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Usually after pressing the power button the pink lock screen from tmobile would show up. But today after pressing the button to unlock the phone theres no lock screen, it just goes straight to the homescreeen. I tried putting a password and it still doesnt bring up the lock screen. Has this happened to anyone else?
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This is still an issue after a restart?
that would have been normal on CM7 if you disabled lock screen
but on TW... it's rather unusual, specially when we still have no root
can you try installing super user meanwhile you are at it?
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This is still an issue after a restart?
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Yea, i even took out the battery
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Also, theres another problem. When I hold the power button the phone shuts off automatically instead of the menu asking you want to turn of the phone.
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This definitely sounds like a faulty phone, I would return it. These options are normally present in a CM7 build like allgamer said.
I don't think that it is a faulty phone. Watch the review by Mobile Syrup and the lock screen on their phone is gone to.
mine is doing the same no lock screen and phone shuts off as soon as I hold the power button
Edit: just tried setting a lock screen with pin and nothing still hmmm
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I don't think that it is a faulty phone. Watch the review by Mobile Syrup and the lock screen on their phone is gone to.
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So weird. You could try contacting the guys over at Mobile Syrup that did the review.
So i just did a factory reset and everything is fine now.
No lock screen and when I click on power bottom it just shock down without the 3 choices (power off, airplane mode and silent)
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If and when I get this phone you'll have about 9 lockscreens to choose from and a variety of power options (as well as a ton of other mods and hacks).
Just click on a few of the links in my sig.
Yes I can't wait
Whitehawkx said:
If and when I get this phone you'll have about 9 lockscreens to choose from and a variety of power options (as well as a ton of other mods and hacks).
Just click on a few of the links in my sig.
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how do you do a factory reset?
What will a factory reset erase? Will i have to root again?
This is my problem, I have been using my sim card for like 6 years now and today it just stopped working in my phone..
So I took it out and put it back in , still doesnt work, and right after that happend I realized that my lock screen had ceased functioning which i read is a known issue.
So i lost all my contacts, i will go have to get a new sim tomorrow, still don't know if i should trade the phone is for a new one.
this problem had something to do with the *#0*# command, and and testing the camera while in that menu. i just reflashed the deodexed rom and it was fine.
I had this problem too. I had to do a factory reset to fix the problem.
Here's another thread discussing a potential cause of the issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18702063&postcount=12
There are programs out there to use until then. Right now I'm using Quick Boot and it seems to do the trick just fine.
Whitehawkx said:
If and when I get this phone you'll have about 9 lockscreens to choose from and a variety of power options (as well as a ton of other mods and hacks).
Just click on a few of the links in my sig.
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And you should have got the phone on release day lol bring on the hacks
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I'm rooted and used Titanium Backup, and a few other "safe" apps. Then suddenly my screen lock dissapeared. Battery pulls would not restore it and neither would any settings fiddling. When I held the power button down two seconds, it would shut the phone off instead of the usual popup that gives you the option to power down.
The only way I was able to restore it was reset the phone to factory settings. Then I restored via a CW backup (wow CW is awesome)
Anyway is this a common thing? I can't imagine this happening to an iPhone. What could cause this--do I have to erase my phone next time this happens? What a PITA!!!
Did you try the numeric combo which gets you into the phone diagnostics? If so we discovered that the megacam test hoses the lockscreen for some reason.
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The phone app is screwing with my phone, whenever i make a call and then hang up after the call has ended the screen refuses to turn off no matter what i do and the only way to get it to work is to restart the phone.
I have tried everything from installing modified APK files to fixing permissions and wiping dalvik cache nothing is working. The screen and capsative button are still on as i write this message. Its not a setting i have set because if i use the phone without making a call the phone goes to sleep after 30 seconds and I have repeated this 30 times testing with different apk. IT IS THE PHONE APK, mainly the the in-call screen (Add Call, End , Keypad screen) that causes it.
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Post 6 has the answer, if anyone else runs into this.
Ok, so why don't you just Odin to 100% stock
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Ok, so why don't you just Odin to 100% stock
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dont want to wipe
guys please i spend almost the entire day on this. IT ANNOYING ME SO MUCH.
I wiped and installed stock using odin and still happened, reset and wiped everything and it was finally fixed. Rebooted and reconfigued everything and it was fine everything was working like i wanted tested by calling a 100 times after lots of reboots and it was working.
I was like now i have finally fixed it its tine to do a CWM backup using official 6.0.1.2
Rebooted and after a few minute i noticed the screen was doing the same thing, I don't know what else to do. It seems like it happened right after CWM backup, I don't get how that is possible?
Are you restoring system data through titanium backup?
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Are you restoring system data through titanium backup?
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Yes, OMG wasted the entire day and after everything it was one of Samsungs own products :crying:.
