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Power Button Not Working + Stuck on Cyanogen Startup Screen

OK first of all, if you can fix this you are a GENIUS!
Basically, my power button stopped working today. The phone DID work fine and the screen turned on via plugging in the charger etc as it 'jumps' it. Also, when I take my battery out and put it back in, the phone automatically turns on, which leads me to believe the power button is somehow stuck or pressed in, even though it clicks like normal when I push it... Backing this theory up in the fact that when I start in bootloader (i.e. just holding the volume UP button when I put my battery in) I can't use the volume up or down buttons to scroll through the options, which I believe is due to the power button being 'stuck'.
So in trying to fix this, I downloaded the new Cyanogenmod 10 to see if it was a software issue. I previously had 9 installed. Long story short, it didn't fix it and I decided to go back to Cyanogenmod 9.. so I went into ROM Manager and loaded the previous version of 9 that I had the zip of on my SD card. NOW when I turn my phone on it just stalls on the Cyanogenmod intro!! And I can't turn my phone on or scroll through the options in Bootloader to install another version..
ANYONE know how to fix this?

If your power button is really stuck I'd suggest taking your phone apart to an extent and taking a look at it.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid Epsilon 1.2 (1.992 - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (JBN Stable 1 - Voodoo)
Smartassv2 (800/200)
Deep Idle (Off - Deadline)
BLX (98 - Inverted Apps)
Black Exodus (Undervolted)

309041291a said:
If your power button is really stuck I'd suggest taking your phone apart to an extent and taking a look at it.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid Epsilon 1.2 (1.992 - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (JBN Stable 1 - Voodoo)
Smartassv2 (800/200)
Deep Idle (Off - Deadline)
BLX (98 - Inverted Apps)
Black Exodus (Undervolted)
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The power button isn't literally stuck, that's why I put 'stuck' in quotation marks. The button still presses as per normal and the phone hasn't been damaged at all. It just seems like the button is stuck, because when I put the battery in the phone automatically switches on, whereas normally I would have to hold the power button in to do that. I did try to take the phone apart but I couldn't get the front off LOL

I have the same exact problem. Thought it was a ROM issue. But no.
I even tried to Odin but when I hold the volume buttons and plug and in USB. It just turns the phones on. Every time I plug in a cord. It will always turn on. Making it impossible to get into download mode.
So then I installed " widget rebooter " which should get me into download mode right from my home screen. But all it does is reboot. Leading me to think I can't get into download mode anymore without a jig.
IM STUMPED!!
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Use fastboot from a computer. Fastboot boot recovery name of recovery.IMG will boot it up ( the image needs to be in the same directory as fastboot).

Hey, I actually have the same issue with the power button. I just ordered this off of ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/230794282928
It's a completely new housing so every button works. In the meantime, you can try fixing the power button by opening the phone up, removing the 6 screws, locating the power button and blowing really really hard on it, or hit it with some compressed air. If it doesn't work....the link above is a $30 fix to permanently fix this issue and you also get a new phone feel afterwards.

If the power button itself is broke that housing won't fix it.
I recently dropped my phone and my power button wouldn't work or sometimes it would work but it would act like it is stuck, so I took my phone apart and used 99% alcohol with a q-tip and cleaned the power button on the motherboard and the plastic button on the case as well as other all the other connections and let it air dry for 30 mins and reassembled and it works now.
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albundy2010: Can you please explain how to use fastboot? I have tried connecting my phone to Odin but it doesn't work because like BuLLeT_PrOOf_wAlleTz says, as soon as I put my battery in the phone turns on.. so I can't get into download mode even if I am pressing the two volume buttons.. And then when my phone turns on it just sticks on the Cyanogenmod 9 startup screen.
shadowx360: This looks great, but will it definintely fix the issue? I was told that I need a new 'ribbon' for the power button.. it's not the actual outer casing button itself that doesnt work.. it's the internal button that I think is connected to the motherboard..... so I'm guessing that just buying outer casing won't work?

