Phone won't start. Booting in "recovery mode" only leads to "no command"-screen.

[AC Question]

I own a Blackview A5, a fairly cheap China smartphone - with Android 6.0.
It used to work fine until tonight. It had a kind of glitch where it wouldn't show the right time in the top menu bar, so I decided to reboot.
The phone however got stuck in a boot loop. I charged the phone and tried again - no luck. So I decided to go to recovery mode and wipe the device if necessary.

On the Blackview A5, you can go to the boot menu with Volume Up + Power.
The phone shows the following text on screen:

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Select Boot Mode:
[VOLUME_UP to select. VOLUME_DOWN is OK.]

[Recovery Mode]
[Fastboot Mode]
[Normal Boot] <<==
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If I select Normal Boot, it gets stuck in the Bootloop. If I select Fastboot, nothing happens.
If I select Recovery Mode, the Blackview Logo will show up in the background for a moment, then the phone will show the "No command."-screen with the lying Android, belly open, red Exclamation sign. It seems I can only turn off the phone from there.

I do not know what to do. Does anyone have suggestions?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Re: Phone won't start. Booting in "recovery mode" only leads to "no command"-screen.

Welcome to the forums. Try again for recovery, but hold power and click volume up.

 

[thekryz]

Re: Phone won't start. Booting in "recovery mode" only leads to "no command"-screen.

Hello and thanks for the reply. I am the OP, I just registered.

Actually, I got into the menu like this:
- Select Recovery mode
- When showing "no command", hold Power and push Volume Up.

Thank you for the help!