[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtabb1256:
I won't be able to get to my computer until tomorrow.

I think I saw a glimpse of the download mode while at sprint today. You know the android with the spinning blue stuff inside that appears right before recovery mode? Well I saw him press some buttons and then that picture was continuously on there. He did this right before he was going to flash software onto, but then he couldn't find the software because he said kyocera hasn't given sprint the software yet. He got to this mode without any cables and I think from recovery mode. Maybe he haf something wirelessly going on with my phone, but I doubt it because it can only reboot or go into recovery mode (and maybe download mode as seen today). He tried to hide it from me, but some things I noticed were him pressing all 3 buttons on the bottom and having something highlighted on the screen (this appeared to be recovery mode) and then the next time I looked around at him (I kept looking around to make him think I wasn't watching so that he didn't hide it as well) my phone had that android with the spinning blue stuff and he was looking for stuff to flash onto it. This leads me to believe 2 things: if we try all kinds of button press, we may be able to find download/bootload mode OR that the sprint service and repair store has something going on wirelessly that let's him get into download mode from his computer. After he pressed all of thee buttons, and before hthe phone was in download mode, he said "I tried to factory reset your phone another way..." so maybe you should be careful if you try finding download mode by pressing buttons.

EDIT: I found a way to get to the screen I was talking about. Go to recovery mode, factory reset, and wait for it to finish. The background becomes the android with blue stuff. Press the home key, and it becomes the android with *spinning* blue stuff. This would make sense to be download mode because you have to factory reset before you reflash or flash something. I haven't tested to see if it is, but it very well may be! :)

Same thing happens if you wipe the cache partition. The background changes from the droid with the open flap and triangle to the droid with blue stuff, anf once you press the home key, the blue stuff spins. Ill test if this is download mode tomorrow.

Also when you press home on recovery mode before any wipe, the words go away. Maybe this could be download mode as well?

Maybe I could try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973369

If the mode I found works. Who knows if I even found dwonload mode? It could just be an animation. Ill definitely have to test it tomorrow.

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Everybody check this out!!!

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/support/developers.htm

I'm pretty sure we could flash the torque with this stuff. It is 1.005 sp on here, but according to this:

http://community.sprint.com/baw/com...og/2013/07/02/kyocera-torque-software-updates

1.005 seems stable and like we could update from there. If the mode I found is download mode and we can use something like fastboot, we may be lloking into a future of custom roms and security in knowing we can reflash our phones.