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stuck in android system recovery <2e>

i just flash the I9000JH1 to the phone ,i still havent install the kernel to the phone yet and it had boot the home page. and i follow the instruction to reflash again. with Odin3 after i will flashing the CSC and PDA file i unplug and restart the phone and i goes to android system recovery <2e> and i try to reboot but the power button not working....it said
sasung recovery utils
-for BML-
reboot system now
apply sdcard: update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
but i can use vol up and down to scroll up and down, but can select the item, the power button is not working.
down there had some yellow words
update media, please wait ...
update media, finished
#menu mode#
- Appling Multi-CSC...
installing Multi-CSC
that the only word it wrote, so wht can i do, is there had any method to reflash the thing??cuz the computer also cant recognize the phone, Thanks

hi ron
im just a noob but i have the same problem yesterday =)
u must flash an kaptivate kernel for a workung power button in the recovery menu!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782413

but i cant even boot up the phone, it stuck in the recovery mode

ron671 said:
but i cant even boot up the phone, it stuck in the recovery mode
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You need to pull the battery, put it back, and try one of the button combinations to get it into download mode on next boot. Your easiest route is either both volume buttons, and plug in USB without pressing power (which works on the Captivate), or hold just volume down and plug in USB (which is the right combination for an i9000). With one of these the phone should automatically power into the download mode. Get Odin one click ready to flash stock before you put the phone into download mode and hit start when it recognizes the device. If that won't work. try the other key combinations keeping in mind that they change when you flash an i9000 image, so you should try all Captivate combinations, and all i9000 combinations. Since the Captivate lacks a physical home button, anything that involves that will not work, which is the reason why you are stuck in recovery. The i9000 recovery is expecting you to press the home button to select (unlike the power on the stock Captivate).

also, ADB commands should work while the phone is in recovery mode

Same Problem
The Key combination Vol +, Vol - and the power button power cycles the phone whether or not the phone is in recovery mode or off. I am having the same problem, and there are no key combinations that worked for me. For now, I am permanently stuck in recovery mode. I could use some help here, as I have tried everything.
Oh, for the I9000 ROM installed on the captivate, adb commands do not work. While the phone is in recovery mode, you cannot connect to the PC.
I have found though, that by booting into the recovery menu, plugging in your USB cord and then taking out/putting in the battery will put into an unknown upload mode which does connect it to the computer, but not in a way that allows Odin or adb to run. There might be a way to flash/work with the phone, but I don't know how. Any help would be appreciate, as it is not in disk mode.
rajendra82 said:
You need to pull the battery, put it back, and try one of the button combinations to get it into download mode on next boot. Your easiest route is either both volume buttons, and plug in USB without pressing power (which works on the Captivate), or hold just volume down and plug in USB (which is the right combination for an i9000). With one of these the phone should automatically power into the download mode. Get Odin one click ready to flash stock before you put the phone into download mode and hit start when it recognizes the device. If that won't work. try the other key combinations keeping in mind that they change when you flash an i9000 image, so you should try all Captivate combinations, and all i9000 combinations. Since the Captivate lacks a physical home button, anything that involves that will not work, which is the reason why you are stuck in recovery. The i9000 recovery is expecting you to press the home button to select (unlike the power on the stock Captivate).
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madetoservehim said:
The Key combination Vol +, Vol - and the power button power cycles the phone whether or not the phone is in recovery mode or off. I am having the same problem, and there are no key combinations that worked for me. For now, I am permanently stuck in recovery mode. I could use some help here, as I have tried everything.
Oh, for the I9000 ROM installed on the captivate, adb commands do not work. While the phone is in recovery mode, you cannot connect to the PC.
I have found though, that by booting into the recovery menu, plugging in your USB cord and then taking out/putting in the battery will put into an unknown upload mode which does connect it to the computer, but not in a way that allows Odin or adb to run. There might be a way to flash/work with the phone, but I don't know how. Any help would be appreciate, as it is not in disk mode.
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1. Take out battery and put it back in
2a Hold Vol Up+Vol Down (Do not press power)
or
2b Hold Vol Down (Do not press power)
3. Plug in USB cable connected to computer (Still do not press power)
If the phone behaves like a Captivate, after using 2a and 3, you should be in download mode. If the phone behaves like an i9000, after 2b and 3, you should be in Download mode.

