jules2012

my phones in the download mode and i don't know what that means. How do i get it out of this screen

mickeydurden

What were you doing to get there? The people who can help you out will need to know everything you were doing in order to help you in any way whatsoever.

Neph81

Pull the battery and restart your phone without the USB cable connected. You can only get into download mode using a button combo and very specific method. If you re-enter that mode, it means you are doing it on purpose.

steamer86

My phone has rebooted into download mode more than once with no button combo, on multiple roms.

Neph81

I find this extremely hard to believe for the LG Spectrum. The only way in is to hold down both volume buttons and plug in the USB cable while it's powered off. Holding down both buttons while pressing the power button does not do it, nor is there a flag being set in /misc. If you have found another way, I would be eager to here it.

neckchop

Out of two soectrums in my household, mine had done this four or five times, the other never had reboots at all. I didn't even know the button combo to get to download mode. Lol. Maybe i did it unintentionally while trying to squeeze the phone to death out of frustration.

steamer86

It has happened on reboot while using it(no cable!), and a couple times at night on the charger. I assure you this is true. No combo. Also, according to battery monitor, the charging magically changes from AC to USB at random times. My USB charging even reads that it charges faster lol. Most occurrences on HoloS ROM.

Last edited by steamer86; September 17th, 2012 at 03:36 PM.

Lightswarm

I have had this happened to me a handful of times. With ROMs that I was testing out, my phone would go into a surprise shut off on me and before I would think that its going to reboot it displayed a message indicating I was in download mode. No cables connected. No button combo. Just out of the blue download mode. Then of course I just pulled the battery pack off and rebooted like it never happened. The point is that you're not alone in that aspect that the Spectrum boots into download mode.

Perhaps I just have a defected unit.

finndo77

Darn Korean defectors...

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finndo77

I was just watching a you tube video in HD over 4G when my phone froze, I thought for sure I was going to have a random reboot (been watching you tube videos for the last hour on it), then it went black, and I thought here it goes... then I received this pretty picture...

never seen it before, I thought download mode was a blank black screen with the back light turned on, at least that is what it is on an HTC Evo 4G...)

not sure if the image is going to show inline, if not, I'll try and figure out how to get it to do so.



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funny enough, while I Was watching the videos I was thinking, geeze, I have not run a nandroid backup in over a month, I better do one today...


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interesting enough, I was apparently getting a phone call at the same time, as google voice just notified my chrome browser that I received a 3.5 minute new voicemail about 2 minutes ago... so it should have been ringing right as the phone went down...

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Last edited by finndo77; September 22nd, 2012 at 09:39 AM.