hey all, new moto g owner, great phone for the price and just unlocked the bootloader and rooted and I was wondering what recovery should i use cwm, twrp or just wait till the bugs get fixed?
CWM is the least buggy recovery at the moment and works well. The only bug people seem to be reporting is the date is incorrect on backups. The only downside is it is not yet CWM Touch. So you will need to use the volume rocker and power button to navigate the recovery menu.
TWRP is touch enabled at the moment, but it is nigh unusable as it stands. Touch inputs (tapping on a button) often times don't register and 9 times out of 10 when I was able to tap on something it just locked the screen again forcing me to spend another 2 minutes trying to unlock the damn thing.
That being said, once TWRP is made official or the touchscreen starts working it will be the recovery I'll be using. Backup sizes are smaller and the process is much faster. Not to mention the queue functionality is a big plus for me.
Yep, i second that, CWM is the best alternative for now.
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OK so I downloaded & installed the latest OTA update (RV23RC03; 1.057) with the power mode choices, and it has completely destroyed my touch screen response! I previously had ZERO problem with this- every key press registered on both the original ROM and the 1st update. Since the latest update, everything takes 2 or 3 presses, sometimes VERY firmly, many times still without registering. This totally sux
Is anyone else having this issue? I should note that I do have a matte screen protector on; this previously caused NO problems.
Is there an easy reasonably safe way to revert back to the 1st update (RV07RC06; 1.029)? A link and/or instructions appreciated. Thanks.
Acer, are you out there? This exact issue occurred with my A510 on its 1st update, after which it became nearly unusable for me. Since it was < 30 days I was able to return it. No such luck this time. Why are these updates doing this? It's driving me nuts!
No issues with touch on update. It seems to be running better actually.
Try to completely reset thru recovery with wipe data maybe.
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Itchiee said:
No issues with touch on update. It seems to be running better actually.
Try to completely reset thru recovery with wipe data maybe.
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That's so amazing. I went from no problem at all, to I can hardly use this any more; only thing that changed was the update.
Can you please be specific about how to reset through recovery. (Step-by-step if possible) and how to wipe data.
Thanks.
You can reset data thru settings/privacy but you will lose everything and start fresh.
I'll check on the other method later on for you.
Also turn up touch sensitivity in settings/display if you haven't...
Edit - it appears that the stock recovery doesnt have those options.
You can still reset by inside ICS like above, or...
Factory Reset:
WARNING: reset will start immediately
Volume button (one dot) and Power button, once buzzes release power button and then toggle the rotation switch on and off a few times
Yes of course, I have set screen sensitivity to high. I think I'd rather go back to 1st update, rather than wipe everything (I do have a backup but it's still a hassle). I can't believe no one else is having this problem.
Any idea how to revert to last update?
Someone in a german android forum mentioned that it help on his device after the update to set the sensitivity to the lowest setting and then back to middle or high.
I tried playing with sensitivity settings, turning on/off,resetting and no luck.
I actually found the ROM from before the update on this website and flashed it as update.zip with vol +power. It worked, I now have 1.029 back and touch screen works perfectly. I'm sorry to lose power management but i think I'll stay where I am . Don't ask me about a Jellybean update; I'll want it but after this I'll be afraid to try it. If anyone has an explanation for this i'd love to hear it.
Well, I have a HipStreet Nova HS-7DTB1-4GB Chinese Tablet with Android v2.2 Froyo.
I don't know much about froyo but i think mine has stock rom with little modifications.
I am not getting any touch response from the phone. I faced this problem one before when i deleted the ILITEK Touch Utility (manages touch screen functions on my tablet) after rooting the phone, but physical buttons were working so i tried some combination of keys when powering on the tablet and one them worked and it said something like recovering your phone and it flashed back the original firmware back, so i think it has some kind of recovery mod.
But this time i was trying to manually update the ILITEK Touch Utility and the touch became immediately Irresponsive. now i cannot remember that combination of keys i used last time, i think i have tried all combinations but now it doesn't flash back the firmware, please help if you can.
The Tablet has A Power Button, Auto-Screen-Rotation Lock, Home Button, Menu Button, Volume Up and Down Buttons and A Back Button!
I am still new to android and don't know much about Android, So bear me if i look stupid to you
Hello everyone! So I've had my phone (HTC One M8) rooted and custom recovery and rom installed for a little while now. The latest rom I've installed was Android Revolution HD 22.1. I also have twrp 2.8.1.0 installed. The other day my phone got wet and started to constantly reboot itself, wouldn't shut off and stay off, would never actually start. I put it in a cup of rice for 2 days, then proceeded to plug it in to charge it. Once charged enough I tried to turn it on. It only made it the HTC One logo screen and would vibrate every 10 seconds or so. I tried rebooting several times and no matter what I did with different button combinations I could not get it to load into bootloader. Eventually with restarting different ways and "mechanically stressing" the phone (short temper lol) I managed to get it to loading into the rom itself. From there I opened hasoons all in one toolkit to reboot directly into recovery and recovered to the stock rom. So the phone will now reboot with no problem into this rom. I haven't tried reflashing the ARHD 22.1 rom again because im afraid it'll break again. However, while in the stock rom everything work fines except for the volume up button which does nothing, except for while the screen is off, if I turn my phone to landscape the camera app will open without me even pressing the volume up button. If I reboot into bootloader via the quickboot app or hasoons toolkit, my volume down button with make the cursor go up, the volume up button does nothing, and the power button does nothing. The only thing I can do in bootloader is to hold power+volume up to get the phone to reboot. I also cannot get bootloader to load by holding volume down+power. So, After all that explaining, my main question would be, do you think that the buttons are shorting in a weird way because of water damage, or do you think my software got corrupted because of all the rebooting it did? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Tim
Hi,
You could try a clean flash of the rom.... If you're sure the wonky buttons won't interfere with the flash, because if they do... You'll be left with no OS on the device.
