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[Q] Three button salute doesn't work

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.

Oh said:
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?
Sent from a jelly bean
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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.

[Q] Bricked After JB OTA Update and FXZ to .246

I installed the JB OTA updated and lost root, couldn't get it back for anything. I proceeded to FXZ back to .246 and somehow bricked my Bionic. I;m using RSD Lite 5.7 and the VRZ_XT875_6.7.246.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip FXZ file. I get to step 6/21 and it fails every time. it says "Failed flashing process. 6/21 flash cdt.bin "cdt.bin" -> Phone Returned FAIL.
Am I permanently bricked? Any Ideas? Thanks guys.

ryantrax said:
I installed the JB OTA updated and lost root, couldn't get it back for anything. I proceeded to FXZ back to .246 and somehow bricked my Bionic. I;m using RSD Lite 5.7 and the VRZ_XT875_6.7.246.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip FXZ file. I get to step 6/21 and it fails every time. it says "Failed flashing process. 6/21 flash cdt.bin "cdt.bin" -> Phone Returned FAIL.
Am I permanently bricked? Any Ideas? Thanks guys.
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Identical to a thread I already have going Sadly no one seems to have a solution yet. I'm hoping that if we get a FXZ file for JB that we can unbrick - but I have no clue where such files come from our how they're created - so looks like a waiting game.

ryantrax said:
I installed the JB OTA updated and lost root, couldn't get it back for anything. I proceeded to FXZ back to .246 and somehow bricked my Bionic. I;m using RSD Lite 5.7 and the VRZ_XT875_6.7.246.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip FXZ file. I get to step 6/21 and it fails every time. it says "Failed flashing process. 6/21 flash cdt.bin "cdt.bin" -> Phone Returned FAIL.
Am I permanently bricked? Any Ideas? Thanks guys.
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Power the unit off. Then hold VOL UP and VOL DOWN at the same time and then hold the power button for a second or two. You should get a menu. I believe the first value is normal boot. Press VOL UP when "normal boot" is highlighted (or press vol down until its highlighted then press vol up). Your phone should then boot into JB unfortunately you'll still be without root but you'll be back in the game with a phone that you can at least use.
~Brett

bretthoward said:
Power the unit off. Then hold VOL UP and VOL DOWN at the same time and then hold the power button for a second or two. You should get a menu. I believe the first value is normal boot. Press VOL UP when "normal boot" is highlighted (or press vol down until its highlighted then press vol up). Your phone should then boot into JB unfortunately you'll still be without root but you'll be back in the game with a phone that you can at least use.
~Brett
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Whooooly crap that worked. I can't believe that I did not try that. Thanks!

bretthoward said:
Power the unit off. Then hold VOL UP and VOL DOWN at the same time and then hold the power button for a second or two. You should get a menu. I believe the first value is normal boot. Press VOL UP when "normal boot" is highlighted (or press vol down until its highlighted then press vol up). Your phone should then boot into JB unfortunately you'll still be without root but you'll be back in the game with a phone that you can at least use.
~Brett
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Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I just get a blank screen after the moto logo pops up. I think I will have to wait for a JB fxz.
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bretthoward said:
Power the unit off. Then hold VOL UP and VOL DOWN at the same time and then hold the power button for a second or two. You should get a menu. I believe the first value is normal boot. Press VOL UP when "normal boot" is highlighted (or press vol down until its highlighted then press vol up). Your phone should then boot into JB unfortunately you'll still be without root but you'll be back in the game with a phone that you can at least use.
~Brett
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if fastboot writing "fastboot flash failure" then you need to recowery fastboot. I'm using script for changing boot animation he will correct this stuff.

Try this. put your sd card in a friends phone and upload the JB system update zip file to your sd card then put it back into your phone. Can you press and hold both volume keys THEN press power while holding the up down volume keys. instead of normal boot go down to recovery and press volume up to select it. Moto logo will apear then blank screen the the red triangle android. once that is on the screen hold both up down volume buttons again. at this time a menu should pop up and you can scroll down to system update from zip and load the JB zip file from your sd card. This is how I loaded JB on my phone. Hope things work out for you.

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if fastboot writing "fastboot flash failure" then you need to recowery fastboot. I'm using script for changing boot animation he will correct this stuff.
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What do you mean? I can't FXZ anything right now, I've tried all end in failure. I think its because of the new security level of the JB update. I think I'll have to wait for a JB FXZ. Haven't seen one yet.

zoompastu said:
Try this. put your sd card in a friends phone and upload the JB system update zip file to your sd card then put it back into your phone. Can you press and hold both volume keys THEN press power while holding the up down volume keys. instead of normal boot go down to recovery and press volume up to select it. Moto logo will apear then blank screen the the red triangle android. once that is on the screen hold both up down volume buttons again. at this time a menu should pop up and you can scroll down to system update from zip and load the JB zip file from your sd card. This is how I loaded JB on my phone. Hope things work out for you.
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Tried that, didn't work. It failed as well. I think my system files are totally bunked up.

You might be screwed. I know in the past that you would brick your device if you tried going backwards from ICS to gingerbread. I assumed the same would apply in this situation as well. If you have insurance, you may want to drop your phone in the toilet.
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smokedkill said:
You might be screwed. I know in the past that you would brick your device if you tried going backwards from ICS to gingerbread. I assumed the same would apply in this situation as well. If you have insurance, you may want to drop your phone in the toilet.
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I ran one over once

The jb fxz is out now so those who tried to downgrade (smh) can fix it now.
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neo1738 said:
I ran one over once
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Lol.
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smokedkill said:
You might be screwed. I know in the past that you would brick your device if you tried going backwards from ICS to gingerbread. I assumed the same would apply in this situation as well. If you have insurance, you may want to drop your phone in the toilet.
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That don't work, I let my son play with mine in the tub and it still worked. Just the battery got fried. Make sure you fry it good before you take it to them. Lol

neo1738 said:
I ran one over once
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I have a friend that was in the military - he set his on the ground & then ran over it with a tank! hahaha. He scrapped it off the ground a put it in a plastic baggy and mailed it Sprint..haha

Lol that's what I did... Just told them I was doing an update... (Was trying to JB)
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Booting into stock recovery?

