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Root Droid cannot boot to recovery - Cyanogen circle logo spins endlessly

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JeffM

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Hi all,

I'm having a problem with my old Droid. I had been running Cyanogen Mod 7 on it, but I somehow got it into a state where I cannot boot into recovery, and I cannot boot all the way into the Cyanogen mod.

If I pull the battery and hold the power and "X" button on the keyboard, I can't get the recovery menu to come up. Once I release the buttons, it will continue on to the Cyanogen logo, but that will sit and spin for hours without loading the OS.

Is there another way to get into recovery? Or some other way to get my phone up and running again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff
 
Wow, sorry for the late reply. And WOW what a lurker! That is a compliment, BTW.

If you have adb setup on your computer you should be able to plug your phone into your PC and in a command prompt issue an "adb reboot recovery" command. In a perfect world your phone will reboot into recovery.

good luck
 
Hi teddyearp,

Thanks for the info. Didn't quite work for me though...I'm getting a "device not found", which isn't too surprising since I can't get to the OS to make sure I'm in debug mode. Any ideas?

And yeah...I'm a lurker from way back :)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Never mind about that...I just needed to install the Motorola device drivers.
 
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