[Q] Any one had to use adb to reboot? - Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has any one else had their xoom freeze so bad that the hardware button stopped working? Mine actually froze with the screen on for a long time. I had to use a ADB to send a reboot command. If I hadn't been at home that would have been bad... any one else had this problem?
I love my Xoom but Honeycomb needs work!

Power + vol up didn't work? Usually fixes that sort of thing
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Dubar said:
Power + vol up didn't work? Usually fixes that sort of thing
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No, the hardware buttons froze too! Kinda made me wonder if it might actually be some hardware failure. I will just wait and see if it happens again...

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Volume down plus Home & power

Anybody try this yet?
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What does that do???
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yep takes screen shot
strikerx312 said:
yep takes screen shot
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Home + Power takes a screen shot. Not that it's in the manual or anything...
NO VOL DOWN PLUS HOME BUTTON AND POWER WHILE DEVICE IS OFF
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What does it do???
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Will a Top tier LG Rep said it can recover us from a hard brick
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I thought I saw this somewhere... But what I read about it was it was similar to doing a factory reset, doesn't actually reflash anything. I hope I'm wrong.
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Home + Power takes a screen shot. Not that it's in the manual or anything...
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true..my bad lolz
Vol- & power will do a hard reset when you still have stock recovery.
So has anyone been daring enough to try this? Lol
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crx4xharder said:
So has anyone been daring enough to try this? Lol
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Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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turbo_k said:
Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
I believe it pops up the stock recovery menu and goes into verbose mode while the phone is doing a factory reset. The stock recovery menu is useless since you can't actually select anything.
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the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
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volume down and power will hard reset if you font flash nvflash.
Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
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Didn't read thoroughly, my bad. its without the HOME key. I don't think the capacitive keys work when the phone is off lol.
If planning to do so, backup prior! Otherwise it shouldnt be necessary...don't do what you don't know your doing just cuz everyone else is doing it lol
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Vol. Down and Power gives me a screen that says "S/W Upgrade Please wait while upgrading..." And it never does anything. I had gotten a boot loop (hadn't even considered rooting yet) so I pulled the battery and booted up, I guess my finger had been on volume down. Still does that, and it never changes. Just stays like that. If I pull the battery, I get a boot loop again. What the hell D: Should I call up customer care?
It will force the phone to shut down. I did it couple times when my lock screen froze.
Simply holding power will force the phone to shut down.
Power and volume down format on stock or recovery if nvflashed
I don't think home is necessary or used at all.
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Reminds me of like 17 years ago, people would trick noobs into pressing..ctrl alt del.. Yeah I got tricked ... Lol
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Alternative to a battery pull for rebooting Nexus?

I'm tired of having to take the case off and pry the battery cover off in order to yank the battery for a reboot! Is there anything else I can do when the phone locks up? Some sort of Ctrl + Alt + Del or anything? This tends to happen when messing with overclocking/undervolting.
I'd also like to know. Nexus One has the three-button salute (as it was affectionately called), which was power, volume down and trackball simultaneously. Does the Nexus S have a similar method?
with the screen on hold down the power button. Not sure that is what you were looking for. Its only a shutdown not a rebbot.
We're looking for something you can do even if the screen won't turn on or if the phone is frozen at some point. Not a standard shutdown/reboot with the power button.
There isn't another way, unfortunately. If it is frozen you have to do a battery pull.
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There isn't another way, unfortunately. If it is frozen you have to do a battery pull.
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if frozen, just a battery pull. if not, theres a reboot widget(that i used on my nexus one when the power button died and still use on the ns). if you have root, you can type reboot or reboot recovery in the terminal emulator app.
That's interesting...so only HTC handsets have a "secret" reboot key combination? Every one of their phones has a three key combination that reboots the phone, which is clutch when it's locked up or otherwise messed up. Shame Samsung didn't do something similar.
uansari1 said:
That's interesting...so only HTC handsets have a "secret" reboot key combination? Every one of their phones has a three key combination that reboots the phone, which is clutch when it's locked up or otherwise messed up. Shame Samsung didn't do something similar.
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The HTC Evo had/has no such key combination to reboot while on.
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The Epic had one as well. Shame the Nexus doesn't, but sometimes it can be more annoying then useful. I feel you though it's annoying to take the case off, but thats why I just dropped CM7 and went back to the stock ROM... no more freezes
HTC Dream had one as well (call, end call, and menu at once). The three finger salute
Phones with at least 3 hard keys can do that. If NS volume buttons were separate they'd probably include it in.
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obsanity said:
Phones with at least 3 hard keys can do that. If NS volume buttons were separate they'd probably include it in.
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The galaxy S series is the same setup and had a shut off key. It was to hold the power button down and the phone would shut down even if it is frozen
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zephiK said:
The galaxy S series is the same setup and had a shut off key. It was to hold the power button down and the phone would shut down even if it is frozen
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Hmm.. I guess I never thought about holding the button for a reboot. Maybe Google didn't either.
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Broken power button

