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No recovery with MIUI

So, I flashed the miui for infuse, works great. Ready to go back to infused and get ready for gingerbread. But, I try to reboot into recovery every possible way and I only get a 1/4 filled yellow bar and the android download splash above it. I need some help...Odin is not an option as I have no computer access.
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i flashed back to cm7 from miui just fine. i held volume keys and power & booted into orange cwm & flashed from there. maybe you have an earler version of miui without recovery?..
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yabbb said:
So, I flashed the miui for infuse, works great. Ready to go back to infused and get ready for gingerbread. But, I try to reboot into recovery every possible way and I only get a 1/4 filled yellow bar and the android download splash above it. I need some help...Odin is not an option as I have no computer access.
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Are you doing this when on a charger? It shouldn't be possible to enter download mode without a USB connection, the three-finger-salute should get you into recovery as always. MIUI is built on top of CM7 and uses LB's CM7 kernels.

Yeah, I finally got into recovery, I don't know what I was doing wrong.
It would boot loop when I held the buttons, but finally it just went through.
Thanks for replies.

How did u get miui for infuse....? Could u pm me the link please?
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yabbb said:
Yeah, I finally got into recovery, I don't know what I was doing wrong.
It would boot loop when I held the buttons, but finally it just went through.
Thanks for replies.
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The three-finger salute can be a bit finicky, but the following usually seems to work for me:
Pull/reinsert battery to ensure a "power-off" state.
Hold VolUp+VolDn. One finger for each - trying to hold both with my thumb fails for me a lot.
Hold power until the Samsung screen appears
Release power, keep holding VolUp+VolDn
Release VolUp/VolDn after 5-10 seconds

Phone restarting it self then vibrating over and over. (ics builds)

this just started happening on the new sky ics (real thing) build, and now on superlite-mx 5.1.. ill press a button and even somtimes just pulldown notifcation bar and it will restart and vibrate over and over till i press the power button to restart the phone

Girn said:
this just started happening on the new sky ics (real thing) build, and now on superlite-mx 5.1.. ill press a button and even somtimes just pulldown notifcation bar and it will restart and vibrate over and over till i press the power button to restart the phone
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Sounds like left over data, bad download, bad flash, or a combo of those

Girn said:
this just started happening on the new sky ics (real thing) build, and now on superlite-mx 5.1.. ill press a button and even somtimes just pulldown notifcation bar and it will restart and vibrate over and over till i press the power button to restart the phone
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I'm going to make a shot in the dark and ask if u have uclcl5 installed as ur radio. If so I causes major flash issues for me on a fresh rom install. So much so I have to flash cla4 first, then a new from, then cl5 again to get it to work

icenight89 said:
I'm going to make a shot in the dark and ask if u have uclcl5 installed as ur radio. If so I causes major flash issues for me on a fresh rom install. So much so I have to flash cla4 first, then a new from, then cl5 again to get it to work
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No im using cla4.. I followed all steps and did superwipe. Why is it still bad flashing?
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Girn said:
No im using cla4.. I followed all steps and did superwipe. Why is it still bad flashing?
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sometimes for no reason band corruption occurs. I suggest the following in can
factory reset 3x
format system 3x
wipe dalvik cache 3x
dark side 2x
Odin back stock
reboot twice
Odin can
dark side again
flash custom rom
I had similar problems to you and this looking procedure cured them.

I have the same problem with my fiancée phone which I am on right now. Shuts off and starts repeatedly vibrating on a stock non rooted phone.... I never got around to rooting this phone, unless she did it and didn't tell me.but assuming this isn't rooted what do I do?

mistaashby said:
I have the same problem with my fiancée phone which I am on right now. Shuts off and starts repeatedly vibrating on a stock non rooted phone.... I never got around to rooting this phone, unless she did it and didn't tell me.but assuming this isn't rooted what do I do?
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Could be a sticky power button
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StolenVW said:
Could be a sticky power button
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That
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Pull the battery plug in the USB cable and put the battery back in. Charge it. Mine did that when the batt died. Wouldn't even charge etc.. gotta trick it into booting then leave it for a while let it charge. Wipe battery stats if your rooted cwm etc...
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[Q] Phone won't boot into ROM or recovery--Possible hardware issue?

