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Recovery Mode

I touched on this in a couple of threads in development and want to get an idea if this is an issue all Inspires. We get into Hboot/Recovery mode by holding the "volume down" and "power" for about 5 seconds. For me though, this doesn't work when the phone is completely shut down. It works great if I does this during a restart though.
Why this matters?...Let's say you flash a ROM and can't get past the white logo (happened to me many a day on the captiavte ) without being able to enter recovery mode the phone will go into an endless bootloop.
Let me know if anyone of you have any issues entering hboot/recovery from shutdown.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87

fastboot disable!

mattbollenbach said:
yeah, i've noticed its been tricky to get into recovery mode from a solid shutdown. not sure why though.
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Tricky or impossible . I've been trying for the past hour. What did you do to get it to work?

Geesh. An hour later still no luck entering recovery from shutdown.
Sent from my Inspire 4G or Desire HD or whatever this thing is called via XDA app.

So if you have a bad kernel or Rom there is no way to get back? That Is quite worrisome, making me reconsider the captivate...
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

hololight said:
So if you have a bad kernel or Rom there is no way to get back? That Is quite worrisome, making me reconsider the captivate...
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.
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Percisely what concerns me.

I'm sure you remember that on the Captivate, you can hold volume buttons and plug in USB to go straight to download mode as well. Maybe the Inspire is the same way?
EDIT: I do have CM installed, but I held Volume Down and plugged in USB and it went into Recovery.

The phone hasn't even been out a week; I'm sure all these things with kernels and radios will become easier and more clarified with time.
As far as booting into recovery goes, I'm still not sure what the deal is.
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Soved. Disabling fastboot corrects things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87

You mean disable fastboot on a working phone... lol. That's the potential issue I think we are concerned with. Isn't fastboot in the settings?
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

hololight said:
You mean disable fastboot on a working phone... lol. That's the potential issue I think we are concerned with. Isn't fastboot in the settings?
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.
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Yes but apparently a battery pull while the phone is off works just the same if you forget to disable fast boot (as I'm sure I will do )

I don't know what it is, but I've yet to be able to get it into recovery mode via the buttons. Well...that's not true, I've gotten into recovery after a battery pull by volume-down/power, but that's it.
Been having a lot of difficulties over the last day or so with the sdcard unmounting, usually accompanied with the error in the status bar. And apparently Rom Manager won't do reboot into recovery if it doesn't see the card :-/
So I've had several times now where I've wanted to get to recovery, and have to either get back to the computer for adb or do a battery pull.
Anyone else have troubles getting into recovery? I did disable the fast boot option in settings. (took me a minute to figure out that's what you guys were talking about, lol)

pendo said:
I don't know what it is, but I've yet to be able to get it into recovery mode via the buttons. Well...that's not true, I've gotten into recovery after a battery pull by volume-down/power, but that's it.
Been having a lot of difficulties over the last day or so with the sdcard unmounting, usually accompanied with the error in the status bar. And apparently Rom Manager won't do reboot into recovery if it doesn't see the card :-/
So I've had several times now where I've wanted to get to recovery, and have to either get back to the computer for adb or do a battery pull.
Anyone else have troubles getting into recovery? I did disable the fast boot option in settings. (took me a minute to figure out that's what you guys were talking about, lol)
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I've been seeing this the last day or two as well. Ejecting/Re-inserting SD card will usually remount ok. Anyone else seeing this?
I wasn't able to get to recovery from power off until I turned off fasboot, but then it booted right up with vol-/pwr.

Yea the 8gb card the phone came with, when I do a restart would not mount correctly once I got the phone booted back up, so I put a 16gb card that I had lying around into the phone and it doesn't do it now in a restart. Must be those cards that shipped with the phone, unless yours is doing it on a after market card.
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It's done it several times today. Just a few minutes ago I was browsing inside a zip file on the card with root explorer and then it cut me off with the error message that the SD card was unexpectedly removed.
Oh and I was able to enter recovery from a power off condition as described here (fast boot disabled in settings) But is there a way to do that when its on? Like with the N1 we can press volume-down/trackball/power and it will force a reboot.....anything equivalent on the inspire?

No reboot option in powermenu?
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

***Really Solved***
So, pull the battery, take out your SIM (just in case) and your Micro SD card. Then hold down Volume Down and then press and hold (for a moment) the Power button; release the power button after a moment while continuing to hold the Volume Down button. The Bootloader screen will load up and you will now be able to use the Volume rocker to select Recovery. As soon as the phone starts to reboot in to Recovery put your Micro SD card back in. I know this works because I just saved myself from what I though was going to be a Warranty claim.

