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OK, I've been reading here for 6 days all manner of Captivate unbricking. Here is my story...
I picked up a Captivate on the Rogers network. I connected it to my email server (Exchange 2010) with no problems, poked around, noticed the lag, noticed the SMS time issue, then promptly rooted, installed clockwork, and then threw cognition 2.2 beta 9.1.3. Quite frankly I was shocked at how much faster it was.
Anyways, after a day of poking around, I could not get my email to my exchange server running (tried the email.pak floating about), so I actually decided I was going to go back to the backup I made of my phone using clockwork before I installed cognition. When I restored my backup, I thought I had bricked my phone.
I let it rest for a day, then came back here, and found one of the 3-4 different variations of the 4 button download mode combo that permitted me to do the 1 click restore. This restored me to the AT&T version of 2.1. It worked, but was less than desirable.
I decided that at that point I really wanted to go back to stock, so I downloaded the stock backup on the Rogers Captivate wiki page, and did the restore using clockwork. The phone has not been the same since.
When i turn it on, I get an at&t splash screen, then in about 20 seconds I get the at&t "jingle", but the splash screen stays on. I can't seem to find any key combination that will permit me to get back into download mode so I can restore using the One Click that worked for me the first time. I have tried:
1. 3 button salute with USB in first, battery out initially.
2. 3 button salute with USB plugged in *as* I was inserting the battery.
3. Power and volume down (both with and without USB, and with battery being plugged in after USB and "during" insertion of battery)
4.Power and volume up with same combo's as #3.
5. Just volume up and volume down with same combo's as #3.
In all cases Odin was running before USB connected, running as administrator. I'm running 64bit windows, but I'm sure I have the correct drivers because I did this the first time with Odin and download mode and I haven't added or changed anything. But just for arguements sake I did uninstall, and then install the drivers again.
Any combination of power and volume buttons just gives me a battery charging logo. Occasionally when holding up until the second black screen I will get a quick indication that the computer might see something, but it dissappears withing a handful of seconds showing it promptly removed.
I'm downloading the Android SDK in the hopes that when I get the normal at&t splash screen after the "jingle" that something might actually be running in the background and maybe I can adb reboot download it but I'm not holding my breath.
Anyone seen this that has managed to get out of it? I'm starting to think the "unbrickable captivate" can be bricked. Assuming it is bricked, short of taking it back, is there anyone on the internet that can jtag these and in some fashion bring back to life?
Cheers,
Tim
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ditto
and download mode is easy.
1. start odin3 and have data cable plugged into the computer
2. insert proper files if needed
3. hold volume up and volume down for 2 sec (no power button needed) then insert usb cable, continue to hold volumes till either the download mode screen pops up or odin3 sees the phone(if you bork the phone bad enough you can corrupt the download mode image, i did it with the not to successfull manhatten project kernel) but despite the screen being black it very well may be in download mode.
4. start flash
5. if it doesn't work send it to me ill find a use for it
alternatively if the phone can go passed the splash screens and boots fully you can adb reboot download. just get the development kit and drivers on your pc.
Dani897 said:
ditto
and download mode is easy.
1. start odin3 and have data cable plugged into the computer
2. insert proper files if needed
3. hold volume up and volume down for 2 sec (no power button needed) then insert usb cable, continue to hold volumes till either the download mode screen pops up or odin3 sees the phone(if you bork the phone bad enough you can corrupt the download mode image, i did it with the not to successfull manhatten project kernel) but despite the screen being black it very well may be in download mode.
4. start flash
5. if it doesn't work send it to me ill find a use for it
alternatively if the phone can go passed the splash screens and boots fully you can adb reboot download. just get the development kit and drivers on your pc.
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Thanks, but that doesn't work. All I get is the battery charging screen. Using the process it does not go into download mode.
MikeyMike01 said:
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Could a moderator move this to Captivate General then? Sorry about that...
timmy22 said:
Thanks, but that doesn't work. All I get is the battery charging screen. Using the process it does not go into download mode.
