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Help! Can't boot / cant get into recovery. ..

I was unlocked and rooted and ready to install CM7. I followed all the instructions in the Official Atrix CM7 OP to the T, but when it rebooted, I got stuck on the boot screen with "unlocked" and the red M logo.
I tried to repeat the process several times and ended kind of giving up, factory wiping, and then trying to restore my backup. It appeared to restore successfully, but when I rebooted the phone now wont boot at all. I can't even get it into recovery. No combination or order of button presses or battery pulls / usb plugins will turn it on. I just have a green light like it's charging but nothing is working.
Is it possible to brick your phone even after you have been successfully unlocked and rooted just while you are trying to install CM7?
Please help. I am really desperate here. . .

jimjenkins said:
I was unlocked and rooted and ready to install CM7. I followed all the instructions in the Official Atrix CM7 OP to the T, but when it rebooted, I got stuck on the boot screen with "unlocked" and the red M logo.
I tried to repeat the process several times and ended kind of giving up, factory wiping, and then trying to restore my backup. It appeared to restore successfully, but when I rebooted the phone now wont boot at all. I can't even get it into recovery. No combination or order of button presses or battery pulls / usb plugins will turn it on. I just have a green light like it's charging but nothing is working.
Is it possible to brick your phone even after you have been successfully unlocked and rooted just while you are trying to install CM7?
Please help. I am really desperate here. . .
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are you using the right recovery? romracer or rom manager!

i am using the tenfar CWM included in the Atrix 4G Automatic Unlock script package. will this not work?
if not, how do I replace it with the right recovery if I cant even get into the phone?

jimjenkins said:
i am using the tenfar CWM included in the Atrix 4G Automatic Unlock script package. will this not work?
if not, how do I replace it with the right recovery if I cant even get into the phone?
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no, that the old recovery you can use the rom manager if you have , or romracer latest recovery you can find that in the development section, also ther was instruction in the cm7 thread.

you should have left it alone at the M boot screen because it takes about 5-10min to boot after unlock and flash...
everything you do now will have to be through fastboot DO NOT SBF FLASH ANYTHING!!!
Go here to use Fastboot
then download the system.img and boot.img from here
use fastboot to push the boot.img and system.img to your phone
if it gets stuck at the M boot screen let it sit for at least 10min
EDIT: get Romracer recovery from here and push that through to your phone through fastboot

Yeah youre going to have to fastboot wipe recovery then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Just download rom racers and rename it..recovery.img
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Great. Sorry to be such a noob, but do I decompress the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip file and push the recovery.img file that's inside it? or push the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip itself?
Also - every time I am able to get my phone into fastboot mode, it says my battery is too weak to flash anything. I cant seem to get the battery to charge enough to execute any fastboot commands. Any way around this? a powered usb hub?

jimjenkins said:
Great. Sorry to be such a noob, but do I decompress the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip file and push the recovery.img file that's inside it? or push the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip itself?
Also - every time I am able to get my phone into fastboot mode, it says my battery is too weak to flash anything. I cant seem to get the battery to charge enough to execute any fastboot commands. Any way around this? a powered usb hub?
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If you can borrow another Atrix user's battery, or take yours to an AT&T store and see if they can charge it for you.
If you're able to get back into recovery then you can just flash the zip.
If not, you'll need to extract the recovery.img to use it with fastboot, or just download it directly from the OP in romracer's thread. (The left hand link is just the .img, the right hand side is the CWM .zip) Then place it in the same directory as fastboot.

So I can literally flash a different recovery from within another?

jimjenkins said:
So I can literally flash a different recovery from within another?
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yes but it MUST be working proper first ! its ok to use rom managers cwm but i just prefer the otherone alawys have but n e way there are only 2 that are current (uptodate )
thoughs 2 and with romracers you can. chose
a color that you like not just blue
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Its the recovery from tenfar CWM. When I can get it into recovery it seems to be working - with the obvious exception of successfully installing CM7
So I can flash romracer recovery from inside tenfar recovery?
sorry if im being redundant - just dont want to screw it up!
thanks

Just download rom racers cwm. Img, head into fastboot and then fastboot flash recovery recovery-****** (whatever yer recovery image color u chose is)
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I was able after a full day of leaving the phone plugged in, to charge it up. Then I flashed the rom racer recovery, rebooted into recovery (new version), installed CM7, installed gapps, and voila! A working CM7 Atrix. thank you soo soo much guys.

