hey,
a couple of hours ago, I started a podcast on my Z5c and put the phone aside, podcast playing over the speakers.
Now I can not access it any more, screen is black, LED does not blink, no response to power button.
However, the podcast is still playing.
seems to me this is the known "sleep of death" problem, only the device is running.
how can I solve this?
thanks so much
brokaaa
brokaaa said:
hey,
a couple of hours ago, I started a podcast on my Z5c and put the phone aside, podcast playing over the speakers.
Now I can not access it any more, screen is black, LED does not blink, no response to power button.
However, the podcast is still playing.
seems to me this is the known "sleep of death" problem, only the device is running.
how can I solve this?
thanks so much
brokaaa
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Hold power and volume up for hard reset?
There use to be a reset button in sim-card slot, is still there?
mele80 said:
There use to be a reset button in sim-card slot, is still there?
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I was looking at mine yesterday. I think there is one just left of sim but I've no reason to push it lol
civicsr2cool said:
Hold power and volume up for hard reset?
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I though at first that would not work either (since the power button was not responding) but at the third try, it worked, many thanks
I experienced the exact same problem on my [email protected]
Solution: Hold Volume Up & Power until it vibrates 3 times. Then you can boot up your phone as normal.
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Ok here's the thing. My phone suddenly stars acting really weird after a year of problem free use. the volume rocker started to go bonkers, almost like the downward rocker is always on. rebooting is really difficult as flashing mode turns on. The only way to turn it on is to hold the home button at the same time as the power button to turn it on.
once inside the os, the volume rocker is permanently downwards, so ringer is always at vibrate, and working with the phone is impossible.
i tried restarting quite a few times, restored original firmware and installed latest energy gtx rom, all to no avail.
i think there is a problem with the circuitry or something which might be causing this. any thoughts on how to fix this? I have had this since last november with a contract on tmobile UK. any ideas about where to get this fixed should this be a hardware problem?
thanks in advance
Yeah looks like a hardware problem with the rocker seemingly pressing the downward button all the time 24/7.
See if you can play around with it to loosen the rocker button.
Otherwise it's an open the unit to fix it which will void warranties, etc.
thanks for the reply. i'll take this to tmobile. lets hope they solve the problem.
It is a weird problem. Not a killing one, but still it's absurd.
How would I know that my phone is sleeping (standby) or completely shut down (off)?
You may say, just press the power button on backside. But if I do that, that's going to turn on the phone anyway if it was off.
I want to know without turning the phone on whether the phone is actually off or not.
Any idea guys? Any way to find out?
[PS: This is my first post. ]
binokary said:
It is a weird problem. Not a killing one, but still it's absurd.
How would I know that my phone is sleeping (standby) or completely shut down (off)?
You may say, just press the power button on backside. But if I do that, that's going to turn on the phone anyway if it was off.
I want to know without turning the phone on whether the phone is actually off or not.
Any idea guys? Any way to find out?
[PS: This is my first post. ]
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When you press shortly on the power botton- if the phone is sleeping the screen will turn on to the lock screen, if the phone is off it will turn on to the red M initial screen.
That is a really weird question, why should you ask it? if you turned your phone off it is off, if you just turned the screen off it is asleep (shhhh, don't disturb him :silly: )
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I don't want to disturb him, that's what I want.
Moonshield said:
When you press shortly on the power botton- if the phone is sleeping the screen will turn on to the lock screen, if the phone is off it will turn on to the red M initial screen.
That is a really weird question, why should you ask it? if you turned your phone off it is off, if you just turned the screen off it is asleep (shhhh, don't disturb him :silly: )
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If the phone was sleeping, I would know as it will show lock screen when I press the power button. But if it was off and I press the power button, it will turn on the phone. And I don't want that. I just want to know whether the phone is off, and if it is off I don't want to disturb him.
In other phones, they have separate unlock button, here it is combined with power. That's the problem. But moto could have made long press for turn on and short press for unlock. I think there is no solution to my problem. :crying: Thanks anyways.
binokary said:
If the phone was sleeping, I would know as it will show lock screen when I press the power button. But if it was off and I press the power button, it will turn on the phone. And I don't want that. I just want to know whether the phone is off, and if it is off I don't want to disturb him.
