So my Xperia S just now completely froze up while playing 9mm.
Touchscreen and hardware buttons are all unresponsive, holding down the power button does nothing and since my battery is near full and my brightness maxed I'm worried about damaging the screen by just letting it run out of juice. Strangely the game is still running, just nothing works.
I looked for a physical reset button but its nowhere to be found..
How can I reset my phone?
Edit: Allright so after about 20 minutes or so the phone magically became responsive again and is functioning normally for as far as I can tell.
Nevertheless, I'd still like to know how to reset it should a need for it arise in the future.
Try this:
hold standby and volume up for five seconds and the phone will reboot.
wing_zero8556 said:
Try this:
hold standby and volume up for five seconds and the phone will reboot.
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I tried that, but it didn't work. Gladly its back to normal for now
Hold power and both volume buttons for seconds.
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It's power button and volume up
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He said that it didnt work.
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Is it not 10 sec and more with power and volume button?
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Yep just hold it until you got a black screen and vibrate.
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It Works!!
Thank you!
Press on standby button and volume up button at the same time really works to reset the phone!! Cool~~!
Worked fine with me...
Thx for the post and the helpful answers.
It worked well with my SXS.
Pressing the button combination actually turns off the phone; you then can turn it on/ reboot it normally.
Thx a lot, M.
Efe64 said:
Hold power and both volume buttons for seconds.
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When my phone freezes (it happens more than once after the last firmware upgrade) I presso power button and volume up to reboot.
Pressing both volume buttons together is a BAD idea!
pascalbrax said:
When my phone freezes (it happens more than once after the last firmware upgrade) I presso power button and volume up to reboot.
Pressing both volume buttons together is a BAD idea!
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Please tell me why it is bad? I made that after my phone crashed/freezd! And now I can't turn it on ! Please asnwer
Have you ever flashed before?If yes do that download stock ROM and do it...If not than this is the thread for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31884091
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PashaII said:
Please tell me why it is bad? I made that after my phone crashed/freezd! And now I can't turn it on ! Please asnwer
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According to Sony, holding the vol up and down buttons together and pressing power until you get 3 vibes is the same as removing the battery.
Usually it takes about 10 secs first a single vibe and then about 5 secs later 3 vibes, but under some circumstances it can take up to 20 seconds on my phone at least.
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Yep just hold it until you got a black screen and vibrate.
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many thanks comrade. i was freaking out xD
kudos
Have need help , please help me, I can't reset my phone .
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I do not own the phone, it's one of the two phones I'm deciding on. Other is Galaxy Nexus. Now I know it doesn't happen very often, bit if you like to fiddle around with your phone, like I do, it happens. When the phone freezes, none of the keys are working, what do you do. Normaly I just pop out the battery and restart the phone but since Razr has build in batterie I gues thats not an option. What do you do in those rare occasions? Does it have a phisical buton to restart it?
br Zola
VOLUME DOWN + POWER for 10secs forces the phone to reboot
Tnx! I know it's funny question, but I couldn't find this info anywhere.
br Zola
Astrowe said:
VOLUME DOWN + POWER for 10secs forces the phone to reboot
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I haven't had any freezes so far but this method only worked 9/10 times on my evo 3d so I'm still a little suspicious that this will work for every freeze...
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vgupman said:
I haven't had any freezes so far but this method only worked 9/10 times on my evo 3d so I'm still a little suspicious that this will work for every freeze...
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Don't compare apples to oranges. Use both vol buttons + pwr button for about 10 seconds. This does work...i've had to do this.
ZolaSlo said:
Tnx! I know it's funny question, but I couldn't find this info anywhere.
br Zola
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don't know 'bout funny but all you had to do is type "how to reset droid razr"
and click the very first link..
It works because, differently from the EVO3D, the RAZR has got a working hardware watchdog.
Question about holding volume down and power
Is this reset with holding the power down along with the power button the same sort of reset as if you just hold the power button down and then a window pops up giving you the option to power off the phone. is the volume down and power more for if your phone freezes?
thanks in advance
Its when the phone freezes and no buttons or screen will work.. i had it happen a few times on my old razr and vol down and power button for 10 secs did work
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Don't compare apples to oranges. Use both vol buttons + pwr button for about 10 seconds. This does work...i've had to do this.
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I'm not saying it doesn't work I'm just a bit suspicious that it will work 100% of the time because I was told for my old phone, which I understand is a completely different phone, that a similar method would work 100% of the time and that battery pulls were unnecessary but there were a couple times out of like a hundred when it didn't work and I had to resort to a battery pull. It worked the vast majority of the time, but not every time, which is why I'm a little dubious...hopefully we'll find out soon!
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So i was just messing around with my phone and I pressed both vol up and vol down, then power to wake the phone up and it vibrates once.
About 20-30 seconds later it vibrates twice fast.
What the heck is this
Btw my phone is on during this
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superchilpil said:
So i was just messing around with my phone and I pressed both vol up and vol down, then power to wake the phone up and it vibrates once.
About 20-30 seconds later it vibrates twice fast.
What the heck is this
Btw my phone is on during this
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haha weird, i jsut did it and can confirm it did the same..
