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Stock Nexus 7 - Can't boot to recovery mode

Tried booting holding down the volume down button and power simultaneously and am able to select recovery mode but I just get a screen with the white Google name - recovery mode never starts (I have waited minutes) and I have to hold down the power button to get back to a normal startup. Also tried connecting to my PC via USB and booting holding down the power and the volume up and down buttons simultaneously. Then I get the belly-up Android and the Start selection but the volume keys don't change the selection and the power button does not cause a start - I have to power down by holding the power button in and restart normally. Any ideas?
Dave

sparksd said:
Tried booting holding down the volume down button and power simultaneously and am able to select recovery mode but I just get a screen with the white Google name - recovery mode never starts (I have waited minutes) and I have to hold down the power button to get back to a normal startup. Also tried connecting to my PC via USB and booting holding down the power and the volume up and down buttons simultaneously. Then I get the belly-up Android and the Start selection but the volume keys don't change the selection and the power button does not cause a start - I have to power down by holding the power button in and restart normally. Any ideas?
Dave
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You can use one of the root tool to reflash recovery mode if you don't know how to use ADB (which I don't really know.) You can flash CWM or TWKP or whatever it is. Then you should be able to do whatever you need to do. I have used the galaxy nexus tool kit v7.0.

Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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AMoosa said:
Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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As I noted, I tried this and at the "At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode" point, when I press the volume up button nothing happens, it stays with Start displayed (and pressing Power at that point has no effect - I have to press and hold Power for many seconds to force a shutdown).

sparksd said:
As I noted, I tried this and at the "At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode" point, when I press the volume up button nothing happens, it stays with Start displayed (and pressing Power at that point has no effect - I have to press and hold Power for many seconds to force a shutdown).
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You need to press volume up a few times, until you see Recovery.
This guide worked for me, so thanks AMoosa.

poisike said:
You need to press volume up a few times, until you see Recovery.
This guide worked for me, so thanks AMoosa.
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Yes, I said I tried that and pressing volume up has no effect - it stays at "Start" and even pressing Power at that point has no effect, I have to press and hold power to force a full shutdown.

Same problem here. A full stock re flash didn't help either.
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exact same problem here as well. once i get to the screen with the android laying down, no buttons work and i'm forced to hard reset. just rooted today using wugfresh

nvertigo said:
exact same problem here as well. once i get to the screen with the android laying down, no buttons work and i'm forced to hard reset. just rooted today using wugfresh
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Could you do anything more after rooting?

sikagoon7 said:
That is normal. If you press power and volume up you should get a recovery menu. It is pretty featureless so I assume you were expecting the likes of CWM or TWRP. These are custom recoveries that you need to download. To install them you need to unlock the bootloader and either manually flash them via fastboot or by using an application like goo manager or rommanager. Note that the application method requires root.
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I think he has the same problem I do. "If you press power and volume up you should get a recovery menu."- I can't get to the recovery menu.

sikagoon7 said:
It is pretty useless. Want do you want to use it for exactly?
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Manually load 4.1.2 --
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-nexus-7-android-412

One update - I could get to recovery using adb (adb reboot recovery) but once there adb could no longer see the Nexus (adb devices showed null). Have to try some more when I get home from work tonight.
Manual update to 4.1.2 is original reason for doing this but now I'd like to understand why I can't get to recovery mode the "standard" way.

sikagoon7 said:
You are getting in the standard way. Flash a custom recovery now to use it.
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I meant through the menu selection on the Nexus itself, not through adb. And as I noted, once I got to the recovery screen, adb could no longer see the device.

sikagoon7 said:
Again that is normal.
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Well, with 4.1.2 (OTA) I can now get to the recovery screen by using the simultaneous power + volume button pushes, no adb required.

sikagoon7 said:
Is that's what you were looking for? The side load menu? I thought you were saying recovery didn't work. Recovery has to work for you to even use the power volume up trick.
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Adb was never required to get to recovery. That's the bootloader's job.
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See here -
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-forums-nexus-7-hard-reset-questions
On the final set of workaround instructions, it says "4. Select Recovery using vol buttons and press power button" - I could not "Select Recovery" because at that point my Nexus would not respond to any button pushes.

