I need some help!! My nook color (with CM7 on an SD card) will not come back on after the screen turns off. Now this isnt everytime but it happens quite often. It happens whenever the screen automatically turns off or if I press the power button to turn off the screen. Then when I press the n button or the power button to turn the screen back on, it sometimes won't turn on. I press either button multiple times and it won't turn on. I have to hard reboot it. It's very annoying.
Is it going into some sort of sleep mode? Any help is appreciated.
Change the wifi sleep policy to turn the wifi off when the screen is off, you can accomplish this by going to the wifi settings, hitting the menu button and then advanced...
I'd also recommend for general usage to install to the emmc and use the latest nightly for best CM7 stability and performance.
I'm kinda new to this stuff. Can you tell me how to accomplish the general usage to the emmc? And also how do I update to the newest build? Would I have to rebuild my SD card from scratch?
To install to the emmc just follow this guide(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227)
You can get the latest nightly here(http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore)
If you just want to update your sd card install all you should have to do is place the latest nightly on the boot partition of your sd card and boot into recovery(start with the nook off, press and hold the "n" button and at the same time press and hold the power button for a good 3-4 seconds, while still holding the "n" button let go of the power button) and the build should update itself.
If I update the build will I lose all my apps and configurations?
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If I update the build will I lose all my apps and configurations?
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No, you wont.
After I install the newest nightly build, how can I verify it is the newest one?
settings>about tablet>mod version
This is Sleep of Death. To get rid of it forever set up two profiles in tasker one for wifi off with screen off and wifi on when screen is on.
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This is Sleep of Death. To get rid of it forever set up two profiles in tasker one for wifi off with screen off and wifi on when screen is on.
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Love Tasker, and did this in Tasker for a while, but Green Power is actually better for this specific task, even if it is yet-another-service.... It'll open up wifi (if you want it to) every N minutes for M minutes to grab email or such, then back off. And it's pretty cheap if you don't already have Tasker.
In reality, I am sure I COULD have Tasker do this too... Set a var, have a every-15-minutes process look to see if the var is set, go online for M minutes, go back offline... But I sometimes find Tasker doing too many things at once makes it get behind.
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Love Tasker, and did this in Tasker for a while, but Green Power is actually better for this specific task, even if it is yet-another-service.... It'll open up wifi (if you want it to) every N minutes for M minutes to grab email or such, then back off. And it's pretty cheap if you don't already have Tasker.
In reality, I am sure I COULD have Tasker do this too... Set a var, have a every-15-minutes process look to see if the var is set, go online for M minutes, go back offline... But I sometimes find Tasker doing too many things at once makes it get behind.
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I tried green powder and still got SoD because of the constant wifi on and off in sleep. Tasker is the only complete solution I've found
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True, for the NC, turning off completely makes sense.
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Hey Guys I really need your help my N1 won't power on for some reason. I really need to get some things off the phone from certain software that I had in case I have to have it repaired or sent away. I'll try to be brief what happened I was exercising with my phone inside a protective case that covers the whole phone and I went to change the next song while listening to music and when i went to push the power button the screen remained black the whole time and I couldn't see anything at all the screen was black the whole time after numerous attempts at pushing the power button. So I held down the power button to try and reboot it and then the music stopped, so then I hit the power button again to turn it on and it hasn't turned on since yesterday. I even took the battery out and let it chill for a min and still doesn't work. when I plug it in to the charger the orange/green light comes on and as well with the USB connection too, but still can get it to power on.
Anyone have any Idea what it could be? I am assuming it's the power button but I am not for sure. Is there anyway to turn it on again in case i need to recover any files, etc. the reason i want to get it to work is that I don't want to have to go through the hassle of sending it away to be repaired if there is some way I can do it myself. I am trying to avoid sending it away with my carrier and I really need to access certain files on the phone if all else fails. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it thnx to anyone.
If it's a power button failure, you can put the phone on charge, then remove and reinsert the battery... keep trying, it will turn on eventually...
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/09/08/manage-nexus-broken-power-button/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+androidguyscom+(AndroidGuys)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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it worked the first time I did it thank you so much well just in case it ever happens again how can I back up some things on my apps for example I have notes on AK notepad how would I back those up? and if I wanted to move some software to my sd card that doesn't allow it?
Hey thanks again you are a life saver!!!!!!!!
oh darn the X came up when I powered it up but still nothing just a black screen I got all excited for nothing
i got after 5 or so times of taking the battery out thnx again is there a way or software to make the N1 awake or power off with the trackball without rooting it since the power switch is buggy now?
Titanium Backup will backup apps and data to SD card.
Widget Locker has an option for trackball wake.
LockEnabler will let you turn screen off/sleep.
Quick Boot will let you reboot, boot into recovery etc. Be careful booting into recovery or boot loader, because power button is used to navigate (you have to use adb).
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thnx again is there anyway to restart/reboot the phone if it is not rooted via trackball or another button?
Reboot is possible with Quick Boot (as noted above), but if you ever turn off then the battery toggle is your only option...