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Have tried both of these options. Either way you do it, the phone still goes back into recovery mode. There was talk about using a custom kernel that would allow you to use the power button as the select button. Is there any way to use adb in recovery mode, so you can install the modified kernel, or reboot to download mode? If not, I started a thread on this question that can be found here as well:
rajendra82 said:
1. Take out battery and put it back in
2a Hold Vol Up+Vol Down (Do not press power)
or
2b Hold Vol Down (Do not press power)
3. Plug in USB cable connected to computer (Still do not press power)
If the phone behaves like a Captivate, after using 2a and 3, you should be in download mode. If the phone behaves like an i9000, after 2b and 3, you should be in Download mode.
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Did you ever fix this? I'm stuck in recovery mode now and none of the button combinations work

I have the exact same problem. Have you had any luck figuring out how to get the phone to reboot?

really people??
can you not follow step by step instructions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734871

Pirateghost said:
really people??
can you not follow step by step instructions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734871
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I am sure they can.
The 2e and 3e Download and Recovery modes were disabled by Samsung in later models of the SGS. It is not possible to get there using a combination of buttons etc.,
How to install the Download/Recovery Mode fix (3 Button Disabled SPL fix) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785201
There may be another method using an AnyWay JIG cable: which is a MicroB USB to Standard USB connector where I think one crosses pin 3 and 4 with a 301kOhm resister 1% tolerance, 1/4Watt. It would be best to search this forum for precise instructions.

Win for a dumb f%^k
well this isnt a good answer but i have a phone that went as discribed, no respose to three button, and unable to flash or get off the system reset screen on start up work on it for about 6 hour then left it when i came back i turned it on plug in the usb and CMD'ed adb reboot download and what did you know this time it worked? reset from that screen and it return to normal sooo.... um good luck and there is a way out just not shore what exactly it is

good for some
okey after fidling around i found my phone responded to adb ie download adb open a cmd line and typing adb reboot download. from there i just cycled the power hold down the power button a while and it rebooted to normal working order. though i still cant get 3 button even with flashing the fix so no hacking for me hope this helps

I'm using the Samsung Fascinate, i500 and i got stuck on the same screen too!!! i just double tapped the home button and rebooted the phone

I was able to get out of a 2e loop by running adb reboot download with odin open, then reflashed from there. Went through the same process twice since cognition 2.3b8 does not want to install on my phone. had no problem with b7 install.

Instructions were not that great. But Thanks -I figured it out and am back up.

Same problem here, cant make my phone go to download mode, ok or select key "power button" not working.
already tried the 2 methods before and they not working, (combination of keys)

Vibrant stuck in android system recovery 2e
I know this is not exact help but i just accidentally found myself into download mode after more key combo fiddling. I believe the last combo that got me in was either holding UP + POWER or just UP at the precise moment the screen goes black to reboot. This is after quite a few boot cycles so trial and error seemed to pull it off.
I'd test it again to be more sure but i don't want to risk being stuck again at this point. But I figured i'd speak up now, because i don't plan to have 2e there ever again.

Help I think I've bricked!

I had been running cognition 2.2 beta1, put phone into download mode using vol up vol down and put in usb cord and flashed back to stock. Then I flashed Shep211's JPM\JI6 ROM via rom manager. Reflashed a JI6 kernel, then tried to use rom manager to flash to cognition 2.2 beta7. The update failed and now I only get the phone exclamation computer screen and I cannot get my phone back into download mode! I have tried almost every combination of vol up vol down power and usb I can think of to no avail. Can anyone at XDA help before I return the phone to ATT?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Pull battery. Just keep trying to get into dl mode. That's all I think you can do.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Have you tried doing it via the SDK? Really easy that way.

mrwoofus said:
Have you tried doing it via the SDK? Really easy that way.
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through ADB you mean?
I just get error - device not found whenever I try and run any adb command.

Yes, I had to do the "adb reboot download" with the SDK running.

mrwoofus said:
Yes, I had to do the "adb reboot download" with the SDK running.
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can you be more specific? I can't get adb to recognize this phone in its current state.

1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Up while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery, and keep pressing Vol Up!!!
or
1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Down while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery, and keep pressing Vol Down!!!
or
1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Up while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery and, keep presing Vol Up, press the Power button..
Keep pressing Vol keys means that you must keep pressing the buttons until you get the Download Mode Screen.. And keep trying.. Sometimes it take some time to work..

