Hello Everybody
Need help here!
I have a i9000 body with a vibrant board in the inside. So i some sort of unique phone. lol.
I opened up a thread seeking for help on which firmware to flash etc.. here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105155
Some background info on my flashing odyssey.
After the repair the front buttons worked but the home button didn't (since is a i9000 body). So i started to play around with firmware for the i9000 2.3, 2.2, darkkys 10.1 etc... I have over 3GB of firmware that i flashed in attempt to get the home button working and the Front facing camera. The home button never worked neither the camera and the headset also stopped working while on i9000 firmware. (Also the back and menu front buttons worked fine during all of this)
So, i decided to flash back to JFD to bring the phone back to what i first had. And guess what, none of the front buttons worked after this last flash.
I've tried more than 10 vibrant firmwares, kernels etc... in order to get the front buttons working. and had no luck. ( i guess that flashing from darkyy's 10.1 to JFD messed something real bad)
explodingboy70 and ali1276 have been helping out. ali1276; solved the issue of the headset and the volumen buttons not working on 2.3 firmware (you can check on the link to the other Thread) and explodingboy70 tried to fix the button issue with no success whatsoever. Thank you guys for your help!!
I know i should of waited instead of going ahead and flashing the world into my phone........ i know.....
Please , Please. I know there should be a way around this and i know XDA has some of the most skillful people in the Android world. And i know i will find help. Plus i will donate to whoever helps me out.
If it will help, I have the vibrant from which the board was pulled out and being a IT manager myself i can play with the hardware if needed.
PLEASE HELP
Have you tried remapping the buttons? Lol obvious but just asking
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duboi97 said:
Have you tried remapping the buttons? Lol obvious but just asking
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yea i've tried it.
Why i dont get is why they dont come back when i flash another rom. the question is at what level did JFD took out functionality and how to fix/wipe or something.
Basically, i am plenty sure the problem is in the kernel also the keys will not usually work (none of them) if flashing a vibrant rom and vibrant kernel. Why? In the melfastouchkey.kl there are the mappings for the buttons; however, they are usually meant and formatted for the vibrant, unless sometimes the dev does not want to change everything in it in an i9000 port (usually in gb because those are the main i9000 ports going right now.) However, the buttons would still have the correct mapping due to kernel. Because of this, the back and menu buttons may work but not the home button because the kernel often overrides that of which is found in the melfastouchley.kl. Hope you got all that
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Basically, i am plenty sure the problem is in the kernel also the keys will not usually work (none of them) if flashing a vibrant rom and vibrant kernel. Why? In the melfastouchkey.kl there are the mappings for the buttons; however, they are usually meant and formatted for the vibrant, unless sometimes the dev does not want to change everything in it in an i9000 port (usually in gb because those are the main i9000 ports going right now.) However, the buttons would still have the correct mapping due to kernel. Because of this, the back and menu buttons may work but not the home button because the kernel often overrides that of which is found in the melfastouchley.kl. Hope you got all that
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Im a bit lost on your answer. I flashed plenty of roms for the i9000 on the phone. Before flashing the vibrant rom. Which never took out functionality of the front buttons. The phone itself had the stock vibrant rom, and the buttons worked (not the home button) but the rest worked fine. I flashed i9000 roms for the GT-i9000 and the buttons continued to work (the home button never worked). Until i flashed a back to a vibrant rom.... After that i tried to flash i9000 roms and had no luck with the buttons afterwards..
What i dont get is why flashing a i9000 rom never made the home button work while the front buttons still worked. And then why the same rom that the phone had, when flashed took out the front buttons..
Please explain your solution.
Im fairly new to the android world. THANKS A LOT AGAIN for your time
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So I accidently installed darkys rom in my vibrant. But funny thing is is that this phone looks EXACTLY like a i9000 except that its original firmware is the vibrants (I can post pics if people want to see this). Anyways my problem is that upon installing darkys rom, my volume buttons seem to have switched around, meaning up is down and down is up. I was wondering if this is an easy fix? Cause if so, any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks you!
Hey guys, I just spent most of last night installing CM7 on my Bell Vibrant (i9000m) and I successfully got it running and everything after reading what seemed to be millions of posts on the matter..
Anyway, now that I have it running I have some issues.
1. My home button doesn't work. At all. Except for when I use it to enter recovery mode. It isn't a physical problem, it has worked up to this point, and I use it all the time to enter recovery mode etc.
Someone said flashing a voodoo kernel would fix it, so I went and got the latest one and installed it and nothing happened. Apparently it installed, but I've never even used a voodoo kernel and I have no idea what it did. Oh yeah, and this is my first time flashing a custom rom on my vibrant .. I have previous experience with my old htc hero though.
2. Network issues.
I'm really from B.C. Canada, but I'm in phoenix, AZ for vacation right now. I was bored at night (I go to bed at like 3 am) and I decided to finally put CM7 on it. Now I only get any network access (roaming) when I'm right beside a mall, when previously on stock rom I had network access (still roaming) everywhere.
Btw, I installed radio KB1 initially, then tried KA7 and both of them give nearly no results.
