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S100 can not shutdown

hello,
My S100 can not shut down when i press the power button during 2 seconds. (Note: Turning your device off doesn’t turn the phone off. To turn the phone off, press and hold for two seconds.)
It looks off, but it's not, the phone is still on !
I heard i can use the "inflight mode", but i'd like to know the correct manip' to turn off the device AND the phone !
Any idea ? :roll:
ROM : 1.03.02 FRE
Date : 11/02/04

the only correct way to turn the phone off is to use the flight mode.
if you pressed the power botton for 2 sec you will turn the screen light off.
regards.

Pressing the power button does not turn the phone off, that is an error in the manual as far as I know.
Only Flight mode turns off the phone function, when you press the power buton shortly the S100 powers down ( goes into sleep mode), when you press the power button longer the backlight goes off. If you look close, you see the screen is still on then and when you tap it, the programs you tap will respond. When you turn the S100 to sleep mode, the screen switches completely off and does not respond to anything.
You cannot turn the S100 completely off, since no power means no RAM, means a hard reset, means all data you installed gone. In sleep mode, the S100 uses very little power to retain the data and is still able to run alarms, notifications etc.
If you want an easier way to switch your phone to flight mode than tapping the signal symbol in the top and then tapping in the pop-up ,and create alternative modes ( like meeting, loud, soft, quiet, etc), I recommend PocketZenPhone, where you can easily create your own phone modes with buttons on your today screen. The app is very cheap ( 5 euro's) and the links can be found on this forum.

thanx a lot for you're answers ! That helps !
If I am correct, if I need to reboote the device and the phone (for instance, after i installed the "contacts short cut programm designed by Mamaich), the only solution I have is to remove the battery ??? :roll:
I tried to put the phone in flight mode and shut down the device but it didn't work....

I think you need to read your manual better!
Rebooting the device can be done by a soft reset. You just put your stylus point into the little hole in the bottom of the S100, right of the headset hole, and press. It then restarts completely and loads your programs again etc.
Removing the battery also soft resets, BUT: If you leave it out too long, the back up batery runs out and you do a hard reset, thereby removing all data on your device you installed! It will leave you with an S100 as it came from the factory, but all your own data is completely gone (programs, contacts etc)! A Hard reset can also be done by pressing and holding the power button while at the same time doing a soft reset as described above, by putting your stylis in the little hole.
With some programs, like SPB PocketPlus you can select a small reset button to be present on your today screen, so you don't have to push your stylus in the little hole everytime you want to soft reset.
I hope this helps.

Most Important Shortcuts

Hello Friends,
There are many many useful sequence of keys in HTC Universal which is usable for device manipulation. If you know one of them, please report them here.
I know there are many threads that our friends define some keys, but I think an integrate thread is needed.
1) Reset to factory setting
Press and Hold Both Menu Keys On Keyboard ( With Minus (-) Sign) and reset your phone using stylus. A Message appears and wants you to enter 0 to clear storage memory.
2) Show boot menu
Press and hold Light button(Right of Infrared) and reset your device using stylus. A Menu appears and you can do some boot tasks.
3) I want to update my device, but It does not boot and I cant use active-sync to update that.
Press and hold light button(Right of Infrared) and Turn-on button(beside SD Slot) then restart your device using stylus.
The device goes in update mode, you can plug usb cable and run MaUpgradeUt.exe. If it shows error run MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe.

What's the difference between Soft Reset via. Stylus, via. Power Button and via App.?

Hi, I'm just wondering what the difference is between soft-resetting the device via
1. the little button at the bottom
2. the Power button on the side (and then of course turning the device back on afterwards)
3. a software application
Any ideas?

1) When you press the power button the device is shut down completely or goes in to partial suspend mode depending on the device and whether it is a long and short press. For example on most HTC phone short press will turn off the screen and suspend user programs running on the device but the OS phone and some other stuff will still run so you get reminders, mail and of course incoming calls.
Long press will shut down the phone. It is just like shutting down the computer using Start->Shutdown so its not really a reset.
2) Software applications implement couple of different functions but basically they still tell the OS to restart so it is more or less proper restart.
3) "the little stylus hole" is like the reset button on the computer. It actually momentarily cuts power to the system causing it to reboot. This means you loose any unsaved data.
This option is mainly for cases when the system hangs.

