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[Q] Evo Buttons Stopped Working

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.

END_OF_FLESH said:
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

Samzebian said:
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?

Bricked - Radio Update

I turned my phone off while updating the radio firmware (thought the screen was error)
Now, I cannot
1) See the light when plugged in
2) Get to a screen by pressing power and Volume
3) Turn the phone on
What I can see
1) I can plug the phone USB into my laptop, and I see an unknown driver for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM - makes me think there is someway I can connect to this phone and recover
Any suggestions on how to proceed?

marcb80 said:
I turned my phone off while updating the radio firmware (thought the screen was error)
Now, I cannot
1) See the light when plugged in
2) Get to a screen by pressing power and Volume
3) Turn the phone on
What I can see
1) I can plug the phone USB into my laptop, and I see an unknown driver for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM - makes me think there is someway I can connect to this phone and recover
Any suggestions on how to proceed?
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This sounds like you may be SOL from my knowledge but either way, good luck.
If it isn't rooted, take it to sprint and tell them it shut off during radio update.

The first thing you defintely need to do will be to ask all this in the Q & A section (most important step). I would suggest to seach the forums as this might have happened to someone else. I hope you solve this
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I don't know allot about that but I think you bricked your phone thats the only way I know of to really brick it.
And this belongs in Q/A you probably going to get flamed for posting this here.
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You are screwed. I did the same thing, no light etc.
Phone is dead. Sorry bro I hope you have a protection plan.

If you mess with the phone during a radio update, you are bricked.
End of story.
BTW, every single thread on radio updates tells you this.

Awesome ROM! I can't wait to flash bRiCk3D-GB-Sense3.0!
Can I get some screen shots?
Is 4G working?

1) can someone move my thread to Q/A
2) can I just replace the motherboard?

If the phone is bricked, it shouldn't matter if it was rooted or not. If you have the protection plan, put a claim in.
"The root of all EVO has been running my whole life...... "

Question about Rooted G2

I have a question. My G2 Screen turned off and won't turn back on. I've tried everything but nothing works. The phone still charges and turns on but the screen is black. My phone is rooted. If I send it back to T-Mobile for a replacement, will they find out its rooted?

ImABoss said:
I have a question. My G2 Screen turned off and won't turn back on. I've tried everything but nothing works. The phone still charges and turns on but the screen is black. My phone is rooted. If I send it back to T-Mobile for a replacement, will they find out its rooted?
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Possibly.
I believe there's a way to go back to stock without using your screen (via ADB).
Are you sure its turning on at all? To the capacitive buttons/keyboard buttons light up?
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Personally I had my first G2 malfunction on me after I had my phone perma-rooted. The SD reader no longer functioned properly so I couldn't access any data consistently which made it impossible to unroot it.
In the end I called tmobile and told them that my phone's sd card stop reading properly and they sent me a refurbished model with no additional charges to my account. I know for a fact that if put the phone on recovery mode you can definitely tell if the phone is rooted or not. If it's your last resort then I would chance it, but you're risking them sending you back another phone with a pretty hefty bill. (read somewhere if they find out that you're phone's been rooted, they're required to *keep* the phone)

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Possibly.
I believe there's a way to go back to stock without using your screen (via ADB).
Are you sure its turning on at all? To the capacitive buttons/keyboard buttons light up?
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Yes the phone turns on and the capacitive buttons and keyboard buttons light up. I can hear the sound if someone calls it rings. The only problem is the screen is black and won't turn on. If there is a way to unroot it via ABD that would be great. Do you know where I can find instructions on that?

nguyen925 said:
Personally I had my first G2 malfunction on me after I had my phone perma-rooted. The SD reader no longer functioned properly so I couldn't access any data consistently which made it impossible to unroot it.
In the end I called tmobile and told them that my phone's sd card stop reading properly and they sent me a refurbished model with no additional charges to my account. I know for a fact that if put the phone on recovery mode you can definitely tell if the phone is rooted or not. If it's your last resort then I would chance it, but you're risking them sending you back another phone with a pretty hefty bill. (read somewhere if they find out that you're phone's been rooted, they're required to *keep* the phone)
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Yeah that will be my last resort. But right now I'm trying to look everywhere for instructions on how to unroot it using ADB but no luck yet.

If anyone on the forum can point me in the right direction as to where I can find instructions on how to unroot using ADB will be great.

So I turned of the g2 and plug it in and webt into adb devices and it says the phone is in recovery. So if anyone knows a way to unroot this way from ADB would be helping me out a lot.

idk how to unroot via adb but have you tried putting a stock rom in the sdcard, go into hboot mode on the g2, even though you cant see anything on the screen just find a pic online of hboot mode, then move the volume button to recovery then select it, then you will be in recovery the select install zip and even thought u still can see anything you could do the same thing i told you to do for hboot mode, so then install the rom. tell if that worked. i have the same problem with my htc g2. if that doesnt work then its the lcd screen its self.

