Just got my s2 a couple days ago. went ahead and rooted it, threw on a Jedi Knight. I wound up switching recoveries to twrp as well. i like to flash roms alot till i find what i like best (dont we all). I wanted to try pa 2.52 but was unable to get it to bootup so I restored Jedi Knight.. I hit up the pa thread and people mentioned formatting internal storage. So I did that, and managed to get pa 2.52 on without any problems.. In the reboot options bootloader is not there.. So I started with my battery pull options to get there and nothing seems to be working..
some battery pull scenarios:
volume + & power = 1 vibe, samsung logo, let go >> boot back to rom. If I hold past 1 vibe, more continous vibes and no boot up at all
volume - & power = same as above
volume +- & power = 1vibe, samsung logo, let go >> recovery. If i continue to hold past the logo and then let go >> boot back to rom.
I'm trying to get to hboot just so I can see my s-off status & radio versions.. Much thanks..
Boot loader and s-off are for HTC phones not Samsung phones
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I can see someone is coming from an HTC phone haha... If you are on the the T989 booting in download is volume down+volume up + power, or recovery mode its volume down + power.
That would be why I am familiar with them.. I left my incredible and got the s2. Is their anything similar to that for us or no? Not that it makes a difference..
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Nope
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Hrmph.... guess I don't have a problem after all..:thumbup:
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Wait...so there is not bootloader
Hello I was attempting to get into my bootloader and I can't. If I am in the phone and press the power button I get the option to reboot if I click that I have the option to reboot into recovery, reboot into bootloader, or just reboot. Why have the option to reboot into bootloader if there isn't one?
I thought I booted into the bootloader to factory rest my SGH-T989 when I purchased it from someone was that not the case? was I booting into some sort of recovery?
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Hello I was attempting to get into my bootloader and I can't. If I am in the phone and press the power button I get the option to reboot if I click that I have the option to reboot into recovery, reboot into bootloader, or just reboot. Why have the option to reboot into bootloader if there isn't one?
I thought I booted into the bootloader to factory rest my SGH-T989 when I purchased it from someone was that not the case? was I booting into some sort of recovery?
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Yes, you booted into Download mode which is the mode needed to flash your phone over usb with a tool called odin. In most cases it doesn't wipe the /data or /emmc partitions though so the best thing to do is to use the factory restore in android or your installed recovery.
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Yes, you booted into Download mode which is the mode needed to flash your phone over usb with a tool called odin. In most cases it doesn't wipe the /data or /emmc partitions though so the best thing to do is to use the factory restore in android or your installed recovery.
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Oh okay I am coming from an HTC as well so kinda new to this samsung thing. Thanks.
This website will tell you everything you need to know
http://galaxys2root.com/category/t-mobile-galaxy-s2/
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Ok
So all if a sudden vol down plus power will not boot to bootloader when powered off.
Volume buttons are working fine when phone is on and I can get I.to the bootloader when I use 4 in 1 restart from power button.
Running Stock plus 3.01, tiny kernel 12/01/11 and have the extra 4 mod with dalvik mod....
Any ideas?
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Are you able to recreate the problem?
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I'm not on that rom but is fastboot enabled by chance either in Settings/Power or Settings/Applications?
Yes... Happens every time I try
And fastboot is on
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Turning off fastboot allowed me to boot into bootloader with buttons.
But I noticed there is no option to boot into Rom from there...just recovery, reboot bootloader or.power down... Is that normal? I haven't played around with the.bootloader since I rooted
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Yes, that's how the bootloader is. In order to boot into the rom from the bootloader, you must go through recovery.
What are you attempting to do?
I flashed a Rom and first couple boots it bootlooped, and I could not get into bootloader using buttons. Eventually it booted and I was able to boot into recovery, flash a nandroid backup and got back to normal.
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I have found out that pulling the battery does the trick also. It seems if you power off with fast boot enabled, keeps the phone in a special mode to boot up really fast which does not go through hold start. I think its kinda like sleep mode on a computer.
I have a stupid question...
How do I exit HBOOT ?
Im trying to root..
so i installed gummy rom, tried sending a file via bluetooth and i went in a boot loop, so i got frustrated and went back to recovery and restored my back up rom from before and r/s and the phone went into boot loop, and got stuck at the boot screen.
