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How do you get into download mode?

I'm holding volume down and power. I hear the jingle but it just stays on the "Vibrant" screen... Ugh. My phone is brokedy broke.

Are you rooted?

I rooted with RyanZa's OCLF but unrooted right before doing the recent OTA update. After doing that, my phone wouldn't boot past the Vibrant screen. So now, I'm trying to get in download mode so I can use Odin to get back to stock. Nothing is working for me right now though.

Ok, I was going to tell you the easiest way to get into download mode, but your phone has to be on. It is still possible if you know how to use ADB and your phone was in debug mode.
Also, how long did you wait on the Vibrant screen before restarting it? It can take awhile. Did you have any lag fixes installed?

trunkstar1 said:
I'm holding volume down and power. I hear the jingle but it just stays on the "Vibrant" screen... Ugh. My phone is brokedy broke.
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the best and easiest way i have found to get in to download mode is this.
1. remove batt.
2.plug usb into computer
3.put batt. in
4.hold volume down+up
5. plug usb into phone.
if you need more help with getting your phone up and running, feel free to PM me cuz i just went through this my self, i know how confusing it can get.

I had done RyanZa's lag fix but I also undid that before doing the OTA update. My phone was in debug mode, but unfortunately I don't know how to use ADB. I waited a while on the Vibrant screen but I'll try it again in case I really didn't wait long enough.
Btw, thanks for the continued assistance.

Yea.
Try this also:
Plug in your phone til you see the big battery charging icon
hold down both volume keys and power.
As soon as the battery goes away, release the power key but continue to hold volumes.. Try that..

You are essentially holding down the wrong buttons...
There after two "modes" your phone can be put into...
1. Download mode:
Done by having your phone off and then quickly turning it on and holding down JUST the up and down volume controls while having the usb already plugged in (easist I've found is stated above regarding taking the battery out, plug in usb, hold both volume buttons, then while holding them put battery back in)
2. Recovery mode:
Done by holding both up and down volume buttons AND the power button. (note: after the vibrant screen comes up, release only the power button while still holding volume buttons or else the vibrant screen will just reboot over and over)
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Thanks all, I realized that I didn't have the right drivers installed. (duh). Thanks goes out to those who pointed me in the right direction.
The new problem I have came after accidentally pulling the USB cord out of my laptop while running ODIN. Now, all I get when trying to get in download mode is a graphic of a phone, a yellow triangle with exclamation mark, and a computer.
Anyone know what do do?

stuck on google trying to unlock

Tried to oem unlock my nexus 7 but pressed the power but to go to recovery mode. Tried different methods of turning it off, hold power, hold power + vol up/down, hold vol up & down with no luck. Now im wondering if i just need to let the battery die or something im not doing right.

If you hold POWER for 10+ seconds it will turn off. Then hold POWER, VOL UP/DOWN and it will load into bootloader. Hasn't failed me once even after F'ing up some ROM installs (for fun as tests). I've always been able to get back and fix myself.

asawoszc said:
If you hold POWER for 10+ seconds it will turn off. Then hold POWER, VOL UP/DOWN and it will load into bootloader. Hasn't failed me once even after F'ing up some ROM installs (for fun as tests). I've always been able to get back and fix myself.
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ive held the power button for minutes with no luck...thought holding the power + vol down would work like on my one x but not luck either.

Remove the microUSB connector, wait 30 seconds, and then try again.
What screen are you actually stuck on?

asawoszc said:
Remove the microUSB connector, wait 30 seconds, and then try again.
What screen are you actually stuck on?
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so while trying to oem unlock i accidentally pressed the power button on recovery, so currently im on the white google with black screen page. am i suppose to reconnect to the usb after the 30 seconds?

Doesn't matter. Just leave the cable unplugged and then try boot up into fastboot mode again. There's no reason it shouldn't make it there.
UNLESS... you interrupted the OEM Unlock half way through. Maybe it screwed up your boot.img or something. Still, I would suspect you can get around that and back into bootloader.

asawoszc said:
Doesn't matter. Just leave the cable unplugged and then try boot up into fastboot mode again. There's no reason it shouldn't make it there.
UNLESS... you interrupted the OEM Unlock half way through. Maybe it screwed up your boot.img or something. Still, I would suspect you can get around that and back into bootloader.
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thats the thing i cant get out of this google page, im trying to find out if theres anything other method i havent tried

