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8525 Camera button problem

My camera button suddenly stopped working. I can load the camera app from programs with no problem. But I can not take a picture.
Any ideas on a fix?
It wasnt dropped or anything.

Vasichko said:
My camera button suddenly stopped working. I can load the camera app from programs with no problem. But I can not take a picture.
Any ideas on a fix?
It wasnt dropped or anything.
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You can also take pictures with the central D-pad button - has that stopped working as well?
Mike

Any one have a fix for this issue short of replacing the main board?
My Hermes (Cingular 8525) is experiencing this problem as well.

Have you checked the Settings then Buttons menu and made sure that button #4 didnt get mapped to another program?

Yeah, its mapped to the camera. I tried remapping that button to other apps, but its a no go, won't launch other apps either.
Perhaps its bad hardware...
After soft reset any button seems to launch camera on first press (Windows Button, OK button, and Comm Manager) but after that they take on their normal operations. Camera Button does not seem to do anything though.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I was recently having the same issue.
My Camera button (button 4) does not work, even if it is remapped to something else.
I can open the camera from the programs menu, and can take pictures using the center button.
However, I'd like to be able to fix this button so I can use it, possibly for something else. The button does not make a subtle click when it is pressed all the way down, like the Comm Manager button does. Is it possible to remove the button and clean the area underneath somehow?
I am using an AT&T WM6.0 ROM
Thanks,
Jawadali
EDIT: I have opened the back case before (partially), since I had to reconnect my speaker wire. I'm hoping this would be able to be fixed in a similar way. It seems like a alignment/cleaning issue instead of an actual broken switch, but if its not worth the trouble (i.e. it risks messing up the motherboard), then I won't pursue it.

Google "PTT Fix" and remap the ptt button with the camera button.
Great alternative !

DhaMajoR said:
Google "PTT Fix" and remap the ptt button with the camera button.
Great alternative !
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm on T-mobile USA Prepaid, so I'm pretty sure that they don't I don't even have push to talk.
Still, it'd be good to have one extra button to map.

Jawadali said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm on T-mobile USA Prepaid, so I'm pretty sure that they don't I don't even have push to talk.
Still, it'd be good to have one extra button to map.
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Just go to START>SETTINGS>BUTTONS> and see what you can cook up...
Im sure you have at least 1 Button that you dont use...

DhaMajoR said:
Just go to START>SETTINGS>BUTTONS> and see what you can cook up...
Im sure you have at least 1 Button that you don't use...
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Yeah, once I get a good ROM on here, I will probably have them all mapped to commonly used apps. The more buttons the better.

Hard ware keys stopped working help please!

hi,
some of the hardware keys stopped working on my htc diamond...the only keys that work are. the power button, voluime buttons, up pad down pad and the center/ok button....everything else does not work, even the touch pad doesnt work...can any one please help me, OH and the buttons somtimes work for example when i somtimes press any button on the left side it will go to the home screen, for example when i press call button it will go to the home screen, same with the right side if i press the back button it will press the call end buton wierd eh? So basicly the buttons do respon (the litghts turn on when i press any hard ware button but they do not do anythin 99% of the time and if they do it is the wron function HELP GUYS!

Have you tried restarting the phone? Press and hold the powerbutten (if it works), and answer Yes to the question about shutting down. Take out your battery for 10 seconds, put it back in and fire up your phone... It might help

longice said:
Have you tried restarting the phone? Press and hold the powerbutten (if it works), and answer Yes to the question about shutting down. Take out your battery for 10 seconds, put it back in and fire up your phone... It might help
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I have the same problem but it is only the home and answer buttons that stop working. If i do the restart it wirks but why should i keep having to do this

jsmith_00 said:
I have the same problem but it is only the home and answer buttons that stop working. If i do the restart it wirks but why should i keep having to do this
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Hehe, can't answer that. I've had the problem only like twice in three months, so for me it's not a problem... I guess it's a software problem. Remember, it's not a Nokia The inside so much more complicated, so I guess we just have to live with some bugs...

Are you guys sure that this is a hardware related problem? I have the same prob and i was quite sure that i f**ked up the capacitative panel by playing kevtris manickly for quite a long time.
The capacitative screen is comprised by two parts folded.
I have opened the diamond and i found out that there is a lietle piece of metal that binds them together. This was bent(from kevtris probably) so istraightened it out with my bear hands. But it did not fix the problem. Do not try it anyway. Too messy if you have two left hands like me.
Have you ever seen a calibrator for the capacitative screen?

had the same problem only the power button would work , hard reset fixed it.

Have u installed S2U2..try uninstalling it...or install latest version 1.68 of S2U2

hd2 touchscreen problem

hello all im having a problem and wish to get some input on what the problem may be
my hd2 has been ****in up to say the least i installed a new miui rom on it after having touchscreen problems and the weird thing is i can get the touch screen to respond after holding the the green call button and the home button for one second making the flashlight turn on then holding the back and end buttons for one second waiting for the screen to turn off then turn back on
my question is does this have something to do with the kernel or power consumption it seems it might be the case but im no expert
what do you think?

