Has anyone used stock recovery? I couldn't get past the Android on it's side.... Usually I can press some button combination to get to the recovery menu options, but nothing seemed to work on this device. Anyone know? Possibly a simple question, so sorry bout that!
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Do you have to have installed one of the kernels, like CWM, from the dev section to get into recovery? With the captivate you could get to the stock recovery with most phones out of the box. Is that not the case with this phone? I am stock (for now) but was just wondering because I tried to get to the recovery screen and can't seem to do it...
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Mine goes into recovery without a problem and still completely stock. Vol up/down and power button. When the SGSII screens comes on, release the power button.
Is it possible to change which hardware keys boot the phone into recovery? My volume up button is broken, but my phone thinks its being held down all the time when I power my phone up for some reason (except rare occasions), so I'm always booting into recovery. Currently my phone is on, so I was wondering if there was a way to change what buttons you need to press to boot into recovery.
I have a myTouch 4g. I would've posted in that forum, but I was told to not post a few topics in a row over there. So I figured I'd ask here, plus there are probably more people here who might be able to help me with this.
Thanks!
Long story short, I don't know what I'm doing, and got my phone stuck in recovery mode on boot-up after attempting to root it. So I'm asking how would I perform a wipe/factory reset? It says to enter to select "OK Key" which is the home button. But the AT&T version of this phone is touch only. So what do I do? The only touch key that works is the list key, and that just toggles the text. Any ideas?
Did you try selecting options with the power button?
Yea, clicking the power button doesn't do anything, holding it just turns it off (who would of guess?) So i'm kind of at a lost as to what to do now. Would flashing a different kernel change anything? Again, complete newb at this
Smooth Willis said:
Yea, clicking the power button doesn't do anything, holding it just turns it off (who would of guess?) So i'm kind of at a lost as to what to do now. Would flashing a different kernel change anything? Again, complete newb at this
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Sounds like you should try rebooting into recovery again and try again
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Smooth Willis said:
Long story short, I don't know what I'm doing, and got my phone stuck in recovery mode on boot-up after attempting to root it. So I'm asking how would I perform a wipe/factory reset? It says to enter to select "OK Key" which is the home button. But the AT&T version of this phone is touch only. So what do I do? The only touch key that works is the list key, and that just toggles the text. Any ideas?
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Did you flash an international version of the Kernel versus an AT&T version? The international version of this phone has a different button setup, and this might explain why it's asking you to hit the home button. As the phone is still operational, follow the steps in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18576627#post18576627 specifically step 2c to use Odin to flash a new Kernel. Once rooted, you can follow the guild above to download ROM's etc.
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Hey guys,
I've been dealing with a few unrelated problems that lead to try flashing a different bootloader onto my phone. Now that I've done this, I cannot get into download mode at all. The usual button presses do nothing and I even tried the AIO Vibrant Toolbox, but selecting the option for download mode simply reboots the phone and does nothing.
At this point, I simply want to go back to stock, but I'm not sure how to do that without being able to go into download mode and using odin. I am currently able to boot up into my rom and even boot the recovery manager as well. Is there anything I can do at this point?
Just for starters, I'm sure this is silly of me to ask. But just for verification, you know that GB boot loader has a diff button combo to get to download mode right?
Press and hold volume up + power button. This would give you yellow download icon. Then you'd plug in USB cable.
Actually, it seems I asked the foolish question, as you were exactly right!
I've been mistaken about my BL for a long time it seems, I thought that the this method was the old way, not the new one.
In any case, thank you so much.
Glad I could help.
wow thank u guys, i made the same dumb mistake and was trying all these complicated forms of fixing it. Passed up simplicity.
So i hoping someone could give me a hand i have exhausted all of my ideas
My Soft key buttons on the bottom of the phone (menu, home, back, search) have stopped working entirely phone is completely stock never rooted flashed or changed in anyway my first thought was maybe it was a software problem so i booted into recovery my holding vol +/- and power and tried to clear the cache (worth a shot right?) but in Samsung's infinite wisdom they use the Home soft key as select so i am unable to select wipe cache and naturally am unable to select Reboot system as well. i pull out the battery to restart the phone but to my horror the phone automatically reboots into the recovery screen... wtf! tried every combination of buttons physical and soft but i cant select anything in the recovery screen you name it i tried it short and long press of everything even tried booting holding different keys just for the sake of trying.
also tried to connect via adb while in recovery to send a "adb reboot" command but adb will not detect the device tried using every Samsung driver i could get my hands on maybe i am missing something here?
Next i tried rebooting with odin using an empty tar file as mentioned here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766399 but it only restarts to the... recovery screen.... for the love of god.
I'm out of ideas and any help would be appreciated i have no insurance and i have another year before I'm up for a renewal.
your phone sounds broken. deactivate it with VZW and go buy something else on swappa/ebay. (i personally recommend the S3, Gnex, or, **** you get another fassy if you want)
Hey dude, I have the stock Verizon ROM and boot loaders installing those should fix your problem and if you don't want to lose what's in your phone I'm afraid friend you're **** out of luck. Pm or call 423 400 6484 I'll give you the pass to the Google drive I use to send ROMs and such. Good luck.
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Seeing as the buttons don't work in recovery, what do you think will be fixed by clearing a cache? It's called recovery because it doesn't use that stuff.
Best bet? Try flashing a custom rom which had soft key support and enable them right away. With this phone's penchant for phantom key presses you may have just improved your experience with this phone by having them die.
Time to pony up and flash a real rom
Use Odin to flash a custom recovery, As the last poster said, flash a custom ROM with on-screen key options and use that from now on.
I never use my soft keys in recovery as the power button selects all the options I've ever needed. Have you tried using the power button to select on your phone?
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