Hey guys,
I have my sisters HD2 here, which I equipped with Android 2 years ago.
It is stuck in a bootloop and I can only access CotullaHSPL. Longpressing the power-button doesn't bring me anywhere. Any way to fix it up again? I just have a Mac here and think it's not possible to install a new recovery without installing Magldr again?
Cheers,
elmo108
If it's stuck in a bootloop, we can assume that you still have your android bootloader working. Now if you don't see Magldr's header at the top when booting up, then you have cLK, otherwise it's MAGLDR.
If you have MAGLDR, hold the end button when you see magldr's header. (Does this also take you nowhere?)
If you have cLK, boot up the device and immediately hold the back button. This should bring up cLK's interface.
From there, check that you have cwm installed. If it is installed, then just copy the same ROM and flash it again. (Or resize partitions then flash the rom if you want to install another one)
If it's not installed, just follow one of the guides available on this forum to install the recovery.
You said you've installed Android two years ago, so I'm assuming you're familiar with all of those stuff.
Good luck.
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rooted phone. went well Installed rom
not so well.
Holding home and power brings me to a "Android System recovery Utility"
I think what i did wrong was i installed two different types of roms on to my G1 unwittingly. So now all that happens is it stays on the G1 screen and doesn't change. Left it charging overnight and stayed on that screen
Is there a way to access and rectify via console option.
Please help
If you have recovery, you should be fine. Just flash your favorite image and wipe your userdata.
DOD1 said:
rooted phone. went well Installed rom
not so well.
Holding home and power brings me to a "Android System recovery Utility"
I think what i did wrong was i installed two different types of roms on to my G1 unwittingly. So now all that happens is it stays on the G1 screen and doesn't change. Left it charging overnight and stayed on that screen
Is there a way to access and rectify via console option.
Please help
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Holding Home + Power is supposed to take you into the recovery image.
At the bottom of your recovery image does it say Amon Ra 1.5.2 or 1.6.2 or something like that?
If your phones rooted then just wipe and reinstall you rom.
Like lets say your doing the new cyanmod
you apply zip
DR83
With out rebooting apply zip
Cyanmod-rom 1.4xxxx
If it boots back into Android System recovery Utility just hold home and back again.
Give it time to write its radio and its first time rebooting it says on the boot screen for a awhile some longer then others.
This site has always helped me its better to see the instructions rather then read them.
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hey you guys
I recently installed amon ra's recovery v. 1.7 on my magic 32a (radio 6.3.5 something) after I rooted my phone, of course.
Now, I thought that with the new recovery I would be easily able to flash a custom rom onto my magic. This was however not so easy, because the recovery behaves in a very weird way. Whenever I tell it to flash a new rom from a .zip image, or wipe the phone, or anything, it just reboots my magic and thats it. Also, the recovery happens to freeze quite regularly when I don't act very quickly. E.g. when I boot into recovery mode and don't touch the phone for the first 5 seconds, it wont respond any longer.
So, I'm probably doing something wrong here. I would appreciate any help from anyone. (and btw, i have the official android 1.5 sense rom installed on my magic, os I cant use rom manager either, since it only supports android 1.6 upwards.)
Look at the root guide in my signature..
Do step 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7 only.
It should flash the recovery partition one more time.
Hopefully it will fix your problem :0)
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Look at the root guide in my signature..
Do step 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7 only.
It should flash the recovery partition one more time.
Hopefully it will fix your problem :0)
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hey, thanks for the quick response. I still have a few questions though, since I am quite a newb. So when I type all of those commands into cmd, doesnt my device need to be connected to the computer somehow? I read somewhere earlier that I simply connect it using the "mount" funtion, the problem is that that doesnt seem to work anymore for my magic, because after I hit "mount" it simply goes back to "usb connected" without acutally mounting. So ..how do I connect the device to the PC while entering the commands?
ok... my bad..
Try to read the ENTIRE guide... then do the steps i mentioned above :0)
Don't mount it... just connected... but again.. read the guide.
thanks a lot
I didnt use your method to flash the image, but the hero recovery works way better than the one I had before. I managed to flash a rom now. So happy ;D
ok i think i just did a bad mistake
i installed rom manager after i had flashed an android 2.1 rom on my magic. THen i told it to flash some rom from my sd card and also wipe some data, or something. Now my magic gets stuck on the magic bootscreen, like it keeps looping. Did i brick my phone ..or is there a way to fix this? please help me, (
most likely is that the rom you flashed doesn't have a compatible kernel for your phone.
