[Q] Cant get to recovery - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Ive been rooted for months without a problem, ive flashed all kinds of different roms without a problem. i downloaded the new liquid smooth 4.2.1 rom and when i rebooted to recovery (twrp), to download the rom, it stopped at the odin "downloading" screen. i tried pulling the battery and holding power volume + and home and it just goes to odin, i tried reinstalling twrp but that didnt work. any help would be great.
thanks

Power, volume up, and home will boot you into recovery.
Power, volume down, and home boots into Download mode.
Edit: And I clearly need to read. You're using 4.2 and that actually messes up the older recoveries, which I'm taking you are using. Try this thread for working TWRP on 4.2:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/37316-protip-42-and-recoveries/
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[Q] Can't get into CWM recovery after installing MIUI 1.9.23

This post belongs to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278053 but since I don't have enough posts to reply there, here's my issue.
On my Infuse 4G I had Serendipity VII, then flashed over MIUI 1.9.23 which I downloaded from the abovementioned thread. Backed up rom, wiped data and cache, rebooted all good. But when it comes to enter into recovery to flash the MIUI zip again (as per the instructions at the thread above), my phone is stuck at the "Samsung" logo.
Tried battery pull, various hardware button combos, no luck so far. What is the correct hardware button combination to get into CWM from boot? I thought it was volume up + power on, but that didn't work. Tried volume up + home button + power on, no luck either.
So as of now... I'm with a dead Infuse.
Any help would really be appreciated
Thanks!
- Adriano
Same here, I can't even get into the blue CWM recovery. If I don't hold any buttons the phone will go into MIUI like normal but I want to get into recovery to backup and restore.
for me it's even worse... my phone is stuck at the Samsung logo.
Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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I've tried going into Rom Manager and re-flashing recovery for the "Galaxy S i9000" and it says it's successful but I still can't get into recovery.
So I do have a working MIUI phone but now I seem to be stuck on this ROM
florelui001p said:
Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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thank you so much! followed your instructions and now I'm in CWM... reflashing...
Kernodle said:
I've tried going into Rom Manager and re-flashing recovery for the "Galaxy S i9000" and it says it's successful but I still can't get into recovery.
So I do have a working MIUI phone but now I seem to be stuck on this ROM
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ROM Manager's recovery is worthless...
Use the instructions given above for the three-finger-salute in order to enter kernel recovery.
Entering recovery from boot can be tricky sometimes.
Sounds like Mikey somehow broke the "reboot recovery" command.
Entropy512 said:
ROM Manager's recovery is worthless...
Use the instructions given above for the three-finger-salute in order to enter kernel recovery.
Entering recovery from boot can be tricky sometimes.
Sounds like Mikey somehow broke the "reboot recovery" command.
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Yeah I've 3 fingered about 10 times now, pulled battery, tried rebooting into recovery from MIUI power menu and from RM menu, made sure to wait for the second SAMSUNG to appear, etc but still have not been able to get into CWM recovery. The logo just stays up forever.
Dang I don't really want to Odin back to stock anyone have thoughts as to how I can get this fixed?
Took me awhile to figure it out, I'm on Miui too and recovery works just fine.
This is what you should be doing:
1. Hold all the buttons down. (Volume Up + Down + Power)
2. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of the power and keep holding both volume buttons until you get into CWM.
himynamesnoah said:
Took me awhile to figure it out, I'm on Miui too and recovery works just fine.
This is what you should be doing:
1. Hold all the buttons down. (Volume Up + Down + Power)
2. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of the power and keep holding both volume buttons until you get into CWM.
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Yup. Same works for any CWM-enabled kernel back in Samsung-firmware-land.
Ok well I got this fixed ghetto style.
I used SGS kernel flasher to put the Bedwa gingerbread kernel, then after reboot the female robot voice said there was not enough space in the partition.
However, at this point I was [finally] able to 3 finger my way into CWM - the red one, not the blue that MIUI was showing, and from there I could reinstall Infused from the SD card. Still no idea why the MIUI kernel would not let me into recovery!
