So the other day if fell/dropped my phone in a puddle and before I could pull the battery the power button shorted. It's all dried out now and as good as it can be, for a while everything was working fine but then the battery died and now, seeing as the power button doesn't work at all, I have no way of charging it. Is there any way to boot without the power button? It's just stock and I've tried a bunch of battery pulls, unplugging/replugging the charger, all this janky stuff that I read about here and elsewhere, but none of them work. I know that the best thing is to go to the store, and I will eventually, but I'd like a work around for the time being. I saw someone mention that it can be turned on by a key combo on the keyboard, anyone know what that is?
There's some apps in the play store that will turn on the the phone without the power button, but they're buggy.
Search power on.
Some require root but most don't. It uses the proximity sensor If I remember correctly.
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But I have no way of booting to download any apps.
Did you have usb debugging enabled? You can reboot it using adb I'm pretty sure
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I did not.
Something tells me you are on the wrong device thread... What keyboard combo are you talking about? We don't have e a keyboard on this device.
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My 15 Y-O was using my old MT3GS while waiting on parts for her iPhone 3G. Once the parts came in and her phone was back working, she turned off the MT3GS. Two days later she dropped her phone and broke her digitizer. She went back to the MT3GS but it wouldn't start. Her sim card is good, she's now using our phone of last resort, an old Samsung feature phone.
When I opened the back to pull the battery I found the sim card tray unlocked. I fixed the sim tray, pulled the battery, waited a few minutes and put the battery back. On startup it vibrated once, but nothing else happened. I assumed the battery was drained, so I stuck in on the charger overnight. When I woke up, the battery light was green indicating a full charge, but it still does the one vibrate and then a whole lot of nothing.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Is the phone stock or rooted?
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It's stock, but I picked it up from eBay and I've replaced all of the external hardware. (Digitizer and outer shell)
I did pull the sticker off the original shell and move it to the new shell, but it's obvious to see.
A few questions, are you running the froyo update? Do you have the sdk installed? Are you willing to root/unlock the phone?
If the answer to all these questions is yes then you can try to root/unlock the phone, install a custom recovery, do the nessasary wipes and reinstall your rom or even a custom rom of your choice. I'm not sure if its a hardware issue. Doing the above doesn't work then I would say it is a hardware issue.
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Dvarl said:
A few questions, are you running the froyo update? Do you have the sdk installed? Are you willing to root/unlock the phone?
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I'm running 2.2 (but not the updated release in the past week). I should, I've rooted and installed a custom ROM on my MT4GS. And I'm more than willing to root / unlock this phone.
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If the answer to all these questions is yes then you can try to root/unlock the phone, install a custom recovery, do the nessasary wipes and reinstall your rom or even a custom rom of your choice. I'm not sure if its a hardware issue. Doing the above doesn't work then I would say it is a hardware issue.
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Any suggestions on where to start?
I assume your on the 1.05 hboot? Check your hboot if it is you will need to unlock through htcdev.com. follow the instructions, and root that way. There is another thread on the forums that discuss this method. I did s-off early on so I won't be of much help with the official method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500700
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I assume your on the 1.05 hboot? Check your hboot if it is you will need to unlock through htcdev.com. follow the instructions, and root that way. There is another thread on the forums that discuss this method. I did s-off early on so I won't be of much help with the official method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500700
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I can't check my hboot, since the phone won't start.
Also Windows sees an empty removable disk.
ABD and FASTBOOT command shows no devices connected.
If adb and fastboot won't read the phone then I'm at a loss. Sorry I wish I could be more helpful.
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The same thing happens if you hold vol down + power? Just a single vibrate and a blank screen?
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I did some checking around and other people have had this problem too. Sounds like it is one of two things. A: it is a hardware issue. B: your yaffs partition got corrupted somehow. Neither of those can be fixed here. The phone would need to be serviced, but I would get a second opinion, I don't know all there is to know about the phone and I'm not a dev. You could try taking the phone in and have it looked at. The best of luck.
