Hello all,
I have had a rooted inspire for about 6 months and was wanting to change roms today. I downloaded the latest LeeDroid and backed-up my phone. booted into recovery and did a nandroid backup, then went to wipe the cache before installing the rom. This is where things got interesting. The wipe finished, but I can no longer select anything. I can navigate using the volume buttons, but the power button simply turns the screen off. pressing it again turns it back on, but doesnt select anything. What are my options? Will pulling the battery and booting up again have any ill effects? TIA!
SOLVED: scrolling through the CWM menu items 3 times disables the power button as a selection button. going through 3 more times re-enables it. Might come in useful to someone!
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I can boot to recovery from the OS. However, I can't boot to recovery via the 3 button combo.
I hold power and both volume buttons and then it keeps "restarting" looping through the AT&T screen. I then release the power button and hold the 2 volume buttons and it always boots to the OS.
What am I doing wrong. I've tried this a bunch now
Thanks,
JOe K.
P.S. I'm trying to reset the battery stats and I'm running Supernova 2.02b
3 button fix
Hi Joe,
I had this problem too. A lot of captivates have 3 button recovery disabled by default. To be able to use 3 button recovery you'll need to flash this 3buttonfix.zip (also fixes download mode) using clockwork mod or the recovery mod of your choice. Reboot you phone then turn it off and try starting recovery with the buttons.
The fix should stay even if you flash new roms, but if you flash to stock you'll need to reinstall the fix.
You are responsible for what you do to your phone, use at your own risk, etc. etc.
Best of luck,
DStan
Hello, I would like to start by writing that I have been searching the web and forums for 2 days attempting to figure out how to restore my phone.
I have rooted my g2x with super one click. Then i installed rom manager and flashed clockwork mod
I did a back up.
I then attempted to flash cyanogen nightly. Installation went well, then rebooted and here we are. Stuck,
When rebooting and entering the recovery menu there are 4 options and i am able to scroll using the VOLUME keys. Here is where the problem starts, I cannot select any of the options using the power button or any other button that i have tried.
The android is sitting next to the white box and this is what it says
FORMATTING DATA
FORMATTING CACHE
FORMATTING MISC
This is all that happens. Once again the menu options do not work, but i can scroll and highlight each one.
So i pull the battery and try it again and the menu options in recovery are simply not able to be selected. So i get stuck on the LG boot logo or stuck in an unresponsive recovery menu.
I cannot find out how to use any advanced tools for my device. I do not want to do further damage to my phone.
Any help from this forum would be appreciated. Thank you.
they wont help you, they are too "advanced" I wish I could help but like you, I followed verbatom instruction and wrecked many a phone...
Have you tried to reflash CWM with Rom Manager?
You should read:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847&highlight=recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044326&highlight=recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086687&highlight=recovery
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I am having this same problem
It depends on what CWM you flashed. So which one? It may be expecting you to use the soft keys or it may be expecting the power key for selection. If all else fails download the one click installer and start completely over. I have flashed mine (GS II and GS II SR) several times and rooted it with no issues whatsoever.
I am stuck at this stage as well. I have attempted the steps in sites listed, however when I hold the volume up+volume down and then plug in the usb, my computer is not reading the g2x.
Help?
Well I wanted to make a nandoird backup....BUT when I boot into clockwork recovery, the volume up and down, move the option, but the power button makes the screen black out and nothing happens.
If I press the power button again, it turns the screen back on at the main menu.
Tried double pressing, etc.
I tried all the other face buttons, but no joy.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
I've had the same issue at times and getting to clockwork recovery through rom manager fixed my issues. How are you trying to access CWM? Powering off first then power button and volume down key? Try vice versa and see if that fixes your issue. Let us know...
Taykiin said:
I've had the same issue at times and getting to clockwork recovery through rom manager fixed my issues. How are you trying to access CWM? Powering off first then power button and volume down key? Try vice versa and see if that fixes your issue. Let us know...
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I was rebooting into recovery through the rom manager into recovery.
When I boot up through power and VOL DWN I get a whole different looking interface...the mech interface and it tries to do an update.
UPDATE:
THEN I realized that the update file is in the sdcard dir....
I am so dumb....
I deleted it, then it went into the mech, interface, did recovery, then it went into the orange clockworkmod menu, then I could backup....
Thanks for the response!
Yep that'll do it! Remove that puppy!
I was attempting to install a new ROM and after performing a data wipe and wiping cache, a message came up saying E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext] Back menu button Disabled
Dalvik Cache wiped.
Whenever I try to install a zip from sd card, the recovery screen goes blank and only the little box and android images remain.
What can I do to fix this?
You are supposed to use the power button to select the zip file. Are you?
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Yes, I am. I can move around the first group of options freely but whenever I click any of them the screen goes blank. Pressing the power button again just brings me back to the first screen.
Just reboot into recovery by Adb. You disabled the power button selection. Now it will only shut the screen off. I normally just cycle through the menu andbit will come back on. But a reboot will fix it
zelendel said:
Just reboot into recovery by Adb. You disabled the power button selection. Now it will only shut the screen off. I normally just cycle through the menu andbit will come back on. But a reboot will fix it
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To you and the OP, when this happens, press both volume buttons at the same time to re-enable the power button to make selections.
Tx Redneck said:
To you and the OP, when this happens, press both volume buttons at the same time to re-enable the power button to make selections.
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This is great info. I have always re-booted when this happened to me. Luckily, it was never when trying to recover from a boot loop.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side
I think u have to keep pressing(not hold) volume up(or down) to reenable the selection key. It will tell u if it did.
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Slain Avenger said:
I was attempting to install a new ROM and after performing a data wipe and wiping cache, a message came up saying E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext] Back menu button Disabled
Dalvik Cache wiped.
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I've quoted the OP here but didn't really see an answer to this issue. I am running Unnamed 2.2.1 and don't really have any problems with the rom itself. I just notice this if I clear the dalvik cache.
Anyone know what this is?
edit: oops, I just realized I was not in my phone's forum. sorry. Anyway. any thoughts? I searched to try to find a solution and this is the only thread I could find that addressed the issue.
I just downloaded and installed newest security update (2018-06-**) for my device. After restart screen just went black. When i plug in to charge it, it vibrates, so it is working. Tried force restarting with Power + VolDown, it restarts, but you can only barely make out even the samsung logo when restarting because the backlight does not light up. I tried going into system recovery mode but i just can't see anything... What should i do now?
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I just downloaded and installed newest security update (2018-06-**) for my device. After restart screen just went black. When i plug in to charge it, it vibrates, so it is working. Tried force restarting with Power + VolDown, it restarts, but you can only barely make out even the samsung logo when restarting because the backlight does not light up. I tried going into system recovery mode but i just can't see anything... What should i do now?
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Find screenshots of stock recovery from devices just like yours, then use that screenshot as a guide when you boot into recovery, look at the screenshot and look at the list of options in stock recovery. You're looking for the "wipe cache partition" option. Starting from the top of the list, count down the list until you get to the factory reset option. Now boot to stock recovery, then press the volume down button the same number of times as what you counted from the screenshot. For example, in the screenshot, if "wipe cache partition" is the third option on the list, just press the volume down button three times, this should put you on the wipe cache partition option, then press power, it should do the wipe. Then try rebooting.
If that doesn't help, use the screenshot again as a guide to use the "factory reset" option" by counting down the list then pressing volume down that many times then press power to do the reset then reboot.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to flash your stock firmware via PC.
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