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I have a T-Mobile G2 and just received the OTA Gingerbread update last night.
I don't know if its because of my phone or because of Gingerbread but I can't do the three finger salute (Power + Trackpad + Volume down) to restart my phone anymore.
Is there a new combination to restart the phone?
Restart your phone? When its off press the power button a few seconds.
Are you talking about booting into hboot? If so press volume(down) and power till the screen comes up.
If that's not what you mean you need to word your questions better
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I don't know how I can reword my question any better.
But lets try.
Everything is stock and not rooted to avoid confusion.
Before Gingerbread update.
Pushing the Power button + Volume Down button + Trackpad button allowed me to do a soft reset of the phone.
Now with Gingerbread on my phone, that combination of keys doesn't work anymore.
Now I'm wondering if there is a different combination to achieve this task other than holding the power button and turning phone off and on.
Volume down, camera, and power. Reboot system.
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Volume down, camera, and power. Reboot system.
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That didn't work.
Did you try Vol up instead of Vol Down ? Normally anyone of the combinations should work(not only reboot, but anything like usb-mode or so)
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....
Revolution said:
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
kzoodroid said:
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.
RogerPodacter said:
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
RogerPodacter said:
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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pukemon said:
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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I have an Epic 4G with a power button that will not respond, period. Phone is off and responds to the charger/usb cable being plugged in and all other keys cause the phone to "light up" when charging, but the power button istelf does nothing.
So, assuming the power button was bad, I ordered a new power button assy and installed it. It too will not work. There appears to be no physical damage to any of the ribbon cables, connectors, or boards inside the phone. The phone was Manufactured a month ago, so is fairly new and has gotten little use.
The phone's esn is bad, and my intentions were to flash it to cricket for a customer, so sending it Sprint is abviously not an option. Sending it to Samsung is also not an option since the phone has now been disassembled.
Is there any way to get the phone to "POWER ON" with any other button combination?
I have tried:
Plugging in USB Cable while holding 1 key: Does nothing
Holding VOL-DN + Camera + PWR while pluggin in USB: Does nothing
The phone only responds with the charging indicator (which the battery is now full).
Is there any other way to Force it into Download or Recovery Mode without a working power button?
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I know a jig will work for download mode but I'm not too sure about recovery other than using rom manager to boot into recovery.... worst case senerio sell it for parts the screen etc etc.
I remember hearing someone using odin for turning the screen on search about it?
Would be really cool if you could remap the power button to something else but I know certain lockscreen apps or ROMs will allow for phone to be awaken by the camera button.
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Hold 1 and then plug the phone in to USB. It will then boot into download mode. For recovery, hold vol down, camera, and then plug into USB.
Edit: just read that didn't work. Try taking out the SD card and battery and letting it sit for 2 hours then try again with the battery and SD out.
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Hold 1 and then plug the phone in to USB. It will then boot into download mode. For recovery, hold vol down, camera, and then plug into USB.
Edit: just read that didn't work. Try taking out the SD card and battery and letting it sit for 2 hours then try again with the battery and SD out.
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I was able to get it to boot up by plugging in the USB cable and unplugging it at the right time. But the phone doesn't respond to the slider, power button, or 2nd "click" of the camera button. However 1st click of the camera button and volume buttons work.
while playing around with it after about 10 mins the display switched itself to landscape mode and the keyboard backlight comes on, as if it has been "slid" open. If I slide it open and closed, it remains in that mode, as if it still thinks its slid open. However not all the keys on the keyboard are responding/working, but most are.
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I was able to get it to boot up by plugging in the USB cable and unplugging it at the right time. But the phone doesn't respond to the slider, power button, or 2nd "click" of the camera button. However 1st click of the camera button and volume buttons work.
while playing around with it after about 10 mins the display switched itself to landscape mode and the keyboard backlight comes on, as if it has been "slid" open. If I slide it open and closed, it remains in that mode, as if it still thinks its slid open. However not all the keys on the keyboard are responding/working, but most are.
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I don't think there's any hope for that phone... seems like its going to hell one "key" at a time
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Biggoron said:
I don't think there's any hope for that phone... seems like its going to hell one "key" at a time
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hmm, the problem isn't progressive, so it not getting better or worse. The only thing I can think of is a bad connection or the replacement Chinese cheap ass power button assembly is also bad.
the phone is only a month old.
Originally Posted by marcusant
Hold 1 and then plug the phone in to USB. It will then boot into download mode. For recovery, hold vol down, camera, and then plug into USB.
Edit: just read that didn't work. Try taking out the SD card and battery and letting it sit for 2 hours then try again with the battery and SD out.
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I was able to get it to boot up by plugging in the USB cable and unplugging it at the right time. But the phone doesn't respond to the slider, power button, or 2nd "click" of the camera button. However 1st click of the camera button and volume buttons work.
while playing around with it after about 10 mins the display switched itself to landscape mode and the keyboard backlight comes on, as if it has been "slid" open. If I slide it open and closed, it remains in that mode, as if it still thinks its slid open. However not all the keys on the keyboard are responding/working, but most are.