Hardware Workaround

My phone fell last week and happened to land right on the power button and of course nothing else. Ive been trying to be careful and keep on a full charge and not let it die but of course the inevitable happened and i ran out of battery. Is there any way to turn my phone on without my power button such as ADB or am i screwed? i'm still new to all this, my Dinc is rooted and i was using my trackball to wake my phone

There was someone who wrote up a nice tutorial on how to replace the on/off button on the board, the switch is like under $5. May be worth a shot if the switch is bad vs getting a new phone. I'll try to find the thread.
EDIT:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1195729
Page 2 is where you get the link for the power switch itself, and page three the OP has a great write-up on how to replace it.

there is no way to ADB it from my comp tho? i have an SLCD screen and i have had to reset via an RUU so i figure there must be a command somewhere to probably turn it on that way. but i might be mistaken

mtbman said:
there is no way to ADB it from my comp tho? i have an SLCD screen and i have had to reset via an RUU so i figure there must be a command somewhere to probably turn it on that way. but i might be mistaken
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List of ADB Commands
That's a link to the commands you can use ADB for. I don't see one that will turn the device on if it is off...I know using fastboot reboot you could reboot a phone, but I don't know if that would work if the phone is off?

i just opened it and i don't think the switch is fried, the plastic switch is lodged and it doesn't move, i'm gonna try and find a way to jerry rig it to move again
EDIT: i think it is the switch :/ darn it

[Q] Rooted phone and now wont turn on

I recently Rooted my sealed samsung galaxy s3 without having a clue what i'm doing i downloaded this program called snapdragon to root it along with ODIN. The phone rooted fine everything was working okay, I even downloaded an app to see if the root was successful and indeed it was. I shut the phone down wake up in the morning to turn it back on and I get zero response. Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Might seem obvious, but have you tried leaving it plugged in for ten-fifteen minutes?

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Might seem obvious, but have you tried leaving it plugged in for ten-fifteen minutes?
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Yes of course I've tried leaving it plugged in for several hours and the night before the phone was at 100% charge so I doubt battery is the issue.
Tks though

Did you try booting into recovery?
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Ummm seems like u can fix it.... go bak to stock using odin as well and go back to stock and i believe cwm is going to be gone so as your root access so re-do it but this time guide yourself through a turorial(a.k.a google) and since you have to clue i think the best choice for you is to find a video tutorial in case your doubting or getting confused with the steps or sometimes to see what you did wrong that caused the phone to misbehave...
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*sigh*
This is why I hate one-click-root kits, you get people doing things to their phones they don't understand, wreck it and come here saying "help, I don't know what do do!" Something like this you really should at least understand the basics. I hope this gets you more involved in researching what's actually happening. It's important to know what's happening to your device as well as why, that way if something goes badly you'll have an idea of how to get out of it.
Sorry, enough lecturing, let's see if we can get something going here. Give a bit more detail about what happens. You're phone is shut down, right? You hit the power button and no response, like the battery is actually out of the phone, or does it turn on and give you a blank screen? If it was a brick, I'd think you'd at least see the boot screen before everything goes wrong.
Ok, I'm going to go ahead and assume you've removed the battery. If you haven't, do so now.
If it still won't turn on, try actually holding the power button down for 30-60 seconds. I had a scary moment with my phone yesterday, rebooted it running Wicked v5 on Trinity and the screen just died. I've been running that rom for a week with just a couple of issues here and there, nothing out of the ordinary. Pulled the battery and tried again, nothing. After holding the power button down for a bit I felt a quick vibrate, then the boot logo came up. No idea why, I'm going to have to look into it.
Beyond that, I'm brand new to this phone and Sammy's Android devices so I'm still learning myself. HTC phones I could help out more with, but I'm still a bit clueless with this thing.

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This is why I hate one-click-root kits, you get people doing things to their phones they don't understand, wreck it and come here saying "help, I don't know what do do!" Something like this you really should at least understand the basics. I hope this gets you more involved in researching what's actually happening. It's important to know what's happening to your device as well as why, that way if something goes badly you'll have an idea of how to get out of it.
Sorry, enough lecturing, let's see if we can get something going here. Give a bit more detail about what happens. You're phone is shut down, right? You hit the power button and no response, like the battery is actually out of the phone, or does it turn on and give you a blank screen? If it was a brick, I'd think you'd at least see the boot screen before everything goes wrong.
Ok, I'm going to go ahead and assume you've removed the battery. If you haven't, do so now.
If it still won't turn on, try actually holding the power button down for 30-60 seconds. I had a scary moment with my phone yesterday, rebooted it running Wicked v5 on Trinity and the screen just died. I've been running that rom for a week with just a couple of issues here and there, nothing out of the ordinary. Pulled the battery and tried again, nothing. After holding the power button down for a bit I felt a quick vibrate, then the boot logo came up. No idea why, I'm going to have to look into it.
Beyond that, I'm brand new to this phone and Sammy's Android devices so I'm still learning myself. HTC phones I could help out more with, but I'm still a bit clueless with this thing.
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Yes I have taken out the battery replaced it several times. I hit the volume home and power button several times. When I do that I get a zero response nothing shows up I hear no sound its as if the phone is just completely dead. One thing I did realise is when I plug it into the computer and press the power button what would happen is it would connect and automatically disconnect

Can you get into Download mode? Volume down + Home + Power button?
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Don't forget to let go of the power button when going into recovery.

