the degree of
Code:
sending 'recovery' (3426 KB)... OKAY [ 1.172s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.797s]
finished. total time: 1.969s
6) then select "bootloader"
7) navigate to "reboot recovery"
8) flash your ROM of choice.
9) enjoy your ROM of choice.
Please feel free to use this in your signature or link people back to. If you feel i made an error in this post please PM and i'll edit it accordingly.
If this thread has helped you solve your problem please hit the "thanks" button.
THE RECOVERY IMAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO THE NEWEST ONE.

good summary. originally when i flashed cm7 I had to search a bit to come up with what you said above. one addition, CWM lets you mount sd storage to usb so you can copy files to sdcard (say the recovery image). then update CWM 3.0.0.6 with ADB.

leo221 said:
good summary. originally when i flashed cm7 I had to search a bit to come up with what you said above. one addition, CWM lets you mount sd storage to usb so you can copy files to sdcard (say the recovery image). then update CWM 3.0.0.6 with ADB.
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Added that method as well.

May want to mention that the opposite could be true as well > same boot loop but from flashing 2.3 rom with recovery 2.5.1.2

Thank you for this!! Exactly what I needed...!

austengeist said:
Thank you for this!! Exactly what I needed...!
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Glad it helped, just make sure to hit the "Thanks" button in the first post.

dang man you're the Q&A champ, every time i'm on this you're answering questions.
well this worked like a charm, idk why people on xda always make things more complicated than it has to be.

option94 said:
May want to mention that the opposite could be true as well > same boot loop but from flashing 2.3 rom with recovery 2.5.1.2
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Added.
aalsmadi1 said:
dang man you're the Q&A champ, every time i'm on this you're answering questions.
well this worked like a charm, idk why people on xda always make things more complicated than it has to be.
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Well i work in the Imported Automotive parts. My job requires me to basically sit around and answer the phone when it rings. We have our own "call center" room. I just pick up the phone and answer question and sell parts. Like right now i'm working on a engine rebuild kit for a 1975 2Ton Mercedes Bens..... so i get some free time from time to time, and XDA is one of a few sites they allow me to visit.... BGR/ Android and Me, Android Central are the others....
I can see why some people blow up, spend +$200.00 on a phone then turn around and blow through something w/o taking the time to read something and then you get stuck in a bootloop.... i can see why people go bonkers. But slowing down and reading would solve alot of problems. Heck i've got 3 great threads in my signature that would solve alot question that one could have with a new device.

fixed my problem

Thread stuck.

Great guide!

Same issue, except i flashed 3.0.0.6 beforehand to prevent any problems. Iced Glacier flashed okay, I just didn't care for it much. Ive wiped all the necessary parts prior to flashing as I would before flashing any roms. Ive managed to retrieve and restore a previous back (I can haz backups) so Im not stuck. I would like to be in the cool kids cyanogen club. Any ideas?

DHSdrone said:
Same issue, except i flashed 3.0.0.6 beforehand to prevent any problems. Iced Glacier flashed okay, I just didn't care for it much. Ive wiped all the necessary parts prior to flashing as I would before flashing any roms. Ive managed to retrieve and restore a previous back (I can haz backups) so Im not stuck. I would like to be in the cool kids cyanogen club. Any ideas?
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Meaning you want to run Cyanogen(mod)? Well jump over to their site and download the ROM of your picking; Nightlies are alpha builds, and the RC's are beta builds. I've ran both and both are extremely stable. I have links supplied in the first post. and directions for that matter. just make sure to do a nandroid backup before wiping and flashing.

Thanks ....Saved ME LIFE

Posting so I can see the "thanks" button. Doubley thanks you saved my bacon....err phone!! Hmmmm bacon!

Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!

b0rnsusp3ct said:
Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!
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Pull the battery. Hold vol down power on them restore cm7. Then flash cwm 3.0.0.6.
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b0rnsusp3ct said:
Ok I am having one Problem PLEASE HELP!!!
When I click "wipe data/factory reset" it just shows the clockwork icon (hat and arrow) and nothing happens.
In fact, this happens with all of the options in the clockwork recovery.
I am running clockwork 3.0.0.5. I had CM7 and I did something stupid, tried flashing another ROM via rom manager....I did back up everything though.
Please tell me I am not bricked!!!
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What button are you pressing to select the option? you should just use the trackpad.

Loll...wow, I am such a noob i def. shouldn't be rooting or anything.
Thanks so much!

b0rnsusp3ct said:
Loll...wow, I am such a noob i def. shouldn't be rooting or anything.
Thanks so much!
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Why do you say that?

Quick question about ROM Manger

Hello again,
I have used the search engine and google to answer a pretty simple question but it didn't have my question, it may sound silly but I'm just taking precautions.
I'm running on JVK Gingerbread without bootloaders, will soon to root it with GingerBreak (Hopefully it'll work). Anyway, I don't have a recovery mode on my phone due to flashing to JVK, so if before I install ClockWorkMod via ROM Manger, does it require Recovery Mode to be there already?
I have GT-i9000
Thanks

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Your phone already has 3e Recovery. Rom Manager would simple flash CWM Recovery on top and that would be your new recovery. However, it is highly advised that you DO NOT flash anything before you ensure you have 3-button combo enabled first, ie. Download mode and Recovery mode.

