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[Q] Can't get to download mode

How will I flash custom rom when I can't even get to download mode? CF rooting won't help because it requires odin and odin will only detect your phone when you are in download mode. Volume down+home+power puts me to recovery. Same with volume up=recovery mode.
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How exactly do you do the three button combination? Do you just press all three buttons at the same time? I suggest you press the volume down button and home button first and then the power button. Make sure you're pressing the volume down part by only letting the least bit of thumb press the volume rocker.
Just out of curiosity, what's your firmware?

offgrey said:
How exactly do you do the three button combination? Do you just press all three buttons at the same time? I suggest you press the volume down button and home button first and then the power button. Make sure you're pressing the volume down part by only letting the least bit of thumb press the volume rocker.
Just out of curiosity, what's your firmware?
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I did that already. Volume down first then home then power. This is not my first time flashing and I should say this is the first time that I encountered this.I tried 3 times but it takes me to recovery. I'm on DXKB2 btw.
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Just making sure, bro. No need to get mad or offended. might sound like a stupid question but I just wanna know is/was your phone carrier locked at some point?
Anyway if you can't find a solution you can always just fake a problem and bring it in to the samsung service center.
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offgrey said:
Just making sure, bro. No need to get mad or offended. might sound like a stupid question but I just wanna know is/was your phone carrier locked at some point?
Anyway if you can't find a solution you can always just fake a problem and bring it in to the samsung service center.
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I'm not mad nor offended Just for the emphasis sorrry.
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It's okay. It's always hard to figure out people's tones when online. In any case, why don't you just fake a problem and send your phone in for repairs? It's still under warranty, yes?

offgrey said:
It's okay. It's always hard to figure out people's tones when online. In any case, why don't you just fake a problem and send your phone in for repairs? It's still under warranty, yes?
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It's not undr warranty anymore. But I manage to get it to download mode. Thanks for your help btw
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What did you do? o:

offgrey said:
What did you do? o:
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I rooted it and use terminal emulator and typed reboot download
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What rom you installed after that ?

cessprin00 said:
I rooted it and use terminal emulator and typed reboot download
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Just to be sure you are using i9000 or i9003???
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demail2006 said:
What rom you installed after that ?
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Poseidon's rom
devilhell007 said:
Just to be sure you are using i9000 or i9003???
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I have both
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cessprin00 said:
Poseidon's rom
I have both
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Lucky you
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Hi.
My GT-I9003 recently freeze at the startup and I would like to re-install all the firmware and drivers but I can't go into the download mode which i press vol- and enter and power button.
Do anyone know the reason for that and how to solve it? Thanks in advance for any opinion.

imaginarygur said:
Hi.
My GT-I9003 recently freeze at the startup and I would like to re-install all the firmware and drivers but I can't go into the download mode which i press vol- and enter and power button.
Do anyone know the reason for that and how to solve it? Thanks in advance for any opinion.
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Can you go to recovery? What do you mean freeze at start up? Bootloop? I'm pretty sure you can get to download mode if you're on bootloop. Try it couple of times! Sometimes I failed to go to download too. Make sure you pressed the buttons correctly. Volume- first then home then power.
Hit thanks if you like my post.
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cessprin00 said:
Can you go to recovery? What do you mean freeze at start up? Bootloop? I'm pretty sure you can get to download mode if you're on bootloop. Try it couple of times! Sometimes I failed to go to download too. Make sure you pressed the buttons correctly. Volume- first then home then power.
Hit thanks if you like my post.
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Thanks for your reply. I'll keep trying.
Yesterday I still can go to the recovery mode but today looks like it can't. Usually the phone will vibrate when we power on it but now it looks like it won't vibrate. Instead it will on when i press the power button for quite a while and let it go, only it will on without vibrate. So weird..
My phone will always freeze at the logo there and can't go to the menu already. That's why I thought of re-install the whole firmware stuff.

