My home button has stopped working on my dream. It happened when I re-flashed cyanogen 4.04 after accidentally installing the latest cyanogen experimental rom (as I didn't realise my settings in cm updater were set to show experimental roms aswell as stable) since then my home button will not work. Its very frustrating having to use the back button and go through every sub menu of an app to get home. Also I can't enter recovery mode.
Has the home button stopped working for anyone else and is there a way to repair it?
Also is there any way of entering recovery mode without the home button?
All help will be appriciated
This happened to me I just wiped my phone and it began to work again.
I can't get into recovery mode to perform a wipe. Or is there another way that doesn't involve holding home and power to enter recovery?
You can do through settings under the sd and storage menu
Or go to Terminal Emulator and enter the following to reboot into recovery:
su
reboot recovery
If reflashing or wiping doesn't work, then you'll probably have to go to bootloader and flash to the original bootloader and dreaimg.nbh, then get it replaced under warranty.
Thank you. Wipe and reflashing cm 4.04 worked great. Home button works again!
uansari1 said:
Or go to Terminal Emulator and enter the following to reboot into recovery:
su
reboot recovery
If reflashing or wiping doesn't work, then you'll probably have to go to bootloader and flash to the original bootloader and dreaimg.nbh, then get it replaced under warranty.
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Would this method work on the htc hero cdma as well I have the same problem, and am looking for a way to fix this...
Only one way to find out go into your terminal and type
su
reboot recovery
if you get in error then it didn't work
if takes you to your recovery then it did and then wipe and reinstall the rom you want.
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Hello...
Recently my home button stopped working on my phone and after searching the net and various forums, I have seen that people with the same problem have done wipes and fixed their issue. I'm trying to see if I can do a complete wipe to see if the home button will work again for me. The only problem is that I'm currently running Cyanogenmod 4.2.15.1 and whenever I get to the recovery console, select Alt+W, it asks me to hit the home button to confirm the wipe... once again, my home button doesn't work so I can't do that. Is there any way that I can wipe my phone through the terminal emulator?
Just a thought... flash Koush's recovery. It does not ask you to confirm.
Also, isn't there an option to wipe from the settings? Menu->Settings->SD card & phone storage->Factory data reset.
Good luck.
I assume this was already fixed, but just wanted to chime in and offer my own experience.
My home button stopped working randomly, I don't know what caused it to stop. Tried rebooting and that didn't solve anything. Then tried booting into recovery mode by holding the home key down. It worked so I knew the actual button worked. Did the wipe from settings like described above. That didn't work, so I was about to reflash the ROM. I realized I didn't have a backup ROM in the root of my SD card so I just rebooted normally after a full wipe from recovery. It worked.
tl;dr-> use alt+w in recovery if possible.
Last night i i wet my phone and since then the home button seems to be stuck or fryed or idk. it only boots into recovery and when i try to use the home button (ex. try to power off via recovery and press home to confirm, flash a rom press homee to confirm), it doesnt do anything. so now im stuck in recovery trying to figure out what i can do? any ideas? is there anything i can do in adb to get it to boot properly?
OK, that should work: You need a fastboot enabled spl (death/hard/eng) for that, and a kernel boot.img, ideally the one from the rom you are using (it is inside the zip archieve, just extract it).
Boot -> Recovery (automatically...)
adb shell reboot bootloader
fastboot boot boot.img
Well, your homebutton will still be screwed, but at least it should boot if the system is still ok.
Well I went into adb and started punching in commands. Reboot android did the trick. I think I may do as u say tho just in case my phone dies for some reason. Appreciate it
Well I still have the home button problem but now I'm stuck again.....I want to flash the new cy rc3 but don't know how to do it. I can't press home to confirm the wipes and the flashing....I think saw a post somewhere a while back about flashing through adb but can't find it no more. Anybody have any ideas or know how?
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i cant get into my recovery, i have a recovery image, im on cm7 rc3, i tried flashing to the stable using rom manager, but i get stuck on the htc screen, i take out the battery, try flashing the normal way, and im still stuck on the htc screen, what can i do? i deleted gapps off my sd card and put the new one in, but i didnt flash right away, i tried flashing cm7 stable first, dont know if thats what caused the issue. thanks for your help
It puzzles me you say you can't get into recovery but you posted you tried flashing the rom threw rom manger and the " normal " way. I'm thinking the normal way is from your recovery. If you can get into recovery try this. Make a nandroid of your current rom. Then do a full wipe. As in data,cache & dev-cache. Then flash the rom and see if it boots up. If it does. Reboot back into recovery and flash the gapps. then reboot. See if that works. If you cant actually get into recovery just post back and either myself or fellow xda members will try and help you out.
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i cant get into recovery at all, what i wrote was i tried flashing the cm7 stable from rom manager first, but it got stuck on the htc screen, then tried the normal way which is holding down the red button and clicking on the reboot-recovery option, and still got stuck on the htc screen. these are the only two ways i know to get into recovery, and holding down the volume down button and the power button, which didnt work for me either, basically i cant get into recovery. i thought it was because i deleted my gapps and didnt flash the new gapps file as soon as i put it in my sd card,but im not sure if that is the reason.
