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I currently have The Collective's AoCP build 3 Jelly Bean ROM on my Captivate. I need to go back to the Cyanogen 10 builds because it looks like they've fixed the lag issue. I came upon a really bad accident on my way to work and needed to call 911 ASAP. I unlocked my phone and hit the phone button and it must have taken 20 seconds for the dial pad to come up. I've gotta try something else...
My question is this. I can't get into recovery by turning the phone off and using the 2 or 3 button salute. I've tried volume up - power, volume down - power, and volume up&down - power. No dice. I've learned there is a 3buttonfix that I can download and install, but I read about it first and it says if you're running this bootloader or that bootloader don't use this fix because you WILL hard brick your device. I have no idea what bootloader I'm running and if I can't use this fix, what do I do to fix the issue? For future reference, how do I tell what boot loader I'm running?
The reason I want to MAKE SURE the 3 button salute works is I want to flash from AoCP to CM10 and if something goes wrong, I need to be able to do that. I can hold the power button down now, and choose reboot, then boot into recovery, and that works, but if I soft brick my device, that function won't do me any good.
Any guidance you pros out there have for me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Don't use the 3 button fix. You are correct in that it will hard brick your phone. If adb works, you can use that to reboot into recovery. I think you can do that with a terminal emulator too ("su" first to get root access, then "reboot recovery").
There's not a way to tell which bootloader your on. If you want to know 100% without a doubt your on the latest, flash the kk4 stock ROM. Downside to that is you would have to start over on cm10 or any other aokp. Making a nandroid first will make it less painful.
Also, that dialer lag will happen with any ICS-JB ROM on this phone. It's pretty much unavoidable at this point. Have you ever done the recovery combination before? If not, then you may be doing it wrong. Hold down the volume buttons, and press the power button only until the screen turns on. Hold the volume keys down until you hit recovery.
Oh, duh, you're on AOcP. You should have a recovery option in your power menu under reboot.
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I do have a recovery option int he power menu. But what if I soft brick my device? I have a rigged jig somewhere, but that wasn't reliable for me. Not because it doesn't work, but because I made it very, um, frugally.
So there is no way to know what boot loaders I'm on? Darn... I didn't do the original flashing. MobileTechVideos.com did the flashing after I hard bricked it where my jig no longer even worked.
Thanks all for your input, and anything else you may suggest.
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If you're on AOCP you have GB bootloaders.
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spagman72 said:
If you're on AOCP you have GB bootloaders.
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THANK you very much for that info. Do you know of anyway for me to be able to boot into recovery mode using a key combination? I tried what was mentioned above (holding volume up-down after pressing the power until it boots into recovery, but it just goes right to the AoCP boot animation).
Maybe your holding the buttons too long when you try the button combo.
Snevey said:
THANK you very much for that info. Do you know of anyway for me to be able to boot into recovery mode using a key combination? I tried what was mentioned above (holding volume up-down after pressing the power until it boots into recovery, but it just goes right to the AoCP boot animation).
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You may have already tried this in your many attempts but I'll still throw in my two cents.
Starting with power off hold all three buttons at the same time. First you should see the att splash screen and then your kernel splash screen. Then the phone should turn off. Keep holding the buttons til you see the att screen again and then release them all. That should get you into recovery. At least that is exactly how I get there besides of course the power menu.
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Wait are you missing download mode also?
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Yes, I do appear to be missing download mode as well... What have I done? The phone runs just fine with AOCP The Collective, except it's just getting too laggy for me and I want to check out CM10's newest releases. BUT, I don't want to be flashing ROM's until I can boot into Recovery. I can REBOOT my phone from my Power menu once the phone boots up, but I can not get any button combination to work to boot me into recovery.
Regarding download mode... I can not enter download mode either. I power down, take battery out, remove SIM, place battery in phone hold volume up/down and insert usb cable. Just displays the battery charging meter...
When your phone turns on, do you have a white AT&T screen or is it a black gt-i9000 screen?
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korockinout13 said:
When your phone turns on, do you have a white AT&T screen or is it a black gt-i9000 screen?
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I do get the white AT&T screen... It comes on, then flash to a black screen and then back to the same white at&t screen, then to The Collective boot animation. This wouldn't be a problem for me, but I do want to play with some other ROM's, but I don't want to without this working...
