I recently had my Note 7 stolen (yes, I still had the original Note 7) and I just got a Note 8. I made it so the phone can't be turned off and disabled the power off and restart buttons using a package disabler. I did this for the sole purpose of making the phone be more capable of being tracked, with my last stolen phone being simply shut off and all.
However, there's still a way of disabling the tracking if someone knew how. If they put it on Emergency Mode (which still shows if you hold down the power button via the lock screen) the phone will no longer send or receive data as long as the screen is off. I've tried to track it this way and it will not show on the map if it is in Emergency Mode. How do I disable this button and what is the package name for it if it has one? The fact that someone can still turn my GPS off even from my lock screen annoys me. There must be a way around this. So if anyone knows the package name to disable this or some other way to turn this off that'd be great, thanks.
I have Cerberus and in the settings there is an option to block power button, so when pressed nothing happens, no way to turn emergency mode on as the menu doesn't come up.
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Well I've had my Tilt for a week now and I have been frustrated completely with the Phone App.
First of all, when I am calling a tone prompted location where you have to press the keys to get somewhere (611, corporate voicemail, etc), some of the time the phone will go into "hold" when i press the keys.
Secondly, after a call that i have pressed the keys for tone operation, the phone app will not completely close. the screen will stay half dim and the start bar and task panes are locked out. i can't access any of the icons at the top of the screen. the only button available is the task manager which shows no programs running.
i can pretty much replicate the 2nd problem consistently. does anyone else have this problem? Please try to call into a company say even 611, go through all the tone prompts and see if the phone app closes appropriately afterwards. make sure you are on the phone long enough for the screen to automatically dim.
the only way for me to get past this is to softboot so i can get access to the start menu again. but i'd rather not have to softboot after every phone call =T
Thanks!
Same problem here, any help would be great.
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disable the lock thing where you have to enter a pin - i think its a bug in the rom
Same problem - but if press the on/off button for the screen twice I do have again access to all icons. Not nice but ....
yeah i was messing around with the phone last night and realized that it has to do with phone lock and figured out if you press the power button to put it to sleep and press it again to wake it up, everything is normal again. it was just a fluke how i found out but i'm glad to know that this isn't only my problem. i was about to do another hard reset on the phone.
i called ATT techsupport and they told me it might be the simcard. can other Tilt owners chime in here. is this a ROM problem or could it be related to a faulty sim?
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Phone: Samsung Galaxy Note
SW: Factory ROM 4.0.4?
Problem: Unable to 'power up' the screen.
Details:
Was using the phone yesterday. It was working fine. Until at night when I tried to wake the phone. The graphics on the phone began to become pixelated badly, brightened till the whole screen was white. Fearing that it will spoil the screen, I pressed the power button for it to go into sleep mode. When I try to wake the phone, it just remains black. However, when I press the Volume +/- buttons I can hear the phone reacting to it normally. It could even take a 'screen shot' of itself. The Voice Command option is also working. After a long time, (hours involved), I was able to wake up the screen for like 5 secs. Before the pixels and brightening effects comes on.
Request:
1. Is it possible to activate USB Debugging without using the setting menu?
2. If I send the phone back to Samsung for 'servicing', will all my data be lost? (Whatsapp, Skype, conversations)
Regards,
genm79 said:
Phone: Samsung Galaxy Note
SW: Factory ROM 4.0.4?
Problem: Unable to 'power up' the screen.
Details:
Was using the phone yesterday. It was working fine. Until at night when I tried to wake the phone. The graphics on the phone began to become pixelated badly, brightened till the whole screen was white. Fearing that it will spoil the screen, I pressed the power button for it to go into sleep mode. When I try to wake the phone, it just remains black. However, when I press the Volume +/- buttons I can hear the phone reacting to it normally. It could even take a 'screen shot' of itself. The Voice Command option is also working. After a long time, (hours involved), I was able to wake up the screen for like 5 secs. Before the pixels and brightening effects comes on.
Request:
1. Is it possible to activate USB Debugging without using the setting menu?
2. If I send the phone back to Samsung for 'servicing', will all my data be lost? (Whatsapp, Skype, conversations)
Regards,
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Try going to download or recovery mode..
Report back if you can.
Download mode: vol down+home+power and don't release until you see the n7000 logo
Recovery mode :vol up+home+power don't release until you see the n7000 logo
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In my country if you bring your device to the samsung service center for repair, they will dlete the user data.
