Hello, I have read a good amount of threads on this site, most have proved helpful in my problems, yet at this time I have not found any thread similar to my needs.
I have a Kurio 7S that needs fixing, it is stuck in a bootloop, I would use the recovery mode to reboot it or reset it if need be, but the power button had stopped working a few days after I had gotten it, we had used the usb port and reset button to turn it on. Now though, none of that is helpful.
I wanted to know if there was a way to use a computer program to open up recovery mode and install a rom, can Android Multi Tool accomplish this?
Not that I've found, but it does seem these cheap tabs have that issue.
The two my nephew's had both had that issue.
I have three press the power button close to the front edge, first plug it in a big of a charge, any different charging cables to rule out bad, and just try listening the plastic to press in you should hear the soft click of the button when it meets up.
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Hi everyone,
INTRO:
So the power button on my Nexus S broke. No big deal, I remapped it to the search button and used the volume rocker to wake the device; an option that was embedded in Cyanogenmod9.
Then I upgraded to CM10... since I did that on top of CM9, my volume rocker option was still enabled, but the option is no longer in CM10's GUI.
I had some annoying issue and thought maybe I should wipe my phone; which I did.
Sadly, I realized that my "wake using volume rocker" option was no longer enabled, and there is no GUI to turn it back on.
I then found a .zip package that was supposed to enable the option but, I guess I went too fast, now my phone is stuck on a bootloop.
THE PROBLEM:
Since my power button is broken, I cannot navigate in the fastboot menu to recovery and fix the ROM.
Worst, since the power button is somehow shorted (i.e.: it powers on automatically when I insert the battery) Fastboot is not working properly and my PC never sees my phone, so you can forget about fastboot boot recovery.img
So: boot loop, power button broke, no recovery, no fastboot. =(
I searched quite a bit and found out you could get the Nexus S in download mode and get it to work with ODIN using a USB JIG.
I made myself such a JIG and successfully put the phone in some kind of download mode where my PC sees it, fastboot devices yields nothing *but* ODIN sees the phone!
So a glimmer of hope except for the fact that finding the .tar files for the Nexus S seems impossible...
Thoughts? Suggestion? TIA!
Francis // XC3N
Oh BTW:
-Yes I saw the other posts, but none of them mention the odin files
-Yes, I know fastboot is better; but it's not working and:
-No, I can't see the device on 3 different PCs using 3 different OSes and 3 Different cables when in fastboot mode
I mean by that last line that *nothing* shows in device manager in Win7 or XP and *nothing* shows in lsusb on ubuntu
So unless someone has an idea it looks like Download mode is the only way my PC sees my phone...
My power button done the same thing, I googled around and found a solution that worked for me.
It's somewhere here on xda but I don't got the link, basically everytime I booted into the bootloader I couldn't move the cursor with the volume button because the phone thought I was holding the power button, so I carefully tapped the casing around the power button and rebooted the bootloader and eventually I had control, it took 5-6 attempts to get it going but it did fix the power button for me.
I think it's something to do with the micro switches giving out after a certain number of uses.
Also it started screwing about recently so I just blew into the casing through the power button and it's behaved ever since.
In short, tap it until it works, once you have control of fastboot plug the usb in and your pc should detect it
Hope this helps, Good Luck
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Muckyfox said:
My power button done the same thing, I googled around and found a solution that worked for me.
It's somewhere here on xda but I don't got the link, basically everytime I booted into the bootloader I couldn't move the cursor with the volume button because the phone thought I was holding the power button, so I carefully tapped the casing around the power button and rebooted the bootloader and eventually I had control, it took 5-6 attempts to get it going but it did fix the power button for me.
Also it started screwing about recently so I just blew into the casing through the power button and it's behaved ever since.
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Hey MuckyFox thanks for your reply!
Unfortunately, that would've worked back when the power button was flimsy and still working once in a while... I did try the tapping thing but really nothing works... the button seems entirely dead and shorted. I guess at this point I might've to bring it in for repair... if the power button isn't broken then I'll be able to easily fix everything in recovery or fastboot. Sucks because I feel like I'm so close to getting it to work without spending money XD I just can't find the files for odin even though they really do seem to exist.
Allright so I found some odin files which were said to work with the i9020a
I flashed them... at some point it said "RESET!" and then odin no longer saw the device. The device is now not booting at all. FML
So this thread is going to end up like every other similar thread: I went and bought a Galaxy Nexus ;P
For posterity, these are the files you shouldn't flash on i9020A:
BOOTLOADER : Bootloader_I9020XXJK1.tar
PDA : PDA_SOJU_GRH78_85442_SIGNED.tar
PHONE:
CSC : CSC_I9020_EUR.tar
My power button started failing over the last couple of days. First when I would set the phone to standby it would ask me if I wanted to switch off the device, then later on it wouldnt respond at all.
