Hi,
a couple of days ago I falshed the CM 10.1.3 on the 4X. The phone is my brothers, so what is written under *1.* is what he told me. There are two problems with lockscreen:
1. (more major) This happened three times now; the phone cannot be unlocked with the power button, so it has to be turned off and on to be usable again. It seems to be random.
2. When the phone is woken on lock screen and unactive for a couple seconds, the screen should turn off by itself (it's set to turn off after 5 seconds in settings). But it doesn't, it just stay with the screen on indefinitely.
I can think of two things right now that are possibly a problem, but it's totally random brainstorming on my side:
1. When I unlocked the bootloader, I didn't use the "adb reboot oem-unlock" (I found out about that when I already unlocked it), instead I used "adb reboot bootloader" and "fastboot oem unlock". The bootloader is shown as unlocked either way, but here is says that that was not the right procedure, so I just thought that it might have something to do with it.
2. My brother has Smart RAM Booster installed. He had it installed on stock ROM too. It seems very unlikely to me that this could be a problem, but as I said, I'm just throwing stuff out there.
Hopefully someone will know the solution...
Solution
Ok, at the moment is seems that the problem really was in Smart RAM Booster.
I'll update if it turns out I'm wrong.
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Hi,
Just as many others here, I flashed my wing many times (lost count of it) on the first day I got it. So I don't know if this is a bug of the rom or it is like this even for the stock rom 'cause I never have a chance to use it. I am using ASerg's HERALD.ASerg.Lite4.WM61E.WWE rom. I love it so far, so fast and stable. However, when the phone is locked and idle (screen turned off, I don't know the term to describe this stage) and I got an incoming call, the phone interface will show up. Everything normal until the other side hang up and I exit the phone interface. Now the Today's device lock plugin said that my phone is lock, but I still can access the menu and everything. Can someone know how to fix this? I want the phone still unlock after I received a call, otherwise there is no point for the lock. Thanks for any help.
Pardon for the long post but my Nexus One has been out of comission for a few days now so I'll list everything I've tried to make it work in an attempt someone might be able to help me!
Okay, here goes.
A couple days ago I removed the battery on my phone to install an invisible shield. Prior to that I had owned the Nexus One brand new for about a week, had it rooted first thing with the HTC Desire ROM...it was running perfectly
After the installation of the shield was complete I reinserted the battery and hit the power button. The phone booted straight to the bootloader (aka white Robots on Skateboards screen). Funny thing, I was unable to navigate the bootloader (vol up/down) without fiddling with the trackball first by pressing it a couple times) Anyway if I would reboot the phone via bootloader it would return...power off the phone it wouldn't power off just reboot to bootloader.
In this mode I could still use fastboot perfectly and I could enter the restore screen. At this point I kept attempting a reboot and it actually went through at one point and did a full boot to the OS...when I powered down and booted up again however, it was back to the same issue.
On the modaco forum they suggested I flash an alpha2boot.img as the boot image replacement for r21 desire rom as a fix, I tried this method with no success. Since, I've factory reset the phone several times replacing it with various ROMs (currently running stock) none of it fixed the problem.
I also found a way to brute force the phone into safe mode via the fastboot command in prompt: fastboot-windows reboot Using this command the phone successfully reboots, albeit into SAFE MODE. In safe mode the phone works perfectly in every way. I'm just limited in that I can't install any applications and I can't reboot properly (without a computer and command prompt).
I was doing some research on the forums and read the problem could be with the trackball. It would make sense that the phone could only boot to bootloader if the phone had the key press for the trackball triggered somehow. That said, the trackball functions perfectly when operating the phone in safe mode so I doubt this is the issue.
Another idea is that the phone is stuck in some state in the SPL or bootloader...I was wondering if there was anyway to reflash the SPL or bootloader to see if I could resolve the issue that way. (how I would do this, I have no idea)
Any help, suggestions, or advice is very appreciated. As I already unlocked my phone I have a feeling I am out of luck for warranty though I would pay for HTC to repair it if they could. I would prefer to fix it in the software however and not send it in.
Reflash the stock ROM and see if that helps.
mortzz said:
Reflash the stock ROM and see if that helps.
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He said he's running stock rom...
@ OP, if everything was absolutely perfect before putting the shield on, and everything to crap immediately after finishing the shield, then obviously something went wrong during the install.
