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[Q] Problem booting into Recovery

So.... Been playing with this for the last two days trying to root this phone.
I've rooted a few other phones, so I do have experience with the overall process, but I am unable to even boot this phone into Recovery. I have tried booting into recovery by holding down both volume buttons + power and from adb terminal "adb reboot recovery."
Neither method works. The phone will boot (or reboot from adb) and brings up the "at&t World Phone" screen and then nothing else appears. The first time I tried this it actually wouldn't boot up even after pulling the battery and trying to start normally, it still sat at the same screen. I let it sit all day today at the screen until the battery died. I was finally able to get it to boot up earlier.
If anyone can help, that'd be greatly appreciated. Let me know what info I need to add.

I usually just press and hold both volume buttons and power then release just the power button and keeping the volume buttons still pushed on the 2nd time the white at&t screen pops up... Works for me every time.
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hold volume up+down and power key btw this is wrong section to post supposed to be in general

Oh sorry, didn't realize it was supposed to be posted in general.
I've tried the Volume Up/Down + Power and this does not work, as I stated originally.
I've also tried to do it from the adb shell, which also does not work.
Does anyone have any idea why I can't access recovery?

I"m having a similar issue. Holding volume up+down and power and releasing in any combination just boots the phone up. If I just hold volume up+down and power the phone alternates between the AT&T World Phone screen endless.

Yes u have to let go of the pwr button when the phone screen turns on
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I've tried just about every combination of the Volume Up/Down + Power and no luck.
I've also tried the following ADB commands, with no luck, it just reboots the phone:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot-boatloader
When I hold Volume Down + Power I get the a Yellow Triangle with a Android guy with a shove with the text "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!"
When I hold Volume Up + Power I get an Android guy with the following text: "POWER RESET or UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE"
For kicks, I tried to to flash a rooted update.zip via the Volume Down + Power way with the Samsung update software, the same way I have done with the Samsung Moment. Wasn't sure if it'd work, but worth a try.
Any one else have any ideas or suggestions?
Phishie, do you have a final release version? Or anything special about the phone you have?

I just press the two volume buttons first (to make sure theyre pressed before you hit power), then press the power button, as soon as the screen turns on, I let go of everything and it works just fine, no need to have ridiculously complicated instructions.
The trick is to make sure both volume buttons are pressed BEFORE you hit power. Then release. Easy as pie

Also, if you guys are having too much trouble, just download the one click root/unroot. It will run, boot your phone into recovery, then all you have to do is scroll to install packages with volume key and hit power. Done.

Trust me, I am making sure I'm pretty the keys completely. I've literally tried it fifty times by now.
And I've also tried the One Click Root. This does not boot the phone into recovery either. It just sits at the AT&T World Phone screen forever and will actually get stuck here and will not boot up normal even by pulling the battery and powering it back up. It'll just get stuck at the for-mentioned screen. I have to connect it to adb and reboot it there to get it out of the loop it's stuck in.

that doesnt sound good. Maybe you need to try a factory reset? are you running stock rom and everything?

When I first got the phone I did a factory reset.
Yea, it's completely stock to my knowledge. But I have a different ROM than the final release version that everyone else has. This is a pre-production device.

same problem
I try all the combos as well, no luck, would the combos be different for 2e vs 3e recovery?
I try combo, it powers on, the same thing happens, the at-t comes up, goes for a second, then screen brightens, wait a bit and then the home row buttons light up, hangs there... doesnt matter which kernel or which rom I flash, same thing, adb and other stuff wont work as they need usb debugging enabled, which mine isn't.
Is there a way to mod the phone files and flash to enable usb debugging? Anyway to remap the buttons to 2 button vs 3 button?
Everyone post your methods for entering recovery please?

help!! how to revert rooted nook color back to factory state?