So i took the battery out and tried to go into recovery manually by pressing three buttons and when i selected the recovery option i takes me to the screen where there is a android with a red sign and then it stalls and restarts it self to the boot loop. Dont know what to do, can some one please help i really need help. Please./
come on fellas 93 views and no help can anyone please help...
At the exclamation screen press volume up and down. Sounds like your cwr is gone and you will go into stock recovery?
Not sure if that will work.
Also maybe try pulling battery and then with battery out press volume up and down then put battery back in.
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At the exclamation screen press volume up and down. Sounds like your cwr is gone and you will go into stock recovery?
Not sure if that will work.
Also maybe try pulling battery and then with battery out press volume up and down then put battery back in.
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no luck mannn.. im really panicing...is my phone dead...?? dont know what to do
Try wipeing from android recovery then flashing
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1corona1 said:
Try wipeing from android recovery then flashing
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i tried this method but it just wont detect my phone..
is there any other way can you please help me
junooni.1980 said:
i tried this method but it just wont detect my phone..
is there any other way can you please help me
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i tried this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggpyJ1nqj0&feature=relmfu
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i tried this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggpyJ1nqj0&feature=relmfu
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I cant see the video but you lost the cwm recovery.Pull the battery out and then place it again.Hit the middle of volume buttons and power.You are going to be in bootloader.With volume up go to option Recovery mode and select it with the power.Your phone after google logo is going to android with the exclamation mark(stock 3e recovery).Hold power button and then volume up and you ll see the options in stock recovery.Select the wipe data/factory reset and then reboot your phone.
Post back the result
ps you must start phone setup from scratch.I dont thibk that just wipe cache is going to solve your problem
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I cant see the video but you lost the cwm recovery.Pull the battery out and then place it again.Hit the middle of volume buttons and power.You are going to be in bootloader.With volume up go to option Recovery mode and select it with the power.Your phone after google logo is going to android with the exclamation mark(stock 3e recovery).Hold power button and then volume up and you ll see the options in stock recovery.Select the wipe data/factory reset and then reboot your phone.
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ur da man... thanx so much u saved my life mannn God Bless u
afilopou said:
I cant see the video but you lost the cwm recovery.Pull the battery out and then place it again.Hit the middle of volume buttons and power.You are going to be in bootloader.With volume up go to option Recovery mode and select it with the power.Your phone after google logo is going to android with the exclamation mark(stock 3e recovery).Hold power button and then volume up and you ll see the options in stock recovery.Select the wipe data/factory reset and then reboot your phone.
Post back the result
ps you must start phone setup from scratch.I dont thibk that just wipe cache is going to solve your problem
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Thank You.
Hey guys, I had the same issue on my GNex when on ICS. I tried this method and it got solved. Later I updated to JB and again Bluetooth caused a bootloop, again did this method and the problem got solved.
This is getting really annoying now. How can I permanently avoid these bootloops as each time my ENTIRE data gets deleted. Please help me.
After flashing a JB rom and a corresponding JB Super SU zip this morning, I accidentally uninstalled the Super SU thinking I had a different SU app already. Turns out I didn't, and now I don't know how to get it back. I flashed the SU zip again in recovery, didn't work. But now nothing requiring root access works, so I can't even get back into recovery as far as I can tell. What do I do to get root back?
UPDATE: No matter what kind of weird things you may have done to your GNex, if you happened to have screwed up your SU abilities somehow, these next few posts will most likely help to guide you. I screwed mine all up to hell, and these guys helped me remember what was going on and what to do to fix it.
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Reflash the ROM.
Try getting into fastboot, through the volume and power keys when the device is shutdown.
Happened to me before, that was the only solution.
you can download the superuser app from the market
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you can download the superuser app from the market
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Duh. That was easily the dumbest thing I've done this week. Funny the things we forget to be easy if we hardly ever do them.
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I DID IT AGAIN!!
I didn't learn my lesson, and kept screwing around with the super user apps, and I ended up removing the super user binary. (what is wrong with me?) So this is a little more serious... Now what do I do?
I'm not a noob rooter (rooted my OG Droid 2 years ago and kept up with development, now the same with my GNex) but I guess I somehow got around having to deal with SU issues the whole time.