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When you get it to notice the keyboard slid open, pull the battery or turn it off then hold 1 and plug the phone in? That's my guess
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I replaced the power button assy with the stock one from samsung knowing the power button is faulty, and got the phone to power back up jigging the usb cable in/out until the samsung logo appeared. The slide open/closed works perfect, and all other buttons and keyboard keys work fine as well (except the power button of course.)
This would leave me to believe the cheap chinese replacement board from ebay is bad to begin with. So ill have to order another one from a different seller/manufacturer.
I had installed the rooted UrbanPrecision X2 Gingerbread EI22 ROM with CWM Recvovery 5 before the power button failed a couple of weeks ago, and its working fine, but Id like to install the stock EC05 GB Rom to it through odin/recovery.
So my next question: Is there a way to emulate the power button with an app or something? Or enter Download/Recovery Mode from an app within the phone without using the power button?
Thanks again.
maybe this?
If worse comes to worse you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274999 which allows access to the most basic parts of the phone from what i understand. The only issue is you would have to use the ressurector every time to boot. also if you get it to boot with out this you can just use adb commands to boot into recovery and download mode if its powered on. The commands are adb reboot recovery, and adb reboot download
Wait that's right there's commands for download mode that you can put into the terminal emulator right?
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i dont know how that would work, because they are adb commands, but he could try going into terminal emulator and simply typing reboot recovery or reboot download
Update Good thinking ac16313, just tested it. If he types su to get full system access reboot recovery definitely works( tested). Unfortunately download mode will not work though ( at least on cyanogenmod it just reboots). That would required adb reboot download via computer.
How could the Esn be bad if the phone was manufactured a month ago?
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xjayman said:
How could the Esn be bad if the phone was manufactured a month ago?
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Stolen.....
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what happened
Have you found a solution, will it boot, and do the commands through terminal emulator or adb work?
I just got back from the sprint repair center where thankfully they told me there was an issue with there latest updates for the epic 4g with these symptoms. They downgraded the phone back to EC05 and now i have none of the symptoms anymore! Aside from feeling a bit sheepish for only trying to ODIN back to EL30 i'm very happy about the free fix! Fortunately it's my wife's phone so it's not too big a deal for it to remain downgraded. Hope this info helps somebody else!
After my phone fell, I popped the battery back in and started it, it started fine, but then I turned on Bluetooth and it immediately restarted, after it restarted it was fine, but then it wanted to turn Bluetooth on again and then it restarted, and it did that again and again.
I also couldn't turn off Bluetooth because it is already turned off, but the phone wants to turn it back on and in that second (the Bluetooth logo shows in the notification bar for a second) it restarts once again.
So if there is anything I can do to disable Bluetooth, I would love it but I don't think there is.
So I want to do a hard-reset because I don't have time to do anything when the phone starts. So I pressed the two volume buttons and the power button, it shows a screen, I choose recovery mode using the volume buttons, and then after I press on the power button to choose it, it shows a dead Android with a red rectangle and an exclamation mark in it, after a while it reboots again, and nothing happens.
I'm running Jelly bean 4.1, non-rooted, on a GSM/Unlocked Galaxy Nexus.
I recently bought this phone and I feel miserable, please help me.
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it shows a dead Android with a red rectangle and an exclamation mark in it, after a while it reboots again, and nothing happens..
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In stock recovery there is a key combination that needs to be pressed to get to get to the options (e.g. Factory Reset)
What is this key combination, I pressed all of the keys to go into the 'boot menu' and after chose recovery mode using the power button.Is there anything else I should do
Select recovery then after u see the droid screen.. Press and hold power then hit the vol up key and release
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I honestly don't remember. Once in recovery you have to press a specific combination (maybe volume up + power OR volume down +power) to get to the options menu in stock recovery (dead Android with a red rectangle and an exclamation mark).
:Edit: what LiquidXed said :cyclops:
I managed to get there. do i select wipe data / factory reset
too late, I already did it
Really?
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So your making fun of me (I guess), great profile picture by the way.
It worked i'm back inside my phone, but do I dare turn on Bluetooth !!!!
Test it. Then you'll know if the problem was hardware or software.
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hard reset for Galaxy Nexu
I'm holding down the volume botton and the power button, but it still loads up. is there any other way to do a hard reset on the Galaxy Nexus
What are you trying to do? Get into recovery?
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Select recovery then after u see the droid screen.. Press and hold power then hit the vol up key and release
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thanks dear..............
Have an DInc2 with a broken power button (doesn't work/respond, but phone will turn on when receiving a phone call) and phone is out of warranty. Are there any alternatives to powering on the device such as a USB wake command (this phone is non-rooted) or any other suggestions?
You can get a new button on Ebay. I have not done it but have read about others successfully repairing the power button.
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You can root it and get button replacement like saviour
You might be able to set volume wake up though I'm assuming you're stock and I haven't used that since I got the phone
Easy wake is what you'd want to enable widget locker has an option for it and so do some roms
Also you can set widget locker to lock on search long preas
Theoretically there are other options like external hardware
Button replacement is a good idea if it won't respond at all otherwise once you turn it off it becomes a paperweight
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