What I did was download and install the SDK in the C:\Android directory
Then open a windows command prompt and navigate to the "Tools" directory
Then just run the adb command.
Not sure what to tell you if the phone isn't recognized, I'm pretty new at this myself. I'd start hitting Google.
Good luck.

mrwoofus said:
What I did was download and install the SDK in the C:\Android directory
Then open a windows command prompt and navigate to the "Tools" directory
Then just run the adb command.
Not sure what to tell you if the phone isn't recognized, I'm pretty new at this myself. I'd start hitting Google.
Good luck.
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You can go to Download mode from Recovery.. But not from the Phone+Computer screen.. I think..

SnakeHaveYou said:
1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Up while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery, and keep pressing Vol Up!!!
or
1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Down while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery, and keep pressing Vol Down!!!
or
1- Pull battery and USB cable out..
2- Press Vol Up while you connect your phone to the USB
3- Insert battery and, keep presing Vol Up, press the Power button..
Keep pressing Vol keys means that you must keep pressing the buttons until you get the Download Mode Screen.. And keep trying.. Sometimes it take some time to work..
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Thanks for the suggestions, I tried these all several times, waiting about 1 minute before I gave up each time. Should I wait longer, or do you have any other suggestions? I'm about ready to give up and make a trip to AT&T

johnnyb138 said:
Thanks for the suggestions, I tried these all several times, waiting about 1 minute before I gave up each time. Should I wait longer, or do you have any other suggestions? I'm about ready to give up and make a trip to AT&T
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Strange.. Every time that my phone got stuck on that screen (3 times ) i tried these steps.. And after some time (and others combinations, Vol Up+Down, Only Down, etc, etc etc..), it works..

SnakeHaveYou said:
Strange.. Every time that my phone got stuck on that screen (3 times ) i tried these steps.. And after some time (and others combinations, Vol Up+Down, Only Down, etc, etc etc..), it works..
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this is my second time being stuck at this screen, but I'm having absolutely no luck this time around (have been trying for about an hour now). I guess I'll be making that trip to att.

Try this, or see the Thread answers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911

SnakeHaveYou said:
Try this, or see the Thread answers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
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I've tried all of the suggestions in this thread already, I have somehow managed to completely brick this thing. Thanks for all of your help!

If you were going to Cog 2.2.7, why wouldn't you just have wiped, flashed to stock, rooted and then flashed with Clockwork Recovery?
Anyway, good luck.

-Did you try to start pressing the Vol button AFTER you plug the USB cable? And before you plug it?
-Did you try another USB port or another PC?

Here is the Fix
I was in this same situation last week. Here is how to get it back into download mode.
•Be sure the Samsung USB drivers for the phone are installed on your computer.
•Remove and replace the battery.
•Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable. The "phone-exclamation mark-computer" picture should display on the phone's screen.
•Hold the Volume Up+Volume Down+Power buttons down simultaneously.The screen should go blank, then the picture should appear again. When the screen goes blank a second time, release the Power button while continuing to hold the Volume Up+Volume Down buttons down

praetorrian said:
I was in this same situation last week. Here is how to get it back into download mode.
•Be sure the Samsung USB drivers for the phone are installed on your computer.
•Remove and replace the battery.
•Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable. The "phone-exclamation mark-computer" picture should display on the phone's screen.
•Hold the Volume Up+Volume Down+Power buttons down simultaneously.The screen should go blank, then the picture should appear again. When the screen goes blank a second time, release the Power button while continuing to hold the Volume Up+Volume Down buttons down
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This is the only method that consistently works for me. I use the exact same method. The key is whatever picture (att, battery charge, etc....) comes up the second time and then goes blank, then release the power button.

praetorrian said:
I was in this same situation last week. Here is how to get it back into download mode.
•Be sure the Samsung USB drivers for the phone are installed on your computer.
•Remove and replace the battery.
•Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable. The "phone-exclamation mark-computer" picture should display on the phone's screen.
•Hold the Volume Up+Volume Down+Power buttons down simultaneously.The screen should go blank, then the picture should appear again. When the screen goes blank a second time, release the Power button while continuing to hold the Volume Up+Volume Down buttons down
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Thanks for the suggestions, I really do appreciate them. I just tried this a few times but still no avail. I tried it with two computers just to be sure and still nothing. I guess I really have bricked the seemingly unbrickable phone

