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power button broken.... about to warranty the phone

So my power button won't wake the phone up and I'm about to warranty it. can anyone point me towards getting an oem tmo version of android on it so i dont get hammered with a huge fee. also i need a way to put it on that doesnt use CWM.... i cant use my power button so i cant select things in CWM

pdpwally said:
So my power button won't wake the phone up and I'm about to warranty it. can anyone point me towards getting an oem tmo version of android on it so i dont get hammered with a huge fee. also i need a way to put it on that doesnt use CWM.... i cant use my power button so i cant select things in CWM
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power buttons totally dead so u cant get the phone on at all?

The search button acts like the power button.
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And have u tried a different back case
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chrisizzle492 said:
The search button acts like the power button.
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Huh??? Can u explain please?
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Freshly_Snipes said:
Huh??? Can u explain please?
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ignore chrisizzle492
is it dead where it doesnt work at all

Freshly_Snipes said:
Huh??? Can u explain please?
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Replace the battery cover, which is the entire back. It might be that the "button" isn't making contact properly.
Remove the entire back cover, and where the "button" should be, press down on it with your finger.

Do a battery pull and then try it.
I don't think it's anything to do with the phone, it was doing the same thing on mine. I had to pull the battery numerous times a day.
Until I flashed a rom with a stock kernel, and now it's fine again!

anarchyuk said:
ignore chrisizzle492
is it dead where it doesnt work at all
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First off, what chris is trying to say is, that when in Recovery menu, you can use the capacitive buttons infront of the phone to move down and up and also select items in recovery menu. The search button can be used to select items that you would select with the power button.

Ugh..nightmares of the problems I had with my n1's

the phone is gone... thank youu everyone for your advice. when the power button stopped working first thing i did was take the case off and try with my hand still to no avail. so back to tmo it went

[ask]How to avoid Raping Power Button ?

Hello guys
i've just registered here
i only want to avoid abusing power button to unlock the phone
i set only 1 min to auto-lock
the only way to unlock is by using power button, everytime i push im afraid that the button will go crazy
do you guys know any way to avoid this issue ?
i've search many app but they all use proximity sensors and i've tried it and nothing worked
i installed smart screen off v3.3 and thing went worse.... the screen stucked and trying to off-on-off-on-off-on everysecond

You can unlock by removing the s-pen, too.

donleon said:
Hello guys
i've just registered here
i only want to avoid abusing power button to unlock the phone
i set only 1 min to auto-lock
the only way to unlock is by using power button, everytime i push im afraid that the button will go crazy
do you guys know any way to avoid this issue ?
i've search many app but they all use proximity sensors and i've tried it and nothing worked
i installed smart screen off v3.3 and thing went worse.... the screen stucked and trying to off-on-off-on-off-on everysecond
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I don't think using the word RAPE earns you much respect.
Oh and it's a tablet not a phone.

I use screen off fx for powering down, gives a virtual powerbutton on your screen with some nice off-effects, and its free! That halves use of powerbutton.
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I never get why peaople see this as an issue, iv never had a button break on me
xda premium hd is rubbish

Chocu1a said:
You can unlock by removing the s-pen, too.
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essentialy it's the same as using button too often that will make the slot(pen?) broke like my NDS stylus, i rarely use pen too
apprentice said:
I don't think using the word RAPE earns you much respect.
Oh and it's a tablet not a phone.
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as you wish bro, english isnt my primary language so i dont know what word can describe this.. it is a phone+tablet bro, i can make a phonecall here......
dutchxxl said:
I use screen off fx for powering down, gives a virtual powerbutton on your screen with some nice off-effects, and its free! That halves use of powerbutton.
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what i need is for turning on the screen, for locking/screen off i use autolock so it halves the use of powerbutton
damonsmith666 said:
I never get why peaople see this as an issue, iv never had a button break on me
xda premium hd is rubbish
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u never had but u will
its just natural that anything that often used will be broke one day
im doing this for preventing that

damonsmith666 said:
I never get why peaople see this as an issue, iv never had a button break on me
xda premium hd is rubbish
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I went through 3 on my nexus ones.
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I use the app "rebooter" found in the app store to have a widget on screen that turns off, reboots or goes to recovery without using the powe button.... You do need to rooted to use this however...

[Mod] S4 Stock ROOTED rom change HOME button wake mode

I AM NOT TAKING ANY CREDIT FOR THIS, FOUND ON GOOGLE AND WANT TO SHARE
Mount as R/W
Open /system/usr/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl. with text editor
Go to "key 172 HOME WAKE" line
Delete word WAKE
Save and exit
Reboot phone
That's all , now you stoped the home button from waking up your device.
Probably working on all roms but i tested with rooted stock rom.

