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[Atrix 4G General] alan17:
My Atrix has been going in to reboot ever since the last OTA update. Usually it would start doing this once a week and I could remove the battery for 10 mins and it would come back and work fine for about a week.

Yesterday it started again but can not get it to stop. It won't even stay on long enough to do a factory reset.

I stopped by an art store and they were no help, they just gave me a number to call so they could have online tech try to help me. They stepped me through the standard take the battery out, try to do the factory reset (even after I told then I tried all of this stuff) they told me to hold the power key and both up & down volume keys at the same time (that did not do anything or may be I was not doing it right)

Finally they are sending me a replacement (refurb) phone that I have to wait 6 days to get and from what I have been reading on the forums it will most likely have problems too.

I had to go back to my old samsung windows phone and its been less than 24 hours and I am getting the shakes not having my android.:(

Any other ideas on how to get my phone to stop rebooting constantly?
[Atrix 4G General] rickwyatt:
Can you get into recovery even if it's stock recovery just turn off and hold the vol- key and tape the power key it will boot to a screen with fastboot press vol- untill you see android recovery press vol+ and wait for it to boot in to recovery if you have clockwork recovery the hit reset to factory and if you have stock recovery then press both vol-+ at the same time and then press reset to factory
[Atrix 4G General] alan17:
Thanks,

Your advice was very helpful. I was able to reset my matrix.:D
[HTC Rezound] cstrife999:
so I have a few purchased applications that somehow uninstalled themselves today. I was wondering exactly how and why this happened?
[HTC Rezound] krelvinaz:
Applications such as.... ??
[HTC Rezound] cstrife999:
Every single application I have purchased. I already found the cure and reason though. Just like the Droid Bionic it shifted them to the SD card by default and they uninstall for some reason when they do. They are larger applications like Zenonia, Crusade of Destiny, Mathworkout Plus and others. So I don't know if this is a known issue or whatnot. I really should have checked if it was the same problem the Bionic had sorry for posting before I checked :-(
[Android General] canuckerr:
This really bothers me.

It would make my life so much easier if there was a dedicated button on Android devices. An actual tactile button you can press, like the one the iphone has.

This would make unlocking the phone so much easier in my opinion.

I had the Nexus S and their unlock button was on the right side. Now I have the Moto Atrix and the unlock button is on the back of the phone.

I know it's not a huge deal, but I find a dedicated button on the front of the phone to be far more efficient. You can still have the touch screen buttons, like search, back, menu. But a dedicated button would make me the happiest person in the world...

Agree or disagree?
[Android General] stamatis:
I have a home button at the front below screen. Xperia x8
[Android General] Product F(RED):
Dedicated and Physical are two totally different things. I think you mean Physical. And I disagree because there's less of a chance of mechanical failure with capacitive buttons.
[Android General] sreza:
I have an Atrix as well, try installing the volume button wakeup script. Then you can tap a volume button with your middle finger or thumb and swipe your index finger on the fingerprint sensor.
[Android General] 85gallon:
I have a Droid X and it has a physical, dedicated home button. Bottom. Second from left.
[Android General] canuckerr:
I was actually fooling around with my settings today and there was a setting to do this.

Now I can just press my volume keys!

Makes it so much better!

I have CM7 Neutrino installed. There are tons of options! I highly suggest it!
[Android General] orb3000:
Moved, use proper section next time
[Android General] eliazxd:
SGS 2

the device are you looking for is the samsung galaxy S II ...
[Android General] Lazy Rich:
Or the Galaxy Note ;)

Sent from "The ICS powered Beast" aka Samsung Galaxy Note...
[Android General] the_main_app:
I agree. The HTC Flyer had a semi hardware home button and I was very dissapointed when it became disabled when HTC updated to Honeycomb.
[Android General] molesarecoming:
because its a thing of the past, it sucks, its slow to operate, its clunky, its ugly as heck, it breaks or loosens, gets stuck, cant move, cant relocate, can't adapt, wastes space like nothing else on your phone.

