Im new, having trouble flashing recovery - Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

trying to flash clockwork recovery using the What you need to know about the Dell Streak PDF. Got into fastboot on the streak, got the C:\streak part fine but when I type fastboot it says "fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external device" I changed the fastboot-windows to fastboot but it gives me that error code mentioned above. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OK. Cool, I just got clockwork installed using these directions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754563 but when I go to make a backup or flash I just get a blank screen with the backlight on and the capacitive buttons will flash every so often. Any ideas? Im new at this. On my old CDMA Hero rommanager took care of all this.

I recommend that you use StreakMod recovery rather than CWM. It is customized for the Streak. There are some useful links in my signature.
You may need to press the power button after selecting the second option on the first screen to get to the rest of the CWM options.

Presssing the power button returns it to the clockwork menu. I have the streakmod recovery unzipped but haven't quite figured out how to flash it. This is my first time doing anything with fastbootn honestly I only got this streak to try to learn more of the fun side of android. I have a nexus s and a xoom wifi but since they're both running current versions I just wanted something to tinker with.

dodsonhaycattle said:
Presssing the power button returns it to the clockwork menu. I have the streakmod recovery unzipped but haven't quite figured out how to flash it. This is my first time doing anything with fastbootn honestly I only got this streak to try to learn more of the fun side of android. I have a nexus s and a xoom wifi but since they're both running current versions I just wanted something to tinker with.
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You will need to flash streakmodrecovery over clockwork.
Some steps i posted elsewhere http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15434274&postcount=36

OK guys, you're to kind. Ill follow the directions above tonight and let you know how I done. I appreciate the help more than you guys could ever realize. I can only hope to almost be as good at this as you are so I can share my knowledge one day!

dodsonhaycattle said:
OK guys, you're to kind. Ill follow the directions above tonight and let you know how I done. I appreciate the help more than you guys could ever realize. I can only hope to almost be as good at this as you are so I can share my knowledge one day!
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Basically, you need to fastboot your phone then use the recovery flasher to flash the streakmodrecovery, let it reboot and you will have the streakmodrecovery installed. As usual, to access the recovery, just power up yr phone and hold the vol+ and vol- until the recovery screen appears. Cheers

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[HOW-TO] put a custom rom on your slide!!!

