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Hi guys,
I have a little problem where my phone's power button will not function in any way, long presses, short, almost embedding my thumb in it, all to no avail. This is doubly dissapointing as I have just installed the latest dexter plus patch to fix the problem. I still had the problem on the previous version and I thought a clean start may fix it. The only way I can get the screen on is to press the media play button! Which of course isn't doing anything on dexter.
Hunches:
I have been playing with a light sensor program and using a 3 second press to turn the phone off, I am only thinking this is related as when I re-installed then turned off the phone using a battery pull, that now the media gallery button will now not work at all, so that is a change.
Second, the power button is buggered. Seems unlikely as everthing feels normal, no big drops have occurred from heights, and the button is travelling in and out as usual.
I have also noticed that as soon as I re-insert a battery that the phone starts immediately, the M pops up as if it is already posting. So maybe it is stuck down?? Again, I don't think so, as the mechanism is working per usual.
If anyone can help it would be fantastic, you guys haven't let me down yet, and this thing is purring, but unfortunately I cannot use it lol. Just my luck.
Thanks in advance
another thing, still not solved
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
Also, at random times it plays a podcast on my phone, the exact same podcast, and from the start, though the duration may be a few seconds then repeat, or it may go for ages, its quite a rude podcast too which has caused me to throw my phone under the car seat to shut it up when people have been trying to talk to me, as you can imagine its quite embarassing.
There are no services or apps running that I can find related to music, it may happen after pressing the camera button, or opening a website.
It is still going really fast though. And I have also reinstalled the light sensor program so I can turn it on and off without causing damage to the power button.
Thanks again everyone.
pisceanblue said:
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
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please clarify
sure, so the only way I can get the screen to turn back on, after turning off as per display power saving preferences, is by pressing the power button, maybe a couple of times, then following that up by pressing the gallery button next to the shutter button, pressing the gallery button doesn't seem to be working to turn the screen on now, but this combo is.
I hope that helped.
Cheers.
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The gallery button alone is working again. sorry guys.
You might just want to reflash it to stock to see if this resolves the problem.
Yeah I think I may have to.
Before I do., I was reading a post on a different forum where another person was having a similar issue. They seemed to solve the problem by using rom manager to boot to a manual restore menu where there was a button tester section, after using it the power button worked for them. I tried but after resetting it displayed a triangle graphic then rebooted.
Is there any way to do this with our open recovery program or any other utility to test the functionality or maybe reset the button or apply a patch etc.
Thanks again :-D
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Getting Frustrating
Alright so I followed your advice on your videos on how to reflash to stock, so of course my bootloader does not show up the same as yours on the video. I can get to the bootloader fine, using the button combo or by using quick boot > bootloader, both have the exact same result, the boot loader screens as follows:
Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
and that is it....
Also, my computer using rsdlite does not acknowledge the phone, not omap drivers loading etc. Followed your instructions exactly.
This is frustrating me to no end lol.
I am guessing that because I can get to the bootloader with combo no problem, that the buttons physical connections are working.. At least thats a positive.
Can I flash to stock with openrecovery? Or maybe to an earlier version of Dexters froyo? Other ideas?
Any help would be much appreciated guys, trying to use this phone at work with light sensors to turn off screen is not as easy as they say. OMG....
Thanks so much
pisceanblue said:
Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
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The fastboot bootloader isn't the right one. So... if you hold volume up + camera shutter while powering on you end up in fastboot? That's really weird.
Maybe your keys have been remapped somehow? Does anyone know a chord to boot fastboot? Perhaps check to see if your USB port is clean?
Lmao
Just my luck to have a weird problem. I thought it may have been remapped so I have been trying the program buttonremap. It doesn't seem to let me do anything except stop the buttons I re assign doing anything :'(
Does anyone have a proper key mapping file that I can replace with my faulty one to hopefully fix it?
Or any other ideas?
Cheers everyone
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Just checked my system / user / keylayout folder. How many files are supposed to be inside, there are a few. I checked the contents of some and they seemed to be the same. Just an idea.... thanks again.
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Ok installed anyunlock it allows you to use any physical button to unlock the screen. It doesn't respond when the Power button is pressed, it responded fine to volume rockers, gallery and shutter though.
Anyone know if this would mean for sure its a physical problem before I crack it open and try and fix it.
Thanks guys.
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No one has any solutions for me? Come on guys.
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Breakthrough!
I am pretty sure I have fixed the problem, I tapped the phone fairly hard on its sides and back, and lo and behold after a battery pull and replacement it didn't turn itself on, I waited, nothing, so then I held the power button and it started up!!!!
