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Gingerbread - Lost hboot/recovery?

Well i flashed the rooted version of the new OTA gingerbread update and it worked great and has been running flawless, but today i attempted to boot into recovery by holding the volume down + power and something crazy happened and continues to happen.
When i hold the volume down+power it like 'insta boots' my phone, literally goes from turned off to fully up and booted in like 3 seconds, almost as if my phone was in hibernation mode and was just kinda waking it up... Normally it would take about 25-30 seconds to start, first showing the white HTC screen and then the 4G boot logo for about 10 seconds, and then start to load up.. but when i hold down the volume down and power it just "starts" no boot screens or anything, just from off to on in no exaggeration like 3 seconds and it doesn't take me into the hboot screen anymore to get into recovery...
Has this happened to anyone else? what the hell is going on?
I have noticed this same things happens even if i just hit the power button without holding volume down, almost as if when i turn my phone off(hold power off and then select shut phone off from the menu that pops up), it's not actually turning off and just kinda hibernating, when i choose the restart phone button it takes about 15 seconds to actually shut off, and then it runs through all the boot screens like the white htc EVO 4G screen for about 15 seconds, then the Sprint 4G screen with the sound for about 15 seconds, but when i select 'shut phone down' it jsut instantly cuts the screen to black.. no 'shutting phone down' screen that shows up like when i choose the restart phone option

pulazki said:
Well i flashed the rooted version of the new OTA gingerbread update and it worked great and has been running flawless, but today i attempted to boot into recovery by holding the volume down + power and something crazy happened and continues to happen.
When i hold the volume down+power it like 'insta boots' my phone, literally goes from turned off to fully up and booted in like 3 seconds, almost as if my phone was in hibernation mode and was just kinda waking it up... Normally it would take about 25-30 seconds to start, first showing the white HTC screen and then the 4G boot logo for about 10 seconds, and then start to load up.. but when i hold down the volume down and power it just "starts" no boot screens or anything, just from off to on in no exaggeration like 3 seconds and it doesn't take me into the hboot screen anymore to get into recovery...
Has this happened to anyone else? what the hell is going on?
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Turn off fastboot in settings> applications.
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Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol

pulazki said:
Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol
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pulazki said:
Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol
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Don't feel stupid. It's a new feature in GB.
I ALMOST want to keep it on, but then I have this fear of needing to get to Hboot or recovery...
It is wicked how fast it boots up, though, huh??

you can also just choose reboot and push power and vol down at the right time and it works.

HipKat said:
Don't feel stupid. It's a new feature in GB.
I ALMOST want to keep it on, but then I have this fear of needing to get to Hboot or recovery...
It is wicked how fast it boots up, though, huh??
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Look up the quick boot app
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[GUIDE] Recovery options for "bricked" phone.

The dreaded brick, perhaps one of the more overused terms when it comes to the galaxy s. By all accounts the SGS is one of the most difficult phones to actually brick.
As Shantzu put it:
Bricked: The term "bricking" should only be used in the case where you get your phone in a state where it is inoperable AND you can not in any way repair it yourself.
In many cases your phone is not bricked. Common uses of the phrase bricked often include:
1. Boot looping
Try option a, b or c​2. Not going past SGS logo
Try option a, b, or c​3. BSOD (Black Screen Of Death) logo
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Try option a or b​4. Error Message: "Can't mount /dev/block/stl10 (invalid Argument)"
Try option d​
In most circumstances your phone is still recoverable. Have a look below to see what you can do.
Options:
a. If you have the 3 button combo available then try the the download mode combo (Volume Down + Home + Power). If the phone is displaying the BSOD logo and you hold this combo for 10 seconds or so, with the USB plug in, you might just be able to get it into download mode (if you're lucky). If you get the charge screen, turn off phone and try again without USB plug in.
b. You can make this or buy one on ebay. It will set you back up to $10. Once you have the jig, have the phone off, plug it in and it should boot into download mode.
c. Use android debug bridge. There is a useful guide on how to get it working and how to use it to put phone in download mode here. This will only work if your PC is registering the phone as plugged in.
d. Use TechKidTarek's method here to restore correct booting.​
If the above options do work, then what you need to do next is get odin up and running and flash with an appropriate firmware. There are a lot of straight forward guides out there if you don't know how to do this properly (which might be how you bricked your phone in the first place).
I suggest you follow one such as this very closely. And, for the love of android, do not interrupt the flash process. This is the most likely way to make a $500 paperweight.
When all else fails, you may have to send it to samsung repair.
Last of all, good luck.

Excellent, important guide to deal with basic problems. Should be stickied.

