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Extended menu for serendipity 5.7

My extended menu isn't appearing when I hold the power button it just turns on and off the backlights and I have to lock and unlock phone to pull down notification bar
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Reflash? Serendipity has been great for me. I have been using it since 5.0.. upgrading every step of the way. I probably wont flash anything else until the official comes put. I think maybe ill end up selling my cappy if that isnt soon. The original driod gets froyo before galaxy s... what a load of bs
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Take a picture using the camera with the power button.
Don't ask why.
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Any fix for no power button menu?
I'm having the same issue as nate360. My power button works for locking/waking up the screen, but doesn't do anything on a long press. No menu, no reset, nothing. I have to do a battery pull to turn off the phone!
3-button recovery works, but get this--the power button does not work in samsung recovery but does work in CWM recovery.
Did reflashing help? I've gotten my kernel and modem just how I want them, so I was hoping for a different fix.
MikeyMike01 said:
Take a picture using the camera with the power button.
Don't ask why.
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Tried to take pictures with the power button. They work, but doesn't fix the power button. I love the ROM, and did not have this issue on 5.6 before upgrading. Thanks for any help
Update! In my frustration, i just took like 50 photos and videos using various combinations of power button and on screen capture button, and my power button menu is back! Hope it works for others. Thanks Mike!

It's fixed go and update to 5.8 silly bugs

I tried Serendipity 5.7 to 5.8 which was supposed to be a fix for the extended menu and i have not been able to install it successfully.
Getting "assert failed getprop ro.build.display.id" etc error.
Can someone help what I am doing wrong....

sagirisk said:
I tried Serendipity 5.7 to 5.8 which was supposed to be a fix for the extended menu and i have not been able to install it successfully.
Getting "assert failed getprop ro.build.display.id" etc error.
Can someone help what I am doing wrong....
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You're not on 5.7.

Thanks Mike, does it mean I messed up?
any suggestions how to get back instead of flashing from base.
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Whatever it says in About Phone, you have to start from that version and work your way up.
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Theme issues

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.

spc_hicks09 said:
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..

Phone frozen in aroma installer for trickdroid, won't reboot.

Any thing I can do besides wait for it to die? Icons flash but phone won't reboot no matter how long I hold power.

cdillio said:
Any thing I can do besides wait for it to die? Icons flash but phone won't reboot no matter how long I hold power.
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Okay I got it to show up in adb and rebooted it. Now I am stuck at the boot screen and I can't get to recovery, and it won't show up in adb.

just happened to me and adb does not work either.
Edit - Phew just fixed it. Had to install the driver again and got it to reboot with adb.

To reboot the phone without ADB, just hold down the Vol Up and power button for 9 seconds, the phone should shut down. If it doesn't try again. Might take a try or two but I've always been able to reboot that way after Aroma hard freezes.

jeb101 said:
To reboot the phone without ADB, just hold down the Vol Up and power button for 9 seconds, the phone should shut down. If it doesn't try again. Might take a try or two but I've always been able to reboot that way after Aroma hard freezes.
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Actually to force reboot into recovery it's power+ vol down.
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blackangst said:
Actually to force reboot into recovery it's power+ vol down.
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I didn't mean reboot into recovery, this is just to shut the phone down after it froze and you can't do anything else. Like when Aroma crashes. I don't know if it's a real button combo, but I found that it worked, it just happened that last night that I reinstalled my rom and tweaks for trickdroid, and it would freeze. I found holding down power and immediately pushing the Vol Up button, after 9 seconds it will shut down. If it doesn't, try again. It'll work, frustrating, but it works.
On a side note, is there a manual out there somewhere that has all the button combos?
Force shutdown, recovery, bootloader, Safemode, stuff like that.
No issues force shutting down the phone using what I did, or getting into fastboot & recovery and stuff, but would be nice if there would be a writeup or a guide on this.
Cheers

Sometimes the forced shutdown doesn't work. You can sometimes use adb to reboot but that doesn't always work either. You just have to let the battery die.

Yep, experiencing this right now! the button combo doesn't work, adb wont recognize the phone, waiting for it to die

skedi said:
Yep, experiencing this right now! the button combo doesn't work, adb wont recognize the phone, waiting for it to die
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put your phone under a bright light then hold power+volume down.

skinsfanbdh said:
put your phone under a bright light then hold power+volume down.
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Holy lord, it worked! Wtf? Haha! How the hell did the light have anything to do with it?! That's bananas!

skinsfanbdh said:
put your phone under a bright light then hold power+volume down.
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u sir , is the hope of this world . thanks
adb got stuck , buttons wont respond but nothing can ever stop this guys magic.:good:
u r the bro of the bros. Xda won't be Xda without you anymore

hahaha... omg... that light thing worked! Can someone explain why that works???? lol.

