A year ago, when I was still using my S3 I9300 power button was loose, all the time it was locking and unlocking screen. So what I did.. I removed power button physically from the board. Everything was ok, I used app from the store to lock the screen.
But now, I rooted my S3 with some pc software, and then I was about to install custom recovery, I restarted my phone to recovery (with quick boot app) and then I realized what I did.. So now I'm stuck in the recovery without possibility to ''click'' anything with power button. I can move up and down, but I can't select any option.
So what can I do? Worst part is that I can't even start phone to normal mode, I even left it over night to completely drain the battery, but when I turn it on, it goes to recovery again.
Any ideas ?????
Thx
EDIT: I open the phone and while I was in recovery on ''reboot system now'' option, I used small screwdriver and tap connection on the board where the power button was, there was a small spark (!) but phone restared to normal mode I installed CM 11 and twrp recovery with Rom Menager, and everything works fine now.
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Hey guys,
Iv got a stock US tablet Z, SGP311 on 10.4.1.b.0.109
Iv tried holding power and volume + while booting to get into stock recovery, iv tried tapping Vol+ a few times while booting, iv tried holdin Vol+ for 3 seconds and then hitting power......i cant get this damn thing into recovery!
Can someone help??
Snazarian said:
Hey guys,
Iv got a stock US tablet Z, SGP311 on 10.4.1.b.0.109
Iv tried holding power and volume + while booting to get into stock recovery, iv tried tapping Vol+ a few times while booting, iv tried holdin Vol+ for 3 seconds and then hitting power......i cant get this damn thing into recovery!
Can someone help??
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There is no Recovery Mode in the XTZ's stock firmware. Here is how to access the available functions of the stock firmware.
1. Power On
Press and hold the POWER button until notification light flashes once, then release POWER button.
2. Power Off
Press and hold the POWER button until menu appears, then select "Power off" and "OK".
3. Restart
Restart device to turn off all running applications and to free up memory.
3.1. Simultaneously press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER buttons for 10 seconds.
3.2. After the notification light flashes three times, release the buttons.
3.3. The device will power off automatically.
3.4. After the device is powered off, power on the device.
4. Reset
Reset device to its original settings to free up memory.
Don't forget to back up any important data saved on the device!
4.1. Go to Settings > Backup & reset > Factory data reset > Reset tablet.
5. Enable Safe Mode
5.1. Power off the device.
5.2. Press and hold the POWER button until the notification light flashes once.
5.3. Wait until the Xperia™ logotype disappears.
5.4. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button.
5.5. The device will restart in Safe Mode.
5.6. To exit Safe Mode, restart the device.
6. Flash Mode
6.1. Power off the device.
6.2. Connect a USB cable to the device.
6.3. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button.
6.4. Connect the USB cable to a computer.
6.5. Wait until the notification light flashes red-green once, then release VOLUME DOWN button.
6.6. To exit Flash Mode, disconnect the USB cable.
7. Fastboot Mode.
7.1. Power off the device.
7.2. Connect a USB cable to the device.
7.3. Press and hold the VOLUME UP button.
7.4. Connect the USB cable to a computer.
7.5. Wait until the notification light flashes red then solid blue, then release VOLUME UP button.
7.6. To exit Fastboot Mode, disconnect the USB cable.
8. Service Menu
8.1. Start the Contacts app.
8.2. Go into Settings.
8.3. Touch the blank area at middle bottom of screen for at least five seconds then stop touching screen.
8.4. "Enter service mode" button will be displayed.
8.5. Press the "Enter service mode" button.
8.6. Enter *#*#7378423#*#* (*#*#SERVICE#*#*).
8.7. Service menu will be displayed.
8.Notes.1. Enter *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#INFO#*#*) to display testing information.
8.Notes.2. Enter *#*#73556673#*#* (*#*#SELLMORE#*#*) to toggle Demo Mode activation on/off. WARNING! Activating Demo Mode will delete all personal content (photos, etc.) and settings.
How do you flash CM then ?
Cat McGowan said:
There is no Recovery Mode in the XTZ's stock firmware.