Just boot into recovery and flash a rom that is compatible.
cant boot into recovery ..it just keeps looping
Then you will need to boot into fastboot and reflash a working recovery.
Clockwork has issues flashing the clockwork recovery sometimes.
to boot into fastboot i need to hold power and back, right? ..that doesnt work either. again, it just keeps looping.
so, guys ..did i brick my phonne..?? :S
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to boot into fastboot i need to hold power and back, right? ..that doesnt work either. again, it just keeps looping.
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you're probably not doing it right. you should still be able to get into recovery or fastboot and install a different recovery. i'm using RA-magic+v1.7.0.1 recovery it has bugs but pretty stable.
so what am i doing wrong??
just realized when i connect the phone to my pc over usb and then boot it, it connects to the pc for a second or less and then disconnects again. Dont know if this helps anyhow.
pull battery, put battery back in. hold back and push power.
Should be good.
tried that like 50 times. phone just keeps looping ..like, it restart over and over again.
What you have is what hundreds before you had when they used Rom manager.
The system will not boot into anything.
My advice is to never use Rom manager for 32A device.
The fix:
Keep pushing the back button while the system reboots... just mash the **** out of it..
I helped out someone before you, and he did it for over an hour or so...
It's a timing issue...
Good luck
haha ..so is there still hope?
cheers for all the answers ;D
i do have one question though, actually.
Shall i just press the back button continuously ...while it keeps looping, or should i rather restart the device after each loop and hold the back button?
just mash the back button.
I'm having an irritating problem.
I've rooted my wife's Gen 1 Orange SF with Androot, even repeated it when I started having problems to make sure the root had worked. SuperUser is installed and working so I know it has gone OK.
I've installed Recovery Manager v0.36, which has root access.
The current recovery is listed as "unrecognised"
I flashed the following CWM - recovery-clockwork-3.1.0.1-blade-gen1.img (MD5 checksum correct)
I get an "installing" message, then back to the Recovery screen and the recovery is still listed as "unrecognised".
One of the guides I found on Modaco is quite specific about using Recovery Manager v0.34 (though I suspect it just hasn't been updated with the latest release) so I've also tried this using that version and no joy.
So... I thought I'd try the FASTBOOT method. I turn the phone off, remove and replace the battery. Turn the phone on whilst holding the up volume button, and the phone just boots up normally. I've tried this repeatedly, I don't get the big grey square that people report when FASTBOOT fails, I just get no response at all.
Grrrrr!
Any thoughts?
Hmm, when you power up holding volume up key (held for a couple of seconds) does you phone show a static green android logo, or does it boot up fully to the lockscreen?
If only to the android logo, means you're in fastboot.
Edit: you can replace the green android logo with Orange's logo in the above comment if you haven't flashed an alternate ROM on the phone as yet.
I also had the same while trying to flash a recovery to my friend's Blade. I understood that i have been flashing the wrong recovery all this time (though it showed for gen1 and i had a gen1). I used the given recovery(link provided below), and it worked for me like a charm. Use the link download on root of sd card. Use recovery manager to install it. If the recovery manager shows that it has identified the cwmod version then its done or else if it again says unrecognised try different versions of cwmod.
Preferably after getting cwmod to working convert your gen1 to gen2 (wbaw method). Then you can flash a custom rom and use ROM manager to upgrade your cwmod recovery.
http://android.podtwo.com/recovery/archived/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.8-v9-gen1.img
To Convert gen1 to gen2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103096
harmohn said:
Hmm, when you power up holding volume up key (held for a couple of seconds) does you phone show a static green android logo, or does it boot up fully to the lockscreen?
If only to the android logo, means you're in fastboot.
Edit: you can replace the green android logo with Orange's logo in the above comment if you haven't flashed an alternate ROM on the phone as yet.
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He hasnt been able to install CWmod yet so no green logo will appear. Due to unrecognised version only DELL logo appears and hangs or it reboots normally. And yes FASTBOOT is not enabled in gen1 devices so thats why i say to convert to gen2 as soon as possible.
Hi Be4con,
I flashed a batch of 10 blades the other day, and wrote my own little guide for it. I had exactly the same problem as you with the first two i tried to flash.