Start the phone into the bootloader as you described in your original post. That is fastboot .
If you don't know how to issue the commands on the computer and set it up read a guide.
In a perfect world everyone with a unlocked nexus should know how to do it. But morons ( sorry its true, well not really sorry ) use one click , scripts etc.
Even of you used one of those open a command prompt in the folder ( directory) of the tool that has fastboot.exe in it and put the recovery. img ( should already be one in there) in there and issue the command.

albundy2010 said:
Start the phone into the bootloader as you described in your original post. That is fastboot .
If you don't know how to issue the commands on the computer and set it up read a guide.
In a perfect world everyone with a unlocked nexus should know how to do it. But morons ( sorry its true, well not really sorry ) use one click , scripts etc.
Even of you used one of those open a command prompt in the folder ( directory) of the tool that has fastboot.exe in it and put the recovery. img ( should already be one in there) in there and issue the command.
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With mine I believe it's beyond the power button. I believe it's Not able to get into download mode at all. I have used commands and it just reboots.
Doesn't necessarily mean we're idiots.
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I did not mention download mode.

albundy2010 said:
Start the phone into the bootloader as you described in your original post. That is fastboot .
If you don't know how to issue the commands on the computer and set it up read a guide.
In a perfect world everyone with a unlocked nexus should know how to do it. But morons ( sorry its true, well not really sorry ) use one click , scripts etc.
Even of you used one of those open a command prompt in the folder ( directory) of the tool that has fastboot.exe in it and put the recovery. img ( should already be one in there) in there and issue the command.
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I have downloaded fastboot.exe and have connected my phone to the usb and have it in bootloader... how can I then use the PC to install another version of cyanogenmod so I can at least start up my phone?
FYI when i type 'fastboot devices', nothing comes up... and if, for example, i typoe 'fastboot reboot', it sais <waiting for device>, but no action or prompt appears on my phone.. it just stays in bootloader..

You don't have the drivers installed. Read a guide on how to set up fastboot / install the SDK

albundy2010 said:
You don't have the drivers installed. Read a guide on how to set up fastboot / install the SDK
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It gets tiring repeating the same stuff over and over, doesn't it? There's at least 1 thread regarding a broken screen or power button each freaking week and yet nobody but the people helping seem to be able to use the search function.

polobunny said:
It gets tiring repeating the same stuff over and over, doesn't it? There's at least 1 thread regarding a broken screen or power button each freaking week and yet nobody but the people helping seem to be able to use the search function.
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Thanks for the help polobunny, really appreciate it.

PS I have installed the drivers, as far as I can see. I have "Android Composite ADB Interface" in device manager, BUT it only shows up when I start my phone and connect, NOT when I start in fastboot mode. Anyone know a way around this.
FYI I am searcing for other threads on this one, but have had no luck so far.
I have reinstalled the driver from http://dottech.org/android/26188/us...rs-for-windows-for-all-android-phones/#google

bump. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

Notice how nobody replied after your stupid comment quoting polobunny?
There is a reason for that..... bump all you want. Good luck getting anybody to help

albundy2010 said:
Notice how nobody replied after your stupid comment quoting polobunny?
There is a reason for that..... bump all you want. Good luck getting anybody to help
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Why was my comment stupid? Polobunny was the one mocking the person in need of help, assuming he hadn't tried searching google/forums first. There is no need for a reply like that.

you should be able to manually boot into recovery, bootloader and download modes. If your phone is powering on when the battery is inserted, it means there is a positive signal going through the power button to complete the circuit, in some way. With that said, let's assume you inserting the battery is the moment you would hypothetically be pressing the button if it worked. So in this individual case of the battery insertion acting as a power button depressing, it should be possible to get into any one of the modes desired by keeping any additional buttons depressed while inserting the battery.
In other words, to get into download mode press the vol up+down buttons at the exact same time the battery is inserted. it should work. My sister's evo4g had the exact same symptoms your phone does, and it worked for hers. I was easily able to boot into the bootloader, as well as recovery by following the steps I mentioned, and since it was a touch-based recovery, I was still able to flash/backup/restore, etc...I had full control over recovery, and everything worked just fine.
on second thought, download mode probably won't work with our device since you have to release the power button or it will fully boot....but fastboot and recovery should definitely work!!

Dead photon?