Really weird solution - boot into recovery, factory restore, clear dalvik cache, voila, works good as new! (aside from losing all my settings)
Note, I barely managed to get into recovery. The power button fully stopped working halfway through and I had to take the battery out and try it a couple of times.
Oddly, even during this uber-broken phase, the power button would always switch on the device when fully switched off (not just standby) indicating to me that it wasnt just a physical broken connection.
I've mentioned this before, but a full casing for the phone with all the buttons is around $10 on eBay
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XC3N said:
So this thread is going to end up like every other similar thread: I went and bought a Galaxy Nexus ;P
For posterity, these are the files you shouldn't flash on i9020A:
BOOTLOADER : Bootloader_I9020XXJK1.tar
PDA : PDA_SOJU_GRH78_85442_SIGNED.tar
PHONE:
CSC : CSC_I9020_EUR.tar
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You need stuff for SOJUA, and just the fact CSC has EUR meaning Europe in it would scare the crap out of me. Possible you just flashed stuff meant for i9020T and not i9020A.
In case anybody comes back here, I'm just gonna drop this in.
Hi, so yesterday after powering my Surface 2 down (it was working fine), it no longer boots up. Instead, it will show the 'Surface' on the screen for about a second, and then the screen will go black for 8 seconds, and repeat until I turn it off or the battery dies.
I've been having a hard time finding other people with this problem, but the few I did said that sending it to MS (and getting a new one) is what they had to do. One person did say that they were able to fix the problem with a bootable Surface 2 recovery USB. I have a lot of work on my surface that I don't have copies of, and would really like to be able to save those files.
Things I have tried: Holding the power button with a combination of volume rocker/home key. Holding the power button for 20 seconds followed by 2 seconds off and on. I have fully charged it and know it has enough battery.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi John,
What was the solution to fi this problem?
I encounter the same problem.
Regards,
Hans
You should be saving your stuff to your OneDrive...anywho
If you have a USB recovery drive, you could try booting from it and doing a refresh,(NOT a reset) that would keep your files.
If you don't have a USB recovery drive you could make one using the 8.1 RTM ISO, I wrote a how-to guide here;
http://forums.wpcentral.com/microso...w-install-windows-rt-8-1-rtm-surface-2-a.html
or you could download one here;
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=203A62CBEDC78BA2&id=203A62CBEDC78BA2!6247&authkey=!AIcBVsLygTfpZxQ
(I think that one is for the UK, but that shouldn't matter, just do a full reset from your recovery once you get your files off)
Hope this helps.
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.
A co worker had her surface rt crash on updating and now its stuck at the booting surface screen.
I tried the steps I could find fiddling with the volume button and power button but it gets no where.
Honestly I have zero experience with these and normally use android.
Is there a way to connect this thing to a PC and push recovery files to it as it doesnt seem to want to see the recovery USB at all. It does know its there cause the power/reading light on the USB drive lights up.
Im trying another attempt at downloading and remaking the recovery USB just to see if I got a bad download but honestly wondering if this thing is toast. Just really trying to help them out cause it just ran out of warranty and MS wants to charge them 200$ to repair it.
Thanks
Hello there,
I would like to propose again this question, I summarize the problem of a Surface,
in my case a Surface 2 with Windows 8.1 RT stuck at the 'Surface Screen' and looping
in reboots alternating with the screen of 'preparing automatic repair', and then stuck.
If I reboot by holding down power button for 10 or 30 seconds, nothing changes and
the loop restarts by telling 'there is a problem screen', automatic reboot, 'Surface screen' and stuck.
I've tryed with 2 versions of the recovery image, an old one and one new, with two different
usb sticks. I've booted with "volume down" etc, the usb light flashes a couple of times but
the loop described above does not change.
Seems that many people out there suffer from the same problem, with almost all versions of the Surface, up to the Pro 4.
Many of them solved it with the usb recovery, but also a lot of them still have the same problem. Maybe we do something wrong
with the recovery files?
Any help is welcome, thanks for reading.
Try to keep the device on charge and leave it running for some hours, does it still stay stuck?
Hello Kephax,
I tried several times many strategies, even the one you suggested, nothing to do, always the same loop.
