T-Mobile Optimus T: Lock screen, search and home button not working

[chad.jordan93]

Last night i reset my phone to factory default, ans since then, as the title says, my lock screen button does not work nor my home and search button. i rooted my phone a long time ago, and i have also reset it to factory default before and never had this problem. PLEASE help, is it hardware or software. i have looked everywhere and they never really have the same situation as me. NOTE: when ever i turn on airport mode i can then use everything again.

thank you
CJ

 

[Turducken]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

Last night i reset my phone to factory default, ans since then, as the title says, my lock screen button does not work nor my home and search button. i rooted my phone a long time ago, and i have also reset it to factory default before and never had this problem. PLEASE help, is it hardware or software. i have looked everywhere and they never really have the same situation as me. NOTE: when ever i turn on airport mode i can then use everything again.

thank you
CJ

Do you have a custom recovery like AmonRa or ClockWork? If so, selecting factory reset from the phones Settings menu will usually brick it. Follow my instructions here to unbrick it.

If you don't have a custom recovery, try factory reset again. If that doesn't work follow the guide I linked to above.

 

[chad.jordan93]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

ive never done anything like that, and i have reset it probably three times now. ill try reset again and then ill try your tut.
thank you!

 

[chad.jordan93]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

it worked! thank you very much!

 

[sammy1414]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

will this work for xperia play ?

 

[manquel]

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i have the same problem but i dont understand how to get my phone back to normal

 

[wofl]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

Have with my Xperia Play the same problem .

Can anyone help me please ?

 

[MariaLocs]

Do you have a custom recovery like AmonRa or ClockWork? If so, selecting factory reset from the phones Settings menu will usually brick it. Follow my lpinstructions here to unbrick it.

If you don't have a custom recovery, try factory reset again. If that doesn't work follow the guide I linked to above.

the same thing happened to my phone. My screen will not lock & the home & search button are not working. How would I factory reset my phone

 

[joe5940]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

Out of no were my lock, home, and search buttons don't work on my Droid RAZR.
Any ideas on how to fix this??
my phone won't let me run Moto Home Fix.

 

[veronicag23]

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same problem , help me ... thunderbolt htc

 

[giltheissen]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

for others in a similar situation, I too lost functionality of my home button, screen lock and browser button on my Optimus V after using Titanium backup to wipe all user and system data. I never figured out which app(s) or data were the culprit because after trying several times to selectively restore my system data without solving the problem, I finally lost patience and just ran the complete batch and restored all the system data which thankfully did the trick.
One other thing of note; after deleting and then restoring all system data, for some reason I ended up recouping an addition 20 Megs of space on my phone. Don't know why that is since I'd backed everything up only five days before I ran into this problem. So possibly this may be one way of freeing up extra space that goes beyond deleting cache and history.

 

[Kbesa]

it worked! thank you very much!

Which one worked the reset or his "tut". I am having the same problem you had

 

[Frederico Camara]

Re: Lock screen, search and home button not working

I had this problem on my TF101, I think I erased some android settings with Titanium Backup. After I rebooted the device, Home button would do nothing, some quick settings would not show up and power button would show very few options.

A lot of sites prompted me to do a factory reset (backup and restore would take a day). After trying several possible solutions I came about this thread Home button issues striking back - The Lounge - CyanogenMod Forum that solved it.

I used the android sdk installed on my Ubuntu, using the following steps:

1. Use adb as su to retrieve the android settings database:

sudo platform-tools/adb -d pull /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db settings.db

2. Use sqlite3 to check if device_provisioned=1 (this setting was missing)

tools/sqlite3 settings.db "select * from secure;" | grep provision

correct answer would be "nnn|device_provisioned|1" where nnn is the number of the line. If there was no answer, you would have to add this setting to the file.

3. Use sqlite3 to add this setting to the file

tools/sqlite3 settings.db "INSERT INTO secure (name,value) VALUES ('device_provisioned','1');"

4. Put the file back on your android device

sudo platform-tools/adb -d push settings.db /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

5. Power down android (at first I tried the reboot option on the power button menu, but it restored my faulty settings somehow. Afterwards I pressed the power button until the device shut itself down.)

6. Power on. The Home button was working again (along with the other missing features).

 

[culturobot]

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nice job, big thanks, Camara, right now i solved the same thing by your way e

 

[Andrea Jordan]

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I'm only 13, so I have no clue what a this factory && scientific stuff y'all are talking about. My Android Precedent won't lock with my passcode, nor my search or home button will work. I just need a simple way to fix it please!!

 

[mirandamarie]

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My samsung galaxy s3 power button started not working and the power off option would pop up constantly, then my phone died and now i cant get it back on. Has anyone else had this problem and has gotten it fixed??

 

[ceedeebee]

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I NEED HELP ! Baby sister dropped my LG Optimus G by sprint and it has a small crack at the top, but my screen is now unresponsive to my touch. After resetting it many times, it sill has not yet responded, will it or will i have to get a new screen !???

 

[Dayn Mariano]

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Does this work with galaxy mini?

 

[bridgett ayala]

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after I resetted my galaxy exhilarate my menu home back and search button do not work what do I do

 

[Saransh Gupta]

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thanks Camara..
but for me, the device_provisioned field was in global in settings.db instead of secure and changing its value from 0 to 1 worked for me.