Try holding Vol- and the power button. Once it resets, and you see the Realme logo show up, let go of the power button, and keep the Vol- button pressed until it boots into recovery mode. If that doesn't work, you can try using "fastboot reboot recovery".First of all thanks to everyone involved for letting untech peple like me unlock this phone (RMX2155).
Everything went pretty smooth and I ended with bootloader unlocked. Only modifications to the procedures:
-had to install ADB driver from Windows 10 database after having changed region. Before that, despite following the libUSB filter technique, the device was apparing/disappearing in Windows Devices Manager
-changing region (sub-procedure) was a PITA since I had no wifi on my desktop computer (used an USB wifi Dongle and had to go to the router to setup a 2.4GHz wifi), so using the sec5 program was difficult to obtain the "OK" on right panel
-got stuck like many other on final bootloader unlocking step, saying "YES" with Vol+ nothing happens. After a while I pressed Vol-, rebooted unlocked.
BUT NOW,
I can't flash any custom recovery. Following the steps the only thing that "fails" is that I can't use the option --disable-verification (fastboot --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img)
Using fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img seems to work OK, then flashing recovery seems OK too, but when I want to reboot into the new recovery, I can't.
I tried holding (after repeating the steps above to temporarily flash the custom recovery) Power+Vol-, Power+vol+, Only Vol-, I get stuck on screen "your device will boot in 5s". If I let it rebbot, the stock rom boots up and puts the stock recovery back (which I can go into with normal Power + Vol-)
I tried vmbeta+twrp from this forum and vmbeta+recovery.img (Pitch Black?) from the youtube video. Same result.
I have no idea what to try next! I'm open to any suggestion...