Has anybody been able to get to the recovery mode in Tab S8? I can not (volume up and power button. Charge 100%.) I tried on two tablets, nothing. I have been able to enter recovery mode if plugged into PC or cell phone via USB C. Also USB C headset should work but I don't have any.
I gave up on Samsung support when the lady told me to hold the power/volume up/Bixby buttons at the same time. Yeah Bixby button! She wanted me to enter the recovery mode to factory reset when I told her many times my reason for communicating is that I can not get into recovery mode. If they can please stop reading from a script and listen to the customer it would be great.
Anyways ... is this a common issue to not enter recovery mode? I have had 4 other Samsung devices and never had this issue. Even my S20 FE is on Android 12 and it works for recovery mode.
Yep. This seems to be an issue with their tablets now. Even the Tab S6 cannot boot into recovery on its own. I have the tab S8 plus and same issue. Need to have it connected to a PC to get it to work. It's definitely broken.
Connect your charging cable from your device to the usb on a computer and notice device is charging
Press and hold in on the power key and volume up keys at the same time untill you see Samsung on your device screen and then release both keys and shortly you should see the recovery screen load
Use the volume down key to scroll through the list down to where "Wipe cache partition" is highlighted
Press the power key to select this
You will see a screen - Wipe cache? yes or no
Use volume down key to move to yes and power key to select
Your device should now have "Reboot system now" highlighted and press the power key to select
That is it and your device should boot up normally
The issue is you CANNOT boot into recovery mode using volume up and side key button. The workaround for this issue is to have the tablet plugged into a computer to get it into recovery mode.
