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Missing "3 Keys Combo" !!! Please Help

Hi, I own one of those f.. Galaxy S that do not allow the "3 Keys combo" so I cannot go in download or recovery mode.
I really wish to try one of those beautiful ROM with plenty of speed and features....
I've read that there in an app "quick boot" to go directly into download or recovery. Do you think that it will do what it claims, even on my phone ?
The problem is that Quick Boot requires ROOT.
And I have not yet found a way to get ROOT, without the "3 key combo".
Any help ?
Please let me know
Thank you !
Ser

ginosergio said:
Hi, I own one of those f.. Galaxy S that do not allow the "3 Keys combo" so I cannot go in download or recovery mode.
I really wish to try one of those beautiful ROM with plenty of speed and features....
I've read that there in an app "quick boot" to go directly into download or recovery. Do you think that it will do what it claims, even on my phone ?
The problem is that Quick Boot requires ROOT.
And I have not yet found a way to get ROOT, without the "3 key combo".
Any help ?
Please let me know
Thank you !
Ser
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On this forum there is a thread to get 3BR (Three Button Recovery) if your phone didn't come with it, I think through ODIN. Do a search and you should be able to find it, I was reading it yesterday so I don't have a link for you.

for the 3button fix there are some posts laying around the forum, i tried some and sadly they just bricked my phone ( but the sgs from mexico have some screwed up stuff )
example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785201
as for the root you can try superoneclickroot software or there was an app on market called z4root which rooted your phone lol
good luck mate

For some reason, people recommended to not use Richthofen's method anymore for some reason.
Anyways, I used this method successfully to enable 3 combo mode permanently:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821698
if you wanna be safer than sorrier, get a Jig first. In case you soft brick your phone you can still get into download mode and retry.

I also used Richthofens method back then.
Was on a 2.1-ROM back then. I'm not sure if this is still a good a idea for 2.2+.

[Q] Have I bricked my phone? Newbie needs help please :(

Hi All
This is my first post here and apparently I cannot post external links - so I'm gonna have to cheat by removing a few spaces from the links. Mods please don't penalize me am really desperate.
I got my N1 around 6 months ago. Got the gingerbread 2.3.6 update couple of months back and all was well.
Then today I decided I want to try the CyanogenMod on my phone. SO here is what I did:
1. I went to this link below to unlock the bootloader. I got all the way up to step 7 and rebooted my phone. Phone rebooted okay and all data was reset. So far so good.
http ://ilikemygooglephone.com /2010/01/06/ complete-guide-with-images-unlock-bootloader-and-root-google-nexus-one-mac-windows-linux/
2. I then carried on on the same page to the next section titled "Superboot [To actually root your Nexus One]". (Since then I've discovered that this was unnecessary - this is where I may have screwed up) I got to the end successfully - got an okay on the screen and tried to reboot the phone. It would not come on. I tried to power it on with the trackball down and it came on to the bootloader screen. Since I wanted to go on and flash a Recovery Image anyway I wasn't too bothered here.
3. I then went on to this link here:
htt p://ilikemygooglephone.com/2010/01/07/ how-to-flash-ra-nexus-recovery-image-1 -5-3-for-nexus-one/
Again I got to the end successfully, and got the okay as it said on the website.
Now my phone won't come on at all. It does come on to the bootloader screen when I hold the trackball down and it says Unlocked across the top. But thats it. If I try to go into recovery, it will just switch off. If I try to power it on normally it just will not come on.
Help please. Have I killed my phone or can I still save it .

That is an old recovery, try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611829
Flash it with fastboot.

Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 can't boot

Hi everybody
I'm really not lazy men, I check almost all posts here on the best forum in the world xda. I face this problem before 2 days, I unlock my phone with Galaxy_Ace_Unlock and root it, everything was worked perfect and suddenly it lose mobile signal. I check phone locking and it was locked again.
It wasn't main problem , then I read on this forum that this aplication is not safe and I uninstall it, after that I rebote my phone and got strange problem. I can't boot my phone I only get samsung boot screen 1 sec and it keeps restarting every sec. When I charge my phone via charger I don't see anything just screen is blanking.
More one thing, when I deleted app galaxy ace unlock I deleted from sd card root file that I use to root my phone.
I need help I try flashing it with odin 4.38 and no success, I can enter download mode, everything pass perfect and I got message PASS but phone can't boot, when it's finishing with odin on last step phone restart it self and keep blanking. This is very anoying problem, please help me if you can.
I use swisscom galaxy mini s5570 and I don't know how to solve this.
I try many different stock rooms but no success, always when I finish with odin it's successfull but I can't boot, I can't access recovery mode because phone is blinking all the time.
I know that this forum is most powerfull and tha we have the best experts, better than android developers that have, and I'm sure that you can help me in some way.
More once, I can enter download mode and flash with odin but I can' boot.
Sorry for my bad english I'm from Bosnia and my first language is Bosnian
Thanks, Reuf

