A kid of a friend of mine tried so many times the unlock pattern that the Galaxy Tab now asks them for an email/pass combination, and as incredible as it might sound, they do not know them!
I have tried to get into recovery mode by holding "volume -" and "power", and "volume +" and "power", and power, but I can not get to the recovery menu.
Short of any ideas, is there an option to reset it using USB or any other way?
Thanks!
Finally, I was able to do it! Thankfully, the debug mode was on, so I connected, forced windows7x64 to use the ADB drivers, rebooted, and wiped from ADB and rebooted!
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Hi guys. My mother has a Samsung Galaxy SIII mini GT-I8190N build JZO54K.I8190NXXAML1 and from yesterday her phone doesn't turn off.
Simply when long press power button and select power off the phone reboots. Also if I remove the battery when i plug it in the phone immediately starts;,it works properly if it's under charge but when i unplug the cable the phone boots. I'm not a Samsung user so i don't know if it's a known bug or if there's other 3ds about this (I tried with search function but I didn't find anything). I also don't know how to take a logcat because on my PC USB drivers for Xperia devices are installed and adb says "waiting for device" also with USB debug enabled.
She won't root, flash, etc. Is there any alternative to factory reset?
Thanks!
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Hi guys. My mother has a Samsung Galaxy SIII mini GT-I8190N build JZO54K.I8190NXXAML1 and from yesterday her phone doesn't turn off.
Simply when long press power button and select power off the phone reboots. Also if I remove the battery when i plug it in the phone immediately starts;,it works properly if it's under charge but when i unplug the cable the phone boots. I'm not a Samsung user so i don't know if it's a known bug or if there's other 3ds about this (I tried with search function but I didn't find anything). I also don't know how to take a logcat because on my PC USB drivers for Xperia devices are installed and adb says "waiting for device" also with USB debug enabled.
She won't root, flash, etc. Is there any alternative to factory reset?
Thanks!
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to factory reset, take out the battery, then: press and hold the volume up, power and home buttons, then pop in the battery. it should reboot into recovery. use the volume keys to select factory reset (or something similar, i forget the actual words) and select with the home button.
So I have to factory reset?
Mons1990 said:
So I have to factory reset?
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Yep, that is a similar problem with Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 where it doesn't shut down... Or maybe change your firmware (look on sammobile.com for firmwares)
Ok, thank you
I just tried to access fastboot on my fire and pushed the wrong button.
When holding "Volume Up" while switching the device on, it shows "Factory APK mode..." on the screen. After releasing the button the message disappears after 2 seconds and the fire boots up normal.
Nothing has happend, it works normal and all apps still work the way they did before.
So what does that mode do?
ChrBeck said:
I just tried to access fastboot on my fire and pushed the wrong button.
When holding "Volume Up" while switching the device on, it shows "Factory APK mode..." on the screen. After releasing the button the message disappears after 2 seconds and the fire boots up normal.
Nothing has happend, it works normal and all apps still work the way they did before.
So what does that mode do?
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Likely just safe mode, only stock apps load, when in safe mode.
Used to boot device if a non stock app is causing device to be unusable.
But why do play store and so on still work when booting into that mode?
It just displays the message while booting, but nothing changes when up and running.
5.0.0 or 5.0.1 ? mine boots on fastboot mode
5.0.1, I can take a picture of it later today, didn't know there might be a difference in the versions.
I can only get fastboot ... Are you able to do this reliably? I've tried different hold an release and timings but can get it to happen.
Sorry for the late reply.
I tried to take a photo of it displaying the mode, but my phone couldn't produce a good one, so I finally took a short video. Focus is bad but you can sometimes read it.
I can repeat the process every time: Power down, hold volume up key, power on -> factory APK mode.
Hope that helps you.
Can nobody proove this works?
I mean I can't be the only one with that mode and I'm still wondering what it does.
stays now in fastbootmode - help
Tried that, now it is showing fastbootmode, nothing else happens.
It's stuck in there, it does not react on buttons, nor is it seen by adb.
What can I do to get it back to life?
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Meanwhile I googled, installed Android SDK, went to platform-tools and tried adb and fastboot.exe.
adb devices gives an empty line.
fastboot devices gives the tablets serial and the word fastboot
fastboot in conjunktion with reboot, reboot-bootloader, continue tries but does nothing on the tablet.
