I turn My sgs off. But when i hold Power + Volume up + Menu, It just boots phone normally. It will not go into recovery mode no matter how long i hold them for.
Any suggestions?
If you have download mode (same but with volume down key) then recovery mode should also work. For me to get to recovery I release all buttons once the galaxy s screen shows then recovery screen pops up about 5 secs later.
If you dont have download mode then check this out. I have used the Odin method numerous times without issue but take your time reading the instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821698
This should fix it.
EDIT: just noticed you mentioned menu key....its actually the home key you need to press instead.
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Cheers. I'll try it out. If i message back its because im too thick to figure it out
Cool. But I hope you read my edit at the bottom first.
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Cool. But I hope you read my edit at the bottom first.
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I give up with this. Ive read about 7 trillion step by step guides and my phone just aint havin it.
Im buying an HTC Desire HD.
Screw galaxy Ive had enough.
Thanyou for your help :]
I always have trouble getting to recovery mode using the power + up + home method, the easiest method to get into recovery mode seems to be using the extended power menu or quick boot apps.
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I'm just trying to enter recovery console. I have tryed EVERY button combination & used a computer to just did use SDK. Any help would be GREAT ! Thank you
Just to make sure: you need to release the button at the right time.
Turn off your phone and take out the battery for 5 sec then put the battery back. Then hold power+vol up + vol down together and once you see the Vibrant logo, release the power button immediately WHILE pressing vol up+vol down.
That didn't work tryed 3 times.
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Have you tried via adb:
adb reboot recovery
I had difficulty getting to recovery when I reflashed the stock ROM via ODIN. But once it was rooted and I got Clockwork Recovery back on there, I haven't had an issue via the button combination t get into recovery.
I will try that thx for the info.
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GalaxyS_Bweb2185 said:
I'm just trying to enter recovery console. I have tryed EVERY button combination & used a computer to just did use SDK. Any help would be GREAT ! Thank you
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I was on the same boat as you. I just gave up and did the one-click root process. It wasn't exactly one-click, but it was simple enough. Now I've got the Clockwork ROM manager, which will let you boot into its recovery through the application itself.
I downloaded the one click lag fix app that roots your phone & fix the lag but I just can't get into recovery mode.
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I was in the same boat then read to do the 3 button thingy but do not let go of anything until the 2nd time the word vibrant comes up then let go of everything...after hours of frustration,i can't believe how easy it was....not sure why this tip is not in a sticky or easily found on xda.
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that does not seem to work. I am pretty sure the newer models have this disabled somehow.
Not true, I just bought my vibrant yesterday and I can get into recovery console just fine...
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are you rooted?
Download a terminal emulator from the market.
then do
su
reboot recovery
JakeRadden said:
Not true, I just bought my vibrant yesterday and I can get into recovery console just fine...
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What date code is on your vibrant box? I am on my second phone both built in august and the buttons do not work on either. I had to root via adb recovery. The earlier built phones are rumored to be fine. Dosent seem to matter when you got the phone more when it was made.
My first Vibrant got into recovery no problem, I received a replacement phone which would not get into recovery using the hardware buttons. I called T-Mobile and told them of the problem and they sent me out a new phone. This last one boots into recovery first try. I know there is a common problem with some Vibrants out there not booting into recovery, thankfully T-Mobile will exchange if it won't.
Let me check when I get back home. Is this a t-mobile acknowledged issue with vibrants now?
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When mine gets finicky, I just plug it to my Windows machine, Enable USB Debugging, open the command prompt, and type "adb reboot recovery" without quotes. Works every time. You can also use "adb reboot download" to get into download mode.
andryga said:
I was in the same boat then read to do the 3 button thingy but do not let go of anything until the 2nd time the word vibrant comes up then let go of everything...after hours of frustration,i can't believe how easy it was....not sure why this tip is not in a sticky or easily found on xda.
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For what it's worth, this helped me.
Hold volume up, volume down, and power all together, wait for Vibrant to come for the second time, then let go of the power button but not the menu button. After another second, I let go of the volume buttons and instantly went into recovery.
Good luck.
I tried terminal and it said it was not permitted
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Someone on the I9000 boards posted that recovery can also be invoked by heat! He used an oven, but suggested a hair dryer to be safe.
sabooher said:
What date code is on your vibrant box? I am on my second phone both built in august and the buttons do not work on either. I had to root via adb recovery. The earlier built phones are rumored to be fine. Dosent seem to matter when you got the phone more when it was made.
