I would post in in the development but... that great rule doesn't let me.
People were having issues with accessing the recovery menu.
I get to the recovery screen (some people were having trouble, if you have your tab plugged in and adb reboot recovery it'll get you to the charging screen, just hold the top vol rocker and power and you get to the menu where you can choose the icon for recovery and another for "downloading..." dunno what that one is)
anyways, if i select apply update from /sdcard it's empty, I tried changing it to update.zip but still no dice. Is it in the right directory?
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I noticed a lot of people having trouble booting into recovery mode from the phone. This is how to do it. With the phone turned off hold the power button +vol down button until you see the "Vibrant" logo on the screen. Once you see the logo, take your finger off the power button but keep pressing the vol down untill you see the recovery image. Ive tried every other way that people have posted and this is the only way I could get it to work. Sorry if this is already posted somewhere else but I couldnt find it. Hope this helps.
Open terminal emulator
Code:
su
reboot recovery
....Or are you not rooted yet?
And you have to hold its BOTH volume buttons not just volume down to boot into recovery.
- Hold both volume buttons
- Press power button
- When vibrant comes up, let go of power but continue to hold the two volume buttons
- Bam Recovery
I always let go of all the buttons when the Vibrant logo comes up, and it goes to recovery just fine.
Mr_Tricorder said:
I always let go of all the buttons when the Vibrant logo comes up, and it goes to recovery just fine.
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I can second this. I am my own little vulcan deathgrip to press them all at the same time though, and still be able to release without dropping the phone.
You could also download quick reboot from the market for those already rooted, it has an option to reboot into recovery.
Sent via my Vibrant with Tapatalk Pro
ju5tiiv said:
You could also download quick reboot from the market for those already rooted, it has an option to reboot into recovery.
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This ... or use the Reboot Into Recovery option from the Clockwork ROM Manager, which I would expect most Vibrant users to have right now if they're rooted.
What if none of this works?
I've a Vibrant (one week old) rooted. Clockwork installed KiNgxKernel-Vib-3-2.6.29.6 etc. However unless I use clockwork I can't get into recovery mode. Would really like to know a working key press combo if possible.
I read somewhere about some Vibrants being hardware locked. Assuming this is true perhaps that's what this phone is.
I am trying to do an nandroid back up. The instructions say to power off, then hold the "Home Key" and the power button untill you see the triangle.
I am holding the picture of a house next to the menu key. Is that the correct key?
My unit just turns on normally even if I am holding mentioned key, which is the wrong key cause it should not have power until the phone is on and unlocked.
Thanks for help.
chrstdvd said:
I am trying to do an nandroid back up. The instructions say to power off, then hold the "Home Key" and the power button untill you see the triangle.
I am holding the picture of a house next to the menu key. Is that the correct key?
My unit just turns on normally even if I am holding mentioned key, which is the wrong key cause it should not have power until the phone is on and unlocked.
Thanks for help.
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On the Droid 2 you have to go through a different way.
1. Make sure you have Koush's bootstrap app for the Droid 2.
2. Make sure you are bootstrapped via Koush's app.
3. Reboot to recovery through Koush's app.
You navigate menus with the volume buttons. You select with the camera button, and you go back with the power/lock button.
you can also utilize the keyboard arrows, use ok to select and delete to back up.
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On the Droid 2 you have to go through a different way.
1. Make sure you have Koush's bootstrap app for the Droid 2.
2. Make sure you are bootstrapped via Koush's app.
3. Reboot to recovery through Koush's app.
You navigate menus with the volume buttons. You select with the camera button, and you go back with the power/lock button.
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Ok, got it from the Market and it installed. I started it and did not know what to do, so I hit the first button, then the second button, then went to Backup/Restore and chose backup.
It is working as i type this.
