Is there an app for XDAndroid that will allow the phone to reboot completely, into WinMo? Save a little time?
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Smith
Soft reset not fast enough for ya?
You can do the whole power off routine, but I assume that's what you mean by 'save a little time' - is that is too time consuming, and actually powers off the device.
I'm sure there's a widget or some such thing...
smithisize said:
Is there an app for XDAndroid that will allow the phone to reboot completely, into WinMo? Save a little time?
Regards
Smith
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I use Quick Boot (you can download it from the market) then add the reboot widget to your home screen, one tap and you're set.
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I use Quick Boot (you can download it from the market) then add the reboot widget to your home screen, one tap and you're set.
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Don't you need root for that? I would obviously assume XDAndroid has root, but idk enough about android haha
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Don't you need root for that? I would obviously assume XDAndroid has root, but idk enough about android haha
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XDAndroid comes out of the box rooted
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XDAndroid comes out of the box rooted
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Yeah, I discovered that when the app worked what a nifty feature
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Soft reset not fast enough for ya?
You can do the whole power off routine, but I assume that's what you mean by 'save a little time' - is that is too time consuming, and actually powers off the device.
I'm sure there's a widget or some such thing...
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There's no soft reset in XDAndroid. Are you thinking of Neopeek, where reset is available next to power off by holding down the power button?
But back on point, I was also using Quick Boot for a while, but it reboots so fast, I'm very suspicious of it. I get enough random SD card errors creating FOUND.01 or whatever folders without using reboots that presumably aren't following the shutdown routine.
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There's no soft reset in XDAndroid. Are you thinking of Neopeek, where reset is available next to power off by holding down the power button?
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Every phone has a soft reset. There's a little pin you press with the stylus that's under the battery cover... Are you not familiar with hard/soft resets..?
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There's no soft reset in XDAndroid. Are you thinking of Neopeek, where reset is available next to power off by holding down the power button?
But back on point, I was also using Quick Boot for a while, but it reboots so fast, I'm very suspicious of it. I get enough random SD card errors creating FOUND.01 or whatever folders without using reboots that presumably aren't following the shutdown routine.
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Well...actually, if I hold down the end key, it will power down, go silent, blah blah blah. It's a little screen that pops up and shutdown is an option, so it's not just Neopeek's version that can do this. As far as reboot the phone, you are correct that there is no stock way to do this, but as pointed out earlier in this thread there is the app on the market with a reset widget. Otherwise, you could always learn to alter the code and make this option available yourself. That would be cool. I would appreciate it
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Hello, someone can tell me how to do a soft reset to htc desire, there is some key combination or there is some software to do it?.
Thanks
keep the power button pressed for a longer time. a menu will be shown. select power down (phone will now shut down), press power button again. et voila! you have 'rebooted' your phone!
thank you very much but I do not work or do not
Any apps to do this ?
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Any apps to do this ?
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Are there any?
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thank you very much but I do not work or do not
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Uuhh.. What?
So is it at all possible to have an app that reboots the handset essentially?
There was an app on the market called quick boot I think, never used it myself but you could try that, although it may need root and the desire will probably be too new to work with it, so maybe one to keep an eye on.
Sorry for such a noob question, but the reply above, is that not simply turning the device.off and on again as opposed to rebooting, or carrying out a soft reset? Coming from an iPhone and wm before that, i was led to believe there was a difference. Removing the battery with the device on was a soft reset, rebooting the iPhone was also slightly different from turning it off and on again. ?
I would also like to know if we could do a soft reset without having to take back cover off and remove battery?
Thanks
I have to take back cover of my Desire to reset it. Turning off doesn't work in my case. Simply - last time I was waiting 15 minutes and it still displaying 'shutting down'. I can't shutdown my phone.
Hi, I guess you want to reset HTC Desire without taking it a part.
Check this video on youtube on how to do it.
youtube.com/watch?v=L58SK9dhrVc
Add www, i couldn't post the link as i'm new user.
Hope tis helps.
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Hi, I guess you want to reset HTC Desire without taking it a part.
