CANNOT enter recovery mode proper

[alexsherman4]

The issue: When booting I get the "bad key" boot text which hangs for about 10 seconds before going to splash.
When doing power button + volume up, the bad key hangs for so long that holding down power button just SHUTS THE PHONE OFF.

I can do power button + volume down to enter bootloader, and then enter recovery mode from there, but when I do that I get NO COMMAND

Ive also tried with adb
adb reboot recovery
same thing NO COMMAND

Everything that I google about NO COMMAND comes back with "oh just do power button + volume up duh" and each time I read that as a solution it makes me a little bit more angry.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e6/how-to/rooting-e6-surfna-t3965659
Ive been following this guide to root my moto e6 and everything has been fine so far, but im stuck trying to install magisk. Magisk manager has already been installed, and I believe I have installed magisk. But I cannot boot into proper recovery to use it.

About to give up, hopefully someone can help

 

[alexsherman4]

installed a bootlogo following this guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e5/how-to/boot-logo-moto-e5-stock-bad-key-removed-t3869259
to see if that would help. No change. Cant boot into recovery mode proper.

 

[fcohen]

The issue: When booting I get the "bad key" boot text which hangs for about 10 seconds before going to splash.
When doing power button + volume up, the bad key hangs for so long that holding down power button just SHUTS THE PHONE OFF.

I can do power button + volume down to enter bootloader, and then enter recovery mode from there, but when I do that I get NO COMMAND

Ive also tried with adb
adb reboot recovery
same thing NO COMMAND

Everything that I google about NO COMMAND comes back with "oh just do power button + volume up duh" and each time I read that as a solution it makes me a little bit more angry.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e6/how-to/rooting-e6-surfna-t3965659
Ive been following this guide to root my moto e6 and everything has been fine so far, but im stuck trying to install magisk. Magisk manager has already been installed, and I believe I have installed magisk. But I cannot boot into proper recovery to use it.

About to give up, hopefully someone can help

bad key and/or N/A is just the phone saying it has an unlocked bootloader.

NO COMMAND when entering Recovery, yes, google is right. When you see NO COMMAND, press and HOLD the power button and TAP the volume up key. You should see at the top, Android Recovery and a bunch of options below. If you don't see this, your recovery partition was probably modified/corrupt. Flash the original recovery.img from a stock rom. I don't think there's a working E6 TWRP recovery image yet.

 

[Kylethedarkn]

If you still haven't figured this out I have a possible fix. I found that upon first installing the magisk_patched.img from the guide you linked, everything booted up fine and magisk and root were working. I however made the mistake of booting normally...somehow this affects the magisk boot function in the recovery and gives the no command screen. I just fastboot flash recovery magisk_patched.img again and booted straight into recovery and that fixed it again. Just make sure once you have root again to use a program that allows you to boot back into recovery again directly.

 

[chami_bc]

bad key and/or N/A is just the phone saying it has an unlocked bootloader.

NO COMMAND when entering Recovery, yes, google is right. When you see NO COMMAND, press and HOLD the power button and TAP the volume up key. You should see at the top, Android Recovery and a bunch of options below. If you don't see this, your recovery partition was probably modified/corrupt. Flash the original recovery.img from a stock rom. I don't think there's a working E6 TWRP recovery image yet.

When I get to the Android Recovery which option do I choose?
I tried "Reboot system now" and Magisk was still not installed

 

[sd_shadow]

When I get to the Android Recovery which option do I choose?
I tried "Reboot system now" and Magisk was still not installed

You are not going to install magisk in stock recovery

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