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Guys,
I've tried various searches but I can't come up with an answer that works for me.
When attempting a factory/hardware reset one has two choices:
1. Use the software option.
2. Hardware option using button presses.
I'm looking for a procedure to execute option 2. I can get into the bootloader (Vol Up + Power).
Once in the bootloader, I can navigate to the "Recovery" option but once selected my NS doesn't appear to do anything, it just sits there with an "!" inside a triangle and the little android-droid on the screen.
I doesn't move from there no matter how long I leave it and there are no prompts/confirmations.
Once in that state, if I remove the battery and the reboot the phone boots up as if nothing happened...everything is still there, all my accounts still work etc. Basically the actions had no effect.
Does anyone know how to factory reset the device properly? My device non-root btw.
TIA,
Syphon.
I think, for the stock recovery, once you get the ! in the triangle you need to press or hold volume-up and power button again, then it will take you to recovery.
Ah cool.
Thanks for the tip, I will remember that for the next time I need to do it!!
ikon8 said:
I think, for the stock recovery, once you get the ! in the triangle you need to press or hold volume-up and power button again, then it will take you to recovery.
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On my phone, after 2.3.1, it's power button first, then while holding it, volume up, and only while the box dumping an arrow onto the little android is showing (maybe a second or so). Once the "!" in a triangle is showing, no key combo will get my phone into recovery. Timing is critical. Took me a few tries and a few helpful posts here to get it right.
Oh, also, you can do the ULTIMATE factory reset on this device by doing a "fastboot oem unlock" on the device (then relock it with "fastboot oem lock"). This wipes the sd card as well as the personal data in the rom space.
Awesome, thanks for all the information guys. Much appreciated.
My phone never updated to the 2.2.1 I am still stuck on the 2.2. I called t mobile, but they didn't do much to help. Anyone know how to help?
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Did you try *#*#checkin#*#* ?
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joeman55 said:
My phone never updated to the 2.2.1 I am still stuck on the 2.2. I called t mobile, but they didn't do much to help. Anyone know how to help?
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Method 1 - Update.zip
http://www.filedropper.com/update2
1. Put the file on the root of your sdcard and rename it to update.zip.
2. Turn off your phone.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Reinstall the battery.
5. Hold volume down + power until you get to a white screen.
6. Use the volume rocker to highlight FASTBOOT and press power to select.
7. Use the volume rocker highlight RECOVERY and press power to select. If you see an exclamation point instead of the blue menu, you might have to press volume up or down to get into the blue recovery menu.
8. Use the volume rocker to highlight and press power to select APPLY SDCARD UPDATE.ZIP.
9. DON'T TOUCH IT UNTIL IT'S DONE AND REBOOTS ON ITS OWN.
10. You should now be in 2.2.1 with all of your data preserved.
Method 2 - pd15img.zip
This procedure will completely erase ALL of your data but it is guaranteed to work.
http://www.filedropper.com/pd15imgglaciertmous1175312radio1228b60140e26030226mrelease155771signed
1. Put the file on the root of your sdcard and rename it to pd15img.zip.
2. Turn off your phone.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Reinstall the battery.
5. Hold volume down + power until you get to a white screen.
6. Let the phone "detect" the update. You might have to use the volume rocker to highlight the option and press the power button to select.
7. When the phone is ready, use the volume rocker to highlight and power button to select BEGIN UPDATE.
8. DON'T TOUCH IT UNTIL IT'S DONE AND REBOOTS ON ITS OWN. THIS MIGHT TAKE A WHILE.
9. You will now be on a clean install of Android 2.2.1. Enjoy.
Thank you Phateless!
I've just bricked my phone this afternoon, and been looking for some noob way for recovering it.
It is all because I rooted this phone and might delete some critical apks that caused my phone lost its desktop/main screen.
Doesn't PD15img kill WiFi?
