I am new to the E4GT, just got it. I just rooted using sfhub's method and everything worked fine. Installed lastest CWM.
Now when I went to try and flash a rom I have the hardest time pressing home and getting it to register as enter. I can tap it a million times and it won't do anything. After about 30 min I was finally able to flash caulkin's but I'm afraid to ever go back into the recovery because of this.
Is this normal? is there a fix?
edit: actually, now that I booted up, my home button is still very wonky. hit or miss. Only began doing this when I rooted. should I take it in?
MrDowntown12 said:
I am new to the E4GT, just got it. I just rooted using sfhub's method and everything worked fine. Installed lastest CWM.
Now when I went to try and flash a rom I have the hardest time pressing home and getting it to register as enter. I can tap it a million times and it won't do anything. After about 30 min I was finally able to flash caulkin's but I'm afraid to ever go back into the recovery because of this.
Is this normal? is there a fix?
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Hey, I am in no way an expert on this, but in CWM I never use the soft keys on the bottom of the phone. I use the volume rockers to navigate up and down and use the power button as "Enter." Hope that helps, if not, I'm sure someone who's more knowledgeable will help you out.
Kruxoli said:
Hey, I am in no way an expert on this, but in CWM I never use the soft keys on the bottom of the phone. I use the volume rockers to navigate up and down and use the power button as "Enter." Hope that helps, if not, I'm sure someone who's more knowledgeable will help you out.
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well i tried, but the power key acted as a back button. only the home button would work as enter
MrDowntown12 said:
well i tried, but the power key acted as a back button. only the home button would work as enter
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That is odd. Only time the power button goes back (for me at least) is when it's physically on the "BACK" option. Sorry dude, maybe someone else can help you out with this...
I found a video that shows how to enable the power button as an enter button. Got it figured out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZRnH-_XZmM
While on recovery, press up, down,up to unlock power button
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BAD Flash when updating radios, who can I pay to fix this?
Or anyone know of a way to fix this?
It appears to be bricked
When I flashed the ATT_Radio_Rhodium_4.48.25.95, I didn't rename it to RUU_Signed
Now I get nothing when I restart the phone, just a black screen.
[email protected] said:
BAD Flash when updating radios, who can I pay to fix this?
Or anyone know of a way to fix this?
It appears to be bricked
When I flashed the ATT_Radio_Rhodium_4.48.25.95, I didn't rename it to RUU_Signed
Now I get nothing when I restart the phone, just a black screen.
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is your phone a gsm rhodium or does it have a cdma module too?
Both I believe
This happened to me last night. I reflashed the ROM to fix it. I used MightROM which is FRIGGIN' Awesome if you ask me
In order to do that though you need to be CID unlocked though but basically as long as you are in the bootloader/bios then you can flash the new ROM from your PC via the USB. If you need any links to that stuff I can post, but I am not quite sure if this would be part of XDA or not (Is MightROM xda? Idk? PPCGeeks??)
You can also try holding down the Call answer and Call end buttons at the same time with the power button then put your battery in. This didn't work for me though, but I had to do this anyways after I flashed the ROM so it might work.
edit: Sorry I misread. I am not sure about the Black Screen. Might work though. I was in the bootloader/tricolor to reflash. Maybe your LCD is dead or something for all I know. Sorry Mate.
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Both I believe
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oh god then you flashed a GSM radio to a CDMA worldphone (just because it has a GSM module doesn't mean you can flash a GSM carrier radio to it... nope!!)
if you plug it into the PC does the PC try to install some USB driver?
[email protected] said:
BAD Flash when updating radios, who can I pay to fix this?
Or anyone know of a way to fix this?
It appears to be bricked
When I flashed the ATT_Radio_Rhodium_4.48.25.95, I didn't rename it to RUU_Signed
Now I get nothing when I restart the phone, just a black screen.
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It is simple. You obviously have a CDMA device. It doesn't matter if you use it on a GSM network. Your device is and always will be a CDMA device. NEVER try to flash ANYTHING GSM on it or you run the risk of permanently bricking it.
To fix this, you will need to grad the latest ROM update from either HTC's website, or your carrier's website. Put the device into bootloader mode by holding down the power button and pressing the tiny reset button under the battery cover with your stylus. Once it boots into the tri-colored screen (bootloader), you can then run the ROM update utility that you just downloaded. This will restore everything back to stock settings and you can try again. If you have already done Hard SPL, then it will NOT be overwritten, so don't worry.