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There's the video, guys.. have fun and be careful!
written instructions are as follows:
OK! so you've decided to take on the menial task of installing a custom rom, to make your mytouch... well for lack of a better term, YOURS! If you've had a G1 or a Mytouch 3g in the past, as I have, then the process is much the same..
Step 1
Download your rom from the website to your computer *durrrrrr* also make sure your device is in normal operating mode, and also download the update.zip for clockwork recovery if you dont already have it from HERE
Step 2
Copy the rom and update.zip for clockwork from your computer to your phone's SD card root directory, also known as /sdcard
Step 3
Power off phone
Step 4
Power onto Fastboot mode with Volume Down button and Power
Step 5
Get into recovery mode by pressing volume down once fastboot loads, and then power to select
Step 6
Once in recovery basic mode, where you see the triangle with red exclamation, hold volume up and press power again
Step 7
While in recovery mode, hit volume down to get to apply update.zip which will put you in clockwork recovery as long as the update.zip for clockwork recovery is on your sd card
Step 8
After applying your update.zip, you're going to scroll down to install zip from sd card using volume down button and then power to select
Step 9
Once again, go to install zip from sdcard and press power
Step 10
Select your zip in the menu, then press power
Step 11
Wait for zip to install and hope to hell the zip is signed correctly and not damaged
Step 12
After zip installs, back out to main menu and reboot phone!
Step 13
Wait for Rom to load 100%.. WATCH YOUR LOGCAT TO VERIFY NO BOOTLOOPS!!!
Done!!​
If you download "QuickBoot" from the market you can boot directly to "Recovery" bypassing the bootloader.
Re: [how-to] put a custom rom on your slide!!!
I'm assuming this is a tutorial for future rom releases, correct?
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using Tapatalk
well there's already 2 out at this time, with slideroot2 and the legend rom.. there will be tons more, i'm sure.. so yeah, this is a generalized install procedure for such things
I like the addition of the ADB & logcat steps! Nice touch, man...
heh thanks i want users to be able to see what they did and begin to learn how to fix future mistakes lol
I love the legend ROM but I needed the keyboard one night so I switched to slidemeroot2.
Any chance for Keyboard lights coming?
Also, couldn't load titanium backup in the legend. Any suggestions there?
to get titanium to load right, you have to install a different superuser.apk than the one that's stock. i dunno why exactly. also, legend is a BETA so it'll be updated soon by eugene, it is by no means a final version
Thank you. It is a pretty sweet beta.
Hate to state the obvious, but you should mention that this requires your MT3G Slide to be rooted... you know peeps will come out the wood works asking "why cant I do this!"
ummmm fermunky, why not watch video at 0:15 through 0:25?
kingofyo1 said:
ummmm fermunky, i would suggest rewatching the first minute of the video... that should fix your thoughts about what i've said
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Touche my friend, I didn't even watch the video, since I am not rooted yet anyways , but you know some people will still attempt to follow your directions and not watch the video Not everyone has good intuition
lol its cool man... if you're anywhere close to gulfport ms or are willing to drive here, i'll root your slide and eng build and legend it for free...
kingofyo1 said:
lol its cool man... if you're anywhere close to gulfport ms or are willing to drive here, i'll root your slide and eng build and legend it for free...
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Wish I could, but I am waiting daily at the beaches of St Pete to catch the tar balls coming in!
fermunky said:
Wish I could, but I am waiting daily at the beaches of St Pete to catch the tar balls coming in!
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LOl you gonna manufacture yourself some gasoline??
serialtoon said:
If you download "QuickBoot" from the market you can boot directly to "Recovery" bypassing the bootloader.
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Does this mean that I don't have to root first to flash roms? Can i boot to recovery and flash to eugene's already rooted rom?
once you downgrade to the eng build, you can flash any rom for the slide... you have to root and then flash that downgrade though before you can do anything to it
When will a permanent recovery flash come available? Only a minor inconvenience since it only is two extra steps using the stock recovery... well three including copying the update.zip over.
whenever the spl comes, is when it comes i dont have a date/time for ya, devs are working on it... i know one in particular made a bit of progress yesterday, so we'll see what happens when it happens
Ok, I tried to install the SlideM ROM and and ran into an issue I'm not really sure how to fix.
I followed your video and instructions to the letter but on reboot the phone stopped at the first T-Mobile flash screen and froze. Using adb devices I come up with this;
C:\androidsdk\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT069PS00585 offline
HT069PS00585 device
C:\androidsdk\tools>adb reboot
error: more than one device and emulator
...and the phone is locked onto that first t-mobile screen. I tried adb reboot, adb reboot-bootloader and still get nothing, even tried a hard reboot by pulling the battery to get to recovery mode and re-installed starting from step 1.....really hoping I didn't brick it. Any thoughts on why it happened or how I can go about fixing it?
***UPDATE*** went back and tried a method found in another thread, i.e., wiped data using Android recovery mode instead of Clockwork recovery, then re-installed SlideM. Worked perfectly on the first try