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I agree with this one. My Vibrant has a date of 8/14/10, and for the life of me it will not button into recovery. I really have read every thread on the topic here as well as other android forums, and tried every combination (over and over).
Rooting was a no brainer with one touch, and with that, I can get to recovery easily. The problem I see, is in the event of a miss step somewhere down the line.
I can't tell you the relief that I felt doing a battery pull to button recovery with my G1(many times). When you are in a bootloop or the like, and nothing else will work, you just need that capability.
Sadly, my Vibrant will be going back because of this. I don't understand why they would hobble the devise this way. I'm sure they will get many more phones returned because of it.
You need to type su first.
From terminal:
su
reboot recovery
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Help......my Tab is having problem....it always restart....i cannot reset the factory data .Is that anyway to take out the battery to reset all data?anyone try b4???
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how you resolve it?
can you share it?
i have same issue too
Start with your tab turned off. Then it's either, Hold Volume Up + Power Button at the same time or it's hold Volume Down + Power Button at the same time. One will boot you into fastboot, the other way will boot you into the stock recovery. You want recovery. You will know its right cause you will see an upside down triangle. Then hit i think it was search button or one of the volume buttons to get a menu to pop up. Highlight factory reset and hit the power button. If you boot into fastboot mode and not recovery, the screen will be black and will say please load OS or whatever. Just hold down power button to power off and try the other way.
Bear with me if directions are a little off. Gave my wife my tab months ago so I haven't had to do that in awhile
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Start with your tab turned off. Then it's either, Hold Volume Up + Power Button at the same time or it's hold Volume Down + Power Button at the same time. One will boot you into fastboot, the other way will boot you into the stock recovery. You want recovery. You will know its right cause you will see an upside down triangle. Then hit i think it was search button or one of the volume buttons to get a menu to pop up. Highlight factory reset and hit the power button. If you boot into fastboot mode and not recovery, the screen will be black and will say please load OS or whatever. Just hold down power button to power off and try the other way.
Bear with me if directions are a little off. Gave my wife my tab months ago so I haven't had to do that in awhile
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that the first thing i do..
keeps restarting until the bateray going down..
have another idea?
ceperz said:
that the first thing i do..
keeps restarting until the bateray going down..
have another idea?
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Enter download mode and flash another ROM.
Flash a new rom manually like overcomerom.just follow the step by step instruction on how to.
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I TRIED EVERYTHING the phone will NOT get into download mode... i forgot my got damn password to my gmail and now i cant even activate the phone.. i found out i can use odin3 but the thing is no matter what i do it will NOT go into download mode
Pull battery. Plug phone and computer using usb cable. Hold both volume up and down. Insert battery. Works everytime unless of course you flashed i9000 boot loaders in which case only hold either up or down.
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i tried everything and all i can get it into is recovery mode and thats.. this phone is stock and not even rooted..
do i need anything else installed other trhan samsung drivers?
how come it can boot into recovery mode but not download mode? i have takin the battery off plug it into to my comptuer hold vol + and down and put the battery in and still nothing half the time it will boot into recovery and thats about it...
explodingboy70 said:
Pull battery. Plug phone and computer using usb cable. Hold both volume up and down. Insert battery. Works every time unless of course you flashed i9000 boot loaders in which case only hold either up or down.
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Do this + try tapping the menu key and or the home key while holding down the other buttons.......... there is a timing trick to this but one of these will work . Also in Q & A S14274N Noob bible has all the other ways check it out.
as a last resort u can always get a usb jig to get u into download mode!
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Do this + try tapping the menu key and or the home key while holding down the other buttons.......... there is a timing trick to this but one of these will work . Also in Q & A S14274N Noob bible has all the other ways check it out.
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thanks, but it still wont get into download mode =\
as i said before u may need to get a usb jib and order one online to get into dl mode!!
bongholio said:
thanks, but it still wont get into download mode =\
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If thats red recovery, voodoo, then go down to voodoo and in there should be reboot to download mode.
If its not there or you dont see red then search in recovery as some have dl mode. Also if you have adb set up on your computer and you can get to recovery then in command line type adb reboot download.
