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[Q] 3 Finger Salute? Soft reboot?

My old G1 could be rebooted with a three finger salute (Call, Menu, Power). Is there a way to reboot our Vibrant similarly since we don't have a dedicated Call button?

I didn't even know you could reboot like that on the g1 lol don't know of one for the vibrant though.. but there is an app 'quickboot' that does this fine given you are rooted

Try holding the power button for ten seconds

power+volume up/down+home key

lqaddict said:
power+volume up/down+home key
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Kidding right? It was hard enough trying to get the volume up/down button down right along with power to root this thing!

Works everytime google maps hangs the phone while GPS is going nuts

[Q] Noob question: How to know if the phone is ON ?

Ok, really noob.
I turn the phone off every night but sometimes I forget if I turned it off or not.
As far as I know, we can only click the power button to light the screen but if the phone is already shutdown it will turn on again.
Is there any other key to touch the phone so we'll able to see if it's on?

Hold town power and vol down. If it is on it will.go to.the lock screen and if it is off hboot will appear, wait for the green text to go and then use vol keys to navigate to fastboot and press power to select and then navigate to power down and press power
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Thanks.
A lot faster

Well that's what I do
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[Q] About play hardware

Ok so I know what the little switch does next to the SD card slot. I am wondering what the round little pin hole button below the SD does? I have tried pressing it and holding it in for about a minute but nothing noticeable happens. Any ideas?

Try pressing it while powering on?
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Replacement screens needed, yet another cracked back.

Yep. So the inevitable happened. After cracking it's back 15 days back, I just dropped it 2 feet face down and boom, broken screen. The right side and the top of my touch screen aren't working, some of the left side is. Sort of the bottom left quadrant. Strange.
So guys, I really need some advice/help. I have two options.
1. Sell the nexus off for parts for around $180.
2. Buy a replacement screen from somewhere.
Please post any sources of the replacement screen you know of, and I'd need international shipping.
LG doesn't sell the N4 in my country so can't get it repaired officially.

Okay, alternative question. How do I switch my phone off when I can't touch 'Power Off' button on the screen after long pressing the power button? Also, I need to take a backup of all my apps, contacts and SMSs.

cyanide911 said:
Okay, alternative question. How do I switch my phone off when I can't touch 'Power Off' button on the screen after long pressing the power button? Also, I need to take a backup of all my apps, contacts and SMSs.
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Hold power button until it shuts off
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If I keep the power button pressed, the phone switches off but starts again on it's own.

cyanide911 said:
If I keep the power button pressed, the phone switches off but starts again on it's own.
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Hold down Vol- as the phone reboots to get into bootloader mode. Then select "Power Off" with the volume buttons and the power button to select.
Also, I think LG will replace the screen for $140.

cyanide911 said:
If I keep the power button pressed, the phone switches off but starts again on it's own.
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check out GMD GestureControl: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontroldemo
It is an awesome app which lets you set up a lot of gestures, included the one to show the "Power Menu"...root needed, of course...

Tablet won't let me use home screen, etc.

Samsung galaxy tab4 -- all of a sudden can't put any icons on the home screen, backlight keeps turning off, and top left button doesn't bring it back on as before (landscape position). Under 1 year old. Help!

BenniRed said:
Samsung galaxy tab4 -- all of a sudden can't put any icons on the home screen, backlight keeps turning off, and top left button doesn't bring it back on as before (landscape position). Under 1 year old. Help!
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Reset your tab ...

McFy said:
Reset your tab ...
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How do I do that?

BenniRed said:
How do I do that?
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You have to reboot on recovery mode : turn off your tab and then boot using power volum up and home key all the boot. Then you will be on the recovery go using the volume key to factory reset section. To enable use power key.

McFy said:
You have to reboot on recovery mode : turn off your tab and then boot using power volum up and home key all the boot. Then you will be on the recovery go using the volume key to factory reset section. To enable use power key.
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Thank you, I'll try that.

BenniRed said:
Thank you, I'll try that.
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Ok, you have a bottom for that