imaginarygur said:
Thanks for your reply. I'll keep trying.
Yesterday I still can go to the recovery mode but today looks like it can't. Usually the phone will vibrate when we power on it but now it looks like it won't vibrate. Instead it will on when i press the power button for quite a while and let it go, only it will on without vibrate. So weird..
My phone will always freeze at the logo there and can't go to the menu already. That's why I thought of re-install the whole firmware stuff.
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hmm i think there was a promblem while flashing it. are you sure you pressed the 3 buttons download mode directory properly? i used to have the same problems way back while having the phone.
there is my way of going to download mode using the 3 button combo...
1. press and hold the home and the volume down button.
2. then add in the power button and keep holding them.
3. wait for the download mode button appear.
my other way is for rooted phones with cwm recovery....
1. press and hold the home and the volume up button.
2. then add in the power button and keep holding them.
3. when the samsung logo appears, release the power button immediately.
4. wait for the recovery to appear.
5. go to advanced options.
6. you'll find an option there to reboot to download mode.

Wahaha123 said:
hmm i think there was a promblem while flashing it. are you sure you pressed the 3 buttons download mode directory properly? i used to have the same problems way back while having the phone.
there is my way of going to download mode using the 3 button combo...
1. press and hold the home and the volume down button.
2. then add in the power button and keep holding them.
3. wait for the download mode button appear.
my other way is for rooted phones with cwm recovery....
1. press and hold the home and the volume up button.
2. then add in the power button and keep holding them.
3. when the samsung logo appears, release the power button immediately.
4. wait for the recovery to appear.
5. go to advanced options.
6. you'll find an option there to reboot to download mode.
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Hey hey. Sorry for replying you so late. At last I manage to do... Tried for a few times last time and thinking of trying again later. 2day, after tried again, it manage to go to download mode. I guess my method of pressing the button is wrong all these times.... Anyway, wanna say thanks for your methods. It helps me. :good:

sometimes you need to put off battery from device for one minute put then to phone and then voldown home and power. must work.
make sure that phone is not connected to charger or via usb
probably you know this but i write for the case. and future guests
cheers
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why not you guys learn how to use "adb"
it is good and fast
1. install the samsung usb driver or if you have kies istall than skip this.
2. unzip and copy all the 4 files ( with out the folder) into windows/system32 folder
3. reboot pc
4. set you phone in setting-application-development-USB debugging mode checked.
5. connect you phone to pc
6. lunch you cmd prompt
7. type adb reboot download, if you want to download mode
8. type adb reboot recovery, if you want to recovery mode
that is
beside, adb also can go into you phone system partition, do the thing like linux terminal.

Unable to enter download mode or recovery mode

Unable to enter download mode or recovery mode on my galaxy R.
Wanted to install CWM and root.
Is there any other way to enter download mode apart from pressing the 3 buttons ?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Usb Jig.
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I don't think it will help. If you cannot enter DM/RM
DM - Volume Down + Home + Power
RM - hold Power button (until splash screen), then release power and press Volume Up + Home
go to your service place and ask for replacement.

m.kochan10 said:
I don't think it will help. If you cannot enter DM/RM
DM - Volume Down + Home + Power
RM - hold Power button (until splash screen), then release power and press Volume Up + Home
go to your service place and ask for replacement.
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Apologies. I thought it might.
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come on, no need to apologize I guess jig would do the trick on galaxy S, or S2 but it
works kinda weird on SGR. For example once I as flashing FW via Odin and installation stopped for some reason. I had to reboot. Of course I couldn't boot the system, so I used usb jig -same ****....Thanks God 3keys combination worked as usual so I could reflash FW.
Raul15 it's a serious hw-issue if you cannot enter any of those modes, imagine if you mess up with something then you're screwed with no chance to recover and voided guarantee. I would ask for replacement.

ok.
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USB jig will help... I have used it
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Really? Me too
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m.kochan10 said:
Really? Me too
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You told to my post? Yes I used the USB jig to reset my binary counts too........ I lost it...do I an looking to buy it somewhere
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m.kochan10 said:
I don't think it will help. If you cannot enter DM/RM
DM - Volume Down + Home + Power
RM - hold Power button (until splash screen), then release power and press Volume Up + Home
go to your service place and ask for replacement.
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Working good. :good: Thnx a lot....

