I have searched the forums and not found an answer so I am posting a question.
I flashed Aura ROM and been very happy for a very long time then suddenly the notification bar wont pull down.
The only thing I can think of is that I tried to use the Entertainment Dock and, although the phone went into entertainment mode, the TV remained blank, I unplugged and got on with my life.
I have since tried wipe (data/cache/dalvik), reflash Aura, wipe reflash Aura w/Bl, wipe reflash Home, flash update, flash theme, wipe...
After the above I went to restore a previous backup and got an MD5 Sums Mismatch. I repaired the backup and restored...still the problem persists.
Any ideas would be welcome. I am getting concerned that I have managed to ruin a fantastic phone.
I can confirm that there is no problem with the screen, that portion of the screen responds to swipes across and moves the desktop, just not the notification bar.
The really weird bit is that the buttons stop working, if I run my finger across from one side to the other then the screen responds (my home screen moves around).
If I go into landscape then the pull down works but the buttons are still shot and back to portrait doesn't help.
Standby and back seems to fix it (I do not have to power off).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jez
Quick update (problem persists)
I used multitouch tester to see what was happening when I dragged down the notification bar. When functioning correctly it see's one finger as one. When going wrong it sees the finger at the top of the screen as two / three / four separate presses. When I drag the one finger down the extra points stay at the top. I guess this is why the notification bar doesn't go down.
Jez
Hardware Fault
I have decided that this is a hardware fault and so I am desperately trying to hide the "unlocked" text and return the device
...or brick it in the process
wish me luck...
jezarius said:
I have decided that this is a hardware fault and so I am desperately trying to hide the "unlocked" text and return the device
...or brick it in the process
wish me luck...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just flash a GB SBF to remove the unlocked and you don't have to worry about bricks as long as you don't attempt to flash a froyo SBF. Don't worry if it doesn't boot after flashing the SBF. Just ssend it in. That's what I did.
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
d3athsd00r said:
Just flash a GB SBF to remove the unlocked and you don't have to worry about bricks as long as you don't attempt to flash a froyo SBF. Don't worry if it doesn't boot after flashing the SBF. Just ssend it in. That's what I did.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I actually did the motorola update from their software update tool. It removed the "unlocked" text, put the T-Mobile startup animation back in and soft bricked it.
I have now sent it off for repair...three weeks
Thanks for the comment
Related
Helping with my girlfriend's Atrix, and it's been a bit of a nightmare -_-
Got it back to stock minus unlocked bootloader, but now, the touchscreen stretched off the screen of the unit. Lemme see if I can explain better:
About halfway down from the top, the screen becomes less accurate and seems to be stretched below it. For example, if I want to type something, pressing space bar will get be b or g, and to type a space, you have to press between the home and the back buttons.
Unfortunately, the entire bottom row of soft keys are completely inaccessible.
Is there a utility that can recalibrate the screen, or a file I can edit to bring the system back to normal? Flashing stock fruitcakes doesn't seem to help, and I even tried a pudding sbf file (I know the risks), and that didn't restore the proper screen behavior.
Google-fu also failed me, so if anyone knows the answer, please help
Potential clue: Installed Neutrino ROM 1.4S at on point in the process to her phone, but I'd think that writing a full SBF over that should eliminate that problem?
Update:
Tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421261
Then this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421522
No improvement, so I reinstalled Neutrino, and still no improvement
User Beeboobop over in the Neutrino thread nailed this for me
Beeboobop said:
Looks like a problem with your pds partition. This should fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131649
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I applied that fix by following the steps exactly in that link, and full screen functionality is back!
i just got my dell streak and so far when i press the start button i see the dell logo and then the screen just hangs there (black) until i remove the battery. I tried to charge the battery up to full but i since i do not see a battery charging indicator i really dont know what to do with it. help
everything is stock, i dont even know if its GB or not since i havent been able to start it up It's a rogers phone though
Tried a factory reset
Sent from my Dell Streak using xda premium
yeah i tried that. i also went into fastboot and it says on the bottom "default nv checked #2" and i cannot click on the fastboot option. When i press the volume rocker up or down the screen goes dark and then comes back in a little bit saying that the "screen calibration FAILED"
i did however succeed one time in getting the screen calibration to "pass" and then i was able to press the fastboot option. From there i used the DSC installer "flash" exe and it updated the phone. Then after the reboot i was able to see the lock screen but unable to press any buttons.
im figuring
1) the touch screen is defective, hence iam unable to press anything and thus the screen calibration keeps failing
2) the connect to the touch screen is broken or lose and i might need to open'her up to see
3) fack it, ill just tell rogers to send a replacement.
So far ive done step 3 but since its the weekend, i felt like tinkering.
My lock screen disappeared on most ROMs including stock. I can't explain when or why exactly; A few weeks after root, but no other halfway relevant events. When I hit power it turns off directly without locking--no power menu either. I unrooted and reinstalled stock and it solved nothing so I'm back to AOKP. Two greedy thieves live with me, three feet tall and prone to sabotage (edit: hmm, wait a minute...) so I need a lockable screen always. Ideas? Thanks.
