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Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks
that is because your phone is not defective
your phone did not have the 3 button mode disabled
No I have thee button issue. I would not work other wise.
I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.
Podgintor said:
I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.
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Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..
That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.
ysandhu said:
Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..
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8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
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So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.
Jordiharrison said:
That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.
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I am sad to hear that.. So if i brick my phone.. and plug charger it won't even show me charging icon.. that sucks...
So i guess my method is useless anyways..
hol17 said:
So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.
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You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..
ysandhu said:
You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..
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Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.
share your frustration here
http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada
hol17 said:
Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.
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I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...
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I already did that.. let's hope they do somthing..
ysandhu said:
I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...
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I did that..
Like I said before, It just appears back at the battery screen no matter how I time it.
Yep I tried that on my bell galaxy and didnt work either. I'm bringing it back. I can't connect it with kies on 3 computers and nothing running on the phone. It just says please wait... such BS software
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ysandhu said:
Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks
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Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..
ysandhu said:
Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..
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If you can get into download mode, you don't have any kind of 3 button issue. Your phone is fine, you just need to work on your timing in order to get into recovery mode.
There is nothing wrong with your phone.
Hey lads,
this is probably a very dumb Q, but since I am new to all this android schmuzzle and couldn't find ballocks on that, don't judge me too hard ;]
I've noticed that when u press both VolUp and VolDown ( put pressure kinda in the middle or the rocker ) the phone vibrates once and then after several seconds (seems to vary) it vibrates three times fast. Now what the flick is that? Not that much of a big deal but it gets annoying given that even when the screen is off and the phone is locked doesn't seem to give a damn
thanks
has happened to me too but hard to reproduce. I have no ideas why it happens. Sometimes it occurs when the phone is booting up for me as well.
Put ur finger in the middle of the rocker and press ( not even hard ). It happens every time in my case. even when the phone is locked
I get the same behaviour, sure is strange.
Kinda old thread but I didn't want to start a new one either. I've noticed this too by accident. When you turn off your screen and press both volume buttons at the same time it vibrates once and every other time twice or thrice. If it vibrates only once it will vibrate again a couple of times after about 10 seconds. Has someone found a reason to this already?
Hawks556 said:
Has someone found a reason to this already?
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Maybe HTC thought "Why not? Let's do this and see how they discuss about it." ^^
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These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess
Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.
G1sanju said:
These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess
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I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
olivierlee said:
Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.
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This is correct, there's always a new bugreport after I press the volume buttons. I don't think that it's even necessary to have usb debugging on.
Thanks for the quick answers, but could there be something more to it?
Hawks556 said:
I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
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Press the power button first and then press volume up and down..you will get a reboot...
Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?
Hawks556 said:
Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?
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It shouldn't be, but its really hard to get it if you are trying to press three button, you can try power button and middle vol button......any ways I also tried lot of times before I got my first reboot....
1) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time = Vibrations & all processes' states and stacktraces dumped to /data/arn/traces.txt (thanks to alind_)
2) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time + POWER BUTTON once = instant reboot
Works for me with CM7 and Stock Sense.
I searched the whole GNex forum, and I am aware that to take a screen shot you need to press the volume button and the power button. I have tried doing this several times and in reverse order and I have even varied the length of time between presses on each button but I cannot get the screen shot to work or capture the image. I also tried pressing the two buttons at the exact same time. Is there some setting I am missing or did not check?
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I searched the whole GNex forum, and I am aware that to take a screen shot you need to press the volume button and the power button. I have tried doing this several times and in reverse order and I have even varied the length of time between presses on each button but I cannot get the screen shot to work or capture the image. I also tried pressing the two buttons at the exact same time. Is there some setting I am missing or did not check?
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Its a bit tricky to get the hang of but basically you need to press both power and volume down buttons at exactly the same time and HOLD them for about 2 seconds. It will then show your screenshot being saved to your phone (sdcard/pictures/screenshots).
Mark.
Thanks, I'll give it another try. Thought I might have a defective unit or that I didn't have the right setting some where.
I struggled for quite a bit too until I figured you have to hold it down. It'll then notify you a screenshot has been taken, just hold both vol down and power at the same time until you get the indication a screenshot has been taken.
Thanks two you both for the answers! I got the hang of it finally... Silly fat fingers couldn't press the buttons at the same time LOL
Can someone close the thread? Solved
mskip said:
Its a bit tricky to get the hang of but basically you need to press both power and volume down buttons at exactly the same time and HOLD them for about 2 seconds. It will then show your screenshot being saved to your phone (sdcard/pictures/screenshots).
Mark.
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Thanks, I do it
Just recently my power button stopped working. I pushed the button to use my phone and it did nothing. For about five minutes pressing the power button did nothing. I had to press and hold up and power button to restart. Is working fine now but What I would like to know is why did this happen? How can I prevent something like this occurring?
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ens04 said:
Just recently my power button stopped working. I pushed the button to use my phone and it did nothing. For about five minutes pressing the power button did nothing. I had to press and hold up and power button to restart. Is working fine now but What I would like to know is why did this happen? How can I prevent something like this occurring?
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I've noticed mine has done the same thing a couple of times since I've gotten it. In my case I think the phone hot boots, maybe you have the same case
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Same issue but no case and it wasn't hot. I think it might be software related. Waiting a few minutes and holding the button for 30 seconds finally allowed it to boot.
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I've experienced this just once with the same result. Power button + volume up resolved it.
I had same issue pre-root and vol up and power fixed the issue. No power button issue since.
Hi bro
dukaduka said:
I had same issue pre-root and vol up and power fixed the issue. No power button issue since.
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can u let me know how to use power +Vol up button to solve this problem?
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touchprofan said:
I've experienced this just once with the same result. Power button + volume up resolved it.
