[How-To] Button combos for the Blessed

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Bricked your phone? You've come to the right place, if you're one of the blessed. A lot of the newer Captivates have button combinations disabled. Before you go modding your phone, make sure that you can get into download or recovery using these button combos. If you can't, your best bet is to return your phone to an AT&T store and beg for a new one.

THE BUTTON COMBOS

1. Power-power
2. Download-volume up+volume down+plug in usb cord
3. Recovery-volume up+volume down+power

There you have it. Thanks for reading.

What is the point of this when there are 3 methods in the Odin 3 one click thread which is a sticky? Just curious how this deserves its own thread.

When my phone was stuck at the Galaxy S logo, i was able to send the adb reboot recovery command to it to get into recovery mode.
Are bricked phones normally stuck at the logo too, or was it just me?

I wanted to link to just the button combos in the bible. Also, the one click Odin isn't a sticky anymore.

From mah fonez

Why don't you just link to a single post in a thread or post in the odin thread and link to that single post? Just a suggestion so there isn't too many threads started for just a little information like you posted. Great work on the bible though. Glad to see a lot of stuff being compiled into one thread.

How does this relate to development? With a title like this, i thought we had some button hacks.

BAH!

You should also include more than the button combinations as well if you're going to make this post useful. Simply holding the volume buttons + power will do absolutely nothing on my phone. I spent a good amount of time looking for more detailed instructions on recovery mode when the phone was new and no one posted them. There are also a lot of posts that talk about the at&t splash screen flashing and when to release the buttons but that's not terribly useful either. Download mode is a little more covered but still has lots of people giving different instructions. For those the future new people that might read this thread,

For Recovery mode:

Power off
Hold both volume buttons
Push power
Release power when you see the AT&T splash screen
Release the volume buttons a second or so later
After the splash screen goes away you should be in recovery mode

Continuing to hold all three buttons will simply cause the AT&T splash screen to flash at you. I can also continue to hold the volume buttons after releasing power but it is not needed.




For Download mode:

Power Off
Plug USB into computer
Hold both volume buttons
Plug USB into phone

The above will immediately send my phone into download mode. For flashing, most people recommend the steps below to maximize the chance of success with Odin

Power off
Remove battery, sim, microsd
Open Odin
Plug USB into computer
Hold both volume buttons
Plug USB into phone
Put battery in

You should now be in download mode and free to flash with odin.

I agree with the holding volume up and down while plugging the phone into the computer with Odin opened and configured to flash soon as it detects the phone.

All other methods only add confusion.

How do I get out of download mode?

oh nvm, I just removed battery and I could reboot it fine.