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[Q] rooted with broken power button

So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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Use the ruu it will run in windows

Same thing happened to my phone. Damn cheap power button. Was waiting for cm6 to work with the new version hardware. Now that it does I will be doing the same.
What I have been doing as a work around is using widget locker to remap the power button to the volume key. And have a screen off widget. I don't mind it but can't do anything in recovery either anymore. So I am gonna take mine in this weekend. I believe they will give you a replacement phone.

FYI - I got thinking that maybe it wasnt a hardware issue but maybe software - and it would have to be something higher up than the recovery system. Anyway, the button started working again and while it was I flashed a new HBoot thinking that maybe it was a corrupted driver or something. It seems to have fixed it, but YMMV.

austontatious said:
So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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You can use the ruu to restore our but it will most likely still show s-off in the bootloader. You can fix that by using adb in recovery mode to flash unrevoked forever while in the recovery
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[q] need help

I bought the kids A100's last year for Christmas. I ended up un locking the bootloader because the ICS update was WAY too slow for my liking. Two weeks ago my sons decides that the unlock pattern is not going to work. You can get the screen to respond in a couple of spots and then go from there but the lines are jittery. I figure that it might need to have a hardware reset. Do that and get a screen with the bootloader info instead of erasing cache..
Find the sd card I had all the info on and tried to do a master rest. NO go. Brings me back to ICS and his lock pattern. I cannot remember how I unlocked the bootloader, did not add it to my favorites or anything else. Now I am stuck. If I am looking at this right the bootloader is unlocked and needs to be locked before I can do a recovery? Is that correct and how do I get that done and do a factory hardware reset?
Worried that if I call ACER with this I will void his warranty.

Power off, then hold power + furthest from the lock switch, press and hold power then toggle the lock switch a few times when the screen turns on to reset. It didn't reset if there is still a lock screen there.
Edit: forgot to mention, holding volume - while powering on will boot into recovery which if its twrp or cwm you can factory reset there, install a new ROM etc.
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pio_masaki said:
Power off, then hold power + furthest from the lock switch, press and hold power then toggle the lock switch a few times when the screen turns on to reset. It didn't reset if there is still a lock screen there.
Edit: forgot to mention, holding volume - while powering on will boot into recovery which if its twrp or cwm you can factory reset there, install a new ROM etc.
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Awww. ****. You beat me to it.
I'm trying to help!
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Stang951 said:
I bought the kids A100's last year for Christmas. I ended up un locking the bootloader because the ICS update was WAY too slow for my liking. Two weeks ago my sons decides that the unlock pattern is not going to work. You can get the screen to respond in a couple of spots and then go from there but the lines are jittery. I figure that it might need to have a hardware reset. Do that and get a screen with the bootloader info instead of erasing cache..
Find the sd card I had all the info on and tried to do a master rest. NO go. Brings me back to ICS and his lock pattern. I cannot remember how I unlocked the bootloader, did not add it to my favorites or anything else. Now I am stuck. If I am looking at this right the bootloader is unlocked and needs to be locked before I can do a recovery? Is that correct and how do I get that done and do a factory hardware reset?
Worried that if I call ACER with this I will void his warranty.
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You definetly need to find out what you have done. As in if the bootloader is definetly unlocked and if you have a custom recovery. Just because it is not neccesary to do anything (ie: root, unlock or recovery) if you just wanted to flash a leaked ICS or the official.
Like Pio said, if you have a custom recovery, boot to it and factory reset/wipe data from there, or flash another rom/reflash. I'm not sure how the tab will react if you do a stock factory reset with the button sequence when you are rooted, unlocked bootloader, and custom recovery.
If the screen only responds in a few places, and is gittery in others, it could be a problem with the digitizer. Digitzer problems are reletively common on the A100. It would covered under warranty if you still have one. If it turns out nothing fixes it, I would restock it though with this concern. They may ***** if they can see it was flashed, if it was bricked it would be a different story.