With power off
To boot into recovery you
Press & hold the red power button & press & hold the home buttom untill you see your recovery. Or Peres & hold the power button then press and hold the volume down button. A white screen will appear. When you see the white screen press the home button and wait. Your recovery should appear. If you just deleted your gapps zip from your SD it would not effect your recovery at all. I think your just caught in a boot loop and your not booting into recovery the correct way. But I'm not sure.let me know if this works. What recovery are you using???
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i tried what you said and im still get stuck on the htc screen, i saw the white screen and all but when i pressed the home button i got stuck at the htc screen, its the cm7 recovery clockworkmod
kozmo198 said:
i tried what you said and im still get stuck on the htc screen, i saw the white screen and all but when i pressed the home button i got stuck at the htc screen, its the cm7 recovery clockworkmod
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Pull battery, replace battery.
BEFORE POWERING ON DEVICE, press and hold HOME key.
WHILE HOLDING HOME KEY, press and release power button.
WHEN HTC LOGO APPEARS, release HOME key.
You should now be in recovery.
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Pull battery, replace battery.
BEFORE POWERING ON DEVICE, press and hold HOME key.
WHILE HOLDING HOME KEY, press and release power button.
WHEN HTC LOGO APPEARS, release HOME key.
You should now be in recovery.
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same problem after trying this...still on htc screen x/
kozmo198 said:
same problem after trying this...still on htc screen x/
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Are you able to boot normally? Or does that get stuck as well?
yeah i can get into cm7 past the logo and everything, i can run rc3, but i cant get into recovery at all trying everything in the past posts
kozmo198 said:
yeah i can get into cm7 past the logo and everything, i can run rc3, but i cant get into recovery at all trying everything in the past posts
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Then just go into ROM Manager and re-flash the recovery.
ok thnks, ill hfto try where i can get wifi n the morning x.x
If I'm not mistaken can't you tell rom manger were to look for the recovery you want to flash?? If so and you have a copy of the recovery on your sd you can flash it.
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jasonmaloney said:
Then just go into ROM Manager and re-flash the recovery.
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how about if he had said no?
thats just straight up a creek right?
I am having the same problem...except I never actually got Cyanogen flashed. I rooted my phone. Installed SuperUser to fix permissions. Installed Rom Recovery and flashed the Clockworks Recovery. Then I backed up the Rom and when I went to boot into recovery to flash Cyanogen, I just get the white HTC screen. I get the same issue with manual recovery (holding down home and turning the power on). I can boot normally, but I can't restore my backup or use any other recovery features. Any ideas?
corey777 said:
I am having the same problem...except I never actually got Cyanogen flashed. I rooted my phone. Installed SuperUser to fix permissions. Installed Rom Recovery and flashed the Clockworks Recovery. Then I backed up the Rom and when I went to boot into recovery to flash Cyanogen, I just get the white HTC screen. I get the same issue with manual recovery (holding down home and turning the power on). I can boot normally, but I can't restore my backup or use any other recovery features. Any ideas?
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Ok....I tried one more time using the Volume Down and Power, then selecting Home and for whatever reason it worked. So I cleared my cache and then I selected to installed zip from sdcard and selected the cyanogen zip file. I get E: Error in /sdcard/update-cm-7.0.0-Hero-signed.zip (Status 7) Installation aborted.
Anyone know what that means?
corey777 said:
Ok....I tried one more time using the Volume Down and Power, then selecting Home and for whatever reason it worked. So I cleared my cache and then I selected to installed zip from sdcard and selected the cyanogen zip file. I get E: Error in /sdcard/update-cm-7.0.0-Hero-signed.zip (Status 7) Installation aborted.
Anyone know what that means?
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Could just be a bad download. Redownload it and try again. Or it could mean its the wrong type of file. Or the zip needs to be signed.
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Hi there i am relatively new to android modding and rooting etc. I recently tried to install Cyanogenmod to my phone and I succeeded, but the next day my phone began to restart itself, turns out that the power button is broken. We tried to repair it but ended up burning down the processors internal i/o (latch or whatever structure it has) with a faulty multimeter . Now i have to turn on my phone with a dock cable (with 1kohm res) which wakes up the phone, i can access the Download mode by plugging in the dock, and pressing home+down, but the recovery needs the power button signal too.
I can access the recovery by using adb commands, but i need to boot in. If i install a new recovery like CWM, i am stuck in a bootloop and i don't know if i can use the adb commands. Is there any other way to get into recovery mode, besides home+power+up, or adb commands?
Can i install CM onto the phone under these circumstances?
Thanks for any help given!
Not sure how you are going to select options in recovery as you need the power button unless you have Touch Recovery or TWRP recovery. Anyway use this app to boot to recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423071
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Not sure how you are going to select options in recovery as you need the power button unless you have Touch Recovery or TWRP recovery.
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Well , the home button does the trick, i think i tried it on the stock recovery mode.
Anyway use this app to boot to recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423071
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With the adb commands i can do that... but if i get into a bootloop i cant use this app, can i?