But....I have another problem that happened before that, I am stuck in the boot animation that open recovery uses before going into its program (i.e. where you can load nandroid, wipe dalvik cache etc).
I was about to load a new rom, and was in open recovery, had installed it and about to do the reset and the phone turned itself off, and thats when I got the problem with the sticking boot animation.
So just to be clear, I am stuck in a boot loop, but not with the M logo, the restore logo.
I hope the power button solution can help someone else, as random as it is.
If anyone could help me get out of this boot loop without flashing stock that would be great. ( i can get to the real bootloader now btw)
Thanks again everyone.
Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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pisceanblue said:
Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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So, is your conclusion is that the button was stuck and the banging freed it? It doesn't restick?
The Button is not perfect still. Sometimes over sensitive Occasionally it will not even work but it works most of the time. I am just wondering what cleaning solution I could use to free it some more.
It has certainly been a trying problem. Cheers for the help.
Now I need to figure out why I have this strange ghosting on the top of my screen.....
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Samsung Galaxy S2 Power Button Not Working
Hi Guys,
Any solution for the power button problem? Current latest Android 2.3.3 Samsung Galaxy S2 also having the same power button problem. Most of the time I can't use my power button to turn on/off the screen (wake/sleep) and there's no menu for long tap as well. Luckily it does wake when i press the only physical Samsung center button.
What i have already tried: Factory Reset, disable Power Saving Mode, Spare Part+ (apps), Screen Off and Lock (apps), and all won't help.
Is there any current updates or patches to allow the power button to work as usual?
Thank you.
take it to the samsung technical centre
Thats if you still have warranty
archer88 said:
take it to the samsung technical centre
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won't help because this is the 3rd phone replacement from the shop with the same problem. 100% Android software problem.
Did you know you could restart your android without having to install any app or via any modded rom?
And its so damn simple..
All you need to do is ...
Hold the volume(+) button and the power(i/o) button for 5 seconds and your phone will reboot.
If you didn't already know this then hitting the thanks button is much appriciated.
didn't work for me on EVO3D , RomeOS, maybe because of htc sense features
Just hold power button for 10 seconds and then the phone will restart.
I'm on Epic 4g and no luck for me either.. tried both ways
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This only works on select models. This is not an OS feature but a hardware one.
Hi all, here's the qn.
Does pressing and holding: HOME KEY+VOLUME UP* KEY+POWER BUTTON, cause any wiping of the apps and things necessary for apps to run?
I'm suspecting this as after pressing and holding this combo keys on the G3 mod start up screen, Firstly, boot animation restarts itself repeatedly until I got no patience and killed my phone instantly with the power button, Secondly, after a 183s of boot time, errors of apps (not system apps) kept popping up and the most baffling part is that some of these apps that suffered errors did not show up in the 'manage apps' settings. Thirdly, apps installed on sd card are totally wiped off and parts of the internal apps that remained are gone since they force closes after initiating it.
However, I reinstalled the apps and everything work normally now except for longer booting time and some sudden shut downs, which might be due to my battery.
I have not seen any posts on this problem and I'm really curious about this combo keys which I pressed accidentally.
For additional info, I'm on arakmar latest kernel. And running hercolubus rom.
Could it be a secret 'apps removal' combo key designed by arakmar?
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Uhhh no it doesn't do anything :/. If you pressed it correctly a screen should come up saying 'forced upload by key pressing' or something like that. I have no idea how you got to your situation
Cheers
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bscraze said:
Uhhh no it doesn't do anything :/. If you pressed it correctly a screen should come up saying 'forced upload by key pressing' or something like that. I have no idea how you got to your situation
Cheers
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So pressing home+volume up+power key gives an upload screen? And what if I had the usb connected and did that? What exactly does it upload? Sorry I'm abit confused.
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zhiYUAN94 said:
So pressing home+volume up+power key gives an upload screen? And what if I had the usb connected and did that? What exactly does it upload? Sorry I'm abit confused.
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Umm I have no idea wad it does. I Googled it before, but everyone seems puzzled as to what it does.
Cheers
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Hi all,
I'm having some trouble at the moment with my fantastic parents (sarcasm), who force me to suspend my phone, (which is my only internet source), at 7pm each night. However after getting an android phone about a year ago and discovering the Wifi Hotspot feature, this was no longer a problem given that I would just turn that on each night before giving my phone to them and therefore continue to use the internet past 7. Now however it seems they have worked out that I'm doing 'something' with my phone to continue internet usage after 7, however they have no idea what it is, so what they're doing is turning off my phone when I give it to them.
