I recently switched from LG G2x to this new HTC Amaze 4G.
I got tired of the bland O/S and decided to make a drastic change over to the O/S that is full of crazy bloatware.
Ok whatever I can deal with it....
In the first day that I bought the phone (2 weeks ago) I decided to check for updates. Surely enough, there were updates for HTC (NOT ANDROID) .... So I decided to update...
I updated the phone and everything seemed fine, seemed as if nothing has changed. A few hours later I started seeing my phone go sluggish, normally when this happens on any Android device I choose to just shut the phone down and turn it back on.
I long press the power button and nothing happens.
WTF?
I short press and it shuts my screen off.
I panic and take my phone back to T-Mobile the next day.
They gave me a new one.
So up until today, I have not updated because of my fear of having to factory reset on my phone.
(Like they did on the first one at the store)
Surely enough, my power button is GONE AGAIN!
WTF HTC!?!?!?!?!
I did backup my phone before updating.......
BUT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET AROUND THIS PROBLEM WITHOUT HAVING TO RESTORE MY PHONE?????
Has anyone else had this problem!???
I am so frikin pissed!
first of all, is your phone completely stock? second, did you try a basic phone restart/battery pull?
Htc amaze doesnt support the long press to power down your phone.
mznatnat said:
I recently switched from LG G2x to this new HTC Amaze 4G.
I got tired of the bland O/S and decided to make a drastic change over to the O/S that is full of crazy bloatware.
Ok whatever I can deal with it....
In the first day that I bought the phone (2 weeks ago) I decided to check for updates. Surely enough, there were updates for HTC (NOT ANDROID) .... So I decided to update...
I updated the phone and everything seemed fine, seemed as if nothing has changed. A few hours later I started seeing my phone go sluggish, normally when this happens on any Android device I choose to just shut the phone down and turn it back on.
I long press the power button and nothing happens.
WTF?
I short press and it shuts my screen off.
I panic and take my phone back to T-Mobile the next day.
They gave me a new one.
So up until today, I have not updated because of my fear of having to factory reset on my phone.
(Like they did on the first one at the store)
Surely enough, my power button is GONE AGAIN!
WTF HTC!?!?!?!?!
I did backup my phone before updating.......
BUT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET AROUND THIS PROBLEM WITHOUT HAVING TO RESTORE MY PHONE?????
Has anyone else had this problem!???
I am so frikin pissed!
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go to settings=>security=>check "use secure credentials" put whatever credentials you want and your power button will be back
What are you people talking about? I long press the power button and my options came up to power down the phone or restart....
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JesseMT4G said:
What are you people talking about? I long press the power button and my options came up to power down the phone or restart....
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us people are talking about those people whose power button options do not come up. good to know yours come up though.
That happened to me on a few ROMs. I used Extended Controls Widget and made a restart button. You have to remove the battery instead. You can also install NRG's ROM. I never had that anymore.
Jessfox said:
Htc amaze doesnt support the long press to power down your phone.
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Since when?
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Felinos11 said:
us people are talking about those people whose power button options do not come up. good to know yours come up though.
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I may understand on a modded amaze, but why would factory Amaze phones differ with what is common in majority of all Android phones?
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JesseMT4G said:
I may understand on a modded amaze, but why would factory Amaze phones differ with what is common in majority of all Android phones?
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trust me you wouldn't understand even on a modded amaze
How long are ya'll holding the power button? Had this problem once but it fixed itself...
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Since when?
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I think I didn't word that correctly. I'm saying that holding down the power button for about 5 seconds manually shutting down the phone isn't supported on this phone. I'm not talking about bringing up the power options
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Felinos11 said:
trust me you wouldn't understand even on a modded amaze
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Every forum has a resident asshole, I see you are the one. Nice to meet ya.
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Every forum has a resident asshole, I see you are the one. Nice to meet ya.
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hope u not this slow all the time welcome
Felinos11 said:
hope u not this slow all the time welcome
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lol this gave me a good laugh
mznatnat said:
I recently switched from LG G2x to this new HTC Amaze 4G.
I got tired of the bland O/S and decided to make a drastic change over to the O/S that is full of crazy bloatware.
Ok whatever I can deal with it....
In the first day that I bought the phone (2 weeks ago) I decided to check for updates. Surely enough, there were updates for HTC (NOT ANDROID) .... So I decided to update...
