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.
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Hello, I'm new to installing custom ROMs and rooting a galaxy player 5.0. Currently, my Galaxy Player refuses to go on, after I rooted it, and installed a custom ROM. I used the clockwork mod and deleted some data, which I think is the cause of the problem. My galaxy player just goes in a loop whenever it is plugged up into a computer, and when it is not, it won't turn on, nor go into recovery mode. By the slim chance that I actually get it to turn on, if I unplug it from my computer it will automatically shut off. Can I get some help please?
You should try to keep vol down pressed when turning on your device or, if you can't, try holding the vol down in between the loops. If you manage to do that, plug the player to your pc and using odin, flash a stock rom. I had bootloop issues several times during rom changes and I managed to solve them getting the right tempo in between the loops and holding vol up or down to enter cwm mode or download mode.
try leaving it plugged in for a while, if its shutting off as soon as its unplugged the battery may be drained, after giving it time to charge do as the previous post mentioned and press power and volume down to try to get it into download mode from there you can reflash back to STOCK then on reboot go into recovery with the Volume up power button method and clear cache and wipe data/factory reset, you will lose any apps you have but should be able to get the device to reboot to factory and start over again from there.
I'm a bit of a noob at terminology and android settings so try to bear with me...
I'm running a deodexed vzw CleanRom v1.6.5 and I've downloaded TWRP recovery via gooManager. (Yes I've installed the recovery script from it.) Back when I had a stock rom, when I held the power + the volume up button it would go into TWRP recovery fine. But now (I don't know if it's CleanRom's fault) when I start up the phone into recovery mode using the shortcut the blue text would appear but it would restart normally.
My stock backup was corrupted for some reason and it softbricked my phone so I had to odin flash and go through all that rooting process again before restoring from my CleanRom backup via TWRP. So I don't really want to go back to stock, but I guess I can download a stock one if I really need to.
I can still enter TWRP by going into gooManager and pressing reboot recovery from there. Any solution to this?
I'm also on CleanRom 1.6.5 and it works for me... Vol up+power
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To get mine to boot to recovery while phone is off I have to hold volume + and menu key at the same time. Then hit the power button until it vibrates then let go of the power button. If I keep holding the power button then the blue writing is displayed but instead of going into recovery it just reboots. However if I only hit the power button and release when it vibrates and I am still holding the volume + and menu key then it will boot to twrp recovery.
Alright, I'm feeling pretty foolish.
It was a simple user error that I really hate to admit. If I hold down the volume up and the power button and keep holding down both, the phone restarts as normal. But I should be letting go of the power button when the phone vibrates, while holding down the volume up button keeps it loading into the recovery mode. Don't know why I didn't have that problem before. I attempted Travis' idea first then experimented a little without the menu button and it worked fine.
Thanks.
Glad you got it figured out. :good:
Transpresence said:
Alright, I'm feeling pretty foolish.
It was a simple user error that I really hate to admit. If I hold down the volume up and the power button and keep holding down both, the phone restarts as normal. But I should be letting go of the power button when the phone vibrates, while holding down the volume up button keeps it loading into the recovery mode. Don't know why I didn't have that problem before. I attempted Travis' idea first then experimented a little without the menu button and it worked fine.
Thanks.
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you could also go into recovery via the goomanager app
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you could also go into recovery via the goomanager app
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True and that is what he said he has been doing. However what if you flash something and you get a boot loop. You can pull the battery and try again but if it boot loops again you will need to be able to get to your recovery with a non booting phone. That is why it is important to know how to boot the phone into recovery with out the need of any apps.
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True and that is what he said he has been doing. However what if you flash something and you get a boot loop. You can pull the battery and try again but if it boot loops again you will need to be able to get to your recovery with a non booting phone. That is why it is important to know how to boot the phone into recovery with out the need of any apps.
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Precisely my thought process. I knew that at some time I'm bound to softbrick my phone again and I needed to boot recovery from startup.
