Root Automatically booting directly into ClockWork Recovery

TheBandit181 · Mar 22, 2011

On my previous devices, OG Droid, Incredible, I had to press and hold a button while powering up to boot into recovery. On my Thunderbolt, every time I power on my phone it boots directly into recovery, even if I only press the power button and no others. Today I had my first random reboot and it booted into recovery and the screen was on for at least an hour in my pocket.

Is this recovery boot process by design, or did I do something wrong? If I did something wrong, any ideas on what I can do to fix it?

TheBandit181 · Mar 22, 2011

It seems this issue is being tracked over at the XDA forums.

[Q] Phone doesn't power down, it reboots to ClockworkMod recovery. [SOLVED] - xda-developers

bjanow · Mar 22, 2011

I can't even boot into recovery from power off. Want to switch?

Droopie28 · Mar 23, 2011

Im having the same problem, and that fix didnt work for me, also i cant turn my phone off, it turns off, then all of a sudden cw recovery just pops up

bjanow · Mar 23, 2011

Does that happen without it being plugged in?

Droopie28 · Mar 23, 2011

bjanow said:
Does that happen without it being plugged in?

no, but as soon as I plug it in to charge (bump cahrge), it boots to cwr

bjanow · Mar 23, 2011

Droopie28 said:
no, but as soon as I plug it in to charge (bump cahrge), it boots to cwr

Yep.. they'll get it fixed. For now, unfortunately, no bump charging for you.

chrisjm00 · Mar 25, 2011

Go ahead and flash a custom rom. Battery life is great. No bloat to drain the battery so bump charging isn't a huge issue.

ridobe · Mar 25, 2011

chrisjm00 said:
Go ahead and flash a custom rom. Battery life is great. No bloat to drain the battery so bump charging isn't a huge issue.

Well, I'm rooted and my battery life is fine WHILE I'M USING IT. At night it runs down to nothing and cuts off no matter what the charge level was before. Any ideas? SetCPU doesn't seem to work until we get a custom kernel. What's funny is for the first few days of owning this thing it was fine. It only used maybe 10 percent overnight. But now it uses all of it.

I have done all of the saving tips and really don't have anything different than from my Dinc. I'm at a loss here.

chrisjm00 · Mar 25, 2011

Any new apps or changes since you started getting bad battery life? Any updates to apps? Maybe some settings were defaulted when an app updated itself?

bjanow · Mar 25, 2011

Setcpu does work on stock kernel. But your nighttime problem is troublesome since it should throttle down to 245. You using night clock or something like that?

ridobe · Mar 25, 2011

bjanow said:
Setcpu does work on stock kernel. But your nighttime problem is troublesome since it should throttle down to 245. You using night clock or something like that?

No. My setup is almost identical to what I had on my Dinc and there were no problems there. I run Setcpu and when I underclock it it will still shoot up to 1024 and stay there. So, I'm getting no help from that.

I have minimal syncing going on, low backlight, etc...Something is just eating it up.

Papadroid · Mar 25, 2011

What kind of signal are you getting at your house? Take a look at the battery stats and report what your % of cell standby time without signal is.

ridobe · Mar 25, 2011

Papadroid said:
What kind of signal are you getting at your house? Take a look at the battery stats and report what your % of cell standby time without signal is.

I am 100% wifi at my house.

Papadroid · Mar 25, 2011

ridobe said:
I am 100% wifi at my house.

Yeah but that's just for data. The phone will still try to connect to towers for the cell and txt part. If you get poor reception it can kill a battery.

UBRocked · Mar 25, 2011

Droopie28 said:
no, but as soon as I plug it in to charge (bump cahrge), it boots to cwr

Turn fast boot on

ridobe · Mar 27, 2011

Papadroid said:
Yeah but that's just for data. The phone will still try to connect to towers for the cell and txt part. If you get poor reception it can kill a battery.

