Alright my phone just started to act up last night ! My phone just started to take pictures on its on the camera would turn on and sit there and take them. IDK why!!! Also the biggest problem i am having it that my D-pad shuts off!!! when i try to use the soft keys they will not work for me. The Screen works fine! but when the soft keys don't work my keyboard don't work but the phone know i am using the keyboard as in when i press the space bar it brings down the start menu! Also when the soft keys dont work i use the on screen keyboard to type and that is even F%#!%# UP!!! i type on the on screen keyboard but i can not use the backspace on the or arrow keys. Also the scroll button on the side stops working on me also. when i am in call my soft keys shut off and i cant end a call!!! Now the weird thing about all this is i can turn them all on just by pressing one of the top soft key. (the Msg or internet button) and then everything starts to work again. now i have no clue what is wrong with it and i have tried everything from reinstalling the OS to Clearing the OS and that has not helped ! i really hope its not a hardware problem !!! Right now i have my Camera button off and the camera does not take pics on its own right now but my screen does turn on and just sits there and does nothing. But if anyone can help me solve this problem i will Donate to them = D!!!! Please Help Me Out ASAP!!!
Thanks!!!
well thats screwed upp. lol
yea i cant help you. i just wanted to tell you how screwed up it was.
I would try a hard reset first and/or rom reflash.. if that doesn't work better buy you a parts doner phone
Hi,
I decided to try out some new ROMS in general as I hadn't updated my phone in ages. I knew I wanted to try out the android version, so I tried the following steps:
1) updated my version of hardspl to 3.28 as the version I had was very old.
2) installed one of the official UK windows ROM to check out the latest vendor offering and update my radio before trying android. think it was the latest O2 one.
3) installed Myn’s Warm Donut to NAND
4 ) installed Incubus26Jc's Super Eclair to NAND
Now, I wanted to try some other windows roms, but cannot get to the tricolored screen. I have tried lots of times, several techniques, but no sign of the tricolor.
I read somewhere that installing an OEM ROM wipes out the hardspl. Is this what has happened? If so, is there a way to re-hardspl my phone from the sd-card (as I cannot make activesync connections anymore), or a way to install a windows-rom from the sd-card without going through the tricolor screen?
Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
ET
As far as I am aware flashing a stock rom will not remove HardSPL, in fact I have flashed one of my kaisers with so many roms I have lost count, but never lost HardSPL, even with the latest generic HTC rom, which is pretty much the last word in stock roms as far as kaiser is concerned.
I'm not certain what has happened, but not getting the bootloader is, I'm afraid, very serious, if you have no access to the bootloader then it is very difficult to flash anything.
I'm going to have a good look around some wiki and forum pages, see what I can find out, in the meantime, can you confirm that you have something you can boot to? Even if it's android on nand then there may be some way of figuring out what has happened, and the hope of a fix.
From your post may I assume that all your attempts to get the bootloader ended with a normal boot of some sort?
Hi! Thanks for your very quick reply!
I can currently boot into android, with no probs and have a 2gb sd card I can access via an adapter on the pc.
I tried accessing the bootloader via holding camera and power down, then pressing reset for 3 seconds. also tried holding the buttons down for different permutations of time up to ~30-45 secs. no joy.
Also tried the battery out. put in battery. press power, then camera; or power and camera together.
Everytime I have tried it, i stay on the O2 logo, then the linux bootup stuff flies past.
I suppose the button assignments can't have been switched as the bootloader should be before any of the android stuff, right? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Button assignment can be changed after the OS has booted, but during boot they are hardcoded.
As long as it boots, then the bootloader is still there, and functioning, without a bootloader the phone would not boot at all, I'm actually wondering if the camera button has failed?
yeah, i was wondering about that too. is there a quick way to check within android? all the buttons are different from win. e.g red phone puts phone to sleep and of course there is no camera app to take photos in...
Well since you still got a working nand flashed you could install Warm Donut, camera works in that, however perhaps a simpler way might be just to press it gently, all the way in, if it is working correctly you should feel two 'click' positions, it's not always easy to diagnose hardware failures, but if the internal switch has broken/come adrift, you may be able to feel it.
ok, will try both & post back tomorrow. thanks for your help.
hmm... i think checking camera button in android is not possible because the camera app dont use the hardwarebutton. You have to press a button on screen to take a picture. You can check some buttons in linux bootup phase like the hardwarekeys on front. but not the camera button and the other sidemounted keys...
you can do this to test the camera button (in android):
- switch into text mode: fn + left softkey
- press camera button and tab somewhere on the screen
is there an output with s.th. like "TS-Calibration" then camera button is working
Hmmm, I don't think the camera button is working. During android boot up, all the hard keys output a character to the screen apart from the camera button. toastys suggestion did not yield a camera result either.
This makes sense, as I have tried a ridiculous amount of times to get to the tricolor screen.
has anyone got any ideas of how to load a windows rom back onto nand and bypass the botloader? If not, i guess my only option is to dismantle the phone in the hope that the non-functional camera button is due to a loose contact.
Thanks for the help guys.
No output = no camrea key i'm afraid, it does sound like either a fractured solder joint or something similar, not an easy repair, and yes it will require dismantling to get at the mainboard.
If you have the equipment then simply reflowing the solder joints on the switch should sort it.
