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[Q] Question?? Please help!!

Wanting to know if i skip the, go into downloading mode, on the official upgrade will it brick my phone? Im asking this mainly because everything ive tried will not bring my captivate into recovery or dl mode. And i haven't been able to really find any help on getting past the 3 button problem. And samsun recomended i reboot the phone! But hope someone can help, would like to get 2.2 asap!

I recommend fixing your button combo just in case something goes wrong. What firmware is on your phone now? If you have a ROM with the advanced power menu you can use that to get into recovery. You can also use the adb reboot recovery command or use terminal emulator if the phone is rooted and type:
Code:
su
reboot recovery
Then install the attached file. You can also get into download mode the same way, but the first thing I would do is fix the button combos.

Currently I have jf6 cause somehow the ota update was never received! But what would be the best route for fixing my 3button recovery/dl mode? I would love to fix it before updateing to 2.2! Thanks for helping BTW!

[Q] Samsung Captivate HELP PLEASe

So let me summarize what i have done so far. I have a samsung captivate. THe power button has stopped functioning and am out of warranty and stuff. Last week I thought I would root my phone and flash a Rom. But unfortunately I needed the power button to navigate through the recovery menu. So I looked at a lot of forums for ways around it, but nothing worked. I tried cwm too but that dint work either. Eventually I reset my phones to factory setting and formatted everything. But sadly, not my phone keeps restarting every 5 seconds or so unless its plugged in a charger. I tried resetting multiple times and tried looking online for solutions, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be highly appreciated it. And on a side note, will it be possible to flash a custom Rom with my power button not working?
Thanks a lot in advance

evilkungfupanda said:
So let me summarize what i have done so far. I have a samsung captivate. THe power button has stopped functioning and am out of warranty and stuff. Last week I thought I would root my phone and flash a Rom. But unfortunately I needed the power button to navigate through the recovery menu. So I looked at a lot of forums for ways around it, but nothing worked. I tried cwm too but that dint work either. Eventually I reset my phones to factory setting and formatted everything. But sadly, not my phone keeps restarting every 5 seconds or so unless its plugged in a charger. I tried resetting multiple times and tried looking online for solutions, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be highly appreciated it. And on a side note, will it be possible to flash a custom Rom with my power button not working?
Thanks a lot in advance
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Buy or make yourself a jig - that will get you into download mode, and you can flash a kernel with CWM baked in. You can get to recovery mode via ADB if you need to (command is ADB REBOOT RECOVERY), and once you're there, quite a few of the versions of CWM will allow up/down with the menu/home keys and selection with the search key.
As for your power button, if you haven't tried cleaning it, look around the forum - there are some options for trying to get it cleaned and working that way first. If that doesn't do it, the member connexion2005 (Josh at mobiletechvideos.com) offers a power button replacement service (as far as I know) for a nominal fee.

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. I think I will just get a jig, its much easier. So if I get the phone in download mode, I can flash any Rom I want?

Uhhh nope...
See the Stock Master Collection Stickied Thread in the Dev Forum.---Here ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18370235
Post 3 in that thread has the latest stock release officially for the captivate. GB 2.3.5 i897ucKK4
After u have Stock (whatever u choose), u can follow TRusselo's Guide that is a Stickied Thread in this Q & A forum. Here---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19425513&postcount=1
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium

If you are in a boot loop and want to get to download mode try this:
Code:
adb wait-for-device reboot download
NOTE: You must have ADB on your computer or you can extract it from the utility in my signature.

Red_81 said:
If you are in a boot loop and want to get to download mode try this:
Code:
adb wait-for-device reboot download
NOTE: You must have ADB on your computer or you can extract it from the utility in my signature.
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I had one more quick question. I finally figured out how to use adb. So when i try to go into the bootloader using adb bootloader. My phone just restarts. Also when i tried going into adb shell it said system/bin/sh not found. So i went into my root explrorer and checked out system/bin. The sh and bootloader files were not there. I am not sure if they are supposed to be there or not. If they are missing. How do I get them back?
Here is what i was doing
adb reboot bootloader - phone restarts
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img to flash a custom recovery-the cmd promt jus says waiting for device and doesnt do anything
PS: Is there any way to control the recovery menu using adb/cmd promt?
Thanks a lot guys for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
Thanks

Sounds like you killed your system partition with the reformat. Try putting it into download mode and then using a one-click Odin package to flash your phone back to life. You're going to have an issue with flashing things through CWM without a power button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300843

Thank you so much for your help. I was finally able to flash my phone back to stock Froyo. I realized that I can put my phone
in download mode and flash a rom using odin. My last question is that is there a rom for ICS that I can flash using odin.
I tried googling and searching xda for "flash ics captivate odin" but could not find anything. So do u guys know any Rom that I can flash using odin. All the ones that i found were zip files which does not work for odin.