ok figured to let you guys know how did it go for me after I was able to boot into CWM (thanks again florelui001p for the tip btw) -- was able to flash MIUI and after the reboot things went fine.
Played a bit around with MIUI (first time I was trying an MIUI rom), didn't quite like the complete reskinning of the plain vanilla android UI (don't get me wrong, the quality and amount of the work that must be behind MIUI is impressive, it's just me that I prefer things more "barebone" style).
So after my brief experience with MIUI, I tried to restore a couple of CWM rom backups I took earlier today -- and CWM was unable to restore either one... sweet. So I went for flashing the latest Infused (as of now) 2.3.3 -- and no surprise there. A great rom for the Infuse. So far with the Infuse aside from the stock rom, I've been on Infused, Serendipity VII and MIUI. Still hoping/waiting for CM7... used to love it on my old Nexus One.
- Adriano
adri72 said:
ok figured to let you guys know how did it go for me after I was able to boot into CWM (thanks again florelui001p for the tip btw) -- was able to flash MIUI and after the reboot things went fine.
Played a bit around with MIUI (first time I was trying an MIUI rom), didn't quite like the complete reskinning of the plain vanilla android UI (don't get me wrong, the quality and amount of the work that must be behind MIUI is impressive, it's just me that I prefer things more "barebone" style).
So after my brief experience with MIUI, I tried to restore a couple of CWM rom backups I took earlier today -- and CWM was unable to restore either one... sweet. So I went for flashing the latest Infused (as of now) 2.3.3 -- and no surprise there. A great rom for the Infuse. So far with the Infuse aside from the stock rom, I've been on Infused, Serendipity VII and MIUI. Still hoping/waiting for CM7... used to love it on my old Nexus One.
- Adriano
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No problem! Glad to see you got everything up and running
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i've tried all the things u said but no success. then i've tried to enter download mode and after going to recovery with vol up + home + phone worked
Three finger does still work in MIUI/CM7, but it seems REALLY finicky for some reason.
Entropy512 said:
Three finger does still work in MIUI/CM7, but it seems REALLY finicky for some reason.
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I've never had a problem. Here's a trick I use to get into recovery "100% of the time, every time":
Make sure your phone is unplugged from any charger/USB. Remove, and replace your battery. Place your phone on it's side, volume buttons down, on a desk/table. Press down until you feel the volume buttons depressed, and keep holding the phone with pressure. Press and hold the power until you see the Samsung logo, keeping your phone mashed against the table. When you see CWM, you can release the pressure on your phone, reconnect to cables, do whatever.
After flashing 1.9.30, I cannot access clockwork recovery from ANY method, 3 finger salute won't work, trying from MIUI won't work, reflashing clockwork from ROM manager won't work.
What am I suppose to do?
Have you tried the steps below?
florelui001p said:
Turn off your phone, press and hold down volume up, volume down, and the power button. When you hold them you'll see the Samsung logo, keep holding them. The screen will go black and in like five seconds a SECOND TIME the Samsung logo will appear, you can then let go of the buttons and you should be on cwm
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The caveat is to wait for the second time the Samsung logo appears, and then release all buttons.
- Adriano
this worked for me.
LG_iiNsTiiNcT said:
Okay so if you were one of the few people who lost recovery for some weird reason "ME" no need to unbrick to stock and re-flash I have a solution.
1: Download sgs kernel flasher
2: Download CWM community kernel
3: Flash kernel via sgs kernel flasher "unchecked the reboot button" when done flashing turn phone of "SHUTDOWN"
4: 3 finger until the Samsung logo pops up keep holding the buttons the screen will go black then Samsung logo will come up, let go of the power button and keep hold the volume up and down buttons "For about 20 seconds" then let go it should boot into Red CWM after a few seconds.
5: Go to install zip from SD card go all the way down and run update.zip it will boot back into RED CWM run update.zip again and it should now boot into GREEN CWM
6: From here Re-Flash MIUI "New Release would be smart", Wipe Fact,Wipe Cache, Wipe Dalvik, Flash, reboot at sign of Samsung logo pull battery, 3 finger into blue recovery and flash again.
7: Presto you should be set and have recovery back.
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I posted a fix in the main MIUI thread. Also copied above!
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can't get into recovery mode

