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Power button got screwed

Hey ... I have A BIG problem. My power button on my HTC TyTN got screwed. And I don't know how to fix it. Tried dissassembling and the button isn't as elastic as the other ones.
So - any underlay or whatever. Could it help? Anyone who had the same problem?
I checked it ... and the button [the small black thing] doesn't "click" ... so - what can I do with that? My warranty has expired few days ago.
Or, is there another way to get into the bootloader except OK + Power + Softreset? I wanna flash new ROM (which I really need, this one is kinda weird) and I'm afraid of doing it (just for sure if I brick the phone).

You have to take the plunge and flash the unit using RUUwrapper.
Another alternative is using MTTY.exe (or another terminal too over a virtual USB connection) to place the phone in bootloader mode among other things.
If you know how to use JTAG (I'm just learning about this), then you have nothing to wory about.

But ... it has to be connected to activesync. And if thar ROM will be bad (won't boot) or flashing fails, I won't be able to connect phone to RUUwrapper.
Or can mtty put "dead" phone into bootloader?

pajousek said:
Or can mtty put "dead" phone into bootloader?
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Yes it can. I do not remember the command right now.
NB: A 'bricked' phone will always be in bootlader mode anyway.
You can run the terminal command "r2sd all" (this works on Charmers/Magicians) (so you'll have to look up your variant) to back up the current ROM to the M2 card (using a RAW writing method) in MTTY.exe (or any other suitable terminal program).

Well, I'm still a bit scared that mtty won't put the phone into bootloader.
And can you please explain me this? "NB: A 'bricked' phone will always be in bootlader mode anyway."
If i have bad XIP or whatever, it just has white screen and nothing happens. Will mtty be able to put phone into bootloader even after this?

Same problem Here
Hi Friends,
I screwed my HTC Hermes power button while trying to fix its earlier problem.
Now to turn the backlight on ..i changed the settings and I can now use any button to bring it out of Sleep mode....
I used a program available on this site to enter bootloader.
However, the problem remains when "power button" is to be pressed.
Any advice on how to get over the "Press power button" to start the ROM flashing....

Has it just popped off the board slightly?
Does it click with some applied pressure in a particular area?
I just yesterday repaired the power button on my hermes, it had popped out from the PCB on one side.
Bit of soldering managed to re-attach the metal outer case of the switch to the PCB, all seems to be working again.

DarK501 said:
Has it just popped off the board slightly?
Does it click with some applied pressure in a particular area?
I just yesterday repaired the power button on my hermes, it had popped out from the PCB on one side.
Bit of soldering managed to re-attach the metal outer case of the switch to the PCB, all seems to be working again.
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Its completely come out of the PCB... I tried but doesn't work for me...
Also, further damage has been done as the Battery connector has come off the PCB......
Phone is completely off now. Will keep you posted.

[Q] HD2 only powers up via USB? Just reinstalled new digitzer

Hey XDA, my phone's digitizer broke, so i decided to bring it to a local repair shop to get it fixed. The phone worked completely as I was able to run hyperdroid NAND and the touchscreen also worked perfectly as well. After getting the digitizer replaced from this guy, my phone would not turn on. The only way to turn on the phone would to plug in the USB. Even though it was plugged into the USB and powered on, it would run MAGLDR and go to the NAND boot where it would say 123456 gogogo. From there it just stops and stays there. Also when i boot into the tri-colored bootloader, it does not recognize that my USB is plugged in, and also doesnt say cotulla blah blah blah. Still shows that it is running hardspl though. What could be the problem?
Much help would be appreciated thanks!
P.S. I would also like to say that when booting into MAGLDR, holding the power button does not bring me to the menu that shows boot SD or the stuff like tetris.

happened to me before. Check the battery pins maybe one of them is bent.

really? hmm. well it seems like the battery pins are fine! it has to be a hardware problem somewhere right? cause it was working before he went to work on it!
actually... do your pins go down pretty easily? i have to press kind of hard on mine for them to go down. but that doesnt explain the bootloader not recognizing the USB though... or does it??

yea they should be hard to push down... cant tell you if its hardware or not but if i had to guess im guessing one of the ribbons hasnt been reconnected right.