Can't boot android/recovery
ClearFire said:
you should have left it alone at the M boot screen because it takes about 5-10min to boot after unlock and flash...
everything you do now will have to be through fastboot DO NOT SBF FLASH ANYTHING!!!
Go here to use Fastboot
then download the system.img and boot.img from here
use fastboot to push the boot.img and system.img to your phone
if it gets stuck at the M boot screen let it sit for at least 10min
EDIT: get Romracer recovery from here and push that through to your phone through fastboot
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Please help!!!
The phone stuck in boot screen and overheat, then restart.
In recovery mode is just black screen.
Phone has Neutrino 2.6GT+ ROM whit Clemsyn's OC kernel 1.6GHz and it has unlocked bootloader.
Can I change the kernel without booting in os or recovery?
This problem show after I was extracting very big zip file and phone overheat.

firecode95 said:
Please help!!!
The phone stuck in boot screen and overheat, then restart.
In recovery mode is just black screen.
Phone has Neutrino 2.6GT+ ROM whit Clemsyn's OC kernel 1.6GHz and it has unlocked bootloader.
Can I change the kernel without booting in os or recovery?
This problem show after I was extracting very big zip file and phone overheat.
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I am actually having this same problem.

My warranty-replacement (unrelated ear-piece failure) had 2.3.6 pre-installed. Thinking little of it, I unlocked the BL and rooted the phone as usual. After this, I tried to install a couple of the ROM's (Neutrino and Morrisoft) which I was most happy with on my previous Atrix.
After flashing either Neutrino or Morrislee's ROM, the phone hung on the M screen. Waiting approximately 30 minutes with no change, I pulled the battery.
When trying to enter recovery mode, the phone would state, "entering recovery mode..." Then go black.
I ended up using RSDLite and sbf flashing the stock 2.3.6 sbf file back to the phone. Then, I had to re-unlock the bootloader and re-root.
This never happened up to, and including 2.3.4, but did twice last night on these ROM's using 2.3.6, and I've flashed many ROM's and Kernels.
It happened to a lesser extent when trying to flash Clemsyn's stock enhanced kernel to the stock ROM, as I was able to enter recovery mode. Entering recovery mode, it would give errors: mounting cache, mounting system errors, and errors to accessing recovery and recovery log files.
Restore recovery would fail in this state, giving me the above errors as well.
Trying to mount the cache and system in recovery would fail. Trying to format cache and system then mounting these could occur temporarily, but would revert back to unmounted when a restore was attempted.
For these problems I pushed a recovery through fastboot.

Just one word: Fastboot. See if Fastboot works and flash everything from there. Or, as Alterna suggested, flash through RSDLite, but that a little dangerous and can brick your phone if you don't know what you are doing. Hope it helps.

Problem sloved!!!
Alterna said:
My warranty-replacement (unrelated ear-piece failure) had 2.3.6 pre-installed. Thinking little of it, I unlocked the BL and rooted the phone as usual. After this, I tried to install a couple of the ROM's (Neutrino and Morrisoft) which I was most happy with on my previous Atrix.
After flashing either Neutrino or Morrislee's ROM, the phone hung on the M screen. Waiting approximately 30 minutes with no change, I pulled the battery.
When trying to enter recovery mode, the phone would state, "entering recovery mode..." Then go black.
I ended up using RSDLite and sbf flashing the stock 2.3.6 sbf file back to the phone. Then, I had to re-unlock the bootloader and re-root.
This never happened up to, and including 2.3.4, but did twice last night on these ROM's using 2.3.6, and I've flashed many ROM's and Kernels.
It happened to a lesser extent when trying to flash Clemsyn's stock enhanced kernel to the stock ROM, as I was able to enter recovery mode. Entering recovery mode, it would give errors: mounting cache, mounting system errors, and errors to accessing recovery and recovery log files.
Restore recovery would fail in this state, giving me the above errors as well.
Trying to mount the cache and system in recovery would fail. Trying to format cache and system then mounting these could occur temporarily, but would revert back to unmounted when a restore was attempted.
For these problems I pushed a recovery through fastboot.
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My problem like that and I use automated unlock tool to recover recovery, this recovery show some errors but I successfully flash cwm touch and reinstall Nutrition 2.6GT+

[Q] In Bootloop, Can you Help?

