Need to wipe data from the bootloader. Stuck in a bootloop with no working vol - button to clear data from recovery. Have tried every sbf out there but none of them wipe data (as they likely shouldn't). Told Verizon my battery went dead during an update and now it just keeps restarting to see if they could wipe the data. They told me to go home and "search one of the cell forums". ha
Any help would be appreciated.
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So I finally found the time to take apart my Droid X (which was my last option after spending days/weeks off and on trying to sbf/etc). Turns out the volume- button was broken from the board. I tapped a small flathead screwdriver across the hole where the broken volume- button used to be (to complete the circuit on the board) while in bootloader to move down to choose the delete data option. Now I have another working toy with only a busted volume- button. I cut a small bit off the plastic volume tab where you would press for volume- before I put it back together so I can slide the screwdriver in if I ever have problems again. My Otterbox covers that up nicely though so it still all looks like new!
I'm glad that you got it working!
Terrible that you had to take the whole thing apart though =P
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I rooted the Nook a while back and wanted to go back to a stock experience, so I rebooted it the six or eight times to get it to restore. However, when I did so, I could still get in to the ADW launcher that was installed. It began updating automatically shortly thereafter and has been stuck on the "Installing" screen. Nothing I have done has helped at all including:
- Charging the Nook
- Holding the power button
- Holding the power button and the bottom page buttons
- Holding the power button and the Nook button
- Holding the power button for sixty seconds, followed by holding the power and Nook buttons for sixty seconds (as per B&N support instructions)
- Removing the battery
When I called B&N support, they told me it was dead and they would replace it if it were within warranty, but it is not and I have obviously opened it up to remove the battery, so that probably wouldn't work anyways. It seems like the computer detects something when I connect it, but it does not show it as a storage device or anything.
Maybe someone here who is a bit more savvy can help me with this because I would have really liked to give this as a Christmas gift to my mom.
Also, my wife has a Nook with Glowlight and has just noticed a small crack in the screen. I recently had to open up the device to reseat the plastic around the USB port because the case popped it out when she removed it one time. Now, obviously, I opened it up, but I want to try to use the warranty to get the screen fixed. Any advice on getting B&N to honor the warranty or somewhere I can find the T5 screws with the sticker still on them or a cheap screen replacement. I didn't do anything to the screen, so it wasn't anything I did that caused this issue.
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
You'll probably need to put together a clockworkmod micro sd card, and use it to install the latest update over your current system.
Once you're up and running, your apps will still be installed. The update doesn't touch /data. It'll just revert your /boot and /system partitions to stock. I'm not aware of an easy way to revert that without using a backup that you (should have) made before doing any modifications. As far as I know, you have to uninstall those apps manually (using adb if you have to).
Thanks for your response.
The big issue is that it won't budge from the installing screen. Once it gets off of that I could try, but as I said before, I think I have tried everything...
My Galaxy S5's physical power button has stopped working. I've rooted the phone and reconfigured the keyboard configuration file so that my physical "home" button now serves as a power button. I've also disabled the two backlit buttons on either side of the physical home button and have enabled the stock Android softkeys for navigation. (The backlit buttons were malfunctioning as well, so I disabled them.)
The phone currently works great... the problem is when I try to change batteries. Since the normal power button doesn't work, I can't use it to turn on the phone. (The keyboard configuration tweak kicks in when the phone boots up, so the central button doesn't wake the phone after the battery swap... the phone has go through its boot procedure before that button would work.)
I figured out that if I can get to recovery mode, I can select the reboot option and the phone will turn on just fine.
The problem is that I can't usually get to the recovery mode, since the power button usually doesn't work. Sometimes it seems to work (and I can press power-home-up volume to reach the recovery mode).
Is there anyway that I can reach recovery mode without using the power button? Is there any tweak I can make to a BIOS or other pre-boot configuration so that the phone can reach recovery mode (or just turn on) without using the power button?
I can't take the phone back to Samsung for repair because I broke the screen and had it fixed by a third party. I've rooted the phone in order to reconfigure the navigational buttons, so I do have root capabilities. I'm using the stock Samsung firmware, which I'd prefer to keep using since it has the best camera driver for the phone.
Thanks!
There are apps that let you boot to recovery, check Play Store
Also ADB commands you can use, a quick google should find them, I can't remember them off hand
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There are apps that let you boot to recovery, check Play Store
Also ADB commands you can use, a quick google should find them, I can't remember them off hand
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Thanks for the reply. I browsed the app store, but the apps seem to be widgets that let you enter recovery mode. My problem is that after the battery is swapped, the phone needs to be turned on before I can get to an app. I can't seem to reliably turn on the phone because the power button usually doesn't work.
