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Lost Button & Keyboard Functionality

Started experiencing a strange issue with my tilt today..
When I soft reset it loads the Today screen, and then attempts to search for the contact 'wszx' (these keys are located next to each other). After this I can navigate the phone just fine using the touch screen, but the only buttons that work are the directional and center buttons located on the front of the phone, and the arrow keys on the keyboard. I cannot type at all using the keyboard, and pressing any of the other buttons does nothing (except the directional/center/Power). I also cannot Hard reset because the two soft-keys do absolutely nothing. I've hard reset in the past but it no longer works.
So am I SOL? I think I've tried everything.. and now I have a custom rom, etc on the phone and I have no way of getting it back to factory rom without the ability to hard reset.
Thanks for any help.

dam1en said:
Started experiencing a strange issue with my tilt today..
When I soft reset it loads the Today screen, and then attempts to search for the contact 'wszx' (these keys are located next to each other). After this I can navigate the phone just fine using the touch screen, but the only buttons that work are the directional and center buttons located on the front of the phone, and the arrow keys on the keyboard. I cannot type at all using the keyboard, and pressing any of the other buttons does nothing (except the directional/center/Power). I also cannot Hard reset because the two soft-keys do absolutely nothing. I've hard reset in the past but it no longer works.
So am I SOL? I think I've tried everything.. and now I have a custom rom, etc on the phone and I have no way of getting it back to factory rom without the ability to hard reset.
Thanks for any help.
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Sounds like a hardware issue or simply a bad flash. Have you attempted to reflash the rom? Which rom are you using?

Well...
It wasn't working again this morning, but suddenly - out of nowhere - began to work properly. I'm stumped. If I ever figure out the exact issue I'll be sure to post back.
Thanks

Greetings,
I have same problem on my tytn...
Sometimes it suddenly starts working fine, but shortly it breaks again.
I have tried hard-reseting while it was working, but didnt help.
I think the problem appeared after charging my phone with a motorola v3 charger, so maybe it damaged my phone with over-voltage or something...
Anyway, if someone can suggest something i would be very grateful!

Hi I have exactly the same symptoms with my HTC Tytn II...when you power it on it starts typing letters (in my case CEDF). If the recording button is active it will start recording too. This happened suddenly and I haven't used any other charging apart from the usb and wall socket charger supplied with it.
All buttons (except front center key) and keyboard do not work. Any suggestions would be appreciated very much. This phone is only 8 months old.

Hi,
my Kaiser with dutty's WM6.1WWE ROM did the same this morning Yes I disabled the button 6 and stopped the voice recordings but all the hardware keys but few in the center of the keyboard are not responding. So I cant make or receive calls without taking the stylus out and touching the screen soft buttons andd that's pin in the ... while I am driving. I am using this ROM for almost a year now and I am extremely hapy (up to now) with its performance. When it all happened there were no activities on the phone - I woke up from a SMS notification (Yes I did receive an SMS from my bank) followed by repeting Voice Recordings. Any help will be highly appresiated! Thanks in advance!

keyboard problem
I am experiencing a similar problem with my stock tilt my keyboard does work however none of the text appears on the screen. I have tried hard reset and everything else I could think of, short of a clear storage reload. I would appreciate any help or suggestions from some of you more experienced users.
Bisonwill

anyone ever figure this problem out? im having the same thing happen now.

Same here
I've had it for a couple of weeks now.
I'm running WM6.1 from HTC (rom ver.3.29.422.1 from 2009-01-12) so nothing fancy here.
I even ordered and replaced the D-Pad and I replaced the keyboard (just the sticky part though). I totaly dismantled the phone and didn't find any issues with the cables.
Any ideas would be highly appreciated

Join the club!
This is crazy. My problem is exactly the same. I re-romed to the latest phoenix and it did not change a thing.
Help!

help....
any body here found a solution for the keypad/keyboard yet??? i have the same problem as you guys... any idea, thanks so much...

i have the same problem And there is something else. My Kaiser wakes up every 2 minutes - it's killing the battery. It works only for 6 hours now

Help
bump!!!
No more people with this issue or any solutions?
Pls! Help

ive joined the gang!
I decided to flash my cooked rom ive been working on.
i hadnt changed much in the kitchen and i think the flash has went badly.
it starts booting windows and where it should state "calibrate screen" it goes white and hangs there, buttons seem to respond by lighting up when pressed.
Now when i try to get it into bootloader or even hard reset it just doesnt work.
it just restarts the phone.
before this happened the backspace key hasnt been working for ages.
anybody got any ideas??
(lucky for me i have a backup kaiser!)