Well, I'm still having problems. Funny that I get great battery life when I'm using it but not when it's asleep. Last night I was able to charge it to 100%, unplug it then go to bed. When I woke up I had 49%. Here are the battery stats for that period:

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/1061/screenshot2r.png

edit: fixing my image

tbcpn · Mar 27, 2011

UBRocked said:
Turn fast boot on

Didn't help me. Tried, repeatedly, the steps here CWM Problems - xda-developers , but my T-bolt still boots to CWR if I plug the charger in while the phone is powered down.

ghlancaster · Apr 5, 2011

tbcpn said:
Didn't help me. Tried, repeatedly, the steps here CWM Problems - xda-developers , but my T-bolt still boots to CWR if I plug the charger in while the phone is powered down.

mine as well, I've tried many different combinations of roms, themes and kernels and still its the same result. It also appears my phone will not fast boot and I have no idea why.

ska.t73 · Apr 5, 2011

Yep same thing is happening with mine. I can't get fast boot to work either, in fact the only time mine has ever worked was when I first installed Virus Rom. Stock never worked, after I rooted and installed the new stock ROM didn't work, and it doesn't work on Das Bamf either.

I'm thinking it is an app I have installed that doesn't like it, however I don't care about it enough to go through trouble shooting which app it is.

Jerzboi · Apr 5, 2011

ska.t73 said:
Yep same thing is happening with mine. I can't get fast boot to work either, in fact the only time mine has ever worked was when I first installed Virus Rom. Stock never worked, after I rooted and installed the new stock ROM didn't work, and it doesn't work on Das Bamf either.

I'm thinking it is an app I have installed that doesn't like it, however I don't care about it enough to go through trouble shooting which app it is.

After reading about the fast boot method, I tried it didn't work...then I turned off data and all running apps...It worked now I can charge w/phone off

ska.t73 · Apr 6, 2011

Jerzboi said:
After reading about the fast boot method, I tried it didn't work...then I turned off data and all running apps...It worked now I can charge w/phone off

Hmmmm that would seem to point to my theory that it is an app that is causing the problems with fastboot. I will try your method (kill all of my apps with System Panel) and let you guys know if that works. I don't see any problems killing all apps if you are powering down.

bamaredwingsfan · Apr 9, 2011

Found this over at thunderboltforum.com
All credit goes to a guy names FlyersFan121. I have yet to try this but i will this weekend.

Rooted Thunderbolt bump charge fix

I wasn't sure if I was to post this in General Discussion or down here in development so here goes:
I'm sure some of you may be aware of the rooted Thunderbolt issue where you plug in your A/C Adapter to charge it with the phone off and it boots into Clockwork. There have been fixes posted about enabling FastBoot fixing the issue. I was having this issue as well and I enabled FastBoot and was still having the issue. I did come up with a fix for it.
If you are still having the issue turn your phone on and disable FastBoot. Then shut it down. Turn it back on and let it boot up. Then go in and enable FastBoot. Now turn it off. Boot it back up one more time (you should notice a significant increase in boot speed.) Charge it until it turns green while on and then unplug it and shut it down. Now plug it back in and you should be good to go.
This worked for me...I did have to go through this to get it to charge while off (and it no longer boots into Clockwork Recovery.)
Good luck!

scotty85 · Apr 9, 2011

bamaredwingsfan said:
Found this over at thunderboltforum.com
All credit goes to a guy names FlyersFan121. I have yet to try this but i will this weekend.

its interesting that that works,if it does. it sounds like way too much trouble for a lil bit of extra charge,for me anyway. :eek:

i guess if you only had to do that process once it wouldnt be so bad,but if you gotta do that every monring to bump charge it sounds like a hassle.

bamaredwingsfan · Apr 9, 2011

scotty85 said:
its interesting that that works,if it does. it sounds like way too much trouble for a lil bit of extra charge,for me anyway.

i guess if you only had to do that process once it wouldnt be so bad,but if you gotta do that every monring to bump charge it sounds like a hassle.

Yeah that is what i was thinking too.

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