Hello guys, my TF300 has been rooted since it came out and i've only used AOKP rom and I have a fast boot app that I use to go into recovery mode or if need me I would just do the vol up and power.
Today I wanted to change my rom and I notice my fast boot wasn't going into recovery it just rebooted the tablet. so I tried the vol up and power and I just get a black screen, finally when I stop holding the buttons, it just reboots again.
I thought I lost root some how but so I opened some apps where I need root and they work and if I long press the power the built in recover that was there is no longer and when I turn it off and back on it still says "unlock" in the top left
the next thing I tried was I went into the playstore and download the goomanager and tried to download the TWRP 2 but it told me nothing is avail for my system.
As far as i know the only way To enter recovery is to restart or power on the tablet while holding down the vol down button then press the vol up when prompted. otherwise tablet will always fully restart.
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philly0128 said:
Hello guys, my TF300 has been rooted since it came out and i've only used AOKP rom and I have a fast boot app that I use to go into recovery mode or if need me I would just do the vol up and power.
Today I wanted to change my rom and I notice my fast boot wasn't going into recovery it just rebooted the tablet. so I tried the vol up and power and I just get a black screen, finally when I stop holding the buttons, it just reboots again.
I thought I lost root some how but so I opened some apps where I need root and they work and if I long press the power the built in recover that was there is no longer and when I turn it off and back on it still says "unlock" in the top left
the next thing I tried was I went into the playstore and download the goomanager and tried to download the TWRP 2 but it told me nothing is avail for my system.
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From terminal on unit!
su
reboot recovery
Good Luck!
if that fails then
#!/system/bin/sh
su
reboot recovery
Thanks guys, not sure what happen, look like it was a issue with my vol down button, it's like it was stuck so when I thought I was pressing it, I wasn't so now i'm good to go.

[Q] Problem with ODIN after JB update

Hello everyone.
I'm having a strange problem booting into ODIN. I just recently got one of the VRBLK1 leaked images and flashed my phone over and then rooted and installed TWRP onto my phone. As well as SuperSU + Unlocked Bootloader. I have ZERO problems with the phone running, or booting or anything like that, except when it comes to ODIN.
For some reason my phone will just not boot into ODIN mode. When I hold down vol down, home and power, it'll briefly display the ODIN/OS warning and then disappear back into the off mode with simply the battery level display. No matter how fast I try to press the UP volume key the result is the same. However the phone is completely functional other than that.
Any suggestions? I'm just trying to remove all the bloatware from my phone and this is holding me up from installing Clockwork Mod to do so.
Thanks,
Well use ez recovery from the play store to install cwm. Also try Odin mode without being plugged in.
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kintwofan said:
Well use ez recovery from the play store to install cwm. Also try Odin mode without being plugged in.
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thanks I'll try it out and see if it works.
On an unrelated side note, Go Bolts!

