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my power button will not turn off the phone. 9 times out of 10 it ends up bringing up the power menu. are there any apps that you can remap the volume keys to be the power button? i'm on a rooted evo. any help would be awesome! thanks
Holding power button wont bring up the option to turn the devoce off?
Omg rly?
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Ok I didn't mean shut down the phone, I meant put it to sleep...
I know there is an issue with my power button. Even when I do a battery pull and put it back in the phone restarts on its own because the power button is stuck down.
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Just shooting from the hip here, but do you have the "stay awake" option clicked on? I've never used it, so I'm not sure if the power button makes the screen turn off or not.
Nope its not on "stay awake" mode. It will shut off every now and then... maybe 1 or 2 times out of 10
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Probably goes in the Q&A forum for future reference.
Try a different ROM if you're rooted, and be sure to do a full wipe. Not wiping can cause some really weird problems.
If that doesn't fix it, it could be a bad power button and should be under warranty.
Sirchuk said:
Probably goes in the Q&A forum for future reference.
Try a different ROM if you're rooted, and be sure to do a full wipe. Not wiping can cause some really weird problems.
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this wont work. i had the same exact thing happen to me. it started after sprint replaced my screen cause it was cracked. it ws okay at first then just progressively got worse and worse. yesterday i couldnt make the phone wake up or anything. the power/sleep button was just useless.
i did the stock ruu.exe and it didnt do squat. i took it to sprint today and i will be getting another phone by thursday or friday cause they said it was unrepairable.
OP: just flash it back to stock and take it to sprint.
well i found out a fix. there is an app in the market called ButtonRemapper. Its a really cool app. it allows you to remap any hardware or software buttons to do pretty much anything. you have to be rooted. i have been lookin for this even before my power button bit the dust. so now my up volume key is my power button. you can remap keys to be the camera also which is what is sorely lacking on the evo. i guess good things can come out of problems! thanks for all the responses though!
Hey everybody, I'm using CM7 and occasionally when I press the power button to wake my device up from sleeping, it only lights up the 4 capacitive buttons while the screen remains black. If I fiddle with it some, it eventually turns on but it's getting more and more frequent and annoying. If you have any redirects to a thread (I couldn't find one for the life of me) or suggestions, it would be much appreciated.
I had the same issue. CM7 rc1. I went back to CM 6.1.2 for the time being.
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Do you follow the thread at all? This is discussed on about half the pages. It's because you have both the CRT screen on/off animations set and you are overclocked above around 1.2ghz. Either ease up on the oc, or turn off the animations for the screen. No problem with the ROM or your phone.
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Actually I fixed the problem by turning the wifi off. SetCPU is set under 1GHz.
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This problem is caused by too high of an overclock.
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why not try trackball wake?
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I agree, I can't see my self not using the track pad wake method. I'm oc to just over 1ghz(ondemand) & have no problems waking up my phone with the screen on & off animations. I prefer CPU tuner over setcpu anyday.
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My g2 with cm7 rc1 has similar symptoms, where when the power button is pressed the capacitive buttons light up, and the back lighting on the screen is noticeable, but nothing more. I have tried a battery pull, a soft reboot, and still the screen does not wake up. I had the oc at 1100 before this happened. Any ideas on how I can get the screen back on in order to change the settings? Thanks
update: The screen still does not come on, but I received a phone call and was able to answer it by sliding my finger across the screen in the general area where you normally swipe to answer, and then I ended the call by tapping where the end icon usually sits. So the touch screen is working, but there are no visuals.
Restore your Nandroid and set it differently next time.
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Restore your Nandroid and set it differently next time.
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Is there a method to restore my nandroid without being able to use the screen? Can i do it over ADB?
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Is there a method to restore my nandroid without being able to use the screen? Can i do it over ADB?
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Do a battery pull. Put the battery back in. Hold the volume down button and then press and hold the power button. That'll put you to a screen that has a bunch of text on it. (Let go of the buttons if you're still holding them) Hit the volume down button once. Should highlight "recovery" then hit the power button to select. It'll boot into recovery now. Wipe data, then wipe cache, then wipe dalvik/cache (under advanced) then backup & restore, and select your nandroid. Once done, hit the back arrow, then select reboot
Now, if the screen doesn't even turn on when you do the batt pull, allowing you to see anything at call, sorry LOL.
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Do a battery pull. Put the battery back in. Hold the volume down button and then press and hold the power button. That'll put you to a screen that has a bunch of text on it. (Let go of the buttons if you're still holding them) Hit the volume down button once. Should highlight "recovery" then hit the power button to select. It'll boot into recovery now. Wipe data, then wipe cache, then wipe dalvik/cache (under advanced) then backup & restore, and select your nandroid. Once done, hit the back arrow, then select reboot
Now, if the screen doesn't even turn on when you do the batt pull, allowing you to see anything at call, sorry LOL.