Check this video on youtube on how to do it.
youtube.com/watch?v=L58SK9dhrVc
Add www, i couldn't post the link as i'm new user.
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I think you didn't catch what we are talkin about. Soft reset doesn't meen we would like to erase all data and revert back to factory settings.
My phone is not able to shut down even after one hour after pressing: power botton for a moment -> power off. Any clues?
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I think you didn't catch what we are talkin about. Soft reset doesn't meen we would like to erase all data and revert back to factory settings.
My phone is not able to shut down even after one hour after pressing: power botton for a moment -> power off. Any clues?
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@ d-fens
Strange indeed soft reset works here fine but used it only a few times
Maybe a hard reset forces to reinstall the o/s correct and solves you're problem because it should work via the power button...
Do you get the pop-up menu with the different choices?
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Strange indeed soft reset works here fine but used it only a few times
Maybe a hard reset forces to reinstall the o/s correct and solves you're problem because it should work via the power button...
Do you get the pop-up menu with the different choices?
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what the hell are you people talking about?
a soft reset is a way to restart the phone using an option in the phone, perhaps an app
so when there's the option to POWER OFF the phone, there is the option to RESTART the phone
Strange indeed soft reset works here fine but used it only a few times
Maybe a hard reset forces to reinstall the o/s correct and solves you
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what the hell are you people talking about?
a soft reset is a way to restart the phone using an option in the phone, perhaps an app
so when there's the option to POWER OFF the phone, there is the option to RESTART the phone
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that's right.
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I got the popup menu when I press power button for a while but when I press first option to shut down the phone - it does not shut down. Shuting down message displays for ages and nothing happens.
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Sorry, I think I got it wrong. D-fens - what you have done is fine, taking out the battery, judging by htc website
htc.com/europe/howto.aspx?id=721&type=1&p_id=312
but I don't know why wouldn't it shut down with power button, it works fine with my.
I think I know what your trying to get at, the problem is in your phone, unmount your SD card, I suspect its faulty. This will I suspect work. Try it and tell us how you get on. I'm assuming switching the phone off and on again is the same as rebooting or soft reset on Android.
Lol mega fail answers. I think currently there is no way to soft reset your phone without going the long way of turning it off and turning it on again. Quite annoying I know, but you should not have to soft reset your phone much at all, if you do then there is a prob with software etc. I have only soft reset my phone maybe 2-3 times in the few weeks I have had it for.
But again I believe the question is:
Is there an app or some special way to soft reset the desire, without removing battery or without pressing and holding power button and selecting turn off, as both these methods simply turn the device off and are not actually resetting the device...
Use quickboot or root boot. I personally use root boot. Works fine.
like magic , can be reboot by the key Combination....
Is there any key Combination to reboot desire?
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Power + Vol Down + Trackpad
hk5354 said:
like magic , can be reboot by the key Combination....
Is there any key Combination to reboot desire?
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Power + Vol Down + Trackpad
Thank you
Wow. Didn't know about this.
Cheers!
Wow. Didn't know about this.
Cheers!
Sorry for double post. Always happens because of post limit.
what is the point ?
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what is the point ?
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Erm... it reboots?
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Well I've been in a situation where an app has crashed and no buttons worked including power. I had to remove battery but I'm sure this would have worked. You may need it one day. So be grateful.
Unfortunately, this completely skips the "silent boot" app on relaunch.
Great tip
I still reboot my device once a day....WM bad habit
this is NOT a factory reset? just a reboot? is that correct? could the users having the "phone won't shut down" issue just use this instead to reboot cleanly?
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this is NOT a factory reset? just a reboot? is that correct? could the users having the "phone won't shut down" issue just use this instead to reboot cleanly?
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It's not a factory reset or hard reset. The key combination just does a soft reset. Give it a try; it won't hurt.
thats great!!! thanks. I always have problem opwering down the phone to restart, so will try this instead. cheers.
