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Power button stopped working

Before someone says it....i did some searching and no one else has posted this issue (at least i didnt find it).
My Captivate power button has just stopped working. Its stock ROM rooted with Launcher Pro. Tried to unroot with super one click and still doesnt work. Kinda out of ideas.....any help would be greatly appreciated.

You might have just broke the button, also Try flashing back to stock, that might fix it
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i had the volume keys kinda broken
so i opened my phone,cleared it( there was sand in there , so it was hard to press)
and voila,it worked

devilisht2003 said:
Before someone says it....i did some searching and no one else has posted this issue (at least i didnt find it).
My Captivate power button has just stopped working. Its stock ROM rooted with Launcher Pro. Tried to unroot with super one click and still doesnt work. Kinda out of ideas.....any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Well this is a known issue...kinda... Not to flame you but this should be in q&a... If your under warranty you might want to get fixed soon cuase I heard some people say that
Out start messing up and gives out. Fyi warranties will be going out soon, so you might wasn't to do sooner then later. Good luck
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There have been tons of threads like this. Don't believe you searched. Take it back for warranty and next time post in q&a.

Screen won't rotate, would root/flash help?

Hi all,
just bought an Inspire off CL, and unfortunately didn't reallize that the screen won't rotate. I trired recalibrating, but it kept being aborted even though I put the phone flat on the table on its back. A search turned up tons of complaints from about a year ago with few resolutions, and none worked for me (reboot, recalibrate, kill all apps with adv task killer, switch sim card, etc.)
So the big question is, would rooting the phone and flash custom rom solve the problem? Has anyone solved the problem with the g-sensor?
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Is the phone rooted? Some roms have customizations to lock the screen and keep it from rotating. Do any screens rotate? Or is the home screen just not rotating?
Try going to home> settings> display and check auto rotate screen.
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Auto-rotate is checked. Apps the should rotate (e.g. Google search, email) don't rotate, and most frustrating is that games that use the g-sensor just won't work. The phone is running stock Gb 2.3.3.
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fishline said:
Auto-rotate is checked. Apps the should rotate (e.g. Google search, email) don't rotate, and most frustrating is that games that use the g-sensor just won't work. The phone is running stock Gb 2.3.3.
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If not rooted I would root and try a custom rom would hurt nothing. But make sure you use Ace Hack Kit and no out of XDA method. Also read, read, then read the Effen manual and make sure your knowledged on the steps for rooting. If you get stuck anywhere there is an IRC chat connection in the Ace Hack Kit page.
The thing about buying used phones from someone else is like buying a used car. Your basically buying some elses headache.
The other option would be to return to seller for money back, your option.
PS: If you decide to try out a ICS ROM remember that the kernels are not fully released as of yet so some games will not fully work and do have a few bugs depending on how it reacts with your phone. For gingerbread I would try a few out and see which one you like.
(Absolution 3.7 , Coredroid 9.4) lol my preference but thats a can a worms you dont want to open here on XDA by asking which is best ROM so dont.
Welcome and Enjoy the learning.

Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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fishline said:
Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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Yeah, if you had a sensor problem before the root and it persists after, it is more then likely a hardware issue and no amount of rooting/flashing a new ROM is gonna fix it. If you're under warranty, unroot and send it back for a replacement.

fishline said:
Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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Did you look in setting for rotation display settings. Some launchers like adw launcher lets you also check and uncheck rotation angles. All roms are great in their own way, try a few on for size but I would give them each at least a week or two of testing. A day or two is not really enough to get the feel of them. You can try Absolution 3.7 , Redemption Alpha 6 (ICS) , or even go over to the Desire HD Dev section and try out - Ice Cold Sandwich 7.2 (ICS) (also dont forget to flash inspirmod as well with this one). Also these three will get rid of the stock look.
Good Luck

The phone was bought off craigslist, so no hope of return or warranty. Rotate sreen in settings has been checked, as well as g-sensor calibration (which invariably ends in abort, even after rooting and flashing coredroid. I might try absolution in a few days.
The phone is for my son, and he cares a lot more whether the accelerometer works (for games) than how nice the rom looks.
One problem I found after flashing coredroid is that even at boot up tbe email app keep crashing (without me opening the app). Anyone knows whats up with this?
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fishline said:
The phone was bought off craigslist, so no hope of return or warranty. Rotate sreen in settings has been checked, as well as g-sensor calibration (which invariably ends in abort, even after rooting and flashing coredroid. I might try absolution in a few days.
The phone is for my son, and he cares a lot more whether the accelerometer works (for games) than how nice the rom looks.
One problem I found after flashing coredroid is that even at boot up tbe email app keep crashing (without me opening the app). Anyone knows whats up with this?
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Did you do a full wipe (factory, cache partition, dalvik) before flashing rom. Coredroid has a zip called full wipe 1.5 as well.

