I pressed the Home button+Trackball+Power Button.....when starting my G1.
The Phone doesn't "power on" but the led light comes on BLUE and stays lit.
Any idea what this is for or means?
Dude pull battery out and reboot (nub)
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Dude pull battery out and reboot (nub)
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Wow, clearly you have no brain. My phone is bricked, check the New SPL and IME thread and maybe you'll have the slightest clue what I'm talking about.
MY QUESTION HERE IS VERY SIMPLE.
While trying to get past G1 boot screen, I pressed the
Home button+Trackball+Power.....
The Phone doesn't "power on" but the led light comes on blue and stays lit.
Battery pulls have been done numerous times over the past 2 hours. If you don't have a clue as to what the blue light represents, then don't bother replying to this thread. Ok.
Thanks.
when u installed the new spl did u reflash the rom?
cuz thats the problem
when the new spl is added you have to reflash the rom u were using
dont wipe so you wont lose your apps
A customer came into my store 2 days ago with a g1 that would not turn on and all it had was just a blue led lit. Tried everything to get a screen to come up and no luck.
That same update bricked my phone, t-mobile boot is all i see
home+power = dont work
camera+power= dont work
nothing did now i have to return it
bigballa said:
when u installed the new spl did u reflash the rom?
cuz thats the problem
when the new spl is added you have to reflash the rom u were using
dont wipe so you wont lose your apps
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I rephrased my 1st post so I could get an answer about what this post is for. I'm not an idiot, I know how to flash an SPL/ROM/ whatever.
The phone is bricked, I am one of many, check the New SPL and IME thread.
That has nothing to do with my topic here though. Thanks.
deviusdragger said:
A customer came into my store 2 days ago with a g1 that would not turn on and all it had was just a blue led lit. Tried everything to get a screen to come up and no luck.
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I can get the G1 screen to come up, but that's all. I just didn't know if the combo of keys I pressed to start the phone meant something.
Turns out if you just press the trackball in and press power that will trigger just the Blue LED light to come on as well.
Just trying to figure out if this is useful or just more G1 shananigans. lol.
is the G1 screen comes up your phone is NOT bricked...
try flashing the regular JF ADP1.5.. if that dont go, start flashing old roms(RC29, RC30 etc..) hope that works
Saw this posted on a forum for T-Mo
the omniscient Google sez:
(found on forums.tmonews.com)
The problem is caused by ppl powering the device on, and when they press the red END key they are also holding down the MENU and pushing in the track ball at the same time.
This then enables a lock on the phone the only way around this is to pull the battery and turn the phone back on with/out pressing an holding the menu and trackball.
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Another posted solution:
(www.fixya.com)
well plug the charger into the phone with the battery still intact.....then remove the battery while the phone is still plugged in. then unplug the charger and plug it back in........place battery back into phone and then power it up. That worked for me.
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Good fortune
AbsoluteDesignz said:
is the G1 screen comes up your phone is NOT bricked...
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It actually can be bricked head over here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515822 and you will see that it is. Persons are not able to get into recovery even unable to get into the boorloader screen. By pressing home + power or camera + power. it can be bricked and show the G1 boot screen there are 7 or so phones that are like this now.
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the omniscient Google sez:
(found on forums.tmonews.com)
Another posted solution:
(www.fixya.com)
Good fortune
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Just a generic lock? awesome. That's all I was wondering. Thank you!
Blue light happened when I washed my G1. I can occasionally get it to start up, try hitting the power button for a sec, hit it a gain a few times and see what happens. Throwing some trackball presses in there seemed to help too. G1 is an odd creature...
7 phones bricked and still counting thanks to the H special SPL.
Not so sure it's the SPL
one correspondent who purports to be an associate of T-Mo suggests that that button-press combination invokes a hardware lock that can be undone. see above
the BLUE LED of DEATH
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Just a generic lock? awesome. That's all I was wondering. Thank you!