If you read the How To Root. . . thread carefully you will see that PD15img is only partially 2.2.1 and more has to be added to get a full install of 2.2.1 with working WiFi.
After waiting more than a week for an automatic update after I got my phone, I tried the PD15img thing without reading all of the posts and only too late discovered that my WiFi didn't work and a lot more had to be done to get it back. And it appears that PD15img can't be undone. I had decided to take the phone back for an exchange but. . .
That very night TMo did an automatic update from my incomplete 2.2.1 to real 2.2.1, which fixed the problem.
I didn't get the phone from TMo directly and I never gave them my IMEI. I wonder if the automatic update was just luck or PD15img had something to do with it.
Thank you.. My phone hasn't been rooted yet, but I'll give that a try. I hope it's a full update.. That'd suck if my wifi didn't work...
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raphael888 said:
Thank you Phateless!
I've just bricked my phone this afternoon, and been looking for some noob way for recovering it.
It is all because I rooted this phone and might delete some critical apks that caused my phone lost its desktop/main screen.
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Glad I could help!
ecdy said:
If you read the How To Root. . . thread carefully you will see that PD15img is only partially 2.2.1 and more has to be added to get a full install of 2.2.1 with working WiFi.
After waiting more than a week for an automatic update after I got my phone, I tried the PD15img thing without reading all of the posts and only too late discovered that my WiFi didn't work and a lot more had to be done to get it back. And it appears that PD15img can't be undone. I had decided to take the phone back for an exchange but. . .
That very night TMo did an automatic update from my incomplete 2.2.1 to real 2.2.1, which fixed the problem.
I didn't get the phone from TMo directly and I never gave them my IMEI. I wonder if the automatic update was just luck or PD15img had something to do with it.
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You're thinking of the OLD pd15img.zip that was part of the procedure to undo the OTA update. The one I linked to is the NEW one posted by Football that completely restores to 2.2.1 without issue. NEW radio, NEW SPL, NEW software.
I tested it on two different phones and everything worked perfectly.
You were thinking of this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832642
I posted the file from this one. Ignore the part about gfree.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863899
raphael888 said:
Thank you Phateless!
I've just bricked my phone this afternoon, and been looking for some noob way for recovering it.
It is all because I rooted this phone and might delete some critical apks that caused my phone lost its desktop/main screen.
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If all you did was delete the wrong APK and it can be restored by flashing a stock image, it certainly is not bricked by any means.
TeeJay3800 said:
If all you did was delete the wrong APK and it can be restored by flashing a stock image, it certainly is not bricked by any means.
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People definitely use that term way too loosely on xda... lol
NRGZ28 said:
People definitely use that term way too loosely on xda... lol
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Most people don't know what brick even is they do something wrong and think they bricked it lol I remember in HD2 forum someone did BINFS format and didn't flash rom manually thought he bricked it cause he had no rom installed and only stuck on bootloader. So told him to just flash using LeoCustomRRU as he could do task29 and flash.
BTW NRGZ28 thanks for cooking NRG roms bro loved your 6.5.X work specially the whole 29XXX base as it was most stable and fast to bad HD2 is stolen.
ForceUpdate
I would check out these instructions
----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843428
Hmmmm, NRG creeping around in a android thread....
Phateless said:
Method 1 - Update.zip
http://db.tt/oDkWb2k
1. Put the file on the root of your sdcard and rename it to update.zip.
2. Turn off your phone.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Reinstall the battery.
5. Hold volume down + power until you get to a white screen.
6. Use the volume rocker to highlight FASTBOOT and press power to select.
7. Use the volume rocker highlight RECOVERY and press power to select. If you see an exclamation point instead of the blue menu, you might have to press volume up or down to get into the blue recovery menu.
