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Cannot Get Into Recovery Mode

Hello,
I'm having an issue where I cannot get into recovery using the three-button method. If the phone boots, I can get into recovery using CWM, but otherwise, I cannot. Can somebody help me with this issue?
The rom i'm using is a stock rooted UVLH2 and i'm also using the stock kernel. I did install CWM Touch Recovery 6.0.1.2 using Odin. I'm hoping it's not the fact that it's the touch recovery, but it shouldn't be because earlier I was able to get into recovery using the buttons but now I cannot.
Thanks in advance.

Turn off your phone and hold down the Volume Up, Home, and the Power buttons together until the screen turns on. Let go of the buttons and your phone should now boot into ClockworkMod Recovery.
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-sgh-t999-t-mobile-clockworkmod-recovery-99303/

I'm doing that and it won't let me into the recovery mode. It'll show the Galaxy S3 boot up logo and then boot up again normally.

With the t mobile version it's a little different. First hold down volume down and home button then apply the power button, let it boot then let go off power button and keep holding the other two buttons till you're in cwm
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Yeah sorry guys, but I did figure out why it wouldn't go into recovery. . . . .i was holding the buttons for too long. I guess you're not supposed to hold it until the Galaxy S3 screen pops up. Either way I feel really dumb now because I've never had problems before and struggling like this is quite stupid. . . LOL either way, thanks for your help guys.

azngoose said:
Yeah sorry guys, but I did figure out why it wouldn't go into recovery. . . . .i was holding the buttons for too long. I guess you're not supposed to hold it until the Galaxy S3 screen pops up. Either way I feel really dumb now because I've never had problems before and struggling like this is quite stupid. . . LOL either way, thanks for your help guys.
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Glad it wasn't only me running into this.
I had posted on a recovery thread and then found out I was apparently holding the buttons too long. When you see a line of blue text show up at the top - let the buttons go.

If you're rooted an easy way is select reboot recovery in rom mgr or goo mgr.
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Yeah those two ways are good. If you have root i really like Quick Boot. You can even have a one press recovery widget with this app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot
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i try understanding :good:

azngoose said:
Yeah sorry guys, but I did figure out why it wouldn't go into recovery. . . . .i was holding the buttons for too long. I guess you're not supposed to hold it until the Galaxy S3 screen pops up. Either way I feel really dumb now because I've never had problems before and struggling like this is quite stupid. . . LOL either way, thanks for your help guys.
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did the same thing, glad you figured i out!

Think I bricked my phone...

As soon as I put the battery in my phone, it till vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and keep doing this non stop with a black screen. i haven't even been able to get into download mode, as soon as i put my battery in it just start booting immediately.
what can i do? no idea where this came from ;(

Let it sit for an hour on the charge and don't touch it and them come back tell me what happen bye
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don728871 said:
Let it sit for an hour on the charge and don't touch it and them come back tell me what happen bye
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Samsung logo came up, then for 2 seconds the AOKP boot animation came up, and now it just keeps doing what it was doing in the first place. black screen, vibrate every few seconds.

Can u go to cwm recovery
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Take out the battery and than put it back in hold volume up and down and see if u can go to the cwm
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darkness122 said:
As soon as I put the battery in my phone, it till vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and vibrate, and keep doing this non stop with a black screen. i haven't even been able to get into download mode, as soon as i put my battery in it just start booting immediately.
what can i do? no idea where this came from ;(
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I had this happen to me too. I thought it was a software problem as well but its the power button. What I did was Odin back to stock and unrooted it. Went to T-Mobile since problem was still happening and they ordered me a new s2 and yeah

don728871 said:
Can u go to cwm recovery
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cant man i hold down the vol up down and power button, its like im not even holding them down, it just keeps vibrating, pause, vibrate, pause, vibrate, pause.

Calz- said:
I had this happen to me too. I thought it was a software problem as well but its the power button. What I did was Odin back to stock and unrooted it. Went to T-Mobile since problem was still happening and they ordered me a new s2 and yeah
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i cant even get into download mode tho, the second i put the battery in my phone it just starts trying to boot

darkness122 said:
i cant even get into download mode tho, the second i put the battery in my phone it just starts trying to boot
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Try to beat it, its frustrating. You have to be quick. I was doing that fast. Once you go into cwm recovery use the bottom buttons of our phone to navigate thru it.

