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So a while back I updated to Android 5.0.1 on my TMobile One M8, and all was fine. Yesterday I went to bed, and didn't touch my phone or do any updates. I wake up and the following is wrong:
1) Left side of the notification bar is blank. Right side still shows WiFi and carrier bars and the time.
2) Home button does not work. It "lights" up when pressed but nothing happens
3) Settings gear from the swipe down bar lights up but does not work
I rebooted a number of times, full power down, safe mode, all to no avail. I then did the cache reset, but that made things worse. I lost my start screen folders, ringtones reset, and home screen widgets got reset.
I called TMobile and they said a full device reset is needed. I do NOT want to do that. This is using the stock TMobile software build with no hacks...no rooting. Software build 4.20.531.4. The "settings" icon from the applist does work.
Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!

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I am struggling to backup photos etc as i would usually enable usb debugging and just click and drag the folders over to my PC, but it says on my settings page that 'developer options are not available to this user', so I am having to use another photo backup website, which is annoying.
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