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So my Droid 2's power button stopped working a little bit before I got my Thunderbolt, and I ended up giving it to my girlfriend (she had an Eris...)
Anyways, I learned a few tricks along the way so I could root, SBF, and enter recovery without the need for the power button, and I thought I might share the info for people with the same problem who might not know what to do.
I've come to the conclusion that the Droid 2 does not need a power button for it to be fully functional. It is only there for convenience.
1. So your power button doesn't work and you need to turn the screen on? Easiest thing to get around.
Simply slide the keyboard open and the screen comes on.
2. So your power button doesn't work, and your battery has died or has fallen out. How are you supposed to turn the device on without a power button?
All you have to do is plug in the phone to an AC charger, and the phone should come on.
Sometimes, however, it will show the boot logo, then go to a screen showing you your battery percentage, and not actually boot. No problem. Just pull the battery and unplug. Replace the battery, and while holding the "x" button on your keyboard, plug the phone back in (be sure to keep holding the "x" button until a triangle with an exclamation point appears). Your phone will reboot into recovery (if stock recovery, press the magnifying glass). Simply unplug the phone, and choose to reboot, and poof, your phone is on.
3. So you need to SBF, but don't know how to get into the bootloader without the power button?
Simply plug the phone into your computer. Sometimes if the phone is already off, it will automatically boot into the bootloader. However if the phone is already on, just use the ADB command "adb reboot bootloader"
If your not good with ADB, simply pull your battery, replace it, and while holding the "up arrow" on your keyboard, plug the phone in and it will reboot into the bootloader.
4. So you've done the SBF, but now you need to wipe data/cache to stop a bootloop?
Like before, simply plug the phone in while holding the "X" button on your keyboard and you will boot into stock recovery.
So there you have it. A way around everything the power button is needed for. I'm sure a lot of you already knew this information, but hopefully this will help some that might not already know.
Last night I was trying to fix my girlfriends phone, and forgot how to boot into recovery without the power button, and felt very hopeless. That was the inspiration to write this little guide.
orkillakilla said:
(not sure if this is the correct forum, pretty sure it is though. If not, sorry and please move)
2. So your power button doesn't work, and your battery has died or has fallen out. How are you supposed to turn the device on without a power button?
All you have to do is plug in the phone to an AC charger, and the phone should come on.
Sometimes, however, it will show the boot logo, then go to a screen showing you your battery percentage, and not actually boot. No problem. Just pull the battery and unplug. Replace the battery, and while holding the "x" button on your keyboard, plug the phone back in (be sure to keep holding the "x" button until a triangle with an exclamation point appears). Your phone will reboot into recovery (if stock recovery, press the magnifying glass). Simply unplug the phone, and choose to reboot, and poof, your phone is on.
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I get as far as the triangle with an exclamation point appearing, but then nothing else happens. PLEASE HELP!!!!
You need to hit both the volume keys at the same time to get into recovery.
Sent from my ApeX-ed, Overclocked, and Automated Droid 2.
You do not need to hit both volume keys. Only need to plug in and hold "x".
After you see the triangle you need to hit the magnifying glass button on the keyboard to bring up the menu.
Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt powered by SkyRaider Zeus Preview
Irony of Irony, a day after I got on this post, my cat knocked my phone off the computer table and guess what? My power button is broken. I turn my phone on now with the Volume Up key and the Screeble app turns the screen off after I lay the phone on a flat surface. I refresh the phone from time to time with a cont alt del sequence to reboot the thing.
I am not going to bother with a replacement, as I have ins, because I do not want to start all over with a new phone and I am due for a upgrade now anyway. I just can not decide what phone I want to replace it with. I tend to lean to the D3 because of the keyboard but I want to look at the IP 5 this week too.
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You do not need to hit both volume keys. Only need to plug in and hold "x".
After you see the triangle you need to hit the magnifying glass button on the keyboard to bring up the menu.
Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt powered by SkyRaider Zeus Preview
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If you're on the Gingerbread OTA you need to hit both volume keys. Otherwise the magifying glass button works fine.
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Hi,
I have a MT3G that my brother likes a lot, so he bought a second-hand MT3G on craigslist and asked me to help him make it work, since it is apparently broken.
On power-up it goes to a screen with an icon of a software box with a yellow arrow coming out of it and pointing down to a phone. Is this the "recovery screen" icon?
