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[HELP] Phone only powers up into download mode!

So I've been running Bonsai 2.0 for a bit, but just today it started where if i power down, it will only power into download mode. I odin'd back to stock and the problem still persists. To be more clear, when i power up normally, just using the power button, it goes into download. Any ideas?

Your one button could be broken
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Well as I sit typing this from the phone the one isn't constantly hitting. And I can type the number 1 no problemand even sliding closed doesn't hit the keyboard one. I'm gonna go to sprint n give hell because this is a brand new replacement from insurion and its bs that I'm having this problem after only a week. I know they don't support sammys warnty but there should be at least a 30 day or something
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How are you typing on your phone if it only boots into download mode? Does it sometimes boot regularly?

DiGi760 said:
How are you typing on your phone if it only boots into download mode? Does it sometimes boot regularly?
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I thought the same thing, but perhaps, when the op odins, the phone will boot normally that one time because the power button isn't being used. Odin does reboot the phone if you have the reboot box checked.
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Hit the nail on the head. When I odin it boots up fine. But if I try to power reboot or anything, right back into download.
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Sounds annoying... Assurion takes replacement phones back up to 30 days after receipt, unless there is evidence of physical/water damage. In which case, you would have to fork over an extra 100 bucks. Remember, they will only send 3 claim replacement phones and then they cancel your insurance.
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Did you figure out the problem?

Sounds like it should be covered under Manufacturer's Warranty or Sprint Repair if you have TEP. I think this would be a defect, not accidental damage. Asurion shouldn't come into play.

So I went into the sprint repair center, the guys had no clue what the hell the download screen was. So obviously they had no clue why it was only booting into it. They're replacing it. Still stumped as to what happened.

Wow. That's a crappy service center if they didn't know what download mode is.

DiGi760 said:
Wow. That's a crappy service center if they didn't know what download mode is.
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Exactly what I thought. I thought that these guys took classes on new devices as they came out? Maybe this guy was sleeping during the download mode section.
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So my back button broke

My back button isn't popping back up like the other buttons. Its stuck in the down position and to use it I have to press pretty hard. Is there hope to fixing this or replacing a broken part? Or can I just move the back button to lets say the genius button?
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Why don't you just try button savior or soft key? Better than nothing...
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I mean like a hardware fix. I bought the phone from Craig's list so no warantee :/
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if you have no warranty, then open the phone up and re-alignh the button or see wats wrong

Thanks I just needed a push in the right direction. I was getting ready to open it up when low and behold it pooped back up and hasn't malfunctioned since. Which is great because the back button does so much on the mt4g
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kvonnegutjr said:
I mean like a hardware fix. I bought the phone from Craig's list so no warantee :/
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Don't tell them it came from Craigslist. I just had to do a swap on my son's Mytouch Slide and there were no questions asked about where I bought it.

kvonnegutjr said:
My back button isn't popping back up like the other buttons. Its stuck in the down position and to use it I have to press pretty hard. Is there hope to fixing this or replacing a broken part? Or can I just move the back button to lets say the genius button?
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one think I missed switching from nexus one to mt4g is touch buttons.

[Q] Alternative Power On Option?

My phone took a swim in some water unfortunately. Everything about the phone works except for one crucial part. The power button is completely unresponsive. It half worked for a short while but now its completely useless. I had to download an app to turn off the screen instead of waiting for it to time out. I also had to download an app to reboot the phone since its good to do every so often. I'm trying to avoid paying the $100 water damage deductable to get it replaced. Problem is if my phone ever has the battery drained I won't be able to turn it back on. I highly doubt it but is there any other way of turning on the phone without the power button working? Or is it just FUBAR???

lostrudy said:
My phone took a swim in some water unfortunately. Everything about the phone works except for one crucial part. The power button is completely unresponsive. It half worked for a short while but now its completely useless. I had to download an app to turn off the screen instead of waiting for it to time out. I also had to download an app to reboot the phone since its good to do every so often. I'm trying to avoid paying the $100 water damage deductable to get it replaced. Problem is if my phone ever has the battery drained I won't be able to turn it back on. I highly doubt it but is there any other way of turning on the phone without the power button working? Or is it just FUBAR???
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If you can get into download mode and odin back to stock and pull the plug half way thru and take it back to sprint and say it won't turn on because of some update and play stupid they'll replace the phone because its a software issue ie error on their part therefore must replace it. Also I've heard odin3 has the ability to control hardware controls never used it myself
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Biggoron said:
If you can get into download mode and odin back to stock and pull the plug half way thru and take it back to sprint and say it won't turn on because of some update and play stupid they'll replace the phone because its a software issue ie error on their part therefore must replace it. Also I've heard odin3 has the ability to control hardware controls never used it myself
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Don't do this.

algorhythm said:
Don't do this.
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Worked numerous times why not?
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Biggoron said:
Worked numerous times why not?
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Because it's a scummy thing to do and borderline fraud.
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My recommendation keep a charger close by and start checking the couch cushions every where you go.

