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Bell I9000M three button issue.. give it a try

Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks

that is because your phone is not defective
your phone did not have the 3 button mode disabled

No I have thee button issue. I would not work other wise.

I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.

Podgintor said:
I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.
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Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..

That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.

ysandhu said:
Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..
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8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
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So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.

Jordiharrison said:
That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.
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I am sad to hear that.. So if i brick my phone.. and plug charger it won't even show me charging icon.. that sucks...
So i guess my method is useless anyways..

hol17 said:
So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.
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You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..

ysandhu said:
You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..
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Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.

share your frustration here
http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada

hol17 said:
Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.
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I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...

AllGamer said:
share your frustration here
http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada
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I already did that.. let's hope they do somthing..

ysandhu said:
I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...
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I did that..
Like I said before, It just appears back at the battery screen no matter how I time it.

Yep I tried that on my bell galaxy and didnt work either. I'm bringing it back. I can't connect it with kies on 3 computers and nothing running on the phone. It just says please wait... such BS software
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

ysandhu said:
Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks
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Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..

ysandhu said:
Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..
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If you can get into download mode, you don't have any kind of 3 button issue. Your phone is fine, you just need to work on your timing in order to get into recovery mode.
There is nothing wrong with your phone.

[Q] Volume up + Volume down

Hey lads,
this is probably a very dumb Q, but since I am new to all this android schmuzzle and couldn't find ballocks on that, don't judge me too hard ;]
I've noticed that when u press both VolUp and VolDown ( put pressure kinda in the middle or the rocker ) the phone vibrates once and then after several seconds (seems to vary) it vibrates three times fast. Now what the flick is that? Not that much of a big deal but it gets annoying given that even when the screen is off and the phone is locked doesn't seem to give a damn
thanks

has happened to me too but hard to reproduce. I have no ideas why it happens. Sometimes it occurs when the phone is booting up for me as well.

Put ur finger in the middle of the rocker and press ( not even hard ). It happens every time in my case. even when the phone is locked

I get the same behaviour, sure is strange.

Kinda old thread but I didn't want to start a new one either. I've noticed this too by accident. When you turn off your screen and press both volume buttons at the same time it vibrates once and every other time twice or thrice. If it vibrates only once it will vibrate again a couple of times after about 10 seconds. Has someone found a reason to this already?

Hawks556 said:
Has someone found a reason to this already?
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Maybe HTC thought "Why not? Let's do this and see how they discuss about it." ^^
Sent from my Desire HD

These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess

Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.

G1sanju said:
These buttons are part of combimation of three finger salute (at least look like that)...if you press voulme up + Down and power button, phone will reboot....so might be vibration is just an indicator to show go ahead and press the power button for restart.......Just a Guess
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I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
olivierlee said:
Pressing Volume Up + Down simultaneously while having USB Debugging turned on creates a bug report in the bugreports folder on your SD card.
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This is correct, there's always a new bugreport after I press the volume buttons. I don't think that it's even necessary to have usb debugging on.
Thanks for the quick answers, but could there be something more to it?

Hawks556 said:
I can't get it to reboot by pressing the 3 buttons.
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Press the power button first and then press volume up and down..you will get a reboot...

Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?

Hawks556 said:
Nope, can't get it to reboot. Perhaps this is rom related?
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It shouldn't be, but its really hard to get it if you are trying to press three button, you can try power button and middle vol button......any ways I also tried lot of times before I got my first reboot....

1) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time = Vibrations & all processes' states and stacktraces dumped to /data/arn/traces.txt (thanks to alind_)
2) Pressing both VOL UP & VOL DOWN at the same time + POWER BUTTON once = instant reboot
Works for me with CM7 and Stock Sense.

HTC One X Stuck in SAFEMODE

Does anyone know how to get the HTC One X out of Safe Mode? I tried turning off the phone and turning it back on...nothing and also the down button doesn't work at all, maybe a part of the safe mode.

Try running ruu in bootloader

taha198 said:
Try running ruu in bootloader
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when I get to bootloader only the up volume button works, I can get to my home screen on the phone, it just has that "safe mode" in the lower left hand corner and it wont allow 3rd pty apps to run at all. I downloaded the stock ruu from xda to my laptop. going to give that a shot when i get home. I just thought maybe there was a button combo to fix it.

