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I was wondering if anyone is working on a way to fully root the Behold 2. I tried the temporary root tutorial but seeing how fastboot cannot be accessed I was curious if there has been progress made or is it totally unrootable
Eric
Yeah i'm working on it without a behold 2 at the monent
I have 2 or 3 ideas which i'm sure will work. I'll have more when i finally get rid of my galaxy and get a behold 2
I will keep my fingers crossed on you getting a Behold 2. I was going to take my Behold 2 back to T-Mobile and go back to the MyTouch 3G but I cant see getting rid of a device when there is soooo much potential for it. Plus having the AMOLED screen and the 5MP camera helps too.
Eric
don't forget 320mb ram!! even more than any other HTC phone right now.
The Behold II is nice, I have one, anything I can do to help let me know, I am very eager to root this thing and get rid of touch wiz.
u can install open home which should do it for now.
Thats already done, but there is still the taint of touchwiz.. wonderful phone, horrible UI.
Yeah I had Open Home on it as well but earlier today I purchased GDE from the market and am really digging this home replacement.
Eric
Found this by accident, cant figure out how to do it again. was trying to get into recovery mode.
Awesome. So it can be accessed somehow. that is VERY good news
Eric
Interesting!
You can flash the recovery through Odin too, but its restored on the next boot.
Fastboot mode
Ok so I have been able to reproduce it now, this is how I am getting into fastboot, have your usb cable plugged into your computer then plug it into the phone, very quickly press vol down + send + power. thats it, the part i was missing was the usb cable timing, it appears to be required, this is of course from a powered off state.
GREAT I just tried this and it WORKS yessssss.... someone wanna try rc29
I keep trying to get this, and all it does is bring me to recovery whether I hold or briefly press volume down, send, and power.... any suggestions?
It's powered off, plug in usb cable, quickly press buttons, and I get recovery... no fastboot for me
EDIT:GOT IT!!!!! Seems after trying in order volume down, send, power I wasn't able to get it, however, I just tried, send, volume down, power in that order and it worked!
no no no .,.,..
power off wait 5 sec's
plug usb in and immediately press volume down, send, and power
I think the reboot issue is caused by a scan in an init script or something like that..
To solve this issue I would have to look deeper into it, a quicker way would be to find someone who knows java.
He could write an app which starts itself on boot_completed and executes the root command.
I was looking at exactly that Getting there...
Getting there.
hehe, cant wait.
man i sure hope someone figure out how soon, i love this phone
This guy found a work around for the samsung moment ,,, which suffers the same reboot issue...
http://midnightchannel.net/blog/255-how-to-root-the-samsung-moment.html
Ok, My phone's internal SD decided to quit on me a couple of days ago, so I'm sending it back to Bell/Samsung for service. However, when I was speaking with the bell tech, he asked me to put the phone into recovery mode by doing the following with the phone off.
Hold Vol Up, Home and Press the Power Button.
When the Samsung GT-I9000M logo appears, let go of both Home and Power. (Keep holding Vol Up)
Now, I did happen to have one with 3 button modes enabled. But I tested it anyway and it worked.
Hopefully it's worth a shot if someone could try this with 3 button disabled.
Tried and no go for me (i9000m)
Didn't work for me neither..
Any Idea why the 3 buttons are disabled yet?
Wanna try the same thing, only keep holding power and vol up. Let go of the home button when the logo pops
If I Hold Vol Up, Home and Press the Power Button, I go into FORCED UPLOAD by KEY PRESSING mode, not recovery mode... what is this mode for and how can I get recovery mode? So my buttons arn't disabled, they just go into this mode. I am on JM1. Is this going to cause me problems if I have a bad flash? I have seen elsewhere that this FORCE UPLOAD mode should be accesed by vol down home and power
don't work
the 3 button combination you mentioned is the normal method to go into Recovery Mode, there is no secret there
for a moment i though it was a new combo
AllGamer said:
the 3 button combination you mentioned is the normal method to go into Recovery Mode, there is no secret there
for a moment i though it was a new combo
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The normal way of doing it was to release ONLY the power button. He asked me to release the home button and not the power button. Hence me asking someone without the mode to try it. Nothing more. My phone is working and goes in every time, so I had no way to know. I apologize for wasting your time.
Ok, well i'm glad this thread is started, i was about to do it before i noticed this one!
Right well, i've spoken with an engineer yesterday at a Samsung service centre near me - and he said that the 3-button recovery/download modes has to work, as this is what they use themselves in order to flash customer handsets with their own flashing equipment. So basically, he said if the 3-button modes don't work, it's a fault, and they would send the phone back to Samsung! He did in fact add that he hasn't come across this problem himself as yet. However, he went on to say he's not sure if you could get the handset swapped out purely to access the recovery/download, as customers are not meant to be using this feature!