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I cannot get into the tri-colored screen (bootloader).
How long do I need to hold in the reset and power button?
More than 1 min?
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I cannot get into the tri-colored screen (bootloader).
How long do I need to hold in the reset and power button?
More than 1 min?
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You can't get there, because you're doing it wrong. You need to hold down the volume down button and then press the reset button once. This gets you into the bootloader.
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Holding down the volume down button and then pressing the reset button once, did not work for me.
How long do I hold the volume down button for?
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Holding down the volume down button and then pressing the reset button once, did not work for me.
How long do I hold the volume down button for?
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Do you have power in the device? You need to have a battery in it. Also, the reset button might not power your device on. If your device doesn't turn on when you press the reset button, then just hold the volume down button and press the power button once instead. That ought to do it.
installed version is cyanogenMod 10-20130125-experimental-ancora-alpha4.1_kernel30
the recovery installed is CWM v.5.5.0.4.
I already tried with reboot and then recovery or download. the page apear but i don't have acess to neither of them.
I need help.
thank you.
extocha said:
installed version is cyanogenMod 10-20130125-experimental-ancora-alpha4.1_kernel30
the recovery installed is CWM v.5.5.0.4.
I already tried with reboot and then recovery or download. the page apear but i don't have acess to neither of them.
I need help.
thank you.
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You need to be a bit more clear as to what you mean. What does "page appear" means? Do you mean you can get into recovery but can not do anything there, like choosing an option there? or you can't even get into recovery?
If you can get into recovery, how do you choose options? You need to use volume up/down buttons to navigate and home button to select an option.
If you can not get into recovery, Take your sd card off, and try again. I somehow had an issue where I can't get into recovery due to a problem with my sdcard. But once I took it out, I was able to get into recovery.
Hope you can solve your problem.
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You need to be a bit more clear as to what you mean. What does "page appear" means? Do you mean you can get into recovery but can not do anything there, like choosing an option there? or you can't even get into recovery?
If you can get into recovery, how do you choose options? You need to use volume up/down buttons to navigate and home button to select an option.
If you can not get into recovery, Take your sd card off, and try again. I somehow had an issue where I can't get into recovery due to a problem with my sdcard. But once I took it out, I was able to get into recovery.
Hope you can solve your problem.
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I can get into the page recovery and i can use the volume up/down buttons to navigate but i select an option and touch the left botton and apears a simbol. that image stay on the phone until i touch again the left botton or the power botton and i go again to menu recovery. the text in the recovery menu is blue and i remenber that to chose an option there the text was in yellow. To live recovery menu i have to take the battery out. More or less the samething in download mode. the page apeares but i touch up to go download mode nothing apens or down to leave this mode and nothing apens again. i only can leave by taking out the battery.
I already tried that of taking the sd card off but that don't solve the problem.
extocha said:
I can get into the page recovery and i can use the volume up/down buttons to navigate but i select an option and touch the left botton and apears a simbol. that image stay on the phone until i touch again the left botton or the power botton and i go again to menu recovery. the text in the recovery menu is blue and i remenber that to chose an option there the text was in yellow. To live recovery menu i have to take the battery out. More or less the samething in download mode. the page apeares but i touch up to go download mode nothing apens or down to leave this mode and nothing apens again. i only can leave by taking out the battery.
I already tried that of taking the sd card off but that don't solve the problem.
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what do you mean by the "left button" you mean the "menu" capacitive button? What happens when you select an option with the "home" button?
thearif said:
what do you mean by the "left button" you mean the "menu" capacitive button? What happens when you select an option with the "home" button?
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yes, i mean the capacitive button. when a touch the home button nothing appens. but i know that i should touch the left capacitive button to start the option that i chose in the recovery button. when for exemple i chose option "reboot now" after i touch the left capacitive button apears in screen still image with a "hat and circle arrow" nothing more appens then if i touch the left button or the power button i go to recovery menu again. to leave this state i have to take off the batery.
extocha said:
yes, i mean the capacitive button. when a touch the home button nothing appens. but i know that i should touch the left capacitive button to start the option that i chose in the recovery button. when for exemple i chose option "reboot now" after i touch the left capacitive button apears in screen still image with a "hat and circle arrow" nothing more appens then if i touch the left button or the power button i go to recovery menu again. to leave this state i have to take off the batery.