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W/B if that solution works for you; maybe it'll help the other 6 stricken G1s too
sir*mez:
If it gets to the T-Mobile-screen, the phone is NOT bricked.
If it's able to show the picture, it furthermore shows that atleast that part of the flash is intact (The picture resides on the splash1 partition, while the secondary is on splash2).
barlev869 & arqueware:
Hardware-lock? My bet would be this is some sort of test-mode, maybe for hardware-diagnostics?
It's not a lock if it can be avoided by just rebooting the phone (Which it can, i've been in the blue-led mode several times to try to guess what it was doing when booted like that...).
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sir*mez:
If it gets to the T-Mobile-screen, the phone is NOT bricked.
If it's able to show the picture, it furthermore shows that atleast that part of the flash is intact (The picture resides on the splash1 partition, while the secondary is on splash2).
barlev869 & arqueware:
Hardware-lock? My bet would be this is some sort of test-mode, maybe for hardware-diagnostics?
It's not a lock if it can be avoided by just rebooting the phone (Which it can, i've been in the blue-led mode several times to try to guess what it was doing when booted like that...).
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*sighs in disbelief* look another none believer that seems to say the say as the rest. Look the phone is dead there 9 people now to say that the spl bricked the phone. I'm not alone here.
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sir*mez:
If it gets to the T-Mobile-screen, the phone is NOT bricked.
If it's able to show the picture, it furthermore shows that atleast that part of the flash is intact (The picture resides on the splash1 partition, while the secondary is on splash2).
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From my understanding of the problem, You're half right. Part of the system does indeed come up but unfortunately that isn't enough to get adb to run or to boot into recovery mode or into fastboot. Basically, while you're right that it's not fully bricked and it is theoretically possible to fix it, the phone doesn't have any interface at all to do so. It'd be like trying to fix BIOS settings on a computer when you don't have a keyboard.
NOTE: I haven't flashed the new SPL so haven't been able to run into any problems with it, but from reading other people's descriptions of what happened, the above seems to be the case.
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i was upgrading the radio and hboot along with recovery ......done this a thousand times .......but when it came time to flash my rom i accidently flashed the nexus launcher for changing the app shelf ...right after i lost trackball function.....then after reboot blue light...
why me ...why
you know it will happen one day i fear the day will come for me too
is there anything i can do
actually u didnt brick ur device but u need a trackball replacement,search on ebay. Maybe ur trackball is short circuit n is pressed. Blue light comes up when u press trackball n power
so blue light doesnt mean brick but it was working fine right before i flashed the first file...so u are saying i could of confused the hardware
i just unbrick my magic from a blue light led ...
first i opened device and detatched the cables leading and to trackball let it sit for 30 seconds then reconnected all cables....now i am back to fastboot .....thank god
thatruth132 said:
i just unbrick my magic from a blue light led ...
first i opened device and detatched the cables leading and to trackball let it sit for 30 seconds then reconnected all cables....now i am back to fastboot .....thank god
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Wow, lucky you.
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Wow, lucky you.
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it was all just crazy but it did work if that one person would of never said to change trackball i would of never got the idea to do that ...i did that on a iphone before and it worked
Ok, so basically I installed a gsm rom on my phone, instead of a cdma rom, now the phone will not do anything, is there anything that can be done, or should i just buy a new phone.
Try to get into bootloader mode. Hold the volume down key + the power key at the same time. You should be able to get to the tri-colored boot loader screen. From there attach your TP2 to a USB and flash a CDMA rom like normal.
i tried that, and still nothing, i actually noticed it doesn't even wanna charge
actually it is charging, but nothing else
I just wanna know if you have saved your phone or not.
I was going to flash a gsm rom,but I see your situation now,so..
If anybody know how to change a gsm rom to a cdma rom?
Nope all it does is charge, i cant nothing else to work on it
manuss said:
Ok, so basically I installed a gsm rom on my phone, instead of a cdma rom, now the phone will not do anything, is there anything that can be done, or should i just buy a new phone.
