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[Q] Lock Screen won't "Unlock"

The lock screen on my Droid will not unlock. It will move when I try to swipe it, but it snaps back and won't open. Knew it won't help, but did a battery pull, re-booted and nothing changed. I can't get to any kind of menu that I know of because it is an unrooted, stock phone. I can't use the phone at all if I can't unlock it. PLEASE HELP!!!

Come on, no responses? I know someone on here can offer up something...

PeanutTM said:
It will move when I try to swipe it, but it snaps back and won't open.
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u sure u swipe/pull ALLLLL the way to the right?

It happens to me sometimes for the phone call, when you did not complete the whole sliding on the very 1st time. Dunno why, but a double power button click (off screen/on) solves the problem.

[Q] screen problem? Vivid

The right side of my Vivid's screen is notably darker than the left and the of the 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, only the home button appears to be at the brightness it should be at. The rest are all super dim or off. When I turn my vivid off, the screen is off, but the button lights are still on. The 4 buttons also work. Ive tried taking out the battery and putting it back in numerous amount of times and restarting it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

ducksncow said:
The right side of my Vivid's screen is notably darker than the left and the of the 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, only the home button appears to be at the brightness it should be at. The rest are all super dim or off. When I turn my vivid off, the screen is off, but the button lights are still on. The 4 buttons also work. Ive tried taking out the battery and putting it back in numerous amount of times and restarting it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Well, try flashing another rom, or downloading and flashing the RUU. or send in to ATT for warranty repair if still applicable.
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Well, try flashing another rom, or downloading and flashing the RUU. or send in to ATT for warranty repair if still applicable.
Dont Forget to Hit Thanks!!
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thanks for responding
Well the problem with that is that I've never had a custom rom or an unlocked bootloader and I cant get a warranty repiar.... Do you have any other suggestions?

ducksncow said:
thanks for responding
Well the problem with that is that I've never had a custom rom or an unlocked bootloader and I cant get a warranty repiar.... Do you have any other suggestions?
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You can still run an RUU if you've never unlocked. Turn USB debugging on, put the phone in Charge only mode, run the correct RUU (Gingerbread if you're on Gingerbread, ICS if you're on ICS)
However this sounds like hardware to me

homeslice976 said:
You can still run an RUU if you've never unlocked. Turn USB debugging on, put the phone in Charge only mode, run the correct RUU (Gingerbread if you're on Gingerbread, ICS if you're on ICS)
However this sounds like hardware to me
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i agree. you might be screwed here

I would think something got messed up and its making it do that. Try flashing an RUU or custom ROM like they said. Hopefully its not the actual screen if it is just replace it

[Q] Dead Power button after washing

Hi,
Every couple of weeks I give my Xperia Z a wash, this has turned out to be a bad idea. 2 days ago I washed the phone, held it under a running tap for 20 seconds, and now the power button does not work.
Luckily I can unlock the phone using the volume button and I can activate lock screen via a widget. Now I have to send it back to Sony for repair and I am running CM10.2, do you think that I should revert to stock ROM? If so, how would you revert to stock with no power button...
Any advice gratefully received.
Steve

Rassilon7 said:
Hi,
Luckily I can unlock the phone using the volume button
Steve
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how do you unlock the phone with volume buttons?
my powerbutton is broken too.
i using Carbon ROM 4.2.2 there you can make it through the display-settings?
do you have this rom to?

bezalel said:
how do you unlock the phone with volume buttons?
my powerbutton is broken too.
i using Carbon ROM 4.2.2 there you can make it through the display-settings?
do you have this rom to?
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Hi,
I am using CM10.2
I press the volume button and it activates the screen, then I unlock.
Update!
The phone switches itself on, so I guess the power button is constantly being pressed? Luckily I have been able to use Flashtool to revert to stock, now I just have to wait for Sony support to get back to me for the repair.

