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[Q] Volume down broken and bootloop - how to get to recovery?

Yea, the title almost says it all;
After I changed the screen on my GN the volume down button is not functioning (1 of the 3 solderings is loose).
That was not much of a problem since I could just turn the volume down with the slider that appears, when pressing the volume up button.
BUT
I was too excited to try out the Optimus 4X lockscreen, so I flashed it and ended in a bootloop.
And since my volume down button is broken, I ask:
How do I get into recovery to perform a restore?

...srsly?
recovery is vol up+power, not vol down+power.
sent from my i9250

mikkel-ol said:
Yea, the title almost says it all;
After I changed the screen on my GN the volume down button is not functioning (1 of the 3 solderings is loose).
That was not much of a problem since I could just turn the volume down with the slider that appears, when pressing the volume up button.
BUT
I was too excited to try out the Optimus 4X lockscreen, so I flashed it and ended in a bootloop.
And since my volume down button is broken, I ask:
How do I get into recovery to perform a restore?
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Afaik, without volume down button working you cannot enter bootloader OR download (Odin) mode. So basically, all you can do is try to fix the soldering.
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bk201doesntexist said:
...srsly?
recovery is vol up+power, not vol down+power.
sent from my i9250
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Are you sure? Vol up + power button doesn't boot recovery for me.

If u are not in bootloop mode u can just using adb command to reboot into recovery. But if u are having bootloop then u have to enter download mode and flash with odin. I forgot what button is power+volume up, but any mode whether it's download mode or recovery mode are not a problem in android world
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bk201doesntexist said:
...srsly?
recovery is vol up+power, not vol down+power.
sent from my i9250
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It is on the Galaxy S I9000, but not the GN
Petrovski80 said:
Afaik, without volume down button working you cannot enter bootloader OR download (Odin) mode. So basically, all you can do is try to fix the soldering.
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Yea, that is what I'm afraid of because I don't have any soldering equipment..

You can plug in and see if she's getting far enough in for an "adb reboot bootloader" but I'm not sure if that'll work.
Worth a shot!

Recovery is volume up + down + power. Volume up + power is Odin.
Allons-y

Xfanatic said:
Recovery is volume up + down + power. Volume up + power is Odin.
Allons-y
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*facepalm*

Can't you Odin push a ROM to the phone? And when you get in download ROM manager and recover your backup.

Jubakuba said:
*facepalm*
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Sorry for the misspeak. Volume down +power is Odin and volume up + down + power is fastboot, which will get you to recovery.
Allons-y

FrostyF7 said:
Can't you Odin push a ROM to the phone? And when you get in download ROM manager and recover your backup.
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No, because he cannot get into the bootloader, download mode OR recovery because of a faulty volume down key.

Petrovski80 said:
No, because he cannot get into the bootloader, download mode OR recovery because of a faulty volume down key.
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God this is a bad situation.

I got u a way, try adb reboot download in terminal. It works. After that u can flash with odin.
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crazyg4merz said:
I got u a way, try adb reboot download in terminal. It works. After that u can flash with odin.
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For adb to work, he must either boot into android or a custom recovery. He cannot do either.
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My bad, I forgot his phone is in bootloop. So this means no hope? It's so horrible because my galaxy gio have a not working volume up and down, this means I can't make it bootloop or I'll end up dead like him
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EDIT: I bought one and it works perfectly!

[Q] HELP - Stuck in Boot, unable to Flash back

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.

zksailor534 said:
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.

zksailor534 said:
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.

zksailor534 said:
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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[Q] i need help right away please

i was trying to flash a cyangenomod rom but idk what happen and now everytime i turn it on it goes to the cyanogen boot screen and i cant use my phone and i really need to plz help me get my phone back to normal
iv pulled the battery and still cant do the power key plus volm n home button and still wont go off :crying::crying::crying::crying:

dougie1792 said:
i was trying to flash a cyangenomod rom but idk what happen and now everytime i turn it on it goes to the cyanogen boot screen and i cant use my phone and i really need to plz help me get my phone back to normal
iv pulled the battery and still cant do the power key plus volm n home button and still wont go off :crying::crying::crying::crying:
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Hold Volume up&home +power until the phone vibrates, then let go of just the power button (continue holding vol up&home).
Once you're in recovery you can flash a different rom, restore a backup, etc.
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Make sure your battery is charged to at least 70%. Once done try entering recovery again by holding down vol up + power + home key at the same time until you see the blue text on the upper left hand corner and then let go. If this doesn't work you should be able to enter download mode with vol down + power + home key. If so I'd recommend flashing back to complete stock using ODIN on your pc and start from scratch.
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I think people make it more complicated than it needs to be. Press the power button. When the phone vibrates, release it. Hold home+vol up until you see the recovery booting blue text, then release those.
Holding the power button puts the phone in a boot loop. Something I used to do on occasion until I learned it in fact didn't need to be held at all.

