Okay guys, i have a question for everyone. Im not very good with programing or anything like that. Im usually the person that just flashes other peoples work but i have an idea, the motorola atrix has a very good location for the lock button and i have noticed that if its in your pocket the chances of pressing it are pretty slim. Well the other day i flashed a rom and something messed up, two of the soft keys didnt work and i didnt have a lockscreen. Pushing the button just locked it and you press it again to go strait to the homescreen. It was quite nice, by the way i reflashed and it fixed itself along with the soft keys but i want it back does anyone know how to do that?
Keep flashing until it does it again, then stop!
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haha i actually thought about doing that but the couple of times i tried i had to choose, do i want all my softkeys to work or do i not want a lockscreen....i chose the functionality when i came down to it. I want to know if anyone thinks they can just get rid of it as i mentioned, and keep the softkeys. haha
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I have searched and searched, but can not find what seems to be an applicable fix, so here goes.
Ok here is my best description. Equipment: Rooted vibrant. The plot: Rooted. Ran fine for months. Yesterday purchased Rom Manager premium. Installed one of the premium roms. Can't remember the name of the rom. After install everything worked fine except I kept getting the error, "com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly" so I tried everything I could find related to that problem to fix it, but nothing worked. As a symptom the market, gmail, etc wouldn't work. Anyway I figured I'd just recover the last rom that I backed up and start over. So I did, but now the phone boots, goes to the "draw pattern to unlock screen" and won't recognize the fact that I'm actually drawing the pattern to unlock the screen. The "buttons" on the bottom of the screen recognize my touch (menu, home, search, back) as they darken when touching them.
So there the phone sits on the unlock screen. After a minute or two the screen goes blank, the phone vibrates once, and the unlock screen comes back and won't accept any input.
Is this fix applicable, or would it work in bringing my phone back to me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
I want to make sure as I don't want to further exacerbate the uselessness of my phone. I feel like I've lost a limb with it gone.
Thanks for any help.
Sorry to hear you found the worst gremlin of all. I'll get that from time to time when my phone feels like being stupid. Lucky for me, I can just reboot the phone, and she's back to normal.
As far your situation is concerned, I would probably try to use Odin and flash your phone back to stock so you can build it back up to whatever ROM you're on. This usually happens when you bounce back and forth between a froyo and GB ROM; or a ROM from a different dev that's used a different framework to make all his stuff work.
Jump into the link in my sig, and see if you can find the files you need. Otherwise, shoot me a message so I can link you to the files I use to go back to stock pre-rooted.
Lol, did you try this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749605
Odin to stock, check the stickie about how to do so... it will solve your problem almost for sure... above all, dont panic, youll be allright
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younix258 said:
Odin to stock, check the stickie about how to do so... it will solve your problem almost for sure... above all, dont panic, youll be allright
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OK. The sticky worked. I admit I panicked, but IT WORKS NOW!! I'm just ecstatic! You guys rule.
I guess I was just gun shy. I bricked the snot out of my my-touch a year ago (still doesn't work).
Anyway, on to hacking.
Thanks again!
Awesome! Glad you got it werkin
Next time just try a simple Google search of the error itself.
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If you still have the mytouch I'd be interested in it. PM me if so
Yeah I tried to google the problem, but I was still stuck. None of the fixes seemed to work. Until google led me here.
I do still have the my touch. Mint condition, minus the fact it doesn't work! I'd like to get it working again if possible. Is there a way to odin the my touch? I tried and tried last year when I bricked it, but I never got it to work again. Is there a my touch forum here somewhere named something other than "my touch"?
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Help Me,The soft keys on my phone are being weird, whenever i flash BCBlends Kernel or RCMix Kernel my soft keys are at full brightness, but when i flash ANY other kernels they are all dim, except for the home key which has little to no light on it, its not the model of my phone i dont think either because ive had two Evo 3D's and they both have done this. HELP!!!
i'm a little confused... what exactly are we helping you with here? are you looking for a way to keep the LED lights on or what?
It's the phone...My buddy had the same problems...he took it in and traded it for a new phone and everything seems to be working fine after that. You have a bad one...
so you mean the kernels have a code in it to set brightness? ya theres a thread on here I ran across earlier that discussed that and how to change it. I'm sure you dont need to trade your phone in. just look some more.
So I was using my camera LED as a flash light yesterday for a really really long time. Like 80% battery to 3%. Toward the end my power button quit responding so I had to pull the battery to even wake up the phone (could have called it but I didn't know it was the power button). Anyways it's still under warranty but it's rooted and I have Phone Bricker 2.7 installed. I don't mind sending it in to Samsung for a warranty (I got it late September or whenever the I777 came out last year) but I think I need to order a jig first and reset the flash counter and reflash stock OS (which I can find on the forum).
