I mistakenly clicked the option not to show unlock icon. Now it boots as normal to the home screen but I can't go any further because the unlock icon is not showing to click. Unable to go to settings or anything. I'm searched the forum with no luck. Please advise my best solution.
wtalbert said:
I mistakenly clicked the option not to show unlock icon. Now it boots as normal to the home screen but I can't go any further because the unlock icon is not showing to click. Unable to go to settings or anything. I'm searched the forum with no luck. Please advise my best solution.
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Educational time spend while waiting for help brought the answer. Thanks for all the info in the forums and the talented people who share their knowledge.
Could you please post your solution? This just happened to me tonight and I don't know what to do short of wiping the whole device.
diesputnikdie said:
Could you please post your solution? This just happened to me tonight and I don't know what to do short of wiping the whole device.
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I'll be glad to. I went into recovery by powering off completely, power up by holding down the N button and the power button. After the initial B&N banner comes up and goes off release the power button. Continue holding the N for a count of 4. It's tricky hitting the right point so you may need to try it several times holding 1 count more or less. When recovery comes up go to "Backup/Restore" and restore a previous backup. Hope this works for you.
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Hey guys.
I have been a windows mobile user for the longest time and its been a while since my last post. Just bought my Captivate today.
I tried booting into recovery mode but it flashes the att splash screen and boots up normally. If i continue to hold the buttons, the splash screen just flashes off and on again. I really want to root this phone right away.
Anyone know how i can fix this?
I tried looking for this but no one seems to have this same problem. I am sorry if i am repeating stuff. Please forward me to it and delete the thread if you wish.
Thank you
xtremekilla09 said:
Hey guys.
I have been a windows mobile user for the longest time and its been a while since my last post. Just bought my Captivate today.
I tried booting into recovery mode but it flashes the att splash screen and boots up normally. If i continue to hold the buttons, the splash screen just flashes off and on again. I really want to root this phone right away.
Anyone know how i can fix this?
I tried looking for this but no one seems to have this same problem. I am sorry if i am repeating stuff. Please forward me to it and delete the thread if you wish.
Thank you
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Pull the battery and make sure the phone is off.
Put the battery back on.
Hold the volume up and volume down button, then hold the power button. When the white AT&T screen first comes on, let go of the power button, but hold the volume keys.
does that work for you?
EDIT: and before anyone else chimes in, this thread probably belongs in either general or question and answer.
nope that didnt work either.
I guess i am gonna have to install the sdk and go that route.
as soon as the att screen comes on, i let go of power but hold both volume keys.
it takes about 10 seconds, but eventually it goes into recovery mode for me.
EDIT: Based on you saying it flashes off and on again, it sounds like you aren't letting the power button go.
I tried that too and it just went straight ahead to the boot up animation.
I really want to thank you for you speedy replies.
Any more suggestions, keep 'em coming. I really want to root this phone.
xtremekilla09 said:
I tried that too and it just went straight ahead to the boot up animation.
I really want to thank you for you speedy replies.
Any more suggestions, keep 'em coming. I really want to root this phone.
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On your home screen, hit the menu button, and then settings. scroll down to about phone.
What is your baseband?
What always works for me is:
turn off.
Power on holding the up and down volume buttons and the power button.
When you see the ATT logo let go of everything.
This always works for me.
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Honestly, the SDK is the easiest method.
You should have the sdk installed anyway. It help with installing non-market apps. Install it then enable debug mode on you phone. You can do that in the settings menu under applications> development. Then at the cmd prompt on your pc use this command. "adb reboot recovery" no quotes. The phone will reboot to recovery.
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miztaken1312 said:
Honestly, the SDK is the easiest method.
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Yes Sir! IT IS
WOW! done and done!
It worked using the SDK method.
Thanks for all the help guys. Love XDA! don't know what I would do without it.
I dont know if I should upgrade the firmware or not. Anyone want to share their opinions on whether it is useful or useless?
I opened this app (battery booster, can't post link because I am new) after downloading it excited to hoping it was better then a previous one I was trying that seemed to do next to nothing.
