Recovery

When you brick your OUYA, you need Android’s recovery mode to get it back into a working state.

Recovery mode: Alt + Print + i

1. Connect USB keyboard to OUYA.
2. Turn OUYA on.
3. Press and hold alt + print screen + i button (print screen = SysRq)
4. Now tricky part is to keep pressing i button for 2 seconds so that the screen flickers for about 4-6 times until OUYA reboots
5. When it reboots you will see a red exclamation mark and OUYA. Now hit your home key button.
6. You are in recovery mode.

Taken from http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php?4247-How-to-Put-OUYA-in-Recovery-Mode

Also: https://web.archive.org/web/20160407124522/https://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/1380/recovery-mode

The recovery menu contains the following items:

• reboot system now
• apply update from ADB
• wipe data/factory reset
• wipe cache partition

Fastboot: X + SysRq + RAlt

This adds the magic key X which when pressed with SysRq and the Right Alt key, will dump the device back into bootloader (fastboot) mode for easy recovering.

https://github.com/ouya/ouya_1_1-kernel/commit/55141bc1c80f082648a18ded8278ea5b2d937354

SysRq = Print screen button