SAMSUNG DRIVE LINK YES IT WAS DRIVE LINK, so angry that I tried everything and it was a Samsung app, The funny thing is the app was never once opened during this entire time of reboots and reloads all that work for nothing.
Made a call used the end call button and the LED light on the buttons were on and the screen would not turn off, let it for a good 5 minutes with smart stay disabled. Uninstalled Drive Link and immediately noticed the LED light turned off and the screen finally dimed and turned off. Tested a few times and was finally working. Installed Drive Link again and then made another call and yup you gust it screen refused to turn itself off.
Drive Link Officially UNINSTALLED.
Okay so ive been running jmt v8 for about a week on my phone and everything was running great. Then yesterday morning my phone became very slow and unusable. Then i started getting the error message acore system has stopped working and the phone would randomly restart and then it would start vibrating then stop then vibrate again and so on. So i insalled a new rom and i stopped getting the core system has stopped error but i am still getting the random reboots. And the screen also wakes up by itself. Please any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
Justananomaly said:
I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
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That's exactly my problem but are you sure this company is reliable?
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And can you also give me the link to the exact thing you ordered because i couldn't find it on their site, thanks !
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http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-power-button-repair/
And yes, I was sceptical too. Josh, the owner, is reachable by email and answers pretty quickly and did an amazing job repairing my phone.
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
Dennisalex said:
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
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I can boot into recovery but its tricky because I have to press the buttons perfect or it'll just reboot. I believe the problem is with the power button and ill probably get it replaced.
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I have same problem last month, send the rooted phone to Samsung. After 15 days .I get back my phone for free.
I hope this can help you.
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For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
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For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
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Thanks I will be trying this out.
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hey guys. after the ics update my phone started to lock up and its not rooted. now all of a sudden when i put the battery in it it vibrates once then starts to load and gets about half way and stops. then it turns off and just vibrates a few seconds and vibrates but the screen never shows anything. tryed using just a usb with the battery out and it skips the load screen and automatically starts vibrate looping. the power button seems stuck but i dont think i can fix it any ideas?
Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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You may have to run fix permissions in recovery are you rooted
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Warranty exchange it. Known problem
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Same problem
And the vest part is that i can't replace it cause i live in India
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Damn! Just found this thread...sounds like what my phone started doing today!!
I was clicking around on gmail, then back to home screen, the camera FLASHED all by itself without me doing anything, then started the boot loop thing. Clicking the power button only made it worse. Finally was able to get into recovery via TWRP...but that was weird too. I did a factory reset/wipe and was going to reinstall The Sith ROM that I was running, but it just rebooted and loaded up The Sith anyway and it should have been cleared. I then tried to restore back to Beastmade ROM, restore was very quick and said successful but it booted back to Sith.
Now the power button is hyper sensitive! All I have to do is brush the power button and it will light up the screen. Touch it too long and it will bring up the boot menu. I'm afraid to actually CLICK the button as it might go haywire again.
WTF is going on!? This all seems really odd that it's going down with some of these new ROMs being released. I wasn't even touching the power button when all this started. The weird clicks and flashes didn't sound good when it was all going on.
Has anyone tried flashing back to and OLD rom to see if it will fix it?
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Hey guys! I recently updated my phone to 4.1.2 and noticed almost every time I go to use my phone and hit either the power button or the home button the recent app screen pops up instantly as if you were to hold the home button down. So far I tried a soft reset a factory reset with no luck. The phone worked perfectly before the update so I know it isn't either of the buttons sticking. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate your help, I'm at the point where I'm pulling my hair out haha
Thanks!!
Did you do the OTA (over the air) update Sprint pushed out, are you on a custom rom, or are you using a non stock launcher? Give us some details and someone, if not me, will help you out.
Also try rebooting. Some users in the past have reported that trying to activate recent apps properly (by holding the home) stopped working and a simply powering the device off then turning it back on fixed the issue. This may solve your issue too.
I see this is your first post, are you familiar with rooting and custom roms? Just curious so we know how to get you through this.
Thanks for helping. I did the ota update that sprint pushed out. The phone is completely stock nothing on it is modified at all. I already tried rebooting multiple times and tried a battery pull also. I am new to rooting and custom roms. Everything else on the phone is working fine but the recent app screen will come up as soon as I turn the screen on. It wont come up if I turn the screen on hit home to go to home screen turn screen off using power button and turn the screen back on quickly, it has to sit for 30sec to 1min for it to start doing it again.
Thanks!!
thatjerk said:
Did you do the OTA (over the air) update Sprint pushed out, are you on a custom rom, or are you using a non stock launcher? Give us some details and someone, if not me, will help you out.