I'm having the same problem. Automatic wakeup, applications starting automatically, can't use keyboard, have to to use screen to use phone etc. I've hardreset using the clear storage method, reflashed a couple of times, but nothing helped. So here I am joining the club

If it's not a hardware issue, then try to flash another radio, many of the custom ROMs here doesn't include a radio, so if it's caused by a wrong radio, flash a new ROM without a radio doesn't help.
Check the Sticky for 'how to' if not aware.
PS: Check here for something need to know..

The question is.... how do I flash the device if I cant get it to go to boot loader and the OS wont boot properly !?
I think its an official Brick!
the really odd thing I've discovered is sometimes the OS leaves the loading screen on, and when it does if I press the FN and folder key, I get explorer up but its not responding... I haven't tried inserting a memory card yet to see if I can access that.

Danhargreaves said:
The question is.... how do I flash the device if I cant get it to go to boot loader and the OS wont boot properly !?
I think its an official Brick!
the really odd thing I've discovered is sometimes the OS leaves the loading screen on, and when it does if I press the FN and folder key, I get explorer up but its not responding... I haven't tried inserting a memory card yet to see if I can access that.
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Try this:
1. Take out the battery from the phone.
2. Take out SIM card and SD card.
3. Press in and hold the CAMERA button.
4. Plugin to your computer using the USB cable, while keep holding press in the CAMERA button.
See does it enter the BOOTLOADER mode.
Once entered the BOOTLOADER mode, you can flash a new radio or rom right from there, in your regular way of running KaiserCustomRUU.exe.(Since you already have a HardSPL flashed on, otherwise a HardSPL is needed to flash first.)
Good luck.
Edit: If the power button and the camera button is still working, you can use the regular way of entering BOOTLOADER mode, and flash from bootloader mode or flash from SD card.
Originally posted by Manpreet @ www.sakajati.com
To enter in bootloader mode:
Simply Switch off your phone. Press and hold camera button and also press and hold the power button..You can remove ur finger from power button when phone is switched on but keep holding camera button until u come to bootloader …Now attach the usb to ur computer and do the flashing you normally do.
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Thx for your suggestion:
I tried removing battery as sim and sd were already removed due to previous attempts in fixing!
so:
i removed battery (did not put back in), plugged in while holding camera
got nothing, so held power button at same time, the green light came on, then went off, and came back on again. but no bootloader.
i tried same procedure with battery in, and all i get is the OS loading up, no bootloader no matter how long i hold the buttons.
is there any other alternative method to get into bootloader (possibly involving other button presses)?
or any other ideas.
Really want to fix this as it was my "experimental" phone for cooking roms with.
Thanks again.

Suspect you have some hardware issue with the camera button. Can you ever take a photo with it?
Edit: Did you read through every post onthis thread:
MTTY (How to fix a bad ROM flash!)
If you tried that and still no luck, you can post your questions there. There are masters will keep an eye on that thread. And generally they only have time to look into their 'subscribed' threads, chances are they will not look into here.
Edit: Maybe the procedure I told is wrong, since I call from memory, check this:
dwny said:
If you have a bad flash....that's no reason to worry.
I haven't had to use MTTY to recover.
In most cases, if there's no issues with the Rom itself...you can pop out the battery and re-flash the same ROM from BootLoader Mode. This will also work if for some reason your computer crashes or loses power & restart during the FLASH.
If the Rom has issues.....the flash will not complete and the device will be stuck in BootLoader Mode. At this point,you must FLASH a FACTORY ROM!!
Pop the battery off 1st, power up the device, device will power up in BootLoader Mode, connect to pc & FLASH your devices FACTORY ROM. This will restore your device back to it's original out the box settings.
The above only works if the device has been put through the Hard SPL or SuperCID process.
I personally have never tried to flash a cooked ROM without unlocking any of my devices. From what I've read what others have experienced...the flash would just fail and they're stuck in BootLoader Mode.
Myself ... I've experienced bad flashes, bad cooked roms that I've cooked, lost power to a pc & had my pc crash during a flash. Listed above is how I've recovered. There is life after Bootloader Mode.
The only time you have to worry is if your device does not power up at all
As a public chef...it's your responsibility to set the parameters of your ROM! Meaning, Radio, HardSPL, program conflicts, etc.
You are not ultimately responsible if someone bricks their phone but if they pushed the issue, you could be hit with some form of liabilty because you failed on providing a simple Disclaimer that sets the expectation.
I hope I've been helpful.....
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Edit again:
And try like:
Plug in USB first, and thenn press & hold Camera, Power button etc.
I remember once I read there is a way to enter bootloader without battery, just can not find the original again.