I put SAPPIMG.NBH on the root of a FAT formatted 2GB Kingston microSD card (the card works fine in my MT3G) and tried each of these key combos after removing and reinserting the battery:
hold voldown while click power = still the same logo and no progress bar
hold home while click power = same thing
hold back while click power = same thing
I also turned the 2GB card into a "gold card" using instructions on XDA and put on it the sappimg.zip that is supposed to fix perfectSPL. Re-did all key combos above. Same logo.
The only thing that results in something different is when I hold the trackball while powering on, and then I get a blue power light and blank screen.
Plugging the phone into the computer with USB with the power off and battery in shows the orange charging light, but the phone is never recognized as a USB device when it is powered on and connected.
Any help would be appreciated. I thoroughly searched the XDA boards and tried as much as I could. I don't think my brother can get his money back from the guy who sold it to him, and I have already yelled at him for not testing before he walked away with the phone.
Thanks!
the only thing I can think of not sure why right now this is only thing coming to me is while in the screen press home and back for a while or, hold some and power for alot longer even after the screen pops up just keep holding for at least a minute... another thing is hold home and power while inserting the battery.... also tell us what happens when you try to power the phone normally
Thanks so much for your ideas, mt3g
I tried home and back for a couple of minutes and still just stay stuck at the box-arrow-phone icon.
I then pulled the battery and held home and power for 2 minutes, and then released the power button but held the home for another 2 minutes, and then let go of home and waited another 5 minutes, but still stuck at box-arrow-phone icon.
Then I tried holding home and power while inserting the battery and it still stayed at the box-arrow-phone icon.
When I power the phone normally it still just comes up with the box-arrow-phone icon.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again.
Either a paperweight or a BRICK!!
your brother's been scammed... If you can't get into fastboot or recovery the device is considered bricked (well, not "techincally" as HTC could still fix it but you can't ). The guy apparently tried to flash an incompatible SPL (or something went wrong during the process) and then sold the brick...
the only way to fix this is to hold volume down when phone is turned off, then turn on the phone but keep holding volume down! this should boot it into fastboot mode, if it doesnt then its bricked.
Have you tried downloading the Android SDK and running adb devices while the phone is plugged in? You could possibly run a logcat as well and see what the phone is doing.
Thanks for the suggestions, Dixi789! No combination of buttons will get me to fastboot or any other screen than the one with the box-arrow-phone icon, and when I plug the phone into the computer via USB it is never recognized as a USB device, so the Android SDK tools don't see it as being connected.
phil_white99 said:
Thanks for the suggestions, Dixi789! No combination of buttons will get me to fastboot or any other screen than the one with the box-arrow-phone icon, and when I plug the phone into the computer via USB it is never recognized as a USB device, so the Android SDK tools don't see it as being connected.
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then its a brick put it back up on craigslist lol, possibly as hardware or something
My HTC MAGIC A6161 from Vodafone
one day the phone comes up with the Vodafone boot screen only and i have only access to FASTBOOT mode and nothing else
does someone know a way to get the original NBH file as it seems the only way to unbrick it so far and of course none of the FASTBOOT commands work and none of the ADB commands work too
can anyone help pleaaaaassssseee
Same thing here! Cant get into Recovery or Fastboot . it Just stayed on the MT3G Green Boot Screen
So, I've been trying to restore my phone after some modding gone bad...but now, I've gotten to the point where I can't even get to the green battery screen. My phone won't turn on, and it'll only display this screen with a phone icon connecting to a yellow triangle which is connecting to a computer.
Has anyone gotten this before?
More importantly, is this fixable? Or am I gonna have to file an insurance claim for a "phone that got dropped in a lake" this week?
Use the search option. It will do wonders. This has happened plenty of times before. ODIN can fix the problem.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)
2. Don't turn it the phone on!
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen
IF the phone screen does show the battery charger or something else on the screen after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons.
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!
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then.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475&highlight=stock
The best luck i had getting my phone into download mode was pulling the battery, putting it back in. holding vol up+down and plugging it in. instead of going to charging, it goes to download immediately.
All messages related to "3 hardware key combo to get back to download mode so that you can use ODIN to restore", or "use adb to get to download mode so you can use ODIN" only work when the 3 hardware key combo work in the first place, or your PC can recognize the phone for adb to work
I am one of the unlucky one that does not have this 3 hardware key combo working, and am also in this sad state (Phone-!-PC). As a result, PC is not seeing the phone, so adb is out of the question right now
My phone has been like this since last Thursday (a failed attempt to use ODIN to flash JAC's OC/Ext4 kernel). All my reading so far does not give me a fuzzy feeling that I can ever get back to Download mode (ON MY PHONE)
I called my carrier for a replacement, and it should arrive this morning...