Sorry mate. I've never had a problem power cycling a nexus device even after royally F'ing it up on purpose. Maybe just let the device sit there all alone for a bit, unplugged, and then try again in 15 minutes.
Best of luck.

problem solved-fixed with battery pull

Phone not turning on and led flashing rapidly

I just flashed MOAR rom on my phone a few days ago and everything was working perfectly then while at work I pulled my phone out of my pocket and noticed my case had slipped off and was holding the power button down. After fixing the case I tried to unlock my phone and nothing came up on my screen. I held down the power button and the only thing that happened was my LED indicator is flashing green rapidly and at different brightness. Then I pulled the battery and left it out of my phone for 2 hours and still the only thing that is happening is the LED. When I plug it into my computer without me hitting the button the LED is flashing. It wont boot into recovery and I don't want to send it in and them find a custom rom on it so any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Mjordan88 said:
I just flashed MOAR rom on my phone a few days ago and everything was working perfectly then while at work I pulled my phone out of my pocket and noticed my case had slipped off and was holding the power button down. After fixing the case I tried to unlock my phone and nothing came up on my screen. I held down the power button and the only thing that happened was my LED indicator is flashing green rapidly and at different brightness. Then I pulled the battery and left it out of my phone for 2 hours and still the only thing that is happening is the LED. When I plug it into my computer without me hitting the button the LED is flashing. It wont boot into recovery and I don't want to send it in and them find a custom rom on it so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am assuming it won't go into download mode either? Try holding the power button in for at least 30-40 seconds.

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I am assuming it won't go into download mode either? Try holding the power button in for at least 30-40 seconds.
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No, I've tried holding just the power button for a minute or trying to go into either download or recovery mode and got nothing.

Mjordan88 said:
No, I've tried holding just the power button for a minute or trying to go into either download or recovery mode and got nothing.
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Try the same thing with the charger plugged in.
"Try holding down the power button for 1 minute with the charger connected. If this doesn't present the screen, try holding the power button AND both volume buttons at the same time. This should bring up a menu. There should be an option for reboot or force reboot"

Tulsadiver said:
Try the same thing with the charger plugged in.
"Try holding down the power button for 1 minute with the charger connected. If this doesn't present the screen, try holding the power button AND both volume buttons at the same time. This should bring up a menu. There should be an option for reboot or force reboot"
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Thanks for trying to help, I've tried holding both volume and power button for a minute and nothing. After having it plugged in for a few minutes my battery started to get warm.

Mjordan88 said:
Thanks for trying to help, I've tried holding both volume and power button for a minute and nothing. After having it plugged in for a few minutes my battery started to get warm.
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Just something I found while looking for answers. At least your battery is getting warm. That is better than the alternative.

Tulsadiver said:
Just something I found while looking for answers. At least your battery is getting warm. That is better than the alternative.
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For just a second my computer said the USB device malfunctioned but now it's gone again.

Mjordan88 said:
For just a second my computer said the USB device malfunctioned but now it's gone again.
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Are you using the original data cable? Try a different USB port maybe?

Please Help! LG G2 Won't Boot Up

I had rooted my dad's lg g2( D802) and installed twrp using an app named autorec as it was recommended by many people in the internet and had very high ratings and downloads in the play store. Everything was fine for a few weeks till I noticed that the app had an update. So I flashed twrp again from the app hoping it was a newer version and it said it completed the operation successfully. Then I just used the phone for sometime and after that I switched off the phone to enter the recovery. After it switched off, I pressed the button combination for entering the recovery but nothing came up. Then I attempted to just boot the phone and kept pressing the power button but nothing came up. I even kept pressing the button for upto a minute to hard reboot it in case it was just a case of hanging but nothing came up.After that, I plugged it in for charging and attempted to boot again. After I kept pressing the power button for about 30 seconds while charging, the led blinked red 8 times, paused and repeated itself as long as I kept holding the power button.
The problem is that it even the screen doesn't turn on.
I searched for this issue and saw that many others were facing this issue. I tried the following solutions given by them which did not work:
1) Holding the power button for a long time
2) Keeping it for charging until it's full but nothing comes up and the phone got heated up very much untill I stopped it a few hours later.
3) Removing the back cover and detaching the battery power cable from the phone after after waiting for sometime, reattaching it.
My dad showed it to the lg repair centre but they told him they need to replace the whole board which is very expensive, especially considering that it is a 2+ year old phone. My dad is very angry at me and probably won't let me touch his phones ever again if I don't fix this. Please help me.
Thanks in Advance
Edit: the charge was at 45% when I switched it off. Don't think it is because of low battery