Hello, my Photon started acting up really weird. First of all, it was really slow. I thought it's because I had like 150MB left and it was nearly full data-wise. However, I erased most of the data, and left it with 3GB left. Didn't work and it got worse.
I have these stripes around the display (just at sides, not at middle), while phone is turned on. Doesn't matter if in system, or at boot logo. Doesn't matter, because whenever I get to system, I can be in system for like 1 minute, then every application starts crashing (Apex launcher, Google play, whatever you pick) and I basically can't get anywhere. Also if I go to sleep mode, phone is basically dead and it's pure luck when I will turn on phone again. I am trying every few minutes and it's worthless, because any time I get to system anyway, I crash after few seconds.
What to do? I was planing to install custom ROM yesterday, but never got to that, because this all started to act up. So what should I do? Reset system? Any other ideas? Is phone dead?
Sorry for bad english, no bully please.
Thanks in advance

Update - now when I am trying to start up my phone, I have just black screen with white lines in the middle. Then phone shuts down. I will give more info when I will be at home and can get phone on charger

Well definitely try to charge the device up. You might try re-flashing the stock ROM using RSD Lite... Although from your description I fear your issue may be hardware related.

Could turn device on. Apparently that black screen with white lines was just discharged phone. When I put it on charger, I could again boot into system and it was working until I pressed power button to go to sleep mode and phone is again dead. Will try to flash RSD Lite later today and will post what happened

kanek06 said:
Could turn device on. Apparently that black screen with white lines was just discharged phone. When I put it on charger, I could again boot into system and it was working until I pressed power button to go to sleep mode and phone is again dead. Will try to flash RSD Lite later today and will post what happened
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Charge the device as much as you possibly can before doing anything with RSD. Ideally you should have at least 50% battery in the device when flashing anything.

This is really miserable. I can't really get into bootloader. Because phone after that 'crash' or whatever you want to call it is dead and I can't even see if it's turned on or not. Basically I am randomly waiting when it's gonna restart and then I just get into system. Even if I fully discharge it, it will have black screen with white lines first, it flashes quite couple times and then it will finally boot into system. Also I remember it was ***** in past to get into recovery. Can I do anything from system? Because as soon as I don't turn off my screen by power button, phone is working, though it has those lines on side of LCD (I will try to borrow camera from someone and post it here today).
I set automatic turning screen off for 10 minutes and I am really careful about pressing power button. Sucks there is only option for just 10 minutes, so I have to tap on screen at least for once every 10 minutes or I will not have working phone. **** my life, really.

kanek06 said:
This is really miserable. I can't really get into bootloader. Because phone after that 'crash' or whatever you want to call it is dead and I can't even see if it's turned on or not. Basically I am randomly waiting when it's gonna restart and then I just get into system. Even if I fully discharge it, it will have black screen with white lines first, it flashes quite couple times and then it will finally boot into system. Also I remember it was ***** in past to get into recovery. Can I do anything from system? Because as soon as I don't turn off my screen by power button, phone is working, though it has those lines on side of LCD (I will try to borrow camera from someone and post it here today).
I set automatic turning screen off for 10 minutes and I am really careful about pressing power button. Sucks there is only option for just 10 minutes, so I have to tap on screen at least for once every 10 minutes or I will not have working phone. **** my life, really.
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Why can't you turn the phone off and charge it while off, or boot to recovery and charge the phone in recovery?

arrrghhh said:
Why can't you turn the phone off and charge it while off, or boot to recovery and charge the phone in recovery?
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About charging it while turned off - Can't because when I try to turn it on again, it's roulette when I get finally bootloader logo and not black screen with white stripes.
And boot to recovery. Is it possible to like download some command prompt application and boot to bootloader from there? I know when I had my G1 (and when I actually understood android ) you could boot to recovery or bootloader via console. I have astro installed on phone, so downloading some console application and installing it shouldn't be problem.
Btw as we are speaking, I tried to call someone and I basically get same thing like when I am going to sleep mode, I get black screen and now I am just waiting, when phone will eventually want to restart itself.

kanek06 said:
About charging it while turned off - Can't because when I try to turn it on again, it's roulette when I get finally bootloader logo and not black screen with white stripes.
And boot to recovery. Is it possible to like download some command prompt application and boot to bootloader from there? I know when I had my G1 (and when I actually understood android ) you could boot to recovery or bootloader via console. I have astro installed on phone, so downloading some console application and installing it shouldn't be problem.
Btw as we are speaking, I tried to call someone and I basically get same thing like when I am going to sleep mode, I get black screen and now I am just waiting, when phone will eventually want to restart itself.
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Still sounds like some sort of a hardware issue, is the phone new to you?
You can certainly force bootloader mode, in several ways. When it's off you can hold power + camera and it will give you a choice of what to boot. When it's in Android you can do "adb reboot recovery" or "adb reboot bootloader" depending on where you want to end up. There are various apps which can also do this for you, if you are on the stock ROM but rooted.