Will work on rooted stock roms for sure
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Tried it on TMO US SGS4, works great! thanks for sharing!
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Thanks.

saywhatt said:
Will work on rooted stock roms for sure
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Can we make the home button wake and unlock the device?

mr.r9 said:
Can we make the home button wake and unlock the device?
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That seems like the complete opposite of its purpose when the device is in sleep.
But you can just turn off the lock screen, and you accomplish what you're asking for. No security at all though. Butt dials like a mother. No one wants that.
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thachosenone said:
That seems like the complete opposite of its purpose when the device is in sleep.
But you can just turn off the lock screen, and you accomplish what you're asking for. No security at all though. Butt dials like a mother. No one wants that.
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I know it's the complete opposite of this mod but it will be faster (IMO) to double click the home button to wake-unlock the device.
But no lock screen will definitely cause butt dials

mr.r9 said:
Can we make the home button wake and unlock the device?
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looking for the same thing.

Not working in Sprint S4 running liquid smooth (AOSP is ya didn't know). Been searching everywhere. Anyone know if there's a way to disable it on AOSP roms? Tried removing wake from every single file inside the key layout folder but met with no success...

Thanks, it was very useful to me, to re-enable the wake up screen on home button.

Not work

Bypass activation?

Anyone know?
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What do you mean by bypass activation?
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craigbailey1986 said:
What do you mean by bypass activation?
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He wants to know how to get to the device without activating a Sim card in it.
It used to be tapping in the four corners starting bottom left, then top left, top right then bottom right.
I don't know if that still works though.
Have you tried getting as far as you could then mashing the home button and hoping?
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O it asks do you want to activate it as a WiFi only device now at least that's what it did for me on my gs4 the other day.
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Casen said:
He wants to know how to get to the device without activating a Sim card in it.
It used to be tapping in the four corners starting bottom left, then top left, top right then bottom right.
I don't know if that still works though.
Have you tried getting as far as you could then mashing the home button and hoping?
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Nope I sure hope someone is able to suggest a way soon!

try this way
emzee.mc said:
Nope I sure hope someone is able to suggest a way soon!
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try to turn it on without a sim card then you should be able to skip the activation step (this is how you skip it on the droid dna)

thelordofdarkness said:
try to turn it on without a sim card then you should be able to skip the activation step (this is how you skip it on the droid dna)
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tried that earlier and that didn't work. it still asks for a sim card.

try casen's way
emzee.mc said:
tried that earlier and that didn't work. it still asks for a sim card.
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try casen's way but the phone (must be flat on a table or it wont work)
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thelordofdarkness said:
try casen's way but the phone (must be flat on a table or it wont work)
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btw it top left then top right then bottom right then bottom left ( keep trying it) Or you can just keep hitting "activate" and the back button over and over again until the activation app crashes

I used to just mash the back and home button to get past it.
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Casen said:
I used to just mash the back and home button to get past it.
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it worked on the droid maxx?

Didn't get a chance to try, but other Verizon droids, yes
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Casen said:
Didn't get a chance to try, but other Verizon droids, yes
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can i skip the activation process if i enter any sim card or its a must to activate it with a verizon sim?..bcz i was planning to get droid ultra but im not living in the U.S

Turn phone sideways / horizontal at the start screen and continually tap 4 corners starting at top left and going clockwise one at a time must be done fast. I've done it several times on the mini ultra and maxx before launch
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Activation
Worked great thanks

I will be running the droid maxx on bell and rogers in Canada. Thanks for the info! Anyone else running the maxx or ultra up north? With the 1700 aws support I'm thinking LTE is possible too. I will post the results when it arrives later this week
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Fstall303 said:
Anyone know?
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Just turn it on. and choose connect to wifi...

Can't you try to insert any other gsm sim card? These phones are supposedly unlocked, even in the united states

I turned the phone in the landscape mode and started tapping the four corners beginning with the left bottom corner (so, that would be the top left corner in the normal portrait mode.
Then I kept tapping clockwise several times. Nothing happened.
Then I put the phone in the normal/ portrait mode and started tapping the corners. After few passes, the screen did change from the English (US/ UK) screen to something else (I can't remember now).
I already had a GSM SIM from local provider which did not work earlier.
Now, it is working.
BTW: I did a FXZ firmware install just prior to the activation bypass trick. So, I am not sure what worked for me.

It must be the FXZ firmware, that has really done the trick imho.. Esp flashing normal firmware over employee edition...

Notification bottom of pull-down

Looking for a way to have notifications display from bottom to top instead of top to bottom of the pull down menu. Does anyone know how to get this option either by messing with the system or xposed? Trying to minimize the long stretch to the top of the screen with my thumb.

You can see by reset.

andrewnelson said:
You can see by reset.
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Huh...what?

I have seen it before on a few phones, I'm not sure which add-on as I never really used exposed. At least you know it's out there
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filkbomb said:
Huh...what?
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This guy just posts to keep his numbers up it seems... As for the notification thing? Check out xposed... There might be something there. Personally, I've never seen or tried to do that.
M8, nuff said.

You need to trick your phone into tablet mode. Not sure how exactly without a custom rom maybe perapp hacking with xposed
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