The obvious yet unfortunate conclusion is that some solution got inside or something, most likely inside the trackball. =\
Detail exactly what you did when you installed the invisible shield.
Did you get you phone wet at all?
Got the front of the phone a little wet and I'm guessing some did get in the trackball. That said, I do invisi shields every day for my job and never had an issue with any phone...wouldn't it be ironic that mine was the one that got screwed up.
I think it's interesting to note that the trackball still works perfectly when the phone is running in safe mode, no double clicks or anything like that...possibly a sensor was tripped?
Got the front of the phone a little wet and I'm guessing some did get in the trackball. That said, I do invisi shields every day for my job and never had an issue with any phone...wouldn't it be ironic that mine was the one that got screwed up.
I think it's interesting to note that the trackball still works perfectly when the phone is running in safe mode, no double clicks or anything like that...possibly a sensor was tripped?
So I called it quits on fixing this phone and I'm sending it out to HTC does anyone know how I go about getting restore back to factory settings?
Well you can't relock the bootloader, but if you can use fastboot when your phone's on the booatloader, you can use that to wipe the phone.
Oh wow, sorry to hear it.
If your phone will not boot without the help of fastboot, I wouldn't worry to much about what state Android is in (factory, or custom rom). HTC will attempt to boot the phone, toss it in a bin, and then send you a replacement.
Or that is my assumption anyways. A friend had a similar issue; he unlocked his phone and decided after flashing the Desire rom, that he wanted to stay stock with what came on his Nexus for a while. After flashing the stock images back, his phone looped into bootloader. Off to HTC it went and within a week he had a new phone.
Best of luck!
Sorry to post in such an old thread, but I'm having the exact same issue. Even the part with the invisible shield. Didnt install it myself, the idiot at best buy used too much of the liquid I guess. Did you send yours in or what? I managed to get the phone to work for about a month then it started acting up again today. Wont boot into anything other than safe mode, or fastboot. When it boots into safe mdoe, the phone turns off within a few seconds then goes straight to the boot animation. Would love to get this issue settled, really annoying
i am having same problem. fasboot doesnt even find my phone. i got into safe mode but when i turned it off and back on it went back to fastboot
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I am getting the same problem! this really sucks. I think the phone might have gotten a little bit wet, just a few drops of water, and that may have caused this. Should I just call HTC and send it in?
btw, the phone was working fine, even with the very little moisture that was wiped from it. But, I took out the battery when I got home, and this happened.
so is this because on invisibleshield? cuz i just ordered mine today!!
I think its from a little bit of moisture getting into the trackball. I've been doing many "tests" trying to figure out the problem, and my almost final conclusion is the trackball not working good. Most of the time I try to start-up the phone i get into safemode, and once I have gotten into the normal way of things, but the trackball wasn't working well. I think I might have to cal htc, and that sucks because I am going out of the country in 4 days... I won't be able to take my nexus if I can't come up with a way to fix it myself.
I DID IT!
Well, I think I did.
My theory that moisture was the cause of this bootloader stuckness is quite correct. I took a towel, and rubbed the trackball to it for a good 5-10 min, then I did it for another 5-10 min wiping while pressing down on the trackball. I'm very sure that there was some moisture extracted from the device. The trackball is working now. I now do not have to call HTC or send it in.
I kept on booting into fastboot and then recovery, being unable to press buttons, but then I rebooted again into safe mode, where the trackball wasn't working either. I kept moving around the trackball, and then I figured it out, because I felt a slight bit of moisture. Now, it boots up normally, I can access the recovery, and all selection is working.
But, I have a bad feeling that this problem will come back to haunt me. It's good for now though.
Phone is working great as usual.
Can confirm the same issue.
Drop of water on the trackball.
Rebooted into an unresponsive fastboot.
Fastboot reboot command from the computer got me into safemode.
Rolling the trackball while pressed fixed it, the phone boots properly now.
Hey guys,
I could need a bit of help! It's now the third time I'm having this problem, don't ask me why. I've got the feeling that I read the whole forum here, but didn't find anything similiar.
The 1st time I didn't change anything (ok, rooted it, but nothing else)
The 2nd time I overclocked it slightly (~850-900 MHz)
Now I'm using MIUI.
