All hardware keys not working - T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide

I have a MT4GS from a friend at home and the keys don't work anymore. Strangely enough they do work but only in bootloader; not in recovery or ROM. I did a restore with the PG59IMG.zip, but problem is still there.
Does anyone have a clue or idea about what to do now? My friend is very happy with this phone and has no money for a new one.

Isdrasil said:
I have a MT4GS from a friend at home and the keys don't work anymore. Strangely enough they do work but only in bootloader; not in recovery or ROM. I did a restore with the PG59IMG.zip, but problem is still there.
Does anyone have a clue or idea about what to do now? My friend is very happy with this phone and has no money for a new one.
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This very well may not work considering your description of the issue and the things you've tried but Blue6IX extracted the stock keyboard layout and created a flashable .zip file to take a person back to stock after trying one of his custom ones. If you'd like to give it a try, it's located HERE as the last entry to the first group. Hope it works for you.

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This very well may not work considering your description of the issue and the things you've tried but Blue6IX extracted the stock keyboard layout and created a flashable .zip file to take a person back to stock after trying one of his custom ones. If you'd like to give it a try, it's located HERE as the last entry to the first group. Hope it works for you.
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Thanks for the info, but still a problem: I can't navigate in recovery since the hardware keys don't work there.
I saw this post Clockworkmod 6.0.0.0. It will make it possible to flash stuff cause it has touch but the files cant be found when i want to download it!

Isdrasil said:
Thanks for the info, but still a problem: I can't navigate in recovery since the hardware keys don't work there.
I saw this post Clockworkmod 6.0.0.0. It will make it possible to flash stuff cause it has touch but the files cant be found when i want to download it!
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That recovery was pulled because it was bricking devices. You don't want it. I don't know if the dev is working on it anymore.
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There's no fix for the hardware keys not working. Keep on your your rooted rom. Get Button Savior from the market. Or send it to T-Mo/HTC.
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Isdrasil said:
I have a MT4GS from a friend at home and the keys don't work anymore. Strangely enough they do work but only in bootloader; not in recovery or ROM. I did a restore with the PG59IMG.zip, but problem is still there.
Does anyone have a clue or idea about what to do now? My friend is very happy with this phone and has no money for a new one.
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Hi! By saying hardware keys does that include your hardware qwerty keyboard? Also you said keys work in bootloader but on bootloader mode only volume keys & power button are used so is volume keys & power button working while on ROM?
If what your talking is the hardware keys below the touch screen(home, menu, back, sensor & genius) then most probably you got a broken ribbon/flex cable send it for repairs if that's the case cause it needs to be replaced.

In ROM and recovery nothing works for as far as I can see. No qwerty, power, volume and frontkeys. Only in bootloader it responds to power and volume Keys.
That's the strange part, they do work but maybe it's driver/software related?
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Isdrasil said:
In ROM and recovery nothing works for as far as I can see. No qwerty, power, volume and frontkeys. Only in bootloader it responds to power and volume Keys.
That's the strange part, they do work but maybe it's driver/software related?
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Ok as you said on your first post you already flashed a complete stock ROM right? So this can't be a software problem since flashing PG59IMG.zip basically replaces everything in the phone.
Try booting the phone without the sdcard or try with another battery.
Probably there's something on your sd card that's causing the phone to be unstable or your battery can't provide enough power to run the keyboard.

It's not the sd-card since I used a brand new, formatted one. That's also needed if you do a PG59IMG.zip restore. Only thing on the sd is that file, no other files/folders. Could be battery, but it'll take some work. Thx for the help.
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I have 3 doubleshots, one is completely 100% hardware bricked. It started just like your phone is acting up. Only in the bootloader vol +/- and power worked. I managed to get this device s-off, and rooted. Used button savior to be able to navigate. Then touch screen stopped working about a week later, and I have a doubleshot paper weight.
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My phone did the EXACT same thing!!!!!!! Just about a month ago, it was very annoying. I tinkered and tinkered and nothing. so i reverted to stock with the PG591IMG and s-on and called tMo for an exchange. They sent me a replacement in 3 days (albeit the replacement is giving me a heck of a time getting camera and headphones to work) but i think thats your best bet. Is yours still under warranty?

Same issue
Has anyone found out what causes this problem? My girl really misses this phone. :laugh: lol. i got cm9 and twrp installed on hers. Like the orignal poster - the Power, Vol Up, and Vol down only work in the bootloader. when CM9 boots up non of the hard keys work.