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How to use power+vol up button to solve this? Can u plz explain?
rajeshnitk said:
How to use power+vol up button to solve this? Can u plz explain?
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hold the power button at the same time as holding volume up button.... hold both for a few seconds might take as long as 8 seconds
will put you in fastboot mode....(if it doesnt go into fastboot that way can hold power button until screen turns off then quickly hold volume up until fastboot comes on)
once in fastboot tap volume down twice (slowly allow a slight pause between presses) then pres the powere button and you will be in recovery
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spleef said:
hold the power button at the same time as holding volume up button.... hold both for a few seconds might take as long as 8 seconds
will put you in fastboot mode....(if it doesnt go into fastboot that way can hold power button until screen turns off then quickly hold volume up until fastboot comes on)
once in fastboot tap volume down twice (slowly allow a slight pause between presses) then pres the powere button and you will be in recovery
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Holding power button and vol up for some time just restarts the phone. Nothing happens.And holing power button also just restart the phone nothing more. Can u plz let me know what wrong I m doing.And then what to do after entering ito recovery mode?
spleef said:
hold the power button at the same time as holding volume up button.... hold both for a few seconds might take as long as 8 seconds
will put you in fastboot mode....(if it doesnt go into fastboot that way can hold power button until screen turns off then quickly hold volume up until fastboot comes on)
once in fastboot tap volume down twice (slowly allow a slight pause between presses) then pres the powere button and you will be in recovery
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I can't even get my phone to the fastboot screen. Ive held down vol up and power. Vol down and power. All 3. I'm really at a loss. Any ideas before I just get a replacement? Also, my headphone jack has seemed to stop working along with my power button.
Wonhob said:
I can't even get my phone to the fastboot screen. Ive held down vol up and power. Vol down and power. All 3. I'm really at a loss. Any ideas before I just get a replacement? Also, my headphone jack has seemed to stop working along with my power button.
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When I have trouble powering on I hold vol up while plugging in usb.
What I basically need: I want to access recovery(or bootloader, I am not sure what its really called) to do a factory reset.
History of the problem: My little sister entered the pattern incorrectly too many times and now the phone is locked asking for gmail and password. Although I know it, but the phones wifi is disabled, so it says "wrong username or password" and hence I can not unlock it. I want to do a factory reset via the recovery but the phone is not going into it even though I press volume down + power(I also tried the volume up). USB debugging is off, and the device is not rooted... please help me, how can I get around this damn problem?
TDm3732 said:
I want to do a factory reset via the recovery but the phone is not going into it even though I press volume down + power(I also tried the volume up).
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Power+vol down doesn't do anything (will not get you to bootloader) if the phone is on. This only works when the phone is powered off.
If power+vol up didn't go anything, it's probably because you didn't hold the buttons long enough. Hold power+vol up (and don't let go) until the screen goes dark (may take more than a minute in some conditions) meaning it is going to reboot. The moment the screen goes dark, let go of those buttons and only hold vol down. Don't let go, until the white bootloader screen appears. If you fail to get into bootloader (the phone just reboots, tried to go to OS) that means you didn't do the button combo correctly. Either you started pressing vol down too late, or let go too early. Just repeat the sequence until you get it right.
Thank you for replying
I said what you did, unfortunately it doesnt work
TDm3732 said:
Thank you for replying
I said what you did, unfortunately it doesnt work
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What doesn't work? I outlined a few steps. Need more details. The basic reboot sequence (holding power+vol up) does it reboot the phone or not?
This is hard coded into the device. It works in any condition short of a brick. It even works when the phone is powered off. The only time I've seen it fail is if your vol button or power button is broken.
ok, here is how it goes;
I turn the phone off
I press the voldown + power, the phone turns on, I release none of them, everything goes very normally, when the phone is at the lock screen, there is a messege on the display saying "to restart the phone, continue holding the power button for 3 seconds" and it counts down to 2 and then 1, it stops at 1, everything else is normal(except the home and back buttons have been flashing-turning on and off-since the start of the process). now I continue on holding both buttons until the phone autolocks, and here it goes to eternity, nothing happens form here just flashing home and back buttons..
I did the same process for volup+power. I did several times, each taking more than one minute..
and all my buttons are working, I can assure you of that..
TDm3732 said:
I turn the phone off
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How are you doing that?
redpoint73 said:
How are you doing that?
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when the phone is on at the lock screen, I have to swipe up, which takes me to a screen asking me for google username and password, and when I press the power button there, it displays the cummon box with 4 options; turn off, restart, airplane mode, and kid mode.
if I press the power button before swiping up, it displays the messege "To restart, continue holding the power button for 3 seconds" it counts down and stops at 1, just as I described before
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when I press the power button there, it displays the cummon box with 4 options; turn off, restart, airplane mode, and kid mode.
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Try picking restart. Then once the screen goes black, start holding (only) vol down. See if that gets you into bootloader.
redpoint73 said:
Try picking restart. Then once the screen goes black, start holding (only) vol down. See if that gets you into bootloader.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaan I would have kissed you if I could, thank youuuuuu. You are a life savior. It did go to the recovery mode. I really do not know how to repay you. Thank you very much
TDm3732 said:
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaan I would have kissed you if I could, thank youuuuuu. You are a life savior. It did go to the recovery mode. I really do not know how to repay you.
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lol. Your gratitude is enough.
Strange, I wonder why it didn't work when forcing a restart with button combo (power+ vol up). I don't think I've seen that issue you described, where the capacitive buttons are flashing.
Essentially, any time the phone reboots, if you hold vol down, it should go into bootloader. Or in the fully powered off condition, hold the vol down, and press and release power button (don't release vol down).
yeah, I read a tone about it and nothing worked. It seems my Htc is special