[Tips] Custom Recovery mode VIA hardware buttons ...etc - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

after rooted with custom recovery ( CWM or TWRP )
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been searching the web and seen people reporting that it's a bug with JB and that you have to use USB cable attached to PC in order to cold boot into bootloader with hardware buttons... or that holding both volume button as you power on does NOT work...etc ... so as far as I can read... people are relying on tricks or at the mercy of having to boot from inside android ( fully boot )...
what if your system does NOT boot and you need to get into bootloader and recovery ??
well... I found out how !! :laugh:
/ with the device OFF
/ hold down "POWER BUTTON" for 3 seconds and let go..
/ as soon as you let go of the "POWER BUTTON"... HOLD IN THE VOLUME DOWN BUTTON... and you will automatically be in bootloader mode
/ Select with volume rocker & confirm with power button

I get stuck on the splash screen when I select recovery.
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Need help! S4 can't go in recovery

Hello! When I power the device on the Samsung Logo appears for 1 second and then it turns off. I can go in download mode but can't in recovery. It just flashes again the Samsung logo and turns off. I tried to flash stock firmware via Odin. It was a success but again the same thing happened. Did I brick the device? Thanks!
When you flashed recovery, did you uncheck auto reboot and boot into stock recovery to perform a factory wipe before booting for the first time?
Does the rom boot?
Nedrozak said:
Hello! When I power the device on the Samsung Logo appears for 1 second and then it turns off. I can go in download mode but can't in recovery. It just flashes again the Samsung logo and turns off. I tried to flash stock firmware via Odin. It was a success but again the same thing happened. Did I brick the device? Thanks!
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The actual way to enter recovery is.
Volume up+home+power button
As soon as you see the Samsung logo..leave the combo then within a jiffy press the volume up+home button (no power button...NO POWER BUTTON!!!)
You will enter recovery.
DeepankarS said:
The actual way to enter recovery is.
Volume up+home+power button
As soon as you see the Samsung logo..leave the combo then within a jiffy press the volume up+home button (no power button...NO POWER BUTTON!!!)
You will enter recovery.
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the far simpler method is boot off, then hold volume up and power together (nothing else) until you see blue text at the top of the screen. at this point you instantly want to let go of everything, and that's it...
I've bricked my phone before with mobile Odin and it took out my recovery so I guess it's possible the OP might not actually have one.
@3mel, the stock rom combo is vol up + home + power button.
What you are reffering to is the custom rom combo. For some reason they are different.
GDReaper said:
@3mel, the stock rom combo is vol up + home + power button.
What you are reffering to is the custom rom combo. For some reason they are different.
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that I did not know... my phone hasn't been stock for many moons:good:

Galaxy S4 (i9505) boot problem

Hello,
I create a new thread because all "hard/soft bricked" topic are not the same as me.
I explain, my sister give me a galaxy S4 (i9505 variant) who has fell into the water, the eMMC seems corrupted.
The phone has "boot order" problem:
- If i try to boot normaly (just pressing power button), the phone boot in recovery mode
- If i try to boot while pressing vol down + home + power, the phone boot in "normal mode" (android seem not damaged)
- If i try to boot while pressing vol up + home + power, i show the "samsung galaxy s4" splash screen and the phone reboot in recovery mode
The only way for me to start in download mode is to boot android (using vol down + home + power) and using ADB with "adb reboot download".
I've tryed to flash pit, rom (who is stock rom i9505XXUHOF2) and trying "bootloader update" option of odin, nothing change, the "boot order" is always wrong !
I'm not sure, so i think it's Qualcomm firmware who manage the "boot order", if yes, how can i redefine it?
If no, do you have some informations/solution that can help me to have the phone working "normaly"?
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Kev
Try this: uncheck everything in Odin except f.reset time, flash stock rom, remove USB cable from the phone, remove battery, wait 5 seconds, replace battery, boot into recovery, perform factory wipe, remove battery, try to get into download mode again.
Do the volume buttons work when the phone has booted into android?
Hi audit13,
Thx for your reply
I've tryed what you suggest so boot order is always wrong.
Volume buttons work fine (i need them to boot android).
The problem isn't to get the download mode, so key combinaison to boot method, before phone feel water, keys combinaison was:
power button => boot android
vol down + home + power => download mode
vol up + home + power => recovery mode
And after feel the water:
Power button => recovery mode
Vol down + home + power => android boot
Vol down + vol up => download mode
If it can help, while phone is shutdown and charging, the phone vibrate every 3 seconds and didn't charge, if i just press vol+ and vol- keys during 2~3 seconds, the battery logo appear and the phone start to charge. A second thing i've see, when i'm on android, if i use the "reboot" function, the phone reboot in recovery mode.
It seem that the bootloader didn't boot on the good partition.
I've see an option in odin v3.10.7 called "auto start" and can take value from 1 to 8 (or nothing), do you think this can be a setting that allow user to define the partition number used to start?