Next time use another detergent
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Rassilon7 said:
Hi,
I am using CM10.2
I press the volume button and it activates the screen, then I unlock.
Update!
The phone switches itself on, so I guess the power button is constantly being pressed? Luckily I have been able to use Flashtool to revert to stock, now I just have to wait for Sony support to get back to me for the repair.
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Happened to a friend with a XZ too.
Try to suck the water out from the power button.
It looks perv but it works.
C6603 ?

beni8978 said:
Happened to a friend with a XZ too.
Try to suck the water out from the power button.
It looks perv but it works.
C6603 ?
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I just tried that, and it looks ridiculous. But! It didn't work...
I also left it on a dehumidifier over night on full blast, no luck. Just waiting on Sony now.

Rassilon7 said:
Hi,
Every couple of weeks I give my Xperia Z a wash, this has turned out to be a bad idea. 2 days ago I washed the phone, held it under a running tap for 20 seconds, and now the power button does not work.
Luckily I can unlock the phone using the volume button and I can activate lock screen via a widget. Now I have to send it back to Sony for repair and I am running CM10.2, do you think that I should revert to stock ROM? If so, how would you revert to stock with no power button...
Any advice gratefully received.
Steve
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I have exactly the same problem...i think you can t turn it off :/ so to go in flashmode you press
Volume+ until it turn off and when you hear the vibration yuo press volume down until you see green led blink one time and for fastbootmode do the same thing to restart and when you hear the vibration press many times volume +
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Rassilon7 said:
Hi,
I am using CM10.2
I press the volume button and it activates the screen, then I unlock.
Update!
The phone switches itself on, so I guess the power button is constantly being pressed? Luckily I have been able to use Flashtool to revert to stock, now I just have to wait for Sony support to get back to me for the repair.
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The button isn t pressed...it don t work i tested it with the key test in recovery
P.S.my power button works again after some weeks but it doesn t work so good

i have this problem to.
my workarround > install carbon rom 4.2.2 disable powerbutton with root browser
system user keylayout Edit "pmic8xxx_pwrkey.kl"
disable the powerkey by placing "#"
"# key 116 POWER WAKE
reboot and the powerkey is disabled
Settings Display Enable > Volumekey wakeup the device
Settings Carbon Navigation Add a Navigationkey with Powerswitch.
That works for me
is a pity that this does not work with version Carbon 4.3
there is missing the menu entry Volumekey wakeup the device

bezalel said:
i have this problem to.
my workarround > install carbon rom 4.2.2 disable powerbutton with root browser
system user keylayout Edit "pmic8xxx_pwrkey.kl"
disable the powerkey by placing "#"
"# key 116 POWER WAKE
reboot and the powerkey is disabled
Settings Display Enable > Volumekey wakeup the device
Settings Carbon Navigation Add a Navigationkey with Powerswitch.
That works for me
is a pity that this does not work with version Carbon 4.3
there is missing the menu entry Volumekey wakeup the device
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Thanks for the detailed response, that is very helpful. I will try for a warranty repair first, but very good to know.

ex19961996 said:
I have exactly the same problem...i think you can t turn it off :/ so to go in flashmode you press
Volume+ until it turn off and when you hear the vibration yuo press volume down until you see green led blink one time and for fastbootmode do the same thing to restart and when you hear the vibration press many times volume +
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The button isn t pressed...it don t work i tested it with the key test in recovery
P.S.my power button works again after some weeks but it doesn t work so good
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Maybe for you, but in my case, it is generally stuck on. Yesterday it kept waking itself and bringing up the shut down dialogue. Volume up pressed rapidly in succession, also seemed to trigger the power button, which is how I managed to use recovery to install a stock ROM.

Lock the bootloader before sending the phone to service.

Rassilon7 said:
Maybe for you, but in my case, it is generally stuck on. Yesterday it kept waking itself and bringing up the shut down dialogue. Volume up pressed rapidly in succession, also seemed to trigger the power button, which is how I managed to use recovery to install a stock ROM.
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yes me too but try in a key test like in recovery it or doesn t work or one press off power button = 10 press

DrKrFfXx said:
Lock the bootloader before sending the phone to service.
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Really? Even though Sony sent me the unlock code?

Really. Bootloader unlocked means no warranty.

DrKrFfXx said:
Really. Bootloader unlocked means no warranty.
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Wow, I would still expect a physical defect to be covered. Thanks for the heads up.
I unlocked mine in the early days before you could save your DRM keys. Do you think that I can still relock?