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just to be clear, you are holding volume up as well as volume down starting with the phone being powered down and continue to hold them after you plug in usb untill something shows on the screen?
if your phone is not seeing the volumes buttons you are one of the very unlucky few that had a problem at the most inopportune moment.
there is also a way where you hold all three buttons till the phone reboots twice, or something. let me try it and ill give more specifics.
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Thanks, but that doesn't work. All I get is the battery charging screen. Using the process it does not go into download mode.
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Pull the battery, open odin, plug usb into computer, hold vol up and down, plug usb into phone still holding vol buttons, drop in battery still holding vol buttons, when dl screen pops up and yellow com port lights up in odin release volume buttons. Do not touch power button at any time
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Have you tried rebooting into recovery mode instead of download mode? Stock recovery is adb-ready and you should be able to adb reboot download. Its a long shot if you're having problems using button combo to get to d/l mode, but it's probably still worth a shot at this point.
If you were able to use 3 button combos before all this happened, and did NOT have to install the 3 button combo fix, its strange you don't have access to it now... Could restoring a Rogers Cappy to AT&T stock be the problem?
Dani897 said:
just to be clear, you are holding volume up as well as volume down starting with the phone being powered down and continue to hold them untill something shows on the screen?
if your phone is not seeing the volumes buttons you are one of the very unlucky few that had a problem at the most inopportune moment.
there is also a way where you hold all three buttons till the phone reboots twice, or something. let me try it and ill give more specifics.
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Yes, that's exactly correct. I do this:
1. everything pulled (battery, USB, sim, sd)
2. Open Oden (1 click)
3. Install battery
4. hold down (and keep holding) volume up and volume down
5. insert USB cable
6. depress (i.e. don't hold) power button
Goes straight to battery charging indicator.
If I swap #6 with holding the power button down, it continually reboots while just barely showing the battery charging indicator. I've tried letting go between black screens on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th black screen. Still no android dude with the shovel.
Try all the steps you stated but not the last one where you press the power button. Don't press the power button.
newter55 said:
Pull the battery, open odin, plug usb into computer, hold vol up and down, plug usb into phone still holding vol buttons, drop in battery still holding vol buttons, when dl screen pops up and yellow com port lights up in odin release volume buttons. Do not touch power button at any time
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Goes straight to battery charging.
johnny13oi said:
Try all the steps you stated but not the last one where you press the power button. Don't press the power button.
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Goes straight to battery charging.
Pull out battery for 10 seconds, hold volume up + down, connect usb into other usb port.
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Seriously, try adb. It works wonders.
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Have you tried rebooting into recovery mode instead of download mode? Stock recovery is adb-ready and you should be able to adb reboot download. Its a long shot if you're having problems using button combo to get to d/l mode, but it's probably still worth a shot at this point.
If you were able to use 3 button combos before all this happened, and did NOT have to install the 3 button combo fix, its strange you don't have access to it now... Could restoring a Rogers Cappy to AT&T stock be the problem?
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Trying to get into recovery mode gets me the at&t logo and the "jingle", but no recovery mode menu to reboot, etc.
This is what I'm worried about, restoring the Rogers stock over top of the Odin 1 click restore (which is an AT&T image) has bricked it and prevents download mode from invoking.
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Seriously, try adb. It works wonders.
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I know, I played with adb before I bricked it. ADB needs to "see" the phone, it no longer sees it (I have three computers, all three can't see it, but they can see my friends cappy with no problems first time, every time). Same process for his phone works every time to get into download mode, but not on mine.
And yes, have tried other USB ports on the same computer, both on the mainboard, and on the front ports.
Keep the ideas coming though please, I will try every one.
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I know, I played with adb before I bricked it. ADB needs to "see" the phone, it no longer sees it (I have three computers, all three can't see it, but they can see my friends cappy with no problems first time, every time). Same process for his phone works every time to get into download mode, but not on mine.
And yes, have tried other USB ports on the same computer, both on the mainboard, and on the front ports.