I think you just engaged auto-destruct.... RUN!!!
a.mcdear said:
I think you just engaged auto-destruct.... RUN!!!
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it's true, my batt life went from 79% down to 6% in 20 minutes.
Interesting. I tried it just for the hell of it and vol + & - then power caused the one vibe, after I unlocked I was going to say it didn't do anything but about a minute later it only gave me one vibe.
Wonder what this is for....
I am stock rooted and would like to my phone not to soft reset when the power button is held down. I still want it to turn on and off the screen but nothing else.... Can any one do that????
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You kind of need that if S**T hits the fan with a non removable battery.
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NissanNick said:
I am stock rooted and would like to my phone not to soft reset when the power button is held down. I still want it to turn on and off the screen but nothing else.... Can any one do that????
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Go to Settings>Power>Uncheck fastboot. If you press power button screen will turn off/on. If you hold down few seconds you'll get powerdown option. If you hold down approximately 10 seconds it will do a reset ("similar" to battery pull-reboot).
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Go to Settings>Power>Uncheck fastboot. If you press power button screen will turn off/on. If you hold down few seconds you'll get powerdown option. If you hold down approximately 10 seconds it will do a reset ("similar" to battery pull-reboot).
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i think we should find out if a dev can change it to Vol up + Power to make it reboot instead of holding down the power button. thats how my xoom gets rebooted
To hard reset a frozen EVO lte you have to hold the power button and volume down...
I don't want that to change.... What I want is for the phone not reset if just the power button is held down for 10sec.
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I rooted and flashed custom ROM to my HTC Jetstream. I installed the custom ROM via CWM by Doomlord. When my device went to reboot it tried booting once then the screen went black. The power is turned on. The orange light comes on by the power button. Then goes off. It is fully charged. And when I hit the power button the LED light flashes.
press and hold for 30 seconds or so.
if that won't do, hold vol down and power 2gether
guru_shastri said:
press and hold for 30 seconds or so.
if that won't do, hold vol down and power 2gether
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Already tried that. Now if I connect it to my computer it gives me the QHSUSB.
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Wtkid101 said:
Already tried that. Now if I connect it to my computer it gives me the QHSUSB.
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Try plugging it into the wall and then hold the power button for like 30 seconds.
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Try plugging it into the wall and then hold the power button for like 30 seconds.
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Already tried that and it wont work!
Hi!
I am rooted, and was running Android Revolution HD 13.
Tried to install KitKat 4.4 and the status was aborted. I saved a back up in recovery. I entered a boot loop once I restarted the phone. I thought, "No problem! I'll just get into my recovery!" But every time I hold the Vol Down + Power button, nothing happens. It simply shows, "HTC: Quietly Brilliant" and the developer disclaimer at the bottom. Any ideas?
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Hi!
I am rooted, and was running Android Revolution HD 13.
Tried to install KitKat 4.4 and the status was aborted. I saved a back up in recovery. I entered a boot loop once I restarted the phone. I thought, "No problem! I'll just get into my recovery!" But every time I hold the Vol Down + Power button, nothing happens. It simply shows, "HTC: Quietly Brilliant" and the developer disclaimer at the bottom. Any ideas?
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When your at the HTC boot screen hold the power button and both volume buttons.... You'll see your button lights flash like 10-15 times and then it will force shut down your phone. Once it's completely off try booting into recovery again.
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When your at the HTC boot screen hold the power button and both volume buttons.... You'll see your button lights flash like 10-15 times and then it will force shut down your phone. Once it's completely off try booting into recovery again.
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That is not working. Thank you for the reply.
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That is not working. Thank you for the reply.
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holding the power button for 10-15 seconds will shut the phone off
try holding it under a bright light ..the proximity sensor can keep the phone from shutting down if the room is not well lite
clsA said:
holding the power button for 10-15 seconds will shut the phone off
try holding it under a bright light ..the proximity sensor can keep the phone from shutting down if the room is not well lite
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I tried the whole light thing as well. No dice. Thank you for the reply.
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I tried the whole light thing as well. No dice. Thank you for the reply.
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So are you thinking theirs some other miracle answer to your question ?
it's a fact that holding down the power button plus vol down till you see the blinking lights (around 10 seconds)
then let off the volume it will shut off, just keep trying.
clsA said:
So are you thinking theirs some other miracle answer to your question ?
it's a fact that holding down the power button plus vol down till you see the blinking lights (around 10 seconds)
then let off the volume it will shut off, just keep trying.
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I have no expectations. I simply tried what you had told me and it didn't work. I wanted to let you know that it has been tried and that I thank you for trying to help is all.
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I have no expectations. I simply tried what you had told me and it didn't work. I wanted to let you know that it has been tried and that I thank you for trying to help is all.
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well i suppose it's possible the power button is broken but it's the first one I have heard of
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well i suppose it's possible the power button is broken but it's the first one I have heard of
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I think it may be the vol down button to be honest. It is odd. I have never experienced an issue like this before.
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I think it may be the vol down button to be honest. It is odd. I have never experienced an issue like this before.
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OK I hope you get it sortied
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Had a similar problem once. Let the battery run completely dry, then charged it back up and got into recovery from a power up.
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