If someone can actually get to download mode WITHOUT the 3 hardware key combo OR adb access, I would love to know how
Had the EXACT same problem. Here is how I fixed it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7640152&postcount=4
Glad that this work for you
But not for me, for some unknown reason
No SIM
No SD Card
Pulled battery out
Make sure screen is off
Put battery in
Hold Volume up/down
plug USB cable to phone
plug USB cable to PC
Bam! Phone-!-PC
Update: Got my replacement phone.
Have SIM in
Have SD Card in
Leave Battery in
Turn off Phone
Hold Volume up/down
plug USB cable to phone
plug USB cable to PC
Instant Download mode!
Just as I read, it's a luck of the draw whether you have a TMobile Vibrant that has the 3 button key combo disabled. My first one doesn't have it. My second one does
I'm holding volume down and power. I hear the jingle but it just stays on the "Vibrant" screen... Ugh. My phone is brokedy broke.
Are you rooted?
I rooted with RyanZa's OCLF but unrooted right before doing the recent OTA update. After doing that, my phone wouldn't boot past the Vibrant screen. So now, I'm trying to get in download mode so I can use Odin to get back to stock. Nothing is working for me right now though.
Ok, I was going to tell you the easiest way to get into download mode, but your phone has to be on. It is still possible if you know how to use ADB and your phone was in debug mode.
Also, how long did you wait on the Vibrant screen before restarting it? It can take awhile. Did you have any lag fixes installed?
trunkstar1 said:
I'm holding volume down and power. I hear the jingle but it just stays on the "Vibrant" screen... Ugh. My phone is brokedy broke.
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the best and easiest way i have found to get in to download mode is this.
1. remove batt.
2.plug usb into computer
3.put batt. in
4.hold volume down+up
5. plug usb into phone.
if you need more help with getting your phone up and running, feel free to PM me cuz i just went through this my self, i know how confusing it can get.
I had done RyanZa's lag fix but I also undid that before doing the OTA update. My phone was in debug mode, but unfortunately I don't know how to use ADB. I waited a while on the Vibrant screen but I'll try it again in case I really didn't wait long enough.
Btw, thanks for the continued assistance.
Yea.
Try this also:
Plug in your phone til you see the big battery charging icon
hold down both volume keys and power.
As soon as the battery goes away, release the power key but continue to hold volumes.. Try that..
You are essentially holding down the wrong buttons...
There after two "modes" your phone can be put into...
1. Download mode:
Done by having your phone off and then quickly turning it on and holding down JUST the up and down volume controls while having the usb already plugged in (easist I've found is stated above regarding taking the battery out, plug in usb, hold both volume buttons, then while holding them put battery back in)
2. Recovery mode:
Done by holding both up and down volume buttons AND the power button. (note: after the vibrant screen comes up, release only the power button while still holding volume buttons or else the vibrant screen will just reboot over and over)
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Thanks all, I realized that I didn't have the right drivers installed. (duh). Thanks goes out to those who pointed me in the right direction.
The new problem I have came after accidentally pulling the USB cord out of my laptop while running ODIN. Now, all I get when trying to get in download mode is a graphic of a phone, a yellow triangle with exclamation mark, and a computer.
Anyone know what do do?
Hi,
I was reaching to my coat's pocket to pick up my phone and I think I accidentally hold the power button too much or something (honestly, don't know what I did) but my Vibrant now says Downloading....Do not turn off Target!!! with an Android icon on the screen.
I am running Nero 5 w/ voodoo. What did I do wrong? The power button does not seem to respond and I do not want to pull my battery.
Any advice?
IIRC you can just pull the battery to reboot. I'm pretty sure that's what I did last time I hit Download instead of Recovery on the power button menu.
Pull the battery or keep your finger on the power button for like 15 seconds. nothing bad will happen (unless it was really downloading someting) but doesn't sound like it is.
zharptitza said:
IIRC you can just pull the battery to reboot. I'm pretty sure that's what I did last time I hit Download instead of Recovery on the power button menu.
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also holding down the power button for like 10-15 seconds should reboot too, i do that all the time
Thanks guys. Reboot did it.
I feel like a noob (I probably am)
I have a at&t S4 that all of a sudden today stopped working. When I restart the phone by taking the battery out and putting back in, it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and then a black screen. I tried going to recovery mode(volume up + home + power button), and it shows recovery booting in blue for a sec then goes black. I tried for download mode the warning comes up but after pressing volume up it goes black. I really don't know what to do at this point.