I've been having a bit of a hard time with a friend's Skyrocket tonight. I flashed CM9 for her before, and it seems to work well. In the past two to three weeks, though, she tells me that her phone's been randomly turning off. Tonight, I finally decided to install CM10 on the Skyrocket, thinking that this would fix the issue. I installed it through CWM like normal (I've flashed many a ROM, so I couldn't have messed up this process).
With everything installed, I reboot through CWM. The issue is, the phone just goes black. After pulling the battery and trying to boot again, I see the Samsung logo, followed by a black screen. The phone sort of pulsates for a bit at this point, giving me a short vibration here and there, before finally stopping. Attempting to get into recovery doesn't work either. I also, due to me not being used to the download mode feature (I personally have a Galaxy Nexus), accidentally tried to start it by holding the power and volume buttons (rather than holding volume and plugging the phone in, not touching power). The yellow triangle would show up very briefly, and then the phone shuts off.
When getting into download mode the proper way, I was able to get into Odin and flash CWM again. At this point, I should definitely be able to get into Recovery. But alas, I cannot... Same issues as before. At this point, it's revealed to me that, after the random shutoffs that my friend had been experiencing, she would sometimes also have trouble turning the phone back on. Noticing a trend?
I'd like to know what you guys think: Is this a software issue, or is it a hardware issue? For the former, what do you guys recommend so the phone could boot normally again? And for the latter, well... I don't suppose there are any easy hardware fixes I could try?

If you pull the battery and reinsert does the phone start on its own with no button pushes? If so... Stuck power button.
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stoopendis said:
If you pull the battery and reinsert does the phone start on its own with no button pushes? If so... Stuck power button.
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Nope, not at all. I need to press the power button for it to start.

It'd flash back to stock with Odin and then go from there.
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jd1639 said:
It'd flash back to stock with Odin and then go from there.
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I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't try flashing to stock because I figured it would work, but somehow, it did. I still feel that there's something wrong with the power button, and I'll be doing some more testing, but for now, everything's okay. Thanks for your help.

I bet you can reflash cm10 and it'll work fine. Just do a factory reset and the wipes and you'll be fine.
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Wipe ALL the things, then Odin back to stock and reinstall. I'd bet that solves it
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[Q] Help Phone won't turn on after trying to flash liquidsmooth

Hi,
I rooted my phone today and everything worked fine, I then went to CWrecovery to flash the liquidsmooth rom I downloaded. I selected to reboot device after a successful install but now it won't turn on, no screen, led, etc. if I plug into computer I get a contection noise from my computer but thats it. Can't boot into download mode or recovery... What can I do to fix?
thanks

Did you unlock and flash a custom bootloader?

I think so. I rooted/unlocked bootloader.
Did this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439&nocache=1
For Both Root and Unlocked Bootloader ***RECOMMENDED*** - Download SuperSU + Unlocked Bootloader to your SD Card
Then tried to flash LiquidSmooth from forum.

Ryukashin said:
I think so. I rooted/unlocked bootloader.
Did this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439&nocache=1
For Both Root and Unlocked Bootloader ***RECOMMENDED*** - Download SuperSU + Unlocked Bootloader to your SD Card
Then tried to flash LiquidSmooth from forum.
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Did you wipe data factory reset prior to flashing the rom?
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no i didn't

If you forgot to wipe the phone would still attempt to boot. It just might send you into a bootloop
Anthrax unreleased towchwiz

Yeah except I can't get it to boot at all. No response to turning on, pulled battery, waited 30 minutes, then tried to boot again. nothing. not even the LED. now if I leave the battery out and plug the phone in to the computer the LED turns on but that's it. At the computer end I get the sound for plugging in a USB device, however it doesn't do anything else and there were no drivers for the device: QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Is it hard bricked?

Try getting into recovery by holding volume up+home button +power button at the same time. Hold it for a few seconds and it should vibrate and one the Samsung logo comes on you could let go. At this point I would either try re flashing or restore your most recent backup download another rom and try again.
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mikeman45 said:
Try getting into recovery by holding volume up+home button +power button at the same time. Hold it for a few seconds and it should vibrate and one the Samsung logo comes on you could let go. At this point I would either try re flashing or restore your most recent backup download another rom and try again.
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Tried that, as well at the Vol Down+ home+ power. Neither worked, no vibrate or screen boot.

Take your battery out for at least 5 minutes than put on the charger for awhile (couple hours) than try again. If none of this works hero had a wire up on how to fix your soft brick phone that might help. If your bootloader wasn't unlocked I'm not sure what to do to fix that. I hope you get it going. I'll post that link if I find it.
EDIT : read this post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30386309
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mikeman45 said:
Take your battery out for at least 5 minutes than put on the charger for awhile (couple hours) than try again. If none of this works hero had a wire up on how to fix your soft brick phone that might help. If your bootloader wasn't unlocked I'm not sure what to do to fix that. I hope you get it going. I'll post that link if I find it.
EDIT : read this post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30386309
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My friend had this happen (not rooted), she took it in to Verizon and they got it going by holding VOL UP and DOWN, and then POWER.
I'd never heard of this technique, but it worked for her.