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I didn't learn my lesson, and kept screwing around with the super user apps, and I ended up removing the super user binary. (what is wrong with me?) So this is a little more serious... Now what do I do?
I'm not a noob rooter (rooted my OG Droid 2 years ago and kept up with development, now the same with my GNex) but I guess I somehow got around having to deal with SU issues the whole time.
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Do you have CWM installed? If so, just flash this in recovery.
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Do you have CWM installed? If so, just flash this in recovery.
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That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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power off the phone
hold volume UP and DOWN and POWER buttons all at the same time
you will boot into fastboot mode
from there you can scroll up and down using the volume buttons and select an option using the power button
select recovery press the power button this will get you into recovery
flash supersu in recovery
bob's your uncle
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That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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if you can get to the bootloader, scroll using the volume keys to get to 'recovery mode' and select that. that is recovery and you should hopefully have CWM or TWRP still installed.
bah... blowtorch is faster
neccoguy21 said:
That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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Once your at the bootloader, you should have the choice to boot from there into recovery, though it's been a while since I've done it that way so cannot give you the exact steps. You should be able to use the volume keys to highlight the recovery option and then press the power button to choose it, I believe.
But you may have lost CWM, since JB could have over-written it. If so, you'll need to use fastboot to re-install it, after which you can use CWM to apply an SU zip from your internal SD card.
Thank you blowtorch, Zepius, and high vista! It was having both vol buttons pressed that I had completely forgotten about. That solves the problem and dams up a flood of questions that could have been had I not gotten that minor detail in.
I did a factory reset on my galaxy nexus. I also by mistake erased my internal SD card. So now my phone only boots as far as the google screen because there is not ROM to boot into and when you connect to a computer it doesn't recognize the phone. How do I get a rom on my phone so it works again.
Thanks
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AshleyPem28 said:
I did a factory reset on my galaxy nexus. I also by mistake erased my internal SD card. So now my phone only boots as far as the google screen because there is not ROM to boot into and when you connect to a computer it doesn't recognize the phone. How do I get a rom on my phone so it works again.
Thanks
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Can you boot into fastboot? (Hold the power button and both volume buttons). I would boot into fastboot and reflash the Stock images. Also want to specify which variant you have.. GSM or CDMA if CDMA, verizon or Sprint?
Factory reset from stock or a custom recovery will not wipe the system partition. If you formatted the system partition from a custom recovery you can boot back into the custom recovery and adb push a ROM to your sdcard
Install the drivers on the computer. Then put the phone in fastboot mode like uber mentioned. Then push the rom to the phone and flash it in recovery. If you didnt install a recovery either, youll need one of those too.
Yeah hard to tell by her post if her bootloader is unlocked or not. I didnt think it was possible to wipe system without unlocking the boot loader and flashing a new recovery. Which means she needs knowledge of fastboot to even set that up.
The more i read the OP the more it sounds like unless she bought a used rooted phone off ebay. This thing is stock and just needs to boot to stock recovery and perform a factory reset from there. And that her system is fine.
With then phone off, hold down both volume buttons. Then hold down the power button, once it boots , use the volume keys to cycle and the power button to select. Navigate to recovery and perform a factory reset.
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Lol i just fixed this on my brothers phone, Odin a stock tar, then reroot/install and CWM
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Fire n mage said:
Lol i just fixed this on my brothers phone, Odin a stock tar, then reroot/install and CWM
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No.
Thanks for all the replies. My bootloader is unlocked. I'll give it a try and let you know how it turns out, thank you
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Also my phone was rooted and GSM
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Also my phone was rooted and GSM
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Doesn't matter if its GSM or rooted. Fastboot is independent.
I can boot into fastboot and clockworkmod recovery, but the SD storage is blank. The computer won't recognize the phone. I can't seem to fix it and it's driving me crazy not having a phone. Please help!!
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Plug in your phone via USB, in Fastboot mode.
Does it show in the device manager? It might not be called 'Galaxy Nexus', might be called something Fastboot related. It might be in the USB section.
XP:To open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
7: Hit windows key, type in "Device Manager"
If there's a yellow triangle next to the device, the drivers on your PC may be not working correctly.
If it is working correctly, the easiest option is to load the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, and flash stock ROM.