Tried using kies or smart switch to perform a firmware recovery?
Yes, the computer doesn't recognize that the phone is connected. It's as if when the phone goes to the black screen its actually powered off. The only time I get anything from the phone is when I pull the battery and reinsert it.
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I have a at&t S4 that all of a sudden today stopped working. When I restart the phone by taking the battery out and putting back in, it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and then a black screen. I tried going to recovery mode(volume up + home + power button), and it shows recovery booting in blue for a sec then goes black. I tried for download mode the warning comes up but after pressing volume up it goes black. I really don't know what to do at this point.
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When the phone battery are too low, the phone could behave like that too.
Do you know that battery is fully charged or has more than 60%?
If not charge the phone first.
Plug the charger. If you did not see any sign showing that you phone is charging, press and hold the power button for 10 sec and release it. You should see the phone charging image.
Let me know whether your phone has enough battery power left but showing the above mentioned problems.
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When the phone battery are too low, the phone could behave like that too.
Do you know that battery is fully charged or has more than 60%?
If not charge the phone first.
Plug the charger. If you did not see any sign showing that you phone is charging, press and hold the power button for 10 sec and release it. You should see the phone charging image.
Let me know whether your phone has enough battery power left but showing the above mentioned problems.
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Yes, the battery is fully charged. I have another S4 Active that I've swapped the batteries with, along with a spare official Samsung battery and charger. It doesn't matter which battery I use, the phone acts the same with any of the 3.
bubba9004 said:
Yes, the battery is fully charged. I have another S4 Active that I've swapped the batteries with, along with a spare official Samsung battery and charger. It doesn't matter which battery I use, the phone acts the same with any of the 3.
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If you have enough battery power left but the phone was behaved like that, you might need to flash the firmware.
Are you in lollipop or kitkat? For the time being, the only firmware available for kit-kat and lollipop is NB1 firmware cooked by muniz_ri . You can get it from here.
You mentioned that you can go to download mode but the phone shut off when you press volume up to go to the download mode after the warning.
Try the 10 sec method. Go to the download mode (power+home+volume-down) but keep holding the power button for 10 sec even though you see the warning message appear. Then you press volume up to go the download mode. Try this way and let me know.
sway8966 said:
If you have enough battery power left but the phone was behaved like that, you might need to flash the firmware.
Are you in lollipop or kitkat? For the time being, the only firmware available for kit-kat and lollipop is NB1 firmware cooked by muniz_ri . You can get it from here.
You mentioned that you can go to download mode but the phone shut off when you press volume up to go to the download mode after the warning.
Try the 10 sec method. Go to the download mode (power+home+volume-down) but keep holding the power button for 10 sec even though you see the warning message appear. Then you press volume up to go the download mode. Try this way and let me know.
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It was on Kitkat. I can press the volume up and get it to show the download android screen but it immediately shuts off. Holding the power button for 10 secs. and then the volume up didn't do anything. The phone shuts off after 1-2 secs. of doing anything.
bubba9004 said:
It was on Kitkat. I can press the volume up and get it to show the download android screen but it immediately shuts off. Holding the power button for 10 secs. and then the volume up didn't do anything. The phone shuts off after 1-2 secs. of doing anything.
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That is strange. The same thing happened to me. But I avoided the phone shut down by 10 sec methods.
Just hold the power+home+volume down for 10 sec, even though the warning sign show up, and then let it go all of them. Plug the phone to the computer and then press the volume-down to go into download mode. It works for me. Not on the first try though.
Try doing that with batter charger plug in too.
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That is strange. The same thing happened to me. But I avoided the phone shut down by 10 sec methods.
Just hold the power+home+volume down for 10 sec, even though the warning sign show up, and then let it go all of them. Plug the phone to the computer and then press the volume-down to go into download mode. It works for me. Not on the first try though.
Try doing that with batter charger plug in too.
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Thanks for your help. I figured out whats wrong, its got a faulty power button. I took the phone apart, put it back together, and was able to get it to boot completely. The slightest touch of the power button causes it to reboot though, so I'm going to need to replace it.
bubba9004 said:
Thanks for your help. I figured out whats wrong, its got a faulty power button. I took the phone apart, put it back together, and was able to get it to boot completely. The slightest touch of the power button causes it to reboot though, so I'm going to need to replace it.
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Glad you found the problem. I was trouble shooting for the software error.
Yes, power bottom could give you a problem too. I use screen off app so I do not have to use power button to turn off the screen.