Hello everyone,
I'm trying to root my tablet, and as usual with any tutorial, I'm getting stuck on what should be something very simple, booting into download mode. I've seen instructions asking me to press and hold the volume up,/down, power button and home button, in various combinations depending on the tutorial.
Either way, holding the volume up or down doesn't make a difference, I can only seem to boot into recovery mode and can't get into download mode at all.
Anyone know a solution to this? Have samsung made it impossible to root after update?
Please help
thuron44 said:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to root my tablet, and as usual with any tutorial, I'm getting stuck on what should be something very simple, booting into download mode. I've seen instructions asking me to press and hold the volume up,/down, power button and home button, in various combinations depending on the tutorial.
Either way, holding the volume up or down doesn't make a difference, I can only seem to boot into recovery mode and can't get into download mode at all.
Anyone know a solution to this? Have samsung made it impossible to root after update?
Please help
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After rooting open recovery a d wipe cache and make factory reset, then reboot
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ok thanks ill try that, i'm guessing i should back up anything i want to save.
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I've been able to get as far as installing Odin but when I try to enter recovery mode I press the up arrow on my volume and it shuts off! I just need to install the tab root zip . But like I said it keep shutting off I'm stumped can anyone help me. I tried following the you tube video step by step but its not quite going the way the video says it should be please help:O
i need help too actually.
My tab is running the latest firmware from Samsung but I want to try rooting for the first time. I found the guide on the forums but cant even get past the first step. I"ve tried powering off the device, holding down the volume down button and holding the power button several times, waiting for it to boot into the download mode but whenever I do this, it turns on,shows me the samsung logo,then shuts off.it does this in and endless loop until I let go of both buttons and it just reboots as it normally would.
Anyone have any ideas?
regardless, if your tab is powered on or off, hold down the volume down (left) button... then while still holding it... hold down the power button.... keep holding down both.... once you see the splash scree "Tab" in white... release power... keep holding volume down.
A couple seconds later you will be at the prompt to select download mode or recovery
I did not see this very clear in any of the guides, but it is the same for all 3 of my samsung devices.
Thanks so much, I feel dumb now haha. Its odd b/c thats not how the HTC boot menu works. you hold down both.
I have new galaxy tab 10.1 which I am planning to root, however I cannot get unit to enter download mode. I have tried unsuccessfully at least 20 times using the recommended method of turning the unit completely off then holding the vol-/power buttons. I press the vol- slightly ahead of the power button and hold. All I get is the samsung splash looping over and over with no download or recovery menu icons popping up after the samsung splash. Once I let go, the tab will go into android recovery mode with the option to reboot which takes me to where I started. I have followed all of the tutorials to the tee. Is there another way to get to download mode? Should I take it back if this indicates a more serious problem.
I have also done a factory wipe/reset to no avail. Will vol+ / power do anything?
thanks for your interest I would appreciate any help.
emonjato said:
I have new galaxy tab 10.1 which I am planning to root, however I cannot get unit to enter download mode. I have tried unsuccessfully at least 20 times using the recommended method of turning the unit completely off then holding the vol-/power buttons. I press the vol- slightly ahead of the power button and hold. All I get is the samsung splash looping over and over with no download or recovery menu icons popping up after the samsung splash. Once I let go, the tab will go into android recovery mode with the option to reboot which takes me to where I started. I have followed all of the tutorials to the tee. Is there another way to get to download mode? Should I take it back if this indicates a more serious problem.
I have also done a factory wipe/reset to no avail. Will vol+ / power do anything?
thanks for your interest I would appreciate any help.
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I seem to recall that at least one variant swapped the button around. In any case, it can't hurt to try volume up.
Here's what you do - first, shut the device off by holding power down and waiting for the confirmation.
Then, when it's off, hold the volume down button (to the left side, next to the power button.) Holding that down, press and hold the power button. When you see it light up, release the power button but continue to hold volume down until you see the recovery/download icons.
If doing that doesn't work, try volume up and power. Good luck!
Ill try your suggestions. thank you
emonjato said:
Ill try your suggestions. thank you
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I'm having a similar problem. I have a galaxy tab 10.1 wifi that I rooted immediately when I got it. I havn't used it in about 4-5 months. I've already done all the odin and download stuff, but now i want to update my cwm and install a JB rom (I'm currently using aokp). I'm having a funny problem with it now -- Its difficult to turn on and impossible to get into download mode.