D950 g flex bricked only boots to twrp recovery can't boot to download mode. Help

Hey guys as the title States I have my old d950 g flex that I ended up selling to a friend. The phone was rooted on the stock ROM, well all was good when I sold him the phone but being is a unlocked at&t phone when we got it did automatic ota updates which at that point bricked the phone. So now at this point the phone only boots to custom twrp recovery . shows the LG logo then goes straight to twrp every time. I've tried wiping the data, DAV cache, etc still to no avail to fix the boot. Now I've tried to get it into download mode so that I can flash it back to stock but the phone will not enter download mode. Every time it still goes to twrp. Is there a way to force it to Download mode so i can flash back to stock using rhe flash tool. And or even a way just to flash back to stock without the flash tool and download mode ? I've been searching and trying to get to work for days to no avail. So if you guys could help I'd greatly appreciate at the point were I'm about to just throw the phone in a fire and then have to give my friend his money so I'd really not want to do that lol so please help if you can. Thanks in advance

Try to go into download mode and reinstall your original d950 rom

alexldt1 said:
Try to go into download mode and reinstall your original d950 rom
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Dude the thread title says I can't get into download mode trying to figure out how if I could get into download there wouldn't be a problem

Anyone that's not a troll that can't actually be of help I really need to figure this can some please help out I know you some of you guys have dealt with this before someone has to know

Update:*** So after searching the internet for days finally found out this fix for bootloop (recovery or normal bootloop) because of the phone being stuck in twrp recovery upon boot it would not let me go into download mode. I did this fix.." http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/fix-stuck-custom-recovery-trying-ota-t2907508 "and phone immediately booted as normal then was able to flash back to stock using flash tool as ive been trying to do for days now so if anyone has bootloop issues forward to this thread

If you had CWM you could of downloaded a file that will force your phone into download mode.

Note 4 stuck in TWRP boot loop after factory reset of CM 12

About a month ago I flashed CM 12 onto my Note 4 with no problem and the phone worked great. However, I have now purchased a new phone to replace my old device and wanted to give my Note 4 to my mom and so I factory reset the device in CM 12. Now the phone is stuck in a TWRP bootloop and I have tried numerous times to access the recovery mode (power + vol. up + home button) but to no avail I cannot access recovery mode on the device.
I have tried flashing the stock ROM using Odin, but it did not work because when attempting to flash the stock all I get is an error (imgur .com/ THOYjjI) [remove the spaces, sorry the photo was taken using my phone as I was using my mom's Windows laptop for Odin and pasted the text into notepad] I am able to access the download mode (power + vol. down + home button)
I have even tried ADB and Fastboot, but I was unable to figure out to properly work the command prompt as well as configure the phone at the same time
I hate to sound desperate, but I have been trying to remedy this problem for about 2 days now and I am getting extremely frustrated at this point as I feel as though I have scoured the internet for any possible answer. Anyone please help I appreciate any input.

BunniiButt said:
About a month ago I flashed CM 12 onto my Note 4 with no problem and the phone worked great. However, I have now purchased a new phone to replace my old device and wanted to give my Note 4 to my mom and so I factory reset the device in CM 12. Now the phone is stuck in a TWRP bootloop and I have tried numerous times to access the recovery mode (power + vol. up + home button) but to no avail I cannot access recovery mode on the device.
I have tried flashing the stock ROM using Odin, but it did not work because when attempting to flash the stock all I get is an error (imgur .com/ THOYjjI) [remove the spaces, sorry the photo was taken using my phone as I was using my mom's Windows laptop for Odin and pasted the text into notepad] I am able to access the download mode (power + vol. down + home button)
I have even tried ADB and Fastboot, but I was unable to figure out to properly work the command prompt as well as configure the phone at the same time
I hate to sound desperate, but I have been trying to remedy this problem for about 2 days now and I am getting extremely frustrated at this point as I feel as though I have scoured the internet for any possible answer. Anyone please help I appreciate any input.
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I see you are pushing COD6, were you on DOK2 prior to installing CM? If so, you cannot odin cod6, only DOK2 and above.
Alternatively, if twrp is jacked up, can you repush twrp from odin for a fresh recovery?
One more edit....you reset from within cm, correct? Have you tried reseting from twrp? You didn't reset in twrp and wipe the system did you?