I used a post on here to go from HC to ICS. Basically It was rolling the HC back first to get the update to push from Acer. I tried to find the post but am having a hard time finding it, and my dumb ass didn't subscribe to it.
This was about in April of this year.
Now when I try to do a hard reset (power + vol down + switch lock) it goes to a black screen with USB bootloader info in the top right corner (near the vol switch). I don't have it with me so I cant tell you right now exactly what it says.
I would have posted sooner, but didn't get emails that there were responses.
Thanks for everyone trying to help. I will try to get back on this this afternoon.

Stang951 said:
I used a post on here to go from HC to ICS. Basically It was rolling the HC back first to get the update to push from Acer. I tried to find the post but am having a hard time finding it, and my dumb ass didn't subscribe to it.
This was about in April of this year.
Now when I try to do a hard reset (power + vol down + switch lock) it goes to a black screen with USB bootloader info in the top right corner (near the vol switch). I don't have it with me so I cant tell you right now exactly what it says.
I would have posted sooner, but didn't get emails that there were responses.
Thanks for everyone trying to help. I will try to get back on this this afternoon.
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I take it you did the process of going back to HC already and now you can't boot? If its saying its boot loader info in the right corner then its certainly not an ICS boot loader, thats in the upper left corner. It also says ICS in it. Let us know what its actually saying when you boot and we can go from there.
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I will. I also turned on the email instant notification that I know that there are responses. Can't believe that I didn't do that before.

OK top left of the screen where the volume button reads:
Bootloader v0.03.13-ics: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol
This time I was able to do the erase user data. Got to the Welcome screen with the language and Country. Cant get the screen to respond.I am guessing at this point that the screen is shot and needs to be replaced (under warranty) however I need to make sure that this is set to Factory specs so that I don't have to worry about voiding the warranty.

Stang951 said:
OK top left of the screen where the volume button reads:
Bootloader v0.03.13-ics: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol
This time I was able to do the erase user data. Got to the Welcome screen with the language and Country. Cant get the screen to respond.I am guessing at this point that the screen is shot and needs to be replaced (under warranty) however I need to make sure that this is set to Factory specs so that I don't have to worry about voiding the warranty.
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It sounds stock to me. From what you have said, I think all you did was revert back to a HC version to get the ICS update ( which some did bck when ics came out if their version wasnt getting the update). If you did this a few months ago, you are just running a stock ICS version.

If that is the case is something missing from the ROM that I cannot get it to reconfigure everything automatically? I thought that it should go directly to the recovery information and reflash the entire tablet (may have the terminology screwed up).

Stang951 said:
If that is the case is something missing from the ROM that I cannot get it to reconfigure everything automatically? I thought that it should go directly to the recovery information and reflash the entire tablet (may have the terminology screwed up).
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If your talking about Google's sync. If you have it turned on and sync'ed prior to a factory reset, and turned on after. It will sync some stuff, it may restore your desktop wallpaper, contacts, WiFi info and some apps. But it will not restore it perfectly. Either way if your screen is still messed up, I think your OK to warranty it. IMO. Verified if your bootloader is locked, and under settings > about tablet, you are running ICS version 4.0.3 with a stock Acer build number.

I cant get there though. The screen will not respobd to input. I was going to try a bt mouse and keyboard but not having screen inputs puts a damper on that.
And about reconfiguring I was refering to the os and stock software not yhe stuff from play.
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Ah I think you mean a factory reset. It doesn't flash anything, it erases /cache and /data (not /data/media but that's another story) and let's the system purge any settings apps or data causing issues.
The system itself is left untouched, if its rooted it stays rooted, if something is corrupted or damaged or missing, it stays that way through a reset.
To replace the system itself you'll need to attempt to flash a stock ROM zip named update.zip on the root of your external SD card and powering on holding the volume - key closest to the lock switch.
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[Q] Too Many Pattern Attempts

Hello All,
I was given a Galaxy W (SGH-T679M) to fix for a friend. Previously they had someone screw around with the pattern lock and couldnt figure it out. Originally could not even get into Stock Recovery because the Android icon would appear, the screen would stay on the picture for a few seconds then reboot.
So I managed to get a CMW 6 on there for a recovery. I have used Odin to return to stock even put on different ROM's (Like Peach Sunrise) and when the device boots, it goes through the Out Of Box setup, then once you hit the power button to lock the phone or let the LCD turn off on its own to lock im back at the same screen that says "Too Many Pattern Attempts".
This person also had their information changed to they can't sign in with the Google Account they had on it. The account was created a few years back and they dont know any of the information.
Any thoughts on what could be going wrong?