In order to turn on my tab, I have to hold down the power, connect the charging cable and get the download screen to turn on, then hold down the power again, wait for the screen to turn off, unplug the power and hold the power button until hopefully it turns on again. And this doesn't always work, sometimes I have to do it a few times. But whenever i've tried do the same thing that gets the tab working normally -- only holding the down volume as well as the power, Nothing happens.
Now once its on and working, things work great, but turning it on is a pain and its impossible for me to bring up the download or recovery option.
I've also tried to 'reboot to bootloader' and that doesn't work, although i can still 'reboot to recovery'
Any tips?
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I'm having a similar problem. I have a galaxy tab 10.1 wifi that I rooted immediately when I got it. I havn't used it in about 4-5 months. I've already done all the odin and download stuff, but now i want to update my cwm and install a JB rom (I'm currently using aokp). I'm having a funny problem with it now -- Its difficult to turn on and impossible to get into download mode.
In order to turn on my tab, I have to hold down the power, connect the charging cable and get the download screen to turn on, then hold down the power again, wait for the screen to turn off, unplug the power and hold the power button until hopefully it turns on again. And this doesn't always work, sometimes I have to do it a few times. But whenever i've tried do the same thing that gets the tab working normally -- only holding the down volume as well as the power, Nothing happens.
Now once its on and working, things work great, but turning it on is a pain and its impossible for me to bring up the download or recovery option.
I've also tried to 'reboot to bootloader' and that doesn't work, although i can still 'reboot to recovery'
Any tips?
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I have almost the exact same problem...
Volume up puts me into download mode and i can connect with Kies but it wont do the JB update
Voulume down ... nothing just boots
if i let it try to do the OTA update it will freeze at the boot screen and stay that way till the battery dies.
To get it to work again i have to do almost exactly what was decribe above..
I have no recovery options at all.
also my Tab is "NOT" rooted
scndthe2nd said:
In order to turn on my tab, I have to hold down the power, connect the charging cable and get the download screen to turn on, then hold down the power again, wait for the screen to turn off, unplug the power and hold the power button until hopefully it turns on again. And this doesn't always work, sometimes I have to do it a few times. But whenever i've tried do the same thing that gets the tab working normally -- only holding the down volume as well as the power, Nothing happens.
Now once its on and working, things work great, but turning it on is a pain and its impossible for me to bring up the download or recovery option.
I've also tried to 'reboot to bootloader' and that doesn't work, although i can still 'reboot to recovery'
Any tips?
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I had a similar problem initially... the screen would just flash the "downloading" message, but the tablet wouldn't mount/connect to my laptop. Here's the solution:
1) launch odin
2) connect usb cable to laptop only
3) power down tablet
4) hold down the power volume down buttons together
5) when you see the downloading message, let go of the power button
6) let go of the volume down button (now just displays "downloading" message, but nothing happens
7) press volume UP
8) you'll get a message about installing custom ROMs and be given the option to do so by pressing volume UP again
9) the tablet mounts and connects to odin
10) from there follow the instructions for flashing recovery via odin (i.e., using PDA button...)
FYI just double check the guides again regarding download and recovery modes. In the thread title you mention Tab 2. This is the forum for the original Tab not the Tab 2. Both devices have different methods and key presses to access the various modes.
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Not sure if this is the proper section for this but thought I would post this here as I'm sure it would highly assist people in development and other tasks. This is the button combinations you need to enter each mode.
ODIN/Download Mode
Make sure your device is completely off
Key(s): Volume Down
While holding this key down simultaneously press the Power button until you see a disclaimer on the screen
Then let go of both buttons and press Volume Up to accept the disclaimer
Once the green robot is visible on the screen this indicates that handset is in now ODIN/Download mode
Recovery Mode
Make sure your device is completely off
Key(s): Volume Up
While holding this key down simultaneously press the Power button
As soon as the phone vibrates, let go of the Power button but keep holding Volume Up
When you see the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo (not just the word "Samsung"), right after that, the next screen you should see is your recovery
Don't let go of Volume Up until you see your recovery
It's not necessary to hold the Home button to boot into Odin mode, the combination for recovery is correct though.
