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[Q] Q - How to check S-ON/ S-OFF?

Hello everyone!
Please, can anyone tell me how to enter HBOOT on Sensation to check my S-ON/OFF status?
I had been searching everywhere to get this info, but, simply, I couldn't find it.
Thanks

Hmm so easy to esnd you to the youtube noob link but if you hold vol down and power on hey presto you're there

First you need to go to aettings>power and uncheck fastboot
Then turn off phone and hold down vol down and power button at the same time

Thank you That was the step I was missing

I already pressed "Thanks" button, but, once again, thanks guys

When you've turned off your phone you should remove the battery, put it back in and then do the two button combo.
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Awassenaar said:
When you've turned off your phone you should remove the battery, put it back in and then do the two button combo.
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No need to do that. removing your battery and putting it back IS disabling fastboot for one time.

But technically removing battery is better, as when you turn the phone back on, you need to re-enable fastboot.

@sert89 : I was searching for a solution whole night. Thanks a lot!

coming from hd2

ive never had a real android phone and ive never flashed anything before till i went crazy with my hd2 , im getting my sensation tomorrow ,what do you have to do to check for s-off exactly , its prolly a noob question and to all the smartasses ive used the search button and nothing comes up ,so any info and help would be appreciated

tigerz0202 said:
ive never had a real android phone and ive never flashed anything before till i went crazy with my hd2 , im getting my sensation tomorrow ,what do you have to do to check for s-off exactly , its prolly a noob question and to all the smartasses ive used the search button and nothing comes up ,so any info and help would be appreciated
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If you read some of the s-off threads, you'll see how to check whether you have s-on or s-off.
But, you have one of two ways. Turn fastboot off, then turn your phone off, and hold the power button and volume down at the same time. Or, pull the battery, reinsert the battery, then power/volume down.

WorldWide60 said:
If you read some of the s-off threads, you'll see how to check whether you have s-on or s-off.
But, you have one of two ways. Turn fastboot off, then turn your phone off, and hold the power button and volume down at the same time. Or, pull the battery, reinsert the battery, then power/volume down.
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thanks ,thats basically the same as hd2 , ive been reading for an hour ,maybe i was just looking at the wrong threads ,hit the button for ya

I'll tell you right now. You have a 99.99999999999% chance that it's S-ON. I don't know why people are still checking right now. HTC would've said something by now if they would've already started shipping new units with S-OFF

xnifex said:
I'll tell you right now. You have a 99.99999999999% chance that it's S-ON. I don't know why people are still checking right now. HTC would've said something by now if they would've already started shipping new units with S-OFF
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prolly is but imma check anyhow

How to check s-off

Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
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This was taken from the stickied thread. Try this if not, i'm not sure.
Pull the battery out before you do it. OR to make things ALOT easier, before turning your sensation off go into settings,power, and uncheck the Fastboot option. Now when you turn the device off, it will fully power down instead of just going into a "sleep" mode. Now do it.

what mjm said, check and disable fastboot and try again.

restart your phone and when the screen turns off hold the volume down button... should boot into fastboot screen
hope this helps

ssh678 said:
Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
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I'm really trying not to flame you, but this isn't the right place for this. There are riots about threads about S=off.
Pull your battery. Reinstall it. Vol down + Power. If it doesn't work pull the battery and try again.
Hope this helped...

ssh678 said:
Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
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I know you're still fresh to the XDA scene and learning about your new phone, but I wanted to point out that there are different sections for different things. This question should be posted in the Q&A section of the forums located here. The development area of the forums is generally dedicated to advancement of Android development: be it new modifications, ROM creation, or feedback, etc. You'll save yourself a lot of 'trouble' if you post in the correct areas. You'll find most are pretty helpful here when you follow these guidelines. Congratulations on getting your new device; these are exciting times for the Sensation. Welcome to XDA

2Noob4U said:
I'm really trying not to flame you, but this isn't the right place for this. There are riots about threads about S=off.
Pull your battery. Reinstall it. Vol down + Power. If it doesn't work pull the battery and try again.
Hope this helped...
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ah, beat me to it.

Christopher3712 said:
ah, beat me to it.
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At least he didn't get lit up like a roman candle

If phone freezes and no removable battery.

Thinking to buy this phone and was wondering what if during custom roms it hangs totally , and cant remove battery... is only option to wait that 1-2 days for battery to run out?
read from other forum that phone producers have build some hold 10second power button hard reset function... true? working on this phone?
anyone with freezes and custom roms... \o/
-mj

moonjak said:
Thinking to buy this phone and was wondering what if during custom roms it hangs totally , and cant remove battery... is only option to wait that 1-2 days for battery to run out?
read from other forum that phone producers have build some hold 10second power button hard reset function... true? working on this phone?
anyone with freezes and custom roms... \o/
-mj
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Yup, holding power button for around 10 seconds will force a reboot.
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Loooooooong press on the powerbutton will solve complete hangs.