I apologize, but could you please "dumb" down what you said...
When I factory reset my Note 4 the device was running Cyanogenmod 12 nightly and I did not think to go to the TWRP recovery before hand and had simply factory reset the phone through Cyanogenmod. The phone is currently stuck in the "teamwin" boot loop and if possible I would like to flash the stock ROM or just at least boot into Cyanogenmod. I believe the phone is bricked at this point and if possible I would like to save it.

If someone could kindly explain in layman's terms and detail how to use ADB and Fastboot to possibly fix the device. I would appreciate it. Thank you.

BunniiButt said:
I apologize, but could you please "dumb" down what you said...
When I factory reset my Note 4 the device was running Cyanogenmod 12 nightly and I did not think to go to the TWRP recovery before hand and had simply factory reset the phone through Cyanogenmod. The phone is currently stuck in the "teamwin" boot loop and if possible I would like to flash the stock ROM or just at least boot into Cyanogenmod. I believe the phone is bricked at this point and if possible I would like to save it.
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Do you know what touch wiz base it was on prior to loading CM? If it was the latest 5.1.1 (firmware ending in DOK2), then the firmware 5.0.1 (COD6) that you are trying to Odin will be blocked (security related). If you don't know, I would try DOK2 or EPE3 (6.0.1). Honestly Marshmallow has been great on my device and I left CM to go back to stock touch wiz with Systemless root.
Edit: if you load DOK2 or EPE3, you will be blocked from downgrading.
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BunniiButt said:
If someone could kindly explain in layman's terms and detail how to use ADB and Fastboot to possibly fix the device. I would appreciate it. Thank you.
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I can't help here with Samsung devices. I only use ADB with my nexus devices and only Odin with Sammy.

nine5raptor said:
Edit: if you load DOK2 or EPE3, you will be blocked from downgrading.
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When flashing CM 12 I believe I had the latest version of Marshmallow, but since you are saying that I will blocked that means I cannot flash my phone to stock ROM?

Dok2=lollipop pe3=marshmallow you can't downgrade the bootloader from dok2 to cod6 for security... but you can flash stock dok2 instead... OR the new pe3 mm update throught odin. (you can get these from sammobile) Have you tried pulling your battery reinsert in it and booting into recovery? If that's not working. Into download mode and reflashing twrp with odin?

Help with TWRP

HI Guys, Hoping this is the right place to ask this question, first a little of context
My Device is a Samsung J7 Prime G610M, the home button is totally damaged, im trying to root my device for the 1st time, as far as i know i need TWRP in order to do this, im able to access download mode using ADB (adb reboot Download) i am able to flash the TWRP of this thread (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga.../recovery-twrp-3-2-0-galaxy-j7-prime-t3716355) everything goes well and the flash is complete.
However im not able to access the custom recovery, i enter adb reboot recovery but instead of TWRP i got the standard android recovery (blue letter, dark background). i don't know if im doing something wrong or if TWRP is not accessible under ADB commands.
can you give me some ideas to complete this? i tried looking for a pre-rooted rom to install using odin with no results, ive tried using adb and fastboot modes with no success.
thanks for the help.

say, this is a long shot but,
after you flashed twrp in Odin, did you untick the auto reboot (in odin)?
if you didn't....

rocky78 said:
say, this is a long shot but,
after you flashed twrp in Odin, did you untick the auto reboot (in odin)?
if you didn't....
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yes i did, the problem is that i can not enter recovery mode in the usual way (hold power+home and power), im working right now on a way to accomplish this, involves downgrading, rooting and reinstall everything.
keep posted.

Mase_sanchez said:
HI Guys, Hoping this is the right place to ask this question, first a little of context
My Device is a Samsung J7 Prime G610M, the home button is totally damaged, im trying to root my device for the 1st time, as far as i know i need TWRP in order to do this, im able to access download mode using ADB (adb reboot Download) i am able to flash the TWRP of this thread (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga.../recovery-twrp-3-2-0-galaxy-j7-prime-t3716355) everything goes well and the flash is complete.
However im not able to access the custom recovery, i enter adb reboot recovery but instead of TWRP i got the standard android recovery (blue letter, dark background). i don't know if im doing something wrong or if TWRP is not accessible under ADB commands.
can you give me some ideas to complete this? i tried looking for a pre-rooted rom to install using odin with no results, ive tried using adb and fastboot modes with no success.
thanks for the help.
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Try to root using cf auto root
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ot-cf-auto-root-j7-prime-sm-g610f-sm-t3656072