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yeah your going to need to buy a new phone. but if you are willing to donate the phone to try and see if i can come up with something to fix the ordeal i would be willing to to do that considering i am recently out of worka nd this community is the only commitment I have left.
manuss said:
Ok, so basically I installed a gsm rom on my phone, instead of a cdma rom, now the phone will not do anything, is there anything that can be done, or should i just buy a new phone.
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We have Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile and Touch Pro 2's on both carriers and I did that by mistake on my T-Mobile device. Okay, this is what I did; first, you're going to need a clean sd memory card that will at least hold the ROM you're flashing. I don't recommend you put anything else on this card except the ROM.
One note, you must be Hard SPL'd to do this; if not this is all mute.
The reset button on Verizon's TP2 is located under the back cover on the device's left side just under the volume rocker; it's a red dot that says "RESET".
With the ROM on the memory card insert the memory card; next hold down both the volume down and reset button simultaneously, releasing the reset button first and then the volume down rocker and your bootloader screen with Red, Green, Blue and White with yellow characters will appear. By the way you can also use this procedure to flash your device via sync and PC if "USB" appears in the white portion of the screen if you have an existing "CDMA" ROM on your Rhodium 500 device (CDMA).
Now, I'm going to tell you right from the start this works perfect with GSM Rhodiums; I've never tried it with my wife's device which has God status in this house and I'm not about to piss her off on a wild hunch.
Double check the forum whether someone else has been a victim and it's not all that unusual, though I admit I felt like a real dumbass when I did my device and I got an all white screen. Just remember RHOD500 is your device; you see RHOD210; that's GSM. Take care!
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Nope all it does is charge, i cant nothing else to work on it
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First you should do what SNittyKitty wrote.
What company is your TP2 from?
If that doesn't make it respond write to HTC Support and tell them you install a ROM from there page and now it's not responding. And by not responding I mean the charging light not turning on when connected.
Same Problem
I had someone send me the unlocker for the Rhod500 and it was actually for the Raph. Although I did not find that out until after I tried to flash it. Now I have the same problem. Any luck yet? Also, when i plug in the phone to the computer it comes up in device manager but I cant do anything. I figure if it is in device manager I should be able to fix the issue but I dont know.
If you flashed the raphael unlocker then there is no fixing the phone. It is toast, it does make a nice paper weight
This has been happening for a few days now, the phone turns off and endlessly vibrates until I pull the battery, and then it does it again and again but it'll work for a few hours before it happens again... I've tried different roms but its still happening and it's getting very frustrating
does it do it on stock? And are you over clocked?
CM9 Skyrocket
droid512 said:
does it do it on stock? And are you over clocked?
CM9 Skyrocket
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I'm back on gingerbread now cuz ICS was unstable and im not overclocked
Sounds like a stuck power button. There is a thread on this somewhere
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mindmajick said:
Sounds like a stuck power button. There is a thread on this somewhere
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You mean like physically? Seems fine the phone just starts doing it randomly while it's just sitting on the bed. Right now it's not even turning on at all no matter what I try :/
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Here is one example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801226
I know there is a good one that goes through the logic of it... but the symptoms seem the same.
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It's in download mode now, I'm going to try downloading stock Rogers ICS and see if the problem persists, if it does I still have 5 months of warranty so hopefully that'll be covered
Ok. You can try jamming on the power button repeatedly too...
Good luck!
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Looks like the skyrocket's done for good.. I'm going to take it in to the store tomorrow but what do you think they'll say when they fix it and find out it's rooted?
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Looks like the skyrocket's done for good.. I'm going to take it in to the store tomorrow but what do you think they'll say when they fix it and find out it's rooted?