Keep the ideas coming though please, I will try every one.
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There's a trick to prompt download mode through a "jig" which you can hack together for about $2 in parts and a sacrificial microUSB cable...it works on the other SGSes, but I think it should work on the Captivate as well. Never tried it personally...
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There's a trick to prompt download mode through a "jig" which you can hack together for about $2 in parts and a sacrificial microUSB cable...it works on the other SGSes, but I think it should work on the Captivate as well. Never tried it personally...
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I work in a tech shop so have access to electronics, sacrificial cables, soldering irons, resistors, caps, etc.... could you point me in the right direction?
Oh, nevermind, found it in the i9000 forum. Will test first thing in the morning!
Cheers,
I bricked one today as well. Exactly what you are talking about here. The only thing is that i was still under the 30days so i swapped it out for a new one. As of right now ive been debating whether i want to do the voodoo fix (which i think is what bricked it to begin with)
So here is the situation:
My power button is non-functional. This happened before, and I was able to press very firmly on the power button to access a shut down menu and turn off the phone. From this, I was able to enter download mode (pressing volume button while inserting USB) and go back to stock, which surprisingly, fixed my power button. I thought this nightmare was over.
Now, my power button has stopped working again (ICS hacksung 5.0). No matter how much pressing, prodding, whatever, I cannot get the power button to turn off the phone.
I cannot find any adb commands to turn off phone.
"adb reboot download" simply restarts the phone, no download mode. (adb does recognize the device)
If I take out the battery, as soon as I put it in the phone boots up.
If I am pressing any of the volume buttons when I put the battery in, I can access recovery mode (But cannot select anything because power button is still broken)
Any ideas? I doubt my phone is still under warranty (1.4 years old) and I do not have mobile insurance.
Thanks for any help in advance
Depending on what recovery u have (cwm or ?), U can use the capacitive buttons, while in that revovery, to navigate and select the power off option.
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Thats a neat tip that I didn't know about, but I can't find any option to power off? Sorry for being retarded but I have given this time I promise
cwm recovery is what I have installed atm
Reboot to CWM and Power off option may be at the bottom of the 1st screen that u come to. That is dependent on what version of cwm u have though.
Quick boot from the market, you can place a poweroff button directly on the home screen
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The ICS ROMS CWM recovery doesn't have power off choice, so he can't do that.
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Unfortunately the quick boot "power off" option simply froze my phone, or restarted it.
I let my battery drain so that I could get a dead phone (that part worked), but when I hold my volume buttons and plug in the USB for download mode it goes to the "battery" screen or (if both are held down) recovery. No download mode.
In recovery "key test" the power button fails to register any key press, but it is not spamming either. This seems like a hardware problem, but I am not sure how it was fixed when I flashed back to stock before if that is the case
I will next try making a download mode jig, I'll let you guys know how it goes...
My cousin had the exact same problem less than a month ago.
I see you tried reboot download through adb, have you tried it using the same command, but using android emulator from market? That worked for her phone so worth a shot.
its a far shot but odin is now available for use on the phone itself and works on our phones. maybe you can find a kernel thats had the buttons reconfigured. i know darky has one somewhere.
StaticMatt said:
My cousin had the exact same problem less than a month ago.
I see you tried reboot download through adb, have you tried it using the same command, but using android emulator from market? That worked for her phone so worth a shot.
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Thanks for this idea, when I use
#su
#reboot download
the phone simply reboots. Same thing happens in "Quick Boot" 's "Bootloader" reboot option. This phone just seems broke as hell.
Firstly, this power button problem is a lot more common than you would think. It is most often a hardware failure - I mean the button mechanism (springs etc. just dies). Google it to see how common.
Your post suggests a clue: If just putting the battery in reboots the phone, then the power button may be stuck in the "in" position.....so it is always getting "pushed". Then anything you do would mean ht epower button is already being pressed. If this is the case, you will never get a software solution ???
