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Help GT-I9000T won't enter recovery or download mode

fredorpual

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Oct 10, 2012
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A while back I rooted (and possibly installed a custom mod I dont remember) my Galaxy s afterwards kies wouldnt work with it but who cares its crap software anyways. I ended getting an S2 and shelved my S1. Long story short my S2 is out of commission for now and so i am using my S1.

The problem is that my S1 is running kernel version 2.1 and not much runs on that anymore. So I decided to upgrade it to >2.3. In the process of trying to upgrade I found I cannot access download or recovery mode. It just shows the boot screen and then the loading screen then starts up.

I verified all my hard buttons function and have tried every button combination I can think of, and yes that includes up+home+power and down+home+power. any sugestions? Id hate to have to scrap a functioning backup phone over something so stupid.

Thanks in advance.
 

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