Root Can't Get to Recovery Mode (Trying to Do Nandroid Backup)

[Whitechapel]

I went to a concert last Friday, by the time I got home my phone shut off. I had a Cyanoginmod ROM on it. I turned it back on, and the mod was gone along with all my apps and contacts, the phone had completely reset itself. I figured if it's going to die and I'm going to lose my ROM it's just not worth it anymore. Anyway, since I have the phone working the way I want again, I'm trying to create a Nandroid backup. The phone is still rooted. I'm using Clockwork's ROM manager. When I select boot into recovery, the phone reboots, then sits at the yellow exclamation point with the white triangle around it. I tried everything I could remember to get past the screen. I spent some of the day even Googling for answers and could find nothing that'd work. I'm using an original Droid.

 

[teddyearp]

Open Rom Manager and then select the menu button, then settings. Make sure advanced mode is turned on and erase recovery is turned off. Exit out to the main screen and then go to the second to the bottom selection and "Flash Alternate Recovery". Once it is done, go back to the top selection and select "Flash Clockwork Recovery". Make sure it completes within a second or two, otherwise repeat until it does. You should now be able to select "Backup my current ROM" and make your backup.

Usually, the reason you lose your custom recovery when your phone is rooted is because you are not running a custom ROM, but there are a set of commands that will fix it for you. I still have to fix my mysql database to restore my guides, so for now I'll stop. If you need to know the commands, either someone else will chime in and/or I can find them elsewhere.

good luck

 

[Whitechapel]

I took your advice and it made the back up, it went easily. But how can I get my ROM to stay on permanently even when my phone dies?

Although after the phone rebooted after the backup, I selected to reboot into recovery, and it still sticks at the yellow exclamation point with the white triangle around it. It sticks when I try the hardware way too by powering off the phone, holding the power button and X down.

It seems I wont even be able to flash a ROM until I get this situation fixed. Anything I need to do in the recovery mode I can't do because I'm stuck at the white triangle with the yellow exclamation point.

Edit** Strange. I flashed to the other recovery, then back to the Clockwork, and now I'm in the recovery mode. I guess I'm all set, not sure why it didnt work the first time.

Another edit** It's back to the same old behavior. I dont know what the hell is going on now! I just want to be able to get into recovery and install Cyanogen!

Another another edit** I've been running into admin privilege problems all day while I've been doing this. I have the Superuser icon, I have been using SuperOneClick to do it. It says it's rooted. I downloaded Terminal and ran "su", but it says permission denied. So what the hell is going on exactly? I reflashed a SBF I had from before when I thought my phone was torched. I rerooted it, it installed BusyBox (or so it said, which I believe is the cause of all these problems). Still getting permission errors! "An error occured while attempting to run privileged commands!"

I make a lot of edits** I found this guide and used it: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/74028-root-droid-1-regardless-os-version.html
It asked for permissions for Superuser, I allowed it. I'm currently installing the ROM with ROM Manager! Over half a day wasted but it's finally all done and I'm currently running Cyanogenmod

 

[teddyearp]

Well, as I said, your phone needed to have the file that restores stock recovery changed. At the end of the day, the guide you used to re-root your phone contains the complete and failsafe way to root your phone AND have your custom recovery stick. SuperOneClick is quite lacking in that last portion. While it does root your phone, there is nothing in the thread or the program that will make you custom recovery survive a reboot of the phone.

Glad you got it.