Ah ok, so using the little button at the bottom with the stylus is a no-no except when completely frozen...
But what about the other two options? Does either one result in data loss or similar problems? Or are they both equally "safe"?

Yes the other two options are safe since they both go through the OS and not just the hardware.
One more thing:
If you happened to install a program that starts automatically but can't properly work on your device it could cause it to not come out of soft reset - hang on startup screen.
In such case you will have to preform "hard reset" which will erase all data and restore the phone to the way it was when you took it out of the box.
(Windows and built in apps with factory settings).
This is preformed by holding power + camera + comm manager (all three buttons on the sides) and pressing reset (little hole).
Then you will be asked to press 'send' (green phone button) if you are sure you wish to proceed.
Same function can be accomplished using 'clear storage' icon in Settings->System.
Like I said this is only for drastic cases because it will erase all you data.

Is there any way to do a soft reset without removing the battery cover?

I asked this in another thread but then thought it should have its own as it is relevant to more than one problem. Apologies if this has been asked, I couldn't find it.
So as the title says, is there any way to soft reset without removing the battery cover, such as some button combination presses a la the iphone (in which you hold the power button and home button down).
The reason I ask is that on my old HD2 the battery cover was loose on one corner and was never flush and was in a constantly 'popped out' position which really really annoyed me and made the phone creak when in my hands. I don't want to keep putting the cover on and off so a button combination would be very useful.
If there is no button combination, would the AE button mapping program ( http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php) work if you assigned for example a reset with a triple press of the back key? Although if the phone has crashed then I doubt any programs would respond, but worth a shot if it happens to anyone to try it
Thanks for your help!

If the device is freezed, any attempt to softreset with a button will be vain, no program will run and softreset the device; Open the cover and remove the battery (it's way easyer than find something to soft-reset, damn htc, once I've removed the back cover, it's all useless!)
If you want to soft-reset when the device is still running fine (or semi-fine) you can use any program you like, such as XDA Shutdown, or keep pressed the end jey to shut down

Yes, if the device hasn't frozen altogether, you just press long on the 'off' button and select 'power off'. When you switch on again, the device will soft reset.

I use PHM Reset. It does just what it says: soft reset! Of course, you can use only if the phone is not completely frozen but it's very helpful when your phone is becoming sluggish or other crappy behaviour we are familiar with...

[Q] I found something!

Hello,
I found the hardware button works!
Sometimes i shutdown the hd2, it will not shutdown, it will turns to a command line and told me to login, at that time, i can use hw. btn.! (Call btn. = enter, etc.)
Anyone also can use that ans why sometimes can't fully shutdown???
ERR:
Code:
[6741.080386] EXT2-fs error (device loop2): ext2_readdir: bad page in #40322
[7041.090190] EXT2-fs error (device loop2): ext2_readdir: bad page in #40103
Thanks.
UPDATE:
I found the hw btn can work:
When i shutdown, i pressed up the Vol-up key, and it turns to a GUI Ubintu Shutdown Screen, and it was NOT landscape, it was portrait!

hopkinskong said:
Hello,
I found the hardware button works!
Sometimes i shutdown the hd2, it will not shutdown, it will turns to a command line and told me to login, at that time, i can use hw. btn.! (Call btn. = enter, etc.)
Anyone also can use that ans why sometimes can't fully shutdown???
ERR:
Code:
[6741.080386] EXT2-fs error (device loop2): ext2_readdir: bad page in #40322
[7041.090190] EXT2-fs error (device loop2): ext2_readdir: bad page in #40103
Thanks.
UPDATE:
I found the hw btn can work:
When i shutdown, i pressed up the Vol-up key, and it turns to a GUI Ubintu Shutdown Screen, and it was NOT landscape, it was portrait!
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i can confirm that they indeed show life on the shell.
starting in landscape mode from top to button, the top 3 give output on the screen but 1x.
after the home button (4) it seems to trigger normal use.
vol-up/down work, cursor left right, etc...
you have to be using a keyboard to be able to shutdown from the shell tho.
the error comes from the filesystem, could be a faulty sd card.
plopper