arrrghhh said:
Still sounds like some sort of a hardware issue, is the phone new to you?
You can certainly force bootloader mode, in several ways. When it's off you can hold power + camera and it will give you a choice of what to boot. When it's in Android you can do "adb reboot recovery" or "adb reboot bootloader" depending on where you want to end up. There are various apps which can also do this for you, if you are on the stock ROM but rooted.
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Phone is not new. I bought it used about one year ago.
I am not entirely new to android, but I didn't have android phone for 2 years and then I got this one. So I am really pretty **** with android atm
I will try reboot to bootloader from some console application.
I am rooted, opened bootloader, stock rom

Finally got into recovery, what now?
Also, when I once booted to system, I downloaded some root checking app, and root apparently isn't here. Well cornholio told me it is rooted back when I gave him my phone to perform sim card mod, but whatever. However, I am in recovery, but device is not detected by RSD Lite.

kanek06 said:
Finally got into recovery, what now?
Also, when I once booted to system, I downloaded some root checking app, and root apparently isn't here. Well cornholio told me it is rooted back when I gave him my phone to perform sim card mod, but whatever. However, I am in recovery, but device is not detected by RSD Lite.
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Well reading back thru this thread, I was suggesting RSD Lite back to stock. I'm not really sure what you want to achieve tho, what your "final" goal is here.
I'm not even sure what kind of recovery you are booted into - stock recovery? CWM?
Either way, if you want to RSD the phone back to stock, you need to boot into fastboot/bootloader mode - not recovery. Just make sure the phone is charged up as much as possible before flashing in RSD.

Oh, sorry - misunderstanding from my side, thought I can switch to fastboot from recovery, oh well.
Also yeah, stock recovery.
To spread more facts - in case somebody would have similiar problems, when I try to just turn phone on, I have zero success what so ever. There's just this blank black page flashing every few seconds. However, when I remove back cover, I somehow force phone to load to bootloader logo, then I finally get chance to force phone to get to recovery. I will try to get to fastboot

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Oh, sorry - misunderstanding from my side, thought I can switch to fastboot from recovery, oh well.
Also yeah, stock recovery.
To spread more facts - in case somebody would have similiar problems, when I try to just turn phone on, I have zero success what so ever. There's just this blank black page flashing every few seconds. However, when I remove back cover, I somehow force phone to load to bootloader logo, then I finally get chance to force phone to get to recovery. I will try to get to fastboot
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Not sure if stock recovery has adb enabled, but if you have adb you can 'adb reboot bootloader'.
Otherwise do the power+cam trick I mentioned earlier.

http://i.imgur.com/3XYLngJ.png

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http://i.imgur.com/3XYLngJ.png
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Did you remove the getvar lines from the xml file...?

Yes

Weird. I only recall seeing that when people were trying to downgrade... but you are flashing 4.1.2.
The phone is in fastboot mode? What happens when you click "show device"? The "Device Properties" section is eerily empty.

I know it sounds shady, when I am coming back here again in few weeks, just been a bit busy lately, sorry about that.
However, somehow I got phone to flash it. The white graphical lines on sides dissapeared, however I got some new bug - I can't use phone in portrait mode, just in landscape - aka I need to swipe keyboard to have phone working. Also, that thing when phone completely stops working now occurs only when I am in that portrait mode, but I can restart phone this time.
When I finished this, it was midnight so I went to bad, so I tried to set up alarm, if it's gonna randomly shutdown like before and unfortunately, yes it did. I was waken up with this classical white line graphical bug black screen and had to reboot the phone. Oh well, managed to boot to system and it takes 5 minutes to fetch sim card (I have sim card mod from cornholio) and as I said, those white lines on side aka mysterious graphical bug is back.
Unfortunately for me, starts looking like real hardware issue now