Edit: I figured this out... I had to hold volume up and down at the same time while powering up. Also the phone needs to be unplugged. IF its plugged in it will go to Download mode instead of recovery.
Hello,
I recently Went from the stock ATT rom to CM 10.2, and then to Omni.
I can not access CWM recovery by powering the phone on while holding volume up... Ive also tried holding the soft home key.
The only way I can get into recovery is to open ROM manager and choose reboot to recovery. This scares me because if my rom goes haywire I may not have any way to get back into the recovery.
I have already tried re flashing CWM
any ideas?
Quick Boot
You can download the app "Quick Boot" from the Play Store, which has the option to reset into recovery (and many other options)
Hello,
as I wrote in this (now locked) thread, I installed Superior OS and got stuck in bootloop. I get "Galaxy S9+" screen followed by system bootanimation, which repeats itself indefinitely. It doesn't restart by itself, it just boots endlessly.
The problem here is that I can't access recovery or even download mode. I tried to restart (power + volume down) and then quickly press combination to access recovery or download mode. No luck. I couldn't even turn the damn phone off. I just kept restarting.
So I let it drain the battery hoping I could then power the phone on with correct key combination. I tried holding bixby button + volume down while inserting USB. It just started booting up to system with boot animation. I tried holding bixby + volume up, or even power + bixby + volume down. No luck either.
I got correct USB drivers installed, as I flashed the phone with Odin in the past. Odin recognizes phone while it sits on boot animation, but it won't start flashing. ADB or fastboot do not work on bootanimation, as the ROM is freshly installed. I presume it has ADB turned off by default...
I'll be grateful for any ideas and suggestions.
No escape , man. I tried all ( check this rom for galaxy note 9 )
Nice...
I went to service center, they said they can fix it for me. 40 euros for reflash (download mode isn't necessary), 100 euros for complete unbrick. I hope the unbrick isn't necessary and the bootloader is intact. I'll post with update.
I tried to flash a custom recovery so that i can root my a10s . turns out it was the wrong one. now my a10s wont turn or or charge. It doesnt even vibrate. I just want to know if this is fixable. Thanks in advance
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I tried to flash a custom recovery so that i can root my a10s . turns out it was the wrong one. now my a10s wont turn or or charge. It doesnt even vibrate. I just want to know if this is fixable. Thanks in advance
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If you can boot into download mode, then it's soft-bricked and can be repaired. You can flash the correct recovery.
If you can neither boot into download nor into recovery mode, it's hard-bricked.
erica10s said:
I tried to flash a custom recovery so that i can root my a10s . turns out it was the wrong one. now my a10s wont turn or or charge. It doesnt even vibrate. I just want to know if this is fixable. Thanks in advance
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Probably you flashed a recovery that is broken/not for your device/not in the right slot.
Get another recovery from another site and download it with a different device and try again.
Help me
Still stuck? Just been through this with my A10, don't panic, chances are you are still good.
The phone is not actually dead, its just stuck trying to boot, has nothing on the screen and isn't responding to the key presses you think it should be.
Try this
Hold Vol - & Power
Count to 5
Release both keys (it will look like nothing happened, it actually just power cycled)
Immediately press Vol + & Power, after a second phone should vibrate then power up
Release both keys
Phone should boot into recovery again
You might not get it first try, a good method I found was to keep holding Vol - & Power right up until it vibrates and count. For me the vibration happened at 7 seconds so I released at 5 seconds and swapped to Vol + by 6 seconds.
Essentially the phone power cycles after 5 seconds of holding - & power, it stays off for 2 seconds then powers back up at 7 seconds. You are trying to get the recovery key combo pressed in between the gap where the phone is off and before it powers back on.
@dungeonseeker You are my own personal demigod. I had accidentally booted into TWRP once on a bricked A10 and could never reproduce it for further tweaking. May the universe bless you!