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That's good advice, but wanted to let you know it is unnecessary to do the wipe data/cache/dalvik cache before you restore a nandroid backup. Part of the restore process does a complete wipe automatically before it restores, so doing it beforehand is superfluous.
I have never heard of anyone's screen issue persisting through a reboot. That would drive me nuts. Make sure you never set SetCPU to 'Set on boot' until you are sure your governing and secondary profiles are stable with the kernal you are running on your device.
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I know, but I like to make sure anyway. At least I know for my own sanity that it's definitely wiped lol.
Thank you all for the input, but the screen never comes on at all, even in the bootloader or recovery.
Hey guys,
I was just thinking about a recovery menu, to install roms, update.zip etc.
But now i noticed there are no physical buttons to select something.
We can go only up and down with the volume buttons, but we cannot select anything?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
The selection is made with power button ;-)
Um you can post this in the general section.
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Yea.. Like my transformer has no recovery! Like the zoom or galaxy tab has no recovery....! lol...
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Would be holding the power button correct me if I'm wrong but there's applications from the marketplace that could force u into recovery such as quickboot and rom manager
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on the nexus S we only use volume keys and the power button in CWM....
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Would be holding the power button correct me if I'm wrong but there's applications from the marketplace that could force u into recovery such as quickboot and rom manager
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Your post makes absolutely no sense. Could be a couple possibilites here. Are you talking about holding the power button and volume buttons down to get into recovery? Are you asking if ROM Manager and Quickboot can get you into recovery? I have no clue to what you are asking or trying to say. If your talking about how to get into recovery that wasn't what the OP wanted to know. He wanted to know how to make a selection once you are in recovery.
To the OP CWM Recovery's code can be written to use whatever buttons are available. Once the phone drops a custom recovery will be written for it in a matter of minutes if it hasn't been done already. Same with superuser.
Actual development only, you're posting in the wrong forum
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Your post makes absolutely no sense. Could be a couple possibilites here. Are you talking about holding the power button and volume buttons down to get into recovery? Are you asking if ROM Manager and Quickboot can get you into recovery? I have no clue to what you are asking or trying to say. If your talking about how to get into recovery that wasn't what the OP wanted to know. He wanted to know how to make a selection once you are in recovery.
To the OP CWM Recovery's code can be written to use whatever buttons are available. Once the phone drops a custom recovery will be written for it in a matter of minutes if it hasn't been done already. Same with superuser.
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He is referring to the fact that the power button acts as the selection button.
Recovery is accessed like the Nexus S, by powering on the device using Volume Up+Power. Options are navigated via volume up/down and selected using the power button. To go back, one has to scroll to the bottom of the list where the last option is back and select that using the power button. Nothing too complicated about it.
how is this phone any different than all the other android phones with capacitive buttons on the bottom? all other android phones cannot use the capacitive buttons in recovery, so i dont see how this one is different. like the atrix, you use vol up/down, power button, and then back is at the bottom of the list.
there's not a single thing different about the galaxy nexus with respect to this.
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how is this phone any different than all the other android phones with capacitive buttons on the bottom? all other android phones cannot use the capacitive buttons in recovery, so i dont see how this one is different. like the atrix, you use vol up/down, power button, and then back is at the bottom of the list.
there's not a single thing different about the galaxy nexus with respect to this.
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That's not true. Many models have a functioning 'back' capacitive button in recovery. The G2/DZ being one of them.
martonikaj said:
That's not true. Many models have a functioning 'back' capacitive button in recovery. The G2/DZ being one of them.
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And the thunderbolt lol.. it can use all of them too. I use my Droid 1 and its so odd without being able to use them.
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And the thunderbolt lol.. it can use all of them too. I use my Droid 1 and its so odd without being able to use them.
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droid 1 is just annoying using the keyboard but the recovery is in portrait. Bleh. One great thing about the G2 is using the trackpad for recovery.
Don't forget that recovery is just a very slimmed down version of Android. If they wanted to, they could implement on-screen buttons etc. just like capacitive buttons can currently be used if implemented.
why not have the Team Win Recovery 2.0 on it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMdj_QzfGmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCIiJUEzxOY
I actually tweeted Agrabren about this possibility and he replied saying:
"The moment I can get one of those bad boys, it's getting #TWRP 2!"
http://twitter.com/#!/agrabren/status/126648036444225536
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how is this phone any different than all the other android phones with capacitive buttons on the bottom? all other android phones cannot use the capacitive buttons in recovery, so i dont see how this one is different. like the atrix, you use vol up/down, power button, and then back is at the bottom of the list.
there's not a single thing different about the galaxy nexus with respect to this.
