No power button no screenshot? Need some help - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Alright so I gave my One S (on jelly bean) to my girlfriend a few months ago after she dropped her Nexus 4 in the toilet. Fast forward to now, and the power button is not working anymore. The plunger thing that presses into the microswitch broke off somehow. I got an app that can shut the screen off and another app that lets me use the volume buttons to wake up the phone (this one seems to have impacted battery life a little bit as its a persistent service that runs). Anyways, she asks me what to do now about screenshots and I figure a software method might work. Wrong. Nothing I can find in the play store worked, complaining of no root or invalid method or something like that. Ok, I figure i'll root it. Nope, cant do the power button + volume button combos to get into recovery mode or any of that.
So now what? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Helgaiden said:
Alright so I gave my One S (on jelly bean) to my girlfriend a few months ago after she dropped her Nexus 4 in the toilet. Fast forward to now, and the power button is not working anymore. The plunger thing that presses into the microswitch broke off somehow. I got an app that can shut the screen off and another app that lets me use the volume buttons to wake up the phone (this one seems to have impacted battery life a little bit as its a persistent service that runs). Anyways, she asks me what to do now about screenshots and I figure a software method might work. Wrong. Nothing I can find in the play store worked, complaining of no root or invalid method or something like that. Ok, I figure i'll root it. Nope, cant do the power button + volume button combos to get into recovery mode or any of that.
So now what? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobikasa.screenshot.lite
This might work. Most of the 1 star ratings are from people that can take screenshots normally so don't understand the point of the app. But yea, you're out of luck with rooting if your bootloader isn't unlocked already. And if it isn't, you can't because you need the power button to select the agreement for the unlock.

Not a big fan of having to redo the hack any time the phone is restarted. Oh well. Is there a toolkit based one click root solution by any chance?

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[Q] help please, cant get into bootloader or unlock sim

Hi,
I just bought a second hand HD2 which looked like it was in great condition. Unfortunately its Sim locked but the vendor told me its easy to get it unlocked online. The codes I bought didnt unlock it and I have already tried four times and the unlock people assure me that i am probably putting in the wrong code as theres is 100% guaranteed to work. Will it permanently lock after the fifth as I have read in some places as its not clear, and would it be possible to unlock at a shop via some other method?
The rest of the phone works fine but while seeing if I could upgrade my phone I realised I cannot acces bootloader (holding down volume while pressing power). I have tried time and time again but it just turns on normally immiediatly showing the htc logo etc even though i hold down the volume as hard as i can the whole time.
I dont think anyone has ever had this behaviour on a phone and the volume button works fine (as its booting up it puts the volume down)
When turning on I get the following in red in the bottom left corner if thats any help.
2.05. 51.05_2
15.28.50.07U
1.48.479.1(71294)
Thanks anyone
Never had any experience with locked HD2.. Maybe this could help in case you're doing it wrong http://hyfeno.com/how-to-unlock-htc-hd2/
Also, it would be great if you specify what carrier is your phone locked to.. People from this forum could help
Thanks, managed to unlock my sim using mobilex but still a problem with entering bootloader mode, at least I found a cab to enter bootloader but no way of doing so holding down volume rocker while powering up! It just boots normally, and although I have read other people also cant access bootloader this way have not found out why or what you can do to fix the problem.
markfarrugia said:
Thanks, managed to unlock my sim using mobilex but still a problem with entering bootloader mode, at least I found a cab to enter bootloader but no way of doing so holding down volume rocker while powering up! It just boots normally, and although I have read other people also cant access bootloader this way have not found out why or what you can do to fix the problem.
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I don't mean to disparage you in any way, but are you sure you are starting with the phone completely off? Hold down the on/off button until a screen appears with 4 choices on it. The top one is power off... tap it.
Hi thanks for your reply, I was always starting with the phone of, but have found a way to go into bootloader (finally). Maybe it will work for others with this problem but bascially turn off the phone, pull the battery out, maybe wait for a few seconds and hold volume down and put the battery in, and then literarally just tap the power button, and finally i have managed to get into bootloader, so will be trying android or maybe wp7 without the great fear i had of bricking my device because i could not get into bootloader. Thanks everyone for your help

Power Button Failure

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.
Jemack said:
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.
LOL
No wonder why those providers just keep increasing the fees and fares.
votinh said:
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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o8oedo8 said:
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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Broken capacitive buttons??

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.
mintu123 said:
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.
s89281b said:
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...