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I have an AT&T unlocked Nexus One that I recently flashed to CM-7.0.3-N1 . I have had a problem unlocking the device with the power button both when I was running stock Gingerbread and now that I have installed CM7.
When the screen is off and my N1 is in standby, I push the power button and the screen turns on and then back off almost immediately. Sometimes there is a half second delay before the screen turns on and then off. This usually goes on 2 or 3 times until the screen will stay on and I can unlock my phone.
Has anyone seen or heard of this problem, and maybe knows of a fix? It could be hardware related, but the button definitely sends a signal to the phone and it works fine to shutdown or turn on the device from completely off. Thanks.
ummm the power button on the nexus one has an incredibly high failure rate, all over the forum here. its a design defect from the factory. that's why it has always been recommended to root the device immediately, and use trackball wake, so you avoid using the power button as much as possible. you have to send the device to HTC for repair, that's your only option...
Thanks for the information. I will have to look into repairs.
You are already running a rooted rom with track all wake. Use it. To reboot the the phone use quickboot. At this stage you really don't need the power button on your phone.
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... now that I have installed CM7.
I push the power button and the screen turns on and then back off almost immediate
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This is a problem with CM7. Most advise turning off the screen off animation if it becomes a big problem for you. Make sure you are using the newest nightly and hope for a fix. I don't know if the RC's have this problem, but I would bet it appears on the 7.0.3 release.
At first glance that seems to have helped. Thanks for the advice!
No problem.
Also you can use widget locker to lock the screen then the trackball to wake, with that and quickboot I don't even touch my power button anymore. Although your problem doesn't sound like a broken power button so in your position I would switch ROMs and see what happens.
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I have an AT&T unlocked Nexus One that I recently flashed to CM-7.0.3-N1 . I have had a problem unlocking the device with the power button both when I was running stock Gingerbread and now that I have installed CM7.
When the screen is off and my N1 is in standby, I push the power button and the screen turns on and then back off almost immediately. Sometimes there is a half second delay before the screen turns on and then off. This usually goes on 2 or 3 times until the screen will stay on and I can unlock my phone.
Has anyone seen or heard of this problem, and maybe knows of a fix? It could be hardware related, but the button definitely sends a signal to the phone and it works fine to shutdown or turn on the device from completely off. Thanks.
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I'm experiencing exactly this too on the latest RC. It doesn't seem to be complete button failure but it's acting like I've pressed it twice sometimes. Disabling the screen-on animation does seem to prevent it from popping back on. But it still sometimes goes on-then-off when I wake it with the power button. So now I'm using trackball wake too.
As others have mentioned, this does not sound like a powerbutton issue, because the powerbutton still turns on the screen. The problem is that the screen turns off immediately after it turns on.
When you flashed 7.0.3, did you come from a previous CM verison? From stock? My first suggestion would probably be to wipe the /system partition (in CWM, it is under mounts and storage -- with Amon_RA, you need to find a flashable zip to do it) and reinstall CM and gapps. This will not cause any data loss. Sometimes, if you install a new ROM over an old one, the upgrade script in CM can get confused and carry over files that aren't supposed to be carried over. The system wipe fixes that.
I've been using this RC since it came out in late June. Only this week did it start flipping out on me.
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It still can't hurt anything to do a system wipe, just in case something got screwed up (these things can be so temperamental at times). And, like I said, you won't lose any of your data.
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It still can't hurt anything to do a system wipe, just in case something got screwed up (these things can be so temperamental at times). And, like I said, you won't lose any of your data.
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I'm currently using S2E for apps2ext and some data2ext. How would a system wipe and reinstall interact with that? I'm a bit nervous on that front.
A system wipe shouldn't change any of that. It is one benefit of using S2E as it is a standard app that is stored in the /data partition without any changes to the /system partition.
Anyway, to be safe, it is a good idea to do a nandroid backup anytime you are doing something that involves the majority of the features in recovery.
It's a hardware problem for me. Failed completely as of today.
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CM7 7.1.0
My power button seems to be in the process of completely failing. The new CM7 update to 7.1.0 has made it possible for me to lock the screen without using the power button using the "Notification power widget" -> "Go to sleep". Now the only times I have to use the power button are to shut the phone down or wake it up, which seems to be easier when the phone is plugged in to a wall charger. Are there any simple apps for shutting the phone down and maybe waking it up at a set time?
The only reliable trick I found to turn it back on was to plug into the wall and take the battery out/in a few times till it vibrated.
I ended up getting a replacement phone and then I sent the Nexus to HTC. They quoted a $55 repair cost off warranty which my credit card insurance would've covered, but when I asked for an invoice they offered to just waive the charges. Finally over a month later it came back fixed.
The app Easy Reboot can shut the phone down.
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I also use an app called Lock Screen, which just locks the screen. I have it stored in my dock, because I don't like the space being used in the notification widget.