Rassilon7 said:
Wow, I would still expect a physical defect to be covered. Thanks for the heads up.
I unlocked mine in the early days before you could save your DRM keys. Do you think that I can still relock?
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Yeah, no problem.
You just won't have DRM keys (obviously) and no Bravia Engine either.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2406672
Send my phone for repair and I just heared today it's covered by warranty, I had the device reverted from cm10.1 to stock and relocked the bootloader
So unlocking the bootloader does NOT break your warranty it only might give additional costs for replacing your nand or such to revert back to stock so to prevent getting those extra costs you simply have to revert your phone to stock firmware and relock the bootloader.
I had those extra costs on my Xperia S before btw, I did have a unlocked bootloader which I didn't relock :/
It might void your warranty if you have damaged any internal hardware like the cpu or nand, memory etc etc since they might not know for sure if it was the fault of custom software or a technical problem on their production side.
Keep in mind my Xperia Z was one of the first batch which had the dust issue on the camera, this might also be a reason why they repair/replace* my phone under warranty.
*No info on that yet.
Since you have no power button it might be tricky to enter fastboot, try using adb or booting into touch*recovery with a terminal command and then reboot from there into fastboot.
*touch is recommended since you can't select a option otherwise without a powerbutton LOL

Thanks, I will do that.
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Done!
Thanks again for taking the time to assist guys.

Finally took the phone in, repaired within 5 days, and no awkward questions or costs.

Emergency Mode

Hello!
What I must to do if I want turn on emergency mode (with yellow background) on this phone? Thanks for help!

I havn't seen any modes with the yellow background on my phone when I had the stock firmware, the only ones I've seen are the ones dexter found
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741892
I believe the lg pc suite can help restore the phone or was it lg mobile support tool, but it will probably download the firmware from lg and I don't know if you'll be able to root or bootloader unlock this phone with a newer firmware than v20a
you can also restore the firmware if you have the KDZ file using this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069723
I hope that helps

Problem is very big. Phone can't rurn on, screen is black, buttons under screen aren not working, hard reset not wotking, PC can't find device...

Poland_Developers said:
Problem is very big. Phone can't rurn on, screen is black, buttons under screen aren not working, hard reset not wotking, PC can't find device...
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Could you tell us what caused the problem? That might help to pin it down.
In the mean time see if you can enter S/W Upgrade mode. Hold the volume down button and plug in a USB cable.
Sent from my LG-P880 using XDA Free mobile app

Every button not working, screen is black...

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Poland_Developers said:
Every button not working, screen is black...
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Excuse me for pointing it out, but you are being too concise in your descriptions.
Is the phone even working?
Since you have no buttons, no screen, no PC connection, in lack of more details I tend to believe that it could be turned off and unable to be switched on.
Have you ever had problems with power button?
Have you checked your battery?
It could have been fully discharged, have you tried recharging it for some time?
Does the phone reacts when plugged to a recharger?
See? in a single post I put mor questions than all your statements you put in three of your posts.
You are not helping people to help you.

Has anyone encountered a frozen screen?

Has anyone encountered a frozen screen?
Use the touch screen to malfunction. You can only press the power button again to lock the screen and unlock it:crying:.

hackjackyer said:
Has anyone encountered a frozen screen?
Use the touch screen to malfunction. You can only press the power button again to lock the screen and unlock it:crying:.
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None as I'm concerned. You should get it replaced. Although it maybe something cause by static. Turn it off for 3o minutes or so and only use the provided cable. Give it a try.

hackjackyer said:
Has anyone encountered a frozen screen?
Use the touch screen to malfunction. You can only press the power button again to lock the screen and unlock it:crying:.
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I have the same issue, I think is not a frozen screen, its the touch, try pressing volume keys and you will see that works. It happens several times at day, curiously that started after a Factory Reset, before never happened

Zisco0011 said:
I have the same issue, I think is not a frozen screen, its the touch, try pressing volume keys and you will see that works. It happens several times at day, curiously that started after a Factory Reset, before never happened
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I went to Nokia after-sales service and they replaced the screen for free. Tell me the screen problem.

hackjackyer said:
I went to Nokia after-sales service and they replaced the screen for free. Tell me the screen problem.
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Nice to hear it, please comment if the issue occur again. Regards.