Yeterday my samsung focus went into download mode...Black screen with red triangle and a ! mark inside the triangle, and says phone is in download mode please do not turn off. Then it went off, nothing new was added and i did not have anything in marketplace waiting to be downloaded. What could that have been about? My carrier said they didnt knw.
you pushed the wrong buttons .
Try holding the power button + up volume + the camera button, and see what you get.
yup thats what it was...lol dont know how all three those got pushed in my pocket but guess they did. so whats the reason for that?
should have just emailed me jason... id have told you that..lol
yea i should have, i was just looking on here to see if anybody had said anything about it and didnt even think about getting with you...thank ya though!!
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Hi, my phone got a little wet, it worked after i dried it. Then i noticed the power button was not working. I opened the sliding keyboard and my phone lit up, so the phone was working fine. The battery drained and now i can't turn the phone back on. Is there any way of turning it on? do i have to boot another rom? If the power button is dead, can i remap the button to one of the other keys? when i charge the phone, the light comes on and shuts off after 10 minutes or so. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
i guess no response means there is no solution, i will try to boot another rom maybe that can work to turn on the phone and then remap the key
crayc said:
i guess no response means there is no solution, i will try to boot another rom maybe that can work to turn on the phone and then remap the key
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there may be water in the power , keep it for drying in rice for atleast 8hrs more
thanks for your reply. so you want me to put the phone in rice? well it ha been 5 days since it got water inside of it. Anything else i might be able to do.
i dun remember the name but there was a software thru which u can access ur entire phone thru computer... nah i m not talking abt remote desktop... just google it, u might come across,
y dun u give a try by flashing, it might boot up, n once it boots up, uncheck on do not lock buttons in start>setting>buttons or start.setting.systemkeylock setting..
So I've been on this forum 24/7 for the passed 4 days since my phone bricked. Never tried putting any roms or anything on the phone, all stock. It just crashed on me. This is exactly whats happening:
I put the battery in, and as soon i do that, the samsung logo appears, then goes blank, only to reappear, and so on. I don't even have to press the power button it just automatically turns on. So eventually while searching the forums i followed laymans tutorial on how to make a jig, so i did. I thought i had it! But as soon as i saw download mode come up, it just went right back to a blank screen within 3 seconds, only to see that damn samsung logo. So I'm just curious, am I royally screwed?
Would love some input on this as i cannot find anything >.<
Hi everyone,
INTRO:
So the power button on my Nexus S broke. No big deal, I remapped it to the search button and used the volume rocker to wake the device; an option that was embedded in Cyanogenmod9.
Then I upgraded to CM10... since I did that on top of CM9, my volume rocker option was still enabled, but the option is no longer in CM10's GUI.
I had some annoying issue and thought maybe I should wipe my phone; which I did.
Sadly, I realized that my "wake using volume rocker" option was no longer enabled, and there is no GUI to turn it back on.
I then found a .zip package that was supposed to enable the option but, I guess I went too fast, now my phone is stuck on a bootloop.
THE PROBLEM:
Since my power button is broken, I cannot navigate in the fastboot menu to recovery and fix the ROM.
Worst, since the power button is somehow shorted (i.e.: it powers on automatically when I insert the battery) Fastboot is not working properly and my PC never sees my phone, so you can forget about fastboot boot recovery.img
So: boot loop, power button broke, no recovery, no fastboot. =(
I searched quite a bit and found out you could get the Nexus S in download mode and get it to work with ODIN using a USB JIG.
I made myself such a JIG and successfully put the phone in some kind of download mode where my PC sees it, fastboot devices yields nothing *but* ODIN sees the phone!
So a glimmer of hope except for the fact that finding the .tar files for the Nexus S seems impossible...
Thoughts? Suggestion? TIA!
Francis // XC3N
Oh BTW:
-Yes I saw the other posts, but none of them mention the odin files
-Yes, I know fastboot is better; but it's not working and:
-No, I can't see the device on 3 different PCs using 3 different OSes and 3 Different cables when in fastboot mode
I mean by that last line that *nothing* shows in device manager in Win7 or XP and *nothing* shows in lsusb on ubuntu
So unless someone has an idea it looks like Download mode is the only way my PC sees my phone...
My power button done the same thing, I googled around and found a solution that worked for me.