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EDIT: Is there any way to get my files off the internal SD without being able to turn the phone on? can't get into download mode or recovery because the phone just turns off 3-4 seconds in
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EDIT: Is there any way to get my files off the internal SD without being able to turn the phone on? can't get into download mode or recovery because the phone just turns off 3-4 seconds in
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no.
try this test, when it goes through the bootloop, keep the power button depressed w/out releasing it and see if it displays the same charactersistics as your bootloops, also count the seconds each situation has, if they are the same then the problem is the sticky power button
As posted earlier, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801226
It's the power button that is messed up, hands-down.
Try and try and try and sooner or later you'll probably get it. I could care less about the phone as I have a replacement coming, but I wanted to get my data off of it.
Open up you're phone if you're comfortable and mess with the power button directly some, either you're going to fix it long enough to get your data or break it completely...doesn't really matter at this point.
Just put the battery in and right after the phone vibrates hold the power button and see how lucky you are at getting it to last the full 8+ seconds instead of the usual 2 before it reboots and vibrates.
Once you get it working, don't touch that *****. As gently as possible, set it down and get your USB in, turn on Mass USB and debugging and copy your stuff. Put the timeout to the max or download an app so you don't have to touch the power button ever and just touch the screen every once in awhile if you don't have an app. Don't forget to reset your flash counter and reflash stock ODIN if you're rooted or on anything custom (Use ADB to reboot through all this)
Honestly...I let my phone restart on its own for a total of like 8 hours (I didn't care and honestly hoped it burnt up or something and was completely fried) and I watched it for a good chunk of the time and it never booted up on its own. After I took it apart twice and beat the hell out of the power button a good while I finally got it to work.
Repeatedly mashing it after 'attempting' to clean it and then pulling the battery/reinserting and seeing if it worked is how I finally got mine.
Now it's just a paper weight till the new one comes.
Edit: I find it weird that a lot more of these problems are popping up. I noticed a bunch of threads on various sites towards the end of June that had popped up and now some are here too recently. I guess the Skyrocket's cheap-feeling Power Button is indeed...cheap.
It isn't the power button. I posted this problem months ago and took it in to a device center. It was actually a battery issue where it connects into the phone. The charge going into the phone doesn't stick, causing it to flicker power and thus restart constantly. They never ended up getting my old one to turn on and never saw it was rooted and what not. Ended up just giving me a refurbished one.
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It isn't the power button. I posted this problem months ago and took it in to a device center. It was actually a battery issue where it connects into the phone. The charge going into the phone doesn't stick, causing it to flicker power and thus restart constantly. They never ended up getting my old one to turn on and never saw it was rooted and what not. Ended up just giving me a refurbished one.
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well if it never turns on, then its not the sticky power button problem, the sticky power button has a reboot symptom at a consistent interval
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As posted earlier, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801226
It's the power button that is messed up, hands-down.
Try and try and try and sooner or later you'll probably get it. I could care less about the phone as I have a replacement coming, but I wanted to get my data off of it.
Open up you're phone if you're comfortable and mess with the power button directly some, either you're going to fix it long enough to get your data or break it completely...doesn't really matter at this point.
Just put the battery in and right after the phone vibrates hold the power button and see how lucky you are at getting it to last the full 8+ seconds instead of the usual 2 before it reboots and vibrates.
Once you get it working, don't touch that *****. As gently as possible, set it down and get your USB in, turn on Mass USB and debugging and copy your stuff. Put the timeout to the max or download an app so you don't have to touch the power button ever and just touch the screen every once in awhile if you don't have an app. Don't forget to reset your flash counter and reflash stock ODIN if you're rooted or on anything custom (Use ADB to reboot through all this)
Honestly...I let my phone restart on its own for a total of like 8 hours (I didn't care and honestly hoped it burnt up or something and was completely fried) and I watched it for a good chunk of the time and it never booted up on its own. After I took it apart twice and beat the hell out of the power button a good while I finally got it to work.
Repeatedly mashing it after 'attempting' to clean it and then pulling the battery/reinserting and seeing if it worked is how I finally got mine.
