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Action + Power key combination??? What does it do

Okay, so my Mytouch is bricked, and I'm trying to figure out if theres a way to unbrick it and while messing with the phone I do this:
While the phone is off, when holding down the "Action" key then pressing the "Power" key, the led illuminates blue. The screen does nothing!
So, I don't know if something else happens to a perfectly normal working MT3G/Hero but I thought I would share and ask if there are any other key combination besides the regular fastboot presses.
Is there a list or does anyone know all the possible combinations and what they do?

I'm in the same boat as you, but I've tried every combination possible and nothing. The only thing I can say is after about 3 hours on a charger the charging light comes on but once I press the power key that stops. I think this is one of those phones that once you brick you're done for and there is nothing to bring it back.

Home+Power = recovery mode
volume down+power = fastboot
don't know of any past that

I had saved this info a while back:
BACK + POWER : Fastboot mode
VOLDOWN + POWER : Hboot mode
ACTION (trackball) + POWER : Radio Bootloader
HOME + POWER : Recovery mode
SEND + MENU + POWER : Reboot
I don't know what's the use of the Radio bootloader though. What I can tell you is that even on a working phone you don't get more than the blue led (I just tested)
sorry if it's not very helpful

PurpleFries said:
Home+Power = recovery mode
volume down+power = fastboot
don't know of any past that
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swissp said:
I had saved this info a while back:
BACK + POWER : Fastboot mode
VOLDOWN + POWER : Hboot mode
ACTION (trackball) + POWER : Radio Bootloader
HOME + POWER : Recovery mode
SEND + MENU + POWER : Reboot
I don't know what's the use of the Radio bootloader though. What I can tell you is that even on a working phone you don't get more than the blue led (I just tested)
sorry if it's not very helpful
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Thanks for the help, this actually helps

Just wanna to adds :
From Fast Boot screen <vol down + power> and you press <back>, will come this options :
<vol down> HBoot Mode
<send> Reset Device
<Action> Restart to HBoot
<MENU> Power Down

I have a Magic phone that became bricked after a faulty Radio upgrade.
I'm getting this icon EVERYTIME:
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But if I press Action+Power, the screen is black and the led is also blue!!!!
Can this be a way out?

Did flash of Hboot 1.33.2005 while being on HBoot 1.33.2010. that action made my cell be able only power on with Vodafone red splash screen stayin forever.
Cant access HBOOT through Back+Power or Vol down+Power anymore.And dont have any ROM installed on phone.
Found that combination as well Action+Power.
dont know if it usefull in this case.
Option i found so far is JTAG method. that can unbrick device by loadin new HBOOT and Radio. so resurrection still available. didnt try it but hope i will.
gud luck w ur deadmen guys! keep tryin
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Phk said:
I have a Magic phone that became bricked after a faulty Radio upgrade.
I'm getting this icon EVERYTIME:
But if I press Action+Power, the screen is black and the led is also blue!!!!
Can this be a way out?
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go to HBoot (if it still possible 4 ur brick) so u ll be able to flash new radio and hboot in the right way + load recovery u need to flash rom

No Recovery, No Download Mode

Screwed up a flash of build.prop
Originally I could access both Download Mode and Recovery but in the time I waited to download new Firmware to flash, I can't access either of them.
Holding Home+Vol Up+Pwer - Bootloops
Holding Home+Vol Down+Pwer - Bootloops
Letting boot shows the splash, makes bootsound with no graphic, lights the LED buttons and then Freezes
I was using the Stock Firmware from Optus.
Someone please help
EDIT: Fixed it, Anyone else who has a similar issue, I let it boot, and then it turned it's self off, once that happened I could access Download Mode again...Thank god

maybe you can help us here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746814
a similar case, this guy has lost the ability to use the 3 key combo to go into the recovery mode

Try the flash seq. As soon as u see the s logo light up release per for a sec then press again.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Same Problem here i contact samsung here in mexico and a technical aggent tell me if we make a repair our phones we need a jtag and this is so bad alllready contact many people jtag manufacturers in china and honkong trow alibaba.com and no luck don't have other source i try is contact to nspro and z3x and no support for this repairand only hope still have is a reply from the people in the forum SMTi Jtag Repair Tool

just to be sure.
Did you get stuck in this screen? then you were able to continue after it turned itself off?
also, originally were your 3 buttons combo working out of the box?, mine was not working at all out of the box
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arch3rm said:
Screwed up a flash of build.prop
Originally I could access both Download Mode and Recovery but in the time I waited to download new Firmware to flash, I can't access either of them.
Holding Home+Vol Up+Pwer - Bootloops
Holding Home+Vol Down+Pwer - Bootloops
Letting boot shows the splash, makes bootsound with no graphic, lights the LED buttons and then Freezes
I was using the Stock Firmware from Optus.
Someone please help
EDIT: Fixed it, Anyone else who has a similar issue, I let it boot, and then it turned it's self off, once that happened I could access Download Mode again...Thank god
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No, I only saw that screen once and the 3keys worked on it.
Sorry

meh... then it's not the same
that picture above, is the ultimately bricked screen.
and only the 3 button combo can save it, but if the phone have 3 button sequence disable, you are pretty much dead in the water.

