Can no longer get to "download mode" on phone

Well I finally got it to install. It only took TWO HOURS!  Guess I shouldn't be surprised though as much trouble as I've had in the 2 months I've had my THREE different Moment phones. I bet I took the battery out and put it back in and turned the phone on and off 30 times. Not to mention the number of times I uninstalled and re-installed the Samsung drivers. Guess I'll see how it goes from here...

Didn't make any sense to me either. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it. It would go into download mode the first time like it was supposed to but when I had to take out the battery and put it back in to go to download mode the second time, the phone kept turning on instead. I had problems the first time I tried to update to 2.1 on the last Moment I had but nothing near this bad. So far seems to be working fine. Something interesting I noticed: All of the flashing attempts and the few apps I downloaded afterwards with Wi-Fi on naturally drained the battery quite a bit. It got down to the "yellow" mark (or orange, whatever) but I needed to use the alarm for this morning and didn't want to charge it again so soon but was afraid it would die and the alarm wouldn't go off this morning. So I turned the phone off for about 30 minutes at the most before I went to bed. Turned it on and battery indicator showed over half full. It has been on ever since and I've used the alarm, hitting snooze several times, and sent several texts. The indicator is still showing half full. So I guess that is a good sign (?) or maybe just a sign of how unpredictable this phone can still be...time will tell.

Looks like my happiness at getting it to work was short-lived. I just had another little rant in the "Android 2.1" section (there are too many sections on this forum, I never know where to post!). Having to reflash the phone again to see if I can fix the new problems I'm having with it. And of course it's not letting me get to download mode again. Just keeps turning the phone on. Over and over and over...

Yea my cable is always unplugged when I do that because that's what the instructions say. *Go to download mode and then plug it in.* Still have the same problems though. And I press the end key last too and it still almost always turns the phone on. I'm getting to where whenever I have to reflash my phone and it actually does go into download mode, it's only because I just happened to get lucky.