The good news however, is that they really aren't tech-savy at all, so I'm after some simple solution to work around this issue. The ideas I'm needing come along the lines of the following: (My phone is an Xperia Z btw)
---The power menu only has a "Power Off" option, this is what they're using to turn the phone off. Maybe if there was a way to make this option reboot the phone rather than power off, I could then set Tasker to turn on the Wifi Hotspot when the phone turns back on.
---Disable the power button from doing anything? (I would be happy to replace the power button function with a volume button, or even (if the negation of the power button could be temporary and easy to turned on/off), I would be happy to have to connect the phone to a charger in the morning to make the screen light up to be able to unlock it then turn off whatever is used to disable the power button so that I can continue to use it normally throughout the day
---Disable the screen from turning on at all unless some event happens such as the charger is connected for example? (The idea of this would be that when they press the power button to turn my phone off, nothing happens on the screen at all and they think that the phone is already turned off)
---Any other idea you might have. Long story short, I need a way of having my phone turned on after they turn it off or at least a way to trick them or prevent them from turning it off.
A major point to add though is that I REALLY REALLY don't want to root my phone. This will be my last resort option if I really have to, but if you can think of any idea that will solve this problem without rooting, that would be awesome.
Sorry for the 'noob'-sounding post, but I'm desperate for some help on this issue.
Thanks to all of you have read this and are able to offer some advice
-Michael
First of all.. ...
K.... some ideas..
U can change the lock screen to display turning off the device.. or some thing like that.. or just apply a password to unlock...
Think some more creative ideas Bro...
This is going to be Fun!!
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If u were rooted,then there was many way to come out of problem.
Why don't you talk to your parents and get permission to use internet.
Or try some black wallpaper which stays even when pressing power button..or anything like that...
Sent by 桑傑庫馬爾 :stirthepot:
jime1 said:
First of all.. ...
K.... some ideas..
U can change the lock screen to display turning off the device.. or some thing like that.. or just apply a password to unlock...
Think some more creative ideas Bro...
This is going to be Fun!!
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Yeah I could try changing the background I guess, but with password locking, you don't need to unlock the phone to turn it off, the Xperia Z let's you shut down on the lock screen
Oh man... is there any setting to change that ' shut down without unlocking' thing ?
Keep searching :thumbup::thumbup:
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jime1 said:
Oh man... is there any setting to change that ' shut down without unlocking' thing ?
Keep searching :thumbup::thumbup:
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Well yeah there might be, but if the screen lights up at all when the power button is either pressed or held which they'll do to turn it off, then they'll know it's on obviously, so if there's no power-off option, they'll just come to me and tell me to turn it off. the idea is for them to think it's turned off not have them know it's on but not let them turn it off
Anyway, thanks for your ideas, the background change is at least a start
Try changing shut down button into some combination of key so.. like volume up + volume down + power key..
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Hello guys!
- I've unlocked the bootloader
- I've flashed CM11 and it was working very well
- I flashed (xperia apps, Gapps)
- until now everything is going well
- Then I spend about two days to enable SWAP-function
To expand my phone memory
:good:
- I did everything step-by-step (Busybox, link2sd, partition for SD card fat32-ext4-linuxSwap , init.d, ...etc)
- Then after i used SWAPPER 2 and Swapit expander my phone was working
But I said If i reboot the phone it'll be better to make the Swapper apply the changes!
And that was the last time I see the screen on!!!!
Can I say now R.I.P my phone
My Sony xperia L now (Doesn't boot, No notification light, doesn't charge, No fastboot, No flashboot, Not recognized by computer app Pc ompanion or fastboot or flashtool ....) Simply it's DEAD
But when i plug it to my laptop I hear that sound when you plug any USB device...
The first time I plugged it after it died .... I noticed the laptop is downloading some driver "Qualcom ..." or something like that name
Is that the CPU driver!? and why it only detect the CPU!?
- I noticed when i plug it to my laptop if it didn't recognized the phone, i press on power button so it makes that sound when i attach any other usb device.... after few minutes it makes that sound when I removed the usb device but i can press again on the power button and it recognize it again
I tried to press volume up + power buttons for minutes!!
I tried to press volume down + power buttons for minutes!!
volume up + down + power ....
camera button + power ...
But there is no response!!!
HEEEEEEEEEEEELP ME PLEASE!
There is no Sony centers here in my country :crying:
Tammam.w said:
Hello guys!
- I've unlocked the bootloader
- I've flashed CM11 and it was working very well
- I flashed (xperia apps, Gapps)
- until now everything is going well
- Then I spend about two days to enable SWAP-function
To expand my phone memory
:good:
- I did everything step-by-step (Busybox, link2sd, partition for SD card fat32-ext4-linuxSwap , init.d, ...etc)
- Then after i used SWAPPER 2 and Swapit expander my phone was working
But I said If i reboot the phone it'll be better to make the Swapper apply the changes!
