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[Q] Boot Menu buttons gone or boot menu skipped?

Hello folks,
I installed the following rom today. Knowing that its a developer rom I realy wanted to try it out. And its working like a charm, but...
now i got 1 problem.
I cant get into the boot menu anymore.
Normally I had to press (power + volume down) to get into the boot menu. Its not responding anymore when i press those buttons.
But the power button also reacts completely different now.
Before I had to press the power button shortly to start the operating system. Now i have to hold it for a little while (which is of course very good, prevents from accidentally starting your device when its for example in ur pocket).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1040121&highlight=sense+3.0
Any ideas how i can still get into the boot menu?
I got s-off and hboot data++
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Try Backbutton and Power or pull the battery and test it again whit power + vol down.

Pulling the battery out seemed to do the trick. Any idea how come? Do i have to pull out the battery everytime i want to go in boot modus now (as some sort of protection) or was the system just stuck?
Anyway thanks a lot!
Edit: Yes it seems that i have to pull out the battery everytime now. But the operating system seems to be starting a looooot faster.

i have the same Problem whit my Device- If i make it S-off i come never in my Recovery- Only whit (Phone On) Powerbutton > Reboot > Recovery - or - Pull Battery

So you can't reach bootloader from phone off by using the volume down and power buttons pressed together and held for a few seconds - without pulling the battery first?
That's odd.
I think this standard entry to bootloader should remain the same regardless if any rom you flash, as flashing roms doesn't touch the bootloader at all.

Sounds like it might be fastboot doing this - Settings, Applications, Fastboot tickbox.
If checked, I see the same behavior as what you've described here.
If I take the tick out of the box, booting takes longer, but I can get into recovery/bootloader every time.

[Q]Can't access Clockwordmod Recovery after Cool Sensation flashing

As the title already says,
I'm stuck at an endless boot loop of the HTC logo and the volume down + POWER button doesn't get me into recovery again, like the option gone. So I'm stuck and I can't flash the boot-up FIX image since I can't access Clockworkmod recovery as I really only used this to flash images. Any help would be highly appreciated and it's rather urgent to me.
Thank you.

Turn the phone off
Click in trackpad. Hold
Click on volume down. Hold
Click on power. Hold everything until you see tge white hboot.
Press vol down to RECOVERY
Press power.
Et voila.
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remmyhi said:
Turn the phone off
Click in trackpad. Hold
Click on volume down. Hold
Click on power. Hold everything until you see tge white hboot.
Press vol down to RECOVERY
Press power.
Et voila.
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For some strange reason that doesn't work either. I will keep on trying your method until someone gives another solution... Well my volume button wasn't always sensitive so I needed to click hard, I will try though. Thank you as for now.

Simba™ said:
For some strange reason that doesn't work either. I will keep on trying your method until someone gives another solution... Well my volume button wasn't always sensitive so I needed to click hard, I will try though. Thank you as for now.
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OK, another method:
1. Switch your phone off
2. Keep pressing the Back button
3. Power phone on (Power button) while keeping the Back button pressed
4. Check if "BOOTLOADER" is marked", if not select it by using Volume up/down buttons
5. Press Power button
6. via Volume up/down select "RECOVERY"
7. Press Power again
You are in Recovery and ready to flash / restore / backup etc.
EDIT: if you volume down button is out of function you can "scroll" with the vol. up button as well. If you reached the top of a list, it will jump to the bottom automatically.

Settings> applications> fastboot. Untick.
Power down. Power up+volume down.
Fastboot location might be different though. It is in applications for me.

erklat said:
Settings> applications> fastboot. Untick.
Power down. Power up+volume down.
Fastboot location might be different though. It is in applications for me.
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After a successful boot - but he is in a boot loop

Doh, you're right. Missed that.