(By the way the method given by OP didn't work for me, and i've tried quite a few!)
Recovery and download mode work on sasktel i9000m's
hi there, i'll be getting my Galaxy S later on today, just want to ask a noob question here, if the 3 button was disabled and i tried it with the combos, what will happened to my phone? will it brick and i have to send it back to repair? or i can unbrick it myself?
thanks,
Kiay
Nothing. It'll just start up normally and wont go into download- or restoremode.
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Nothing. It'll just start up normally and wont go into download- or restoremode.
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ah.... thanks for the quick reply, but how come people are saying that they bricked their phone and need to send it for replacement or so?
kiay reason why people have their phone bricked is because when your phone doesnt have the 3button enabled and you try to flash your phone to another FW and it stuffs up during that time you will get a PC->!->phone pic on your screen which means it wont respond to any button presses unless you put the phone in recovery/download modes ... obviously if you dont have the 3button to be able to put them in its respective modes you will have no choice but to send it in for either a fix or replacement
hope that makes sense... thats why phones with 3button disabled will have to return their phone to get fixed where as phones with 3button active it will be hard to brick a phone
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ah.... thanks for the quick reply, but how come people are saying that they bricked their phone and need to send it for replacement or so?
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Because something happened to their phone (via firmware upgrade, changing system files, or other things) and most of the time to restore these easy fixes, we need Recovery/Download mode and it's disabled on a lot of Galaxy S's.
can some one try these buttons?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8130971&postcount=31
when i do it on my phone all it does is bring up task manager and volume max
still disable
So, is there an alternative if the combo is not working on the phone?
coz, as i read in the earlier posts, end users are not supposed to know this...and the dealer might refuse to take the handset back for this "fault"...
AllGamer said:
can some one try these buttons?
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when i do it on my phone all it does is bring up task manager and volume max
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Forced Upload works for me. My SGS has recovery disabled.
Bought in Gemany (T-Mobile branding):
GT-I9000
I90000BOJF1
ECLAIR.BOJG3
there seems to be something funky going on. this is my second tab and the first one didn't do this. when i power and volume down the image blinks by so fast it doesn't give me a chance to get into downloading mode. it's almost like it's rigged not to let me get in downloading mode. i just got the second one last night. i have searched and one other person has confirmed the same problem but no answers.. help plz
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there seems to be something funky going on. this is my second tab and the first one didn't do this. when i power and volume down the image blinks by so fast it doesn't give me a chance to get into downloading mode. it's almost like it's rigged not to let me get in downloading mode. i just got the second one last night. i have searched and one other person has confirmed the same problem but no answers.. help plz
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When that happens, release both buttons and immediately press them and hold. That's what my Tab has begun to do.
Hold the power and volume. Once you see the icons flash on the screen release and quickly hold them down again. You should then be presented with the recovery and downloading icons again.
i will give it a go.. i have held down both buttons and cycled throught like three times.. i will try with the release and re-press..
follow up.. it worked thank you
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When that happens, release both buttons and immediately press them and hold. That's what my Tab has begun to do.
Hold the power and volume. Once you see the icons flash on the screen release and quickly hold them down again. You should then be presented with the recovery and downloading icons again.
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I was starting to think I was getting slow in my old age. Thank you so much. The release and hold again method worked great.
It's good！
First off, I hope I posted this in the right forum. If not, then I offer my apologies.
Secondly, my problem is pretty much described in the title to this thread. I was going to wait until after the official ICS update before rooting my tab (sounds a bit silly, I know). Now, I have the official update installed and I was trying to follow directions to root the tab - all of which want the tab to be in download mode. The problem is that when I power down the tab and then hold the volume down + power button, I get the white "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" startup screen. If I continue to hold down the two buttons, then the tab simply reboots, never getting past the startup screen I just described (it will continue to reboot every few seconds for as long as I hold the two buttons down). If I release the two buttons right after that startup screen (as I've seen a few tutorials recommend), then the tab boots up normally.
Any thoughts on either an alternate method to get the tab into download mode, or on what I can do to correct this so I can get into download mode???
I will throw you a bone here friend...my policy is, everybody gets one. lol!
In reading this, I am scared for you if you are thinking about doing any flashing this early.
You are not following the procedure to get into download mode properly. Hold Power and Vol Down ONLY until you see the Galaxy Tab logo. Then release the Power button while continuing to hold Volume down until you see the two icons for recovery and download mode.
I very adamantly suggest you spend at least a week reading the basic How To's on this site or you risk wrecking your device. Not trying to be rude or condesending but your post really does expose your lack of research good luck!
