i bought a atrix 4 at my local pawnshop. they had bought and did not get the password to the unlock screen. so i bought it and tried to do a recovery by holding the power and volume down button and this is the screen i get.
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i cant access the recovery screen.
any info would help thanks for your time
That is actually an Atrix 2, known as MB865. You should check/ask on that device's forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1373
One thing you should definitely do is charge the battery: if you don't you'll not be able to do any flashing operations.
After you do that you should just wipe the user data through recovery. You should be able to do that once you have enough battery charge on the phone.
Just follow the procedure:
Power off the phone.
NOTE: If unable to power off, remove and reinsert the battery.
Press and hold the Volume Up + Volume Down and the Power button.
The screen displays Boot Mode Selection Menu; press volume down key to cycle through choices until Android Recovery is viewed. Press the Volume Up key to boot in this mode.
Wait for the triangle ! / Android screen to display, then proceed to step 5.
Press both Volume up and Volume down key simultaneously. A recovery menu displays.
Tap on Volume Down key until Wipe data/factory reset is highlighted, and tap the Power button.
Another confirmation screen displays. Tap the Volume Down key until Yes displays, then tap the Power button.
After user data is cleared, the reboot system now option is highlighted by default. Tap the Power button.
The phone reboots to the initial setup screen.
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Maybe someone can help you a bit more?
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i bought a atrix 4 at my local pawnshop. they had bought and did not get the password to the unlock screen. so i bought it and tried to do a recovery by holding the power and volume down button and this is the screen i get.
any info would help thanks for your time
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This guy ^ is definitely right, you need to charge that battery. A factory reset will fix ya up afterwards. You DO NOT want to factory reset on a low battery Charge it first.
Step one:
You can charge your battery by using the method above or by using the "MacGuyver Method" it's scary, but many have had luck with it: See HERE.
Step two:
Once that is done, hop into recovery. What you're doing will put you into fastboot every time. Follow this method to get into recovery: Phone off. Hold down BOTH volume buttons and then press and hold the power button. You should get a menu at that point. Use the down volume button to move and the up volume button to select "recovery". Then while in recovery select "factory reset", let it do it's thing then select reboot. You should be good to go at that point.
This is all assuming that the systemUI isn't Borked somehow.
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I have XDA orbit 2 that will not get past teh windows splash scree.
What buttons are hard reset.
Tha manual says IE and GPS/Messaging and stylus
Which buttons are the IE and GPS
Thanks
Steve
The bottom two spft buttons on the left image:
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Its the "windows" and "OK" buttons on the bottom row for the Orbit 2.
Nogs
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Its the "windows" and "OK" buttons on the bottom row for the Orbit 2.
Nogs
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neither of the 2 suggestions above work.
O2 say the Comm Manager button and the Voice Dial button.
What is the Comm Manager button?
Steve
Are you following this process exactly?
1.Press and hold the GPS/MESSAGING and INTERNET EXPLORER
buttons, and at the same time, use the stylus to press the RESET
button at the bottom of your device.
2. Release the RESET button, but
continue pressing the GPS/
MESSAGING and INTERNET
EXPLORER buttons until you
see this message on the
screen:
This operation will delete
all your personal data,
and reset all settings
to manufacturer default.
Press Send to restore
manufacturer default, or
press other keys to cancel.
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3. Release the buttons, and then press SEND on your device to perform
the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
DaveShaw thanks for putting it simple
I am still having a problem with doing a hard reset. I am holding down the ok and the windows buttons and they are not showing me the message. Just getting the password is not correct please put in the following code and not able to use the touch screen may cause a problem?
Hard Reset:
On the 02 Orbit2, make sure the phone is powered on and then press AND HOLD the Windows and OK buttons down at the same time, THEN use your stylus to press AND RELEASE the reset button (while you CONTINUE to hold down the Windows and OK buttons). You should get a grey-ish/white screen explaining how to complete the hard reset or how to cancel the operation.
If you cannot see anything on your screen due to the OS being totally messed up (in other words, as long as it's not hardware failure), then you need to put your device into bootloader mode (4-color screen) so that you can flash the ROM (either what you already are using, or a newly cooked one - either way you need to have a ROM image file on your computer to complete the flashing process).
Bootloader Mode:
To enter bootloader mode, press AND HOLD the camera button and then press AND RELEASE the soft reset with your stylus. When the screen is showing the 4 color bands, plug in the USB cable between your computer and phone flash the ROM.
