I've seen lots of comments about not being able to boot into TWRP to flash something after rooting and phone is all setup. Quickboot and Tasker can do this but I wanted to do it with on/off/volume buttons (like my old Samsung, (I'm spoiled)).
I locked up my phone fooling around with the build.prop. I could not get beyond the LG logo. I decided I had to start over with factory restore. (Hold Volume down/on/off at same time, when logo appears release on/off for 1 second, still holding volume down, and press on/off and hold until it boots into Factory Restore mode.)
I went through the prompts to factory restore and on the last "Yes" the phone booted into TWRP instead of into a Factory Restore. After restoring from my nandroid backup I tried it again and it worked again. So, I've concluded if you have TWRP installed this is the method I used to boot into it from power off.
Tested and confirmed on my v10 as well.
That's how I used to do it on my G3 when I couldn't boot properly.
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Woohoo! Thanks. Worked.
OMFG! it wasn't until I was about to make a post about this to ask for help that this post came up and I am ever so grateful! Like others who have had trouble getting there with the hardware buttons, I tried so many ways and searched far and near with no workable solution until this!
How'd you install recovery ? I'm having h960a model and i can't seem to be able to root or install recovery.. i've tried every method out there .
As far as I know, only T-Mobile USA version has root and custom recovery so far.
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Ok, So I've recently updated to stock gingerbread 2.3.3 with baseband .35. I rooted my phone with the SuperOneClick method. Root was successful (Finally).
I then wanted to install a custom ROM, so I installed ClockworkMod's ROM manager, flashed the clockwork recovery image and everything. I decided to make a backup image in case I didn't like the new ROM. I then selected the "Backup Current ROM" option, and left my phone to it's own devices. When I got back about 5 minutes later, I find that I have a hard reset on my hands :| To add to that, I don't even have a backup image!
I tried doing that a couple times more, once, I even held the POWER+VOL.DOWN+HOME combo and all. The same thing happened each time. The recovery backdrop and a sliding progress appeared, after about 4 seconds, the progress bar stopped moving, it shifted back to the LG boot logo. If I kept the combo pressed, it would go on and on for about 5 times, if I released it, it would just continue on to the boot and I would get another hard reset every time. I tried "Reboot into Recovery". Same thing. Once, I selected "Install ROM from SD card", with the backup option selected. Somehow or the other, due to the combo or something, I came to a screen that had four options.
1) Reboot
2) Install from SD card:update.zip
3) Wipe data
4) Wipe dalvik cache and cache
I was able to scroll up and down with the volume rocker, but the only other button that worked was the Home button, which toggled between the screen I mentioned above and a screen where all of the text was removed and there was just the recovery background. I finally popped out the battery and booted, and got yet ANOTHER hard reset.
HELP!
It seems Clockworkmod recovery was not flashed correctly. What you see is the stock android recovery. The recovery key mapping is:
volume rocker-up/down
menu (left most button)- select current option
back - go back
the behaviour you see when pressing the home button is normal.
After using Rom manager to install CWM recovery, it is not recommended to do further operations through rom manager, best uninstall it. Instead, boot into recovery using the three button combo and do operations from there.
I would suggest try again to re-flash CWM recovery.
mihir287 said:
After using Rom manager to install CWM recovery, it is not recommended to do further operations through rom manager, best uninstall it. Instead, boot into recovery using the three button combo and do operations from there.
I would suggest try again to re-flash CWM recovery.
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Thanks, but do you have any idea WHY using ROM manager is a bad idea? Just curious.
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Thanks, but do you have any idea WHY using ROM manager is a bad idea? Just curious.
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Well, one reason I've encountered is that while flashing cwm recovery, if the download fails for some reason, Rom mananger has flashed the incorrectly downloaded file without verification resulting in a fastboot semi-brick for many users.
Another reason is related to the way it operates the recovery. I'm not very sure about this point, but I've seen many people having problems with backups and flashing.
