I work at Target and they recently took down the old Fitbit display. The monitor was touch screen running Android that was set to start up a Fitbit program when it booted up. I was able to spam the screen and get the Fitbit app to force close allowing me to navigate the Android OS. There was no bottom natation bar (home button, back button missing) but I was able to get into settings and do a factory reset.
Now I have Android tablet with wifi, SD card slot and a full USB port. It's running jelly bean but no gApps. No bottom navigation bar either.
I'd like to get this just running a clean stock room I or CM or something. I don't know how to get it into recovery mode though because there are no hardware buttons (just an on/off switch). Amy ideas?
I haven't got a full sized USB to USB cord yet to try to get into it with ADB but hope to try that soon. I can install apps though as long as they don't require gApps.
Thanks for any ideas.
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So I have a Jet Icon here that has a touch screen malfunction here. Nothing but the actual buttons are working, however the screen does detect my touch as it vibrates whenever I do so. I'm trying to find a way to transfer pictures that I really need to retrieve, so doing a factory reset/system restore is out of the question. Is there any way for me to get the pictures onto my PC? I've plugged in the USB cable to my laptop but it tells me to disable bluetooth which I can't do thanks to this shotty screen. Hopefully there is a way for me to change settings before I go off to the store and request a repair.
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Do you have and sd card in the phone? You could take it out, but besides that, I think the only way to do it is a wipe.
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I have a Kobo Arc 7 HD that I was playing around with, and screwed it over.
My question is whether I can re-flash it if all I have access to is the adb sideload command. Is this even possible? Where do i get the image to flash onto it?
I just want to know if it will work even in theory, or i should stop trying to find a solution and toss it.
Currently it will boot to the home screen, but there is nothing there but the background, top bar and virtual keys. the top dropdown is completely empty, and the buttons respond to press, but do nothing. (the switch app button brings up a screen that says "no recent apps"). So thats a bust. When I plug it into my PC, it shows as a USB drive, and I see all the usual file structures.
I can get to the system recovery (vol down + power on), but factory reset / clear cache dosen't change anything.
I can do the update from adb sideload thing, but all of the images I have tried fail.
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I had the exact same issue with quick settings and missing home and recent buttons after flashing the update. Found a full wipe and install solved it.
mossief1965 said:
I had the exact same issue with quick settings and missing home and recent buttons after flashing the update. Found a full wipe and install solved it.
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Worked by first wiping the internal, data, and more stuff except the external SD card, after I flashed it again it worked.
Still looking how to fix the driver issue so I can sideload trough TWRP
had same issue today...
if you have your Shield tablet rooted you can run as root in terminal emulator this:
Code:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity
I have stock Nvidia Shield Tablet with Nougat installed. I had no problems up till yesterday, where I used the Console Mode in the hotel room to attach the tablet to the screen. This morning I wanted to skype and couldn't use the back button, because it did not appear. I checked if I was in full screen mode (which I was) and I unchecked that. But now I only have the back button and permanently on screen, and the Home and Recent Apps is still missing. When I switch back and forward between the center and edge position of the navigation buttons they briefly appear and then dissapear again. I have not found any settings to fix this. I really want to avoid a hard reset as I am on a business trip with limited wifi and re-installing and downloading everything is not an option right now.
I do hope there is a simpler fix.
I had this happen already twice on my tablet. I did a factory reset once but it happened again. I'm on the latest update not rooted stock.
Nougat..
Having been on the same version of CM Marshmallow and making no changes to my phone's software/hardware for a few weeks (except for regularly updating apps), my hardware buttons have all of a sudden stopped working. (I have no way to change volume or turn the screen on/off with the hardware buttons)
They also do not work in TWRP. Having factory reset the phone (using the latest official factory reset .tar.gz) , they don't work on stock android 6.01 and updating to the latest CM with open gapps they are still broken.
They do however ALWAYS work to hold down power and volume down for fastboot (even when not working for volume/screen on) and always work fine whilst in fastboot (for scrolling the menu and selecting options, but do not recovery, eg. TWRP)
Any ideas on what may be causing this much appreciated thanks :good:
TLDR: Hardware buttons only work for turning phone on when powered off, rebooting into fastboot, and for using fastboot (so its unlikely that this is a hardware issue, but not impossible). They don't work with any AOSP/CM/TWRP software, and I don't know why...
