“ Originally Posted by birdman504 
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when i hold the power button and the down button mine dosent go in bootloader mode i press at the same time 1 after another still nothing but i get power off heep coming up
you have to hold volume up and power at the same time, and use the stylus to perform a soft reset but it triggers it to bootloader.....many discussions on this......
EDIT* I would also do this while ur phone is off since i don not believe you can get into manual bootload while it is on.