Calz- said:
Try to beat it, its frustrating. You have to be quick. I was doing that fast. Once you go into cwm recovery use the bottom buttons of our phone to navigate thru it.
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i made in to the warning screen, but then it restarts and does the vibrate, pause, vibrate pause, with a black sceen
fuuuark even in download mode, i press the vol up key to get into into it fast as hell, but it goes black and restarts and does the vibrate pause vibrate pause..

darkness122 said:
i made in to the warning screen, but then it restarts and does the vibrate, pause, vibrate pause, with a black sceen
fuuuark even in download mode, i press the vol up key to get into into it fast as hell, but it goes black and restarts and does the vibrate pause vibrate pause..
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Dam I would try to push and hold down the power button while doing all that. You know to counter it. Idk I'm just guessing now. Sorry I couldn't help much.
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Calz- said:
Dam I would try to push and hold down the power button while doing all that. You know to counter it. Idk I'm just guessing now. Sorry I couldn't help much.
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its fine man, i think im royally ****ed. not sure what to do at this point. luckily i like literally backed up my apps/texts the night before this stuff happened.
i REALLY hope the boot screen animation doesn't pop up when i bring it into t-Mobile, im afraid they wouldn't replace my phone in that case.

Get a jig stick it in the phone, then insert the battery... Should get you in download mode.
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spagman72 said:
Get a jig stick it in the phone, then insert the battery... Should get you in download mode.
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where do i get a jig from?

try this it will boot your phone into recovery automatically as long as your computer recognizes your phone. just open up the application bat file on computer within 2-3 secs it boots you straight to recovery. good luck.

Dude it sounds like your power button could be stuck the way your making it sound

darkness122 said:
where do i get a jig from?
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Look on eBay you can get them for pocket change there
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casonswag said:
Dude it sounds like your power button could be stuck the way your making it sound
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i think this must be it... cus i managed to get it to boot, and everything loaded fine. but as soon as it got past the boot animation, the toggle that has power off, screenshot, etc (the thing that pops up when you hold the power button on) comes up immediatly.
how can i fix this bs?

Either you have a defective button or you need to clean it because it might be getting stuck for some apparent reason .

ok so i for sure have a stuck power button... im gonna go to t-Mobile tomorrow to try to get this sorted out.
thing is, im on the latest AOKP nightly, are they gonna **** me over on my insurance policy (the like 3-4 bucks you pay a month to tmobile) cus I rooted my phone?

darkness122 said:
ok so i for sure have a stuck power button... im gonna go to t-Mobile tomorrow to try to get this sorted out.
thing is, im on the latest AOKP nightly, are they gonna **** me over on my insurance policy (the like 3-4 bucks you pay a month to tmobile) cus I rooted my phone?
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Mostly likely yes if the tmobile knows its not stock. They could say it was your fault by saying you put a defective rom on your phone that's not factory. They try to get out of s**t all the time. But you could get lucky. But if I were you I would restore it to factory before I took it to the store. Just to be on the safe side.

OMG! Have I bricked my phone?

Ok...short history.
Had Frosty JB on my phone, but being a flash-whore, I downloaded Slimbean to try out.
Did all the usual wipes, and on the main recovery screen, instead of choosing to find the zip file, I chose Roboot. I didn't think that would cause any problem. Just go back into recovery and choose the zip file.
Uh oh....now I can't seem to get back into recovery. When I try the different button arrangements, all I do is go to the main "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo....and it never changes.
Am I f****d?
Help! I've flashed ROMs on my Vibrant a 1000 times, and was having no problems with my new SG3, and now this.

Is slim an international rom?
If you can get to logo thers hope for now.
Try download mode. Hold volume down, home and power. Then press vol up when asked. Connect to pc and use Odin to flash stock firmware.
For recovery, hold volume up, home and power. When you see the blue text flash at top of screen release power but hold other two until you get recovery.
Only flash roms and mods from this forum!
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Try power + home + volume up to get into recovery. Something similar happened to me where volume down + power would not let me into recovery, but the other combo would.

