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[Q] Power Menu?

Does anyone know how to get the power menu up without the power button?
because my power button broke
but on a few occasion when i sweep to sleep, the power menu with pop up, i don't know how i did it?
I'm sick on pulling out my case, then pulling out the battery over and over again when i need to reboot

anthonyly said:
Does anyone know how to get the power menu up without the power button?
because my power button broke
but on a few occasion when i sweep to sleep, the power menu with pop up, i don't know how i did it?
I'm sick on pulling out my case, then pulling out the battery over and over again when i need to reboot
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Hi,
4EXT has a power off menu.
Also,Quick Boot from the market.

Do you just have to be really careful not to turn the phone off?
I mean if it turns off can you get it back on at all?
Just curious in case I'm ever faced with this scenario.

malybru said:
Hi,
4EXT has a power off menu.
Also,Quick Boot from the market.
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+1
This guy knows what he's talking about :highfive:

If your phone has something like LeeDroid or PkMn tweaks, you might be able to use long-press search to bring up the power menu.

Skipjacks said:
Do you just have to be really careful not to turn the phone off?
I mean if it turns off can you get it back on at all?
Just curious in case I'm ever faced with this scenario.
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well last week my phone power button stoped working for somereason, i didn't smash it on the ground or anything,
I think my sensation reconfigured it self to turn on when i put the battery in, and to turn on when i take my charger out somehow
SO yeah i've been with sweep2wake ever since

[Q] The buttons won't work.

Hi, recently, my siblings were playing with the tablet, I didn't know what happened to it, but then my brother showed it to me and the power button seems to work, but it won't turn the screen on, and the big volume button is sticky, both doesn't work, I'm guessing they spilled juice in it or something. So is there anyway to fix this?

duhvietboy said:
Hi, recently, my siblings were playing with the tablet, I didn't know what happened to it, but then my brother showed it to me and the power button seems to work, but it won't turn the screen on, and the big volume button is sticky, both doesn't work, I'm guessing they spilled juice in it or something. So is there anyway to fix this?
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Open it up and clean it out? No I have no idea if you can still unlock the screen then you should be mostly Ok. The power button is important
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If the screen turns off, I have to plug in the charger so it turns on.

duhvietboy said:
If the screen turns off, I have to plug in the charger so it turns on.
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charge it a while.then unplug and keep pressing power button for 30 seconds.

Android-Andi said:
charge it a while.then unplug and keep pressing power button for 30 seconds.
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Hey, If you still has issues, there are two apps that can help you
1. Physical Button Replacement: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey.nonroot&hl=en
2. Screen On-Off- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.everycoverlite&hl=en
Also, to dry the juice you should use hair dryer on buttons.

Cant Access Bootloader, Phone wont start

I am new to the HTC ONE S, I successfully was running CM11, S-ON . I went to charge the phone and screen went black. No orange led charging light. I tried to access bootloader using power+volme down. The 3 lights at the bottom blink. Thats as far as the phone will go
Apprecaite any help with this

flyers00 said:
I am new to the HTC ONE S, I successfully was running CM11, S-ON . I went to charge the phone and screen went black. No orange led charging light. I tried to access bootloader using power+volme down. The 3 lights at the bottom blink. Thats as far as the phone will go
Apprecaite any help with this
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There is a "recover your Ville from being bricked" thread-- I'm looking for that now. It does involve ubuntu, so go ahead and pull down the 12.04 distro, I guess--- http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
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flyers00 said:
I am new to the HTC ONE S, I successfully was running CM11, S-ON . I went to charge the phone and screen went black. No orange led charging light. I tried to access bootloader using power+volme down. The 3 lights at the bottom blink. Thats as far as the phone will go
Apprecaite any help with this
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Okay-- here's the thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043

nicknc said:
There is a "recover your Ville from being bricked" thread-- I'm looking for that now. It does involve ubuntu, so go ahead and pull down the 12.04 distro, I guess--- http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
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Okay-- here's the thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043
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I appreciate your help, I feel like an idiot and I dont event know what I did or happened
I am pulling down Ubuntu (never used it so no time like the present). OK the Ubuntu 12.04 is downloaded

flyers00 said:
I appreciate your help, I feel like an idiot and I dont event know what I did or happened
I am pulling down Ubuntu (never used it so no time like the present)
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Hopefully some other folks will jump in as well. Luckily you got other phones and it's not completely shot, so we'll see what we can do.
Have you gotten the phone to completely power off, or does it sit there and attempt to boot over and over?

