Title pretty much says it. I haven't worn it for quite a long time. Decided to wear it this morning and I can't get it to respond to any of the buttons, and pull down menus won't come down. No way to even try a reboot.
Is this because of an update and watch not powerful enough?
Thoughts and recommendations appreciated.
Simplest Question: The battery is fully charged, if so you should be able to do a factory reset.
How do I do that when I can't bring up menus, or the screen down not respond to touch? (I finally got the app menu to com up by pressing the main button but then no response to dinner selection.)
was it paired with internet connectivity? it is probably in the process of updating its google play service app in the background.
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Hey I need help. I played with a few settings in PocketToolman and after the soft reset I can't get into my start menu. Everytime I do the screen, majority fo the left side of the screen (the area where the menu would take up) goes black and I pretty much lose all functionality on the phone. The only thing i can do is press Power and go to standby but that's about it.
Anyone have this problem before?! I just got the phoen too so I don't know my way around it that well yet. It's been loaded with wm6.1.
Hi everyone,
My HTC Touch Diamond phone appears to be stuck on the TouchFlo screen. I can use the hard-buttons to move around the screen and do the essentials, but I somehow cannot use the touch-screen at all.
Strange thing however is that while I am in certain screens (ie: Call History), whenever I touch the screen, I can see the OK button in the top-right corner show up and go away whenever I remove my finger from the screen.
I've attempted several soft resets and removed the battery for a few minutes, yet still at no avail. Anyone have a clue what could be wrong? I am desperate and don't want to do a hard-reset and lose all my data and settings.
Looking forward to your suggestions!
nobody any ideas?
My personal thought on it is that you probably just need to recalibrate your screen... but I can not figure out a way to get to that option without using the screen. If there was a start button it would be easy, but since we have a sleek phone it doesn't have one.
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My personal thought on it is that you probably just need to recalibrate your screen... but I can not figure out a way to get to that option without using the screen. If there was a start button it would be easy, but since we have a sleek phone it doesn't have one.
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It may or may not help but a shortcut to align screen is to hold Enter/Action and press Volume Up.
I only know this because my friend is looking for a way to disable this combo for gaming purposes.
The symptoms sounds like you have installed SensorLock.
When i have it activated i can press the hardbuttons and the upper right corner of the screen.
Try flip your phone and see if it unlocks?
All great suggestions guys! Especially the Enter + VolUp was the one I wouldve wanted to try! In the end, I decided to go to HTC Support and they checked the device. Turned out it was a hardware problem: the connector was loose! After pressing a bit around the lower edge of the screen, the connector worked properly again!
Thanks again for the help guys!
VERY long time no see folks!
It's been a little over a year if I remember correctly...
Anywho... I'm trying to revive an Xperia which had a very hard life. Ending with being ran over by my 2 and a half ton truck.
Yea.... it still works Now the phone I've been using since I ran over though... this pos couldn't survive the simple process of charging. The charging port has successfully broken off of the phone and will no longer accept a charge.
However, the screen on the Xperia is completely and totally screwed and I can't see anything. Ordering a screen isn't much of an option, reason one being I'd have to be without a phone until Thursday; and reason 2 being my Xperia has an issue realizing whether or not a SIM card is inside of it and isn't really usable as a mobile phone (but it works well as a stationary phone sitting in my house).
Now... I already have a program which willl let me actually see what the screen says, but it needs ActiveSync in order to work. Which... I can't install on the phone because it needs to be hard reset.
However, I can't remember the exact button presses to get it to hard reset, nor do I recall what comes after in order to get everything back running so that I can get to the phone's start screen.
Does anyone have pictures or a video of the full Xperia startup and hard reset processes? I tried scouring the internet but I couldn't find any.
well shut down the phone, remove battery for 5 sec,insert battery. hold the two soft keys (the ones under the screen) pressed with the mobile off and then holding on those two press the power button until the phone vibrates. when it vibrates release the power button bet keep pressing the other two. wait 10 sec with those 2 pressed then press r on your hardw keyboard wait 5 secs and press space on you hardw keyboard.
Hope it helped and i made any sense.
Hey everybody, I have been using a refurb I9000 for over a year now. After a year of being knocked about, it's still a great phone. I'm running Slim Bean on it at the moment and its handling it great
Unfortunately, a couple months back, the power button stopped working. The phone was acting weird one weekend and stuck in a bootloop - think some water got in it on a night out. Took it apart and stuck it in a bowl for a week, which fixed it and it's been working fine ever since except for the power button.
The button works if you press it repeatedly for like quarter of an hour, but I'm scared I'm wearing it down even more by doing that. Without that button, I can't switch my phone on or do the 3-finger salute.
Right now, if I want to reboot or go into recovery mode, I have to use the buttons in the notification bar. If it runs out of battery, when I plug it in I can still get into download mode by holding the menu button + volume down. To get it into normal mode I have to plug it into a computer with Heimdall installed and get it to print diagnostics 'print-pit), which makes the phone reboot out of download mode into a normal boot. It's not an ideal solution!
