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Vance

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OK, I used Titanium backup to uninstall the Twitter app entirely using the "exploit" and it rebooted and came back up with "!" in the triangle with an icon of the phone below it. What do I do now?
 
This is stock recovery. Open your keyboard and press the search key to get a menu. Use the arrows or the volume buttons to navigate. First you could try rebooting, and see if it boots normally. That's the best case scenario. If that doesn't work, and you come back to this screen, I'd recommend wiping cache, then restarting. That will lose your web history, save games, etc, etc, but keep the major stuff like accounts, apps, contacts, etc. If that doesn't work, Then try wiping data, which will put the phone back to an out of the box state, you'll have to set it up again. If THAT doesn't work, you'll have to learn how to SBF your phone (I believe there's a detailed sticky at the top of this forum). If THAT doesn't work, then I believe you are hosed.
 
wow... an sbf file for seeing the stock recovery? :eek: we dont even know if the phone will boot normally or not.

sounds to me like youre simply using a stock rom,wich is why youre seeing the ! in the triangle. as was said,this is the stock recovery. the stock rom replaces clockwork(or the alternative if youd flashed that) every time you reboot it.

there is no need to use an SBF file. all you need to do is reboot,then flash your recovery again,and boot imediately into recovery. you will need to do this every time you need recovery as long as youre using your stock rom. pull your battery and leave it out for a couple minutes. then turn the phone back on.

pressing search had never worked for me. what DOES work when you see the triangle is hold volume up and then press the camera key. this will take you to the stock recovery menu. you wont be able to do anything with it,except reboot. using the D pad manuver to and select reboot. doing this simply saves you from having to pull the battery.

there are a couple files you can delete or rename if you dont want to have to reflash clockwork everytime you need recovery.

so let us know... if your phone boots normally youre fine. if not,THEN we can discuss SBF files or flashing a rom with the stock recovery.
 
Ah, I needed to try something before I saw this very helpful advice, so I did a battery pull and it rebooted fine (seemingly). It acted odd for a bit, taking a long time to load everything and even gave me the redraw issue (which I have had since i rooted and put in the command to fix that). Now all seems to be running normally.

I am not sure why it had such a problem deleting Twitter, but it did have to use the "exploit", so I guess that is always a "use at your own risk" proposition!

So, I guess I need to reflash the clockwork again now. Thanks!
 
I didn't realize that you had two posts on this. If your having problems making CW recovery sticking it is suggested that you flash CW recovery, then flash SPRecovery, then flash Clockwork again. This should make it stick.
 
scotty85 said:
wow... an sbf file for seeing the stock recovery? :eek: we dont even know if the phone will boot normally or not.

sounds to me like youre simply using a stock rom,wich is why youre seeing the ! in the triangle. as was said,this is the stock recovery. the stock rom replaces clockwork(or the alternative if youd flashed that) every time you reboot it.

there is no need to use an SBF file. all you need to do is reboot,then flash your recovery again,and boot imediately into recovery. you will need to do this every time you need recovery as long as youre using your stock rom. pull your battery and leave it out for a couple minutes. then turn the phone back on.

pressing search had never worked for me. what DOES work when you see the triangle is hold volume up and then press the camera key. this will take you to the stock recovery menu. you wont be able to do anything with it,except reboot. using the D pad manuver to and select reboot. doing this simply saves you from having to pull the battery.

there are a couple files you can delete or rename if you dont want to have to reflash clockwork everytime you need recovery.

so let us know... if your phone boots normally youre fine. if not,THEN we can discuss SBF files or flashing a rom with the stock recovery.
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You didn't even read what I wrote. :rolleyes:
 
NiceGuysFinishLast said:
You didn't even read what I wrote. :rolleyes:
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sure i did. it was good advice and i never claimed any part of it to be incorrect. my response was aimed at the one below yours. i even referenced your post in mine:
scotty85 said:
as was said,this is the stock recovery.
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i did mention of your reference to pressing the search button to access the stock recovery menu. even that,i did not claim to be wrong(im sure it does work on some phones),just that it did not work for me.
 
skilaufen said:
That's good to know thanks. I never had this problem as I flashed CM recovery and then flashed a ROM. Nice to have that cleared up.:)
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no prollem. :) i dint stay on my stock rom too long,but i fiddled with it for a few hours that way and pretty much immediately noticed that after my phone rebooted the custom recovery went away. there are tons of posts here about it if one uses the search button,lol,so i found the answer pretty quick and calmed down. thot i had lost root somehow the first time it happened :eek:

as i mentioned in the other thread,i cant take credit for the stock rom fixes,its just something i came across while searching.
 
And if I may add, if one is using a 'stock' but must be a rooted rom, there's always these commands (after flashing a custom recovery) to make sure it sticks:


Code: 
[LIST=1]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]su[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.p.old[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system[/FONT]
[/LIST]

The above commands may be used with either a terminal emulator on the phone, or using adb shell.
 
scotty85 said:
sure i did. it was good advice and i never claimed any part of it to be incorrect. my response was aimed at the one below yours. i even referenced your post in mine:

i did mention of your reference to pressing the search button to access the stock recovery menu. even that,i did not claim to be wrong(im sure it does work on some phones),just that it did not work for me.
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Yeah, I realized it after, but got distracted by my roommate before I could edit my post. My bad. :o
 
teddyearp said:
And if I may add, if one is using a 'stock' but must be a rooted rom, there's always these commands (after flashing a custome recovery) to make sure it sticks:

Code: 
[LIST=1]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]su[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.p.old[/FONT]
[*][FONT=Comic Sans MS]mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system[/FONT]
[/LIST]

The above commands may be used with either a terminal emulator on the phone, or using adb shell.
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just to make sure im understanding this... there were other steps to something you cut and pasted from,correct? if you were typing in these commands you wouldnt actually type the "3." and "4." ?
 
scotty85 said:
just to make sure im understanding this... there were other steps to something you cut and pasted from,correct? if you were typing in these commands you wouldnt actually type the "3." and "4." ?
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Hmm, I don't see the "3" and "4" here, but no you don't type those in and yes they are copied and pasted from my "Install the SPRecovery Image Manually" guide I wrote at my site.

Installing the SPRecovery Image Manually
 
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