[Q] problem with rebooting+screen+swipe

My problem continues
i read all, 3 days reading and testing, and nothing new about my problem.
I have a problem with rebooting loop. (i cant touch correctly the power button, didnt work, also all the time is rebooting, or staying without screen light, i cant explain correctly!!)
I did all, back to stock, tried install many roms and kernels, but nothing works.
the best thing that i did to use it for few moments was.. use the swipe 2 wake, with AJK - using Siyah v.4.3.3 ICS over the SHOstock3.
The swipe 2 wake not works all the time, most of time the screen only wake up when i receive a income call.
But continues rebooting, most of times when i shake the phone.
Any idea for me?
Thank you
brubrazil said:
My problem continues
i read all, 3 days reading and testing, and nothing new about my problem.
I have a problem with rebooting loop. (i cant touch correctly the power button, didnt work, also all the time is rebooting, or staying without screen light, i cant explain correctly!!)
I did all, back to stock, tried install many roms and kernels, but nothing works.
the best thing that i did to use it for few moments was.. use the swipe 2 wake, with AJK - using Siyah v.4.3.3 ICS over the SHOstock3.
The swipe 2 wake not works all the time, most of time the screen only wake up when i receive a income call.
But continues rebooting, most of times when i shake the phone.
Any idea for me?
Thank you
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I got a great idea.....
STOP MAKING NEW THREADS FOR THE SAME PROBLEM!!
Sent from my SGH-I777 running AOKP
Here is an idea. Get a new phone, or your phone repaired. YOU HAVE A FAULTY POWER BUTTON. With all the reading and testing you have done would have thought you had that figured out. Quit making new threads about the same issue please. I am guessing we won't be seeing too much more of you around here if you keep it up.
Good luck getting you power button fixed.
Butchr said:
Here is an idea. Get a new phone, or your phone repaired. YOU HAVE A FAULTY POWER BUTTON. With all the reading and testing you have done would have thought you had that figured out. Quit making new threads about the same issue please. I am guessing we won't be seeing too much more of you around here if you keep it up.
Good luck getting you power button fixed.
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It cant be the power button! its restarting without pressing the button!
brubrazil said:
It cant be the power button! its restarting without pressing the button!
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Dude. Exactly because your power button is defective! Was it really that hard to figure out? Just stop posting from now on before you make a fool of yourself.... Woops already did
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Help. My phone is stuck in a boot loop

So I was charging my phone, and it restarted itself and now it's stuck in a bootloop!
I can't access download mode or recovery, it keeps restarting before I have the opportunity to press any buttons (hardware or on screen) and removing the battery does nothing either, as soon as I put the battery back in, the phone resets without me even pushing the power button
I'm using Temasek CM11 v8 with the "201113-1248-cm11-i9300-r3p2-linux30101-BOEFFLA-temasek" kernel
Is it recoverable?
I've managed to get it into both Recover and Download mode briefly, but both times the phone restarted within a few seconds back to the bootloop
Sounds like the power button is shorted out, fairly cheap repair if so.
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Thanks for the reply. What makes you think that it's the power button shorting?
Holding power button for 5 seconds acts as a hard reset, everywhere.
That's a good starting point actually. There's no reason for download mode to reboot automatically. If it loaded then it waits for the events. Either it works until you do anything with a PC, or doesn't work at all.
hi
try using a universal battery charger and then try again
JustArchi said:
Holding power button for 5 seconds acts as a hard reset, everywhere.
That's a good starting point actually. There's no reason for download mode to reboot automatically. If it loaded then it waits for the events. Either it works until you do anything with a PC, or doesn't work at all.
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Ah Well I suppose that makes it pretty conclusive. 2 hours later and it's still bootlooping... I'd take it apart but I don't really know what i'm looking for and I suspect if it's shorting, something will need replacing or soldering etc. Thanks very much
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try using a universal battery charger and then try again
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I don't think I have one, I shall check though. Thanks very much
The issue of having it shortly resetting once reinstalled the battery sounds to me like a hardware failure, most probably hard resetting all the time.
A hardware repair should help fix this.
tweetatoo said:
The issue of having it shortly resetting once reinstalled the battery sounds to me like a hardware failure, most probably hard resetting all the time.
A hardware repair should help fix this.
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It's funny you say that, after hours and hours of trying to get my phone to work, somehow through more luck than judgement I managed to get it into recovery and flash WanamLite 7.2 (I figured it was the next best thing to stock, as I couldn't access download mode) and well... since then, touch wood my phone hasn't restarted itself even once... now granted in that time i've only touched the power button once, to turn on the device, but it seems like progress to me
So my question is, is it possible that I could of had a bad flash or something? It seems too coincidental to me, and I don't actually think the different ROMs have anything to do with the problem (that is still lingering beneath I suspect), but the optimist in me REALLY wants it to be fixed haha
EDIT: Oh and thank you tweetatoo for your reply
So my question is, is it possible that I could of had a bad flash or something? It seems too coincidental to me, and I don't actually think the different ROMs have anything to do with the problem
Possible its the well known multipleromflashed problem .
JJEgan said:
So my question is, is it possible that I could of had a bad flash or something? It seems too coincidental to me, and I don't actually think the different ROMs have anything to do with the problem
Possible its the well known multipleromflashed problem .
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Interesting, thanks. It's just a bit confusing, it seems plausible because I flashed the ROM earlier in the day but at the same time, im not sure how much control the new ROM would have over the phone entering Download Mode... Mind boggling.
I'll keep an eye on it for a bit... and im still too scared to use the power button haha
Thanks very much
Download mode is entirely separate to the rom, I still think your power button shorted out (stuck down) as it's been reported many times before. If you have warranty then now would be the time to triangle away and return to stock for a while, just in case.
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