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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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!
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Hey,
So I just got this GNex from eBay and it won't boot at all. If I plug it into the wall it will show the battery charging and show it filling up 3 times and then go black. I've tried plugging it into the computer and pulling the battery quickly to get it to boot and nothing. Is there anything I can do to flash/boot into the device or am I stuck relying on the store to do something about it? I've done several searches on the forum and google and I haven't found anything beneficial.
Thanks!
I would say it's dead. Try holding down the power button while holding down the volume up and volume down buttons all at once. If it should vibrate let go of the power button and see if it will enter fast boot. If not send it back.
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Hey,
So I just got this GNex from eBay and it won't boot at all. If I plug it into the wall it will show the battery charging and show it filling up 3 times and then go black. I've tried plugging it into the computer and pulling the battery quickly to get it to boot and nothing. Is there anything I can do to flash/boot into the device or am I stuck relying on the store to do something about it? I've done several searches on the forum and google and I haven't found anything beneficial.
Thanks!
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thats the normal behavior when you plug it in, 3 times filling up then black. then when you press the power button, three times fill up then black. to me it sounds like your power button is broken.
I think power button is broken. Possibly volume keys as well. I'm able to boot if I plug into the PC and then wiggle the battery. There's a lock pattern so I can't get past it but I'm unable to adjust volume or turn the screen off/on. I'm going to bring it to the sprint store tomorrow and say it won't turn on.
Thanks!
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Looks like the phone got wet. I can boot it up with the PC as mentioned before but its locked and I don't know the pattern/gmail account. Is there anyway to put a phone into USB debugging without getting into the phone? How about fast boot/recovery/download mode without volume down or power buttons?
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Hello to all yesterday, I tried to hook up a speaker system to the audio port on my phone to listen to music, and the screen fizzed up and turned purple. None of the buttons will work so after trying everything I just took out the battery. but since then the phone will not turn on( even after charging) when I press the power on button, the indication light (which usually turns blue while starting). just blinks purple and does nothing, not even a vibration. My question is where do I go from here, is the phone bricked? if so is it possible to get my pics, which I believe is on the phones internal memory not the sd card. any help info. is well appreciated.
thanks in advance
See if you can get into download mode. Power off completely. Then hold power button + volume down, then volume up to confirm. If you can try an Odin one click full restore no data
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See if you can get into download mode. Power off completely. Then hold power button + volume down, then volume up to confirm. If you can try an Odin one click full restore no data
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I wont go into download mode when I try power + vol down the indicator light just blinks purple and nothing else. when I try to hook up to a computer through the usb cable it also does nothing. the computer does not recognize the phone either, this does not look good
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Hello to all yesterday, I tried to hook up a speaker system to the audio port on my phone to listen to music, and the screen fizzed up and turned purple. None of the buttons will work so after trying everything I just took out the battery. but since then the phone will not turn on( even after charging) when I press the power on button, the indication light (which usually turns blue while starting). just blinks purple and does nothing, not even a vibration. My question is where do I go from here, is the phone bricked? if so is it possible to get my pics, which I believe is on the phones internal memory not the sd card. any help info. is well appreciated.
thanks in advance
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its sounds like hardware failure. if it is, no you cannot get anything from the phone, you need a whole new device
TheAtheistOtaku is right. Bight the bullet and get it replaced.
Have been researching this topic for a long time and I dont see any solutions other than sending it to the HTC.
Symptoms:
No boot at all (unable to get into recovery , boot menu etc)
When I try to turn the phone on (using power button) I get 7 vibrations and a blinking red led light(sometimes), nothing else. (the screen is dark, the only response from phone is those 7 vibrations and led)
If I try to boot it with power button and volume key , I get the response mentioned above.
If I plug the phone into the computer I dont get ANY response from the computer or from the phone. If I try to plug it into the charger I get 7 vibrations and constant led light.
Battery is good. Had this phone for 2+ years, no water damage, not rooted. Had been factory reset few months ago.
Basically I was walking, wanted to check my time, pulled out my phone from my pocket and it was turned off. Tried booting it and get the symptons above.
EDIT: after I try to boot the phone and experience those symptoms, the phone doesnt respond to anything.
The only way to get 7 vibrations back(excluding led - sometimes it stays on/blinks after vibratons) is to pull the battery out and try to boot it again.
Thanks.
Your stuck trying to get into download mode, possibly have some sticky keys, you can try and clean them up and see if it helps
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demkantor said:
Your stuck trying to get into download mode, possibly have some sticky keys, you can try and clean them up and see if it helps
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What do you mean by sticky keys?
take out the battery, hold both volume keys and then plug in to computer and tell me what happens
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take out the battery, hold both volume keys and then plug in to computer and tell me what happens
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I get loading cursor for few seconds but nothing more.