But back to the problem:
I'm unable to use the keyboard, every time I'm sliding open the keyboard (even when it's turned off), it "crashes". The screen stops working or it freezes, the only way to turn it off is taking out the battery.
However, the bigger problem comes now: I'm barely able to restart it. It tries booting, but is restarting all the time or the screen is just turning on (in some angles you see that it is turned on but it's black). After many retries, it starts working, sometimes the bootloop is running 15min or i have to manually restart it 10 times or more. The strange thing is that the keyboard works fine, nevertheless I have to choose between using it opened (taking it with me becomes difficult ) or closed...
...the main problem now is flashing a new Rom, I'm currently trying it through the android sdk and adb, but using the power-button + x is easier
I don't think that I can solve the problem, I sent the device two times back (warranty till may 2012), but maybe someone here knows a bit more. My guess is that one of the sensors is broken, or some parts of the display that should manage the sliding process...
Anyway, thanks for your attention!
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If you already have Rom Manager, just click Reboot into Recovery..
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If you already have Rom Manager, just click Reboot into Recovery..
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Tried to use one a time ago, but it wasn't working right....
However, now I'm not even able to boot it, the screen just flashes and turns off itself before trying to restart a few moments later....guess I lost my Milestone
Sbf back to stock?
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Sbf back to stock?
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the computer isn't finding it anymore...I'll back up the data and try use my warranty... I hope that they don't complain about MIUI...
But I'm still not getting the point, why my mobile had these issues three times, although they "repaired" it twice...and nobody else is having the same problem
So i've been experiencing this issue for months now. I've had the issue since i've gotten the phone but its the past few months that its really gotten bad. So before anyone jumps the gun, i've done quite a bit of research on this and cannot find anything worthwhile, more on that soon.
So as usual, i'll pickup my phone and press the power button or the home button to turn on the screen, but at completely random times the screen will not come on at all. Sometimes the capacitive buttons will light up (maybe 15-20% of the time), but not always.
In my searches I found the following solutions to this problem:
Get a new sim card
Dont use an SD card
Get a new battery
Check the leads on the battery and phone for cleanliness
Factory reset
Remove 1 app at a time and test until it stops happening
Dont freeze any apps
Restore stock firmware
Dont use SetCPU
Turn off animations
Get rid of the lock screen
Remove custom message from lock screen
Clear cache through Recovery
Dont restore data with Titanium Backup when restoring apps
Turn off WiFi and/or Bluetooth and/or GPS
Dont use GreenPower or Greenify
Avoid stock launcher
I have tried all of the above except for removing 1 app at a time (and those that dont apply). I'm deep into that one and only have a few apps left to try. This is something that happens at least once a day, but typically 3-5 times in a day. I used to think i could make it happen by pressing the power button to turn on the screen and immediately hit it again to turn it off. It would sometimes work but that doesnt trigger it anymore.
My phone used to be rooted, but being on AT&T there was no "normal" way to flash a good recovery like CWM or TWRP and install roms, you have to use some other thing which i dont use. So i've always had stock recovery, im fully updated to the newest stock rom that is out, update came OTA which was after i removed root and used odin to flash an older stock rom back. My wife's Note 3 also has the same issue and it has never been rooted, we have gone through all of the above and still it continues to happen.
Also on a side note, my phone was swapped out because of an issue it had 3 months after i purchased the phone. I was able to get a brand new one, not refurbished. The issue had occured once or twice before the swap and an incredibly frustrating amount of times since then.
Reading through most of the other threads, everyone seems to have to remove their battery and re-insert it to get back into their phone. The ones that dont have to do that have found that removing their SD Card, getting a new one, sending the phone in, or one of the other options have worked. However for me, nothing has worked.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Is this common on the Note 3 (I've had it since release)? 70% of the time i can hold the power button for a few seconds to try and bring up the power menu and it works, but not always.. I usually just have to wait up to a minute or two (never actually counted, i use my phone for that stuff...which.. isnt..working...)
I've had wake lock lag on a few android phones. Even iPhones.
I would highly recommend rooting it on att and flash a mod that reduces it on the note 3. I talked about it here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2628716
Rebooting the phone always helps.
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I've had wake lock lag on a few android phones. Even iPhones.
I would highly recommend rooting it on att and flash a mod that reduces it on the note 3. I talked about it here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2628716
Rebooting the phone always helps.
