[Q] Help! power button fail - myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I recently installed CM7-01192011 nightly and everything was going fine but I wake up today and take my phone off of the charger and my power button no longer does anything. I wanna try and reflash a past recovery to see if that will fix it but I cant even get into recovery without the top button. I tried using rom manager also that didnt work. Anybody have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? any help would be great thanks in advance. Oh also when I remove battery and reinsert the phone auto turns on.

the auto-turn-on when the battery is reinserted is normal, however, that is odd about the button not working. does the screen turn on or off when you push it while it's on the charger?? if you the tools loaded on your computer, you could do 'adb reboot recovery' at a command prompt

If the phone is off (if you can manage to turn it off) does the power button work? Say, if you go into clockwork rom manager, and reboot into recovery from there, or go into terminal emulator and type
Code:
$ su
#reboot recovery
Does the power button do anything in recovery? It should make the screen go blank.

Power button does nothing and ya I tried that using terminal still wont get into recovery gets to the screen where you have to hold volume up and hit the power button and no I cant turn phone off also starting this morning my touch screen stopped working. Im still under warranty but cant figure out how to get the darn thing back to stock since I cant get into recovery

Install ROM MANAGER and click "Reoot to recovery"
lol
let me know if this works

You can always try this way
MU HA HA HA
http://www.appbrain.com/app/buttonremapper/com.beansoft.buttonremapper
If something goes wrong, dont blame me.. Ive never tried this lol
Hope it helps you

ya rom manager was the first thing I tried didnt work also tried sdk also didnt work. All methods get to the screen where you need to push power and volume up. I was gonna try the key remapper but my touch panel failed and I have no way to navigate on the phone to open the app.

Ok I got it back to stock by using the ESPRIMG. Phone still dosnt work but at least its stock now. Tmobile is sending me a new phone should be here in a few days. Thanks for all the help attempts.

That sucks bro
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Can't boot into recovery after new root method

After new 2.2 root method (thanks regaw_leinad), I can't boot into clockwork mod rom manager.
When I press Up+Power, it vibrates three times and nothing happens.
The screen stays off.
Pressing the power button does nothing.
I have to take the battery out to do anything.
I've booted into the manager before, because I had to install unrevoked-forever.zip from it.
What can I do?
Hold volume down while you press power.
Hey man how did you get your phone to come back on cause it just happend to me but now it wont turn back on.
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Thanks.
Take the battery out. When you put it back in, do what bluehaze said.
So you're saying he was holding it wrong?
Raghh.
I just posted this in the Root Guide forum, unfortunately glad its not just me.,
I thought maybe using RomManager screwed it up by flashing my recovery.. just a thought
Try going into RomManager, and flashing alternative "ra-evo-v1.7.0.1" at the bottem of the screen.
I was able to get into recovery with that method.
*****
By doing that method i was able to go back and reflash clockworkmod and everything is golden.
Good luck to you

[Q] rooted with broken power button

So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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Use the ruu it will run in windows
Same thing happened to my phone. Damn cheap power button. Was waiting for cm6 to work with the new version hardware. Now that it does I will be doing the same.
What I have been doing as a work around is using widget locker to remap the power button to the volume key. And have a screen off widget. I don't mind it but can't do anything in recovery either anymore. So I am gonna take mine in this weekend. I believe they will give you a replacement phone.
FYI - I got thinking that maybe it wasnt a hardware issue but maybe software - and it would have to be something higher up than the recovery system. Anyway, the button started working again and while it was I flashed a new HBoot thinking that maybe it was a corrupted driver or something. It seems to have fixed it, but YMMV.
austontatious said:
So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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You can use the ruu to restore our but it will most likely still show s-off in the bootloader. You can fix that by using adb in recovery mode to flash unrevoked forever while in the recovery
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[Q] Alternative methods of accessing Recovery?

