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My himalaya does nothing when I try and turn it on, when I put it in the cradle to charge I only get a red Lamp. I have tried a soft and hard reset to no avail.
Anybody have any ideas.
are you able to get into bootloader?
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Hmmm ; not tried that, how do i do it??
I encountered the same problem on my XDA. Whatever soft reset and hard reset I tried, nothing was shown on the screen. It could be charged, but could not be turned on. Even try to press the three buttons to enter the Bootloader, didn't make it.
What can I do? Help me, please.
Hmmm ; not tried that, how do i do it??
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Press Power+Joypad+Reset at the same time.
buzz
Not a sausage :-((
looks like it is going back to meet it's maker. God know hos long that will take.
...even, if you don't see a pixel on the screen, try to speak to it with mtty.exe
Don't forget to terminate "wcescomm.exe" process before you do...
If you don't get the terminal prompt, you'd better send it to repair.
Actually, what happened to it?
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No pixels, and no prompt.... I am taking it in for repair at lunch time, they say it could take up to 2 weeks, don't know how I'm gonna survive :?
The belt clip it came with detached itself and it landed on the concrete floor with a thud... they will probably make me pay for it as well...
hmm... sorry to hear that man, that's completely different story...
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Hey ya all
Ive tried to google for this issue but haven't found anything. I got it yesterday evening, about 1-2 hours after OTA update to 2.3.4.
So what happens is when I hit the on/off button to turn of the screen, it sometimes goes black for about half a second and then turns back on. Same when I try to wake it, goes light and then goes dark. So it seams like a dubbleclick almost.
Sometimes I've also got the issue that my Home button just keeps making screen shots, took me a while to figure out thats conected to the power button. How am I supposed to take a screenshot? Could it be a simple hardware issue where the button gets stuck? I've tried to remove the backcover and clean up, but it all seams fine for my untrained eye.
How are you holding the phone when this happens? This same thing happens to me sometimes if I kind of wrap my hand around it when I pick it up. I unconsciously hit the volume button like half a second before I hit the power button, and the volume button wakes the phone & then the power button turns it right back off.
It can happen whatever way Im holding it im afraid, and it has only occured since last night. Lets see if someone else got this after 2.3.4 or if its just a wierd coincidence.
And also, as I said, it seam to bug out my screenshot function.
That's not a coincidence, happens to me as well.
My guess is that's because of the new screenshot feature (hold Power+Home). Can anyone hazard a guess as to how to turn it off?
Well, guess it's a good thing it aint then, hopefully it'll get fixed.
No one else with this issue? It anoyys me alot
I have this issue, but it only happens if I press the button too fast or something. I don't know how to explain.
happens to me too
Randomly enough, just tried the screenshot function and it said saved to Camera folder but it's not there. What app is used to take it? Someone said it was MySketcher but I don't know
I spoke to HTC support sweden today and they didnt seam to be aware of this issue atleast. Keeps happening to me about 30% of the times i hit the button.. I dont think its hardware issue but didnt care to factory reset the phone yet.. Anyone of you with the issue has other than stock rom? Did it only happen after you upgraded to latest firmware? Ive only had it since 2.3.4.
I'm getting this exact same issue since upgrading to 2.3.4. I have a stock ROM too. It's really annoying, press the on/off button and it doesnt always turn it off, it does exactly the same as what the op says.
Also getting it take screen shots when I press the home button.
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Hey ya all
Ive tried to google for this issue but haven't found anything. I got it yesterday evening, about 1-2 hours after OTA update to 2.3.4.
So what happens is when I hit the on/off button to turn of the screen, it sometimes goes black for about half a second and then turns back on. Same when I try to wake it, goes light and then goes dark. So it seams like a dubbleclick almost.
Sometimes I've also got the issue that my Home button just keeps making screen shots, took me a while to figure out thats conected to the power button. How am I supposed to take a screenshot? Could it be a simple hardware issue where the button gets stuck? I've tried to remove the backcover and clean up, but it all seams fine for my untrained eye.
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well for same issue i got my power button changed...now its fine... i had this issue and was mad... so after change its gud... itz mostly coz of overstressed power button...c ur power button is fine... in recovery also it must b mis-behaving?
Edit : i am on 2.3.4 stock as of now
lalitsehgal21 said:
well for same issue i got my power button changed...now its fine... i had this issue and was mad... so after change its gud... itz mostly coz of overstressed power button...c ur power button is fine... in recovery also it must b mis-behaving?
Edit : i am on 2.3.4 stock as of now
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Was abit tricky to understand you, well anyway, so you had it repaired then? Id love to avoid that, hate being without the phone. But maybe thats the only solution.
Thanks for your input.