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bongholio said:
how come it can boot into recovery mode but not download mode? i have takin the battery off plug it into to my comptuer hold vol + and down and put the battery in and still nothing half the time it will boot into recovery and thats about it...
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Try this:
Take the battery out and put it back. Then you should hold both volume keys while plugging the usb cable to the phone. Don't release the keys until download mode appears.
maybe ur hardware locked? s thats why u cant get into dl mode!
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thanks, but it still wont get into download mode =\
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What ROM are you running?
If you are completely stock, then use Kies to update to the latest official stock ROM, this will fix your 3 button issue via a SBL fix.
I love the SBL fix.
Basically, thats whats going on. I've followed instructions on various threads, tried everything. The phone simply will not boot into recovery no matter what I try. Is there anything left I can do?
Let it sit for a day and try again. It worked for me many times in the past. Sometimes Odin would recognize my phone that wasn't even in a download mode.
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Was fastboot enabled? Have you tried pulling the battery before attempting to get into recovery?
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Let it sit for a day and try again. It worked for me many times in the past. Sometimes Odin would recognize my phone that wasn't even in a download mode.
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Problem is, its already been like this for about 3 days. I guess I'll give it another day then.
StuartTheFish said:
Was fastboot enabled? Have you tried pulling the battery before attempting to get into recovery?
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Not that I am aware of, and yes i have
What rom are you in? Try to hold vol up + power
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Semianonymous said:
Basically, thats whats going on. I've followed instructions on various threads, tried everything. The phone simply will not boot into recovery no matter what I try. Is there anything left I can do?
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try to odin back to stock
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
Or try that same method without holding the power button, just the volume rocker (up and down) when plugging into usb that works for some ppl
The vibrant is tough to hard brick so keep trying
I am stuck in twrp my nandroid fails "when its finished installing I revert to twrp I have all the tools needed to revert to stock its just I cannot get out of twrp. It aslo wont power off so I cant get into download mode either..... what can I do?
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MikeJennni said:
I am stuck in twrp my nandroid fails "when its finished installing I revert to twrp I have all the tools needed to revert to stock its just I cannot get out of twrp. It aslo wont power off so I cant get into download mode either..... what can I do?
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I had this when running TWRP and if I remember you hold the "off" button down until it starts to reboot and then quickly hold the up button while it's rebooting.
You may be able to just hold the start and up button at the same time then turn the start button loose when you see the logo.
Again; I can't remember exactly what I did but it's safe to say to device is not broken.
One note: I was never able to get TWRP to run correctly (consistently) on this device without at least some issues.
I use CMR with no problems.
Also when I had this problem i had to do a complete wipe to get completely into download mode...
Good luck...
Gabriel51 said:
I had this when running TWRP and if I remember you hold the "off" button down until it starts to reboot and then quickly hold the up button while it's rebooting.
You may be able to just hold the start and up button at the same time then turn the start button loose when you see the logo.
Again; I can't remember exactly what I did but it's safe to say to device is not broken.
One note: I was never able to get TWRP to run correctly (consistently) on this device without at least some issues.
I use CMR with no problems.
Also when I had this problem i had to do a complete wipe to get completely into download mode...
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Ill try wiping holding volume up or both at logo isnt working ....im guessing because its restarting instead of power off. Ill report back
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Ill try wiping holding volume up or both at logo isnt working ....im guessing because its restarting instead of power off. Ill report back
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That's correct! it will auto restart so you have to get your timing right. Try holding down the start button and as soon as the screen goes blank release the start button and grab the up button..
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That's correct! it will auto restart so you have to get your timing right. Try holding down the start button and as soon as the screen goes blank release the start button and grab the up button..
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No luck with the timing. And now after wiping my nandroid is gone
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Ok. I got it. Full wife allowed me to fully power off. Once powered off in achieved download mode by holding volume up and plugging device into laptop via micro usb.
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Ok. I got it. Full wife allowed me to fully power off. Once powered off in achieved download mode by holding volume up and plugging device into laptop via micro usb.
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This is why I abandoned TWRP which was always my favorite, but not for this device.
I'm glad your up and going again...
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This is why I abandoned TWRP which was always my favorite, but not for this device.
I'm glad your up and going again...
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Yeah twrp is new to me ive always used cwm. Thanks for the quick responses the full wipe definitely helped. Thanks again
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