is there any way to put this phone in a sort of stand by mode so that nothing happens with the phone but you can quickly turn it on with the tap of the power button do you don't have to wait for the phone to turn on?
Thanks
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Never mind.
Pull out battery. Try either 3 button mode to access cwm or vol+ and power button. You should be able to get into cwm.
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Is there secret to holding in ptessing the volume & power button to get into recovery
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I swear it tskes me like 5 to 7 sttrmpts befotm I can finally boot into recovery.
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vol up + power = recovery mode
vol down + power = download mode
actually...took me a while to figure out too. i think every phone is different.
i hold power + volume up until i see the blue 'recovery booting' comes on, then i release the power button but still holding the volume up for about another 10sec or hold until i see recovery
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cbbplanet said:
actually...took me a while to figure out too. i think every phone is different.
i hold power + volume up until i see the blue 'recovery booting' comes on, then i release the power button but still holding the volume up for about another 10sec or hold until i see recovery
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If you hold volume up or down as the phone vibrates to restart or boot, you get recovery and download mode respectively. You don't even need to hold power. It's actually much easier than older Android phones. No secret, you're just doing it wrong. jk.
Give it a try though. Restart your phone, and as long as you're holding down the volume up button from the indicating vibration until the blue text shows up in the top left corner, then you can let go. Same goes for down for download mode, but it will immediately go to the warning screen.
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At first, took me 6 tries..
The secret =
Keep holding it down till u see the Samsung Logo, then release.
thachosenone said:
If you hold volume up or down as the phone vibrates to restart or boot, you get recovery and download mode respectively. You don't even need to hold power. It's actually much easier than older Android phones. No secret, you're just doing it wrong. jk.
Give it a try though. Restart your phone, and as long as you're holding down the volume up button from the indicating vibration until the blue text shows up in the top left corner, then you can let go. Same goes for down for download mode, but it will immediately go to the warning screen.
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if i let go of the volume when i see the blue logo only.. then it takes me to the stock recovery..or some other recovery so i kept thinking my recovery didn't get flashed. but what i had to do was just hold the volume key longer. ..until my recovery boots up.
this only applies to my recovery mode, i think it has to do with the ota update which had a root locked kernel.
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Isn't it vol up + home + power for recovery and vol down + home + power for download mode?
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ronin4740 said:
Isn't it vol up + home + power for recovery and vol down + home + power for download mode?
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No need for the home button. If you trigger a restart from the os, you don't even need the power button.
If you're on the ota and are having trouble rooting, go into download mode and flash a custom recovery tar. Then when it auto resets, hold down the vol up button until the blue text in the upper left corner appears on the galaxy s4 splash screen. Boom you're in custom recovery
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When booting into recovery sometimes I get that warning screen in green why and what is that warning screen for why don't it automatically just boot into recovery since the phone is rooted.
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rp56 said:
When booting into recovery sometimes I get that warning screen in green why and what is that warning screen for why don't it automatically just boot into recovery since the phone is rooted.
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Sounds like your going into download mode and not recovery. just hold volume up and hit restart on the phone.
Sorry if this was posted in the wrong forum but this is kinda to do with apps.
Is there an app or something which lets you see the power menu? When you hold down the power button it shows the reboot menu(with recovery) power off airplane mode. My lock button is faulty and I cannot access this. Is there an alternative? Thanks a lot
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There are many alternatives.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=reboot&c=apps
On my note 2 you have to press the power button pretty hard to get the screen to turn on. Will T-Mobile replace the phone in store? I also have insurance. My phone is running rooted stock. Should I restore it to complete stock?
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Why don't you just use "Smart Screen ON" from Play Store and don't ever use your power button again.
It's also much cooler to just waive your finger and the screen turns on or off. ..
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When I pay 300 dollars for a phone I expect no power button issues. What if I ever needed to boot into download mode or recovery?
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sRs DoLLaR mEnU said:
When I pay 300 dollars for a phone I expect no power button issues. What if I ever needed to boot into download mode or recovery?
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Don't get me wrong - I see your point and agree. That being said, if you find yourself in a bind and need to do either of those things (get into download mode or recovery) - as long as you are rooted just grab terminal emulator from the playstore, then open it up and enter
Code:
su
After hitting enter and allowing permissions and all that, you can then enter the following for recovery
Code:
reboot recovery
or enter this for download mode
Code:
reboot download
Figured I'd drop that here just in case, and apologies if you were already aware.