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Root doesnt boot into recovery unless i flash clockwork/sprecovery..

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Hydr01d

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Rooted my friends droid, backed up with tibu, went to make nandroid backup and it booted to a yelllow triangle exclamtiong thing. So I turned it off and back on and it loaded fine and I again went into rom manager and flashed clockwork again and rebooted into recovery, and it went fine. Another strange thing I noticed at this point was the phone would auto restart if left idle at clockwork recovery, which it doesn't do on my phone. So I rebooted from there and tried to reboot into recovery once it loaded and it was back to the angry triangle. Long story short it only goes into recovery after I flash either clockwork recovery or sprecovery, right after I flash it. Its the new adroid version and I rooted with that oneclick with that. I don't wanna screw his phone and somehow end up having to reformat. Any ideas what's going on?
 
so you are saying that it only boots into cwm or spr right after you flash them. If you try to go back into after rebooting you get the triangle with the !?
 
OMJ said:
so you are saying that it only boots into cwm or spr right after you flash them. If you try to go back into after rebooting you get the triangle with the !?
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That is 100% what i'm saying. It will always reboot into recovery right after i flash but after that first time i have to reflash.
 
And that's why I'm scared to flash a custom rom incase it freezes up or reboots after I wipe everything. I don't want it not to flash into recover and screw my friends phone lol
 
Hydr01d said:
And that's why I'm scared to flash a custom rom incase it freezes up or reboots after I wipe everything. I don't want it not to flash into recover and screw my friends phone lol
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flashing a rom will fix this....renaming the install-recovery.sh file will also take care of this. If you have root explorer navigate to /system/etc and rename install-recovery.sh to install-recovery.bak

or with adb

adb shell
su
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak

or terminal emulator
su
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak

Recovery should stick after that
 
The problem is that FroYo has a script that restores the STOCK recovery once you reboot as stated above. Thus, you can install Clockworkmod, etc, and you can directly boot into it. However, once you totally reboot your phone, Clockworkmod is gone, and you go into the stock recovery and get the yellow triangle. You don't need fancy software or custom ROMs to fix this (unless you want to). If the above fix doesn't work, also look for the file: /system/recovery-from-boot.p , and remove or rename this if it exists. Depens on the version of FroYo. Neall
 
Hey i got terminal emulator and when i try to enter the code you wrote there it gives me a error message about it being a read only file. I cant figure out how to get adb to work ( or where to enter to the code) and its my friends phone and hes broke and wont pay 3 bucks for root explorer. Im gonna just try and flash a custom rom i think and see what happens.
 
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system//etc/install-recovery.bak
failed on '/system/etc/install-recovery.sh' - Read-only file system
#
 
And i was just messing around in recovery mode and the phone resets in the middle of navigating through the menu there. Does that problem go along with the other problem i'm having rebooting into recovery or is it another problem with the phone lol?
 
Sorry I skipped a step. Here are correct instructions

adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak

or terminal emulator
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak

Recovery should stick after that
 
I am having the same issue. ClockworkMod Recovery is not there when I turn phone off and reboot holding down the power/home keys... it goes right into to the stock Android recovery. :/ I tried all the above suggestions. Any other ideas? (Rooted DX 2.2 froyo, stock ROM).
 
Droidella, you should probably post your issue in the D2 forums, since the Original DROID and the D2 are worlds apart b/c of the shenanigans that Motorola pulled with the D2.
 
just wanted to bring this back up to the top say thanks... i was having the "haveto reflash clockwork everytime i wanted to get into recovery" prollem and happened across this. using root explorer i renamed rename install-recovery.sh and deleted /system/recovery-from-boot.p and it boots into recovery every time now.

so i guess as long as i dont accidentally install my original 2.1 backup,i should be good to go!

thanks again :)
 
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