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Phones like the SGS2 have 3 buttons - the volume buttons, home and power button. That lets the power button function as a permanent back button, with the home button taking the role of 'select'. Recovery can function in both 3 button and 2 button modes, with the power buttons function changing respectively. Nothing overly complicated.
The atrix can use all the buttons in recovery. Im sure the button issue is a non issue. It will be software or the typical volume and power hardware interface.
I voided my warranty and your nexus.
Fascinate could use all four capacitive buttons which saves wear and tear on the physical buttons.
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The atrix can use all the buttons in recovery. Im sure the button issue is a non issue. It will be software or the typical volume and power hardware interface.
I voided my warranty and your nexus.
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damn i had no idea, the atrix capacitive buttons work in recovery? i've always used vol up/down and power button lol...
Dude. Lmao. Yeah, and once you get the hang of it, your fingers start flying in recovery.
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does anyone else's cwm jump 2 spaces at a time when tryin to select in item? its completely random and then sometimes when i press the menu button to select an item the recovery goes to sleep. pressing the menu brings it back up but since i cant use the menu button to select items i have to pull the battery
Strange and how do you get acces to the menu button in recovery mode. Or do you mean the power button.
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Strange and how do you get acces to the menu button in recovery mode. Or do you mean the power button.
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the power button selects your items. just randomly the power button wont act like the select item button it will act like a power button on another phone where it turns the recovery screen off and you just see the cwm logo sitting there, so i have to battery pull its weird. dont know if i had a bad flahs or what i havent seen anyone else have this problem
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does anyone else's cwm jump 2 spaces at a time when tryin to select in item? its completely random and then sometimes when i press the menu button to select an item the recovery goes to sleep. pressing the menu brings it back up but since i cant use the menu button to select items i have to pull the battery
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when the power button puts the phone to sleep in CWR that means you accidentally disabled the Go Back option. You can cycle through the menu with the up button a few times and you will see a note about the Go Back option being enabled. Going the other way you will get a message about the Go Back option being disabled.
The overly sensitive buttons issue is being worked on. Someone is developing a CWR option that increases the font and greatly improves this situation. I'll try to find it and post back here. I don't think it's up to full speed yet though.
Good luck.
Could be a bad flash or the wrong cwm image. There's a toro and a magure. Make sure you have the right one. I sugest flash again.
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when the power button puts the phone to sleep in CWR that means you accidentally disabled the Go Back option. You can cycle through the menu with the up button a few times and you will see a note about the Go Back option being enabled. Going the other way you will get a message about the Go Back option being disabled.
The overly sensitive buttons issue is being worked on. Someone is developing a CWR option that increases the font and greatly improves this situation. I'll try to find it and post back here. I don't think it's up to full speed yet though.
Good luck.
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o really? i have seen that pop up once in awhile about the go back opition but didnt know wtf it meant. thanks
al52025 said:
o really? i have seen that pop up once in awhile about the go back opition but didnt know wtf it meant. thanks
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First time it happened to me I almost had a stroke. I had just wiped everything(!!) and when I hit the power button and the screen went dark I really thought I had selected reboot without having a rom installed!! Sure was glad it turned out to be something simple.
I have a sort of weird issue. I've got a rooted evo4g with an unlocked bootloader running alter rom. I had some issues with it a while back, so I ran fix permissions and cleared the caches through amon-ra. when I did that, all hell broke loose. my power button stopped working and the volume button took over to wake up the screen. Not only does the power button not work when booted anymore, it won't even work in recovery or in the bootloader. the volume buttons will navigate in recovery, but not in bootloader.
I would like to do a nandroid backup so I can reflash my phone and then just restore my texts, call logs, etc on a clean flash...but since I can't select any menu options in recovery I can't do a nandroid backup.
I have cwm touch for my nexus s 4g, but I don't see one for evo 4g....only standard evo. is that one the same? can I still use it on an evo4g? I know some phones are not interchangeable with recovery on variants...like nexus s, for example hs two recoveries...one for 3g, one for 4g.
also, does anyone have any idea what may have caused the buttons to go haywire like this? I've never seen anything like it. I mean, sure buttons die. All moving parts fail at some point...it's in their nature....but switching control to another hw button???? That jusy makes my head hurt to think about how it could have happened!! lol
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
johnny.dalvik-cache said:
even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
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hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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hp420 said:
hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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I can't say if it looks pressed since it's not currently in front of me...I know exactly what you mean, though. The inner workings of the button get stuck, and the outer rubber piece will be sort of caved in instead of sticking out like it should.
I build gaming computers as a side-hobby. I'm sure a little disassembly won't be too difficult, as long as I'm not removing any of the guts and I can just get to it by opening the case, I should be ok....too much more and I run into issues when things are that tightly packed into a case.
(reading a tear-down tut now )
Awesome! It should be a piece of cake for you, especially with your video game background. Cool. Let me know how it goes.
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