[Q] unable to get epic 4G into download mode - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i had to put phone back to stock and now i cant get the phone to go into donwload mode by pressing 1 and power button. is there another way to get into download mode?
Thanks in advance,

Pull out battery, press power button with battery out, hold it for a few secs. Put battery back in and download mode should work again.
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Leave the battery out hook it up to the computer and use the pc as the power source and try going into dlmode
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i tried that and still nothing , it just boots up like normal. no download mode.

is there another way to get to the download mode?

tried to use computer as power source on laptop and desktop but no luck any other suggestion/

Are you pressing and holding the 1 key on the keyboard and THEN add pressing and holding the power button? Order is important.
Does your 1 key work?
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1 button seem to work fine when trying to make a call . im lost

You didn't comment on my advice, did you give it a shot? I've semi-bricked my epic and that was what worked for me.
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@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.

biggmicmic said:
@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.
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When you say stock, do you mean el30? And is it rooted at least? Or does it have cwm? Maybe just maybe, but I think some custom roms had the option to go into download mode when you shut it off, if its rooted, perhaps you could install cwm from rom manager, boot up cwm, install a rom that has download mode from reboot, I think cwm from acs might even have reboot to download mode? Not sure on this one, just trying to go out on a limb and help if I can.
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They phone can't reboot with out the battery..

take the battery off...and keep it off for about 10 mins, and then put the battery back in, and try it... i do know this worked for me when i semi-bricked my phone. don't have it plugged in, into anything.

raresoul77 said:
They phone can't reboot with out the battery..
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Hold 1 (with the phone off)
Keep holding and start holding power
Bam
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[Q] incredible brick

My Incredible is bricked. It powers on and stays at the white screen that says "htc Incredible" no recovery, no bootloader, nothing. All I did at the time was place a rom on the root of my sd card then tried to flash it. From there I got this damn white screen of death. Is there a way to possibly salvage this expensive paperweight or do I have to go buy another phone?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can't even get into bootloader? (Reboot while holding power and volume down).
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adb is your best friend. adb reboot recovery, adb reboot. can use those instead of pulling battery
k_nivesout said:
You can't even get into bootloader? (Reboot while holding power and volume down).
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Try from a completely powered down state, as opposed to a reboot.
Edit: yes, I know that's what you meant, but he might not.
k_nivesout said:
You can't even get into bootloader? (Reboot while holding power and volume down).
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Completely powered down if I hold the volume and power button it vibrates 3 times and I get nothing after that just a black screen. The only way that I can get it to come on after that is pull the battery and and just use the power button only.
ACD168 said:
adb is your best friend. adb reboot recovery, adb reboot. can use those instead of pulling battery
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I am not a a veteran or expert at this so please go easy on me. What exactly is adb and how do I use it?
Got it fixed
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steaminhornedog said:
Got it fixed
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What was the fix?
steaminhornedog said:
Got it fixed
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Yes please explain the fix!
Not sure exactly. A friend of mine got me back into recovery somehow. From there I was able to flash my backup. I wish I knew how he did it.
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I'm in the same boat. I accidentally loaded an Incredible S ROM. I can get into hboot, but any of the options just take me back to the white screen.
Try plugging into the computer with the battery out. That could get you bootloader. It works like that on most androids.
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it didn't work. A buddy of mine said "If your hboot will let you switch into fastboot, then u can search on XDA there should be a way to wipe and flash a command line through usb if u can get fastboot" but I couldn't find anything on here about a command line. It does let me into fastboot.
Also it recognizes when the USB is connected.
Do you think that you could flash back to stock?
If you can get into hboot, you're all set. Go here and get the PB31IMG.zip file http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108
It's the RUU that will bring your phone back to stock. Put it on the root of your SD Card (use a card reader or any other way of connecting the sd card to your computer). Make sure it's labeled exactly PB31IMG.zip or it won't work.
Then put the sd card back in your phone. Get it back into hboot. After a few seconds it will ask if you want to update, press volume up to start the update. It will reboot and all will be fine again!
Thank you soooo much. It worked.
steaminhornedog said:
Completely powered down if I hold the volume and power button it vibrates 3 times and I get nothing after that just a black screen. The only way that I can get it to come on after that is pull the battery and and just use the power button only.
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Volume DOWN and power. Volume up and power does a hardware test where that is the response you should get. For it working.

[Q] flashed superwipe and battery fell out need help!

