I installed TWRP 3.0.2-1 on my Sprint Galaxy S6 Edge. I booted into recovery mode, and I'm on the normal TWRP screen with the 8 options. But it doesn't let me open any of them. After a few seconds, the lock shows up, and after a few seconds more the screen turns off. I can turn it back on with the power button but I can't use the TWRP's swipe to unlock. Holding the power button does nothing. Holding volume down, power, and home (download mode) will make the loadup screen start to show up, but then it'll stop there for a really long time, before eventually going back to TWRP recovery and repeating all over again. If I keep holding the combination, it'll just loop the loadup screen over and over again. What do I do?
EDIT: I actually can get into download mode if that helps at all, my home button is just really messed up and does not always click well.
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I've tried everything to get my unrooted WiFi Tab to boot into recovery mode. I hold down power and vol down, see "Samsung Galaxy Tab" and then...I'm expecting to see the Odin/recovery menu. Instead, the screen goes black and shows the "Samsung Galaxy Tab" logo again. And again. As long as I hold down he power/volume buttons, it does this. When I stop holding them down, it boots normally. How do I get to the recovery menu so I can finally root this thing?
Keep holding the vol button after you let off the power.
Thanks, I feel like an idiot once I figured it out. I didn't realize I had to let go of the power button once I saw the logo.
I am having the same issue. I am using a Verizon LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. It is the 16GB gray model. The baseband version says i905.03 V.EL01 or SCH-I905.EL01 and it's running Android 3.2. Not sure what else you need. Here's what I've tried.
Scenario 1:
1. Powered the tablet off.
2. Press and hold the power and volume down buttons.
What happens: Nothing. It just sits at a black screen and I never see the Samsung logo. I have to let go of the volume down button, press and hold the power button for about 5 seconds, let go of the power button. Then the tablet boots normally.
Scenario 2:
1. Tablet on and sitting at my home screen.
2. Press and hold the power and volume down buttons.
3. Once the Samsung Galaxy Tab logo shows up, I let go of the power button and only hold the volume down button.
What happens: The tablet boots like normal or it boots into Safe Mode.
So what am I doing wrong? I don't understand why I can't get into download(Odin) mode.
have the same issue, but i can go into recovery.
i need to ODIN to have the new CMW installed. tried a lot of things (adb reboot download.. normal 2 buttons boot.. ) and i always end up with a charging battery screen or get black screen and the tablet refuse to start again for few seconds.
anything else I can try?
thanks
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never mind, looks like i was releasing the volume down too quick :/
Ok so since I can't remove the battery how do I power down the phone after a bad flash and I'm stuck at splash screen. When I hold down power button the capacitive buttons flash then everything turns off but when I let my finger off of the power button the phone turns back on and process repeats. My phone is sitting here burning the battery stuck on the screen because I can't turn it off.
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Ok so since I can't remove the battery how do I power down the phone after a bad flash and I'm stuck at splash screen. When I hold down power button the capacitive buttons flash then everything turns off but when I let my finger off of the power button the phone turns back on and process repeats. My phone is sitting here burning the battery stuck on the screen because I can't turn it off.
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When the phone turns off immediately hold volume button. The phone will boot in bootloader. Choose recovery, click power button. Then do a full wipe, flash different rom or do nandroid.
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So I had the OTA update for 5.1.1 the other day and thought "yay, let's update." it worked fine till this evening where it crashed to a power off state and in now showing the Google logo like it's about to load up and then a turned off screen.
This repeats over and over I can't even stop this loop.
Holding the power button and it just continues to loop.
Power + ANY volume button and it will show the HBOOT or fastboot menu then before I can select anything turn to the powered off state and loop through (if I'm still holding the buttons the menu will show again shortly, or go back to the Google logo)
Any ideas for a solution?
try waiting until the battery drains all the way down then hold the volume down button and plug it in. if that doesn't work then all you can do is contact google support and they'll probably replace or fix it.
Hold the power button down for 20 seconds 3 times. It helped me once with a similar situation
So I have found a solution. Instead of deleting the thread I'll leave this here unless anyone else has this problem.
It seems that trying to enter the fastboot menu when plugged into a USB seemed to work.
It was either the fact it was in the computer, the timing I pressed the "power button + power down" combo, or it had just looped enough times and decided to actually stop interrupting me using the fastboot menu.
Either way, I cleared the cache partition using the recovery and it booted up fine.
EDIT: Thanks for the help, I had tried holding the combo for a long period of time (multiple loops of the booting). I also feared letting it drain in case it refused to startup again and I would have no chance of fixing it.
glad you figured that out! android can be mysterious sometimes. especially when it's on the nexus 9.
After splash screen, screen blank but phone sinks with BT & capacitive lights active
Today I tried to update my phone to the newest firmware (I think it was .210, but I know it was from August 5th on firmware finder...I know its a long time to wait to update, but I started a new job, moved to a new city, etc. so things have been super crazy). Unfortunately, after flashing with EMUI Flasher, the phone rebooted and then got an update failure. I restarted the phone and waited but the screen was black. However, my smart band paired and if I press the power button, the capacitive button lights turn on, but the screen is blank/black. I have tried rebooting, both regularly holding power for 20 seconds as well as holding the power key with volume up and then volume down. I can reboot into a recovery of sorts and tried to wipe cache and restart, as well as boot into safe mode, but both result in the black screen from before. I can also boot into fastboot, but don't know what I could do to fix this.
Any advice as to how I can save my phone would be really appreciated. I'm really hoping I don't have to wipe the phone.
Please help me!
Hey everyone,
Hope there are still people around in the F1 forum.
My F1 was sitting in the drawer for almost 2 years now.
I'm trying to boot it now, but it gets stuck in the process. It basically keeps going like this to infinity, i gave it hours and it's doing exactly the same thing.
As you can hopefully see in the video, when i try going to fastboot (by pressing power+volume down buttons) it shows the fastboot logo but gets stuck there.
From that point the only thing i can do is try to reboot normally again, which brings me back to the first state.
Connecting to the computer doesn't do anything.
Any ideas?
Ideally i'd like to keep the data but i'd consider anything at this point.
Many thanks!
Try to restore. Press volume up and power button when logo appear release power button but keep holding volume up until recovery has shown up
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Try to restore. Press volume up and power button when logo appear release power button but keep holding volume up until recovery has shown up
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Thanks for the tip!
Actually, emptying the battery completely and then charging all the way to 100% (without trying to reboot before it reaches 100%) eventually did the trick and the phone turned on with all the data.