My Xperia Play has had a few problems out of the box, mainly that when I switch it on there is no boot animation, just a black screen. This means I can't access Recovery through the normal method of holding down on the volume or the back button etc. I've installed CWM through the CWM Xperia installer so I know it's there. I also ran the Auto-Magic Nandroid through that app, which caused my screen to go black (as it does whenever I choose to reboot through an app). When I looked on my SD card though there is now a Nandroid folder, so it's probable that the device does go into Recovery; I just can't see it.
So my question is this; is there any other way of getting my phone into Recovery so I can install some sweet, delicious custom ROMs? Maybe through ADB or similar? Or is it possible to install a ROM via another method?
Any help at all would be appreciated!!
If it wasn't working right right out of the box, I would have sent it back.
Can't you boot into recovery from the CWM-installer app?
Solar.Plexus said:
If it wasn't working right right out of the box, I would have sent it back.
Can't you boot into recovery from the CWM-installer app?
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Sadly that wasn't an option, it was the only one they had and I wasn't about to send it back for another type of phone, I've wanted this thing for ages
I've just clicked that option in the app and it's just rebooted the phone normally.
Trism said:
Sadly that wasn't an option, it was the only one they had and I wasn't about to send it back for another type of phone, I've wanted this thing for ages
I've just clicked that option in the app and it's just rebooted the phone normally.
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Turn on the phone, and when you see the notification light turn blue, press volume down for the locked bootloader cwm, or the back button for the one in DooMKernel.
Sent from a Galaxy far, far away
I've not yet tried installing DooMKernel, I'm worried that if I can't get into the normal recovery in won't be able to get into that one, then I'll be stuck with a boot looping phone.
Pressing down on volume on the blue led comes on doesn't seem to do much, simply stops the boot process from completing fully. I left the phone for 5 mins and got nothing. Pressing the power button again started the boot process again and it loaded up normally (minus any animations of ciurse)
It seems like stuff is happening, but I just can't see it. I doubt this is a hardware fault as the screen works perfectly all other times, so what the heck could it be!?
The recovery in DooMKernel is already built in, so it's different than using the Xperia CWM installer. By the way, the back button will get you into DooMKernel's recovery.
I'll give it a try and see what happens. Thanks for the advice guys!

[Q] Few problems with my phone

Dropped my phone too many times and now the power button doesn't work. I've been sliding out the keyboard to wake it up.
I tried using the CM9 'volume rocker to wake' feature but it doesn't seem to work most of the time. Specifically it only works when it's plugged in, or there is music/other app running in the background so I'm guessing my phone is sleeping too deeply to recognize it? is there a way to make it always work?
I've also had a few other deep sleep problems. Once in awhile my phone won't wake back up. After a night's sleep, I've had my phone freeze once the alarm activates (screen turns on and capacitive lights turn on but screen doesn't work and nothing helps except battery pull), this has also happened when I haven't used my phone in a little while and I get a phone call. Has anyone had this problem? It's especially horrible with my power button problem since I have no way to turn the phone back on after a battery pull without a charger on hand.
Finally, is there an easy way to fix the power button or should I just take it to Sprint?
Try reverting back to a stock rom or at least one based on stock and see if that works. If it doesn't then probably it's a hardware problem.
i can't get it into download mode to do anything (was originally going to revert to stock and take it to sprint). with the power button broken, i had to try adb reboot download and also reboot download with su from terminal emulator. both failed and just ended up doing a normal reboot...
anyone know how i can get into download mode to downgrade?
nvertigo said:
i can't get it into download mode to do anything (was originally going to revert to stock and take it to sprint). with the power button broken, i had to try adb reboot download and also reboot download with su from terminal emulator. both failed and just ended up doing a normal reboot...
anyone know how i can get into download mode to downgrade?
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Use cwm to flash stock deodexed (using adb reboot recovery and the home button to select.
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for some reason the stock deodexed fc09 failed to install in TWRP. tried redownloading, no luck. can't find anythign about it in the thread, any ideas?
still can't get it into download mode either, and now i can't even turn it on despite having a charger. it just turns green and i haven't found any combinations that will turn it on.
nvertigo said:
for some reason the stock deodexed fc09 failed to install in TWRP. tried redownloading, no luck. can't find anythign about it in the thread, any ideas?
still can't get it into download mode either, and now i can't even turn it on despite having a charger. it just turns green and i haven't found any combinations that will turn it on.
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Remove battery and sd card hit the power button a few times to make sure it is fully discharged. Plug into computer with battery out and try to get into download mode. Also make sure you are using a BB cable and not the stock one.
luckily I took it to sprint and they fixed it for free even though it was on CM...

