Cant boot to recovery from power off

Essem G · Jun 11, 2014

I've been a good root user for a while but something isn't right after i used the Installer to flash CM 11 to my Galaxy S4 T-mo.

While i had stock rom i was able to turn my device completely off and reboot into recovery by pressing and holding in the exact order: Vol Up, Home, then Power. And CWM would pop up.

Now with CyanogenMod installed, i try the same process. It says in blue letters "Recovery Booting..." and then everything on screen disappears. I let go of the buttons and after a few seconds the same screen shows without the "Recovery Booting..." in blue letters and then i see the boot.img for CM and the regular boot works fine.

You should know however that if i hold the power button while I'm in CM and tap "Reboot Recovery" it boots into recovery fine. So basically with any root request it works. But the problem with that is if one day if i get a bootloop i cant flash to recovery and restore a backup.

I also tried flashing TWRP instead of CWM but that did not work, the same problem occured with a different recovery.

If anyone has this problem or better, has a fix please reply

Thanks, Essem G

Kriptik210 · Jun 11, 2014

Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button

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serio22 · Jun 11, 2014

Kriptik210 said:
Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button

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The sequence they stated is correct..

OP make sure you let go of all the buttons as soon as you see the 'recovery booting' in blue letters

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Kriptik210 · Jun 12, 2014

serio22 said:
The sequence they stated is correct..

OP make sure you let go of all the buttons as soon as you see the 'recovery booting' in blue letters

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:what: there is no need to hold the home button

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serio22 · Jun 12, 2014

Kriptik210 said:
:what: there is no need to hold the home button

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Well either I was taught wrong or Samsung changed it but that is the way I've been doing it since the s3 and it still works.. That is not the reason its not working

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Kriptik210 · Jun 12, 2014

Well the home button doesn't need to be pressed. I'm not saying it is the problem but the way the OP says he does it, might be the problem.

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serio22 · Jun 12, 2014

Kriptik210 said:
Well the home button doesn't need to be pressed. I'm not saying it is the problem but the way the OP says he does it, might be the problem.

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Sounds to me like they are pressing too long

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Kriptik210 · Jun 12, 2014

serio22 said:
Sounds to me like they are pressing too long

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That or he needs to release the power button. Either way we gave 2 options. Hopefully one works lol.

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Essem G · Jun 13, 2014

Kriptik210 said:
Hold Vol up + Power at the same time (no home button) when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of power button. When the boot screen comes up you can let go of the Volume button

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Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved

Thanks, Essem G

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lordcheeto03 · Jun 13, 2014

Essem G said:
Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved

Thanks, Essem G

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I know the problem has been solved, but out of curiosity, what gave you the idea of that button combo to enter recovery? I only ask because I've seen other questions involving the home button when trying to enter recovery and none of the guides here haven't mentioned using anything other than power+volume up/down for recovery/download mode respectively.

Essem G · Jun 13, 2014

I saw this on galaxys4root.com and it showed a video of that combo working. The very next thing I did was try it myself and it worked. I never knew why or how it changed

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lordcheeto03 · Jun 13, 2014

Essem G said:
I saw this on galaxys4root.com and it showed a video of that combo working. The very next thing I did was try it myself and it worked. I never knew why or how it changed

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Gotcha. Like I said, I was just curious. Thanks for elaborating.

Kriptik210 · Jun 14, 2014

Essem G said:
Thanks! I really didn't think that would solve the problem because I thought it was something deeper but sure enough it worked perfect. This really took some tension off my shoulders. But I'm still not sure why the button sequence changed some people are saying I did it right and I have done it this way before. No matter, problem solved

Thanks, Essem G

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No problem, bro. I really don't know why people say to do it the way you did lol.

lordcheeto03 said:
I know the problem has been solved, but out of curiosity, what gave you the idea of that button combo to enter recovery? I only ask because I've seen other questions involving the home button when trying to enter recovery and none of the guides here haven't mentioned using anything other than power+volume up/down for recovery/download mode respectively.

It might have been carried over from the s3. Adding the home button doesn't do anything so in retrospect the s4 doesn't even notice. Power + Vol down will take you to Download mode (just an FYI)

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