Try to press once or twice the endcall (red) button. There is a common problem with the Leo's digitizer and it is located under the endcall button. So press it hard. It used to help me.
I suggest you to install button savior or any app with softkeys to preserve the physical buttons.
Greetz,
Dodi

damn that definitely helped it along
thanks
the problem still exist but at least i can use the phone
alas i think its time to move on
that sucks i really liked my phone

Not responding touch screen
Is the keypad fully connected with the touchscreen? Because my keypad flex cabel is broken, and my digitizer doesn't respond. Do i need to buy a new digitezer or just flex cabel? Can somebody help me? Thanks

i haven't checked the good thing is i have a spare digitizer but its a hassle still ill probably end up trying eventually

[Q] touchscreen stops working after pressing power button

since yesterday, i have this nasty problem with my touchscreen. when i press the power button to wake the phone, or to get into the power-menu, the touchscreen stops working. this does no happen if i press any other button.
sometimes, i can use the phone again if i wait until the screen turns off and then wake it up by pressing any other button, but most of the time i need to pull out the battery and restart the phone. even when i pull out the battery, the screen won't work sometimes, and i have to restart the phone again.
when i first experienced this problem, i was using the nexushd2 v2.0 rom, i then updated to the v2.1, which didn't help. i tried reinstalling the rom, wiping the /data/ , the cache and the dalvik cache (multiple times) and eventually changed to the typhoon cm7 rom (with repartitioning and reinstalling the magldr), the problem is still there.
the phone did never get wet, fall down, or anything the like. pulling out the sd card makes no difference.
i hope someone can help me there

May be it´s a hardware problem, some HD2 have it.
You can test it, if you go back to windows.

its the good old digitizer its right under the power button press the end button hard and it should work again but if you press it again it will corrupt use softkey or remap your hardware buttons

http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=22866591

Kameirus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=22866591
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Lol, I was about to do that
@OP, in future please use the search button before posting. There are far too many threads in this forum with exactly the same issue as Kamerius has just proved, so why couldn't you save both us and yourself some time and search first? Anyway, what you have is a digitizer issue, but a quick temporary solution is to simply press as hard as you physically can on the end call/power button. The screen should work after that. Use a button remapper or some sort of widget to enable you to use the phone without ever touching the end call button, and make sure to use other buttons to wake the screen.

Nigeldg said:
Lol, I was about to do that
@OP, in future please use the search button before posting. There are far too many threads in this forum with exactly the same issue as Kamerius has just proved, so why couldn't you save both us and yourself some time and search first? Anyway, what you have is a digitizer issue, but a quick temporary solution is to simply press as hard as you physically can on the end call/power button. The screen should work after that. Use a button remapper or some sort of widget to enable you to use the phone without ever touching the end call button, and make sure to use other buttons to wake the screen.
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lol
i have the same problem with the endkey but with the rom in my sig
it actually has a softkey button that can be setup with a power softkey ..longpress on the softkey and it pulls up the power menu
just like it would do if you used the hardware power button

Yeah I thought there were softkey power buttons but I wasn't sure and I'm on my phone so couldn't be arsed to search
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA

Kameirus said:
link that doesn't work anymore
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well, sorry dunno why i didn't search the forum before
pressing the power button hard worked , but i think i'll keep using soft buttons and wake the device pressing any other button (i don't think the brute force method is a good idea as i want to keep my phone some time longer )

Touch Screen Problem in HTC HD2
Thanks for your reply
Well i had HTC HD2 and i had install Android 4.0.3 and it was working fine from last 1 month but today suddenly it stop working touch screen and after 1 hour it started again but i wont able to touch every where it randomly working
So after then i read you reply and i try it i had press Hard Power button and then its started working fine and its work for 1 hour and then again stop so i again press hard power button and its started and also iam not using power button for any use
so you can let me know what is the permanent solution for this do i need to change touch screen completely it is damaged
pls let me know i will very thank full to you because 8 month back i already replace touch screen once and today again same problem
thanks

nrvjain said:
Thanks for your reply
Well i had HTC HD2 and i had install Android 4.0.3 and it was working fine from last 1 month but today suddenly it stop working touch screen and after 1 hour it started again but i wont able to touch every where it randomly working
So after then i read you reply and i try it i had press Hard Power button and then its started working fine and its work for 1 hour and then again stop so i again press hard power button and its started and also iam not using power button for any use
so you can let me know what is the permanent solution for this do i need to change touch screen completely it is damaged
pls let me know i will very thank full to you because 8 month back i already replace touch screen once and today again same problem
thanks
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I am facing the same issue except no matter how hard I press the red button....LCD doesn't works. I have even replaced the thin metal strip which rests under hardware buttons.
Anyone?