Shut this ANDROID IS killing me with my s60v5 i8910 dont have any problems at all when flashing and i flashed arround 50 times
FKTS

lgkahn said:
Try the flash seq. As soon as u see the s logo light up release per for a sec then press again.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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this worked for me. thanks!

hELLO NO RECOVERY NO DOWNLOAD MODE
i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM, WHAT CAN i DO? THE SAME SCREEN...

see the sticky topic about the home made JIG?
use that
then you can go back to flash a good ROM

Trouble / Brick? like this how to fix?

Hello, I got trouble like this when I tried to restore to factory setting, I never do something modding like rooting or something at my tatto.
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Help me plz .... I'm confused ...

That ain't no brick. You're in the recovery console. You have to hit a buton combination to get out of it.
Press one of the volume keys together with the power on button (red phone). I think it was those. Could be another combo though.

Still not working sir I used vol down + power not happend anything, when vol up + power my tattoo start blank screen and green led indicator only ...

Hy!
I can (very cheap) buy a HTC Tattoo which is broken.
The problem is (seller says) : When he try to turn on HTC Tattoo its just vibrating.
Can anyone say me is it hardware or software problem?
(Sorry for my bad english I am from Croatia.)

Hi, the easiest option is to remove the battery n replace it, then turn the phone on. The other option is to keep pressing the buttons home and call end, together.
Mithun.

mstaglicic said:
Hy!
I can (very cheap) buy a HTC Tattoo which is broken.
The problem is (seller says) : When he try to turn on HTC Tattoo its just vibrating.
Can anyone say me is it hardware or software problem?
(Sorry for my bad english I am from Croatia.)
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Hi, is the display working? Well, there might be many defects in the phone or might not be... its like a gamble, you can buy the phone and get it repaired, it might cost you a lot. The call is yours.

mewmewmew said:
Still not working sir I used vol down + power not happend anything, when vol up + power my tattoo start blank screen and green led indicator only ...
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Hi, the easiest option is to remove the battery n replace it, then turn the phone on. The other option is to keep pressing the buttons home and call end, together.
Mithun.

Mithun_srk05 said:
Hi, is the display working? Well, there might be many defects in the phone or might not be... its like a gamble, you can buy the phone and get it repaired, it might cost you a lot. The call is yours.
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I'dont know is display working.
But it seems to me like a software problem.
Is there a hard reset or turning Tattoo in DFU mode (something like that) for flashing?
Thank you for answering.

help...
help... mine is like that too.. now i can't make goldcard:
F:\tatoo\tools>adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
when i try to run RUU_Click_HTC_WWE_1.67.405.6_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
i get ERROR [170]: USB CONNECTION ERROR
I've downloaded (recovery-RA-tattoo-v1.6.2.img) but i don't know how to flash it...

If you cant get your adbd on the phone working, you could try to go over jtag to get a shell. But first download the android sdk from google and try the adb in there.

little development....
I managed to get these options(see attachment) pressing HOME+END after boot, but i can't select any options...
I tried to press every button and i can't enable the selection or move up/down the selection...
Some help here please...

mstaglicic said:
I'dont know is display working.
But it seems to me like a software problem.
Is there a hard reset or turning Tattoo in DFU mode (something like that) for flashing?
Thank you for answering.
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Sorry for the late response, you can go to the boot screen by pressing the home button and end button together... This method will only work if the phone is rooted. Else, create a Gold card and get into the fast boot mode by pressing vol down and end button simultaneously lemme know if it worked.

madaleno said:
I managed to get these options(see attachment) pressing HOME+END after boot, but i can't select any options...
I tried to press every button and i can't enable the selection or move up/down the selection...
Some help here please...
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Madaleno, looking at the attachment it shows that your phone is not rooted, which means that you cant apply update via SD card.. it will give u an error message. Create a gold card by grabbing a smart phone from someone, it can be windows mobile or android based.... Once a gold card is created, you can flash a stock ROM. To navigate on the menu, based on ur attachment, use volume up and down keys and call button to select.

If it is not rooted maybe you still have warranty for the phone so you can send it to free service.

Well... no warranty...
And volume up/down does nothing...

madaleno said:
Well... no warranty...
And volume up/down does nothing...
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You don't need your tattoo to make a gold card.
Ask someone with a Android device, and put you sd card and do it.
Cheers

Got GOLD!
I've used a symbian to read CID and created a goldcard
Can someone give me some guidelines what to do next?