Thanks, you were brilliant. I flashed another recovery from ClockworkMod, this time with a WiFi connection, and everything worked great.
I was updating firmware of my LGP500 optimus one using kdz updater for 2.2 to 2.3.3...
battery level might be 40 to 50%.....
at the end i got an error and phone turn off.. now i tried to start it again but its not turning on....
any key combination is not working.. like home+down vol+ power_button or..
return+ up_vol+power_button,,,, what to do to get my phone turn on ??
even when i plugged in it to charger or USB cable .. it shows nothing on screen...
hardik.gcet said:
I was updating firmware of my LGP500 optimus one using kdz updater for 2.2 to 2.3.3...
battery level might be 40 to 50%.....
at the end i got an error and phone turn off.. now i tried to start it again but its not turning on....
any key combination is not working.. like home+down vol+ power_button or..
return+ up_vol+power_button,,,, what to do to get my phone turn on ??
even when i plugged in it to charger or USB cable .. it shows nothing on screen...
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after the kdz method i think that u can do nothing, if u r under warranty then give your phone back and just say after trying to update through original lg software ur phone would not start at all. or try reading and asking in this thread
I am on 2.2.1 and I installed CWM recovery via ROM manager through wifi. Everything is perfect but whenever I go into recovery it just boots and resets my phone. Its my friends phone and I need help. I have tried other recoveries too but it is the same problem. Please help.
djdhruv said:
I am on 2.2.1 and I installed CWM recovery via ROM manager through wifi. Everything is perfect but whenever I go into recovery it just boots and resets my phone. Its my friends phone and I need help. I have tried other recoveries too but it is the same problem. Please help.
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try to reflash recovery again and select reboot recovery from rom manager itself after flashing recovery
if still it doesnt work then flash recovery by below method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318750&highlight=recovery+through+lgdmp
Was running Gingerbread on Huawei U8510 (Ideos X3/Blaze), using Tesco Mobile network.
Rooted using Automatic Root Enabler, which also installed ClockworkMod Recovery.
Backed up phone using Titanium Backup and did a Nandroid backup too.
Accidentally clicked Fix Permissions in Clockwork menu system, had to do a bat. pull and restore from Nandroid backup. Worked fine for the rest of the day.
Then tried to flash a CM 7.2 rom that claimed to be compatible, seemed to install, fine, so I rebooted.
Now, when I try to boot, it get stuck on the Huawei logo and does nothing (I left it for an hour to see if it would move on, no such luck)
Tried rebooting into Clockwork(Vol-, Power), couldn't, same result as when trying to boot normally. Same result when trying Vol +, Power. Power, Vol- and Vol + all together results in a screen saying "Firmware update, Step 1/2, Unpacking, Update Failed) I believe this is for use with stock upgrades, but that's best guess.
Tried loading a stock ROM onto SD card and using that last combination to see if I could reflash to stock, didn't work.
Sorry for the long post, but figured any info might help out and I have been researching this for 6 hours now. I'm out of idea's.
Okay, 39 views and 0 replies... could someone please respond? Even if it's to tell me the phone is screwed.
It worked for me
RBII said:
Was running Gingerbread on Huawei U8510 (Ideos X3/Blaze), using Tesco Mobile network.
Rooted using Automatic Root Enabler, which also installed ClockworkMod Recovery.
Backed up phone using Titanium Backup and did a Nandroid backup too.
Accidentally clicked Fix Permissions in Clockwork menu system, had to do a bat. pull and restore from Nandroid backup. Worked fine for the rest of the day.
Then tried to flash a CM 7.2 rom that claimed to be compatible, seemed to install, fine, so I rebooted.