So just power/volume down for Odin and home/volume up/power for recovery
mikebuck69 said:
It's not necessary to hold the Home button to boot into Odin mode, the combination for recovery is correct though.
So just power/volume down for Odin and home/volume up/power for recovery
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Sorry about that, small typo on copy/paste. Has been fixed.
Thanks!
No download mode
I've been trying to get into download mode for days and can't seem to figure it out. I have the Verizon g s4 sch-i545. I've done all of the key combos and even tried some combos + plugging in the USB cable. Nothing is working for me. Any help would be nice. Thanks
I have no problem getting into recovery mode....
mikebuck69 said:
It's not necessary to hold the Home button to boot into Odin mode, the combination for recovery is correct though.
So just power/volume down for Odin and home/volume up/power for recovery
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Home isn't necessary for recovery either. I just hold power and volume up, when the phone vibrates I let go of power and continue to hold volume up until I see the booting recovery message in the upper left.
So nothing? Nobody can offer some advice?
Moto not working
So I'm having no success with this. I went through all the steps including flashing the pre-release tar ball (MD2). All this went without fail, however once I launched Motochop and pressed enter to root. I get line Daemon not on. run port 5873. Daemon connected or on and then thats it. I don't get a notification at any point prior to me pressing enter or afterwords that I need to accept. It just stops and I get "you should reboot" from the notification bar. Have I done something wrong? I went through all the prior steps several times and I keep getting this error message.
SonicJoe said:
Home isn't necessary for recovery either. I just hold power and volume up, when the phone vibrates I let go of power and continue to hold volume up until I see the booting recovery message in the upper left.
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Agreed. Volume up and power for recovery. Volume down and power for odin.
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Nice summary. Im getting my S4 any day now.
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Well I have pushed volume down and power over and over and my phone will not enter odin.
thanks you !
Bdubois100 said:
Well I have pushed volume down and power over and over and my phone will not enter odin.
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Don't just push them. You need to hold both until you feel the phone vibrate. Then you can let go of the power button, but keep holding volume down until download mode starts.
SonicJoe said:
Don't just push them. You need to hold both until you feel the phone vibrate. Then you can let go of the power button, but keep holding volume down until download mode starts.
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When someone offers a debloat script that's in a Zip file and says "flash it to your device" do you think they mean flash it in Odin mode or flash using TWRP??
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When someone offers a debloat script that's in a Zip file and says "flash it to your device" do you think they mean flash it in Odin mode or flash using TWRP??
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Flash it in recovery
Thanks SonicJoe. Starting to figure *some of this stuff out haha.
Issue
alrigth i got it to work. is there any way to move cwm backups to the sd card?
Odin Error
I am having one heck of a time flashing to the GS4 with Odin. I follow all of the steps to a "t" but cannot get the custom kernal onto the device. I'm having no problem getting to download mode and all the setting look to be correct, however when I start the Odin process I end up with a "fail" every time. I have been looking around the web for a few days for an answer, but so far this looks like the best thread to get help.
Make sure the kernel you are trying to flash is compatible with the Odin method. A lot of kernels can be flashed via custom recovery. The first thing I would do is uninstall and then reinstall the Samsung drivers. Make sure you have the latest and it is compatible with your computer OS. You would be surprised how often drivers can screw up Odin.
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my s4 is getting into download mode itself..
i got my s4 i9500 frm bangkok but now not accepting the network ...so tried to get in download mode n root it n then 2 chg the rom n try but its not getting into download mode itself wen i use (vol down+power+main btn) ... but its going in recovery mode alone wat can b done to dis??? can any one pls help it out>????