Have you tried Odin3?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Annoying issue with gt_p3113

Ok here is the deal..this tablet is about to erck me..as you can see its unplugged, 4 days and 3 chargers later I finally got it to boot up, now I have tried holding vol up plus power to goto either recovery/download mode..but nada. .refuses to go...when I hold down vol down plus power it only boots to safe mode. .pc doesn't recognize it at all..have tried several drivers. .turned on..turn off and nothing..what I want to do is try to get it in download mode so I can reflash it so hopefully it works properly. .also I get that annoying red X over battery when power on...any help would greatly be appreciated

Update. ..
OK I got it to charge at 100% even with the red X on the battery drained it at the way down plugged it to the wall and let at charge again to 100%. Any possible solutions to getting rid of the red X or getting it to boot in download mode?

Update #2 I plugged the tablet into the laptop for a few hrs while it was turned off, when I turned the tablet on the laptop finally picked it up and installed the necessary drivers...with that being said is there any way to force boot the tablet into odin/download mode via the laptop?

Try This...
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Update #2 I plugged the tablet into the laptop for a few hrs while it was turned off, when I turned the tablet on the laptop finally picked it up and installed the necessary drivers...with that being said is there any way to force boot the tablet into odin/download mode via the laptop?
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The tab should hit ODIN download mode when you hold the power button and the volume up (closest to the SD card access) key for 10 seconds. If not, download the ADB drivers from the Android SDK and see if you can issue a adb force reboot command to try and get it into recovery mode.

Can you point me in the right direction for using adb?

Hey nick I have adb installed if I type adb reboot - bootloader it only reboots the device back to the home screen .. any commands to try out to force it to download mode?

Adb reboot download brought the tablet ro a screen that says
Downloading. ...
Do not turn off target!!
I was able to then load odin and it's currently flashing everything back to normal

Yes, tablet differ, my tab 2 is first press right side of volume up for download mode (yours can be the left side), then after 2 sec press en hold simultaneously the power button until it asks if you want to continue to download mode. Release buttons and press other side of volume key to enter download mode. Than I would use odin to install recovery (TWR/CWM).

Can't enter download mode S10e please help

I have searched and looked for alternatives on how to maybe enter download mode but have not found any solution. I have tried phone off then vol. down + bixby then plug in usb, also pow button + bixby + vol. down then plug usb but every time I do this all I get is a circle with a lightning logo with battery percentage. I also went into recovery mode and tried rebooting into bootloader however that just ends up rebooting back to the recovery menu. Please help. Thank you.

anyone with any tip on what might help or be the issue? I have an exynos version.

wbaez0320 said:
anyone with any tip on what might help or be the issue? I have an exynos version.
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Hi, try to reboot into bootloader using ADB.

First off thank you for the response.
I tried that as well however maybe I did it wrong. Is it? adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot download

It's so strange you know cause I've tried so many different ways and I thought that rebooting to bootloader from recovery menu would definitely work however all it does is reboot back to my home screen.

Power off phone and just hold down pwr+vol up+ Bigsby for like 8ish seconds and it should boot to download.
Also adb/fastboot is a second route, read through this the below link. Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed and adb/fastboot properly installed and prerequisites. https://www.theandroidsoul.com/unlock-bootloader-via-fastboot-android/
Or try to boot in safe mode
Hold power button when phone is on, then long press power off, and then select safe mode. https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-223011/

wbaez0320 said:
I have searched and looked for alternatives on how to maybe enter download mode but have not found any solution. I have tried phone off then vol. down + bixby then plug in usb, also pow button + bixby + vol. down then plug usb but every time I do this all I get is a circle with a lightning logo with battery percentage. I also went into recovery mode and tried rebooting into bootloader however that just ends up rebooting back to the recovery menu. Please help. Thank you.
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You have activated USB Debugging on Programer options?

yes USB debugging has been activated

NewWorldOrphan9 said:
Power off phone and just hold down pwr+vol up+ Bigsby for like 8ish seconds and it should boot to download.
Also adb/fastboot is a second route, read through this the below link. Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed and adb/fastboot properly installed and prerequisites. https://www.theandroidsoul.com/unlock-bootloader-via-fastboot-android/
Or try to boot in safe mode
Hold power button when phone is on, then long press power off, and then select safe mode. https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-223011/
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well apparently I can't boot into safe mode either, while screen on I long pressed power button then long pressed power of for more then 10 secs but that doesn't do anything

crazy thing is I'm able to boot into recovery with no problem but that's about it. also adb does recognize my device as I can see the characters after inputting "adb devices"

