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[Q] Help! Cant get my phone into recovery mode

Ive tried the volume down and volume and power but it wont work.... Any suggestions?

You are sure your phone is off and you:
Hold down the volume up and down with your left thumb and make sure there is a click feeling from both buttons and use your right hand to click on the power button?

I'm having the exact same problem. Have tried about 25 times to boot into recovery. Just does not work.

Pull the battery after every failed attempt took me about 2-3 tries. Before you do anything shut off phone pull battery then attempt to boot into recovery.

Yes, I'm doing that. The samsung screen comes up and if I release the buttons it does the normal boot up. If I keep holding the buttons the black screen with "vibrant" keeps coming on and off.

So far I discovered that it works perfectly if you hold the power button until after the Vibrant logo appears and then release the power button while still holding the both volume buttons. If you release the power button before the logo appears it will FAIL.
Only after the logo dissapears you can release the volume buttons.
In other words:
1-Press and hold both Volume buttons
2-Press and hold Power button
3-After Vibrant logo appears release Power button
4-Wait until Vibrant logo dissapears and then release Volume bottons
5-You should now be in recovery
Pito

Wow, I followed your directions step by step and still no luck! I wait till I the Vibrant logo to dissapear to release the volume buttons but it just boots up like normal. Thanks anyways! Is there another way of rooting my phone?

What I do as well is hold until the first logo dissapears and as soon as the second one appears release buttons. Then its in recovery.

Ive tried everything you all have said so far and I still cant get my phone into recovery mode. I was able to do it on my wife's vibrant but not on mine. Any suggestions?

Try getting quick boot from the market. It had an option to reboot into recovery. If your problem is just getting the button push right (i had real trouble with it at first) then this should work.
Sent from: Sammy Vibe Rooted
ROM: Stock
Recovery: Clockwork 2.5.0.4

If you are rooted then Clockwork Recovery Mod has the ability to boot into recovery mode. Or you can turn on usb debugging and use adb. Start>Run>cmd and use "adb reboot recovery"
Sent from my SGH-T959

recovery help!

Hi,
I recently flashed the cm72-120124.0859-NIGHTLY-Defy.zip, and now that i am trying to flash to cm72-120126.2206-NIGHTLY-Defy, but now when i try to boot to recovery, i get teh warning screen with the android and the exclamation point.
My phony works fine, but now I can't get into the custom recovery.
please help!
thnak you,

How did you entered to recovery??
Vol- on blue led i think, the custom is still there! Otherwise the phone doesnt boot
Motorola Defy CM7 RC 1.5 OC 1GHz

i usually just rebooted to recovery from the cm7 menu.
it's worked this way since i had cm7.1 stable, and other nightlies.
thanks, any advice is greatly appreciated.

Try boot into BootMenu and then go to custom/latest recovery? Did that work for you when you tried?

If the custom bootmenu is working properly, a blue LED on the phone should briefly light up each time the phone reboots (while the Motorola logo is being displayed). As soon as the blue LED lights up, press the volume down button. The custom BootMenu should display.
If that doesn't work, you could also try this. In CyanogenMod settings, go to Interface and make sure the "Power prompt" option is checked. Then, when you press and hold the power button and select "Reboot," you should see the option to reboot into "Bootmenu."

Thank you everyone,
i was able to get to the recovery menu by using the volume - at the blue light. still not sure why the reboot to recovery didn't work. it works now though.

[Q] Please help! Stuck in boot loop!

Here is what happened:
Installed AOSPA 4.4 KRT16S
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502789
Installed GAPPS
Everything was working great. I think kept reading and saw that I needed to install kernel.
Downloaded, transferred d800-stock-kernel-aosp
Rebotted to install this zip.
NOW, I am stuck in the android 4.4 boot loop. I have tried to power down and hold down volume up and down, but with no success.
Is my phone bricked? What happened? Could someone please help me??? Thank you so much in advance!:crying:

RoysGTI said:
Here is what happened:
Installed AOSPA 4.4 KRT16S
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502789
Installed GAPPS
Everything was working great. I think kept reading and saw that I needed to install kernel.
Downloaded, transferred d800-stock-kernel-aosp
Rebotted to install this zip.
NOW, I am stuck in the android 4.4 boot loop. I have tried to power down and hold down volume up and down, but with no success.
Is my phone bricked? What happened? Could someone please help me??? Thank you so much in advance!:crying:
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Try to boot to recovery with VOL DOWN+POWER...hopefully you had a backup or flash another rom

RubbleTea said:
Try to boot to recovery with VOL DOWN+POWER...hopefully you had a backup or flash another rom
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I do have a backup, but I cannot get back into recovery??