I updated the phone and everything seemed fine, seemed as if nothing has changed. A few hours later I started seeing my phone go sluggish, normally when this happens on any Android device I choose to just shut the phone down and turn it back on.
I long press the power button and nothing happens.
WTF?
I short press and it shuts my screen off.
I panic and take my phone back to T-Mobile the next day.
They gave me a new one.
So up until today, I have not updated because of my fear of having to factory reset on my phone.
(Like they did on the first one at the store)
Surely enough, my power button is GONE AGAIN!
WTF HTC!?!?!?!?!
I did backup my phone before updating.......
BUT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET AROUND THIS PROBLEM WITHOUT HAVING TO RESTORE MY PHONE?????
Has anyone else had this problem!???
I am so frikin pissed!
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Hi, have you update to latest rom? I have call the customer service. They say the newest update will fix the power button issue. You have mention your screen has become sluggish after update. Maybe the sluggish make the system abnormal.
cobbcobbdavid said:
Hi, have you update to latest rom? I have call the customer service. They say the newest update will fix the power button issue. You have mention your screen has become sluggish after update. Maybe the sluggish make the system abnormal.
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Lol wth r u sayin haha
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Jessfox said:
I think I didn't word that correctly. I'm saying that holding down the power button for about 5 seconds manually shutting down the phone isn't supported on this phone. I'm not talking about bringing up the power options
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Ahh i see wat ur sayin. But in a way, its still the same bcuz u have to long press to bring up the menu to shut down. So long pressing doesnt shut it down, but at the same time it does. Or gives you the option to. you kno wat i mean lol
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smatthew45 said:
first of all, is your phone completely stock? second, did you try a basic phone restart/battery pull?
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Completely stock..... and the battery pull was the very first thing I tried.... I just refuse to do battery pulls every time I need to restart my phone....
Jessfox said:
Htc amaze doesnt support the long press to power down your phone.
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You are absolutely wrong about that. Long press is suppose to make a menu come up and ask whether you want to restart, shut down, or go into airplane mode.... Are you telling me that your power button does not do long press???? If so, then you probably are going through the same thing as me.
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Okay so hope this is the right spot to post this....
My phone about two hours ago was on working fine. At about 30% bat...
I took a nap and now when i plug it in to the charger it will not turn on at all.. only thing that happens is the LED blinks that orangy color over and over...
If i remove the battery and put it back in.. still nothing at all ever comes on the screen.
After removing the battery and while plugged into the charger if i hold the power button it will vibrate once and thats it...
not sure whats happening.
I was on gingeritis 1.0 and everything was great up to this point.
any ideas??
Let is attempt to charge for a while, maybe 2 hours. Then see if you can power up into the bootloader. See if that works.
I had that happen once as well. I just let it sit on the charger for about 15-20 minutes, and it booted up with no problems after that. In my case, it looked like the battery was just completely dead and needed to build up enough juice to last until after it booted up.
FreemanB said:
I had that happen once as well. I just let it sit on the charger for about 15-20 minutes, and it booted up with no problems after that. In my case, it looked like the battery was just completely dead and needed to build up enough juice to last until after it booted up.
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Yup, ditto.
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Questions like this do not belong in the development section.
Please post in the Q&A section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1103
Wrong section brother.
^_^_^
Ditto, try pulling battery out for 5-10 seconds, put the charger. It will not blink, then it will flash orange blinks let it sit for some 15. Minutes. Remember that TB takes alot of juice to reboot sometimes 5%.
STAY AWAY FROM ALL GINGERBREAD ROMS
My phone got stuck on the white htc screen this morning all of a sudden without any perceivable reason at all. Luckily I was able to restore to a backup.. BUT... It wouldn't install any new roms on my phone anymore for some reason.. they all get stuck on the white htc screen.
My advice.. GB is f&&&ked somewhere deep down.. and which is probably why it isn't officially released yet. Keep off of it if you don't wanna brick your phones.
kriskmk said:
STAY AWAY FROM ALL GINGERBREAD ROMS
My phone got stuck on the white htc screen this morning all of a sudden without any perceivable reason at all. Luckily I was able to restore to a backup.. BUT... It wouldn't install any new roms on my phone anymore for some reason.. they all get stuck on the white htc screen.
