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Help with new dinc power button. Plaza

Anyone plz I appreciate any knowledge or experience on this, ok I have a replaced dinc from insurance and rooted just like old one but problem is the power button is behaving crazy short press should turn off display and long press should be reboot options but it doesn't even respond and if the screen shuts off power button doesn't wake phone I need to do battery pull. I've checked all cm 6.1 settings same settings as previous dinc. Any help plz I dread having to send the phone back because I'll have to go back to stock before sending it in thanx
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nerogold said:
Anyone plz I appreciate any knowledge or experience on this, ok I have a replaced dinc from insurance and rooted just like old one but problem is the power button is behaving crazy short press should turn off display and long press should be reboot options but it doesn't even respond and if the screen shuts off power button doesn't wake phone I need to do battery pull. I've checked all cm 6.1 settings same settings as previous dinc. Any help plz I dread having to send the phone back because I'll have to go back to stock before sending it in thanx
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Try a battery pull, and before you put the battery in, hold vol. down and power buttons down. Put the battery back in and keep holding those 2 keys. If you get the white HBOOT screen, it's probably not a hardware thing, but something with CM on your phone. Try another ROM if you can get into recovery through HBOOT.

Thanks I did the battery pull and got the h boot screen but the thing is I also flashed cm 7 and same problem, any idea? Thank you for the quick response
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nerogold said:
Thanks I did the battery pull and got the h boot screen but the thing is I also flashed cm 7 and same problem, any idea? Thank you for the quick response
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Well, are you dead set on using an AOSP ROM? If so, try ShadowROM from ROM Manager. If not, try a Sense ROM like Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo or Uber Z. Both are very fast, and have a lot of goodies in them (Uber Z has the new Sense interface, an updated music app, themes support, hibernate, etc. and Warm TwoPointTwo has Evo framework for Evo themes and excellent battery life on the stock kernel)
Back up your data/apps and try one of those Sense ROMs, maybe?

Will do thanx
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Will do thanx
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Yep np post back with results

Ye I'm sorry I took a while but I'm still trying to get it to work smoothly but still the same I went back to stock and unrooted and the power button still behaves crazy think I might ship it back, might be the only way
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Yeah it's probably hardware related

nerogold said:
Ye I'm sorry I took a while but I'm still trying to get it to work smoothly but still the same I went back to stock and unrooted and the power button still behaves crazy think I might ship it back, might be the only way
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When you press the power button, do you actually feel the "click" of pushing the button, or does it just feel soft and mushy?

Safe Mode

This may be a dumb question but before today I never even knew it existed. What is "safe mode"? Is that like safe mode on a windows pc where it only loads default drivers, or is it something else entirely?
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I'm interested too. In what capacity did you first learn of "safe mode"?

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I don't think this exists on this phone, so I am not sure what you're talking about here.
There is the bootloader, recovery, and then normal phone functions.
Where did you hear about safe mode?

I know there's hboot.. recovery and bootloader. But safe mode never heard of it
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I actually found out about it on accident. My phone kept looping at the boot animation. I went to pull the battery but accidently hit vol down and power button at same time wile pulling off the cover. All of a sudden phone vibrated 3 times and then booted but it had safe mode printed in the lower left corner. I tried googling it but couldnt find anything thay explained exactly what it is.
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You can try it on your phones. When the boot animation starts playing hold vol down and power at the same time. Keep holding it untill your phone vibrates.
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cmlusco said:
this may be a dumb question but before today i never even knew it existed. What is "safe mode"? Is that like safe mode on a windows pc where it only loads default drivers, or is it something else entirely?
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its just like windows safe mode. Only loading the minimum on the phone incase something went honorably wrong.

synisterwolf said:
its just like windows safe mode. Only loading the minimum on the phone incase something went honorably wrong.
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It did allow me to fix my phone without having to restore a nandroid. I was trying to get a hotboot mod to work on the new stock rooted GB when i got the boot loop. But being able to boot into safe mode allowed me to change the moded file back to the original therfore fixing my boot loop issue.
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Hmmm I did try it but couldn't replicate your results. I tried holding V-&Power at both the splash screen and the bootanimation. Both attempts yeilded only booting normally.