Yea I'm not so sure if this is a software thing. I haven't experienced this during regular use, but I have experienced a double-press effect while in Clockwork Mod. If I press the button on the leftmost part and do it slowly, I can get a double click without actually clicking it twice. Scares the crap out of me when I'm flashing roms and kernels.
So maybe something is up with the power button itself? Too sensitive maybe?
same issue here, was afraid it was my button. first i thought it was crt animations that were causting it. i have to go in to build.prop and turn off power+home screen shots because half the time i hit home it take a screenshot. not sure what's up with the power button.
have the issue on both bulletproof and eaglesblood, both 2.3.4
Happens to me as well and drives me absolutely insane.. The problem is definitely hardware.. I got a replacement back cover under warranty and after two weeks the problem is back just as bad.
To somewhat remedy the screen off/on flicker, i use 'screen off and lock' for long press of search button.. Not the same I know, but at least it doesn't flicker back on.
As for recovery, you can use home/menu for up/down, back for back and search for select.. I find this light years easier than having to ninja push the power button to avoid a double press.
I wish there was some way to fix the damn button tho.. I don't understand how HTC screwed it up so bad.
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Having the same problem. Is the problem with the back cover or the phone itself? I looked at the button underneath the case and it looks bent. I was thinking maybe a tiny piece of paper inside would help, if it does, I'll report back
EDIT: playing with the button with the case off shows no problem. It has to be the way the case interacts with the button
EDIT 2: A piece of paper doesn't completely relieve the problem but does make it much harder to reproduce, and in my opinion, it's much nicer to press now
EDIT 3: Thicker paper=issue solved. I'll send HTC an email about it not reaching the button all the way, maybe they can do a recall on affected backings
Flippy125 said:
Having the same problem. Is the problem with the back cover or the phone itself? I looked at the button underneath the case and it looks bent. I was thinking maybe a tiny piece of paper inside would help, if it does, I'll report back
EDIT: playing with the button with the case off shows no problem. It has to be the way the case interacts with the button
EDIT 2: A piece of paper doesn't completely relieve the problem but does make it much harder to reproduce, and in my opinion, it's much nicer to press now
EDIT 3: Thicker paper=issue solved. I'll send HTC an email about it not reaching the button all the way, maybe they can do a recall on affected backings
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I dont understand exactly what you did, but id be glad to know!
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I dont understand exactly what you did, but id be glad to know!
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I ripped off a little piece of paper from a paper cd case about the width of the button inside, I then folded it until I found the perfect thickness and set it on top. I just carefully put the backing back on. It pushes the power button up about double what it was. I'd take pics but all it is is a piece of paper sitting on top XD
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Got an email back from HTC saying they'll use the information for "future devices"
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My device is consistently rebooting itself and sometimes in Safe mode. Anyone else have this problem? Everything is stock btw.
Check your buttons to see if any are stuck. When I replaced my digitizer I had a button stick and it took me a bit to figure out why I kept booting into safe mode.
Chief317 said:
My device is consistently rebooting itself and sometimes in Safe mode. Anyone else have this problem? Everything is stock btw.
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I would think it would be the trackpad that is sticking, cause you have to hold a button down while booting for it to go into safe mode.
Dont know about the reboots though. You might check and see if the battery is making good contact and there is nothing loose in the compartment or the cover. Someone said they folded a peice of paper and wedged it in the battery area to keep it snug.
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I would think it would be the trackpad that is sticking, cause you have to hold a button down while booting for it to go into safe mode.
Dont know about the reboots though. You might check and see if the battery is making good contact and there is nothing loose in the compartment or the cover. Someone said they folded a peice of paper and wedged it in the battery area to keep it snug.
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i thought it was power+home buttons that make it go into safe mode?
saranhai said:
i thought it was power+home buttons that make it go into safe mode?
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I found the answer on how to boot into safe mode on android phones here
http://adf.ly/4QtjI
I have had a problem like this before. See how many apps you have moved to the sdcard. If you have alott, try moving most of them back to the phone. it seems that on a lot of roms (mainly sense) if you have alott of apps move to the sdcard, it takes alott of time and memory for it to initially load them all and eventually crashes the system causing it to reboot.
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Well I finally broke down and called Tmobile they are sending me new device. My phone was rebooting itself anywhere from 5-8 times a day.
So my screen died out, I feel the vibration and hear the alarms, but cant see anything. This happened shortly after I was sliding my keyboard in and out really fast. I think im just going to sell it off as parts on ebay but I want to make sure my data is off the device.
I was thinking of going to clockworkmod and resetting the phone, but there is this screen with the 3 androids on a skateboard and I dont remember which one gets me to recovery. So I need like a reference like a picture if anyone could take one or two for me. I also dont remember if which button is select, the track pad button?
Thanks- Johnny.
