[Milestone 2 General] Xan-Kun:
When to give up

I just want to spare somebody else the hassle and give a quick report on my findings.

I own multiple MS1 and they are all heavily customized (mostly CM).

My daughter choose to have a MS2 (A953) and was very happy with it for the last years.

Now it broke, like physically, and I wanted to activate the second one I have.

She likes chilljes Mod and I tried to flash it.

Then I found out, that the buttons on the device behave weirdly.

Somehow all kind of button events were getting fired, when olny shortly touching one.

For example: In the recovery, which at that time I could reach via X-Power -> Triangle with Anroid -> both Volume -> recovery menu, it was close to impossible to do anything. The Camera button made the selection go down or select it (chaotically), the two volume buttons behaved even more irrational and I was already close to throwing it away, when I tried installing a rom via Rom Manager, as I can tell Rom Manager to boot into recovery and start installing without having to select anything.

Everything worked fine and I finally booted a rom that had the MS2 Tools included.

That was the first time I discovered somthing called MS2Debounce. I quickly learned, that the irradicate button behaviour could be fixed with this tool. The moment it was loaded it configured the hardware timings and everything worked fine! The volume buttons behaved very nicely now and even the camera button did exatly what was expected (short click, nothing, long click camera app starts).

I installed CM7 from chillje and booted. Superb: There was root, all the tools, blazingly fast with 1200Mhz and even the hardware keyboard had no problems anymore.

When rebooting, I saw the entry: reboot to bootmenu which was completely new to me and I thought, I give it a shot!

BAD IDEA.

From here things got only worse.

The red M came up (bootLOGO), stood there for a couple of seconds, then the screen went shortly blank and the bootanimation started. So far, all fine. but then the bootanimation freezes, screen goes black for a moment and the animation starts over.

Unfortunately, there is no more way of getting to the recovery, as the buttons changed and as long as the MS2Debounce is not loaded, it receives all kind of key events and no recovery comes up. Depending on the sbf, I can get to the infinit booanimation-loop again, but without a full factory reset and data/cache wipe, no new system will ever have a chance to come up again.

These two things (reset/wipe) are quite crucial and since there is no way to get an adb working (which would allow to reset via usb(adb) the phone is really

bricked :rolleyes:

Maybe someone else, that also has tried all suggestions here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1032372

and

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1497263

and even tried to unpack sbfs in order to manipulate it

can share my feeling.

If you tried everything, maybe it is the strange case with the hardware button timing on the MS2 that hit you.

So I guess I need to get another MS2, but this time checking directly, if the buttons a properly working.

Best regards to everyone involved in the above mentioned threads,

thanks to my all time heroes Skrilax_CZ and Nadlabak.