Now it's just a paper weight till the new one comes.
Edit: I find it weird that a lot more of these problems are popping up. I noticed a bunch of threads on various sites towards the end of June that had popped up and now some are here too recently. I guess the Skyrocket's cheap-feeling Power Button is indeed...cheap.
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Alright, I will definitely try and try until the phone turns on before taking it into the store. This has actually been happening for a few days now but I didn't really care too much because I was really busy and I thought since it turns on after a few tries, I'll just take the files off and return it to stock later. Also, yesterday someone gave the suggestion of repeatedly jamming the power button and that actually worked twice but after that it never worked again.
Is it possible to remove the back and fix the power button without voiding the warranty (are there any stickers)?
EDIT: I have it disassembled right now, what exactly should I do to the power button? I tried clicking it a few times and blowing at it nd I put the battery in but still the same thing
EDIT 2: Umm what looks to be the litmus paper on the inside is red.. the phone has never come in contact with water so how is this possible..
EDIT 3: Every housing I've seen online (4-5) has a red square on the housing so I'm guessing it comes in red by default? Either way I'm taking it to Rogers right now, they said I could have a refurbished for 35 or I can just repair this one so I'm just going to repair it and hopefully the files will be preserved.
My only concern.. the phone running Juggernaut 5 right now LOL and the internal SD is full of rom zips and kernels so hopefully they don't look at that, or don't care. Once they repair the phone, what can they really do tho? Break it again nd send it back? haha
SGS2X said:
Alright, I will definitely try and try until the phone turns on before taking it into the store. This has actually been happening for a few days now but I didn't really care too much because I was really busy and I thought since it turns on after a few tries, I'll just take the files off and return it to stock later. Also, yesterday someone gave the suggestion of repeatedly jamming the power button and that actually worked twice but after that it never worked again.
Is it possible to remove the back and fix the power button without voiding the warranty (are there any stickers)?
EDIT: I have it disassembled right now, what exactly should I do to the power button? I tried clicking it a few times and blowing at it nd I put the battery in but still the same thing
EDIT 2: Umm what looks to be the litmus paper on the inside is red.. the phone has never come in contact with water so how is this possible..
EDIT 3: Every housing I've seen online (4-5) has a red square on the housing so I'm guessing it comes in red by default? Either way I'm taking it to Rogers right now, they said I could have a refurbished for 35 or I can just repair this one so I'm just going to repair it and hopefully the files will be preserved.
My only concern.. the phone running Juggernaut 5 right now LOL and the internal SD is full of rom zips and kernels so hopefully they don't look at that, or don't care. Once they repair the phone, what can they really do tho? Break it again nd send it back? haha
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I would just fiddle with the power hoping for the best.
As far as your roms go, I doubt it'll be a problem. A) They're not going to get the phone to turn on anyway. They're probably just going to repair the button and reflash before they even check anything. Either way, like you said, the worst case is they find it but you already have your replacement...maybe they'll try charging you the phone, throw a hassle and offer to cancel your service and tell them to send you your "unwarranteed phone" and the button repair bill and they can have theirs back. I don't seem them getting you for it. All they might do is check the flash counter which probably hasn't been tripped if you didn't use a bad ODIN.
Juggernaut 5
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i never seen this rom, where did u get it, is it for the skyrocket, if not could be your prob
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I would just fiddle with the power hoping for the best.
As far as your roms go, I doubt it'll be a problem. A) They're not going to get the phone to turn on anyway. They're probably just going to repair the button and reflash before they even check anything. Either way, like you said, the worst case is they find it but you already have your replacement...maybe they'll try charging you the phone, throw a hassle and offer to cancel your service and tell them to send you your "unwarranteed phone" and the button repair bill and they can have theirs back. I don't seem them getting you for it. All they might do is check the flash counter which probably hasn't been tripped if you didn't use a bad ODIN.