LG G Flex 2 stuck in Fastboot mode

I was copying a movie onto my H950 when it started to take a long time. I was in a rush so I canceled the file transfer and waited for the computer to finish prompting me about the cancellation. I then unplugged the phone from my computer and noticed that the charging light was still on. I then noticed the phone wouldn't wake up when I pressed the power button. I held the power button and the volume down button to do a hard reset but after the LG start up screen all I got were some random numbers in brackets and "Fastboot mode started" in small text at the upper left hand corner of the screen. The numbers tend to change from time to time.
I have done multiple resets, let the battery die all of the way, recharged all of the way, factory data reset and nothing has changed a thing. When I boot it into download mode it sits there for a minute and by the time the computer sees that it has been plugged in the phone goes back to the black screen with the "Fastboot mode started" text. The computer also only recognizes it as Android Bootloader Interface in the device manager.
It is recognized by the "fastboot devices" command but thats about all I have been able to get out of it. It wouldn't accept flashing a new system image on it either. Please tell me there is still hope. I cant wrap my head around how something so normal could have caused this to happen. It has been rooted for around 6 months and I haven't done anything to the phone sense. I cant even remember what version I was running. I would greatly appreciate any help or advice.

somehow corrupted the laf partition maybe !!
try :
1. fastboot continue
2. fastboot reboot
if it does not work contact LG

i have the same problem with the same variant . tried everything but the kitchen sink .
took it to LG Romania but because its an US device they could not help .

WTF is wrong with my phone? Screen flashing static.

I was just using it earlier, and suddenly the screen went to some sort of static over the lower 4/5ths with a black upper fifth, or so. And that just stays there for a while, then the Google load screen, or some fragment thereof, pops up for half a second, then back to the static, then the 'bootloader unlocked' warning, then static....just this, on an endless loop. WTF? I can power it off, but powering it on again just results in the same loop.
I've attached a video of the issue.

I'm leaning toward bad hardware, like a fried memory chip, or something like that. First, you need to rule out a software problem. Are you able to connect via adb or fastboot? Can you boot the phone into bootloader mode?

Yes, I can get into bootloader mode. Pressing and holding 'power' eventually results in the screen going black. 'power' + 'volume down' from there gets me into bootloader mode. Pressing 'power' again with 'Start' selected gets me back to the static/lock bootloader/load screen.
You thinking flash stock? Nothing else I can do?

EDIT: In terms of flashing stock, how do I do that? I have a note here saying to flash "flash-all.bat", but I failed to specify how. Do I just double-click it?
Actual EDIT: Turns out that wasn't the edit button.
EDIT 2: Doing a bit more googling and this might be a problem: on the bootloader screen the bootloader and baseband are both listed as "N/A".

Then definitely flash stock. You can modify the flash-all file to remove the "-w" if you don't want to delete all user data.

Flash failed. Seems I'm not the only one to have this issue: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/help/pixel-xl-bricked-bootloader-n-baseband-n-t3537379

I guess you could try manually running each line of the script yourself, and see exactly which commands are successful and which ones error out. Hopefully this could help point out what's wrong, but I still think it's hardware, unfortunately.

Guess I have to buy my third phone for the month then. *sigh*

Hey, I could be wrong!

Given that nobody's yet found a solution to this issue other than 'send the phone back', I don't see how.
Seller I bought it from is refusing to give me a refund, they insist on replacing it, which means a two-week wait for shipping in both directions. Delightful.

when troubleshooting, you want to keep -w intact, this is a clean install, you want to delete all data period and start from scratch, otherwise your really not troubleshooting
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This problem happened to me and it was a bad connection of the screen to the motherboard.
It looks like with time the screws that hold the connection get loose and this starts to happen. In my case I "just" unglued to the screen, tighten the screws and it got fixed.

Boot options on bootloader screen

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a few edits to my system partition without unlocking my bootloader (no TWRP available anyways) and I found a setting to enable ADB in the STOCK Recovery.
I've been able to use it to sideload an app, but was wondering how to install an app to the system partition... without having to push the entire partition PLUS the added app....
does anyone know actual SPECIFICS about the boot options on the bootloader menu? I have managed to get stuck in some strange developer mode twice now, and am actually getting a little worried I'll royally mess this up.
One developer mode I booted into never loaded SystemUI- lock screen loaded the picture, never got any text (after 20mins waiting). Held power for a minute, device booted back into the bootloader menu.
the other developer mode I toggled somehow turned all my radios off on boot, turned them on one by one, notification CQOA or similar was starting up. Then a bunch of information in a text mode style flew across the screen on top of my desktop. Again, I held power down and got the heck outta there. I had to go back into bootloader menu and select Recovery and hit VolUp and Power to get a usable menu and then recovered from there.
all this exploring just has me curious as all hell what is possible through these menus. If I had another G7Power, I would be going as far down this rabbit hole as possible... but this is my only device at this time, so I am quite concerned I'll manage to break something and not recover....
at one point, using ADB in Recovery, I was able to get my ADB shell in root mode.... but I didn't realize the # meant root worked. And I haven't been able to get that working like that again.
EDIT: I still have the CMD window open from Friday night when I started this, otherwise I wouldn't have ever realized I had root for a few minutes in ADB
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I want to make a few edits to build.prop without having to flash the whole partition.
My bootloader is LOCKED.
I literally just had an OTA last weekend.
am I being trolled by Moto on this? like, it looks like it is doing stuff, or COULD do stuff, but is actually nerfed? It seems like there has to be a secret key combo or something to get these menus to actually work.... it also looks like it is possible to switch to USERDEBUG if only for a single boot.
Any ideas are appreciated!

