Just received a replacement Vibrant and can not boot into recovery through the power/volume up/down method, has something changed?
To get into recovery mode you need to hold Volume Down and Power Button.
I have booted into recovery many times with my original Vibrant, my replacement will not boot.
Um, the OP explicitly said that they can't get into recovery with volup+voldn+power, on a replacement phone. Replacement=more likely they know how to do it that I do, but I just received a new Vibrant from T-Mo-USA today and I cannot get it into recovery either.
VolUp+VolDn held, power until 'vibrant samsung' then release power is supposed to be recovery, but not working for me. Just VolDn or just VolUp and power only boots the phone as well. Waiting with power held until screen goes black again then 'vibrant samsung' returns is also ineffective. I can get to download mode with vol buts while plugging USB, and I've double-checked that both vol buts are working. It /is/ possible that a change took place and recovery is no longer accessible through that key combo...
Shiny new handset, never yet had a SIM inserted. (Trying to get clockwork recovery running to do nandroid backup before setting up first time) (adb gives me a permission error, going to research that now)
j
Quick Boot in the market.
I am NOT a fan of the new q&a section. I liked going to one place.
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I am NOT a fan of the new q&a section. I liked going to one place.
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Agreed. Wait, is this s15274n. I love Q&A.
haha guess you saw you were in the sticky now
newkirk said:
Um, the OP explicitly said that they can't get into recovery with volup+voldn+power, on a replacement phone. Replacement=more likely they know how to do it that I do, but I just received a new Vibrant from T-Mo-USA today and I cannot get it into recovery either.
VolUp+VolDn held, power until 'vibrant samsung' then release power is supposed to be recovery, but not working for me. Just VolDn or just VolUp and power only boots the phone as well. Waiting with power held until screen goes black again then 'vibrant samsung' returns is also ineffective. I can get to download mode with vol buts while plugging USB, and I've double-checked that both vol buts are working. It /is/ possible that a change took place and recovery is no longer accessible through that key combo...
Shiny new handset, never yet had a SIM inserted. (Trying to get clockwork recovery running to do nandroid backup before setting up first time) (adb gives me a permission error, going to research that now)
j
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Let us know if you find a resolution, thanks!
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Quick Boot in the market.
I am NOT a fan of the new q&a section. I liked going to one place.
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Quick Boot specifically states that you must ALREADY have root status for it to work.
So we need Root for Quick Boot to get into Recovery Mode, but we need to first get into Recovery Mode to get Root...
Ring around the rosy...
Anybody else have any ideas?
^ he didn't say he didn't have root already. I also posted an alternate method to root above without stock recovery.
Have either of you found a way to recovery with key combos yet. I too can not get recovery with vol buttons. Only thru terminal, adb, rom manager, etc. i'd really like to know if anyones found a solution to this??? I'd like to be able to boot recovery manually in case I cant boot into home screen for some reason.
Someone mentioned getting it to work while having it plugged into the charger.
Frankly, the only way I was able to get into Recovery Mode was through the ADB method.
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I called T-Mobile regarding this and they agree it should work with hardware buttons and are sending me a replacement.
Same issue. Got the phone on Aug 23 and the only way I can go to recovery is via ADB and ClockWorkMod
Hmmm, I have the same issue. The funny thing is that I can get into recovery on my girl's phone just fine. And I can't on mine. They only way I could get into recovery was by using the 1-click root. Now, I can use ROM Manager to get into recovery while "on-the-go". At first, I was honestly afraid that maybe my phone came without the recovery installed!
I know it gets frustrating listening to the stupid T-Mobile jingle taunting you every time it fails.
I guess it's not a big enough deal to me to send it back now that I have a couple of options, but it seems like it's a more common issue than I thought. Only way to get Samsung to do something is to keep sending them back . . .
Its important to be able to get recovery with the buttons tho. What if your flashing roms or anythimg for that matter and the phone wont boot regularly. Then you cant get into recovery to restore. Called tmobile and Im sending mine back tomorrow for replacement, unless somebody knows another way to get into recovery if you end up in a boot loop???
My friend just got his Vibrant, I went to root it for him and wont go into recovery. Mine works fine,I can get into recovery fine on mine everytime. I told him to return it and swap it out. Getting into recovery is very important if you flash a rom and you run into booting issues.
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My friend just got his Vibrant, I went to root it for him and wont go into recovery. Mine works fine,I can get into recovery fine on mine everytime. I told him to return it and swap it out. Getting into recovery is very important if you flash a rom and you run into booting issues.
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I really suspect what we're seeing isn't a defect per se, but the result of a suit at t-mo being told that people are using recovery mode for rooting their phones and restoring things like wifi tethering, who responded "then disable recovery mode dammit"...
If you return a Vibrant that won't go into recovery from buttons and actually get a new-in-the-box vibrant in its place, I suspect there's a very high probability that the replacement is the same, and if you get a replacement that WILL enter recovery from buttons I suspect it's likely to be an open box or what-have-you. For the latter, as more Vibrants are returned for not entering recovery, you're more and more likely to end up with a 'like-new' replacement that won't enter recovery either.