If you can enter download mode, ODIN will most probably work. I think you have gone wrong while working with ODIN. Follow these instructions carefully and double check whether the correct files are selected for each category.
If you still have the problem try flashing a custom recovery and a custom ROM.
Or, the other most probable thing is some hardware error, the only thing to do then is to go to a Samsung center, and act dumb (like you do not know anything about rooting) and if you warranty is not void, they might get it right for you..

domsnelter said:
If you can enter download mode, ODIN will most probably work. I think you have gone wrong while working with ODIN. Follow these instructions carefully and double check whether the correct files are selected for each category.
If you still have the problem try flashing a custom recovery and a custom ROM.
Or, the other most probable thing is some hardware error, the only thing to do then is to go to a Samsung center, and act dumb (like you do not know anything about rooting) and if you warranty is not void, they might get it right for you..
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I can't go to the Samsung center because I bought phone from my friend. It was a new phone I got it in the box but he bought it in Swiss. I will try some other ROM but really I try many of them.
I think my phone is lost

reufjaha said:
I can't go to the Samsung center because I bought phone from my friend. It was a new phone I got it in the box but he bought it in Swiss. I will try some other ROM but really I try many of them.
I think my phone is lost
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But even in Swiss they have warranty agreements and receipts so if it is new you should have such purchasing receipts - otherwise your friend pulled you over the barrel.
Anyway, maybe you tried a ROM w/o boot-image to prevent from bootloops.
Maybe you should try the 2.3.5 version coming from samsung:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&model=GT-S5570&pcode=AUT&os=1&type=1#firmware

[Q] Empty device?

Hello,
I'm new here and i first of all will apologize myself for my bad English.
Further i will ask for some effective help.
I have bought a Xperia x8 device with Android 4. .. (and other numbers)
Now thats not original/official. This was rooted etc. with Cyanogen 9.0 and one or another flash program 'nad'.
Now I read about it and i tried SuperOneClick and Flashtool.net for getting the phone fully back to the moment he was ever bought. Then a will upgrade it to the newest version of android official available for that x8 with the official Sony tools. But that is not so easy.
Now there is going something wrong with (I think) SuperOneClick, but the point is that I don't have anything more on the phone. When i put the battery in the phone, it only will start up with the message Sony Ericsson, and that's it. An 'empty device' I think, like they say.
Now my question is can and how can I repair that to what I wanted to do? Can you please explain it with much details in simple English please, if it's possible?
With kindly regards
Delelith

Post #2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481630
Sent from my xperia katana

Hi,
I can't enter the flash mode on the phone when I press the back/return button, what now?
Greetz

Impossible, you must 'hold back botton' while connecting USB cable from both sides.
"why do we fall, bruce?
so that we can pick ourselves up."

Hi,
I have tried to follow your instructions, but its don't works. What now?
With kind regards

if you are using flashtool to flash the stock kernel and stock rom , please let us know first.
if you have problem with flashing the rom , you must remove the battery then place the battery and immediately hold the back button and connect the usb cable to your device...,it will start flashing the rom, after finishing the flash process you must wait till your phone boot itself.it will take about 2-3 minutes.

*URGENT* Huge Problem with my S3 Mini

Hey XDA guys,
I've got an I8190N
I've got a pretty big problems and I need the help of your big brains.
Well a long time ago (17th September 2013) I posted a thread about a problem with my phone, when I booted up, it had this screen:
*Image should either be here or in the attached thumbnails*
So about 3 weeks ago from today I was trying to install a new CM11 ROM update from Maclaw but after I put the zip on my sd card and booted into TWRP recovery (2.6.3.0, just in case it needs mentioning), the phone shut off in the middle of the installation, I thought it was just the usual bugs I get whilst flashing ROMs so I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't turn on.
After a couple of attempts I finally realised that it's able to go into download mode only, I think that means it's soft-bricked right?
So I kept trying to re-install the stock ROM (unroot, unbrick etc) through odin but it kept failing.
I sent the phone to repairs and they wouldn't repair it (because it's rooted obviously, I thought maybe they wouldn't know but of course they did).
I obviously can't get a replacement and start over again because the warranty is void now that I've rooted it
So now they've sent it back and it's currently a paper weight that can go into download mode and refuses to install stock ROMs through Odin.
What do I do? I really need help guys (I don't need to worry about backups because I always backup)
Please answer soon, otherwise I'll be without a phone and my phone company will keep charging me for my contract eventhough I'm not using the phone.
Thanks in advance for any help given