The button dosnt work it seems to click normal and I did not drop it or anything else to make it stop working right. So my question is: does it have anything to do with the rom im running (cm7 nightly 179) or is there anyway to make another button take over the action of screen off/on?
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You can set the volume rocker for screen on and you can have a widget to power off
Rocker on is in cyanogen settings
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Thanks I found the volume key setting does the widget use memory?
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donk232 said:
Thanks I found the volume key setting does the widget use memory?
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prob does if you get it since it is a widget but im sure its not alot
well volume on widget off is working but it is incredibly annoying to not have a power button. has this happened to anyone or is there any write up on fixing a button? or any solution for my button?
thanks!
I had the same issue. Used the app in this thread to remap the power button to volume keys. Then changed the power button in the app to "focus" to disable it. This app modifies the build.prop file so you only have to do this once or after each rom flash.
App: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
donk232 said:
well volume on widget off is working but it is incredibly annoying to not have a power button. has this happened to anyone or is there any write up on fixing a button? or any solution for my button?
thanks!
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Have same problem, it really pisses me off. One day it works fine, the next day, nothing changes and it doesn't work at all. The button clicks fine, it has a case and has been well taken care of, and still for some reason the most important button breaks.
If anyone has had the same problem and found a remedy please let us know.
Add45 said:
Have same problem, it really pisses me off. One day it works fine, the next day, nothing changes and it doesn't work at all. The button clicks fine, it has a case and has been well taken care of, and still for some reason the most important button breaks.
If anyone has had the same problem and found a remedy please let us know.
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Remap the button.
I think you should find a way back to stock and test it. I had a bad power button and regardless of the rom they do fail. Get it back to stock, and if you can do a warrenty claim
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Cor-master said:
I think you should find a way back to stock and test it. I had a bad power button and regardless of the rom they do fail. Get it back to stock, and if you can do a warrenty claim
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+1
I am surprised by how many Captivates have this problem. Once it fails with your phone off, you may never be able to get it to turn on !!!
I had cognition 4.5 installed and i was at work sending a text where all of a sudden my sister screen shut off and I heard the locking click sound. I hit the power button and it was locked. I unlocked it and it did it again. And it got worse and worse till the power button stopped functioning altogether. Getting back to stock was a pain as to get into download mode typically requires holding power, after hours of googling someone on these forums suggested using adb and a gui. I was able to reboot into download and use hemdale to get back to stock, and i was off to an AT & T warrenty exchange center to get a new phone. It seems to be a common problem amongst all android phones, as I have a friend who used to have a droid incredible, and upgraded to a droid bionic because his power button died.
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Cor-master said:
I had cognition 4.5 installed and i was at work sending a text where all of a sudden my sister screen shut off and I heard the locking click sound. I hit the power button and it was locked. I unlocked it and it did it again. And it got worse and worse till the power button stopped functioning altogether. Getting back to stock was a pain as to get into download mode typically requires holding power, after hours of googling someone on these forums suggested using adb and a gui. I was able to reboot into download and use hemdale to get back to stock, and i was off to an AT & T warrenty exchange center to get a new phone. It seems to be a common problem amongst all android phones, as I have a friend who used to have a droid incredible, and upgraded to a droid bionic because his power button died.
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you don't need a power button at all to get into download mode. or adb, or gui.
The power button is replaceable on the board if you are highly skilled with removal and re installation (it's soldered in place).
If you have questions about replacing it...PM me.
My power button acts kinda flakey at times, but then works fine for a long time.
My power button is all good now, been using this cappy since October, rooted, cyanogenmod 7.1, it's like a new phone. But I'm about 2 weeks away from the 90 day refurbished warrenty running out, hope nothing breaks on it again
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connexion2005 said:
The power button is replaceable on the board if you are highly skilled with removal and re installation (it's soldered in place).
If you have questions about replacing it...PM me.
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do you know where I can buy that part? I want to change it.

[Q] Is there a way to force reboot g2x?

Hey guys
I'm embarassed to admit that I have to ask this -
My XOOM has a failsafe force-reboot function that works whether the tablet is working or not. [actually, I never need to use it, but I had a faulty one previously that I did need to use and it was very convenient].
Does the G2X have the same ability? If for some reason it is unresponsive [whatever reason] is there a power-vol combo to force a reboot?
I see battery pull mentioned here a lot so this is where I get the impression that there isn't a force-reboot method.
Thanks.
Volume up + power is hard reboot. Hold it until you see LG logo. This doesn't work 100% of the time, but most of the time it does.
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I think he wants to know if the phone is on and not responding, can a force reboot be done without pulling the battery. Pulling the battery is the only way I know of.
If the phone is not responding, the only way I would know of other than pulling the battery would be to hold volume down and the power button at the same time.
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[Q] No power One X - Wrong ROM install

