[Q] Is my Hero bricked? - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

It's doing a fastboot loop. See the video:
Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated.
PL

How did you manage to get it on that screen? Anything you particularly did? This may help in the solving.
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Thanks for your reply.
This happens when I insert the battery and press the power on button. Nothing other than that.
It's doing this for about a year and a half now (using a Desire these days, but stumbled upon my Hero earlier this week).

Can You go into recovery by holding home button ? Perhaps volume button is stuck or something ...
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Could be a stuck volume button. Nothing different happens by holding down home button at startup.

ProLen said:
Could be a stuck volume button. Nothing different happens by holding down home button at startup.
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Can't make my hero do that... But on my fastboot-screen it says that you have to press the menu button to reset the device.. Any chance that it's stuck? Also, what happens if you press the volume-up button at boot?

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[Q] Is there another method to boot into downloading mode?

I am trying to root my GT7510 (wifi only) and can't get into downloading mode to use odin. I tried posting in that forum, but i do not have enough posts. I have tried the volume down + power button method, but all it does is reboot the tab over and over. If it makes any difference i am on build HMJ37.UEKME P7510UEKME. Should i do a factory restore and try before applying any updates? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Are you releasing the power button or just continuously holding it down? If it's the latter, that's your problem. Hold volume down, and hold the power button down. As soon as the first Samsung screen pops up, release the power button immediately while still holding the volume down button. You should get into bootloader mode.
MMcCraryNJ said:
Are you releasing the power button or just continuously holding it down? If it's the latter, that's your problem. Hold volume down, and hold the power button down. As soon as the first Samsung screen pops up, release the power button immediately while still holding the volume down button. You should get into bootloader mode.
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Wow, i feel pretty dumb now lol. That was it. I thought it was like getting into the CWM on my epic. Thank you!
No problem! I was new once too, I actually made the same mistake with my Vibrant, trying to get it into download mode.
I like how easy it is to get into download mode on the galaxy tab compared to how I had to do it on the Vibrant
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Power Button

My power button has a problem. When i press it once it will turn on and off again at the same time. I had to press ot several times for it to stay on..
Another thing is when im holding it for reboot or shutting down. It turns off again and again and again..
Is it hardware or a software problem..
Help me please..
Tengkuberimats
Sent from my X10 using XDA App
Which rom are you using ? When receiving a call, when you press the power button what happens ?
wannaburjer said:
My power button has a problem. When i press it once it will turn on and off again at the same time. I had to press ot several times for it to stay on..
Another thing is when im holding it for reboot or shutting down. It turns off again and again and again..
Is it hardware or a software problem..
Help me please..
Tengkuberimats
Sent from my X10 using XDA App
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I have the same problem on every rom.
So I guess it's hardware related.
when I want to shutdown or reboot I hold down the power button (don't release it) and select the shutdown option

Evo lte is stuck in lock screen, feeling withdrawal symptoms already

ok so I'm new to this forum, was suggested to go here when i got my first smartphone.
So basically my idiot friends were messing with my phone with the pattern lock. They messed it up 15 times and now I have to sign in with my gmail. But the problem is that whenever I try to sign in, it gives me invalid username/password. I know I'm putting in the right password and right username because I've done it about a million times on my computer and tried to unlock my phone about the same amount of times. I've also tried all my other gmails that my phone is registered with but none work.
I'm still on stock ICS because im new to the android world and haven't gotten around to figuring out everything. Thanks for helping!
Okay first did you possibly have your Android debugging on? If not the only way us a factory reset. You can reset it by turning it off, hold down power and volume down. While holding volume down let go of the power. Then using your volume keys select factory reset and select with the power button.
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alright thanks! but when do i let go of the power button? when i tried it, it booted up into safe mode
don404303 said:
alright thanks! but when do i let go of the power button? when i tried it, it booted up into safe mode
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Okay so first press down the Vol. Down button. Next press the power button firmly for 3 seconds. DO NOT let go of the Volume down button till a white screen (Your bootloader) appears. Then use the volume buttons to select factory reset (If it's not there look for bootloader or somthing like that) press the power button to select.
Volia your phone is now factory reset!
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[Q] Won't Boot Into Recovery

EDIT 2: FIXED, thank you Checkm8!
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Original Question:
My phone won't boot into recovery by using the manual method. I can boot into it no problem using GooManager to tell the phone to reboot into recovery, but no by powering off my phone, then holding down the power button and volume up. The phone'll vibrate and say "RECOVERY BOOTING" in blue in the upper left, but the screen will just go black and the phone will boot normally after 2 seconds.
This isn't a big problem by itself, but my phone also seems to have a problem with wiping system on its own or something, because multiple times of rebooting my phone just to reboot, the phone won't boot at all. It'll just stay at the "Galaxy S4" splash screen.
EDIT: Flashing to complete stock using Odin doesn't fix the recovery issue, tried it multiple times.
I had a similar issue but it was my fault. I figured out later hold (in this order) volume up, home, and power buttons. Once the phone vibrates, let go of the power button but continue holding the other two until you see "Recovery Booting". Let me know if that works for you.
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Checkm8 said:
I had a similar issue but it was my fault. I figured out later hold (in this order) volume up, home, and power buttons. Once the phone vibrates, let go of the power button but continue holding the other two until you see "Recovery Booting". Let me know if that works for you.
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You are correct sir.... Its not like the S3 that you had to hold all 3 buttons until you saw "Recovery Booting"..
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Checkm8 said:
I had a similar issue but it was my fault. I figured out later hold (in this order) volume up, home, and power buttons. Once the phone vibrates, let go of the power button but continue holding the other two until you see "Recovery Booting". Let me know if that works for you.
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Thanks, that got it to boot into recovery! But now it's just sitting at the "teamwin" screen and has been for the past 5 minutes... I'm going to assume that it's a one time thing and carry on with my life regardless. but now I know how to boot int orecovery the right way! I had gotten it to boot when i first got the phone a few times but I guess I had since started doing it incorrectly.

[Q] Help, power button not working

So not only is my power button not working, Im stuck in the bootloader screen and cant reboot since the power button isn't working. So how can I reboot my phone to at least get it back to being a phone? I took the back part of the phone off to see if I remove the power button and manually press it would that work, no luck there. Any suggestions?
*******Ok so I think I fixed the problem, turns out the power button just need a little bit of help. so if I mess with it to turn off and on it's works. Thanks for the responses, glad to know that when needed, help is there and will be given******
Also, sounds like I might need to be moving on from this phone to the M8. New phone??? well alright!!!!!!
You in HBOOT or FASTBOOT?
markjc12 said:
So not only is my power button not working, Im stuck in the bootloader screen and cant reboot since the power button isn't working. So how can I reboot my phone to at least get it back to being a phone? I took the back part of the phone off to see if I remove the power button and manually press it would that work, no luck there. Any suggestions?
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Are you familiar with fastboot? Connect to a PC and use fastboot reboot.
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Captain_Throwback said:
You in HBOOT or FASTBOOT?
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Captain Throwback my hero, lol. You've helped me before so thank you for responding and hopefully you can help me again. Im in Hboot, I believe? Im plugged into my comp and it's says fastboot USB then the directions on using the vol buttons and power button.
Evolution_Freak said:
Are you familiar with fastboot? Connect to a PC and use fastboot reboot.
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Ok, I am connected to my comp, but how would I fast reboot without the use of the power button?
OK UPDATE!!!
So I held the power button down for a min or so and it shut down and rebooted. But the power button still doesn't work.
Yea I know, it doesn't make sense if the power button doesn't work how did it reboot when I held it down for a min? Im trying to wrap my brain around that one too. lol

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