[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garfilo:
Long time lurker, first time poster. Hello World! I have had my evo 4g since the end of june of 2010. It is my first smart phone and my baby. I rooted it twenty minutes after I bought it from stuff I read on xda sitting at the mall waiting on my wife to buy some shoes. I got some sort of perverted satisfaction of rooting the phone from within sight of the sprint-hut where it was purchased. I have been a recovering flashaholic ever since.

I have never posted anything because I am absurdly busy with work and I usually find that I never have a question that isn't asked and answered long before I am able to catch up on a thread. Thank you to all of the developers who have helped to push the envelope of interface design and break the mold of corporate copyrightedness to create an open society of free bootin' jail rootin' yah hoos. And thank you to all the rest of the xda community, the hosts, the users, the knuckleheads, the mentors and teachers and helpers and trolls, and whoever else. You all are nothing if not entertaining. Sorry for the preamble.

My poor little evo has taken a beating over the last fourteen months. I don't think this is the end, but it may be the beginning of the end. I am really surprised that it hasn't happened sooner.

My power button is shot. It has not functioned in any capacity for 24 hours. It does not work within sense, or in fastboot or recovery or the bootloader or anything. Pushing the button has no response. If the phone is off and I want to turn it on I have to pull the battery and replace it. Here is my question: If I take it in to a sprint store what will happen:

A. they will fix the button and the phone will be good as new

B. they they will gladly replace the phone if the power button is broken

C. they will say you are **** out of luck even with your insurance because you are rooted

D. I use the s-off tool and install a stock RUU and unroot an otherwise perfectly good if slightly battered og evo 4g with the .76 eng bootloader and kill a little bit of myself in the process.

The question is academic really. I have no intention of turning my phone into them to get "fixed" only to have them tell me that my baby has been destroyed and I am forced to get an unrootable refurb.

Here is what I have done so far for workarounds. As our phones age and our hopes of getting root on updated refurbs diminish threads like this one will become very important. "How to care for an aging Evo".

Installed No Lock to disable the lock screen and to be able to use the volume rocker to bring the phone out of sleep

Installed Screen Off and Lock to allow me to put the phone into sleep from the notification bar

I also had to install adw launcher. Lately I have been using mikg with sense widgets and the sense launcher. Unfortunately, at the time of the power button ceasing to function, I had been experimenting trying to get elements from a couple of different themes to work together and I broke my rosie. I cannot edit the widgets on my homescreen without getting a force close.

So I guess one final question: Is there a way to do recovery without a functioning power button? I guess if I am stuck forever with MikG 2.42 my evo will definitely always have some style.

I apologize for my utter lack of brevity.

peace garfilo