HTC Evo 4G Always Asks to Power Down or Restart - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have search the world over but I think this problem is unique and now I need some help.
HTC Evo 4G rooted with unrevoked-forever
I lost the use of my power button last month and searched that problem to find the solution is the Nolock app. I’m now using my volume buttons to wake up my phone. 3 days ago I noticed my power menu was on the screen asking me to either shut down, airplane mode, or restart. I touched the back arrow and thought nothing of it. Now it’s coming up very often and if not attended to runs out the battery. In fact, the whole operating system is acting slightly goofy.
My thoughts were to go through the ROM redo which would take me an hour or more to relearn the process so I don’t lock up my phone. Then I realized I don’t have the power button the select menus in the flash process.
Am I at the end of my beloved 4G’s life? Any help with be greatly appreciated.

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[Q] Htc Hd2 Volume goes up by itself???

I fell asleep next to my phone one night and when i woke up and tried to wake up my phone the volume menu opened up and acted like if i was pressing the volume bar repeatedly. I turned it off and on again and once it boots into Windows the same thing, if i try to press volume down it will and it will go right back up again. The Volume rocker button is fine and not stuck. I found out though if i hold up and down before windows mobile boots up it will allow me to operate as normal but once i let go It goes back to the volume going all the way up. I have flashed different roms to no avail.
Does anyone have any ideas to what could be causing this?
I just started having the same problem with a Samsung Omnia 7. It fell into some water, let's say it was a bucket, i pulled it apart and thoroughly dried it. Seemed to work perfectly for a few hours, now the volume thing.
Our HD2's hard buttons are not invincible and I learned that the hard way. After lots of use on my phone the send, home, end, and volume down buttons stopped working. I also believe my end button is stuck on because it always boots up on its own, meaning I can't shut it down and leave it off. I have to take the battery out of it.
My advice is if you can find a way to use "soft" buttons to navigate your phone do it and save yourself the hassle of breaking the hard ones for when you need them. Good luck!
HD2 Volume Stuck on UP
richardhauer said:
I just started having the same problem with a Samsung Omnia 7. It fell into some water, let's say it was a bucket, i pulled it apart and thoroughly dried it. Seemed to work perfectly for a few hours, now the volume thing.
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I had a few drips of water it my hd2 and a couple days later, I rebooted and after it rebooted, the volume is stuck on UP. I took it apart. I has nothing to do with the button itself as I removed the button and it's still stuck. Still no solution yet.
Hi,
Did anyone find a solution for this? I had to hard reset my HD2 couple of days ago. After the reset, I installed all the apps, one after another. The phone worked fine for a day, until this afternoon when it started acting crazy. First symptom was that when you type some numbers of the "Phone" screen to look up a contact, I was not able to delete the using the back button. Other keys like up, down, left, right too didn't work in the SMS compose screen. I restarted the phone thinking that it would resolve the issue, but worse. The volume control showed up just after the boot and the "volume up" tone was constantly going off as though I was pressing the volume-up button constantly. I tried rebooting and remove the battery, SD etc, uninstalled few programs, but to no avail.
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[Q] Turn off HTC Mozart handset - power status

Hi,
I have an HTC Mozart with 7.10.8107.79. It's got this annoying feature or lack of feature...how do I know when the handset is on or off? I mean I go into a meeting and want the phone off, I hold down the power button, slide down the screen, it's off. I'm then late for my second or third meeting and I rush into the room... I need to know if the phone is off so I don't start ringing... how do I know if it's on or off? If I press the power button the handset starts the rather long power on and I have to wait...and then power down. Surely it should be press and hold, press two buttons, or press twice, or anything that confirms I want to turn the handset on? It really is crazy if this is how it's supposed to function.
Like if i'm in a presentation and the speaker says Please check all phones are off...and then i'm there frigging about ripping the battery out.
It also acts weird when it's charging. I turn it off...it turns itself back on. I'm not as fussed at that but it's still crazy.
I couldn't find anything on internet about this, or an app of some kind. Does it upset others? Is it a possible enhancement for the phone??
Turn it off
Take the Battery out
Charliekrad said:
Turn it off
Take the Battery out
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There's no smilie but i assume you're joking
A more appropriate response would be:
1. Turn it off
2. Get a phone that's fit for purpose
If there was an app that started when the phone was turned on and turned the phone off if a confirmation tap or code wasn't entered by user, I think it would be very useful and popular.