hey guys, hopefully someone can help me.
I've successfully rooted my nook color, but I want to revert back to the factory state. There are instructions in nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM on how to do it. But I can't for the life of me, interrupt the boot eight times. At most it's only once and no matter what I do, on the second time around it shows the boot screen.
I tap the the power button, once I see the "future of reading" words, I hold on the power button and it blinks and show me the words again. Which is good right? Then I release and hold the pwr button again ( I tried keeping my finger holding it), both ways on the 2nd time it would show the splash screen.
What am I doing wrong? thanks!

hamachiaddict said:
hey guys, hopefully someone can help me.
I've successfully rooted my nook color, but I want to revert back to the factory state. There are instructions in nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM on how to do it. But I can't for the life of me, interrupt the boot eight times. At most it's only once and no matter what I do, on the second time around it shows the boot screen.
I tap the the power button, once I see the "future of reading" words, I hold on the power button and it blinks and show me the words again. Which is good right? Then I release and hold the pwr button again ( I tried keeping my finger holding it), both ways on the 2nd time it would show the splash screen.
What am I doing wrong? thanks!
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I'm a little confused by what you're describing, but you don't have to interrupt the first splash screen (touch the future...). Interrupting the "n" screen, and, I believe, the following boot animation will also do the trick. Unless you're bootlooping, just keep powering down before it boots all the way up, and it should restore.

or use this script here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879922

Thanks for the replies guys! The reason I go with the script is cause I lost my microSD card and I can't boot off of it to run adb so I'm stuck using the manual method.
Maybe I'm mis-interpreting the instructions on nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM incorrectly ...
1. Power off the nook.
2. Tap the power button.
3. As soon as Welcome to the future of reading appears, hold the power button down to interrupt the boot process.
-If the boot animation does not appear, add 1 to your interrupted boot count.
-If the boot animation DOES appear, your interrupted boot count is reset to zero. Start over.
Steps 1 and 2 I gots, thankfully For step 3, when do I press and hold the power button, when the words come up or when the "n" shows up? And when do I release and hold the power button again for the 2nd boot count?
thanks again!

I think you're making it more complicated than it needs to be. As soon as you see it powering on, start powering it off. Repeat 8x. Unless you're bootlooping or did something crazy to your boot partition, it oughta work.

Thanks wvcachi. But it is complicated!!
I'm having problems power it off, one the second time around, when I press and hold the power button, nothing happens and it boots all the way. I've tried different times hitting the power button, earlier, and all the time it boots through all the way.
maybe you can try and see if you can do it 3-4 times, and let me know when you start pressing the button and release for each iteration? I know it sounds stupid but seriously I can't get it

You have to hold the power button for nearly ten seconds. As soon as you see it powering on, start holding power again (to power it off) and don't let go until it's off.

wvcachi said:
I think you're making it more complicated than it needs to be.
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Agreed...
1. Power off the nook.
2. Tap the power button.
3. As soon as Welcome to the future of reading appears, hold the power button down to interrupt the boot process.
Repeat...
I don't understand though... If you are looping it should reset itself. If it will boot use adb and just set the counter to reset or terminal on the device and type...
Code:
echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt

1. HOLD POWER UNTIL IT COMES ON
2. LET OFF POWER BUTTON 3 SECONDS
3. HOLD POWER BUTTON UNTIL OFF
4.REPEAT 8 TIMES!
simple enough, for most humans.

I just press the power button and keep holding it down while it starts booting. Works for me.
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An even faster way is the 3 fingers of salute.
Hold down power button, fractions after hold down volume up and fractions after the n button. Keep those 3 down until you see the reset screen. Worked for me.

samuelhalff said:
An even faster way is the 3 fingers of salute.
Hold down power button, fractions after hold down volume up and fractions after the n button. Keep those 3 down until you see the reset screen. Worked for me.
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When you do it that way it only clears /data but the root program is still on /system
Sent from my NookColor

Am I able to revert to factory after installing the CM7 ROM using the 8 interrupt method? I don't care what I'd lose, not concerned with backing anything up...