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I am still having a problem with doing a hard reset. I am holding down the ok and the windows buttons and they are not showing me the message. Just getting the password is not correct please put in the following code and not able to use the touch screen may cause a problem?
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very simple only two soft key soft reset ok
where is gps butten i cant find it??????//
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where is gps butten i cant find it??????//
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GPS button is the same as the message button ! like the picture I attach this
I was thinking about this, because custom ROMs can be unstable and can freeze your phone. But we can't pull the battery, so what can we do?
Nvm
Found similar thread on the One X forum. Imagine that we couldn't reboot.. stuck for life on the freezescreen LOL xD
This is definitely a positive side-effect of a non-removable battery, although other phones can (and do) function the same. As was said in the linked thread, the iPod/Phone will reset with a long-press on the power button. My old Fascinate would reset if you held the power and, I think, volume down for long enough. Hardware-wise, that was probably the only complaint I have against the Inc 2 - every time it freezes (usually my own fault), I have to pry the battery cover off, pry the battery out, replace, then snap the cover back on. Really nice just being able to hold a button or two down for x number of seconds.
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I was thinking about this, because custom ROMs can be unstable and can freeze your phone. But we can't pull the battery, so what can we do?
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You can wait till the battery is empty (sorry I couldn't resist).
Also how can we open bootloader when it's required to remove the battery
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Reboot:
Press and hpold power button until phone reboots.
Touchscreen buttons will flash 5 times, and then the phone will vibrate. At this point phone is turned off.
the phone will reboot automatically after a few seconds.
Bootloader:
Press and hold until buttons stop flashing and phone vibrates. phone is now off. Let go of power.
Press and hold vol- and power before the phone automatically reboots.
This is tested on 1.53.401.2
I was asking myself the same question
@Minecraft: what is hpold power?
oz666 said:
I was asking myself the same question
@Minecraft: what is hpold power?
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I think it's a typo, and it's "hold power"
But on the One X it's hold volume button (+ and -) and hold power !
Stuck on flash screen is Power and Vol up+Vol Down
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I think it's a typo, and it's "hold power"
But on the One X it's hold volume button (+ and -) and hold power !
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Indeed it is a typo.
As for the one X/XL, the process is identical to what i wrote above, as is the V.
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TramainM said:
Stuck on flash screen is Power and Vol up+Vol Down
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Holding power should work from any screen, it's hardware coded.
I hope the power button doesn't fail like it eventually did on my Nexus one.
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I hope the power button doesn't fail like it eventually did on my Nexus one.
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I hated that... and it was a pain to replace.
Boy, I've read a ton about this issue and no one seems to be able to solve this exact problem.
Got my hands on an HTC 8X which, if left to run normally, just hangs on the at&t logo screen.
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And before you say anything, no, the hard reset doesn't work, because using the initial volume down/power procedure reboots the phone...the hard reset must be done from "off," not reboot. Plus, if the battery runs out entirely, the device will just enter the reboot cycle again when recharged. Just like the issue discussed here -> http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=19892&news=windows+phone+8+bricked+htc+8x+nokia+lumia+920+microsoft+bricking
Now, I can reliably get the device to either the "flash settings" static screen, like this, almost every time I try doing volume up keypresses from boot:
...OR I can get it to the root system info screen, like this, almost every time I do some multiple volume down keypresses interspersed with an up keypress at boot, while connected to my computer via USB [if I disconnect, the screen changes to "serial"]:
However, I can't figure out how to bring it back from the dead.
Note that I am not a ROM cook and don't even own a Y-cable, so be gentle if you're going to talk about anything along those lines. However, any advice that isn't related to the hard reset? If so, thanks. If not, at least I've documented this specific "semi-bricked" state on here.
I know you don't want any advice related to the hard-reset method, but I am curious if you tried the following:
1. Run the phone down until the batter is 100% dead. (unresponsive when you hit the power switch.
2. While plugging in the power cable, press and hold the POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons, Release them when you see an icon on the screen.
3. Then press the following hardware buttons in this sequence: VOLUME UP > VOLUME DOWN > POWER > VOLUME DOWN.
Let me know how you make out.
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I know you don't want any advice related to the hard-reset method, but I am curious if you tried the following:
1. Run the phone down until the batter is 100% dead. (unresponsive when you hit the power switch.
2. While plugging in the power cable, press and hold the POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons, Release them when you see an icon on the screen.
