[Q] Clockwork Won't Boot Into Recovery (RED EXCLAMATION MARK)

[nguyendqh]

Hey trying to help my brother with his phone and I've never encountered this problem before.

He downloaded Rom Manager from the Market and proceeded to flash CWM.
After flashing I told him to use the "Reboot into recovery" in order to create a NANDroid back up.
His phone reboots and then gets stuck on an image of what he says is a "phone with a red exclamation mark."

I've checked with him and he says "fast boot" is off. His phone IS rooted.
Obviously this is the first time he's ever needed to use CWM.
I've never personally encountered this problem and I've rooted 10 (6 replacements for me and one for my wife, 2 for my brothers and one for their girlfriend lol.) MT4Gs and have installed custom ROMs.

If you guys have any suggestions or ideas PLEASE let me know.

Thanks a lot.

The forum search yielded some threads about turning off "fast boot" or maybe a bad flash.
I've had him reflash CWM. Still no luck.

Again, thanks for any help.

 

[mackster248]

I'm assuming he's rooted right? With S-OFF? In any case, it seems that it's not sticking. One common mistake is that he might have accidentally denied the SU permissions while opening RM. So un install and re install RM and make sure you accept SU permissions.

 

[nguyendqh]

I'm assuming he's rooted right? With S-OFF? In any case, it seems that it's not sticking. One common mistake is that he might have accidentally denied the SU permissions while opening RM. So un install and re install RM and make sure you accept SU permissions.

Yeah Macky...he is rooted. I'll have him try it again. He did mention something about su.binary something or another.
I told him to update Superuser. We'll see if that helps.

 

[mackster248]

Yeah Macky...he is rooted. I'll have him try it again. He did mention something about su.binary something or another.
I told him to update Superuser. We'll see if that helps.

Yeah try updating the latest SU and make sure he didn't deny RM. That's might be what happened. If not, try updating his CWM manually via terminal emulator, ADB or Fastboot.

Here's how to do that.

 

[coupetastic-droid]

For clockwork recovery to actually work, you have to download rom manager and from within rom manager install clockwork first.

You just do not download rom manager and right away boot into recovery.

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[nguyendqh]

Maybe I shouldn't be rude. Sorry.

 

[coupetastic-droid]

"He downloaded Rom Manager from the Market and proceeded to flash CWM."

Thanks. I can tell you read the original post. Appreciate the help man.
I didn't know that at all.

Whoa! Why don't we chill out a bit yea. I just mentioned it because some people think that just downloading rom manager and trying to boot into recovery that's how you flash the thing and get it working.

And I did read the whole thing and did read where you said rom manager got downloaded and prceeded to flash cwr. But you also stated you told your bro to press reboot into recovery. Which made me think he probably mistakenly, try booting into recovery before actually flashing it. I was just trying to cover steps to help you guys out.

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[nguyendqh]

Whoa! Why don't we chill out a bit yea. I just mentioned it because some people think that just downloading rom manager and trying to boot into recovery that's how you flash the thing and get it working.

And I did read the whole thing and did read where you said rom manager got downloaded and prceeded to flash cwr. But you also stated you told your bro to press reboot into recovery. Which made me think he probably mistakenly, try booting into recovery before actually flashing it. I was just trying to cover steps to help you guys out.

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I apologized in the previous post before I even saw this. Sorry bad day at work.

Not your fault.
And thanks. Honestly. =P

 

[coupetastic-droid]

I apologized in the previous post before I even saw this. Sorry bad day at work.

Not your fault.
And thanks. Honestly. =P

All good. Hope you find a fix.

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[nguyendqh]

All good. Hope you find a fix.

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Gonna give this a try when he gets home from work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200147