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[dhowell007]

Last night I finally took the plunge and decided to root my  Motorola Droid (sholes).  I have the clockwork recovery mod installed and have backed everything up.  I have downloaded CM-7.1.0 RC1 (plus Google Apps).  I have checked the box to wipe data and cache.  When the phone restarts the screen is showing a white triange with a yellow exclamation point in the center sitting next to a picture of a phone.  I figured this was the screen it shows while it wipes everything and flashes cyanogen onto the phone.  It showed this screen for 6 hours last night.  This morning I finally got frustrated and pulled the battery.  I thought I had bricked my phone for sure, but it started back up like nothing had happened.  I have again this morning told the phone to download the same mods.  Again the phone has restarted and the screen is showing the same triangle.

I read on a few different forums that flashing the new mod could take as long as 5-10 minutes but probably shouldn't last more than 20 minutes max.

Is there a step I have missed?  Or is this kind of like rooting the phone where if it doesn't work the first (or second, or third) time you just try again?

Thanks in advance for any help any of you can offer.

[Bismarc]

You might want to check out this thread: http://forum.cyanoge...-apply-cyanogen

[ava_samwise]

I ran into this too.  Having already rooted my phone and installed ClockworkMod recovery 2.5.0.7 onto it, I simply rebooted normally first, to bring up my normal phone screen.

I then made sure that the CM7.1.0-RC1 update ZIP and the Google Apps bundle were in the root of my SD card, copying them over from my laptop.  I then brought up the ROM Manager app, and selected "Reboot into Recovery". It took a little under 20 seconds for the CM Recovery console to come up.

First I chose "backup and restore" and made sure I had a current copy of everything on SD. Then I chose "install zip from sdcard" and flashed both the CM7-RC1 ROM ZIP and Google Apps bundle up in the same console session, and rebooted.

I hope this helps.

P.S. The normal phone "Recovery Mode" which I think you'd got into actually puts an Android HTC Legend phone into a state where you can hook it up to your machine and run a limited number of commands from adb, such as adb push, and is used in the script below to push up a small recovery filesystem in the directory files/ to the phone, and run it:

recovery-mac.sh:

 
 
echo Legend Recovery Mode
echo
echo Pushing required files to device...
echo
sudo ./adb-mac push files /
sudo ./adb-mac shell busybox --install /sbin
echo
sudo ./adb-mac shell nohup /sbin/recovery &
 
 

Both the script above and the files/ directory I mention comes from a ZIP file on the CM wiki, and contained these files:

 
files
|-- etc
|   |-- fstab
|   `-- mtab
|-- sbin
|   |-- adbd
|   |-- backuptool.sh
|   |-- busybox
|   |-- dump_image
|   |-- e2fsck
|   |-- fix_permissions
|   |-- flash_image
|   |-- fs
|   |-- log2sd
|   |-- mke2fs
|   |-- mkyaffs2image
|   |-- nandroid-mobile.sh
|   |-- parted
|   |-- reboot
|   |-- recovery
|   |-- sdparted
|   |-- toolbox
|   |-- tune2fs
|   |-- um
|   |-- ums_toggle
|   |-- unyaffs
|   `-- wipe
`-- system
	|-- bin
	|   |-- linker
	|   `-- sh
	`-- lib
		|-- libc.so
		|-- libcutils.so
		|-- liblog.so
		|-- libm.so
		`-- libstdc++.so

[bassmadrigal]

The white screen with the yellow triangle is the stock recovery. So your ClockworkMod install didn't stick. Follow the link that Bismarc posted and you should be good.

[dhowell007]

Thanks for the help all.  I have at least gotten past the Triangle.  It seems for whatever reason that Clockwork didn't actually install the first time.  I deleted it and reinstalled it.  I am now hung up in the Cyanogen Mod 7 reboot screen (which at least looks better than the triangle!).  It keeps looping the little droid dude on the skateboard with the circle going around him.  I let it sit on this screen for 30 minutes then pulled the battery.  When I put the battery back in and turned the phone on it went back into the Cyanogen loop screen again.

When I reinstalled Clockwork it looks like it put me into recovery mode.  It gave me a couple options and this is what I did  [I am definitely not a programer and probably shouldn't be attempting to root my phone so feel free to comment on my stupidity :-) ]

First I backed everything up.  Then wiped the cache.  I then had it install Cyanogen 7 and the google apps from the SD card.  I did NOT tell it to wipe and restore factory settings.  I have a feeling I should have done this first.

I feel like I should ask what to do next before screwing up even further.  My guess is that I should pull the battery and try to start in recovery mode, but again, I really have no clue what I am doing.

Any help is very much appreciated.

[bassmadrigal]

You may want to consider restoring a nandroid backup (assuming you made one). This would allow you to back up your apps and app data so you can fully wipe your phone (which is needed when coming from stock). (You can use a program like Titanium Backup.)

Once that is done, you can wipe the /system partition (under mounts and storage in the recovery), and then perform the Factory Reset/Data Wipe. Once those are done, reinstall CM and gapps and then restore your apps back.

[dhowell007]

I did make a nandroid backup.  I also backed up programs using Titanium Backup.  How do I get the phone to boot back up in recovery mode?  I have restarted using the [Power button + D pad up] but that just loads the Bootloader.  What do I do from there?

[dhowell007]

At this point the battery has died.  The problem now is that as the phone is charging once it gets enough juice it starts the phone on its own.  When it does this it goes right back to the cyanogen screen, which stops the phone from charging.  It would seem that while I haven't turned my phone into a brick I might have well as.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful.

[bassmadrigal]

So, your phone automatically turns on when you plug it in? That isn't supposed to happen...

[「gu1dry」]

bassmadrigal, on 05 August 2011 - 05:12 AM, said:

So, your phone automatically turns on when you plug it in? That isn't supposed to happen...

Some phones do turn on when plugged in....

[dhowell007]

Yes it does turn on when it gets enough power.

I somehow figured it out last night and got the phone rooted.  I was able to get the clockwork recovery mod booted up using the [Power Button + X button].  Once it started in recovery mode I was able to have it wipe the cache restore to factory settings.  For some reason it only gave me about a 3s window to get this done and then the phone would restart.  It took 3 more battery pulls until I was able to get scrolled to the right option and hit yes.

Anyway, I am finally flashed to CM-7.1!

Thank you all for your help.