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Booting to recovery with button combination not working

So, after trying out a few firmwares (JM2, JG8, JM5) and kernels (Samset&OC) I can't no longer boot to recovery with Vol UP + Home + power. I can't really say when this problem first occurred, but maybe with JG8 flash. The strange thing is that I can get to recovery with adb reboot recovery and through android console with reboot recovery (when rooted ofc). Also download mode works great.
Things I have tried:
-flash again to JM2 and JM5 with re-partition checked (512 PIT)
-cleared cache+data through recovery
-factory reset through phone code (this also cleared the internal SD)
-took out the battery multiple times
-booted phone without sim
-flashed phone without sim
-changed CSC with phone code
-restore a nandroid backup of JM2. Recovery worked with this one when I took the backup
-there's no external flash card inserted
Soooo..does anyone have any idea about this kind of problem?

i had a similar problem after trying few ROMs. In my case, when i pres the key combi i get the boot logo and then few seconds later the screen goes black and then i see the boot logo again, and this goes forever. and then i tried pressing the same key combination simultaneously and once i see the boot logo i let go the power button and keep the vol up and home pressed, and then only it went into the recovery mode.
hope it works the same for you
Cheers

Agreed, 99.9% chance you are doing it wrong.
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mmthabet: I had the exact same experience. Letting go of the power button when the logo appears lets me enter recovery.

or you may need to take out the battery first for a few seconds... after that, you can reinsert it back and try recovery mode...
at least this work for me...

Thanks for replies but none of the solutions work. The recovery mode button combination DID work for a few weeks, but then just stopped working.
I know that I'm doing it right. I have always pressed vol up and home down until the phone loaded recovery and only briefly pressed power button just at the start. I have also tried to remove battery multiple times and once waited 30 mins before re-inserting it.
Trust me, I'm not doing it wrong :s And recovery is working great through adb reboot recovery and shell.

Darkstriker said:
Agreed, 99.9% chance you are doing it wrong.
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More so a timing issue. Buttons not pressed at the same time.
I get it all the time for all combo's.
Just keep trying.

You might already have this however just in case you dont, check out Quick Boot.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.siriusapplications.quickboot
With this app you can boot into recovery mode. Have to be rooted though.

odyssey61 said:
You might already have this however just in case you dont, check out Quick Boot.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.siriusapplications.quickboot
With this app you can boot into recovery mode. Have to be rooted though.
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this wont work, if you bricked the phone in a bad flash situation.
in times when this app works, you can easily do adb reboot recover
so this app still doesn't address the real issue of how to get the 3 buttons press hardware recovery mode

Laum said:
I know that I'm doing it right. I have always pressed vol up and home down until the phone loaded recovery and only briefly pressed power button just at the start.
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I release the buttons right when the first Samsung texts comes on the screen. It will take it to Recovery mode. I also had a "boot loop" few times, if I keep pressing the buttons all the time.
Have you tried release your fingers right in the first texts? I really don`t know what is exactly the right way to press the buttons, but this always have took it to Recovery.

Looks like my latest full wipe with *2767*3855# cured it. Flashed JM5-->full wipe-->samset1.9b-->samset kernel and now it works. It must've got stuck somehow in my previous JM5 installation.

I cant get into the download- or recovery-mode by using these keys... so i am not able to flash a new firmware! can anybody help me please? is there a chance to get into the download mode by using an adb-command?
please help i just cant get into the download mode!

Igor02 said:
I cant get into the download- or recovery-mode by using these keys... so i am not able to flash a new firmware! can anybody help me please? is there a chance to get into the download mode by using an adb-command?
please help i just cant get into the download mode!
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yes
adb reboot download
but it is dangerous, as you can not recover from a bricked state, if your flash is not compatible or if something went wrong with odin, etc.

I you're bricked and can't get into Download or recovery mode, leave the device to boot, it will just show a black screen for a while then will turn its self off, once this happens you should be able to use the key combo.

arch3rm said:
I you're bricked and can't get into Download or recovery mode, leave the device to boot, it will just show a black screen for a while then will turn its self off, once this happens you should be able to use the key combo.
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AHHHHHHHHH OMG, WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THIS SOONER, like 5 hours ago...
i could have tried that, and not had to send my phone back for "repair"
well i'm sure i'll see that screen again in the future, i'll try that next time

AllGamer said:
AHHHHHHHHH OMG, WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THIS SOONER, like 5 hours ago...
i could have tried that, and not had to send my phone back for "repair"
well i'm sure i'll see that screen again in the future, i'll try that next time
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Well I did just get the phone 2 days ago,
Had that problem the same day, discovered the fix two hrs of horror later

Same Problem here i contact samsung here in mexico and a technical aggent tell me if we make a repair our phones we need a jtag and this is so bad alllready contact many people jtag manufacturers in china and honkong trow alibaba.com and no luck don't have other source i try is contact to nspro and z3x and no support for this repairand only hope still have is a reply from the people in the forum SMTi Jtag Repair Tool
Its hard to me go to UK Samsung Service Center i'm in mexico like i said
and i'm waith for a solve this i;m so very sad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8AIvalzBvY

Darkstriker said:
Agreed, 99.9% chance you are doing it wrong.
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I usually release the power button on the boot screen first and then the other two buttons

arch3rm said:
I you're bricked and can't get into Download or recovery mode, leave the device to boot, it will just show a black screen for a while then will turn its self off, once this happens you should be able to use the key combo.
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Any idea how long you waited? Been waiting 5 minutes, hasn't shut off. Mine's a Bell though so I'm guessing I won't have any luck.