[HOWTO][RECOVERY][VIDEO] Booting Into Recovery

There seems to be a constant flow of questions about booting into recovery, so I thought I would take a video of what works for me.
In stock form this will get you to the recovery that allows you to wipe your user data. If you have an alternative recovery installed, ClockWorkMod as an example, this will get you booted into it.
UPDATED - we don't need to hold the VOL+ button.
1. Power Off the Device
2. Hold N and Power
3. After the screen has been on for about 5 seconds, release the buttons.
I hope this helps!
Nice job, BertoJG!
Come on, show us how to completely hose your OS, and boot into recovery, please! Thanks for your work on CWM!
Bimboy said:
Nice job, BertoJG!
Come on, show us how to completely hose your OS, and boot into recovery, please! Thanks for your work on CWM!
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Thanks! People seem to find enough creative ways of hosing their OS, no need for me to demonstrate.. That is why I worked on CWM as I though it was important and could "save" people from themselves, me included..
BertoJG said:
There seems to be a constant flow of questions about booting into recovery, so I thought I would take a video of what works for me.
In stock form this will get you to the recovery that allows you to wipe your user data. If you have an alternative recovery installed, ClockWorkMod as an example, this will get you booted into it.
1. Power Off the Device
2. Hold Vol+, N, and Power
3. After the screen has been on for 3 or 4 seconds, release the Power button
4. About 3 or 4 seconds after you release the Power button, release Vol+ and the N buttons.
I hope this helps!
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I'm going to try and redo my script because there is no reason why it shouldn't work but I had a hard time getting it to work I'm going to test this method.
Please note the OP has been updated to reflect the fact we don't need to hold the VOL+ key as part of this process.
Help Please: how to undo ClockWorkMod Recovery to use original stock Recovery?
BertoJG said:
In stock form this will get you to the recovery that allows you to wipe your user data. If you have an alternative recovery installed, ClockWorkMod as an example, this will get you booted into it.
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Please pardon the cross post but anxious to find a reply.
I have installed the ClockWorkMod (& obviously its recovery menu).
The big question...
How to restore back to the original B&N Factory "recovery" program (i.e., undo installation of CW recovery system)?
I do not have a backup pre-CW; is there an image or RUU file somewhere, or is there a hidden backup copy of the original recovery to restore?
just curious this is for if you cant boot your nook currect due to a bad flash ?
others wis you could acces the recovery in the rom manager menu ?
I can boot into the CW recovery menu and select full recovery, but the result is not a virgin Nook... it is still rooted, has such app installed, etc. And most importantly, still has CW recovery mode installed and active as the recovery menu (ie whenever you do a hard reset boot) .
This is not ideal for a warranty inquiry situation when needed.
Thanks!
Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2 using XDA App
CWM doesn't let you do a full stock restore. The restore it gives you also needs to supplemented with about 10 steps or so in the terminal to get the stock recovery back.
Anyone whose rooting should be comfortable at the terminal, but we've known that CWM doesnt give a full backup for many days now and I guess its not a priority to get it fully operable, unless I'm mistaken...this is my first time back on the board in a while.
cabbieBot said:
CWM doesn't let you do a full stock restore. The restore it gives you also needs to supplemented with about 10 steps or so in the terminal to get the stock recovery back.
Anyone whose rooting should be comfortable at the terminal, but we've known that CWM doesnt give a full backup for many days now and I guess its not a priority to get it fully operable, unless I'm mistaken...this is my first time back on the board in a while.
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Thx...
I am comfortable with terminal of adb, but not sure I have URL to get virgin boot image...
This it?
... dang! No paste in this App... have to go to my PC to add URL..
It is post in a "brick" thread.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10599116&postcount=14
I just don't know the unambiguous terminology ... I hope "virgin recovery" makes sense, though nobody else has called it that.
Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2 using XDA App
Back from Clockwork Recovery to Virgin (Factory) Recovery ... works like a charm!
GoochyPuppy said:
Thx...
I am comfortable with terminal of adb, but not sure I have URL to get virgin boot image...
This it?
... dang! No paste in this App... have to go to my PC to add URL..
It is post in a "brick" thread.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10599116&postcount=14
I just don't know the unambiguous terminology ... I hope "virgin recovery" makes sense, though nobody else has called it that.
Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2 using XDA App
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OK... as I hoped, the procedure listed in the thread "[Q] HELP! Maybe brick?" completely worked for me. Threads on this are scattered about, especially because some folks are playing with the boot files due to Froyo attempts, etc..
I can at least point anyone reading this to my summary success post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10643357&postcount=15
Maybe some of you should keep an eye open on the forum for new threads. A flashable zip to restore to stock has been available since yesterday.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I must be missing some special thing - I can't boot into recovery. ROM Manager is/was able to get there, but booting with the "N" and the power key never puts me into recovery. Ideas?
dehidding said:
I must be missing some special thing - I can't boot into recovery. ROM Manager is/was able to get there, but booting with the "N" and the power key never puts me into recovery. Ideas?
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You need to hold them both until you see CWR. Don't let go.. Make sure Rom manager has successfully flashed CWR (at the top of the screen in Rom manager).
I think it's a bit hard to determine how long you need to hold Power + n. In my experience very frequently my NC just shuts down when I hold too long. I have modified u-boot to use a different key combo (hold both Vol+ and Vol-) to boot into recovery. It's much easier now. If there is any interest, I can post my u-boot.bin.
Now I think of it, I should be able to modify u-boot to boot into either CWR or stock recovery base on different key combos. Would there be any interest?
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Optimus V Brick!?! HELP!