I believe you can reboot in recovery using adb with the command : "reboot recovery"
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spagman72 said:
I believe you can reboot in recovery using adb with the command : "reboot recovery"
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I KNOW I can, but I can only do that if I am able to boot into a rom. What if something gets hosed?
Snevey said:
I KNOW I can, but I can only do that if I am able to boot into a rom. What if something gets hosed?
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Find that jig you rigged up and see if that gets you into download mode. If so I suggest using a one-click back to kk4 and I'd get the one with boot loaders for good measure. Then see if you can do any of the button combos
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m1batt1 said:
Find that jig you rigged up and see if that gets you into download mode. If so I suggest using a one-click back to kk4 and I'd get the one with boot loaders for good measure. Then see if you can do any of the button combos
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Thanks for the suggestion... I downloaded a 1 click to KK4 and used my jig, which worked. Got really lucky, as something happened at the SET PIT table during the ODIN process and I had to start over. Luckily it didn't brick, but on the next boot I got the icon of a phone and a computer with a triangle in between those icons. I ran ODIN again after booting into download mode, and it took. I'm not running KK4 and I can do the 3 finger salute, so now I'm going to start over with rooting and moving to Jelly Bean. What a way to get the recovery back...
Thanks again for everyone's assistance.
Snevey said:
Thanks for the suggestion... I downloaded a 1 click to KK4 and used my jig, which worked. Got really lucky, as something happened at the SET PIT table during the ODIN process and I had to start over. Luckily it didn't brick, but on the next boot I got the icon of a phone and a computer with a triangle in between those icons. I ran ODIN again after booting into download mode, and it took. I'm not running KK4 and I can do the 3 finger salute, so now I'm going to start over with rooting and moving to Jelly Bean. What a way to get the recovery back...
Thanks again for everyone's assistance.
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Glad that got you up and running. Sometimes it's unavoidable to flash back to stock like that but I suggest you keep that one click handy in case something else strange happens.
Please help,
I was screwing around in TWRP and instead of doing a normal factory reset I ticked system as well... Instead of reading the clear message of no OS i decided to reboot into OS and now stuck on HTC logo screen with no way to go into TWRP, recovery or any other mode.
ADB doesn't list the device, Power button doesn't shut off screen or device
Please help me out as I have no idea how to restore it to any workable state.
Kirone said:
Please help,
I was screwing around in TWRP and instead of doing a normal factory reset I ticked system as well... Instead of reading the clear message of no OS i decided to reboot into OS and now stuck on HTC logo screen with no way to go into TWRP, recovery or any other mode.
ADB doesn't list the device, Power button doesn't shut off screen or device
Please help me out as I have no idea how to restore it to any workable state.
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Hold power and volume down to enter bootloader, then enter recovery.
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redbull123 said:
Hold power and volume down to enter bootloader, then enter recovery.
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Doesn't work the phone is stuck on HTC logo holding down power and volume down makes the home and back button flash and nothing more
Kirone said:
Doesn't work the phone is stuck on HTC logo holding down power and volume down makes the home and back button flash and nothing more
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How long are you holding them? Also, try holding down power with the phone under a bright light.
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redbull123 said:
How long are you holding them? Also, try holding down power with the phone under a bright light.
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About 10 seconds which is what it normally would take to go into recovery.
This is room is always brightly lit so no effect
Kirone said:
About 10 seconds which is what it normally would take to go into recovery.
This is room is always brightly lit so no effect
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That is not long enough my friend. In your situation, it can take a minute or two, and even normally it's more like 15 seconds.
Keep power button pressed - You should see the back and home buttons blink and you should be able to get into hboot
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dgtiii said:
That is not long enough my friend. In your situation, it can take a minute or two, and even normally it's more like 15 seconds.
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Also no luck it's like it has no memory at all except for the logo
born_fisherman said:
Keep power button pressed - You should see the back and home buttons blink and you should be able to get into hboot
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I see the buttons blink but what else do i need to do to get into hboot? Does it need to be connected to PC? And how long after blinking starts should I hold? Tried with volume down to no success before
Try holding the proximity sensor directly under a bright light. Just being in a lit room isn't always enough. Hold volume down and power till the home and back start flashing. Do not let go until the phone is off. Now let go. Hold both buttons again until you see the bootloader.