Yeah I know anyways try odin3 I've seen a guy with the same problem and he's used that to turn it on.
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algorhythm said:
Because it's a scummy thing to do and borderline fraud.
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Not borderline. It "is" fraud.
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Zeinzu said:
Not borderline. It "is" fraud.
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You and I know this.. But to many others, Sprint owes its customers the sun, moon and stars.
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Bricked or not bricked, they will refer you to asurion regardless if there is signs of liquid corrosion.
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I'll get Odin3 and see if that will work. Now if it does, is it impossible to upgrade and install a custom kernel and/or rom now? I'm still on Froyo running genocide kernel and SFR 1.2 rom.
Obviously I can't do anything using the power button.

I had to give in and just pay the deductable. Not having a working power button is just too much of a hassle especially when dealing with rooting and flashing kernals/roms/etc. Thanks for all the help everyone, I appreciate it.

You can manually control/power on ur phone using the ADB method. You'll just have to download and set up the Android SDK
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Won't turn off.

Got a question. My girlfriends phone won't stay off. We press the power button to put it to sleep and/or turn the screen off. When we do, it comes back on right after. It is a little annoying and battery draining. Any help?
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Just do a battery pull
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Yeah we do that, but sometimes it still does it too. Its weird.
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If its plugged in it could stay on. Is her phone rooted? Can you clear the cache and dalvik? Make sure its unplugged and do a battery pull. Then leave it out for a couple mins, replace, wipe cache and see if it still happens. She may also have a crappy power button.

Nah, she's not rooted. I've thought about it, but I also don't want to mess her phone up and go through the long gfree process. Mine is rooted, g2. But I told her maybe later I would. She likes the way it is, dunno why, but does. So ill let it be for now.
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B4 I was rooted I use to use go launcher and other home replacement apps and I found sometimes it would make my screen turn on randomly so it could be an app she has down loaded
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. She has a theme on go sms that tries to get her to download go launcher. I want her rooted so her phone will work 10x better, but she's an if ain't broke don't fix it girl. But her phone is pretty broke ha ha
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Haha well it could be an app and I think you should just keep trying to get her to let you root it and then give her a great custom rom and she won't have any reason to complain lol
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wont turn off
hi, i have a rooted my-touch 4g w/ cyanogen 7. i am currently experiencing the same problem. pressing the power button only momentarily shuts screen off then it comes right back on. after that it will continue to shut off and on. i believe the problem has to do with the track pad button, possible=y something making contact or an improperly working switch. i have found that if you time pressing the power button right when the screen starts to turn back on it will stay off, but you have to time it right. as to why i think its the track pad, i have found that if you hold the track pad button down and then press the power button the screen will remain off until you release the track pad button. i pressed down hard on the track pad and released then tried the power button by itself and it seem to be functioning correctly for the moment. i am 99% sure its the track pad button.

Could it be stuck power button
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It may be fastboot. Just a suggestion.
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MT4G Dead?

Phone vibrates 5 times and has a green LED light that stays on. I was running Dark Unicorn v2 before this. It was on Safe Mode. I rebooted into recovery, and now the phone vibrates 5 times and a green light appears. VOL DOWN + POWER does not do anything besides that green-light five-vibration thingy.
Any ideas?

From what I read before, it's not dead. It put itself on some kind of mode. I don't remember where I read about this but let me do a quick search. In the mean time, have you tried adb?
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siloner said:
From what I read before, it's not dead. It put itself on some kind of mode. I don't remember where I read about this but let me do a quick search. In the mean time, have you tried adb?
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I've been reading a lot about it. There was something called safe mode. From what I've read, it seems to be a problem with my volume button (perhaps the phone believe the volume up button is being pressed).
I cannot use ADB as the computer does not detect the phone/SD.

Does your volume up button feel like it's going out? Also try a battery pull then Vol down + power
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siloner said:
Does your volume up button feel like it's going out? Also try a battery pull then Vol down + power
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "going out", but from the outside there doesn't seem to be anything physically wrong with it. I also never had any problems with it while I was using the phone normally.
The battery pull and VOL DOWN + POWER gives me five vibrations, and then a permanent green LED. I can't get the phone exchanged because I'm in India, and my warranty has already expired.