Also, I absolutely do not mean to be nasty. But if you search both Q&A and General sections there are previous threads with this button problem. Many other solutions have been posted and it will be difficult to list them together.
Finally, you can actually replace - yes, replace - the button yourself. Google/you tube has it.
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Samsung-Captivate-i897-Replacement-Repair-Parts-s/6412.htm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1206459
Hope this helps !
My HTC One is currently in a weird bad state where it seems to be frozen in a midway point of the boot, and the normal methods for reboot don't work.
I was updating from the CyanogenMod 10.2 nightly for Sept 3 to the Sept 6th build. After it flashed and reboot, it never came on.
I have tried the following to get it back:
1) Volume + Power to force reboot. All i get are flashing Home and Back buttons while doing that.
2) ADB Reboot: When I plug it into my personal computer it says "unauthorized" and on my work computer "offline", so I can't do anything.
3) Fastboot: Doesn't see the device.
The phone, when plugged into a computer or power, doesn't charge (no red/green light in the speaker grill)
My phone is rooted, and has a unlocked bootloader, so I think my warranty is void. At this point i am just waiting for the battery to hopefully discharge and see if that helps.
Any ideas on what I can possibly do to wake it up, or at least reboot into recovery or any state where i can flash it, refresh it, or even factory reset just to get it to work. Would be nice to also backup some stuff i have on there.
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My HTC One is currently in a weird bad state where it seems to be frozen in a midway point of the boot, and the normal methods for reboot don't work.
I was updating from the CyanogenMod 10.2 nightly for Sept 3 to the Sept 6th build. After it flashed and reboot, it never came on.
I have tried the following to get it back:
1) Volume + Power to force reboot. All i get are flashing Home and Back buttons while doing that.
2) ADB Reboot: When I plug it into my personal computer it says "unauthorized" and on my work computer "offline", so I can't do anything.
3) Fastboot: Doesn't see the device.
The phone, when plugged into a computer or power, doesn't charge (no red/green light in the speaker grill)
My phone is rooted, and has a unlocked bootloader, so I think my warranty is void. At this point i am just waiting for the battery to hopefully discharge and see if that helps.
Any ideas on what I can possibly do to wake it up, or at least reboot into recovery or any state where i can flash it, refresh it, or even factory reset just to get it to work. Would be nice to also backup some stuff i have on there.
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Hold the phone directly under a light source, and then reboot using Volume + Power. It should take 10-20 secs at most.
Daegalus said:
My HTC One is currently in a weird bad state where it seems to be frozen in a midway point of the boot, and the normal methods for reboot don't work.
I was updating from the CyanogenMod 10.2 nightly for Sept 3 to the Sept 6th build. After it flashed and reboot, it never came on.
I have tried the following to get it back:
1) Volume + Power to force reboot. All i get are flashing Home and Back buttons while doing that.
2) ADB Reboot: When I plug it into my personal computer it says "unauthorized" and on my work computer "offline", so I can't do anything.
3) Fastboot: Doesn't see the device.
The phone, when plugged into a computer or power, doesn't charge (no red/green light in the speaker grill)
My phone is rooted, and has a unlocked bootloader, so I think my warranty is void. At this point i am just waiting for the battery to hopefully discharge and see if that helps.
Any ideas on what I can possibly do to wake it up, or at least reboot into recovery or any state where i can flash it, refresh it, or even factory reset just to get it to work. Would be nice to also backup some stuff i have on there.
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YEAH some of the HTC ONES are afraid of the dark so it should help!
kjaved373 said:
Hold the phone directly under a light source, and then reboot using Volume + Power. It should take 10-20 secs at most.
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Ha ha WOW... :good: My significant other looking at me like I'm crazy
yIPEES!
Jcrash said:
Ha ha WOW... :good: My significant other looking at me like I'm crazy
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:laugh: tHIS WORKED FOR ME TOO!
kjaved373 said:
Hold the phone directly under a light source, and then reboot using Volume + Power. It should take 10-20 secs at most.
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strangely enough this has finally worked for me.
