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Desire acting very strange

Hello,
I have a problem with my HTC desire and would greatly appreciate any help. So, this is what happens:i've had the phone for about1 mo.th and had no probl until about 5 days ago when the pjone started acting as if the HOME, MENU and VOLUME UP keys were being pressed,but i didn't press any of them. Sometimes it happened for minutes. Then, it changed,if i pressed the home button, the phone would bring up the volume and the keypad, if i pressed the menu button, it would act as if i would hold down the home button for a few seconds and also, would bring up tje volume. Also, when this happens, the volume down button won't work. Very few times everything works fine sincd the probls started. I factory reseted the phone twice but no change. Everything else,calls, texting, internet works fine, but since the home button is being activated so often by itself, it will close the texting or the internet. No water damage. I dropped it once, but from e very small height.
What shall I do? Can anyone help? Has anyone had the same problem? I really like this phone.
Thank you

1st time I heard of this...
Suggest you to rule out any 3rd party applications.
If you still can't figure it out, you should be taking advantage of your warranty...

celcerut said:
Hello,
I have a problem with my HTC desire and would greatly appreciate any help. So, this is what happens:i've had the phone for about1 mo.th and had no probl until about 5 days ago when the pjone started acting as if the HOME, MENU and VOLUME UP keys were being pressed,but i didn't press any of them. Sometimes it happened for minutes. Then, it changed,if i pressed the home button, the phone would bring up the volume and the keypad, if i pressed the menu button, it would act as if i would hold down the home button for a few seconds and also, would bring up tje volume. Also, when this happens, the volume down button won't work. Very few times everything works fine sincd the probls started. I factory reseted the phone twice but no change. Everything else,calls, texting, internet works fine, but since the home button is being activated so often by itself, it will close the texting or the internet. No water damage. I dropped it once, but from e very small height.
What shall I do? Can anyone help? Has anyone had the same problem? I really like this phone.
Thank you
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sound suspiciously like water damage to me

Hi, I appreciate your prompt reply to my post. I disabled any third-party applications and also, it hasn;t been water damaged, I was careful this shouldn't happen. however, it still continues to act strangely. I found someone describing the same issues with their phone while googling this malfunctioning
If you can think of anything how I can solve this, please let me know,
Cheers,
tim

[Q] Touch buttons problems

Hi guys, I have a strange problem since yesterday morning: Touch buttons don't work anymore. When I press them it's like i press the bottom of the screen, for example if I'm in the home screen, pressing the "home" button will open the menu, and if I press the "search" button the phone opens the personalize menù. The phone didn't dropped (not recently as well) and the previous evening it functioned without problems, I played with games and all buttons worked. I've tried doing a factory reset, but it didn't solve the problem and it made the boot of the phone impossible (it stucked on the ROM splash screen endlessy) so I flashed another ROM through recovery but with no results, the phone works well in all of its functionality except for the touch buttons.
Can you help me with this problem? My phone is rooted so I'd like to not sending it to HTC for warranty reparation...

clak92 said:
Can you help me with this problem? My phone is rooted so I'd like to not sending it to HTC for warranty reparation...
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I'm afraid but that's the only option left for you to send to HTC because if it is a hardware problem and you waste all of your time trying to get the buttons working and you miss the warranty time then you'll just have to throw your phone in the bin

Home button unresponsive on tab s 8.4

Hi there
Bought this second hand.
Was working fine, and all of a sudden the home button isn't working. I've tried a reset and a factory wipe/reset - still nothing. Google search doesn't really help. The back and menu buttons to either side of the home work fine, just the central home button which isn't working.
I know there exist software solutioons - but would rather get the hardware fixed/diagnosed.
Any help?
Thanks

I also have the same issue. My button is unresponsive, yet, the finger print scanner works. I was wondering if anyone had a similar issue?

home screen touch buttons disappear in dialer

the three buttons on the bottom, the back button, home button, & windowing button all disappear when on a call, and I should be able to hit back during a call and launch other apps - when these buttons disappear, you can't back up and multi-task - anyone know the answer?
running marshmallow on H815, rooted, unlocked, stock ROM -20B

WTF? said:
the three buttons on the bottom, the back button, home button, & windowing button all disappear when on a call, and I should be able to hit back during a call and launch other apps - when these buttons disappear, you can't back up and multi-task - anyone know the answer?
running marshmallow on H815, rooted, unlocked, stock ROM -20B
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Same problem here, I'm rooted I have xposed etc. I reboot my phone and home buttons are gone. I can't navigate through my phone. Pls help

mine is stock 20B, rooted, unlocked bootloader - surely someone has seen this, I feel like it is something silly

anyone seen this before?