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So what happens when you hit power is a single vibrate and then nothing. The phone won't change, won't turn on and then won't do anything until you pull the battery.
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The same thing happens if you hold vol down + power? Just a single vibrate and a blank screen?
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Interestingly enough, vol down and power does absolutely nothing. No vibrate, nothing. But after giving up, you can hit power to get the one vibrate....
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So I did a bit of thinking about this and wondered if the problem might be the LCD.
I pulled the battery
I hit vol down + power
I hit vol down again
I hit power
When I plugged it in via USB my PC recognized it and I was able to get the following from ADB.exe.
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
HT06WPS10312 offline
So now I'm fairly well convinced that the phone may be ok and it's just the LCD that's dead. But I need some assistance with validating the phone is ok before I consider spending $20 - $30 for a replacement LCD.
I had a similiar problem that turn out to be a bad battery. Wouldnt hold a charge and wouldn't boot. Is this the oem battery?
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hey guys,
i'm the guy who dropped his phone in the toilet and i am now going through a warranty exchange for a new one. my problem now is that i have a bunch of data (mainly music but also photos) on the internal memory of my phone and it wont turn on. doesn't matter if i plug it into the wall or anything, it just won't turn on. if i hold down the power button long enough, i get a vibration coming out of it but nothing on the screen and my comp doesn't register it as plugged in. any ideas on how to get my music and pics off of the internal mem?
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hey guys,
i'm the guy who dropped his phone in the toilet and i am now going through a warranty exchange for a new one. my problem now is that i have a bunch of data (mainly music but also photos) on the internal memory of my phone and it wont turn on. doesn't matter if i plug it into the wall or anything, it just won't turn on. if i hold down the power button long enough, i get a vibration coming out of it but nothing on the screen and my comp doesn't register it as plugged in. any ideas on how to get my music and pics off of the internal mem?
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If you cant power it up, then theres no hope for retrieving the information on your internal memory...sorry
have you tried the rice trick?
I know it's common knowledge, but if you put the phone in a bag of rice for 24 hours or so maybe you could limp the phone through some data recovery
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Also, if you haven't tried to dry it out with any method. Like on top of the fridge, rice, etc
Stop trying to turn it on
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if you get it running somewhat
Use WiFi file explorer
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So I bought this phone a few days ago and everything seemed to work fine. Yesterday I left the phone at home while I was at work because I could not use it. The battery died while I was at work so when I got home I attempted to charge it. When I plug it in the blue LED flashes for a second and then the "empty" battery screen shows up but the spinning circle just freezes. It stays at this screen and when I leave it plugged in for a long time the screen will go on and off about every 5 seconds or so. I let it charge over night and woke up to the same problem today. Took it to a local cell phone store to buy an OEM battery (since it is larger than the one that was in the phone and should be charged) and still the same issue. Phone is rooted and running ParanoidAndroid 2.56. Any suggestions?
Flash means it's booting...
Can you get into download mode while plugged in?
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Try booting in recovery mode then erase cache partition, dalvik cache and fix permissions. Hope it works
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You can also remove battery, press power button for 10 seconds then put battery back in and turn on your phone!
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Same thing here! Wiped battery stats, checked cables, etc... Take phone apart(after cleaning charge port doesnt fix) push all small pins into the back of the charge port evenly.... Plug up charger... If still fail, reflow motherboard with heatgun @ about 500 degrees farenheight
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There is a One Click Odin factory data/cache clean up.It just cleans up and reset your phone.It revived a dead phone I had.Just put your phone on Download Mode and use this One Click Odin.I will try to find the post for you.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1670110
Here is the one click odin reset!
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Had similar issue last week when I got a new battery fire my epic, I opened up the back of the phone and popped out the old battery while phone was on, without shutting down phone.
After new battery install all I had was a blue flashing lite and battery charge symbol on screen, phone would not boot . Managed to boot into recovery and wipe all cache and rebooted from recovery. No problem since.
Running stock rooted jb fk23.
Pp.