[Q] Is this phone Gpu malfunctioning?

Hello.
I have a friend who asked me to replace its screen and digitizer that were broken.
I bought one altogether and installed.
But the problem is that the picture appeared with horizontal streaks as shown in this photo I have taken:
made a hard reset but stayed the same, then I made the OTA upgrade to ICS.
after that nothing more is shown in screen, It vibrates and I can get in fastboot, blinded of course because scren is black all the time.
then I tried to install custom roms, installed cwm recovery and when I go to recovery sometimes the screen lights up and shows this:
when i press up and down I see a litle change in the screen but not readable.
I tried to install roms but I think it does not start because the buttons does not light up.
what do you think I should do?

Napalm_PT said:
Hello.
I have a friend who asked me to replace its screen and digitizer that were broken.
I bought one altogether and installed.
But the problem is that the picture appeared with horizontal streaks as shown in this photo I have taken:
made a hard reset but stayed the same, then I made the OTA upgrade to ICS.
after that nothing more is shown in screen, It vibrates and I can get in fastboot, blinded of course because scren is black all the time.
then I tried to install custom roms, installed cwm recovery and when I go to recovery sometimes the screen lights up and shows this:
when i press up and down I see a litle change in the screen but not readable.
I tried to install roms but I think it does not start because the buttons does not light up.
what do you think I should do?
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Looks like something hardware is broken. You can't flash any ROMs right? You might want to try a RUU if you think it may be software
But I'd say hardware
Was it anything like that before the new digitalizer install? Perhaps it is not installed correctly?

poondog said:
Looks like something hardware is broken. You can't flash any ROMs right? You might want to try a RUU if you think it may be software
But I'd say hardware
Was it anything like that before the new digitalizer install? Perhaps it is not installed correctly?
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I think I can flash a rom, but I don't know if it gives an error on the screen. is there a way to make a log file of the install or boot process?
To flash a rom I put the rom file on sdcard and boot into recovery, then volume down 4 times, power, power, volume up 2 times, power, and 5 times up, power.
to install a ruu is this same process? Or can I install from fastboot? that way I get an output of the command on the pc...
the old digitizer and screen was all black, it was completely broken.

Napalm_PT said:
I think I can flash a rom, but I don't know if it gives an error on the screen. is there a way to make a log file of the install or boot process?
To flash a rom I put the rom file on sdcard and boot into recovery, then volume down 4 times, power, power, volume up 2 times, power, and 5 times up, power.
to install a ruu is this same process? Or can I install from fastboot? that way I get an output of the command on the pc...
the old digitizer and screen was all black, it was completely broken.
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I reckon 99% of the time there are no errors in ROM installs. You could try get a adb logcat of the booting?
installing a RUU is completely different. It is done from a PC where you go through the tutorial on the computer while the phone is attached. So, it will tell you on the computer if there are any errors
Okay so this is an improvement

I changed the Display of 2 IncS and both worked afterwards. Your Screenshot looks like the connector isn't connected properly.
Maybe the screen connector isn't connected correctly?
Try reconnecting the display-connector. Make sure that it sits correctly.

MrToastbrot said:
I changed the Display of 2 IncS and both worked afterwards. Your Screenshot looks like the connector isn't connected properly.
Maybe the screen connector isn't connected correctly?
Try reconnecting the display-connector. Make sure that it sits correctly.
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Yes it is the connector, but I try and try many times and only once it was ok, but when assembled the parts it stoped working...
I don't see anything wrong in the connector or flex, I don't know why it does not work properly...