8. Use the volume rocker to highlight and press power to select APPLY SDCARD UPDATE.ZIP.
9. DON'T TOUCH IT UNTIL IT'S DONE AND REBOOTS ON ITS OWN.
10. You should now be in 2.2.1 with all of your data preserved.
Method 2 - pd15img.zip
This procedure will completely erase ALL of your data but it is guaranteed to work.
http://db.tt/peYZBi5
1. Put the file on the root of your sdcard and rename it to pd15img.zip.
2. Turn off your phone.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Reinstall the battery.
5. Hold volume down + power until you get to a white screen.
6. Let the phone "detect" the update. You might have to use the volume rocker to highlight the option and press the power button to select.
7. When the phone is ready, use the volume rocker to highlight and power button to select BEGIN UPDATE.
8. DON'T TOUCH IT UNTIL IT'S DONE AND REBOOTS ON ITS OWN. THIS MIGHT TAKE A WHILE.
9. You will now be on a clean install of Android 2.2.1. Enjoy.
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I followed the guide you gave me since i was using an obsolete one and it worked perfectly. My phone says its on 2.2.1 but it doesnt feel like i am.... i remember after my update the market app was completely different, it has this half circle kind of look to it where it featured some popular apps. this version of 2.2.1 doesnt have that. is there any specific reason for that or am i missing something?
thanks again for your help!
The market update itself was a separate update "just to the market app" than 2.2.1. I had to force 2.2.1 on my phone early on; market came later. You should be able to find it in the apps/themes section, or just give it time and it should update itself.
Great post but I really need help.
I guess my phone is from some other batch or ... who know these chinese these days.
Anyways my menu is just different from described.
as folllows:
HBOOT screen
FASTBOOT (gets me to FASTBOOT screen)
RECOVERY (just give triangle makeing out with exclamation point)
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
FASTBOOT sreen
BOOTLOADER (gets me back to HBOOT screen)
REBOOT
REBOOT BOOTLOADER
POWER DOWN
Don't really want to go with pd15img.zip route to preserve data. (So far)
Thanks
btw - I'm on Simple Mobile so no OTA for me
kb-evo said:
Great post but I really need help.
I guess my phone is from some other batch or ... who know these chinese these days.
Anyways my menu is just different from described.
as folllows:
HBOOT screen
FASTBOOT (gets me to FASTBOOT screen)
RECOVERY (just give triangle makeing out with exclamation point)
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
FASTBOOT sreen
BOOTLOADER (gets me back to HBOOT screen)
REBOOT
REBOOT BOOTLOADER
POWER DOWN
Don't really want to go with pd15img.zip route to preserve data. (So far)
Thanks
btw - I'm on Simple Mobile so no OTA for me
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I don't quite understand your issue here? Is it that you get stuck at the recovery screen with a triangle? Did you read step 7 of the previous posts clearly?
7. Use the volume rocker highlight RECOVERY and press power to select. If you see an exclamation point instead of the blue menu, you might have to press volume up or down to get into the blue recovery menu.
Ok, maybe this time it will post.
Thanks for your answer Genocaust
I'm noob so I'm trying everything that comes to my mind several times before bugging good people.
Somehow my menus seems to be different than expected. Anyways, right after hboot my first screen has following options:
* FASTBOOT
* RECOVERY
* FACTORY RESET
* SIMLOCK
* IMAGE CRC
Clicking on recovery gets me triangle/exclamation screen after several tries i managed to get blue menu by pressing VolumeUP and POWER simultaneously (just up or down does nothing at all).
there is apply update.zip but when clicked returns yellow message:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Invalid operation
and goes black and not responsive.
After waiting for say 20 min decided to pull battery. (phone works, still 2.2)
Tried above few times. Downloaded update file yet another time, even changed file name using file manager on the phone (i know).
I will appreciate any suggestions. I guess next step is pd15img.zip which I wanted to avoid or stay on 2.2
Phone is few days old and all stock
Thanks again
hi guys. I have a nexus s i9023, it was running well with 2.3.4 for three months. Got an OTA update for 2.3.6 two days ago, installed it.Im running stock, and the root is locked.