superman rom for galaxy s7 edge

hello
i'm new here at the forum.
i have a problem with the superman rom
i rooted my phone i installed the rom but now my phone is already 30 minutes on a red screen ( from the superman rom i think )
i cant go anymore to the recovery by using volume up home and power buttom.
what can i do? help please i need my phone :crying:
able to reboot the phone by keep pressing the power button?
if can.. 1st times reboot immediately pressing volume up, home and power button and it will reboot again.. A 2nd times reboot release the power button only.
Red screen = wrong kernel flashed (you flashed s7 flat kernel on s7 edge)(There's an option to select kernel during installation. You probably selected wrong option or didn't check it)
This can be solved easily by flashing the right kernel.
Everything but display should still work normally, so you should be able to enter recovery by holding power+home+volume up when the phone is off or before the s7 logo come up.
If you still cannot enter recovery mode. You can enter download mode by holding power+home+volume down and flash stock firmware with it and start over. But for this problem, you probably not need to do this.
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Hey mate,
like NonXtreme said, it looks like you installed the wrong kernel, so just reboot your device by pressing Power + Home + Vol Down, and when the device shut down press directly Power + Home + Vol Up, now you should get into the recovery.
Now you have to reinstall the Rom with the correct Kernel! (g935f maybe).
Let me know if there are further questions.

My Samsung Galaxy J7 is soft bricked. How can I fix that? Details in the post

My phone is stuck on Samsung Galaxy J7 powered by Android screen. Holding down power and volume down buttons for few seconds make the screen disappear for a moment, the phone vibrates, then it returns to the same screen again. How can I fix that? (I guess its because I chose older .img file from twrp.me/Devices/ because the newest one did nothing when I was trying to install TWRP.) I dont have enough posts to post on the developer thread so I posted here
Please help
Approx. battery right now is 65%
Edit: I cant go into recovery mode I have tried alot of times already
Well basically be sure that you're doing the recovery mode procedure right. Try holding the volume up + power button + home button simultaneously. Then let go of the power button when you see the phone logo but remain holding down the volume up + home button. Wait for a while, the recovery mode page should pop up shortly.
Try vol. Up+power+home button. When samsung logo appears go off power button only, keeping the vol. Up and home button pressed. Check if you can enter recovery mod, if not download firmware for your drvice(download the correct latest firmware for your model) in to your pc. Flash it via odin.

Bricked SM-T230

Hello all, i have SM-T230 Galaxy Tab4 7.0''. I was installed TWRP and formatted data, for installing a custom rom i was rebooted into recovery mode but device keeps Samsung boot animation. I'm forced reboot for download mode; isn't worked. Tried same for recovery; isn't worked. Now device just stucks at boot animation. Help me please.
Are you sure that you pressed volume (- or +, it depends on what you want to do) home and power buttons enough? Tablet should reboot at least (you should see this when screen gets black for a while)
matteo0026 said:
Are you sure that you pressed volume (- or +, it depends on what you want to do) home and power buttons enough? Tablet should reboot at least (you should see this when screen gets black for a while)
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Yes buttons is working i'm sure. When i'm try press volume - and home buttons with power, device is resetting but no download mode.
tunasahinn said:
Yes buttons is working i'm sure. When i'm try press volume - and home buttons with power, device is resetting but no download mode.
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I don't know what to do then...
I'm not sure but some other android devices won't boot into download mode if battery is low. I don't know if this is case with tab 4, but you could try to charge tab and then try to hold "volume down" + "home" + power.
You could also try to keep holding those for 2 resets, because it could be that your device is "boot looping" to recovery which might have been wrong version and keeps failing.

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