RubbleTea said:
Try to boot to recovery with VOL DOWN+POWER...hopefully you had a backup or flash another rom
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the LG symbol comes up, and then it goes into the 4.4 circles bootscreen

RoysGTI said:
the LG symbol comes up, and then it goes into the 4.4 circles bootscreen
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Try holding power until turns off maybe holding too long and it boots up

RubbleTea said:
Try holding power until turns off maybe holding too long and it boots up
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OK.....I hold power. It shuts off. and then IMMEDIATELY starts back up with me touching nothing????
Is it bricked?
Doesnt make any sense....Never had a phone do this

RoysGTI said:
the LG symbol comes up, and then it goes into the 4.4 circles bootscreen
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you have to time it correctly. Turn on the phone holding power and volume down. Then when the logo shows. Quickly (not too quickly) release two buttons and press them again and hold them until recovery factory reset screen appears then press two times power button to get into recovery.

RoysGTI said:
OK.....I hold power. It shuts off. and then IMMEDIATELY starts back up with me touching nothing????
Is it bricked?
Doesnt make any sense....Never had a phone do this
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Your bootloope, can you get into download mode? Try vol up and power. Then vol down to recovery....

Got a reply from the other thread:
Use this method (scroll down to where it says Master Reset with Hardware Keys). I ran into this issue a few times, and this is how I can get back into TWRP (when you follow the instructions, instead of wiping everything it boots into TWRP)
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-7590 [start from "when LG Logo is displayed", since you can't power off]
(NB: It says T-mobile, but it works for all variants)
THIS WORKED!!!!!!!
Thanks again guys!

[Q] Please help! Stuck at LG Splash screen on boot

I am rooted and had PhilZ recovery installed on the vs980. I wiped data, cache, and davlik to install a new rom, but the install failed. After the install failed I realized I had deleted my backups I had. When I went to reboot the phone said it could not find root and would attempt to root on its own or something of that matter. I am now stuck on the lg spash screen with the led blinking green/blue. I cannot boot into recovery or download mode by holding the volume+power buttons the phone just vibrates and turns off for a sec then right back to the lg screen. Can someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance

Yeah try booting into recovery but a little differently this time.. Turn the phone off, hold power and volume down to turn it on but keep holding it until it shuts off again. Then press power and volume down again until the LG logo appears. Release and press them again quickly like normal. This has worked for me in the past when I couldn't boot into recovery. Idk why but it did.. Give it a try
Sent from my amazing vs980

elite001mm said:
Yeah try booting into recovery but a little differently this time.. Turn the phone off, hold power and volume down to turn it on but keep holding it until it shuts off again. Then press power and volume down again until the LG logo appears. Release and press them again quickly like normal. This has worked for me in the past when I couldn't boot into recovery. Idk why but it did.. Give it a try
Sent from my amazing vs980
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thanks but it still just boots to the lg screen.. no go

:/ ummmm.. Try this maybe?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600672
Sent from my amazing vs980

ok i was finally able to boot into recovery, but i have no backups to install.... how would i get a new rom onto the phone to install

mickym5 said:
ok i was finally able to boot into recovery, but i have no backups to install.... how would i get a new rom onto the phone to install
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adb push ROM of choice.

Broken screen and it wont enter recovery

Hi I'm trying to boot into recovery
I'm pressing power and volume down, releasing power and pressing again when I see the LG logo. But it doesn't work. The phone just shows the Resurrection boot animation, and then powers off after a seconds.
Is there another way to get to recovery?

TJMacGyver said:
Hi I'm trying to boot into recovery
I'm pressing power and volume down, releasing power and pressing again when I see the LG logo. But it doesn't work. The phone just shows the Resurrection boot animation, and then powers off after a seconds.
Is there another way to get to recovery?
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I figured out that I had installed a new Bootstack to be compatible with the Ressurection Rom. That bootstack uses another way of getting into recovery
pres and hold vol down and power, when LG logo appears, let go, and press vol up and vol down