Have you tried holding the power button for 10 seconds (or however long it is) to simulate a battery pull.
Other than that, maybe try turning on with both volume down + volume up held as it boots up?

djfrost40 said:
when I get to bootloader only the up volume button works,
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this may be your clue. Sounds like a hardware fault with the vol+ button stuck down on boot.
Either that or your battery died while installing something.

Fixed
Pressing and holding the power button until the three lighted buttons at the bottom flaedh solved the issue for me. I also had a good press and release of the volume buttons first but presume it was the hard reset that did it as I'd tried messing with the buttons already.

f4flake said:
this may be your clue. Sounds like a hardware fault with the vol+ button stuck down on boot.
Either that or your battery died while installing something.
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I hope it is merely the volume key being stuck for some weird reason, fixing it is pretty straightforward: release the cover and carefully detach the screen. The volume buttons along with the power button will fall off. Try replacing them or perhaps turning the volume keys.
If the keys are not the cause you'd better hope you didn't void warranty.

Byrkoet said:
I hope it is merely the volume key being stuck for some weird reason, fixing it is pretty straightforward: release the cover and carefully detach the screen. The volume buttons along with the power button will fall off. Try replacing them or perhaps turning the volume keys.
If the keys are not the cause you'd better hope you didn't void warranty.
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I got it out of safe mode by adb reboot not sure if that helps but it worked for me...And not as easy as you make it sound to disassemble the one either... There are 2 youtube videos on one the guy is using guitar picks ot take it apart.

Pneuma1985 said:
I got it out of safe mode by adb reboot not sure if that helps but it worked for me...And not as easy as you make it sound to disassemble the one either... There are 2 youtube videos on one the guy is using guitar picks ot take it apart.
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I always wondered why somebody would answer in a thread that's almost a year old ! Where did you dug it up ???
sent from my venomized piece of technology

Mr Hofs said:
I always wondered why somebody would answer in a thread that's almost a year old ! Where did you dug it up ???
sent from my venomized piece of technology
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oh sorry didnt notice it was a year old I merely searched how to get htc one out of safemode this came up so i figured id say how i got out of it...doesnt really matter how old it is as long as the info is pertinent.

I was just wondering, not attacking
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My phone was stuck in Safe Mode because the volume down button was stuck down all the time, if you can get the button out and restart your phone it will go back into normal mode. And yes I know the post is old but maybe someone is still looking for an answer

thanks for the info ignor the nego dude u helped me

Bootloader with a non-working Volume Down button

Hello xda!
I'm in the process of sending my phone of to be reclyced. Gets me a bit of money and helps the environment or a third world person!
However, I think I have bricked my HTC Desire.
I wanted to put stock ROM on it, and I tried to flasjh a custom rom too it. Now its stuck at the purple circle at boot. (T-Mobile Desire)
Obviously could fix it going into bootloader, but the Vol Down button doesn't work so I don't know how to do it!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Tim

Have you tried pushing, really really hard?
I thought mine was completely broken until I really had no other choice but to push it very hard.
Try that and when it does not work, battery out and in and try the same until it works.
Dont push so hard that something breaks inside

Just so u know my buttons dont work for bout 90 seconds so maybe just leave it for 2 mins.
Sent from my HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
Just so u know my buttons dont work for bout 90 seconds so maybe just leave it for 2 mins.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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I dont know what you mean you hold vol- down and switch it on, when the htc sign comes up it didnt work.
So you push that vol down very hard and keep pressing it and turn it on
When it works you are in the bootloader 3 seconds after you turned it on.
Black screen and then the bootloader.
When you see the HTC sign instead of the bootloader, take the battery out immeadiatly and retry.
Do that maybe 5 times and press a little harder each time.

You can also turn your phone off and hold the back arrow button and power on, from there you can go to recovery with the volume up button ?!
sent from the Netherlands....

I've tried the Power On + Back Button, doesn't boot into anything, same purple-never ending screen.
I've tried pressing the Vol Down button really hard, nothing. Weird, as all other buttons are fine!

Tjcrazy said:
I've tried the Power On + Back Button, doesn't boot into anything, same purple-never ending screen.
I've tried pressing the Vol Down button really hard, nothing. Weird, as all other buttons are fine!
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Hold Back + power. not power + back
Sent from my HTC Desire

jmcclue said:
Hold Back + power. not power + back
Sent from my HTC Desire
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+1 do this......my volume down is also not working ..... Keep pressing/holding back key and hold power key for 3 seconds or so....
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If he read my post right he would be in bootloader & recovery hours ago !