The leading hypothesis is that HTC built in a safe guard against you accidently managing to push PWR + VOL DWN when your phone is in your pocket.
I really wish I could remember who I got that fix from--that guy deserves a medal!

unremarked said:
The leading hypothesis is that HTC built in a safe guard against you accidently managing to push PWR + VOL DWN when your phone is in your pocket.
I really wish I could remember who I got that fix from--that guy deserves a medal!
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Yea I know I deserve it
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I have learnt my lesson the last time when I flashed in aroma when I figure out the bright light thing and promised never to take that chance again if i do use aroma to flash anything I dont even touch the screen I use the power button to select and vol up and dwn keys to navigate and make sure I'm at 10% battery in case I get stuck
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wow......... i was going nnuts untill i found this thread!

Crap...this worked for me too! Amazing...

unremarked said:
The leading hypothesis is that HTC built in a safe guard against you accidently managing to push PWR + VOL DWN when your phone is in your pocket.
I really wish I could remember who I got that fix from--that guy deserves a medal!
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Hey what's sup
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gunnyman said:
Sometimes the forced shutdown doesn't work. You can sometimes use adb to reboot but that doesn't always work either. You just have to let the battery die.
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Usually when the phone is stuck like that it is registered in ur pc as the phone being off so nothing works when the phone is frozen in aroma lol the only thing that works on the phone is the sensor in that case. I am not too sure but I know for sure the sensor have something to do with the light adjustment of ur screen light when ur in the sun it gets brighter when ur in the dark it gets dimmer even putting the phone to ur ear the sensor tells the screen to turn off and on. Even with the soft keys they don't light up until night time. So when ur phone freezes like that the only thing that knows the screen is actually on is the sensor and if ur in the dark the sensor would not detect it as being on until u put it in some light which makes the power button shut the phone off. This works on HTC Butterfly and the htc one series plenty ppl asked me about it lately on the one x and so on
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skinsfanbdh said:
put your phone under a bright light then hold power+volume down.
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You. Are. A. Genius. Just f***ing incredible. My phone was stuck on the HTC Quietly Brilliant screen for 15+ minutes with no button combinations working. Flip on the light in my room and BAM the phone reboots. You're a genius

Awesome!
Awesome! Thanks!!!

Nice Tip
Thank you for sharing this i was allready getting crazy about this Problem.

Help please Aroma is stuck and holding down power won't reboot the phone

I HATE Aroma installer. didn't touch the screen and install is hung.
holding down the power button until the capacative keys flash does nothing.
Any other key combo to force a reboot?
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adb reboot does nothing either device not found

Power + VOL down for about 10 seconds.

nothing

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Not holding it long enough then. That's "battery pull" button combination. It can literally take 10-20 seconds. The buttons flashing is a good sign.
EDIT: Timed it on my phone, exactly 15seconds.

unremarked said:
Not holding it long enough then. That's "battery pull" button combination. It can literally take 10-20 seconds. The buttons flashing is a good sign.
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I've had buttons flashing for a minute with no reset

gunnyman said:
I've had buttons flashing for a minute with no reset
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You're holding both Power AND VOL down together, right? Not just power.

unremarked said:
You're holding both Power AND VOL down together, right? Not just power.
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yes

gunnyman said:
yes
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Huh, it's always worked without fail for me.
Congrats then, you get to wait until your battery dies.

try just holding power until screen goes off then volume down until in bootloader. may take a while but it works ive been in far worse situations with this phone but it always comes back. starting to think this phone is really hard to brick. all in one toolkit is a lifesaver if your not using it you should be. if you have a problem getting into recovery use it and if recovery starts then reboots or closes back to bootloader erase cache with all in one toolkit the boot to recovery

Define a while. Ive held the button down while lights flashed 200 times. It won't turn off.

gunnyman said:
Define a while. Ive held the button down while lights flashed 200 times. It won't turn off.
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where are you stuck at? download all in one toolkit and see if that has something that will help you. it saved me a bunch of times already. if the phone turns on or is on your okay. its just frustrating sometimes when you think you might have ruined a $600 device but as long as its on your ok no need to stress