AT&T HTC One
Baadnewz's InsertCoin 3.0-14
Flar2's Bulletproof 4.3
Wow you really have to be close to a light source, in 15 seconds it shutdown without problems. I'm in bootloader now, could someone tell me what to do from here on
Kirone said:
Wow you really have to be close to a light source, in 15 seconds it shutdown without problems.
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Really? I'd never have known.. /s
Smh
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Kirone said:
Wow you really have to be close to a light source, in 15 seconds it shutdown without problems. I'm in bootloader now, could someone tell me what to do from here on
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Boot into recovery.
Download a ROM on pc.
Put ROM in adb/fastboot folder.
Connect phone to PC.
Open a command prompt in the folder ( hold shift and right click - open command prompt here).
"adb devices"
It should list your phone.
"adb push your-rom-here.zip /sdcard/"
It'll look like its not doing anything for a while, be patient it can take some time.
When it's done, us twrp to flash the ROM like normal.
AT&T HTC One
Baadnewz's InsertCoin 3.0-14
Flar2's Bulletproof 4.3
Thank you all for helping out, now loading a custom-rom hopefully it will be back up and running in a few minutes
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Thank you all for helping out, now loading a custom-rom hopefully it will be back up and running in a few minutes
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Glad to hear it!
It worked nicely, running stock rom again. Gave all you guys a massive thank you for the help and tips you have provided
Glad you got it worked out.
AT&T HTC One
Baadnewz's InsertCoin 3.0-14
Flar2's Bulletproof 4.3
i was going to upgrade my twrp. well i flashed the wrong one and now i have a great paperweight.
will not boot
when plugged into the computer it shows the charging light
when i hold the power button it will viberate like its powering up but it doesnt. if you hold the power button down longer it will viberate again.
does not connect adb
holding both volume buttons and power does nothing
holding down volume and power does nothing either.
google isnt helping and ive gone 15 pages back on the forums
i think ive created my own brick after 5 years of no problems.
does anyone have any ideas?
Try and see if u can get into the hboot
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luigi311 said:
Try and see if u can get into the hboot
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i have tried getting into everything. nothing is responding. screen is dark,,,,nothing
Try an ruu. I don't think that flashing a wrong recovery can cause a hard brick. If it shows the charging light the hboot is ok (I think). Try this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2460013
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elvisypi said:
Try an ruu. I don't think that flashing a wrong recovery can cause a hard brick. If it shows the charging light the hboot is ok (I think). Try this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2460013
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ya i tried the ruu and because the phone is not even registering on the computer it wasnt possible. thanks for the input tho. i cant even get to hboot. i know if i had hboot its possible to get things going. im just out of ideas and never had a phone beat me...till now.
I don't thing flashing the wrong recovery could brick your phone either unless you flashed it to the wrong partition.
Can you post the command you used when you flashed it?
Ok, you have to fly blind here to fix it. With the phone completely powered off you need to do vol down and power like you were booting to bootloader. Phone vibrates, screen is still blank but trust me, it's in hboot now...... Now just press the power button once, even tho you see nothing it's now in bootloader. Open up cmd prompt and do fastboot devices. You will see it is registering. You can either run a ruu, or flash a proper recovery image from there. Your choice.
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bigdaddy619 said:
I don't thing flashing the wrong recovery could brick your phone either unless you flashed it to the wrong partition.
Can you post the command you used when you flashed it?
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it was a nexus5 twrp recovery...i have never made that mistake before...kids distracted me and i misread that little part in the thread. flashed it and THEN realized i was on the wrong forum
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Ok, you have to fly blind here to fix it. With the phone completely powered off you need to do vol down and power like you were booting to bootloader. Phone vibrates, screen is still blank but trust me, it's in hboot now...... Now just press the power button once, even tho you see nothing it's now in bootloader. Open up cmd prompt and do fastboot devices. You will see it is registering. You can either run a ruu, or flash a proper recovery image from there. Your choice.
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tried this a few times...no luck
sigh...that was an expensive mistake.