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Ok I am confused about the buttons you use.
Just go up and down by volume up and down buttons. Once you are where you want to be, hit the home button ( middle hardware button, not the capacitive buttons) That should do it. If it still does not work, you may consider flashing recovery again.
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thearif said:
Ok I am confused about the buttons you use.
Just go up and down by volume up and down buttons. Once you are where you want to be, hit the home button ( middle hardware button, not the capacitive buttons) That should do it. If it still does not work, you may consider flashing recovery again.
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i can't flash nothing no more because when i choose the option i want with the volume up/down and touch the button nothing appens. i to leave this state i have to take off the batery.
extocha said:
i can't flash nothing no more because when i choose the option i want with the volume up/down and touch the button nothing appens. i to leave this state i have to take off the batery.
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I still am thinking you are hitting the wrong buttons.. Attached is the pic to show which buttons to hit. If you still can not work it, you can flash the recovery again (See Below)
You can always flash recovery and don't need to be in recovery to do so... For a guide please go here and follow the step described in step 2. If you are not familiar with terminal emulator and/or you dont have busybox installed, you can follow here to use adb to flash recovery.
Hope this helps.
I am still not sure what your problem is...Good luck.
thearif said:
I still am thinking you are hitting the wrong buttons.. Attached is the pic to show which buttons to hit. If you still can not work it, you can flash the recovery again (See Below)
You can always flash recovery and don't need to be in recovery to do so... For a guide please go here and follow the step described in step 2. If you are not familiar with terminal emulator and/or you dont have busybox installed, you can follow here to use adb to flash recovery.
Hope this helps.
I am still not sure what your problem is...Good luck.
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No, i am hiting the right buttons. but thank you for your effort. Look when i enter in recovery mode i can acess the menu (the menu is with letters in blue instead yellow) and go up/down with the volume button but when i hit home nothing happen. i can't flash the rom or restart or wipe i can't do anything. to leave the recovery menu i have to take off the battery.
extocha said:
No, i am hiting the right buttons. but thank you for your effort. Look when i enter in recovery mode i can acess the menu (the menu is with letters in blue instead yellow) and go up/down with the volume button but when i hit home nothing happen. i can't flash the rom or restart or wipe i can't do anything. to leave the recovery menu i have to take off the battery.
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Alright then.. You can try flashing recovery again like described in the links I provided in my post.
Good luck..
thearif said:
Alright then.. You can try flashing recovery again like described in the links I provided in my post.
Good luck..
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OK, i did that now i have CWM-based Recovery v.6.0.2.7 installed but stills "blue text" and i chose for example "reboot system now and press home and still nothing.
extocha said:
OK, i did that now i have CWM-based Recovery v.6.0.2.7 installed but stills "blue text" and i chose for example "reboot system now and press home and still nothing.
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Just install a touch recovery. Problem solved
tys0n said:
Just install a touch recovery. Problem solved
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sorry, do you know where can i find a touch recovery.
I don't know about CWM touch, but I know I've seen one around here.
Here is TWRP recovery touch.
Edit : Found it but it was in q&a http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1651650
Also..for download mode if your home button is broken, use terminal.
su
reboot download
extocha said:
OK, i did that now i have CWM-based Recovery v.6.0.2.7 installed but stills "blue text" and i chose for example "reboot system now and press home and still nothing.
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Hmmm that is interesting. I am quite curious why it does not work. Does your home button work when you are booted into the ROM?
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tys0n said:
I don't know about CWM touch, but I know I've seen one around here.
Here is TWRP recovery touch.
Edit : Found it but it was in q&a http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1651650
Also..for download mode if your home button is broken, use terminal.
su
reboot download
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thank you the touch recovery works know i have rom 10 version 7. it seems every thing is working. once more thank you.
thearif said:
Hmmm that is interesting. I am quite curious why it does not work. Does your home button work when you are booted into the ROM?
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thank for your effort. i install a touch recovery and i could acess to flash. know i have install rom 10 version 7.
extocha said:
thank for your effort. i install a touch recovery and i could acess to flash. know i have install rom 10 version 7.
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Good to hear that it works.
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Sv: can't go into recovery or download
extocha said:
thank for your effort. i install a touch recovery and i could acess to flash. know i have install rom 10 version 7.