Install latest nexus 7 bootloader from my dropbox.
http://db.tt/cgk5NmQn
This fixes the boot loader bug and now you can enter recovery from the bootloader screen.
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sikagoon7 said:
Update the bootloader to 3.41. Make sure NOT TO DELETE THE BOOTLOADER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot emphasize this enough!!!!!!!!!!! I bricked my first one this way.
Use fastboot flash bootloader C:\>>>>>>\bootloader-grouper-3.14.IMG
Do NOT erase bootloader before you flash the new one. And after you have flashed the new one type; fastboot reboot bootloader and check the bootloader version to make sure you succeeded.
Good luck!
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Though a series of misadventures I now have the saem problem as the OP of this thread where i can no longer get myself into recovery mode.
I had just doen a full backup and flashed a new version of the kernel when this occurred. Please don't tll me to use my volume keys to select Recovery. As the OP said, the keys no longer work. Theydid once but no longer. My N7 is stuck on the picture of Andy belly-up with Start shown but I cannot scroll up or down nor hit the power key to Start.
I download the file from two posts up but not sure what to do from there. FYI, I was fairly familiar with the ins and outs of Andoird, ADB, etc a year ago when developing apps but I've since retired. DO I need to get the downloaded file onto my device in order to use ADB to perform the fastboot commands above? Could someone please enumerate the steps for me to give me a jumpstart?
Edit: Whew! I got a tip to use Mskips' nexus 7 toolkit and got back into recovery and restored my backup and all is well so far. Knock...knock

AMoosa said:
Connect to pc
Shut down nexus 7
Hold volume down and power
At the next screen, press up until it says recovery mode
Press power
You then get the Android with red exclamation
Press power, hold it and then press volume up
This should give the recovery menu.
Result!
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After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?

junooni said:
After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?
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I have the same--or at least a very similar--problem. I was trying to flash it back to the factory default with Nexus 7 toolkit. In the middle of the process my computer froze and I was forced to reboot. Now when I try to enter recovery I get a tiny "booting failed" in the upper left corner of the screen and nothing more. I can't see my N7 with my computer via USB or adb. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions?

Exacty what happens to me. Trying to manually upgrade to 4.2 without root. I have update.zip on my n7. Do I need usb to be plugged into pc? I tried it both ways... when usb was plugged in I got past the red explanation mark, with option to install from adb, but not from sd. If not connected, nothing past explanation mark.
Probably just wait for ota... don't want to mess anything up.
junooni said:
After the Android with red exclamation mark, the keys don't work. I press the power + volUp button and the device just reboots!
Any fix?
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defy in bootloop after RSD Lite flash

Complete History:
The phone started out with a Carrier ROM (can't leave that one on, right?)
so, I flashed this: JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
and then used SuperOneClickRoot to root it, and pushed a recovery based on the Cyanogenmod Guide.
Installed CM7, it worked well, but I got greedy and wanted CM9.
Installed this: CM9-ICS-MR0-111207-jordan-KERNEL-2.3.4-Quarx.zip
Which worked, but would crash the play store on startup.
Installed this: CM9-ICS-MR0-111213-jordan.zip
Same Error.
Decided to try a CM10.1 Nightly: CM10.1-20130328-NIGHTLY-mb520.zip
This loaded, yet showed me 2 FC's on start up, and would not let me boot into recovery anymore.
Decided to try to go back to Stock to start over, so, I flashed this: JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
And it got stuck in a Bootloop.
flashed this: JORDN_U3_6.36.0_SIGNED_USAJRDNTMOB1B4B5DE1028.0R_JORDANTMO_P022_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
Still in a bootloop but with a different animation.
Any Ideas?

Wipe data and cache from stock recovery
All your previous problems are due to the same reason
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thekguy said:
Wipe data and cache from stock recovery
All your previous problems are due to the same reason
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found this:
Note: Some times when rebooting after RSD lite flash your phone stuck in bootloop(M logo or it continously loading in Android menu). It is better to go to stock recovery(Hold the vol - button and then power button and then release it. you will get android logo with exclamatory symbol. Press vol - and vol + button at the same time to get in to stock recovery). Select wipe data/factory and wipe cache.
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in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447
this is exactly my error, though when i press both vol - and vol + button at the same time it doesn't do anything. Simply shows me the tiny droid and the exclamation mark.

heathenasparagus said:
found this:
in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447
this is exactly my error, though when i press both vol - and vol + button at the same time it doesn't do anything. Simply shows me the tiny droid and the exclamation mark.
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OK when you get to the screen with the android figure and the exclamation mark, press you VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN keys at the same time. Then navigate the menu using your VOLUME KEYS and once you have highlighted an option, use the POWER KEY to select.

z3ro-grav1ty said:
OK when you get to the screen with the android figure and the exclamation mark, press you VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN keys at the same time. Then navigate the menu using your VOLUME KEYS and once you have highlighted an option, use the POWER KEY to select.
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yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?