[Q] Alternative way to go into recovery

My power button suddenly stop responding. I can tell cause when I'm using volume wake, everything's working fine. The problem is I can't proceed to recovery considering the power button is the only way to activate it. Am I wrong? Is there another way? Wanna restore to a previous ROM backup, just to be sure I didn't hit a wall with my current ROM. Any thoughts guys? Wanna be sure before I have my phone opened up.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I also used fastboot to reboot my phone but it says my phone is offline. Which led me to believe there is more to it than a hardware issue on my phone.

killswitch70 said:
My power button suddenly stop responding. I can tell cause when I'm using volume wake, everything's working fine. The problem is I can't proceed to recovery considering the power button is the only way to activate it. Am I wrong? Is there another way? Wanna restore to a previous ROM backup, just to be sure I didn't hit a wall with my current ROM. Any thoughts guys? Wanna be sure before I have my phone opened up.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I also used fastboot to reboot my phone but it says my phone is offline. Which led me to believe there is more to it than a hardware issue on my phone.
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Update: I finally restored my backup using ROM manager and finally get into recovery using the search button as an altrenate for the power button. It looks like my power button is really broken. Will be using volume wake atm. My only concern now is how to get my phone online at fastboot. :-/

You can go to fastboot or recovery using some apps, like one called for CWM Manager. Or even use a command line in ADB.

You can't get fastboot because when the power button breaks it's like if the power button was stuck to ON. That glitches fastboot and you can't scroll to select recovery or anything of the sort.

Oh, thats is true. :/

Can your device power on ? If so use "adb reboot recovery"
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Try the app goo manager
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have you tried this..?

Alternative way to go into recovery
Sorry for the late reply guys. I just had my power button replaced, was so busy crack-flashing when 4.2.2 arrived that I failed to come back and thank you all for all your inputs. Appreciate it! Now my only problem is that my phone won't go online using ADB. Well as long as I could go into recovery within the phone using my power button.. I'll concern myself with that in the future. Thanks again guys!

killswitch70 said:
Sorry for the late reply guys. I just had my power button replaced, was so busy crack-flashing when 4.2.2 arrived that I failed to come back and thank you all for all your inputs. Appreciate it! Now my only problem is that my phone won't go online using ADB. Well as long as I could go into recovery within the phone using my power button.. I'll concern myself with that in the future. Thanks again guys!
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Try flashing a factory image in fastboot. It might clear out some issues..maybe relock and unlock bootloader too after backing up your data if there is time for this operation .
I do it from time to time.
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Alternative way to go into recovery
I'll do that raducux, thanks!

YES! you can! accessing download mode even if ur combo button messed up.

hi guys i am currently problematic about my phone cause it never get into download mode and my phone haven't been rooted. i am just thinking if it is possible for ADB commad to push our phone to be rooted or make our phone to boot into download mode? what do u think?
never ask on how am i not going into download mode, long story..just answer my question if it is possible..tnx
using ADB command u can get into download mode even if u messed up with your combo button like me as long as ur phone is booting normally.
1st checking usb debugging
2nd attached ur phone
3rd run cmd
4th type "adb reboot download" [without the quote]
5th wait wait wait and u will see that ur phone is in download mode.
if u want flashing firmware, cf root or other use this method if u haven't option or cant get into downlaod mode.

Re: just a thought for rooting [is it possible?]
Everybody's phone in this community is already rooted
dafuq are u trying to say ??
U dont know how to get into download mode that is the problem.
volume down+home+power simultaniously and u will.enter into download mode. use odin to flash bam kernel. :sly:
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Re: just a thought for rooting [is it possible?]
setup adb
in command prompt key in
adb reboot download
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@chongns thanks for the reply got it before u posted..hehe hitted thanks man
@simratcs hey man try to understand first the question before replying ok?i think ur understanding is limited..haha

Re: just a thought for rooting [is it possible?]
yes -_- .
so try to write in such a way that is understandable to everyone and not just to limited persons.
dude,improve ur ****in English.
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If your phone has never gotten into download mode, the problem may be this:
When using the 3 buttons technique to get into download mode, it´s best to make sure that the POWER BUTTON is the LAST button of the 3 that you press...Otherwise your phone may simply boot up rather than getting into download mode. (I found this out the hard way many times!)
Therefore, make sure you have the volume down+home buttons pressed, and keep pressing them while you press the POWER key LAST.
Now keep all 3 pressed until you see the yellow download triangle.
By the way, this same technique is also a good idea for recovery mode(volume up+home,THEN add power button until phone vibrates.)
Sorry that this doesn´t solve the ADB issue, but at least it will get you into download mode if that´s what you´re after. You can get into download mode without having a rooted phone.
Good luck!

