[Nokia 7 Plus Questions & Answers] leahcimewol:
My Nokia 7 Plus got stuck in download mode after accidently pressing all buttons simu

Yes I know that sounds like a weird title and maybe you are wondering why did I do that? notice the word accidently.

I was just trying to fly my newly bought drone x pro for the first time and the controller has a little pull out extendable cradle to hold the phone in

if you want to view what the FPV camera is viewing while in flight and because of the bad design with all buttons on the same side of the Nokia 7 plus, unbeknownst to me all 3 buttons were being pressed at the same time and before I knew it my phone was shutting down and rebooting to this ridiculous download mode and the rest is history!

So I just thought I would mention this to anyone who happened to or happens to land in the same situation as me to be aware that you should probably put a little bit of sponge taped to the side of your phone over the volume buttons to possibly prevent it from being pressed simultaneously when flying your fpv drone.

If all else fails you could always connect the drone to your phone and then just put your phone in your pocket and fly blind by simply walking with the drone or rather running since they are pretty nippy. I am a bit bummed as this would have been a very convenient way of checking how full my guttering is of leaves without having to climb a ladder every time to check!?

Anyway I also used the fix here: https://www.techmesto.com/possible-fix-nokia-smartphone-stuck-on-download-mode-after-ota-update/

after downloading the nokia phone drivers from github.

If you are on windows 10 pro you may get a screen protector warning not to proceed further?

Ignore it and continue installing the drivers!

So far I got the Nokia Logo back and then it just hung there for several minutes without being recognised by the pc.

So I simply disconnected the phone from the pc and suddenly got the familiar nokia tone start up but then black screen again.

I realised it had been on the download mode so long it had completely drained the battery so now I am charging it.

Fingers crossed when I power up again I will at least have my phone back, sadly minus the data. (I will of course at least have all my google notes and contacts etc backed up to google servers at least they are useful for something!!)

I can't recall the last time I used it but I am pretty sure I had the SD card set as the main download so hopefully fingers crossed that data should have remained untouched, not sure how Android sets this up anymore?

Long time since gingerbread when you could still install and run apps as a completely separate partition.

All became a bit confusing after that so rooting became something I did hesitantly and as a definite last resort!

Anyway I am rambling on. If I find the fix works I will let you know.

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance if the fix works !!:good::good:

---------- Post added at 05:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:23 PM ----------

So it worked, I have my phone back! Thank you so much for this solution!

Sadly my SD card was wiped too!!!!! super pissed off about this, many photos and notes and other files that I will never get back unless if I recall I may have made a manual backup of at least some of the earlier stuff I put on here a few months back on my pc?

Nokia will be hearing from me for sure!!!!! I want a 50% refund for messing with my life and my time. How can they send an update that essentially breaks a phone for a bit!???!!!!!!