As far as I'm aware there is no way to flash without access to the bootloader, however it might be possible to rig up a temporary camera switch using two pieces of thin rework wire, although I don't recommend it without previous experience of surface mount soldering
I'll let you know how it goes.
toasty_ said:
you can do this to test the camera button (in android):
- switch into text mode: fn + left softkey
- press camera button and tab somewhere on the screen
is there an output with s.th. like "TS-Calibration" then camera button is working
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i tried this for fun. it caused bad calibration when i came out of text mode (fn + right soft key).
cool to find text mode though. that works fine
Hehe i tried this too.
For people who have bad calibration after this: You can fix it with "Dev Tools". Goto "Pointer Location" and you will see what exactly happen to your calibration when you touch the screen. To fix the calibration use the stylus, press & hold camerabutton and tip all corners of your screen clockwise. Begin with the topleft corner.
highcoder said:
Hehe i tried this too.
For people who have bad calibration after this: You can fix it with "Dev Tools". Goto "Pointer Location" and you will see what exactly happen to your calibration when you touch the screen. To fix the calibration use the stylus, press & hold camerabutton and tip all corners of your screen clockwise. Begin with the topleft corner.
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Reboot also works. just thought others should know
Hi,
When typing in landscape mode doesn't your right hand/finger/whatever touch/hit/activiate one of the touch buttons at the bottom? When I type on my IPhone my thumb is definately very close to where the most left touch button is on the DHD. I have searched for some video of this typing but havent found any - do you have some links for that perhaps?
Thanks
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Werner
Just use the Speech prompt Command!! less fiddling with typing!!
or
BlueTooth keyboard at home or work!!
or
Keep Guessing!!
( No, you dont touch the other buttons, UNLESS u GOT large JUMBO finger xp )
Main reason I left behind my iPhone was because Lacks of Speech Command to Type.
Got so Used to Dragon Speech from Work for all my Tools and Computer Works.
No, you must be holding your phone in your palms lol. Just let it sit in your hand when your holding it or even lower and you'll see that there's now alot of space left for fingers to type and the buttons are not even close.
I even took a picture for you
ErOR22 said:
No, you must be holding your phone in your palms lol. Just let it sit in your hand when your holding it or even lower and you'll see that there's now alot of space left for fingers to type and the buttons are not even close.
I even took a picture for you
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Very nice, thanks , I have to try one out, just haven't been able to find a store that had one home - yet.
I am having a problem with the space not being responsive when using the phone in landscape mode it is fine in portrait. i have tried calibrating and also with different software and its always the same the space bar just refuses to respond 80% of the time. is there anyway of fixing this as i like the rom as its lightning quick but have had to revert to stock as this is a major issue for me. I have googled but found nothing of interest. I have tried the 2 latest stable builds and the latest rc and its the same in all builds. is there a version of cynogen where this iosnt an issue?
Flip the phone to the right instead of the left.
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium
thats not how i use the phone im not left handed and need the buttons on the right so using the phone upside down isnt really a fix. is this prevalent in all versions?
The keyboard stay the same, no matter which way the phone is held. The only difference is the camera and volume buttons are on the bottom.
There are already heaps of threads/questions about this.
WebbyHRT said:
The keyboard stay the same, no matter which way the phone is held. The only difference is the camera and volume buttons are on the bottom.
There are already heaps of threads/questions about this.
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the buttons would then be on the left and not the right ie the screen would have to be upside down for the keyboard to respond correctly Im to use to flipping the screen the way i do and also used to the buttons being on the right. is there no fix for this?
Hiya! A friend of mine has a Sony Xperia S which the "c" key doesn't work when in portrait mode, an "x" or a "v" is registered instead. When rotating the screen to landscape mode it works fine.
I thought it could be software related so I installed the latest Swiftkey to his phone and the key kept not registering anything.
The next thing I thought is that that zone of the screen was somewhat broken or the calibration was off... so I detached Swiftkey and moved it to the top of the screen... and the same thing happened! The "c" key doesn't work in portrait mode regardless of the keyboard and the position of it on the screen. Isn't that weird?
Do you have any idea of what could be the issue here?
Deses said:
Hiya! A friend of mine has a Sony Xperia S which the "c" key doesn't work when in portrait mode, an "x" or a "v" is registered instead. When rotating the screen to landscape mode it works fine.
I thought it could be software related so I installed the latest Swiftkey to his phone and the key kept not registering anything.
The next thing I thought is that that zone of the screen was somewhat broken or the calibration was off... so I detached Swiftkey and moved it to the top of the screen... and the same thing happened! The "c" key doesn't work in portrait mode regardless of the keyboard and the position of it on the screen. Isn't that weird?
Do you have any idea of what could be the issue here?
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What android version or rom?
darknessmc said:
What android version or rom?
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Sony's stock version and latest OneOfaKind.
We figured out that it is a hardware problem, and after switching him to Swiftkey having some broken letters is bearable until the phone dies completely.
Deses said:
Sony's stock version and latest OneOfaKind.
We figured out that it is a hardware problem, and after switching him to Swiftkey having some broken letters is bearable until the phone dies completely.
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Sorry for that but this problem in lollipop only. I have it in my device. When I back to JB it's work perfectly and works on marshmallow too.