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Home Button Broken (here is a fix)

If your G1/HTC dream's home button stops working, here is a fix (kinda). Whenever you turn your phone on it takes you to recovery (Home+Power=Recovery), here is a fix I found after an hour of Googling and ****.
Method number two got me back into my phone, but if it turns off I need to be at a computer using fastboot to turn it on.
It's better than nothing, Rogers is pissing me off. A week after the 1 year warranty and this breaks on me. Anyone know any permanent fixes or is it a hardware issue.
RichieDaze said:
I have the same problem with the home key being stuck after humidity entered my phone. Which boots me straight to recovery mode. I have managed to recover my phone with the following steps:
YOU MUST HAVE ADB AND FASTBOOT INSTALLED IN YOUR PC!!!
1) If your phone has the home button stuck, you can't update or confirm anything with the Cyanogen Recovery! Because you need the Home button to confirm. So you must revert your Recovery back to JF's Recovery to use the recovery properly in this case.
2) I have tried for weeks to make the system bypass the recovery and have succeeded. YOU MUST REBOOT YOUR PHONE FROM RECOVERY TO BOOTLOADER. So use ADB to reboot in to Bootloader mode ( adb shell reboot bootloader ). Now that your in Bootloader mode, use the FASTBOOT commands ( fastboot reboot ) and voila, it bypasses the recovery.Make a script on your Winbows or Linux to make it as easy as one click!
If I have helped, please say Hi to my Android or give me a link to a replacement Daughter board...
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I seem to have a similar problem.
But some how, it boots up properly once in a while. But even after it boots up, I cannot go anywhere except the home screen.
If the home button is stuck, this is expected right?
Dont you have this problem?

I suggest you take the phone apart and replace the broken button.
Another thing that might be a little EASIER (without actually *fixing* anything) is to write your boot.img into your RECOVERY partition. If you need recovery, you can always "fastboot boot recovery.img". Having the regular boot image in the recovery partition *should* make it boot normal with a stuck home button. This way you don't need fastboot to normal boot the thing.

I tried opening it.
I opened the screws on the back side. But I could not figure out how to get to the home button from inside.
For some reason, I can boot in properly. (It goes into recovery sometimes. But if I switch off and wait for sometime, I can boot normally.)
My main problem is that once I boot, I cant get anywhere from the main home screen.

smileey said:
I tried opening it.
I opened the screws on the back side. But I could not figure out how to get to the home button from inside.
For some reason, I can boot in properly. (It goes into recovery sometimes. But if I switch off and wait for sometime, I can boot normally.)
My main problem is that once I boot, I cant get anywhere from the main home screen.
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That makes sense, since as soon as you launch anything, the stuck home button will return you to home.
You may want to try harder to take it apart. You need to remove the circuit board in the "chin".

Do you know how to get access to the chin?
I could not figure that part.
When I opened the screws on the backside, I could not see anything that would lead me to the chin.

smileey said:
Do you know how to get access to the chin?
I could not figure that part.
When I opened the screws on the backside, I could not see anything that would lead me to the chin.
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Here's the service manual:
http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/HTC Dream SM (A04).pdf
It will walk you through a complete disassembly and reassembly.

Thanks a ton!!
I will try and see if I can do something about the button

Is there a better way than opening up the phone? The home button on my G1 stopped working, so, I unrooted the phone, but now it's stuck on the Triangle/Exclamation point screen. I've been able to do Alt S, (Alt+w doesn't work, I think the w is also broken), but I can't reboot because it asks for home and back button to reboot. Any other suggestions?

Ok guys, this is not a pretty solution but what you can do is re-map your phone so the camera button acts as a home key and home key does nothing. It's a hack but it's a simple one and sure beats the hell out of replacing the whole phone.
Here's a thread with directions.

I tried remapping my home button to the camera button and once in the os it works, but still boots into recovery everytime and doesn't let me wipe, flash,etc with the camera button. It aborts....
Also, a quick tip I learned......If u keep booting into recovery just go to console and type reboot android. It'll boot normally.
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App

with the remapping the keys make sure you push all the .kl files and if you want to remove the home button from working at all remove the home button line from the .kl file.

You should also make sure that you re-map your home button to do nothing, otherwise it will not work.

Thank u jj972 for that quick tip atleast I can get out of recovery mode....

Amon recovery help

so I've rooted a couple of eris' so far and its all turned out fine but on my brothers (his came with 2.1) i tried and everything worked but in recovery it doesnt respond to anything except the action button to select reboot now. Did i possibly do something wrong? the trackball just doesnt scroll, i guess thats the only problem

dyefalcon1 said:
so I've rooted a couple of eris' so far and its all turned out fine but on my brothers (his came with 2.1) i tried and everything worked but in recovery it doesnt respond to anything except the action button to select reboot now. Did i possibly do something wrong? the trackball just doesnt scroll, i guess thats the only problem
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I don't think that has much to do with the Amon_RA recovery, although I sort of remember other people reporting a similar phenomena.
If the problem is repeatable, and the trackball works when you are in the regular Eris OS, then I would just fully charge your battery and re-flash the Amon_RA (v1.6.2) recovery image (of course, after making sure of matching md5sum signature).
I had the problem you describe exactly once - but it went away by powering down the phone and rebooting (back into recovery), so I didn't really associate it with the Amon_RA recovery; just assumed it was a momentary problem with the trackball.
Or maybe if the problem persists, maybe try altering how you get into recovery? (e.g. instead of going in directly from power-off state by Vol-Up+End, go into HBOOT first and then Recovery from there?)
bftb0

I've tried toing into recovery both ways and reflashing still no luck...

