Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/
Thanks for the help,
lilhugo
Looks like a HW damage for me...you can run dmesg and then start the camera to see if there are any errors during camera usage...the best is when you plug your phone via USB to your PC and then start "adb shell dmesg > C:\adblog.txt" while adb is running, start the cam on your phone and after 10 seconds close the camera app and onb your PC press ctrl+c to terminate adb. Check your log then for any error that occurred when using the camera...
Oh I see.
Hm... I'll give it a shot.
I was curious, if my milestone is still stock would the process of checking the ADB be the same? If not, would there be any other way to do it?
I learned that using ADB is useful for a rooted device, so I wasn't sure.
Thank you,
lilhugo
adb works also with unrooted phones...but to be honest I don't know if dmesg can be used without root...u should try and report back...
TheSSJ said:
adb works also with unrooted phones...but to be honest I don't know if dmesg can be used without root...u should try and report back...
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Okay I tried it out and I think I would need to root it first. It said "Access is denied."
I typed in the command you gave me after I got to the "c:\sdk\tools" part. Is that supposed to happen? When I typed in just "adb shell dmesg" it gave me a huge list of things that were going on with the phone. It gave me a list of things that were Height and Width dimensions. It said "omap34xxcam omap34xxcam: w 1296, h 972 -> w 848 h 480" could that be related to the camera?
If all else fails I guess I'll try to root the phone first and then give it another shot.
Thanks,
lilhugo
Update:
I just rooted my phone and when I tried to type in "adb shell dmesg > C:\adblog.txt" it still gives me an "Access is Denied" option.
Did I happen to miss a step?
I start from the C:\sdk\tools area.
I also looked at what happened next after I typed in adb shell dmesg by itself and it says "unable to detect sensor" and "Regulator for vcam is not initialized"
lilhugo said:
Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/
Thanks for the help,
lilhugo
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I have the same problem I could hear the sound of autofocus when start the app, but I can see only a black image near the bar of settings and if I take a picture they stuck for a while..
lilhugo said:
Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/
Thanks for the help,
lilhugo
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if its hardware, the camera is seprate from the motherboard, it would be very easy to replace, just pull apart, pull out the motherboard, replace the camera, it just pops off the motherbaord.
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Hello,
I have a unlocked TMobile G1. Few days ago the phone got dropped on the hard floor and I had to pay $130 to get it's cracked LCD replaced. The phone worked fine after that until yesterday I accidentally dropped it from my computer table. This time, there's no physical damage to the screen or the phone. However, the touch stopped working and I've been getting error(android.acore process) while using the "Gmail" and the "dialer" options. Rest of things were working fine.
So, I choose to do a factory reset. Now, after restarting I am stuck on the "Touch the android to begin" screen. The touch is not working and I am not sure how to go past this screen.
Does anybody know of any keyboard short-cut or any other trick which I can use to go past this screen without touching it?
Also, anybody have any idea on what went wrong with the touch?
Thanks
Raj
Wait, are you still rooted? Use adb from your computer to remove the setup apk.
Use:
Adb remount
Adb shell rm -f /system/app/SetupWizard.apk
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
Thanks for the reply. I haven't yet rooted my phone but I can look up on google and do that. Mine is T-Mobile G1 - 1.6 Firmware.
Using adb to remove the setup apk will get rid of the welcome screen or the Google set up screen which comes after that or both?
Currently, I am stuck on the welcome screen and I just need to go past this screen. Google I can set up from phone also if I can get past this screen.
Thanks
Raj
How to know if my phone is still rooted?
marcblaze27 said:
How to know if my phone is still rooted?
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lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.
demkantor said:
lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.
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ccheck the guide in my signature, it has a how-to root method and also a google by-pass method which could also be useful in your situation to get by the little guy, you need to do the google by-pass so you can enable usb debbugging(which allows you to run adb commands) then from there just delete the setupwizard.apk and so on.... but your screen may be screwed lol
So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
rjhall said:
So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.
aiwetir said:
If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.
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It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.
rjhall said:
It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.
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If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.
jasonmaloney said:
If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.
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Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?
rjhall said:
Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?
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Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.
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Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.
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Would it be possible for me to get to it in ADB without rooting the phone?
the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said:
the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
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Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!
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Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!
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Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.
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Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.
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It's hard to explain the problem I'm having. The screen doesn't turn on or respond to touch inputs. If I squeeze the phone's sides hard enough, I can get the screen to come on. Soon as I let up, it goes dark. Keys still light up, though. If I do anything with the keys, it doesn't show up on the screen. I have no idea how to get past this.
I am on stock HTC firmware now. I completely reflashed the entire phone with the 2.1 utility. That is, before it randomly stopped working.
