[Q] System Wiped, Volume Down Button Broken - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Alright, I am in quite the pickle right now with my device. I have an AT&T M7, I picked it up online used. The volume down button is pretty much broke and only works very, very rarely. I was having some reception issues and figured I'd do a complete wipe in TWRP, system included and I was pretty stupid that I accidentally rebooted instead of pushing a rom to it. Now I'm stuck with the HTC boot up screen when I turn it on, and I've been trying to catch it at just the right time to boot into the bootloader by holding power and volume down, letting it shut off manually and waiting for it to reboot but to no avail. I scoured the internet before coming here as a last resort, to see if anyone could help. If it's completely screwed I'm going to just sell it for parts. Thank you all in advance!

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[Q] Hung after recovery

I have HTC One Developer's Edition.
A couple of months ago I decided I could not wait for HTC to release 4.3. and install Android Revolution.
I made a recovery on Sept 11 (should have known ...), installed the thing and got myself a smoothly functioning custom ROM.
After hearing HTC has released KitKat for the Developer's Edition, I decided to go back to 4.3 so I can install the KitKat update.
I was being stupid and did not read instructions or anything else. Instead I simply went to the bootloader -> recovery -> restore
Then I restored the System and Boot image which went just fine.
Right after that SuperUser said that my phone is not rooted and asked whether I want to root it, I swiped the screen to confirm.
Unfortunately at the first boot the phone hung at the start screen, the one with white background, htc logo, the big "one" word and beats audio in the bottom.
I tried turning off the phone and it wouldnt do it.
So right now I am writing this in a depressed mood, waiting for the battery in the phone to run out all the hwile hoping real bad that I haven't just bricked this freakin 650 dollar thing.
What should I do to get things back to normal ?
Press and hold the power button. Your phone WILL turn off. Then bootloader > recovery > factory reset. Should be good.
Thanks for your suggestion.
The power button did -not- work I did repeatedly try holding it down for 15-20 seconds but it wouldnt turn off. Which is why I posed my problem here.
However the factory wipe did indeed work. It'd take a lot of time and effort to recover all the contents with my 150 kbyte/s internet but at least I know my baby (*strokes the back of the phone*) will be just fine.
maladore said:
Thanks for your suggestion.
The power button did -not- work I did repeatedly try holding it down for 15-20 seconds but it wouldnt turn off. Which is why I posed my problem here.
However the factory wipe did indeed work. It'd take a lot of time and effort to recover all the contents with my 150 kbyte/s internet but at least I know my baby (*strokes the back of the phone*) will be just fine.
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for future use if it wont reboot with holding the power button next time try it while holding the phone under a bright light. i know it sounds stupid but it works

[Q] Bootloop and Volume down not working

Hi folks. I think I may have kill by beloved m7.
The volume button was a bit sticky for a few weeks after I accidentally dropped it in a tiny puddle. The volume down only would stick about 80% of the time. I controlled volume down by using the volume up and then using the slider on screen.
Today I was loading a ROM, and when it booted it gave a few forced closures. Odd, as I always delete cache and dalvik cache prior to rebooting. Anyway, I turned off the device, rebooted, and to my horror it is now looping.
As the volume down is obviously sticking, I cannot get back into recovery through bootloader.
Is there anything I can do other than reboot it a million times and hope that the volume engages at some stage?
Just an update on this in case anyone else has the same issue - or if you have issues with your volume rocker.
Be very careful as it appears there is no way round it, and in effect the phone is permanently softbricked, Luckily I have insurance but it is going to take three to four weeks to sort out.

[Q] Could anyone please confirm if it's totally bricked?...

Verizon HTC One
I'll tell you guys the whole story of the phone, in case you find something related to the actual problem in here.
All started when a friend of mine got me interested in ROMs and other modification his phone had.
I learned by myself all I needed to in order to Root, Unlock, and S-Off my phone, also I wrote the SuperCID to it (11111111) and installed the Custom Recovery.
It gave me a little trouble, but it was all good at the end.