Now, when I try to boot, it get stuck on the Huawei logo and does nothing (I left it for an hour to see if it would move on, no such luck)
Tried rebooting into Clockwork(Vol-, Power), couldn't, same result as when trying to boot normally. Same result when trying Vol +, Power. Power, Vol- and Vol + all together results in a screen saying "Firmware update, Step 1/2, Unpacking, Update Failed) I believe this is for use with stock upgrades, but that's best guess.
Tried loading a stock ROM onto SD card and using that last combination to see if I could reflash to stock, didn't work.
Sorry for the long post, but figured any info might help out and I have been researching this for 6 hours now. I'm out of idea's.
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Something similiar happend to me. I too have a u8510 X3, using IUSACELL (that's mexico operator).
I made a backup of user settings and data. Then rooted my phone with the Automatic Root Enabler just the same as you. I first tried flashing some custom ROM I founded but it didn't work, fortunately I was able to restore the phone to the stock ROM. Later on, I accidentally clicked Fix Permissions in Clockwork and after that process ended, the phone booted but with some funny issues in the system and aplications. Then I decided to make a recovery from a backup I did in the Clockwork before that happend and when the process of recovering ended, rebooted and... never passed the initial logo. I tried to enter the recovery pressing Power + Vol-up... no luck I tried several times removing battery etc. The only thing finally worked for me was to place a stock ROM in the \dload SDcard folder and flash it into the phone pressing Power + Vol-up + Vol-down.
My problem now is that the stock ROM I pushed into the phone (one of the just 2 versions, both for the UK publicated at huawei's web) is not the same as the one my operator here in mexico uses so now the 3g service is not working. Huawei has not published yet all the operator ROMS for the different regions and I haven't been able to get a copy of the stock ROM I need. Operator doesn't provide the ROM's either, they don't even have it...
If anyone comes with an idea of how can I solve this problem I would be thankfull.
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links have been removed due to forum restrictions, to see the post with links at:
connordoherty.blogspot.com/2013/03/xda-post-q-nexus-boot-shows-up-on-xt912.html
I recently got a secondhand Verizon Motorola Droid Razr XT912, intending to unlock it and use it with my t-mobile account. Coming from iPhone, I've never used android before so i took a few weeks to grow accustomed to the stock OS before rooting it. I learned it, and eventually, although it took several days, I also rooted it.
But today, when I attempt to boot the device, i see this glowing X logo, which my friend thinks might be the nexus logo (bootloader?), forever.
Never goes anywhere, just stays on X. I can only reboot it by holding power+volume down which makes it again boot to the X. I'm not sure if this is considered a boot loop - seeing as it doesn't actually loop, just hangs endlessly. It seems my only way of shutting the device off (power button does nothing) is to enter the boot selection menu (Vol up+down at startup) and choose the "AP fastboot" option and in that mode i can power down with a tap of the power button. all the other options bring me to the X, except recovery, an ill-android-logo-with-exclamation-point.
How did I get to this point? I tried to flash a ROM to replace the stock Motorola Android - trying first AOKP: First I backed up using myBackup, then I chose the link for "spyder" at the download list and followed a guide telling me to download this app and I did, but a different guide told me I would need CWM so i got that too. I didn't know how to add anything from within the app so i reboot to get too the boot menu, and chose the AOKP zip file - which worked for a bit but proceeded no further after "Booting...". I tried several times and messed around with the menu but I thought maybe I needed CWM so I chose that zip and it didn't work either.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? It sure seem like I bricked it. I discovered Recovery Mode has a hidden menu when you press the volume buttons, but choosing "install update from external storage (SD card)" then it fails as in valid for every zip I have tried. I thought maybe it needed to be signed or official so i downloaded what i found to be the stock update Blur_Version.6.16.211.XT912.Verizon.en.US.zip and that was accepted but eventually failed as well. The factory reset option there does nothing. I tried using the Fastboot method as well but it never finishes without stopping, on 6/18 or 2/18 or anything for a different reason each time.
What haven't I tried?
