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Root trouble accessing recovery

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jma9454

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So... I have this problem:
I cannot get into recovery.
Key combo hasn't worked for some time (volume up and down, both don't work).
adb reboot to recovery or bootloader don't work.
The only thing that worked for me is the reboot widget from ROM toolbox pro, but now since i am bouncing back and forth between stock and Carbon ROM, some apps that I used in Carbon I can no longer use.
It uninstalled ROM Toolbox Pro, and when I tried to reinstall it, it would not. Even when I tried pushing it through ADB. It gave me some sort of link error, and failed installation.
Any ideas on how to get into recovery? I am on stock right now, so power button shortcut does not work.
is there an app that does the same thing?
 
I don't think so. You know how I had problems after trying twrp? I then flashed stock recovery via your commands.
 
This is how I reflashed stock recovery:
Code: 
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
 
Do you happen to know what command cmd gives the adb device? Like I said, adb shell works, just not straight adb command
 
That would solve the linker problem I am pretty sure, but why does adb reboot recovery not work, but adb shell > su > reboot recovery work
 
jma9454 said:
That would solve the linker problem I am pretty sure, but why does adb reboot recovery not work, but adb shell > su > reboot recovery work
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adb reboot recovery doesn't work??? Try reinstalling the driver on your computer. What OS? (may not be a linker issue if drivers. They're more likely the culprit unless you broke files in the OS by running a script or something. Even I've forgetten to do that and adb always worked)
 
crutchcorn said:
adb reboot recovery doesn't work??? Try reinstalling the driver on your computer. What OS? (may not be a linker issue if drivers. They're more likely the culprit unless you broke files in the OS by running a script or something. Even I've forgetten to do that and adb always worked)
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This is what I mean:
Linker for apps, adb commands for recovery
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^This method works.^
(I have no idea what's up with that crazy string in the last picture. I am in Carbon right now, so maybe there's a weird signature or something)
Adb reboot recovery just makes it boot regular
 
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jma9454 said:
This is what I mean:
Linker for apps, adb commands for recovery
d45f6a3cceb356c4ee42f230f0e4d3d2.jpg
c9c9547351fac08974fc0283eeb44ae8.jpg
3b5f376ddc95f8b36e71208fdcff77e5.jpg

^This method works.^
Adb reboot recovery just makes it boot regular
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Oh. Okay. Thanks for clearing that up... Do you have XPosed? Heard reports of that breaking it. But yeah, are you asking how to get to recovery now?
 
No. I'm just wondering why going with just adb doesn't work to reboot to recovery, but adb shell does work...
PS. I do have xposed on both
 
jma9454 said:
No. I'm just wondering why going with just adb doesn't work to reboot to recovery, but adb shell does work...
PS. I do have xposed on both
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I gotcha. Xposed may be the culprit (not itself but something happened. I had huge issues once with it). Get to recovery, reflash rom, then wipe cache, data, devalk, then you should be good. :)
 
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