Excellent help

yes, should be made a stickie but
a. If you have the 3 button combo available then try the the download mode combo (Volume Down + Home + Power). If the phone is displaying the CE logo and you hold this combo for 10 seconds or so, with the USB plug in, you might just be able to get it into download mode (if you're lucky).
maybe no usb connection... sometimes it goes wrong and it's trying to show the recharging battery or looping

KiRAdot47 said:
maybe no usb connection... sometimes it goes wrong and it's trying to show the recharging battery or looping
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Sure. In my personal experience it works with USB when it has CE logo. But i will amend it to suit all circumstances.
Thanks

Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.

DangerDwayne said:
Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.
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Now that's one I haven't heard before. I will test it myself first and then if it works for me I will put it up to see if other people have luck. Thanks a heap for this.

DangerDwayne said:
Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.
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Tried several times but could not replicate (note: my phone is not currently bricked). Tested with USB in and out. Cannot replicate the response. Perhaps you were just really lucky?
Maybe others might have some luck?

Thanks for the info although I know the repair options by heart already. A while ago I tried to brick my 'old' S1, to see if I could fix it again, just for the fun of it (I've done worse when bored). I assumed it would brick by pulling the battery while flashing but it just wouldn't work. I bet the S2 is just as tough. Not going to try it though (yet)...

This could prove useful sometime... But I hope I won't need it

Thanks ... very usefull guide

Good guide. Congrats !

nice. been looking for this.

noted, thanks for the info

helped,thx

The info here saved my wife's phone, and I expect out marriage as well - she had one of those SGSes where you can neither enter recovery nor download, and I stupidly assumed you could :/ ...and semi-bricked the phone during superoneclick root (stuck in a boootloop on the S logo).
Anyway, info from here allowed me to first restore the three keys combo, and then flash Darky's. Thanks, guys!
ciii.blogspot.com - leave a comment if you like 'em

Thanks! Saved my phone a couple times now!

I have the BSOD and NONE of the methods presented in this thread have worked so far.
Any other ideas folks?.............

dr150 said:
I have the BSOD and NONE of the methods presented in this thread have worked so far.
Any other ideas folks?.............
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Did you try the last method? Send to samsung repair.

Really good info here.
I have "semi bricked" my SGS a few times now, and I will agree that it is very hard to kill one of these things
Odin is a life saver - with that and a stock ROM I've always been able to start again after experimenting.

vol down + vol up + power = what is this?

i'm running deck's latest with latest amon recovery. i powered off my phone. then i pressed vol down + vol up + power and it vibrated 5 times. the led light starts blinking (like there's a missed call or message), but the screen doesn't turn on or do anything. pressing buttons does nothing, but the light continues blinking. my computer doesn't recognize that the usb cable is plugged in. if i pull the battery out with the cable still plugged in, the light continues blinking.
has anyone else come across this or know what this is?

+1. I've always wondered about this also.
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it's not one of those sequences that fakes an incoming call or message so you can get out of awkward situations is it?

With that sequense I boot on security mode off android on atrix
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That gets you into safe mode. It will display "Safe" in the bottom left corner of the screen once it fully boots up

Doing volume up + power takes you to diagnostic mode - which sounds pretty much like what you're describing. Perhaps volume down didn't register?
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trriley5 said:
That gets you into safe mode. It will display "Safe" in the bottom left corner of the screen once it fully boots up
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i've let it sit there for 15 minutes with no change. shouldn't take as long to boot into any kind of safe mode as it does to boot into android.
plainjane said:
Doing volume up + power takes you to diagnostic mode - which sounds pretty much like what you're describing. Perhaps volume down didn't register?
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what can be achieved from diagnostic mode? the usb doesn't register and you can't do anything it. hmmmm

You are missing a couple key parts here.
Vol down + vol up + power + menu + search gives you GOD MODE with infinite lives and ammo.

cnstarz said:
i've let it sit there for 15 minutes with no change. shouldn't take as long to boot into any kind of safe mode as it does to boot into android.
what can be achieved from diagnostic mode? the usb doesn't register and you can't do anything it. hmmmm
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i think you might be able to access any radio options when your bootloaders unlocked like flashing a new prl and stuff like that idk if thats true but my computer installs the drier just fine and comes up as diagnostic in dmanager. i flash prl's through cdma workshop all the time so i think its just another option in case a flash goes bad but someone tell me if im wrong here.

Pressing all three keys together does a soft reset for me. It sometimes doesn't work, but usually does and sure beats popping off the back cover for a battery pull. I have sometimes what you're describing though with the 5 vibrates and flashing green. I'm not sure why, but usually it works great as a soft reset sequence.

