How can i remove the factory mode on my device, which is not allowing me to enter recovery mode?
When i turn my device on and hold the volume up button, instead of booting to recovery mode, the device boots into factory mode (which has a chinese factory mode menu). Due to this i cannot enter recovery mode without plugging the device into the PC and then running adb/fastboot then booting to recovery mode. Hence should anything go wrong with my device and it doesnt boot fully, i will be stuck with no access to a recovery mode. (as i wouldnt be able to use adb to get to the recovery mode)
P.S ive tried all combinations of buttons (i.e holding volume down as well with the power button) and it still goes to factory mode rather than recovery mode.
It is a mediatek device, can i unpack and make changes to the boot.img/system.img and then repack them and flash it back onto the device to resolve the issue or is there another way where i can boot to recovery mode without having to load up adb/fastboot first?
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Hi all.
I entered recovery mode (through the advanced reboot menu in CM, but that doesn't matter).
My power button doesn't work, and everything was fine without it until I entered recovery mode - now I can't exit it.
The problem is I can't select "reboot system now" from the recovery menu because power button is the selector (and as I said, it doesn't work) so I tried taking the battery out and then turning on but it enters recovery mode every time.
I didn't do anything through recovery mode so no harm was done to my working system.
Also, my PC doesn't recognize my phone when in recovery mode so I can't run adb commands. I don't know why - I have the latest usb drivers installed.
Is there any way to exit recovery mode without the power button?
Thanks a lot. :good:
Use touch CWM or Philz touch or TWRP
Ended up with fixing my power button.
Thanks any way.
By the way, discovered rainbow mode (volume down + up together) of CWM... pretty funny.
Hi,
No matter what I try to do, when I turn on the phone (LeTV x800) with the power down button held in, the phone loads an image of a penguin and then reboots.
When I hold the power up button in and turn on the device it loads the stock recovery. But won't allow me to flash TWRP recovery which I have renamed to the devices required nomenclature (update.zip). It says it is corrupted.
Please help!
I just officialy unlocked my bootloader because I Can't enter EDL mode somehow. Tried everything, EDL scripts, adb, holding the volume buttons...
The phone always restart the the system (it works fine). This is weird because I can't do factory reset either, it always boots back into my system.
Can somebody help me in this?
If you have an unlocked bootloader, why do you need to go to EDL mode instead just use fastboot.
Care to explain better?
The issue is: I flashed TWRP with fastboot. When I try to boot into it (Holding Volume up + power) i just get back into system.
This is just weird, as I can't do a Factory Reset either!
Download edl7.zip file from xda thread and go into fastboot mode and double tap on cmd file...your device will go in edl mode (red led blink)
Zerei said:
Care to explain better?
The issue is: I flashed TWRP with fastboot. When I try to boot into it (Holding Volume up + power) i just get back into system.
This is just weird, as I can't do a Factory Reset either!
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EDL is for flashing fastboot files for locked bootloader as flashing through fastboot doesn't work. If your bootloader is unlocked you can just use fastboot. For TWRP are you getting any error while flashing it, if not you should boot into TWRP by holding volume down and power button with your phone turned off.
harishmenace said:
EDL is for flashing fastboot files for locked bootloader as flashing through fastboot doesn't work. If your bootloader is unlocked you can just use fastboot. For TWRP are you getting any error while flashing it, if not you should boot into TWRP by holding volume down and power button with your phone turned off.
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Hey man. Thank you for your help. But I think that I'm not being clear on what my issue is. I have some experience on flashing twrp and rooting. But never faced something like this before.
I can't even do a factory reset (from the settings menu) as the phone restarts and just goes back to the system. I flashed twrp but when I try to boot into it I get back to the system. I try to reboot into bootloader via the update menu and the phone resets and just get back to system.
It's just as if I can't acess the bootloader menu at all.
That never happened, try holding volume button before pressing power button. You can also try it through adb, make sure you have usb debugging turned on. For fastboot use adb reboot bootloader and for recovery adb reboot recovery
harishmenace said:
That never happened, try holding volume button before pressing power button. You can also try it through adb, make sure you have usb debugging turned on. For fastboot use adb reboot bootloader and for recovery adb reboot recovery
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Yeah, tried that too. This is just way too weird to be normal. I'm sure that I did everything right.
I need to recover a WiFi password from my old phone, but the power button is broken.
All I need to do is to root the phone so I can get in \data to recover the password.
After trying a lot of thinks, I discovered ADB, so I tried to reboot into download mode.
But instead of that, I did reboot into recovery mode :silly: , but I can't navigatie through recovery because of the broken power button.
And the device is not found anymore with ADB and fastboot, so I don't know what to do anymore.
Does someone have an idea?
I tried going through recovery to bootloader, but that does not put me in download mode. Any other tips except Adb. Just thinking about what I can do in a boot loop or brick except wipe.
Arealhooman said:
I tried going through recovery to bootloader, but that does not put me in download mode. Any other tips except Adb. Just thinking about what I can do in a boot loop or brick except wipe.
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If you're in recovery mode, you can use ADB to command a reboot to bootloader, which for most Samsung devices opens download mode as well - the screen is just black instead of green.
Getting into bootloader mode via the buttons depends on the device, but the universal method seems to be this:
Power device completely off, wait a minute or two
Hold both Volume + and - buttons, do NOT press Power
While holding Volume buttons, plug in USB cable connected to your PC
Device should start in download mode.
If you press Power, or connect the USB cable before holding the buttons, your device will just power on.
Going into bootloader does not put me into download. I ahead to use Adb reboot download and you can’t use Adb in stock recovery