Question my Galaxy A12 won't boot to android or download mode help me pls

so I just tried to install unofficial TWRP 3.5.0 on my Samsung galaxy a125m and everything went fine, Odin said done. Then I just tried to start TWRP by pressing power and vol up and it didn't start, so I thought I might have done something wrong and rebooted to download mode and flashed it again, Odin said done, then I unplugged the USB cable and now it won't boot, neither to the system or recovery, even to download mode, it did enter download mode a few times before but I pressed the wrong button and had to cancel and enter again, now it won't even enter download mode so I can't flash stock rom to fix bootloop... pls how can I solve this I'm desperate
when I try to enter download mode by pressing volume up + volume down it just shows up charging mode without any numbers, then it turn on and shows Samsung logo, unlocked bootloader warning screen, and the Samsung logo again, but then just restarts and repeats all again...
when I try to press volume up + volume down + power, nothing really happens...
someone help me please

You need to keep both volume up and down pressed, then plug in the charging cable. It should enter download mode, no need to press the power button like in older samsungs.

PhotonIce said:
You need to keep both volume up and down pressed, then plug in the charging cable. It should enter download mode, no need to press the power button like in older samsungs.
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yeah I did that a lot of times, it used to work now It doesn't anymore
in this video you can see what's going on, I'm pressing both volume keys and nothing happens
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Is the cable plugged into a charger and on?
Have you considered that your volume buttons may not be working?

Same hear

Try attaching your phone to the PC, and then pressing volume down + power to reset the phone, (for about 7~8 seconds) then immediately press the volume down and up buttons, that's how I recovered from it. Tell me if it worked

juliano-oh! said:
Try attaching your phone to the PC, and then pressing volume down + power to reset the phone, (for about 7~8 seconds) then immediately press the volume down and up buttons, that's how I recovered from it. Tell me if it worked
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Please help it dosent worked
No pc detection
No download mode
No recovery
No charging

Hello, unfortunately in these cases the only solution is to enter download mode, check if any button is damaged or if the cable works and if it is well connected, press the buttons harder, hold down the volume up and volume down buttons at the same time , by pressing the strong buttons, for about 6 seconds and then connect the cable. If you don't try another cable to see if that's the problem there is no other solution as the phone is not recognized by an app that can put it into download mode when turned off the solution is the one I already told you about. I hope you have fixed that problem. Sorry for my bad English.

developeMYWORLD said:
Please help it dosent worked
No pc detection
No download mode
No recovery
No charging
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To Escape the Black Screen of Death or Bootloop
To boot to RECOVERY MODE
Method 1
First connect phone to the PC for 30 minutes
Hold all 3 keys and release volume down when it buzzes.
Method 2
1. Plug in USB cable to PC
2. Hold down all 3 buttons on phone.
3. When it buzzes release volume down and plug in USB cable to phone.
Then restore your backup or install a ROM
To boot to DOWNLOAD MODE
Method 1
First connect phone to the PC for 30 minutes
Hold all 3 keys and release power when it buzzes.
Method 2
1. Plug in USB cable to PC
2. Hold down all 3 buttons on phone.
3. When it buzzes release power button and plug in USB cable to phone.
Then use Odin to flash official firmware.
@physwizz

I am having a similar problem with the Samsung A12 SM-a125u
I never could enter into this "Downloading mode".
I tried flashing the stock ROM through ADB with fastboot, and I have another problem that I've never seen before: ADB can see the device while in recovery mode, but fastboot can't. And so it won't allow me to flash the ROM and I don't even know how Odin is supposed to help yet; I think I needed to enter Downloading mode for that, but I can't get into it.
I'm working on this phone for a friend who was given it because his friend's mom doesn't remember the password to it. Does that matter? It's worth noting that because of that I cannot get in to turn on OEM unlocking or dev mode, but idk why that would come into play in recovery mode. Also, the model indicates this is an AT&T phone, and tutorials online have acknowledged this model in their "applicable models" list at the beginning of their tutorials, but I know that carrier phones can cause problems all over the place (stop buying carrier locked phones people!); is this a problem?
How the heck do I flash the stock ROM to this this?