The way i do it (no chance of doing it wrong and timing):
hold down+home and then also press the power button for a little more then 10 seconds (so all 3 buttons for 10 seconds). The phone will reset into download mode, never fails in whatever mode the phone originaly was..

[q] stuck in safe mode

Hi, have just flashed a new radio and RIL using CWM recovery and phone has somehow put itself into SAFE MODE . Does anyone have any idea how to get it back out of this? Have rebooted, pulled battery and tried googling for a solution but not having any luck.

have you tried to boot recovery? switch off hold vol down and power. if that doesn't work then try flashing an RUU.Sounds like it may be bricked.
Good luck
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda premium

After a couple of hours of trying it finally came back to normal after about the tenth reboot. Didnt realise the HD had a safe mode and no idea how I managed to put it into it but its all good now thankfully . Phone still operates as normal when in safe mode but only allows certain apps to operate and shows a little transparent box on bottom left corner of screen with SAFE MODE always showing.
Wish I knew some more info on it if it happens again

I think you get into safe mode by holding the Volume Down button while powering on. Is it possible that you accidentally pressed Volume Down while booting?
For record I couldn't get into safe mode on my phone, but I'm not sure if CM7 supports it or not.

I dont think I did, last button I pushed was power to reboot system back out of CWM after flashing a new RIL. If I had pushed volume down surely that would have taken me into the phones recovery but it booted up as normal and showed me the onscreen SAFE MODE symbol. Hopefully doesnt happen again because there isnt much info on getting rid of it

My previous post is not so clear. I meant pressing Volume Down after the phone starts to power on, not at the same time as pressing Power. Anyway it sounds like you didn't do that...
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S3 won't boot, load CWM, go into download mode...

Alright, so I have an i-747 (AT&T GS3) running AOKP Jellybean (8.28 build) with the KT747 kernel. I just tried to install Chainfire 3D using the automated installer, and when the phone rebooted, it stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S3 logo until I pulled battery. So I tried rebooting into CWM - same problem. And again with download mode. Even after pulling the battery for a good 5 minutes, nothing works. Am I bricked, or is there some fix for this?

If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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g2tegg said:
If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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Yeah, I made a nandroid just this afternoon, but I can't actually boot into CWM at all. As in, I turn on the phone (power+home+volume up), it gets to the Galaxy S3 logo and just hangs there. If I could get into CWM (or download mode) this would be about a 10 minute fix, but I'm kind of out of luck here.

Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.

HELP I have the same issue
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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Hi, sorry to say but sounds like its bricked
Thanks

MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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I doubt it's bricked if he got it into download mode. I'm sure he's flashed it and even got his wallpaper back up by now. Please let us know of you've managed to solve this or not MrPhantom.
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Curious?
I know its technically "Solved" but does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have a Verizon GS3 and it's happening to me. I try to boot and it vibrates once and doesn't turn on. Recovery does the same thing. But going into Download mode works. Odin back to stock as we speak but I'm just curious what went wrong. I just did a clean install of a rom, set it all up (working at the time), set it down for the night and woke up to it like this.

rrrs444230 said:
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
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Same thing happned to me but your not bricked. You can get into bolth download and boot mode easy
Here is how you do it.
RECOVERY MODE
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds to enter Recovery Mode.
[edit]Download Mode
Save that somewhere. Make sure do it right. I got stuck also and thought I couldn't get into recovery but I had to do it right (it hit recovery mode first try) I have learned that most people do it slightly wrong. Make sure follow directions
Download mode
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME DOWN' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 2 seconds until a WARNING! Screen appears. Press the 'VOLUME UP' button to enter Download Mode.
To get out of Download Mode, simply press and hold the power button until the phone restarts
if helps hit thanks.
Just save that to a text file somewhere
I have also soft bricked when I deleted my rom once on accident. I dunno how I did it but I would get stuck at the TWRP screen. It wouldn't go to download or anything however when I plugged it into odin it saw it .... I even had a soft brick when screen went black from a bad boot animation and same thing.. and I had one bad soft brick where it took about 100 trys to get it into download mode (black screen) but odin detected it. I spent like 4 hours working on it.
I think
1. People don't follow directions correct (they do it a little wrong) which is enough if your phones messed up for it not to work.
when your phones normal it can get into recovery or download easy but when its sick you got to do it perfect.
2. I think something wrong with the phones (my s2 never had any issues in 2 years of owning it) S3 has tons of issues from usb, to bluetooth, to these soft bricks I have had)
3. Roms play a big part
4. I also think the way storage works in this new phone causes lots issues I dunno why just what I think
anyway Like I said now when I have a isssue I open text and read it and make sure I do it right and 95 percent of the time it was my fault I wasn't doing it right. K just my thoughts

when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different

phatchef1 said:
when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different
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That's most likely cause you're not in the right section..: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1708

[Q] stuck in safe mode

I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.