EDIT: Im not sure but the loading cursor might be my computer.
Over all I get nothing.
If I plug the phone with the battery into the computer I get 7 vibrations from the phone and an red led light. No reaction from the computer (no new drives found etc).
Sorry to say but I thin its dead, good thing is a new one is cheap nowadays. You could always get a broken one (bad screen and such) and just replace logic boards, probably on ebay for around $50
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Sorry to say but I thin its dead, good thing is a new one is cheap nowadays. You could always get a broken one (bad screen and such) and just replace logic boards, probably on ebay for around $50
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Do you know what could cause it and what does the vibration code means? Also what should it be doing when I hold down the volume keys and plug it into the computer (without battery)?
Thanks for your help.
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DigitaIis said:
Have been researching this topic for a long time and I dont see any solutions other than sending it to the HTC.
Symptoms:
No boot at all (unable to get into recovery , boot menu etc)
When I try to turn the phone on (using power button) I get 7 vibrations and a blinking red led light(sometimes), nothing else. (the screen is dark, the only response from phone is those 7 vibrations and led)
If I try to boot it with power button and volume key , I get the response mentioned above.
If I plug the phone into the computer I dont get ANY response from the computer or from the phone. If I try to plug it into the charger I get 7 vibrations and constant led light.
Battery is good. Had this phone for 2+ years, no water damage, not rooted. Had been factory reset few months ago.
Basically I was walking, wanted to check my time, pulled out my phone from my pocket and it was turned off. Tried booting it and get the symptons above.
EDIT: after I try to boot the phone and experience those symptoms, the phone doesnt respond to anything.
The only way to get 7 vibrations back(excluding led - sometimes it stays on/blinks after vibratons) is to pull the battery out and try to boot it again.
Thanks.
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This happened to me, I repaired it by cleaning the volume terminals and keyboards. My DZ died on me when I was doing field work and it is hot that day. I guess that some how sweats has sipped its way in the inside of the unit and when it evaporated left the salts causing the keys to short out.
Hi, today while I was browsing on Firefox, the app closed by itself and the home screen got distorted (the wallpaper got black and some icons started to show up in the background). Since it has happened before, twice in the last week, I tried to reset the phone. However this time the phone did not turn on. I put it in the charger and the LED is also not turning on. I've had it plugged in for about 9 hours now and the LED is still off and the phone is not even getting warm, like it usually does when it's charging. The charger is also not warming up, and when I tried to connect the phone to the computer USB port, Windows doesn't report any power consumption.
I've read some threads about bricking, so I know people mention longer times to get the LED turn red, but is it normal that it doesn't warm up and doesn't suck any power from a USB port?
For anyone familiar with AT&T operations, if I sent it as warranty replacement, would they bother running diagnostics? I have it with LT28i .68 firmware, rooted and with CWM.
Also, is there a way to retrieve the data from the internal SD card? I tried connecting it to the computer and nothing happened. Nothing happens when I press either volume button + power button. An nothing happens when I connect it to the computer pressing either volume button.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Have you tried the Hard reset?
Holding Power Button and Volume button together for at-least 3-5 seconds and you would feel 3 vibration.
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Have you tried the Hard reset?
Holding Power Button and Volume button together for at-least 3-5 seconds and you would feel 3 vibration.
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I have. I don't get any vibration with either volume down or volume up + power.
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I have. I don't get any vibration with either volume down or volume up + power.
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Hold VolUP+VolDOWN at the same time, and then press Power button, holding it too, the 3 at same time for some secs...
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Hold VolUP+VolDOWN at the same time, and then press Power button, holding it too, the 3 at same time for some secs...
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I tried that too, the phone also doesn't respond.
Does ION has removable battery? If yes try to remove it for a while.
If not. Then try the buttons combo with the phone connect to charger...
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Does ION has removable battery? If yes try to remove it for a while.
If not. Then try the buttons combo with the phone connect to charger...
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The Ion doesn't have a removable battery. I already tried all combinations of power+volume buttons, while disconnected and connected to the charger, and nothing. Maybe the battery somehow got disconnected internally, I don't know if that's even possible.
I've called AT&T, they'll send another warranty replacement, the second replacement I get. Hopefully this one will last enough at least for an early renewal.
I don't know if AT&T still does this but back when I was in the states last year I had them give me an early upgrade because two of the handsets they gave me were faulty (original and one replacement). Try talking to CS Reps sometimes it pays off. You might be able to get an early upgrade if you tell them how this can't keep happening you have important data blah blah blah.
Anyways good luck!
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My power button is completely dead. Is there an alternative way to power the phone on without the power button?
Did you try presing home button and holding it ? Its only a wild guess.