So I went to flash to my cell using romrepo.info/wiki/index.php?title=Install_from_Stock_Optimus. I got to step 15, and I realized I forgot to place the ROM in my sd card so I restarted the cellphone so I could place the ROM in my sd card, go to reboot to repeat the process and I get a screen that goes:
Fastboot mode started
gpio_i2c: invalid khz: 0
bl: i2c write error
udc_start()
--suspend--
--reset--
--portchange--
--reset--
--portchange--
fastboot: processing commands
Its a blue screen. I just want to flash this Any guides to get me out of this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088046
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk
In the above guide replace optimus one recovery with optimus v.
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Can someone post a link to a recovery file for my phone? You guys are the best.
I followed the above guide, and used the ROM here prepaidandroid.org/index.php?title=How_to_restore_your_Optimus_V_to_almost_original_condition
It reboots, and the same blue screen is up
My brother flashed the wrong recovery, I tried using the tutorial to fix it using fastboot.exe from windows, but it won't work as it can't find the device. windows sees an android device and I installed the drivers from lg, but it refuses to enumerate in adb shell, so I can't connect to it, any ideas?
okay after fiddleing with it a bit, I got the origional recovery mode restored on it, and when I boot into recovery and plug in usb adb can see the device, I have a stock froyo rom how do I restore from here, or can I reflash clockwork from here?
MtDewFella said:
okay after fiddleing with it a bit, I got the origional recovery mode restored on it, and when I boot into recovery and plug in usb adb can see the device, I have a stock froyo rom how do I restore from here, or can I reflash clockwork from here?
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Can you get me to where you are? Step by step would be nice
Not sure what recovery files I need or ROM I need or anything, or how to use adb. I've been looking online for the past 3hrs on this stuff.
kaivorth said:
Can you get me to where you are? Step by step would be nice
Not sure what recovery files I need or ROM I need or anything, or how to use adb. I've been looking online for the past 3hrs on this stuff.
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go to this page
this only works if you have some sort of custome recovery, My brother had the wrong one for the optimus v (clockworkmod 3.2.0.0) and it wouldn't install any rom.
I just played around with this page until I got the stock bootloader/recovery back, however I'm not sure if this is what we want, you may want to try flashing one of the custom recoveries listed on the site, now that I have the stock I can re-flash anything.
MtDewFella said:
go to this page
this only works if you have some sort of custome recovery, My brother had the wrong one for the optimus v (clockworkmod 3.2.0.0) and it wouldn't install any rom.
I just played around with this page until I got the stock bootloader/recovery back, however I'm not sure if this is what we want, you may want to try flashing one of the custom recoveries listed on the site, now that I have the stock I can re-flash anything.
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How did you get the stock recovery working though thats what I need. I can't get into any recovery.
kaivorth said:
How did you get the stock recovery working though thats what I need. I can't get into any recovery.
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you need to get into a custom recovery, optimus v press back, volume up and power at the same time to boot into a recovery, if you don't have a recovery at all there maybe an issue. so try and boot into a recovery and let me know what you have.