MonacoHias said:
OK, another method:
1. Switch your phone off
2. Keep pressing the Back button
3. Power phone on (Power button) while keeping the Back button pressed
4. Check if "BOOTLOADER" is marked", if not select it by using Volume up/down buttons
5. Press Power button
6. via Volume up/down select "RECOVERY"
7. Press Power again
You are in Recovery and ready to flash / restore / backup etc.
EDIT: if you volume down button is out of function you can "scroll" with the vol. up button as well. If you reached the top of a list, it will jump to the bottom automatically.
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That helped me and I found a fix for it yesterday. Thank you anyway.

erklat said:
Settings> applications> fastboot. Untick.
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MonacoHias said:
OK, another method:
1. Switch your phone off
2. Keep pressing the Back button
3. Power phone on (Power button) while keeping the Back button pressed
4. Check if "BOOTLOADER" is marked", if not select it by using Volume up/down buttons
5. Press Power button
6. via Volume up/down select "RECOVERY"
7. Press Power again
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I had a similar issue, but I wasn't stuck in a bootloop. Couldn't access recovery using vol-down at all, I could access it using ROM Manager, but it loaded the bundled version (3.0.0.5) not the installed one (2.5.1.8). Weirdly enough, selecting 'reboot recovery' in the 'temporary' recovery rebooted me into the installed one
The two posts above fixed it for me though, just unticking 'fastboot' wasn't enough - it just stopped it switching off (it would always reboot immediately!), but holding 'back' while it was rebooting got me into HBOOT.
I did discover that if I pressed and held vol-down while the htc white screen was showing it would start in 'safe-mode' - That was a shock, thought I'd caught Windows
It started right after I installed a new ROM, I don't really understand how that could affect it but I'm going to try a different one now to see if the problem goes away.
PVT1 S-OFF (Alpharev)
CWM 2.5.1.8
HBOOT 0.93

similar problem
Hi, I'm new and also noob, so sorry
I have same or similar problem...
I made update from A2.2 to A2.3.3 official ROM from HTC for HTC Desire and than I found custom ROM with Sense 3.0 - Cool Sensation v7.
I made S-Off and I have HBOOT 6.93.1002 now. Tried to instal custom ROM, everything installed good, but after rebooting system is still in boot-loop and a can not instal boot-fix because I still get error regarding some error about edify...
Some like this:
"amend script(update-script) is no longer supported
amend scripting was depreceated by google and android 1.5
it was neccacery to remove it when upgrading to clockwork mod 3.0 gingerbread based recovery.
please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages.
installation aborted."
Can someone help me? Thx.

[Q] Can't Boot To Recovery Mode CWM

I'm new to the android community but not new to tinkering with gadgets so naturally the first thing I looked into after getting my SGH T989 was how to root it. Unfortunately, I seem to have screwed something up.
I followed one of the many guides on how to root it and I initially had installed clockworkmod v5.8 something. From there I was able to access recovery mode but when I tried to install zip from sd card, it would let me select the super user zip file but after that it said something along the lines of "This action cannot be done" and I could only choose from the "No"s.
Thinking that I had maybe flashed the CWM wrong, I tried to reflash it via Odin. Everything passed on Odin's side but now I can't access recovery mode at all. My phone boots normally whether I hold down the two volume keys and power key or not. I read somewhere that maybe flashing a different recovery method and then flashing back would help but I can't seem to find another recovery method, all I can find is Odin. Any suggestions?

Anyone? Can anyone at least point me to a download link of another recovery method other than clockworkmod so maybe I could try flashing over it then reflashing clockworkmod? And would I flash it via Odin the same way?

FIXED
Okay I did two things and the problem was resolved, although I'm not sure which issue was at fault here.
First, I did a factory reset of the phone (just through the normal settings menu, since my phone was never rooted).
Second, I learned (from watching a video) that to boot to recovery mode, the volume up and down key must be continued to be held down even after the vibrate from pressing and holding the power button. Previously I had let go of all three buttons at once once I felt the vibrate. I'm not sure if this was the issue or not since the first time I accessed recovery mode I did it by releasing all three buttons upon vibrate.
Anyways, phone has been rooted, I have superuser app, backup has been created, now looking for ROMs. Cheers!

yoft1 said:
Okay I did two things and the problem was resolved, although I'm not sure which issue was at fault here.
First, I did a factory reset of the phone (just through the normal settings menu, since my phone was never rooted).
Second, I learned (from watching a video) that to boot to recovery mode, the volume up and down key must be continued to be held down even after the vibrate from pressing and holding the power button. Previously I had let go of all three buttons at once once I felt the vibrate. I'm not sure if this was the issue or not since the first time I accessed recovery mode I did it by releasing all three buttons upon vibrate.
Anyways, phone has been rooted, I have superuser app, backup has been created, now looking for ROMs. Cheers!
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yep you only let go of the power button, you can even continue to hold the power button, but the main thing is to hold the +/- until "SAMSUNG" disappears