EDIT: Although not really a work around, I can at least turn off the screen using Cyanogenmod's double tap status bar, and turn on the screen with this app for the light sensor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wolandsoft.wtn Still no idea how to control the volume though, except for toggling ''do not disturb``
EDIT 2: No fix booting into safemode. Also, the USB connection for charging/data transfer temporarily broke until I rebooted the phone, and I suspect that this may be related
try cleaning with paper towel you wet with alcohol, fixed my mom's iPhone that way.
spacecaptain said:
try cleaning with paper towel you wet with alcohol, fixed my mom's iPhone that way.
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Cheers, I have cleaned with an air can and a glasses cleaning cloth on all surfaces accessible for following a replace your battery tutorial and this has so far fixed all issues that I was having.
So first of all I have a S5 neo which I have rooted. I wanted to achieve that there is no way to access the data on the phone without physical access to it.
So I have everything with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE, UMTS or GSM unsoldered from the motherboard. It worked except for the problem that the phone only started in safe mode so I could not use my own apps.
First I updated Lineageos from the official 17.1 to the unofficial version 18.1 with this ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...1-0-0_r49-lineageos-18-1-28-nov-2021.4292703/ .
Which in itself worked but it still starts in safe mode even when setting up.
Then I had the idea to uninstall system apps via TWRP. Since probably because of the missing components a system app throws errors why it goes into safe mode. So in TWRP via advanced -> file manage in system gone and have thought in my infinite wisdom, since I do not know if it repairt I remove all apps, if it solves my problem I can narrow it down later which app exactly. So first priv app and app folder completely solved.
Now to my current point of view. It does not boot into Lineageos (who could have imagined that XD). So it comes as far as in the boot animation (green curved line where always a circle moves from right to left).
When I try to boot in TWRP it just loops the Samsung logo and then when I release the buttons it tries to boot back into Lineageos.
When I try to boot into download mode it works up to the point where it says warning and I have to press volume up to advance or volume down to cancel. Whereas in here all at once the volume dasten do nothing more. and no the keys are not broken because otherwise I would not have come into the menu.
USB debugging and the like is of course not aktieviert, because I just installed a new ROM.
I don't intend to do anything illegal with the phone, as you might think, it's just a backup idea that I'm implementing for fun.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do?
My only idea right now would be to solder the EMMC memory from another mainboard to my current mainboard.
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So first of all I have a S5 neo which I have rooted. I wanted to achieve that there is no way to access the data on the phone without physical access to it.
So I have everything with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE, UMTS or GSM unsoldered from the motherboard. It worked except for the problem that the phone only started in safe mode so I could not use my own apps.
First I updated Lineageos from the official 17.1 to the unofficial version 18.1 with this ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...1-0-0_r49-lineageos-18-1-28-nov-2021.4292703/ .
Which in itself worked but it still starts in safe mode even when setting up.
Then I had the idea to uninstall system apps via TWRP. Since probably because of the missing components a system app throws errors why it goes into safe mode. So in TWRP via advanced -> file manage in system gone and have thought in my infinite wisdom, since I do not know if it repairt I remove all apps, if it solves my problem I can narrow it down later which app exactly. So first priv app and app folder completely solved.
Now to my current point of view. It does not boot into Lineageos (who could have imagined that XD). So it comes as far as in the boot animation (green curved line where always a circle moves from right to left).
When I try to boot in TWRP it just loops the Samsung logo and then when I release the buttons it tries to boot back into Lineageos.
When I try to boot into download mode it works up to the point where it says warning and I have to press volume up to advance or volume down to cancel. Whereas in here all at once the volume dasten do nothing more. and no the keys are not broken because otherwise I would not have come into the menu.
USB debugging and the like is of course not aktieviert, because I just installed a new ROM.
I don't intend to do anything illegal with the phone, as you might think, it's just a backup idea that I'm implementing for fun.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do?
My only idea right now would be to solder the EMMC memory from another mainboard to my current mainboard.
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I would throw it away at this point, it isn't worth the money, the time or the effort.
Find something else to tinker with, just don't destroy it the way you did this device.
Why take the approach on unsoldering?
Etherway.... , yes just throwing it away at this point is the best thing
FKX1997 said:
Why take the approach on unsoldering?
Etherway.... , yes just throwing it away at this point is the best thing
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also if the data is confidential, try drilling through the EMMC
I got it working again with the help of a Samsung USB jig.