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I'm trying to figure out a way to make a few edits to my system partition without unlocking my bootloader (no TWRP available anyways) and I found a setting to enable ADB in the STOCK Recovery.
I've been able to use it to sideload an app, but was wondering how to install an app to the system partition... without having to push the entire partition PLUS the added app....
does anyone know actual SPECIFICS about the boot options on the bootloader menu? I have managed to get stuck in some strange developer mode twice now, and am actually getting a little worried I'll royally mess this up.
One developer mode I booted into never loaded SystemUI- lock screen loaded the picture, never got any text (after 20mins waiting). Held power for a minute, device booted back into the bootloader menu.
the other developer mode I toggled somehow turned all my radios off on boot, turned them on one by one, notification CQOA or similar was starting up. Then a bunch of information in a text mode style flew across the screen on top of my desktop. Again, I held power down and got the heck outta there. I had to go back into bootloader menu and select Recovery and hit VolUp and Power to get a usable menu and then recovered from there.
all this exploring just has me curious as all hell what is possible through these menus. If I had another G7Power, I would be going as far down this rabbit hole as possible... but this is my only device at this time, so I am quite concerned I'll manage to break something and not recover....
at one point, using ADB in Recovery, I was able to get my ADB shell in root mode.... but I didn't realize the # meant root worked. And I haven't been able to get that working like that again.
EDIT: I still have the CMD window open from Friday night when I started this, otherwise I wouldn't have ever realized I had root for a few minutes in ADB
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I want to make a few edits to build.prop without having to flash the whole partition.
My bootloader is LOCKED.
I literally just had an OTA last weekend.
am I being trolled by Moto on this? like, it looks like it is doing stuff, or COULD do stuff, but is actually nerfed? It seems like there has to be a secret key combo or something to get these menus to actually work.... it also looks like it is possible to switch to USERDEBUG if only for a single boot.
Any ideas are appreciated!
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fubugang said:
This is NOT the Q&A thread
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I never said it was.
These menus appear to be useful for gaining access to various things. If a good source posted a response "these menus have already been scoured for any usefulness for people like us" I would leave it alone.
If I *was* to share my own experiences with what those various items can do, would you say this isn't the place to post that information? Please clarify- I honestly don't want to post on the wrong sub. Thank you.

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I never said it was.
These menus appear to be useful for gaining access to various things. If a good source posted a response "these menus have already been scoured for any usefulness for people like us" I would leave it alone.
If I *was* to share my own experiences with what those various items can do, would you say this isn't the place to post that information? Please clarify- I honestly don't want to post on the wrong sub. Thank you.
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As per the thread title: This thread is for development purposes only. All questions should should be asked in the Q&A thread

I dunno but I can tell you the SUPRA from cricket does not support bootloader unlock or root right now, and probably never will, I bought one but i will probably sell it off or gift it and buy the Power or G7 Plus with the money typically with moto you just go to the motorola bootloader unlock page enter your fastboot and type oem get_unlock_code or whatever it gives you a string you put it together and paste that in the moto bootloader page and they provide an unlocked bootloader boot.img you do get the code however when you put it in it gives you message that the phone cannot be unlocked thanks alot cricket, and Att I dont mind your service here but I want to be able to flash custom roms so I will just order a moto from swappa or straight from moto so i can do what I want with the phone, considering these are prepaid and you buy them out right it should not even be legal to keep the locked really, wish some attorney that had this stuff as a hobby would help us out it is flat out wrong to tell me I cannot unlock my bootloader its not like I owe anything on the phone thru cricket in the first place its paid for in full.