Hello,
I own an Android tablet KO PARA1 FULL and experiencing a strange problem. This is a chinese atm7029 quadcore tablet (16gb, 1gb ram, without bluetooth, only wifi, bu supports 3g dongle), running android 4.1.1 nad 3.4.0+ kernel, which came prerooted. After some time I've decided to install backup programs on in to make a full backup of the device for the case something would go wrong, and after some trying I descovered, that there is something like recovery for that purposes which seemed a good solution for me. I decided to install CWM, which I managed to install without problems and made some backups on my device. Everything was fine, I did some factory resets through the time, some restoring processes from my previously backup states of the device, was always able to activate CWM recovery menu through Reboot to recovery or through combination of Volume down a Power button...
Until last saturday. I was normaly surfing the internet, reading mails and afterwords I powered my tablet off (it is draining battery in sleep mode, but its another story..). After a while wanted again to write a mail, so I powered it on. In that momet seemed the screen too dirty for me and I tried to cleen it little bit throug the bootup process. Unfortunately I obvious confused the system with it and after boot it was not responding properly. I did not wait enough and after a while powered it off with power key pressed for a long time, to make a new boot.
But when I powered it on again, it stayed stuck in boot logo and did not boot at all. I've tried a copple of times to boot it again with no cuccess, stayed stuck in boot logo for more then 10 min...
Afterwards I decided to make it boot up with the help of computer. I downloaded adb and drivers and somehow managed to make it boot up. I thing I was too excited to see it boot up again, that during boot up process I desconected my device from computer...
My worries were reliesed and I thought it would be a good idea to make a restore from backup to prevent some strange behaviour, so wanted to boot into recovery, but nothing had happened. After some repeated clicks on Boot into recovery button, as well as app called rebooter with nothing happening, I decided to try it out through button combination. It has not worked as well Next try was to reset to factory settings. But when I go through the menu, I can click on reset to factory settings button, seeing warning that I will lost ma data, then I can push the button to make it happen, but nothing is happening. I see only the screen with the button, can touch it 100 times and the tablet stays on, fully funcional. making no factory reset as it done before.
I did a lot of reading and searching, but have not find answer for my problem. I flashed recovery images from my backups (using flashify, flash gordon, adb shell, terminal emulator), from all previously functional states of the device. I refleshed the CWM recovery downloaded from the internet for my chipset, which previously did the job just perfect, with no success...
I am still not able to reach recovery menu. For me it seems like the bootloader would be locked, but I did not find the answer how to unlock it without to be able to start in some recovery state to use fastboot command to unlock it.
Otherwise, my device is functional, still rooted, i can use it without any other problems. But not be able to do recovery from my backups, even do a factory reset.
How can I restore my access to recovery mode? Is it somehow possible?
Hopfully it is not too much information (tryied to follow the intructions and wrote everything I thought would be important to know about) and you will not be bothered to read all my story and pull me out of my darkness with helpfull suggestion.
Thanks a lot in advance
Steve
Hi, I'm having trouble booting my LG Optimus G into recovery mode. I've rooted the phone and installed ClockworkMod recovery. When I try to boot into recovery, either from the ROMmanager app or by holding Volume Up and Power, it comes up with the LG logo and gives this error: Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify. It just stays like that until I press and hold the power button again until the phone shuts off entirely. Then I'm able to boot into the stock operating system and the phone works fine, but I can never get it to boot into recovery.
The error I mentioned above seems to be a well documented error on the internet, but it seems like other people that are having the trouble are completely bricking their phones. Mine is able to come out of it. All the solutions I'm finding pertain to a phone that's completely bricked and involve taking the phone back to stock. My phone works fine with the stock ROM, but I'd like to play with some custom ROM's.
Any ideas? Thanks!
I am having this same issue, anybody resolve?
Sounds like you don't have the right recovery. If you're already rooted, I believe FreeGee is the go to app for setting up recovery and all that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.shell.freegee_free
Rom Manager sucks for most phones and has for years.