Am I doing something wrong I have had many android phones, and this is giving me trouble. I tried holding power and down volume rocker and the screen just stays dark. I also turned off fast boot. Any tips.
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A bit harder than on for example the desire. Try holding it down for longer or uncheck quick boot in settings. Only got it to work once, now I usually just adb reboot recovery from command line on PC or use the reboot to recovery option on shutdown menu (Leedroid)
Yeah its abut weird basically switch of phone completely then press power you will feel a vibrate then quickly start holding down vol down button or switch on and keep holding power and volume and release every few secs how I do it hope it helps
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You don't really have to hold Power for long. If you hold it for a period of time, you will see the capacitive buttons light up meaning it's going to force a restart. Hold Volume Down the entire time though.
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Ok...I've discovered that instead of a battery pull you can hold up on the volume button the camera button and the power button and you will reboot the phone. Works anytime and comes in handy if your phone freezes.
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deciple said:
Ok...I've discovered that instead of a battery pull you can hold up on the volume button the camera button and the power button and you will reboot the phone. Works anytime and comes in handy if your phone freezes.
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This has been confirmed by me with a functional phone. My phone don't lock up so I can't test that
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Thanks! I've only had to pull the battery a couple of times, but I feel like the Epic's back cover might not handle being opened over and over again.
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It's sad that this is the best thread posted in development in the past few weeks.
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Lol...tell me about it
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So I did this and I love being able to do this, especially testing my ROM out when I make small changes, but one correction, this shuts down the phone, not reboot. Either way, great find.
I actually like it turning off so I can easily boot back into clockwork to flash things.
That's awesome. Tho it did reboot, didn't shut down.
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It's surprising that this is news... I thought by now everyone would have known about it.
Wanna know another little trick? Hold all four buttons (Vol. up, vol. down, camera, and power) and you'll be thrown almost immediately into recovery.
DevinXtreme said:
It's surprising that this is news... I thought by now everyone would have known about it.
Wanna know another little trick? Hold all four buttons (Vol. up, vol. down, camera, and power) and you'll be thrown almost immediately into recovery.
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I just tried this (with it plugged in charging, no less) and confirms that this works.. and the BEST part is that it's not just 'recovery' it throws you into clockwork recovery
keep holding them and you'll get there.. (took like 2 seconds I believe)
I find this annoying. My phone reboots at least once a day while I'm at work because of this. I keep it in the stock samsung holster, and if I lean down to pick something up off of the floor, shortly later I'm greeted to my phone rebooting.
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DevinXtreme said:
It's surprising that this is news... I thought by now everyone would have known about it.
Wanna know another little trick? Hold all four buttons (Vol. up, vol. down, camera, and power) and you'll be thrown almost immediately into recovery.
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Nice now i dont have to shutdown first, thanks for this and thanks OP For the tip on reboot.
So it's tap vol up, power, and camera to reboot. And hold the same three to power off? That's great news I already had to order a new back cover because of having to do all those battery pulls for my stupid mistakes.
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Great tip... Thanks!
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mousiluck said:
So it's tap vol up, power, and camera to reboot. And hold the same three to power off? That's great news I already had to order a new back cover because of having to do all those battery pulls for my stupid mistakes.
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Nope, tap, press, or hold, whatever you do you will be shuting down your phone, and it is not just a shut down it is essentially cutting the power so it is instant.
interesting.... if you do the 3 button reboot, and phone is pluged into power, it simply turns off and all you see is the battery charging icon.... if it's not plugged in, then it will reboot
This is great, and all, and if it works when the OS is hung or crashed, it's the only solution.
However, I find the Reboot Widget from marketplace (need to be rooted) to be much easier in most cases.
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interesting.... if you do the 3 button reboot, and phone is pluged into power, it simply turns off and all you see is the battery charging icon.... if it's not plugged in, then it will reboot
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Ah there's my problem I only tried while my phone was plugged in.
Okay so your supposed to be able to hold the power button for 10 to 15 seconds for the phone to do a hard reboot but it doesn't work.