you can do this too...wipe data and factory...sometimes happening when i flasshing via odin

Towle said:
Hold Volume up&home +power until the phone vibrates, then let go of just the power button (continue holding vol up&home).
Once you're in recovery you can flash a different rom, restore a backup, etc.
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how do i delete the flash bc it come on but i cant use google or anything

dougie1792 said:
how do i delete the flash bc it come on but i cant use google or anything
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gapps..
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LuigiBull23 said:
gapps..
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im very new to this lol
how do i get that

Gapps grab what pertain to the rom you are trying (4.2.2 rom --> 4.2.2 gapps)

mt3g said:
Gapps grab what pertain to the rom you are trying (4.2.2 rom --> 4.2.2 gapps)
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you must install rom and gapps for your android version without reboots.

[Q] Help me!!!!

Ok unfortunately I decided to root my LG and obviously thats was my first mistake. I was reading xda about how to root my LG Optimus G. Well i found a thread that talked me through it but I decided to take the short and download freegee from the playstore. And needless to say in the middle of it backing up someone decided they felt the need to call me. I didnt answer the call but it went back to downloading the recovery. When it finished it said it couldnt find the files. Long story short my phone worked for 2 days before it decided that it was gonna be deactivated and i no longer use my phone unless its on wifi. I talked to sprint the tech told that basically everything is gone and the biggest part thats missing is the radio and if i could recovery that or flash a new one then I have buy a new phone. Can anyone please please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

do you still have recovery installed? try flashing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176186&highlight=radio

javskies said:
do you still have recovery installed? try flashing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176186&highlight=radio
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How do I know if I have a recovery installed??

juliepana said:
How do I know if I have a recovery installed??
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Put ya phone in fast boot mode then push volume down twice then push power button and it should take u to which ever recovery u have installed ..
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Put ya phone in fast boot mode then push volume down twice then push power button and it should take u to which ever recovery u have installed ..
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i tried power/vol up lg logo pops as if turning on,then looks like it turns off. what does that mean? i can android system recovery by power/vol dn. is that the same thing your talking about?

juliepana said:
i tried power/vol up lg logo pops as if turning on,then looks like it turns off. what does that mean? i can android system recovery by power/vol dn. is that the same thing your talking about?
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It sounds like you still have stock recovery. You'll need to use LGNPST. All the info and links are here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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engine95 said:
It sounds like you still have stock recovery. You'll need to use LGNPST. All the info and links are here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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Agreed just lgnpst and start back from beginning ....I think u may have corrupted ya efs ... If ya phone only works on WiFi try to re activate it .... If it fails to activate then u will most likely need to visit the efs repair /recover thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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i am going to follow everything to a t and i will be getting back to everyone. If i do or if i don't succeed either way i owe you all a few cases of beer. Thank you all and i will let you know again thank you for all your time.

juliepana said:
i am going to follow everything to a t and i will be getting back to everyone. If i do or if i don't succeed either way i owe you all a few cases of beer. Thank you all and i will let you know again thank you for all your time.
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ok
1.i did the lgnpst_ls970.dll and the ls970 stock bin. 67% phone turned on still no service tried the fastboot. still no fast boot.
2. according lgnpst thread no fastboot try with alt bin. teenybin ls970 (alt bin)
3. at 67% phone attempted to turn on and a google logo appeared the shut down. about 85% a window opened and said the phone must have disconnected or became unplugged. then the instructed window closed . now a batt charging logo appears but not the same image as the original.