With the phone pluggged into your computer, does the computer recognize the phone? And if yes, what does Device Manager report it as being?

arvindr07 said:
I had rooted my dad's lg g2( D802) and installed twrp using an app named autorec as it was recommended by many people in the internet and had very high ratings and downloads in the play store. Everything was fine for a few weeks till I noticed that the app had an update. So I flashed twrp again from the app hoping it was a newer version and it said it completed the operation successfully. Then I just used the phone for sometime and after that I switched off the phone to enter the recovery. After it switched off, I pressed the button combination for entering the recovery but nothing came up. Then I attempted to just boot the phone and kept pressing the power button but nothing came up. I even kept pressing the button for upto a minute to hard reboot it in case it was just a case of hanging but nothing came up.After that, I plugged it in for charging and attempted to boot again. After I kept pressing the power button for about 30 seconds while charging, the led blinked red 8 times, paused and repeated itself as long as I kept holding the power button.
The problem is that it even the screen doesn't turn on.
I searched for this issue and saw that many others were facing this issue. I tried the following solutions given by them which did not work:
1) Holding the power button for a long time
2) Keeping it for charging until it's full but nothing comes up and the phone got heated up very much untill I stopped it a few hours later.
3) Removing the back cover and detaching the battery power cable from the phone after after waiting for sometime, reattaching it.
My dad showed it to the lg repair centre but they told him they need to replace the whole board which is very expensive, especially considering that it is a 2+ year old phone. My dad is very angry at me and probably won't let me touch his phones ever again if I don't fix this. Please help me.
Thanks in Advance
Edit: the charge was at 45% when I switched it off. Don't think it is because of low battery
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more info... what variant? phone does not boot.. can you press vol up then plug phone .. does download mode works... stay calmed this can be fixed..:fingers-crossed:

I haven't tried plugging it to the computer. The way to enter download mode is holding the volume up button right? Thank you for the suggestion. I'm away for a few days but I'll tell my dad to do so. I'll post what happens then. Variant is D802

OK I told him to do that. When he pressed the volume up button and then plugged it to his computer, 13 new partitions showed up in windows, and it is telling him that he needs to format the positions to use it. But nothing is coming up on the phone

Do NOT let Windows format the partitions(!)
Use the SRKTool instead to unbrick from qhsusb_bulk mode:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/tools-srk-tool-useful-toos-lg-root-twrp-t3079076
Afterwards use LG Flash Tool 2014 to flash the KDZ for your variant:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
It's better to let the battery charge to full first. Shut down the phone by holding PWR button for 10 seconds, then plug charger. It should work even in bulk mode.

Did you try these simple things...
shutdown phone keeping powerbutton down.
Start pressing power button & vol down....when you see LG logo for couple seconds. Release fingers and press vol UP and vol DOWN, same time. No power button.

MB525 said:
Do NOT let Windows format the partitions(!)
Use the SRKTool instead to unbrick from qhsusb_bulk mode:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/tools-srk-tool-useful-toos-lg-root-twrp-t3079076
Afterwards use LG Flash Tool 2014 to flash the KDZ for your variant:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
It's better to let the battery charge to full first. Shut down the phone by holding PWR button for 10 seconds, then plug charger. It should work even in bulk mode.
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But the problem is, even the screen doesn't turn on while on download mode. I'll surely try out the unbrick tool but will it work since normally, the download mode screen comes up. That thing is 760mb. I think it'll take some time for it to finish. (Ultra slow internet connection )

mal13 said:
Did you try these simple things...
shutdown phone keeping powerbutton down.
Start pressing power button & vol down....when you see LG logo for couple seconds. Release fingers and press vol UP and vol DOWN, same time. No power button.
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The lg logo doesn't come up when I do that. If fact, even the screen does not turn on

Thank you guys! Srk tools worked! Again thank you very much

phone won't boot/start up

I have a at&t S4 that all of a sudden today stopped working. When I restart the phone by taking the battery out and putting back in, it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and then a black screen. I tried going to recovery mode(volume up + home + power button), and it shows recovery booting in blue for a sec then goes black. I tried for download mode the warning comes up but after pressing volume up it goes black. I really don't know what to do at this point.

Tried using kies or smart switch to perform a firmware recovery?