Restart into recover mode worked best!
lrs421 said:
I touched on this in a couple of threads in development and want to get an idea if this is an issue all Inspires. We get into Hboot/Recovery mode by holding the "volume down" and "power" for about 5 seconds. For me though, this doesn't work when the phone is completely shut down. It works great if I does this during a restart though.
Why this matters?...Let's say you flash a ROM and can't get past the white logo (happened to me many a day on the captiavte ) without being able to enter recovery mode the phone will go into an endless bootloop.
Let me know if anyone of you have any issues entering hboot/recovery from shutdown.
******SOLVED*******
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11439830&postcount=87
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Thanks a million...after flashing a different rom on my Inspire, I had a hard time getting into recovery mode...it most definitely worked best doing a restart rather than a full shut down!!

I screwed up a flashed a ROM from recovery that probably shouldn't have. I am unable to boot my phone (inspire 4g) and hangs at HTC screen. I can enter HBOOT screen however, recovery mode doesn't work. It's if the files needed to load into recovery aren't there. Any fix for this?
Thanks in advance

to enter recovery on DesireHD/Inspire 4G you must have your device booted up and hold down the power button. After that choose reboot. Then choose Recovery and press Ok. If you have a recovery installed it will reboot into that recovery if you have no recovery im not sure what will happen

Bootloader Mode

Anybody know how to get into Bootloader mode on the Inspire 4G? I have tried holding the Volume Down button while restarting and all the phone does is vibrates and reboots normally. Am I missing something?

You're doing it right (Vol Dwn + Power)
Just make sure to hold volume first before you hold power.

Make sure you have fastboot turned off in sense.

I press volume down, then select "restart". Keep holding power down until you get into bootloader.

I take the battery door off to power off, then slap it on real quick then hold volume - down, then hold power button. It can be a little tricky to do. Then ull be in bootloader and have four options to choose from. Ive only done it manually this way because i was in boot loop. Was scared ****less the first time i got boot loop, cause i wasnt sure if there was a way to get to recovery manually lol.
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Are you guys booting into clockworkmod? When I hold down volume and power it goes into that.
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If you manually do the volume button and power button trick it should put you in bootloader mode then you can choose to boot into recovery, ive never had my inspire boot right into recovery unless i choose it in rom manager.
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i tried doing that but it just goes to fastboot the reason that i want it to go to bootloader im trying to re-flash it back to stock...

Power your phone off. Now that your phone is off hold the volume button down and tap the power button. Now you should be in bootloader mode. If your trying to get into recovery mode download rom manager from the marketplace.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

be sure you have Fastboot turned off in Applications.
Another thing you can do is download Quickboot from the market...then boot into bootloader from there. Quickboot>bootloader

Is it really that difficult??lol, for me when I hold the power button while phone is on, it gives me multiple options to reboot , including bootloader and recovery...
If your phones off , then just holy the vol down and off key .
Oh and I have fastboot on and I have no problems.

hyun18 said:
Is it really that difficult??lol, for me when I hold the power button while phone is on, it gives me multiple options to reboot , including bootloader and recovery...
If your phones off , then just holy the vol down and off key .
Oh and I have fastboot on and I have no problems.
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That's because your running a ROM with an extended power menu. Other people might not be.

A lot of the people that are having problems are probably running sense roms and have fastboot on. I got confused by this at first because with fastboot on it doesn't actually shut off so the down and power method doesn't work
Sent through the power of Cthulhu.

You can download quick boot from the market. Makes so much easier booting into recovery.

yeah Im trying to do that I am able to boot in where it shows Hboot and then you have other options to choice from but Im not all able to select anything it just scans and then go to the scan mode and ask if i want to update
I was thinking about installing the gingerbeast. Has any installed that?
I did a nanadoid back up went into Rom Manger and clicked flash C/W-R and I made that..and I did that backup current ROM also.