Keep trying different combos for recovery or download mode, as long as it's on it should be recoverable
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If it boots to the logo screen then it is still alive... Are you on twrp? If so then hold volume up+ Home + Power. As soon as you see the blue little letters on top left then let go of power. Once you see the logo then let go completely. Always works for me when I try to enter recovery that way. Can be tricky at times.
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You guys are the BEST!!!!!
I thought for sure I tried all of those combinations, but I must have missed one. Got into recovery.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

TFordham said:
You guys are the BEST!!!!!
I thought for sure I tried all of those combinations, but I must have missed one. Got into recovery.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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Glad you got things straightened out. I soft-bricked my phone two days ago and I deeply know the feeling, we all do. I frantically paced around the house for 10 minutes, shouting every incoherent curse word I could come up with.
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[Q] Stuck on Samsung Galaxy S3 Screen

Any thoughts here, so far have come up with nothing. I was running odin trying to update and got interupted partially through the process. I'm able to boot the phone on, however it quickly flashes the Samsung screen then proceeds to the "Samsung Galaxy S3" screen where it hangs. I can't boot into recovery, I can't boot into download mode. All I can do is power the phone on and get stuck on this screen. It hangs there until I pull the battery. I've tried every combination possible to boot into recovery & download mode to no avail. If I plug the phone into my computer I can't get it to be recognized since its stuck on this screen. I don't think it's bricked since i'm able to power on, just stuck.
Any thoughts?

If you can still turn it on you can definitely get to download mode. Make sure you're doing the combo right..

billard412 said:
If you can still turn it on you can definitely get to download mode. Make sure you're doing the combo right..
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Thanks for the quick reply, I like your confidence although I'm still skeptical. I do think I've tried all of the combos to get into download mode but I'm still not getting past the Samsung GS3 screen. Can you tell me which is the "right" combo?
Thanks

camcdonald1 said:
Thanks for the quick reply, I like your confidence although I'm still skeptical. I do think I've tried all of the combos to get into download mode but I'm still not getting past the Samsung GS3 screen. Can you tell me which is the "right" combo?
Thanks
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I've seen a borked recovery but never seen a borked download mode unless the phone was bricked which isn't the case here since it still powers on. The combo is vol-down+home+power then volume up at the warning screen

billard412 said:
I've seen a borked recovery but never seen a borked download mode unless the phone was bricked which isn't the case here since it still powers on. The combo is vol-down+home+power then volume up at the warning screen
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That combo is not working. No matter how long/short I hold it or how long/short I wait after the battery pull it still goes straight to the GS3 Logo and hangs forever. I think its bricked. Maybe I need to try a usb jig...

camcdonald1 said:
That combo is not working. No matter how long/short I hold it or how long/short I wait after the battery pull it still goes straight to the GS3 Logo and hangs forever. I think its bricked. Maybe I need to try a usb jig...
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Well I'm sure it's not bricked but this is the first time I've heard a jig mentioned and I don't wanna pull my hair out cuz of a stupid comment. A jig would definitely do the trick here. I assume you don't have one so a word of advice : use Ebay. And buy from someone in the states. Its more than worth the few extra bucks.

I agree that your phone is more than likely not bricked like you may think. You need to hold down the 3 key combo until the screen actually powers on and then let them go. It takes a good 5-7 seconds after the phone vibrates before the screen powers on and then let them go. It should go into download mode and if you still can't get it then sometimes having someone else try it is all it takes.... but most definetly your phone is not hard bricked if it powers on.
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z143456 said:
I agree that your phone is more than likely not bricked like you may think. You need to hold down the 3 key combo until the screen actually powers on and then let them go. It takes a good 5-7 seconds after the phone vibrates before the screen powers on and then let them go. It should go into download mode and if you still can't get it then sometimes having someone else try it is all it takes.... but most definetly your phone is not hard bricked if it powers on.
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. At this point I'm going to have to send it in to mobiltech to have them hopefully revive it using their JTAG services.

