Hi,
Have this old thing, and charged it up after years, and am trying to get into it, but realized I had a lock screen
and password I can't remember
So I'm trying to get into recovery to restore it to default, but when holding Home+Volume up + Power it boots to this screen
and not recovery. I am pretty sure I haven't moded the boot loader and firmware
Anyone know how to get into the recovery? or any other way to get past the lock screen?
In doing some research, that is the download mode. But someone else had the same problem and instead of holding the Volume Up, the Held the volume down on a Galaxy Tab and it worked.
When I try Volume down, If I keep the buttons held, it goes in a loop. And if I release them when I see the logo, it boots into a black screen powered on, but no menu shows up
if the recovery is incorrect for the device (wrong model) it'll send you straight to that screen.
solved by flashing one for the model you have.
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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
Im trying to flash a new ROM but cannot seem to enter recovery mode:
I had revolver 3.6 and wanted to upgrade to the latest, so I held down power and selected recovery, now its in some type of rebooting cycle where it tries to boot up with the "Eee Pad" in the center and the "ASUS/NVidia" at the bottom, this stays on for about 3 secs then it appears to power off and the cycle starts again.
Holding down just the power button seems to do nothing, but if I hold power+volUP for a few seconds it seems to make it power off for good. From this powered down state, pwr or pwr+volUP does nothing. From this powered down state pwr+volDown brings up the boot screen + the small white letters in the upper right saying to hit volUp within 5 secs to enter RCK but if you do this then you get the reboot loop all over. If you let it sit there Itll allow you to either coldboot or eraseuserdata+cold boot. This allows the tablet to boot up normally.
But I just can never seem to boot to recovery. I have revolver parts and the reboot2recovery and the recoveryinstaller.apk all installed. What am I missing?
What about cwm? Sounds like you still on stock recovery.
How did you root? And how did you flash recovery? Were you ever able to get into recovery?
My gut tells me your recovery isn't compatible with your bootloader and/or boot.img.
Thanks for the help. I don't think i loaded cwwm when i originnally rooted. I reded rooting and it put cwm5 on.
Before anyone links me to different threads, the device this is happening to does work, it is still a big concern of mine though
My problem is that when I press the Power and Volume up buttons to start up my tablet, instead of getting all of the normal options (Restart boot loader, Recovery mode) I get a screen that says "Downloading... Do not turn off target" and I'm stuck on start (Volume buttons do nothing) but start still boots my device and it boots like normal without pressing any volume buttons
If it helps, it started doing this after a crash which my have done something to the firmware (But I'm not the smartest guy on this site)
My device is stock but rooted with an unlocked boot loader
2haloes said:
Before anyone links me to different threads, the device this is happening to does work, it is still a big concern of mine though
My problem is that when I press the Power and Volume up buttons to start up my tablet, instead of getting all of the normal options (Restart boot loader, Recovery mode) I get a screen that says "Downloading... Do not turn off target" and I'm stuck on start (Volume buttons do nothing) but start still boots my device and it boots like normal without pressing any volume buttons
If it helps, it started doing this after a crash which my have done something to the firmware (But I'm not the smartest guy on this site)
My device is stock but rooted with an unlocked boot loader
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On my N10, Power+Volume Down button will put it into "Downloading" mode and I have to press Power+Both Volume Up and Down at the same time to enter normal bootloader mode.
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On my N10, Power+Volume Down button will put it into "Downloading" mode and I have to press Power+Both Volume Up and Down at the same time to enter normal bootloader mode.
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Well this makes me feel dumb, thanks for the answer
I tried this with several batterys
but my s4 does not boot up the system nor the recovery nor the download
it shows the S4 logo and than does not boot further
when trying to boot the recovery it shows s4 logo and recory booting but than stops
while trying to boot up download mode it shows the download screen for half a second and than goes black
It only boots until the boot loop when i remove the battery and put it back, the power button has no use any more
what can I do
could be a hardware problem? but i have i sent it to warranty, they will find that i flashed the ROM
MasterBrush said:
I tried this with several batterys
but my s4 does not boot up the system nor the recovery nor the download
it shows the S4 logo and than does not boot further
when trying to boot the recovery it shows s4 logo and recory booting but than stops
while trying to boot up download mode it shows the download screen for half a second and than goes black
It only boots until the boot loop when i remove the battery and put it back, the power button has no use any more
what can I do
could be a hardware problem? but i have i sent it to warranty, they will find that i flashed the ROM
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Hi
Mate check your power button ( also volume up and down) it may be stuck
i have the same problem with i9500
but all the buttons are clear no stuck button with me !!
I agree it could be your power button. Same thing happens to me sometimes.
It may not feel like it's stuck, but it is.
Put it on it's side w/the power button and gently keep tapping it on a flat hard surface. it should jolt the button loose and power on like normal.
Update: I was able to get it recognized via fastboot and used NRT to flash back to stock under the bootloop option.
Now rooted with factory 5.0.1 !
The way I got it to recognize the tablet was to press the middle part of the volume switch (effectively pressing up AND down volume) and the power button and then the bootloader loaded and I could use fastboot but not adb. I read in another thread about pressing the middle of the sound button. Never heard of that before.
Hopefully someone can help me out.
i updated via abd using the flash all script. Now when it boots up it's stuck on the logo of flying color dots. (yes, I waited 15-20 min at least)
Anyway, now I can boot into fastbboot mode but the computer doesn't recognize it.
If I try to boot into recovery (which I think got corrupted) then I just get the android icon with a red exclamation point.
I have no way to clean anything up cause I can't communicate with it.
Edit: I'm stuck in a boot loop also. If I just let it boot it stays on the logo forever. When I try to turn it off it just reboots to the logo.
If I use the keys to boot to fastboot it just sits there and now I can't even change the option at that point and there's no way to completely shut it down!
Thanks for any assistance you might have.
Pressing both volume buttons and the power button will get you into fastboot mode. It's always the last fallback position and I've never known it to fail. I had the same with a bad flash on Tuesday when trying to solve my wifi problems.
Glad you got it sorted
Thanks.
I was getting to the bootloader screen but couldn't get the PC to see it. I always used to use power/vol down combo to boot into bootloader and didn't even know u could press both vol up and down at the same time.
Or maybe I'm imagining it all.
GrenW said:
Pressing both volume buttons and the power button will get you into fastboot mode. It's always the last fallback position and I've never known it to fail. I had the same with a bad flash on Tuesday when trying to solve my wifi problems.
Glad you got it sorted
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