nicknc said:
Hopefully some other folks will jump in as well. Luckily you got other phones and it's not completely shot, so we'll see what we can do.
Have you gotten the phone to completely power off, or does it sit there and attempt to boot over and over?
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I am lucky I did not destroy the replacement T-Mobile sent me. They sent an LG9 lol
Anyway the phone appears to be completely off. I will put the sim back into the One S

flyers00 said:
I am lucky I did not destroy the replacement T-Mobile sent me. They sent an LG9 lol
Anyway the phone appears to be completely off. I will put the sim back into the One S
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Don't worry about putting the sim back in for now. The best thing to do is to just rule everything out. Mash volume down as hard as you can and hold it until the htc logo goes away. Mine is tricky as hell and any variation in pressure makes me miss the bootloader altogether.
I'm still looking for some further insight.
It doesn't make sense that it would do this while still S-On, as that's the whole point of staying S-On-- not screwing up the bootloader.

nicknc said:
Don't worry about putting the sim back in for now. The best thing to do is to just rule everything out. Mash volume down as hard as you can and hold it until the htc logo goes away. Mine is tricky as hell and any variation in pressure makes me miss the bootloader altogether.
I'm still looking for some further insight.
It doesn't make sense that it would do this while still S-On, as that's the whole point of staying S-On-- not screwing up the bootloader.
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I crushed it and I now have the bootloader screen.

flyers00 said:
I crushed it and I now have the bootloader screen.
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I figured as much. Bad-ass. Install fastboot drivers on your PC and run the RUU mentioned in my downgrade hboot thread over on the development forum. You can get that RUU on http://androidruu.com/?developer=Ville. It's the release 309489.
I'm assuming from that horrible crappy team's logo that you're T-Mobile, US, right?

nicknc said:
I figured as much. Bad-ass. Install fastboot drivers on your PC and run the RUU mentioned in my downgrade hboot thread over on the development forum. You can get that RUU on http://androidruu.com/?developer=Ville. It's the release 309489.
I'm assuming from that horrible crappy team's logo that you're T-Mobile, US, right?
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OK I will download the RUU you mentioned in your thread for downgrading HBoot
Hey I am hockey fan, like my hometown Flyers and I am T-Mobile US. Follow your threads instructions and I should be good from there?

Are you sure your phone is completely powered off? I couldn't figure that from all these posts...
You said the button lights are blinking and that's all. There is a bug happening sometimes, when display doesn't turn on and was happening also to me while I was testing some ROMs. Could you please hold that power button pressed after the button lights are blinking (that could be a warning that phone will shut down)? Keep power pressed like 10 secs after the blinking starts. Then take your finger from power button, press and hold vol down button and with other finger, press power button again for 2-3 secs while still holding pressed vol down. Phone should go to bootloader
Sent from nowhere over the air...

Rapier said:
Are you sure your phone is completely powered off? I couldn't figure that from all these posts...
You said the button lights are blinking and that's all. There is a bug happening sometimes, when display doesn't turn on and was happening also to me while I was testing some ROMs. Could you please hold that power button pressed after the button lights are blinking (that could be a warning that phone will shut down)? Keep power pressed like 10 secs after the blinking starts. Then take your finger from power button, press and hold vol down button and with other finger, press power button again for 2-3 secs while still holding pressed vol down. Phone should go to bootloader
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The phone was at a black screen Rapier, I plugged in to charge and no led (orange light). The blinking lights on the bottom appeared when I pressed volume down + power. I held power button for 10-15 seconds, when I released the buttons, the phone went to the black screen and didnt come back until I mashed the buttons down

flyers00 said:
OK I will download the RUU you mentioned in your thread for downgrading HBoot
Hey I am hockey fan, like my hometown Flyers and I am T-Mobile US. Follow your threads instructions and I should be good from there?
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Just giving you a hard time, lol. It's basketball-only down here and most folks didn't realize we even had a hockey team until they won the Stanley Cup.
Those instructions assume S-Off, so adjust accordingly or go S-Off. I can't remember if Moonshine or Facepalm is the better way to go.

flyers00 said:
The phone was at a black screen Rapier, I plugged in to charge and no led (orange light). The blinking lights on the bottom appeared when I pressed volume down + power. I held power button for 10-15 seconds, when I released the buttons, the phone went to the black screen and didnt come back until I mashed the buttons down
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And now it's showing something on the display or not? First you should press power till it's powered off. Only after that you should press vol + power

flyers00 said:
The phone was at a black screen Rapier, I plugged in to charge and no led (orange light). The blinking lights on the bottom appeared when I pressed volume down + power. I held power button for 10-15 seconds, when I released the buttons, the phone went to the black screen and didnt come back until I mashed the buttons down
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Just occurred to me-- it could be that you were holding the power button too long and it was actually powering it back off. The three buttons blinking are normal when you hold the power button down for ~10 seconds to power off (although on my phone it actually forces it to reboot).