I was having some pretty serious radio issues with cyanogenmod so I attempted to use RSD Lite which had previously worked like a charm to go back to stock rom (using what came pre-bundled with matt's script v. 1.2)
My phone is unlocked at the bootloader
I have it rooted.
I get the original droid boot loop.
I can definitely get it into a status code 3 AP Fastboot, but none of the tools for the script or RSD lite have gotten me past the droid eye bootloop.
I'm presuming a wipe of the cache will do the trick, but either my googling skills are gone or I'm just too tired after 6 hours.... but I'm unable to get any type of recovery flashed.
My first question is if I am in AP Fastboot, who knows how to get a recovery image flashed so I can see if it's just a cache issue of trying to go from cyanogenmod to stock firmware.
My second question is - Does anyone have a link to a guide to "re-lock" my bootloader in case I need to get this to tech support?
Thanks

matthew1429 said:
I was having some pretty serious radio issues with cyanogenmod so I attempted to use RSD Lite which had previously worked like a charm to go back to stock rom (using what came pre-bundled with matt's script v. 1.2)
My phone is unlocked at the bootloader
I have it rooted.
I get the original droid boot loop.
I can definitely get it into a status code 3 AP Fastboot, but none of the tools for the script or RSD lite have gotten me past the droid eye bootloop.
I'm presuming a wipe of the cache will do the trick, but either my googling skills are gone or I'm just too tired after 6 hours.... but I'm unable to get any type of recovery flashed.
My first question is if I am in AP Fastboot, who knows how to get a recovery image flashed so I can see if it's just a cache issue of trying to go from cyanogenmod to stock firmware.
My second question is - Does anyone have a link to a guide to "re-lock" my bootloader in case I need to get this to tech support?
Thanks
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First off, after you flash the firmware via fastboot, go back into recovery and do a factory reset. Second, you can't relock the bootloader.

thanks for responding. I wish it was this easy - it's been caught in a loop after trying factory again. I think I'd be able to resolve this if there were a way to wipe everything clear and build from scratch

RikRong said:
Second, you can't relock the bootloader.
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No you cannot relock the bootloader...
Download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40682385 chose option one... once flashed boot into recovery factory reset... boot up device... once booted root... install voodoo protect root install update restore root... install custom recovery if desired... I have boot looped I've been stuck at boot logo I've also been stuck with no data n WiFi this has saved me on more times then I can count on 3 separate devices and his utility n what I described has saved me more times then I can count...
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I had some issues with aftermarket recoveries and formatting. I'm not sure if you've had any luck or if this is even helpful but assuming you are in fastboot and have the SDK set up...
Extract the stock sbf/XML and grab the recovery image.
At command line enter: "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
Reboot with all three buttons and select recovery.
Do factory reset.
Get back into fastboot
And repeat the command above (with different recovery obviously) to reflash a recovery of your choice.
(The official Philz cwm touch posted recently in development subforum works very well with the new 4.3 ROMs)
Hope that helps...if its too basic, please disregard! Good luck.
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 2

[Q] Nexus 7(2012) Recovery Mode no command?

Not really sure what happened, a while ago I had an issue with a game and restored my tablet back to factory settings to fix it, but now I discover that while trying to boot into recovery mode it's not there?
I'm trying to manually install the Android 4.4 Kitkat update, got sick of waiting for the OTA since I haven't gotten it yet and really want to use 4.4, but while trying to go into recovery mode to check everything is working because I'm paranoid like that and while I was successful into booting to the bootloader, trying to go into recovery mode resulted in seeing the little android guy with the red triangle saying no command underneath it, so I'm assuming somehow my recovery is missing?
I then tried to flash stock recovery onto my tablet using the Nexus 7 Toolkit and it told me there was an error in flashing the files and that it was because my device's bootloader was locked.
All I want to do is update to Android 4.4, but how am I supposed to do that when I can't boot into recovery? I've followed all the right steps to do it, did I do something wrong by locking my bootloader and unrooting my device?

