First question: Not sure if it's the phone or the software but when I shutdown my phone and try to turn it back on by holding the volume button and the power button, it doesn't work. But as soon as release the power button, it decides to turn on. Can someone help me with this?
Second question: Does my phone need to be rooted to get Android 4.1.1?
NOTE* Currently on Android 2.3
1) Keep trying, you shouldn't have to release a button to turn it on. Are you holding the right buttons? Its down+power
2)Yes
THEindian said:
1) Keep trying, you shouldn't have to release a button to turn it on. Are you holding the right buttons? Its down+power
2)Yes
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Yeah, I watched a video on it and I'm doing it exactly like them and it's not working.
xxhunter95xx said:
Yeah, I watched a video on it and I'm doing it exactly like them and it's not working.
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First Volume down, then the power button, it should be on within 3 seconds.
Do you have ADB enabled? Plug your phone into your computer, if your computer recognizes it via ADB, come back
Help!
My htc my touch won't go into recovery mode after it is chosen. Only shows picture of phone with a red triangle
shelli1998 said:
My htc my touch won't go into recovery mode after it is chosen. Only shows picture of phone with a red triangle
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I would try pushing recovery img through adb. See if that solves the problem.
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How to go to the Falshing ROM ? I got the Image from HTC.. and told me to do Vol Down plus Power on..
But I cant make it work ?
Any trick ?
Thanks
Turn the phone off completely.
Hold both volume up & volume down buttons and briefly press power on. Keep holding volume buttons till the screen comes on, then follow on-screen instructions.
johncmolyneux said:
Turn the phone off completely.
Hold both volume up & volume down buttons and briefly press power on. Keep holding volume buttons till the screen comes on, then follow on-screen instructions.
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That's how you reset to the factory defaults.
What you want to do is to completely turn off your device and then hold the vol-down button while tapping once on the power button.
Toss3 said:
What you want to do is to completely turn off your device and then hold the vol-down button while tapping once on the power button.
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What does that do then?
its called "hard-reset" if you do this.
you can reset your device.
regards
bR00k said:
its called "hard-reset" if you do this.
you can reset your device.
regards
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I described a hard reset. I want to know what the other described method does.
johncmolyneux said:
What does that do then?
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It's for flashing your rom.
Hello!
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S last wekeend. I was about to root it today, but I couldn't enter recovery via the 3-key combo. So, I've read that a lot of users are missing this feature. And that it is very vital if I fail a software update.
Should I return my phone? I don't want to wait for a 4 week reflash. Also, do you think they'll accept the phone because of that reason?
Thanks.
I thought I can't enter recovery mode on my phone too, until I followed these instructions EXACTLY:
HOWTO GET INTO RECOVERY:
- Turn off your Phone
- Hold VOLUME UP + HOME Button
- While holding VOLUME UP + HOME Button press POWER Button until Display lights up, then release only POWER Button
- Still hold VOLUME UP + HOME until you got into Recovery
- Release all Buttons
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HOWTO GET INTO DOWNLOAD-MODE:
- Turn off your Phone
- Hold VOLUME DOWN + HOME Button
- While holding VOLUME DOWN + HOME Button press POWER Button until you reach Download-Mode
- Release all Buttons
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did you read the heating trick?
just don't put it in the oven as mentioned on some posts
see if that makes the 3 button works
Neo-ST said:
I thought I can't enter recovery mode on my phone too, until I followed these instructions EXACTLY:
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I've tried them exactly as they where written several times, the only way I can get into recovery is via adb
AllGamer said:
did you read the heating trick?
just don't put it in the oven as mentioned on some posts
see if that makes the 3 button works
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What heating trick?
Hmm, then maybe you got one of those "recovery-protected" phones that can't get into recovery mode by pressing buttons...
Neo-ST said:
Hmm, then maybe you got one of those "recovery-protected" phones that can't get into recovery mode by pressing buttons...
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It sounds just like it Should I return it? I don't want to wait 4 weeks if it bricks during a flash...
I can't tell you that.
If you have the bill and the phone is like brand new, then try to exchange it for another, maybe they'll accept yours back...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741027
according to this i didn't brick it but i can't get it into download mode!
please help! i can't get passed the vibrant screen.
before the "brick", you could enter recovery mode using the volume keys, right? how are you trying to get download mode? i mean, the type of combination you use.
if the phone its hard locked, then you can get a new one.
If not, tell us more what did you do
OK, instead
1. take the battery out
2. Unplug the usb from the phone
3. Open Odin
4. Put the battery back in
5. Hold the volume up and Volume Down
6. Then while holding Volume up and Volume Down
plug the usb wire in
This should get you into dl mode, hopefully... it worked for me
when I got the phone to computer screen.