Hold volume down and power and it'll boot into Bootloader from there you can boot into recovery or use ADB in fast boot.
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[Q] Sidekick 4g Bootloop Please Help!!!

I am not rooted on this phone I am on stock 100% I have done nothing with this phone since purchased.. I did not try to install anything on this phone that could have caused this. But yesterday it just started on this bootloop. The screen just shows the T-mobile sidekick 4g logo then to black and over and over .... I have pulled the battery put it back in and it immediately bootloops. I don't even have to power on . It even bootloops with the charger plugged in the battery symbol bootloops. I tried to put the device into bootloader (pwr vol up/dwn) to do a factory reset. but the bootloader screen just flashes on for a second and then it goes right back into the bootloop.
It appears as if this is bricked but how is that possible on a stock device? I called t-mobile and they could not help. All they wanted to do is sell me a new phone.
Please help

Use heimdall n hold the volume buttons n enable flash bootlaoders
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@karose465 How old is the phone? If less than a year (doubtful), it should still be under warranty. Or you may be eligible for upgrade pricing: Fore example, "Customers with a Classic plan (two-year contract) are eligible for our lowest upgrade price on a new phone when at least 22 months have passed since their last phone upgrade. A new two-year contract is required to take advantage of best upgrade pricing. Of course, you can always upgrade a phone at any time, regardless of how many months have passed since your contract began."
For more info on Heimdall, just Google Heimdall Android.

Anyone with a sidekick contract ends earliest next march..

karose465 said:
I am not rooted on this phone I am on stock 100% I have done nothing with this phone since purchased.. I did not try to install anything on this phone that could have caused this. But yesterday it just started on this bootloop. The screen just shows the T-mobile sidekick 4g logo then to black and over and over .... I have pulled the battery put it back in and it immediately bootloops. I don't even have to power on . It even bootloops with the charger plugged in the battery symbol bootloops. I tried to put the device into bootloader (pwr vol up/dwn) to do a factory reset. but the bootloader screen just flashes on for a second and then it goes right back into the bootloop.
It appears as if this is bricked but how is that possible on a stock device? I called t-mobile and they could not help. All they wanted to do is sell me a new phone.
Please help
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Try Odin...choose repartition and you're golden. This is someone that has bricked his phone many, many times. Odin will give you the original stock Froyo.

RicAndroid said:
Try Odin...choose repartition and you're golden. This is someone that has bricked his phone many, many times. Odin will give you the original stock Froyo.
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I think for him and myself, the biggest problem is being unable to get the phone to stay in download mode. For some reason, the battery won't charge and the phone itself continously turns off and on when plugged in. So the charge isn't holding, therefore nothing will stay on/open.

Im having the same problem. I have searched everywere and cannot find an answer that will fix it. If anyone can please help us fix this issue.
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gamingwiz said:
Im having the same problem. I have searched everywere and cannot find an answer that will fix it. If anyone can please help us fix this issue.
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I did some forum searching and found this. Hope it helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477838

Thanks ill check into that
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karose465 said:
I am not rooted on this phone I am on stock 100% I have done nothing with this phone since purchased.. I did not try to install anything on this phone that could have caused this. But yesterday it just started on this bootloop. The screen just shows the T-mobile sidekick 4g logo then to black and over and over .... I have pulled the battery put it back in and it immediately bootloops. I don't even have to power on . It even bootloops with the charger plugged in the battery symbol bootloops. I tried to put the device into bootloader (pwr vol up/dwn) to do a factory reset. but the bootloader screen just flashes on for a second and then it goes right back into the bootloop.
It appears as if this is bricked but how is that possible on a stock device? I called t-mobile and they could not help. All they wanted to do is sell me a new phone.
Please help
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Hmm here is a link with for the ODIN and also provides some pretty cool roms that you might like to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538576
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karose465 said:
I am not rooted on this phone I am on stock 100% I have done nothing with this phone since purchased.. I did not try to install anything on this phone that could have caused this. But yesterday it just started on this bootloop. The screen just shows the T-mobile sidekick 4g logo then to black and over and over .... I have pulled the battery put it back in and it immediately bootloops. I don't even have to power on . It even bootloops with the charger plugged in the battery symbol bootloops. I tried to put the device into bootloader (pwr vol up/dwn) to do a factory reset. but the bootloader screen just flashes on for a second and then it goes right back into the bootloop.
It appears as if this is bricked but how is that possible on a stock device? I called t-mobile and they could not help. All they wanted to do is sell me a new phone.
Please help
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Hmm here is a link with for the ODIN and also provides some pretty cool roms that you might like to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538576

Took the phone apart, put everything back. Still no luck
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EpicLordPhone said:
Took the phone apart, put everything back. Still no luck
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Dead thread but this is your answer - Your power button is shot. Need to have a new one put on. I know your problem has been fixed / replaced but for others still searching for answers...you need a power button repair.