It's somewhere here on xda but I don't got the link, basically everytime I booted into the bootloader I couldn't move the cursor with the volume button because the phone thought I was holding the power button, so I carefully tapped the casing around the power button and rebooted the bootloader and eventually I had control, it took 5-6 attempts to get it going but it did fix the power button for me.
I think it's something to do with the micro switches giving out after a certain number of uses.
Also it started screwing about recently so I just blew into the casing through the power button and it's behaved ever since.
In short, tap it until it works, once you have control of fastboot plug the usb in and your pc should detect it
Hope this helps, Good Luck
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Muckyfox said:
My power button done the same thing, I googled around and found a solution that worked for me.
It's somewhere here on xda but I don't got the link, basically everytime I booted into the bootloader I couldn't move the cursor with the volume button because the phone thought I was holding the power button, so I carefully tapped the casing around the power button and rebooted the bootloader and eventually I had control, it took 5-6 attempts to get it going but it did fix the power button for me.
Also it started screwing about recently so I just blew into the casing through the power button and it's behaved ever since.
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Hey MuckyFox thanks for your reply!
Unfortunately, that would've worked back when the power button was flimsy and still working once in a while... I did try the tapping thing but really nothing works... the button seems entirely dead and shorted. I guess at this point I might've to bring it in for repair... if the power button isn't broken then I'll be able to easily fix everything in recovery or fastboot. Sucks because I feel like I'm so close to getting it to work without spending money XD I just can't find the files for odin even though they really do seem to exist.
Allright so I found some odin files which were said to work with the i9020a
I flashed them... at some point it said "RESET!" and then odin no longer saw the device. The device is now not booting at all. FML
So this thread is going to end up like every other similar thread: I went and bought a Galaxy Nexus ;P
For posterity, these are the files you shouldn't flash on i9020A:
BOOTLOADER : Bootloader_I9020XXJK1.tar
PDA : PDA_SOJU_GRH78_85442_SIGNED.tar
PHONE:
CSC : CSC_I9020_EUR.tar
My power button started failing over the last couple of days. First when I would set the phone to standby it would ask me if I wanted to switch off the device, then later on it wouldnt respond at all.
Really weird solution - boot into recovery, factory restore, clear dalvik cache, voila, works good as new! (aside from losing all my settings)
Note, I barely managed to get into recovery. The power button fully stopped working halfway through and I had to take the battery out and try it a couple of times.
Oddly, even during this uber-broken phase, the power button would always switch on the device when fully switched off (not just standby) indicating to me that it wasnt just a physical broken connection.
I've mentioned this before, but a full casing for the phone with all the buttons is around $10 on eBay
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So this thread is going to end up like every other similar thread: I went and bought a Galaxy Nexus ;P
For posterity, these are the files you shouldn't flash on i9020A:
BOOTLOADER : Bootloader_I9020XXJK1.tar
PDA : PDA_SOJU_GRH78_85442_SIGNED.tar
PHONE:
CSC : CSC_I9020_EUR.tar
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You need stuff for SOJUA, and just the fact CSC has EUR meaning Europe in it would scare the crap out of me. Possible you just flashed stuff meant for i9020T and not i9020A.
In case anybody comes back here, I'm just gonna drop this in.
hey guys. I was trying to connect to public WiFi today and my phone just shut off. It goes through the boot process. I get the first HTC guietly brilliant, then i get the att, then the last htc ONE, it vibrates, goes black like my home screen is about to pop up and nope, no home screen. It goes right back to being quietly brilliant. My phone is not rooted or flashed or any of that junk (my nook however is lol) Its been stuck on repeat for a good 5 hours now. Ive read online a couple of different things to go about doing, but they are all having to do with rooted phones. I am under warranty, so i can get a new phone, however i do have some precious pictures of my new baby cousin and my father that just recently passed that i REALLY DONT want to give up...can someone pleeassseee help?!?!?!??!?!
"fastboot erase cache" will work on a stock phone
also find a way to get into safe mode which i'm not sure how to do
well if u dont know how to do it, then i sure as heck dont know how to do it. and "fastboot, erase, cache"??? lol i know u know that was probably coming lmao
in that case hold volume down + power for until lights flash and stop, then keeping holding volume down and tap power until you get into bootloader, then go recovery. once you get there press volume up to see dialog and selections, select wipe cache, once finished reboot.
ok so I go to recovery and shows the 2 green arrows in circle with a green arrow pointing at an image of a cell phone then it almost immediately switches to an image of a phone with a red triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle and it stays like that for a minute and then reboots and starts the evil cycle of being quietly brilliant all over again
i can't help you anymore more than google could easier, as a stock phone is worthless to me so i know little about a stock phone.
got it all figured out...thanks for your help and for um being so nice, i say sarcastically.