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You should get it repaired. Don't find any alternatives other than that.
If you're referring to simply turning the screen on then you can plug it in to a power source. But if you're referring to a complete but up then you have to get it repaired.
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CreinCrein said:
My power button is completely dead. Is there an alternative way to power the phone on without the power button?
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Sent to repair
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No says note doesn't hav any hidden button that will power on your device send it for service
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I dont think there is any other way except the power button. go fix it bro!
I was tired that my phone jumped on every time I took him out of my pocket. So I installed LMT pie, and changed the gpio-keys.kl file in /system/usr/keylayout. Now I wake up my phone with pushing on the home button. Must be root for that.
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 172 POWER WAKE
No power on, but just wake up.
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I'm trying to figure out what is making my Note 2 power up at random points. It sat on a window sill in a very very shallow puddle of condensation, but it was enough to trip the moisture pads on the inside. I've been able to boot it up a few times, and for about 10 minutes after booting up, the power button will work normally. Now the power button isn't working at all. I already let it sit in rice for 48 hours. I also opened it up and reseated the power button. There was no detectable moisture inside of it when I opened it up. Also no water residue or corrosion. I'm not sure what triggers it to randomly boot up, and I'm not sure why the power button works for 10 minutes and then stops working.
Is it possible that there is a short in the power button assembly itself, or is this likely something shorting in the logicboard? Do you think that it's worth my time to try replacing the power button? I'd love to take it in for service, but the moisture pads have voided my warranty (only had it for a month).
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I was tired that my phone jumped on every time I took him out of my pocket. So I installed LMT pie, and changed the gpio-keys.kl file in /system/usr/keylayout. Now I wake up my phone with pushing on the home button. Must be root for that.
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 172 POWER WAKE
No power on, but just wake up.
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Waking up with home button does not need any change it's hard coded deep inside touchwiz
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This happened to me Today.After a lot of browsing, I was unable to find any working solution. (I have an USB Jig but it was not with me).
By mistake, I did the following and it seems to work: plugged the phone and while it started to display the battery (before it shows the %age of green battery thinghy) I quickly pulled the cable out.
This jump-started it and it turned on
good luck.
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My power button is completely dead. Is there an alternative way to power the phone on without the power button?
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Mine is dead as well. What you need to do is plug the phone in to charge with battery cover off. When you see the battery icon charging, quickly, as fast as you can, remove the usb charger and then the battery and reinstall the battery... again as fast as you can. This makes the phone power on. It's like a jump start.
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So I'm waiting for my power switch replacement to come in...in the meantime, you can plug in a charge cable...(have your battery cover off)...wait for the charge icon (battery with green bar)...as fast as you can pull the power, pull the battery put the batter back in...powers on. Here a video that shows it...I couldn't get mine to work until (this is weird) i pulled my pen out....but hey...I'M BACK ON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gre9qaJyCZw
-SuperDale
by the way, the "insert usb -> wait for battery icon -> unplug usb -> remove and reinsert battery really really fast" trick doesnt work when you have had a firmware upgrade issue.
I need help with that. Just ordered a USB jig from ebay, but was hoping there was an actual fix for the power button.
Side note: i already replaced the physical button board & ribbon cable. That didnt help. Seems like something on the main board got fudged.
not a real fix but work fine with me...my way of modding to turning on my n7100
My n7100 accidentally make a dive into a bucket of soap water and its damaged the ribbon connector socket on the mobo....so even if i replace the power button its still cant turn on....after a few days stressed out life without phone suddenly i got an idea that when u connect the phone with charger it will flash out a battery image...every action that make the phone react like flashing a symbol must have a command file...so after doing some research i found out that every tw ui rom have one file that stimulate the battery image splashscreen.the file name is lpm....located /system/bin/lpm.
Wut i do is i first try rebooting my phone into download mode using jig.then using a pc and adb command i reboot my phone.using a file manager like es explorer i locate the file and back it up into my sd card first then go to the bin folder again i open lpm as text....next step u clear all the command word on the text editor.after that u copy and paste this command to their....
#!/system/bin/sh
/system/bin/reboot
Save the lpm file just like that..then set the file permission....then takeout ur battery n insert it back....after that connect a charger....ur phone will splash a battery image for while then it will automatically reboot yr device.so the trick here is u the device now set to boot automatically when connected to charger or usb...fair warning for those that are using this mod to not completely empty ur battery because without a fast charging it will reboot ur phone bacause lack of juice to run the os. ...any question about the diy mod is wellcome....
I have the same problem. What I come up with is this: I have firmware installed on my VZW phone but my power button is not working. I connect my Note 2 to PC, open Odin 3 and flash pit file to the phone, phone restart right away and working 100%. All you have to do is find the right pit file for your phone. I hope it helps.