Power Button Repair relating to Boot Loop
MythEdge said:
Dead thread but this is your answer - Your power button is shot. Need to have a new one put on. I know your problem has been fixed / replaced but for others still searching for answers...you need a power button repair.
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my Sidekick 4G is very old and just now went into bootloop... i googled the word and came across this forum.
As quoted above by previous poster that a power button repair was needed... I figured that I had nothing to lose, it being so old, I smashed the crap out of the Sidekick 4G on its power button. Lo and Behold, it booted into the system successfully.
SO... if no one has any qualms about smashing the crap out of their power button... give it a shot. It worked for me.

MythEdge said:
Dead thread but this is your answer - Your power button is shot. Need to have a new one put on. I know your problem has been fixed / replaced but for others still searching for answers...you need a power button repair.
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Thanks for the info, but is there anyway I could turn it on without the power button?
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EpicLordPhone said:
Thanks for the info, but is there anyway I could turn it on without the power button?
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I don't believe so ?
You can switch the power button to like the track pad or something but you need to edit the phones ettings somehow
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immorality said:
I don't believe so ?
You can switch the power button to like the track pad or something but you need to edit the phones ettings somehow
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Hmmm thanks, I might just try that!
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Mines stuck in a boot loop too.
I don't know if my Sidekicks problem is related to this or not. I rooted it and flashed it over to Glorious Overdose v5 on May 22nd this year and it's been running great. At least it was until last Friday, Sep 13. I was having trouble connecting to the WiFi at my house so I rebooted the phone. When it started to come back up a female voice started saying, "VooDoo lagfix has been disabled." "Converting /data and /system partitions." "Conversion time estimated 10 minutes."
I let it do it's thing and that's all it's been doing all weekend. I can get into recovery mode, I've tried restoring the phone from my backup with no success. I've even tried running through the process of setting up GOv5 again and it says it's successful, but the phone never boots up. It just stays in the same blasted bootloop and saying the same things over and over again about VooDoo. I've checked the VooDoo logs and there is an error file for the 13th and the logs following say "conversion." Can someone point me in the right direction as to what I can do to get my phone working again? Everything I've tried to research so far hasn't worked.

v5 hold both volume button, the track button and power button. Should put you into recovery mode. If not, you will have to put phone into download mode. You do this by taking out battery, then pluging into computer. When you reinsert battery hold volume down and power, if I remember correctly, and your download screen should come up. From your cp manually unroot it. Then it should be fixed, and just reroot it. I hope this was helpful
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No idea what I'm doing, precisely, but...
MythEdge said:
Dead thread but this is your answer - Your power button is shot. Need to have a new one put on. I know your problem has been fixed / replaced but for others still searching for answers...you need a power button repair.
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Hey, MythEdge. I'm not sure if you get notifications here or anything, but I registered to this site specifically to thank you; my phone ( Sidekick 4G, like OP ) bricked, and I smashed it against the table a few times ( you know, delicately... ) and it resurrected.
So thank you, sir; you were precisely correct. It worked on both of my phones, which had the exact same problem.
Just, wow. Thank you.

LathyrusRoots said:
Hey, MythEdge. I'm not sure if you get notifications here or anything, but I registered to this site specifically to thank you; my phone ( Sidekick 4G, like OP ) bricked, and I smashed it against the table a few times ( you know, delicately... ) and it resurrected.
So thank you, sir; you were precisely correct. It worked on both of my phones, which had the exact same problem.
Just, wow. Thank you.
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And almost a year later I log in and see this. Your most welcome. I haven't been working on phones for awhile but if I remember right, some models can be powered on by plugging the phone into a power source and when the phone vibrates or has a sign of life unplugging the unit. Some cables don't work and sometimes doing this via a computer can power up a device. Other than that, the other more dangerous way is to short out the pins on the bottom of the unit. I don't remember the pins but you can google a charge port diagram to help. I don't recommend doing this unless you have absolutely no other choice. Incidentally, this is why a phone will power itself on when a battery is put in and no other button is touched. The port is wet and corrosion has caused a link on the power pin and believe its pin 3. A simple cleaning with 90%+ rubbing alcohol solution will fix if cleaned quick enough.