Water can affect many things, especially with power on while it was wet. This will be hard to solve, and could get costly. Usually with water damage, you fix or replace one thing, only to find now that something else doesn't work. Can turn into a real money pit.
You're issue isn't so bad, but my usual advice for worse cases are save your money for a new device, because you may never get your device fully working and spend a lot of money trying to fix it.
Ah, I just saw you already asked for help in your device section. Good. ?
Then this thread can be closed, as we're here to help navigate the site, not support.
Thank you.
Hi guys,
I currently have to use my SPen to navigate my phone because my touch screen doesn't work.
Using TWRP is one of the biggest headaches in the world if you use an SPen to navigate because it's super sensitive and anything you hover your SPen over, will automatically open up and it happens in a blink of an eye.
I remember older versions of TWRP had a way to operate the phone via hardware keys (Volume Up and Down and Power).
I am not able to find much information about this anywhere online, I need this phone to last for another 2 months before I can replace it with something better.
Anyone have any idea how to get this version of TWRP without compromising having firmware issues by using something that is not meant for the Sprint Note 5?
My phone is stuck in a restarting loop - it generally boots up to the MI logo screen, but then only maybe 10% of the time is it able to move on to the Android loading screen and subsequently the home/passcode screen. Even if it gets to those points though, the phone often just reboots itself anyway or acts as if the power button is constantly being randomly pressed. When on the MI logo screen, I am sometimes able to access the startup options menu or the Android fastboot screen by pressing volume up/down respectively, but neither of these seem to offer any useful options. I haven't been able to backup the phone either because the update isn't available to download for some reason.
When the restarting issue first started happening about a month ago, it usually restarted 2/3 times and then would work fine after that, but has progressively gotten worse to the point where it is currently unusable. What can I do to fix the problem? The MI customer service line said it was most likely a software issue, but were unable to help me in actually identifying the problem.
Check the power on/off button.
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My phone is stuck in a restarting loop - it generally boots up to the MI logo screen, but then only maybe 10% of the time is it able to move on to the Android loading screen and subsequently the home/passcode screen. Even if it gets to those points though, the phone often just reboots itself anyway or acts as if the power button is constantly being randomly pressed. When on the MI logo screen, I am sometimes able to access the startup options menu or the Android fastboot screen by pressing volume up/down respectively, but neither of these seem to offer any useful options. I haven't been able to backup the phone either because the update isn't available to download for some reason.
When the restarting issue first started happening about a month ago, it usually restarted 2/3 times and then would work fine after that, but has progressively gotten worse to the point where it is currently unusable. What can I do to fix the problem? The MI customer service line said it was most likely a software issue, but were unable to help me in actually identifying the problem.
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This happened to me 2 days ago and I couldn't fix it even with the Miui recovery suite. I ended up just switching to a custom rom to avoid it happening again.
RancidPenguins said:
This happened to me 2 days ago and I couldn't fix it even with the Miui recovery suite. I ended up just switching to a custom rom to avoid it happening again.
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Would you be able to explain a little more? I'm not really very tech-savvy so I wouldn't know how to go about switching to a custom rom (I'm not entirely certain what it is actually). And has this fully worked for you so far?
ales_x1 said:
Check the power on/off button.
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What should I be checking for?
cinnamonswirl said:
Would you be able to explain a little more? I'm not really very tech-savvy so I wouldn't know how to go about switching to a custom rom (I'm not entirely certain what it is actually). And has this fully worked for you so far?
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If you're reasonably sure it's a software issue and want to try something else, I would strongly recommend the xiaomi.eu MIUI 11 rom. It's very similar to the stock software anyway and runs very well on the Mix 2S. To switch, you'll need to root though, which involves unlocking your bootloader, installing ADB on your desktop, and using a command line to flash a custom recovery (TWRP), then flashing the software. It probably sounds daunting if you haven't done it before, but it's really just a case of following instructions. I did it on a Mix 2S a few days ago and it didn't take long (although I already had the ADB tooling installed).
Hey guys, I've been having the same problem for a while.
I'm in stock rom, locked bootloader... Tried to update from Miui 10 to 11, and did a factory reset.
But it keeps happening randomly.
Would changing to a custom ROM fix it?
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Check the power on/off button.
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I think it might be a hardware issue...
Could you give more details about what to check?