My advice.. GB is f&&&ked somewhere deep down.. and which is probably why it isn't officially released yet. Keep off of it if you don't wanna brick your phones.
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That's a sign of a hardware failure I had a bad touch screen and once it went out it wouldn't boot past the splash, I'm sure it's similar with other hardware failures so it's a bad device not the gingerbread roms
Atleast that's my opinion
>--The Game--<
kriskmk said:
STAY AWAY FROM ALL GINGERBREAD ROMS
My phone got stuck on the white htc screen this morning all of a sudden without any perceivable reason at all. Luckily I was able to restore to a backup.. BUT... It wouldn't install any new roms on my phone anymore for some reason.. they all get stuck on the white htc screen.
My advice.. GB is f&&&ked somewhere deep down.. and which is probably why it isn't officially released yet. Keep off of it if you don't wanna brick your phones.
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Sounds like you didn't wipe data.
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Sounds like you didn't wipe data.
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But if he flashed Gingeritis, wouldn't the script have done in for him in cwr?
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I had this happen to just a few ago.
Picked up the phone and screen was off,Normal, I hit power and nothing.
Pulled battery, went bootloaded mode recovery and wiped and loaded bamf.
I have all the roms on my SD now.
Serious now, that was the second time I loaded th3ory.
The first time, I went to uninstall something and when I hit uninstall the button started flickering wild.
I kept mashing uninstall,I got it to switch to the next screen where you hit ok.
Then got a pop up over and over, phone force close sorry.
Pulled battery and went recover and loaded bamf.
So th3ory came out with v4 I thought ok why not.
Then I had the dead phone problem like you are talking about.
I don't want to bash any dev or Rom but I'm not sure about th3ory Rom guys.
I posted because this just happend to me and many post are talking about battery.
I don't think its a battery problem guys
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Sounds like you didn't wipe data.
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Of course I did...and not just once.
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superchilpil said:
That's a sign of a hardware failure I had a bad touch screen and once it went out it wouldn't boot past the splash, I'm sure it's similar with other hardware failures so it's a bad device not the gingerbread roms
Atleast that's my opinion
>--The Game--<
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If it was a hardware failure it wouldn't have worked with my froyo backup.
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tanium said:
I had this happen to just a few ago.
Picked up the phone and screen was off,Normal, I hit power and nothing.
Pulled battery, went bootloaded mode recovery and wiped and loaded bamf.
I have all the roms on my SD now.
Serious now, that was the second time I loaded th3ory.
The first time, I went to uninstall something and when I hit uninstall the button started flickering wild.
I kept mashing uninstall,I got it to switch to the next screen where you hit ok.
Then got a pop up over and over, phone force close sorry.
Pulled battery and went recover and loaded bamf.
So th3ory came out with v4 I thought ok why not.
Then I had the dead phone problem like you are talking about.
I don't want to bash any dev or Rom but I'm not sure about th3ory Rom guys.
I posted because this just happend to me and many post are talking about battery.
I don't think its a battery problem guys
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For one all GB ROM have the data load issue when trying to uninstall. Second, if it was a issue, more people would have reported it.
Titanium Backup, a App you use in every ROM, CPU setting to low, not wipe to save some time, a multitude of things could cause you a issue.
In my defense, if it were my ROM, it would be heard.
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kriskmk said:
STAY AWAY FROM ALL GINGERBREAD ROMS
My phone got stuck on the white htc screen this morning all of a sudden without any perceivable reason at all. Luckily I was able to restore to a backup.. BUT... It wouldn't install any new roms on my phone anymore for some reason.. they all get stuck on the white htc screen.
My advice.. GB is f&&&ked somewhere deep down.. and which is probably why it isn't officially released yet. Keep off of it if you don't wanna brick your phones.
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Dude. Stop bashing the GB dev Rom. You run the risk of bricking with any Rom. Plenty of people are using GB and the 2.5 radio with no problems, myself included. If it docent work right on your phone then put something else on it. Not every phone is going to react the exact same way to a flash. Your always going to have those few exceptions, even with OTA's.
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kriskmk said:
STAY AWAY FROM ALL GINGERBREAD ROMS
My phone got stuck on the white htc screen this morning all of a sudden without any perceivable reason at all. Luckily I was able to restore to a backup.. BUT... It wouldn't install any new roms on my phone anymore for some reason.. they all get stuck on the white htc screen.
