I am curious because I can't be able to get into download mode from any custom ROM i had tried, and I would like to do an heimdall flash back into stock.
mciahelwang32 said:
I am curious because I can't be able to get into download mode from any custom ROM i had tried, and I would like to do an heimdall flash back into stock.
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Yep, "adb reboot download" has never worked on any MTD ROMs (CM7 and newer) - something to do with a proprietary module not doing working (before my time...).
Anyways, the way that I always get into download mode is:
1) Power off your device
2) Push and hold both volume buttons
3) Plug in the phone to the computer.
If this doesn't work, then you can buy a download mode jig (or make your own - its a resistor attached to two of the pins IIRC).
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I'm following the guide here to install a rooted gingerbread rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127121
I've gotten to the step where I'm in a bootloop showing the fugu tweaks but I can't seem to get back into download mode. The first time I had to get into download mode i used the vol Up + down then plugged in the USB cable and it worked. After flashing in odin that method wouldn't work so I just did adb reboot download to get there.
Any ideas?
commandersafi said:
I'm following the guide here to install a rooted gingerbread rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127121
I've gotten to the step where I'm in a bootloop showing the fugu tweaks but I can't seem to get back into download mode. The first time I had to get into download mode i used the vol Up + down then plugged in the USB cable and it worked. After flashing in odin that method wouldn't work so I just did adb reboot download to get there.
Any ideas?
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Just hold down power and the down volume button. Or you can pull the battery and hold down the volume down and power and put the battery back in.
What comes up? Does it talk about a failed recovery?
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Volume down and power will put you in download mode. Then you flash the GB Zimage using Heimdall or flashing the Zimage.tar in Odin. Follow the instructions in the OP. After you get the funny loop screen power down. Then volume down and power to get in download mode. Connect usb and use Heimdall to flash the zimage or just use Odin and place the zimage tar in pda nothing else and flash.
Get Zimage.tar for Odin here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127121&page=8
I didn't know that you only need vol. down to get into download. Thought you had to do vol. down + up.
But thanks for the help, I got it working
No problem. Glad you got it working
Lost my recovery. So I got the VERY first GB leak on this phone the KF1. I tried searching but to no avail. Alright. So I dont have a recovery mode. How? Everytime I do the button combo to go into it, it takes me straight to download mode. I've played around a bit on it and I got it to work off adb but I want to get it back into the volume combo thing. Any ideas how to get that back? I have no idea of CWM works on this version but Im open to stuff. Also on a mac not pc so ODIN isnt an option at the moment.
Please, do not, I repeat, DO NOT flash KF1/2. Those were horrible.
The method of getting into recovery and download mode is different from every other ROM.
I believe it was just holding either volume up and power or volume down and power.
bkoon1218 said:
Please, do not, I repeat, DO NOT flash KF1/2. Those were horrible.
The method of getting into recovery and download mode is different from every other ROM.
I believe it was just holding either volume up and power or volume down and power.
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Yeah, what bkoon said. I'd flash the base KG4 (first GB with the right boot loaders) then maybe drop a more updated ROM on it. I'm currently on KJ6. Probably will put drhonk's latest kernel on it for cwm
, root, & voodoo.
I'm not sure of the button combo for recovery, I use either the quickboot app (requires root) or the Android SDK so I can use adb.
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Vol up+vol down+power. As soon as see the splash screen let go.
But the kf series has jacked bootloaders. ODIN KH2, then odin drhonk's modded kh2 kernel, then feel free to flash what you want
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sorry i was busy with my kids and halloween and couldnt get to my pc, anyway the program on your pc is http://www.mediafire.com/?6cx6u7pphu4b5cd mini partition sorry way off. then you just convert the entire sd card to ext4 which will lose all your data, so BACK UP. then you should be able to go into download mode (battery out plug the usb in pc and phone then place battery in and push down vol. button and then you should be able to odin. i would odin the kg4 rom with voodoo and then from there you can flasj via cwm any rom you want. let me know if you need any help
I am new to the ROM scene. I recently tried to install the MIUI ROM, but the text messaging didn't work. So I tried to install another ROM (Dark Knight). Now my phone only boots to recovery mode. I have searched the internet for a solution, but cannot find one. Any help would be appreciated.
CheapCoffee said:
I am new to the ROM scene. I recently tried to install the MIUI ROM, but the text messaging didn't work. So I tried to install another ROM (Dark Knight). Now my phone only boots to recovery mode. I have searched the internet for a solution, but cannot find one. Any help would be appreciated.