Try use kies!

Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
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BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
0r
2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
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That could be the problem.. "turn off your s2" He may fix that one.. But the S3 will still be broke :laugh:

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BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
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it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen

patrick6465 said:
it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen
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Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?

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milky1112 said:
Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?
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no not at all

patrick6465 said:
no not at all
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Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..

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milky1112 said:
Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
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Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.

patrick6465 said:
Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.
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I found a few. Try those methods I posted. lemme know if they work.

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milky1112 said:
Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..
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no go with this one either

patrick6465 said:
no go with this one either
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May be time for a visit to your neighborhood Sprint store! Thats the only methods i found that might work.. Just searched for S3 stuck in safe mode.

patrick6465 said:
I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.
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You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix

sponix2ipfw said:
You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix
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"No 3rd party apps are seen" Wouldn't Terminal be apart of this one? If so then he couldn't get into it. Just my guess. and those methods i posted were from others with same issue. Def worth a try. Never heard of Safe Mode on these till now Lol..

Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button

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fedge1234 said:
Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button
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That is the one thing that has me questioning. The volume button seems to move freely however; I have tried volume button when booted up in safe mode and the volume down does not move. the volume up moved the volume control up. although when pressing vol. down when trying to go do download mode it boots to download warning screen. unless it is stuck on internally. I don't know, cause the button moves freely.

Mine was in safe mode once. All I did is reboot it and mine went away.
Galaxy S3- Cyanogenmod 10!
Nexus Style!

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xxXismakillXxx said:
Try use kies!
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Thanks this d root is no longerdid help me make my decision . I am taking the phone to sprint store. by downloading and using keys it seems that the software does not cause my problem. I hooked up to kies and did a complete firmware upgrade. Although there is no upgrade it still reloaded jellybean. It did a complete restore though and root is no longer present. Super user is gone. But I still have the same safe mode issues. I am guessing that this is a hardware problem probably the volume key. I feel ok with taking it to sprint since root is gone. who knows maybe i'll get a new one. Thanks to all who helped I surely appreciate it.
Patrick

Did u reset flash counter before unroot?

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fedge1234 said:
Did u reset flash counter before unroot?
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no not sure how to do that or if I would have been able too because of safe mode limitations.

Soft brick, but can't access recovery mode

Hey there, so my phone randomly decided to stop working today.
Whenever I put the battery in the phone or plug in the charger, the Samsung screen loads then nothing. This all happens without me pushing the power button btw. Then the power button doesn't work, nor can I access recovery.
Like I mentioned, this all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly. I haven't flashed a rom in awhile so I'm not sure what caused the problem. One tidbit worth mentioning is that my phone would randomly reboot on the rom I've been using, but it wouldn't happen too often.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not exactly sure what I should do in this situation. Thanks for reading.

nfsplayer99 said:
Hey there, so my phone randomly decided to stop working today.
Whenever I put the battery in the phone or plug in the charger, the Samsung screen loads then nothing. This all happens without me pushing the power button btw. Then the power button doesn't work, nor can I access recovery.
Like I mentioned, this all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly. I haven't flashed a rom in awhile so I'm not sure what caused the problem. One tidbit worth mentioning is that my phone would randomly reboot on the rom I've been using, but it wouldn't happen too often.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not exactly sure what I should do in this situation. Thanks for reading.
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try to be quicker to access recovery, power off the phone. then press the power, vol up, and home then AS SOON as you see the blue text on the left top side of the samsung logo screen let go of the buttons, it should boot into recovery then wipe data factory reset and reboot.

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try to be quicker to access recovery, power off the phone. then press the power, vol up, and home then AS SOON as you see the blue text on the left top side of the samsung logo screen let go of the buttons, it should boot into recovery then wipe data factory reset and reboot.
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Yeah, I was able to do that once, but then the phone just goes to a black screen and doesn't load anything

nfsplayer99 said:
Yeah, I was able to do that once, but then the phone just goes to a black screen and doesn't load anything
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flash this recovery attached with odin by booting into download mode via power vol down and home, wipe data factory reset and reboot
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390212717148635222 (recovery)
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390275921635705049 (odin)
place in pda with only f. reset time and auto reboot checked. it SHOULD only take about 10 seconds to flash. as soon as your phone reboots hold the recovery combo and it should go to it

I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.

nfsplayer99 said:
I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.
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kinda odd. never had that happen before. ,maybe you could try to reflash the download mode into your phone using this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125(make sure you use a debrick.img http://d-h.st/iEy for att not sprint BTW)
or use a jig. since your phone can still access the boot interface.

nfsplayer99 said:
I can't really access download mode either.
I'll get to the screen that asks if I want to go into download mode, then push the up on the volume rocker, get to the next screen, but then it goes black about a second later.
Thanks for all the help so far though.
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Have you done this and then connected the USB to see if ODIN will recognize the phone? it's entirely possible that you are getting into download mode, but just can't see it..
It's certainly worth a try.