MtDewFella said:
you need to get into a custom recovery, optimus v press back, volume up and power at the same time to boot into a recovery, if you don't have a recovery at all there maybe an issue. so try and boot into a recovery and let me know what you have.
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Nothing happened. Just that blue screen.
Looking in my SD card I noticed I have a backup of the recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.0-vm670 file. This anything helpful?
kaivorth said:
Nothing happened. Just that blue screen.
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if you can't get into any recovery your device maybe permintally bricked, but don't take what I say as gospel I'm new at this as well, I'm still looking up more info, in the mean time you need to figure out how to get into recovery, google for key combos, also when using a key combo to get into recovery make sure power is the last button you press in the combo, hold down the others then power (while still holding the other buttons) and release as soon as you see the lg logo, it should go away quickly and after a few seconds of black you'll see the recovery, if the lg logo stays up for a while it's trying to normal boot.
kaivorth said:
Looking in my SD card I noticed I have a backup of the recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.0-vm670 file. This anything helpful?
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you don't want that version of clockwork, that's what my brother flashed and that started this whole mess
MtDewFella said:
if you can't get into any recovery your device maybe permintally bricked, but don't take what I say as gospel I'm new at this as well, I'm still looking up more info, in the mean time you need to figure out how to get into recovery, google for key combos, also when using a key combo to get into recovery make sure power is the last button you press in the combo, hold down the others then power (while still holding the other buttons) and release as soon as you see the lg logo, it should go away quickly and after a few seconds of black you'll see the recovery, if the lg logo stays up for a while it's trying to normal boot.
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I think if I can get adp to recognize this device I can fix it. Fastboot recognizes this, but adp doesn't. Is there a special adp driver maybe lol?
Got a little bit of progress....did a full system flash using fastbootroot and NVM OMG its fully booted! wow never thought I'd see the homescreen again...now to try to flash it again hahahaha
Now what verison of recovery and rom should I be looking at?
kaivorth said:
Got a little bit of progress....did a full system flash using fastbootroot and NVM OMG its fully booted! wow never thought I'd see the homescreen again...now to try to flash it again hahahaha
Now what verison of recovery and rom should I be looking at?
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if you want to get aospCMod on your phone, follow this tutorial, this is what I did for my phone works great.
Now my question to you is how did you use fast boot root tool to get back to home screen because I'm still stuck at recovery
okay I finally managed to fix it, I figured out how to use fast boot root and got a custom recovery, from there I could flash other recoveries, which was importaint because even though I could install any rom I wanted it was stuck in a boot loop where it would keep booting into recovery, So i flashed Xionia_CWMA_12518.4_VM_Recovery.zip from here and under advanced it has an option to fix the boot loop, then from there I could flash a rom and it's fixed.
Lot of work fixin' my first bricked phone, but I learned alot.