But doesn't clockwork mod give you the three button and download option?
Because then what's the point of trying to get 3E recovery mode when CWM will replace it?
Oh wait, it's just incase if anything goes wrong, including flashing CWM..

northo said:
But doesn't clockwork mod give you the three button and download option?
Because then what's the point of trying to get 3E recovery mode when CWM will replace it?
Oh wait, it's just incase if anything goes wrong, including flashing CWM..
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The three button combo has nothing to do with cwm.
Also I agree that you should not do ANYTHING until you do the 3 button combo fix...search for it.
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[Q] cm7 question

i just installed cm7 (Mills00013's cdma version) and was wondering if i go to the clockwork mod recovery app that was installed with it, would flashing clockworkmod recovery mess up my phone, or would it work because i heard that cm7 for xplay can use cmw recovery?
thanks in advance

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loismustdie555 said:
i just installed cm7 (Mills00013's cdma version) and was wondering if i go to the clockwork mod recovery app that was installed with it, would flashing clockworkmod recovery mess up my phone, or would it work because i heard that cm7 for xplay can use cmw recovery?
thanks in advance
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Old thread, but Clockwork red is normally needed to get CM7 or MIUI started, then Clockwork Blue is installed, and you re-install the ZIP for CM7/MIUI full functional. Clockwork just replaces the stock recovery files.

You can't flash clockworkmod recovery. When you open rom manager, you'll notice that there is no available recoveries for our phones. In addition to that, there is no way for the system to flash a recovery if it wanted to because there is no actual recovery partition to overwrite for our devices. The recoveries we are blessed with using now use a kernel modification to allow recovery to boot from the boot partition, which cannot be touched except with fastboot.
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Please Help on CM10 Quarx 2nd init boot

Hi, I just flash into the newest rom from quarx, 18-10-2012 CM10 2nd init.
my procedure.
1. I have back up my system/bootmenu/recovery into sdcard
2. go to recovery room, wipe and factory reset
3. Flash CM10 18.10.2012 ROM
3. Flash 18.10 v4 to update into the newest room
4. install GAPPS
5. reboot.
And I have a problem now I cant go to recovery, eventhough i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before.
anyone can help me how to recover my recovery ?
Thank u

Please ask all questions in the Q&A section. Thread moved there.

Sniveler said:
Hi, I just flash into the newest rom from quarx, 18-10-2012 CM10 2nd init.
my procedure.
1. I have back up my system/bootmenu/recovery into sdcard
2. go to recovery room, wipe and factory reset
3. Flash CM10 18.10.2012 ROM
3. Flash 18.10 v4 to update into the newest room
4. install GAPPS
5. reboot.
And I have a problem now I cant go to recovery, eventhough i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before.
anyone can help me how to recover my recovery ?
Thank u
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Well, u mean no blue LED during boot after flashing 18/10?
If so what do u mean ' i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before'? Why have u done it? How u did it?
And what was your parent system?
Which working custom ROM u had?
BTW: 18/10 is 2ndboot, not 2ndinit ROM

corrinti said:
Well, u mean no blue LED during boot after flashing 18/10?
If so what do u mean ' i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before'? Why have u done it? How u did it?
And what was your parent system?
Which working custom ROM u had?
BTW: 18/10 is 2ndboot, not 2ndinit ROM
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Sorry sir I dont really understand what is 18/10 2ndboot or 2nd init room, I just flash the latest rom from quarx and there was an information about 2ndboot or something
I mean sir i had successfully flash from 24/09 cm10 quarx (this rom doesnt have an information about 2nd boot) into 18/10 CM10 Quarx (CM10-20121018-NIGHTLY-mb526.zip and update_for_18.10_v4.zip) , all is working fine but the recovery room is in trouble, i cant enter there, always come back to normal start.
I heard from my friend u can fix the recovery room by copy the old system/bootmenu/recovery and replace it using root explorer, then your recovery room will be working again. I had done that but not working at all, I still cant enter recovery room.
is there any way to recover/fix my recovery room ??
Thank you

Sniveler said:
Sorry sir I dont really understand what is 18/10 2ndboot or 2nd init room, I just flash the latest rom from quarx and there was an information about 2ndboot or something
I mean sir i had successfully flash from 24/09 cm10 quarx (this rom doesnt have an information about 2nd boot) into 18/10 CM10 Quarx (CM10-20121018-NIGHTLY-mb526.zip and update_for_18.10_v4.zip) , all is working fine but the recovery room is in trouble, i cant enter there, always come back to normal start.
I heard from my friend u can fix the recovery room by copy the old system/bootmenu/recovery and replace it using root explorer, then your recovery room will be working again. I had done that but not working at all, I still cant enter recovery room.
is there any way to recover/fix my recovery room ??
Thank you
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Have you tried a normal reboot and then pressing volume down on the blue LED, or is there no blue LED?
I know that selecting boot into recovery does not work on the new ROM's