I can assure you it is hardware. I was running hyperdroid right before he fixed it! we turned it off and everything then he started working on it. a ribbon not connected right could be the case! ill see what i can do. maybe ill bring it back to him
in bootloader when i pull out my usb. it says serial where it should say USB

If this helps anyone, I just resolved this myself by pushing down a pin that was sticking up, then inserting the battery DOWNWARDS so the pins get pressed back down and it should allow your HD2 to reboot.

[Q] Powerbutton doesn't make it boot

Yesterday i started off as newbe to install android with clk. The first time i selected a partition size that was too large (selected the maximum size of 450) then it suddenly didn't react to the powerbutton anymore. Only when i put in a connect usb cable it started booting. I repeated the partitioning after a task29 with 200/44 and after trial&error got to install a cyogen rom. It booted nicely the first time, but didn't have a sim-card installed yet. So i got my sim and wanted to boot it and discoverd that the powerbutton still doesn't do anything :S It only responds to the usb cable. When booted it does respond to it (standby etc).
What happened and how can i make it work again???
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It also appears that it can only run with the usb connected. If i disconnect the usb for some reason (with full battery) it immediatly dies. That happend also when in the three-color screen and in the clk recovery menu.

Bent battery pin.

it could be what samsamuel says or u hv dirt in the connector toggle switch under the button....try sam's option (reset the bent pin) if that doesnt do the trick....try removing any dirt from the button (dont pry it too hard)..some strong air flow might may b just enough...

How a big problem can have a simple solution That did the trick. Thx

telefoontoestel said:
How a big problem can have a simple solution That did the trick. Thx
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which suggestion solved ur problem....
btw glad it worked for ya

[Q] Nexus 4 Damage Help

So first some back-story, I'll get right into it. I recently dropped my phone in some water. As soon as possible I dried off the outside, and let it sit. That was the only thing I could do at the time, I had no rice, no tools to open up the phone, anything. I ended up with a solid red light, and everything unresponsive.
The next day I got some tools to open her up. There was pretty extensive corrosion to the motherboard, so using some alcohol I cleaned it all off, rinsed it, and let it dry. I also took apart everything else and cleaned any corrosion. The inside looks brand new. However, this isn't the point of the thread.
It appeared my cleaning helped quite a bit. Upon re-assembling and plugging in, I immediately got a charging sign on the phone. However, after trying to power on, I got no response. Additionally, The charging signal went out after about 20 seconds, and the whole phone became unresponsive again. I can do this process as many times as I want, but the same thing happens every time.
So I tried a different approach. First I hold down both volume rockers plus the power button, and plug it in while holding them down. This puts the phone into "download mode" However, once in download mode the phone is, again, unresponsive. After plugging into my laptop, my computer recognizes the phone, but not as "Nexus 4," but as "Full JellyBean on Mako."
Is there anything I can do about this? I've heard about drivers being able to be installed when in download mode, but I would not know what these are, where to get them, or how to install them. I really don't mind if my phone never works 100% again, I doubt it would. I just want to be able to get into the storage so I can recover some of the files I lost.
It's also probably worth mentioning I have not gotten a solid red light after the clean. Once in a while I will get a blinking red light after plugging it in, but after less than a minute it stops and goes through the charging/stop charging phase I'm so familiar with. Any help at all would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.

The charging block and/or battery could be wrecked, for safety reasons and because it will probably become faulty soon you should change the battery anyway. If the charging block is broken flashing your phone could fail. It's also possible the board was irreparably damaged, but it's probably worth a try as the parts aren't too expensive.

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The charging block and/or battery could be wrecked, for safety reasons and because it will probably become faulty soon you should change the battery anyway. If the charging block is broken flashing your phone could fail. It's also possible the board was irreparably damaged, but it's probably worth a try as the parts aren't too expensive.
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After trying to figure more things out, I kept it plugged in for a while. It appears my battery actually holds at least a pretty good charge, as the indicator is full when I plug it in now. However, I don't know what you mean when you say charging block.
Also, I seemed to determine my power button isn't working either. I always thought no response to pushing it meant there was something else going on, but I am able to put it into "download mode" by just holding down the volume rockers and plugging it in. Is there a way to turn on the phone another way besides the power button? Also if not, will buying another power button fix the problem? I don't want to buy one then later figure out the reason it wasn't turning on was just a board problem, and not a problem with the button itself.

You can short the power button with a screwdriver or something should turn the phone on., By charging block I mean the secondary board that the micro usb port is a part of, it can be replaced fairly easily if necessary.