ItsLasher said:
You are missing a couple key parts here.
Vol down + vol up + power + menu + search gives you GOD MODE with infinite lives and ammo.
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You forgot no-clip mode

ItsLasher said:
You are missing a couple key parts here.
Vol down + vol up + power + menu + search gives you GOD MODE with infinite lives and ammo.
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Removing Power Off Option on Lockscreen

Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to remove the power off option on the lock screen.
I believe that it is a good way to ensure that the phone does not get turned off when stolen, which could make recovering/tracking it much easier.
Imagine if someone stole your phone and you have an app like find my droid on it, if the phone was turned off, then it would be a problem, in terms of finding it, but if it was on and unable to be turned off (if it was on the lockscreen, with a password), then there would be a perfect way to track it. Is this possible?
Even if you did hold the power button, the phone would reboot, not turn off, so using apps such as findmydroid would work perfectly.
In Fact, I have seen that my EVO LTE did not have a turn off option when you held the power button on the lockscreen, all it did was reboot when you held it.
I was wondering if we could do the same on the nexus 4
Thanks

Interesting. Would also like this on my nexus 4 too
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Because the Nexus 4 does not have a removable battery it has a fail safe hardware switch after holding the power button for a few seconds. It is because of that, such a restriction on the lock screen would not be possible.
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gokuman56 said:
Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to remove the power off option on the lock screen.
I believe that it is a good way to ensure that the phone does not get turned off when stolen, which could make recovering/tracking it much easier.
Imagine if someone stole your phone and you have an app like find my droid on it, if the phone was turned off, then it would be a problem, in terms of finding it, but if it was on and unable to be turned off (if it was on the lockscreen, with a password), then there would be a perfect way to track it. Is this possible?
Thanks
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It wouldn't really matter since if you hold the power button for around 10s it's the equivalent to a battery pull. This is hard coded into the system and cannot be removed in any way. But I agree it would be nice if there was a way to prevent stolen phones from being turned off.
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yoft1 said:
It wouldn't really matter since if you hold the power button for around 10s it's the equivalent to a battery pull. This is hard coded into the system and cannot be removed in any way. But I agree it would be nice if there was a way to prevent stolen phones from being turned off.
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The Phone would reboot wouldn't it, instead of turning off? If a person did steal it, then that person would eventually get tired of holding that button down and leave it alone, or put it back, which is why I think removing the power off/boot option is a good way to help with this issue.

gokuman56 said:
The Phone would reboot wouldn't it, instead of turning off? If a person did steal it, then that person would eventually get tired of holding that button down and leave it alone, or put it back, which is why I think removing the power off/boot option is a good way to help with this issue.
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No, holding down the power button for ten seconds breaks the power circuit to the battery and turns the phone off. To turn it back on you have to press the power button again.
- Nexus 4 / Paranoid Android / Franco r82 / 1188MHz / 1010mV -

juicyjones said:
No, holding down the power button for ten seconds breaks the power circuit to the battery and turns the phone off. To turn it back on you have to press the power button again.
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Nope, Try it and tell me, when I hold down the power button, it reboots the phone
Edit: If I hold it until the screen turns off, then it will reboot (which is usually what an normal person would do)
If I hold it for about 5 seconds longer than the screen turns off, then it will turn off (which a normal person would not do, and it took me a few tries to figure it out)
So, I am still wondering if it would be possible to remove the power/boot options from the lockscreen, as it would be a great security feature

I have a N4 and is a really good solution from it. My sgs was stolen and was a first thing that the thief do: Turn off..
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This is such a good idea. But then again if they were smart they could just boot in recovery and wipe :/ or take out the sim

Re: Removing Power Off Option on Lockscreen,
Somebody have a little solution? In some threat recommended don't have block screen all with the objective that the thief use our phone and we have more time, but I really know exist the way to difficult the power off ours phone. Some have an idea?
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Somebody?
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There's gotta be a way, please someone!

Seems like a really good idea! I would love ROM's to start featuring this option! I shouldn't be too hard to code...
Hmmm, subscribed.
Hopefully a dev picks this up.

Thief can pull out SIM or reboot to recovery even if there is no way to turn phone off.

kelah said:
Thief can pull out SIM or reboot to recovery even if there is no way to turn phone off.
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Lets be honest here, 98% of thief's probably wont even know what the recovery is. And it can still be tracked via the GPS even if the sim is removed.
Plus most phones (inc mine) are locked to one sim card, so if the sim is removed, or changed, the phone automatically locks itself, and the location sent to me via a web app and email.
Again, its not meant to stop all thief's, but it's a fail-safe against the majority.