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Thanks for telling ! I had been looking for this information for a long time.
Apparently, my service info says "bootloader unlock allowed: yes", I wonder if it means that I actually unlocked it or that the device would accept me to do it.
I moreover wonder how one can manage to install CM or root its device without using Recovery Mode. I saw on your signature you rooted your device. May I ask how you did that ?
ducasse.isidore said:
Thanks for telling ! I had been looking for this information for a long time.
Apparently, my service info says "bootloader unlock allowed: yes", I wonder if it means that I actually unlocked it or that the device would accept me to do it.
I moreover wonder how one can manage to install CM or root its device without using Recovery Mode. I saw on your signature you rooted your device. May I ask how you did that ?
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It means your bootloader CAN BE unlocked.
To install a ROM, such as CM, you first unlock your bootloader, then move the ROM zip to your device. After that, you flash the included kernel from the zip with fastboot. Then, you boot into the included recovery from the kernel and flash the whole ROM.
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Felimenta97 said:
It means your bootloader CAN BE unlocked.
To install a ROM, such as CM, you first unlock your bootloader, then move the ROM zip to your device. After that, you flash the included kernel from the zip with fastboot. Then, you boot into the included recovery from the kernel and flash the whole ROM.
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I finally found a solution to my problem : I unlocked the device using flashtool-0.9.11's gui procedure, instead of flashtool's fastboot. It succeeded and I can successfully flash anything I want on the device.
I found your rational approach to my problem useful. It helped me isolate a solution. Thanks !
Hi there
I know this is an old thread. But my problem is same. I got this devide called sony experia tablet z lte ntt docomo x variant
My problem is that it got a lock screen and i have forgot the password. So i want to reset it.
But the problem is how do i do that, there isnt a recovery on this thing.
I was playing around with the buttons and i dont know how ,or which combination i pressed the tab booted to a factory reset screen but i wanst sure to reset that time so i exited from that and tablets lock screen appeared.
And now i cant figure out that how to do this again. Please help me
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Hi there
I know this is an old thread. But my problem is same. I got this devide called sony experia tablet z lte ntt docomo x variant
My problem is that it got a lock screen and i have forgot the password. So i want to reset it.
But the problem is how do i do that, there isnt a recovery on this thing.
I was playing around with the buttons and i dont know how ,or which combination i pressed the tab booted to a factory reset screen but i wanst sure to reset that time so i exited from that and tablets lock screen appeared.
And now i cant figure out that how to do this again. Please help me
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Press and hold the Power and Volume Down keys for 10 seconds.
The device will reset and restart.
Hello,
I recently flashed CM 11 to my One X +
Was all working fine until I noticed that my SIM contacts are gone. So I decided to change back to Android Revolution HD.
In my wisdom, I flashed the boot.img first and restarted. So now I'm stuck in a bootloop and I can't get out of it since the phone does not
go into fastboot anymore.
The three buttons (back, home and the weird thing on the right) just keep flashing red when I press power + volume down.
Just pressing power has the same effect btw. So I'm completely stuck and hoping for some help?
So you need to force a power off. The lights at the bottom will flash 3 or 4 times alerting you that you are forcing a power down of the device. This is NORMAL.
I recommend holding the power and volume down to try to get it out of the boot loop, and into the boot-loader. Hopefully before you flashed CWM 11 you made a Nandroid backup in your recovery, in which case you can restore it and everything should be A-ok as it will restore the boot.img and the rom along with your contacts and apps.
Otherwise you will need to reflash the Rom as usual. Eventually with a boot loop the device runs out of battery, and will power down on its own. At which point you can (usually) charge it enough to re-flash, via entering the bootloader by pressing power and volume down. Then you can just enter recovery, and flash the rom from there.
Did you load the ROM to the internal memory, if you need to re-flash I hope? If not, then you can push or sideload the ROM via adb.
acnoai said:
Hello,
I recently flashed CM 11 to my One X +
Was all working fine until I noticed that my SIM contacts are gone. So I decided to change back to Android Revolution HD.