I was seeking alternatives to make it usable because I'm going to AZ this weekend and would prefer not to have to temporarily return to my old Nexus One while I order my jig and stuff. I found an app called like AnyLock or something.. (I removed it already). It would allow me to use the volume rocker to wake up the display but it seemed like it only worked if the phone just recently went to sleep. After 10 minutes or so the button wouldn't wake up the phone and I'd have to plug in a charger or something.
I purchased WidgetLocker which claimed to allow this sort of thing too. Set it all up and it did the same thing.. wouldn't respond after some intermittent time after the display timed out. Well that and it's also waking up the display automatically (even sitting here on my desk, not even touching the phone) a three or four times a minute.
Any suggestions on something to allow for temporary wakeups? I was running CM7 on my nexus 1 and I was able to wake using the trackball. Phone Bricker doesn't seem to give me any options like using the volume rocker.. I should be able to use the CWM app to reboot into recovery mode without having to do the power button thing to flash a different mod if maybe CM has a volume rocker option.. or any other mod.
I don't have much help for but can tell you that aokp has volume rocker to wake screen option.
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I don't have much help for but can tell you that aokp has volume rocker to wake screen option.
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That is exactly the kind of help I'm looking for! I love Phone Bricker but it's the only mod I've tried on this phone.. I'd much rather flash the OS than mess around with the N1, I'll save that for when I'm ready to ship it in for warranty.
Same thing happened to my old i777. Temporary fix is to use go launcher and go locker. Go into setting for go locker and set screen wake when volume is pressed. Att gave me a new phone with no issues
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You guys purchased them as new, rip them off, beat them up, flash/install custom ROMs/kernels. Screw up big time then return them and get the new ones.
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No wonder why those providers just keep increasing the fees and fares.
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You guys purchased them as new, rip them off, beat them up, flash/install custom ROMs/kernels. Screw up big time then return them and get the new ones.
LOL
No wonder why those providers just keep increasing the fees and fares.
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I didn't drop it or anything! I might have shaken it up some using it but nothing terrible.. Anyways if it was getting the phone too hot by running the flashlight app too long, I could have done that with the stock OS and a flashlight app from the market so I'd still warranty it I just wouldn't have to do more work to cover my warranty voiding tracks. I just wanted to post all info I thought could have been relevant because who would help me if they had to ask me a ton of questions first? But you know, I just did the go locker solution jthatch12 suggested and it's working fine.
I don't know a fix, but I have a potential workaround. CM7 and CM9 both allow you to wake up the phone with the volume keys. An app called Virtual Button Bar will allow you to put the phone to sleep from any screen (as long you're rooted). It costs a couple bucks but it works really well.
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I didn't drop it or anything! I might have shaken it up some using it but nothing terrible.. Anyways if it was getting the phone too hot by running the flashlight app too long, I could have done that with the stock OS and a flashlight app from the market so I'd still warranty it I just wouldn't have to do more work to cover my warranty voiding tracks. I just wanted to post all info I thought could have been relevant because who would help me if they had to ask me a ton of questions first? But you know, I just did the go locker solution jthatch12 suggested and it's working fine.
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When you get around to unrooting your phone, do the mobile odin reset back to stock. That'll put your phone back to stock and in a bootloop. Then take your phone back to att and tell them something failed during the update to ics. Worked for me. My power button stopped working randomly one day for no reason. My phones are babied. Always kept in a case
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Sometimes when i press the power button on the side of my phone my phone will not fire up. I see the screen really vague. I need to press the button sometimes more them 10 times in order to get my phone working. It looks like the backlite is not working good. It is starting to piss me off.
Anyone else experiencing the same kind of problem?
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Sometimes when i press the power button on the side of my phone my phone will not fire up. I see the screen really vague. I need to press the button sometimes more them 10 times in order to get my phone working. It looks like the backlite is not working good. It is starting to piss me off.
Anyone else experiencing the same kind of problem?
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Hey,
Sorry to say I don't know the answer to your question, but there is one thing I'd like to share with you. Samsung OLED displays don't have backlite. So it can't be broken either. Good luck finding a solution!
Stock rom = sent it back
Flash stock, if still not working, triangle away, Send it back..
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I can sent it back but i dont want to miss my phone for some weeks if i can fix it myself. Then i have to go back to my S1
So you want a defective phone? Even if you fix it, you still have a defective phone. Get it sent back to the store or Samsung.. Surely you can live without it for the benefit of the time it comes to sell the device.
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Are you sure you are on the most current official ROM? (This would be, starting today, Jellybean in a few countries)
Some old offical ROM's sometimes had the issue and it was annodying as hell. I have not seen it since switching to leaked Jellybean builds.
As the previous poster already said; there is no backlight so you should not be able to see anything. Maybe your eyes are playing tticks on you or you got some app such as ScreenFilter to act up.
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...