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when i first got my hands on the desire after installing and deinstalling apps I got the error about a lack of space available when trying to install apps even though i only had 3/4 apps installed, so i got rid of the task manager and now i just reboot the phone after installing or deinstalling apps or if i have been on youtube or doing a lot of browsing, it seem to keep the phone running smoothly and havn't seen the out of memory error
ive not looked in to this so it is just a presumption, the phone runs a clean up on shut down and this is the reason why the phone seems to hang when shutting down as it is deleting unused files, I noticed that when you shutdown (power off the phone) after heavy use it would always take a lot longer shut down the first time, if you then done a power down for a second time shut down was quite quick.
or maybe im talking s********
ive tried the key combo and it seems like a forced reset rather than a reboot? anyone care to comment?
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Great tip
I still reboot my device once a day....WM bad habit
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LOL... i know exactly what you mean... i'm the same... haha
Nice tip. Thanks for sharing.
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when i first got my hands on the desire after installing and deinstalling apps I got the error about a lack of space available when trying to install apps even though i only had 3/4 apps installed, so i got rid of the task manager and now i just reboot the phone after installing or deinstalling apps or if i have been on youtube or doing a lot of browsing, it seem to keep the phone running smoothly and havn't seen the out of memory error
ive not looked in to this so it is just a presumption, the phone runs a clean up on shut down and this is the reason why the phone seems to hang when shutting down as it is deleting unused files, I noticed that when you shutdown (power off the phone) after heavy use it would always take a lot longer shut down the first time, if you then done a power down for a second time shut down was quite quick.
or maybe im talking s********
ive tried the key combo and it seems like a forced reset rather than a reboot? anyone care to comment?
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I know what you're talking about. That's what I thought too (ie, the phone does a clean-up at shutdown). But then why doesn't this happen on the HTC Legend? I have both devices and the Legend has no issues shutting down regardless of up-time.
Anyway, I've noticed that rebooting the phone will often recover chunks of internal memory. Presumably it's just freeing some from some sort of cache. I've not noticed whether it behaves the same if I reset via the key combination versus shutdown-and-then-power on.
Thanks for the tip!
I'm glad I found this out, When my phone gets to baggy to access a app killer or even to get the power off menu I use this, So much faster than removing silicon case then back then battery and then having to stick it all back together
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It works, but then it hangs on the white HTC screen.
This is a new phone and it's happened 1/2 a dozen times or more. With good battery life remaining, I'll check the phone to find it powered off (black screen). The power button will not turn it on. I need to remove the battery for a few seconds, reinstall the battery, then it boots fine. Been on ICS FI27 since I got the phone. I'm now rooted with the stock ROM, but this issue was happening prior to the root too. Any suggestions? I'm considering calling Samsung, perhaps I got a buggy phone? Thanks.
Re: Random power off - requires soft reset
Check the battery, take the battery out and spin it, if it spins you may need a new battery.
Also the power button is known to be non functional sometimes due to a number of reasons including software and hardware.
If you just got it try and exchange it. Good lock
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Thanks for the tips. I really don't think it's the battery. I have another EP4GT that I use for work and I've swapped batteries. Had the same problem with either battery and never had the problem on the work phone at all. It happened again today. Really frustrating since it could happen in a emergency. I'll prolly holler at Samsung later this week if I get the time.
Found a thread on the Sprint Community Forums that discusses several variations of the reset issue quite extensively. I have a feeling it could be caused by my MicroSD card. I've formatted my MicroSD and will report back with my findings. Sorry I can't post links yet, but you can Google "samsung epic 4g randomly powers off"
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The power button will not turn it on. I need to remove the battery for a few seconds, reinstall the battery, then it boots fine.
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Just a semantic clarification here. You are describing a hard-reset, not a soft-reset. A soft reset uses the power button (which uses the OS, i.e. "software") to reset, whereas a hard reset means forcing the phone to power off (by hardware manipulation - i.e. pulling the battery).
Hi Matt, thanks for the clarification. If I could go back and edit my title I would.
Since I've formatted the MicroSD I haven't had any more power off issues. I'll report back if I do. Thanks.
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Hi Matt, thanks for the clarification. If I could go back and edit my title I would.
Since I've formatted the MicroSD I haven't had any more power off issues. I'll report back if I do. Thanks.