I saw the brightness button and hit it. It showed 11%. I was like oh I thought I had this all the way down...so I use the scroller to take it all the way down assuming 0% meant that it was the lowest it could possible dim the screen...well it sure is a battery saver considering I can't even see my screen as its completely BLACK...............................
1. Why would you even allow something like this in a app.
2. Please help me fix it...
I have tried for about an hour to assume where the scroll down, and mounting the phone to my computer so that I could possibly uninstall it via computer with no luck...
anyone????!
I don't want to piss you off or anything, but I had read a comment on another thread saying they could never get it to come back, even when they went back to stock.
You may need to head down to the Verizon store :/
chronster said:
I don't want to piss you off or anything, but I had read a comment on another thread saying they could never get it to come back, even when they went back to stock.
You may need to head down to the Verizon store :/
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son of a...this is so stupid! What a bad feature to have in a app for idiots like myself apparently
if you have adb debugging you might be able to fix it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785603&highlight=horror
If you have usb debugging on, you can use adb to delete the app you downloaded I think. Did you have it enabled?
Florynce said:
If you have usb debugging on, you can use adb to delete the app you downloaded I think. Did you have it enabled?
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I didn't have debugging on i checked via adb and long story short...i was still within 30 days of purchase ;-)
All may not be lost!!
If you're still in your 30 days take it back and exchange it.
If not, try booting into recovery mode and reset the phone. I don't think you need root to do that much and it should put the phone back to the way it was when you took it out of the box.
Hold down the volume button so that you are pressing both up & down volume at the same time (easiest to do with the battery cover off).
While holding the volume keys down press and hold the power button too. When the Samsung screen comes up release both buttons. A couple seconds later you will see the "Android system recovery" screen.
Press the volume down button until you have highlighted "wipe data/factory reset".
Press the "Home" button to select it.
You will then be told to press the volume up button to wipe the phone or press the volume down button to exit/cancel. Press volume up and follow any additional instructions. That's as far as I go to guide you (I want to keep my stuff as is ).
If that doesn't take care of the issue then you should take it to verizon and tell them what happened. Good luck and let me know if this worked for you!
~Johnny
I wanted to wipe my cache but I can't get into recovery mode.
I can get into the bootloader and when I select Recovery Mode, all I get in the bugdroid on its back woith a red exclamation triangle and the word Error underneath.
Any ideas?
I'm having the same issue. I cannot figure out how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated!
I've just had the same issue on my daughter's ME176CX. For me, doing a short press of power and Volume + at the same time on the Error screen, allowed me to go in to the normal recovery menu.
Good luck!
RufusA said:
I've just had the same issue on my daughter's ME176CX. For me, doing a short press of power and Volume + at the same time on the Error screen, allowed me to go in to the normal recovery menu.
Good luck!
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Thank you. That worked for me too.
RufusA said:
I've just had the same issue on my daughter's ME176CX. For me, doing a short press of power and Volume + at the same time on the Error screen, allowed me to go in to the normal recovery menu.
Good luck!
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:good: Bravo, almost desperate, I thought I lost device Works on Asus Memo Pad ME302KL Thank you.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.... This is my son's Tab and i thought it is brick and done for...... and there you are as angel from heaven.....
it's really amazing how people really seem to forget where the write places to search for solutions are... thinking that only youtube gives the cake...
but I say,, If youtube gives the Cake,, Forums Make The Precipices...
Thank You Man...
What do you mean by short press? The error signal is still there for me.
all im getting on this is to enter a password,cant reset or anything else ive tried..any ideas please
My Device ASUS K013 ME176C was working with: Vol+ and Vol- Buttons only same time a short press (less a sec). Try again if not working on first attempt.
The recovery mode with further menu now on the top.
I'm turning here only because I ran out of ideas to try.
My daughter has a "pure" version and last night at the airport (traveling) she told me that her home button stopped working and notification shade doesn't open past the first card that shows time/date.
I didn't believe it but sure enough, that's the case.