heathenasparagus said:
yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?
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There is no sequence, you have to press them at the same time. Else there is a problem with your volume keys. I'll run you through stock recovery just to make sure.
1. Turn your device off.
2. Press and hold the Volume Down button.
3. Whilst holding down the Volume Down button, turn on your device by pressing the Power button.
4. Once the screen turns on and the red 'M' appears, let go of the Power button but NOT the Volume Down button, keep holding that.
5. You'll be greeted by the android with the exclamation mark, now you can release the Volume Down button.
6. Press the Volume Down and Volume Up simultaneously (at the same time).
7. You'll now have a terminal on your screen from which you can navigate with your volume keys and select with your power button.
Hopefully that helps. Other wise I suggest you visit this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537
Hopefully finding your stock sbf may help.
If your phone is Defy:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordan/list.php
If your phone is Defy+:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/list.php

heathenasparagus said:
yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?
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Tap the bottom right corner in recovery(android logo), then wipe.
For Froyo recoveries you need to tap bottom right corner a few times. For GB recoveries you need to press vol+ &- simultaneously.
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hackergnome said:
Tap the bottom right corner in recovery(android logo), then wipe.
For Froyo recoveries you need to tap bottom right corner a few times. For GB recoveries you need to press vol+ &- simultaneously.
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ah right, I didn't know that

z3ro-grav1ty said:
ah right, I didn't know that
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Yep, that did the Trick.
Thanks!

[HELP THREAD] Nexus 4 with 4.3.3 "no command"

Hi to all
I updated my nexus 4.2.2 to 4.3.3 through the ota.
Now i tried to unlock&root with the nexus 4 toolkit(last version 1.6.8)
Never mind what i'm trying to do, when the device trying to get into recovery there is a lying android red icon with: "no command"
I believe this is a soft brick , but the device is working and the android is boot up normally,
I allso tried to press power key and after he was pressed i conitnue to hold him and press volume up, the only thing that happend is
a red light and no recovery menu, i tried every way to use the tool but the recovery isn't back!
Please help me guys!

You are in the future or what?
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Thibaultvw said:
You are in the future or what?
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And it is stock recovery.
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You mean't Android 4.3 and the recovery does this for security.
To access the recovery you have to press volume up and power until it unlocks the menu.
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You didn't read my thread!!!
andyabc said:
You mean't Android 4.3 and the recovery does this for security.
To access the recovery you have to press volume up and power until it unlocks the menu.
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I did press power key and when it's hold I pressed the volume up - it did nothing!

eyalabush said:
I did press power key and when it's hold I pressed the volume up - it did nothing!
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You have to keep pressing it and holding it until it unlocks.
Mine and the others unlocks fine so yours should work.
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For how long?!
andyabc said:
You have to keep pressing it and holding it until it unlocks.
Mine and the others unlocks fine so yours should work.
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For how long should i press?
I tried 10 times at least, and the result: red light...

eyalabush said:
For how long should i press?
I tried 10 times at least, and the result: red light...
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Wait, a red light?
Are you on low battery?
Maybe it is either a low battery command, access denied to to too many attempts or incorrect combination.
Try doing the same to the up and down keys followed by the power.
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Battery are full
The battery are full,
I tried doing all the combination , my recovery is dead!!!
any ideas?

eyalabush said:
The battery are full,
I tried doing all the combination , my recovery is dead!!!
any ideas?
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Pressing the volume up and power key in the same time continuously?
And no I do not mean hold.
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I also have the exact same issue. I never tried entering stock recovery before now and I tried to do it now, after updating OTA to 4.3 and rooting with wugfresh toolkit, 1.6.8. Regardless of how many times I have tried, it just reboots normally and can't access the stock recovery.

aaatoel said:
I also have the exact same issue. I never tried entering stock recovery before now and I tried to do it now, after updating OTA to 4.3 and rooting with wugfresh toolkit, 1.6.8. Regardless of how many times I have tried, it just reboots normally and can't access the stock recovery.
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So you cannot access the recovery using the bootloader?, if so then it is probably corrupted.
I have the stock recovery image file here which you can flash via Fastboot.
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I imagined the same. The toolkit itself, is giving you the option of reflashing the stock recovery, I think that I will try this at first. The weird thing is that the phone boots up normally, works as it should and is rooted successfully.

Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!

Just looked this up for a customer at my shop and works like a champ. Thank you
aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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Excellent. Thanks for that. It was doing my head in.
The question is though will OTA updates still work? And the answer is yes. I flashed back to 4.2.2 and the 4.3 update came through OK. Happy days as I may well pass my N4 on soon and it needs to work 100% for a non tech wife.

aaatoel said:
Actually there was no need to flash anything new. I finally made it to work. When in the "No Command" screen, you have to press the following:
1) Press only the power button first
2) While holding the power button, press the vol up button for a couple of seconds
3) Let go ONLY of the vol up button, while still pressing the power button.
Tested and working!
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Thank you, i was going crazy

Soak test underway

Seems to be the same update that the moto X received with a few extras. Camera app is now updated in the Playstore and the wireless charging indicator is smaller and seems to work better.
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Those of you that have Google drive and the latest update, you qualify for an additional 50 GB of storage. If you have drive already installed and aren't receiving the 50 additional GB, clear drive data and then re-run it to receive the bonus.
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Does this work rooted?