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Thanks garwynn for the instructions - I did just that!
On another note, I had another lock up today, but this time different or at least something I have not noticed before. I got a message notification tone from the eBay app. I went to check it and the screen would not come on when pressing the power button, however the red LED was still blinking. I've never had the red LED in the past, just a black screen with no response. I had to remove the battery and reboot. Maybe just a fluke with the app this time? I read through some reviews of the eBay app and didn't really find anyone mention issues with the notifications. Oh well, I'll keep an eye on it and report anything else. Thanks.
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Thanks garwynn for the instructions - I did just that!
On another note, I had another lock up today, but this time different or at least something I have not noticed before. I got a message notification tone from the eBay app. I went to check it and the screen would not come on when pressing the power button, however the red LED was still blinking. I've never had the red LED in the past, just a black screen with no response. I had to remove the battery and reboot. Maybe just a fluke with the app this time? I read through some reviews of the eBay app and didn't really find anyone mention issues with the notifications. Oh well, I'll keep an eye on it and report anything else. Thanks.
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If you're rooted can you pull a logcat? Maybe that will have some clues as well...
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If you're rooted can you pull a logcat? Maybe that will have some clues as well...
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I am stock rooted using Odin one-click. I checked using the Superuser app, but didn't see any useful logs there. Would I need to purchase Superuser Elite to pull the logs your are referring to? Thanks.
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I am stock rooted using Odin one-click. I checked using the Superuser app, but didn't see any useful logs there. Would I need to purchase Superuser Elite to pull the logs your are referring to? Thanks.
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I was able to pull logs using the terminal app on my AOSP build. The steps are just:
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su for root permissions, and logcat to get the log.
You might have to find a terminal emulator to be able to do that though. I don't recall the TW ROMs having one installed by default.
I'm on Liquid Smooth v2.1, Android 4.2.2. No custom kernel, just whatever it comes with. Been running fine for months.
This morning I dropped my phone in my car (a few inches drop) and it went into a bootloop. It eventually booted into Android and I backed up all my apps and texts to my SD card. But afterwards it went into another bootloop and now its stuck there. It will start booting, and then restart (most of the time before the boot animation even comes up). I need to get into recovery so I can restore an older Nandroid or maybe try wiping the cache. I have tried using power/volumeup/home, but it bootloops by the time recovery is starting up. ADB on my computer will not pick up the phone. Sometimes for a few seconds it will show up, but it has an "offline" next to it and by the time I enter "adb reboot recovery" it says no device found.
If I take out the battery for 30 seconds, it makes it pretty far into the boot.
What steps should I take next? I know ODIN is last resort, but I'd prefer not to go there. Thanks guys.
I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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aamir123 said:
I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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Wow. That sounds like a possibility. Dropped from my lap to my cupholder, could've landed on the button. I'll try it in a bit.
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I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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I was able to get it to boot for a few seconds, and the power menu kept on coming up until it died. Does the phone turn off if you hold down the power button for a long time? Seems like I gotta get that fixed. I'll try the sideways suggestion in a bit.
Yeah, if you hold power and never let go, it'll reboot over and over. It's intentionally like that so if you ever have the system lock up you can still do a kind of hard reset. (Better than a battery pull, though that can still be necessary if you want it to just turn off)
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Yeah, if you hold power and never let go, it'll reboot over and over. It's intentionally like that so if you ever have the system lock up you can still do a kind of hard reset. (Better than a battery pull, though that can still be necessary if you want it to just turn off)
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That's what I thought. Anyone know the difficulty of repairing this myself? Or a cost estimate? Holding the button at an angle seems to make it work for a bit. Sideways didn't help.
I've heard there's some YouTube vids that may help. I've seen a few people say they were able to do it themselves.
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this seems like a similar job for the s2, I would imagine that the s3 is very much like this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xMMn1DRWs
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I've heard there's some YouTube vids that may help. I've seen a few people say they were able to do it themselves.
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this seems like a similar job for the s2, I would imagine that the s3 is very much like this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xMMn1DRWs
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Anyone know if I were to remove the power button completely, would the phone work without it? I don't really need it, and removing it would make the phone usable. Just wanna make sure the phone doesn't run a check or something. I'll order a new power button in the spare time and install it later.