Mine is completely off but lighting red,.! What coil be the problem En ts remedy
Hello,
I've just installed this ROM after wiping Cache/Delvik Cache and system wipe.
Now the phone is stuck on the boot screen and I can not get back into recovery to sort it out.
I held down power & vol+ buttons to get into recovery but nothing happens. The Home & Back buttons flash after 3 seconds then nothing happens.
Any thing else I should do to get into recovery ( TWRP)
My friend whop is a member asked this question on the Developers forum and so far no luck.
we have tried the following:
This is suggested by chogardjr: Plug your phone in to charge. Don't use a USB port for power. After you plug it in try the hard reboot again.
PLEASE HELP
Just for the sake of testing... Have him hold power without holding the volume. It should force reboot, not to the bootloader, so he can get a feel for how the reboot works. It can be finicky during a bootloop cause there are processes trying to run in the background. But it should do it if you hold power long enough.
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Also find out if the charge light comes on when he plus it in.
Tried and no joy.......
The only other option I can suggest is plugging it into the PC and using adb to issue an adb reboot.
#adb reboot recovery
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Hold the front top left corner of the phone under the bright light. When the phone shuts off, immediately release power button and hold volume down.
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Also try rebooting under a bright light. Sound weird, but sometimes it helps.
Peace.
EDIT: We must have been typing that at the same time... lol
Sorry but I dont know the ADP. I have downloaded and istalled the Android SDK Manager. I do apologise, but I feel a totol.....IDIOT
volk9029 said:
Hold the front top left corner of the phone under the bright light. When the phone shuts off, immediately release power button and hold volume down.
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THANK YOU... rebooted using your suggestion under a light.
THANK YOU VERY MUCHHH
mrshades812 said:
Also try rebooting under a bright light. Sound weird, but sometimes it helps.
Peace.
EDIT: We must have been typing that at the same time... lol
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Thank you.......It worked.....
My power button stopped working a couple days ago but I was still able to wake device with volume buttons. I was worried that if my phone were to shut off I wouldn't be able to turn it back on so I booted into bootloader and was going to try and flash "oem off-mode-charge 0" (which should then make the phone power on when plugged into charger).
At the time I couldn't detect the device using fastboot and as I was searching around on my computer the screen on the phone turned off (was in bootloader at the time). I'm not sure at this point if my phone was on and that both the power and volume buttons were not waking device or if the phone turned itself off.
I have tried the hold the volume down and plug the charger in trick to try and get back into bootloader but nothing happens. When I plug phone into my computer it takes about 20 seconds but I get the little windows ding that something has been connected but phone is still not responsive. I'm starting to think I'm a little screwed here but welcome any input.
You just looking to get the screen to light up so you can implement a way to use the device without the power button? You could try gravity screen or something but first things first...
If its not lighting up on plugin have you tried connecting to a computer and opening ADB and issuing the command adb devices followed with adb reboot. If you wanna go back to bootloader just adb reboot-bootloader. That will restart device so screen is back on and I would turn on the Ambient Display mode so when you pick it up the screen comes on or get a volume power button app or gravity screen app that turns on when you take it out of pocket. Thats all I can suggest and hope any of this helps.
With phone plugged into computer, nothing shows up when I check adb devices or fastboot devices. I guess I'm unsure on what state my phone is in. None of the buttons do anything and nothing happens when I plug my phone into my wall charger (no charge light or screen on). The only response I can get is when I plug the phone into my computer windows makes a noise.
Anyone know what happens when a powered off phone gets plugged into the computer? Does windows make the little noise indicating a device has been plugged in even with it off?
It does not make a noise if its off.. That much I know. Interesting though. Are you sure you have the correct drivers installed for your nexus phone if you are on windows. Go into hardware manager by right clicking on my computer and make sure that its reading it correctly in usb devices without a yellow triangle next to it.
I should have the correct drivers. I just went ahead and reinstalled them through the nexus toolkit. In device manager it says: unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed).
