I was trying to update my droid to a gingerbread from steeldroid section of ROM manager. I was using BB Gingerbread rom before doing this. Everything went fine, but it's stuck on the motorola logo. I know that you can get into recovery mode by pressing down power button and x, but I can't do this because my power button is broken. Is there any way to revert it back to the way it was? or is there maybe a way to get it into recovery mode another way?
Note: I have read other threads of people with similar problems. The difference between them and me is that they were able to get into recovery mode to reflash while I AM NOT able to do so. This is because my power button is completely useless on the phone...someone please tell me it's not totally bricked.
Thanks to anyone that can offer help!
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i used to be able to get into recovery mode with the manual keypress. (vol up + vol down + power) However, after i flashed a i9000 rom, i can no longer do so. it boots up with a boot screen saying i9000 then goes to the att screen, then it just keeps looping that. i tried flashing back to stock but that screen is still there, leading me to believe that the phone really thinks it is an european galaxy s. that would require the physical home button to be hit to go into recovery . and to make matters worse, sdk now doesnt recognize my phone so i cant flash any updates right now. help would be appreciated
Have you tried all of these methods for Odin3 one click?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
i can get into download mode if thats what you mean. all those methods are for download mode. i just cant get my phone to recovery to install an update.zip which is quite annoying. although at the bottom of that page it says when coming from i9000 roms to go to the jf6 first not the h2 which i didnt, so im going to reinstall a i9000 rom and then go back to the jf6 and see if that works
Update: the one click odin worked and removed it ! thanks for bringing that to my attention. i never knew it was different than what i was doing. i was using the odin that you load with the files that you want to and downloading the stock firmware from samsung-firmwares.com . apparently there is a slight difference
Because there's no physical home button?
I'm having the same issue trying to get the phone into recovery mode with buttons alone...and I'm running the JM5 ROM. The Captivate, unlike the Galaxy S, doesn't have a physical home button, and the sequence on those phones for recovery mode is volume up/home/power.
i have the inspire and i rooted it with no problems. now this is all new to me so i need some major help. i downloaded a rom from the rom manager app on my phone. pretty sure it was a coredesign rom. i backed up my existing rom and followed all the prompts i was given before installing the rom installed and the phone rebooted/ but now i am stuck on the htc screen and cannot get past it. i tried a hardschock of the phone but i am still stuck ont the white htc screen. any help to get my phone up and running would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
have you tried booting into recovery by holding, the volume down and power buttons, and then falsh your recovery?
Pull the battery. Put it back in, hold the volume down button then while its down press the power button. That will put you in the bootloader. Go down to recovery and press the power button. In recovery wipe the phone and wipe cache, then installe your rom.
Sent from Inspire 4G
Are you familiar with ADB.
THANKS!!!!
Thank you thank you thankyou. To all that posted so quickly. It worked. I was getting real nervous i thought i [email protected]#cked up my phone. It is running now. Thanks again.
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I need help getting the wife's phone out of safe mode. I rooted the phone and its on a stock rooted 2.2.1 rom and if you do a restart it loads the the boot loader screen and I can pick recovery and then restart but it still boots in to safe mode says it in the bottom left corner. She has apps and stuff on there so trying to get everything back but not really sure how to get this fixed. Also have pulled the battery out and still no luck going to safe mode. I guess if I can't get it fixed can I install a factory stock rom back on it to fix this? I know if I do she will lose everything. Just need the best option to get this fixed.
Thanks
"Safe mode"???? I've never heard of that.
Yeah it the bottom left corner of the phone it says safe mode it says it down near the home icon and over top off the circle with the up arrow. It looks like it may only load mainly core apps and some others but not all kind of like a windows pc in safe mode. And like I said I've pulled the battery out and rebooted and still says it and also from the boot loader screen picked recovery and then restart and once booted it still says it in the bottom left corner.
I gotta ask... Are you sure this is an Inspire?
Yes this is a inspire. I'm at work and once I get home I will use my inspire and take a pic of the screen with it saying it and upload it here. Mine I just got and haven't rooted it yet still a little unsure on the new way so you may see some questions from me on it a little later.
I have seen people stuck in safe mode . The guy was stuck in hboot and would not boot up. somehow he managed to boot it up but he said it was in safe mode. he was going to flash the gingerbread ruu, but havent gotten an update.
you posted in the thread gene it was titled bricked.
as to the question isse here. you might have to flash a new rom, though not ideal. But google does a good job of backing up apps/settings
I'll be damned:
http://www.technipages.com/htc-hero-start-in-safe-mode.html
This seems more applicable to the Inspire:
http://www.myvusers.com/forums/htc-thunderbolt/7426-safe-mode-htc-thunderbolt-adr6400.html
I'll try and see if one of these works. I think I read some where about the hero and tried it but may not have. So will give it a shot.
Thanks
sreadesjr said:
I'll try and see if one of these works. I think I read some where about the hero and tried it but may not have. So will give it a shot.
Thanks
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Apparently the hero has a "hard" menu key. The Inspire does not so you have to ue a different "hard" key. I tried it and the thunderbolt method works for the Inspire (using VOL "hard" key).
It was mentioned over on #liberatedAria that you may have a stuck VOL-UP key so it goes into safe mode every time you boot.
Ok thanks Gene I'll try it for the thunderbolt method. Like you said the key maybe stuck. So when you powered back on you held power and vol up key and it turned safe mode off for you then? Just checking cause not sure if vol down does any thing or you always use the up vol.
sreadesjr said:
Ok thanks Gene I'll try it for the thunderbolt method. Like you said the key maybe stuck. So when you powered back on you held power and vol up key and it turned safe mode off for you then? Just checking cause not sure if vol down does any thing or you always use the up vol.