wildstang83 said:
Hmmm I did try it but couldn't replicate your results. I tried holding V-&Power at both the splash screen and the bootanimation. Both attempts yeilded only booting normally.
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Hmm not sure works constitently for me. You have to keep holding them until your phone vibrates. You are on a DINC right? Are you on custom or stock rom, not sure if its specific to the rom or not. I am on stock rooted GB.
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cmlusco said:
Hmm not sure works constitently for me. You have to keep holding them until your phone vibrates. You are on a DINC right? Are you on custom or stock rom, not sure if its specific to the rom or not. I am on stock rooted GB.
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Yea no, I think its a HTC Sense thing. I'm currently running CM Nightly 168 so I don't think its a 'general' Android thing.

wildstang83 said:
Yea no, I think its a HTC Sense thing. I'm currently running CM Nightly 168 so I don't think its a 'general' Android thing.
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Good to know seems like it might come in handy sometimes.
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It happened to me once before, I was flashing stuff like crazy and then all of a sudden "safe mode". I just restored my device and it was gone.
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After the restore it was all good.
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I've been doing some more googling and it seems every stock rom running android phone has safe mode, but different phones have different ways of entering into it. Some vol down and power, some vol up and power, some you have to hold the menu button, some vol down power and menu, and some holding down the track ball.
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Hmm, never stumbled onto that before. Thanks to everyone for feedback!

Interesting, I'll have to try it next time I change up my phone config
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Wow, that just saved me from a lot of trouble. Flashed a voltage table that was unstable and caused the phone to bootloop, this worked saving me from an uninstall.
CM7 Nightly
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Cryous said:
Interesting, I'll have to try it next time I change up my phone config
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Wow, that just saved me from a lot of trouble. Flashed a voltage table that was unstable and caused the phone to bootloop, this worked saving me from an uninstall.
CM7 Nightly
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Saved me a lot of trouble and time too. Cant believe i never knew about it. Also this did work on CM nightly? The earlier post by wildstang said he could not get it to work with cm. Leaving me to believe it was a stock rom or sense related thing.
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Rom: Stock Gingerbread

I don't know, it worked for me yesterday, however I'm not sure what I pressed. I can't seem to get back into safe mode now
Edit, seems like if you press vol down, menu, and trackball it goes into safe mode. I updated my cm7 nightly, now safemode does not work....
Source:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/89073-how-access-safe-mode-android-incredible.html
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This happened to me yesterday while I was running the RC5 Community ROM. The phone froze would not respond so I went to pull the battery and it rebooted itself into Safe Mode. Took me by surprise too.
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3 finger reboot in EI22 still works?

It doesn't seem to work anymore, did they take it out?
I'm holding down volume up, power, and camera. Doesn't do anything.

If you are on a stock EI22 build, they put a recovery flash into the release build that overwrites cwm or acs recovery. qbking77 did a video on how to circumvent it. check the stickies on EI22 for a link.

I'm running CWM 3.1.0.1, the purple one, and Legendary ROM. Should it still work?

techfuman said:
If you are on a stock EI22 build, they put a recovery flash into the release build that overwrites cwm or acs recovery. qbking77 did a video on how to circumvent it. check the stickies on EI22 for a link.
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I think you mis-read the OPs question...He isn't asking about the Recovery, he's asking if the "3 Finger Salute" is still present in EI22.
OP: AFAIK, the 3 Finger Reboot method has been taken out of this build. I was bummed out when I found this out. I still forget it's not there and all I end up doing is raising the ringer volume on my phone and put it to sleep! LoL

It's volume down...not up.
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kennyglass123 said:
It's volume down...not up.
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No I'm trying to reboot, not get into CWM.

fastmikey1969 said:
No I'm trying to reboot, not get into CWM.
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4 finger, mash em all was taken out awhile ago. Get quick boot from the market. You need root for it.
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Hmm don't remember it being three thought it was only the volume up and power button..... I remeber cuz my phone pissed me of and I was mashing the power and v up...
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kennyglass123 said:
4 finger, mash em all was taken out awhile ago. Get quick boot from the market. You need root for it.
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+1 on quick boot

i believe they took this out after EC05
I have tried that same move on all the roms I have used since EC05 and they must have taken it out. I was thinking maybe that they had changed the keys around or something. Instead of up power and camera it was another combo but not sure where to start.