JohnathanKatz said:
Not really sure what happened, a while ago I had an issue with a game and restored my tablet back to factory settings to fix it, but now I discover that while trying to boot into recovery mode it's not there?
I'm trying to manually install the Android 4.4 Kitkat update, got sick of waiting for the OTA since I haven't gotten it yet and really want to use 4.4, but while trying to go into recovery mode to check everything is working because I'm paranoid like that and while I was successful into booting to the bootloader, trying to go into recovery mode resulted in seeing the little android guy with the red triangle saying no command underneath it, so I'm assuming somehow my recovery is missing?
I then tried to flash stock recovery onto my tablet using the Nexus 7 Toolkit and it told me there was an error in flashing the files and that it was because my device's bootloader was locked.
All I want to do is update to Android 4.4, but how am I supposed to do that when I can't boot into recovery? I've followed all the right steps to do it, did I do something wrong by locking my bootloader and unrooting my device?
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Hi, JohnathanKatz...
Unrooting isn't the issue... it's locking the bootloader that's the problem.
If the bootloader of your device is locked, you won't be able to flash anything.
I don't use toolkits myself, but it's pretty straightforward to flash a recovery (stock or custom) using the fastboot tool...
* Unlock the bootloader with fastboot oem unlock
* Fastboot flash the recovery with fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(...where 'recovery.img' is the name of the recovery image file to be fastboot flashed.)
Maybe there is an option in your toolkit that will unlock the bootloader again... however you do it (toolkit or fastboot), you MUST have an unlocked bootloader before you can flash a recovery.
Rgrds,
Ged.

JohnathanKatz said:
Not really sure what happened, a while ago I had an issue with a game and restored my tablet back to factory settings to fix it, but now I discover that while trying to boot into recovery mode it's not there?
I'm trying to manually install the Android 4.4 Kitkat update, got sick of waiting for the OTA since I haven't gotten it yet and really want to use 4.4, but while trying to go into recovery mode to check everything is working because I'm paranoid like that and while I was successful into booting to the bootloader, trying to go into recovery mode resulted in seeing the little android guy with the red triangle saying no command underneath it, so I'm assuming somehow my recovery is missing?
I then tried to flash stock recovery onto my tablet using the Nexus 7 Toolkit and it told me there was an error in flashing the files and that it was because my device's bootloader was locked.
All I want to do is update to Android 4.4, but how am I supposed to do that when I can't boot into recovery? I've followed all the right steps to do it, did I do something wrong by locking my bootloader and unrooting my device?
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GedBlake said:
Hi, JohnathanKatz...
Unrooting isn't the issue... it's locking the bootloader that's the problem.
If the bootloader of your device is locked, you won't be able to flash anything.
I don't use toolkits myself, but it's pretty straightforward to flash a recovery (stock or custom) using the fastboot tool...
* Unlock the bootloader with fastboot oem unlock
* Fastboot flash the recovery with fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(...where 'recovery.img' is the name of the recovery image file to be fastboot flashed.)
Maybe there is an option in your toolkit that will unlock the bootloader again... however you do it (toolkit or fastboot), you MUST have an unlocked bootloader before you can flash a recovery.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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Hi guys, I actually encountered this problem a minute ago when I attempt to flash a new version of TWRP recovery on my grouper. Whenever I go to the recovery, it just shows 'No command' with a red alert of Android on it (I started to panic when I found that there's an unusual error that prevents me from entering the recovery and this is the first time that I saw this error on my flashaholic experience *btw my previous recovery was CWM) I'm currently on stock 4.4.2 with an unlocked bootloader. I have no idea what problem is causing to display that issue when attempting to enter recovery but then I left it for like 5-10mins while it's displaying that error and after that the device reboots then it just quickly enter TWRP recovery normally as is :silly: sick of that haha, silly ol grouper jesus -_-
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After entering recovery, I got stuck forever on bootloader and recovery! whenever I reboot, I always get directly enter to the recovery and it forces me to not to enter the ROM oh my god at least I can still configure the recovery so I can backup and flash another ROM :|

Problem with recovery

Installed a rom,when i press restart, asked me something about stock recovery and i press "no".Now i have no any recovery-stock or CWM for flash the rom again.the phone is working,its booting,but with some isuues and i want to flash it again.I have a fastboot mode but in recovery its give me just the green android with red triangle .help me please...

