Database Users

[Q] Help! Cant get my phone into recovery mode

Ive tried the volume down and volume and power but it wont work.... Any suggestions?

You are sure your phone is off and you:
Hold down the volume up and down with your left thumb and make sure there is a click feeling from both buttons and use your right hand to click on the power button?

I'm having the exact same problem. Have tried about 25 times to boot into recovery. Just does not work.

Pull the battery after every failed attempt took me about 2-3 tries. Before you do anything shut off phone pull battery then attempt to boot into recovery.

Yes, I'm doing that. The samsung screen comes up and if I release the buttons it does the normal boot up. If I keep holding the buttons the black screen with "vibrant" keeps coming on and off.

So far I discovered that it works perfectly if you hold the power button until after the Vibrant logo appears and then release the power button while still holding the both volume buttons. If you release the power button before the logo appears it will FAIL.
Only after the logo dissapears you can release the volume buttons.
In other words:
1-Press and hold both Volume buttons
2-Press and hold Power button
3-After Vibrant logo appears release Power button
4-Wait until Vibrant logo dissapears and then release Volume bottons
5-You should now be in recovery
Pito

Wow, I followed your directions step by step and still no luck! I wait till I the Vibrant logo to dissapear to release the volume buttons but it just boots up like normal. Thanks anyways! Is there another way of rooting my phone?

What I do as well is hold until the first logo dissapears and as soon as the second one appears release buttons. Then its in recovery.

Ive tried everything you all have said so far and I still cant get my phone into recovery mode. I was able to do it on my wife's vibrant but not on mine. Any suggestions?

Try getting quick boot from the market. It had an option to reboot into recovery. If your problem is just getting the button push right (i had real trouble with it at first) then this should work.
Sent from: Sammy Vibe Rooted
ROM: Stock
Recovery: Clockwork 2.5.0.4

If you are rooted then Clockwork Recovery Mod has the ability to boot into recovery mode. Or you can turn on usb debugging and use adb. Start>Run>cmd and use "adb reboot recovery"
Sent from my SGH-T959

[Q] Changing MAGLDR + Android Version

On NexusHD2-Froyo_V1.9G_NAND and i want to go to HyperDroidGBX-v10, and first i have to boot into MAGLDR113, and i can't boot into the green white blue boot because it always goes automatically to the MAGLDR111, ideas?
If anyone is looking for the solution in the future;
To place the HD2 into Bootloader mode, remove the HD2's back cover hold down the volume down key, now press in the red reset button under the back cover to the bottom left of the SIM, release the soft reset button but continue to hold the volume down key in until you are presented with the tri colour bootloader screen. To exit Soft Reset the device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Why would you want to boot to HSPL if all you want to do is flash a new ROM? All you need to do is boot to MAGLDR and either go to USB Flashed or AD Recovery then flash the ROM? If you want to boot to HSPL make sure you hold down the volume button then power on.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

recovery problem!!!!!

hi, everyone i have a problem after flashing to official 2.3.5 rom beta v2 and i have some issues...
1.my phone bricked 2-3 times
2.after i reinstalled 2.3.5 although i put Clockwork Mod Recovery i can't get to recovery (volume up +power) or pink screen to change the recovery img again
3.can somebody tell me what to do so that i don't have bootlooping problems and make my phone more stable???
thank you in advance!!!!!!!!!!!

What happens when you try to boot to pink screen?
If the update starts, try removing your sd-card first.
Remember that you need this CWM recovery when you've updated to stock 2.3.
And by the way, one exclamation mark is enough...

i can't get to the pink screen because when i press volume up+down +power my phone opens normally and doesn't get in the pink screen

And you're holding in all 3 buttons until something happens? I need to hold the buttons down for a while, until the screen suddenly turns pink.

i 've done it before and i know how to do it the problem is after the last time that i put the 2.3.5 rom now i can't get in the recovery menu or the pink screen because even if i press volume up+power or volume up+volume down+power the phone starts normally instead of getting in the recovery menu or pink screen

Ok. Does it start the update if you have update.app in dload-folder on the sd-card?
Sent from my u8800 using XDA App

no it does't

no it doesn't

[Guide] How to Boot into stock recovery (alternate)

Here's a different way to boot into stock recovery (Must have stock recovery, works on vzw/att non Dev rooted/non)
For some reason the common way has never worked for me and I stumbled upon this.
Hold power and volume down for 3 seconds, let go
Choose Recovery then hold volume up as soon as the white screen comes on...hold until it turns black..let go
It will be black 4 seconds then an Android appears...
Hold volume up then tap power button...Stock Recovery.
Hope this helps people who like me can't boot into it the regular way.

Pie Update

Hello
I updated the phone to pie when it was released. But after the update i cant lock the phone with power button, Volume up key also not working anymore. Also if i press long press the power button to reboot it gets stuck in fastboot mode. Screen gets blank if i go to recovery. I had to reboot around 10 to 15 times to get back to the system. this is my fathers phone and i dont want to root it yet. Is this a soft brick or hardware related issue. all the buttons work (key combinations work to boot into fastboot and recovery.) volume up and power key becomes unusable only when i reboot back to the system.
Kindly help me what is the procedure flash which stock rom to get the phone back to normal.