Everything seemed to be running fine when last night it just stopped responding and freezing. Taking battery out doesnt help, it again freezes at the colorful x logo or at the unlock screen.
I read on how to do a reset, but pressing volume down and power button gives me only a flash of blacklight (for a millisecond) and then nothing happens. tried it many times. What am I doing wrong? Pressing volume up and power button gives me a fastboot menu, and recovery mode only gives me an exclamation mark android, then I have to take battery out again.
Also, if I hand in my phone to the dealer for repair (its under warranty), are they locked out too or can they access my data when they repair it? Please help.
Volume down and power doesn't do anything. You have to use volume UP and power.
Also what do you mean"root is locked?"
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apologies matt, it says the lock state = locked, when i press volume up and power button.
the options i get are reboot bootloader, reboot, recovery and power off.
please tell me how to go about formatting/wiping my nexus s? also, if i cant wipe it, is it a good idea to hand it over with my data in it to the dealer for warranty claim i.e. can they access my data?
ib.ch said:
apologies matt, it says the lock state = locked, when i press volume up and power button.
the options i get are reboot bootloader, reboot, recovery and power off.
please tell me how to go about formatting/wiping my nexus s? also, if i cant wipe it, is it a good idea to hand it over with my data in it to the dealer for warranty claim i.e. can they access my data?
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You can wipe the phone from recovery. Go into recovery then when it loads press power + volume up.
ib.ch said:
apologies matt, it says the lock state = locked, when i press volume up and power button.
the options i get are reboot bootloader, reboot, recovery and power off.
please tell me how to go about formatting/wiping my nexus s? also, if i cant wipe it, is it a good idea to hand it over with my data in it to the dealer for warranty claim i.e. can they access my data?
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What you need to do is go into recovery, the wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davik and wipe battery stats.
Reboot and you should be stock
Hey guys! I just got a One X from AT&T bought on eBay, although I live in Europe.
I managed to unlock the bootloader by changing the CID to 1111111 etc. (how many 1's?) and it worked fine.
I then ran installed ClockworkMod Touch Recovery for the HTC One X through terminal and it was a success.
I rebooted by holding down the power and volume down, and attempted to boot into recovery. I got a white screen with the HTC logo, and red text underneath saying something like "do not use this without HTCs permission" or something of the sort. The phone then turned off.
NOW I'm trying to boot again into the bootloader (I think that's what it's called, but by turning it off and holding the volume down and power key) and it just doesn't work. I've tried a million times, with different variations of holding down the keys. What happens is the light on the touch keys at the bottom flashes a bunch of times, then it boots normally. Everything works on the phone otherwise.
I tried to do it via fastboot/terminal by issuing the command ./fastboot-mac reboot-bootloader but it just says "waiting for device..." even though it's connected.
Anyone had this problem and found a solution?
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Clockwork recovery is not supported on the evita. Download goo manager and you should be able TWRP from that. And then you can reboot into TWRP.
I think you flashed CWM for the international (Tegra3 quad core) One X. Install TWRP as previous poster recommended.
There is no version of CWM Touch Recovery that is supported for the AT&T One X. You flashed the international version. Fortunately, you can flash TWRP right over it inside Goo Manager.
Be thankful you didn't flash it inside ROM Manager or you could have bricked your phone. I've seen people do it in the past.
ansedve season
Thanks guys, and glad I didn't brick the phone!
I installed Goo Manager and installed OpenRecovery Script, and managed to attempt to go into recovery, but again got the white HTC screen and something about "development purposes only" in red text.
I think I'm really lost on this one, any help would be great, like a link to a tutorial?
in fastboot run this command "fastboot erase cache", then boot into recovery.
DvineLord said:
in fastboot run this command "fastboot erase cache", then boot into recovery.