[Q] Weird volume button issues with my x2

Last night I pulled my phone out of my pocket to answer a text, as soon as I unlocked it, the volume bar popped up, went from full volume to silent/vibrate and continued vibrating. I tried to do anything but volume down kept interrupting everything. Even opening random programs and what not. I pulled the batt and restarted, it sat at the droid screen with the white "rsd service loading" or whatever it is, and sat there for the rest of the night until the battery died.
I got it to start up and boot all the way into the OS. It acts normally until i press the back button or the volume buttons. It then goes into the haywire crazy vibrating mode. I can get it to stop sometimes by pressing the Home button. But as I type this its randomly vibrating on my desk.
You fellas think this is a hardware issue or software?
P.S. I tried getting into the boot menu and clearing the cache, but pressing the volume button just caused it to hang at the rsd load.
Ur not on cm7 huh? Our bootstrap is automatic on plug in while power off.
Cyanogenmod
No sir. All stock, no root. 2.3.4
I was rooted before, but had all sorts of lag problems. After going back to factory everything seemed to clear up. So thats where I've stayed.
I'm considering just using my insurance and getting a new one (hopefully an upgrade to a 3 or something) as my case is fairly worn.... But if I dont need to..........

[Q] Stuck in APX mode - I believe?

Hi everyone
I'm desperate.
My TF201 (stock - not rooted - and successfully updated to the current version) works flawlessly for the first 3 months and then one day the Volume UP key stop working. Whenever I tried to lower the volume, it will automatically up it again. When this happened, I tried to reboot with the power button but the tablet wouldn't respond. So I pressed the power button a bit longer and it will shut down. But, when I tried to power it again, I will feel the buzz but the screen will remain blank. The first few times that this happened, I used a small pin to reset the tablet and it will reboot normally. However, now this procedure also has stopped working and I cannot get the tablet to boot again. When I plugged it into my PC, it will recognize it as an APX device. I found that if I let the battery drain completely, it will then power up. I have read and tried the different methods mentioned in the forum but to no avail. So after reading sledgie's post in one of the thread, I thought that perhaps the Volume UP key is definitely stuck and that's why it's booting in the APX mode every time. So, I bite the bullet and open the tablet to see if I can fiddle with the volume keys. But alas, even after making sure that the volume key is not getting stuck, the nightmare continues and every time to boot the tablet I have to let the battery drained completely. What I could gather though is that it's definitely the Volume UP key because every time if I could get the tablet to boot, after draining the battery completely of course, when the ICS Home screen will appear the volume icon also will appear by itself. I found that so long as I don't the touch the Volume key, the tablet will work flawlessly and I could press the power button to get it to sleep and to wake normally. But if I touch the Volume key then the power button will not respond.
So, as I said I'm desperate and if anybody has a solution, please advise.
Thanks in advance.
Help!
Anyone?
i think you should exchange it or send it back for RMA. Make sure you contact Gary Key with regards to APX state. I wrote in the other thread without seeing this thread, but this is what it sounds like.
goodintentions made this really good observation and should be given credit
www.transformerforums.com/forum/tra...fter-latest-firmware-update-2.html#post167626
Another kind of situation that nvflash would be useful.
Sent from my i9250
agreed.
Sorry to respond very late but I want to know what this 'nvflash' means and how will it be useful in my situation. Should I 'nvflash' my tablet in the circumstances?
It's not possible yet, unfortunately. Asus retains the locked bootloader key. We have a way to flash it (SBK I believe) but without the unlocked bootloader, we are not able to proceed further. This is unfortunate for both sides - customer and Manufacturer

How to force a reboot when the screen (sort of) freezes?

I'm new to the V10 -- my old beloved Note 4 was quickly unravelling so I traded it in for this phone. Other than the loss of the stylus, I quite like it. The second screen is neat. The fingerprint scanner works much better than the Note 4's ever did. All in all I'm fine with it.
(Haven't rooted it yet. Eventually.)
I have run into an issue that's a little confounding, though. Occasionally -- about once a week since the last OTA update -- the screen will "sort of" freeze. By "sort of" I mean the phone is obviously still running (I can turn the display on and off) but I'm unable to navigate by touch. The UI elements don't respond, I can't swipe away windows, I can't access notifications...
...my Note 4 used to do this occasionally, and what I'd have to do is long-press the power button for 8-10 seconds, which would force it to turn off, then turn it back on, and life would go on. The V10 doesn't do that -- when I long-press the power button for 8-10 seconds, I get that stupid V10 voice control program (I call it stupid because it hilariously misinterprets my voice commands - my daughter and I basically turn it on whenever we want to be amused by a big dumb phone). In short, there seems to be no way to force the phone to shut down through hardware other than pulling the battery... which is what I wind up doing, but it's weird that there's no way to force a shutdown with the power button.
Is there a way to change this in the settings anywhere? Or would I need to root the phone and load a custom rom for that?
Thanks for any help you can provide...
Try long pressing the power button and the volume down at the same time...that works for me
I can remove and put the battery back in faster than i can long press to reboot.
Also a factory reset after an ota is recommended. It might fix the freezing problem.

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