I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!
Can you get into recovery?
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no i cant
You can still get to ddownload mode. Hold power + volume up and down and plug in USB cable quick. Once you're in download mode use Odin and flash to stock
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how about download mode? Try to odin back to stock and start over.
i downloaded the stock files but cant figure out how to extract it and be able to get it on odin... sry im a newbie
i cant put it into download mode either
First put the files on the desktop so you can find it easily then open odin and go to PDA press it it will ask for a file go to the desktop and select the file. Next thing is shut your phone off take out the battery then replace it then plug the usb cable into the pc. After that then do as instructerd above hold down vol up and down and power and right away plug in the usb to the phone then follow the instructions on the screen. You should be in download mode. Once that is done your phone should register in odin you should see a yellow box with a com# then you are good to go. DO NOT CHECK ANYTHING IN ODIN ONLY WHAT I SAID ABOVE. make sure the file is there and press start let it do its thing it should take about 5 minutes or so depending on your pc. Good luck let me know how it goes
newtotheworld said:
I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!
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There you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears
xcrazydx said:
I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears
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I bet it will too! I've never not been able to get into CWM. This phone is very user friendly.
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thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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congrats, much better than having an expensive paperweight.
newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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it would be helpful for future reference for others to share your solution. But i'm thinking that it was just that you didn't know how to put it into recovery properly lol
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Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery
Odin
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Suriyan72 said:
Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery
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They say you can't help those people who doesnt want to be helped themselves.. you sound like one of those. You spent 20 seconds of your life writing this on the wrong forum.
How about more details on how it got to that state? What did you do?
Didn't do anything phone just rebooted and won't boot up and continues to vibrate
What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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rivas741 said:
Odin
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unable to enter download manager or recovery
I second the others. DETAILS MAN. DETAILS. are you rooted? What rom are you on? Gb or ics? Do you have a stock kernel or a custom kernel?
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DarthxTyler said:
What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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the last thing I did was play words with friends
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rfail1988 said:
And just to be clear... Are you saying your phone wont boot, or just wont enter recovery mode?
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rooted on darkside ucle beta 7 and it wont boot up or enter recovery. i take the battery out and put it in and the samsung logo shows up and then screen turns black and starts to vibrate
You might be hard bricked unfortunately :-/ someone posted here recently how to unsoftbrick yourself although i didnt read it. It might be your saving grace. Otherwise... See if odin can flash you back to stock. If that doesnt save you then pray that the T mobile gods have mercy on your soul...
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Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the retail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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rivas741 said:
Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the ratail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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cant it shows the darkside boot animation for a little before it goes black and vibrates
Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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rfail1988 said:
Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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it wont go into recovery and odin recognizes the phone for about 5 seconds before it reboots and vibrates again.
What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
Odin will work you just have to get to download mode. Unless you really messed up something you should still be able to gert into download mode. The phone should not reboot once in download mode. Try pulling the battery then reinserting it but do not turn on the phone then plug the usb wire into the pc then hold both vol buttons and power and insert the usb right away hold until you see it enter download mode then follow the instuctions on the screen. You press vol up to continue into download mode or vol down to cancel and reboot.
Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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mojorisin7178 said:
What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
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pulling out the battery, plugging the usb in, then putting in the battery and holding the volume and power button down, its shows the download screen then reboots
Fly2Deaf said:
Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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my phone has been vibrating forever now, probably wont stop until the battery dies out
May sound dumb, but pull out battery and hold power button for 15 seconds? Lol
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[Q] PLEASE HELP I think i bricked my Galaxy s3 for good :(

No flash will turn on or download mode, I hold Vol Up +Down button and nothing. Tried taking of battery and nothing....I was using CWM recovery to flash a overclock kernal. But installation aborted so i reinstalled the kernal i had before. After that i rebooted system and from there it stayed off :with 90% battery life. Any Idea on how to fix?
That's a bummer...have you googled unbricking the sgs3? Maybe try making a jig..super easy to do and saved my arse a few times! Good luck
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So the phone won't turn on at all? Not even a short vibrate?
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Remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and immediately hold down home, volume up, and power. As soon as it vibrates let go of power while still holding down home and volume up. Should get you to recovery mode.
gonna echo try using a jig.
Try volume up (or down, I forget) + power + home button all the same time. If it doesn't work by itself, try plugging the phone into your computer at the same time.
Worked for me when I flashed the euro mods when sgs3 first came out
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knifepartysas said:
No flash will turn on or download mode, I hold Vol Up +Down button and nothing. Tried taking of battery and nothing....I was using CWM recovery to flash a overclock kernal. But installation aborted so i reinstalled the kernal i had before. After that i rebooted system and from there it stayed off :with 90% battery life. Any Idea on how to fix?
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its alrite its a hard brick if it wont even turn on samsung will have no clue of noticing you had a custom os. i had a hardbrick before too its free cuz its still in warranty for the next 2 yrs give samsung a try just call em up and say the new samsung software update ****ed up your phone cuz i said the same thing and they fixed it

