I have tried jiggling the buttons and many other things, rebooted, etc. so I know it is a hardware issue. Since I am within the 1 year manufacturer warranty I want to take it into Verizon and get it replaced.
My phone is rooted and I know how to unroot it but how would i get to recovery and have it find the file without being able to press the down button?
Also, has anyone had their Incredible replace by Verizon yet?
Download Rom Manager from the market, there's a reboot into recovery feature.
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I've seen a lot of these threads on random android forums, never with much resolution, which is frustrating.
My power button has stopped working entirely. I took it into the Sprint shop, they spent an hour with it, came back out and said they could find no reason it shouldn't be working. It's an obnoxious fix, but I downloaded "No Lock" from the marketplace and set the screen to shut off after 15 seconds. Now I press a volume key to turn on my screen...
Now, when it gets annoying is when I went to install Cyanogenmod 7 tonight. The power button obviously doesn't work. Widgetsoid's reboot button is ignored entirely if I do Shut Down, Reboot, Bootloader, or Recovery. It's A-OK with Hot Reboot. So the only way I've gotten into the bootloader to wipe/install CM7 is to pop out the battery, hold VolDown, and put the battery in. Peachy. But once I'm into the bootloader, now not only does power (which is now my "enter" button) now work, but the volume buttons are unresponsive as well. So no scrolling.
I'd love to call up HTC or Spring and see what I can do about a replacement (which might not even happen, I don't have a warranty), but I can't un-root the device to send it in.
Any insight you guys have would be greatly appreciated...
Is there an SDK or something that would allow me to remote control the phone using my computer via USB? I'm completely at a loss here.
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Is there an SDK or something that would allow me to remote control the phone using my computer via USB? I'm completely at a loss here.
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I believe you are referring to adb?
and you can unroot via adb, just search around, I'm sure you'll find something on it.
btw, does Sprint know you rooted your phone? if they didn't find out, then you still have a warranty
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I believe you are referring to adb?
and you can unroot via adb, just search around, I'm sure you'll find something on it.
btw, does Sprint know you rooted your phone? if they didn't find out, then you still have a warranty
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Yeah, I'm just not as familiar with ADB as I'd like to be.
Not so much looking to unroot, as reload HTC Sense so they don't think to look haha. And yeah, when I brought the phone in today it was very obviously modded. They restarted it and the Cyanogenmod 6 flash screen came up. The guy looked a little confused. He was more than willing to help out, but I'm not so sure it would be the same if I sent it in. They definitely wouldn't replace it.
Alright, so I have ADB up and running with no issue. Got it to give me my device's serial #. At this point, how do I hijack the phone's bootloader and force it to wipe and install the ZIP of CM7 that's on the SD card?
so all of a sudden my touch screen does not work and i think its the software cause the system keeps crashing but i cant get into recovery cause i cant use my touch screen... any help would be awesome on cm 6
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so all of a sudden my touch screen does not work and i think its the software cause the system keeps crashing but i cant get into recovery cause i cant use my touch screen... any help would be awesome on cm 6
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First off, this has nothing to do with android development, it belongs in the Q&A section.
Secondly, you can get into recovery without your touch screen just fine. While your phone is off, hold vol down + power, which will bring you into hboot. Use vol down to highlight recovery, and then press power to select it.
If you do not have s-off, you will see a screen with a !. Press vol up + power, and flash update.zip (assuming you have clockwork update.zip on the root of your sd card), and then proceed to reflash your rom.
If you do have s-off, the hboot recovery option should take you straight into recovery.
WTF I have the same problem! It just ramdomly started yesterday, I touchscreem wouldn't work on opened keyboad and today afternoon I was typing something, after I closed the keyboard the touch screen doesn't work anymore!!!
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This should be moved to another thread, Nothing to do with Android development
Ok DO NOT RE-FLASH A NEW ROM if your are in this situation!!!!
because I tried it and still touch planel doesn't work and I was stuck at the setup!!, thank God I recently saved a Nandroid backup, but when i went to ClockworkMod the optical track pad is no longer working neighter!!!
so I couldn't select anything!
I went to cmd on my PC and did adb shell then nandroid restore {location in sdcard}
it restored oh yes!
Optical Track Pad aiin't working neighter touch panel, like this i can hardly make calls with the keyboard, launch apps, but can't handle things that require touch or optical pad.... I can only use Tab button and enter to do little.
Fu...I need to revert everything back to stock adn get my waranty replacement..
why this had to happen?? I haven't done anything these past week :S
This happened to me also I posted my thread in q&a i believe tho, anyways tho my power button stopped working so i couldn't get into recovery. If you need a way to get back to stock without touch screen use the esprimg.zip from the factory rom champion build thread just search for it on xda. after going stock mine was still not working but I was atleast able to do a warranty exchange. hope this helps at all. Oh also this happened to me soon after flashing to CM7.
The same happend to mine a few months ago, your flex ribbon has torn, you have to send it into T-Mobile for an exchange!