Now was the time of the truth. I was about to flash my first Mod ROM, which was Android Revolution HD 71.1 .
Seconds after a successful installation (yay) I go and decide to reboot my phone, only to realize that what I just had installed was a Mod ROM for AT&T (I think, at least not supported to mine) HTC One.
Thanks to this, my phone got stuck in a bootloop, that at first made me panic a little bit, but then I saw that I could still get to the bootloader, and after some days of reading and what not, I got it to work again. Fully working, everything from a stock RUU, all nice and pretty.
"Then, where is the real problem?" you may be asking. Here it goes:
5 minutes after I finally got it fixed, I got all and exited and decided to flash a ROM properly this time.
I put the ROM inside the phone's internal memory.
I reboot phone.
It gets into bootloader.
I go and choose Recovery.
Here's where the "whoops" happen.
Since I had just installed a brand new stocked RUU, the Recovery also returned to stock, which I didn't really think that would happen by then.
Obiously, or at least it was what I thought by then, to flash a ROM I need to flash a Custom Recovery first.
So, following, even though I had already chosen the "Recovery" option, and it loaded, while it was doing a god-knows-what, I turned my phone off, which I guess and would assume that interrupted some kind of important process.
After that, my phone rebooted, and I was like "Phew, ok"
But it wouldn't get past the white screen with the HTC logo. There, after some 6 to 8 seconds, it rebooted, infinitely. It wouldn't turn off either, just reboots.
Like, at first I thought I'd need to call an exorcist, the damn thing seemed like it had the devil inside or something, acting on his own.
Then I realized it was that I had just screwed up everything, again.
So, resume:
I turned off my phone while it was on a Recovery's process.
After that, the phone wouldn't get past the white HTC's logo screen.
It would reboot, load the logo, and, after some 6 to 8 seconds, reboot, infinitely.
It wouldn't turn off either, I had to wait for the battery to die. Also, after this, when I plugged it to his charger, it turned on on his own again (the devil!) and started the same rebooting process.
So, what do you guys think?
Should I really call it a total brick? Do you think there's a way to fix it? Should I consider throwing it into Holy Water?
Notes:
-Can't get into bootloader.
-Can't flash boot
-ADB doesn't works on phone. Yes, I already had all kind of drivers since before, it just doesn't now.
-Can't get to recovery either.
Please answer, I'm lonely, I have no friends.
q.q
By the way, not an usual english speaker, please forgive any gramatical errors you may find.
Thank you for reading.
Hold down the power button and the volume down together, keep holding them, don't let go, the lights on the bottom will flash 10-15 Times, when the phone goes off, let go of the power button, but continue to hold down the volume down button, the phone should boot back to the bootloader, devil gone, I think you know what to do from there, first get a custom recovery on there, or run the ruu which you ran before to get stock Rom back on it.
KomuroXV said:
Verizon HTC One
I'll tell you guys the whole story of the phone, in case you find something related to the actual problem in here.
All started when a friend of mine got me interested in ROMs and other modification his phone had.
I learned by myself all I needed to in order to Root, Unlock, and S-Off my phone, also I wrote the SuperCID to it (11111111) and installed the Custom Recovery.
It gave me a little trouble, but it was all good at the end.
Now was the time of the truth. I was about to flash my first Mod ROM, which was Android Revolution HD 71.1 .
Seconds after a successful installation (yay) I go and decide to reboot my phone, only to realize that what I just had installed was a Mod ROM for AT&T (I think, at least not supported to mine) HTC One.
Thanks to this, my phone got stuck in a bootloop, that at first made me panic a little bit, but then I saw that I could still get to the bootloader, and after some days of reading and what not, I got it to work again. Fully working, everything from a stock RUU, all nice and pretty.
"Then, where is the real problem?" you may be asking. Here it goes:
5 minutes after I finally got it fixed, I got all and exited and decided to flash a ROM properly this time.
I put the ROM inside the phone's internal memory.
I reboot phone.
It gets into bootloader.
I go and choose Recovery.
Here's where the "whoops" happen.