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Good to hear but you should look up that problem with your home button. If your wonder one day fail to boot, you're pretty much stuck.
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I flashed @Fenny's deodexed m8 stock rom. During the flash the phone rebooted to the splash screen. Now the phone will not turn off when holding the power button. I confirmed the hash sum before flashing. Flashed through TWRP 2.7.0.2. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I need to know how to turn my phone off (without adb since I'm at work). From there I can get back to recovery and restore the stock ROM.
VolcanicSkunk said:
I flashed @Fenny's deodexed m8 stock rom. During the flash the phone rebooted to the splash screen. Now the phone will not turn off when holding the power button. I confirmed the hash sum before flashing. Flashed through TWRP 2.7.0.2. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I need to know how to turn my phone off (without adb since I'm at work). From there I can get back to recovery and restore the stock ROM.
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Try holding the phone close to a light source then try to reboot it. Reboot it holding the Volume down key so it reboots into the bootloader.
SmiLey497 said:
Try holding the phone close to a light source then try to reboot it. Reboot it holding the Volume down key so it reboots into the bootloader.
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Do you know about how long I should hold down the buttons? I have held it under a florescent light that is directly over my desk for a couple of minutes while doing that and it doesn't do anything.
VolcanicSkunk said:
Do you know about how long I should hold down the buttons? I have held it under a florescent light that is directly over my desk for a couple of minutes while doing that and it doesn't do anything.
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It should happen after about 10 seconds. The reason for light source is because HTC doesn't want the phone to reboot in your pocket, etc ...
SmiLey497 said:
It should happen after about 10 seconds. The reason for light source is because HTC doesn't want the phone to reboot in your pocket, etc ...
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Whelp. Holding under the light source seems to do nothing. This is what I was afraid would happen if I bought a phone that didn't have a removable battery. :/ Are there any other methods that might work? I am downloading adb right now.
VolcanicSkunk said:
Whelp. Holding under the light source seems to do nothing. This is what I was afraid would happen if I bought a phone that didn't have a removable battery. :/ Are there any other methods that might work? I am downloading adb right now.
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IDK that's always worked for me. Try holding the power button down harder maybe, I know it sits a little flush and you may not be pressing it down fully.
Great Success!!!
Okay. Finally got it to work. I had to hold volume up + power to get the phone to reboot. When the screen turned black I changed to the volume down while still holding the power button. This booted me to HBOOT. Then I was able to select recovery and boot there just fine. I am now restoring to my stock backup.
@SmiLey497 Thanks so much for your help! Your fast replies and explanation helped a lot! :good:
I think that I now need to go home and change my pants. Lol!
EDIT: Stock backup booted perfectly. No more paperweight.
VolcanicSkunk said:
Okay. Finally got it to work. I had to hold volume up + power to get the phone to reboot. When the screen turned black I changed to the volume down while still holding the power button. This booted me to HBOOT. Then I was able to select recovery and boot there just fine. I am now restoring to my stock backup.
@SmiLey497 Thanks so much for your help! Your fast replies and explanation helped a lot! :good:
I think that I now need to go home and change my pants. Lol!
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My pleasure.
Sorry for this very noobish question. My concern is, i cannot go to factory reset screen... No matter what i do, how many times i restarted and remove the battery, i cannot pull up the screen. Volume down + power button only makes my phone boot in safe mode... Im preparing to root my phone so im trying every possible way to save my phone if just in case something went wrong, I just want to make sure that it'll work before i begin rooting my device, but its not working... am i missing something?
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My device is LG-D855 EU/Asian 3/32gb version. Not yer rooted.
I just activated the developers option but didn't do anything or touch anything with it.
Uhm, just tried this kitkat thing when you tap 4.4 couple of times..
Used LG suit and ran back up for my device.
sorry i manage to solve my noob concern, didn't heard the "release and re-hold power button" after logo appears. should have watched the video again before posting here. wasted time composing non sense thread. xD
SpEaKeRb0xXx said:
Sorry for this very noobish question. My concern is, i cannot go to factory reset screen... No matter what i do, how many times i restarted and remove the battery, i cannot pull up the screen. Volume down + power button only makes my phone boot in safe mode... Im preparing to root my phone so im trying every possible way to save my phone if just in case something went wrong, I just want to make sure that it'll work before i begin rooting my device, but its not working... am i missing something?