[Q] Unusual Brick

I was performing a recovery last night after trying a couple of different ROMs using TWRP 2.5.0.0. This morning I tried to turn on the phone but there was no power to the screen. The most I could get it to do was have the power LED show when plugged in, or briefly show the charge screen when it's plugged in as well.
I am still able to get into Download Mode, so I tried going back to stock with LGNPST. I noticed under Model it shows Unknown. After flashing, it'll just bootloop to the LG screen and still won't even bother powering when unplugged. Before or after flashing, I was unable to get into Recovery Mode.
The last ROM I was on was SuperNexus, attempting recovery to Lifeless. Or at least I'm pretty sure it was Lifeless, as it was one of the few ROMS where camera natively works.
The only other clue I can give to this problem is that I told TWRP to recover EVERYTHING, including things like cache. This never gave me a problem before, so this is unusual. The backup, to my knowledge, didn't have compression. Another oddity I found before performing the recovery is that the recovery files were not immediately available. I had to tap on my storage directory and select internal storage.
I didn't find this topic with the keywords I searched for, so little scary if this is the first problem of its kind. Any ideas?
If LGNPST boot loops then all you have to do is factory reset.
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sharkboy0901 said:
If LGNPST boot loops then all you have to do is factory reset.
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How would I factory reset if I cannot get into Recovery Mode?
Hiyoto said:
How would I factory reset if I cannot get into Recovery Mode?
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Can you ADb install/side load the recovery ? Can't remember the exact commands but I'm certain a quick Google should tell you,
Something to note, I think the phone's dependant upon USB power on the observation that the LG screen cuts out as soon as I pull the plug.
spleef said:
Can you ADb install/side load the recovery ? Can't remember the exact commands but I'm certain a quick Google should tell you,
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If he did lgnpst he isn't rooted or unlocked.
I think you should connect the charger on the wall for a good while, same thing happened to me I thought I bricked so I left it on the charger for like an hour and then I was able to get into recovery.
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spleef said:
Can you ADb install/side load the recovery ? Can't remember the exact commands but I'm certain a quick Google should tell you,
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The only mode I can get into so far is Download Mode. Does that state receive ADB commands, or does it only talk with LGNPST?
Hiyoto said:
The only mode I can get into so far is Download Mode. Does that state receive ADB commands, or does it only talk with LGNPST?
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I didn't think it out good enough like sharky said your not rooted or unlocked so it wouldn't work.... Sorry 4 bad advice
Just tried flashing a TinyBeen recovery as those have traditionally been more reliable for me than stock recovery. Still a no-go for booting into Recovery. I go through the key-presses and it'll go to a black, unpowered screen. I'll press the keys for Recovery mode and it goes back into its bootloop. Screen for loop this time is charge indicator.
Try holding down the power button and the volume down button, after the led lights flash release the power button while still holding down the volume down button. That should get you to stock recovery to factory wipe
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turn off the phone completely, then hold the vol down, power, and where the home button is at the same time til the captive lights flash then let go. this will get you into stock recovery where you can do a factory reset. this will erase ALL DATA is the only downside
sharkboy0901 said:
If he did lgnpst he isn't rooted or unlocked.
I think you should connect the charger on the wall for a good while, same thing happened to me I thought I bricked so I left it on the charger for like an hour and then I was able to get into recovery.
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Were you on a nearly dead charge? My phone was left on my computer the entire night. My USB ports maintain power after shutdown so I'm able to charge of my PC. My battery should have a full charge. I'm wondering if it needs a genuine battery pull or if memory has been corrupted as LGNPST doesn't recognize what it is anymore.
kmull4 said:
Try holding down the power button and the volume down button, after the led lights flash release the power button while still holding down the volume down button. That should get you to stock recovery to factory wipe
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damn you for being 3 minutes faster than me!!!!! lol
javskies said:
turn off the phone completely, then hold the vol down, power, and where the home button is at the same time til the captive lights flash then let go. this will get you into stock recovery where you can do a factory reset. this will erase ALL DATA is the only downside
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Recovery Mode is unattainable on either stock or TinyBeen recovery.
Hiyoto said:
Were you on a nearly dead charge? My phone was left on my computer the entire night. My USB ports maintain power after shutdown so I'm able to charge of my PC. My battery should have a full charge. I'm wondering if it needs a genuine battery pull or if memory has been corrupted as LGNPST doesn't recognize what it is anymore.
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Yes I was on a nearly dead charge, no led nothing not even download mode.
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Hiyoto said:
Recovery Mode is unattainable on either stock or TinyBeen recovery.
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Not true, I factory wiped from stock recovery after I lgnpst using this method. The directions are in irc.
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kmull4 said:
Not true, I factory wiped from stock recovery after I lgnpst using this method. The directions are in irc.
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For myself and this particular hardware recovery is non-functional.
Attempted a reflash to stock in order to try recovery one more time. Still a no-go. Once the capacitive lights are lit, it just powers down. What would cause LGNPST to not recognize the hardware?
Le sigh... I think it's officially a paperweight unless LG is willing to take another look at it. At least it's on stock, so I have a small chance.
Damn, maybe the device is too low to access recovery. The only the thing I can think of is taking off the back and do a manual battery pull. If that doesn't solve the problem then send it in. Good luck man
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Hiyoto said:
Le sigh... I think it's officially a paperweight unless LG is willing to take another look at it. At least it's on stock, so I have a small chance.
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Pwr Off (by holding onto power button for like 30 seconds). Vol down + power... wait until buttons light up. Immediately release power button while still holding vol down. You will boot into stock recovery. Select Factory Reset.

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