After USB debugging is enabled, I can just pull the entire system directory, no? No need for nandroid or anything?
cracked screen
Hey guys My screen is being repaired for the next couple days and I reallly need to check my text messages....Can I get more clearification on what you guys are tallking about because im lost but Im up for anything as long as I can see my texts,
I don't know if it's possible to do this, but it's worth a try. Have you heard of "Air Droid"? It allows you to interface with your phone via a WiFi connection. If you can download an apk file of Air Droid, then flash it to your phone, you might be able to run it. Although your screen digitizer isn't working, your trackball can still select screen items. If it works, you can do a connect to WiFi, see the code, then use the browser interface. I think through that you can access data on the phone, including text messages.
Also, there are some apps that perform SMS to email. You could theoretically have your text messages sent to your email account.
Hey guys
Last night I broke my SGS's screen. The phone is rooted and I know it still works as can hear it get texts and boot up correctly.
I wanted to just swap the phones out but I have a lot of valuable pictures etc on the phone that I hadn't backed up yet.
Is there any way to access the hard drive from the computer w/o being able to access the phone?
I tried the "Screencast" app but I cant seem to get it to work. I tried doing some searches on here but I'm not exactly sure what to look up.
I have insurance on my phone so I can get a replacement, I'd jsut like to get my pictures and any text messages i may have missed (but mainly the pics)
Any insight you guys have would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".
thanks for the reply.
sorry i'm kind of new at this stuff. my friend rooted my phone and did all the dirty work. i have no idea how to use adb or w/e
do i need a linux machine? also, how can i reboot in recovery mode if the screen is completely disabled?
do get via ADB you need to ADB kit or the Android SDK kit, theres a helpful section on how to do ADB but it shouldnt be a problem, i also recall that after ADB is installed you might be able to use Android explorer to go to the phones pciture directory and get them like that?
i'm having a horrible time trying to get this setup lol
i think a problem i'm having is i dont know if USB debugging is enabled on my phone, and since the screen is broken i can't turn it on.
anyone else have any other suggestions?
redstar2k said:
Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".
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it seems i can get it into what i ~think~ is recovery mode (it didnt make the typical noise it makes when booting up, and my bottom row buttons light up if i press the power button then one of the buttons)
not sure what screen im in honestly... but even still, the computer doesnt detect that anything is plugged in and ADB doesnt detect any devices...
maybe with usb cable?
thats what im doing is using USB cable.. problem is i cant mount my usb from my phone as the screen is broken.
i cannot do it blind either i dont believe, i dont think the screen is detecting my fingerpresses at all
Hi I have been using my HTC dream on Cymod 6.1 since long and never had this kind of problem b4.
1. Camera is blank or get error "activity camera (in application camera) is not responding"
2. Battery is draining fast.
3. Battery feels heated up when charging
i have tried flashing the rom again many times, did memory wipe , factory restore, and even tried to delete the camera.apk from terminal app but still have the same issue. Please Please someone help.
This happened to me too with my old G1
The problem was a loose/broken camera cable.
Its very difficult to connect the camera cable though...
The battery...hmmm well...
actually the camera cable could be causing a short somewhere?
I don't know. What I would do is open up and take a look inside
Careful though
Also, you can try some things for a better diagnostic:
1. Try to use anoter rom, and check if the problem persists
2. Check the battery stats in phone's adjust and see what consums so many battery
3. Use an alternate kernel
4. Try to use the original firmware, it's supposed to work at 100% and not to harm/malfunction your device
5. Another Radio/SPL combo
If all them fail and always you're facing the same problem, then it's not a software trouble, it's a hardware one.
I wouldn't be an bad idea to dissconect the camera cable from your G1 motherboard and see if something rare happens with the battery life.
And remember if your phone suffered a fall or something that could move things inside of it, if it happened maybe it's only a ill post wire inside your phone waiting to be repaired.
thanks for the suggestions, however when i am on rc29 camera works however it doesn't allow me to capture any picture, only the green light keeps blinking when i try to capture any picture.
But another thing i found when i am on updated firmware is that camera application size is 0, under application info, so i assume there is sum thing wrong with camera application and how would i re install the camera application if i want to, i have already tried everything from scratch and installing Rom but didn't succeed. If i m on cynegon mode 6 can i manually install the camera, Can someone please tell me the steps ?
frankdrey said:
This happened to me too with my old G1
The problem was a loose/broken camera cable.
Its very difficult to connect the camera cable though...
The battery...hmmm well...
actually the camera cable could be causing a short somewhere?
I don't know. What I would do is open up and take a look inside
Careful though
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mishamosher said:
Also, you can try some things for a better diagnostic:
1. Try to use anoter rom, and check if the problem persists
2. Check the battery stats in phone's adjust and see what consums so many battery
3. Use an alternate kernel
4. Try to use the original firmware, it's supposed to work at 100% and not to harm/malfunction your device
5. Another Radio/SPL combo
If all them fail and always you're facing the same problem, then it's not a software trouble, it's a hardware one.