Have you done what the other post said?
Hold power for about 10-30 seconds. Does it do anything? Do you feel a verrrry slight vibration?
When you plug it in without doing anything else does the computer see it in device manager? How about if you press power once? Or holding power down?
Does it register that its charging?
This may sound dumb but did you try powering up without the phone plugged into anything?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Have you done what the other post said?
Hold power for about 10-30 seconds. Does it do anything? Do you feel a verrrry slight vibration?
When you plug it in without doing anything else does the computer see it in device manager? How about if you press power once? Or holding power down?
Does it register that its charging?
This may sound dumb but did you try powering up without the phone plugged into anything?
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Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.

cyklosporine said:
I recently Rooted my sealed samsung galaxy s3 without having a clue what i'm doing i downloaded this program called snapdragon to root it along with ODIN. The phone rooted fine everything was working okay, I even downloaded an app to see if the root was successful and indeed it was. I shut the phone down wake up in the morning to turn it back on and I get zero response. Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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cyklosporine said:
Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.
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Ummm. Sorry but maybe im missing something? Your first sentence in your op says you didnt have a clue what you were doing....
And where is it supposed to infer that you've done everything already?
Imo you have been getting 'real' advice but from what I see you haven't 'really' answered anyones suggestions.
No one can help you if you dont tell us what exactly you have tried and what what happened when you did.
For example in your only response you mentioned hitting the volume and home keys a bunch of times....what exactly do you mean by this? Did you hold them while trying to power up? Volume up or down? Did you release any of them during that process, and if so which and when?
Its kinda hard to help someone who doesn't have a clue what they are doing and only responds that hes done everything common sense dictates.
I seriously mean no offence but to me common sense would dictate that you not try rooting or anything if you know you dont know what you're doing.
It would also dictate that if you want further help with this you should go back and respond to what everyone suggested.
Like I said, im not trying to offend, just help.
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I am having the same issue
I just tried flashing Android Revolution to my phone. I went through the whole set up process. Went to reboot then it went blank. Nothing. I get nothing when I plug it in. The computer doesn't recognize any device attached to it. I've tried all the ideas listed here and I get nothing. It's as if the phone is completely dead. When I flashed the rom my battery was at 90%. I've used various roms on different phones and this was the first time I did it to my Galaxy s3 and this is the first time it's ever happened. Talk about frustrating.

Jtag
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lokitsar said:
I just tried flashing Android Revolution to my phone. I went through the whole set up process. Went to reboot then it went blank. Nothing. I get nothing when I plug it in. The computer doesn't recognize any device attached to it. I've tried all the ideas listed here and I get nothing. It's as if the phone is completely dead. When I flashed the rom my battery was at 90%. I've used various roms on different phones and this was the first time I did it to my Galaxy s3 and this is the first time it's ever happened. Talk about frustrating.
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If you can get to download mode by holding vol up home power. You then you can use this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
To get our phone back. I had the same problem after a bad flash. My phone wouldn't do anything. After I left it plugs in for an hour I was able to get into download mode ..hope you get urs back. If its what happened to me then u might find that you have no 4g anymore... If that's the case let me know and I'll tell u what I did to get it back.
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cyklosporine said:
Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.
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Yeah, good luck getting ANY further help with that attitude bro!!!
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I got same problem with my friend's phone
He rooted it by some oneclick root pc program (I rooted this way too, and no problem will come) and flashes Rom with some android apk. ... After questioning him, I found out he DO NOT unlock bootloader.. .. I never seen phone in this status before... another strange thing is that when is phone in charger, battery and phone isn't heating up.. It's cold like ice... This is strange for me..I try 5 android devices and every is heating when it charging up.. (sorry for my bad English) Thank you and maybe someone comming with answers Phone doesn't react, no display brightness show up, no vibrating, no response

I have rooted my phone samsung galaxy grand 2 via odin after that flash the rom cm 11 and reboot my phone it got stuck into boot loop. Then i have done 1 stupidity again i push twrp file in that now m not able to go in recovery mode what should l i do now.

Wrong forum, look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-grand-2
I don't know anything about the phone but you could try looking for the current ROM on the phone at sammobile.com and then re-flash it via Odin.

i unluged the device before dhe odin finished his job ( by mistakeee ) and now it doesnt turn on , charge , go to recovery/odin , hold down power button for 30-60-120 sec nth hapend, it has baterri 90-100 % . plss guys help me :'( i have an samsung galaxy s advance .