On my nexus 7 and kindle fire I can just hold the power button for 10 to 15 seconds if the device locks up or freezes on me and it will do a hard reboot but on the SGS3 it doesn't reboot, I held the power button in for over a minute and nothing happened, sometimes my phone locks up or freezes on me and its a pain to have to pull the battery out in order to reboot as I have a cover on my phone.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a combination of buttons I am supposed to push for it to work? Any help will be much appreciated.
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Hmmm, I am able to use this regularly when my phone has problems. Had an SOD on CM10, and also a lockup in TWRP and was able to reset the device with the power button. Sorry I cant offer anything other than saying that you dont appear to be doing anything wrong.
Holding the power button doesn't force a reboot for me or my dad either. I didn't see anything in the manual about forcing a reboot either. AFAIK pulling the battery is the only thing that works.
I got the infamous black screen the other day and had no clue what was going on. I'd never gotten it before on any of my Android devices so I was freaked out. I thought I may have killed something. I tried the power button / volume rocker to no avail. Pulling the battery was the only thing that worked.
Thank you Samsung for giving us a removable battery.
My wife has the GS3 too and I have tried holding the power button for 10 to 15 seconds and nothing happens. Weird that some phones it will reboot and others don't while holding the power button.
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I just tried. Nothing happened
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Power button works for me and I've done it, let me see, 10+ times. It doesn't work right away sometimes, but a few iterations of holding down power for 15 seconds, release for 1-2 seconds, holding it down again, and so on works every time for me.
I haven't taken the back off my phone yet. Well once, to see how to do it, but I didn't need to so I promise the power button works.
EDIT: As luck would have it, I had to do a hard reset on my phone shortly after writing this and I actually hold volume down and power (no volume up or home button) and I cycle through holding it down for 10 seconds, letting go, holding it down, etc. I don't know if it's just my phone, but it vibrates after a couple iterations and I know it's good to go. I always keep my phone on vibrate though so I don't know if that will apply to you.
On the topic of needing to hard reset our phones, am I the only one who's phone deals out about once a day? As in locks up and flickers like it's having a stroke...just curious
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Power button works for me and I've done it, let me see, 10+ times. It doesn't work right away sometimes, but a few iterations of holding down power for 15 seconds, release for 1-2 seconds, holding it down again, and so on works every time for me.
I haven't taken the back off my phone yet. Well once, to see how to do it, but I didn't need to so I promise the power button works.
EDIT: As luck would have it, I had to do a hard reset on my phone shortly after writing this and I actually hold volume down and power (no volume up or home button) and I cycle through holding it down for 10 seconds, letting go, holding it down, etc. I don't know if it's just my phone, but it vibrates after a couple iterations and I know it's good to go. I always keep my phone on vibrate though so I don't know if that will apply to you.
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sometimes a locked up phone will reboot on its own and it always vibrates first. you may just wasting your time with all the button pushing
Recently, I may have just soft bricked my phone. I am not totally sure. I flashed a rom and flashed another mod and the phone is ****ed. Basically, the phone is stuck on boot image like a loop and when I try to enter into the bootloader mode, the screen is totally black and keep rebooting. If someone also encounters similar problem, here is the solution:
1. in loop boot image, hold power button and you will see the 3 buttons at the end of the phone flashing
2. when it restart, immediately push "power button"+"up volume" (it is necessary to hold these two buttons at the same time)
3. it may enter or may not enter into bootloader. I personally tried 20+ time to get into bootloader (my screen is totally black, so I have no idea if I have successfully enter bootloader or not. But, here is a trick. turn on your computer volume. if you have successfully entered the bootloader, you will hear the "usb connection sound") (just for people who are interested, if you enter bootloader with usb connected with your computer, the phone will automatically enter fastboot mode)
4. start command
5. type "adb reboot bootloader" and enter it (if it is not in fastboot mode, command will reply "device not found", then unlucky you, keep trying. Just unplug the usb cable and replug it again and try the command again until it works)
7. if the phone reboots, the phone will reboot into a functional bootloader, then you can enter into recovery mode and restore your backup.
I tried at least 40 times for this to work. the process was painful, but at least it is better than a dead phone.