oska3 said:
Installed a rom,when i press restart, asked me something about stock recovery and i press "no".Now i have no any recovery-stock or CWM for flash the rom again.the phone is working,its booting,but with some isuues and i want to flash it again.I have a fastboot mode but in recovery its give me just the green android with red triangle .help me please...
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you probably originally flashed your recovery in a root toolbox, no? if you did, you didn't flash it, you booted it. that's different. the android laying there, IS the stock recovery. all you need to do is flash your recovery via fastboot or by using the flashify app from your phone to flash it.
to flash a recovery via fastboot..
fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img
to boot(not flash) a recovery..
fastboot boot recovery recoveryname.img

maybe you are right for the toolbox,i have no memories for that.which 1 is more safety?can you post some links or more info for to how...

oska3 said:
maybe you are right for the toolbox,i have no memories for that.which 1 is more safety?can you post some links or more info for to how...
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safest is doing it the right way. and once its learned, its easier tgan a toolkit. but for booting or fladhing it doesnt mattter. if you flash it, it replaces the stock bootloader, so yoh can always go into a custom recovery at any time. booting it is only for a one time use. after you boot up, your stock recovery is back. and youd have to boot it evety time youd want to flash something, but you keep stock recovery.

fastboot boot on 4.4.4 WORKED!

So here's my story.
My device is :
S-ON, 4.4.4 Droid stock, 3.29.161.9.
Yesterday i tried to get root while keeping stock rom for no tampered msg at bootloader.
I was following guide from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51383278&highlight=ota#post51383278
so with unlocked bootloader i tried to fastboot boot CWM recovery image.
and it hanged my phone as everyone reported for > 4.4.3 ..... so i gave up for this time.
Today i was in mood for flashing some custom rom and then rooting, but with TWRP(newest 2.8.3.0).
just for gigles i tried to fastboot boot newest twrp. only thing i did was renaming .img file to recovery.img.
guess what? it worked! so i got root, reboot and started enjoying not tampered stock
So now im sharing this lil'christmas story with you.
Of course if it's irrevelant or already found please delete this topic.
happy christmas nevertheless.!

i'm on 4.1.1 and can't install room with 4.4.4 cus it's request 3.28.401.6 firmware or above and when i do it and trying
fastboot boot recovery.img
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i can touch the recovery screen but cant see what i'm doing.
now using TWRP 2.8.3.0 the phone just doing reset and not going to recovery
any advice?

Plomiwn said:
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just for gigles i tried to fastboot boot newest twrp. only thing i did was renaming .img file to recovery.img.
guess what? it worked! ...
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Oh, really...?
Merry Christmas to you.
mb0 said:
i'm on 4.1.1 and can't install room with 4.4.4 cus it's request 3.28.401.6 firmware or above and when i do it and trying i can touch the recovery screen but cant see what i'm doing.
now using TWRP 2.8.3.0 the phone just doing reset and not going to recovery
any advice?
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Use older recovery. That one has new display drivers.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

this is what i get when upgrading the firmware http://oi58.tinypic.com/e0jxqq.jpg
was using Stock Firmware + NoRedText Hboot from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/development/ota-3-28-401-6-t2899900
been trying the following recovery files:
openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-m8 - not working, screen stuck in fastboot
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0-m8 - going reset
* to be clear: this "no display" in the recovery thing happening only after i flash InsertCoin 5.0.6 http://insertcoin-roms.org/2014/12/...rol-market-ota-icon-packs-stable-performance/
(haven't flashed another room yet)
now i need do what i always do when this happen:
- fastboot oem rebootRUU
- fastboot flash zip 2.22.401.4-Firmware-noredtext
after that go back to recovery and restore the backup i made before.

mb0 said:
this is what i get when upgrading the firmware http://oi58.tinypic.com/e0jxqq.jpg
was using Stock Firmware + NoRedText Hboot from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/development/ota-3-28-401-6-t2899900
been trying the following recovery files:
openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-m8 - not working, screen stuck in fastboot
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0-m8 - going reset
* to be clear: this "no display" in the recovery thing happening only after i flash InsertCoin 5.0.6 http://insertcoin-roms.org/2014/12/...rol-market-ota-icon-packs-stable-performance/
(haven't flashed another room yet)
now i need do what i always do when this happen:
- fastboot oem rebootRUU
- fastboot flash zip 2.22.401.4-Firmware-noredtext
after that go back to recovery and restore the backup i made before.
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not sure what your point is ? this thread is about booting the LATEST twrp on the LATEST firmware because older ones couldn't boot but could only be flashed.