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I have no lockscreen!!!!

First I thought this was rom related but after flashing different roms & even returning to stock via Odin I realize that its on my end. Doesn't matter what rom I flash I do not get a lock screen of any kind.... have no clue how or what I've done.... any suggestions????
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do u have issues with your power button as well? try long pressing it and seeing if u get the power menu, or if the phone turns straight off
I notice that as well. No extended power menu either. The rom I'm running right now has it built in... strange. Wtf have I done. Everything else runs perfectly lol
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you've done the exact same thing to your phone that I did to mine. Did u recently flash the uclcl5 radio from the note? if you did and all of a sudden all this stuff broke (no lock screen and no extended power menu) your phone is broken.
I have no idea how to fix it, I've tried everything. The only fix is warranty, the only reason I haven't returned mine yet is becuz I'm waiting on a new screen for my backup phone. Sorry bud, your SOL
Did either of you guys try an ODIN flash?
I'm sorry my friend, but look at my thanks meter lol. That is the first thing i would recommend to anyone else, and the first thing I tried, 3x in a row, no dice. I believe it has to do with corruption of an inaccessible system partition, either way the phone is futz.
Everything works flawlessly then those two issues so far. I can use widgetlocker & it has the power option when I select reboot in the 14 toggle . I did flash the ucla5 modem but it didn't work so well. Glad it didn't brick the damn thing!
I said in the first post I used Odin to flash completely stock. Lol
Suppose mods can close this thread thanks again bro!
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I was just aimlessly browsing the t989 forum, and found someone with the same issue!!! Apparently its an efs issue, which isn't touched by Odin or can. I didn't flash the file, I simply did the following
Root Explorer
browser to /efs folder
open imei
long press and select new file
name it "keystr" exactly as it is in quotes
long press key str
open in text editor
type "ON"
press back and save
delete keystr.bak
I checked if it worked by long pressing power button, and extended menu came up!
Wow. That got my extended power menu back!!!!
Holy moly doughnut shop!!!!! Its fixed!!! Exciting news!™!!!
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I had major problems with uclc5 Note modem. No power menu myself. Had to flash 3x to stock. actually used the Konane GB. Was getting several errors still. gaaps and a couple other android process errors.As well as phone rebooting intermittently. LOL was running the uclc5 while on GB. Data worked though!!
Limping, and I mean limping. The following took me 2 hours. I formatted my internal sd (in the instructions on the Real Thing thread). Hard reset via the phone not rom manager. Downloaded stock KJ modem though XDA mobile. Managed to get ROM manager into recovery, flashed the GB stock modem. KJ. After this, things started moving along a little faster.
Then worked my way back to Seanz Real Thing. Staying far away from that note modem. From reading it's hit or miss if it works on your phone. NOT all CHIPS are created equal. I read that somewhere on here.
Everything has worked great since.
Loving all the work the DEVS are doing. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!
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I was just aimlessly browsing the t989 forum, and found someone with the same issue!!! Apparently its an efs issue, which isn't touched by Odin or can. I didn't flash the file, I simply did the following
Root Explorer
browser to /efs folder
open imei
long press and select new file
name it "keystr" exactly as it is in quotes
long press key str
open in text editor
type "ON"
press back and save
delete keystr.bak
I checked if it worked by long pressing power button, and extended menu came up!
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Is there a way to get that to stick through a reboot buddy???
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mine did, I don't understand. Flash that file from the t989 cwm zip thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1438451