When my phone dies when I'm on the road, I'm phoneless for several days.
I'm pretty confident I've voided my warranty on this phone loong ago, plus trying to get a replacement is the easy way out
I've seen custom 'battery charge mode' firmware out there- you know the screen you get when the phone is switched off and you plug it into a charger? Somebody had written a custom one of those screens with extra useful information on it. I can't remember what it was called though! Google hasn't been useful at all in finding it, either. I've also noticed the charging screen looks different on my Slim Bean ROM compared to the stock one. So it must be something that's fairly easy to customize...
With that in mind, I might try hacking the charge screen to listen to the menu + volume control buttons and be able to boot the phone that way.
Either that or I make a USB jig that can send enough bits to the phone in download mode to get it to reboot...
But as I'm only good at breaking hardware, I think I'll stick to software hacking for now.
Does anyone know the name of that custom battery charging screen I mentioned? Maybe there's more than one? If I can get ahold of them I can hopefully find out how they work.
This is a pretty specific + techy question, so apologies mods if this is in the wrong section! I don't think I'm allowed to make threads in the Android dev. forums yet though- you need to have over a certain number of posts for that, right?
- Written painstakingly on my phone and oh God I wish I'd used Tapatalk. Why is the stock browser still so crap at user input?
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. Feel free to point me in the right direction if it needs moved.
Fifth gen Kindle Fire, running Fire OS 5.3.3.0. All current updates, OEM otherwise.
It very often goes into a state where the System & Notification sound bar keeps beeping, like it's constantly trying to turn the volume the entire way up, but the button is not being pressed. The button does not appear to be stuck. When I press the volume down, it'll go down but then go back up on it's own when I let it go.
I've tried a factory reset. If I put it in Do Not Disturb mode, the System & Notifications drop down box still appears at the top of the screen, but it's grayed out.
At the same time, the power button stops functioning properly. It does not lock the screen, but if I hold the button it eventually it will hard shut down the device, and then start in Safe Mode when I power it back up.
Something to note is that it behaves this way often, but not constantly. There are brief periods where it is 100% functional. Just today I turned it on, ran some updates, and all was normal for an hour or so. After that it started with the volume nonsense.
It has barely any use since I purchased it forever ago and was always taken care of, so I don't suspect hardware unless something is defective from the factory. It has done this for as long as I can remember, but it literally saw almost no use for the first year and by the time I noticed it, the warranty was expired.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Fifth gen Kindle Fire, running Fire OS 5.3.3.0. All current updates, OEM otherwise.
It very often goes into a state where the System & Notification sound bar keeps beeping, like it's constantly trying to turn the volume the entire way up, but the button is not being pressed. The button does not appear to be stuck. When I press the volume down, it'll go down but then go back up on it's own when I let it go.
I've tried a factory reset. If I put it in Do Not Disturb mode, the System & Notifications drop down box still appears at the top of the screen, but it's grayed out.
At the same time, the power button stops functioning properly. It does not lock the screen, but if I hold the button it eventually it will hard shut down the device, and then start in Safe Mode when I power it back up.
Something to note is that it behaves this way often, but not constantly. There are brief periods where it is 100% functional. Just today I turned it on, ran some updates, and all was normal for an hour or so. After that it started with the volume nonsense.
It has barely any use since I purchased it forever ago and was always taken care of, so I don't suspect hardware unless something is defective from the factory. It has done this for as long as I can remember, but it literally saw almost no use for the first year and by the time I noticed it, the warranty was expired.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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You can try to reload (sideload) FireOS via the stock recovery menu to rule out a software glitch. However, based on symptoms I suspect the board holding the buttons and/or associate ribbon cable is the culprit. Not much you can do about either unless willing to crack open the case.
I wouldn't mind opening it up to replace some things, but I was hoping that based on it working fine for 20 minutes, and then out of nowhere showing problems, that it was software related. I've had it turned off since I posted, fired it back up now, and it's working as it should. I suspect within the hour it'll be back to broken, though.
Edit: Also, as mentioned, the power button stops behaving normally when this happens as well. I haven't looked into the layout of the buttons internally, but I would think that the volume and power buttons would be on separate ribbons leading to separate places?
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I wouldn't mind opening it up to replace some things, but I was hoping that based on it working fine for 20 minutes, and then out of nowhere showing problems, that it was software related. I've had it turned off since I posted, fired it back up now, and it's working as it should. I suspect within the hour it'll be back to broken, though.
Edit: Also, as mentioned, the power button stops behaving normally when this happens as well. I haven't looked into the layout of the buttons internally, but I would think that the volume and power buttons would be on separate ribbons leading to separate places?
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You can view the internals on a self-repair site such as iFixIT or by searching YouTube. The delay prior to acting up suggest heat may play a role. Not necessarily overheating, just the normal warming that electronics emit with use. Good luck.