Staticpunk84 said:
yeah Im trying to do that I am able to boot in where it shows Hboot and then you have other options to choice from but Im not all able to select anything it just scans and then go to the scan mode and ask if i want to update
I was thinking about installing the gingerbeast. Has any installed that?
I did a nanadoid back up went into Rom Manger and clicked flash C/W-R and I made that..and I did that backup current ROM also.
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Make sure you delete the PD98IMG. That's why its asking you to update. I'm running gingerbeast and absolutley love it.
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Ya you have to move or delete the raidio zip or it will just keep installing it every time hboot
Mr.Nun.Ya

marsdta said:
Make sure you delete the PD98IMG. That's why its asking you to update. I'm running gingerbeast and absolutley love it.
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I thought you had to have the PD98IMG in there. Ok so I have root manager I can just delete from their or is the same way of hooking it to my pc and delete that way
as of now I just dl the ginerbeast zip and I would like to get some help on how to install it and how to uninstall it just in case I want to go back to stock.
Well noob ? here but I have a gears of war wallpaper that I got from zedge that I want to keep if it takes off I can still install that wallpaper back again?

Staticpunk84 said:
I thought you had to have the PD98IMG in there. Ok so I have root manager I can just delete from their or is the same way of hooking it to my pc and delete that way
as of now I just dl the ginerbeast zip and I would like to get some help on how to install it and how to uninstall it just in case I want to go back to stock.
Well noob ? here but I have a gears of war wallpaper that I got from zedge that I want to keep if it takes off I can still install that wallpaper back again?
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You can delete it either using a file manger app like astro, root explorer etc or you can do it by connecting your phone to your PC.
As to flashing a rom. Place the file in the root of your SD card to make it easier to find. I prefer to do my flashing manually. Boot into recovery either through rom manager or through hboot. Scroll down to wipe data/factory reset. Select with power button ans confirm in the next screen. Next go into advanced and select delete dalvik cache. Confirm. Now select go back and choose install from SD card. Scroll to gingerbeast rom and select and confirm.
And yes you'll be able to reads your wallpaper
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marsdta said:
You can delete it either using a file manger app like astro, root explorer etc or you can do it by connecting your phone to your PC.
As to flashing a rom. Place the file in the root of your SD card to make it easier to find. I prefer to do my flashing manually. Boot into recovery either through rom manager or through hboot. Scroll down to wipe data/factory reset. Select with power button ans confirm in the next screen. Next go into advanced and select delete dalvik cache. Confirm. Now select go back and choose install from SD card. Scroll to gingerbeast rom and select and confirm.
And yes you'll be able to reads your wallpaper
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awesome man thanks Ill give this a shot and see what its about now i did see online about the android 2.3 gingerbread htc inspire did anyone try this?

[Q] Sensation won't boot :( Please help..Anyone???

Hi all,
I recently bought a used sensation from ebay and now it won't boot. I allready read a couple posts in this forum. Did the adb reboot and adb reboot bootloader and didn't work. So I think it's not rooted. What exactley happens is, the will not boot. It stays blank and the led lights too, but when plug it into my laptop\pc, it gets reconized and able to install the adb drivers to it. The led lights are then lit and pressing the power button kills it for a second and then restarts. Getting the same connection to my pc but no boot. I then installed adb tools trying to reboot the bootloader, but when i type in adb devices, I get nothing listed. So when i tried adb reboot i get error: no device found
Just moments ago i installed a new jdk and currently installing android sdk to make a proper connection with the device.
Any advice?? Pff

I think it phone has been completely wiped so there is no any OA Rom installed. Try booting in to recovery then see if its rooted then install any custom Rom. The most safest way is install RUU from ur PC which restore it to original.
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still no luck
I've read the post noob guide (adb,sdk..), done every step, still it won't see my phone

Run RUU from PC because it phone is recognized by pc that's best way.
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Just check which recovery have u got if clockwork then flash any custom Rom again. U need 2 use card reader to transfer rom
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can I use one of these stock ruu's?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648

Ok so from what I understand is that even without being in bootloader or recovery. Just by being connected, I can install stock ruu to my phone and then everything else? I'm downloading one of the ruu now

Ok from what i read, I cannot get into the bootloader or recovery cause it's maybe hard bricked. Is there a fix for this?

jasminthoria said:
Run RUU from PC because it phone is recognized by pc that's best way.
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Ok sorry for the late reply. Due to my "lovely" bandwidth, I finally found the stock rom for my device, version tmous 1.45.531.1. I ran the setup and everything went fine, until i got an error error 1105 or something that it's not compatible with my device. How can that be if it'.s not from another vendor. It says t mobile on top lol. Does this mean that i'm screwed?