If it gets a charge light, it's not bricked. If it was just a improper recovery it shouldn't brick. I can see not having a screen display but it's not bricked. Recovery partition is one of the very last partitions in the boot chain and hboot isn't corrupted. Keep trying to get into hboot with no display........ It's there
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18th.abn said:
If it gets a charge light, it's not bricked. If it was just a improper recovery it shouldn't brick. I can see not having a screen display but it's not bricked. Recovery partition is one of the very last partitions in the boot chain and hboot isn't corrupted. Keep trying to get into hboot with no display........ It's there
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ive done a bit more playing around and the light doesnt turn off when unplugged...it just stays on. it was flashing earlier but is solid again. never turns green either. i gave up.
Have you tried the trick of trying to power on while holding it under a bright light? Just throwing it out there may or may not make any difference.
bigdaddy619 said:
Have you tried the trick of trying to power on while holding it under a bright light? Just throwing it out there may or may not make any difference.
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i did see that and i was like "huh?!?!" yes i tried that...im glad no one saw me because i think it may be one of those tricks on noobs lol kinda like telling the freshman in high school that the pool is on the roof(we didnt have a pool lol)
When you hold the power button do the cap. Lights ever start blinking at all?
Added: also, I had some bad info above. When trying to get into hboot, if the phone vibrates, it's already moved past hboot. So maybe try holding power and volume down for 6-8 seconds, let off, then press power button once. If it vibrates, you need to power it down and try again.....sorry
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I'm stuck at the white boot screen with the green htc logo, the red dev text, and the word android on top of the red text.
I just unrooted and went back to stock using the latest ruu.
I'm unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to put on a recovery for it but when I did, the red text about the build being for dev purposes showed up.
I thought flashing the stock boot img would fix that.
It didn't. I can't reboot out, turn off the phone, get to bootloader or recovery, or anything.
Adb and fastboot can't see the phone is connected cause it's at the boot screen.
I tried holding Vol Up and Power for a minute and then tried shining a light on the front camera for a couple of minutes.
Is there any hope to fix this?
Zin0 said:
I'm stuck at the white boot screen with the green htc logo, the red dev text, and the word android on top of the red text.
I just unrooted and went back to stock using the latest ruu.
I'm unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to put on a recovery for it but when I did, the red text about the build being for dev purposes showed up.
I thought flashing the stock boot img would fix that.
It didn't. I can't reboot out, turn off the phone, get to bootloader or recovery, or anything.
Adb and fastboot can't see the phone is connected cause it's at the boot screen.
I tried holding Vol Up and Power for a minute and then tried shining a light on the front camera for a couple of minutes.
Is there any hope to fix this?
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the red text is normal after flashing a custom recovery, the other stuff might be you flashed the wrong recovery for your phone, I don't know what phone you have or what recovery you flashed, if it's a sprint phone it should be for m7wls.did you flash superuser after the recovery.to gain root
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the red text is normal after flashing a custom recovery, the other stuff might be you flashed the wrong recovery for your phone, I don't know what phone you have or what recovery you flashed, if it's a sprint phone it should be for m7wls.
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I have a sprint htc one m7. I flashed philz for this phone and it worked fine. So the problem was that I flashed the stock boot image on fastboot and for some reason, it got stuck on the boot screen when I tried booting in and I don't have a way of getting out of that boot screen. So far, i'm thinking that I might have to wait for the phone to run out of power and die so it can be off then charge it up and see if I can get into bootloader. But I was hoping there would be another way of getting out of boot screen.
Zin0 said:
I have a sprint htc one m7. I flashed philz for this phone and it worked fine. So the problem was that I flashed the stock boot image on fastboot and for some reason, it got stuck on the boot screen when I tried booting in and I don't have a way of getting out of that boot screen. So far, i'm thinking that I might have to wait for the phone to run out of power and die so it can be off then charge it up and see if I can get into bootloader. But I was hoping there would be another way of getting out of boot screen.
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hold power down and the captive lights should blink when they stop simultaneously hold volume down should get you to bootloader.
Aldo101t said:
hold power down and the captive lights should blink when they stop simultaneously hold volume down should get you to bootloader.
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Interesting, I never heard of that. So I hold down power and watch the lights blink until they're done, then hold volume down?
Zin0 said:
Interesting, I never heard of that. So I hold down power and watch the lights blink until they're done, then hold volume down?
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yep, when screen turns off hold power and volume down.
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yep, when screen turns off hold power and volume down.
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Alright cool. Do you know how long i gotta hold it for until they stop? They've been blinking forever since I've held power down.
