Say you get into a bad flash situation/hanging boot screen that just resets upon reboot and cant get to recovery. A battery pull in the past a has allowed subsequent access to recovery. What do you do in the case of a non-removable battery phone? Never had one and have used the batt pull method a lot.
Thanks.
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Holding power and volume up until screen goes off and phone vibrates will restart device. Power and volume down will boot into recovery. Try both to become familiar.
Power + Vol Down & Up apparently cuts the power to the battery? Either way if the "cuts power to battery" part is wrong it still cuts it off.
S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
Power + Vol Down & Up apparently cuts the power to the battery? Either way if the "cuts power to battery" part is wrong it still cuts it off.
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only power + vol up cuts power on the M8, actually.
but yeah, battery pull on the M8 is simply holding power + vol up. Have had to do it dozens of times while hanging at start screens, works fine.
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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!
Here is an easy one for somebody. I have tried holding power and volume down and power and volume up and i can not get my att one x to load to the bootloader. I have fast boot off. WTH? Can someone please assist? Thanks.
Hold volume down and power down...bottom buttons will flash 7 times...then release power button but keep holding volume down. That should get you there.
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Vocalshock said:
Here is an easy one for somebody. I have tried holding power and volume down and power and volume up and i can not get my att one x to load to the bootloader. I have fast boot off. WTH? Can someone please assist? Thanks.
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Try removing the battery and sdcard 1st.
TROLLOLOLOL
KillaHurtz said:
Try removing the battery and sdcard 1st.
TROLLOLOLOL
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Why even take the time to respond when your answer is going to be this......
Edit ... to OP ... you're doing it wrong... wait 1 min after power down, hold vol down for 5 sec, then hold power together with vol down.
HydroSkillet said:
Why even take the time to respond when your answer is going to be this......
Edit ... to OP ... you're doing it wrong... wait 1 min after power down, hold vol down for 5 sec, then hold power together with vol down.
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I don't believe you have to wait...What I do is reboot/power on while holding vol down the ENTIRE TIME until I get to the bootloader. I've found that releasing vol down too soon will just lead to a normal boot.
stnguyen09 said:
I don't believe you have to wait...What I do is reboot/power on while holding vol down the ENTIRE TIME until I get to the bootloader. I've found that releasing vol down too soon will just lead to a normal boot.
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No I completely agree. I've jumped the gun personally on a shutdown a couple times and ended up just rebooting tho, so if this guy is still (which I hope and seriously doubt) trying to get to his BL, then may be the issue.. who knows.
Recently, I may have just soft bricked my phone. I am not totally sure. I flashed a rom and flashed another mod and the phone is ****ed. Basically, the phone is stuck on boot image like a loop and when I try to enter into the bootloader mode, the screen is totally black and keep rebooting. If someone also encounters similar problem, here is the solution:
1. in loop boot image, hold power button and you will see the 3 buttons at the end of the phone flashing
2. when it restart, immediately push "power button"+"up volume" (it is necessary to hold these two buttons at the same time)
3. it may enter or may not enter into bootloader. I personally tried 20+ time to get into bootloader (my screen is totally black, so I have no idea if I have successfully enter bootloader or not. But, here is a trick. turn on your computer volume. if you have successfully entered the bootloader, you will hear the "usb connection sound") (just for people who are interested, if you enter bootloader with usb connected with your computer, the phone will automatically enter fastboot mode)
4. start command
5. type "adb reboot bootloader" and enter it (if it is not in fastboot mode, command will reply "device not found", then unlucky you, keep trying. Just unplug the usb cable and replug it again and try the command again until it works)
7. if the phone reboots, the phone will reboot into a functional bootloader, then you can enter into recovery mode and restore your backup.
I tried at least 40 times for this to work. the process was painful, but at least it is better than a dead phone.
I just use vol (-) and power, works 100% of the time. Also, adb commands will NEVER work in boot loader.
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I heard a nasty rumor that holding volume up button while booting kills it? Urban legend?
Hold volume down and power till the buttons stop flashing. Wait Luke 2 seconds, release power button and keep holding volume down till you get to a white screen with 3 skating droids.
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InflatedTitan said:
I heard a nasty rumor that holding volume up button while booting kills it? Urban legend?
Hold volume down and power till the buttons stop flashing. Wait Luke 2 seconds, release power button and keep holding volume down till you get to a white screen with 3 skating droids.
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What do you mean "kills it"? I assure you holding volume up and booting is 100% safe.
I believe it is the one s, and maybe one other HTC device, not sure which, but holding vol (+) and power boots them into qshusb mode. On our Evita, if you hold vol (+) throughout boot, it goes tin to safe mode.
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18th.abn said:
I believe it is the one s, and maybe one other HTC device, not sure which, but holding vol (+) and power boots them into qshusb mode. On our Evita, if you hold vol (+) throughout boot, it goes tin to safe mode.
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Yea that's the rumor I heard... its been awhile so I wasn't sure. Thanks 18th for clarifying.
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Today my htc one s with Cyanogenmod 11 went to 0% battery and shut down, which was normal I guess...
But now it won't boot, there is no led light, Holding power button doesn't do anything, power and vol down doesn't do anything, neither does power and vol up...
I've had some issues booting my htc one s before but never this long
The only sign of life is a fast light flash that happens (sometimes) when I press power and vol down...
EDIT: it's been charging for quite some time now and the screen flashes sometimes.. really weird
It seems to be in QHSUSB_DLOAD mode but there's nothing on the screen or anything...
remigo said:
Today my htc one s with Cyanogenmod 11 went to 0% battery and shut down, which was normal I guess...
But now it won't boot, there is no led light, Holding power button doesn't do anything, power and vol down doesn't do anything, neither does power and vol up...
I've had some issues booting my htc one s before but never this long
The only sign of life is a fast light flash that happens (sometimes) when I press power and vol down...
EDIT: it's been charging for quite some time now and the screen flashes sometimes.. really weird
It seems to be in QHSUSB_DLOAD mode but there's nothing on the screen or anything...
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My phone is having many many issues, and I can not get it to power off. I've held the power button down for minutes on end but it won't do anything. And to be specific, I'm not in a Rom trying to do this, I'm stuck in some sort of "grey" screen hell. If I plug into my computer, ADB recognizes it and will even pull a device number, but the phone will not respond to any command. I'm really just trying to get to the fastboot screen so I can hopefully flash the RUU.
Any help would be greatly appreciate.
Thanks
You have to hold power+vol up. I think it's something like 10 sec.
Hold up on volume and power at the same time, this is equal to a battery pull and as soon as the phone turns off hold volume down and power to enter fast boot.
cntryby429 said:
You have to hold power+vol up. I think it's something like 10 sec.
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hager03 said:
Hold up on volume and power at the same time, this is equal to a battery pull and as soon as the phone turns off hold volume down and power to enter fast boot.
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I did that for several minutes. It never actually powered off. Fortunately the battery died, and I was able to plug the phone back in and then do what I needed.
Thanks guys!