Since I had just installed a brand new stocked RUU, the Recovery also returned to stock, which I didn't really think that would happen by then.
Obiously, or at least it was what I thought by then, to flash a ROM I need to flash a Custom Recovery first.
So, following, even though I had already chosen the "Recovery" option, and it loaded, while it was doing a god-knows-what, I turned my phone off, which I guess and would assume that interrupted some kind of important process.
After that, my phone rebooted, and I was like "Phew, ok"
But it wouldn't get past the white screen with the HTC logo. There, after some 6 to 8 seconds, it rebooted, infinitely. It wouldn't turn off either, just reboots.
Like, at first I thought I'd need to call an exorcist, the damn thing seemed like it had the devil inside or something, acting on his own.
Then I realized it was that I had just screwed up everything, again.
So, resume:
I turned off my phone while it was on a Recovery's process.
After that, the phone wouldn't get past the white HTC's logo screen.
It would reboot, load the logo, and, after some 6 to 8 seconds, reboot, infinitely.
It wouldn't turn off either, I had to wait for the battery to die. Also, after this, when I plugged it to his charger, it turned on on his own again (the devil!) and started the same rebooting process.
So, what do you guys think?
Should I really call it a total brick? Do you think there's a way to fix it? Should I consider throwing it into Holy Water?
Notes:
-Can't get into bootloader.
-Can't flash boot
-ADB doesn't works on phone. Yes, I already had all kind of drivers since before, it just doesn't now.
-Can't get to recovery either.
Please answer, I'm lonely, I have no friends.
q.q
By the way, not an usual english speaker, please forgive any gramatical errors you may find.
Thank you for reading.
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Press POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons together to get in bootloader fastboot. Try until it works.
Post a fastboot getvar all as nobody has any ideea what did u flashed...
ERASE your IMEI and SERIAL before posting the report.
Seanie280672 said:
Hold down the power button and the volume down together, keep holding them, don't let go, the lights on the bottom will flash 10-15 Times, when the phone goes off, let go of the power button, but continue to hold down the volume down button, the phone should boot back to the bootloader, devil gone, I think you know what to do from there, first get a custom recovery on there, or run the ruu which you ran before to get stock Rom back on it.
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I kinda tried this before... it just reboots before the lights actually get o flash, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try again. I'll let you guys know if it works.
UPDATE:
Nope, it didn't work. Devil's still inside the phone. Can't even reach bootloader yet.
Also, lights never flashed. As I said, it reboots before the lights even blink.
Fain11 said:
Press POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons together to get in bootloader fastboot. Try until it works.
Post a fastboot getvar all as nobody has any ideea what did u flashed...
ERASE your IMEI and SERIAL before posting the report.
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Can't post "fastboot getvar all" since I can't even get to the bootloader and fastboot.
I don't think problem is anything I flashed. Last thing was the RUU, and you can trust it was 100% functional.
Hell came down after I turned off while in stock's Recovery.
KomuroXV said:
I kinda tried this before... it just reboots before the lights actually get o flash, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try again. I'll let you guys know if it works.
Can't post "fastboot getvar all" since I can't even get to the bootloader and fastboot.
I don't think problem is anything I flashed. Last thing was the RUU, and you can trust it was 100% functional.
Hell came down after I turned off while in stock's Recovery.
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If the phone is getting to the white screen with HTC logo then your bootloader is ok, a brick is when the phone won't switch on at all, you just got to keep trying to get into the bootloader, once there, you can just run the ruu again
Seanie280672 said:
If the phone is getting to the white screen with HTC logo then your bootloader is ok, a brick is when the phone won't switch on at all, you just got to keep trying to get into the bootloader, once there, you can just run the ruu again
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KomuroXV said:
UPDATE:
Nope, it didn't work. Devil's still inside the phone. Can't even reach bootloader yet.
Also, lights never flashed. As I said, it reboots before the lights even blink.
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If only I could find a way to the bootloader mode, I would be so happy.
q.q
KomuroXV said:
If only I could find a way to the bootloader mode, I would be so happy.
q.q
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Hold down the power button untill it shuts down.