My advice.. GB is f&&&ked somewhere deep down.. and which is probably why it isn't officially released yet. Keep off of it if you don't wanna brick your phones.
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Not good advice at all.
Check your charging cable! I just had a bad cable the other day and my phone was doing the same exact thing... light bliking on and off. I found if I plugged it in and then lightly pulled it half way out the orange light stayed solid, but it took some work.
Before you start freaking out, just try another cable... hopefully its not the connectors inside your phone.
RootandBoot said:
Dude. Stop bashing the GB dev Rom. You run the risk of bricking with any Rom. Plenty of people are using GB and the 2.5 radio with no problems, myself included. If it docent work right on your phone then put something else on it. Not every phone is going to react the exact same way to a flash. Your always going to have those few exceptions, even with OTA's.
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no need to get your panties in a bunch.. My advice is only worth whatever it is.. (which may be nothing too).. and I am not thrusting it on anyone to follow it.
Where the hell do you figure I am bashing devs??? The more time one spends on xda the more you come across these noob "police figures" who go around poking into unrelated stuff getting all worked up for nothing.. Like I said.. it is probably something to do with how the alpha gingerbread works at the core level which is causing all these problems.. it has nothing to do with devs.. and look around you.. plenty of people are reporting the same. I didn't see anyone complaining when devs reported the same with the earlier GB and asked people to stay away from it. Were they doing it so that they can bash other devs who had their GB roms out before they did? I don't think so. So quit shooting from your hips and move along.
If the led is blinking it means the phone is totally dead. If you let it sit the light will eventually become solid and be fine
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Hi,
I got the E3D this weekend. It upgraded to lastest OTA. It gets random reboot and FCs once in a while. The most frustrating is lockups. Everything goes black, if i connect to charger their is no LED indication and i have to take out battery to reboot it. I have seen it happening when battery is around 40-30%.
Is it common or i have a faulty piece?
Thanks.
PS:-Sorry if it a repost.
donniezazen said:
Hi,
I got the E3D this weekend. It upgraded to lastest OTA. It gets random reboot and FCs once in a while. The most frustrating is lockups. Everything goes black, if i connect to charger their is no LED indication and i have to take out battery to reboot it. I have seen it happening when battery is around 40-30%.
Is it common or i have a faulty piece?
Thanks.
PS:-Sorry if it a repost.
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IMHO i would say faulty piece.. i run my stuff hard and have had no issues with this phone like that.. i know my wife's orig evo and my Hero both had those issues stock (memory leak in sense i believe), but with this 3d i have pushed it pretty good and have had no issues with it.. and i too have the latest OTA..
EDIT: that is assuming you dont have anythign crazy downloaded that would be killing your phone..
Same here. Latest OTA, running hard and no problems.
brnail said:
Same here. Latest OTA, running hard and no problems.
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Let's see if they fix it within 4 weeks.
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pstevep said:
IMHO i would say faulty piece.. i run my stuff hard and have had no issues with this phone like that.. i know my wife's orig evo and my Hero both had those issues stock (memory leak in sense i believe), but with this 3d i have pushed it pretty good and have had no issues with it.. and i too have the latest OTA..
EDIT: that is assuming you dont have anythign crazy downloaded that would be killing your phone..
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I never had any issues with my evo. Let other people get back. Like other gentleman had same problem. One of my other friend had reboot issues with his Thunderbolt. It came like that, and I have only market application installed at this moment except swiftx keyboard. I had a sense fc so far.
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I'd exchange it.
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bryangene said:
I'd exchange it.
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I will probably I have had 3-4 reboots today.
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I had similar problems before and after otas. I did a factory reset and it's worked great since.
i got mine last wednessday and not a single force close lock up or random reboot. I'm truly amazed with this device. its the first android phone that i've had that just works.
I've had a random reboot or two, have had sense crash a couple times, and have had it lock up on me. I've factory reset twice. I intend on exchanging it after another week or two.
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bobdude5 said:
i got mine last wednessday and not a single force close lock up or random reboot. I'm truly amazed with this device. its the first android phone that i've had that just works.
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I have two evo 3d phones, and both of them lock up alot. mostly camera app or gallery. My wife hates hers, locks up too much.