I followed this step but still no luck
My device is LG-D855 EU/Asian 3/32gb version. Not yer rooted.
I just activated the developers option but didn't do anything or touch anything with it.
Uhm, just tried this kitkat thing when you tap 4.4 couple of times..
Used LG suit and ran back up for my device.
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You have to press power and volume down, until you see the LG screen then let go and press volume and power down again.
SpEaKeRb0xXx said:
Sorry for this very noobish question. My concern is, i cannot go to factory reset screen... No matter what i do, how many times i restarted and remove the battery, i cannot pull up the screen. Volume down + power button only makes my phone boot in safe mode... Im preparing to root my phone so im trying every possible way to save my phone if just in case something went wrong, I just want to make sure that it'll work before i begin rooting my device, but its not working... am i missing something?
I followed this step but still no luck
My device is LG-D855 EU/Asian 3/32gb version. Not yer rooted.
I just activated the developers option but didn't do anything or touch anything with it.
Uhm, just tried this kitkat thing when you tap 4.4 couple of times..
Used LG suit and ran back up for my device.
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For root use this https://towelroot.com from your phone install the app press a button and your rooted then install superuser and your done to go into recovery turn phone off then hold power volume down
Edit do what @Lennyuk said lol forgot that bit
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Lennyuk said:
You have to press power and volume down, until you see the LG screen then let go and press volume and power down again.
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thank you very much! i should have watched the video again and pay attention before posting here . i didn't heard the release and re hold the power button after logo appears.
jaythenut said:
For root use this https://towelroot.com from your phone install the app press a button and your rooted then install superuser and your done to go into recovery turn phone off then hold power volume down
Edit do what @Lennyuk said lol forgot that bit
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Thank you! i manage to go to that rf screen and i think ill be rooting the device now. towelroot is the easiest way to root so i think ill be using that. Thanks again!
I was attempted to factory reset my tablet because I was almost out of space. I flashed the T800XXU1ANJ6_T800XAR1ANI1_XAR through ODIN and now I can't get past the Samsung screen. Help me!
Use the three button combo to get into recovery, do a data wipe.
If it still doesnt boot then:
Use the three button combo to reboot into download mode.
Reinstall via ODIN.
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I was attempted to factory reset my tablet because I was almost out of space. I flashed the T800XXU1ANJ6_T800XAR1ANI1_XAR through ODIN and now I can't get past the Samsung screen. Help me!
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Easy fix this has worked for a few people in the same position as you, try pressing power +vol down and up together+home and then as soon as screen goes dark/black press power+vol up+home hopefully that will get you into recovery and once there do a factory reset and wipe cach and then reboot. It may take a while to reboot.
That got me up......found the post about it as well.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...k-disaster-t2838473/post54618555#post54618555
Thanks again everyone!
maxal said:
Easy fix this has worked for a few people in the same position as you, try pressing power +vol down and up together+home and then as soon as screen goes dark/black press power+vol up+home hopefully that will get you into recovery and once there do a factory reset and wipe cach and then reboot. It may take a while to reboot.
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can I just ask how do you achieve the following button combination?
power +vol down and up together+home
Thanks
schrodinger56 said:
can I just ask how do you achieve the following button combination?
power +vol down and up together+home
Thanks
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If you mean how do you press volume down and up together, I press down with my finger across the volume button.
maxal said:
If you mean how do you press volume down and up together, I press down with my finger across the volume button.
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Thanks for that. I didn't know you could do that.
I'm learning something new about this Tab S every day!!! Do you know how to add apps that don't appear when you press Edit to the Multi window ?
schrodinger56 said:
Thanks for that. I didn't know you could do that.
I'm learning something new about this Tab S every day!!! Do you know how to add apps that don't appear when you press Edit to the Multi window ?
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Sorry no I don't use Multi Window.
schrodinger56 said:
Thanks for that. I didn't know you could do that.
I'm learning something new about this Tab S every day!!! Do you know how to add apps that don't appear when you press Edit to the Multi window ?
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You can't do it with stock Samsung. It requires root and the only apps I've seen that can make that mod use Xposed framework (I use the Xanam app), which may mean we'll be SOL if going to Lollipop until the Xposed stuff catches up. I haven't really researched how Xposed for Lollipop is coming along yet.