Sniveler said:
Hi, I just flash into the newest rom from quarx, 18-10-2012 CM10 2nd init.
my procedure.
1. I have back up my system/bootmenu/recovery into sdcard
2. go to recovery room, wipe and factory reset
3. Flash CM10 18.10.2012 ROM
3. Flash 18.10 v4 to update into the newest room
4. install GAPPS
5. reboot.
And I have a problem now I cant go to recovery, eventhough i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before.
anyone can help me how to recover my recovery ?
Thank u
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Miss here before and after flashing to wipe dalvik cache? Before recovering nandroid you have to wipe data and cache 1st
Reboot into recovery doesn't work in latest quarx release (custom kernel). This is a known issue. Press volume down on blue led as mentioned above.

i didn't do wipe dalvik cache after flashing. because before flashing i had wipe dalvik cache before .. is this a mistake ???
I had tried normal recovery by pressing volume down + power button, and there's no LED blue button ...
is there anything that I can do to fix this

Sniveler said:
i didn't do wipe dalvik cache after flashing. because before flashing i had wipe dalvik cache before .. is this a mistake ???
I had tried normal recovery by pressing volume down + power button, and there's no LED blue button ...
is there anything that I can do to fix this
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Look, to get it into recovery do these steps:
1: Turn on the phone
2: Pay attention to the notifications LED (the one to the left of your front speaker and the Motorola logo)
3: When it light up in Blue, press the Volume Down button (FAST!)
4: Voila, you are in recovery.
These are pretty basic steps that you should know before trying to flash anything on your device.
There's a great starter guide on the General section, I would suggest you to read that.

Sniveler said:
Hi, I just flash into the newest rom from quarx, 18-10-2012 CM10 2nd init.
my procedure.
1. I have back up my system/bootmenu/recovery into sdcard
2. go to recovery room, wipe and factory reset
3. Flash CM10 18.10.2012 ROM
3. Flash 18.10 v4 to update into the newest room
4. install GAPPS
5. reboot.
And I have a problem now I cant go to recovery, eventhough i have replace my system/bootmenut/recovery into the old one that i back up before.
anyone can help me how to recover my recovery ?
Thank u
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The "Reboot into Recovery" mode is not working due to the mandatory 2nd-boot setting in CWM. For the moment you can only enter CWM via the manual method as described by thiagoelg

1: Turn on the phone
2: Pay attention to the notifications LED (the one to the left of your front speaker and the Motorola logo)
3: When it light up in Blue, press the Volume Down button (FAST!)
4: Voila, you are in recovery.
Ah yeah the stable recovery works, thank you sir
the Stock recovery doesnt work, but I guess that because quarx do it purposely.
Thank You

[Q] Custom Recovery Lost after Flashing cm-11-20141028-NIGHTLY-mb52x.zip

Hi all, I met a problem after flashing cm-11-20141028-NIGHTLY-mb52x.zip.
I cannot enter Custom Recovery (TWRP) any more. Other functions are OK, but I cannot upgrade to new ROM now.
Is there a simple way to restore Custom recovery in CM11?
Otherwise, I will have to use the method: "flashing stcok ROM (Android 2.3) -> root -> 2nd Init -> flashing Custom recovery", to restore it.
Thanks in advance.

hi, don't know if you still need an answer but you can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708771

Hi jh20, thanks for the information.
I checked the post you provided. However, my problem is that I cannot enter the Custom Recovery anymore, let alone flashing another ROM.
jh20 said:
hi, don't know if you still need an answer but you can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708771
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perhaps i should explained a little more. these are based on memory as i haven't done these a while now.
cwm recovery had been permanently removed from cm11, and you can only flash cm10 and not anything earlier (cm7 or cm9) with cm11's twrp because of ext4 partition. so as long as you can still get into twrp, you can flash cm10 which still has both twrp "and" cwm recovery. cm10's cwm recovery allows you to repartition it back to ext3 and hence allows you to flash cm7.
i did a little google on how to revert from cm10, and here are the hits:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...hannel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=rXBiVP7-GqGN8Qfiz4HYCw
and the first one on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095518
if you need more just read the other posts. hope they help.

Thanks a lot, jh20.
I think I made a mistake in the post, that I was not use CWM recovery in CM11, it is TWRP recovery instead. I've update my post to reflect this.
So the problem is that I cannot enter TWRP recovery any more, and cannot flash another ROM or anything via TWRP recovery.
Is there a simple way to restore TWRP recovery, otherwise I have to start from scratch by flashing stock ROM, ...
I'm not trying to go back to CM7.2.
jh20 said:
perhaps i should explained a little more. these are based on memory as i haven't done these a while now.
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if you need more just read the other posts. hope they help.
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swest said:
So the problem is that I cannot enter TWRP recovery any more, and cannot flash another ROM or anything via TWRP recovery.
Is there a simple way to restore TWRP recovery, otherwise I have to start from scratch by flashing stock ROM, ...
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Sorry, not with my knowledge. So unless some experts/developers here have any ideas, you might have to start from scratch.