Here's what I did, you are correct.
I too was in a situation where my Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T i777 handset REFUSED to boot into CWM recovery mode. This stubbornness was AFTER I installed an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM (my SGS II is rooted and unlocked).
I tried EVERYTHING, including booting in various modes using ICS CWM menu.
I tried renaming ROMS "update.zip" and placing the ROMS in the internal memory and the microSD card root directory.
And I tried doing the manual pressing of keys, which is the original way of doing a "hard reset" from the old G1 days in 2008. I would press the volume up key, while pressing the home and power on keys. Nothing.
After I entered a Google search "my SGS II will not boot to CWM recovery mode" I came to your thread.
I read that you were hold down BOTH the volume up and down, not as I was doing, and as some say, the "volume up."
For about 15 seconds I held down at the same time "volume up/down" (both), the home key and power on key (my phone was off). Voilà!!! It went into recovery mode. I wiped all data, including the cache, said to install zip from SD card, and installed a new ROM (that was NOT named "update.zip" like it had to be on the G1).
So anyone doing a search, that may be the issue, you have to hold down BOTH the volume up and down at the same time, not just the volume up key. Again, that's what worked on my phone, the Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T i777. Maybe it is different on HTC handsets.
Thanks to the OP!! To think I spent about 8 hours on this issue, read the OP's post and five minutes later I had a new ROM on my phone. or is it

SanFrancisco said:
I too was in a situation where my Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T i777 handset REFUSED to boot into CWM recovery mode. This stubbornness was AFTER I installed an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM (my SGS II is rooted and unlocked).
I tried EVERYTHING, including booting in various modes using ICS CWM menu.
I tried renaming ROMS "update.zip" and placing the ROMS in the internal memory and the microSD card root directory.
And I tried doing the manual pressing of keys, which is the original way of doing a "hard reset" from the old G1 days in 2008. I would press the volume up key, while pressing the home and power on keys. Nothing.
After I entered a Google search "my SGS II will not boot to CWM recovery mode" I came to your thread.
I read that you were hold down BOTH the volume up and down, not as I was doing, and as some say, the "volume up."
For about 15 seconds I held down at the same time "volume up/down" (both), the home key and power on key (my phone was off). Voilà!!! It went into recovery mode. I wiped all data, including the cache, said to install zip from SD card, and installed a new ROM (that was NOT named "update.zip" like it had to be on the G1).
So anyone doing a search, that may be the issue, you have to hold down BOTH the volume up and down at the same time, not just the volume up key. Again, that's what worked on my phone, the Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T i777. Maybe it is different on HTC handsets.
Thanks to the OP!! To think I spent about 8 hours on this issue, read the OP's post and five minutes later I had a new ROM on my phone. or is it
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ok..I've got another issue..my s2 wont boot into recovery even if i hold vol +&- and from power menu too..I've tried to reboot recovery from terminal emulator..and from my rom manager apk..still nothing...any help...
I've tried also flashing recovery using Odin...but still nothing

cysiek said:
ok..I've got another issue..my s2 wont boot into recovery even if i hold vol +&- and from power menu too..I've tried to reboot recovery from terminal emulator..and from my rom manager apk..still nothing...any help...
I've tried also flashing recovery using Odin...but still nothing
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Have you tried to ADB into recovery from a computer?

i flashed recovery using Odin..and it worked i can get to recovery using key sequence...(vol + vol - and power) but now i cant even install zip from sdcard or internal sd
i finally could get into recovery but when i try to wipe data/cache it freezes on formatting cache

I can get into recovery but my phone is not starting please help sgh t989
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[Q] Can no longer get to bootloader

Hi,
Fairly new to android scene. I recently rooted and unlocked the bootloader. I'm now trying to get CWM ... but I can no longer get to the bootloader so I can enter fastboot mode. I hold down the power and the down vol key but nothing happens, after a while it just restarts the phone.
Edit: I got into bootloader by holding down vol down and power for about 5 seconds then let go of the power button and then tap the power button a few times.

Did you disable fastboot? If not it's under settings -> power.
Then try again, hold both buttons down until it appears.

I disabled fastboot. Sorry forgot to mention that in the first post. Right now I'm trying to set up ADB and see if I can do it from there, but I'm having problems doing that too.

How to reliably start TWRP

I have TWRP installed, and have managed to run it a few times. Now I cannot start TWRP at all.
From off, if I switch on, the following happens:
1) Screen with Samsung Galaxy A70 - Secured by Knox
2) 0.5 seconds later another screen, "this phone's bootloader is unlocked and it software integrity. .." and "press power key to continue..."
3) 5 seconds later, same screen as (1)
4) 3 seconds later, red letters "this phone is not running Samsung's official software"
5) 3 seconds later blank screen with "samsung" and then booting to android.