cash2387 said:
Hello All,
I was given a Galaxy W (SGH-T679M) to fix for a friend. Previously they had someone screw around with the pattern lock and couldnt figure it out. Originally could not even get into Stock Recovery because the Android icon would appear, the screen would stay on the picture for a few seconds then reboot.
So I managed to get a CMW 6 on there for a recovery. I have used Odin to return to stock even put on different ROM's (Like Peach Sunrise) and when the device boots, it goes through the Out Of Box setup, then once you hit the power button to lock the phone or let the LCD turn off on its own to lock im back at the same screen that says "Too Many Pattern Attempts".
This person also had their information changed to they can't sign in with the Google Account they had on it. The account was created a few years back and they dont know any of the information.
Any thoughts on what could be going wrong?
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Make a factory data reset using cwm. It will be like you format your phone
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Wipe data factory reset ...
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That's a very interesting Galaxy W you have there... Anyway, just clear data. There's no point in doing anything else...
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Okay, So yes this isn't a Galaxy Wonder...Its an Exhibit II after doing some digging...But still I cant get past this screen.
So what happens is that if I flash say ICS or JB the "Too Many pattern attempts" screen is not present...However if I flash back to any GB ROM, custom or Stock..The device boots up for the 1st time just fine...then once you press the power button or the phone times out and "sleeps" the screen comes back.
A wipe in Recovery only gets it working 1 time and then after it locks or sleeps that's it.

Factory reset will remove the pattern
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my samsung galaxy w cyanogen mod pattern forgot
my samsung galaxy w cyanogenmod cant boot recovery and download mode
i forgot my phone pattern lock and i try unlock it use gmail but when i enter my email and pasword it keep tell me wrong pasword
please help me xda-developers please help

Crimson Scarlet said:
my samsung galaxy w cyanogenmod cant boot recovery and download mode
i forgot my phone pattern lock and i try unlock it use gmail but when i enter my email and pasword it keep tell me wrong pasword
please help me xda-developers please help
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Why you cant boot to recovery? Volume down + home button + power menu
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Power Button cuts device off on 1 press

Really trying to figure this out. Every time i Press the Power Button my phone immediately shuts off instead of going to the option to reboot or screenshot. It was fine earlier but now I cant use the shortcut to reboot into recovery or just reboot the phone + the lockscreen does not show up after 3 or 4 min after the phone is off (and yes the phone isn't set to go off in 10 min, just 1) can somebody please help or point me to a thread that shows me what the deal is? Thank you so much!

killacam1989 said:
Really trying to figure this out. Every time i Press the Power Button my phone immediately shuts off instead of going to the option to reboot or screenshot. It was fine earlier but now I cant use the shortcut to reboot into recovery or just reboot the phone + the lockscreen does not show up after 3 or 4 min after the phone is off (and yes the phone isn't set to go off in 10 min, just 1) can somebody please help or point me to a thread that shows me what the deal is? Thank you so much!
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ROM/kernel you are running. Also pressing the power button IMMEDIATELY shuts the phone, keeping the power button pressed brings up the reboot menu.

