I am running Bottle of Smoke and am getting tired of it. So I turn off my gtablet and try to boot into Clockwork Recovery, the viewsonic logo came up and told me that the recovery key was detected as normal but then the screen turned off and when completely black. I don't know if it is on or not but nothing has seemed to work. I've held Power button, held power and volume up, even i tried power and volume down to get into APX mode and nothing has worked. What should I do?
Perhaps your tablet got stuck in APX mode. There is this procedure that has helped some people and maybe it would do good for you as well.
Good luck,
Dave
My coworker's gTab was stuck in APX mode, and I used these steps to resolve it. Major pain, but it did the job. Prior to that, I tried everything, but no matter what ROM or boot loader that I nvflashed, nothing worked (it would still boot into APX even if no key was pressed). If you run Linux it's very easy to check if you're booting to APX mode. Just plug the system into USB while running tail -f on /var/log/message and you should see APX mentioned in the syslog. Other than that, it doesn't even seem like the tablet was on (but it really was).
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Hi everyone. First time poster here. I'm having problems with my Samsung Apollo (i5801). I was at first going to root my phone, but before even getting to there, I was trying to access recovery mode so that I could fix a USB error (USB would not be detected when plugging into PC, only charged). I don't know what ended up happening, but now I am stuck in a rut.
Trying to hold Volume Up + Down, Home, and Powering on leads to the exclamation mark triangle android screen. Pushing the home button after that just leads to a reboot.
Holding Volume Down + Home and powering on leads to a blue "DOWNLOADING DO NOT TURN OFF" screen which I get stuck on.
Holding Volume Up + Home leads to a "Forced upload by key pressing" screen.
My phone still cannot access any boot menu and still cannot connect by USB to my PC.
I have not rooted anything and the firmware was on 2.1 Eclair before this whole thing happened.
Any ideas or suggestions would be grateful. Thank you!
Well seems like you can access Download mode just fine, so how about flashing it?
2 things here
you cant actualy access a boot menu on a stock apollo, you need to flash a firmware to it first
and the reason your pc cant connect to the handset is you most likely dont have the samsung drivers installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=778880
this thread should help plenty same handset, just called something else
hope this helps
I installed CWM initially, but it never rebooted automatically after installing. I rebooted it manually and all hell broke loose. The only way that I can start g tab now is if I use nvflash. Once I got the system working, I tried shutting down and then getting into CWM again, but a no go. It doesn't even start regularly, with just the power button being pressed. Any advice?
It turns out that I am stuck in the APX mode all the time. If I press just the power button, the APX mode comes on. How can I get out of it?
another topic (SOUNDS LIKE SAME PROBLEM)
aboy7 said:
It turns out that I am stuck in the APX mode all the time. If I press just the power button, the APX mode comes on. How can I get out of it?
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Try this thread I think they have the same issue..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=903684
Other wise of course there is always NVFLash
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/nvflash.htm
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I was stuck on black screen and tried powering down using power button, nothing happened, tried power and vold down same, then triedpower vol up.
Windows started looking for apx driver.
I eventially got prime rebooted using just power for a few seconds.
My question now is what is apx mode used for?
antizen said:
Hi
I was stuck on black screen and tried powering down using power button, nothing happened, tried power and vold down same, then triedpower vol up.
Windows started looking for apx driver.
I eventially got prime rebooted using just power for a few seconds.
My question now is what is apx mode used for?
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APX mode is used for nvflash access, but it requires encrypted messages to talk to it
Same problem
I have the same problem. My tablet only boots in apx mode. I've try many methods but only boots in this mode.
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Have you tried to reboot it after connecting it to pc, long press it?
Since this is probably uncharted territory since we dont have nvflash access at all, have you guys thought of sharing your experience with asus? in an attempt to push them to release it, that there's people already stuck in situations like this.
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I tried flashing a stock Android 4.2 JB ROM that seems legit. After flashing, I rebooted my device and saw the standard Nexus boot animation. So far, I though all was well. It's not. My phone has been stuck in this constant booting state for hours. I pulled the battery after an appropriate amount of waiting and held down the power and volume down+up button. Instead of booting into Fastboot mode, it went straight to Odin Mode. All I can do with my device is boot to Odin Mode or watch the Nexus boot animation over and over again. Does anyone know the solution to my problem or some sort of utility that will help me? Thanks.
Ahh bootloops...Have you tried pressing volume down+up first, then power? Sometimes holding power, then pressing volume down first goes directly to odin mode, not recognizing the later push of volume up. I've never used odin mode..Can you boot straight to recovery, volume up+power? And do you have cwm? If you were not on stock before, then you need a factory reset before it'll boot, and perhaps even a cache wipe.
And i'd bet youd find more help if this was posted in the nexus q&a.
sm-t870 unlocked/rooted stuck in bootloop
cannot enter recovery or download mode, or even seem to shut the tablet completely off.
any combination of buttons turns the tablet on with the message "bootloader is unlocked press power key to continue"
so holding power+volUP, must be let go to press power which seems to interrupt the button combination
power+volDOWN seems to shut the tablet off for 5 seconds but it automatically turns back on.
having plugged into laptop seems to make no difference.
help!
Hi man, have you fixed this issue? I'm having the exact same problems as yours. I updated my Magisk it just went bootloop.
Thanks!
Plug into PC then Power+Volume Up got me into recovery mode