Bricked HTC ONE X AT&T

I checked all the other bricked threads and none have the same problem as me.
My HTC ONE X will not boot and or charge. I cannot get access to the bootloader or recovery.
My HTC ONE X had it's bootloader unlocked via the rogers htc-dev method. I also installed clockwork recovery. It is rooted also but you prob figured that already...
I pulled a bonehead move by flashing the MIUI rom the international one x by changing the update script to flash onto my phone. After it flashed it looked like it worked. When I left recovery and shut the phone off it would not turn back on.
I called AT&T they said they will switch it for me when they get a shipment but I want to keep this phone because the boatloader is unlocked and they might patch the rogers method.
Thanks in advanced.
P.S. I know how to use adb and other tools such as RUU and they did not work.
Have you tried holding the power button for 10 seconds to reset it? You should see the 3 lights below flashing.
Ouch.... Another loss for htc sales
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you cant get to hboot? 0.o
First of all, you should be able to get to H-Boot by holding volume down when turning it on.
Second of all, this is why they lock the bootloader in the first place.
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equlizer said:
Have you tried holding the power button for 10 seconds to reset it? You should see the 3 lights below flashing.
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No nothing happens even with the charging adapter plugged in.
kevina90 said:
you cant get to hboot? 0.o
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Nope
sassafras_ said:
First of all, you should be able to get to H-Boot by holding volume down when turning it on.
Second of all, this is why they lock the bootloader in the first place.
-sassafras
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H-Boot key combo is not working.
I have been flashing roms since the samsung moment, I built and modified roms on my EVO and ported roms from other phones to the EVO. I always had recovery to fall back onto to get my phone booting again. Even when I had the Xperia Play that required a PC to boot recovery I was still able to get the phone to work. This phone is strange that is will not even turn onto H-boot/Bootloader.
jfn0802 said:
H-Boot key combo is not working.
I have been flashing roms since the samsung moment, I built and modified roms on my EVO and ported roms from other phones to the EVO. I always had recovery to fall back onto to get my phone booting again. Even when I had the Xperia Play that required a PC to boot recovery I was still able to get the phone to work. This phone is strange that is will not even turn onto H-boot/Bootloader.
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I like to play with my phones and this one is so finicky I'm scared to do too much.
I bricked one myself.
gunnyman said:
I like to play with my phones and this one is so finicky I'm scared to do too much.
I bricked one myself.
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Im glad I have my iPhone to fall back on but it is really annoying that I cannot even get the bootloader to load. I only had it 3 days and already broke it.
Thank God the dude at AT&T cannot get into the bootloader also to see that is was tampered with so they are giving me a replacement.
And people wonder why at&t locks their phones down. I'm guessing you just told them "my phone broke...I have no idea what happened". Just lovely.
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jfn0802 said:
Im glad I have my iPhone to fall back on but it is really annoying that I cannot even get the bootloader to load. I only had it 3 days and already broke it.
Thank God the dude at AT&T cannot get into the bootloader also to see that is was tampered with so they are giving me a replacement.
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Where do they have them in stock? I need to replace mine (screen issue) and can't find any around here.
powerwagon said:
And people wonder why at&t locks their phones down. I'm guessing you just told them "my phone broke...I have no idea what happened". Just lovely.
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powerwagon said:
And people wonder why at&t locks their phones down. I'm guessing you just told them "my phone broke...I have no idea what happened". Just lovely.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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Honestly, not trying to call you stupid or something, but did you really think it was going to run on this phone when it was meant for another one? The GPU and CPU are completely different...
Anyway, I'm glad AT&T is replacing it for you. Hopefully if someone else bricks the same way then they will be able to get a replacement as well.
so you are smart enough to use adb, an RUU, unlock your bootloader, root, flash roms.......but you aren't smart enough to see the hundreds of posts saying that the international roms don't work on our phones??
lol
Coming from a phone that is virtually unbrickable (Captivate), I'm quite curious about how you managed to get it into this state. What exactly did you flash? Did the package contain both the system image and bootloaders for the tegra3 one x?
Just pull the batte..... oh
jmattp said:
Just pull the batte..... oh
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+1 for when I drowned my first one and it was stuck in a boot loop. I know it could have been saved if the battery would have been taken out.
Sent from my HTC One X
modest_mandroid said:
Coming from a phone that is virtually unbrickable (Captivate), I'm quite curious about how you managed to get it into this state. What exactly did you flash? Did the package contain both the system image and bootloaders for the tegra3 one x?
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My EVO was unbrickable too, I flashed a rom that was designed for the international version. It only contained system and other basic rom stuff, nothing that was crazy.
No idea why you wouldn't be able to boot into recovery then. I hope all HTC handsets aren't like this..
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No app store or play store or market :(