Zin0 said:
Alright cool. Do you know how long i gotta hold it for until they stop? They've been blinking forever since I've held power down.
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hmmm, they should only blink about 10 times, does the screen turn off?
try putting it under a bright light when they are flashing.
Aldo101t said:
hmmm, they should only blink about 10 times, does the screen turn off?
try putting it under a bright light when they are flashing.
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I used the flashlight from my other phone on it but it blinks as long as I hold it down, it doesn't seem to stop. And no, the screen doesn't turn off, it's still the same boot screen.
EDIT- It probably was the damn light lol. I happened to plug in the One to the charger and there was a lamp next to it, so I put it under that and held the power and volume down key and the screen went dark and booted into fastboot and I smiled greatly Thank you! Now the beginning starts.
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I used the flashlight from my other phone on it but it blinks as long as I hold it down, it doesn't seem to stop. And no, the screen doesn't turn off, it's still the same boot screen.
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hmmm, don't know what the heck's going on there.
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hmmm, don't know what the heck's going on there.
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I didn't either till that blessed lamp came into my sights. I thought I had to pull the plug. But nah, life's way better. So I don't know how to get back the previous boot image i had before i flashed this one.
Zin0 said:
I didn't either till that blessed lamp came into my sights. I thought I had to pull the plug. But nah, life's way better. So I don't know how to get back the previous boot image i had before i flashed this one.
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gotta get to the bootloader somehow.??
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gotta get to the bootloader somehow.??
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Nah. To the boot image version before the one I flashed. But I just ended up running the ruu again and it set up everything. So i'm saved now. Thanks for your help.
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Nah. To the boot image version before the one I flashed. But I just ended up running the ruu again and it set up everything. So i'm saved now. Thanks for your help.
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good to hear,lol, glad you got it up and running
I absolutely cannot get a recovery to flash. I was running 5.1.1, unencrypted, rooted, twrp, etc. Went to flash the new 3rd M preview and kept getting an error on boot about the phone being corrupt or something. It would still boot and work fine and everything, just had the warning on boot. Tried booting into recovery and I got the alien with exclamation point above it (won't boot into recovery, it doesn't seem to exist). I've tried manually flashing both stock recovery, twrp, whole OTA files from both 5.1.1 and 6... pretty much everything I can think of. It's like the recovery partition just isn't taking the file when it is pushed. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
When you booted into recovery and got to the screen where you saw the android with the exclamation point above it, you did press power+volume up correct?
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Othoric said:
When you booted into recovery and got to the screen where you saw the android with the exclamation point above it, you did press power+volume up correct?
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I pressed vol down + power to boot into the bootloader, then volume up to recovery, then power to go into recovery. Same thing, just a longer way, right?
imgladuhateme555 said:
I pressed vol down + power to boot into the bootloader, then volume up to recovery, then power to go into recovery. Same thing, just a longer way, right?
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When you get to the screen with the android with the exclamation point above it, press power and volume up at the same time. That will let you access stock recovery.
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Othoric said:
When you get to the screen with the android with the exclamation point above it, press power and volume up at the same time. That will let you access stock recovery.
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Doesn't do anything. Just stays on the screen with the small android lying down with the exclamation mark.
Edit: After trying repeatedly, that worked, not sure what I was doing wrong. Thanks for the help. At least I know it's not completely broken lol.
imgladuhateme555 said:
Doesn't do anything. Just stays on the screen with the small android lying down with the exclamation mark.
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OK, good. Glad you got it working.
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I'm having the same issue except my phone doesn't power up. I'm able to get into recovery and into the bootloader but I can't flash anything since my device is not being read by my computer. Any suggestions?
cinco312 said:
I'm having the same issue except my phone doesn't power up. I'm able to get into recovery and into the bootloader but I can't flash anything since my device is not being read by my computer. Any suggestions?
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Please give full details of your issue, your OS on your computer, the files you are trying to flash and your steps already tried. Screenshots also help.
imgladuhateme555 said:
Doesn't do anything. Just stays on the screen with the small android lying down with the exclamation mark.
Edit: After trying repeatedly, that worked, not sure what I was doing wrong. Thanks for the help. At least I know it's not completely broken lol.
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I think the sequence should be to hold the power button and press and release the vol up then release pwr from the android on his back.