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No, I just rebooted. That's why we thought the key might be stuck.
yeah I think it is the vol key stuck as soon as you try to turn phone on it just goes to hboot screen. Sense I do believe the volume key is stuck does anyone know how hard it would be to fix this problem? I'm sure I can order a new volume button on ebay but not sure that will fix the problem. I need to get it fixed so I can get it back to factory rom so I then can take it back to AT&T cause I do have insurance on the phone but don't believe they will take it back cause of it loading to the hboot screen menu.
Can anyone give me any suggestions on what to do to get this fixed? And would it be possible to use the stock rom or stock exe file to put it back to stock form to take it back to AT&T to get it repaired or can I repair this problem myself by ordering a new volume key off ebay.
You should try gene pooles s-on tool in the Dev section. Since you have insurance I would just have it replaced
Hey guys,
I followed the instructions from the following URL:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227618
In regards to Rooting my Phone which is now running Telus Stock Gingerbread.
I have no problems flashing the Speedmod kernel with odin but i am unable to boot into recovery mode [vol up & down + power button].
I've tried the [Home + Vol up + power button] but still no luck. Wondering why other Telus Fascinate owners are able to boot into recovery when I can't.
Does anyone know why I can't get into recovery mode?
Thanks,
I did hear that a few of the telus fascinates do not have the actual hardware option enabled to get into recovery mode.
Has anybody else that owns a telus fascinate having problems getting into recovery mode?
Sent from my SGH-T959D
When you are trying to boot into recovery (holding vol up&down+power) are you letting go of the power once the boot screen appears (The one that says SGH-T959D)?
I notice that if I don't let go out power it will continuously reboot. I see that another user in the link you posted is having issues with that CWM. Maybe try posting in that thread or wait for a response.
Are you looking for simply stock 2.3.3 rooted with CWM? Or something like CM7?
Thanks for you reply.
I would like to post it in that forum but I do not have enough posts yet to post in the other development forums.
I do let go of the power button at the right time because I'm use to getting it into 'Download' mode without any issues. Plus the fact that I have also tried almost every Volume up, down and home combination to try get it into recovery. No such luck through.
All I'm wanting right now is to simply get Gingerbread rooted on my phone.
Sorry guys it finally worked after numerous trys.
Cheers
Sent from my SGH-T959D
Not sure if anyone else has tried but today's ioroot 25 update includes root for those on 4.4.2. I tried using the manual method indicated only to realize that I can't reboot into the stock recovery. Apparently two other people with the D801 have the same problem, where after doing "adb reboot recovery" the phone boots into recovery for an instant and immediately reboots. Can anyone else running stock 4.4.2 confirm whether they experience the same behavior?
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Not sure if anyone else has tried but today's ioroot 25 update includes root for those on 4.4.2. I tried using the manual method indicated only to realize that I can't reboot into the stock recovery. Apparently two other people with the D801 have the same problem, where after doing "adb reboot recovery" the phone boots into recovery for an instant and immediately reboots. Can anyone else running stock 4.4.2 confirm whether they experience the same behavior?
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Same issue for me, I suppose the only difference is mine rebooted then wiped my phone the booted back up. Looks like we can not boot into recovery?
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Same issue for me, I suppose the only difference is mine rebooted then wiped my phone the booted back up. Looks like we can not boot into recovery?
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Same problem, just posted about this actually haha. Where's our solution?!?!
18.4009 said:
Same issue for me, I suppose the only difference is mine rebooted then wiped my phone the booted back up. Looks like we can not boot into recovery?
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That sucks. By any chance did you happen to have a copy of the stock ROM on your phone? I'm wondering if it just automatically flashes whatever file is made available to it. I did notice some of my widgets were reset but otherwise I can't see that anything about my phone was changed.
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That sucks. By any chance did you happen to have a copy of the stock ROM on your phone? I'm wondering if it just automatically flashes whatever file is made available to it. I did notice some of my widgets were reset but otherwise I can't see that anything about my phone was changed.
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No, sure didn't. I have it all setup again.. Going to hold off now until we see a for sure fix.
I really miss having root so I decided to follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
But now for what ever reason attempting to back to 4.2.2 will not work. Fails every time... I didn't have that issue before so I am not sure what the deal is.
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TMO D801 users on KK... there is SOME hope still. I am on ZVA on my Sprint G2(4.2.2) which has no "adb reboot recovery" option... it does tne same thing thats happening to you guys.. quick "system update" msg (or something along those lines) and then reboots phone.
now.. on sprint g2.. vol up + power brings you to the hard reset menu. BUT.. vol down + power brings me to the full STOCK recovery menu.
Now I know your method to get into the hard reboot screen is different.. i believe its vol down + power.. let go at lg screen the press again? well has anyone tried any alternate combos? there may be another button combo to bring you into the full stock recovery menu instead of the hard reset menu. once at the full recovery menu you can use adb sideload to flash to kk_root.zip in ioroot25.
good luck
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It seems that ours is not the only model G2 with this issue. Looks like if we can figure out the button combo to bring us into stock recovery we should be able to get this to work. Having spent the greater part of the last hour trying to come up with something, I still haven't found anything. What I do know is pressing vol down + power until the LG logo and either vol down + power OR vol up + power will take me to the hard reset menu.
I also managed to get to a menu that asked if I want to answer phone calls with physical buttons by holding down all three, releasing and holding them again. But for some reason I wasn't able to replicate this. Now when I continue holding down all three buttons at the LG logo, after getting there using any button combo, the phone just shuts off.
Has anyone successfully entered the D801 stock recovery using button combos? I have yet to find any method other G2 users discussed that works for me.