If not, press POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons together, don't wait for any blinking lights.
KomuroXV said:
I kinda tried this before... it just reboots before the lights actually get o flash, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try again. I'll let you guys know if it works.
UPDATE:
Nope, it didn't work. Devil's still inside the phone. Can't even reach bootloader yet.
Also, lights never flashed. As I said, it reboots before the lights even blink.
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@Seanie280672 you forgot the bright light
OP:
B) Force reboot
Press and hold POWER + VOLDOWN (under a bright light, not kidding!!), after about 5 seconds or so buttons should start blinking, and after 30 seconds or so, the phone will reboot, let go of POWER, but keep holding VOLDOWN to get back to bootloader.
(you may need to try 2 or 3 times to get it right)​
the important part is when the phone reboots, let go of POWER but keep holding VOLDOWN
Fain11 said:
Hold down the power button untill it shuts down.
If not, press POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons together, don't wait for any blinking lights.
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I'm not really "waiting" for any lights. Right now it's turned off since the battery ran out a while ago.
What I do is that I:
-Plug it to the wall charger or computer.
-It turns on, on his own.
-But as soons as it tries, yes, I am pressing the Power+ Volume Down and never let it go.
-I also tried to, when the screen is the HTC's logo screen, hold Power + Volume Down until the screen went black, then I'd release the Power button leaving only the Volume Down in hold, didn't work either.
nkk71 said:
@Seanie280672 you forgot the bright light
OP:
B) Force reboot
Press and hold POWER + VOLDOWN (under a bright light, not kidding!!), after about 5 seconds or so buttons should start blinking, and after 30 seconds or so, the phone will reboot, let go of POWER, but keep holding VOLDOWN to get back to bootloader.
(you may need to try 2 or 3 times to get it right)​
the important part is when the phone reboots, let go of POWER but keep holding VOLDOWN
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Oh... yes, I've heard about the "bright light" to the sensor thing. I can tell also that it actually works.
If you hold the power button with the phone in front of a very bright light, you press power button, and no matter what the problem is it would actually turn off after some time. I did it and it worked, as in, it turned off.
But I've already tried pressing Power + Volume Down with the phone already turned off (having enough battery of course), but it didn't really work either, it just went into the same bootloop again.
I'd say it is that since I turned it off while in "stock Recovery" it was in the middle of something, as soon as the phone boots, it tries to boot in recovery, but it's giving me a some kind of error though, which causes it to reboot.
Back to trying a solution, since the phone is off but charged now, I'll try turning it on with Power + Volume Down WHILE I stuck it into a light bulb or something. Could some one please tell me too where is the "sensor" of this thing is located? I don't really know where am I supposed to be facing the phone, if back, or front, or side to the light.
KomuroXV said:
I'm not really "waiting" for any lights. Right now it's turned off since the battery ran out a while ago.
What I do is that I:
-Plug it to the wall charger or computer.
-It turns on, on his own.
-But as soons as it tries, yes, I am pressing the Power+ Volume Down and never let it go.
-I also tried to, when the screen is the HTC's logo screen, hold Power + Volume Down until the screen went black, then I'd release the Power button leaving only the Volume Down in hold, didn't work either.
Oh... yes, I've heard abot the "bright light" to the sensor thing. I can tell also that it actually works.
If you hold the power button with the phone in front of a very bright light, you press power button, and no matter what the problem is it would actually turn off after some time. I did it and it worked, as in, it turned off.
But I've already tried pressing Power + Volume Down with the phone already turned off (having enough battery of course), but it didn't really work either, it just went into the same bootloop again.
I'd say it is that since I turned it off while in "stock Recovery" it was in the middle of something, as soon as the phone boots, it tries to boot in recovery, but it's giving me a some kind of error though, which causes it to reboot.
Back to trying a solution, since the phone is off but charged now, I'll try turning it on with Power + Volume Down WHILE I stuck it into a light bulb or something. Could some one please tell me too where is the "sensor" of this thing is located? I don't really know where am I supposed to be facing the phone, if back, or front, or side to the light.