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That's a recovery bootloop caused by switching from MIUI to ICS, similar to switching from GB to ICS ..
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29028593&postcount=1
Here is the Infuse toolkit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702026
Good luck, let me know if that worked for you
CheapCoffee said:
I am new to the ROM scene. I recently tried to install the MIUI ROM, but the text messaging didn't work. So I tried to install another ROM (Dark Knight). Now my phone only boots to recovery mode. I have searched the internet for a solution, but cannot find one. Any help would be appreciated.
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Return back to stock using this: Heimdall One-click Back-To-Stock UCLB3
then flash one of entropys daily drivers using the same method but with this: Entropy heimdal kernels/recovery (this will give you red cwm allowing you to flash roms...if you flash ics from this recovery you will need to do a double flash-flash like normal, then reboot back to recovery and flash again
both links are taking from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
How to get in download mode (needed to run the programs i linked):
1) remove battery
2) put battery back in
3) hold volume up+down simultaneously -but do not touch the power button...don't touch the power button, just don't do it lol
4) while holding both volume keys connect your phone to the computer using a usb data cable (like the one that came with the phone)
-you should now be in download mode or at a screen giving you the option to boot to download mode or reboot system
mg2195 said:
Return back to stock using this: Heimdall One-click Back-To-Stock UCLB3
then flash one of entropys daily drivers using the same method but with this: Entropy heimdal kernels/recovery (this will give you red cwm allowing you to flash roms...if you flash ics from this recovery you will need to do a double flash-flash like normal, then reboot back to recovery and flash again
both links are taking from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
How to get in download mode (needed to run the programs i linked):
1) remove battery
2) put battery back in
3) hold volume up+down simultaneously -but do not touch the power button...don't touch the power button, just don't do it lol
4) while holding both volume keys connect your phone to the computer using a usb data cable (like the one that came with the phone)
-you should now be in download mode or at a screen giving you the option to boot to download mode or reboot system
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This worked!! Thanks to everyone that helped me!
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I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7'' Wifi (P3110) with CM 10.1.3.
Thing is, I wanted to install the latest nightly, so I booted in Recovery mode, tried to install the zip file and I had a Status 7 error. So after that I decided to stay with my CM version, but when I try to boot the tablet it goes to recovery mode and doesn't boot! I tried to wipe everything and still. I can't flash anything else (not even the CM version I already have) because I keep getting the Status 7 error.
I am desperate, I don't know what to do!
Well, you attempted to flash CM11/Omni with the wrong recovery, that's why you got the "Error 7"
Anyway, the problem should be easy to rectify.
1. Install ODIN3 on your computer (don't forget to also install the Samsung USB drivers as well).
EDIT In case you are about to install the drivers by installing "Kies" ... make SURE that NONE of the Kies components are running in the background (on Windows) once you try to flash with ODIN3 - or it won't work. If you Google around for a bit, there are several Downloads for JUST the USB drivers - I can upload you the USB drivers installer I used for my P3110 (flashed back to Stock to sell it off)) /EDIT
2. Download the correct .tar.md5 recovery file for the ROM you're going to use from Android Andi's file repository.
For CyanogenMod 11 you want to grab either PhilZ Touch or CWM Swipe Edition, for OMNI you want to grab TWRP.
3. Start ODIN3 and select the <recovery>.tar.md5 as a PDA file (make sure that nasty checkmark at "Repartition" is NOT checked"!)
4. Power on the tablet and make sure you get it into Download Mode
If it boots into Download Mode itself, that fine. If not just press... was it Power + VOL Down?... until you see the screen telling you to pres VOL up to proceed into Download Mode.
5. Connect the tablet to the computer (wait a second in case Windows decides to install the driver)
6. Flash the recovery
7. Disconnect after flash, jump into the recovery, flash CM11 or OMNI
Of course you can also flash back to Stock ROM (given you have the ODIN flashable tar.md5 at hand), verify that it boots after flashing, get into download mode, flash the custom recovery, flash the custom ROM.
BoneWithABeagle said:
Well, you attempted to flash CM11/Omni with the wrong recovery, that's why you got the "Error 7"
Anyway, the problem should be easy to rectify.