Search for nook color restore to stock in dev.
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So is that a no?
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hamachiaddict said:
Thanks wvcachi. But it is complicated!!
I'm having problems power it off, one the second time around, when I press and hold the power button, nothing happens and it boots all the way. I've tried different times hitting the power button, earlier, and all the time it boots through all the way.
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I tried it over and over for about half an hour and couldn't get it to shut down after the third boot. It seemed to ignore the power button after the first or second time I rebooted. I tried many different variations on timing, but nothing worked. People are saying to wait for the N, instead of "the future of reading," which I didn't try.

Accidently entered Sideload in CWM..

Hi!
I accidently pressed "apply .zip from sideload" in Clockwork Recovery, and now I'm stuck on a screen saying:
Sideload started...
Now send the package you want to apply
to the device with "adb sideload <filename>"..
.
How do I exit this/reboot? I've pressed the power button for about 2 min, and nothing happens..
EDIT: I really need help now! The phones battery ran out when in this Sideload mode, now when I try to charge it, it's only an orange LED turned on, and I can't turn the phone on! It doesn't vibe and the screen's just black!
EDIT2: The phone's on now, I just had one of those panics..

If you ever get in it again by mistake, and you have a rom .zip you could flash, flashing that will work the same as if you had selected flash zip from sd card. Rather than get the .zip from the sdcard though, it will get the zip file from your pc via usb.
I have no idea why we can't cancel or hard reset/power off in this mode.
check my thread here for what happened to me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2200359&highlight=sideload&page=2
It seems left over drivers from my galaxy s 2 were causing me issues on my first 2 computers, but the 3rd computer was completely fresh with no previous driver installations and worked a charm to flash the zip.

DreadPirateDan said:
It seems left over drivers from my galaxy s 2 were causing me issues on my first 2 computers, but the 3rd computer was completely fresh with no previous driver installations and worked a charm to flash the zip.
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huh i have xperia neo, xperia t, xperia x2, sammy s2 (miss's ex-phone) and friends nokia c-something and ofc xperia z installed here and i have no problems with drivers

I'd never had any issues either, that includes rooting, flashing CWM, bootloader unlocking and using flashtool with it. For some reason it didn't like like fastboot mode (threw back errors for any commands typed, the device was recognized, but not useable, it wasn't showing as [sideload] like it was once on the fresh pc)

Accidentally did that before also.
to get out of this mode. press the power button and Vol+ button until you get a vibrate confirmation and the phone screen blanks. keep pressing on the button combination until you get 3 vibrate confirms that would hard shutdown the phone. press the power button until the phone give a vibrate indicating its powering on.

viper001 said:
Accidentally did that before also.
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You sure it was on the XZ when it happened to you? No button combination for any length of time works. I tried power, vol up, vol down, power + vol up, power + vol down, vol up + vol down. All for 10 sec, 15 sec, 1min +. Nothing.

I've been there too some time ago and after short period of panic and holding power for various length of time, I eventually pressed power + vol up (can't remember how long but not long for sure) which did the trick.

power + vol-up is the RPM cpu signal to reset the SoC and if you continue to hold it power off. however, there is something else you can do too, the mini adb that runs for sideload understands adb reboot.

DreadPirateDan said:
You sure it was on the XZ when it happened to you? No button combination for any length of time works. I tried power, vol up, vol down, power + vol up, power + vol down, vol up + vol down. All for 10 sec, 15 sec, 1min +. Nothing.
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Yep I'm sure. That's how I found out about the key combination.
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viper001 said:
Yep I'm sure. That's how I found out about the key combination.
Sent from my C6603 using xda premium
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On razr i, press power + vol-DOWN till the cel reboot... and its down

Anyone who gets here with the HTC One: power + voldown under a bright light (light sensor). I spent an evening trying every possible combination (this was the closest thread to the subject) until I read the 'under a bright light' thing elsewhere which did the trick.

it's work for me (currently using SG SIII mini) with (power) + (volume+).. it let me back to CWM "homepage" (the main page)..

hasbyduryea said:
it's work for me (currently using SG SIII mini) with (power) + (volume+).. it let me back to CWM "homepage" (the main page)..
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in some newer versions xou can exit sideload by swyping to the left.