So ive had my mytouch 4g slide for about 6 months. Recently i rooted it like 3 months ago, i had wildchilds rom, but then i changed to miks stock rom, everything was fine and dandy, but then my phone stopped sending msgs, receiving msgs, calls not coming in, and calls not going out. I restarted my phone several times, still the same problem. So i took it to T-Mobile, and i told the guy there what happend. He told me to factory reset my phone, and i did infront of him, everything worked fine and all, calls and texts back to normal, but then i looked through my phone, no Market, or play store. I askedhim wahts wrong and he said maybe its a glitch. He told me to restart it, i did, still not there, we factory reset again and nothing. So defeated i left and went home. I thought i could just reflash the rom, but since i dont have any apps and i dont have rom manager, it just ffreezes on me. So i am stuck with my phone without apps. What can i do to get play store on my phone again. been like this for 5 days so far. IT SUCKS!
Please help.:good:
robertog1994 said:
So ive had my mytouch 4g slide for about 6 months. Recently i rooted it like 3 months ago, i had wildchilds rom, but then i changed to miks stock rom, everything was fine and dandy, but then my phone stopped sending msgs, receiving msgs, calls not coming in, and calls not going out. I restarted my phone several times, still the same problem. So i took it to T-Mobile, and i told the guy there what happend. He told me to factory reset my phone, and i did infront of him, everything worked fine and all, calls and texts back to normal, but then i looked through my phone, no Market, or play store. I askedhim wahts wrong and he said maybe its a glitch. He told me to restart it, i did, still not there, we factory reset again and nothing. So defeated i left and went home. I thought i could just reflash the rom, but since i dont have any apps and i dont have rom manager, it just ffreezes on me. So i am stuck with my phone without apps. What can i do to get play store on my phone again. been like this for 5 days so far. IT SUCKS!
Please help.:good:
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If you are S-On Locked you can go here...... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1532809
If you are S-On Unlocked you can go here to see the most common mistake when flashing........ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508556
It's probably that simple. Good Luck
mine is S-Off. my rom manager wont work. i reboot and try to wipe data and cache but it will just show me the rom manager logo and sit there. It wont power off reboot or anything. Any option i choose it will get stuck. I click the options button, back or home and it will send me back to the menu with all the options.​
robertog1994 said:
mine is S-Off. my rom manager wont work. i reboot and try to wipe data and cache but it will just show me the rom manager logo and sit there. It wont power off reboot or anything. Any option i choose it will get stuck. I click the options button, back or home and it will send me back to the menu with all the options.​
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Sounds like maybe you are pushing the wrong button to activate the command. Try pushing the trackpad when you have the item selected.
Did you reflash the gapps? I'm not sure if that ROM has them, but that could be your problem.
HappyKhicken said:
Did you reflash the gapps? I'm not sure if that ROM has them, but that could be your problem.
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I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
Have you tried the trackpad button?
robertog1994 said:
I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
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You can flash from recovery without using Rom Manager. Just dl the file and use the choose zip option when installing. You'll be fine.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
Maybe we need a noob guide for how to use recovery! He's using power to select instead of Trackpad
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikTouch
robertog1994 said:
I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
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to get into recovery turn off the phone take out the battery for 5 seconds, put the battery back in and hold vol down while holding the power button. It will take you to the hboot menu. Once there press vol down until recovery is highlighted and Press the power button and it will take you to recovery.
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Somebody (and I'm speaking more in general terms) should create a good noob guide for Android in general. But then there's a need for specific guides for the major manufacturers too. And of course, I'd really appreciate any guide including a good glossary.
From my experience, XDA and other developer forums are very steeped in detailed technical jargon with little explanation for the casual or new user. And I know that the focus is on development and not hand holding the noobs. But I'll counter with the fact that they do come here, looking for help. And it's infinitely harder to learn when there isn't a good resource.
Having said all that, I do appreciate Blue6IX's [REF] doubleshot Developers Reference.
GoPadge said:
Somebody (and I'm speaking more in general terms) should create a good noob guide for Android in general. But then there's a need for specific guides for the major manufacturers too. And of course, I'd really appreciate any guide including a good glossary.
From my experience, XDA and other developer forums are very steeped in detailed technical jargon with little explanation for the casual or new user. And I know that the focus is on development and not hand holding the noobs. But I'll counter with the fact that they do come here, looking for help. And it's infinitely harder to learn when there isn't a good resource.
Having said all that, I do appreciate Blue6IX's [REF] doubleshot Developers Reference.
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By all means feel free to make one. Your right new people come here and get lost in the hours of research needed to understand things but like you said this is a developers forum first and formost so everything is set for them
sent from the Batcave
Coug76 said:
You can flash from recovery without using Rom Manager. Just dl the file and use the choose zip option when installing. You'll be fine.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
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You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
robertog1994 said:
You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
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So to verify, you're using the trackpad to select and not the power button right? Just making sure because it was never answered.
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As your not new to this then you should now how to fix it. Flash back to stock and start over. By following the directions of someone that has no idea what they are doing you ended up removing important files and without them you won't be able to do much at all.
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robertog1994 said:
You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
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You are right, I didn't understand what you were trying to communicate.
I was under the impression that when you were writing about ROM Manager that you meant ROM Manager and not CWM. ROM Manager is an application that communicates with CWM and directs it to do what the user directs, CWM is a developed recovery. They are not the same thing. Clarity is helpful if you are asking for assistance.
Here is a thread regarding getting back to stock but I don't know if it will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15834402
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fastboot flash recovery path/to/recovery.img
Sent from Spaceball One.
Also, like the others have said, use the track pad to navigate in recovery. If you use the power button to select, that is why you get the logo, and frozen screen. I have done it, I know.

