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I have tried flashing my phone back to stock two times using stock MJ7 firmware. I get a Pass in Odin, the phone bootloops, I then unplug the battery. wait a minute put it back in and Hold UP +Power+Home for recovery, it says recovery in the top corner but just reboots the phone. The phone loads up and my custom lockscreen is still there even after attempting to restore stock firmware. it then says such and such stopped then the phone just crashes. Any suggestions?

Ritchiejoe said:
I have tried flashing my phone back to stock two times using stock MJ7 firmware. I get a Pass in Odin, the phone bootloops, I then unplug the battery. wait a minute put it back in and Hold UP +Power+Home for recovery, it says recovery in the top corner but just reboots the phone. The phone loads up and my custom lockscreen is still there even after attempting to restore stock firmware. it then says such and such stopped then the phone just crashes. Any suggestions?
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- Install custom recovery (CWM, TWRP or Philz Touch)
- Enter recovery (Volume Up + Home Button + Power button and when u see the Samsung white letters drop the Power button)
- Wipe all (data, system, cache, dalvik cache)
- Go to download mode
- Flash the STOCK MJ7 again
- I hope this works for ya

Joku1981 said:
- Install custom recovery (CWM, TWRP or Philz Touch)
- Enter recovery (Volume Up + Home Button + Power button and when u see the Samsung white letters drop the Power button)
- Wipe all (data, system, cache, dalvik cache)
- Go to download mode
- Flash the STOCK MJ7 again
- I hope this works for ya
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It worked! thank you sir

[Q] SM-T537R4 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Stuck in boot loop after Odin Flash

The only thread I could find similar to my issue was a gentlemen a few months ago not being able to recover from his boot loop.
I'm in a similar boat but after flashing cf auto root in Odin my poor tab is stuck in a boot loop and won't load past the US Cellular screen when booting up. I am able to get into stock recovery, but I am unable to enter download mode to flash the stock ROM. This is where my situation is different and I am searching for some help on the best way to get the stock rom working again.
Is there anything I can do to force my tablet into download mode? I hold the correct buttons but it tries to boot right up instead of entering download mode.
I greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide and thanks for reading!

In recovery mode do a factory reset and wipe dalvik and cache. For download mode, are you holding home, vol-, power, together in that order?

I did a factory reset and cleared cache but I don't think I cleared the dalvik so I'll try that as soon as I get home.
As far as getting to download mode, I am pressing the correct combination and after about 10 seconds the device tries to boot normally and if I'm quick enough I can get into recovery by switching to the volume+ button

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
In recovery mode do a factory reset and wipe dalvik and cache. For download mode, are you holding home, vol-, power, together in that order?
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After getting home and mashing the hell out of the buttons i got into download mode and am running stock again. If you don't mind me asking, what is the best way to root my model running lollipop 5.1?

How do I boot into recovery from a bootloop?

I flashed a wrong file in twrp and my phone went into a bootloop. I want to boot into recovery to reflash the ROM but I can't do it, the phone is stuck into a continuous bootloop (stuck at the Samsung logo and vibrating over and over again). I can boot into download mode using vol down + power + home, but vol up for recovery isn't working.

lvnatic said:
I flashed a wrong file in twrp and my phone went into a bootloop. I want to boot into recovery to reflash the ROM but I can't do it, the phone is stuck into a continuous bootloop (stuck at the Samsung logo and vibrating over and over again). I can boot into download mode using vol down + power + home, but vol up for recovery isn't working.
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1. Boot in DOWNLOAD MODE and flash the correct TWRP via ODIN again. Done.
2. If the step 1 doesn't work. Boot in DOWNLOAD MODE, reflash STOCK rom and reflash the TWRP, the one good for your device. Done.