[Q] Flashed Rom. Now touch screen wont respond

I flashed this rom ( Sprint_HTC_One_1.31.651.2_Stock_Rooted ) . Phone booted and touch screen stopped working. I'm in a rough situation because the phone also will not reboot. I've tried holding all buttons, just the power button, the power and volume down button. No resolve. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make this phone reboot (besides waiting for battery to drain lol )so I can try to install another rom and see if touch screen comes back. Thanks

You need the newest firmware it sounds like
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I cant do anything with the phone though because its stuck on the lock screen. Cant touch anything and cant get it to reboot

Oh and I accidently posted in the wrong section... wasn't sure if I should just leave it up or delete it

Just ask the dev to move it....hold the power button and volume down then release power after about 7 secs and press it again but keep volume pressed the whole time to get to boot loader then go to recovery from there
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that would work great if the phone was off...but the phone is on the lock screen... When I hold the buttons It counts down 3....2.....1 then hangs at 1.. Ive held the buttons for over a minute no dice..... It seems the only way to reboot is through ADB but I cant allow my computer to connect to the phone because of the screen being locked... wish there was another way to reboot this phone without waiting for the battery to die

KoolAidBigMan said:
that would work great if the phone was off...but the phone is on the lock screen... When I hold the buttons It counts down 3....2.....1 then hangs at 1.. Ive held the buttons for over a minute no dice..... It seems the only way to reboot is through ADB but I cant allow my computer to connect to the phone because of the screen being locked... wish there was another way to reboot this phone without waiting for the battery to die
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Hold the power button until the home/recent apps buttons at the bottom stop blinking...if it reboots let go of the power and hold vol down this will get you to the bootloader
If it does not reboot press the power and let it start to reboot and hold vol down

The buttons just continue to blink.. no reboot just stuck at lock screen

KoolAidBigMan said:
The buttons just continue to blink.. no reboot just stuck at lock screen
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If you hold the power button down long enough it will power down or reboot

I held the power button down for over 2 minutes... should I hold it longer? Here's what happens, after holding the power button... on about 5 seconds in a message pops up and says continue holding power button for reboot. I continue to hold it and a count down starts.... goes from 3 to 2 to 1.... the phone just stays at one no matter how long I hold the power button in for

KoolAidBigMan said:
I held the power button down for over 2 minutes... should I hold it longer? Here's what happens, after holding the power button... on about 5 seconds in a message pops up and says continue holding power button for reboot. I continue to hold it and a count down starts.... goes from 3 to 2 to 1.... the phone just stays at one no matter how long I hold the power button in for
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hmmmm never seen that before, try holding power and vol down see if it gets you to bootloader

Yeah tried that... pretty much tried all button combinations for all amounts of length....this is how stumped I am. I've been a member on this site for years and I think this is the first time I ever had to post a question about a phone. I seem to always find an answer but this time I just couldn't I'm baffled as to what can be happening and why this phone wont reset.

Yeah I mentioned that in an earlier post. I cant adb because I cant unlock the phone to allow the computer to be trusted by the phone... I have the phone sitting on the table with a piece of tape holding the power button in causing the screen to stay on and keep the endless countdown going... hoping that kills it quick..... I guess that's the solution to this problem if anyone else may happen to come across the same thing lol

KoolAidBigMan said:
Yeah tried that... pretty much tried all button combinations for all amounts of length....this is how stumped I am. I've been a member on this site for years and I think this is the first time I ever had to post a question about a phone. I seem to always find an answer but this time I just couldn't I'm baffled as to what can be happening and why this phone wont reset.
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Do it under a lamp or brightly lit room.
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that's what I did lol ! looks to be down to about 25%!!