Sorry i miss understood you, so you are in a recovery bootloop?
pryerlee said:
Sorry i miss understood you, so you are in a recovery bootloop?
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Well if i install a new recovery mod like clockworkmod then i'll be in one. That is why it is necessary to reboot in it so i can install the ROM.
Rather get your power button replaced.
After downloading CM11 and GApps, I put it in my SD card and went into my recovery cwm9 by using an app. I got in and tried to flash my zips but I couldn't find them. Before I actually tried to flash them I did this first:
Wipe cache ( only required on first installation )
Wipe Dalcik cache ( only required on first installation )
Format /system and optionally /data ( Only necessary if coming from stock or a different ROM )
So when I rebooted I was greeted by getting stuck at the T-mobile boot splash.
I don't know how to get into recovery manually. I can't try to use download mode because I used fastboot. When I get into fastboot I tried using ADB to boot into recovery but device is not found when I'm in fastboot.
Please help me, I literally just got this phone and wanted to flash a custom rom because the LG stock is disgusting.
nemesis101x said:
After downloading CM11 and GApps, I put it in my SD card and went into my recovery cwm9 by using an app. I got in and tried to flash my zips but I couldn't find them. Before I actually tried to flash them I did this first:
Wipe cache ( only required on first installation )
Wipe Dalcik cache ( only required on first installation )
Format /system and optionally /data ( Only necessary if coming from stock or a different ROM )
So when I rebooted I was greeted by getting stuck at the T-mobile boot splash.
I don't know how to get into recovery manually. I can't try to use download mode because I used fastboot. When I get into fastboot I tried using ADB to boot into recovery but device is not found when I'm in fastboot.
Please help me, I literally just got this phone and wanted to flash a custom rom because the LG stock is disgusting.
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See FAQ thread for getting into recovery.
[SIZE=+1]Q14: I've flashed a custom recovery but what are the key combos to get there?[/SIZE]
Power off the device
Press and hold Power + Volume down
When the LG logo appears on the screen, quickly release the Power button, still holding the Volume down button, and press and hold Power again until the "Factory Reset" screen appears. Don't worry, this won't reset the device.
Use the volume keys to navigate up and down and Power to select. Scroll down and select "Yes" and repeat once more. It may take up to 10 seconds for the device to boot to recovery.
I've now gotten into the recovery and installed both cyanogenmod and GApps. I've actually had to change the rom found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/development/rom-cyanogenmod-11-lg-l90-lg-d415-t2871371
I've had to change the updater script that contained "w7" to "w7ds" because it said my device wasn't w7 and that it was w7ds.
I've rebooted and now it's just stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen.
What do?
nemesis101x said:
I've now gotten into the recovery and installed both cyanogenmod and GApps. I've actually had to change the rom found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/development/rom-cyanogenmod-11-lg-l90-lg-d415-t2871371
I've had to change the updater script that contained "w7" to "w7ds" because it said my device wasn't w7 and that it was w7ds.
I've rebooted and now it's just stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen.
What do?
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You've got an older recovery it seems. Download Philz-Touch from my thread, the link you posted, or get TWRP from this thread
Since you're having booting issues, use fastboot to flash the recovery.
Thing is when I'm in fastboot, ADB won't detect my device. I've only gotten it to detect my device once and that's when I was unlocking my bootloader. I don't know how to do it again.
So what do I do? BTW, thanks for helping me.
Edit: I formatted everything again and tried to reinstall the cyanogenmod and GApps. Seems like I just had to wait for the boot screen.
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Thing is when I'm in fastboot, ADB won't detect my device. I've only gotten it to detect my device once and that's when I was unlocking my bootloader. I don't know how to do it again.
So what do I do? BTW, thanks for helping me.
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Put device in fastboot mode. ADB can't detect the device when it's in fastboot mode.
Type:
Code:
fastboot devices
You should see a listing similar to "adb devices" output.
Copy recovery image to the same folder fastboot is in. Then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
or
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
First one will only write the recovery image to the device. The second on will write the image to the device and should then boot the device to the recovery.
EDIT:
Yes, the first boot takes a couple minutes.
Seems I just had to wait for bootscreen.
How do I turn data on and off?
nemesis101x said:
Seems I just had to wait for bootscreen.
How do I turn data on and off?
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easiest way to explain. Go to Settings and toggle Mobile Networks off/on.
There are several ways. I'm guessing you're new to CyanogenMod ROMs?
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easiest way to explain. Go to Settings and toggle Mobile Networks off/on.
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Well, yeah, but a faster way. Like in LG in the notification bar there was a button that would turn data on and off. Does cyanogenmod have anything like that similarly?
nemesis101x said:
Well, yeah, but a faster way. Like in LG in the notification bar there was a button that would turn data on and off. Does cyanogenmod have anything like that similarly?
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Quick Tiles. Pull down statusbar and press upper right corner image. There should be a tile already there for data
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shinobisoft said:
Quick Tiles. Pull down statusbar and press upper right corner image. There should be a tile already there for data
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Yeah, I got it.
Thank you for all your help!