With your phone turned off, press power + volume down buttons at the same time.
Then wait a litle and press back until appears "FASTBOOT" in the screen.
Then connect the usb cable and flash the stock ROM.
Cheers

Zecanilis said:
With your phone turned off, press power + volume down buttons at the same time.
Then wait a litle and press back until appears "FASTBOOT" in the screen.
Then connect the usb cable and flash the stock ROM.
Cheers
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I pressed "Volume down"+"End" for 1 second and then keep "back" pressed and i get the same screen as post #1 :

You don't keep back pressed.
only press it a few times.

Recovery from a completely dead phone / captivate with no power

This should be a sticky or added to a existing sticky.
Do you get no power when you turn on your phone? Nothing shows up on the screen at all. You have the worst brick possible that is recoverable. I wished this post came out before I did a warranty swap.
Here's how to fix: Credit goes to OP
- You need Odin program before starting.
1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.
2. Wait 10 seconds.
3. Open odin3
4. Insert battery.
5. Connect usb cable.
6. HOLD VOL+ and VOL- while plugging in USB
Got download screen and flashed with ODIN..
Let ODin finish.
*** This program recovered my dead phone with no power, nothing shows up on my screen. - Dead and also a stuck boot up screen.
I saw another post that has the similar set of instructions 6. HOLD VOL+ and VOL- and then press the power button. Nothing happens.
I am curious how people this post has helped. Can you respond when you these directions gets your phone up. Thank you.

this is cOLD. and has been posted numerous times.
A.K.A. Check [STOCK] Odin 1 click. and this does not recover from a completely dead phone that doesn't have button combo to download mode.

I thought that was what we all did to get into d/l

Some tools developer or reseller said that the phone is bricked,
and need Jtag tool to do recovery.
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Jtag is usefull for empty or totally corrupted ROM recovery.
But if you see this, your phone is FAR from brick !
Just press the keys, bring it back to download mode
Then plug to cable and flash a working firmware again.
No special tools is needed,
No need to waste time and money send for repair,
Don't waste your good phone and don't break it for jtag.

johan8 said:
Some tools developer or reseller said that the phone is bricked,
and need Jtag tool to do recovery.
Jtag is usefull for empty or totally corrupted ROM recovery.
But if you see this, your phone is FAR from brick !
Just press the keys, bring it back to download mode
Then plug to cable and flash a working firmware again.
No special tools is needed,
No need to waste time and money send for repair,
Don't waste your good phone and don't break it for jtag.
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as my case....but i still can't enter download mode or recovery mode
and now... my pc can't detect my phone again...
what should i do now OMG

Are you seeing the Phone-!-PC symbol? I was in a situation where my phone wouldn't accept the the up/down key press to enter download mode. I ended up having to make a jig which basically will force the phone into download mode. You can search the forums on how to make one.

junktzu said:
Are you seeing the Phone-!-PC symbol? I was in a situation where my phone wouldn't accept the the up/down key press to enter download mode. I ended up having to make a jig which basically will force the phone into download mode. You can search the forums on how to make one.
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yea...ur right...im seeing the Phone-!-PC symbol,so...must make a jig?

linggo said:
yea...ur right...im seeing the Phone-!-PC symbol,so...must make a jig?
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No, if you see that symbol, you can recover using the method in first post to get to download mode. That is how I got past it.

loraque said:
No, if you see that symbol, you can recover using the method in first post to get to download mode. That is how I got past it.
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not work so far...

This is what most people always do to enter dl mode.
However, many phones shipped without the button combos needed for it to work. In that case it is possible to make a USB jig to trigger download mode manually. see this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551

:-(
Sent from my X10i using XDA App

Deca4 said:
This should be a sticky or added to a existing sticky.
Do you get no power when you turn on your phone? Nothing shows up on the screen at all. You have the worst brick possible that is recoverable. I wished this post came out before I did a warranty swap.
Here's how to fix: Credit goes to OP
- You need Odin program before starting.
1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.
2. Wait 10 seconds.
3. Open odin3
4. Insert battery.
5. Connect usb cable.
6. HOLD VOL+ and VOL- while plugging in USB
Got download screen and flashed with ODIN..
Let ODin finish.
*** This program recovered my dead phone with no power, nothing shows up on my screen. - Dead and also a stuck boot up screen.
I saw another post that has the similar set of instructions 6. HOLD VOL+ and VOL- and then press the power button. Nothing happens.
I am curious how people this post has helped. Can you respond when you these directions gets your phone up. Thank you.
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I have the same problem but I cannot get it to download mode. My phone is completely dead no power no sign of life. The only thing I notice is when i put the battery into the phone for about 15 minutes the phone is getting hot so I don't know if this is a common problem for bricked phone.