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i never seen this rom, where did u get it, is it for the skyrocket, if not could be your prob
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Flash counter is at 0, I checked when I managed to get into Download mode before it stopped working altogether. Juggernaut 5 is a rom for the Hercules (T989) and that's not the problem, I've used it before and I only flashed it after the problem started because I thought ICS was the problem, but it stayed even after flashing Juggernaut.
so what did u end up doing, fool around w/the power button or did u bring it in
Hi folks,
I suspect I'm having what some people around here appear to refer to as a Hboot problem. But this is my first Android phone, and I couldn't know any less about RUUs or booting or roms or anything like that. I'm posting a new thread because it seems like anyone who had a problem like mine had tried to, or wanted to know how to root their device. I didn't do that and am not trying to, but I've still got these problems.
I bought the phone "new", and it came in just today, from eBay, supposedly in a sealed box. Maybe that's part of the problem, I'm not sure. All I've done is: turn it on, install some apps, get in over my head with Apex launcher, and try to update Android.
I chose update from the menu, left my phone plugged in, and when I came back to it, nothing was on the screen. I pressed power, and it showed a screen similar to the first image (black screen, phone icon, green arrows in a circle). I assumed it was installing. I let it be and came back to the white screen with the numbers and barcodes. I panicked and chose "recovery" from the menu, and after a reboot it seemed to be back to normal.
However, just now, as I was attempting to reboot the phone due to not having any volume, I again got the white screen followed by the green arrows and finally the red warning icon.
Somehow or another, the phone resets itself and comes back on, but where is this coming from? Did I do something wrong? What does the screen mean, and did I get hosed by my seller? Thanks all
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Hi folks,
I suspect I'm having what some people around here appear to refer to as a Hboot problem. But this is my first Android phone, and I couldn't know any less about RUUs or booting or roms or anything like that. I'm posting a new thread because it seems like anyone who had a problem like mine had tried to, or wanted to know how to root their device. I didn't do that and am not trying to, but I've still got these problems.
I bought the phone "new", and it came in just today, from eBay, supposedly in a sealed box. Maybe that's part of the problem, I'm not sure. All I've done is: turn it on, install some apps, get in over my head with Apex launcher, and try to update Android.
I chose update from the menu, left my phone plugged in, and when I came back to it, nothing was on the screen. I pressed power, and it showed a screen similar to the first image (black screen, phone icon, green arrows in a circle). I assumed it was installing. I let it be and came back to the white screen with the numbers and barcodes. I panicked and chose "recovery" from the menu, and after a reboot it seemed to be back to normal.
However, just now, as I was attempting to reboot the phone due to not having any volume, I again got the white screen followed by the green arrows and finally the red warning icon.
Somehow or another, the phone resets itself and comes back on, but where is this coming from? Did I do something wrong? What does the screen mean, and did I get hosed by my seller? Thanks all
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to get to the bootloader menu (the white one with the pink writing), you have to reboot and allow it to boot with the volume down button held. It looks like your volume rocker is getting stuck on down - given that you are losing volume and it keeps booting into the bootloader menu. If it is in a case, try removing it from the case and see if the issue persists.Otherwise, it is likely a hardware issue. so you should return it for a warranty repair/replacement (as you said you bought it new in a box).
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to get to the bootloader menu (the white one with the pink writing), you have to reboot and allow it to boot with the volume down button held. It looks like your volume rocker is getting stuck on down - given that you are losing volume and it keeps booting into the bootloader menu. If it is in a case, try removing it from the case and see if the issue persists.Otherwise, it is likely a hardware issue. so you should return it for a warranty repair/replacement (as you said you bought it new in a box).
