Hey guys quick question I ordered a replacement Vibrant and I cant get this one into recovery. I've rooted two vibrants already prior to this (mine and my friends) and for some reason Vol up Vol down power, doesn't work I've tried different button combos as well and I just cant seem to get it to start up. Anyone know if there was a firmware/hardware fix sorta like the 3g Slide?
UPDATE: No recovery without ADB and no way to get into download mode.
Should have done a search sorry for the fail everyone. I'll update with whether or not I can get into recovery once I root.
Hey guys,
I just got my samsung focus and I came from a Samsung epic. The epic had different boot options depending on what keys were pressed when the phone was powered on, so I tried the same combination of keys on the Focus and found out the keys do the same thing.
Pushing volume down+ camera + power will boot to a factory format menu
Pushing volume up+ camera+ power will boot the phone into a download mode
The download mode is used with Odin to flash the phone back to stock and was a big contributer to hacking the samsung epic, so I am guessing it could do the same with this phone.
Odin recognizes this phone fine. What I need help with is getting a system dump from a stock focus and then trying to figure out how to make the pit file for this phone.
If anyone has any ideas about how to use odin let me know.
Thanks
I guess not much out there development wise on this phone.. its been for a decent while... I guess its really locked down. Im also interested if there is anything to do with Odin and the focus
Lets revive this old thread. I need a quick way to get back to stock when I mess up hahaha
There is zero development for this phone. I'm going to play around and see what I can do but I've never ported. Considering there is no support, there is no one to tell me I can't. lol
I've been looking for a system dump for this phone. I may have to see about doing a dump myself unless someone would be so kind.
I hope somebody like you revives development on this phone. Just ordered one today and will be getting soon.
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Hey everyone!
I have never posted anything on a forum before, so please tell me if I do anything wrong. I have searched everywhere to find a solution for my problem, but I found nothing.
Today I accidentally got into the Samsung Recovery Utils of my galaxy 3. I have done nothing to the phone, all original, nothing flashed or rooted. But now I can't get out of this mode, if I restart the phone it automatically goes back into it.
Does anyone know how to get out of there?
Thank you a lot for helping me!
And I hope that this is the right forum to ask this question, as I said, I have never posted in a forum before.
Usually you should be able to reboot from recovery mode. Scroll to reboot Phone with the Volume Keys and klick with the Home Key... Your phone should restart.
Otherwise remove the battery, wait a few moments, plug the battery back in and try it again.
Good Luck
Thank you, I tried both several times, but I always end up in the recovery mode... I have no idea how i can get out of there! Do you maybe know something else I could do?
do the battery thing mentioned above. turn on your phone with vol up+ vol down+home +power (hold them for a while) and then try rebooting from the menu
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Pilzwachtel said:
Hey everyone!
I have never posted anything on a forum before, so please tell me if I do anything wrong. I have searched everywhere to find a solution for my problem, but I found nothing.
Today I accidentally got into the Samsung Recovery Utils of my galaxy 3. I have done nothing to the phone, all original, nothing flashed or rooted. But now I can't get out of this mode, if I restart the phone it automatically goes back into it.
Does anyone know how to get out of there?
Thank you a lot for helping me!
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Hey.. If ur on a Android 2.1 firmware and stuck on recovery every time...
just use the volume keys and chose the option "reboot" ... by the way.. its on default there.
after that just press the central key or called the "home key" two times consecutively..
ur good to go
I tried this several times, but I always end up in the Recovery Menu. When I pull out the battery, restart the phone and hold all those buttons including the power button my phone shows the Samsung Galaxy Logo and then reboots again, and then shows the Logo and reboots again. Only without holding the power button, and only the other ones I get into the Recovery Menu again. I really hope there is a way to get out of this mode! Thank you for all your help so far!
Hey I just saw the post in front of my other one
So yes I'm on Android 2.1 if that helps. And I tried this method several times, but when my phone restarts I always end up in the recovery mode by pressing nothing.
But thank you
try wipeing data and cache
I tried that out, but still rebooted into recovery mode all the time.
Because I couldn't find anything that solved my problem I just decided to flash my phone to a newer original firmware via odin. I just finished flashing and everything works fine as it did before, till now tho. I used the tutorial that is on this forum for flashing my I5800 and it worked perfectly fine, thank you for everyone's help anyway!
Now I hope that they will soon bring back froyo on kies, because it was deleted from the servers again today in Germany so I can't update. Hope that will happen soon!
I would recommend to forget about KIES... I am sorry but this software is a piece of crap!
Keep using the Odin Flasher. If you have some spare time install gsams nice lagfix and be happy about a very fast Froyo I5800
Edit:
Another funny thing about Kies: You can download the current version by using a US Proxy Server, which is also free of these annoying error messages at startup. But still there are much better alternatives, and the newest version (Kies 5 I think) is also incompatible to the I5800 Phone :-/
Yes, I really hate kies, that software is nothing good!
I think I will follow your advise to continue using odin flasher. Which froyo version is the best to install? I still have 2.1 on my phone. and then how do you install that lagfix? Sorry for all those questions, but I'm new to all this.
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you are new to this? ok, then go to the development section and see the READ FIRST thread
I have already read through those threads, I just meant that I just started some days ago, I'm not a pro, I'm only someone who just started haha
So today I flashed to xxjpf froyo and I'm having no problems so far. everything is fine so my problem is solved and in addition I have froyo now
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Dear Vietnamese owner,
I really need your help here guys my Phone was bought in Vietnam and I got a really big peoblem in this phone.
first is, I can't switch from GSM MODE TO WCDMA because it is not touchable.and I figure out that the IMEI of the phone that can be viewed in the settings is different from the IMEI at the back of the battery.
srcond is, When I'm gonna flash or boot through Download Mode it redirect me to Factory Test mode..abd the Language is Vietnamese..
when I hold volume up plus power plus home button it goes to a some kind of choices either go to recovery,reboot normal,or hot boot..but when i pressed any keys it wont responce..
so pkease guys I really need your help I want to fix my phone I hope you can help me to understand your methods in installing recovery or flashing stock rom via Odin
best regards..
First of all i tried to update my s3 neo I9300I officially by checking for updates but it said your phone is alreading running the latest version.then i googled and found that the official update for kitkat for s3 neo has been released.i downloaded rom from sammobile and then booted my device into recovery mode connected usb cable with pc.it said odin mode then i browsed the firmware pdate which was a md5 file.after five minutes odin said PASS.bt after my mobile didnt restart atomatically so i pressed the power key,it still didnt restart. Now it wont even go into recovery mode or download mode. Help Me plz
Thanks In Advance.
So nothing at all happens when you press the power button with or without volume keys? If so, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to revive the phone, unfortunately.
Follow this awesome tutorial by @usman_fareed
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So nothing at all happens when you press the power button with or without volume keys? If so, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to revive the phone, unfortunately.
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Yeah it wont turn on I Sold It Tho.Thanks For Replying
too bad u sold it, coz i remember i had the same thing with a different model, but i think u just flashed the wrong firmware (md5 file), that's all, nd now it's bricked, there is a post here in the forum showing how to unbrick it again.
but I'm a bit late for the info, sorry for u.