Thank you so much
yes you would select backup. Once you do this it will backup to you backup folder on your sdcard. If you were to need to go back, you would utilize the restore option and select whichever backup you wanted to use.
if your phone is boot looping or anything to get into recovery:
-start up phone
-let the phone go to the bootscreen (the droid eye screen after the M logo)
-pull the battery out while in the bootscreen
-after a few seconds replace battery and boot up phone
-phone will boot into clockwork recovery
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if your phone is boot looping or anything to get into recovery:
-start up phone
-let the phone go to the bootscreen (the droid eye screen after the M logo)
-pull the battery out while in the bootscreen
-after a few seconds replace battery and boot up phone
-phone will boot into clockwork recovery
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Good advice. I believe there is a flag that gets set when you shut down the phone, and it only gets reset when you successfully boot. That way, if you boot loop, when you try to boot again it goes to recovery.
This also manifests itself sometimes when you flash a rom. Everytime you boot, it first goes into clockwork recovery, which is annoying, but fixable. This problem occurs because you need to bootstrap again which allows the flag to get reset when the OS loads.
only bootlooping when connected USB
I dont know what happened I simply had my phone attached to my pc in USB mode (after transferring music to the sd card via "media sync") and when I switched to 'charge only' and attached my head phones, my phone went into a boot loop. i unplugged USB cord and bootloop stopped... anyone run into this at all? kinda frustrating since now i apparently can now longer attach to my pc.
any help would be greatly appreciated
win xp
OTA stock 2.2
rooted w/bootstrap installed
i already attempted recovery
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update
apparently it was a problem w/my pc! it was giving me problems disconecting or even accessing my portable hdd as well.
so: Problem Solved
Hey guys,
So i am trying to put into recovery mode off reboot because i had a rom install that didnt run properly. When i do the volume down method, it goes to the HBoot screen, and immediately starts calculating some stuff on the screen, it doesnt let me scroll up and down to any other options. Am i missing something?
calculating stuff? when you get into hboot you should be able to push the volup or voldown to scroll to recovery and then press power to select. otherwise pull your batt. and put it back in then just plug the phone into a wall outlet or usb. if your on CM it will boot CM up automatically. (sort of a glitch, but in your case it might save you instead haha)
the calculating is just the bootloader looking for an update.zip. a few seconds after it finishes you should be able scroll down to recovery.
Problem Solved
When i let the update.zip load. It said to let it update, or press power to reboot.
It kept fast booting.. I think thats what the problem was.
Solved the problem by starting without the SD card mounted. Then once it loaded I was able to arrow up and down. Popped SD back in and was able to properly recover.
Thanks
After unlocking the N 10 and pressing start it is stuck on the "cross".
I go back to the bootloader and I see the following message :
" downloading - do not turn off the target" either connected or disconnected from the pc.
In this case there is no up or down arrows the only choice is "start"
From here to go back to the bootloader without the message I have to press power and both volume.
Then I can select recovery. Once in recovery I cannot get into the recovery menu no matter the way I press power and volume.
If I leave the N 10 on recovery after a while it goes back to the screen with the "cross".
Of course in this configuration I cannot access adb and fastboot.
I would really appreciate the help of the forum members.
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After unlocking the N 10 and pressing start it is stuck on the "cross".
I go back to the bootloader and I see the following message :
" downloading - do not turn off the target" either connected or disconnected from the pc.
In this case there is no up or down arrows the only choice is "start"
From here to go back to the bootloader without the message I have to press power and both volume.
Then I can select recovery. Once in recovery I cannot get into the recovery menu no matter the way I press power and volume.
If I leave the N 10 on recovery after a while it goes back to the screen with the "cross".
Of course in this configuration I cannot access adb and fastboot.
I would really appreciate the help of the forum members.
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You're in a bootloop. While in recovery (without options) you need to press all 3 buttons on top at the same time. Don't hold them, just press them and release. Once or twice should be enough to pull up the recovery options. Once there, do a factory reset and you'll be all set.