I had this problem today.....
After much gnashing of teeth and swearing and being unable to use the generic android recovery due to removing my power button (don't ask) I flashed CWM with odin then used Android Toolkit to restart into recovery, wiped the cache, rebooted and Bob's your Mother's brother everything is rosy in the garden again................:laugh:

marsamgod said:
I had this problem today.....
After much gnashing of teeth and swearing and being unable to use the generic android recovery due to removing my power button (don't ask) I flashed CWM with odin then used Android Toolkit to restart into recovery, wiped the cache, rebooted and Bob's your Mother's brother everything is rosy in the garden again................:laugh:
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what toolkit

NotAgain!!!!!! said:
what toolkit
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It's the Skipsoft Android Toolkit

[Q] My phone is dead..... help

So I did a Root 101 No No... In a sleepy state I decided to flash my T-Mo galaxy S2 without doing a system wipe..... smh...smh. As a result I brick my phone. However, in a way I've never seen before. Is there anyone out there that can help???
Here the problem:
Phone does not turn on. (No sound, nothing on the screen)
Phone does not respond to 3 button press. (No vibrate and can't get into clockwork)
Phone does not connect to usb port. (it contently connects and disconnect)
As you can see this is a BIG problem and its left me stump. Before I declare this phone as a shiny paper weight I leave my hope in you guys.
Thanks for the help

What is the three button press? To get into recovery I hold power and volume down. Also check if you're in a boot loop
Edit: also what ROM did you flash
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abhi08638 said:
What is the three button press? To get into recovery I hold power and volume down. Also check if you're in a boot loop
Edit: also what ROM did you flash
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I meant the volume and power buttons. I don't think I'm in a loop because the phone give me no type of feedback. no light, sounds or vibration. When connected to power outlet there's no change. took out the battery for about an hour, no change. used a different usb cable, tried to load into Odin. Nothing.
The only thing the phone does to show that something is going on is when I plug it into my pc. At that point it shows a device has been connected but then disconnect right away. It keeps doing that as long as the phone is connected to the pc.
Also I was coming from CM 10.0.0 to aokp_d2tmo_jb-mr1_build-4

abhi08638 said:
What is the three button press? To get into recovery I hold power and volume down. Also check if you're in a boot loop
Edit: also what ROM did you flash
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My phone is pwr + volume up and down for recovery. Pwr +volume down is download mode. Yes....t989

BoomerCosmo said:
I meant the volume and power buttons. I don't think I'm in a loop because the phone give me no type of feedback. no light, sounds or vibration. When connected to power outlet there's no change. took out the battery for about an hour, no change. used a different usb cable, tried to load into Odin. Nothing.
The only thing the phone does to show that something is going on is when I plug it into my pc. At that point it shows a device has been connected but then disconnect right away. It keeps doing that as long as the phone is connected to the pc.
Also I was coming from CM 10.0.0 to aokp_d2tmo_jb-mr1_build-4
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You flashed a ROM from I believe the gs3. Your phone is hard bricked
D2tmo is the gs3
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payazo915 said:
You flashed a ROM from I believe the gs3. Your phone is hard bricked
D2tmo is the gs3
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Yep I hope you have warrantee there is no coming back from that...Hercules or t989 is what you look for...d2tmo is the sgs3...if you don't wipe things you don't brick your phone it just doesn't run right sometimes..sorry for your loss
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Yup thanks guys. I your all right. Dif did a noobie mistake and paid the price. :crying:

Try it with jig USB a will get u into download mode
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I use this one and work nice
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BoomerCosmo said:
Yup thanks guys. I your all right. Dif did a noobie mistake and paid the price. :crying:
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Probsbly you are trying to get in recovery mode in proper way, just to confirm, first you have to press vol low and up button, keep holding it and then press power button. few sec later it will vibrate, release power button but keep holding vol up/down. Samsung logo will come and then it'll enter in recovery mode.
Just wanted to make sure as sometime people get hard time to get screen shot by pressing keys.