In my wisdom, I flashed the boot.img first and restarted. So now I'm stuck in a bootloop and I can't get out of it since the phone does not
go into fastboot anymore.
The three buttons (back, home and the weird thing on the right) just keep flashing red when I press power + volume down.
Just pressing power has the same effect btw. So I'm completely stuck and hoping for some help?
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Hi,
I own galaxy s3 i9000, currently on custom rom. My phone automatically rebooted and got stuck on bootloop. If I am able to enter in recovery mode, i can wipe cache(which may can help to get out of bootloop). But the problem is I am unable to enter into recovery mode because phone's volume up button is not working and my phone auto reboots every time after power off or reinserting battery. Is there any other way to clear cache or enter into recovery mode?
I dont want to flash my stock rom via odin (because i didnt backup my some important apps and msgs), this will be my last option.
sorry for my bad english
The normal way I get my phone into recovery mode from the PC is using ADB and the command: "adb reboot recovery". However, I bet this won't work in your case for one of several possible reasons: depending on when the bootloop occurs in the boot process, the phone may never reach a point where ADB is able to see your phone in the first place; if this is happening after a flashing a new custom ROM, then also it's unlikely that USB debugging is turned and the PC is not yet authorized to connect with it over ADB.
Another thought, could your power button be stuck down? I had a GS3 SCH-I535 several years ago and the power switch went bad on it, it would keep rebooting, shutting down randomly, or I'd be unable to turn on the screen. I had a switch replaced and it was fine after that. I don't think it's normal for the phone to automatically boot up when you reinsert the battery, that's why I bring that up. Maybe you can wiggle the power button a bit and try to unstick it if that's the case.
I tried to remove and stick back the power button again, but still it didnt worked. By the way fixing power button will not help me to get into recovery mode as my phone's volume up button is also not working, and recently I found out that I cant enter into download mode too because when I press respective buttons (volume down + home + power) for download mode, it gives warning msg to click 'volume up' buttton to enter into download mode or 'volume down' to reboot. Therefore again volume up button is required to enter into download mode too. So the only option remained for me is to visit service center and fix the volume up button.
woke up in the morning my phone was turned off. So, i tried to charge it . then it went to fast-boot mode directly. I thought something was up and powered it off and tried to turn on but it got stuck on boot screen - I Thought(Just a Brick and i could reverse it)
Series of wrong steps:
1. i advanced wipe system,data,internal storage (I thought it would reset the phone :cyclops: ). but i realized that i delete everything later.
2.from twrp i directly went to fast-boot mode. But, my morning brain made me to poweroff the phone from fastboot.
3.Tried to go to fast-boot but accidentally i powered it on which started a boot-loop.
i cant shutdown the mobile or do anything .
i want to known whether can i still go to fast-boot mode or not.
if I could some how shutdown or go to fast-boot i could bring my mobile back to life
Please Help Me Out !!!!!!!!!!
EDIT :
i found the answer holding Vol Up + Down + Power buttons would force shutdown it.
You need to flash with stock rom , try to hold volume - and power while re booting
Not working
I was trying to take a screenshot on my Galaxy S3 on stock firmware (4.3) by pressing power + home, but then the screen went black and then all of a sudden the torch flashed, and then it booted. However, I ended up in safe mode. I tried rebooting but I was still in safe mode. I tried factory reset but still, safe mode. I decided to install a custom ROM in TWRP, so I installed LineageOS 16, but it booted into safe mode in that too. I've tried opening the device to see if the volume buttons are fine (which they were) but I still get safe mode. I've tried removing the battery for three minutes and putting it in again but that doesn't work either. What happens each time is I turn on, the flashlight comes on for a few seconds, then it turns off, then the device continues booting and then it says "safe mode" at the bottom of the screen. If anybody could help me on this, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
UPDATE: I've discovered something else, when the torch flashes on when I power on the device, if I press the volume down button the torch goes off, but when I release it, the torch comes on again. Could this be related to the problem?
yes i think so it is a hardware problem mainly the volume down button is pressed (forced pressed)