Still haven't got it to boot. Only led is lit when plugged in charger or pc. The screen stays blank and unplugged it does nothing. Only if there was a way to get it in fastboot or just to see life in my device

Hold volume down plus power button. You will be in fastbboot .

first press and hold the vol - button then just press the power button without holding it, but keep holding the vol -
wait 10 seconds
release the vol - button
press power button again
now you should be in fastboot
on your computer in command prompt type fastboot devices and see if your computer recognizes the phone

Inspire 4g hang in white HTC screen..HELP

hi i am unable to go into recovery mood.. i try holding down power and volume down at same time..but nothing happens it hangs in HTC white screen..any suggestion?

pbpatel1981 said:
hi i am unable to go into recovery mood.. i try holding down power and volume down at same time..but nothing happens it hangs in HTC white screen..any suggestion?
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Does your Pc detec the phone? Try pushing this commands
Adb reboot bootloader and see what happens
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hi when i plug my phone and start my phone it does make sound in pc but then hangs in HTC white screen. and how would i do that comand thing?

You need fastboot for windows
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pbpatel1981 said:
hi when i plug my phone and start my phone it does make sound in pc but then hangs in HTC white screen. and how would i do that comand thing?
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do the following, open a command window. go to run, then type cmd and a black screen will open. type the following in that screen adb devices....
Make sure you have the HTC sync drivers installed. If your phone is detected then it will prompt something like htc-serial number of your phone.
If that is working, then try typing adb reboot bootloader and see what happens...

THX you guys so much..i got it...i did use adb and load to hboot..and i found out..my volume rocker...is gone...but i got it to recovery some how...and re flash new rom..now its working but..but no volume button..i guess i could live with that..

pbpatel1981 said:
THX you guys so much..i got it...i did use adb and load to hboot..and i found out..my volume rocker...is gone...but i got it to recovery some how...and re flash new rom..now its working but..but no volume button..i guess i could live with that..
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Yeah, you will survive with that, but to repair it just to avoid getting stuck in the white screen again!!! see ya!...

My htc inspire 4g got stuck in white htc loading screen.
Guys please help me on this coz i'm unable to use my inspire 4G from days.

get into recovery without volume buttons

Hey everyone I have a HTC inspire which I flashed jelly time onto, before that my volume buttons worked but now they don't work and the button is complety gone HTC did a very bad job with that it easily came out... So recently when I boot the phone on it boots the normal jelly time startup and the black screen. I have seen the only way to fix this is either factory reset or reflash ROM. But I am unable to do that since ,y volume button is broken. I have read that you can get to recovery via adb and or flash via adb can someone help me out please?

Trozzul said:
Hey everyone I have a HTC inspire which I flashed jelly time onto, before that my volume buttons worked but now they don't work and the button is complety gone HTC did a very bad job with that it easily came out... So recently when I boot the phone on it boots the normal jelly time startup and the black screen. I have seen the only way to fix this is either factory reset or reflash ROM. But I am unable to do that since ,y volume button is broken. I have read that you can get to recovery via adb and or flash via adb can someone help me out please?
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you can connect your HTC phone to your computer via USB cable, and use the command below, before that you need to install adb shell on Windows.
adb reboot bootloader

Also, you could enter Recovery mode through ROM Toolbox and if you're using TWRP, its touch, so you dont need hardware keys.

Mister_Simon said:
Also, you could enter Recovery mode through ROM Toolbox and if you're using TWRP, its touch, so you dont need hardware keys.
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I am unable to get into recovery or the normal android screen when it boots up its a black screen I need to get into recovery to reflash the rom

Trozzul said:
I am unable to get into recovery or the normal android screen when it boots up its a black screen I need to get into recovery to reflash the rom
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So you're stuck on booting and your hardware buttons dont work?
There is a way to get into the recovery in such a situation but that usually relies on the hardware buttons. What device do you have? What recovery?

Try this
Remove battery n reinsert it
Now connect the phone to charger.
Don't do anything keep the phone as it is for 5 -10 min.
It will automatically go to recovery
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rockingmanish said:
Try this
Remove battery n reinsert it
Now connect the phone to charger.
Don't do anything keep the phone as it is for 5 -10 min.
It will automatically go to recovery
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I don't know how that would work.....