Jedix20 Rom and the Stock kernel it came with. When I press the power button and the screen turns off. When I press it again it doesnt go to the lockscreen. And if I hold it just for 2 seconds instead of the pop up option to reboot the phone it just shuts the phone off. Normally it takes like 4-5 seconds after I hold it for it to completly power off. Now it doesnt do it anymore. I tried reverting back to the Stock GB through odin and it still doesnt work. I thought it was perhaps something wrong with the system files so I tried factory resetting JediX20. No good. I booted into download mode and installed stock through odin. No good. And I Installed Jedix20 back again. I had a factory test message with some box pop up on the screen and stayed primaraly on the home screen.. it looked like a debug mode. I downloaded Titanium and deleted those files and the factory mode with the phone information vanished. Im just trying to figure out why wont the lockscreen appear anymore or the options to boot to recovery, reboot, airplane mode ext. Wont appear.
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killacam1989 said:
Jedix20 Rom and the Stock kernel it came with. When I press the power button and the screen turns off. When I press it again it doesnt go to the lockscreen. And if I hold it just for 2 seconds instead of the pop up option to reboot the phone it just shuts the phone off. Normally it takes like 4-5 seconds after I hold it for it to completly power off. Now it doesnt do it anymore. I tried reverting back to the Stock GB through odin and it still doesnt work. I thought it was perhaps something wrong with the system files so I tried factory resetting JediX20. No good. I booted into download mode and installed stock through odin. No good. And I Installed Jedix20 back again. I had a factory test message with some box pop up on the screen and stayed primaraly on the home screen.. it looked like a debug mode. I downloaded Titanium and deleted those files and the factory mode with the phone information vanished. Im just trying to figure out why wont the lockscreen appear anymore or the options to boot to recovery, reboot, airplane mode ext. Wont appear.
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It may be a hardware issue, as it is also happening on the stock rom. IMHO I would take it back to stock (remember to reset the flash count) and take it your carrier. Keep in mind that your phone has a 1 year warranty since the day it was delivered to the first customer.

Not really a possibility. I bought this outright and its on straight talk. Ive flashed pac 4.3 and it works like a charm. It only happens on touchwiz but why? I have no clue. It was fine untill a couple days ago. I know that since it did work on an aosp based rom that the problem lies somewhere in the touchwiz roms files.
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Phone is in factory mode. Either your efs is corrupted or the phone has detected a crash somewhere else. Just google factory mode to see how to get out of it..usually by if you backed up your efs you could restore them and reboot
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I flashed back to pacman 4.3 for a few days and it worked fine....then I reflashed jedix20 after 2 days and it was back to normal. Weird though. Im sure it was the efs thing you mentioned though
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[Q] Welcome screen and Lock screen missing after flashing STOCK ROM

Hey! Need some help if possible. I was messing around with my Captivate Glide. Tried to install some other ROM's but all of them made the phone lost the baseband and IMEI (EFS). I tried restoring the EFS using EFS Pro Tool, but my phone is not being recognized while on CM 11. I decided just to flash back to stock, using the I927UCLJ3_I927ATTLJ3_ATT (which was the only ROM that was showing up the IMEI and got connectivity).
Something that's been bugging me is that after doing all this, the phone boots normally, but there was no welcome screen, it just jumped straight to the main menu without asking for the google account. On top of that, the power button no longer shows the options it did before (reboot, power off). With one press it powers off the screen. If I press it for 2 seconds the phone turns off. There's no even a lock screen on my phone. I've been unable to set lock screen security options. Any options that I select are useless. They do show up under settings, but they don't do anything.
I've been trying everything to get this options back, but I'm not sure how to. I've already flashed my phone to stock, tried with other ROMS, using the same I927ATTLJ3 as reference (since it's the only one that shows the IMEI for me) but nothing. It was showing on CM11 though, all power options where working, as well as the lock screen options. I'm desperate now.
Any help on this?

leonardoor said:
Hey! Need some help if possible. I was messing around with my Captivate Glide. Tried to install some other ROM's but all of them made the phone lost the baseband and IMEI (EFS). I tried restoring the EFS using EFS Pro Tool, but my phone is not being recognized while on CM 11. I decided just to flash back to stock, using the I927UCLJ3_I927ATTLJ3_ATT (which was the only ROM that was showing up the IMEI and got connectivity).
Something that's been bugging me is that after doing all this, the phone boots normally, but there was no welcome screen, it just jumped straight to the main menu without asking for the google account. On top of that, the power button no longer shows the options it did before (reboot, power off). With one press it powers off the screen. If I press it for 2 seconds the phone turns off. There's no even a lock screen on my phone. I've been unable to set lock screen security options. Any options that I select are useless. They do show up under settings, but they don't do anything.
I've been trying everything to get this options back, but I'm not sure how to. I've already flashed my phone to stock, tried with other ROMS, using the same I927ATTLJ3 as reference (since it's the only one that shows the IMEI for me) but nothing. It was showing on CM11 though, all power options where working, as well as the lock screen options. I'm desperate now.
Any help on this?
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Have you factory reset your phone? That described things can happen especially when switching between ROMs