Long-term I suspect the solution is going to have to come from us, not t-mobile.
j
I can not boot into recovery this is also a replacement phone. I installed vibrant7 didn't care for it so did a rom manager recovery back to stock and my phone is stuck on the vibrant start screen. Can anyone help me fix my brick?
it doesn't work on my Vibrant,tried Volume Up/Power,Volume Down/Power, no luck....
When starting my phone in recovery mode it will not scroll with the track ball or the volume keys. So I make it to the Android system recovery menu and forced to click reboot system now because I can not move anywhere. Anyone have any ideas on where to start for my issue??
request a replacement phone. If you cant do that, Try clockwork's recovery (be careful its been reported that it can cause your phone to brick. It didnt happen to me while i waited on my replacement phone to get there but still be warned.)
If you have the engineering bootloader on your phone, learn adb and just do what you need to do via adb commands.
Are you currently running a ROM?
Hi there . Can some1 help me with my HTC hero . I boot it in recovery mode but it comes out in fastboot USB . I dont know how to bring it back to recovery mode again ?
Are you just holding down home and the power button to try and get into recovery mode? If so you've probably got an older version, like mine, and to get into the recovery mode you're gunna have to hold the vol down button and power button to get to recovery mode.
What I often do to boot my htc hero in recovery mode is that i use Droid Explorer . It used to work but for some reasons that It turned into fastboot usb mode . Screen comes out with HERO in the middle and a little red box on right top corner said fastboot usb (and i have to take the battery out to restart it ). Hope you know how to bring it back into recovery mode .
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What I often do to boot my htc hero in recovery mode is that i use Droid Explorer . It used to work but for some reasons that It turned into fastboot usb mode . Screen comes out with HERO in the middle and a little red box on right top corner said fastboot usb (and i have to take the battery out to restart it ). Hope you know how to bring it back into recovery mode .
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Droid explorer actually doesn't work on my computer, can't seem to get it installed. If I were you I'd go ahead and try the vol down and power button option to enter recovery mode or reinstall droid explorer and see if that'll switch it back to recovery. Of course if you have a custom rom loaded I've noticed that many of them give you the option to reboot>reboot in recovery. That's also pretty helpful.
Try home+power button to start, but first install Rom manager and root your phone...
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So I just got a new G2 with at&t that came installed with kitkat (g2 D800.)
Yesterday, the day I got it, there was an OTA to D80020u which had the Knock Code security feature. Anyways I'm trying to root my phone so I can add a volume mode to boost the headset volume levels. I was able to root the device using this method:
[forum won't let me post outside links but it was a andromod website with directions on rooting a g2 D80020u kitkat with IOroot script tested for 25r1 if that helps at all]
So yay its rooted, superuser permission and all. So I go to install the volume mode I was looking into and attempt to restart the phone in recovery mode by holding down the volume down + Power button until LG logo pops up then release and hold again.
Unfortunately now it won't load recovery mode so I'm unable to flash stuff onto the phone (at least to my knowledge). Instead of recovery mode it shows a black screen with white text saying:
[440] Fastboot mode started
[550] ---reset---
[560]---portchange---
[630]---reset---
[640]---portchange---
[740]fastbootrocessing commands
and thats hit. It wont do anything while in this mode but I can hold down the Power button and restart the phone and have it boot up like normal and run. I can access download mode by pressing Volume up while device is powered off.
Am I going to have to restock to stock? or is there some easy fix?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Sorry guys, total newb here. I derped pretty hard on this. Rooted the device and didn't install a custom recovery before trying to access recovery mode. Went with Teamwin and everything works as intended. Sorry for the waste of a post.
Hello! I don't know where i should post this since the UMI X3 device isn't on this site, so i just post it here...
I installed a custom rom, now it's bootlooping.
If i turn it on it will show the little boot splash screen, then the screen will go black and usually it would show the boot loading screen but it doesn't, it reboots again to the boot splash screen.
I tried searching on google, but none of the forum posts actually helped me.
I try to holds down the power button and the volume up button at the same time, but it will just do the same bootloop thing.
The home button is a touch button, and i actually already tried holding down on that but it didn't work.
I also tried holding power button and volume down, and i tried holding all the buttons down at once (power + volume up and down)... also no succes.
Now it used to work, i got into some chinese bootloader before i installed this rom.
So, basicly it won't get into any recovery. I did install clockworkmod recovery actually and it did work, yet i needed to launch it via mobile uncle tools to get into it. I think im totally ****ed now...
Pleace, is there ANY way to solve this problem?
Problem in a nutshell:
Boot looping splash screen, can't get into recovery mode. (PS: i also tried to connect it via USB but it won't find my phone...)
- Kyran
UPDATE:
I'm now able to get into recovery mode!
However i can't mount usb.
Same problem
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I'm now able to get into recovery mode!
However i can't mount usb.
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Hi Kyriano,
I have the same problem after installing the cynogenmod, does your phone work now. How did you get in the recovery mode??
posible solution
Hi,
After struggling with this issue all day i found a quite simple solution.
The cause of the bootloop in my case was the simcard. So this is what i did:
1. remove simcard tray
2. Turn the phone off and on
3. If everything is ok the bootloop stopped, if not try to reboot again
4. Download mobileuncle in the playstore
5. Open the app click on; into recovery mode
6. Recovery will open and then hopefully you made a backup.Restore it and voila!
If you did not make a back try to flash the official umi ROM.
I hope this solved your problem to.
Greets ryan