I flashed absolution, and it didn't help with the g-sensor problem at all. I put coredroid back, this time wiping data and cache, and the email problem went away. I guess my son will have to live with the g-sensor as is. Thanks to everyone who replied for the suggestions.
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[Q] inspire delema rooted problem maybe?

Hello, I have an HTC inspire and been rooted for a few months. The volume+ has been very glitchy most of the time not working. Even tried a custom Rom and still bad issue. This noting I re locked the phone and put it back to the way it was when I got it. So far today the volume button has worked every time with no problem. My question when rooting the phone is their a chance that rooting caused the hardware issue, that it corrupted the software enlighten to make it glitchy in that way. Is their a way to confirm that. Just wondering because I hate haveing this un-rooted phone lol.

Custom ROMs would not affect your hardware buttons unless you installed an app that messed with the volume.

I really didn't think it was the Rom I was wondering more about the rooting its self. thanks for the reply.

Rooting the phone doesnt affect the volume rocker...you can not break physically the phone from software...
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glevitan said:
...you can not break physically the phone from software...
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Not directly, but I have used some apps that make me want to throw my phone at the wall.

pazzo02 said:
Not directly, but I have used some apps that make me want to throw my phone at the wall.
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Haha...that's true.
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Guys I didn't not mean physical damage. I meant software get corrupted some how, by the rooting process. Phone has been relocked for past two days. I have shut off phone twice in a row, tried everything I could think of to get the vol+ button not to work and it works every time. No matter how hard I push on it. No I didn't try to smash it bit still no matter what it works.

Well volume is messing up now again and its un-rooted. So its def a hardware issue. Sucks because now I have to send it it to be repaired but good because I can re-root it when I get it back lol.

gage0727 said:
Well volume is messing up now again and its un-rooted. So its def a hardware issue. Sucks because now I have to send it it to be repaired but good because I can re-root it when I get it back lol.
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Congrats on tracking down the problem. Just think, it should be like new when you get it back.

[Q] [HELP?] Messed up screen

I dropped my phone last night. Hardly a fall. But then when I looked at it, these black lines appeared on my screen. There are like 20 eyebrow length black lines.
Can anyone tell me what I can do.
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The Best option:
If its in warranty period, replace the device.

I agree , it is best to send in for replacement or repair. I wish you the best! Hopefully they will replace it without a problem. Good luck!
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realsis said:
I agree , it is best to send in for replacement or repair. I wish you the best! Hopefully they will replace it without a problem. Good luck!
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I'm rooted and running a custom rom. And I have a month on warranty. Do you think they'll take it?
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The Best option:
If its in warranty period, replace the device.
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I had issues recently and reverted back to stock and S-ON before sending it back for a replacement, just in case.
If it's not stock and they're arsey they might refuse.

CalCi059 said:
I'm rooted and running a custom rom. And I have a month on warranty. Do you think they'll take it?
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They WONT, I think.
Try to dig the forums to get S-ON and STOCK ROM, then probably you are in chance.
Good Luck.

CalCi059 said:
I'm rooted and running a custom rom. And I have a month on warranty. Do you think they'll take it?
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Absolutely revert back to stock!! If they see It's rooted they will love to deny your repair! Their are some really great guides to help you go back to stock.please follow them to the letter because the last thing you need right now is a brick! I would first read though the guide, then have it in front of me to follow to the letter! Then you should be just fine to return your device! I've read where people bricked going back to stock bricked because they did the order of things wrong or jumped Ahead so make sure to follow the guide exactly! Once you get back to stock they will accept your device without problem. Perhaps tell them the lines just happened I'm not sure if a drop is covered. Just to be safe . I know they love to deny repair . Then you should be good to go.! Keep us posted on how the process went for you ok? Best of luck, sorry this happened to you!
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realsis said:
Absolutely revert back to stock!! If they see It's rooted they will love to deny your repair! Their are some really great guides to help you go back to stock.please follow them to the letter because the last thing you need right now is a brick! I would first read though the guide, then have it in front of me to follow to the letter! Then you should be just fine to return your device! I've read where people bricked going back to stock bricked because they did the order of things wrong or jumped Ahead so make sure to follow the guide exactly! Once you get back to stock they will accept your device without problem. Perhaps tell them the lines just happened I'm not sure if a drop is covered. Just to be safe . I know they love to deny repair . Then you should be good to go.! Keep us posted on how the process went for you ok? Best of luck, sorry this happened to you!
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Thanks man. First thing tomorrow morning ill go read a guide to get back to stock.
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Hope I'm not too late on this.
My Sensation suffered the same thing about 4 weeks ago.
The lines correct themselves somehow while the screen is off/phone is charging.
Over the last 4 weeks, the lines on my screen have become much less visible, as well as much less in number.
Of-course, the best thing to do is to get it replaced, but if that's no longer an option, you could try what I did.
I left the phone on the charger for as long as possible, and used it as little as possible. It's really as easy as that.
I'd recommend shutting off your phone and leaving it for a week though. I couldn't do that cause I didn't have a replacement phone for the time, and I could only keep this up for about 3 days. Still, number of lines was less than half of what it was (and much less black than before). I'd imagine that a week of being switched off will fix it up (more-or-less) completely.
By the way, don't look-up dead pixel correction methods. They only made it worse for me.
Hope that helps.