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Don't be too concerned with the blah blah in red writing about development version etc. on the boot screen - you get that boot screen when you unlock the bootloader.
mollysue said:
Thanks guys, and glad I didn't brick the phone!
I installed Goo Manager and installed OpenRecovery Script, and managed to attempt to go into recovery, but again got the white HTC screen and something about "development purposes only" in red text.
I think I'm really lost on this one, any help would be great, like a link to a tutorial?
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What did you do in recovery? Did you flash anything? Does the phone not boot up now?
Thanks guys for all your help. I guess know I technically know what to do to fix things, thanks to you. The only problem that after probably over 100 failed attempts I cannot boot into recovery. I tried all variations of holding the power and volume down button while restarting, rebooting, turning on/off or up/down sideways but it just boots normally every time.
This means I can't use fastboot etc. I guess unlocking the bootloader and voiding the warranty was for nothing
If you know another way to reboot into bootloader other than the hardware buttons method let me know!
Believe it or not, I think you are just performing the button presses incorrectly, if you can't access the bootloader. Bootloader is probably still intact, otherwise the phone would not be working at all.
1) In Settings>Power, make sure "fast boot" is not checked.
2) Then power the phone off fully, but holding the power button until the power menu comes up, and select "Power off". Wait a minute for the phone to power off completely.
3) Hold down the volume down rocker. DO NOT release it until I tell you to later.
4) Press the power button for 3 seconds, then release. DO NOT release the volume down rocker.
5) Once the white bootloader screen shows up, release the volume down rocker.
Alternately, you can do this:
a) With the phone powered on, hold the power button until the capacitive buttons flash (about 5 seconds).
b) The moment the screen goes black, hold down the volume down rocker, (again, DO NOT release it until the bootloader screen comes up) but release the power button.
The timing for this method is a little trickier, if you press the volume down rocker too late, it will boot normally (or safe mode), and too soon, and it just reduces the ringer volume and the phone stays on. But as long as you press and hold volume down the moment the screen goes black, it will work.
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But also, I would still not recommend trying to boot into recovery until you have installed the TWRP recovery as mentioned previously on this thread, if you have not done so already. There is no CWM Touch Recovery for this phone, so I'm pretty certain you installed in improper recovery on the phone, and recovery will not function at all.
Alternatively, you can go into Goo Manager and select the "Reboot Recovery" option, which should get you into TWRP
Or from command prompt "adb reboot bootloader" so long as you open your prompt from your adb application folder.
Or alternatively skip the middle man: "adb reboot recovery"
I really think your problem lies with your button pressing -- follow instructions on the previous post and you should be home free.
Well I actually eventually managed it! I think the volume button was a bit stuck because it still takes a few tries to boot into bootloader, but eventually I managed it and am in the TWRP menu right now!
I did a little victory dance when it happened. Thanks again!
So, I bought an HTC one M8 yesterday, everything on the phone works great, couldn't be happier with it. Today I decided to boot into the bootloader, just to see what it looked like, make sure I was s-on, etc. Phones locked, s-on, no flags or anything. Cool I say, let's see what the stock recovery looks like. I try to boot into the recovery, it shows a black backlit screen for about 60 seconds, then it shows a phone with a red triangle with an explanation point in the center. I cannot do anything from here, try to hard reboot it, hold down the power button for 45 seconds, nothing. So I just let it sit there, after about 5min it reboots, I have recreated the above steps three times, same results. Once again I have done absolutely nothing to this phone, it is in an out of the box state, still has the stock wallpaper lol. I searched the forum and couldn't find anything related. I'm starting to think that it was not properly flashed from the factory, or it is a referb, and they never properly restored it. I'm new to HTC am I missing something? Are there some special steps to get to the stock recovery? Anyone experienced this?
That is stock recovery. U have to wait 30 seconds or so and then press a 2 buttons at the same time. Not sure witch ones, I just press all 3. Try it a few times and the menu should pop up. I've had to do this on several phones of different makes so it's not new.
