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.
illogic6 said:
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.
sammiam said:
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.
My buddy has the EVO and on his he simply holds the volume/power buttons down (when the phone is turned off) and this boots his into recovery.
I tried holding down the volume/power buttons but nothing happens for me (i tried several combinations of this, no dice), any advice?
I know I can boot into recovery through the rom manager but I want to be able to do this with the buttons in case something goes awry from flashing.
Hold power and volume up/down until you see Samsung. Then move down to just holding power and volume down. I have better luck with this if the battery cover is off, but I have big fingers.
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phidelt82 said:
Hold power and volume up/down until you see Samsung. Then move down to just holding power and volume down. I have better luck with this if the battery cover is off, but I have big fingers.
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Thanks very much, worked perfectly!
warriorofjah052 said:
Thanks very much, worked perfectly!
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Cool. Glad that made sense.
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I am just trying to find how to check if my device has S-OFF or not?
I tried holding the...
volume up + power
volume down + power
volume up&down + power
NOTHING gets me into the h boot screen.
Its driving me crazy and I can't find it anywhere. Whats the trick?
Thanks
Either take the battery out for a couple of seconds and the power up with volume down. OR far easier turn off the fastboot option in the power settings, then power down and then power up with volume down.
Took me a little while to work that one out too.
EyeAndroid said:
I am just trying to find how to check if my device has S-OFF or not?
I tried holding the...
volume up + power
volume down + power
volume up&down + power
NOTHING gets me into the h boot screen.
Its driving me crazy and I can't find it anywhere. Whats the trick?
Thanks
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I believe you hold the volume down and power until the screen comes up. Make sure you have held it long enough.
tenbeau said:
I believe you hold the volume down and power until the screen comes up. Make sure you have held it long enough.
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lol as long as you take the battery out, make sure u put it back in, then keep hold of the volume down button then either tap the power button or keep hold of it, both ways it boots up
EyeAndroid said:
I am just trying to find how to check if my device has S-OFF or not?
I tried holding the...
volume up + power
volume down + power
volume up&down + power
NOTHING gets me into the h boot screen.
Its driving me crazy and I can't find it anywhere. Whats the trick?
Thanks
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Turn off fast boot
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Awesome! Thanks guys.
And it appears mine is S-OFF. How cool is that!
Picked up an nexus s with a few issues. One of witch is the volume keys dont work in fast boot? They work fine any other time. Any thoughts?
rahlquist said:
Picked up an nexus s with a few issues. One of witch is the volume keys dont work in fast boot? They work fine any other time. Any thoughts?
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sounds like your power button is going(acts as if stuck sometimes). my power button is gone. in fastboot/bootloader i have to tap the back of my phone by the power button to get it "unstuck" so that the volume keys work.
Exactly. The power button is virtually dead. I am hoping to get it replaced by one of the guys on here just waiting to hear back. So if the power button is stuck then the volume keys dont work in fastboot? Very interesting.
rahlquist said:
Exactly. The power button is virtually dead. I am hoping to get it replaced by one of the guys on here just waiting to hear back. So if the power button is stuck then the volume keys dont work in fastboot? Very interesting.
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yes, thats the deal. tapping the back works for me though.
simms22 said:
yes, thats the deal. tapping the back works for me though.
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Thanks will give that a try.
My nexus s have also strange things in fastboot when i press the volume down it goes 2 down while i press it 1 times
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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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Sorry wrong section.
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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.