I did factory reset. I am upgrading now. let's see how it goes!
Let us know! I've had a few random reboots today when it was just sitting on my table... I also had it turn off on me and I couldn't turn it back on until I did a battery pull. I think I may try a hard reset (the ##786# way) to see if it'll fix it.
xPhantom said:
Let us know! I've had a few random reboots today when it was just sitting on my table... I also had it turn off on me and I couldn't turn it back on until I did a battery pull. I think I may try a hard reset (the ##786# way) to see if it'll fix it.
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I haven't had a reboot or lockup so far. Of course I have not been playing with it as crazily as I did past 2 days. It might be some bad app.
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Which way of resetting did you use? Did you use "Factory data reset" in SD & phone storage settings or did you do a different hard reset? Also, does your phone seem to suffer from not sleeping (up time and awake time are always the same)?
xPhantom said:
Which way of resetting did you use? Did you use "Factory data reset" in SD & phone storage settings or did you do a different hard reset? Also, does your phone seem to suffer from not sleeping (up time and awake time are always the same)?
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I went to Android recovery to reset a couple of times along with pulling out battery. Lol.. To get into android recovery press volume down and power button. It seems this phone goes into hibernation when you press shut off. So, I pressed reboot and volume down early in start.
No my phone seems to sleep properly.
I do have heating problems but other people and Thunderbolt user have it too. So, I guess it's OK.
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Yeah definitely take it back. Like someone else has said, have 2 evo 3ds since last week and did not notice one reboot
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i've had 2 or 3 random reboots. maybe 1 forceclose for sense.
The sleeping issue happens if you didn't take the otas
Bussin Caps from my 3D shooter
After update I cannot turn off the phone anymore!!
When I long press the "on" button...nothing happens...and when I release it it switches off the screen.
I don't get anymore the off-airplane mode-restart menu.
Am I the only one??
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biccio said:
After update I cannot turn off the phone anymore!!
When I long press the "on" button...nothing happens...and when I release it it switches off the screen.
I don't get anymore the off-airplane mode-restart menu.
Am I the only one??
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Odd indeed. Did you do a backup from Recovery first?
OTA's do that...why trust "the man"?
\Honestly, read what the devs are doing and DO NOT trust the carriers.
I havent..I was not expecting that. Anyway...is just annoying few times. I don't restart many times my phone.
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and....it's back! The menu appeared back when around 1.30 pm of the day after the update...I was checking the wireless settings...and I got a pop-up saying: You have succesful completed the update ti 1.3... .6.
At that point the menu was back working.
My only thoughts are...I have taken off the battery after it restarted after the update..I have switched on the phone..used it for half a day...and the update was not complete?!?!
This is one of the strange things I don't get of Android (or HTC)
...and it's gone away again...
I haven't done anything...I want my switch off button back
I will try to reset before rooting etc... Am I the only one who had this problem??
biccio said:
...and it's gone away again...
I haven't done anything...I want my switch off button back
I will try to reset before rooting etc... Am I the only one who had this problem??
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Are you rooted ?
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No..I am not.
I will root today or in the following days. I was not rooting since I was checking out the battery life problem.
I just did the update OTA from HTC.
wow that's strange I did the update and i still have those functions
There was a post somewhere else (this forum) about this...
the answer that fixed it for me was to enable "Use Secure Credentials" (Settings->Security)
It may be that you have to turn fast boot on, too (Settings->Power)
Hate to suggest it... but I would probably try reflashing the firmware with an RUU if you don't want or need root access.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335703
i experienced same problem twice right after installing the new market
amaze 4g
phone is turned off does not charge the battery
happens to someone else?
lodisax said:
phone is turned off does not charge the battery
happens to someone else?
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What recovery do you have?
I believe it's a known issue with 5.0.2.6.
recovery
yes I have the 5.0.2.6
This defect does to you?
What should I do?
thanks
lodisax said:
yes I have the 5.0.2.6
This defect does to you?
What should I do?
thanks
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Look up xboarder's 5.0.2.0 recovery.
Supposedly the problem was fixed.
Sorry I can't give you the link at the moment but I believe it's in the sticky.
biccio said:
and....it's back! The menu appeared back when around 1.30 pm of the day after the update...I was checking the wireless settings...and I got a pop-up saying: You have succesful completed the update ti 1.3... .6.