I just use vol (-) and power, works 100% of the time. Also, adb commands will NEVER work in boot loader.
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I heard a nasty rumor that holding volume up button while booting kills it? Urban legend?
Hold volume down and power till the buttons stop flashing. Wait Luke 2 seconds, release power button and keep holding volume down till you get to a white screen with 3 skating droids.
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InflatedTitan said:
I heard a nasty rumor that holding volume up button while booting kills it? Urban legend?
Hold volume down and power till the buttons stop flashing. Wait Luke 2 seconds, release power button and keep holding volume down till you get to a white screen with 3 skating droids.
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What do you mean "kills it"? I assure you holding volume up and booting is 100% safe.
I believe it is the one s, and maybe one other HTC device, not sure which, but holding vol (+) and power boots them into qshusb mode. On our Evita, if you hold vol (+) throughout boot, it goes tin to safe mode.
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I believe it is the one s, and maybe one other HTC device, not sure which, but holding vol (+) and power boots them into qshusb mode. On our Evita, if you hold vol (+) throughout boot, it goes tin to safe mode.
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Yea that's the rumor I heard... its been awhile so I wasn't sure. Thanks 18th for clarifying.
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this is my first time and i tried to flash cyanogenmod 10 for my at&t htc one x and im stuck on the rotating cyanogemod screen for about 10 mins. i cant get into the bootloader every time i try to reboot it takes me to the cyanogemod screen please help!
Go into twrp and do a factory reset...do you people even read insturctions? God dam
sorry my first time and how do you get into trwp? cause i hold down power and volume down and it just takes me back to the boot loop
Turn on, hold power 10-15 seconds, until screen goes black, let off, press n hold volume down, press power just 2-3 seconds, let off power button but continue holding vol. Down
Than select recovery
oh my god. thank you so much. you are a god.
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Go into twrp and do a factory reset...do you people even read insturctions? God dam
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Chill out man.
OP, hopefully you have some fastboot/adb experience. You'll have to extract CM ROM, grab the boot.IMG and fastboot it to your device... Then flash ROM in twrp and reboot.
If it bootloops again, try to flash ROM then fastboot.. Different strokes for different folks
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InflatedTitan said:
Chill out man.
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I'm sorry I realized I was a bit harsh afterwards...
its all good thanks again
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I'm sorry I realized I was a bit harsh afterwards...
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Lol believe me bro... Sometimes I can be a lot harsher than that with some of the noobs... But somehow I manage to stay cool and collective haha
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Turn on, hold power 10-15 seconds, until screen goes black, let off, press n hold volume down, press power just 2-3 seconds, let off power button but continue holding vol. Down
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People always think there is something wrong with their phone, but almost always its just a matter of not performing the button sequence correctly. The main thing that people don't seem to understand, is that you need to release the power button only, and keep holding volume down until the white bootloader screen comes up. People seem to be releasing both at the same time, which just causes a normal boot.
All I do is hold power for 10-15 seconds and then once the screen goes black I let go and start holding down the volume rocker until it boots into the bootloader. Much simpler in my opinion
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Can someone please answer this for me? If you have a mobile phone where the back of the phone isn't removable so you can get to the battery, how do you reset the phone when it hard locks up? Is there like a pin hole you use to reset it like you did back in the day to eject diskettes?
whodatdoug said:
Can someone please answer this for me? If you have a mobile phone where the back of the phone isn't removable so you can get to the battery, how do you reset the phone when it hard locks up? Is there like a pin hole you use to reset it like you did back in the day to eject diskettes?
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depends on the device, with my nexus 4 holding the power button down for around 10 seconds it will restart much like a computer would
Yep its usually a physical button that needs to be pressed for x amount of seconds or even a combination of buttons for a varied amount of time to do a hard reset.
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While it does appear that just holding the power button isn't the same as a battery pull, it actually is. There is a chip that detects when the button has been pressed and it cuts the power to the whole system. Atleast that is how it is on my nexus r
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In the HTC One X (which I own) I believe you hold the power button and volume button at the same time for 10-15 seconds. Phone has never frozen though or given me reason for a battery "pull"
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