Also, wrong forum
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Not sure if its the same issue or not. But my screen will become unresponsive and soon after which ever launcher I am using will crash. Also using CM7. Was running nightly build before. Hmmm strange all of a sudden several of our phones started crashing..
You can still slide open and use the physical keyboard to select things...however I would get the stock esprimg on your device as soon as possible. Your ribbon could tear even more and leave you with a black screen and no luck of getting a replacement if you are with a custom rom.
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You can still slide open and use the physical keyboard to select things...however I would get the stock esprimg on your device as soon as possible. Your ribbon could tear even more and leave you with a black screen and no luck of getting a replacement if you are with a custom rom.
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That happened to me and I had to go through Asurion, and what sux, is that the next day, Asurion ran out of slides and offerd people G2's instead.......
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The last thing I did before I also experienced this, was that I tried to get S-Off and couldn't make it, rebooted but everything was fine, and before that I had gave a try to CynogenMod 7.... Days later I was experiencing 20kbps download and later the touch panel failed also the optical pad, so I unrooted before it'd get worst, I got my warranty replacement and now I better send the damaged one back before 7 days, otherwise they charge me $200.
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i try some solution like cdma workshop, tap 4 corner screen, ##778 method but anyone of them are not working.
I'm here in Philippines and using verizon HTC incredible.
Thanks for helping me in advance
Are you running a ROM or just completely stock unrooted?
Hit the activation and then hit cancel 3 or 4 times in a row. The activation process will be bypassed after a reboot after you do this.
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im just using a complete unrooted stock rom.
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Are you going to be rooting it and putting a ROM on? If so, you should be able to boot into safe mode to bypass activation. I honestly don't remember the exact buttons to hold. I think you turn the phone of, then push power, volume up, and the trackball at the same time till it boots. Someone feel free to step in if I'm wrong.
Should just be power+volume down. Though stock may be different... it has been a long time since my inc was stock. Heh
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wait am suppose to install a custom rom right?
power button+volume down is for recovery menu and their is no safe mode to choose from selection menu.
please help me guys
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I'm talking about an actual safe mode that disables most apps and should bypass activation. Here is what you do:
Turn off the phone
Remove and reinstall battery
Press power button once
Once the phone gets past the first HTC screen, hold power, volume up, and trackball until the phone vibrates
Once it finishes booting, you should see Safe Mode in the lower left corner.
Now you can root and install a custom ROM and never worry about activation again.
Oh and this safe mode works on rooted ROMS too.
The squeaky wheel may get the grease. But the ***** gets slapped. Quitcherbitchin!
What el6006 said should work. I did this a few times with a backup Incredible I have. Go as far as you can without actually activating, and then cancel (back up one step), and then repeat until it bypasses. I don't remember needing to reboot, but it may help.
Also, no customization is needed for this.
i did the safe mode but still don't work. huhuhuh...
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Since a while my desire is having back button problems. Since I have tried different roms after the problem occurred and the problem persisted with each of those roms, I believe this is a hardware issue. Now, I could of course have my phone serviced to resolve the problem. But the downside would be that I don't know if this still falls under warranty (the device is over a year old) and that I would lose my phone for a period. Since my contract ends in October and I was planning on purchasing another phone by then anyway, I thought maybe there are some options to help me stick out the time. For example, I was wondering if it's possible to modify it such that pressing the search button also triggers a back press. Since I _never_ user the search button, I would not lose functionality but would gain a bigger, more usable back button.
So, my question is: Is it possible to modify the search button to act as a back button also, in result creating one big back button where pressing anywhere would suffice?
Thanks in advance for your help!
FYI: My desire is rooted and runs Cyanogenmod 7.1.0 at the moment.
have look here /system/usr/keylayout/bravo-keypad.kl
and here
remap keys as you require
Thanks!
Thanks for the tip! Couldn't get it working at first with manually editing the keymap, but after some searching I found "ButtonRemaper" with which I could get it working.
hmm this only works within a rom right? since my volume up button is useless so to access hboot often requires several tries...
You right just in the Rom
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Yesterday my phone just started rebooting randomly in a loop, it would get to the launcher and boot up completely but would just automatically reboot, as soon as i would the put the battery in the phone would turn on without even touching the power button, i was able to get into recovery and wipe/reflash my rom and that seemed to fix it but then my power button stopped working and the rebooting issue returned, i wiped and reflashed etc and did this twice and now i'm stable but i'm afraid the issue will return.
What is the issue?
What/how should i update to a new rom?
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Check for defect in your power button
Using A5
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how do i even check for defect? i saw the other thread where some guy posted a picture but i couldn't even tell what he had done
Only way I could see you trouble shooting that is by taking it apart. If you do be careful with the screen
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Keep in mind that this is a hardware issue and changing roms is unlikely to fix it. Unfortunately, if you can't fix it yourself you're going to have to shell out $35 on a repair or just have to deal with it.
who does the repairs? regular sprint stores?