Also try rebooting. Some users in the past have reported that trying to activate recent apps properly (by holding the home) stopped working and a simply powering the device off then turning it back on fixed the issue. This may solve your issue too.
I see this is your first post, are you familiar with rooting and custom roms? Just curious so we know how to get you through this.
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Anybody got any ideas?
Sorry for the late reply, I work a night shift.
Are you waking the screen up with the home button or the power button. The reason I am asking is because the only way I can make this same situation occur is with no lock screen set, I wake up the phone with the home screen button.
Try setting up a lock screen and see if it fixes the problem.
If it does not fix the problem then I recomend taking the phone back to Sprint to see if they will swap the device since you are not rooted.
If you have a custom recovery installed try rebooting into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik cache then go to advanced and fix permissions, if you only have stock recovery try wiping cache from it. To boot to recovery, power off phone, hold volume up and home then power, let go of the 3 keys when the note 2 splash screen pops up. If that doesn't alleviate the issue it may be a setting with the home key presses, for instance you can change what it does with longpress and double tap, may have gotten the svoice and recent apps mixed up. Try double tapping home and see if svoice comes up or recent apps, also longpress to see which comes up.
I like to break stuff!
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If you have a custom recovery installed try rebooting into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik cache then go to advanced and fix permissions, if you only have stock recovery try wiping cache from it. To boot to recovery, power off phone, hold volume up and home then power, let go of the 3 keys when the note 2 splash screen pops up. If that doesn't alleviate the issue it may be a setting with the home key presses, for instance you can change what it does with longpress and double tap, may have gotten the svoice and recent apps mixed up. Try double tapping home and see if svoice comes up or recent apps, also longpress to see which comes up.
I like to break stuff!
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This is deff recent update caused i believe. I also have a non rooted sprint device that I just updated, and its doing the exact same thing. Annoying as hell. My device is less then a month old. To explain more on what happens, I have my screen timeout set for 2 mins, lock at 5 mins. Use phone, put it down, wait for screen to time out, pick it up and hit him key once and it brings up the task manager. Not a long press, just a fast press.
I tried to clear the cache with no luck..
I guess that makes two of us for this problem.
I have noticed sometimes when I go to use the phone there will be a blue box around one of the apps. Not sure if its the last app I used but it has been doing this since before the update.
I cant replicate the issue to save my life. When you guys updated something must have gotten confused in the process. May need to download a stock restore of ma7 and start fresh. That would be what I would do if nothing else fixes it. It will erase all you apps and settings and internal storage so back em up. Back up internal to PC
I like to break stuff!
Ok ill be more than happy to try that.. what exactly is ma7 and where can I dl it. Is there anything special I need to know or do to complete the process? I already cleared my my contacts.. google said they were uploaded but apparently not.
Thanks again for the help!!
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I cant replicate the issue to save my life. When you guys updated something must have gotten confused in the process. May need to download a stock restore of ma7 and start fresh. That would be what I would do if nothing else fixes it. It will erase all you apps and settings and internal storage so back em up. Back up internal to PC
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MA7 is the latest OTA 4.1.2 which would be the update you took prior to this recent apps incident. Look in development for a thread by garwynn it'll have the links to the Odin one-click packages and since you already took OTA you won't need the modem. Just follow the directions in his thread. Before doing it if you have anything stored to your internal storage you want to save back it up to your PC via USB. You'll want to grab the full restore one click so it wipes everything and starts fresh.
I like to break stuff!
Same issue, called Sprint
I spoke with sprint about this today, very frustrating. I learned:
Not all note users are having this problem
they did a reactivation, prl update, firmware check, profile (?) update.
That didn't do anything, so the recommended a hard reset, that's when I flipped out.
They said I may be able to sent me a new phone if the hard reset doesn't help, but would need to pay a $49 exchange fee... then i flipped out more.
possible reasons: I really don't know, here is what i have:
Go Launcher
SD card, inserted a couple weeks after activation
I use Home2 to modify my home button double tap action
Not rooted or anything.
david.dannicker said:
I spoke with sprint about this today, very frustrating. I learned:
Not all note users are having this problem
they did a reactivation, prl update, firmware check, profile (?) update.
That didn't do anything, so the recommended a hard reset, that's when I flipped out.
They said I may be able to sent me a new phone if the hard reset doesn't help, but would need to pay a $49 exchange fee... then i flipped out more.
possible reasons: I really don't know, here is what i have:
Go Launcher
SD card, inserted a couple weeks after activation
I use Home2 to modify my home button double tap action
Not rooted or anything.
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I'm still having the same issue with recent apps popping up upon awake, non rooted sprint, happened after recent OTA update, and have no apps in common with above poster. I have not done a reset yet as it hasn't bothered to that extent yet, and once I get ready to root and really tear into things, ill work it out then I suppose.