CM7 has an option for one of the items in the notification tray widget to be a lock screen button.
cmstlist said:
I'm experiencing exactly this too on the latest RC. It doesn't seem to be complete button failure but it's acting like I've pressed it twice sometimes. Disabling the screen-on animation does seem to prevent it from popping back on. But it still sometimes goes on-then-off when I wake it with the power button. So now I'm using trackball wake too.
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THANK YOU!!!! This has been driving me crazy. Turning off the screen-off animations did nothing, but turning off the screen-on animation seems to have fixed the issue. My power button is toast (my new power button ribbon cable just arrived... time for surgery), and I've been using the trackball to wake my phone. Before the power button died, it did the same thing. I'm using CM7.2. I installed it after rooting and went straight to cm7.2 from stock, so obviously the cyanogemnod crew haven't fixed the issue since 7.0.3 when this thread started.
Has anyone experienced their nook will shut off where the only way to restart is to power it back on?
I am running miui.us if it matters.
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barakisbrown said:
Has anyone experienced their nook will shut off where the only way to restart is to power it back on?
I am running miui.us if it matters.
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Yes, it is called Sleep of Death (SOD). It happens when you have wifi set to stay on when the screen turns off. After a while the system will go into deep sleep (as it's supposed to do) but if you have wifi set to also stay on, sometimes it will not wake up. There are workarounds to prevent this, but they are usually not very satisfactory if you want wifi on. Search the forums for discussions on SOD. It affects all newer versions of CM7 including miui.us.
I have this too, also running miui.us. My solution was to set the Nook to never sleep. I tap the power button when I'm done, the screen goes blank, I tap the Nook button or power button to use it again and it pops up in a second. Wifi quickly connects and I'm in business.
I tried a search for information and only found one mention from back in May, so I'm hoping someone can direct me to a fix..if there is one.
I just loaded CM 7.1 on my color Nook and as far as I know at this point it seems to be working well enough. I've noted that volume seems way down on some movie clips...if that's normal or there's a fix , I'd love the info. Also, is it normal for the 'n' button not to do anything at all. It used to take you to the home screen no matter where you were, but now it doesn't seem to do anything. However..
The thing that does bug me is that it never seems to go to sleep. The screen dims after a short time (I set the sleep time to a short period to check this), but unless I press the power button and force it to sleep, it doesn't appear to ever go off. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
JTT
With both GingerFusion and DreadGinger I seem to have the issue that when I turn my screen off or it shuts off on its own after being idle the lights on the 4 Soft Keys stay on and take an extra few seconds to turn off, which wouldn't be a big deal by if that was all, but once they turn off they keep flicking on and off every few seconds (like every 5 to 10 seconds) which is hella annoying. Anyone else experience this and if so is there a fix. Or does anyone have any ideas on How to fix it. I have tried wiping cache and dalvik cache as well as re-flashing the themes all to no avail. So if someone could help me fix it. I would really appreciate it. I hella dig these themes and would like to use them. But that flickering on and off repeatedly is straight up annoying.
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BackSeatSuicide said:
With both GingerFusion and DreadGinger I seem to have the issue that when I turn my screen off or it shuts off on its own after being idle the lights on the 4 Soft Keys stay on and take an extra few seconds to turn off, which wouldn't be a big deal by if that was all, but once they turn off they keep flicking on and off every few seconds (like every 5 to 10 seconds) which is hella annoying. Anyone else experience this and if so is there a fix. Or does anyone have any ideas on How to fix it. I have tried wiping cache and dalvik cache as well as re-flashing the themes all to no avail. So if someone could help me fix it. I would really appreciate it. I hella dig these themes and would like to use them. But that flickering on and off repeatedly is straight up annoying.
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2 ways you can fix it. Either hold your phone up to a light source (computer monitor or other light source).
Or, press and hold the power button, then select "power off" instead of reboot. Power the phone completely off, then restart the phone.
A little tip to avoid that happening again:
After you flash a theme or ROM, instead of selecting "reboot phone now" in the Recovery menu, select "Power Off." Let the phone turn completely off, then turn it back on.
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2 ways you can fix it. Either hold your phone up to a light source (computer monitor or other light source).
Or, press and hold the power button, then select "power off" instead of reboot. Power the phone completely off, then restart the phone.
A little tip to avoid that happening again:
After you flash a theme or ROM, instead of selecting "reboot phone now" in the Recovery menu, select "Power Off." Let the phone turn completely off, then turn it back on.
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+9999 for the light source lol
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Fixed. Thanks for the help peeps
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hey i got a question, lol
on a stock zvc rom i used on LG Esteem (similar to revo) i made like 1 or 2 theme tweaks with framework-res.apk, services.jar & LGHome.apk... i seem to have an issue where i hold power for menu, select power off. but phone just reboots to boot animation than powers on rom again..
i only switched out statusbar_background.png in framework, added transparency line to services.jar (which seems to be working) and swapped LGHome.apk with version from zvb(previous fw update prior to zvc) so do you think it could be related to any of that, or is it just an actual problem with the rom..? thank you for any help..