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You coulsnt be more wrong I'm [email protected] op ill get you back up and running in a sec
tactical kitten said:
You coulsnt be more wrong I'm [email protected] op ill get you back up and running in a sec
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lol!
tactical kitten said:
You coulsnt be more wrong I'm [email protected] op ill get you back up and running in a sec
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Kitten - what do you think is the problem? The OP says they lost volume and they keep rebooting into the bootloader. The stuck volume rocker sounds like the easiest way to explain both issues. I might be wrong, but not given the symptoms listed in the OP. If more information is required to diagnose the issue, we can at least start by eliminating the obvious.
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Kitten - what do you think is the problem? The OP says they lost volume and they keep rebooting into the bootloader. The stuck volume rocker sounds like the easiest way to explain both issues. I might be wrong, but not given the symptoms listed in the OP. If more information is required to diagnose the issue, we can at least start by eliminating the obvious.
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Thank you very, very much - I believe that's exactly the issue. I had no idea pressing the volume down button during a reboot would get you to that menu, but I am using the Trident Kraken case which apparently has an issue lining up with the volume down rocker on this particular phone.
I will try to reproduce the problem sans case to make sure, but this sounds absolutely right. Thanks for helping a complete newbie - I don't think I'd ever have put that together. I was very worried I'd been sold a bill of goods.
Hi,
My nexus 5 constantly reboots at the google logo. I think it is a power button problem.
I bought my nexus 5 from the google play store but I do not live in the US, so RMAing it would be difficult.
So is there any way I can fix it? I tried tapping on the power button on the mother board but it didn't help.
Thanks!
liamkosh said:
Hi,
My nexus 5 constantly reboots at the google logo. I think it is a power button problem.
I bought my nexus 5 from the google play store but I do not live in the US, so RMAing it would be difficult.
So is there any way I can fix it? I tried tapping on the power button on the mother board but it didn't help.
Thanks!
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I think your phone is soft-bricked... Try to boot into custom recovery, factory reset, and reflash a custom rom.
Sent from my Hammerhead running Android L !
AndreIrawan97 said:
I think your phone is soft-bricked... Try to boot into custom recovery, factory reset, and reflash a custom rom.
Sent from my Hammerhead running Android L !
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I have the same issue but I cannot get into recovery or anything else. There is not enough time before the phone reboots again. I have read of people having success but it seems rather rare. The strange thing is that I can press or tap (with luck) on the back of the phone, near the power button, and the phone will turn on. I am sure this is a hardware issue but I got mine from T-Mobile and my bootloader is unlocked and on Android 5.0. The bad thing is that I am now able to JUMP! and was looking at the Nexus 6... oh the humanity!
On an side note: When pressing on the back of the phone (see above) repeatedly I was able to get the phone to fully boot but once I quit it rebooted again. I have not been able to repeat this as of yet. I am leaving it on the charger and hoping that it will somehow right itself like other have reported... that is unless anyone has any suggestions.
rantrav said:
I have the same issue but I cannot get into recovery or anything else. There is not enough time before the phone reboots again. I have read of people having success but it seems rather rare. The strange thing is that I can press or tap (with luck) on the back of the phone, near the power button, and the phone will turn on. I am sure this is a hardware issue but I got mine from T-Mobile and my bootloader is unlocked and on Android 5.0. The bad thing is that I am now able to JUMP! and was looking at the Nexus 6... oh the humanity!
On an side note: When pressing on the back of the phone (see above) repeatedly I was able to get the phone to fully boot but once I quit it rebooted again. I have not been able to repeat this as of yet. I am leaving it on the charger and hoping that it will somehow right itself like other have reported... that is unless anyone has any suggestions.
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sounds like a "stuck" power button
simms22 said:
sounds like a "stuck" power button
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I agree. I took the phone apart and messed with the components but nothing has changed. When I was able to get the phone to book all the way up "Power off" appeared as if I were pressing the button. I am not sure how to fix this.... I am sure that T-Mobile will not cover the warranty since it is unlocked.
rantrav said:
I agree. I took the phone apart and messed with the components but nothing has changed. When I was able to get the phone to book all the way up "Power off" appeared as if I were pressing the button. I am not sure how to fix this.... I am sure that T-Mobile will not cover the warranty since it is unlocked.