hi guys first of all sorry for my english
please help me I have a samsung ace S5830 Chinese clone. after trying to change rom my phone restarts on the logo and impossible for me to access the recovery mode. I try all the combinations possible. before that I flash this one I could get in recovery mode with the vol + and power. someone would not have an idea to restore my phone without using recovery mode. thank you
skineur said:
hi guys first of all sorry for my english
please help me I have a samsung ace S5830 Chinese clone. after trying to change rom my phone restarts on the logo and impossible for me to access the recovery mode. I try all the combinations possible. before that I flash this one I could get in recovery mode with the vol + and power. someone would not have an idea to restore my phone without using recovery mode. thank you
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I don't know about the clones but the actual key combination for the Recovery Mode is Home + Power button and that for the Download Mode is Vol Down + Home +Power. Now check whether you can enter the Download Mode. Also specify the rom you installed. Do post the result. Hope I Helped
mahithm said:
I don't know about the clones but the actual key combination for the Recovery Mode is Home + Power button and that for the Download Mode is Vol Down + Home +Power. Now check whether you can enter the Download Mode. Also specify the rom you installed. Do post the result. Hope I Helped
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thank you for the quick response. But I tried all combinations listed above, but can not enter into recovery mode and download. I made a backup of my rom before flashing the phone. I tried to connect the phone is turn off it shows me in the device manager the hardware mt65xx preloader for 2 to 5 seconds and then disconnects.
I'm looking for a way to connect my phone to flash SP tool to restore with the original rom. I saw a tutorial that speaks of a test point on the card in the phone but I do not cmprends well. if someone can explain me this proccedure. Thank you for your answers.
mahithm said:
... the actual key combination for the Recovery Mode is Home + Power button ...
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yep true.
skineur said:
... I tried all combinations ...
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Well I don't know if it's only my ACE, but it does take some time to enter in recovery mode, maybe you just didn't wait time enough? ...
For example, okay I'm a noob, buuuut...
I've noticed that when turning ON my ACE in the "normal" way, I mean, booting it up normally it displays a small triangle on the upper left of the display and when doing the key combination to enter recovery mode this small triangle turns green, now,(once again I say that I don't know if this is normal with other users) in my case I have to wait like 10 to 15 secs!!! .. the display does go on and off like 3 times, and pay attention, because you are pressing the menu button, and sometimes the recovery mode does boot up but the first option from menu is "reboot system now" and because you are pressing the menu button for too long it automatically reboots the device...
Just throwing some ideas...
Hello everyone , this is for someone who's do not how to boot in to recovery manually , most people know but I want to share this that really help me the other day .
Press Vol-Down and power
Release Power when you see LG Logo
Press all 3 buttons until you see Reset Menu
And use the Volume up/Down to select YES to factory on the Prompts
Phone will Reboot into Recovery
Hope this information help over here
I founded googling you know… work good for me most when the phone do not want boot on you need go in to recovery so just I want share here to help others .
If someone have other methods please share
Thanks
Ps: I don't want take any credit about this just I want help others.
Gabe2014 said:
Hello everyone , this is for someone who's do not how to boot in to recovery manually , most people know but I want to share this that really help me the other day .
Press Vol-Down and power
Release Power when you see LG Logo
Press all 3 buttons until you see Reset Menu
And use the Volume up/Down to select YES to factory on the Prompts
Phone will Reboot into Recovery
Hope this information help over here
I founded googling you know… work good for me most when the phone do not want boot on you need go in to recovery so just I want share here to help others .
If someone have other methods please share
Thanks
Ps: I don't want take any credit about this just I want help others.
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Or you could download TWRP from the play store and do it from within the app, if your rooted of course.
I tried these both with no success
The only way I can boot into TWRP is through the Klickitool here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-v10/development/tool-t3283944
How to install an stable TWRP?
This is my ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...-lg-v10-h901-10c-debranded-debloated-t3277305
This took me a while to learn myself with this phone. Was so frustrating. The app is good but if you need to do it from a battery pull this won't help.
Do this:
Pull Battery
Put it back and then:
1. Hold the volume down button and power button down.
2. When the LG logo pops out while keeping the volume down button held quickly remove you finger from the power and then back on and Hold it.
This should get you in. Ima pro now. Lol.
You will get a white screen with some options. Use the volume down key to answer "yes" twice and you will be in TWRP.
This way is kinda long, but just for educational purposes I guess...
If you are rooted already, get a terminal emulator and type in 'su' (without the quote) and hit enter. You'll be prompted to allow super user access to the terminal. Click allow and then type 'reboot recovery' and hit enter. It will boot into whatever recovery you have installed.
Some emulators have widgets where you can save commands and execute them by tapping the widget but I haven't really messed with those features.