Does not boot into clockwork recovery

I have successfully rooted my HTC aria running android 2.2 with sense interface. Now i want to install custom ROMs. I have installed ROM manager and tried installing CM7 but i cannot boot into Clockwork recovery mode. I have tried installing clockwork several times but it doesn't work. I have checked out few other forums but none of them seem specific to my case. Please help!
Do yo phone have a fast boot feature if so uncheck it then reinstall Rom manager then try to reboot into recovery if this help hit the thanx button #)
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sanimagus said:
I have successfully rooted my HTC aria running android 2.2 with sense interface. Now i want to install custom ROMs. I have installed ROM manager and tried installing CM7 but i cannot boot into Clockwork recovery mode. I have tried installing clockwork several times but it doesn't work. I have checked out few other forums but none of them seem specific to my case. Please help!
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Did you use Revolutionary on the device? Did it acknowledge that it was successful in flashing custom recovery to your device?
The proper way to reach CWM is to turn the device completely off, then hold down the volume down button and press the power button. From that screen you should select "Recovery" by using volume up/down buttons to move and power button to select. Don't use ROM Manager to install or get to Clockworkmod.
i do not have a fast boot option, thanks for replying though.
If you dont see fastboot.... Then you are not rooted. Try the process again.
You should be able to power off the phone, then hold the down volume button while powering on the phone.
Then you should see fastboot and recovery. If you don't see either, then the root process was unsuccessful.
tomtommy306 said:
If you dont see fastboot.... Then you are not rooted. Try the process again.
You should be able to power off the phone, then hold the down volume button while powering on the phone.
Then you should see fastboot and recovery. If you don't see either, then the root process was unsuccessful.
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What are you talking about? The HBOOT screen will always list both of those options.
issue resolved. Thanks
Issue resolved. Thanks!!
drumist said:
What are you talking about? The HBOOT screen will always list both of those options.
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Well... It looks like what I said worked.
This could have been fixed in one simple post.
Instead, the guy just got the usual runaround.
tomtommy306 said:
Well... It looks like what I said worked.
This could have been fixed in one simple post.
Instead, the guy just got the usual runaround.
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tomtommy306 said:
If you dont see fastboot.... Then you are not rooted. Try the process again.
You should be able to power off the phone, then hold the down volume button while powering on the phone.
Then you should see fastboot and recovery. If you don't see either, then the root process was unsuccessful.
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I'm not trying to start anything here but, I don't see how this could have helped. Fastboot and HBOOT are always in place no matter if you're rooted or not.
DOUCHE!
I havent seen a stock hboot in nearly a year. But no one here asked him to boot into it, hence "how it helped" stop trolling MOD EDIT: REMOVED OFFENSIVE
I suggest that you re-read this thread. I told him how to get to HBOOT before you even posted, yet you attack me for giving him the run around?
sure did.
Not really... If I "attacked" you, then you would be in pain.
Surely you aren't taking this **** THAT seriously.
Let it go, and move on now. I will as well.
It's FRIDAY! Go party!
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Keep it on topic and with respect, next time some bans can be given

Complete inability to reboot into recovery

Yo.
So nothing whatsoever seems to be able to make this phone boot into recovery. Whether its a soft or hard boot, it just will not happen. It will always boot as normal. I'm so frustrated and completely stumped.
Any ideas?
James Bartlett said:
Yo.
So nothing whatsoever seems to be able to make this phone boot into recovery. Whether its a soft or hard boot, it just will not happen. It will always boot as normal. I'm so frustrated and completely stumped.
Any ideas?
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How did you install recovery?
How are you trying to boot into recovery?
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How did you install recovery?
How are you trying to boot into recovery?
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Ah man, you've got me. This is all in the hope of installing a custom rom. Installing the recovery was one of a few things I hadn't done before. I think I did it using Fastboot. I've got a head like a sieve. More frustratingly, my own PC died a death a few days ago, so A) I haven't got whatever stuff I downloaded so cant refer to that to see what I did, and B) anything from here on would ideally be done without a computer, although I could probably borrow one if needed. Can you use Fastboot to install a custom recovery? If so, then thats how I did it. I remember downloading a .img file on the PC and doing something from there. Sorry I couldn't be more clear, and thanks for your help buddy.
Sorry, I missed the second question there. I have tried a number of ways to boot into recovery. Holding vol-up or vol-down while powering on, or a handful of apps that have a boot into recovery option. I've tried using CWM's Rom Manager to install the PA rom .img I have saved on the phone, but that is telling me I need to install CW recovery, and then says its not available for my device. Confused as hell about that one. I feel that once I'm in recovery I'm golden. I don't know if this is relevant, but at the minute, I don't have write access to /system, so I guess this would be a half root job.
You still having issues? I can help and yes you will need a computer and you will need to download the android SDK and set that up.. Let me know

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