nicknc said:
Just giving you a hard time, lol. It's basketball-only down here and most folks didn't realize we even had a hockey team until they won the Stanley Cup.
Those instructions assume S-Off, so adjust accordingly or go S-Off. I can't remember if Moonshine or Facepalm is the better way to go.
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Its cool man, its either basketball or NASCAR down there. Here we get bandwagon jumpers, whoever is winning, they go with that team lol
To download that RUU it says 3 hrs to complete download. I hope the phone will hold out that long.
I will cross the fingers this will work. Thanks for the hand

Rapier said:
Are you sure your phone is completely powered off? I couldn't figure that from all these posts...
You said the button lights are blinking and that's all. There is a bug happening sometimes, when display doesn't turn on and was happening also to me while I was testing some ROMs. Could you please hold that power button pressed after the button lights are blinking (that could be a warning that phone will shut down)? Keep power pressed like 10 secs after the blinking starts. Then take your finger from power button, press and hold vol down button and with other finger, press power button again for 2-3 secs while still holding pressed vol down. Phone should go to bootloader
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He did get it into bootloader after really mashing the volume key. My phone is similar in that light or medium pressure on the volume key will cause it to miss the bootloader.
I have to take my phone out of the case typically-- frustrating, but this phone is so fast I can overlook it.

Rapier said:
And now it's showing something on the display or not? First you should press power till it's powered off. Only after that you should press vol + power
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I am now sitting at bootloader screen. I have S-ON, bootloader is unlocked

flyers00 said:
Its cool man, its either basketball or NASCAR down there. Here we get bandwagon jumpers, whoever is winning, they go with that team lol
To download that RUU it says 3 hrs to complete download. I hope the phone will hold out that long.
I will cross the fingers this will work. Thanks for the hand
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No problem. It should charge if you leave it on the bootloader screen (you did, right?) and plug it into your computer. That'll allow you to go ahead and make sure fastboot drivers are working, etc.
And yeah, it takes FORever to download, but I guess it's free, so can't complain. That site was actually down for a few days when I was trying to downgrade my hboot. I made sure to keep a copy of the RUU on my server this time, lol.
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flyers00 said:
I am now sitting at bootloader screen. I have S-ON, bootloader is unlocked
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Actually, you might even try seeing if it will go into recovery now. If it does, that will allow you to bypass the RUU altogether and just go straight to flashing.
It's your call, but I'd recommend S-Off. It makes flashing on this phone a whole lot less painful.

nicknc said:
No problem. It should charge if you leave it on the bootloader screen (you did, right?) and plug it into your computer. That'll allow you to go ahead and make sure fastboot drivers are working, etc.
And yeah, it takes FORever to download, but I guess it's free, so can't complain. That site was actually down for a few days when I was trying to downgrade my hboot. I made sure to keep a copy of the RUU on my server this time, lol.
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Hell, I am leaving the bootloader screen up, took long enough to get there lol I reinstalled fastboot drivers and thats working fine
If its free it is for me, I will watch the bowl game (OSU vs Clemson)
I will keep a copy of the RUU on my PC just in case

nicknc said:
No problem. It should charge if you leave it on the bootloader screen (you did, right?) and plug it into your computer. That'll allow you to go ahead and make sure fastboot drivers are working, etc.
And yeah, it takes FORever to download, but I guess it's free, so can't complain. That site was actually down for a few days when I was trying to downgrade my hboot. I made sure to keep a copy of the RUU on my server this time, lol.
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Actually, you might even try seeing if it will go into recovery now. If it does, that will allow you to bypass the RUU altogether and just go straight to flashing.
It's your call, but I'd recommend S-Off. It makes flashing on this phone a whole lot less painful.
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I am able to get to TWRP recovery and it is the latest 2.6.3.0 Selinux

[Q] Force Off Phone

My phone is having many many issues, and I can not get it to power off. I've held the power button down for minutes on end but it won't do anything. And to be specific, I'm not in a Rom trying to do this, I'm stuck in some sort of "grey" screen hell. If I plug into my computer, ADB recognizes it and will even pull a device number, but the phone will not respond to any command. I'm really just trying to get to the fastboot screen so I can hopefully flash the RUU.
Any help would be greatly appreciate.
Thanks

You have to hold power+vol up. I think it's something like 10 sec.