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2 little dots on the left front top, opposite the camera, if you have another phone available to you, use the flashlight on it, that's plenty bright enough at close range.
Seanie280672 said:
2 little dots on the left front top, opposite the camera, if you have another phone available to you, use the flashlight on it, that's plenty bright enough at close range.
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Did just that, right at those two little spots,but now the trick's not working, even though it had before, only I'm not sure if it was flashing to the two-little-spots.
Phone was charged and off. I turned it on holding Power+ Volume Down, with the phone's two spots facing straight to the flashlight.
It went straight into the bootloop still.
Are you sure it is there, and not right in the front or back camera?
Is it bricked?
So I decided to go running with my phone today in the morning. I used an old nike armband for iPhone, so nearly half of the phone was exposed to my arm. When I took it off, the exposed part of the phone, was sweaty, so I dried it off with my t shirt. The phone had a black screen. I tried to press and hold the power button until the phone rebooted, but all I got was a static screen for about one second. Afterwards, neither the screen nor button lights or LED indicator worked. I tried connecting the phone to the PC but nothing happened. It's an unlocked at&t HTC One m7 bought factory refurbished on ebay, running ViperOne custom ROM.
hugof99 said:
So I decided to go running with my phone today in the morning. I used an old nike armband for iPhone, so nearly half of the phone was exposed to my arm. When I took it off, the exposed part of the phone, was sweaty, so I dried it off with my t shirt. The phone had a black screen. I tried to press and hold the power button until the phone rebooted, but all I got was a static screen for about one second. Afterwards, neither the screen nor button lights or LED indicator worked. I tried connecting the phone to the PC but nothing happened. It's an unlocked at&t HTC One m7 bought factory refurbished on ebay, running ViperOne custom ROM.
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Well, unlike your case, my phone was actually 99.9% clean since I fixed it with the RUU. I don't think there's a ROM related issue with these reboots my phone has now.
Problem: Turned phone off while it was doing something inside stock's Recovery. Now got caught in an infinite reboot because of that,
It is actually something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HtJYcVAos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rai4nCciKBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5PCJYKaCrE
Just that mine is HTC One, and, well, besides from that screen it's also rebooting on his own every 8-10 seconds.
When you say you "turned it off" after selecting recovery, how did you do it?
I don't think that interrupting recovery when it's starting up ought to do anything.
Were you able to boot properly and use the phone after running the RUU?
My gut feeling is that there is some vestige of non-Verizon software on it gumming things up somehow.
You don't actually need to hold vol-down while pressing power. It will work just as well holding power until it stops blinking and then pressing vol-down as soon as the screen goes black. But you're saying that holding power down does nothing at all? It's just stuck in a continuous bootloop?
Have you tried seeing if it shows up in ADB?
iElvis said:
When you say you "turned it off" after selecting recovery, how did you do it?
I don't think that interrupting recovery when it's starting up ought to do anything.
Were you able to boot properly and use the phone after running the RUU?
My gut feeling is that there is some vestige of non-Verizon software on it gumming things up somehow.
You don't actually need to hold vol-down while pressing power. It will work just as well holding power until it stops blinking and then pressing vol-down as soon as the screen goes black. But you're saying that holding power down does nothing at all? It's just stuck in a continuous bootloop?
Have you tried seeing if it shows up in ADB?
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Just as it sounds. I pressed down the power button to turn it off while Recovery was starting, and soon after that, the infinite bootloop started.
The RUU was 100% good, and I tested everything I could before trying to flash a ROM again.
But, just in case, it was this one:
http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/11/verizon-ruu-zip-1-10-605-10-posted/
Anyway, as I said, after I checked everything around the phone, I went to bootloader, clicked recovery by accident, and on reflex turned it off pressing down the power button.
Since then, there's been an infinite bootloop, rebooting every 8 to 10 seconds.