ViousAD said:
Hope I'm not too late on this.
My Sensation suffered the same thing about 4 weeks ago.
The lines correct themselves somehow while the screen is off/phone is charging.
Over the last 4 weeks, the lines on my screen have become much less visible, as well as much less in number.
Of-course, the best thing to do is to get it replaced, but if that's no longer an option, you could try what I did.
I left the phone on the charger for as long as possible, and used it as little as possible. It's really as easy as that.
I'd recommend shutting off your phone and leaving it for a week though. I couldn't do that cause I didn't have a replacement phone for the time, and I could only keep this up for about 3 days. Still, number of lines was less than half of what it was (and much less black than before). I'd imagine that a week of being switched off will fix it up (more-or-less) completely.
By the way, don't look-up dead pixel correction methods. They only made it worse for me.
Hope that helps.
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Had the same problem earlier, when i dropped the phone accidentally.
Observation: It gets darker and grows when the phone heats up, and lighter (almost cyan blue) when the phone cools down for a significant period of time, with the screen off.
i had to keep the phone near an air conditioner vent for a few hours with the phone turned off for it to disappear .
once the lines disappear completely they dont return back, unless if you drop them again (which is what i did a few days back again.. and the stupid lines are back )
If you have any other ways in which you can get it resolved pls share with us.
PS: dont know how keeping it on charging solved it for you, because with my phone charging heats it up and the lines become darker.
Cheers,
Alan

Both method working, but I don't know yet how long. I tried to cool my phone down in a simple refrigerator (without SIM, microSD, battery) in a plastic box. I had two whole horizontal black lines, and know I got only 2 tiny after 6 hours cooling. Perhaps it will be permanent

ViousAD said:
Hope I'm not too late on this.
My Sensation suffered the same thing about 4 weeks ago.
The lines correct themselves somehow while the screen is off/phone is charging.
Over the last 4 weeks, the lines on my screen have become much less visible, as well as much less in number.
Of-course, the best thing to do is to get it replaced, but if that's no longer an option, you could try what I did.
I left the phone on the charger for as long as possible, and used it as little as possible. It's really as easy as that.
I'd recommend shutting off your phone and leaving it for a week though. I couldn't do that cause I didn't have a replacement phone for the time, and I could only keep this up for about 3 days. Still, number of lines was less than half of what it was (and much less black than before). I'd imagine that a week of being switched off will fix it up (more-or-less) completely.
By the way, don't look-up dead pixel correction methods. They only made it worse for me.
Hope that helps.
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Yup they actually corrected them selves. Hahaha. I'm happy now.
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Everything is freezing on device (even recovery)

I'm having some strange, but serious issues with my device. It started a week ago, I started it up, it somehow didn't show the boot animation anymore(!), and when I reached the lockscreen, the device just freezes. I can turn the screen off/on, and it can register one touch (ex. on the unlock slider, so it vibrates), but further it just doesn't respond anymore, till I turn the screen off and on again.
Then I went to recovery, and instead of loading the whole menu, it only displays the text "build: " at the left bottom of the screen, the rest just doesn't show up, neither does it respond to anything.
My device is currently useless, and I find it a very strange problem, so if anyone can help me, maybe has an idea of what's wrong, had something similar, or knows how to fix it, you would be my hero!
Btw, I can connect through both ADB and Fastboot normally.
Thank you.

should be in q&a thread
flash orange.nbh through hboot, start fresh... if this won't work there will be lots more things to test
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demkantor said:
flash orange.nbh through hboot, start fresh... if this won't work there will be lots more things to test
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Thanks for the reply!
Just did it, went without problems, only it still hangs at recovery, and at the lockscreen.
Only now I've also lost my ability to use adb...
What more would you suggest to test?

fakecaker said:
Thanks for the reply!
Just did it, went without problems, only it still hangs at recovery, and at the lockscreen.
Only now I've also lost my ability to use adb...
What more would you suggest to test?
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I don't know much about programing, but i would suggest you restore to stock like you did then re-root, and try other recoveries. like amonra or different versions of Clockwork mod.

well the orange.nbh will change your radio/spl/recovery. from this point fastboot should work fine (so long as your emmc/motherboard isn't fried)
so can you get into fastboot? if so flash amonra recovery here then reboot into recovery
if that works then you may want to update your radio/spl before flashing a new rom
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It's definitely the screen flex cable inside the G1. Happened to my old screen. You can't do anything other than get a new screen.