Yes, the computer doesn't recognize that the phone is connected. It's as if when the phone goes to the black screen its actually powered off. The only time I get anything from the phone is when I pull the battery and reinsert it.

bubba9004 said:
I have a at&t S4 that all of a sudden today stopped working. When I restart the phone by taking the battery out and putting back in, it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and then a black screen. I tried going to recovery mode(volume up + home + power button), and it shows recovery booting in blue for a sec then goes black. I tried for download mode the warning comes up but after pressing volume up it goes black. I really don't know what to do at this point.
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When the phone battery are too low, the phone could behave like that too.
Do you know that battery is fully charged or has more than 60%?
If not charge the phone first.
Plug the charger. If you did not see any sign showing that you phone is charging, press and hold the power button for 10 sec and release it. You should see the phone charging image.
Let me know whether your phone has enough battery power left but showing the above mentioned problems.

sway8966 said:
When the phone battery are too low, the phone could behave like that too.
Do you know that battery is fully charged or has more than 60%?
If not charge the phone first.
Plug the charger. If you did not see any sign showing that you phone is charging, press and hold the power button for 10 sec and release it. You should see the phone charging image.
Let me know whether your phone has enough battery power left but showing the above mentioned problems.
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Yes, the battery is fully charged. I have another S4 Active that I've swapped the batteries with, along with a spare official Samsung battery and charger. It doesn't matter which battery I use, the phone acts the same with any of the 3.

bubba9004 said:
Yes, the battery is fully charged. I have another S4 Active that I've swapped the batteries with, along with a spare official Samsung battery and charger. It doesn't matter which battery I use, the phone acts the same with any of the 3.
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If you have enough battery power left but the phone was behaved like that, you might need to flash the firmware.
Are you in lollipop or kitkat? For the time being, the only firmware available for kit-kat and lollipop is NB1 firmware cooked by muniz_ri . You can get it from here.
You mentioned that you can go to download mode but the phone shut off when you press volume up to go to the download mode after the warning.
Try the 10 sec method. Go to the download mode (power+home+volume-down) but keep holding the power button for 10 sec even though you see the warning message appear. Then you press volume up to go the download mode. Try this way and let me know.

sway8966 said:
If you have enough battery power left but the phone was behaved like that, you might need to flash the firmware.
Are you in lollipop or kitkat? For the time being, the only firmware available for kit-kat and lollipop is NB1 firmware cooked by muniz_ri . You can get it from here.
You mentioned that you can go to download mode but the phone shut off when you press volume up to go to the download mode after the warning.
Try the 10 sec method. Go to the download mode (power+home+volume-down) but keep holding the power button for 10 sec even though you see the warning message appear. Then you press volume up to go the download mode. Try this way and let me know.
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It was on Kitkat. I can press the volume up and get it to show the download android screen but it immediately shuts off. Holding the power button for 10 secs. and then the volume up didn't do anything. The phone shuts off after 1-2 secs. of doing anything.

bubba9004 said:
It was on Kitkat. I can press the volume up and get it to show the download android screen but it immediately shuts off. Holding the power button for 10 secs. and then the volume up didn't do anything. The phone shuts off after 1-2 secs. of doing anything.
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That is strange. The same thing happened to me. But I avoided the phone shut down by 10 sec methods.
Just hold the power+home+volume down for 10 sec, even though the warning sign show up, and then let it go all of them. Plug the phone to the computer and then press the volume-down to go into download mode. It works for me. Not on the first try though.
Try doing that with batter charger plug in too.

sway8966 said:
That is strange. The same thing happened to me. But I avoided the phone shut down by 10 sec methods.
Just hold the power+home+volume down for 10 sec, even though the warning sign show up, and then let it go all of them. Plug the phone to the computer and then press the volume-down to go into download mode. It works for me. Not on the first try though.
Try doing that with batter charger plug in too.
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Thanks for your help. I figured out whats wrong, its got a faulty power button. I took the phone apart, put it back together, and was able to get it to boot completely. The slightest touch of the power button causes it to reboot though, so I'm going to need to replace it.

bubba9004 said:
Thanks for your help. I figured out whats wrong, its got a faulty power button. I took the phone apart, put it back together, and was able to get it to boot completely. The slightest touch of the power button causes it to reboot though, so I'm going to need to replace it.
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Glad you found the problem. I was trouble shooting for the software error.
Yes, power bottom could give you a problem too. I use screen off app so I do not have to use power button to turn off the screen.