You installed the drivers as mentioned I take it?
AshleyPem28 said:
I can boot into fastboot and clockworkmod recovery, but the SD storage is blank. The computer won't recognize the phone. I can't seem to fix it and it's driving me crazy not having a phone. Please help!!
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[HOW-TO] [GSM & CDMA] Convert to latest yakju/takju/mysid (incl JB) / Return to stock
Take a look at step A. Install the drivers. Note you should also be able to set up the adb drivers while your phone is booted into a custom recovery.
follow the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Install the drivers, then flash the stock image in fastboot, nothing to it.
Whoa there are females on this forum!!!!????? <Sound of a hundred myths shattering>
But anyway, why dont u just flash fastboot stock images?
Whoops, ninja'ed.
psycho2097 said:
females
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Pluralizing the word is likely over-optimism on your part :laugh:
CMNein said:
Pluralizing the word is likely over-optimism on your part :laugh:
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Damn, it's getting sexist!
Mach3.2 said:
Damn, it's getting sexist!
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Well its bound to when there's 40k males n 40 females(i m taking 1-2 per current device)
THIS. IS. NEXUS.
Ash just install the drivers for the galaxy nexus, download a rom like aokp (the "maguro" version is the gsm version. Dont flash "toro" versions those are for cdma ) and then push it to the sd card using fastboot. All those steps are listed in a lot of posts in great detail by the author mskip and are stickied in the dev section here. Just read his posts for questions or drivers . Its all pretty straight forward once you read the right posts. Id avoid using any toolkits though, its all fairly simple stuff. And dont worry about the geeks here being surprised about seeing females. Some of them have never left the basement before. ( no offence guys , i got no problem with the homosexuals )
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First, I'll admit I made a mistake. I installed the wrong version of Gapps when I install CM10 and therefore the phone wouldn't boot to setup. However, when I attempted to get back to stock to recover, the phone now gets stuck at the 4th boot screen with the pulsating Samsung. I can only get to Download mode, but I can't seem to get back to CWM Recovery. I have tried reflashing CWM Recovery with Odin, but I still can't get anywhere but to Download mode.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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First, I'll admit I made a mistake. I installed the wrong version of Gapps when I install CM10 and therefore the phone wouldn't boot to setup. However, when I attempted to get back to stock to recover, the phone now gets stuck at the 4th boot screen with the pulsating Samsung. I can only get to Download mode, but I can't seem to get back to CWM Recovery. I have tried reflashing CWM Recovery with Odin, but I still can't get anywhere but to Download mode.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If you are stuck and can't get into recovery than you'll have to Odin back to stock there are stickies in these forums on how to do that.
If you can get into recovery and you are just not using the right button combo (vol up + power + home button) than flashing the proper gapps and wiping cache and davlik should fix the issue.
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I have attempted to flash back to stock, and Odin reports that it was successful, but it still returns to the same point in the boot sequence and hangs.
When I use Power + Home + Volume Up, I get to the precursor screen for the Download Mode, not CWM Recovery Mode.
Any suggestions as to another way to force my way into recovery mode? I assumed that would be my way out, but I can't seem to get there.
zksailor534 said:
I have attempted to flash back to stock, and Odin reports that it was successful, but it still returns to the same point in the boot sequence and hangs.
When I use Power + Home + Volume Up, I get to the precursor screen for the Download Mode, not CWM Recovery Mode.
Any suggestions as to another way to force my way into recovery mode? I assumed that would be my way out, but I can't seem to get there.
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Did you try power + volume down + home?
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KorGuy123 said:
Did you try power + volume down + home?
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Sorry, yeah, that's what I meant. Not Volume Up.
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Sorry, yeah, that's what I meant. Not Volume Up.
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Download mode is vol down + power + hone key
Recovery mode is vol up + power + home key
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KorGuy123 said:
Download mode is vol down + power + hone key
Recovery mode is vol up + power + home key
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Thank you. I must've been reading what I expected every time I saw that. Now I'm back into CWM Recovery, hopefully I can get this back on its feet.
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Thank you. I must've been reading what I expected every time I saw that. Now I'm back into CWM Recovery, hopefully I can get this back on its feet.
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Factory reset and reboot phone. Try that first.
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