1. Install ODIN3 on your computer (don't forget to also install the Samsung USB drivers as well).
EDIT In case you are about to install the drivers by installing "Kies" ... make SURE that NONE of the Kies components are running in the background (on Windows) once you try to flash with ODIN3 - or it won't work. If you Google around for a bit, there are several Downloads for JUST the USB drivers - I can upload you the USB drivers installer I used for my P3110 (flashed back to Stock to sell it off)) /EDIT
2. Download the correct .tar.md5 recovery file for the ROM you're going to use from Android Andi's file repository.
For CyanogenMod 11 you want to grab either PhilZ Touch or CWM Swipe Edition, for OMNI you want to grab TWRP.
3. Start ODIN3 and select the <recovery>.tar.md5 as a PDA file (make sure that nasty checkmark at "Repartition" is NOT checked"!)
4. Power on the tablet and make sure you get it into Download Mode
If it boots into Download Mode itself, that fine. If not just press... was it Power + VOL Down?... until you see the screen telling you to pres VOL up to proceed into Download Mode.
5. Connect the tablet to the computer (wait a second in case Windows decides to install the driver)
6. Flash the recovery
7. Disconnect after flash, jump into the recovery, flash CM11 or OMNI
Of course you can also flash back to Stock ROM (given you have the ODIN flashable tar.md5 at hand), verify that it boots after flashing, get into download mode, flash the custom recovery, flash the custom ROM.
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Thanks! I didn't know that was a recovery problem!
Somehow I couldn't reboot into Download mode with the key combo so I used ADB for that, and flashed the new recovery with Heimdall (in the CMW official website the versions are old, maybe that was the problem...).
Then I installed CM.
Thanks again!
ultrachilled said:
Somehow I couldn't reboot into Download mode with the key combo so I used ADB for that
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I am aware you managed to flash the ROM, but just as a hint about "this is a trap for young players":
IF your tablet is connected to the wall wart (power supply) or to the USB port of computer while trying to trigger the key-combo to hop into download mode or recovery it won't work! Your tablet needs to be _disconnected_!
Update Recovery!
hey you can try update your custom recovery to latest version by downlading the zip file here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548257
and than try re-flash your current rom or any kitkat room for your device
Hi,
I've managed to brick my S21+, after a mistake during flashing of a newer twrp version with Odin.
I basically placed the (patched) stock AP file in the AP slot instead of the TWRP tar, and the vbmeta_disabled_R.tar in the userdata slot.
After reboot, I got a boot loop, and I am not able to boot to recovery or to download mode as before when using the key-combo.
Previous to this flashing, I had the TWRP 3.6 and Lineageos 19 GSI for about 6 months, with no issues.
My question - how can I get to Download mode now? and is it possible that I ran over my recovery?
Is it possible that the download mode is no longer available due to the AP flashing (no BL, CSC files)?
Appreciate any suggestion and help!
connect it to the PC and do the combination that you did before, that is volume up and volume down pressed at the same time, that same thing happened to me, when I wanted to update twrp better install the stock first and then the new recovery, so you take advantage of updating the firmware of the phone and the new recovery
Strangely, the recovery entry or download does not work without being connected, so I recommend you better install the magisk to enter the recovery from there, otherwise you will have to do that process when you want to update or install custom roms
CallmeNeos503 said:
Strangely, the recovery entry or download does not work without being connected, so I recommend you better install the magisk to enter the recovery from there, otherwise you will have to do that process when you want to update or install custom roms
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Thanks for your reply!
the key-combo in S21x are with USB plugged to PC, otherwise recovery cannot be reached, unless using ADB command. I have tried this many times since the wrong Odin flash occurred, but nothing happens except from reboot, warning screen (about unofficial software) and reboot again.
Even previous to the bricking, typically in order to get to download mode in this device, you need to go through recovery first and then select download mode. Alternatively, adb reboot download command, but neither are now an option.
So my last resort was a USB-JIG device to get to download mode - but I don't know of any such device for a USB-C connection.
Anyone here has experience with that? or can direct me to such a device for the newer Samsung models?
Thanks!
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CallmeNeos503 said:
connect it to the PC and do the combination that you did before, that is volume up and volume down pressed at the same time, that same thing happened to me, when I wanted to update twrp better install the stock first and then the new recovery, so you take advantage of updating the firmware of the phone and the new recovery
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Thanks for your help! - indeed the PLUS and MINUS volume keys with the usb cable plugged in gets you directly to d/l mode. I just tried it with the power key all the time, as in previous models, and that got me nothing.
Issue solved!