I wouldn't be an bad idea to dissconect the camera cable from your G1 motherboard and see if something rare happens with the battery life.
And remember if your phone suffered a fall or something that could move things inside of it, if it happened maybe it's only a ill post wire inside your phone waiting to be repaired.
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thanks for the suggestions, however when i am on rc29 camera works however it doesn't allow me to capture any picture, only the green light keeps blinking when i try to capture any picture.
But another thing i found when i am on updated firmware is that camera application size is 0, under application info, so i assume there is sum thing wrong with camera application and how would i re install the camera application if i want to, i have already tried everything from scratch and installing Rom but didn't succeed. If i m on cynegon mode 6 can i manually install the camera, Can someone please tell me the steps ?
Open the rom zip file with winrar and go to /system/app and copy camera.apk to your sd card
Get a file browser on the phone and click camera.apk and install it
But really it sounds like a hardware problem
frankdrey said:
Open the rom zip file with winrar and go to /system/app and copy camera.apk to your sd card
Get a file browser on the phone and click camera.apk and install it
But really it sounds like a hardware problem
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you saying its a hardware problem but then camera view was working except capturing pictures on RC29 ??
Oh so it showed in rc29 but you couldn't capture pictures.....huh....that is so weird
Try to do a fastboot wipe and install a new rom...and if it still doesn't work, something is seriously wrong with the phone
anyway ...... I bricked my G1 somehow , so dont know what to say now
Hey its not always a brick
Give some detail
Does the G1 screen show? If not, then yes its a brick...
If it shows, then try to get into fastboot
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Hey its not always a brick
Give some detail
Does the G1 screen show? If not, then yes its a brick...
If it shows, then try to get into fastboot
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Its shows the G1 screen but dont know how to get into fastboot have tried all the options
frankdrey said:
Hey its not always a brick
Give some detail
Does the G1 screen show? If not, then yes its a brick...
If it shows, then try to get into fastboot
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Yes it shows G1 screen , but dont know how to get into fastmood have already tried all the options.
samkhan79 said:
Yes it shows G1 screen , but dont know how to get into fastmood have already tried all the options.
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well sorry to say but in my experience the only way to fix it is with jtag. not too many people out there do this do it will probably be hard to find someone willing to and not charge an arm and a leg for it. if you want to try yourself you need to buy special jtag equipment and learn a lot about it! but hey i plan to learn some day and im sure you could too. but for now id recommend buying a new phone or mother board...
I have had the One for about a month, and everything has been running smoothly, until a couple of days ago. The screen just suddenly wouldn't turn on, i could still hear sounds like messages and mails i was recieving. The first thing i thought of was reflashing the ROM, but the screen was still all black. I don't really know what to do, and i have searched the web for any solutions, but nothing seems to work. The sound still works aswell as all light and vibration. Does anybody have an idea of what i can do about it? Thanks
afaik that's a fairly common motherboard problem, i'd recommend backing up all of your media etc (I'm assuming you can see your files when you plug it into the pc) and call them [support . htc . com /contact], it shouldn't be too hard to convince them to send you a replacement
Just make sure to remove all traces of root!
though your screen is not working, but getting back to S-ON via Revone shoud work.... you will get to know if it is done sucessfully or not on the adb terminal itself.... so go on, do it, and send back for warranty.....
FML1234 said:
I have had the One for about a month, and everything has been running smoothly, until a couple of days ago. The screen just suddenly wouldn't turn on, i could still hear sounds like messages and mails i was recieving. The first thing i thought of was reflashing the ROM, but the screen was still all black. I don't really know what to do, and i have searched the web for any solutions, but nothing seems to work. The sound still works aswell as all light and vibration. Does anybody have an idea of what i can do about it? Thanks
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Had this a few weeks ago.. To fix it adb reboot to recovery... If u have the toolkit its much easier.. Try it
nazrin313 said:
Had this a few weeks ago.. To fix it adb reboot to recovery... If u have the toolkit its much easier.. Try it
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Im a noob, please explain?
nazrin313 said:
Had this a few weeks ago.. To fix it adb reboot to recovery... If u have the toolkit its much easier.. Try it
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Okay, i got it know, but when i connect my phone is can't find it... what do i do now?
arcanein said:
afaik that's a fairly common motherboard problem, i'd recommend backing up all of your media etc (I'm assuming you can see your files when you plug it into the pc) and call them [support . htc . com /contact], it shouldn't be too hard to convince them to send you a replacement
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No, i can't even see the files, my pc doesn't recognize it
Hello Guys!
I've the same problems!! I've try to reset the phone but impossible cause of the lock schema.
Any other solutions?
I still hear the ringtone when I'm calling my number but nothing appear on the screen! The problem is I've unlock my bootloader ((