At that point the menu was back working.
My only thoughts are...I have taken off the battery after it restarted after the update..I have switched on the phone..used it for half a day...and the update was not complete?!?!
This is one of the strange things I don't get of Android (or HTC)
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I had the exact same thing happen to me. Even around the same time yesterday. I installed the update the night before and thought it was fine. Noticed the next day my power off option was gone. Got the same popup out of nowhere and all of the sudden it's fine again.
Very odd.
danielelias said:
I had the exact same thing happen to me. Even around the same time yesterday. I installed the update the night before and thought it was fine. Noticed the next day my power off option was gone. Got the same popup out of nowhere and all of the sudden it's fine again.
Very odd.
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theGleep said:
There was a post somewhere else (this forum) about this...
the answer that fixed it for me was to enable "Use Secure Credentials" (Settings->Security)
It may be that you have to turn fast boot on, too (Settings->Power)
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that worked for me
Maybe others know about safe mode and Android but i had no idea. Pretty cool!
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13857-How-To-Enable-amp-Disable-Safe-mode-on-the-EVO-4g-LTE
njfoses said:
Maybe others know about safe mode and Android but i had no idea. Pretty cool!
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13857-How-To-Enable-amp-Disable-Safe-mode-on-the-EVO-4g-LTE
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I always wondered how to do this (for this phone), thank you sir
Thanks for sharing - this has saved me from bootloop hell numerous times!
[How To] Enable & Disable Safe mode on the EVO 4g LTE
njfoses said:
Maybe others know about safe mode and Android but i had no idea. Pretty cool!
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13857-How-To-Enable-amp-Disable-Safe-mode-on-the-EVO-4g-LTE
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Was about to add this here, but a search led me to your OP and link to my post on MikMik. Just happy people are getting the info.
So here is a copy of my post.
What is safe mode and how do I use it?
Safe mode is a method that allows the device to run with only essential applications. This is beneficial for troubleshooting 3rd party applications.
If and when you have strange problems with your phone, I would try this before a factory reset or even re-flashing a rom. If your problem goes away in safe mode, you know it is some software that safe mode disabled thats the problem.
From what I read, it has always been a part of the Android OS. But not all devices get there the same way, there is no standard other than it is always hardware buttons.
I learned about it from a HTC Tech, but he didn’t know how to enable it on this device. He told me to hold the power & menu buttons while booting. As you know we don’t have a menu button.
How to Enable on the EVO 4g LTE?
Boot or Reboot your phone.
When the “HTC quietly brilliant” splash screen comes up, press and hold volume down, until you get a long vibrate response. Then you can release the volume button.
Now when your phone is booted, you will see the words “safe mode” in the bottom left corner of your screen.
How to Disable on the EVO 4g LTE?
Just reboot. That’s all.
Something you should know before you try out Safe Mode.
Your widgets, mostly 3rd party widgets will be missing from your screen, or broke. Just replace them on your screen and all will be fine.
Hope this helps someone, someday, someway!
Hahaha
Thanks for posting this. I got into safe mode once on accident and saw it on my screen and had no idea what the hell it meant, so I was able to reboot to remove it.
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I have a question HTC was trying to help me get to safe mode and he had me hold down the down volume button and I got to the boot screen. But my phone is doing this wierd thing where it is constantly rebooting over and over again. I let the battery drain and now I am charging it to full but even in the boot screen and I hit reboot or fast reboot it doesn't take me to my home screen it keeps rebooting over and over. So I am guessing I can't get to safe mode if it doesn't boot to the home screen. Cause HTC said in safe mode he could see what app or what is causing the hang up to make my phone reboot and reboot over and over. I really don't want to do a hard reset but am guessing I'll have to. But I have already activated and used Google Wallet and read you have to clear it out before doing a hard reset or it will brick your phone. HTC said that's not true. I don't know what to do.
scottspa74 said:
Hahaha
Thanks for posting this. I got into safe mode once on accident and saw it on my screen and had no idea what the hell it meant, so I was able to reboot to remove it.