In other phones, they have separate unlock button, here it is combined with power. That's the problem. But moto could have made long press for turn on and short press for unlock. I think there is no solution to my problem. :crying: Thanks anyways.
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Call your number?
Plug in the headset and press the headset button?
Plug in the charger?
Pair it with wifi/bluetooth and see if connection is alive from paired device?
I'm sure there are hundreds of other creative ways to find out whether the phone is off or on standby without pressing the power button.
binokary said:
If the phone was sleeping, I would know as it will show lock screen when I press the power button. But if it was off and I press the power button, it will turn on the phone. And I don't want that. I just want to know whether the phone is off, and if it is off I don't want to disturb him.
In other phones, they have separate unlock button, here it is combined with power. That's the problem. But moto could have made long press for turn on and short press for unlock. I think there is no solution to my problem. :crying: Thanks anyways.
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I know what you mean, like in the Nokia 700 (or any symbian phones), there are two seperate buttons, where the lock button does not switch on the phone, but instead the power button does. I know some Android devices need a long press to switch on, while a short press does nothing while off, but Motorola doesn't use this "feature".
Sent from that Atrix.
If you use a CM based rom you can set the volume rocker to wake the phone. If you use a blur based rom you can install an app from the play that does the same.
:cyclops:
Thanks!
Moonshield said:
If you use a CM based rom you can set the volume rocker to wake the phone. If you use a blur based rom you can install an app from the play that does the same.
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Thanks Moonshield, that was what I wanted! :laugh:
what is asleep mode?
i only know 3 situations:
1. powered on - locked (screen is off)
2. powered on - unlocked (screen is on)
3. powered off.
quetzalcoatl2435 said:
Call your number?
Plug in the headset and press the headset button?
Plug in the charger?
Pair it with wifi/bluetooth and see if connection is alive from paired device?
I'm sure there are hundreds of other creative ways to find out whether the phone is off or on standby without pressing the power button.
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Or how about wake up with volume and that would fix everything its easy and takes 2 seconds to do.
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Or use light flow app and turn on a led indicator for phone signal.
unforgivenmercy said:
Or how about wake up with volume and that would fix everything its easy and takes 2 seconds to do.
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Yep, but it's not available on stock ROM.
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It's happened this morning during my chem lab class. I thought it was one of the machines in the lab until I pulled my phone out and realized it was me. So I thought it was a text bomb or a phone call. My phone exhibited none of those notifications. I then realized my phone was on silent and was still doing it. Changed to vibrate, same thing. Changed to loud, same sound at same loudness as it was on silent. Decided to power off and the beeping kept going during the power down sequence. Once powered down, when I quickly pushed the power button it would beep again. Phone wouldn't power on. Push the power button again and hold it down beep comes back during the power up sequence. Th fix I found was to turn off fast boot and power down and back up. Hitting the restart button probably would have done the same.
I took a video of the issue after my lab class was over. Didn't want to try anything around acids and flames.
http://youtu.be/UJm9hzdwOBY
I'm curious about how and why this happened. It started while it was in my pocket!
adamjamess said:
It's happened this morning during my chem lab class. I thought it was one of the machines in the lab until I pulled my phone out and realized it was me. So I thought it was a text bomb or a phone call. My phone exhibited none of those notifications. I then realized my phone was on silent and was still doing it. Changed to vibrate, same thing. Changed to loud, same sound at same loudness as it was on silent. Decided to power off and the beeping kept going during the power down sequence. Once powered down, when I quickly pushed the power button it would beep again. Phone wouldn't power on. Push the power button again and hold it down beep comes back during the power up sequence. Th fix I found was to turn off fast boot and power down and back up. Hitting the restart button probably would have done the same.
I took a video of the issue after my lab class was over. Didn't want to try anything around acids and flames.
http://youtu.be/UJm9hzdwOBY
I'm curious about how and why this happened. It started while it was in my pocket!
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Mine has done that and I have seen other people reporting the same. Maybe network related.
It has happened to me twice .. all I did was a simple reboot and it stoped. I don't know what cause it.