Solved my issue
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anyone seen this before?
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So what you gotta do is back up all your stuff and unroot your phone and then reroot it. That's the only way I got it to work for me. Factory reset won't work so don't even bother.

Home button issues

Has anyone else had the home button stop working? It has happened to me twice and a reboot restores it. I'm running the stock US Unlocked but rooted RUU.
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fmedrano1977 said:
Has anyone else had the home button stop working? It has happened to me twice and a reboot restores it. I'm running the stock US Unlocked but rooted RUU.
Sent from my HTC 10 using Tapatalk
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I've got the same problem. It worked after a reboot when I first got the phone. I put it in extreme power saver mode the next night and when I went back to standard mode my home button wouldn't work. I'm running everything stock, I'm on T-Mobile, I've tried updates, reboots, and a factory reset. Nothing has worked. I read a thread about an older HTC phone that said clearing the cache on HTC Sense worked for them but that didn't help for me either.

fmedrano1977 said:
Has anyone else had the home button stop working? It has happened to me twice and a reboot restores it. I'm running the stock US Unlocked but rooted RUU.
Sent from my HTC 10 using Tapatalk
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Best thing to do is to send it back for service. In my country (Belgium) HTC has great service. The sooner the better!

I've figured it out. How to fix the finger scanner /home button.
Start in your settings.
Then to apps. In apps hit the soft key in the top right corner of the screen. A new window will open up. Tap "show settings" this will show finger scanner app. Scroll down and tap on that app. Now tap "force stop". After this back out to home screen and restart your phone.
This should fix the problem. I had the same issues with my HTC 10. The scanner/home pad not working at all and no longer showing up in the "settings". I tried calling HTC customer care and did a hard reset..... 4x plus did a complete wipe and recovery. But that wouldn't fix the issue as well. So the other day I followed the top description. Now it works with no glitches.
Hope this helps you out.

Aftermk said:
I've figured it out. How to fix the finger scanner /home button.
Start in your settings.
Then to apps. In apps hit the soft key in the top right corner of the screen. A new window will open up. Tap "show settings" this will show finger scanner app. Scroll down and tap on that app. Now tap "force stop". After this back out to home screen and restart your phone.
This should fix the problem. I had the same issues with my HTC 10. The scanner/home pad not working at all and no longer showing up in the "settings". I tried calling HTC customer care and did a hard reset..... 4x plus did a complete wipe and recovery. But that wouldn't fix the issue as well. So the other day I followed the top description. Now it works with no glitches.
Hope this helps you out.
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Thank you so much, worked like a charm!
Edit: WORKED like a charm for boot up and a few minutes, but then stopped again. I assume I have a software interference issue...

Help
I also have this problem now both my home and finger sensor stopped working. I did a factory reset it worked for a bit and it stop working again. Please help.

Hi,
Similar thing happen to me but instead of the finger print my back button and recent app button stop working. The problem starts after i turn on the extreme power server and turn back off. I have tried hard reset and it will only work for few hours and then the same issue comes up. But i have notice if i open google maps both buttons work. I have not rooted the phone. Dose anyone knows how to fix this issue?.
OS : 6.0.1
Build: 1.95.401.4

Did you try to rescan your fingerprint from different positions. And another thing when used to fingerprint. Do you use smartlock setting? I mean maybe it detects you are in a trusted area and you do not even need to unlock it with fingerprint? Then it just shows the lockscreen when you tap it.
Greetings,

Same issue
asankamadushan said:
Hi,
Similar thing happen to me but instead of the finger print my back button and recent app button stop working. The problem starts after i turn on the extreme power server and turn back off. I have tried hard reset and it will only work for few hours and then the same issue comes up. But i have notice if i open google maps both buttons work. I have not rooted the phone. Dose anyone knows how to fix this issue?.
OS : 6.0.1
Build: 1.95.401.4
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I have this issue as well - and when I open google maps it works fine from there... Possible that it works from other apps but at other times they are really unresponsive. Did you ever fix your problem?
UPDATE - I just turned extreme power saver mode on then off and it seems to have fixed the issue for the moment...

OMG works!
Aftermk said:
I've figured it out. How to fix the finger scanner /home button.
Start in your settings.
Then to apps. In apps hit the soft key in the top right corner of the screen. A new window will open up. Tap "show settings" this will show finger scanner app. Scroll down and tap on that app. Now tap "force stop". After this back out to home screen and restart your phone.
This should fix the problem. I had the same issues with my HTC 10. The scanner/home pad not working at all and no longer showing up in the "settings". I tried calling HTC customer care and did a hard reset..... 4x plus did a complete wipe and recovery. But that wouldn't fix the issue as well. So the other day I followed the top description. Now it works with no glitches.
Hope this helps you out.
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can't thank you enough you just saved my day! I even registered on this forum just to thank you!