I'm having the same issue after updating to MA7. Im rooted, cleared both caches and still going on. When I wake the phone with the home button it wakes up and shows the recent apps, when I close that it take me to my lock screen (wigetlocker)
Edit: Fixing permissions just fixed it for me and also clearing the caches again.
Double Edit: Started doing it again. -___-
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I'm having the same issue after updating to MA7. Im rooted, cleared both caches and still going on. When I wake the phone with the home button it wakes up and shows the recent apps, when I close that it take me to my lock screen (wigetlocker)
Edit: Fixing permissions just fixed it for me and also clearing the caches again.
Double Edit: Started doing it again. -___-
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I am having this problem to it happens when the screen goes off but does not lock in my experience. I would never pay for a new phone if it is a update that messed my phone up I would have snapped
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I have the Note 2 on Sprint. The update that I got a couple days ago has solved this problem.
Our phones are getting old enough taht teh buttons will jam up and possibly stop working. My phone would pull up the reboot/shutdown menu and then reset itself, I believe that my button just got smashed in really hard.
Don't freak out, if you need to turn your screen "ON" there are a few ways.
1. Plugging in a USB cable or something into the headphone jack, should turn the screen on.
2. Install an APP that uses the proximity sensor to turn the screen on
3. Pulling the battery and reinserting it without the USB plugged in, should reboot your phone.
How to fix it.
1.One user has success, disassembling his phone and using a pair of pliers to squeeze the metal casing around the power button back into itself. If you attempt this, be very gentle and squeeze a little bit at a time until it works. I would still install a program to turn on the phone just in case the button fails again while you are out and about.
2. I had some success, disassembling the phone and pulling the white button part out of the metal casing and then using a pick tool or needle to bend the contacts up. I got it working and then lost the little white button in the carpet I guess, thing went flying somewhere.
3. One user on here had success taking it to a cell phone repair place and they charged him $40 to replace it. Who knows if they actually did replace it, they may have just unstuck it, worth a shot to talk to those guys and see what they say. Personally I'd rather just put the $40 towards the insurance deductible
OR
You can send it here for repair http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-epic-4g-touch-power-button-repair/
4. Replace it yourself. I consider myself decent at soldering, I would not attempt this personally..
5. Swap the main board. Buy a phone with a bad screen, swap the boards and sell the rest or keep for parts. MAKE sure the new board has a GOOD ESN or sprint will NOT let you swap/activate the phone, as the ESN is tied to the main board. Now when I buy a used phone, I'll ask the seller do you mind if I call sprint and check the ESN? They will tell you right away if it can be activated.
Keep in mind that your recovery menu might use the power button to select choices, so you really have to think about things before you do them. You don't want to be stuck in teh recovery menu because you can't pick any options. I had to flash AGATS's recovery for JB, which fortunately uses the home button to choose option, (volume to scroll). I had to use Odin to flash it from a computer as I needed to reflash my ROM and could not do it from the current recovery menu because it needed the power button.
If you need to capture screenshots, there are APPS for that, I use Ultimate Screenshot, it's a hokey compared to the built in option, but it works.
There are also APPS for booting into recovery and recovery options, Quick Boot is one of them.
List of APPS
1. Smart Screen ON, uses proximity sensor to turn on and off your screen, I believe this is a paid app.
2. Proximity Actions ."Dypraxxx" has had success with an app called "Proximity Actions". You can thank him "here"
3. Gravity Screen Off On Thanks to syed239
4. Screenshot Ultimate (this is just the first one I tried, I'm sure they are better one's)
5. Quick Boot : Lets you reboot into recovery, shutdown, reboot into bootloader or just simply reboot.
Feel free to add info to this thread, there's nothing worse than your phone breaking and not knowing what to do about it. Hopefully someone that gets into a similar situation can use this thread to get back up and running until they can get a new phone or what have you.
My power button gets jammed when it wants to. You should add proximity actions to the app list. Great list of fixes / workarounds
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Dypraxxx said:
My power button gets jammed when it wants to. You should add proximity actions to the app list. Great list of fixes / workarounds
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Thanks, I added that APP with links to thank you.
When I was using my E4GT, my power button messed up and I used Gravity Screen Off. Someone from the forums (if you're reading this, sorry I can't remember your name) recommended it to me and it really helped out a lot. There's a free version on the play store. I would give that a shot
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When I was using my E4GT, my power button messed up and I used Gravity Screen Off. Someone from the forums (if you're reading this, sorry I can't remember your name) recommended it to me and it really helped out a lot. There's a free version on the play store. I would give that a shot
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wow this seems to work well!
bobturismo said:
wow this seems to work well!
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Worked like a charm for me for about three months. Glad I could help out!
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