I have installed Clockwork Recovery Mod, when I boot into recovery mode, I get the menu, but cant figure out how to scroll. Any ideas?
I've tried all the buttons, and the only button that does anything is the power button, which just reboots.
Any help is appreciated.
use the volume up/down buttons to scroll, home button to select
Well those buttons don't work. It seems as though the recovery mode just becomes unresponsive as soon as it starts.
So my follow-up questions are:
1) What would cause the recovery mode to start, and then become unresponsive to the buttons on the tablet?
2) Is there any other way to flash a rom besides going into recovery mode?
I though the buttons weren't working too, until I pressed the power button a few times and they started to work
Well, on my droid i use the volume buttons and it should be same with all other phones
You got caught up in the S7 & S7 Difference just like I did. As best as I can tell, the recovery is for the S7 (non-slim) version of the tablet which has more physical buttons than the slim.
I'm living my new S7 (3 days old) but sad about the seemingly lack of development for such a sweet little device (for the price). Getting the launchers and such working might give me a enough drive to learn about making my own roms.
Oh speaking of launchers, make sure you enable "debugging" over USB. I made the mistake of installing launcher pro and rebooting. Thankfully debugging saved me (it locks up at the lockscreen with another launcher even installed but not 'defaulted').
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My soft keys are acting weird. sometimes when i press the home button right after a boot, it captures screen, meaning the 'menu' soft key is depressed. However, after that the softkeys don't respond anymore.
Also, sometimes while powering on, the Galaxy boots up in 'safe mode', meaning again that the 'menu' button is depressed (the way to enter safe mode is by pressing the menu button with the power button).
I have checked the key map in the clockwork recovery which show the 'menu' & 'back' key responding only once before going dead.
During general operation, the softkeys don't work at all and i'm left with only the home button.
Since the keys respond once, i'm sure they're not broken. Seems like a software error. I have tried different kernels & 3 diff roms, but the situation is the same.
Any help to ascertain / solve the problem will be appreciated
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I had a similar issue on a brand new phone, the soft keys would detect my finger from about 1cm away, so holding the phone and moving you grip would cause them to activate, eventually they would lock up until you locked the screen and tried again. It was totally a hardware issue, I replaced the phone used the same ROM and no issues.
the reason i'm convinced its not a hardware fault is that the keys 'blink' when i touch them which means they are registering touch. its got to be something else.
the Galaxy has got to be the most mysterious device ever!
Sounds like you ought to send it in for a replacement.
You can try a touchkey firmware update.
Make sure you're on your device's stock ROM otherwise you'll lose your touchkeys.
ENTER *#*#2663#*#* in the dialer. Then update the touchkey firmware and reboot.
You should be able to return to your other ROM after this.
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I feel like this is a stupid question, but here we go anyway. I'm on an LS980 with TWRP 2.6.3.4.
I can boot into recovery just fine, as long as I use adb reboot recovery, or any of the methods to do a reboot to recovery from software. For the life of me, I can't get the volume down + power key combination to work. This would be no problem, except I'm stuck in a bootloop (my own fault), and can't get to either the software solution or ADB.
Yes, I've followed the directions in which you hold the two buttons, and when the LG logo appears, release and repress them both. I've done this about a million times now, in every different pattern and length of delay I can think of.
If I hold all 3 during boot, I get the "hardware control" screen, with a barcode and my IMEI at the bottom. Download mode, using volume up + plug in USB, works as well. Both volume keys have been functioning fine for controlling volume in software, so they are mechanically sound.
Is there any reason the keys might not work during boot? Is there any other way to reboot to recovery? My only idea is to push the stock image to the phone in download mode, and re-root, etc.
Thanks in advance!
Start with the phone powered all the way down (if you're bootlooping, hold the power button for maybe ~10s until there's a short buzz from the vibrator and the LG logo pops up, then hold it down for a few more seconds to power off).
Hold power+voldown until the LG logo appears. Release them then immediately push them again, and hold for a few seconds.
You'll get a 'Factory hard reset' screen that tells you to press Power to confirm you want to do a factory reset. Push Power a couple of times to confirm this. If you have a custom recovery installed, it won't erase anything, it'll just boot into recovery.
I just tried this, and it worked the first time.
Antinorm -
I'm familiar with that process, and have been trying it nonstop! Here's a video; maybe you could critique my technique?
You don't have to hold both buttons after the release.
1. Hold VolDn + Power until LG Logo appears.
2. Release both buttons for a few seconds
3. Hold only Power Btn
4. You get into Hard Reset
5. Push Power Btn 2 times (For executing reset)
After that the phone will boot into recovery.
Don't do this with plugged in USB cable I don't know why, but it doesn't work if you have a usb connection.
Nope, no luck using just the power button for the second press. Thank you, though! I'll write some more detail of what I see.
Initial state: the boot animation is looping.
I press and hold the power button.