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DrFredPhD said:
You can short the power button with a screwdriver or something should turn the phone on., By charging block I mean the secondary board that the micro usb port is a part of, it can be replaced fairly easily if necessary.
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With a screwdriver? Enlighten me, I'd have no idea how to do that. If I had a faulty charging block, then my phone wouldn't be able to charge correct? My phone was plugged in for a while in download mode, and it gained a full charge from a relatively low charge. I also took the block apart and cleaned any corrosion, so I think that's still functional.
Some more progress, upon further attempting to turn the phone on, I was able to get it into fastboot mode. When plugging into the computer it is recognized, but as just "Android." I will type out what information is displayed here, minus serial number, as a new member cannot submit links in posts apparently.
FASTBOOT MODE
PRODUCT_NAME - mako
VARIENT - mako 8GB
HW VERSION - rev_11
BOOTLOADER VERSION - MAK0230d
BASEBAND VERSION - M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.98
CARRIER INFO - None
SERIAL NUMBER -
SIGNING - production
SECURE BOOT - enabled
LOCK STATE - locked
Also, fastboot at the top (as far as I know) usually says "Start" or "Recovery Mode," but mine says "Restart bootloader." When I try switching with my volume buttons, nothing happens.

Another update, just in case anyone is still listening..
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Also, fastboot at the top (as far as I know) usually says "Start" or "Recovery Mode," but mine says "Restart bootloader." When I try switching with my volume buttons, nothing happens.
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This no longer applies, for some reason I am able to switch through all modes, incliding "Start, Power Off, Recovery Mode, and Restart bootloader."

Str1ngcheese said:
Another update, just in case anyone is still listening..
This no longer applies, for some reason I am able to switch through all modes, incliding "Start, Power Off, Recovery Mode, and Restart bootloader."
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Now that you're at this point, have you attempted to flash the phone with a stock image? I'd be weary of what the other poster said though and ensure your USB connection is holding steady because you don't want it dying half way through a flash because then you'll have a brick.

Monotoko said:
Now that you're at this point, have you attempted to flash the phone with a stock image? I'd be weary of what the other poster said though and ensure your USB connection is holding steady because you don't want it dying half way through a flash because then you'll have a brick.
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I have tried actually. I used the Nexus Root Toolkit v1.8.0 to try and flash it. At first it wouldn't find the device, but through device manager I manually installed the usb_driver onto the phone. After this, the toolkit was able to find the phone. I attempted to flash the image, but it ended up staying in fastboot mode. The program then suggested I try to enable "force flash," which I did, and this time it was never able to finish because the phone tried to restart, but went through that "charging to unresponsive" state I described in my first post.
Upon trying to flash it normally again, it looks like maybe the phone has to be unlocked to do this properly? I then tried to unlock with the same program, but in order to do that, I need the power button to confirm I actually want to unlock the phone. So yet again, I need that power button working.
Any ideas/suggestions/solutions would be amazing.

Jellybean on mako means that your phone is in lgnpst/qcpnst mode. Looks like something failed to start and made the bootloader trogger that mode
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

opssemnik said:
Jellybean on mako means that your phone is in lgnpst/qcpnst mode. Looks like something failed to start and made the bootloader trogger that mode
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
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Soo, any suggestions?

Str1ngcheese said:
Soo, any suggestions?
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clean all the contacts with alcohol (not the normal one, the other that i dont remember the name).clean all the corrusion that you can find,let your phone charge for some hours and try again

opssemnik said:
clean all the contacts with alcohol (not the normal one, the other that i dont remember the name).clean all the corrusion that you can find,let your phone charge for some hours and try again
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I've already done that.
Str1ngcheese said:
The next day I got some tools to open her up. There was pretty extensive corrosion to the motherboard, so using some alcohol I cleaned it all off, rinsed it, and let it dry. I also took apart everything else and cleaned any corrosion. The inside looks brand new.
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Problem is the power button doesn't work, and the flashing fails. It looks like the flashing fails because the phone isn't unlocked. To unlock, I need the power button. Kinda stuck.

Str1ngcheese said:
I've already done that.
Problem is the power button doesn't work, and the flashing fails. It looks like the flashing fails because the phone isn't unlocked. To unlock, I need the power button. Kinda stuck.
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the golden contacts on the power button / mobo could be damaged, do a little short till phone turns on

opssemnik said:
the golden contacts on the power button / mobo could be damaged, do a little short till phone turns on
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How would I go about doing a short?