And that was the last time I see the screen on!!!!
Can I say now R.I.P my phone
My Sony xperia L now (Doesn't boot, No notification light, doesn't charge, No fastboot, No flashboot, Not recognized by computer app Pc ompanion or fastboot or flashtool ....) Simply it's DEAD
But when i plug it to my laptop I hear that sound when you plug any USB device...
The first time I plugged it after it died .... I noticed the laptop is downloading some driver "Qualcom ..." or something like that name
Is that the CPU driver!? and why it only detect the CPU!?
- I noticed when i plug it to my laptop if it didn't recognized the phone, i press on power button so it makes that sound when i attach any other usb device.... after few minutes it makes that sound when I removed the usb device but i can press again on the power button and it recognize it again
I tried to press volume up + power buttons for minutes!!
I tried to press volume down + power buttons for minutes!!
volume up + down + power ....
camera button + power ...
But there is no response!!!
HEEEEEEEEEEEELP ME PLEASE!
There is no Sony centers here in my country :crying:
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Sorry to say but i think its bricked..
Qualcomm driver means bricked..90%..u should check those threads..search for soft brick reset etc..try those methods.!!
Tammam.w said:
Hello guys!
- I've unlocked the bootloader
- I've flashed CM11 and it was working very well
- I flashed (xperia apps, Gapps)
- until now everything is going well
- Then I spend about two days to enable SWAP-function
To expand my phone memory
:good:
- I did everything step-by-step (Busybox, link2sd, partition for SD card fat32-ext4-linuxSwap , init.d, ...etc)
- Then after i used SWAPPER 2 and Swapit expander my phone was working
But I said If i reboot the phone it'll be better to make the Swapper apply the changes!
And that was the last time I see the screen on!!!!
Can I say now R.I.P my phone
My Sony xperia L now (Doesn't boot, No notification light, doesn't charge, No fastboot, No flashboot, Not recognized by computer app Pc ompanion or fastboot or flashtool ....) Simply it's DEAD
But when i plug it to my laptop I hear that sound when you plug any USB device...
The first time I plugged it after it died .... I noticed the laptop is downloading some driver "Qualcom ..." or something like that name
Is that the CPU driver!? and why it only detect the CPU!?
- I noticed when i plug it to my laptop if it didn't recognized the phone, i press on power button so it makes that sound when i attach any other usb device.... after few minutes it makes that sound when I removed the usb device but i can press again on the power button and it recognize it again
I tried to press volume up + power buttons for minutes!!
I tried to press volume down + power buttons for minutes!!
volume up + down + power ....
camera button + power ...
But there is no response!!!
HEEEEEEEEEEEELP ME PLEASE!
There is no Sony centers here in my country :crying:
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yes your motherboard is dead this can be repaired only in service center, I told this to everybody, that swapping or any playing with partitions is potecialy dangerous, and this is for second time I see swapper bricked xperia l
sorry
Thank you guys
But is there any way to repair it?! even if there is 1% Probability to fix it .
Like if i take it to a Sony service center in other country (Without warranty - voided)
Any suggestions dudes?
OR It's better to throw it in the street and forget this issue ...
Tammam.w said:
Thank you guys
But is there any way to repair it?! even if there is 1% Probability to fix it .
Like if i take it to a Sony service center in other country (Without warranty - voided)
Any suggestions dudes?
OR It's better to throw it in the street and forget this issue ...
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If d motherboard is dead wic maybe d issiue nothing can be done, if it is soft brick there is a chance..well in htc one development theres an awesome dev who hs fixed hard brick (motherboard dead )phones..but someone has to write scripts fr tht! But there r not many bricked devices. So no one will leaves u with sony centre..they'l change it..bt nt sure hw mch it'l cost u.
Tammam.w said:
Thank you guys
But is there any way to repair it?! even if there is 1% Probability to fix it .
Like if i take it to a Sony service center in other country (Without warranty - voided)
Any suggestions dudes?
OR It's better to throw it in the street and forget this issue ...
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The people at service centers will most probably change your motherboard, and the amount they charge for this can get you a MUCH better phone than this.
So think about this :angel:
Veroxpre not
Thank you Guys!
So it seems like the motherboard is corrupted (as you mentioned)
And if I take it to a Sony service center ..(in other country) => it'll cost me a lot .... like a new phone
I thought maybe there is something on the motherboard (IC, chipset, ROM, ...) and it's flashable by the its company
and only the Sony centers have the appropriate device to do that.