[Q] Lg g3 vs985 not going into recovery while device is powered off

Please help lg g 3 won't enter custom recovery I've tried all button variations
Please someone help I have a rooted g3 and don't wanna brick it?????
Go into an adb terminal and type in
Code:
adb reboot recovery[/quote]. If you don't have adb, search up minimal adb and fastboot, and how to use it.
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On computer or phone?
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And my phone already has twrp, just can't access it from device being off, but twrp app lets me go to recovery, just not when phone is off. So this should fix that right?
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Please someone help
I've seen people are viewing this post if anyone know how to fix my problem please help or message me, the minimal adb won't work unless the device is turned on in usb. debugging, I can access my recovery with phone on easily but while it's powered off I should be able to get to custom recovery by pressing volume down and power while phone is off, but this method isn't working. So if I get in bootloop I can't get into custom recovery...please anyone any ideas
Well it should be as simple as holding down power and volume button down things but i guess you've already tried that method many times and it didnt work so you ask then, right?
If your phone in bootloop, you can flash tot files and it will back to stock re-root and re-install trwp.
If your phone still (or already) normal, you can download an app that can take you to custom recovery such as rebooter or power menu, thats it.
Yea phone isn't in bootloop, but if I put a Rom on phone I have no way to access the recovery because the volume and power won't take me to the recovery, so if it goes into bootloop I'm outta of luck I don't understand why the hardware buttons won't take me to the recovery, have you ever heard of this problem
brozillatyler said:
I've seen people are viewing this post if anyone know how to fix my problem please help or message me, the minimal adb won't work unless the device is turned on in usb. debugging, I can access my recovery with phone on easily but while it's powered off I should be able to get to custom recovery by pressing volume down and power while phone is off, but this method isn't working. So if I get in bootloop I can't get into custom recovery...please anyone any ideas
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How long are you holding the vol down and power buttons? It should be around 15-20 seconds, then your system recovery screen comes up, you choose factory data reset, yes, and then TWRP comes up. If that isn't working - are you sure your buttons are working OK?
If the phone is turned off is there any other way to access it while phone is off?
Yes buttons work fine I hold it down and it just goes to Verizon screen ?
Actually when I hold it down it just stays on logo and reboots back to logo over and over and over
Actually I hold it down and it reboots to logo over and over its like there's no recovery there I don't understand lol
If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on how to fix this please let me know
brozillatyler said:
If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on how to fix this please let me know
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OK... Does your phone boot into your ROM at all or are you bootlooped? If your phone boots, download an app called flashify and get the proper twrp .img file for your model and flash the image using flashify. It's an easy app to use - just make sure you're using the correct twrp .img for your phone...from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/orig-development/recovery-twrp-touch-recovery-2-8-2-0-t2966129
If you are bootlooped I would suggest starting over and reflashing back to stock using the tot or kdz method. Here is a guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/restore-verizon-to-stock-t2827878 I know it can be a pain to get the download tool working properly sometimes, so it may take some effort to get it working, but be patient (and read a lot if you get stuck) and you will get it working.
I don't know how you got borked...maybe it was an un-bumped twrp image? Either way, it is what it is, just try not to do it again Good luck.
Thanks much I'll try this
When this happened to me i would
1: remove battery
2: insert battery
3: hold volume down and lock button at the same time
4: When the LG Logo pops up release the lock button for 1 second (while still holding the volume down button), then press down again
5: A data reset/restore menu appears, and when you choose to reset/restore, TWRP boots to recovery.
jared1992 said:
When this happened to me i would
1: remove battery
2: insert battery
3: hold volume down and lock button at the same time
4: When the LG Logo pops up release the lock button for 1 second (while still holding the volume down button), then press down again
5: A data reset/restore menu appears, and when you choose to reset/restore, TWRP boots to recovery.
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I tried this also not working how did you fix it?
brozillatyler said:
I tried this also not working how did you fix it?
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Hmm. That worked for me. I'm not sure what next.

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