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csstamatin said:
That is stock recovery. U have to wait 30 seconds or so and then press a 2 buttons at the same time. Not sure witch ones, I just press all 3. Try it a few times and the menu should pop up. I've had to do this on several phones of different makes so it's not new.
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OK, I'm used to nexus devices. So your telling me the bootloader menu is the recovery? I mean there's an option to factory data reset, but when I select the "recovery" option it hangs as stated above. Like on a nexus you boot into fastboot, with adb reboot bootloader (or with the volume down and power, jut like the M8) then you are presented with options, one of them is "recovery" if you select it you are taken to a separate menu, or you can "adb reboot recovery" This phone seems to be set up the same way, but when I select recovery, after the hardware key combination, it hangs, no separate menu. I have tried different hardware key combinations while it is hanging, nothing you simply have to wait till it reboots. I've messed with quite a few phones, and I have never seen this.
So after the hardware key combo, when you press volume down once to highlight "recovery", then press the power button to select "recovery" our M8 just hangs then shows a phone with a red explanation point?
Just to make sure you guys know what I'm talking about, when I get to step 5 in this guide, it hangs with a red explanation point:
http://androidvibe.com/how-to-enter-your-htc-one-m8-into-recovery-mode/
I have tried rebooting to recovery via the command line with the SDK tools, same result, just hangs, then reboots.
No the screen with the red triangle is the recovery. Yes bootloader is still bootloader. But when u hit recovery in bootloader u see the red triangle after. That's stock recovery. Then u try the button combo.
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The official combo is power and volume up. It's kinda tricky to do though can take a few minutes
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OK, I'm used to nexus devices. So your telling me the bootloader menu is the recovery? I mean there's an option to factory data reset, but when I select the "recovery" option it hangs as stated above. Like on a nexus you boot into fastboot, with adb reboot bootloader (or with the volume down and power, jut like the M8) then you are presented with options, one of them is "recovery" if you select it you are taken to a separate menu, or you can "adb reboot recovery" This phone seems to be set up the same way, but when I select recovery, after the hardware key combination, it hangs, no separate menu. I have tried different hardware key combinations while it is hanging, nothing you simply have to wait till it reboots. I've messed with quite a few phones, and I have never seen this.
So after the hardware key combo, when you press volume down once to highlight "recovery", then press the power button to select "recovery" our M8 just hangs then shows a phone with a red explanation point?
Just to make sure you guys know what I'm talking about, when I get to step 5 in this guide, it hangs with a red explanation point:
http://androidvibe.com/how-to-enter-your-htc-one-m8-into-recovery-mode/
I have tried rebooting to recovery via the command line with the SDK tools, same result, just hangs, then reboots.
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You have to turn off "fast boot" in Settings > Power.
Then hold Volume Down and press Power. That will get you to the bootloader.
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wtoj34 said:
The official combo is power and volume up. It's kinda tricky to do though can take a few minutes
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csstamatin said:
No the screen with the red triangle is the recovery. Yes bootloader is still bootloader. But when u hit recovery in bootloader u see the red triangle after. That's stock recovery. Then u try the button combo.
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Thanks guys I finally got it to boot to recovery. Never had such a hard time doing something so simple. Sorry for being such a ditz. the phones fine lol, still think it's strange that it's so many steps (sketchy, time consuming steps lol) to boot to stock recovery. I've never had a phone like "this" (a flagship manufacturer device), I have always had nexus devices, (since the galaxy nexus). It's always been pretty straight forward to boot to recovery. I really appreciate your help tho, I really thought my phone is was jacked up, thanks for setting me straight.:highfive:
berndblb said:
You have to turn off "fast boot" in Settings > Power.
Then hold Volume Down and press Power. That will get you to the bootloader.
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Thanks, but as I said I had no problem booting to the bootloader menu, just problems with booting to the stock recovery. I appreciate you help tho.