What rom u on? I could do somethin real quick

stpx88 said:
What rom u on? I could do somethin real quick
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I'm on AOKP

Arright.. gimme one sec. I'm on cm10.1 so i have to flash aokp real quick.
EDIT:
MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!! JUST IN CASE.
Well here is a flashable zip ONLY for AOKP mr1 Build 5 (You will BOOTLOOP flashing on any other rom) . This will remove the power off option, in the power dialog, while on the lockscreen.
link:
db . tt/A2hLvgFw
(remove the spaces, i can't post links yet apparently)

stpx88 said:
Arright.. gimme one sec. I'm on cm10.1 so i have to flash aokp real quick.
EDIT:
MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!! JUST IN CASE.
Well here is a flashable zip ONLY for AOKP mr1 Build 5 (You will BOOTLOOP flashing on any other rom) . This will remove the power off option, in the power dialog, while on the lockscreen.
link:
db . tt/A2hLvgFw
(remove the spaces, i can't post links yet apparently)
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Sorry bout that. This one will work.
www . dropbox . com/s/y3ezavo738ro8i1/remove-poweroff-AOKP-mr1-build5.zip
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recover SM-G900F from boot loop

I downgraded my SM-G900F from Android 4.4.2(PDA G900FXXU1ANJ1, build date 1.10.2014) to Android 4.4.2(PDA G900FXXU1ANCE, build date 31.03.2014) with Odin. According to Odin everything went fine:
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However, if I boot up the phone, I hear the Samsung bling, blue LED turns on for few seconds and after that the boot process seems to be looped as phone vibrates lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys are lit. Screen is off during all this.
My initial idea was to factory-reset the phone(clear /data and /cache partitions), but if I power on the phone with power button while pushing volume up and home buttons, the phone just vibrates for a fraction of a second and that's it. It does not enter into recovery and looks like the phone is off.
When I try to enter into download mode(push power button while home and volume down buttons are pushed down), the phone behaves exactly like in case I simply push the power button which I already described above.
Just for information, if I connect the charger to phone, then the phone vibrates for a fraction of a second and around half a minute the red led is lit(indicates that the device is connected to a charger and it is charging).
Is there a way to unbrick phone if there is no access to recovery and download mode? Please let me know if any additional information is needed.

Try the following: remove the battery. Hold down the buttons and insert battery. Perhaps you have to ask a buddy to help... You should enter download mode....

disobiech said:
Try the following: remove the battery. Hold down the buttons and insert battery. Perhaps you have to ask a buddy to help... You should enter download mode....
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I did that, but unfortunately phone just starts to vibrate for a fraction of second with 8 seconds interval as long as I keep the buttons down. There are no LED lights, no sound and no output to screen.
What I find especially weird is that accessing the download mode earlier, when I posted my initial post, the phone behaved exactly like in case I simply pushed the power button, i.e I heard the Samsung bling, blue LED turned on for few seconds and after that the boot process seemed to be looped as phone vibrated lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys were lit. Or maybe I did not push all three buttons properly down when I tried to access the download mode during my initial post

m4rtin86 said:
I did that, but unfortunately phone just starts to vibrate for a fraction of second with 8 seconds interval as long as I keep the buttons down. There are no LED lights, no sound and no output to screen.
What I find especially weird is that accessing the download mode earlier, when I posted my initial post, the phone behaved exactly like in case I simply pushed the power button, i.e I heard the Samsung bling, blue LED turned on for few seconds and after that the boot process seemed to be looped as phone vibrated lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys were lit. Or maybe I did not push all three buttons properly down when I tried to access the download mode during my initial post
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Perhaps a USB Jig will do. I never had to try one... Search for "Jig Download Mode Samsung Galaxy" on amazon etc...
good luck....!

disobiech said:
Perhaps a USB Jig will do. I never had to try one... Search for "Jig Download Mode Samsung Galaxy" on amazon etc...
good luck....!
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I made an USB jig myself and also bought this one and while both worked with my GT-I9100, they did not work with SM-G900F. If I inserted USB jig to SM-G900F, the phone simply vibrated once and that was it.
Is it possible to JTAG SM-G900F? Use some sort of flasher like ATF-box? Or if one can not access the download mode, then there is nothing to do other than sell the phone into parts?

I finally took my Galaxy S5 to Samsung service and they replaced the front panel In other words phone got the new screen and now it boots up just fine. How to explain this? I would have thought that motherboard, where the flash memory modules are, needs to be replaced.