Is there an app or configuration process that will let me configure the physical home button to have the power to turn on the phone? Currently, I have the home button configured to wake the phone, but to get the button to that state the phone must first boot up and go through the key mapping routine. So, the home button currently won't start up the phone if the phone is fully powered down (not just screen off).
I'm open to any other suggestions for how to restart the pone when it's truly fully powered off.
Maybe I just need to take the phone to a repair shop for them to repair the power button, but I was hoping to avoid the expense through reconfiguring the phone, if possible.
Ah I see, does connecting the charger not power it on ?
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Ah I see, does connecting the charger not power it on ?
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When plugged into the charger, the phone lights up to show the battery charge level (green battery with bubbles rising from the Home key). To get the phone to boot up, I still need to use the power button, which usually doesn't work. It's really frustrating, because the power button is temperamental. I basically have to keep trying to get it to boot or go to recovery mode, but it can take a long time and I fear that the power button will give out completely soon. Currently, it seems to work maybe 5% of the time.
Otherwise, my phone is fine, so long as I don't swap batteries or fully power it down.
The problem is that I often need to swap batteries in the wilderness, while on backpacking trips etc., so I don't have a laptop or charger handy to help out. I was hoping to reconfigure the phone somehow so I could start it from a full power off state without any external helping device, like a laptop or USB cable. I use the phone for topo map navigation. I'm pretty good with map/compass navigation, but I'd really like a reliable way to reboot the phone in the wilderness.
Thanks again
trinkner said:
When plugged into the charger, the phone lights up to show the battery charge level (green battery with bubbles rising from the Home key). To get the phone to boot up, I still need to use the power button, which usually doesn't work. It's really frustrating, because the power button is temperamental. I basically have to keep trying to get it to boot or go to recovery mode, but it can take a long time and I fear that the power button will give out completely soon. Currently, it seems to work maybe 5% of the time.
Otherwise, my phone is fine, so long as I don't swap batteries or fully power it down.
The problem is that I often need to swap batteries in the wilderness, while on backpacking trips etc., so I don't have a laptop or charger handy to help out. I was hoping to reconfigure the phone somehow so I could start it from a full power off state without any external helping device, like a laptop or USB cable. I use the phone for topo map navigation. I'm pretty good with map/compass navigation, but I'd really like a reliable way to reboot the phone in the wilderness.
Thanks again
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With your phone turned off, press and hold the Volume down and Home buttons.
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While holding the Volume Down and Home, use a USB data cable to connect your phone to your computer.
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Continue holding the Volume Down and Home button to until your phone will boot to Download mode.
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Once your phone boots to Download mode, press on the Volume Down button to cancel the Download mode.
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Once the Download mode has been cancelled, your Galaxy S5 will reboot.
Wait for your phone to completely start.
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You have successfully turned on your Samsung Galaxy S5 without using the Power button.
Thanks. That sequence of steps will work great when I have my laptop handy. Do you know of a solution that would work in the wilderness without a laptop, USB cord, or power outlet? Generally, when I need to swap batteries and power down the phone, I'm in the wilderness.
I don't unfortunately, that was the only workaround I could find
Maybe you could fool the phone into thinking it is connected to a PC with some clever rewiring of a USB cable? Not sure how you would wire it, but Im thinking there may be a way to connect just a cable up so connecting it to the phone outside will make the phone think it's connected to a PC and allow download mode
It's possible that a USB 'jig' might help.......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-how-to-make-usb-jig-reset-binary-t1604707
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keithross39 said:
It's possible that a USB 'jig' might help.......
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I'm thinking now that I should visit the repair shop to see how much they would charge to fix it properly. I really depend on this phone in the backwoods and wouldn't want a work-around to fail me when I need it most.
I'll keep you posted on the repair/cost. Thanks for the help.
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I'm thinking now that I should visit the repair shop to see how much they would charge to fix it properly. I really depend on this phone in the backwoods and wouldn't want a work-around to fail me when I need it most.
I'll keep you posted on the repair/cost. Thanks for the help.
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I've watched a couple of 'teardown' videos for the S5, and from what I've seen, the screen has to be removed in order to get to any of the power, home or volume buttons.......and it's very difficult to remove the screen without risking damage........I certainly wouldn't want to try, and that's speaking as someone who has repaired a number of Samsung phones......
In the short term, you could try the jig.....I know it works on the S2, just can't remember if it boots the phone *fully* into download mode or just to the screen where you have the 2 volume button options to either enter download mode or restart.......
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I took the phone to the repair shop yesterday. It turns out that the S5's power button is just a thin tab with two metal contact squares inside the phone. There are prongs on the interior of the phone that make contact with these squares. If the prongs aren't properly aligned or properly bent to make contact with the tab's squares, the power button won't work. The technician was able to get the button to work by pressing his thumb on the screen by the power button while pressing the button. He's confident he can realign the prongs to make good contact. You do have to take off the screen to access the prongs, but since mine is a replacement screen already, he said it's pretty easy to remove.