Sliding the keyboard in & out really fast? Were you doing a durability test or something? Anyway, I'm a bit confused. If your screen doesn't work, how do you see the 3 androids? That's your bootloader & if you see that then as far as I know, it's not your screen that is at issue.
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Sliding the keyboard in & out really fast? Were you doing a durability test or something? Anyway, I'm a bit confused. If your screen doesn't work, how do you see the 3 androids? That's your bootloader & if you see that then as far as I know, it's not your screen that is at issue.
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I was sliding the keyboard in and out really fast for fun, but then after like 2 hours my screen started to lag, then it just blacked out. Really stupid of me, but it happened. I was trying to remember what happens when and how to get into recovery. And my screen is still black.
JohnnyP.akaJP said:
I was sliding the keyboard in and out really fast for fun, but then after like 2 hours my screen started to lag, then it just blacked out. Really stupid of me, but it happened. I was trying to remember what happens when and how to get into recovery. And my screen is still black.
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Hold power down as well as volume down for about 3 seconds & that will put you into your bootloader. From there there is a factory reset too. Bump volume down twice and them bump your power switch. That will start the process of a Factory Reset.
JohnnyP.akaJP said:
I was sliding the keyboard in and out really fast for fun, but then after like 2 hours my screen started to lag, then it just blacked out. Really stupid of me, but it happened. I was trying to remember what happens when and how to get into recovery. And my screen is still black.
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That happened to me before, I'm pretty sure its broke.
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I'll buy it for cheap...
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demkantor said:
I'll buy it for cheap...
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LOL:good:
It's a case of a broken/cut flex cable. You know the ribbon like wires that connects your upper part phone to the lower part.
Same as demkantor I'm willing to buy it also. I got a broken MT4GS right now so I'm not active here(need to fix it to continue development lol) My LCD saw it's doppleganger when I drop my device. You know broken in half.
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Hold power down as well as volume down for about 3 seconds & that will put you into your bootloader. From there there is a factory reset too. Bump volume down twice and them bump your power switch. That will start the process of a Factory Reset.
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Yea It didnt work , I tried it a few times and waited for around 7 mins per reset. Any other ideas?
JohnnyP.akaJP said:
Yea It didnt work , I tried it a few times and waited for around 7 mins per reset. Any other ideas?
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A "factory reset" isn't going to repair a cable. All it will do is format your system, cache, etc. and prepare your phone to accept another operating system. If you want to do that thru recovery to make sure..... you can volume down with power to take you back to bootloader. Once sitting at "fastboot", volume down once to highlite recovery then select with power button. Once in recovery, power down twice then select with the trackpad. Once it's run there for about a minute your system should be wiped and you're ready to return it. You've NOT installed another ROM or taken yourself back to original condition though.
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A "factory reset" isn't going to repair a cable. All it will do is format your system, cache, etc. and prepare your phone to accept another operating system. If you want to do that thru recovery to make sure..... you can volume down with power to take you back to bootloader. Once sitting at "fastboot", volume down once to highlite recovery then select with power button. Once in recovery, power down twice then select with the trackpad. Once it's run there for about a minute your system should be wiped and you're ready to return it. You've NOT installed another ROM or taken yourself back to original condition though.
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I couldnt factory reset it, i kept texting myself to see if it reset and it kept ringing. I tried around 20 times :\ So instead I just put 2 step verification, used a application specific password on android and hopefully the person i sold it to doesnt try to hack it. case closed i guess.
GREAT! So you messed it up yourself, did your best to make it unusable and sold it to an unsuspecting buyer. You're on the WROOOONG website then 'dude'. That's why I'm so glad I forgot to tell you how to wipe out the system. Maybe your poor "sucker" will be able to figure it out. Hopefully he will come here. Evidently, your screen was fine???
Hello,
I've noticed that pressing the left side of the home button doesn't activate it, is this normal, or should I use my warranty to get it repaired?
Edit: It does work if you click the left side of it, though I need to press harder, and it feels a bit wiggly.
Thanks.
Dunams said:
Hello,
I've noticed that pressing the left side of the home button doesn't activate it, is this normal, or should I use my warranty to get it repaired?
Edit: It does work if you click the left side of it, though I need to press harder, and it feels a bit wiggly.
Thanks.
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i have the same issue, if i press the left or right side it wont work, i have to press it harder or press in the middle...its not that big of a deal....but its annoying...
Anyone else with this issue? Wondering how common is it, and what color is your galaxy? I've heard it's common mostly on black devices.
mine is black....but...my brother got one too and its in black but he doesn't have this issue...his home button is solid...
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Anyone else with this issue? Wondering how common is it, and what color is your galaxy? I've heard it's common mostly on black devices.
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I had it on my first one and returned it and my new one doesn't but has a dodgy screen.