[Q] recovrey w/o power button.

Last night the power button on my ns4g stopped working I tried everything under the sun to get it to work.. After an unsuccessful convo with a samsung rep (which i have a copy of if anyone needs to see) and 4 hours of frustration I went to sleep. This afternoon I went to a sprint store and they took it apart and put it back together.The button is jammed. When I put the battery in it jumps on, and when I hold up t goes into fastboot mode. They said since they don't have the part they'll send ne a replacement phone. But now I need to make a Nandroid of the phone I have so that I'm not missing a step when I get my new phone. So my issue is how would I enter recovery w/o a jammed/broke power button? currently I have cwm 6 installed. Also does anyone know if I'll get a GN or NS4G
U can try to install the Clockmod touch so u wouldn't need any button to use it.
but
u may want to investigate more on using ur backups on a new phone... just some food for thought.
ur better of starting fresh.....
Good luck
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vidaljs said:
U can try to install the Clockmod touch so u wouldn't need any button to use it.
but
u may want to investigate more on using ur backups on a new phone... just some food for thought.
ur better of starting fresh.....
Good luck
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Ok no problem. I didn't think it would be a huge issue flashing backups because it's the same device.
bee mcfly said:
Ok no problem. I didn't think it would be a huge issue flashing backups because it's the same device.
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If they're sending you another phone, you would not be restoring your backup to the same device, and would likely run into issues
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Reboot into recovery, and use the search capacitive key instead of power button
recommendations
Well I good lock to you I think they gonna send you a gs4g because that's
How the companies roll tho

[Q] maybe bootloop?