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it should be a relatively inexpensive fix at any local repair shop. or you can try repairing it yourself, can probably find a youtube vid about it.
simms22 said:
it should be a relatively inexpensive fix at any local repair shop. or you can try repairing it yourself, can probably find a youtube vid about it.
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I have not found a video, yet. I tore it down as far as I could but I will keep searching. I am 99% sure that it is hardware related but I don't think that T-Mobile will swap it out or let me use my JUMP! because of the unlocked bootloader. I knew I should have relocked it when I put 5.0 on it!!!!
rantrav said:
I have not found a video, yet. I tore it down as far as I could but I will keep searching. I am 99% sure that it is hardware related but I don't think that T-Mobile will swap it out or let me use my JUMP! because of the unlocked bootloader. I knew I should have relocked it when I put 5.0 on it!!!!
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you still can, its very simple. in fastboot.. fastboot oem lock. or if you have root, the boot unlocker for nexus devices app. you can lock or unlock the bootloader with the app, if you have root. personally, i dont think they would even know about the bootloader being unlock.
simms22 said:
you still can, its very simple. in fastboot.. fastboot oem lock. or if you have root, the boot unlocker for nexus devices app. you can lock or unlock the bootloader with the app, if you have root. personally, i dont think they would even know about the bootloader being unlock.
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The issue is that the phone reboots about every 2 seconds making it impossible to make a connection through ADB, recovery, or anything else. I did, however, find a solution/idea on a post by "nadrojcote":
"For the last week or so my power button/lock button has been intermittent, sometimes having to hit it 5 times or so to get the screen to unlock. Yesterday it all of a sudden stopped working and I couldn't unlock.
I am making this post to share my fix I found for the problem. Seeing how my phone is not under warranty because I have already replaced the screen, I took to tearing it apart and seeing what's going on. Hoping I could order a new power button, unfortunately the button is soldered onto the main board. Upon taking it apart I realized I had put a little shim in between the power button and the plastic button in the housing as a "rattle fix". This is what I am thinking caused the problem, this caused me to be putting too much pressure on the power button and caused it to over time break apart the back of the actual buttons metal housing on the main board. I removed the shim and it still did not work. I was going to take the main board and heat it at a low heat in the oven in hopes to reseat solder points, but before I did that I tried using a fine pair of needle nose pliers to crimp the back housing of the button back together. Luckily this worked. Unfortunately I do not have pictures, but if someone else has the same issue you should be able to see what I'm referring to by comparing the power button to the volume buttons on the mainboard, there is a metal housing around the actual button that is soldered to the main board, it has a slit down the back side of it that allows it to spread apart. The volume keys should be tight.
THE PROBLEM: Power/Lock button stops working
THE CAUSE(assumed): Nexus 5 power/lock button rattle fix
THE FIX: Using needle nose pliers to crimp the metal backing of the power button housing good and tight.
I hope this helps others out in the future as I'm sure I wont be the only one with this problem."
Now, I did not have a loose power button and so did not mod it. I did however take the phone apart and pull the board out. On the back of the board, opposite of the power switch, if an aluminum(?) case which can be removed. Under this there is another aluminum housing with a circle in the middle of it. The circle was somewhat bent touching the board parts below so I carefully bent the circle up. Next I gave the power switch a few "gentle" taps and pressed the casing around the switch to hopefully make it tighter as was recommended by "nadrojcote."
As you can tell from my word use, I am no where near an expert on anything electric BUT my phone is now working. I have not put it back together yet but I am in the process of restoring it to factory and locking the bootloader in case I need to send it in. I have sent some major prayers to God today! (If you do not believe in God you don't have to say anything negative about my post... just carry on)
This happens to me always to restart device
There is a solution to this?
What this fire button solution problem?
Who tried to replace power-on button to know is% 200 percent of the problem?