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Yep. That's weird.
idk about the problem, but just try disabling fastboot and then rebooting it? worth a try...
atishpatel2012 said:
idk about the problem, but just try disabling fastboot and then rebooting it? worth a try...
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Mine did It when stock
RLGL said:
Mine did It when stock
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What does stock have to do with disabling fastboot? i guess i didn't really make it clear, but i mean the fastboot settings in the settings for stock. The setting that doesn't let a legit shutdown happen i think...just go into settings turn it off and then turn your phone off for like 5 mins and boot back up and see if it fixes the issue...
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What does stock have to do with disabling fastboot? i guess i didn't really make it clear, but i mean the fastboot settings in the settings for stock. The setting that doesn't let a legit shutdown happen i think...just go into settings turn it off and then turn your phone off for like 5 mins and boot back up and see if it fixes the issue...
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Go to settings > Battery > remove the check mark for Fast Boot.
Done and fixed issue. As described in my posting.
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I have heard of this problem before but I can't seem to find any way to fix it.
I was in an app, the app froze but haptic feedback was still working, held down power to restart, phone vibrated but nothing on screen.
I have not had any screen problems before.
What do I do to fix or troubleshoot this?>
Thanks
r2tincan said:
I have heard of this problem before but I can't seem to find any way to fix it.
I was in an app, the app froze but haptic feedback was still working, held down power to restart, phone vibrated but nothing on screen.
I have not had any screen problems before.
What do I do to fix or troubleshoot this?>
Thanks
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can you access recovery?
Did you try holding it down for 30+ seconds? It can sometimes take a really long press to trigger reboot.
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Hi,
My phone has a faulty power button and I'm unable to get it fixed. I've found easy work-arounds for it for locking and unlocking the phone. However, I'm not sure how to turn on the phone if it's switched off.
When I connect the charger, even if the battery is 90% it won't turn on on its own...
njr08 said:
Hi,
My phone has a faulty power button and I'm unable to get it fixed. I've found easy work-arounds for it for locking and unlocking the phone. However, I'm not sure how to turn on the phone if it's switched off.
When I connect the charger, even if the battery is 90% it won't turn on on its own...
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Have you ever solve the problem? I've also the same faulty button..and I don't know how to power on without this button
maranric said:
Have you ever solve the problem? I've also the same faulty button..and I don't know how to power on without this button
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Nope, the only way I could turn it on was to open the back cover (very painful process) and then press the button area with a pin.
Couldn't get it fixed, so I had to change the phone.
I think there are possibilities in rooted phones, but otherwise the best thing to do is to keep a battery alarm at 30% or more, and keep it on charging whenever you can to avoid a power off. In power on, there are many ways of locking the screen in the MI UI.
njr08 said:
Hi,
My phone has a faulty power button and I'm unable to get it fixed. I've found easy work-arounds for it for locking and unlocking the phone. However, I'm not sure how to turn on the phone if it's switched off.
When I connect the charger, even if the battery is 90% it won't turn on on its own...
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njr08 said:
Nope, the only way I could turn it on was to open the back cover (very painful process) and then press the button area with a pin.
Couldn't get it fixed, so I had to change the phone.
I think there are possibilities in rooted phones, but otherwise the best thing to do is to keep a battery alarm at 30% or more, and keep it on charging whenever you can to avoid a power off. In power on, there are many ways of locking the screen in the MI UI.
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Thanks. I installed Blocco Schermo - Simi Studio v.3.21 , a simple app to lock the screen...and when i flagged the option "show in notification area" , the problem magically disappeared.. The Power On/Off button started to work again. I think it was an hardware problem (because the problem has come up after the phone was at the sunlight for hours in my car and went very hot) but now i think it's obviously a software problem.
Hi guys, I got the same problem too. Unfortunately, I drained my batt while playing games. So the problem now is I can't turn it on. Any idea how to turn on the phone without using the power button?
I solved it
Hi guys i solved a problem! You should hold main button + down volume button for 10-20 seconds. Then, when MI Remote opens, stay on the reboot and wait about 3 minutes, then stay on the reboot systems as well. Great work!
just change the volume flexible. its also not took much cost.