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[Q] Questions about rooted phone

I currently have a rooted phone with the following:
ROM: GorillaSense-DHD-MT4G-v2.2.3
Radio: 26.03.02.26_M
S-Off
Hboot: 0.85.2007
ClockWork Mod 3.0.2.4
After I got permanent S-Off I can only boot into recovery mode through CWM Reboot into Recovery. I have tried uninstalling with Titanium and reinstalling through the Market but it didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Another question. Do I need to upgrade to a newer ROM to fix the ClientLogin vulnerability mentioned at engadget or does 'fixed on the server side' mean that the security tokens (or whatever those things are) handed out can't be spoofed by a server in a wireless network?

4g4win said:
After I got permanent S-Off I can only boot into recovery mode through CWM Reboot into Recovery. I have tried uninstalling with Titanium and reinstalling through the Market but it didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
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a few ways to boot into recovery
1)
turn off the phone > hold the power button down along with the volume down rocker
2)
from the terminal emulator
Code:
$ su
# reboot recovery
3) from the CMD prompt via ADB
Code:
c:\<file_name>adb reboot recovery
or
Code:
c:\<file_name> adb shell
# reboot recovery
as far as your security issues i dunno. I do not use public access wifi routers.

by fixed on the server side, that means it was a problem with Google's servers, not your phones. Google has fixed it.

neidlinger said:
a few ways to boot into recovery
1)
turn off the phone > hold the power button down along with the volume down rocker
2)
from the terminal emulator
Code:
$ su
# reboot recovery
3) from the CMD prompt via ADB
Code:
c:\<file_name>adb reboot recovery
or
Code:
c:\<file_name> adb shell
# reboot recovery
as far as your security issues i dunno. I do not use public access wifi routers.
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I should have mentioned that I can't get into recovery mode using the volume down + power button method. Do you know how I can get that functionality back?
Do methods 2 and 3 require the OS to launch? I am concerned that I won't be able to get into recovery mode if the OS is not available. Is this a valid concern?

4g4win said:
I should have mentioned that I can't get into recovery mode using the volume down + power button method. Do you know how I can get that functionality back?
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What happens when you do it? You don't have "recovery" in menu? Then choose "Fastboot", and there'll be "recovery".

Jack_R1 said:
What happens when you do it? You don't have "recovery" in menu? Then choose "Fastboot", and there'll be "recovery".
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Nothing happens. It boots normally with my finger is holding down the volume down button. The phone only boots into the recovery menu when I select the recovery option in Clockwork Mod.

4g4win said:
Nothing happens. It boots normally with my finger is holding down the volume down button. The phone only boots into the recovery menu when I select the recovery option in Clockwork Mod.
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Go to "settings>applications>development" and make sure fastboot is UNCHECKED. fastboot will disable booting into recovery mode when enabled...hence...only CWM gets you there.
UNCHECK fastboot then turn off your phone....you should be able to use the 2 button combo
::thanks?did i help?::

rubbamade said:
Go to "settings>applications>development" and make sure fastboot is UNCHECKED. fastboot will disable booting into recovery mode when enabled...hence...only CWM gets you there.
UNCHECK fastboot then turn off your phone....you should be able to use the 2 button combo
::thanks?did i help?::
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You, sir, are my hero.

4g4win said:
You, sir, are my hero.
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Glad i could help....i ran into that problem a while back...

Stuck in CWMod Recovery

Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?

djhaf said:
Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?
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Can you get to the bootloader screen so you can use fastboot? If so try flashing the TWRP recovery, it's a great recovery.

Monk33y said:
Can you get to the bootloader screen so you can use fastboot? If so try flashing the TWRP recovery, it's a great recovery.
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I can press the power button and both volumes and it gets me to download mode... from there, every option i try just gets me back to recovery. when i press start, it sends me to recovery. when i press shut down and then turn it on - recovery. when i press restart bootloader, it still takes me to recovery afterwards. wtf happened here man? never seen this before.

djhaf said:
I can press the power button and both volumes and it gets me to download mode... from there, every option i try just gets me back to recovery. when i press start, it sends me to recovery. when i press shut down and then turn it on - recovery. when i press restart bootloader, it still takes me to recovery afterwards. wtf happened here man? never seen this before.
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If you can at least get to download/fastboot mode, either get the stock recovery.img file or extract the recovery.img file from a custom_recover.zip, such as CMW or TWRP and place it in the directory where you have the fastboot util on your Windows PC, plug in the device into your Windows PC. Then type the folowing in a Windows Command prompt(without the quotes): "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". Once that finishes then try rebooting back to recovery.
If you that doesn't work you may have a damaged bootloader, you can try extracting the bootloader(bootloader-manta-mantalj12.img) from the stock ROM and flashing it with the following command: "fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-manta-mantalj12.img" then you can type: "fastboot reboot-bootloader" to reboot directly to the bootloader.