MobileXT said:
I have the same problem but I cannot get it to download mode. My phone is completely dead no power no sign of life. The only thing I notice is when i put the battery into the phone for about 15 minutes the phone is getting hot so I don't know if this is a common problem for bricked phone.
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Try these steps to see if you can get the red text to show up. If you can, you are still recoverable using the steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9330685&highlight=red+text#post9330685

linggo said:
not work so far...
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I had the exact same "phone - ! - PC" brick screen and vol up + vol down + power only took me to "unknown upload mode". I eventually figured out by myself that holding ONLY vol down + power for 10 sec is what takes you to download mode from that particular screen.
Summary: Anyone who's getting "Phone--!--PC" and the three-button combo takes you to "unknown upload mode", try holding vol down + power for 10 seconds.

dead phone
The guys just turned off my phone and didn’t turn on, didn’t enter into the backup, I can’t flash through ODIN because even after installing the drivers, the computer sees the phone as a ULC1 device and cannot install the drivers needed for the phone, who had such a problem decide? samsung j100fn

i9000 Can't get into HBOOT

So my friend rooted and flashed CWM on his Galaxy S i9000, then he wasnt happy so he tried to restore the old backup. It gave him an error, now the phone is stuck in bootloop. The problem is that he cant get back into HBOOT either because Power+Vol UP+Home doesnt work. Any ideas guys?
Thanks for helping

chargerbandit said:
So my friend rooted and flashed CWM on his Galaxy S i9000, then he wasnt happy so he tried to restore the old backup. It gave him an error, now the phone is stuck in bootloop. The problem is that he cant get back into HBOOT either because Power+Vol UP+Home doesnt work. Any ideas guys?
Thanks for helping
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Do a battery pull first
try a different combination of keys ( Vol down+home+power or home+power )
Failing which use easy reboot recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796807

xsenman said:
Do a battery pull first
try a different combination of keys ( Vol down+home+power or home+power )
Failing which use easy reboot recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796807
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Thanks for your help. All those combos don't work for some reason. I am not sure how Easy Reboot Recovery would work since I believe the phone doesn't get recognized by the USB.

chargerbandit said:
Thanks for your help. All those combos don't work for some reason. I am not sure how Easy Reboot Recovery would work since I believe the phone doesn't get recognized by the USB.
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ok, try battery pull and reinsert method for download mode
1) Press and hold (volume down+home key+power button)
2) insert the battery

by ruaylau
Did you ever get into to Download Mode or Recovery Mode before you stuck?

Yeah, I accessed the recovery with Vol Up + Power + Home, but only when the phone was booted up fully. He was trying to restore the old ROM in CWM but it gave him error flashing boot image, then he restarted the phone and got the bootloop problem, so theres no way to restart it into HBOOT. I will try your method xsenman, have to wait till sunday so the phone gets here. If anyone has some other tips, I would appreciate it.

chargerbandit said:
Yeah, I accessed the recovery with Vol Up + Power + Home, but only when the phone was booted up fully. He was trying to restore the old ROM in CWM but it gave him error flashing boot image, then he restarted the phone and got the bootloop problem, so theres no way to restart it into HBOOT. I will try your method xsenman, have to wait till sunday so the phone gets here. If anyone has some other tips, I would appreciate it.
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May be you bricked your phone. You can try solutions mentioned below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134975

USB-jig FTW
It's not bricked..if you're seeing anything on the screen, it should be recoverable. And even hard bricked phone can be saved with the UnBrickablemod.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

Okay heres the thing. Easy Reboot Recovery does nothing, just opens and closes, I guess since it kinda doesn't recognize the USB from the phone. Then I used SGS Rescue Kit, launched OneClick.jar, connected the phone, clicked unsoft brick and it said Sucessful, the phone started showing the Samsung logo, but then nothing happens. Tried Easy Reboot Recovery again, but nothing. Any ideas?

Can you still access download mod ( Volume Key down + Menu + Power ) ?
If yes you can download a stock ROM that includes PIT PDA PHONE CSC and BOOTLOADER files, this page contains links to all theses files :
http://www.androidgen.fr/tutoriel-s...id-gingerbread-2-3-6-odin-article-2110-2.html
Now once you download these files just start Odin and put:
s1_odin_20100512.pit in PIT
CODE_I9000XWJVZ_CL762604_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5 in PDA
MODEM_I9000XXJVT_REV_00_CL1064602.tar.md5 in MODEM
GT-I9000-CSC-HOME-MULTI-OXAJVT.tar.md5 in CSC
APBOOT_I9000XWJVZ_CL762604_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5 in BOOTLOADER
Make sure that "Re-Partition" is checked as shown in this Screenshot:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Now hit start and wait for the magic to happen
Good luck

Did that, and it worked. Thank you very much!

great forum with lot of fantastic help.:good:

chargerbandit said:
Did that, and it worked. Thank you very much!
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You can always hit thanx