[Q] SGS3 Won't Boot [But Vibrates]

It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....I tried injecting a rooted version of the stock rom with Odin into my phone, but I kept getting strange error messages like TouchWiz isn't working and some other android process isn't working.
[That didn't work, so I decided to try a different method. This is where I ****ed up, because I forgot to go back to stock rom...]
Anyways, after that, I tried to use the SGS3 Toolkit [if you search sgs3 toolkit xda, it'll come up] and I tried to use that to root. I went to "rooting options" and i selected option number 3, the all in one. I got to the point where it mentions your phone must be in USB debugging, and now nothing comes up when I try to start the phone..but it vibrates whenever I hold the power button long enough [as if it was working normally]. I can't get into download mode right now, either...
How do I reverse this and go back to stock? Please help...thank you so much.
EDIT: It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....

I'm basing this answer based on how I understood what you said...
But, if you're already rooted, then hopefully you've made a backup before installing another ROM. If you have a backup, then put into recovery and backup.

I wasn't already rooted, I was trying to root it. I can't get into recovery.

jeikei4life said:
I wasn't already rooted, I was trying to root it. I can't get into recovery.
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Can you get into download mode? By holding Volume up, home up and power.

Ksunnyv1011 said:
Can you get into download mode? By holding Volume up, home up and power.
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download mode is volume down, home then power..just sayin

Cannot get it into download mode... D:

Did you try pulling battery then putting it in and trying to boot recovery or download mode?
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Was your phone plugged in when you tried get get into download mode? if so, try unplugging it and give it another shot. the s3 can be kind of funkysometimes.

DocHoliday77 said:
Did you try pulling battery then putting it in and trying to boot recovery or download mode?
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Just tried it. It doesn't seem to want to go into download mode...
arctic84 said:
Was your phone plugged in when you tried get get into download mode? if so, try unplugging it and give it another shot. the s3 can be kind of funkysometimes.
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Same thing, no dice :[

Plug it into the computer and see if anything shows in device manager.
I hate to say though, I think you may be bricked....
Unless anyone else can think of something to try?
Sorry man...
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Also you can try safe mode. Doubt it'll work but I just learned how to do it so thought id suggest. Hold volume down + power.
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It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....

Have you plugged into the computer and checked device manager yet? What does it say?
I think if it says something like qhsusb that means its bricked.
I'm hoping someone can verify that though since I'm going by memory.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Have you plugged into the computer and checked device manager yet? What does it say?
I think if it says something like qhsusb that means its bricked.
I'm hoping someone can verify that though since I'm going by memory.
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You are correct doc! Qhsusb_dload is a brick
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chrisram88 said:
You are correct doc! Qhsusb_dload is a brick
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It doesn't even come up...sounds like I should assume the worst now?

jeikei4life said:
It doesn't even come up...sounds like I should assume the worst now?
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No it should even if it's hard bricked. Maybe the pc isn't recognizing it
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I dont know what to tell you from here dude. Try every port on your pc to see if it at least tries to find it.
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Maybe your phone actually died. Probably a faulty phone
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Well, I sent it back to T-Mobile and said hey it doesn't work. Let's see if they say anything about it. They sent me a new one, though

I'm having exactly the same problem with my T-Mobile Galaxy SII T989 running Open Kang AOKP JB Jelly Bean. After reading this thread, and another related thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679492), my less than scientific observation is that pressing/massaging/jiggling the power button seems to bring the device back to life. At least until it flakes out again. The posts in this thread were a big help. I was going to ditch the ROM, which would have been a shame. Thanks.

Power Button Fix

I was hoping for some help with my power button. I can boot into recovery with the power button but I cannot use it when the phone is on. Any fixes? i also cant use it in recovery :T

Need to be rooted to use, but this should help some.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot

thank you sir but that fixes half of the problem. I need the volume wake buttons to work while in deep sleep mode. any fixes? i am running dark unicorn rom

castillo760 said:
i am running dark unicorn rom
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The Epic 4G doesn't have such a rom. You're probably in the wrong forum.

nikon120 said:
The Epic 4G doesn't have such a rom. You're probably in the wrong forum.
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You're right, it needs to be in epic touch 4g D: im sorry. can an admin mover this?

castillo760 said:
I was hoping for some help with my power button. I can boot into recovery with the power button but I cannot use it when the phone is on. Any fixes? i also cant use it in recovery :T
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Yep sure is your answer is in e4gt general section started by tdunham plenty of info
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The Power button doesn't work for me at all.... but i got the phone to boot in to recovery some how i don't know how and every since then the phone has worked