Exactly, the same issue started to happen yesterday!!!

mwuahjaan said:
I am facing the same issue except no matter how hard I press the red button....LCD doesn't works. I have even replaced the thin metal strip which rests under hardware buttons.
Anyone?
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I tried changing the metal strip too. But it still the same. Doesn't work.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk 2

[Q] Touchscreen not working on lock and reset screens

In the last couple of weeks, when the pattern lock screen is displayed, it intermittently doesn't accept touch input. If I power off and on the screen quickly, it then accepts touch input fine.
Similarly, if I press and hold the power button (with the phone on), it brings up a "Phone Options" screen, with options for Silent, Airplane, Profile, Reboot and Power Off. Touch input does not work at all on this screen. I'm working around this by using the Quick Boot app.
Otherwise, touch input works fine, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
I've seen something similar when Google Nav gets in front of the lock screen. Touch doesn't work until I power off and on the screen, and enter the lock pattern. Could something invisible be getting in front of the lock and power screens?
Using Pongster's HyperDroid-GBX-v12 (2.3.3).

Hey there,
Maybe the ROM h doesnt function properly on your device. Try shifting to another rom. All are equally amazing. If you do not want to shift, try running task29 and start the process all over again

SheenaIsAPunkRocker said:
In the last couple of weeks, when the pattern lock screen is displayed, it intermittently doesn't accept touch input. If I power off and on the screen quickly, it then accepts touch input fine.
Similarly, if I press and hold the power button (with the phone on), it brings up a "Phone Options" screen, with options for Silent, Airplane, Profile, Reboot and Power Off. Touch input does not work at all on this screen. I'm working around this by using the Quick Boot app.
Otherwise, touch input works fine, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
I've seen something similar when Google Nav gets in front of the lock screen. Touch doesn't work until I power off and on the screen, and enter the lock pattern. Could something invisible be getting in front of the lock and power screens?
Using Pongster's HyperDroid-GBX-v12 (2.3.3).
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Have you read the thread about the unresponsive touchscreen, where pressing hard on the end call button fixes the screen touch? I assume your problem is in essence the same; once you press it hard enough to actually unlock the screen the touch works fine.

Nigeldg said:
Have you read the thread about the unresponsive touchscreen, where pressing hard on the end call button fixes the screen touch? I assume your problem is in essence the same; once you press it hard enough to actually unlock the screen the touch works fine.
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That probably is what the problem is. Btw to everyone, I haven't noticed a difference in pressing it really hard, I noticed that pressing it a lot of times does the trick
Sent from my HTC HD2 using Tapatalk

Thanks for the feedback. I don't think it's the ROM, been using GBX-v12 since it was released, and previous versions before that.
The symptoms do seem similar to the other thread, but others report it on many screens. I only get it on the lock and reset/power screen. Otherwise, it works fine. However, those screen are brought up after pressing the power key ...
I suppose if it is hardware, then it's likely that cable issue. If it's software, then a reset should clear it, so I might try an ICS ROM from scratch first.

SheenaIsAPunkRocker said:
Thanks for the feedback. I don't think it's the ROM, been using GBX-v12 since it was released, and previous versions before that.
The symptoms do seem similar to the other thread, but others report it on many screens. I only get it on the lock and reset/power screen. Otherwise, it works fine. However, those screen are brought up after pressing the power key ...
I suppose if it is hardware, then it's likely that cable issue. If it's software, then a reset should clear it, so I might try an ICS ROM from scratch first.
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I guess i shoulda commented that how my digitizer began acting, it only did it while in the power menu but after a couple days it started doing it while just hitting the power button to put it to sleep, so i remapped my green phone key to be the power button

elesbb said:
I guess i shoulda commented that how my digitizer began acting, it only did it while in the power menu but after a couple days it started doing it while just hitting the power button to put it to sleep, so i remapped my green phone key to be the power button
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Thanks for the tip. You're right about the symptoms getting worse, it now occasionally stops working on other screen
I'm using any button but power to turn on the phone. To turn it off I've added "Go to sleep" to the notification widget bar, which I assume is the same as pressing power??
Not quite as user friendly and sometimes I forget not to use power off, but it'll do for now!

SheenaIsAPunkRocker said:
Thanks for the tip. You're right about the symptoms getting worse, it now occasionally stops working on other screen
I'm using any button but power to turn on the phone. To turn it off I've added "Go to sleep" to the notification widget bar, which I assume is the same as pressing power??
Not quite as user friendly and sometimes I forget not to use power off, but it'll do for now!
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Yes that will work! I used it cause I got lazy and didn't feel like changing the key file but it's much easier to use the green call key instead of the notification power widget
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Try this:
Lock the screen normally, screen turns off.
To turn it on again by pressing any other screen buttons other than the power button.
I found that if I do it this way, the screen runs normal.