Same issue
I am wondering if whoever made the recovery could redirect the function of the track ball scrolling up and down to the vol up and vol down keys?

well those keys are supposed to also do the up and down function but nothing responds except the action button

i'm having the same problem.. had this eris rooted for months now.. switch between roms plenty of times but today when i went into recovery.. no scrolling at all.
Even rooted with P000 img again and pushed the recovery img again but still the same troubles.
I guess i'll try with a fully charged battery.

If that doesn't work for you try clockwork recovery. My trackball works in every direction but down, so I couldn't use amon's recovery. In clockwork you use the volume up/down to navigate.
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I would try all other fixes or options before flashing Clockworks Recovery...it has been known to cause an Eris to brick. Which is why ROM manager is not used by us.

while letting the batt charge..
i went ahead and reformatted the sd card incase that was an issue.. no dice.. still no trackball / vol up / vol down movement.
any adb codes to wipe and install zip from flash ?
still waiting to try full battery (at about 60% )

your trackballs are broken you need to return your devices for refurbs
or wiggle your usb cable around inside of the port while in recovery and playing with the wheel to find out where yours works at

Second option works.. wiggling the usb cable at the point where it connects into the phone while moving the trackball does the trick.... i don't understand why though.
Trackball works fine scrolling up and down in notepad program and usb cable charges phone/connect to computer fine
But it does work so thanks for the suggestion
Sjflowerhorn said:
your trackballs are broken you need to return your devices for refurbs
or wiggle your usb cable around inside of the port while in recovery and playing with the wheel to find out where yours works at
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OTG USB in recovery mode (TWRP)

Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode (bottom half of screen is unresponsive). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.

[Q] I can't get my Find to do anything now

So I bought Find 5 from someone and found out it was rooted with Pacman Rom/ TWRP after the fact. Earlier today, I thought I managed to flash the stock firmware back onto this phone using TWRP, but instead I had something new (in my experience, at least) happen to me. after I power it on and plug it into my PC with the OEM cable, it will ask me if I want it to be a media device or a USB storage device and I can see & modify the files/ folders. As for the phone itself, all it will display is the status bar (Battery, signal status) and I can pull it down to access the quick settings. Otherwise the screen is completely blank. When I pull down the quick settings bar try to hit the system settings icon (the "gear" wheel icon), the status bar disappears. and all I can get the phone to do is bring up the power on/ off menu when I hold the power button. I can get it into fastboot (power + volume up), but I can't get it to boot into recovery using the keys (power + volume down), or adb, or fastboot.
I'm honestly at my wits end with this phone right now. I think it's only soft bricked, but I have no clue how to get it to take the stock ROM (or any ROM for that matter) and nothing online seems to mention my problem and I can't even begin to guess what the f**k I managed to do.
Can anyone offer me any help or insight so that I can turn my brick back into a working Find 5?

So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.

theevilworm said:
So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.
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I'll give it a shot :good:

Screen black (broken) - How to recovery data (no usb-debug)

Hi all,
I have a particularly tricky case here. A OnePlus 3T with a broken screen (its black, can't tell if its registering taps) which I need to recovery data (photos) from. Normally I'd just use ADB but of course usb-debugging isn't enabled. I've tried rebooting into recovery... hold the power button and vol-down until the phone vibrates, keep holding for a few seconds. Then wait. Then vol down twice and power again to hopefully select English but the when I try
Code:
adb devices
nothing comes up on the list.
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas how I can recover data/photos from this device.
One again the facts are:
-OnePlus 3T
-screen is broken, black, doesn't display anything
-usb-debugging is NOT enabled
-i can see the device in fastboot mode (boot w/ vol-up+power)
Thanks!

Maybe try a mouse with OTG. Would be horribly difficult i guess. But can probably work.
Also with any recovery, it would require your pin to enter the recovery (for decrypting the partitions); so that's a no go.
All you can try is to just boot the phone normally and try any input with an external mouse with OTG. Bring it to a point where the phone is powered on and unlocked so that you can copy data off the flash storage in MTP mode.
Ps: why don't you try to normally boot the phone and use fingerprint unlock?

did you trying with this link?

bluuquthug said:
did you trying with this link?
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Using this tutorial in this case would make no sense, since the damage is physical and this way you're going to lose all the data currently stored on the phone.

willjeffery said:
Hi all,
I have a particularly tricky case here. A OnePlus 3T with a broken screen (its black, can't tell if its registering taps) which I need to recovery data (photos) from. Normally I'd just use ADB but of course usb-debugging isn't enabled. I've tried rebooting into recovery... hold the power button and vol-down until the phone vibrates, keep holding for a few seconds. Then wait. Then vol down twice and power again to hopefully select English but the when I try
Code:
adb devices
nothing comes up on the list.
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas how I can recover data/photos from this device.
One again the facts are:
-OnePlus 3T
-screen is broken, black, doesn't display anything
-usb-debugging is NOT enabled
-i can see the device in fastboot mode (boot w/ vol-up+power)
Thanks!
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if you have no usb-debugging and cannot see screen you are out of luck. same thing happen to me. the only thing that worked was I had twrp recovery and was able to boot into it. Recovery by default is in mtp so you will be able to see all your folders and transfer pics or backup files. last resort was to send it to oneplus repair which will cost about 100 bucks and you will get your phone back within 7 days remember to tell them to not reset phone because they will if you dont. good luck

You can also recover the data very easy through data recovery softwares. No usb-debugging and cannot see screen you are out of luck. I also have to face same problem the only thing that worked was I had twrp recovery and was able to boot into it.

You can try to flash TWRP in fastboot, then reboot recovery via fastboot command. MTP would work unless a pin is required in TWRP.

I can feel the situation,the phone doesn't work properly.