My capacitive buttons were also dying and I had configured the keyboard boot files to disable the capacitive buttons. I had enabled the stock softkeys instead. The repair shop will be able to replace the "dock" component (which includes all the stuff at the bottom of the phone, like the capacitive keys, the charging port, etc.). That, too, requires removal of the screen, so while replacing the dock he'll fix the power button prongs. The entire repair is estimated at about $100.
I'll let you know if the repair succeeds. Yesterday I popped my SIM into an old Windows Phone (Lumia 521 running WP 8.1), and was reminded again at how much I dislike Windows Phone and how much I like Android. Absence makes the heart grow fonder... After a few hours of fiddling discontentedly with the Windows Phone, I put my SIM into my trusty Nokia 808 Symbian phone, which I'll use until the Sammy is ready.
Lol.....I moved from 'dumbphones' straight to Android.....so I've never had the experience of windows phones....though if it's anything like their PC OS, I'd have probably ended up embedding the phone in the wall........
Good luck with the repair, I hope they get it sorted for you.
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keithross39 said:
Lol.....I moved from 'dumbphones' straight to Android.....so I've never had the experience of windows phones....though if it's anything like their PC OS, I'd have probably ended up embedding the phone in the wall........
Good luck with the repair, I hope they get it sorted for you.
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Funny. Yesterday evening, I switched to my Symbian because I knew I was about to hurl the Windows Phone across the room if I kept using it.... The WP phone can do much more than the Symbian phone in theory, but in practice the old Symbian phone does everything it does really well and predictably, including multitasking. With WP, I'm never sure what the phone is up to as its multitasking is a joke. Some apps do in fact multitask, but others don't, and as a user, you can't tell which is operating in the background and which isn't, until you return to a background app and discover whether or not its been processing.
I've never used an iPhone, so I can't compare WP to iOS. But compared to Symbian or Android, WP will lead you to drink, and probably to drink heavily.
Lol.....having never experienced it's delights, I can't comment, but if it's anything like W8 on my wife's laptop I can see where you're coming from
(I'm a die hard XP user lol)
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Did you get anywhere with this? I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F, the fingerprint scanner is for someone else's credentials and I don't have the login password etc. ADB is not an option as I cannot boot the phone to enable debugging mode. I have tried all methods of booting into recovery including Vol Up + Home + Power, this does not work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Have a good Easter bank holiday weekend!
-Si
trinkner said:
I'm thinking now that I should visit the repair shop to see how much they would charge to fix it properly. I really depend on this phone in the backwoods and wouldn't want a work-around to fail me when I need it most.
I'll keep you posted on the repair/cost. Thanks for the help.
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If you are travelling this method also works with a battery booster (i have a bud one from a beer case...you charge it and take it with you..... ) it s stored energy backup battery that you plug in for a crappy charge)
so... when your on the road or in th woods, any power supply that you can connect (car charger, booster, etc will trigger the download mode and enable this solution. )
THANKS!!! MADE TWO USELSESS PHONES USEFUL AGAIN!!!
So it would appear I have a hardware problem with my S7E and I'll need to get it swapped out. It took me quite a while to backup everything from my previous rooted HTC device and get everything installed and setup correctly on my non-rooted S7E. Is there a tool that would allow me to more seamlessly transfer my apps/data/system settings (like app layout and home screens) to a different S7E? I was using Helium before and I own Titanium, but didn't work as well on non-rooted phones.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Oh, I guess I did try the Samsung Smart Switch initially, it helped, but not as much as I would have hoped (i.e. my app data wasn't transferred from my HTC device). Maybe it'll work better with 2 Samsung devices?
http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/
Well doesn't matter too much now since flipp'n Verizon won't believe it is a hardware problem until you do a complete factory reset of your device anyway. So I copied all the documents/pictures manually to my computer and used Helium and Samsung Smart Switch to create backups (besides the Google app/data backups). Did the factory reset to prove to Verizon and now I have a refurb'ed phone coming to me this Wednesday....
So just an FYI on the issue, but whenever the screen is on, the top half of the phone gets very warm and my battery drains about 1% every 5 minutes. It just started to do this 4 days ago when I just picked it up and turned it on....like something blew inside. Not enough to burn me and it'll stay operating if I use it without a case and in the path of air conditioning or other air flow, but without it, it will either get an over temp warning or it'll start having a flickering white lines on the screen.
I was positive it was a hardware problem since the heat issue would happen even when the phone sits in the recovery screen (volume up + power + home button boot).
Yeah, Verizon always makes me do a factory reset! So annoying! Had to get mine replaced because of the early SD card dismount issues.