LordwinOfficial said:
Hey XDA guys,
I've got an I8190N
I've got a pretty big problems and I need the help of your big brains.
Well a long time ago (17th September 2013) I posted a thread about a problem with my phone, when I booted up, it had this screen:
*Image should either be here or in the attached thumbnails*
So about 3 weeks ago from today I was trying to install a new CM11 ROM update from Maclaw but after I put the zip on my sd card and booted into TWRP recovery (2.6.3.0, just in case it needs mentioning), the phone shut off in the middle of the installation, I thought it was just the usual bugs I get whilst flashing ROMs so I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't turn on.
After a couple of attempts I finally realised that it's able to go into download mode only, I think that means it's soft-bricked right?
So I kept trying to re-install the stock ROM (unroot, unbrick etc) through odin but it kept failing.
I sent the phone to repairs and they wouldn't repair it (because it's rooted obviously, I thought maybe they wouldn't know but of course they did).
I obviously can't get a replacement and start over again because the warranty is void now that I've rooted it
So now they've sent it back and it's currently a paper weight that can go into download mode and refuses to install stock ROMs through Odin.
What do I do? I really need help guys (I don't need to worry about backups because I always backup)
Please answer soon, otherwise I'll be without a phone and my phone company will keep charging me for my contract eventhough I'm not using the phone.
Thanks in advance for any help given
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I believe that kies has emergency firmware that you can use to revive your phone? Try that. What does it say when it fails in odin?

hello,
so you can still go into download modus?
try the latest recovery (2.7 if i'm correct...) and flash with odin.
then try to boot into recovery and reflash the latest mclaw (or any other) non stock firmware.
think about it that you have to unzip the odin firmware package you download from maclaws site ( i forgot it and got messing around 2hours ago.... also staring at the erro in odin and thinking W*F is happening :cyclops: but then i realized i need to unzip the package...
realy good luck.....

Hi
Odin flash pit file

It just says the big black FAIL in the red background where it's supposed to be PASS in the green background

Could you guys give me download links to the PIT files, TWRP and the firmwares so I could get the right ones please?
Thanks

LOOK HERE
(i8190_goldenxx.zip) is the pitfile for I8190 only and i8190N_goldenxx.zip for I8190N version
BUT: these are NO flashable files - extract them and choose xxx.pit in Odin.
MJ

Could you give me a link to the pit file please

Do you have a link to the firmware I should use because tys0n gave me one before which was the service firmware (like 1.29gb) but it wouldn't work for this problem

LordwinOfficial said:
Do you have a link to the firmware I should use because tys0n gave me one before which was the service firmware (like 1.29gb) but it wouldn't work for this problem
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come on boy, it´s really easy to find it, but ok, it´s friday and weekend comes ...
Firmware
Look at the attached files in that post
to flash a pre-rooted, deodexed and zipaligned ROM try this one
MJ

LordwinOfficial said:
Hey XDA guys,
I've got an I8190N
I've got a pretty big problems and I need the help of your big brains.
Well a long time ago (17th September 2013) I posted a thread about a problem with my phone, when I booted up, it had this screen:
*Image should either be here or in the attached thumbnails*
So about 3 weeks ago from today I was trying to install a new CM11 ROM update from Maclaw but after I put the zip on my sd card and booted into TWRP recovery (2.6.3.0, just in case it needs mentioning), the phone shut off in the middle of the installation, I thought it was just the usual bugs I get whilst flashing ROMs so I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't turn on.
After a couple of attempts I finally realised that it's able to go into download mode only, I think that means it's soft-bricked right?
So I kept trying to re-install the stock ROM (unroot, unbrick etc) through odin but it kept failing.
I sent the phone to repairs and they wouldn't repair it (because it's rooted obviously, I thought maybe they wouldn't know but of course they did).
I obviously can't get a replacement and start over again because the warranty is void now that I've rooted it
So now they've sent it back and it's currently a paper weight that can go into download mode and refuses to install stock ROMs through Odin.
What do I do? I really need help guys (I don't need to worry about backups because I always backup)
Please answer soon, otherwise I'll be without a phone and my phone company will keep charging me for my contract eventhough I'm not using the phone.
Thanks in advance for any help given
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You can go to recovery mode then by using three button combo
if its no working flash it from here using odin

Sorry, it's just not my day, phone breaks, gf breaks up with me because I didn't reply to her because my phone broke lol just ain't able to fix my phone myself like usual, I got a USB jig on the side just in case I need it if that'll be of any help? & Thanks for the links, appreciate the help

Fixed
Thanks guys, the phones fixed
Really appreciate all the help