Aroma installer
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gunnyman said:
Aroma installer
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just hold power+ volume down if it doesnt reboot after a minute let go and try again. or you could try all in one toolkit for your carrier to reboot to bootloader. trust me ive been stuck in aroma countless times there is a way

As I've said, adb and fast boot don't see the phone. I'm just going to have to wait for it to die.
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gunnyman said:
Aroma installer
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If you've held the buttons for around 40 seconds you are going to just have to wait for the battery to die happened to another person. One other thing count the flashes after 20 release and then hold again and it should reset at 15 flashes if not then you are going to have to wait for the battery to die. Good news is after that the other person was able to get back to recovery and didn't have the problem again.

still nothing. Hope it drains down completely over night. I need to be able to get the thing up and running tomorrow

As an Evo owner I was shocked to hear the correct procedure for that phone was pwr + VOL UP AND VOL DOWN yes all three at the same time. I assumed vol up and vol down could not both be selected at the same time because they were on a rocker switch where, if one side is low, the other must be high. But it turns out you could do both. Is the HTC One like this?
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back up and running. battery finally died. Flashed stock boot.img after a recharge and all is well.
I'm swearing off of aroma installers from here on out.

Had the same problem also today. But I did not give up to try pressing power + vol down. After several attempts the phone finally restarted.

You're more patient than me I guess. I worked at it for more than an hour and a half.

Well...this is a problem.

Looks like my m8 is soft bricked. Everything was fine, rooted, romd, s-off all went smooth. Then I installed xposed and my phone refuses to boot, even when i try to put it into recovery it bugs out and turns off. I suspect an Ruu could fix but we dont have one yet. As a warning to everyone, stay away from exposed for now.

Once xposed is installed, it creates a zip on your internal sd to disable xposed. Flash it.
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Rydah805 said:
Once xposed is installed, it creates a zip on your internal sd to disable xposed. Flash it.
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see thats the thing i cant even get into recovery. Maybe its a hardware failure? seeing as anything i do with exposed shoudnt affect my screen or my recovery.

Deathsnuggle said:
see thats the thing i cant even get into recovery. Maybe its a hardware failure? seeing as anything i do with exposed shoudnt affect my screen or my recovery.
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Press power vol up til the screen tuns black then press power vol down it should take you to bootloader

sounds like a dead battery throw it on a charger for abit and try again

BD619 said:
Press power vol up til the screen tuns black then press power vol down it should take you to bootloader
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Can't even get into bootloader.
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What did you try to run with xposed? I've been using it for days, but only app settings to change dpi.

Deathsnuggle said:
Can't even get into bootloader.
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I got stuck like this the other day...I was freaking out lol
I just started pressing every combo I could think of...I think I pressed power and both vol buttons and I was amazed it went to bootloader, I though it was bricked lol

mcwups1 said:
What did you try to run with xposed? I've been using it for days, but only app settings to change dpi.
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Sense 6 toolbox. Funny thing I'm noticing, it only happened once I got over 90% battery. I'm gonna see if I can get it down and if it leads anywhere
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Update. I got it booting. It refuses to go into hboot, the digitizer is borked. Looks like I just got a lemon
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Soft bricked, huuuuhhh
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What about the hold the phone under a light and try and get into bootloader? I had to hold my M7 under bright light some times to get into the BL
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BD619 said:
I got stuck like this the other day...I was freaking out lol
I just started pressing every combo I could think of...I think I pressed power and both vol buttons and I was amazed it went to bootloader, I though it was bricked lol
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When I got stuck, i pressed power button and volume up. When the screen turned off, i pressed volume down. That put me into bootloader on the first try.
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volk9029 said:
When I got stuck, i pressed power button and volume up. When the screen turned off, i pressed volume down. That put me into bootloader on the first try.
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Tried that...would not work
When I was stuck the screen was already off.
Power + vol down did nothing.
Power + vol up did nothing.
Tried the bright light trick ...nothing.
At this point I thought I was bricked haha.
Only thing that worked was Power + vol up and down at the same time.

BD619 said:
Tried that...would not work
When I was stuck the screen was already off.
Power + vol down did nothing.
Power + vol up did nothing.
Tried the bright light trick ...nothing.
At this point I thought I was bricked haha.
Only thing that worked was Power + vol up and down at the same time.
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That is good to know, in case i will get in the situation like that. Thank you.
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So I found out today that I can get into the bootloader....the backlight is just off when it's in the bootloader. This thing is all kinds of messed up. Good thing is now I can restore it to stock before I send it to HTC for surgery .
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