I checked adb devices before all this happened and it displayed correctly. I then rebooted into the bootloader but the fastboot devices command did not show anything. It was shortly after that that the screen turned off. Will the screen normally time out when in the bootloader? I'm wondering if my phone is still in the bootloader with the screen off and both power and volume buttons non functional.
Only thing I can think of is to wait for it to die, then volume down + plug in to pc and when bootloader screen appears issue command fastboot continue and it should boot up. Then get something to remap key or an app. If this all fails after it dies and you restart it assuming debugging wasnt on or its just reading phone as media device of sorts not allowing adb then you may have to get the power button assembly possibly and install it yourself or open the back case and hit the power contact under the button and see if you can get it on. Thats all the ideas I have.
I'd also suggest that after you reinstalled drivers make sure you did a reboot and then plug in the device and also try using a different USB port and or USB cord also as odd as that sounds Ive seen it work before. Im pretty tapped on ideas tho. Do you know if you had usb debugging enabled?
Wireless charger
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Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
On YouTube
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Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
On YouTube
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Ok, cool. I'll take a look.
Managed to get it back into the bootloader this morning. So I guess this is a PSA, if your screen times out while in the bootloader, the volume keys will not wake device so since my power button is broken I couldn't wake it. At that point, the phone is in a state where it cannot receive any fastboot commands, even though it is in bootloader with the screen off. What I had to do was wait overnight for the battery to drain and have the phone power itself off. At this point the volume down plus plug in charger trick worked to get it back into the bootloader with screen on. At that point I was able to 'fastboot reboot' back into system.
Thanks for the insight people
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coremania said:
Power Button replacement is pretty easy and cheap, there's a Tutorial
On YouTube
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It's easy but also annoying. Removing the 18 screws is the most annoying part
clapper66 said:
It's easy but also annoying. Removing the 18 screws is the most annoying part
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I think the Nexus 6 deserve it
brumby05 said:
I should have the correct drivers. I just went ahead and reinstalled them through the nexus toolkit. In device manager it says: unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed)......
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Driver issue.
Remove/uninstall the drivers from your PC when the phone is connected.
After that reinstall the adb/fastboot drivers.
N6 - Power mapped to VOL DOWN; turned off and can't get it back on
Hi all, I had to remap my power button - I mapped it to VOLUME DOWN. The other day I voluntarily powered down my N6 at a test center.....and haven't been able to get it to respond since. I do have a Pixel 2 XL on the way - but not that sure I'll want to keep it. The N6 is so sweet.
I've tried holding the volume buttons (POWER and VOLUME UP) for like a minute, but nothing. When I charge it, I see the battery symbol (full) but only for about 5 seconds.
ADB does not see any connected devices. Wug's NRT does not see any connected devices. I'm at a loss and afraid that I've lost my N6 and will have to use the Pixel 2 XL regardless what I think about it.
Any other ideas?
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Hi all, I had to remap my power button - I mapped it to VOLUME DOWN. The other day I voluntarily powered down my N6 at a test center.....and haven't been able to get it to respond since. I do have a Pixel 2 XL on the way - but not that sure I'll want to keep it. The N6 is so sweet.
I've tried holding the volume buttons (POWER and VOLUME UP) for like a minute, but nothing. When I charge it, I see the battery symbol (full) but only for about 5 seconds.
ADB does not see any connected devices. Wug's NRT does not see any connected devices. I'm at a loss and afraid that I've lost my N6 and will have to use the Pixel 2 XL regardless what I think about it.
Any other ideas?
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Wow - just got my N6 to boot using this little tip I found on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQue...ny_way_to_turn_on_phone_without_power_button/
I was holding down the Vol Up and Power buttons (which are both the Volume bar since I remapped my power to Vol Down), but I hit 'enter' on the 'fastboot continue' text in the CMD prompt just after I plugged in the USB and the battery icon came up. It booted into bootloader mode briefly first, then went into system reboot. Whew!
I think your button assembly is broken and I would replace it. You could try the work around in Broken power button, any way to boot? by altarity, post #3.
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