Plug in a USB otg cable and a USB mouse.
Light a fire for a man and you`ll warm him for a few hours...Light a man on fire and you`ll warm him for the rest of his life

???
How did you get yourself into that situation, lol. This is why I slightly perfer the Galaxy's because you can just pop the battery off. I get a HTC and just try and do as little as possible, and quad check everything.
Did you get it done atleast?

KoolAidBigMan said:
I held the power button down for over 2 minutes... should I hold it longer? Here's what happens, after holding the power button... on about 5 seconds in a message pops up and says continue holding power button for reboot. I continue to hold it and a count down starts.... goes from 3 to 2 to 1.... the phone just stays at one no matter how long I hold the power button in for
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When you are holding the power button down and it starts to count down shine a flashlight at the light sensor to the left of the speaker on the top (or hold it under a bright light). I had this happen to me before where it wouldn't simulate the battery pull. Just sat there. Apparently the phone has a built in defense to not reset in low light situations in case you accidentally hit the power button while the phone is in your pocket. The flashlight on the sensor trick works. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314952

[Q] Motorola razr i XT890 not booting just green light

Hi
i have this motorola razr i xt890.
it freezes on me and i tried to reset it by pressing vol- + power button.
But now it just stuck on black screen and only green led comes on the top left.
as shown in pic attached.
Any body can HELP?

mobishack said:
Hi
i have this motorola razr i xt890.
it freezes on me and i tried to reset it by pressing vol- + power button.
But now it just stuck on black screen and only green led comes on the top left.
as shown in pic attached.
Any body can HELP?
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Hold volume - / volume + / Power-button (all 3 buttons) simultaneously for about 10 sec. Let it reboot.

No luck tried this
Hazou said:
Hold volume - / volume + / Power-button (all 3 buttons) simultaneously for about 10 sec. Let it reboot.
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Tried this already no luck, if i hold power button for few secs, the green light goes off but still phone don't turn on at all.

mobishack said:
Tried this already no luck, if i hold power button for few secs, the green light goes off but still phone don't turn on at all.
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What if u try it again. Hold all 4 buttons, while the phone is connected to power for 10sec. After that release the power and volume up button. So u hold volume down all the time. See what happens.

Hello there, sorry for this resurrection but I have the same problem, black screen, green led on, but nothing more, no fastboot, no recovery, no logos, no vibration, nothing.
Is there any solution for this? I've tried power button + volumen down in many ways and nothing seems to work.
Thanks in advance!

aquilesboy said:
Hello there, sorry for this resurrection but I have the same problem, black screen, green led on, but nothing more, no fastboot, no recovery, no logos, no vibration, nothing.
Is there any solution for this? I've tried power button + volumen down in many ways and nothing seems to work.
Thanks in advance!
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You can only try to flash ifwi and dnx as I did but I also had no success and also Moto themselves couldn't fix the phone.
If your phone is still in warranty it will get replaced, otherwise you can throw it away.

i had this problem when my battery was deeply unloaded. i had to load it with an powersource with 1A and a factory cable. that worked for me...

Help ,, please emergency !!!!
my xt890 lcd screen and digitizer were broken so i changed them and the phone was working fine for a week, i then wanted to update to kitkat through oem update; everytime i tried it would give me error . i then read that since i unlocked bootloader and rooted my phone and installed cwm recovery i couldnt do an oem update and i had to do a factory reset in order to update through oem, so i did just that ; after the phone finished factory reset and booted i proceeded with oem update while the phone was charging, everything was going fine the file was downloading, i went to the bathroom and came back the display was black, but touch screen was working fine...through more searching i read that this could be from the update, and i should do another reset... since i couldnt see anything even recovery menu. i downloaded moborobo so i can see my screen on pc and proceeded to factory reset ... now i cant even see through moborobo and im stuck. Please help.