my download combo has messed up so pressing them simultaneosly gets me nothing and when i removed the battery and reinsert it automatically boot so never have the chance to press the said combo if its automatically boot up..the only option do i have is the ADB command, but if get into boot loop or stuck at samsung logo i dont know how to deal with this using adb.hehe

mizukage said:
@chongns thanks for the reply got it before u posted..hehe hitted thanks man
@simratcs hey man try to understand first the question before replying ok?i think ur understanding is limited..haha
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hehe. i use that, when there is flashing rom season...xD.
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chongns said:
setup adb
in command prompt key in
adb reboot download
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That is what happens when i try to go download mode using adb. Am i doing something wrong?.
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acuicultor said:
That is what happens when i try to go download mode using adb. Am i doing something wrong?.
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lol its not like that... you have to download adt bundle for your windows or mac.. install and then prompt the instructions from there.. thats what ADB push is all about.

acuicultor said:
That is what happens when i try to go download mode using adb. Am i doing something wrong?.
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is this a joke!haha nice one bro, itz adb not terminal emulator, terminal emulator will be access once ur rooted.
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mustafahussain said:
lol its not like that... you have to download adt bundle for your windows or mac.. install and then prompt the instructions from there.. thats what ADB push is all about.
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Thanks for the explanation and sorry for my ignorance.
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mizukage said:
is this a joke!haha nice one bro, itz adb not terminal emulator, terminal emulator will be access once ur rooted.
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Im rooted and intalled lots of roms but never used terminal. Only Confused between adb and terminal. its not a joke is only a question from a person who ignore something.
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acuicultor said:
That is what happens when i try to go download mode using adb. Am i doing something wrong?.
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try just "reboot download"

my phone is bricked I think urgent

hello
I flashed flith kernel on my phone yesterday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699497
when I reboot phone my phone does not start with power button.
I tried in cwm mode and download mode but phone begin to vibrate for indefinite time and nothing happens.
I think my phone is bricked
what should I do now.
please help

shebie said:
hello
I flashed flith kernel on my phone yesterday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699497
when I reboot phone my phone does not start with power button.
I tried in cwm mode and download mode but phone begin to vibrate for indefinite time and nothing happens.
I think my phone is bricked
what should I do now.
please help
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Now you can do only one if your binary counter is 0 then definitely give it in the service center.....
press thanks if I helped. ......

Well i think you should resort with a usb jig if else fails. If that doesn't work service centre is the answer. Using usb jig will get yourphone into download mode. So you can flash stock kernel and rom through odin.

I got my phone bricked the same way @op did. It's in service center now.

shebie said:
hello
i flashed flith kernel on my phone yesterday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699497
when i reboot phone my phone does not start with power button.
I tried in cwm mode and download mode but phone begin to vibrate for indefinite time and nothing happens.
I think my phone is bricked
what should i do now.
please help
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guys warning do not flash flith kernel..
It happened to me too...!!!!!

@malybru please move thread. Thank you

all the cases of bricked phone came after after creating swap partition
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Remove the battery.
Connect the USB to the phone.
Then try to boot in download mode..
If successful then insert the battery without removing the USB .
And then flash the stock kernel or stock ROM as per ur choice.
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Nothing will work, I tried everything. My phone was insured, so the service center just replaced it with a new one, otherwise they would had to change the whole motherboard. It`a total hardbrick, you have to deal with it.
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MirXas said:
Nothing will work, I tried everything. My phone was insured, so the service center just replaced it with a new one, otherwise they would had to change the whole motherboard. It`a total hardbrick, you have to deal with it.
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what you try for go on CWM .do you have try press 5-6 secound only then left hand or until the phone long vabrate after left hand?:what:

As I said, I tried EVERYTHING. Every possible combination, waiting time, etc.. You can hold VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN, plug in the USB cable and you'll see your phone's ramdump.
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