ok update!!!
So no i have a green screen that says AP Watchdog bark detected!
DemiGod Crash Handler
Choose Dload Mode/Reboot/Fastboot
Vol. up: Dload Mode
Vol. down: Reboot
Power: Fastboot
If I choose Dload Mode pls do following
1 . Dload Mode. Pls connect USB
2. Get tha ram dump image using QCT's memory debug app
3. Send email to contact point or [email protected]

Which bin file did you use? Zv9? Or ZVB? The demigod thing is nothing. Just reboot. If you can get into recovery, do a factory reset. You might lose everything tho.
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engine95 said:
Which bin file did you use? Zv9? Or ZVB? The demigod thing is nothing. Just reboot. If you can get into recovery, do a factory reset. You might lose everything tho.
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I think it was the Zv9 bin file. I just tried pressing the vol. down to reboot but instead it decided that vol. up was pressed and it jumped to Dload Mode. How do i get out of it or stop it.

juliepana said:
I think it was the Zv9 bin file. I just tried pressing the vol. down to reboot but instead it decided that vol. up was pressed and it jumped to Dload Mode. How do i get out of it or stop it.
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ok so i was able out of Dload Mode but now my phone is still doing what was before.

juliepana said:
ok so i was able out of Dload Mode but now my phone is still doing what was before.
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Press and hold the power button for 20+sec. Next press vol down+power until the capacitive lights come on then release them. That should bring up stock recovery. Do a factory reset. You'll use the capacitive menu key to select.
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engine95 said:
Press and hold the power button for 20+sec. Next press vol down+power until the capacitive lights come on then release them. That should bring up stock recovery. Do a factory reset. You'll use the capacitive menu key to select.
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ok so nothing happened when I pressed power and vol. down but when i pressed power and vol. up it took me to fastboot. the options i have are start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. Which should I do. I guess I cant get into stock recovery mode

juliepana said:
ok so nothing happened when I pressed power and vol. down but when i pressed power and vol. up it took me to fastboot. the options i have are start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. Which should I do. I guess I cant get into stock recovery mode
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Go to recovery. Still do the factory reset. Are you sure you used zv9? If that doesn't work, in the teeny bin thread download the original one. If you can also put a ROM on your SD and flash it.
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engine95 said:
Go to recovery. Still do the factory reset. Are you sure you used zv9? If that doesn't work, in the teeny bin thread download the original one. If you can also put a ROM on your SD and flash it.
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Honestly I really dont know. Maybe I did use ZVB. Let me just make sure im doing this right. From fastboot im goona go into recovery mode and factory rest, right? And where can I find a ROM and how would i get it flashed on my SD? Im sorry Ive never done this before. I think thats obvious, but thanks for your help and everyone else help.

no what do i do after a factory reset?

juliepana said:
no what do i do after a factory reset?
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OK. Let's start from scratch. Shall we?
Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Install LGNPST and download either ZV9 or ZVB bin. And run it.
This should get you up and running. It includes the modem also.
Edit. Zvb is the most current. But we can make either bin work.
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engine95 said:
OK. Let's start from scratch. Shall we?
Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Install LGNPST and download either ZV9 or ZVB bin. And run it.
This should get you up and running. It includes the modem also.
Edit. Zvb is the most current. But we can make either bin work.
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Ok now that make my phone able to make calls and send texts and have data 3g/4g. Cuz after i tried rooting the phone the phone lost service and in settings under phone info everything but the ICCID is all 000000's. So does this change things.

[Q] How do I get to recovery?(volume up is broken)

Hello, so basically I flashed something and its freezing on the google logo. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal. I'd just boot into recovery and restore a backup. The problem is that my volume up button is broken. So I have no idea how I can get into recovery mode from here. Does anyone know of a way?
Thank you.

adb reboot recovery.

Vol down + power?
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mrgnex said:
Vol down + power?
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I don't have adb set up, but if I can set it up after my phone is screwed up then I might try that. Vol down + power makes my phone go into odin mode which doesn't help. You have to hold vol up + vol down + power for recovery.

cmat1120 said:
I don't have adb set up, but if I can set it up after my phone is screwed up then I might try that. Vol down + power makes my phone go into odin mode which doesn't help. You have to hold vol up + vol down + power for recovery.
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well odin does help you in a way; it gets you back to stock and from there you can put recovery back on, etc

Zepius said:
well odin does help you in a way; it gets you back to stock and from there you can put recovery back on, etc
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I didn't know that. Thank you!