The screen goes blank. I continue to hold the power button.
The LG logo reappears for a moment. If I were to release the power button before this point, the phone would restart.
I do not release the power button; I continue to hold it. The screen goes blank.
I now release the power button. This is the phone in its "off" state. If I plug it in to a power source, a battery charge icon and a percentage is displayed center-screen. Entering download mode from this state works. The phone is not plugged in.
I hold the power and VD buttons together. I've also tried pushing one first, then the other, in either combination.
The LG splash displays.
I release both buttons.
I wait an amount of time. I have tried various values from "as quick as I can move my fingers" to "a solid three-count".
I hold either both buttons (pressing them simultaneously), or just power, and wait.
Time passes.
GOTO 1
Does any of that sound wrong?
Weird. This method works for me. But getting into recovery was a bit of a hassle for me too at the beginning. Your doing seems to be ok... well seems like your only chance is adb right now.
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Un4s said:
seems like your only chance is adb right now.
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Do you know of any way to ADB without an OS booted or recovery? I don't!
IF your battery is low or almost gone - you can't enter in Recovery with those 2 buttons.
So just charge your battery. I'm using CWM 6.0.4.4 and phone charges battery in this mode. It's slowly, but at the end my battery was 100%.
Now I can go to Recovery with 2 button combo. No download mode for me, but I'll open a new topic for that.
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Do you know of any way to ADB without an OS booted or recovery? I don't!
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Whelp, sorry. Would have thought you can adb while in download mode. Turns out you can't.
Well i don't have a better idea than you with going stock and start from the beginning.
I'm taking a look at my coworker's Nexus 7 (non-3G model), and it's exhibiting some peculiar symptoms. The most obvious is that the power button was jammed - I popped off the back cover and took care of that. The button has an extremely soft touch now, but it seems to work fine.
It was also booting itself up in safe mode. I figured the jammed power button was causing some weird power cycling, and the filesystem had been corrupted in some way. No sweat, just flash the 4.4.4 factory image.
Still booting in safe mode every time. If I turn it on with power + volume down, I get the usual bootloader menu, and all three hardware buttons work for navigating the menu. Then I continue past the bootloader and get into Android, and it's in safe mode, and the volume down button doesn't seem to respond (though power and volume up work).
Rebooting the device with the ribbon cable for the power/volume buttons disconnected from the motherboard still lands it in safe mode. So I'm pretty sure it's not a stuck hardware button.
For good measure, I flashed TWRP, fully formatted all the partitions, and reflashed again. Same deal. Now I'm running out of ideas. Does the N7 have some kind of auxiliary volume button inputs somewhere that are jammed/shorted, and which the bootloader doesn't look at, but Android does? This is what I see in adb logcat:
Code:
I/WindowManager( 483): SAFE MODE ENABLED (menu=-1 s=-1 dpad=-1 trackball=-1)
I can upload the whole logcat somewhere if anybody is curious/bored enough to look at it. I couldn't find any interesting errors in it, though.
So I've experienced this just recently after having the phone for more than 2 years. I'm not sure if installing TWRP had anything to do with it but it started happening after that and reverting to stock everything won't fix it. The Menu and Back buttons (named Key 139 and 158 according to system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl) are behaving in such a way that they don't function the way they're supposed to on the ROMs, yet they function/register input correctly on recovery, whether it's TWRP or CWM.
Example of strange behaviour on Stock ROM:
The Back button would not function if pressed or hold, this is verified by the button's inability to light up alongside the menu button.
I would tap the Menu button but the phone will think the Menu button will be held for an infinitely long amount of time. This is verified by the phone having the light for both buttons always on (even though I have it set to be lit up for only 1.5 seconds) as well as the phone taking me to S Search even though I only tapped the button.
It will stay held down until I press the back button, in which the phone will now think the home button is no longer being held down.
I'm really not sure what could possibly be causing this. I tried looking at the Generic.kl file and editing it to swap the back and menu buttons, and it'll still behave the same way (but reversed due to reverse button mapping). I tried reflashing the stock ROMs using Odin and TWRP but to no avail, and I personally don't want to resort to using custom ROMs for random yet very specific reasons.
I do admit that at the time of writing, I did not use the search function to check for threads/posts explaining similar nature (and I do apologize). However, I did use google to search for possible solutions but it seems no one has gone through the same situation that I have.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Following up on this issue, I tried installing a custom ROM (Phronesis) and the keys ended up working but as great of a ROM Phronesis is, I'd much rather stick with stock.
Strangely enough, I also tried reverting back to stock 4.4.2 and the keys also worked. It's very strange that suddenly flashing back to stock lollipop TW causes the keys to just not function correctly.
Hey all
As stated, after some time of using the phone, volume buttons stops working no matter what I do. The only way to get the functionality back is to reboot phone. I think it's one of the magisk modules but can't seem to figure out which one.