I've flashed an HTC Hero, 2 Evo 4G's, 3 Samsung Epics and a Moment, so I'm not exactly new to flashing/rooting/rom-ing. This is, however, the first tablet I've tried to flash.
I appreciate you boning me, djmatt604 ( ). That was exactly what I needed and I am now in download mode. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Hold on the power button just until the samsung screens appear, if you hold the power button for 10s it will force shutdown your device.
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I've flashed an HTC Hero, 2 Evo 4G's, 3 Samsung Epics and a Moment, so I'm not exactly new to flashing/rooting/rom-ing. This is, however, the first tablet I've tried to flash.
I appreciate you boning me, djmatt604 ( ). That was exactly what I needed and I am now in download mode. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Haha! Just paying it forward bud I got much of the same when I got started! Your account details definitely aren't indicative of a seasoned flasher lol...Glad you're in good shape!
Actualy you dont have to hold powerbutton the whole time.
Just turn off. Press power (not holding) and you can directly after that press and hold vol down till the download/recover chooser appears.
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...Your account details definitely aren't indicative of a seasoned flasher lol...
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That's because I can usually figure things out with the immense help of google and the myriad of forums available. For some reason, I just didn't grasp that you had to hold the volume down button and release the power button. I'm rooted and happy now.
Thanks to all that replied, I appreciate you all!!!!
Right on bro, enjoy your tab!
Hi All,
I need your quick help, I dont know why but I cannot start my Samsung focus v1.3.
I tried to flash it by pressing power button + volume down + camera button but can't do hard reset.
When I am trying to remove battery and reattach battery again, then phone just showing "SAMSUNG" screen and again goes switched off.
Even I tried to press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode" screen only nothing happens after this.
Please need your help!
Many thanks in advance,
Since you just flashed it, I assume that it started up by displaying 'SAMSUNG" and seems to be stuck there.
If that is the case, you need to be patient. It takes a few minutes to get past that point. Every time I flash, I feel like I have done something wrong and the phone is bricked. But it always moves past that point after a few minutes.
wildbilll said:
Since you just flashed it, I assume that it started up by displaying 'SAMSUNG" and seems to be stuck there.
If that is the case, you need to be patient. It takes a few minutes to get past that point. Every time I flash, I feel like I have done something wrong and the phone is bricked. But it always moves past that point after a few minutes.
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Thanks for your reply,
But I haven't flashed my phone..
and from yesterday it is showing same 'SAMSUNG' name screen and then again goes switched off..
dont know what is going wrong.. or is it due to battery issue?
please help!
nah, it's the power button switch which somehow got stuck, it's a relatively common issue with the focus it seems
some people have reported that cleaning the button helps, others simply have replaced the whole switch at a local repair center... do what you think is best
Saiyaku said:
nah, it's the power button switch which somehow got stuck, it's a relatively common issue with the focus it seems
some people have reported that cleaning the button helps, others simply have replaced the whole switch at a local repair center... do what you think is best
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Thanks Saiyaku,
But how power button works when I press (Powerbutton + Volume UP + Camera button), screen shows me "Download Mode" nothing happens after that. Yesterday whole I tried these options..
help
To flash magldr, you need that combo , press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode". To flash a ROM, you go Vol DOWN, and then reset your phone, or format, and then go back to the same menu, and when you see the do you want to format your phone stuff, you hit the back button and you'll see the magldr screen where you'll connect your USB and go forward with the flashing process. Perhaps try flashing an actual ROM to your phone. You can't really do squat from from the download screen but add magldr really. Hope that helps you.
Please need your help!
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To flash magldr, you need that combo , press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode". To flash a ROM, you go Vol DOWN, and then reset your phone, or format, and then go back to the same menu, and when you see the do you want to format your phone stuff, you hit the back button and you'll see the magldr screen where you'll connect your USB and go forward with the flashing process. Perhaps try flashing an actual ROM to your phone. You can't really do squat from from the download screen but add magldr really. Hope that helps you.
Please need your help!
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Thank you for your comment, but I haven't installed magldr.
[email protected] said:
But how power button works when I press (Powerbutton + Volume UP + Camera button), screen shows me "Download Mode" nothing happens after that.
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because download mode disables the power switch (it even says "do not turn off"), that's why it seems to "work". power switch is active at the format prompt, however, so when you enter that mode the phone turns off immediately afterwards
do a little experiment: remove the battery, then put it on again while you're pressing volume down plus camera... you'll probably see a little surprise there
it's the switch. go repair that nao
i have the same problem, and many unfortunate people out there , but my phone on service center now, and i just wanna tell you about this thread this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007946, maybe can make you calm for a while... look at his problem solution