3. My volume up/down buttons are inverted. I don't really care about that though.
Thats about it.. any help would be appreciated. I really want my home button fixed so I can finally go on without having to restart if something f***s up, its really annoying.
The network issue isn't that big of a deal, I'm expecting it to work when I get home.
Thanks !
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I'm pretty sure that the Bell Vibrant is more like the European i9000 than the American Vibrant (T-959). The buttons are mapped differently and our roms will cause the problems you're talking about.
Yup. Just looked at some pictures of a Bell Vibrant to make sure. You need to be in the i9000 section.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT blaming or trolling on any devs here! You guys are doing an awesome job!
Ok, now down to business...
It seems that when I'm running any 2.3.3 ROM on my Vibrant (I'm currently running Simply Galaxy 3.0 RC3.1) There are 2 bugs that always rear their ugly heads.
The first one (which is mostly just annoying) is that there is always this freaky pixelated color screen that comes on after the Vibrant screen, and always before the boot animation. Everything else works fine after that.
The second one (which is the reason I'm posting this thread) is because Clockwork Mod recovery is invisible. What I mean is, CwM is fully functional, but it will always be hidden either behind a Vibrant screen or behind the screen mentioned above in the first bug. I know CwM is running when the soft key backlights are all on, and also because the power button will reboot the phone, since "reboot device now" is the first item selected in CwM, and the volume up/down buttons will also work.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I am new to XDA, and since I don't have 10 posts yet I can't post this question in any Android Dev forums, so that's why I posted it here.
I do believe that is a known issue.
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Did you press home, I think that makes the screen go black. Maybe not your issue, but it was an obvious thing to make certain.
Hoping someone can assist as its driving my crazy and searched for a solution without luck.
Running SG2 with custom rom,rooted, Siyah kernel etc. Its not ROM related i believe as the problem occurs on different ROM's.
One day phone menu button decided not to funciton. The backlit part works but jsut doesnt provide the menu etc. If i hold it down it respnods, the keyboard appears but not menu etc.
Only solution to date is to restore a prior Nandroid backup ive made using CWM but then within a few hours the menu button gives up again. This occured when i went from Leocheck ROM to Rarity. Even tried wipe ROM version to clear everything and used Titanium to restore everything but eventually menu button dies again.
Has anyone else experienced this, i cant figure it out?
Damn, guess im the only one lol.
From what ive read on forums it could be a conflict with the ROM I installed being 3.9 Rarity and some apk i may have installed although i havent installed anythnig new.
Others thing some kind of bad framework installed but even when i reflash with a nowipe and reinstall data only via Titanium or advanced restore via CWM, after a few hours the problem reappears.
Besdies getting a new phone lol im really at a loss :-(
Just an FYI if anyone ever has the same problem as me. Via chance i discovered the reason why my menu button would often not work, it was due to Ultrakeyboard v6.1.
Its a newer release and works fine however whilst its selected, it kills your menu button. Once you change input, the menu button becomes functional again.
So end of the day after flashing many stock roms, kernels, modems etc it was as simple as a keyboard lol
This thread helped me. Same thing happened to my fiancee's phone. Menu button didn't work. Even flashed a new rom and eventually same thing happened. So, looked on here, found this, disabled Ultra KB and it works. They need to get this fixed.
Guys,
I have the same problem but dont have ultra keyboard my menu button just doesnt work anymore
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This thread helped me. Same thing happened to my fiancee's phone. Menu button didn't work. Even flashed a new rom and eventually same thing happened. So, looked on here, found this, disabled Ultra KB and it works. They need to get this fixed.
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Glad I could help someone else out.couldn't believe I was the only one, it was puking my fair out testing each app one by one and I heaps installed. Newer ultra works fine, v6.5 is already floating around
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Guys,
I have the same problem but dont have ultra keyboard my menu button just doesnt work anymore
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Have you tried button savoir from the market.this will determine if its something wrong with the soft buttons or your rom/system itself. phones with hardware buttons use it to stop them wearing out
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Thanks for the advice with button saviour. Looks like its a warranty job
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Thanks for the advice with button saviour. Looks like its a warranty job
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Is your phone standard or rooted with a custom rom?
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Tried both standard and custom roms on it, still same
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Tried both standard and custom roms on it, still same
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Does your menu button do anything.what gave it away for me was that when I pressed the button, nothing happened but when I held it down the keyboard would pop up so it was atleast functioning, just not correctly.
Are you sure its not another duplication causing this.have you tried a fresh rom install without installing any additional apps?
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Yeah have tried multiple fresh roms. Flashed stock with ODIN then upgraded over WIFI. Nothing. I also did a key test in recovery and it wasnt working. It is intermittent. Tho today its barely worked. I have done factory resets etc. Nothing has helped
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Yeah have tried multiple fresh roms. Flashed stock with ODIN then upgraded over WIFI. Nothing. I also did a key test in recovery and it wasnt working. It is intermittent. Tho today its barely worked. I have done factory resets etc. Nothing has helped
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If it didn't even work in recovery then it sounds like a warranty job to me (of course after flashing back to stock).
