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Unable to enter recovery mode on my Z3

dbott
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Unable to enter recovery mode on my Z3

I bought my xperia z3  a few months ago and I decided I want to root it. I got as far as unlocking the bootloader but now that I need to put it into recovery mode I found out I can't. I have tried multiple methods, the power off then power on while pressing the volume bottons and other variations of that. I also tried usind android-sdk the "adb reboot recovery", and it took awhile to figure that out and once i got it to work all it did was reboot the device. It did not go into reovery mode, I don't get an LED light when i power the phone on like most of the guides say I should be getting. I'm getting really frustrated, I've searched far and wide on the internet for a similar problem and all of the instances i have found have been on rooted phones so the fix is easy, this phone has never been rooted, only the bootloader has been unlocked. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

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Uliwooly
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You might want to check the XDA Forum.

dbott
Visitor

XDA Forum?
SophiaW
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dbott
Visitor

Thank you, so I looked through the forums and what I found is that you can't boot into recovery unless you have rooted it, now my question is how are you suppose tonight it if you can't go into recovery mode??
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Uliwooly
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@dbott

Not quite, if you flash a custom ROM then you could.