In my experience I have to flash twrp every time I want to use it( I don't know the reason but I couldn't fix it ) , for booting twrp on the other hand I turn off the phone first, then I press power button+volume down until the "this phones bootloader..." screen appears, here is the tricky part, you have to quickly let go of these two buttons, press power button, let go of the power button (after the warning disappeared) and then press volume down button (and hold it) until twrp logo appears, this happens really fast so you may need to do it a few times to get used to it.

mobin22 said:
In my experience I have to flash twrp every time I want to use it( I don't know the reason but I couldn't fix it )
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Yes, same here, the only time I have managed to run TWRP on this phone, is right after a flash.
mobin22 said:
and then press power down button
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Do you mean volume down?

Zilliman said:
Yes, same here, the only time I have managed to run TWRP on this phone, is right after a flash.
Do you mean volume down?
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Power off the device, plug into a pc, wait for it to start charge, hold vol up and power till it turns on. Wala boots to twrp. If you have magisk installed,you can use the reboot option within magisk.

mobin22 said:
In my experience I have to flash twrp every time I want to use it( I don't know the reason but I couldn't fix it ) , for booting twrp on the other hand I turn off the phone first, then I press power button+volume down until the "this phones bootloader..." screen appears, here is the tricky part, you have to quickly let go of these two buttons, press power button, let go of the power button (after the warning disappeared) and then press volume down button (and hold it) until twrp logo appears, this happens really fast so you may need to do it a few times to get used to it.
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Samsung changed how to enter recovery on Android 11. Power off device, plug into pc, wait for it to charge, then hold vol up and power till it turns on. Alternatively, if you have magisk installed, use the reboot options within magisk.

I did that. Thanks!
But it has gone to:
Android Recovery
Samsung /a70qxx/a70q
11/RP1A.200720.012./A705FNXXUB5DVB3
user/release-keys
Use volume up/down and power.
Reboot system now
Reboot to bootloader
Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe date/factory reset
...
...
...
Where is TWRP? It seems it's gone.

Zilliman said:
I did that. Thanks!
But it has gone to:
Android Recovery
Samsung /a70qxx/a70q
11/RP1A.200720.012./A705FNXXUB5DVB3
user/release-keys
Use volume up/down and power.
Reboot system now
Reboot to bootloader
Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe date/factory reset
...
...
...
Where is TWRP? It seems it's gone.
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That's because you're not installing it properly go back to my guide and follow it exactly and stop listening to these other people. I've been modding this device since it first came out with Android 9, I know every inch of this device. You're getting confused by what other people are telling you

MarvinMod said:
5- Press and hold vol down and power till the screen turns blank then immediately press and hold vol up. The device will reboot then land you in the twrp splash screen
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It fails here, on this step. After successful flash of recovery.tar, power + vol down to reboot, cable still connected, nothing you can do now can bring TWRP up. The phone boots into Android.
EDIT: I think I have now got it. I will update in a few mins.

Zilliman said:
It fails here, on this step. After successful flash of recovery.tar, power + vol down to reboot, cable still connected, nothing you can do now can bring TWRP up. The phone boots into Android.
EDIT: I think I have now got it. I will update in a few mins.
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After successful flash of recovery.tar, power and vol down to reboot, as soon as the phone screen goes blank, immediately release all keys and press and hold vol up. Must be as soon as screen goes blank. The device will then reboot twice and land you in twrp splash screen. You must hit vol down and power after successful flash then when screen blanks, vol up. If you miss this step, twrp will not hold and revert back to stock recovery.

Here is the notes I made today:
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INSTALL + START TWRP
phone is off
press up + dn
insert cable
go into download (press up)
ODIN 3.14 + AP:tar(vbmeta.img+twrp.img), auto reboot off, press upload
when it succeeds, press dn + pwr until it reboots
then quickly up + pwr until it starts (no need to hold down)
this starts in TWRP
from powered off
press pwr button
goes into twrp or android(system) -- depending on what was used last time
if we used reboot->system last time it will now **Always** go into system!
to go back into twrp:
switch off
power cable until charge
pwr + up until it starts
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The above means that you CANNOT go back to TWRP unless you have a cable and a PC near by.