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[Q] boots with half screen boot image and cant get to CWM recovery mode WHY?

im using a tmobile samsung galaxy reverb and i installed cwm and a new rom. all was good till i installed rom toolbox and i was using the boot animation randomizer. it worked fine the first reboot then the next one the boot image never left the screen but i can rotate my screen and see half of my home screen also go into all my apps but i cannot see the upper/left half of my screen. i held down the power and vol down button and it goes to into the warning page about istalling a custom OS instead of CWM. can anybody please help me out with this???!!!

Is I'm not mistaken.. You want to power off your device. Then press power, home, and volume up to get to recovery.. (Not sure about home). I do know that volume down sends you to "download" which is not what you want.
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Volume down button isn't working

My brother flashed a Kernel on my Galaxy Nexus and now it need to be flashed again because its hanging on the bootloop.. but I cannot enter the download mode because the volume down button is not working.. are there other ways to get to the Download mode or is there any hard reset button inside of the phone?
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[Q] Help, can't access download mode

I have a galaxy s GT-I9003 that is facing a boot loop, i tried factory resetting it but no luck. Then i was going to try to reflash it but the download mode now doesn't load ,when i am holding the volume down + power+home button it shows a black blank screen but nothing and if i remove my fingers it just boots normally shows the samsung logo and keeps rebooting. I tried volume up +power... and volume up + down+power... but nothing seems to work. I would appreciate some help with this issue.
Thanks in advance

Remove the battery. Insert the battery. Now do the steps you are trying.
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sam_777 said:
Remove the battery. Insert the battery. Now do the steps you are trying.
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Is your phone a brand new device? Have you ever mounted a custom rom on it? Because on some new slc device (like mine) download mode is "factory locked" and you have to enable it with adb. Look around for the correct guide.

moar55 said:
I have a galaxy s GT-I9003 that is facing a boot loop, i tried factory resetting it but no luck. Then i was going to try to reflash it but the download mode now doesn't load ,when i am holding the volume down + power+home button it shows a black blank screen but nothing and if i remove my fingers it just boots normally shows the samsung logo and keeps rebooting. I tried volume up +power... and volume up + down+power... but nothing seems to work. I would appreciate some help with this issue.
Thanks in advance
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download Android SDK platform-tools, or standlone adb toolkit, run:
$ adb reboot download

can't acess download mode
remove battery
press power button for 10 sec
wait for 5 min re-insert the battery
press vol. up + home+ power

[Q] Soft brick problems

ok my blaze was rooted running a 4.3 rom (dirty unicorns) i was playing a game and all of a sudden it booted off, it booted back up and the samsung logo appears it goes black and vibrates. So i decided to revert back to stock and once i go to download mode menu and once i select to enter download mode it randomly reboots to the samsung logo and then it starts to vibrates again, i cant even get into recovery, what do i do, is it hard bricked?

dirty_s0ciety said:
ok my blaze was rooted running a 4.3 rom (dirty unicorns) i was playing a game and all of a sudden it booted off, it booted back up and the samsung logo appears it goes black and vibrates. So i decided to revert back to stock and once i go to download mode menu and once i select to enter download mode it randomly reboots to the samsung logo and then it starts to vibrates again, i cant even get into recovery, what do i do, is it hard bricked?
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If it just froze and rebooted the recovery should be fine.
Pull the battery for a minute. Insert it, then hold both volumes down together (the whole rocker), then hold the power button until it vibrates then release the power button. Continue to hold the volumes until the recovery is up. Restore a backup or do a clean reflash.

Romman0 said:
If it just froze and rebooted the recovery should be fine.
Pull the battery for a minute. Insert it, then hold both volumes down together (the whole rocker), then hold the power button until it vibrates then release the power button. Continue to hold the volumes until the recovery is up. Restore a backup or do a clean reflash.
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Thats the thing, it doesnt even get to recoveryit just vibrates after seeing the samsung boot logo , ive looked around the internet and other people have had this issue as well with the s2, i know that the phone isnt completely dead though, i just dont know what to do, i did nothing and all of a sudden this just happened

Happened to me, I had to it replaced... Does it constantly reboot and vibrate non stop?
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Jserrano56 said:
Happened to me, I had to it replaced... Does it constantly reboot and vibrate non stop?
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Exactly, all i need is download mode but when i enter it it vibrate loops after a press volume up.

when i enter download mode i see a blue screen then it boots and vibrates, why is it doing that

When the screen turns blue, does it start off black, and then start becoming pixelated and end up blue? Or does it just turn blue immediately? I had the same issue where I bricked my phone while I was using 4.3, and tried reverting back to stock... Sometimes, you cannot get into download mode if the phone is plugged in or not plugged in... Try both ways to see if you get any different results! Also try removing the battery for 30 seconds and then putting it back in... When you go back to stock, make sure it is ICS and not GB! You only get stuck in a boot loop if you do GB!
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Hard brick won't boot at all. Even though it's not booting properly it still boots which means there is hope. Try going in to download mode plugged into USB with the battery pulled. If it works Odin back to stock. If you get stuck in a boot loop after flashing stock, don't panic. Just boot to recovery and wipe your cache's and reboot. Let us know if you need anything or resolve the issue.
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Download mode not working

Hi all,
I tried to root Galaxy Core i8260 with framaroot (choosing Gandalf) but it is impossible to do so. So I realised too late. I still tried to flash CWM via Odin on non-rooted (I THOUGHT it was rooted by framaroot) device and it messed up my download mode. Now when I press download volume+home+power it takes me to download mode but only for a few seconds. It does not even give me the chance to press up volume and enter proper download mode. All it does is boots up normally to system. Now my device is non-rooted and I can not enter download mode at all anymore. However it is working properly and I am using it normally, but it bugs me that download mode is not working. Btw each time I turn on the phone it shows me yellow triangle with exlamanation so it´s obvious that my bootloader is messed up.
Any help appreciated! :good:

That yellow triangle means only that the phone has been modified, not bootloader error or something similar. When you are going into download mode, you're holding your buttons for too long, thats why you're missing your chance of entering it. Hold POWER+VOL DN+HOME buttons until the end of the first long boot vibration.
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MirXas said:
That yellow triangle means only that the phone has been modified, not bootloader error or something similar. When you are going into download mode, you're holding your buttons for too long, thats why you're missing your chance of entering it. Hold POWER+VOL DN+HOME buttons until the end of the first long boot vibration.
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THANK YOU, works now. I had s3 mini before and it worked by pressing long.

However: volume up+home+power takes me nowhere at all :S

when I press volume down + power + home buttons it get me on a screen which says "select boot mode"