No you have to be stock
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gfullwr70 said:
No you have to be stock
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any way to post the update.zip?

gfullwr70 said:
No you have to be stock
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Any idea what file is the correct one?
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/obake/list.php

Franzie3 said:
any way to post the update.zip?
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http://www.droid-life.com/2013/11/0...update-as-build-12-15-10-changelog-available/
Poster links to mediafire

theycallmerayj said:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/11/0...update-as-build-12-15-10-changelog-available/
Poster links to mediafire
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what's the best way to install this? When I went to recovery it gives an exclamation point android icon and does nothing.

njhardc0re said:
what's the best way to install this? When I went to recovery it gives an exclamation point android icon and does nothing.
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Hold down power and up for a few seconds then let go off power and it'll bring up the menu. It can be finicky so if you happen to reboot try again. When you get to the menu it'll allow you to flash update file

after you select recovery and you get the exclamation its not picky just hit volume up by its self and then power button right after you hit volume up with volume up still pressed in and it will instantly go in every time . It just likes you to hit volume up key before power key

theycallmerayj said:
Hold down power and up for a few seconds then let go off power and it'll bring up the menu. It can be finicky so if you happen to reboot try again. When you get to the menu it'll allow you to flash update file
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power + vol up just boots the phone.. vol down puts into fastboot mode, which has a recovery menu but as I said above, the recovery menu doesnt work right.

njhardc0re said:
power + vol up just boots the phone.. vol down puts into fastboot mode, which has a recovery menu but as I said above, the recovery menu doesnt work right.
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Trust me I don't have posts on the forum but I've done this since the original droid. Vol down and volume gets you to fastboot like you said. If you have stock recovery it gives you the android with ! which is what you want. At that screen you have to do what bluh5d posted. If that still isn't working then you'd have to rsd lite back to stock. The android ! IS what you want to see.
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theycallmerayj said:
Trust me I don't have posts on the forum but I've done this since the original droid. Vol down and volume gets you to fastboot like you said. If you have stock recovery it gives you the android with ! which is what you want. At that screen you have to do what bluh5d posted. If that still isn't working then you'd have to rsd lite back to stock. The android ! IS what you want to see.
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THIS

bluh5d said:
after you select recovery and you get the exclamation its not picky just hit volume up by its self and then power button right after you hit volume up with volume up still pressed in and it will instantly go in every time . It just likes you to hit volume up key before power key
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Thank you that worked. I love how none of that is anywhere on this forum.

bluh5d said:
after you select recovery and you get the exclamation its not picky just hit volume up by its self and then power button right after you hit volume up with volume up still pressed in and it will instantly go in every time . It just likes you to hit volume up key before power key
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njhardc0re said:
Thank you that worked. I love how none of that is anywhere on this forum.
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It's not specific to the forum, because people that have been rooting unlocking etc for awhile already know. That's what the forum is here for, questions.

Boot into TWRP

I can't for the life of me figure out how to boot into TWRP... I followed the how-to on the cyanogenmod wiki hoping that it would work, and I've tried googling this, but I can't figure it out. Cyanogenmod's wiki says hold the power and volume down simultaneously, then click them both when the LG screen shows, then click the power button three times. I've done this about ten times with no luck. I need to boot into twrp to install gapps as I've just flashed a rom on my G2.

Hold Power and Volume Down buttons and when LG screen shows, release them for half a second and press them again. It should show screen for factory reset. Go for it pressing Power button. It will take you to recovery...

l33t p1mp said:
I can't for the life of me figure out how to boot into TWRP... I followed the how-to on the cyanogenmod wiki hoping that it would work, and I've tried googling this, but I can't figure it out. Cyanogenmod's wiki says hold the power and volume down simultaneously, then click them both when the LG screen shows, then click the power button three times. I've done this about ten times with no luck. I need to boot into twrp to install gapps as I've just flashed a rom on my G2.
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I had the same problem and what I have to do is power the phone off, then hold the volume down button and power button at the same time, when the lg screen pops up release the volume down button while keeping the power button pressed. A splash screen will pop up and it will say entering recovery mode. It will then boot into recovery.
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alex72 said:
Hold Power and Volume Down buttons and when LG screen shows, release them for half a second and press them again. It should show screen for factory reset. Go for it pressing Power button. It will take you to recovery...
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Power + Volume down or Volume up? I've always had to use volume up but I guess I can try volume down next time.

With the method I put it has to be volume down. I couldn't get the traditional methods to work for me.
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