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Default Booting into clockwork recovery

I don't know how I did it, but everyone else is trying to boot into Clockwork Recovery mode successfully...and the whole pull the battery mode doesn't work 100% of the time...buuuut...I CANT STOP!

I can't stop booting into Clockwork. Every time I turn my phone on, it boots into the Clockwork Recovery, without fault. I've rebooted almost 30 times now and every time its done the same thing. Once it reboots into recovery, it will allow me to reboot the phone and then it boots normally. I really want to fix it, its annoying. The phone still works without any issues, its just really annoying that I have to sit there and watch it boot up to get it to the actual phone.

I don't want to unroot and start over with it all because I've made so many small changes to the phone and made it my own.

Sooo, pleeeeeeeeeease anyone with any info or fixes; let me know!

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Mine did that too so I flashed the SBF and started over from scratch. I am afraid to try the D2 Bootstrap again for that reason. For now I can live with it. Did you find a fix yet?

How does this work?
When your device boots up, there is a init.rc script in your boot image that runs various components found in /system. The Droid X recovery bootstrap mimics the "logwrapper" binary. The hijacker then looks for "/data/.recovery_mode", and if it finds it, it unmounts /system to prevent android from starting. It then starts up recovery instead.


That's from Koush's site. Have you tried to delete the .recover_mode file if it clears it up? If you do try may you please post back?
 
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Worked for me! Thanks for that!

Apparently it only happens randomly to some people. My roommate has a Droid2 and his never did it....weird.

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Worked for me! Thanks for that!

Apparently it only happens randomly to some people. My roommate has a Droid2 and his never did it....weird.
Glad it worked. It happened to me too and I just used the sbf file to restore everything. Did you use any mount adb commands before you had that problem?
 
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To be honest I have no idea, I've had android phones for a while so I was just flying through the commands and don't remember what was typed
 
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Default Unable to remove "ClockworkMod Recovery"

[/QUOTE]That's from Koush's site. Have you tried to delete the .recover_mode file if it clears it up? If you do try may you please post back?[/QUOTE]

So, I looked throughout my sd card, and have been unable to find any ".recover_mode" file.. I still get the ClockworkMod Recover screen EVERY time I reboot my device.. I have rooted and unrooted multiple times to try and figure out this problem, as well as searched through this website for answers.. I am not finding any.. HELP!?

Ultimately, I would like to just restore my phone to factory so I can pass it on to a friend..

Thanks in advance for everyone's help!
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Im not able to get into recovery at all... even after flashing recovery using rom manager... and the koush flash doesn't work either. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows the yellow triangle and the ! and the android icon.....what can i do to get around this? The device is rooted using z4root..... thx!
 
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Im not able to get into recovery at all... even after flashing recovery using rom manager... and the koush flash doesn't work either. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows the yellow triangle and the ! and the android icon.....what can i do to get around this? The device is rooted using z4root..... thx!
nevermind... forgot to hit the search key! doh!


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