Well sorry but I'm out of ideas man. I'll keep searching for an answer and if I find something I'll let you know. Hopefully someone else sees this and has a solution
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Your emmc chip has died this happened to me a while back that's all it has nothing to do with the buttons. I had mine for only a month and it happened to me so you will need another phone its nothing you can do with that device now
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tvotony said:
Your emmc chip has died this happened to me a while back that's all it has nothing to do with the buttons. I had mine for only a month and it happened to me so you will need another phone its nothing you can do with that device now
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Thank you for the information. Guess there's really nothing I can do to save my phone then...
Well, at least I will be out of the T-Mobile contract in February. Then I can get a new phone, and use a temporary crappy one until then.

DKMikey said:
Thank you for the information. Guess there's really nothing I can do to save my phone then...
Well, at least I will be out of the T-Mobile contract in February. Then I can get a new phone, and use a temporary crappy one until then.
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If you have insurance they will replace it I used to have this phone back when I was a tester for team royal back in the glory day of this device
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This happened to me and I kept trying to boot into clockworkmod recovery. No matter what I did, it wanted to either do as you stated above or it would immediately try to load off the sd card my pd15img. I simply turned off the phone, pulled the sd card out, and when the phone went to the hboot screen with a volume up and power, or volume down, I then put the sd card back in and selected recovery. I don't know if this is what's wrong with yours, but I definitely had that 5 vibration flashing light issue.
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tony6083 said:
This happened to me and I kept trying to boot into clockworkmod recovery. No matter what I did, it wanted to either do as you stated above or it would immediately try to load off the sd card my pd15img. I simply turned off the phone, pulled the sd card out, and when the phone went to the hboot screen with a volume up and power, or volume down, I then put the sd card back in and selected recovery. I don't know if this is what's wrong with yours, but I definitely had that 5 vibration flashing light issue.
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Tony
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If you can get to the hboot screen you should load the pd15img. It would hopefully start you over un rooted
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What does the phone do when its plugged in? I only ask because mine was doing this same thing and it turns out it was a problem with my battery. I got a new one from Ebay for about 5 bucks but I also convinced T-Mobile that it was my phone and got it replaced. I had Insurance on it of course.

DKMikey said:
Phone vibrates 5 times and has a green LED light that stays on. I was running Dark Unicorn v2 before this. It was on Safe Mode. I rebooted into recovery, and now the phone vibrates 5 times and a green light appears. VOL DOWN + POWER does not do anything besides that green-light five-vibration thingy.
Any ideas?
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I had that happen once also, I did the following and it booted up.
1) take battery out for at least 15min, (I don't know why, but it worked)
2) then do the volume-down+ power it should come right back up.
3) If I remember right, the battery that was in the unit giving me problems, was less than 20%, that very well could have been the real issue. Find a way to charge the battery then pull it.

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I had that happen once also, I did the following and it booted up.
1) take battery out for at least 15min, (I don't know why, but it worked)
2) then do the volume-down+ power it should come right back up.
3) If I remember right, the battery that was in the unit giving me problems, was less than 20%, that very well could have been the real issue. Find a way to charge the battery then pull it.
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1 + 2 tried, but didn't work.
Maybe I will try it with a new battery. Thanks for the information guys!
Edit: I do not have insurance (1 year is done)

The PD15IMG I had on my card was the original stock Ginger bread I think and I would had to have re-rooted.
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fried eMMC on MyTouch 4G
I'm also having this issue, got confirmed that my MT4G is dead, but I got it revived using this method here, it is not intended for MT4G, but i got it working...I temporarily using it, while waiting for fix (if there is any) and finding mainboard for my device.

chleoj said:
I'm also having this issue, got confirmed that my MT4G is dead, but I got it revived using this method here, it is not intended for MT4G, but i got it working...I temporarily using it, while waiting for fix (if there is any) and finding mainboard for my device.
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Problem is, my phone doesn't even go into recovery...or hboot.

Any solutions yet? I've been reading this and have done everything here.
I've bought myself a new replacement battery off eBay. Charged it over night and still nothing. Powering up the phone, it vibrates. After powering up the phone and left it on for 5 min, I waited to see if it'll recognize my phone through the computer so I can check if it's the phone or the lcd, but still nothing. Any suggestion will be really grateful! And I have no insurance. Bought it used over Craigslist.
Sorry, I'm not trying to jack anyone's thread. Just didn't want to start a new one with almost the same problem.

I think your volume button is stuck was reading somewhere that someone fixed it by taking his volume button apart and it was stuck pressing up I think and that's y it was doing that not sure if this would help u at all but you might wanna try that
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29650107
Read that post it shows that the volume up button is stuck. The vibrations happens to me to if I power my phone down and then hold the up button and try and power on so I think that's the cause of all this
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