djhaf said:
Went to boot into recovery and the damn thing is stuck. I can move around up and down with the volume buttons but i cannot press enter with the power button. shutting it off only reboots the tablet and goes back into recovery. any ideas?
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This happened to me yesterday.
Step 1 - hold down the power+volume up+volume down
Step 2 - plug up USB cable and use fastboot to flash the "touch" recovery version. Usebthe method as before, you might need to point your machine to the "naked driver" in dev section to get windows to see the fastboot device driver.
Step 3 - once you are in touch recovery you can just use the touchscreen instead of power button
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You can just "adb reboot" from any computer with working adb and drivers.
This needs to not be flashed by default from Rom Manager until they get it taken care of. Twrp and cwm touch work just fine.

jmhalder said:
You can just "adb reboot" from any computer with working adb and drivers.
This needs to not be flashed by default from Rom Manager until they get it taken care of. Twrp and cwm touch work just fine.
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Seriously. Can we please sticky a thread or something that says CWM isn't stable on the nexus 10 yet. It would save a lot of people a lot of trouble.

I had the same issue get rid of crappy cwm and flash twrp, flash it by downloading the 1.3 nexus 10 rootkit selecting option 6 i believe with your n10 connected to your pc, it will fix your issue
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk 2

I was able to fix it by re-flashing CW touch. thanks guys!

Phone will not boot into recovery or bootloader

I can't seem to boot into recovery or bootloader.
I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted. I have purity rom installed, and have TWRP recovery installed.
I had this problem a few days ago but I was able to turn the phone off then hold both the up/down volume with the power button to get into bootloader, then from there I was able to choose recovery and get into TWRP. Mysteriously after I did that I could then enter recovery directly.
So now here are my symptoms. I cannot boot into recovery or bootloader directly through the ROM, or by using GOO.im.
If I power down and then use volume + power button, it powers up normally.
Also, even though I had trickster setup with custom settings and had it to "set on boot" those settings are all gone.
Last thing is that when I was able to get into bootloader last week I noticed the setting "secure boot - enable"
Any suggestions?

Update, I could have sworn I had installed ROM Manager, but it wasn't there. I installed it and used it to boot into recovery... Well it worked, now I'm able to get to recovery (TWRP). And I got back into the bootloader as well.
So I'm ok for now, but this is going to happen again I'm sure

your issue is that youre doing it wrong, its power button + volume DOWN to get into the bootloader.

simms22 said:
your issue is that youre doing it wrong, its power button + volume DOWN to get into the bootloader.
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Thanks, that's one issue out of the way... manual bootloader solved.
Now the issue of not being able to boot into recovery or bootloader through rom and settings getting wiped.

oshax said:
Thanks, that's one issue out of the way... manual bootloader solved.
Now the issue of not being able to boot into recovery or bootloader through rom and settings getting wiped.
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what do you mean through the rom? do you have a terminal emulator installed? try this..
su(press enter)
reboot recovery(press enter)
if this works fine, then its your rom at fault. dont use rom manager, that app will eventually cause you more grief then its worth. if you long press the power button, then press reboot, does it give you an option to boot into recovery/bootloader? and what do you mean settings get wiped?

simms22 said:
what do you mean through the rom? do you have a terminal emulator installed? try this..
su(press enter)
reboot recovery(press enter)
if this works fine, then its your rom at fault. dont use rom manager, that app will eventually cause you more grief then its worth. if you long press the power button, then press reboot, does it give you an option to boot into recovery/bootloader? and what do you mean settings get wiped?
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Ok, so by "through the rom" I mean long-pressing power and then using that option to either boot into bootloader or recovery.
by settings getting wiped, I mean settings for the kernel, like custom color settings, vibrate strength settings, etc.
I won't be able to properly test your theory with the terminal emulator because I fixed the problem for now. I can now enter recovery using the long-press power button option.
I have read that sometimes a recovery won't "stick" sometimes if the "secure boot" is set to enable (You can see this at the bottom in bootloader screen). Maybe I need to disable this?

oshax said:
Ok, so by "through the rom" I mean long-pressing power and then using that option to either boot into bootloader or recovery.
by settings getting wiped, I mean settings for the kernel, like custom color settings, vibrate strength settings, etc.
I won't be able to properly test your theory with the terminal emulator because I fixed the problem for now. I can now enter recovery using the long-press power button option.
I have read that sometimes a recovery won't "stick" sometimes if the "secure boot" is set to enable (You can see this at the bottom in bootloader screen). Maybe I need to disable this?
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if you flash recovery via fastboot, it always sticks(unless you use fastboot boot instead of fastboot flash, then itll just boot it once). if you flash it with an app/toolkit, then it might disappear and need to be flashed again.

simms22 said:
if you flash recovery via fastboot, it always sticks(unless you use fastboot boot instead of fastboot flash, then itll just boot it once). if you flash it with an app/toolkit, then it might disappear and need to be flashed again.
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I used adb to flash it originally, I will flash it again tonight through adb.
though when my problem occurs I don't think the recovery is gone, I think that for some reason it can't be reached by long-pressing the power button.
The first time this happened to me I was able to go into bootloader manually, then I went to recovery from there.. .then booted into system. After that I was able to boot into recovery from long-press power.