HOPE IT WORKS if not try again till it does or repeat what the link tells you its the best way I know.
no i had to use the rom manager to get into recovery
Daddy_617 said:
OK, instead
1. take the battery out
2. Unplug the usb from the phone
3. Open Odin
4. Put the battery back in
5. Hold the volume up and Volume Down
6. Then while holding Volume up and Volume Down
plug the usb wire in
This should get you into dl mode, hopefully... it worked for me
when I got the phone to computer screen.
HOPE IT WORKS if not try again till it does or repeat what the link tells you its the best way I know.
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no i just get the battery screen.
gonintendo said:
no i just get the battery screen.
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Were you ever able to get into the stock recovery? without using ROM manager? How did you originally Root?... If you never could get into recovery using your hardware keys you may have a "keylocked" vibrant and maybe SOL...
BUT, if at anytime you've been able to get into recovery using the Vol +/- & power combo then you are fine.
Do the same steps as listed above, but when the battery Icon comes up keep holding down the key combo while that "battery" is displayed. At 2 to 3 seconds the screen will FLASH BLACK... LET GO OF POWER. You should now be in DL mode. GL!
are you trying to get into Recovery mode or the Download mode?
For recovery mode this works for me,
Remove battery
Install battery
Press and hold vol+/vol-
Press and hold power button
Once you see the Vibrant Screen do not release any of the buttons (vol+/vol- and power buttons) it will go black then back to Vibrant screen, then you release the power button only but keep pressing the vol-/vol+ buttons... this should get you into recovery mode..
For Download mode this helps me,
Remove Battery
Plug in USB cable to phone and computer
Put Battery In.. wait a couple of seconde until it shows the battery being charge..
Press and hold the vol+/vol- and the power button..
This will power up you phone.. once you see the Vibrant screen and it turn black, release the power button only.. this should get you into DL mode (it works for me). good luck.
ok I searched thru all threads, im trying to create a backup with clockwork. I have rooted with clockworkmod and have no clue how to get to it. I am a noob but have rooted and have flashed FROYO on my EPIC. I do have titanium backup aswell, but lookin for the other backup incase i decide to flash back to stock for the OTA FROYO. THanks, Please STEP BY STEP, Or atleast point me to a thread that tells it cause ive been searchin for a hour now
Hold Down the power,volume up,volume down and camera all at the same time and you are know in clockwork.
Also to navigate in it use the voulume up down and camera to select.
Also you can use the keyboard dpad with the enter button for select.
Another nice button combo is camera,power and volume up i think is a soft reset.
Hope this helps.
that isnt working for some reason, just reboots back to up. I was holding volume rocker, power and camara. do i have to do something before i shut down? or start to reboot when the lights are on after shutting down??
urirx98 said:
that isnt working for some reason, just reboots back to up. I was holding volume rocker, power and camara. do i have to do something before i shut down? or start to reboot when the lights are on after shutting down??
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When the phone is on hold:
Power
Camera
Volume up
Volume Down
It will work believe me..
Just keep trying sometimes if you miss a key it will activate the reboot button combo..
If your phone is off: Hold camera power and volume down i think...
The phone has to be powered off. And then you hold volume down button, camera and power button until you are at the green cwm menu.
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diego1985 said:
The phone has to be powered off. And then you hold volume rocker down, camera and power button until you at the green cwm menu.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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no it doesnt it can be on and you can hold both volume rockers, camera and power and it will take you to clockwork with out power off..
But yes your way works with the phone off..
For Sh*ts and giggles I thought I'd try both methods mentioned here and yes they both work.
trbloomer said:
For Sh*ts and giggles I thought I'd try both methods mentioned here and yes they both work.
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Holy balls the double volume rocker thing does work. Good thing I tested that before I said he was wrong lol
I am using Ganbarou_ROM_0.3b. But I dont know how to set host mode, so I cannot find usb disk.
How to set in this system?
some firmwares can switch to hostmode by turning the tab off, then powering it on and when the screen gets power (lights up) you hold down the backbutton until it has finished booting.
Slipurson said:
some firmwares can switch to hostmode by turning the tab off, then powering it on and when the screen gets power (lights up) you hold down the backbutton until it has finished booting.
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Thanks. I will try later.
smaocai said:
I am using Ganbarou_ROM_0.3b. But I dont know how to set host mode, so I cannot find usb disk.
How to set in this system?
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Slipurson said:
some firmwares can switch to hostmode by turning the tab off, then powering it on and when the screen gets power (lights up) you hold down the backbutton until it has finished booting.
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I thought I had written this in the first post of the ROM thread
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USB host mode [source]:
Press power button, once display get power (you will see the difference), press back button and hold until finish booting.
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And to get back to Slave mode, just reboot without pressing back button.