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Unfortunately I cannot root my phone. I have to have my company email on my phone, and for Android devices they use Air Watch. I tried for weeks to get it working while rooted, and even used Root Cloak or something like that (with Wanam Xposed) to hide root from specific apps. Air Watch was specifically tested to work with that app but it still for some reason didn't work (new version of Air Watch perhaps with no update to Root Cloak? Just my guess). I had to remove root, factory reset and re-flash stock from Odin (that was a dual purpose flash) to remove all traces of Root so I could use Air Watch for my company email/calendar/contacts/etc again, even after unrooting and using all the cleanup tools, triangle away, and everything, it still detected my phone as rooted...
However, I don't think that's really a viable solution to the problem, that's more of a band aid. Looking at that thread and looking around, it seems to work well but I still haven't found anyone with my same issue where they used it and it worked. I would like to narrow this down to what the issue is exactly, the root cause. I think its a problem with KitKat, or at least all of 4.4.x (not sure about 4.4.4 yet).
Hi.
Today appeared some problems with my A2. When I woke up and unlocked phone it turned off. Yesterday everything worked perfectly fine. I tried like 20 times, everytime the same scenario- turns on, but when I type PIN, home screen is loading, and phone goes down. It may look like bootloop, but its not typical, cuz it goes farther than just booting screen. So I tried to fix, wiped phone, set lang. to Polish, and it dumps again, but I've read somewhere, that it might be language issue, so I wiped it once more and set English. It seemed to be working, but then I unplugged it from my PC (charging only) and it turned off immediately. Worth mentioning is fact, that battery is 92%. What may cause this? Is this some soft problem? Or more like battery issue?
Update: Phone works unplugged, but only on lock screen. Turns down when I unlock.
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Hi.
Today appeared some problems with my A2. When I woke up and unlocked phone it turned off. Yesterday everything worked perfectly fine. I tried like 20 times, everytime the same scenario- turns on, but when I type PIN, home screen is loading, and phone goes down. It may look like bootloop, but its not typical, cuz it goes farther than just booting screen. So I tried to fix, wiped phone, set lang. to Polish, and it dumps again, but I've read somewhere, that it might be language issue, so I wiped it once more and set English. It seemed to be working, but then I unplugged it from my PC (charging only) and it turned off immediately. Worth mentioning is fact, that battery is 92%. What may cause this? Is this some soft problem? Or more like battery issue?
Update: Phone works unplugged, but only on lock screen. Turns down when I unlock.
hi i have the same problem with my mi a2. i can turn it on when is on charger but when i want to unlock the screen and to move something on screen is turning off. when i unplug the charger turning off too. do you found solution on your problem ?
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Hello, I have the same problem. I now have to carry an external battery with me, because plugging it in is the only thing that wakes up my phone. If I don't have a charger, then I have to hold power for 30; seconds to force reset. It's really annoying, causing me to miss calls and alarms. Anyone know of any fixes? Thanks
Hey,
I am facing the exact same problem. Though I had an additional problem. My phone didn't charge when I plugged it in until I restarted it. Factory resedidn't help either.
In both your cases the problem is your wifi even if you dont understand it ...
if you can unlock your phone quickly and toggle off wifi the phone wont reboot or loop
your persist partition is damaged from changing between pie and android 10 ..
look around for a flashable zip to repair your persist ( it does it exist )
or take the long root and use miflash to flash persist by modifying certain files in stock fastboot rom folder
but next time explain your problem better
--- what did you do -- change version ( update or downgrade ) -- did you root -- do you have twrp -- what version of android-- did you return to stock from custom or vice versa --- etc etc etc
KevMetal said:
In both your cases the problem is your wifi even if you dont understand it ...
if you can unlock your phone quickly and toggle off wifi the phone wont reboot or loop
your persist partition is damaged from changing between pie and android 10 ..
look around for a flashable zip to repair your persist ( it does it exist )
or take the long root and use miflash to flash persist by modifying certain files in stock fastboot rom folder
but next time explain your problem better
--- what did you do -- change version ( update or downgrade ) -- did you root -- do you have twrp -- what version of android-- did you return to stock from custom or vice versa --- etc etc etc
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tried with wifi toggle off but didn't work.
didn't tried persist partition
tried update software but still didn't work.
if there any hardware issue please let me know.