[Q] Stuck In Clockworkmod Recovery, no Fastboot

I just rooted my One S using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2008440. I flashed Clockworkmod touch recovery and installed the latest CM10 Nightly. I ended up installing the standard Clockworkmod recovery (non touch) through ROM manager once my phone was up and running. Everything on my phone was working great until I let my battery run all the way down to the point my phone shut off. I plugged my phone in and it automatically booted to recovery. I waited a little bit for the phone to charge and selected "reboot system now" from recovery. My phone did not boot and only goes to recovery. When it reboots, it briefly flashes a green stripe twice in the upper third of the screen prior to booting all the way but never shows the HTC screen or anything other than recovery. I tried reflashing the ROM in recovery, formatting every partition in recovery, entering fasboot using ADB, rebooting using ADB, and nothing seems to get my phone to do anything other than boot to recovery. I tried running the latest RUU and it fails (presumably because it can't enter fasboot). I tried pressing and holding volume+, -, and the power button at the same time, I tried holding just the volume down button while holding the power button, but no luck so far.
Is there a way to reflash the recovery from ADB while the phone is in recovery? Is there any other way I can force my phone into fastboot? Can I safely use the method in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043 to "unbrick" my phone by entering commands via ADB shell while in recovery rather than in terminal emulator? Thanks in advance for all the collective XDA wisdom that I'm sure will help get my phone back up and running.
Hey I had the same problem about a week ago. Are you sure you used the latest the RUU file?
chilaca91 said:
Hey I had the same problem about a week ago. Are you sure you used the latest the RUU file?
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I'm using RUU_Ville_U_ICS_40_S_TMOUS_2.35.531.7_Radio_1.08ts.50.02.16_10.08e.50.04L_release_279577_signed.exe. I don't think it would matter which one I used though because it gives me an error that says it can't connect to the phone.
Try holding down the power button for 10 sec and then let go of the power and hold down the volume button. I had to do this a couple of times until I finally got into the bootloader
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chilaca91 said:
Try holding down the power button for 10 sec and then let go of the power and hold down the volume button. I had to do this a couple of times until I finally got into the bootloader
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Amazing! That did the trick. Thanks a ton for that info. I knew it would be something simple.
I also had a similar problem. Seemed to occur only when I had the USB cable plugged into the phone. Once I removed it, I could then get into fastboot. Once I was in fastboot, I simply plugged the USB cable back in, and everything worked flawlessly.
All that crap you got wouldn't have happened if you use TWRP instead of CWM.

[Q] Does new stock 5.0 recovery buttons work?

Since updating to Lollypop via OTA sideload I've noticed the volume buttons don't allow me to get to the menu in the new stock recovery. It just sits at the screen with the dead android and red exclamation mark. The up down buttons worked fine with the 4.4.4 stock recovery. I tried reflashing the 5.0 stock recovery with Flashify, but it makes no difference. TWRP works fine, but I usually like to reflash the stock recovery after using TWRP to ensure I can still remote wipe my device via Android device manager if need be. Is anyone else seeing this issue with the 5.0 stock recovery?
SpaceGooner said:
Since updating to Lollypop via OTA sideload I've noticed the volume buttons don't allow me to get to the menu in the new stock recovery. It just sits at the screen with the dead android and red exclamation mark. The up down buttons worked fine with the 4.4.4 stock recovery. I tried reflashing the 5.0 stock recovery with Flashify, but it makes no difference. TWRP works fine, but I usually like to reflash the stock recovery after using TWRP to ensure I can still remote wipe my device via Android device manager if need be. Is anyone else seeing this issue with the 5.0 stock recovery?
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Press all three buttons (volume up, down, and power) at the same time. May have to press them a few times. The text will pop up allowing you to do stuff.
Many thanks. I tried holding down all the buttons and did it a few times as you said, but it didn't help. Still stuck on that dead droid screen. I guess it's not the biggest problem in the world though. I'll try again tomorrow.
SpaceGooner said:
Many thanks. I tried holding down all the buttons and did it a few times as you said, but it didn't help. Still stuck on that dead droid screen. I guess it's not the biggest problem in the world though. I'll try again tomorrow.
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When you are on the dead android screen, pres volume UP and Power simultaneously to bring up the stock recovery menu.
Many thanks. Power quickly followed by volume up was the combo that finally worked for me after 4 or 5 attempts. On KitKat it was so much simpler!
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