Joku1981 said:
1. Boot in DOWNLOAD MODE and flash the correct TWRP via ODIN again. Done.
2. If the step 1 doesn't work. Boot in DOWNLOAD MODE, reflash STOCK rom and reflash the TWRP, the one good for your device. Done.
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Secret mode wasn't working in the Samsung browser so I flashed a zip that I found on xda that supposedly fixes this issue and cleared the cache and dalvik cache. I don't see how this could have erased twrp from my device. I currently don't have acces to a computer so I can't use Odin, is there really no way to force shutdown it or something?

lvnatic said:
Secret mode wasn't working in the Samsung browser so I flashed a zip that I found on xda that supposedly fixes this issue and cleared the cache and dalvik cache. I don't see how this could have erased twrp from my device. I currently don't have acces to a computer so I can't use Odin, is there really no way to force shutdown it or something?
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Enter download mode, once you are in download mode press at the same time power + home + volume down button. As soon as the screen goes black release the volume down button and press the volume up button immediately, then it will boot up to TWRP

Monigote97 said:
Enter download mode, once you are in download mode press at the same time power + home + volume down button. As soon as the screen goes black release the volume down button and press the volume up button immediately, then it will boot up to TWRP
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HUGE thanks for this!

lvnatic said:
HUGE thanks for this!
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You're welcome!

Trying to fix a fake S5 = Hell

So, long story short, i have a Galaxy S5 Fake in hands (not mine). But i'm trying to fix it.
I realized soon enough it would be harder than i expected.
This beast comes with trojans all over the rom. So my first thought was , let's wipe it.
After the wipe, everything is installed back, all the junk and trojans.
So i decided to flash using download mode.
Here's how the button combos are set :
Recovery Combo (Power + Home + Volume UP) would send me to a english recovery.
Donwload mode combo (Power + home + volume down) would put me in a chinese recovery instead of download mode.
So... yeah.. no download mode! After a while trying to flash a custom recovery using flashify app i noticed that cwm was successfully installed! But once again... Trying the recovery combo now , would just boot normally and the download mode combo is still in the chinese recovery.
Also trying flashing via fastboot without sucess.
I'm running out of ideas! Any help?

mornaistar said:
So, long story short, i have a Galaxy S5 Fake in hands (not mine). But i'm trying to fix it.
I realized soon enough it would be harder than i expected.
This beast comes with trojans all over the rom. So my first thought was , let's wipe it.
After the wipe, everything is installed back, all the junk and trojans.
So i decided to flash using download mode.
Here's how the button combos are set :
Recovery Combo (Power + Home + Volume UP) would send me to a english recovery.
Donwload mode combo (Power + home + volume down) would put me in a chinese recovery instead of download mode.
So... yeah.. no download mode! After a while trying to flash a custom recovery using flashify app i noticed that cwm was successfully installed! But once again... Trying the recovery combo now , would just boot normally and the download mode combo is still in the chinese recovery.
Also trying flashing via fastboot without sucess.
I'm running out of ideas! Any help?
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Is there any way i can check if cwm was really installed and is it possible to change the boot script to load it instead of the chinese recovery?

Recover the whole stock status with Odin, then you can flash custom things.

APKCCCP said:
Recover the whole stock status with Odin, then you can flash custom things.
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how can i flash with odin without download mode?

No point asking about it here, just because they stuck the name S5 on it, doesn't make it an S5, the hardware will be different, ROMs won't work, likely ODIN won't either as ODIN is for Samsung, and it's not a Samsung phone
Find out what hardware is in it, and go from there

mornaistar said:
how can i flash with odin without download mode?
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Sorry, didn't sleep much.
My fault.
Not even recognized it's not a Samsung.

How can I access Recovery Mode on LG V20?

How can I access Recovery Mode on LG V20? I want to wipe system cache partition due to problems with Wi-Fi and Tethering. The only option I have is factory reset. (Volume Down+Power)

Plug in USB cord to laptop.
Turn off phone.
Hold volume down button.
Plug in USB cord to phone.
After you see a flash of blue download mode, release volume button and phone will boot to recovery.
Do your thing.
Side note, Install the correct V20 variant twrp img to recovery so u don't have to do this enter recovery method anymore, you can enter recovery from the twrp app menu.

I tried the method and led me to fastboot, no option to wipe system cache partition from here. I'm missing something? It's another way to solve connectivity problems?
Thanks!

>`xW0 said:
I tried the method and led me to fastboot, no option to wipe system cache partition from here. I'm missing something? It's another way to solve connectivity problems?
Thanks!
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Do you have twrp recovery flashed?
Turn off phone
press volume down and power together until the lg logo displays
release and press the power button
click on yes to reset
and it should land you in recovery if you have twrp installed
otherwise use lgup to flash the kdz to our phone and restart everything.