The guide on modaco does work, but i found i had to use a much older version of clockwork mod. I used 2.5.0.8 (if i remember correctly) not at work just now so cant see my notes. This was picked up by the recovery no problems and i was able to move on from there.
Hope that helps
Hi
You have try to flash directly to your device with a terminal emulator
type SU
accept SuperUser autorisation
type flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery_xx_xx.img (you find the good version on the recovery on internet)
reboot your phone with volume + down
if you have any problem to find the fine recovery or to flash the recovery contact me on pv . this method work with my zte gen1
ok so basically im a noob to the hd2 burly bought it today from some guy thing is it already has android 2.3.2 and im trying to flash ics to it but if will not boot up cwm any idea or is there a how to guide here? again i am a noob to the site i ve tried serching but dont know exactly what im searching for so decided to ask you guys.
hope i posted in the right section.
fastfer2010 said:
ok so basically im a noob to the hd2 burly bought it today from some guy thing is it already has android 2.3.2 and im trying to flash ics to it but if will not boot up cwm any idea or is there a how to guide here? again i am a noob to the site i ve tried serching but dont know exactly what im searching for so decided to ask you guys.
hope i posted in the right section.
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Maybe you do not have CWM installed. To install it you have to download the required file from this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898913
Go to downloads and download the appropriate partition. As you are new to all of this i suggest you download the 250mb partition, u know, just to get the ICS rom working.
Anyways, after you download it extract it somewhere.
Boot your Phone into MAGLDR (turn it on by holding the power button)
Select option 5. USB flasher. Connect you phone to the pc via the usb cable. Wait for it to say usb....usb on the last line (this is on the phone)
Then run DAF.exe on your pc. Follow the instructions on the setup.
Thats it. You have CWM installed.
To enter CWM, select option 8. AD recovery from the MAGLDR menu.
Hope it helps
did you press and hold the end call button?
To enter CWM, select option 8. AD recovery from the MAGLDR menu.
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and if option 8 doesn't say 'AD recovery' then you have an old version of magldr - quite likely, if cwm really isn't installed, since all newer roms are cwm flashed.
download cwm for sd card you need to google cwm for sd card xda and follow instructions to letter. this allows you to have.cwm if your is corrupted or not working. then when you boot up phone holding power button to get into magldr. thread on cwm sd will explain all.
hope this helps as this is how i got my cwm working when mine got corrupted. i now always have a backup.of this on my sd card in case my cwm ever gets corrupted again.
Hey,
Thanks to this amazing forum, to replace the Galaxy S2 I soft-bricked (for sale if anyone interested pm me), I bought an HTC HD2 and managed to get HyperDroid onto it, it's been fantastic for the past couple of months however now I have an S3 and I'm trying to reset it or flash a new rom onto it.
If I hold the power button and choose reboot into recovery, it just reboots normally into hyperdoid.
When I went into ROM manager, I think it may of said there wasn't a CWM Recovery, anyway I told it to flash latest 3.1 and it is now saying that it is installed.
If I tell it to reboot into recovery via ROM manager same thing happens, boots like normal.
I just can't damn well get into recovery
Any help pretty please.
Howard
That's normal issue if you are using MAGLDR.
Shut off the phone and turn it on holding on the power key till You're in MAGLDR. Then choose 8 AD Recovery.
Wahey, thank you. However when I choose that it's saying error cannot load ramdisk image, any ideas?
ttersu said:
That's normal issue if you are using MAGLDR.
Shut off the phone and turn it on holding on the power key till You're in MAGLDR. Then choose 8 AD Recovery.
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wahoo, managed to reflash recovery using DAF and have now just flashed the new rom, now just sitting on an android splash screen (quite some time now but I'll let it take as long as it needs).
thanks again and wish me luck
howhard said:
Wahey, thank you. However when I choose that it's saying error cannot load ramdisk image, any ideas?
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Arf, U've got to reflash your Recovery I guess...
Reason For Problem ..... RoM Manager Corrupts Cwm When Used When MaGldr Is Installed.Never Run RoM Manager If You Use MaGldr.
(Apologies For All Capitalised Letters, Swype And Jb Sorcery Intermittently Don't Play Nice)
howhard said:
wahoo, managed to reflash recovery using DAF and have now just flashed the new rom, now just sitting on an android splash screen (quite some time now but I'll let it take as long as it needs).
thanks again and wish me luck
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What partition size did you flash? Did you make sure that the ROM you flashed required the same or a smaller partition size than you flashed?