Post the link and exact file name of the rom you flashed.
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I just had the same thing happen, cleanrom 5.6 and tried flashing perseus kernel when it failed, now i have this

mikeman45 said:
Take your battery out for at least 5 minutes than put on the charger for awhile (couple hours) than try again. If none of this works hero had a wire up on how to fix your soft brick phone that might help. If your bootloader wasn't unlocked I'm not sure what to do to fix that. I hope you get it going. I'll post that link if I find it.
EDIT : read this post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30386309
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Will the liquidsmooth i9305 rom brick a i9300 device forever?

Power Button Broken, no more custom roms?

So my power button has been broken for a couple months now and I've been using the same custom rom since. (BTW it's not the outside button, but the actual switch that's broken)
Is there any way to install a custom rom using ODIN? Or is odin only capable of installing stock roms because of the file type?
My phone wont allow me to get into the custom recovery, but I can get into Download mode.
Please help!

xkookooman said:
So my power button has been broken for a couple months now and I've been using the same custom rom since. (BTW it's not the outside button, but the actual switch that's broken)
Is there any way to install a custom rom using ODIN? Or is odin only capable of installing stock roms because of the file type?
My phone wont allow me to get into the custom recovery, but I can get into Download mode.
Please help!
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Idk about using Odin for custom tars, but I imagine it would take someone more effort than its worth to compile one just for this purpose. When you try booting into download mode, how are you doing this? And how are you booting into recovery? What happens once it gets there?

You could also just get the power button fixed. Then all your problems are solved.
Mobile tech videos will do it.
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Doesn't ROM manager or something do reboots into recovery?
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adb reboot recovery
Actually if you didn't want to bother with setting up adb I'd imagine you could just type 'su' press enter, type'reboot recovery' and press enter into of the many terminal emulators in the play store.
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bobloblaw1 said:
adb reboot recovery
Actually if you didn't want to bother with setting up adb I'd imagine you could just type 'su' press enter, type'reboot recovery' and press enter into of the many terminal emulators in the play store.
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I knew there was a way to do it!
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Casper34 said:
I knew there was a way to do it!
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ADB always has your back!
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SlimSnoopOS said:
ADB always has your back!
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I meant by terminal. That's easier. LOL.
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Get "quickboot" from the store
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Casper34 said:
I meant by terminal. That's easier. LOL.
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Oh, well yea terminal is great as well. You can do the same for download mode as well or even try using it to attempt to delete pesky files that just won't delete with a file manager.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Oh, well yea terminal is great as well. You can do the same for download mode as well or even try using it to attempt to delete pesky files that just won't delete with a file manager.
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Ya! I forgot about terminal. You can do everything from there if you know the commands.
Kinda off topic here, but is there a thread with the common commands for terminal? Like to reboot, delete files, move files, and such.
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Not sure how you get into download but not recovery since the procedure is same except use volume up instead of volume down. Also the Quickboot app/widget is much easier than terminal emulator if just need to get to reboot/recovery or download modes. Enables the extended power menu same as the power button.

Mobile tech videos Did a great job repairing my broken power switch. Pretty quick turn around.
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I have a similar problem, but when I use the terminal commands or any app to reboot into recovery, the phone vibrates and turns off but then stays off until I pull the battery and replace it. Also, when I try to go into download mode, it comes up for about 5 seconds then turns off (similar to SDS). Any thoughts? I originally planned to try to switch roms and see if that would fix the power button issue, but if it's hardware, I'll try to unroot and take it too Verizon as a last ditch attempt.
Also, when I take the back case off and put it back on, the power on/off screen pops up.
Thanks!

I have the same exact problem as the guy above buy my power button is just completely borked.
I thought I could get into download mode but that doesn't work either.
I'm going to try and resolder the replacement power button I purchased that didn't work.

odin mobile

Mobile Odin did not work either. Gets stuck at logo screen when it first boots then stays black.

xkookooman said:
Mobile Odin did not working either. Gets stuck at logo screen when it first boots then stays black.
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I think the rom your trying to flash is bad …
Phone starting but getting stuck at boot screen means it's soft bricked, try flashing a different rom …
And once you manage to get your phone running use ''recovery tools'' from play store to flash a custom recovery, it flashes a touch recovery so that will eliminate your button problems …

No my phone operates fine. When I attempt to get into recovery, it restarts, a brief screen appears where it says "rebooting recovery" on the top left, and then it stays black. TO get out of this I go into Download Mode, and press Cancel to Restart.
I'm currently using CyanogenMOD 10.1.2.
At this point I'm thinking of just going to a mobile phone repair store...

xkookooman said:
No my phone operates fine. When I attempt to get into recovery, it restarts, a brief screen appears where it says "rebooting recovery" on the top left, and then it stays black. TO get out of this I go into Download Mode, and press Cancel to Restart.
I'm currently using CyanogenMOD 10.1.2.
At this point I'm thinking of just going to a mobile phone repair store...
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Mobiletechvideos did a great job fixing my power switch... It was doing the same thing your describing. Been perfect ever since.
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