Root Essential post-root things thread (recovery + key combo)

[aus4000]

So, I'm looking around here, and there's some decent activity! Problem is though, is newcomers to the C811 and CA-201L (like myself) have no idea what we are doing so we have to dig for some info. This thread should change that

So, if you're going to get knee-deep in the ROM and don't know where to start: start here!

Step 1: Recovery
The first thing to do is get an app called Flashify. It's going to let you flash the recovery.img easily. The second is the actual recovery.img located at the bottom of the post (thank you to who did that! Reply and I'll gibe credit). Put the img on your phone, open Flashify and press "Recovery image" then "Select from file". Find that img and flash it. Yay, now you have a CWM recovery!

Step 2: Firmware (for recovery key combo)
Don't reboot just yet folks! The second thing to do is flash the CA-201L's firmware. The C811 and CA-201L are basicially the same phone, except the CA-201L is made for the Korean market where the C811 is made for the US market. The reason we do this is because the Korean phone actually has a recovery key combination (the US one doesn't, because of Verizon's infinite wisdom).

Place aboot_CA-201L.zip at the bottom of the post on your phone and reboot your phone into CWM and flash the zip. I've had no problems with it on M050 but reports vary, so it may be wise to make a backup beforehand.

Now you can reboot into an actually useful recovery and do it when the phone is off! (the combo is Tactile key + volume up + power, and works best when it's actually off.)

If anyone has anything they'd like to add, or I did something wrong, please make a reply and I'll fix it.

 

[rjglenn]

I messed with the Korean firmware a while back and had issues with LTE data connectivity on the VZW network, as in it would not connect to cellular data at all.

On my current commando I have not install the CA201L firmware and I can boot from off into recovery. Power on the phone, it will display G'Zone & Now loading. It will briefly go blank and then display it again. At that point press and hold the power+tactile key+Volume up buttons and continue to hold it all the way through the white VZW power up animation until the screen goes black. At that point the phone should reboot into the CWM recovery.

This has been my experience with two Commandos but YMMV.

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

I downloaded the image and flashed through flashify, then rebooted, did manual button presses into recovery and still have stock recovery asking if I want to factory reset..what am I doing wrong? Running stock ROM and kernel on c 811 on m050 build rooted, any help would be appreciated

 

[rjglenn]

In flashify go to the menu and select reboot into recovery and see what it boots to. If you still get the stock recovery assure you have selected the correct recovery image and flash it again.

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

I downloaded the image above and used flashify to reboot into recovery, it brought up the android guy with the spinning blue symbols, then it reset the phone like I had just took it out of box, still rooted though, I didn't get to do anything with the android guy

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

What exactly am I supposed to do once rooted to get into cwm recovery? I tried the file above and it obviously doesn't work, I didn't really want to download the ca-201l file because I read rjglenn didn't use it, am i missing something? Do I need to unlock bootloader or anything? Please help

 

[aus4000]

Please help

Make sure you're actually flashing the recovery.img from flashify and not just rebooting into recovery before things are flashed. Also, the bootloader is already unlocked

-snip-

Funky. Mine's had no issues with connectivity since I flashed it. I didn't think aboot messed with radios that much :S

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

i have used flashify probably 20 times trying to flash the image above, says that its been flashed and yet if i let it reboot on its own, it goes to the android with the open stomach and spinning blue symbol then resets the phone on its own, then i go through the whole putting in my account info so phone can reload all apps and info back to itself. then when i try to reboot myself and use tactile key, volume up, and power it will go into stock recovery asking if i want to hard reset....what the crap...getting frazzled by this...

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

something must be blocking the image to be able to flash it, any suggestions?

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

ok so now i dont think i have a recovery anymore...i've tried using the manual button presses to enter into recovery and all i get is the gzone logo and it fades away with lines in it then it reboots like normal...wish i knew what i was doing wrong..i even tried to factory reset phone from settings menu, acted like it was going to and then never reset..had all my apps and previous texts and calls..etc. maybe gonna try to unroot and start all over again??

 

[aus4000]

You could try in the bootloader with fastboot. Do "adb reboot bootloader" then "fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img", where the path is somewhere on your PC, not your phone.

Wonder why your phone is being a pain in the butt

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

ok, well nothing happens with fastboot, but adb lets me reboot, but anything that i do to try to get into recovery just brings up the gzone logo and stays there..i think my recovery is screwed, any ideas?

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

FINALLY...had a biiiig brain fart, didnt put image in, was using flashify to zip file instead of unpacking and getting img then downloading img from computer then used flashify to get image...duh....

 

[rjglenn]

Man are you lucky...

 

[doomsdaygeezus]

oh i know, i was freaking a little bit...but anyway, do you know if i can do cyanogenmod to this phone if i was to download a version for a phone that has the same cpu, kernel, etc??

 

[Doctoror]

The prerequisite for installing the recovery is working root, but you can't root M070 if the recovery is not there.
I'm not sure if you can boot into fastboot when not rooted, but if you can, you can try installing the recovery form there.

Edit: it doesn't work. No way to boot into fastboot using adb with no root.