Sadly, and I guess it's because it was freshly flashed from a RUU, I can't access through ADB either.
q-q
Since it's powering on, your phone should be fixable, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
I think the reason you're getting this bootloop is that it's trying to get into recovery--trying to complete the command you started--but something is preventing recovery from starting up. You likely did corrupt something by hard-rebooting in the middle of the process.
Fixing it will likely require some advanced methods in Linux. There is an unbricking thread in General--I would check in there for help.
Edit: It's in the Orginal Dev forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
iElvis said:
Since it's powering on, your phone should be fixable, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
I think the reason you're getting this bootloop is that it's trying to get into recovery--trying to complete the command you started--but something is preventing recovery from starting up. You likely did corrupt something by hard-rebooting in the middle of the process.
Fixing it will likely require some advanced methods in Linux. There is an unbricking thread in General--I would check in there for help.
Edit: It's in the Orginal Dev forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
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I've been trying to do this for days on my own (couldn't get help) but I finally managed to install a Unbuntu and run the sudo ./revive.sh
[email protected]:~$
[email protected]:~$ cd Downloads
[email protected]:~/Downloads$ chmod +x revive.sh
[email protected]:~/Downloads$ sudo ./revive.sh
HTC Unbricking Project M7_UL 0.6beta
Detecting bricked device..
Device can't be found, check connections. Aborting
The phone is actually connected to an USB 2.0 port, rebooting on his own still, but connected.
It's not detecting it though.
:/

Factory Reset issues

Hi all,
Putting up this post because I am at my wits end! I have had my Galaxy Tab S2 now for about a month. Just recently I would be using it and it would seem to start lagging a bit, and then without warning it would basically either power cycle, or just freeze and power off. Upon restarting, everything would go as per normal, and then after a few minutes it would happen again.
Went through the process of backing everything up so I could factory reset. This was a strange experience. The files would begin transferring to the backup media, and then the process would freeze, and the power cycle happen again. What made it strange was that if I kept touching the screen, the transfer would continue. Leave it to its own devices and it would freeze and power down or power cycle. Anyways, managed to get what I could off it. On to a factory reset.
Ensuring it was off, I pressed the power and volume up buttons, ending up with a screen with the android robot. Then it shows a screen with the android robot on its side and an exclamation mark above it. Finally to the recovery screen. Here things got a bit hinky too. I would use the volume up/down keys to move through the options available, and then found that the up/down buttons became unresponsive. Frustrated I touched the screen a couple of times and what do you know, the selected choice would move according to what volume button pressed. OK that's weird, and what do you know, after a while it reboots irregardless of choice.
Finally managed to get it to factory reset, wipe everything and on start launch into the setup procedure. "Yay" thought I, "Nay" thought the tablet. Now i'm stuck with a tablet that gets about halfway through the process, freezes, then reboots or powers off. Thing is, it ALWAYS seems to happen at a point in which keyboard interaction is required. I get about halfway through typing my name and snap.
So yeah I have no idea. I'm thinking it could have something to do with battery, however, this all still occurs even if it is plugged into a source. So before I go about trying to work out how to get the back off, I thought I would ask for some advice here!
Seriously, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Chyr0n
Get a new one.
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Yeah, it's new and is not rooted. Why not going thru warranty and get a new one?
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Stuck on "Galaxy S6" startup after wiping everything and rebooting

I was looking to start with a totally fresh phone, so I wiped everything -- cache, system, data, internal storage. I figured I'd load my ROM over from there and, failing that, push it over after getting into the bootloader. As it happened, I couldn't seem to mount the phone from TWRP and I couldn't shut it down properly to load into the bootloader. At this point, I managed to kinda shut down the phone, but now it's just stuck at the black "Samsung Galaxy S6" screen no amount of holding button combos is doing anything.
Am I just not holding long enough (30+ seconds)? Did I perhaps miss a combo? Or am I in trouble and should try to play dumb and get lucky at T-Mobile or on an insurance claim?
The answer is yes, I did miss a combo. Holding all four buttons for a bit got me a brief power down, and if I help vol-, home, and power at the same time I could get into download mode. From there, it was easy enough to get the stock firmware reloaded (once I found a laptop that would cooperate).

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