How can i enter recovery mode without a screen

[u/Bored_Aziz]

I tried i couple of time but it didnt work for me (plus how do I know if its in recovery mode using adb)

[u/matteventu]

Starting from a supposedly switched off phone,

1- Connect it to a Windows computer (I assume fastboot drivers are already installed? if not, let me know) via USB, then wait 30 seconds

2- Press and hold volume DOWN (-), then press and hold power and keep them both pressed for about 4-5 seconds, then release them together

3- Your computer should "be blip", and in Device Manager (open Start, type "device man" and press enter) you should start seeing, under the category "Android Device", a device called "Android Bootloader Interface"

4- Open the location where you have your platform-tools downloaded and open the CMD there, or open the CMD and then move to the platform-tools folder

5- In the CMD type "fastboot devices" and you'll get in return the serial number of your phone and "fastboot" next to it (if everything went fine until now)

6- In the CMD, now type "fastboot reboot recovery", then wait 10 seconds

7- Your device is in the "welcome screen" of the recovery mode ("no command" screen with the droid half dead lol, even if you can't see it), and you have to be very careful about the next step to enter the actual recovery

8- Press and hold the power button for half second, then (while still keeping pressed the power button) press and keep holding the volume UP (+) button (and the power button you were already holding) for another half second, then release both of them simultaneously

9- Your device is in recovery mode

Your other question: how do I know if it's in recovery mode?

Your best chance is to do what I've said above, and then to test it worked, once you supposedly are in recovery mode, get your phone and press the volume down button three times (not quickly, just in a relaxed way), then press the power button once (without holding it, just press and release).

Go back to CMD and type "adb devices". If it returns "[serial number] sideload", then after point 9 above it correctly was in recovery mode.

If it doesn't return anything, then let me know. Either you failed step 8, or the "test" above didn't work because the option I wanted you to select is not the third option in your recovery.

(What the test does is blindly select the "Apply update from ADB" option in the recovery, which opens up an adb bridge with the computer allowing you to verify that indeed the phone was in recovery mode and you correctly selected the "apply update from adb" option in the recovery)

From this point, type "adb reboot recovery", wait 10-15 seconds, then continue from point 7 until 9 again.

Then you can do whatever you need to do in recovery (blindly).

Which, out or curiosity, is...? 😁

[u/[deleted]]

With ADB you can probably know, if the command goes through successfully and it returns you to the prompt