Hold up on volume and power at the same time, this is equal to a battery pull and as soon as the phone turns off hold volume down and power to enter fast boot.

cntryby429 said:
You have to hold power+vol up. I think it's something like 10 sec.
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hager03 said:
Hold up on volume and power at the same time, this is equal to a battery pull and as soon as the phone turns off hold volume down and power to enter fast boot.
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I did that for several minutes. It never actually powered off. Fortunately the battery died, and I was able to plug the phone back in and then do what I needed.
Thanks guys!

Samsung Galaxy S7 Bricked while charging !!! Red LED remains on !!!

I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:

Scrapperr said:
I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:
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Remove charger and let the phone battery die, might take a long time depending on how much it was charged
Try connecting the white MicroUSB > USB adapter that came with the phone to something power hungry to drain it quicker

Power off you device and then wait 10 seconds. After waiting press and hold the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time
After the phone vibrates, let go of the Power button, while still holding the other two buttons until Android System Recovery screen appears.
Using the "Volume Down" button, highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it.
After the cache partition is cleared, the Galaxy S7 will reboot automatically. This worked for me ans I hope this will help

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Power off you device and then wait 10 seconds. After waiting press and hold the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time
After the phone vibrates, let go of the Power button, while still holding the other two buttons until Android System Recovery screen appears.
Using the "Volume Down" button, highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it.
After the cache partition is cleared, the Galaxy S7 will reboot automatically. This worked for me ans I hope this will help
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It doesn't work.I already tried it...my phone is somehow stuck with the red led on and it does not take any command...i tried every button combination that i know but nothing...

Scrapperr said:
I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:
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Have you tried
power button and volume -
Keep press both button for 10 sec it must work

rasoulcarrera said:
Have you tried
power button and volume -
Keep press both button for 10 sec it must work
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I tried...

Scrapperr said:
I tried...
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Run the battery out, once the phone is off it might get out of whatever loop it is stuck in
Then connect charger and power on

Any background info? ROMs flashed? Shady apps newly installed? Rooted?

gerhard_wa said:
Any background info? ROMs flashed? Shady apps newly installed? Rooted?
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Stock everything,no shady apps...

*Detection* said:
Remove charger and let the phone battery die, might take a long time depending on how much it was charged
Try connecting the white MicroUSB > USB adapter that came with the phone to something power hungry to drain it quicker
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I did try to connect something to the usb adapter but the phone does not output power...

Scrapperr said:
I did try to connect something to the usb adapter but the phone does not output power...
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Might have a long wait then
RMA / Return under warranty

Maybe you're screen Is dead. Replace under warranty.
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takerhbk said:
Maybe you're screen Is dead. Replace under warranty.
Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
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Red LED should not show when charger is not connected though

Press power button plus volume up and down hold for 5 to 10 sec it will restart ur phone same thing happen with on s6 but not on s7.

I once had to press vol up and down, power and home (that's all buttons) at the same time for ten seconds for the S7 to reboot as it was stuck and seemingly dead. No led on at the time though. But I have disabled the leds in the settings anyway.

UPDATE!
The battery discharged completely(red led was off),first i tried to put it in download mode and IT WORKED!!! But the phone wouldn't turn on because the battery was 0%.I charged it and now it works fine :| I hope this was something software related and not hardware and i hope this will never happen again.Thx for the help guys!

*Detection* said:
Run the battery out, once the phone is off it might get out of whatever loop it is stuck in
Then connect charger and power on
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I hope this was the problem,because the phone now works after the battery discharged...thx for the help!

Scrapperr said:
I hope this was the problem,because the phone now works after the battery discharged...thx for the help!
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Great
Sounded like it just got stuck, and because you can't take the battery out you have to wait for discharge :good:

*Detection* said:
Great
Sounded like it just got stuck, and because you can't take the battery out you have to wait for discharge :good:
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Yup ?

Same problem
I have the same issue... Tried to charge my phone with 15% battery and after a few hours it was 8%. Tried to reboot, charge with the phone turned off but nothing was happening ( not charging, not booting up. tried buttons combinations as well ). The led is not showing up on mine because i disabled it from the settings so i'm not sure if it's charging or not. Took the phone to an authorized service on friday so next week i'll be getting a response from them. By the way, the phone is only one week old :crying: