The power button works because if long press it, it shows me shutdown menu. But when I singe press it , it doesn't lock my phone... Rooted phone
Under Accessibility have you made sure that single tap is UNCHECKED then again it may have nothing to do with your power button
Helpmysoul said:
The power button works because if long press it, it shows me shutdown menu. But when I singe press it , it doesn't lock my phone... Rooted phone
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There is a settable time out in settings. That says that X amount of time has to pass for the phone to lock after the power button is pressed. If that amount of time does not pass before another press the phone will not be locked.
Solarenemy68 said:
There is a settable time out in settings. That says that X amount of time has to pass for the phone to lock after the power button is pressed. If that amount of time does not pass before another press the phone will not be locked.
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Where is this setting located?
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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." ^^
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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.
Is it possible to make it so pressing the power button when on the phone would hang up the call? It would be much more convenient to hang up this way then having to wait for the screen to light up, press the end button, and then hit the power button to darken the screen.
Rekna said:
Is it possible to make it so pressing the power button when on the phone would hang up the call? It would be much more convenient to hang up this way then having to wait for the screen to light up, press the end button, and then hit the power button to darken the screen.
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Yes it is an option. Hit menu>settings>accesibility>power button ends call
(it's the bottom option)
Throw me a thanks
Biofall said:
Yes it is an option. Hit menu>settings>accesibility>power button ends call
(it's the bottom option)
Throw me a thanks
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Do you have to do this while in a call? In the normal settings panel, I don't have anything under Accessibility. I was prompted to install Talkback, but that didn't add anything like a Power Button Ends Call option.
I don't believe that Sense has the option for power button controls, the other poster must be using an AOSP ROM, which does allow for you to tick the option to end a call using the power button.
Dacian said:
I don't believe that Sense has the option for power button controls, the other poster must be using an AOSP ROM, which does allow for you to tick the option to end a call using the power button.
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Damn that sucks!
Hi guys
Got my sw3 today and set it all up and then now it's randomly turned the screen lock on and I can't unlock it!!
Question .... Can I somehow do a factory reset without unlocking it?
Or is there a default screen unlock combo that may work.
Please help!
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Turn it off by holding the power button for a few seconds.
then when it's off, hold the power button again until the insert USB image shows.
Then on that, press the power button twice and it'll take you to another menu.
Then on the menu you'll have 4 options. I think it's the last one that says factory reset. When you get to it press the power button twice again.
Hope that helps.
What I basically need: I want to access recovery(or bootloader, I am not sure what its really called) to do a factory reset.
History of the problem: My little sister entered the pattern incorrectly too many times and now the phone is locked asking for gmail and password. Although I know it, but the phones wifi is disabled, so it says "wrong username or password" and hence I can not unlock it. I want to do a factory reset via the recovery but the phone is not going into it even though I press volume down + power(I also tried the volume up). USB debugging is off, and the device is not rooted... please help me, how can I get around this damn problem?
TDm3732 said:
I want to do a factory reset via the recovery but the phone is not going into it even though I press volume down + power(I also tried the volume up).
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Power+vol down doesn't do anything (will not get you to bootloader) if the phone is on. This only works when the phone is powered off.
If power+vol up didn't go anything, it's probably because you didn't hold the buttons long enough. Hold power+vol up (and don't let go) until the screen goes dark (may take more than a minute in some conditions) meaning it is going to reboot. The moment the screen goes dark, let go of those buttons and only hold vol down. Don't let go, until the white bootloader screen appears. If you fail to get into bootloader (the phone just reboots, tried to go to OS) that means you didn't do the button combo correctly. Either you started pressing vol down too late, or let go too early. Just repeat the sequence until you get it right.
Thank you for replying
I said what you did, unfortunately it doesnt work
TDm3732 said:
Thank you for replying
I said what you did, unfortunately it doesnt work
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What doesn't work? I outlined a few steps. Need more details. The basic reboot sequence (holding power+vol up) does it reboot the phone or not?
This is hard coded into the device. It works in any condition short of a brick. It even works when the phone is powered off. The only time I've seen it fail is if your vol button or power button is broken.
ok, here is how it goes;
I turn the phone off
I press the voldown + power, the phone turns on, I release none of them, everything goes very normally, when the phone is at the lock screen, there is a messege on the display saying "to restart the phone, continue holding the power button for 3 seconds" and it counts down to 2 and then 1, it stops at 1, everything else is normal(except the home and back buttons have been flashing-turning on and off-since the start of the process). now I continue on holding both buttons until the phone autolocks, and here it goes to eternity, nothing happens form here just flashing home and back buttons..
I did the same process for volup+power. I did several times, each taking more than one minute..
and all my buttons are working, I can assure you of that..
TDm3732 said:
I turn the phone off
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How are you doing that?
redpoint73 said:
How are you doing that?
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when the phone is on at the lock screen, I have to swipe up, which takes me to a screen asking me for google username and password, and when I press the power button there, it displays the cummon box with 4 options; turn off, restart, airplane mode, and kid mode.
if I press the power button before swiping up, it displays the messege "To restart, continue holding the power button for 3 seconds" it counts down and stops at 1, just as I described before
TDm3732 said:
when I press the power button there, it displays the cummon box with 4 options; turn off, restart, airplane mode, and kid mode.
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Try picking restart. Then once the screen goes black, start holding (only) vol down. See if that gets you into bootloader.
redpoint73 said:
Try picking restart. Then once the screen goes black, start holding (only) vol down. See if that gets you into bootloader.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaan I would have kissed you if I could, thank youuuuuu. You are a life savior. It did go to the recovery mode. I really do not know how to repay you. Thank you very much
TDm3732 said:
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaan I would have kissed you if I could, thank youuuuuu. You are a life savior. It did go to the recovery mode. I really do not know how to repay you.
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lol. Your gratitude is enough.
Strange, I wonder why it didn't work when forcing a restart with button combo (power+ vol up). I don't think I've seen that issue you described, where the capacitive buttons are flashing.
Essentially, any time the phone reboots, if you hold vol down, it should go into bootloader. Or in the fully powered off condition, hold the vol down, and press and release power button (don't release vol down).
yeah, I read a tone about it and nothing worked. It seems my Htc is special
Hi,
This is probably a very stupid question, but since there is no on-off button on the device, I would like to know if you can turn the gemini completely off (not standby) or if there is a way to reboot it.
Thanks!
Long press Escape and then select "Power Off". Escape doubles as ON/OFF button (it is written on it).
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Long press Escape and then select "Power Off". Escape doubles as ON/OFF button (it is written on it).
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YES! The long press did it. Thanks! :good:
Gemini PDA on and off button
geosphere said:
YES! The long press did it. Thanks! :good:
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Reading your entry I have to add the escape button does switch off by long pressing it but you can also press the function key and keep it pressed then press escape and that puts it to sleep mode