Napalm_PT said:
Yes it is the connector, but I try and try many times and only once it was ok, but when assembled the parts it stoped working...
I don't see anything wrong in the connector or flex, I don't know why it does not work properly...
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+1 for connector or especially the flex. It would be good to replace with another screen(or flex, I don't know).
This doesn't seem to be a software problem. It looks like just a problem for transferring data to screen.

Phone won`t power on screen

Hello.
I`ve a Moto X 2014 wich a broken screen. It was working nicely till it hit the ground again =p
now i can power it on, touch is responsive (normal), everything is okay but the screen won`t turn on no matter what i do. I believe it may be some kind a sensor problem or something. I can even plug the phone on usb and copy data, etc...if the screen worked it would be okay to use.
Is there anything i can try before sending it to repair (its f**** expensive).
Thanks.

pablobhz said:
Hello.
I`ve a Moto X 2014 wich a broken screen. It was working nicely till it hit the ground again =p
now i can power it on, touch is responsive (normal), everything is okay but the screen won`t turn on no matter what i do. I believe it may be some kind a sensor problem or something. I can even plug the phone on usb and copy data, etc...if the screen worked it would be okay to use.
Is there anything i can try before sending it to repair (its f**** expensive).
Thanks.
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I think there's a app from CM available in play store which works with display on/off... Why don't you try it?
Sent from my XT1092 using XDA Free mobile app

OKay my friend.. I got it.
But i think you misunderstood a part of what i said - i can't turn the screen on.
The phone power on, etc, i can hear the sounds, volume keys working, touch is responsive...but the screen is black all the time.
Tried connecting it to the PC but it seems debug mode is disabled or something (adb won't work).
Android Device Manager doesn't show my device ;\ but i'm pretty sure its on my account.

I am sorry my friend, I don't think there's any solution other than mechanical repair...

What's your model?

Is the phone irreversibly broken?

Hi.
I've own P970 Swift/Optimus Black since 4 and a half year, now with Android 4.0.4.
Lately strange things happen with it.
1. Softkeys refuse to work. They don't react to touch at all. They are lit up correctly by pressing other physical buttons but no function at all.
2. Power button refuses to work. I don't think it is physically broken because it works when smartphone is connected to the charger. It hardly works when phone is unplugged.
3. Screen brightness and other screen settings aren't saved after phone restart. Brightness goes up to maximum on phone startup even when setting up automatical brightness couple of times.
4. Phone refuses to be recognized as mass storage. Last few times I've tried to save some apks on SD card I couldn't do it directly via USB cord.
Phone was hard reset. I've flashed 2.3.4 V20S ROM via Smartflash - no change to the issues. Then I've made full wipe from CWM - no change at all.
Then I've flashed 4.0.4 V30B via Smartflash - no change as well.
I've Kingorooted Swift Black and installed Floating Soft Keys as a workaround for not working softkeys, but it is just workaround, no full function.
Any tips, clues?
EDIT: I've just installed eMMC Brickbug and run memory test with "Congratulations. Test Passed." If you believe that app the memory isn't corrupted, so why I'm still having 4 hard issues?

rafnov said:
Hi.
I've own P970 Swift/Optimus Black since 4 and a half year, now with Android 4.0.4.
Lately strange things happen with it.
1. Softkeys refuse to work. They don't react to touch at all. They are lit up correctly by pressing other physical buttons but no function at all.
2. Power button refuses to work. I don't think it is physically broken because it works when smartphone is connected to the charger. It hardly works when phone is unplugged.
3. Screen brightness and other screen settings aren't saved after phone restart. Brightness goes up to maximum on phone startup even when setting up automatical brightness couple of times.
4. Phone refuses to be recognized as mass storage. Last few times I've tried to save some apks on SD card I couldn't do it directly via USB cord.
Phone was hard reset. I've flashed 2.3.4 V20S ROM via Smartflash - no change to the issues. Then I've made full wipe from CWM - no change at all.
Then I've flashed 4.0.4 V30B via Smartflash - no change as well.
I've Kingorooted Swift Black and installed Floating Soft Keys as a workaround for not working softkeys, but it is just workaround, no full function.
Any tips, clues?
EDIT: I've just installed eMMC Brickbug and run memory test with "Congratulations. Test Passed." If you believe that app the memory isn't corrupted, so why I'm still having 4 hard issues?
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At 4.5 years, my thoughts are that you've gotten incredible life out of your P970! With hard and soft buttons failing, it's probably time to call it "done" and move to a newer phone. From what other users have reported, once hardware issues start cropping up, more are soon to follow. Anything prior to Android 4.4 (KitKat) is a security nightmare, and any hardware repair will cost more than a replacement phone.
I wish I had a better answer, but I don't.