Hey guys i do have a bit of experience flashinng roms and custom recoveries but im stuck on this one. My asus me301t memo pad is coming on then the asus screen stays on for about 15 seconds then turns on and off randomly about every 5-10 seconds. Ive never bootlooped anything yet so im not sure if that is what is going on here or not. I did unlock it with the asus unlock tool and fastboot twrp then flashed a cm mod 11. I know that was risky but if i can flash skyrocket roms to my rogers SII i thought maybe these ttwo tablets are close enough to do the same. What has me confused is after a week of fighting to get it back with only apx mode to work with i broke down and changed the main board. It acts the exact same way with the new board! What else should i look at? Could i have fried another part that is causeing it? I.ve unlocked, rooted, and flashed rom to about 10 tf101's and 5 tf300t's in the last 2 weeks but this me301t is a real tough one for me.
lljeffll said:
Hey guys i do have a bit of experience flashinng roms and custom recoveries but im stuck on this one. My asus me301t memo pad is coming on then the asus screen stays on for about 15 seconds then turns on and off randomly about every 5-10 seconds. Ive never bootlooped anything yet so im not sure if that is what is going on here or not. I did unlock it with the asus unlock tool and fastboot twrp then flashed a cm mod 11. I know that was risky but if i can flash skyrocket roms to my rogers SII i thought maybe these ttwo tablets are close enough to do the same. What has me confused is after a week of fighting to get it back with only apx mode to work with i broke down and changed the main board. It acts the exact same way with the new board! What else should i look at? Could i have fried another part that is causeing it? I.ve unlocked, rooted, and flashed rom to about 10 tf101's and 5 tf300t's in the last 2 weeks but this me301t is a real tough one for me.
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Sure, sounds like the perfect boot-loop: starting the kernel crashes and causes a reboot, etc.
Usually you can get out of the boot-loop by holding volume-down and wait for the next reboot. That should give you the bootloader screen and you can fastboot a new boot image or go to recovery and reflash your ROM from there.
If it won't work right away, there are lots of variations to try suggested in several threads: for example combine it with a reset or switch it off and plug in the charger. Well, those are for TF300T, but i guess your ME301T is not that different in that respect.
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f69m said:
Sure, sounds like the perfect boot-loop: starting the kernel crashes and causes a reboot, etc.
Usually you can get out of the boot-loop by holding volume-down and wait for the next reboot. That should give you the bootloader screen and you can fastboot a new boot image or go to recovery and reflash your ROM from there.
If it won't work right away, there are lots of variations to try suggested in several threads: for example combine it with a reset or switch it off and plug in the charger. Well, those are for TF300T, but i guess your ME301T is not that different in that respect.
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Hmmm, funny ive been rooting aand flashing roms for 6 months or more and didnt know or figure out to just hold the one volume button. Turns out that the used board that i put in was also in bootloop! What are the chances? so i borrowed one out of a working one i have and it worked. Thx for your response. The volume down button option might save me a lot of headake next time. in fact i think ill put it back in and give it a try. Thx
lljeffll said:
Hmmm, funny ive been rooting aand flashing roms for 6 months or more and didnt know or figure out to just hold the one volume button. Turns out that the used board that i put in was also in bootloop! What are the chances? so i borrowed one out of a working one i have and it worked. Thx for your response. The volume down button option might save me a lot of headake next time. in fact i think ill put it back in and give it a try. Thx
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Well that didnt work. Unless you have to press and release at a spacific time. Tried a few different ways and it didnt effect thee tablet at all.
lljeffll said:
Well that didnt work. Unless you have to press and release at a spacific time. Tried a few different ways and it didnt effect thee tablet at all.
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Did you try the small reset hole? Usually people suggest to use a paperclip to go in, but at least German paperclips are too thick; I had a hard time finding something to go in. But might help you.
You'll have to figure out, where it is on your device. Don't confuse it with the microphone.
Then press in, till you feel the switch giving way, but don't press too hard. Hold for a while (why not a full minute). Then try vol-down right away.
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f69m said:
Did you try the small reset hole? Usually people suggest to use a paperclip to go in, but at least German paperclips are too thick; I had a hard time finding something to go in. But might help you.
You'll have to figure out, where it is on your device. Don't confuse it with the microphone.
Then press in, till you feel the switch giving way, but don't press too hard. Hold for a while (why not a full minute). Then try vol-down right away.
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so i put in a new board and flashed some more roms. in the end this tablet cost me nothing but im enjoying the challange its causing so im gonna keep messing with it. What would cause it to bootloop after the asus logo then a min into the rom logo? i still have recovery but no matter what rom i flash it never goes past a min into the rom logo
lljeffll said:
so i put in a new board and flashed some more roms. in the end this tablet cost me nothing but im enjoying the challange its causing so im gonna keep messing with it. What would cause it to bootloop after the asus logo then a min into the rom logo? i still have recovery but no matter what rom i flash it never goes past a min into the rom logo
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If you still got recovery, let it loop, then go to recovery. Then check the file /proc/last_kmsg.
It has the kernel log from your last bootloop. You should be able to find some hints there.
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f69m said:
If you still got recovery, let it loop, then go to recovery. Then check the file /proc/last_kmsg.
It has the kernel log from your last bootloop. You should be able to find some hints there.
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i got it going again but when i flash the omni rom 4.4 which they say i can on the me301 i have a mouse pointer as if im a tf300t on keyboard but controlled with touch screen and also in settings i am listed as a tf300t. lol.ive really confused this poor machine. Any ideas on this?
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i got it going again but when i flash the omni rom 4.4 which they say i can on the me301 i have a mouse pointer as if im a tf300t on keyboard but controlled with touch screen and also in settings i am listed as a tf300t. lol.ive really confused this poor machine. Any ideas on this?
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Did you flash the OmniROM for ME301T? There is a separate build and a separate thread.
Sorry, lacking a ME301T myself, so only got this pointer for you.
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f69m said:
Did you flash the OmniROM for ME301T? There is a separate build and a separate thread.
Sorry, lacking a ME301T myself, so only got this pointer for you.
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good idea! thx. I prob got the one for the tf300t and when it flashed the kernal.... I have the tf300t aswell so i likely have a copy for that. Its a much better tablet but id like to get this one to 4.4 too. Funny tho, i got a mouse hooked up with an otg cable from my samsung s2 and its not kinda cool. the round pointer dissapeared after about 10 min for whatever reason idk and left me with a nice little pointer. i might end up keeping it this way if i cant get a good 4.4 rom to work properly.
Thank you so much f69m.
I thought i had the right rom and such but I went looking and found what was looking for right here on xda ofcourse. The kitkat compatability pack! Got cm 11 nightly running right now! Not sure if everything works right yet but so far so good.

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