In CWM my menu button worked so I knew it had to be app related. Hope you figure it out. Mine now decides to go into the sleep of death lol.
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Yeah its a def warranty job. Its a shame, as I usually rubbish everything samsung, but then my S2 was amazing and I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Ah well, these things will happen
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Yeah its a def warranty job. Its a shame, as I usually rubbish everything samsung, but then my S2 was amazing and I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Ah well, these things will happen
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Yeah despite your bad luck they really are awesome phones.I had a HTC HD2 running with latest Android etc but just not the same. Mine reboots a bit and has the sleep of death etc but have to admit I accidently took mine in a spa so surprised its working at all lol.
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Hello XDA,
I apologize in advance if this topic has been covered, but I cannot seem to find any threads describing the problem I have.
Please read below the post that I have put in the Noob Guide thread... After attempting to root my Note for the first time, somehow during the initial process the touch-buttons have completely stopped working
"I don't know how or why, but the touch buttons on the bottom of the phone are no longer working. Is it broken? I was using the stock ICS version on the Note, decided to root it using your guide. I followed the steps, but it locked up on the Samsung logo on bootup. So I then went to restore the phone to stock and try again, and now the buttons are not working at all??? What happened??
By the way, the touch screen is working totally fine. I just cannot press the home, menu, back and search buttons. Also, when I followed the process to bring the phone back to stock, the phone would hangup during boot as well. It would freeze this time on the ATT white and blue logo screen. I followed the advice by Da G and did a factory wipe, and then it finally booted up, but no buttons!!! How do I fix this??
So I've been experimenting as much as possible to try and figure out where I went wrong in this process to break the capacitor buttons. I've tried flashing the stock rom through Odin several times, still no buttons. Without the use of the buttons, I've been able to flash CWM and root the phone, and then was able to flash a rom with no problems at all (since CWM only uses the volume and power buttons to function). I chose a random rom and flashed it, Novena (Alliance Rom), and that process went smoothly. But I still have no touch buttons!!!! What happened??
Is this an unfixable problem? Considering I've been able to do anything with the phone except for touch the buttons, it doesn't seem like it would be a software problem.. But what could I have done to break the buttons? I'm so frustrated.. am I going to have to claim a new phone through insurance? If so, I'm pretty damn scared of trying to root the phone again!"
I would take a look at the ussd codes and see if there is one to test this specific setting!
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Thank you for the reply! I looked through all the USSD codes on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953506&highlight=ussd+code
I could not find anything that would help me. In CWM boot menu, there is a "Key Test" feature in the Advanced section. When I choose that, it registers "Key: 114, 115", etc. when I press the volume up, down and power buttons, but there is no reaction when I touch the capacitive buttons. It says that you have to press "Back" to get out of this test mode, so I'm stuck in the mode and have to reboot since the stupid button doesn't work. >_<
I'm so frustrated. Has anyone ever had this problem?? It seems so bizarre...
that happen to me with my brand new skyrocket.something went during root process.i couldnt fix it.i tried everything.i end up calling att .they replaced it with refurbished unit.good luck.you must have done something wrong while rooting.because samsung phones are hard to ****up.i know what i did.i ran a app from playstore to unlock sim after i rooted it.thats what messed up my buttons.
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that happen to me with my brand new skyrocket.something went during root process.i couldnt fix it.i tried everything.i end up calling att .they replaced it with refurbished unit.good luck.you must have done something wrong while rooting.because samsung phones are hard to ****up.i know what i did.i ran a app from playstore to unlock sim after i rooted it.thats what messed up my buttons.
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Aw man, that's discouraging. I can cough up the $200 and get a replacement phone through insurance, but now I'm scared to root it again! I don't know what I did wrong.. I followed all the steps I was supposed to as far as I know.
If I get a replacement phone and try to root it, if this happens again the warranty is void right? So I'd have to go through insurance again to get a new one?
only time i have seen this happen was with a friends epic touch. he flashed a rom for different galaxy sii device. it booted and only problem was buttons not working. you do have a note i717? just checking. you could flash a rom that you can enable navigation bar with onscreen buttons. i am running eclipse and it has this feature and i dont have any problems with rom.
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only time i have seen this happen was with a friends epic touch. he flashed a rom for different galaxy sii device. it booted and only problem was buttons not working. you do have a note i717? just checking. you could flash a rom that you can enable navigation bar with onscreen buttons. i am running eclipse and it has this feature and i dont have any problems with rom.
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Thanks for the reply.. That is actually a good idea, I will have to try that if the buttons break again. I say "again" because **update** the buttons are magically working now!! Wtf?? I received a phone call and talked for a bit, set the phone down and when I picked it up again the buttons are all working like nothing was ever wrong.
Of course, they magically started working AFTER I called Assurion and ordered a replacement... Ugh. That is the second time I've ordered a replacement and cancelled it.
Another update...
They're broken again. UGH. No idea why or why they started working for a few minutes. I'm getting that replacement phone and I'll try again. I really hope it doesn't happen again...