Looks as if I have to wait until the batterie gives up, what do you think?
killerhippy said:
Tried that, now it is showing fastbootmode, nothing else happens.
It's stuck in there, it does not react on buttons, nor is it seen by adb.
What can I do to get it back to life?
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hold the power button till it turns off and turn on again.
not shure but this worked on the older fires.
Success!
Thanks a lot!
My v5.0.1 german tablet boots into
- recovery mode with volume down + power on keys pressed
- fastboot mode with volume up + power on keys pressed.
Recovery mode says:
Amazon system recovery <3e>
Volume up/down to move highlight;
enter button to select.
reboot system now
apply update from ADB
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
reboot to bootloader
power down
view recovery logs
I have this same problem on my fire that I have only bootloader 5.1.1 and tablet does not start and I can not enter the recovery I wonder if I can help solve
I have 2 Fire 5th gens, 5.1.1, and both have the factory APK mode on vol up button and fastboot mode on vol down. NO recovery mode option. I can't even make it boot into recovery using fastboot reboot commands.
Hi comunity, a few days ago I got this Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini GT-I8190, and it's locked with too many pattern attempts. Anyway, as usual I wanted to perform a hard reset so I can fix the problem, but apparently from here is the big issue. When I try the key combo (Volume Up + Home button + Power), the only thing wich appears is the loggo of the mobile then it shuts off, and when I try once again just boots normal, without going to recovery mode. Same thing with download mode, I can't acces it. The only key combination wich apparently works is Vol UP + Power and then it says "POWER RESET or UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE". I can't go in recovery trough ADB because the mobile have USB Debugging OFF, so any connection with the pc is f**ked up. :crying:
Concluzion: No acces to recovery mode or download mode, no acces to mobile settings, imposibble conection with a computer, how the hell I should fix this mobile? Any ideeas?
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Hi comunity, a few days ago I got this Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini GT-I8190, and it's locked with too many pattern attempts. Anyway, as usual I wanted to perform a hard reset so I can fix the problem, but apparently from here is the big issue. When I try the key combo (Volume Up + Home button + Power), the only thing wich appears is the loggo of the mobile then it shuts off, and when I try once again just boots normal, without going to recovery mode. Same thing with download mode, I can't acces it. The only key combination wich apparently works is Vol UP + Power and then it says "POWER RESET or UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE". I can't go in recovery trough ADB because the mobile have USB Debugging OFF, so any connection with the pc is f**ked up. :crying:
Concluzion: No acces to recovery mode or download mode, no acces to mobile settings, imposibble conection with a computer, how the hell I should fix this mobile? Any ideeas?
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same problem. would really appreciate any ideas, as well.
Hi,
I lost my phone and started using an old S5 with defective volume buttons.
I need a fingerprint to log in, but my fingerprints aren't working. So I need a backup password, now this is connected to a old gmail but I cant acces this account anymore (I tried everything).
Now I thought I could hard reset it, but it does not go into hard reset mode because the volume buttons are defective.
I tried to use the SDK and adb but it is not in debugging mode so the phone is not recognized.
Is there any thing I can do to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
LTKort
You can buy or make a jig usb, that starts download mode without pressing buttons, then you can reinstall the android stock with odin
Just got an s10 from someone. Trying to get into download mode but can’t doing it from keys and when I do it from recovery it says BL recovery locked by key. It will not go to download mode at all. Any ideas on how to get around it?
Will it boot into recovery for a data factory reset? That may fix it.
Already tried. Nothing will work. Even the plug in cable while holding buttons. Adb just restarts
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Already tried. Nothing will work. Even the plug in cable while holding buttons. Adb just restarts
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keep holding the buttons and make it reboot as many times as needed. Well, like 10 times might be excessive, but shy of that isnt. Ive had many galaxy phones that were being a little a-hole about letting you boot to bootloader. But being forceful with continuing to force it to boot eventually got every problematic phone ive ever had into DL mode.
if you can adb into the phone, use "adb reboot bootloader" and it should automagically go to DL mode, if it doesnt, hold vol down and do that command again. It might take several times to get there, but youll get there. Im not aware of any way to lock someone out of the phones bootloader
Shut the phone off. Plug in type c connector while holding volume up, bixby and power, then plug in usb cable to pc.
I’ve done all the usb tricks also still nothing. Here is the recovery screen. Reboot to boot loader doesn’t work also