Before flashing the .nbh I could fully use my fastboot, but now it gives me the "remote: not allow" (btw i'm on 1.33.0006 now).
So I can't flash the amonra recovery, and I must note, that when this trouble started, I Was already using AmonRa1.7, which had the freezing.

sound like the motherboard is nearly dead, fastboot works with that spl... you might look for a cheap g1 on ebay
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As I said, its not the motherboard. Its the screen.
I had the exact problem with my G1. Down to the tiniest detail. Swapping in a new screen fixed it.
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frankdrey said:
As I said, its not the motherboard. Its the screen.
I had the exact problem with my G1. Down to the tiniest detail. Swapping in a new screen fixed it.
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I don't think it's the screen, since when I boot it up, (even tough I don't get a boot animation) the lockscreen I get is displayed perfectly normal, and even detects touch. Also my fastboot, etc display normal...
I think rather that there is something with the motherboard/cpu or something. But I don't see how it could give the symptoms i'm having right now. Since if for example the cpu would be fryed, I'd guess nothing would work at all.

as you describe it, it sounds unlikely it is the screen or flex, it shouldn't freeze but rather not respond to touch (could be intermediate) or won't show picture etc.
the motherboard may not fully be fried rather it is partitioned out to diffrent blocks, data, system, radio, spl, recovery, etc
some of those blocks can get corrupt, resulting in a similar "freeze" so when I say motherboard is fried it could just mean your emmc has corrupter blocks of memory
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*sigh*
My 1st G1 froze exactly like that. I could touch the unlock slider, and it vibrated, but it froze the screen.
Recovery also froze at "Build:". Anything froze half a second after starting to render or at a touch. The only way I could temporarily fix it was to slide the screen into positions in the middle and place something there to hold it. But that didn't last long.
Later I got a new G1. But then I bricked it. So I took the motherboard from the old (freezing) one, and put it in the new one. I can assure you that it works beautifully and I am posting from it right now.
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fair enough, flex is only $5~10 so it may be worth a shot
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demkantor said:
fair enough, flex is only $5~10 so it may be worth a shot
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Then again, I don't want to be yelled at if it still doesn't work. :S
Also, the flex is hecka hard to replace. I don't recommend it. I say grab a new G1. They're really cheap. Or grab a new phone.
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well I doubt you'll get banned from xda
they're cheap and if you even slightly mechanicaly inclined its not too bad, basically you'll need to strip the phone down almost completley to replace it, I've done this many times so my time frame maybe quicker than yours so id estimate an hour of your time to do it
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If its anything like my magic you need the right screwdriver or you'll knacker the screws, plus you need a plastic wedge thing to pry apart things like the flex. Also make sure you don't loose any bits or forget where things go. For instance a tiny bent piece of plastic fell out and I carried on after I couldn't find it.....turns out it transfers the notification light from the back of the phone to the front. Could I find a replacement - no chance! Apart from all that its a breeze.
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If its anything like my magic you need the right screwdriver or you'll knacker the screws, plus you need a plastic wedge thing to pry apart things like the flex. Also make sure you don't loose any bits or forget where things go. For instance a tiny bent piece of plastic fell out and I carried on after I couldn't find it.....turns out it transfers the notification light from the back of the phone to the front. Could I find a replacement - no chance! Apart from all that its a breeze.
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The G1 flex cable is in a really weird set up to allow the screen to slide out. Which is why I'm saying its gonna be hecka hard. You need to take apart the whole sliding mechanism.
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Ok, I guess my fellow adventurer has just reached it's final state. :angel:
I don't think it had wanted to be repaired, we must leave it rest now.
Even tough replacing the cable might fix it, I don't think it's worth the trouble. It's probably time for me to get a device from this decenium.
Probably something with a good camera and good processing power.
Probably it's going to be a Galaxy Nexus that's going to replace the spot in my pocket, but nothing will replace the spot in my heart, where this phone will remain!
Anyway, thanks for the help, and insight in what might have been the problem.

well if your truly done with your g1 maybe consider a g2 (vision) it doesn't have as good of a keyboard as the g1 but has great specs for a phone that is two years old and still lots of development (fully working ics + jellybean almost to daily driver point) and they have gotten cheap on ebay, 100 range for a used one
also consider picking up another g1, it is the best backup phone possible and will probably always have developmet, I have a g2 but I use my g1 almost as much still
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