I googled this issue and fond a post where someone suggested to add/remove a user. I did that and the notification shade is back to normal but the home button still does nothing. Anyway, instead of wasting time on this, I wanted to Factory Reset but the freaking Reset button is disabled! Ok, so I did the power button+vol_down combination to get into boot options and when I select the Recovery option, nothing happens! Just a black screen as if it shut off.
Any idea on how to fix this and what could it be? I've never experienced anything like this on any of my Nexuses so I'm kinda pissed at Motorola and will most likely never buy anything but Nexus again.
Thanks
When selecting "recovery" from the bootloader are you using the power button or the volume up button?
ssmcd said:
When selecting "recovery" from the bootloader are you using the power button or the volume up button?
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Man, that's kinda embarrassing.... LOL
I was using the Power button instead of the Up button. And it's written right there on the screen.
Thank you!
But still kinda strange behavior that I'm trying to fix. Wiping right now and I'm sure I'm all set. Thanks!
Are there multiple users on the phone?
I have the same problem and just started today.
Any thing fix this?
If anyone knows how to fix this please help. I'm researching it now but I'm making this thread in hopes someone knows what I need to do.
I can boot the device and it gets to the lock screen and I can unlock it but then it keeps turning the screen off and going back to the lock screen. If I don't touch it it will continue to do this in a loop. If I press the power button it will turn the screen off and stay off. If I unlock the former process repeats and I can't do anything. I can restart the phone, or power it off. When I go to fastboot mode I can't find anywhere to factory reset it. I try to enter rescue or recovery mode and it justs boots to a screen with a dead android and says "no command".
I'm assuming I'm going to have to use adb to fix it. I've done this with phones in the past but I know nothing about the P4XL and haven't messed with my phones in a geeky manner in quite a while so my knowledge is rusty.
PS. The android 11 beta ran fine for a few days besides some normal bugs. All in all it worked fine. This problem randomly happened today while I was using soundcloud hooked to my JBL boombox.
Evidently I'm the only person in the world who has a bricked Pixel 4 XL with android 11 because I'm not finding any info on how to fix it. I'm not even finding anyone with the same problem.
imucarmen said:
If anyone knows how to fix this please help. I'm researching it now but I'm making this thread in hopes someone knows what I need to do.
I can boot the device and it gets to the lock screen and I can unlock it but then it keeps turning the screen off and going back to the lock screen. If I don't touch it it will continue to do this in a loop. If I press the power button it will turn the screen off and stay off. If I unlock the former process repeats and I can't do anything. I can restart the phone, or power it off. When I go to fastboot mode I can't find anywhere to factory reset it. I try to enter rescue or recovery mode and it justs boots to a screen with a dead android and says "no command".
I'm assuming I'm going to have to use adb to fix it. I've done this with phones in the past but I know nothing about the P4XL and haven't messed with my phones in a geeky manner in quite a while so my knowledge is rusty.
PS. The android 11 beta ran fine for a few days besides some normal bugs. All in all it worked fine. This problem randomly happened today while I was using soundcloud hooked to my JBL boombox.
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When you are in the phase with the dead android and the "no command" hold the power button and just click the volume up button so you can go to the advanced recovery menu and from there hard reset your phone or install via adb an other rom.
Cheers.
Escribis said:
When you are in the phase with the dead android and the "no command" hold the power button and just click the volume up button so you can go to the advanced recovery menu and from there hard reset your phone or install via adb an other rom.
Cheers.
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Thanks! Worked! I found a tutorial on verizon's site saying to do what you just explained but it was saying to release both the power and volume up and when I did that, nothing would happen. Your instructions worked flawlessly. Thank you!
imucarmen said:
Thanks! Worked! I found a tutorial on verizon's site saying to do what you just explained but it was saying to release both the power and volume up and when I did that, nothing would happen. Your instructions worked flawlessly. Thank you!
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You are welcome.
Happy that your problem is solved.
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I had the same issue and it persisted until I gave up and got a replacement through my phone carrier via insurance. You may be out of luck my friend...
EtherealJoey said:
I had the same issue and it persisted until I gave up and got a replacement through my phone carrier via insurance. You may be out of luck my friend...
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You shouldn't root or be installing beta software on your phone if you filed an insurance claim over a soft brick.