Mister_Simon said:
So you're stuck on booting and your hardware buttons dont work?
There is a way to get into the recovery in such a situation but that usually relies on the hardware buttons. What device do you have? What recovery?
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I don't know the Recovery most likely 5+ and it was touch recovery. as for the device like I said its a htc inspire 4g

Trozzul said:
I don't know the Recovery most likely 5+ and it was touch recovery. as for the device like I said its a htc inspire 4g
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Hey cool. I used to own an Inspire for couple of years.
Im not sure if understood the condition of your phone and whats working or not but:
take out your battery and reinsert. hold the power button and volume down button for a couple of seconds and it will boot into recovery

Mister_Simon said:
Hey cool. I used to own an Inspire for couple of years.
Im not sure if understood the condition of your phone and whats working or not but:
take out your battery and reinsert. hold the power button and volume down button for a couple of seconds and it will boot into recovery
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the volume buttons are both broken im asking how to get back into recovery from adb so I can flash a knew rom since mine is bad

Trozzul said:
the volume buttons are both broken im asking how to get back into recovery from adb so I can flash a knew rom since mine is bad
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Im assuming you have android sdk installed
Connect your phone, locate adb using cmd prompt (change directory) (RUN AS ADMIN), type 'adb reboot recovery' (no quotes)

I will try this in the morning. What screen do I use the command at? Anytime?
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Trozzul said:
I will try this in the morning. What screen do I use the command at? Anytime?
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Follow these fool-proof steps:
Locate your android sdk folders-> navigate to the folder where adb is located ->hold shift + right click on the folder containing adb and select ''open command window here'' ( this will automatically take care of pointing the directory to that location) -> 'adb reboot recovery' ENTER
This will automatically enter recovery. I suggest you restore your old backup .
As for your volume buttons, you should be able to fix it easily if you know a little bit of soldering and know-how.

Mister_Simon said:
Follow these fool-proof steps:
Locate your android sdk folders-> navigate to the folder where adb is located ->hold shift + right click on the folder containing adb and select ''open command window here'' ( this will automatically take care of pointing the directory to that location) -> 'adb reboot recovery' ENTER
This will automatically enter recovery. I suggest you restore your old backup .
As for your volume buttons, you should be able to fix it easily if you know a little bit of soldering and know-how.
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im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?

Trozzul said:
im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?
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ADB *may* work on the boot logo, but it certainly won't work as the phone is booting.

Trozzul said:
im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?
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MacHackz said:
ADB *may* work on the boot logo, but it certainly won't work as the phone is booting.
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Like MacHackz said. As far as i know also this may be the only way you maybe able to boot into recovery so might as well give it a shot.
MacHackz, your banner made me think i have a bug behind my screen and I spent a while trying figure it out. LOL

HTC Desire HD hard reset without volume buttons
I have htc desire hd and my volume buttons is broken ,my phone is much dispute and have lots of bugs i want to HARD RESET no factory reset only hard reset with rebote. Please help me how to reset my HTC DHD without volume buttons!!
!!sorry for my english!!

SOLVED! (At least for me)
To whom may still be interested, I found a way to get into recovery and subsequently wipe data/factory reset the HTC Inspire 4G/Desire HD without using the volume buttons.
Phone background: the phone that I used had the internal volume buttons broken. It was rooted and unlocked using the effen hack kit, then I flashed a custom ROM on it and I forgot to do a factory reset before I firstly boot up the phone with the new ROM. So it was stuck on the boot animation forever.
Steps for getting into recovery mode without volume buttons:
1. Take the battery off
2. Plug the phone to a wall charger for at least one or two minutes.
3. Put the battery back on along with the battery door and don't touch any buttons.
- The orange led on the front will light up and stay on for a few seconds before the phone automattically gets into recovery
Note: use the touch capacitive buttons to manipulate recovery:
- Home/Menu buttons to navigate up/down
- Back button to go back
- Search button to select
That's pretty much it. At this point you can do anything!
I hope this can help someone out there... If it helped you please hit the thanks button!

my phone is s3 gt-i9300 but but volume up key and home doesnt work.I need to go to recovery to flash a rom so how to go to recovery mode now.please help me.

Swarn_Sen said:
my phone is s3 gt-i9300 but but volume up key and home doesnt work.I need to go to recovery to flash a rom so how to go to recovery mode now.please help me.
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You can use adb commands to enter in recovery mode. Connect your android to PC. Enable adb debugging and open command prompt in PC.
Type "adb devices" without qoutes and enter then type "adb reboot recovery" and enter. These commands boot your android in recovery mode.