After devunlocking last night, now my phone is messed up
The problem is the back,windows and search button no longer work, the portion of the screen that they take up is now like an extension of thescreen it just selects stuff as if it were at the bottom of the screen. Any help to reset all the files in root to factory, I tried to hard reset and soft reset.
Maybe I screwed up the registry or some files. Thanks for any help
try factory reset. hold camera + volume down + power. when phone vibrate release power button while holding the other 2 buttons. should prompt you to reset your phone. hope that works
Thx
I tried that but it enters USB Host mode, I also tried holding down up and down volume and power button to reset which resets it but doesn'tfixmy problem. it's acting like the part of the screen where the windows, search and back button are are now part of the regular screen and those 3 buttons no longer do anything.
This sounds rather like a hardware error. Your calibration of the touchscreen is messed up. I suggest you send it in. You still should have warranty?!
Btw. I don't think this has a connection to unlocking the phone!
If the phone hasn't been tampered with physically, it should be enough to just sync it without re-unlocking it, and it should be locked again.
Thx
I got a new one on the way. I didn't delete any files or regedit a bunch of stuff just a standard dev unlock and it started acting squirrly.
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Hi,
My MDA3's power button (on/off) stopped working!! Pressing the button does NOTHING!!! I had locked all keys except the power button, since the power button stopped working, the ONLY way i could turn device on was resetting it!!!!
I have tried upgrading ROM etc, but the power button still wont work!
Can anyone please help me with this?
How did you enter bootloader to flash the rom, is the power button not needed on the mda3 to enter bootloader.?
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interestingly enough i was able to reset the device by just using the reset pinhole, even the hard reset they say by using recorder+power+reset i was able to do with out the power.
It sounds like you have a hardware problem rather than software, I'd send it back & get it swapped before the warranty runs out if I were you.
We've had four units fail with dodgy buttons, you might even find that it's one the other buttons that is stuck in the pressed position thereby preventing use of the power button (try the sound recorder/camera buttons).
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I was able to fix this problem by opening the phone, cleaning it with compressed air and putting it back together. I suspect this fixed the stuck button somehow.
I had simmilar problem. There must have been garbage in the button, as I noticed that it did not have the same 'click' feel to it when it stopped working. Luckily my phone was still under warranty, and I swapped it out (ugh)
hi
my xda orbit keeps rebooting and i cant hard reset it. any ideas guys.
kevin
What happens when you take away the battery and plug it again.
Then You try to boot, it works ?
Then if not you try to hard reset, It works ?
Just to know...
startup bug
hi
when i take the battery out and put it back in the same thing happens i have tried to press in the two buttons and pressing the stylus in the hole but it wont hard reset.
kevin
Did you tried bootloader mode and then flash again the rom ?
how do i do that. i took the memory card out and it rebooted.
kevin
Taken from : http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Artemis_Resets
To do a hard reset.
Press both soft keys and insert stylus into soft reset button and press.
Release the soft reset button and keep pressing the soft keys.
When the "This operation will delete all your personal data, to manufacturer default" appears on screen.
Press Green call button to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel.
The bootloader is invoked by pressing down the Power and Voicedialer buttons simultaneously, and using the stylus at the same time to press the RESET button at the left side. Continue pressing the two buttons for a few seconds after pressing and releasing the reset button until the bootloader screen appears.
startup bug
hi
thanks for your sugestions i took the memory card out and deleted some stuff from it and it works now. this seems to be a problem with the orbit as i have seen a few people mention it on various posts.
kevin
Hey guys, anyone else ever had this problem? All of the sudden my phone stopped responding to holding the Power button + End + Send keys. It worked just fine in the past, but all of the sudden stopped for no apparent reason. Both of the keys work just fine when the phone is turned on, so I don't think its a hardware problem. Any ideas? Thanks.
lysergication said:
Hey guys, anyone else ever had this problem? All of the sudden my phone stopped responding to holding the Power button + End + Send keys. It worked just fine in the past, but all of the sudden stopped for no apparent reason. Both of the keys work just fine when the phone is turned on, so I don't think its a hardware problem. Any ideas? Thanks.
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What are the symptoms? You mean nothing happens, that it just stays off when you press that trio of keys...or does something else happen?
(I assume you know that you can also hard reset by the "Clear Storage" function under Settings>System..)
Hard Reset
The phone must be off before you do a hard reset. You are probably doing this but others may be stuck.
Turn phone off
push send and end and power all at once and hold
push volume up to accept the hard reset when it asks you
Follow instructions on the screen.
MCbrian said:
What are the symptoms? You mean nothing happens, that it just stays off when you press that trio of keys...or does something else happen?
(I assume you know that you can also hard reset by the "Clear Storage" function under Settings>System..)
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The phone turns on and boots just like normal. I just don't get the tri-color screen.
It's not a big deal for now since I can just use "Clear Storage" as you mentioned, but I am worried that if I ever get to the point where it doesn't boot up then I won't be able to hard reset without flashing.
It just seems weird to me that its not working. I know I am doing it right because I have done it numerous times in the past. Just wondering if anyone ever had a similar issue.
P.S If it means anything I am using a cooked ROM and an updated radio, but I have hard reset a few times after these were installed. The only thing I can think of that I did prior to this is hard reset and did a full restore using Sprite Backup...
Can this be an SPL issue?
same problem...
I had to do a hard reset because i was suck in a endless reboot loop...i did it this way...
send key + end key + power key + reset button all at sametime and do let go until you see the comfirmation..
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
airpmobile said:
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
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That's hardcore
airpmobile said:
I had to do a hard reset because i was suck in a endless reboot loop...i did it this way...
send key + end key + power key + reset button all at sametime and do let go until you see the comfirmation..
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
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Thanks, this worked!
Hey all, need some help here.
short story - can't power up my device, since power botton stopped working.
anyonw knows a way to turn on the device otherwise?
(tried reset by reset button, plug to pc, to charger..)
longer story- yesterday i realized i can hear only on speaker phone, so i thought it is a bug and tried to reset the device (soft) and realized the power button isn't working as well, which increased my suspicion of a bug, and smart enough i just unplugged the battery and since then can't turn it back on..
thanks
I have same problem several times, and I have no idea why these happen, any ideas?
When its happen, I try call from another phone to my, and nothing happen phone not ring, but I heard normal sound from calling phone.
I would see if I could get the phone to hard reset. I know you need to push the power button but it may work for this purpose just not tell the software to turn back on.
Hard Reset:
With phone off push and hold the send and end buttons while pushing the power button. Follow screen instructions.
If you cant then you will have to return it I am guessing.
Nothing
nope, i tried also to hard reset but nothing works, as time goes i get the feeling that the phone is ok but the power button is the one breaked.
i guess i have to take it to a lab sometime this week.
thanks anyways
So I have a galaxy s iii, att version, where I accidentally put it into safe mode, but in a dramatic turn of events, I seemed to have broken the volume down key... Idk if the volume down is broken, or stuck down, but now, every time I turn on the phone it boots into safety mode regardless of what I do. So far, I have tried:
Resetting the phone.
Holding Volume-up as I reset the phone.
Holding every capacitive key on the device except for the power button as I reset the phone.
I have also hit the Volume-down button like 30 times before resetting it.
I took out the battery to reset the phone.
I reset the phone with the battery out and plugged into a charger.
PLEASE help me find a solution. Im begging. Begging.
Typically, safe mode is achieved by holding one of the capacitive buttons add the phone boots up. Try rebooting without touching any buttons. And if the volume rocker is broken, look into a warranty exchange