[Q] I can't get into bootloader/fastboot mode

I can't get into the bootloader/fastboot mode, is there something wrong?
Note I am now on stock 4.4 (including stock recovery/kernel etc.) but previously i had custom recovery and same error.
- tried rebooting into bootloader from recovery when I had philz and/or TWRP - would just boot into the OS
- tried power + button up (i.e. reverse of booting into recovery) - same, boots into OS
- tried quick boot root app - same, boots into OS
WTF
Not hugely concerned since I could get into recovery lol but why is it I can't get into bootloader/fastboot mode? What if the OS is broken and I need to ADB something?
Note I rooted/TWRP/PHilzed and went custom for awhile, then I made my own zip using below thread and a full kdz and flashed back to stock including recovery/kernel/baseband (I wanted to go back to 100% stock).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52207783#post52207783
Thanks

Isn't the bootloader locked on the G2? Coming from a Nexus phone, I was also looking for the option but read it wasn't currently possible to unlock it.

I know we're BL locked, I meant fastboot or download mode or whatever the mode is where you can use adb commands and/or fastboot flash recovery recovery.img if I never need to manually fix recovery for example.

wintermute000 said:
I know we're BL locked, I meant fastboot or download mode or whatever the mode is where you can use adb commands and/or fastboot flash recovery recovery.img if I never need to manually fix recovery for example.
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You can use ADB by enabling USB debugging in developer options.
Download mode can be enabled by turning the phone off, pushing power+Volume Up and then plugging in your phone to your PC with a USB cable - I've used this twice already to recover from experimenting with recoveries and ROMs (by going back to stock following instructions here: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-lg-g2-to-stock-firmware/)

GenghisKhan67 said:
You can use ADB by enabling USB debugging in developer options.
Download mode can be enabled by turning the phone off, pushing power+Volume Up and then plugging in your phone to your PC with a USB cable - I've used this twice already to recover from experimenting with recoveries and ROMs (by going back to stock following instructions here: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-lg-g2-to-stock-firmware/)
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also i've found the phone won't boot in to recovery if it's on mains charge (via button combo not adb/in rom apps or APM)

GenghisKhan67 said:
You can use ADB by enabling USB debugging in developer options.
Download mode can be enabled by turning the phone off, pushing power+Volume Up and then plugging in your phone to your PC with a USB cable - I've used this twice already to recover from experimenting with recoveries and ROMs (by going back to stock following instructions here: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-lg-g2-to-stock-firmware/)
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Thanks, the plugging in USB cable is probably the bit I'm missing!
I know I can use ADB with USB debugging, I'm asking the question if I need to recover from softbrick and can't get into OS

Screen/Touch not working, trying to recover data

Hey, I have an XT1563 with an SD card integrated into internal storage (which I'm regretting deeply now). Never unlocked bootloader.
Long story short, the screen fried and now won't turn on. Now I'm on a long journey trying to recover the data from it.
I'm also a noob at all of this, here's what I've done so far:
I have the Motorola drivers installed, and just the SDK platform-tools installed.
I can't remember if I kept USB debugging enabled or not, but I figured if I could get it into recovery mode I could enable it through that.
But I can't enter recovery mode. The only thing I'm successfully able to do is enter fastboot mode. I tried doing a flash recovery but of course since bootloader is locked it failed.
So from fastboot, since I can't see the screen, I can only guess at which buttons lead to recovery mode. From images, recovery mode is second on the list, right?
I've tried Vol Down + Vol Up. Didn't work. Also tried Vol Down + Pwr. Also didn't work. Fastboot still says it's in fastboot mode and adb doesn't recognise anything.
The only way my laptop is recognizing the phone is through fastboot. When I plug it in normally it doesn't connect (guessing it jumps into charging mode, but adb still doesn't recognise it)
Can somebody help me here? IIRC Moto X Play does have a built-in recovery mode, right? Is there a way to enter recovery mode through CMD/fastboot functions, or can anyone help me with the hardware buttons to reach it?

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I'm not sure what is possible. My idea would be:
1. Enter fastboot
2. Fastboot boot twrp
3. Use integrated adb of twrp to access data and shell as well as adb backup. Transfer data using data exchange for Android should also be possible.