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Hi everyone,
So my issue is one that I don't see anywhere else, hence this thread. I'm not entirely sure if it's a hardware or software issue, and I'd like your help/suggestions (pls)
If I boot the phone via "normal startup" or whatever it is from fastboot mode, it boots. However, after I get into the OS, if I press the power key to take the screen off, and I press it again to turn it back on, it doesn't turn back on. The phone still operates - it receives calls, I hear all sounds, I can even tap by memory to get to different settings, but the screen won't turn on at all until I boot into fastboot and reselect the normal startup option.
I tried enabling tap to wake via custom kernel, reassigning the volume keys to turn it on, but it simply doesn't work. I get the same issue if I double tap to sleep (the top bar) and then double tap to wake. I don't know what else to try - any suggestions?
I'm wholly ready to just call it a loss (I already have a new Moto G) but it would be cool if I could somehow revive this one. The reason I decided not to use the warranty is because I was pretty sure it had already been voided since my mother dropped it in water. As I said, this may be a hardware issue, but I'm not entirely sure and I'd like your opinions/suggestions?
For reference, it had this issue while on stock as well. It ran the latest update Motorola had sent out. It's the XT1063.
Thanks in advance!
Are there any solutions to disable volume and power button in lockscreen? I know there's an app which *tries* to hide the power menu, that doesn't seem to be secure enough, since long pressing still shuts down the phone.
Recently lost a phone (and successfully retrieved it, thanks to surveillance camera). The phone in question was secured with lockscreen, and it came back factory reset, ready to be sold in stolen phone market, which led me to finding ways upping my phone security.
Now, suppose I have tracker apps installed on my Note 5, it would rely on WiFi or mobile network to be traceable, and so far the only loophole I can find is:
1. Wrap the phone in tinfoil, all signal is lost.
2. Blocks speaker with thumb to muffle any alarms I set off
3. Rush home before I enable any alarms or track location, get connected to PC and start tinkering with stuff.
4. Keeps screen on until battery dies.
5. Or, just simply hold the power button.
With the Note 5, taking out the battery is out of question, which is a good thing in this case, (although not so good for a bricked phone with dead power button).
So, the next sensible option is to turn off the phone by long pressing power button, which is not exactly a hard thing to do.
Any other ideas would be appreciated. (I still don't fully understand how hard/easy it is to factory reset the phone with lockscreen on.)
You can disable power button on lock screen through an option in Wanam xposed or GravityBox.
But you can not prevent combo buttons to force phone turn off/reboot like Power + Volume down
Hey guys,
I have a Note 8 running on Android 9 for 4 years and I have been using the phone just fine until this morning when I woke up and noticed the phone having nothing on the main screen but a message (in native language, temporary translated as "Phone is booting/starting..."). I thought it was my child messing something up so I left it alone and 2 hours later it still displayed the same message. When I clicked on the Bixbly button, it said that the function was unable in Emergency mode. I also tried restarting, force restarting and restarting in Download mode, but nothing works. The volume button, navigation bar are still working properly; I can still access settings via navigation bar, and I can answer phone calls though I could not make phone calls with it.
Any suggestions on fixing this issue?
sakibaraki said:
Hey guys,
I have a Note 8 running on Android 9 for 4 years and I have been using the phone just fine until this morning when I woke up and noticed the phone having nothing on the main screen but a message (in native language, temporary translated as "Phone is booting/starting..."). I thought it was my child messing something up so I left it alone and 2 hours later it still displayed the same message. When I clicked on the Bixbly button, it said that the function was unable in Emergency mode. I also tried restarting, force restarting and restarting in Download mode, but nothing works. The volume button, navigation bar are still working properly; I can still access settings via navigation bar, and I can answer phone calls though I could not make phone calls with it.
Any suggestions on fixing this issue?
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From sammobile - To turn off the Emergency mode, just tap on the overflow menu (the three-dot icon) in the top right corner and tap on the relevant option. You can also manage your emergency contacts by tapping the Manage emergency contacts option in the overflow menu.
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From sammobile - To turn off the Emergency mode, just tap on the overflow menu (the three-dot icon) in the top right corner and tap on the relevant option. You can also manage your emergency contacts by tapping the Manage emergency contacts option in the overflow menu.
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Hey ultramaq69,
Thanks for your response. Though the suggestion sounds very general, I found out how to turn it off via power option menu, and it is now working properly again, thanks!