Edit: This, along with all the the issues in my other posts, turned out to be related to a corrupt efs folder, fixed by repartitioning with a pit file and reflashing stock.
kailehu said:
My lock screen disappeared on most ROMs including stock. I can't explain when or why exactly; A few weeks after root, but nothing else had changed. When I hit power it turns off directly without locking--no power menu either. I unrooted and reinstalled stock and it solved nothing so I'm back to AOKP. Two greedy thieves live with me, three feet tall and prone to sabotage so I need a lockable screen always. Ideas? Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try this:
Settings menu>security.
At the top of the right side panel is screen lock. See if it'set to none.
Hallo,
i described the same problem almost in the Desire Generel Thread but that wasn't the right.
I have a HTC EVO 3D GSM and one big problem.
My notification bar scrolls down without any touch of my side. It scrolls down a little bit and stuck there so i cant do anything at this time because of the scrolled down notification bar. To fix that i can only lock the phone by pushing the power button and relock it again as usually. But after that the same problem begins. This problem starts at monday around 12 am.
At that time i had installed a cusom rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1507616
The Kernel which i had installed was: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31376376&postcount=874
I thought it might be a problem with custom roms or something i decided to go back to stock rom, lock bootloader and unroot the phone. But the problem exists in the way i described above.
I went to stock by using goldcard and extract the rom.zip from the temporary file of a Shooter_RUU of HTC Gingerbread. After that i installed the official HTC ICS Software.
Now i installed a app of the Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=multitouchpro.tests&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm11bHRpdG91Y2hwcm8udGVzdHMiXQ..
There i can see, that i have two fingers of the display (red and blue). No Problem but after a short time two other circles came to display but i dont touch that. They are in that area of display where the notification bar is to find (with 2 circles green and yellow).
What can i do!? Is there anyone who can help me to fix that terrible problem? I dont know how i can fix that.
If nothing can help, can i give that phone to my local electronic retailer and he dont notes that the phone was one day unlocked and rooted and there was a custom rom installed?
Best regards,
Marc
Hello friends.
I just got my Motorolla Atrix 4G and im not abble to unlock it on the unlock screen, the touch just dont works at all there, even the capacitive buttons below not responding. The first day I managed to unlock it somehow after removing the battery, after that the unlock screen was working fine even when I lock the phone so I tough the problem was over and stated to install some basic apps. Like 2 days later the problem was back and now not even removing battery was working, sometimes I get to unlock it but now thats less and less posible. I read that installing an optional unlock screen could do the trick so I installed "Widget Locker" and worked some hours, then the same thing even the Widget Locker unlock screen dosnt respond. Its weird because once I manage to unlock it the touch works perfectly at all so that makes me think its a software/system problem.
Currently I cant unlock it at all, not even removing battery or anything.
The phone its used, I was thinking to bring it to a tech center on here and try root and installing a custom rom?
Thanks in advance for your help guys.
Bump...
Just to add... tried hard reset and didnt worked =/
¿Any sugestion? ¿Should I try an screen change?
Thanks.
BlazeHN said:
Hello friends.
I just got my Motorolla Atrix 4G and im not abble to unlock it on the unlock screen, the touch just dont works at all there, even the capacitive buttons below not responding. The first day I managed to unlock it somehow after removing the battery, after that the unlock screen was working fine even when I lock the phone so I tough the problem was over and stated to install some basic apps. Like 2 days later the problem was back and now not even removing battery was working, sometimes I get to unlock it but now thats less and less posible. I read that installing an optional unlock screen could do the trick so I installed "Widget Locker" and worked some hours, then the same thing even the Widget Locker unlock screen dosnt respond. Its weird because once I manage to unlock it the touch works perfectly at all so that makes me think its a software/system problem.
The phone its used, I dont have access to warranty or anything =/ I was thinking to bring it to a tech center on here and try root and installing a custom rom?
Thanks in advance for your help guys.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does the problem occur when you move the phone into a vertical position (moving the lock screen)?
Try turning the screen off/on by using the power button (but don't turn the phone off) ... does this help?
When you installed a custom rom did you do a full system wipe? (goto 'mounts/storage' and format pre-install, data, system, osh, cache) before
installing rom.
Hello barry, thanks for the answer.
Yes, the problem occours in both horizontal and vertical positions.
If I press the power button the power off dialog appears on screen and im unable to touch the options, holding the power button dont turn the phone off so im forced to remove the battery to turn it off.
I havent installed a custom rom yet. Thats the next step ill be covering. I toke the phone to a tech center place and asked them to install a custom rom (since I cant persoanlly do the root and flash rom proces) They just told me that it didnt fixed it, but when i turn it on i saw the same Moto Blur interface wich make me think they didnt changed the rom at all...
Sadly when puting a SIM and starting the phone the Motorolla interface screen appeared, but... touch wasnt working there neither wich now starts to make me think it is a hardware problem after all... Im not sure anymore and dont know what to do now
Sorry for the long answer and the bad english.
sounds like your digitizer might need replaced, based off of what I read. just out of curiousity, what android version is it?
Stock Android Gingerbread 2.3 with Moto Blur UI
Digitizer? Not Screen then?
EDIT: Ohh nvm, Digitizer = Touchscreen right?
BlazeHN said:
Digitizer? Not Screen then?
EDIT: Ohh nvm, Digitizer = Touchscreen right?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes. Don't confuse the two, the screen has nothing to do with the digitizer, other than one being on top of the other physically.