Have you ever heard about something like that guys?
Thanks in advance :good:
Tammam.w said:
Thank you Guys!
So it seems like the motherboard is corrupted (as you mentioned)
And if I take it to a Sony service center ..(in other country) => it'll cost me a lot .... like a new phone
I thought maybe there is something on the motherboard (IC, chipset, ROM, ...) and it's flashable by the its company
and only the Sony centers have the appropriate device to do that.
Have you ever heard about something like that guys?
Thanks in advance :good:
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There is jtag..google it
Hey, I had same problem with u before, but I repaired it myself see a small hole above the camera lens, use some kind of needle that fits that hole, then press it. That is hard reset button for Xperia L. But u'll lose all of ur data. hope i help u
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SandyJK said:
Hey, I had same problem with u before, but I repaired it myself see a small hole above the camera lens, use some kind of needle that fits that hole, then press it. That is hard reset button for Xperia L. But u'll lose all of ur data. hope i help u
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Please don't dare to do it. It is not the hard reset button it is secondary microphone for noise cancelation and voice recording for video. And if you press it with needle it will get damage. I don't know how it is possible for you but that is not the way for xperia L
Parthabisw said:
Please don't dare to do it. It is not the hard reset button it is secondary microphone for noise cancelation and voice recording for video. And if you press it with needle it will get damage. I don't know how it is possible for you but that is not the way for xperia L
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Well i dont know but i pressed that button and it worked for me. I think the microphone button is the hole below the screen. Or try this method : press and hold power button + volume up for several seconds. (I get it from the internet, i dont know does it work or not )
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Thank you again guys!
SandyJK said:
Well i dont know but i pressed that button and it worked for me. I think the microphone button is the hole below the screen. Or try this method : press and hold power button + volume up for several seconds. (I get it from the internet, i dont know does it work or not )
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Sandy!
Thank you .. But i don't think it will work
Because I think it's not like what you said for hard reset!
I think it's for the camera functions or something like that..
Tammam.w said:
Sandy!
Thank you .. But i don't think it will work
Because I think it's not like what you said for hard reset!
I think it's for the camera functions or something like that..
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Try this, many steps, maybe one of them will work for you
http://www.hard-reset.org/factory-d...2104c2105s36h-taoshan-with-safety-hard-reset/
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Thank you!
Now it's in the maintenance center but it's not a Sony center
So I'll tell you if anything new happened
This happened with my Samsung ace
Titanium backup tried to access partition and phone was hard bricked..
No switch on
Not charging
Not even detection through odin(flashtool in xperia)..
Every repair shop told me to change motherboard..
But i found one super intelligent repairer
He used his tester and pulses were visible on the screen..
He said your ram is corrupted..
9 out of 10 repairer told me only solution is to change motherboard including official Samsung official centre
So may be this can be your problem..
I tried every way like jtag(home made resistor)
But none of the method worked..
Same thing happened to me.... Please help me too...
Tammam.w said:
Hello guys!
- I've unlocked the bootloader
- I've flashed CM11 and it was working very well
- I flashed (xperia apps, Gapps)
- until now everything is going well
- Then I spend about two days to enable SWAP-function
To expand my phone memory
:good:
- I did everything step-by-step (Busybox, link2sd, partition for SD card fat32-ext4-linuxSwap , init.d, ...etc)
- Then after i used SWAPPER 2 and Swapit expander my phone was working
But I said If i reboot the phone it'll be better to make the Swapper apply the changes!
And that was the last time I see the screen on!!!!
Can I say now R.I.P my phone
My Sony xperia L now (Doesn't boot, No notification light, doesn't charge, No fastboot, No flashboot, Not recognized by computer app Pc ompanion or fastboot or flashtool ....) Simply it's DEAD
But when i plug it to my laptop I hear that sound when you plug any USB device...
The first time I plugged it after it died .... I noticed the laptop is downloading some driver "Qualcom ..." or something like that name
Is that the CPU driver!? and why it only detect the CPU!?
- I noticed when i plug it to my laptop if it didn't recognized the phone, i press on power button so it makes that sound when i attach any other usb device.... after few minutes it makes that sound when I removed the usb device but i can press again on the power button and it recognize it again
I tried to press volume up + power buttons for minutes!!
I tried to press volume down + power buttons for minutes!!
volume up + down + power ....
camera button + power ...
But there is no response!!!
HEEEEEEEEEEEELP ME PLEASE!
There is no Sony centers here in my country :crying:
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Please help me too if you have any solution till date..