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Hi all,
Installed snd Bootloader as described (don't have link at hand sorry)...all seemed well. Got a screen with Fastboot Logo and used pr to reboot, again as prescribed. Kindle turned off and its two days now and it STILL refuses to boot up AT ALL.
Tried the various methods of holding on button for 30 secs etc etc...all to no avail. Not recognised by PC (unsurprisingly).....so,
...am I now the proud owner of a rather expensive paperweight?
No warranty I hasten to add!
So you didn't tell us too much. Does it do anything at all. If it displays anything then you probably can fix it.
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Check out this thread. It has helped me recover.
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...nothing much to add. Its like a piece of wood. Displays nothing. No change when plugged in, PC doesn't see it either of course. Can't use any of the Android First Aide apps either, as its no turning on at all...
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...nothing much to add. Its like a piece of wood. Displays nothing. No change when plugged in, PC doesn't see it either of course. Can't use any of the Android First Aide apps either, as its no turning on at all...
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Unfortunately, My Kindle have the same problem as yours. My device now refuses to repones at all to whatever measures I take. Searching for useful help......
My mate has been having issues over the past month or two powering on. It seems very temperamental. Now it won't power on at all. The phone does display the battery status when plugging it in though. I was thinking that it was probably the ribbon cable for the power button. I cannot enter recovery or anything. It seems the power button is just totally unresponsive. What do you think?
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My mate has been having issues over the past month or two powering on. It seems very temperamental. Now it won't power on at all. The phone does display the battery status when plugging it in though. I was thinking that it was probably the ribbon cable for the power button. I cannot enter recovery or anything. It seems the power button is just totally unresponsive. What do you think?
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i guess fastboot devices doesn't do annything when attached to your computer? :crying:
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i guess fastboot devices doesn't do annything when attached to your computer? :crying:
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can't do that as the phone wasn't in developer mode
Have you tried the adb or fastboot option and know it does not work of have you not tried it because you think it will not work?
Just a being thouroug question
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Have you tried the adb or fastboot option and know it does not work of have you not tried it because you think it will not work?
Just a being thouroug question
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do you think you could give a noob like me a little help with this as I have tried this method many many times and always have trouble to the point of no success
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do you think you could give a noob like me a little help with this as I have tried this method many many times and always have trouble to the point of no success
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When you press power and volume down until huawei logo appear, its in adb mode.
Did you try this?
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When you press power and volume down until huawei logo appear, its in adb mode.
Did you try this?
[email protected]
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yes, as I said, power button is totally unresponsive. No worky
Well, I'm a noob myself.
I had a lot of trouble getting things done in windows xp, I think the drivers for the mate were troublesome all the time. Also, changing usb port and cable made a big difference.
But I found out that in linux things worked a lot easier. I now only use xp for rooting the mate, all other stuff I do on linux.
In the process of installing custom roms on my last two phones I found that you have to keep trying to find another way to get where you want, which is why I asked about what you have tried.
But is could very well be a hardware problem, in which case repair could be the only option.
If you are up for a bit of linux expolartion, you can install ubuntu on a usb stick and run it of of that, without installing it on a pc.
Use a 4 gb one and make sure that you alocate space to save stuff on the stick. Install adb and fastboot from the software center and I think you would be able to use adb and fastboot without the troublesome phone drivers for the mate.
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yes, as I said, power button is totally unresponsive. No worky
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Oops, my bad.
Well if its a hardware issue, its better to send it to SC.
It might be because of the buttons carbon thats getting thinner from usage.
I hapoen to hv a friend with the same problem and sending it to SC will solve it.
Without power button fully functional, it will be hard to do many things..
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Remove the memory card then press and hold the volume up and insert the memory. Release the volume up when you see some light on screen.
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After that, go to google play and download the application VOLUME POWER so that you can turn your screen on when your phone is on sleep mode if you press the volume botton.
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Rhonald said:
Remove the memory card then press and hold the volume up and insert the memory. Release the volume up when you see some light on screen.
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After that, go to google play and download the application VOLUME POWER so that you can turn your screen on when your phone is on sleep mode if you press the volume botton.
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there isn't a micro sd in the phone