Str1ngcheese said:
How would I go about doing a short?
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touch in both pins, something that passes electric current(like a yarn,wires, copper wire, something that passes electrical current).its basicly what the power button does.

M30s does not boot - stuck at very first screen

Hi all,
my Gylaxy M30s rebooted itself yestarday, and now is stuck at the very first screen (the one showing "SAMSUNG Galaxy M30s" in the center and "Powered by android" at the bottom).
Vol down + power results in a reboot attempt (screen goes black, vibration), but the phone is stopping at the same screen again.
I am not able to turn the phone off.
Switching from Vol down to Vol up immediately when screen goes black does not enter recovery mode.
Vol down + power while charging sometimes leads to the charging symbol being shown on the screen, but without the percentage in the middle.
Charging over night did not help.
The phone cannot be connected to a Win PC.
Any suggestions what I can try?
Thanks,
Alchemist

Try volume down+volume up and while pressing those buttons, plug your phone into your computer. Tell me the results of that.

Nothing happening...

I mean trying those combinations immediately after using power+ volume down to reboot.

What did you do with your phone? Died suddenly when normally using?

Yes, phone died during normal usage.
Ah, I see - a screen comes up warning me that downloading a custom OS might harm the phone.
Also, the PC makes this "USB connected" sound when I then press Vol up, but I do not see a new drive connected, I think.
I am slightly optimistic now?

Press volume up.Then install Samsung usb drivers(search on Google)

Ugh, just wanted to do this, but now the phone is completely dead. No response to any button or charging. Will hang it on the charger for a few hours, but my optimism is gone...

OK, now it works again. I am in the screen with the colourfull stuff and the phone waits for some download.
Driver is installed on PC. Is there anything supposed to happen - the phone is still not accessible via PC, or is it?

Install Odin (search in Google 'odin samsung' and download)
Download stock firmware(android os) at www.samfw.com , after downloading you will see files like AP-M505xxxxxxx.tar.
Select, from the stock ROM AP-M305xxxxx.tar for AP in odin CSC-M305xxxxx.tar for CSC, and so forth then click start .

OK. All data will be lost, right? Is there some way to access the internal storage to rescue some files before flashing the new firmware?

Sorry to tell you that you cannot have data restored bad news for you sorry

Sorry. If you only see one file(make sure it is .tar or .tar.md5 file) after you extracted the .zip firmware, install it to the AP slot.

Any chance I could fix this issue with tools like dr.fone, UltFOne, ReiBoot?
I do not have any experiences with these - no idea if the just want to make money with desparate customers? ...

These could possibly brick your phones even more ( anyways flashing with Odin could also brick your phone). However, it in some cases can fix your device.
If you HAVE to have your data back and you don't mind paying, visit a service center and tell them: 'Hey my phone died and i HAVE to have the data back '.(I know, your warranty is expired probably, but they might still do the things for you with paying.)(if those stores closed during lockdown then I don't know any way to fix it.)

OK, another thing I have observed: The screen goes black after about 30 sec to 5 min when not charged - the shorter it was charged, the quicker the screen goes black. Buttons do nothing when screen is black. When reattached to charger, phone tries to boot and is then stuck at said screen - no button pressing needed for the phone to try to start. The longer the phone has been without charger, the longer it takes until the phone tries to boot.
Maybe it's just the battery that is dead - or would the phone with a dead battery boot normally when attached to charger?

If that is the case, open up your phone, put in a replacement battery, and try to boot up(yes, you need to. it will be a frustrating process.). Your phone could be having a faulty battery and nothing else, to cause this issue.

Im having the same problem mentioned above. The samsung service centre says to replace the motherboard which costs almost half the price of the actual phone..

Mystic_Jamdam said:
Im having the same problem mentioned above. The samsung service centre says to replace the motherboard which costs almost half the price of the actual phone..
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Truth to be told: The guy in the repair shop opened the phone and wanted to change the battery - when he saw that water must have come into the phone, corroding the motherboard. So yeah, all data lost, but... no backup, no mercy. I now have set up a NAS for all computers and devices in our family... ;-)

If it really is a hardware problem then the quality must have been really bad.