Hi.
Thanks for the reply. I've just moved to new LG phone last christmas - G3, seems I've done it just in time
I'd like P970 to work just for general purposes of smartphone newbie: calls, sms and simple web browsing. Those are pretty hard with softkeys not working and screen wake up failing.
As I said about power button - it doesn't seem to be physically broken - it usually works - mainly when phone is charged - so that tells me that it's software problem.
Workaround for physically damaged button on rooted P970 wouldn't be hard. I've found instructions about remapping some functions to G button which was rarely used on my Swift Black.
The main problem is softkeys panel not reacting for any touch and I would be thankful of any good clue if it is possible and how to fix it myself without additional cost.

The softkey not responding is a bug introduced in 4.0.4 (I readed this in this forum). It seems there is no fix.
As a workaround I use Ultimate Dynamic Navbar, I prefer it over Floating SoftKey.
If you switch back to an older version of Android (2.3.4) , it should work normally.
As a workaround for the power button, you can change the G button to wake on your mobile from standby.
And try to never have to shutdown your phone (I think you can Power on the mobile by charging it, and disconnect the charger on the first logo (sometimes it work sometimes not, there must be a precise timing)
Also if you use your phone without LockScreen, you can wake it up with any button on the phone (G Key, Vol+, Vol- )

Broken Screen, Need USB Debug mode on.

So this is for my dad's phone. He dropped it and the screen and the LCD panel part busted so the whole screen is all black. Can't see a single thing on it. He got a new (read:refurbished) one so that's not an issue. I'm trying to use a screen mirroring program to factory reset the phone before he sends it back to Motorola. Issue seems to be those programs require USB debugging mode to be turned on but since the screen is all black, I can't do that. I even tried doing multiple screenshots and guessing where things were but it didn't work (worried the top of the phone's touch digitizer is busted too but i'm hoping for the best lol). So I need a way to turn on USB debug mode, with a totally black screen (touch still works), NOT ROOTED, so I can then mirror it with the MirrorGo or Vysor mirroring software so I can factory reset the device. If you have any thoughts for a simpler fix then I'm open to suggestions. I'm not tech savvy enough to do anything with Rooting and i'm not confident enough to try doing that with a busted phone (if it's even possible), so that's an option that's out too. :/

Buddha8888 said:
So this is for my dad's phone. He dropped it and the screen and the LCD panel part busted so the whole screen is all black. Can't see a single thing on it. He got a new (read:refurbished) one so that's not an issue. I'm trying to use a screen mirroring program to factory reset the phone before he sends it back to Motorola. Issue seems to be those programs require USB debugging mode to be turned on but since the screen is all black, I can't do that. I even tried doing multiple screenshots and guessing where things were but it didn't work (worried the top of the phone's touch digitizer is busted too but i'm hoping for the best lol). So I need a way to turn on USB debug mode, with a totally black screen (touch still works), NOT ROOTED, so I can then mirror it with the MirrorGo or Vysor mirroring software so I can factory reset the device. If you have any thoughts for a simpler fix then I'm open to suggestions. I'm not tech savvy enough to do anything with Rooting and i'm not confident enough to try doing that with a busted phone (if it's even possible), so that's an option that's out too. :/
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You can go into recovery mode and do the factory reset there, it's probably the easiest way to do it.

zys52712 said:
You can go into recovery mode and do the factory reset there, it's probably the easiest way to do it.
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Yea, i tried that with the bootloader/fastboot thing. It didn't seem to work. I can barely tell if the device is even ON, only indication it's on is the volume rocker makes a noise to indicate volume and the bottom buttons light up. So being able to tell if the device is even IN it's bootloader mode thing was a crapshoot. I'm gonna need either a way to screen mirror in real time without debugging mode on, or a way to enable debug mode remotely essentially.