Hence I contacted Microsoft on 15th december, the support was very polite and efficient, in a week I was able to pack my device and give the pack to UPS. After 3 days, they returned me a new Surface2 for free.
I must say mine was only 6 months old, so warranty was still valid. On 24th december I was playing with the new device, so the whole procedure took 9 days. I am very happy.
However, I cannot say what was the fault of my Surface, a hardware problem or some updated went wrong? that's the question, I'm frightened that it was an update problem and that it can happen again to the new device. I can only guess it was a hardware problem because of the experience with the new device, less laggy, more fluid for graphics animations. Also the battery lasts longer.
I hope that this experience can help other user with same problem.
Best wishes for a happy new year,
dott_mat
Create a surface rt 8.1 bootable usb and boot from usb device.
If USB Device bootable, then first connect usb device, then press and hold vol down button, then press and release power button, when surface logo appears then release vol down button.
If all successful then surface will boot into recovery or directly boot from usb drive.
Hey guys,
So my brothers Nexus 5 came to an end but i'm determine to recover it (Already Partially Recover)
Backstory:
So initially the power button wasn't working like it couldn't be pressed, and as the device was already off i decided to plug a charger in and it would enter the boot stage but enter a boot loop which further research showed me it was a issue with the powerbutton, So i came to the conclusion to remove + replace the power button so i opened it up, took a look and soldered the broken power button off, with alot of time and effort i managed to remove it and clean it up with the intentions of installing a new powerbutton i bought a fine tip solder tip however it wasn't burning properly as i noticed eventually, in which i was unable to solder a new power button on even with flux, aswell as this i managed to solder it on in which i was convinced it was a decent soldering job as all the points were clearly connected i placed the board into the device (wHICH WAS A MISTAKE) as i should've waited a solid hour, to ensure it was strong, as of this the power button had come off as i was placing the board back in which meant the button was practically scrapped and i was extremely fustrated, so i decided to screw it a put the device back together without the back casings over the board, and i wanted to see if i could bridge the connection whilst the charger was plugged in in which i did and the device booted up.
Main Question:
Now my main question is, i need a workaround for the powerbutton currently i've installed Gravity Screen for him, however it's got a high battery consumption and it's not too reliable so i'm trying to get a solid method.
I've come across a headphone jack that has a button which i can configure to be a power button (Pressy or iKey)
Now that the issue with Locking + Unlocking is solved
How can i power the device back on when it shuts down due to lack of battery as i've sealed the phone back up, He currently runs Android 6.0 MRA58N, My main idea was to Root his Device + get TWRP installed however i was wondering if i could do this without rebooting his device / setting up a method to power his device via ADB however i haven't installed any ADBs etc so far.
My second idea was if i booted the device into fastboot by plugging in in the power cord and holding volume button, with the battery unplugged via the ribbon would it power on the device?
Last question is, i powered the device with the Camera Unplugged via ribbon cables however it's not working as the app just opens and closes without a FC so i was wondering if a reboot would just fix this?
ADDITIONALLY Another method could be rebooting via terminal However i'm unsure on how to use the Terminal / if i need root or not etc.
Thanks!
Contact a kernel dev. He will probably be able to remap the power button, to get it to boot from the charging screen. Or try to disable offline charging alltogether.
playitlouder said:
Contact a kernel dev. He will probably be able to remap the power button, to get it to boot from the charging screen. Or try to disable offline charging alltogether.
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I'm quite new to the Nexus 5 Area, and infact i don't know any Kernal developers - Is there any chance you could probably help me out and give me some contacts etc.?
Hussain_Salam said:
I'm quite new to the Nexus 5 Area, and infact i don't know any Kernal developers - Is there any chance you could probably help me out and give me some contacts etc.?
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I dont do much in terms of custom kernels, but post in some kernel threads in the nexus 5 development forums, or contact the creator of the thread via pm. Just look for threads with KERNEL in the name
UPDATE!
playitlouder said:
I dont do much in terms of custom kernels, but post in some kernel threads in the nexus 5 development forums, or contact the creator of the thread via pm. Just look for threads with KERNEL in the name
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Okay Thank you,
UPDATE:
*I've Overcome the Powerbutton issue as i've ordered Pressy/iKey which should be arriving tomorrow which will lock and unlock my screen
*I'm now trying to figure out another method to power on my device if it shuts down:
One idea was to some how get the device to power on when i plug in a charger maybe by installing TWRP
Or another method was to power it on via an ADB shell on pc Or Something like that
*I'm also trying to reboot the Device however im unsure on how to do so without a power button.