Starting to feel stupid now.
Pressing back + power, but still purple screen.
I'm guessing you mean hold down the back button first, then hold down the power button?

Yes !

Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm pressing down the back button, then I press down the power button. Then it boots to the purple circle.

Tjcrazy said:
Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm pressing down the back button, then I press down the power button. Then it boots to the purple circle.
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Pull out the batt first, just to make sure the phone was completely shut down and do it again !

Took a video for you, so I can show you what I'm doing. Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Tim

Lol why r u banging ur phone. Pull battery out for atleast a min
Sent from my HTC Desire

First off ... banging your phone does not turn it off ! Strange situation here ....

I was taking the battery out . It sounds like I'm hitting it much harder than I am.
I'll try taking the battery out for a while and try again.

Tjcrazy said:
I was taking the battery out . It sounds like I'm hitting it much harder than I am.
I'll try taking the battery out for a while and try again.
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Lol
Sent from my HTC Desire

And take your time pushing the buttons, hold down the back button for a second or 2 and then power.....do not hit the buttons instantly

OK, I'll wait 5 minutes... take another video and show you exactly what I'm doing.
Tim

Power Button Not Working!

My power button has stopped working and thus I cannot switch my phone on!
Can anybody please help? Is there any other method of switching on the phone bypassing the power button? :crying:

rakeshsubho said:
My power button has stopped working and thus I cannot switch my phone on!
Can anybody please help? Is there any other method of switching on the phone bypassing the power button? :crying:
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Open rear case carefully and see if you can turn it on

Hello,
I am facing the same issue..the power button isnt working.
Hence i cannot restart/unlock /power off my phone.
Is there any alternative?
Please help ASAP.
Thanks!

Press volume buttons and plug in the charger. Phone will start in recovery mode. Select normal and your phone will start.
Once your phone is running, download power to volume button app to unlock the phone using volume button.

rfreek said:
Press volume buttons and plug in the charger. Phone will start in recovery mode. Select normal and your phone will start.
Once your phone is running, download power to volume button app to unlock the phone using volume button.
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Should I press both the power buttons? how long should it be pressed.
I tried holding both the up and down volume simultaneously and inserted the charger, I get only blue battery icon and after the screen blacks off. Pls help.

That really works.....huff
rfreek said:
Press volume buttons and plug in the charger. Phone will start in recovery mode. Select normal and your phone will start.
Once your phone is running, download power to volume button app to unlock the phone using volume button.
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This is a new trick for me.....! Saved my energy!!! Thanks a lot

thank you it worked
rfreek said:
Press volume buttons and plug in the charger. Phone will start in recovery mode. Select normal and your phone will start.
Once your phone is running, download power to volume button app to unlock the phone using volume button.
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hi thankyou for the help it worked.
first we have to press volume button then connect charger. it will ask for boot option.
volume up button means scroll and volume down button means select, by following the procedure I started my mobile.
just tell me how to set volume button as screen off and power off. thanks in advance

how long should i press volume buttons.... and which volume button up or down ? plz tell me i am facing this problem ..my power button is ruptured and i cant switch on my phone for last 20 days ..plz help me my phone is micromax canvas 2.2

rakeshsubho said:
My power button has stopped working and thus I cannot switch my phone on!
Can anybody please help? Is there any other method of switching on the phone bypassing the power button? :crying:
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i faced this problem 2 times, once under warrant and 2nd out-of .... just replace the power button.
Max 100 RS from out side market shop but this time i purchased the power buttons and i will replace at my own.

hello. my phone's power button is working. but the canvas 4 logo is displayed and its stuck on screen. plz help

i also faced same pbm, but now its working
rakeshsubho said:
My power button has stopped working and thus I cannot switch my phone on!
Can anybody please help? Is there any other method of switching on the phone bypassing the power button? :crying:
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if u r using u r original rom den ....... conect ur phone to lap den remove battey, 1-2 minns den u r phone stared blinking ben just place the battery in phone. automatically ur phone switch onss..........
.......enjoy.... dont try it..... incase if u installed any another rom.... it dosent work...or u may lose u r phone....

lock button of micromax canvas spark 3 is destroyed ..
how to switch on the phone ............