Spoiler: Old message

Install adb and fastboot (the link is for Windows. For other operating systems, install Android SDK Platform Tools or find it in your distro package repository).
Install the Commando 4G LTE USB driver (not sure you need it, but probably you do).
Go to device Settings ->Developer Options -> Turn on and check "USB Debugging" and connect the device via USB to PC.
Open command prompt as administrator.
Execute

adb devices

If you see something like

List of devices attached
04948020828ef663        device

You've set-up adb and device properly. If you don't see this, you haven't set it up properly.
Now execute

adb reboot-bootloader

When the Commando boots into fastboot mode it shows a black screen with Verizon logo. If you see this execute

fastboot devices

To check if it's in fastboot mode.
You must see something similar to "adb devices" output, if you see it, proceed installing the CWM recovery.
If you're running Windows and don't know how to use the command line, the easiest way is to put the recovery.img and aboot_CA-201L.zip at C:\ root. Otherwise navigate to the folder you have recovery.img located at and then execute

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

If you see no errors, proceed installing aboot.

fastboot update aboot_CA-201L.zip

And then reboot

fastboot reboot

Then proceed for Rooting M070.

 

[inarius]

I'm a total newbie here. I have a never-rooted M070 and I have tried following your instructions but can't boot into fastboot mode. I never get the black screen with Verizon logo you refer to.

I have since tried motochopper which reports success when rooting, but I'm not sure it is correct. Flashify says I am not rooted. Nothing I have tried has allowed me to get fastboot working. Is there another way to boot into recovery if I have never rooted my device?

Thanks!

 

[Doctoror]

Nothing I have tried has allowed me to get fastboot working. Is there another way to boot into recovery if I have never rooted my device?

I confirm my device doesn't boot into fastboot through adb commands either. It seems working only in adb shell when rooted. Seems we need find you a way to flash a CWM recovery and aboot or getting rooted another way.

Solution #1
I don't remember if stock recovery works, but you can try

adb reboot recovery

You should see an Android robot with open stomach.
Press Tactile key once and the recovery menu should appear.
Navigate to "apply update from sdcard" or something similar and choose cwm_ca-201L-signed.zip (make sure to put the zip on your device beforehand)
Then choose "apply update from sdcard" again and choose aboot_CA201-L.zip.
After that, "reboot system now". And proceed to Rooting M070 thread.

Solution #2 (really bad and probably will not work but you can give it a shot)
I remember playing around with Kingo root and in second attempt I had root after reboot. But it never worked again after reboot.

Try with Kingo three times or so, maybe you get lucky.
Every time device reboots after Kingo, try flashing CWM and aboot.

See this thread.

 

[inarius]

adb reboot recovery did not work for me - I tried it many times. It rebooted but I never got into the stock recovery. But I figured out what was going on with motochopper. My antivirus quarantined the 'pwn' file as a virus and reapplying the root failed.

Once I got it back and got the root up again, I was able to use Flashify to get CWM. I think the instructions in the OP are good if you don't reboot before using Flashify (and you use it correctly). I didn't understand how the app worked, and tried to load recovery.img.zip as a Zip file. I had to extract it and load recovery.img as a Recovery image. That installed CWM correctly.

Also, I tried Kingo maybe three or four times - it never worked. Motochopper worked every time after I figured out that my antivirus was to blame...

Thanks!

 

[SC_Patriot]

Step 1: Recovery
The first thing to do is get an app called Flashify. It's going to let you flash the recovery.img easily. The second is the actual recovery.img located at the bottom of the post (thank you to who did that! Reply and I'll gibe credit). Put the img on your phone, open Flashify and press "Recovery image" then "Select from file". Find that img and flash it. Yay, now you have a CWM recovery!

Step 2: Firmware (for recovery key combo)
Don't reboot just yet folks! The second thing to do is flash the CA-201L's firmware. The C811 and CA-201L are basicially the same phone, except the CA-201L is made for the Korean market where the C811 is made for the US market. The reason we do this is because the Korean phone actually has a recovery key combination (the US one doesn't, because of Verizon's infinite wisdom).

Place aboot_CA-201L.zip at the bottom of the post on your phone and reboot your phone into CWM and flash the zip. I've had no problems with it on M050 but reports vary, so it may be wise to make a backup beforehand.

Now you can reboot into an actually useful recovery and do it when the phone is off! (the combo is Tactile key + volume up + power, and works best when it's actually off.)

I followed these instructions to the letter and now I'm stuck at the GzOne screen with nothing happening.

 

[LuVoc]

Got the same issue, so but top of that I'm not able to mount SD card.. Any ideas how can I fix that?
Tried already various SDs, even the original one. I guess this is the reason why all my attemps to figure out the same "korean shit"escape scenarios described failed... :/

 

[Jfalls63]

Got CWM recovery installed and made backups on phone. Was curious if anyone has tried to use CWM rom manager app from play store to reboot into recovery with this recovery image? App ask what version of CWM is installed, 2.something or 3.something. Does anyone know?

 

[SC_Patriot]

I don't know if CWM Rom Manager will work but the Reboot Recovery app on Google Play works for me.

 

[Jfalls63]

I didn't find till after I posted my question, but you have the reboot recovery option on Flashify app in menu and it works. Thanks for reply

 

[akram2009]

my device cant boot and recovery cant enterying any soulition to repair it