3. Then press the following hardware buttons in this sequence: VOLUME UP > VOLUME DOWN > POWER > VOLUME DOWN.
Let me know how you make out.
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Yep, I absolutely did that, but thanks. Did not work. Would only reboot the phone and lock it on the at&t screen again.
Sounds like no one can help here.
Without an At&t stock ROM, it will be tough to fix this.
What did you end up doing with your phone? Any luck?
Got the same problem on my HTC 8X AT&T. Got a RMA setup with HTC. What did you do?
Hi
I have a Nexus 5 and recently my power button started behaving all weird. I figured out that it's probably worn out and started registering presses at random times, sometimes rebooting the phone.
My solution was to use the double tap to wake kernel, but on lollipop it seems to drain a LOT of battery.
The next thing I thought of, was remapping the buttons, so that I can switch the function and use my volume down key as a power button, and the power button as a volume down button.
Went into system/usr/keylayout/ and edited the General.kl and replaced the 114 and 116 button codes, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Then I went into the other files and managed to get the volume down and power button not to work I did a restore, and everything is back to normal, but I couldn't achieve my goal
Also tried Button Remapper, but it didn't do anything.
Does anyone know how this can be achieved on Lollipop?
Thanks
Some ROM provide a volume rocker wake function.
Or if you're talking about to turn the phone on while its completely shut off or while in bootloader, then it'll never happen.
Lethargy said:
Some ROM provide a volume rocker wake function.
Or if you're talking about to turn the phone on while its completely shut off or while in bootloader, then it'll never happen.
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OK about the Volume rocker wake, but I would need it to also put the phone to sleep, and also I want the power button to act as volume up/down(whatever).
Don't need it when the phone is completely off, just while it's on. Basically I'm asking which values to edit in order to completely swap the power and volume down buttons.
You need cataclysm rom... See the red arrows I drew on -
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Hey thanks for the solutions suggested, but I'm looking for a mod on stock Lollipop, rooted. Tried to modify the files in system/usr/keylayout but I always end up breaking the volume buttons and they do not wake up the device...Any other solutions?
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Hey thanks for the solutions suggested, but I'm looking for a mod on stock Lollipop, rooted. Tried to modify the files in system/usr/keylayout but I always end up breaking the volume buttons and they do not wake up the device...Any other solutions?
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have you found a solution ?
Yes, CM12
Didn't find a way to do it on stock, manually, unfortunately
I have the sprint samsung galaxy s5 north american version. SM-G900P.
It was working fine all day. sometime during the night it just restarted while i was browsing the internet (while waiting for Jurassic World to play) and the error popped up saying unable to complete encryption due to interruption. There is a button to that says "reset device" but it doesn't work.
I tried to do a factory reset by holding the "home+VOL UP+ power button" but after it loads past the recovery mode. All i see is the android with the red exclamation mark and then the phone just automatically restarts.
To my knowledge this phone isn't rooted.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to what i can do to fix my phone.
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Your screen shot shows your in download mode,which is home+power+volumne down. Need to make shjre to use volumne up for recovery mode
if i have helped in any way,please hit the thanks button.
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Your screen shot shows your in download mode,which is home+power+volumne down. Need to make shjre to use volumne up for recovery mode
if i have helped in any way,please hit the thanks button.
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Hey I appreciate your input, I only included that download screen to show more info about the phone.... As I have stated in my post that I tried to do a factory reset via holding the PWR,VOL+,and HOME button but after the recovery mode loads. I just get the dead android with the red triangle of death. (red exclamation mark) and you know how usually after the recovery mode loads you have the list of options on the side that you can scroll through using the vol buttons it was not there. Then the phone would just restart after a few seconds. I tried to hold the VOL+ and POWER button after the recovery mode to see if maybe it would do something but it did't work...
So far I've ran into one other person with the problem and they just gave up and bought another phone! Wish me luck!
Found a solution yet?
I have the same issue, happened in the morning after my alarm went off. Luckily after and not before otherwise I might have been late to work...
Anyway I can't do a factory reset either. Was thinking about flashing the firmware but can't seem to load the bootloader screen either.
Have you found a work around?
Guys, I just went through somewhat similar, but for SM-G900F international version. You might want to take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help/s5-sm-g900f-multiple-fatality-soft-t3351343.
cool down
I know i am late but when the triangle comes up with dead android just use power button once and screen will show options