Mine got pretty hosed when unlocking too. Couldn't even get into recovery. Had to use fastboot to flash recovery.img, then I could get into recovery and do a factory reset.
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Blueback22 said:
You're in a bootloop. While in recovery (without options) you need to press all 3 buttons on top at the same time. Don't hold them, just press them and release. Once or twice should be enough to pull up the recovery options. Once there, do a factory reset and you'll be all set.
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Thank you very much (I also press the right button).
At first I wanted to reply that even this option did not work though I tried it more than once. Instead of replying to your post I decided to give a final try and it worked. In my previous attempts I was obviously taking a nap on the 3 buttons.
Here's my problem.
I can't get into recovery by pressing the power up, home, power buttons. It says it's 'entering recovery', but then it gives another 'buzz' (like when the phone starts), and just reboots normally.
I used to be able to get into recovery with ROMManager, by selecting the 'boot into recovery'. Then I just got into my CWM and could do whatever I wanted. Now I can't do that anymore, probably because my device is not rooted atm (got CM12 on it though). I wanted to root it, but I can't get into recovery.
I already tried flashing TWRP with Odin (download mode does work), but that doesn't work either. I obviously searched google and XDA for the problem, and I saw suggestions for other phones, like updating the bootloader. But I can't find any information or files for updating the bootloader.
sebas156 said:
Here's my problem.
I can't get into recovery by pressing the power up, home, power buttons. It says it's 'entering recovery', but then it gives another 'buzz' (like when the phone starts), and just reboots normally.
I used to be able to get into recovery with ROMManager, by selecting the 'boot into recovery'. Then I just got into my CWM and could do whatever I wanted. Now I can't do that anymore, probably because my device is not rooted atm (got CM12 on it though). I wanted to root it, but I can't get into recovery.
I already tried flashing TWRP with Odin (download mode does work), but that doesn't work either. I obviously searched google and XDA for the problem, and I saw suggestions for other phones, like updating the bootloader. But I can't find any information or files for updating the bootloader.
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Reboots trying to go custom recovery are normal sometimes.
Lil guide for enter custom recovery (TWRP):
1. Power off your device completely.
2. Press and hold Volume Up, Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
3. Release only the Power button when the logo of Samsung in white appears (you will see little letters in blue and red on the top left of the screen).
4. You will see the blue logo of TWRP (pic attached) then and you can release all buttons and start to navigate for the custom recovery.
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Reboots trying to go custom recovery are normal sometimes.
Lil guide for enter custom recovery (TWRP):
1. Power off your device completely.
2. Press and hold Volume Up, Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
3. Release only the Power button when the logo of Samsung in white appears (you will see little letters in blue and red on the top left of the screen).
4. You will see the blue logo of TWRP (pic attached) then and you can release all buttons and start to navigate for the custom recovery.
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Thanks for the reply, but I don't think you understood my question. I know how to get into recovery when it all works. I've done it many times before. The problem is that it shuts down while booting into recovery, and then just reboots normally.
I only installed TWRP because CWM wouldn't work, but TWRP doesn't either. So I guess it has to do with how the device boots into recovery, regardless of what the recovery is.
Anyone? I kinda want to flash another ROM, but I'm unable to right now.
sebas156 said:
Anyone? I kinda want to flash another ROM, but I'm unable to right now.
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hi
Check your power button.....it happened before , a defective power botton will make it hard to enter recovery or download mode
MAX 404 said:
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Check your power button.....it happened before , a defective power botton will make it hard to enter recovery or download mode
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I don't think that's the problem. I have 0 issues with the power button. Also, when I try to boot into recovery, it actually says it's 'starting recovery'. Then it stops with a buzz and reboots.
sebas156 said:
I don't think that's the problem. I have 0 issues with the power button. Also, when I try to boot into recovery, it actually says it's 'starting recovery'. Then it stops with a buzz and reboots.
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may be one of the other push buttons.....
try to get into recovery with out pressing the power button and see if is possible...if so then the problem is coming from there.