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i just tried it!! works fine
What to go into safemode. HTC was gonna have me do it and he couldn't see in the manual how to do it but my phone is stuck it won't go to my home screen so I can't get to safemode. My phone keeps rebooting without going to my home screen I am stuck on the HTC screen to the Sprint screen to the HTC Beats audio screen and it's in a loop doing the same 3 things over and over.. I'm afraid to hard reset because people say it can brick your phone something to do with Google Wallet. HTC said that's not true I don't know. Sprint said take it to the store tomorrow but if I have to hard reset I would rather just do it myself why bother with the store.
evo401 said:
i just tried it!! works fine
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You're bootlooping. Why.? Did you flash an AOSP ROM without fastboot flashing the boot.IMG?
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No I am not Rooted. All of a sudden I saw my phone was rebooting this am and it just goes back and forth from the HTC white screen to the Sprint Logo screen to the white HTC beats Audio Screen over and over it reboots to the same 3 screens. Won't go to my home screen so I am stuck with no phone until I do a hard reset. But I don't know if it will fry my google wallet people are saying it does something to the secure element and makes it unusable. I don't know. My phone is turned off until tomorrow when I can call HTC back or take it to the store.
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You're bootlooping. Why.? Did you flash an AOSP ROM without fastboot flashing the boot.IMG?
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Rose4uKY said:
No I am not Rooted. All of a sudden I saw my phone was rebooting this am and it just goes back and forth from the HTC white screen to the Sprint Logo screen to the white HTC beats Audio Screen over and over it reboots to the same 3 screens. Won't go to my home screen so I am stuck with no phone until I do a hard reset. But I don't know if it will fry my google wallet people are saying it does something to the secure element and makes it unusable. I don't know. My phone is turned off until tomorrow when I can call HTC back or take it to the store.
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Rose, take this how you want. I had set up GW and then forgot and wiped my phone before flashing a new rom. I did this 3 times and it's still fine. Supposedly the important wallet stuff is stored in the cloud now since one of the updates.
Its up to you if you want to reset. The sprint tech will probably yell you that is your only choice. After one of our prl updates I lost data connection and the rep on the phone was ready to send me a refurbished one even before I reset Tue phone.
I ended up fixing it myself by updating prl and profile while on wifi.
Didn't you have another problem with your phone before? I could be wrong but I thought you mentioned it in a thread over at AF.
Hope this helps,
Naters
Oh I personally wouldn't worry about the wallet issue. If the phone ends up with hardware problems you'd end up with it replaced anyways.
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Rose, I experienced the exact same problem as you about a week ago. My phone randomly just went into a crazy cycle of rebooting, never making it past the screen with HTC and the Beats logo. I eventually had to just hard reset it... and since then it's been working fine. I had also activated Google Wallet prior to hard resetting and had the same concerns as you, but after hard resetting, my Google Wallet still works perfectly fine. I don't think you need to worry about that. I know that doing a hard reset sucks because it takes a while to restore everything back to how you had it, but having a working phone is much better than having one that constantly reboots. I hope this helped!
Thanks but what I should I do now? I did a Hard Reset this am. I read an article that stuff was fixed with the wallet thing so I hard reset. And I did update Profile and PRL and went to see if there were any other updates. I got back Amazon app store and put on about 5 or 10 of my free apps back on. Went to play store and it showed all apps and I installed several. Mostly games like words with friends Song Pop Scramble with Friends Haning and Dice With Buddies. I use Handcent and Yahoo messenger which kept not responding after an update over and over before my phone went into reboot mode. I have normal apps like trapster beat the traffic some other games Dolphin Browser TV Show Favs Big Battery thing and car home ultra. I have Foursquare auto redial tiny call confirm.
Got to work went to turn on wifi and it went back to being disconnected and then I couldn't touch the screen and it froze and I just put the phone back in my pocket and ten minutes later I pulled it out and there was a black screen and when I turned it on the boot thing happened over and over again. Here i got back most of my apps configured couple emails. So now it's doing it again Sprint said go to store let them do a diagnostics. She said you can hard reset it back again and if they find no problem put your apps back on and try to recreate it. I don't have time to stand in a Sprint store installing apps. HTC said do a Hard Reset don't ad any apps for a day or two and see if it happens again if not then an app is causing it to hang. But how do I find out which one? And they wanted me to go into safe mode but I couldn't since it won't go to the home screen. So now I am back at a Hard Reset just got home from work and am scared to add anything but I want too. I need Handcent and want a couple others. HTC asked if I had downloaded any task killers or apps like that and I said no. I had Android Assistant before but hadn't put it back on.. HTC said if it comes back in the next couple days and I haven't added any apps call them back. Do you think an app is causing it to hang or that it's hardware. Should I still let Sprint do a diagnostics on it tomorrow or just leave it alone for now for a couple days like HTC said?