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Anyone know if I were to remove the power button completely, would the phone work without it? I don't really need it, and removing it would make the phone usable. Just wanna make sure the phone doesn't run a check or something. I'll order a new power button in the spare time and install it later.
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it'll prolly work but if phone shuts off not sure if you will be able to turn it back on without a power button, what I did for the time being is get the phone of and basically tap on the side of the phone with the power button towards the floor kind of like trying to get gravity to push the power swith inside to be back to the normal position. Then don't touch the power button, there are apps in the play store that can function as your power button.
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it'll prolly work but if phone shuts off not sure if you will be able to turn it back on without a power button, what I did for the time being is get the phone of and basically tap on the side of the phone with the power button towards the floor kind of like trying to get gravity to push the power swith inside to be back to the normal position. Then don't touch the power button, there are apps in the play store that can function as your power button.
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Yeah, I watched a YouTube video and he fixed it like that. So I basically hammered the button as hard as I could with my nail for a minute straight and now it doesn't bother me anymore until you press it. I can live without the power button, but I'm probably going to have to remove/replace it since I can't risk bumping into the button on accident. Thanks for the help though!
Does anyone know of a method to turn the phone on without the power button? I know on my Nexus One you could Insert the battery while it was charging to force a reboot.
Afaik you'll just have to restart every time till it's fixed.
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Afaik you'll just have to restart every time till it's fixed.
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Yes, but how would I go about restarting it without the button?
There's apps in the play store. Button savior might be one. Can't recall names for sure.
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There's apps in the play store. Button savior might be one. Can't recall names for sure.
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My bad, I meant starting the phone from powered off state.
I honestly don't know of any way to do that....sorry.
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Hi everyone, Thank you for any advice you can give me.
I forgot my phone in a hotel in another country. They have to power off the phone before sending it to me.
I don't want to give them my PIN (and can't give them my fingerprint!) but I cannot find a way to let them power down the phone without it.
I could remote wipe the device but i'd rather not.
Is there a button combination to use?
Thanks,
Arcocer
I guess you can unlock your phone via Samsung's Find My Mobile if you are signed in to a Samsung account in your phone: https://findmymobile.samsung.com/
That way you won't have to give them your PIN information and once unlocked they can turn it off. Other than that, I don't think it would be possible. Unless they find a way to reboot to recovery and shut the phone off from there (don't know if you can even reboot when the phone is on)... unless you force a reboot lol
Since when do you need pin to power off?
Hold power + volume down for about 7 seconds.
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Since when do you need pin to power off?
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It's been there a pretty long time. It'll ask you for your PIN if you attempt to turn it off from lockscreen.
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Hold power + volume down for about 7 seconds.
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This is just a forced reboot, it'll just turn back on
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It's been there a pretty long time. It'll ask you for your PIN if you attempt to turn it off from lockscreen.
This is just a forced reboot, it'll just turn back on
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Oh, of course. My bad, thanks.
Drain the battery..
It is a safety feature so that the phone will not turn off if it is locked. If a thief was able to turn the phone off the moment it is being stolen life would be a lot easier for the criminals. It is important to have the phone running so you can trace it and therefore shutting down when locked must always result in a reboot. Your best bet is, as Marvin points out, to have the senders wait until the battery is drained if they cannot send it running.
By the way it seems a bit odd to me why they would not be able to send it running. Who says this and who will notice that a phone inside a parcel is running? What more harm could it cause than a phone inside the pocket of the persons transporting the parcel could cause?
Arcocer said:
Hi everyone, Thank you for any advice you can give me.
I forgot my phone in a hotel in another country. They have to power off the phone before sending it to me.
I don't want to give them my PIN (and can't give them my fingerprint!) but I cannot find a way to let them power down the phone without it.
I could remote wipe the device but i'd rather not.
Is there a button combination to use?
Thanks,
Arcocer
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you can ask them to reboot -shouldn't take the pin- and while in recovery you can power it off