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[Q] Defy Boot Loop after flashing, cannot go to recovery anymore

So I used ROM Manger to go to recovery, then wiped. then install update.zip, which was cynanogen 7. then it installed only for some 20 secs. then my phone now keeps on boot looping only until motorola logo.
I removed battery, pressed volume down and power, then the phone went to triangle with exclamation mark and android, then here is the problem, i tried to press volume up and volume down: 1) at once quickly, 2) together hold 3) one at time, but no luck, a nothing happened, still stuck with the triangle.
looking for your advises, thanks in advance.

for got to mention, when i try "volume up + power" it goes boot load and as i have mention above when i press "volume down + power" it goes to triagle with android,
so im sure the three buttons are working.
is there a special speed on pressing the volume up and volume down button?
thanks.

i dont think theres a speed/time for pressing the buttons, so thats not the problem. do you have clockworkmod or any custom recovery on your phone, or just the stock?
Sent from my superfast CM7 Defy.

it is stock rom 2.1, but i have it rooted and installed ROM Manger and the Clockwork Mod for Defy installed. On the clockwork i chose "normal boot"

what other boot options do you have?
Sent from my superfast CM7 Defy.

before there I had three options, 1) Recevery boot 2) Normal Boot 3) off to boot
but now i cannot change this anymore, as the phone is stuck in the motoral log or that triangle thing...

before there I had three options, 1) Recevery boot 2) Normal Boot 3) off to boot
but now i cannot change this anymore, as the phone is stuck in the motoral log or that triangle thing...

If you are on 2.1, to access the stock boot menu you press the bottom right corner of the screen. From 2.2 up they changed it to pressing volume up/down at the same time (basically, pressing in the middle of the volume button).

karlo6184 said:
for got to mention, when i try "volume up + power" it goes boot load and as i have mention above when i press "volume down + power" it goes to triagle with android,
so im sure the three buttons are working.
is there a special speed on pressing the volume up and volume down button?
thanks.
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when you see android robot with triangle, then try to press the volume up & down together to enter stock recovery.

candra_aja said:
when you see android robot with triangle, then try to press the volume up & down together to enter stock recovery.
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he wrote it in the first post that it doesn't work!

zakoo2 said:
he wrote it in the first post that it doesn't work!
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yea, it because he did the wrong way. I have done it several times, I'm on miui right now with 2nd init installed, and when I reboot to stock recovery, I got green robot with triangle like him, BUT (still in that mode) I press the volume up and down at the same time (it's like pressing in the middle of volume button between up and down) for a few second. Then you will enter stock recovery. Try it

"1) at once quickly, 2) together hold" he tried everything, it's in the first post!

Thq...
its WORKs..

darule_2011 said:
If you are on 2.1, to access the stock boot menu you press the bottom right corner of the screen. From 2.2 up they changed it to pressing volume up/down at the same time (basically, pressing in the middle of the volume button).
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Exactly, press the screen!

awsome yeah it helped, first volume down and power until u see the droid and exclamation mark and then both volume down and up together and u enter recovery.
no one could ever explain this better. thanks!

[Q] So difficult to load Stock Recovery Mode! Why?!

Hi there, Guys.
I'm noticing that it's so difficult to load the Stock Recovery Mode! For example, when the device is off and I hold Volume Up + Home + Power, I can't load it if I hold them forever, just like I used to do on the first Note.
Basically, I need to stop holding them absolutely immediately after "Galaxy Note II - GT-7100" white letters disappears to have success loading it.
Is this normal or just with me?
If using CWM, this would be different? For example, My Galaxy Note has CWM and It loads so easily just holding the three buttons forever. I don't need to "respect this ultra fast time gap" after device white letters name appears to release buttons!
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Just noticed that actually I need to release the three buttons WHILE the "Galaxy Note II" white letters are still on the screen.
I'm confused. Can't understand this "time out" rule that messed up the "easyness" to enter Recovery Mode.

You'r not alone, i have this too. Is your device rooted ? Mine is (with chainfire method), maybe it's a side effect of rooting.
Edit: Thank for the tips on how to enter recovery mode, very useful ))

I can enter recovery easily by holding the three buttons, then when the white note 2 logo appears, let go of the power button and keep holding only the volume and home button until you get into recovery. Works every time.

spidermoon said:
You'r not alone, i have this too. Is your device rooted ? Mine is (with chainfire method), maybe it's a side effect of rooting.
Edit: Thank for the tips on how to enter recovery mode, very useful ))
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Yeah, I'm also rooted and using CF method!
And you're welcome!
MohJee said:
I can enter recovery easily by holding the three buttons, then when the white note 2 logo appears, let go of the power button and keep holding only the volume and home button until you get into recovery. Works every time.
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That's right, after some time and fails I'm used to it. Actually I don't release just Power Button, but all three buttons when white logo appears and it works also!

[Q] I forgot to flash GAPPs. What should I do?