I've did some searching on this and tried everything listed but I may have a unique case here. I had a buddy call me a couple days ago and tell me about his issue with his One X. I started digging on here and found a couple of tips and tried them all for him and no go.
I asked him what he was doing when this happened. It is a Rogers One X and he attempted to install a CM9 ROM for the international One X. He assumed a One X was a One X. I've only dabbled with my Galaxy Nexus and Transformer Prime, but I'm assuming this is the issue with his phone. Am I wrong?
Is there a way to fix it? I've had the phone for a couple of days and I can not get it to power up. The LED doesn't come on either when the usb cable is plugged in. I've tried a couple different chargers and cables and same result.
Hoping I can some how save this for him.
scrolanky said:
I've did some searching on this and tried everything listed but I may have a unique case here. I had a buddy call me a couple days ago and tell me about his issue with his One X. I started digging on here and found a couple of tips and tried them all for him and no go.
I asked him what he was doing when this happened. It is a Rogers One X and he attempted to install a CM9 ROM for the international One X. He assumed a One X was a One X. I've only dabbled with my Galaxy Nexus and Transformer Prime, but I'm assuming this is the issue with his phone. Am I wrong?
Is there a way to fix it? I've had the phone for a couple of days and I can not get it to power up. The LED doesn't come on either when the usb cable is plugged in. I've tried a couple different chargers and cables and same result.
Hoping I can some how save this for him.
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Damn bro. Thats messed up. U tried plugging it in to the pc? See if the pc recognizes it.
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Try that, and maybe open a cmd window and try some commands?
Fastboot reboot
Thats what i would try.
Edit....assuming u have a "fastboot" folder set up.
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try holding power for 10 seconds. do the capacitive lights flash?
Try holding vol down and pressing power for 3 seconds. Keep holding vol down... does it boot into hboot?
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ptesmoke said:
try holding power for 10 seconds. do the capacitive lights flash?
Try holding vol down and pressing power for 3 seconds. Keep holding vol down... does it boot into hboot?
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Tried this...dead. No response from it at all. Would the CM9 ROM push out a different boot.img file and that be the problem?
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Tried this...dead. No response from it at all. Would the CM9 ROM push out a different boot.img file and that be the problem?
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yeah that's part of it.
does the phone show a light when it's charging? If NOT it's a brick.
If so, there might be a way to save it.
charge it fully
power it up holding the volume button DOWN. If you can get to the bootloader you're not bricked and can re-install the rogers firmware.
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Tried this...dead. No response from it at all. Would the CM9 ROM push out a different boot.img file and that be the problem?
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yes...but it should still hit the bootloader, hell even recovery. try the same method with vol up instead... then plug into pc... see if there's any connection.
This thing takes forever to boot compared to me older devices. I'm thinking it's not totally off... try holding the power button for a long time... like 15 seconds +. see if any lights flash..
The trick is we need it in a full off state and power it up with vol down and power.
It could be in a kernel boot loop that you can't see anything.
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zounduser said:
Damn bro. Thats messed up. U tried plugging it in to the pc? See if the pc recognizes it.
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zounduser said:
Try that, and maybe open a cmd window and try some commands?
Fastboot reboot
Thats what i would try.
Edit....assuming u have a "fastboot" folder set up.
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Will try this right after work. Don't why I didn't think of this. I just kept trying to charge it. Leave it off for extended periods of time and hook it back up for extended periods. Will connect it tonight.
Thanks guys
gunnyman said:
yeah that's part of it.
does the phone show a light when it's charging? If NOT it's a brick.
If so, there might be a way to save it.
charge it fully
power it up holding the volume button DOWN. If you can get to the bootloader you're not bricked and can re-install the rogers firmware.
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no light at all right now when on the charger.
Does it power up? Hold down power and volume down.
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Does it power up? Hold down power and volume down.
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Nope not at all. Other then voiding the warranty, which with the bootloader unlocked is probably voided already, I'm debating cracking into the case and unhooking the battery and rehooking it up.
If it's dead it has warranty
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If it's dead it has warranty
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Yeah if they can't boot it they can't prove it's unlocked.
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alright so its hooked up to the comp, it detects it. It comes up with needing a QHSUSB_DLOAD driver. Did some Googing and tried some drivers, but it won't install. Any ideas? I'm hoping I can save this.
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alright so its hooked up to the comp, it detects it. It comes up with needing a QHSUSB_DLOAD driver. Did some Googing and tried some drivers, but it won't install. Any ideas? I'm hoping I can save this.
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that's a brick.
Damn. Thanks for the info.
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Damn. Thanks for the info.
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It actually might be recoverable, but it's a lot of work.
Do this.
On a linux machine, while plugged into usb - push and hold the power button for 10 seconds. Release it. IMMEDIATELY and REPEATEDLY do ls /dev/sd*
Do the ls over and over again (for around 20 seconds or so) and see if a bunch of new devices show up and subsequently disappear.
If they don't, push and hold power for another 10 seconds, release, repeat.
If you get devices to show up, it's recoverable.
He bricked, is a shame but that's the risk you take when you flash a ROM meant for another phone...

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