I had major problems with my Touch Pro 2 and sense and had to reset it several times. This phone the only problem I had was text not sending right away but it got fixed network problems and then after this past update my handcent would open to a black screen and it would take a minute before it would open and my sense sometimes would restart on occasion but it stopped after I took speak to it assistant widget away. But this last update made it a little sluggish.
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[its up to you if you want to reset. The sprint tech will probably yell you that is your only choice. After one of our prl updates I lost data connection and the rep on the phone was ready to send me a refurbished one even before I reset Tue phone.
I ended up fixing it myself by updating prl and profile while on wifi.
Didn't you have another problem with your phone before? I could be wrong but I thought you mentioned it in a thread over at AF.
Hope this helps,
Naters
Oh I personally wouldn't worry about the wallet issue. If the phone ends up with hardware problems you'd end up with it replaced anyways.
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Thanks I just replied to someone else then saw your reply you can read what I wrote about hard resetting adding most of my apps and then it started doing it again. So now I hard reset again and haven't added anything. I did the updates it said I had and for now that is all I am doing. It sucks but your right I would rather have a working phone. So is Titanium the good backup app and can you use it now without being rooted?
xPhantom said:
Rose, I experienced the exact same problem as you about a week ago. My phone randomly just went into a crazy cycle of rebooting, never making it past the screen with HTC and the Beats logo. I eventually had to just hard reset it... and since then it's been working fine. I had also activated Google Wallet prior to hard resetting and had the same concerns as you, but after hard resetting, my Google Wallet still works perfectly fine. I don't think you need to worry about that. I know that doing a hard reset sucks because it takes a while to restore everything back to how you had it, but having a working phone is much better than having one that constantly reboots. I hope this helped!
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Can I buy a comma and a period, pat?
Ouch. My head is spinning.
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Sorry I know that was a long post. I took my phone to Sprint today after doing a 2nd reset last night. They did run a diagnostics and it didn't pass. They then said they had to reset it themselves once more and run one more diagnostics and it failed again. So they are ordering me another phone and it should be in the store tomorrow or the next day. But the warehouse is here in my city where I live and it was ordered around 3 so I hope it's tomorrow. It's going to be a refurb though so I hope it ends up being good. I still kind of thought it was an app causing it to hang since it did the same thing after my reset and I added several apps back. But anyway that's what happened to me. So now I need to order another screen protector.
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Can I buy a comma and a period, pat?
Ouch. My head is spinning.
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Thanks for letting me know what happened. I hope the "new" one is good. Sorry they couldn't fix it.
Naters
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Just got a text from Sprint my phone is in. Yay! I just want to download my apps configure my emails and have my home screens back to the way they were. If Sprint told me it failed the Diagnostics test twice that means it's hardware right? Cause since it did it twice again after reinstalling several apps I was starting to think an app was causing it to hang. But I am guessing I can install most of the apps I had before. I'm just kind of scared LOL!
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Thanks for letting me know what happened. I hope the "new" one is good. Sorry they couldn't fix it.
Naters
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Yes. If it failed after a factory reset, it was hardware related.
I see you added to punctuation to your previous post. :thumbup: nice, makes more sense. Good luck with next one (Evo)
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Just got back from Sprint. He said they sent me a brand new phone. He claims they must not of had any refurbs cause the phone is pretty new I don't know how to tell. It had a cover over the screen and looked new to me. But anyway yes I hard reset and it failed and then he hard reset it again and got some error message or something he said. So he doesn't think it was app related and i hope not. Cause now it's time to reconfigure my phone.
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Yes. If it failed after a factory reset, it was hardware related.
I see you added to punctuation to your previous post. :thumbup: nice, makes more sense. Good luck with next one (Evo)
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Rose4uKY said:
Just got back from Sprint. He said they sent me a brand new phone. Cause now it's time to reconfigure my phone.
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Sweet! Congrats and have fun!
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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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rickxbox said:
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.