Hey everyone,
I recently flashed the new Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC ROM but it didn't occur to me that I needed to flash a matching GAPPS as well (I'm new to the whole modding thing and the download page for CM10.1 didn't include the GAPP). So now I have Cyanogenmod 10.1 but no google apps, and apparently no access to the Clockworkmod Recovery I used to flash the ROM either. I've tried downloading just the Google Play APK but the app always closes immediately after I try to open it. I've also tried booting into recovery by holding Volume Down+Home+Power but when I am presented with the Warning page and I press Volume Up to continue, the ROM just boots into Cyanogen as if I pressed cancel instead. Is there anyway to either get my Google Apps back, or someone access CWM Recovery so I can ref lash Gapps?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Brian

Recovery is power+home+volume up
Just flash gapps once you're in recovery.
You should be fine
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2

jayRokk said:
Recovery is power+home+volume up
Just flash gapps once you're in recovery.
You should be fine
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
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I tried holding Power+Home+Volume Up but it just boots into Cyanogenmod as if nothing happened :S

Make sure your completely powered down first then try the power+volup+home button make sure all 3 are pressed down

Or, enable extended power menu under dev settings, then just hold down power, reboot, recovery

If you're going to enter recovery mode via the button combo, the most successful way is to press Vol up + home + power. When your device vibrates and you see the blue text in the top left corner of the screen, release just the power button

xBeerdroiDx said:
If you're going to enter recovery mode via the button combo, the most successful way is to press Vol up + home + power. When your device vibrates and you see the blue text in the top left corner of the screen, release just the power button
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YES IT WORKED! THANK YOU SO MUCH you have no idea how hard I was contemplating crying in fetal position
And thanks a lot for everyone else that helped too! Much MUCH appreciated!

[solved]I might have messed up somewhere Stock Recovery

So I downloaded the Stock Recovery from Mr Hofs Collection of Stock Recovery thread in General Section.
I flashed stock recovery, all went well. I attach picture of command prompt to show.
After I flashed it though and went to recovery it just gave me a black screen with a little phone in the middle, in the middle of the little phone was a red triangle with an upside exclamation mark. It was stuck like that for the better part of half an hour(pressed volume down with power, held power alone for minutes on end) nothing. No writing on it nothing.
Luckly as I was busy starting this thread now it just rebooted on its own and went back into the system. Is it totally fixed now or will it give me problems when I go into recovery? Should I go into recovery again?
How do I check if stock recovery is fine now or if there are any problems? I don't want it to hang and/or brick now.
Please if I made a mistake somewhere, tell me what I did wrong for future reference, I don't think I did anything wrong with commands
You can see at bottom of command prompt to, I even tried fastboot devices / adb devices to see if it picks anything up because I get the sound the computer makes when it's connected to USB so the computer at least picked up something.
Should I sell the phone now? lol

Boot again into recovery using the method you described. Once you see the android with red triangle image press and hold the volume up key and then press the power button while keeping the up button pressed. You'll enter the stock recovery.
This is the normal way of booting into stock recovery. You are fine!

umsheikh said:
Boot again into recovery using the method you described. Once you see the android with red triangle image press and hold the volume up key and then press the power button while keeping the up button pressed. You'll enter the stock recovery.
This is the normal way of booting into stock recovery. You are fine!
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I tried going back into recovery, got to the screen with the triangle and and pressed volume up and power button like you said. Instead of then taking me into stock recovery, it just vibrates and then reboots the phone.

BerndM14 said:
I tried going back into recovery, got to the screen with the triangle and and pressed volume up and power button like you said. Instead of then taking me into stock recovery, it just vibrates and then reboots the phone.
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hmm...i am running TWRP on GPE so i am not able to test this directly. Let's try one more time, but this time follow these steps:
- go back to recovery and wait for the red triangle screen
- wait for 5 - 10 seconds (don't think this is necessary, but try it anyways)
- this time press both volume up and down keys, and while holding them down press the power button
hopefully this will work. Otherwise i can try on a friends phone in the morning and give you the right combo.

umsheikh said:
hmm...i am running TWRP on GPE so i am not able to test this directly. Let's try one more time, but this time follow these steps:
- go back to recovery and wait for the red triangle screen
- wait for 5 - 10 seconds (don't think this is necessary, but try it anyways)
- this time press both volume up and down keys, and while holding them down press the power button
hopefully this will work. Otherwise i can try on a friends phone in the morning and give you the right combo.
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Same thing, just vibrates and then reboots

What are you hoping for? You have stock recovery installed now. You seem to have discovered why there are custom ones.

BenPope said:
What are you hoping for? You have stock recovery installed now. You seem to have discovered why there are custom ones.
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With no recovery options, is that right though? It doesn't show me anything written on the screen and when I press "up volume and power" this should take you to some options, it gives nothing, it just reboots.
Not right then? Or will it still work fine just as it is now for OTAs?
P.S I have tried all methods given by umsheikh, I downloaded quickboot to try it, I did an adb reboot recovery to see if I can go through there, did it manually, shut off, wait a bit, turn back on go to recovery press power, wait 10secs press up and power, nothing, all of them just reboots the phone. It's bugging me lol
If you say it's right though and there is no need for me to actually see the options that it gives and I'll still receive my OTAs etc then fine, I'll leave it then, but I don't think it's right, is it?

Getting into the options is fiddly, but it sounds right. Try fastboot erase cache

BenPope said:
Getting into the options is fiddly, but it sounds right. Try fastboot erase cache
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Thank you, clearing cache worked, I see options now in recovery :good:

Red Sign after flashing

Dear users,
after flashing twrp, they said go into recovery mode.
But if i do that i get a red warning sign.
Can someone help me?

To continue when that sign is up you need to hold volume up and the power button. Or hold power and press the volume up button.

NGalaxyTimmyo said:
To continue when that sign is up you need to hold volume up and the power button. Or hold power and press the volume up button.
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after 1 min it started the download mode and then i went to bootloader tried recovery again but i get the same red sign.

I had to hit both of those at the same time a couple times to go into it. It should take you in pretty much right away.

NGalaxyTimmyo said:
I had to hit both of those at the same time a couple times to go into it. It should take you in pretty much right away.
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Thanks now it worked.
I have another problem. i installed SuperSu but my phone get's stuck in boot..
i can get in to twrp , bootloader and download mode.