Jonathan-H said:
I had it on my first one and returned it and my new one doesn't but has a dodgy screen.
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that's the reason i didn't return my s6, because the home button issue is a small one, i don't wanna change it for another one which maybe have a worse issues....so its not bad, its a bit annoying....
I purchased a gold variant and the first device had a wobbly home button, got it exchanged on the weekend, the 2nd device is not wobbly but the left side is raised more than the right side, however it seems to respond to presses without problems.
Samsung quality control has always been a little shady.. I've returned 2 already... First one no signal... 2nd went back because the home button was very loose and made loud noise when I gently tapped it(not pressed)... 3rd phone has been perfect so far, but I've now noticed after deep sleep sometimes I press the home button and nothing happens... Want wake up until I try pressing again....? Anybody noticed this.... Also the home button went from sturdy to wobbly in about 2 weeks
Kjc99 said:
Samsung quality control has always been a little shady.. I've returned 2 already... First one no signal... 2nd went back because the home button was very loose and made loud noise when I gently tapped it(not pressed)... 3rd phone has been perfect so far, but I've now noticed after deep sleep sometimes I press the home button and nothing happens... Want wake up until I try pressing again....? Anybody noticed this.... Also the home button went from sturdy to wobbly in about 2 weeks
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This sounds bad, I guess there's really no point in getting a replacement in my case.
Dunams said:
This sounds bad, I guess there's really no point in getting a replacement in my case.
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Ya im just gonna live with it too... Id rather have a questionable home button than a pink screen or something worse... Every year since the Galaxy S3 I have returned a phone for one reason or another... Samsung makes great phones.... But there are always a few faulty ones
My home button works every time no matter where I press on it. It does make a rattling noise if tapped on (without pressing it) and I think it's for the fingerprint scanner...other than the annoying rattling, my home button is fine. Might wanna get that checked out.
darklime said:
My home button works every time no matter where I press on it. It does make a rattling noise if tapped on (without pressing it) and I think it's for the fingerprint scanner...other than the annoying rattling, my home button is fine. Might wanna get that checked out.
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that rattling noise kills me, its so annoying, my brother S6 doesn't have this issue...his home button is solid...i am thinking of replacing mine....
Mine doesn't work very well at all. Maybe 40% of the time when pressed. Fingerprint detection isn't that good either.
Thing is, I'm left handed so the fact that it's not clicking well on the left side sometimes requires me to click again and it's a little bit annoying. Oh well.
Mine is too. I have the international variant f.y.i. but i don't want to replace it yet because that's the only problem I've seen in my phone for now.
Rama390 said:
Mine is too. I have the international variant f.y.i. but i don't want to replace it yet because that's the only problem I've seen in my phone for now.
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I have the same issue.
Dunams said:
Thing is, I'm left handed so the fact that it's not clicking well on the left side sometimes requires me to click again and it's a little bit annoying. Oh well.
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If it doesn't click well then that's a problem. My issue is that it just sounds annoying.
johnh123 said:
Mine doesn't work very well at all. Maybe 40% of the time when pressed. Fingerprint detection isn't that good either.
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I would get it replaced.
hajyihia said:
that rattling noise kills me, its so annoying, my brother S6 doesn't have this issue...his home button is solid...i am thinking of replacing mine....
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I really want to replace mine too for that reason but it would be my fourth S6 and I don't wanna go through all the app reloading and all that again...though I think the camera shutter is different on this one. It pisses me off.
I'm going to see my T-mo rep on Monday so I'll let you guys know if I exchange for a new one and if it doesn't rattle.
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I have the same issue.
If it doesn't click well then that's a problem. My issue is that it just sounds annoying.
I would get it replaced.
I really want to replace mine too for that reason but it would be my fourth S6 and I don't wanna go through all the app reloading and all that again...though I think the camera shutter is different on this one. It pisses me off.
I'm going to see my T-mo rep on Monday so I'll let you guys know if I exchange for a new one and if it doesn't rattle.
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yeah its annoying that all S6 are infected with something....sometimes you tell your self that if you replace it you might get one with even worse issues....its really annoying that samsung can't do it right the only time they tried....
darklime said:
I have the same issue.
If it doesn't click well then that's a problem. My issue is that it just sounds annoying.
I would get it replaced.
I really want to replace mine too for that reason but it would be my fourth S6 and I don't wanna go through all the app reloading and all that again...though I think the camera shutter is different on this one. It pisses me off.
I'm going to see my T-mo rep on Monday so I'll let you guys know if I exchange for a new one and if it doesn't rattle.
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Yeah I know it's a problem, however it doesn't bother me that much as long as it won't get any worse.
I probably wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't for the complains about it I've seen online.
I am kinda upset about that, but I can live with that.
Also considering I might get a worse replacement I guess this one is fine.