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also find a way to get into safe mode which i'm not sure how to do
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Similar to bootloader, except you start pressing vol down while the boot screen is showing (but before the phone fully boots), instead of before.
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ok so I go to recovery and shows the 2 green arrows in circle with a green arrow pointing at an image of a cell phone then it almost immediately switches to an image of a phone with a red triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle
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That's the stock recovery. What DvineLord was suggesting won't work in stock recovery.
too bad there is no safe mode once you flash custom rom or that is what i've been led to believe
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too bad there is no safe mode once you flash custom rom or that is what i've been led to believe
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Works fine on CleanROM JL Beta. Pretty sure I've used it on other Sense based customs as well. Maybe its a Sense feature, and doesn't work on AOSP ROMs?
Hi,
long story short: while trying to install CM on my old one s I first flashed the boot.img as described here: h t t p : / / wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ville. It appears that the firmware overwrote the custom recovery on a reboot, and when I entered recovery to install CM I got a screen saying "entering recovery..." in pink at the top, htc logo in the middle, and "This build is only intended for development, to not leak from HTC" (something like that) in red at the bottom. Nothing happened.
I shut it down and started it back up, and it went to boot with the same htc logo and red message at the bottom -- and froze there. Only 10+ sec power button restarts it, nothing else helps. Weird enough I noticed that if it's on a cable it won't restart but just stay off, and if it's not connected it will restart immediately, no chance to switch it off.
Here's my biggest problem: my volume rocker is brocken. Up works somewhat, but down is 95% dead. I entered the bootloader through adb before, but since I can't boot the phone anymore I can't get in anymore.
It seems to me like the best solution would be to somehow fix the volume rocker. It's not 100% dead, occasionally I could get a keypress through, so I would just suppose the contacts are a little bad and I could just polish it a little? But the phone seems a pain to take apart.
What would you suggest? Is it too easy to break the whole thing while trying to clean the contacts of the rocker?
Thanks for any help / comments!
compul
why not change the volume button, at gsm service.
It's a good phone.
compul said:
Hi,
long story short: while trying to install CM on my old one s I first flashed the boot.img as described here: h t t p : / / wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ville. It appears that the firmware overwrote the custom recovery on a reboot, and when I entered recovery to install CM I got a screen saying "entering recovery..." in pink at the top, htc logo in the middle, and "This build is only intended for development, to not leak from HTC" (something like that) in red at the bottom. Nothing happened.
I shut it down and started it back up, and it went to boot with the same htc logo and red message at the bottom -- and froze there. Only 10+ sec power button restarts it, nothing else helps. Weird enough I noticed that if it's on a cable it won't restart but just stay off, and if it's not connected it will restart immediately, no chance to switch it off.
Here's my biggest problem: my volume rocker is brocken. Up works somewhat, but down is 95% dead. I entered the bootloader through adb before, but since I can't boot the phone anymore I can't get in anymore.
It seems to me like the best solution would be to somehow fix the volume rocker. It's not 100% dead, occasionally I could get a keypress through, so I would just suppose the contacts are a little bad and I could just polish it a little? But the phone seems a pain to take apart.
What would you suggest? Is it too easy to break the whole thing while trying to clean the contacts of the rocker?
Thanks for any help / comments!
compul
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Taking it apart is smth you can do. Ik its hard, i tried but if you're confident its your power button then do it. After you reveal the back of our phone, you can access the buttons
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null0seven said:
why not change the volume button, at gsm service.
It's a good phone.
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While that is my last resort, I'd like to avoid it. I do have a working Nexus 5 after all.
TiTAN-O-One said:
Taking it apart is smth you can do. Ik its hard, i tried but if you're confident its your power button then do it. After you reveal the back of our phone, you can access the buttons
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It's the volume rocker, not the power button; and it's been broken for a long time. I'm a little afraid I might rip things apart, but this makes it look outright easy: youtube.com/watch?v=6j25jajIq3g. I'll give it a try.