I've been trying to boot into the stock recovery on my phone, primarily to wipe the cache, and it won't do anything. Just seems to boot into a black screen, then an image of the phone with a red triangle and an upside down exclamation mark shows up.
Is this normal?
My phone is completely untouched. Not been rooted unlocked or S-Off.
Is it that you aren't meant to go into recovery on completely stock firmware?
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pardoned said:
I've been trying to boot into the stock recovery on my phone, primarily to wipe the cache, and it won't do anything. Just seems to boot into a black screen, then an image of the phone with a red triangle and an upside down exclamation mark shows up.
Is this normal?
My phone is completely untouched. Not been rooted unlocked or S-Off.
Is it that you aren't meant to go into recovery on completely stock firmware?
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Its essentially a two step process to get there. Once you get to that red triangle, hold UP + POWER until you enter recovery, it'll be a black screen with blue writing.

piimp said:
Its essentially a two step process to get there. Once you get to that red triangle, hold UP + POWER until you enter recovery, it'll be a black screen with blue writing.
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Thanks for replying.
I tried that. Waited for the image of the phone and the triangle etc. Then pressed volume up and power, and it just rebooted the phone. Kept holding, and it turned the phone off.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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pardoned said:
Thanks for replying.
I tried that. Waited for the image of the phone and the triangle etc. Then pressed volume up and power, and it just rebooted the phone. Kept holding, and it turned the phone off.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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Well its a little tricky, if you hold it too long it reboots..hold them for a few seconds and when the capacitives flash about three times let the buttons go

piimp said:
Well its a little tricky, if you hold it too long it reboots..hold them for a few seconds and when the capacitives flash about three times let the buttons go
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Thanks very much mate. That worked. Held them for 5 flashes of the home and back buttons.
You definitely couldn't find that by accident. Haha.
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pardoned said:
Thanks very much mate. That worked. Held them for 5 flashes of the home and back buttons.
You definitely couldn't find that by accident. Haha.
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haha, yeah im glad you got it working.

VZW DE - fastboot flashed stock recovery, now red triangle

VZW DE 4.4
Unlocked
TWRP
Rooted
Used fastboot to flash recovery.img from the official Moto file MOTXT1060DEV_4.4-13.11.1Q2.X-69-3_1FF-CID2.xml
When I tell the phone to boot into recovery I get the android guy on his side with the red triangle. I can still hold the power button to reboot into the phone and it works fine. However any time I try to go into recovery it's back to the red triangle. I have tried wiping cache via adb as well.
I searched google and the forums and am still stuck.

I believe with stock recovery you have to press power + volume up for a moment, then release them simultaneously and it bypasses the red triangle.
Been a while since I have owned a non-Nexus... not sure if that is a Nexus-only thing.

kbluhm said:
I believe with stock recovery you have to press power + volume up for a moment, then release them simultaneously and it bypasses the red triangle.
Been a while since I have owned a non-Nexus... not sure if that is a Nexus-only thing.
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i didn't stay on stock recovery for long, but I dont remember that.
In either case while looking at the android guy on his side with the red triangle neither power+dwn or power+up do anything. If I hold it too long eventually the phone restarts.
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Ah ha! You are a genius. Power + both volume buttons worked (or I have fat fingers)!
Since I *assumed* something was jacked up I didn't search for "how to enter recovery when everything is working right" my bad
thanks!!!!!!!

Restola said:
i didn't stay on stock recovery for long, but I dont remember that.
In either case while looking at the android guy on his side with the red triangle neither power+dwn or power+up do anything. If I hold it too long eventually the phone restarts.
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Ah ha! You are a genius. Power + both volume buttons worked (or I have fat fingers)!
thanks!!!!!!!
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I figured it was something like that. Glad you were able to stumble upon it!

Restola said:
Ah ha! You are a genius. Power + both volume buttons worked (or I have fat fingers)!
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You enter bootloader mode by pressing Volume Down + Power, holding for about 3 seconds and then releasing.
Then you boot into recovery by pressing Volume Down to highlight Recovery and then Volume Up to select Recovery.

Cozume said:
You enter bootloader mode by pressing Volume Down + Power, holding for about 3 seconds and then releasing.
Then you boot into recovery by pressing Volume Down to highlight Recovery and then Volume Up to select Recovery.
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Yep. It was being in stock recovery and seeing the sideways android with the red triangle that was confusing me. I didn't realize another key combination was required to get past that.

Restola said:
Yep. It was being in stock recovery and seeing the sideways android with the red triangle that was confusing me. I didn't realize another key combination was required to get past that.
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I think that's Google saying: if you're here, it'd better damn well be deliberately!

Restola said:
Yep. It was being in stock recovery and seeing the sideways android with the red triangle that was confusing me. I didn't realize another key combination was required to get past that.
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Ah, yes, you do need to do more to get into stock recovery. I didn't realize it myself since I have mostly been using my Dev Ed in custom recovery.

[Q] SOLVED. Stuck on boot screen with no way out

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.

Zin0 said:
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.

Zin0 said:
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