modern implementations react immediately, you feel like you press something, you operate them blazingly fast and effortless, its natural since youre using the touch display for everything else anyway, theres no longpress wainting time coz theres just the right amount of buttons for everything you need, buttons change position for landscape/portrait, can adapt to different contexts, they can disappear for fullscreenmode, they can be redifined in order, number, function and look (since aokp b31 for instance), can be made smaller, hid from view entirely and replaced by apps like buttonsaviour which use finger swipes, recent mods have even combined them with the statusbar, take a look for yourself:

a company that today, in the 21st century, is still clinging to hardwarebuttonfronts is living in the stone age, thats why you see it less and less, theres not the tiniest miniscule reason for it to exist today. its just like we're using cars now to get from a to b, not horses, because times change and we're developing.
[Android General] phoenixdown331:
Imo having a dedicated feature like a home button would limit what makes Android so great: options. If someone goes to buy an iphone their only choices are color and memory size. I prefer letting companies build unique devices so I can find the device that has what I want, not what's chosen for me.
[Android General] canuckerr:
You guys make great points.

I think if the phone companies gave us more customizable options, like the option to wake or unlock the phone with the volume buttons that would be the solution to my frustrations while still keeping the touch buttons on the unit.

It's just too bad the only way to get that option is through rooting as the average person does not root their phone.
[Android General] pulser_g2:
CM9 lets you do volume wake :) (under display in settings)
[Android General] thebobp:
I agree: a physical home button means I can't customize where my home goes, which is a bad thing(tm). I'm never buying another phone with a physical nav bar.

That said, everyone here who mentioned the difficulty of waking up is also right. Volume rocker wake is currently something I can't live without either, and I wish there were an even smarter way to do so.
[Android General] 85gallon:
I like the tactile feedback of hardware buttons. Especially my lock button. If my phone is in my pocket and rings I can silence it just by reaching in my pocket and pushing the lock button.
[Android General] Guru Zeb:
hmmmmmm I personally are bored of hearing '21st century boy' crap like this as yeah the adaptive capabilities of a touch screen are great and legion.

However let me just add one serious point ......... your phone is rendered completely non functional as soon as any issue arises with your touch screen.

When will kids like you learn to think a little beyond your noses.

The bests solution is obviously BOTH not some mindless adherence to the idea that whatever is new must be best .......... *sigh*

Similar to situation with sat nav, great navigation device but its always a good idea when travelling a long distance to keep a Mk1 eyeball enabled paper MAP !!!!!

The fact is the only reason Google are force/pushing all touch controls is the fact that lots of the brainless customer feedback groups have favoured anything that looks "as clean as an iphone' .... little to do with practicality everything to do with hunting market share, by listening to idiots !!!!
[Android General] molesarecoming:
?

you mean if a technical problem arises then the software button wont work? youre cracking me up. you do know that hardware buttons are driven by software, dont you. if the software goes down, your button goes down, no matter what. open it up, its not gears and springs anymore, you've got chipsets running instead. not to mention that buttons are prone to break, they are the first things on your smartphone that go down the drain. i can show you nice pictures of my last samsung phone where the homebutton went clean off. best thing is, if the touchscreen breaks the phone is ****ed, what in the world is pressing your homebotton gonna do man. but then again, im wasting my spirit on an angry internet person with an attitude problem, so you have fun with your button and enjoy the day. :)

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google, how stupid you are, you should not be listening to idiots, you should be led by guruzeb and we'd all be living in smartphone heaven right now. screw matias duarte, who did of course get all his inspiration from internet polls and such, all because of 1% marketshare that ics is enjoying right now.
[Android General] Felimenta97:
Hardware buttons are only part related to software. If it was like you said, it wouldn't be possible when, phone doesn't boot, to turn it off (for non removable batteries devices). My phone (low end), sometimes had a bug that part of the software (screen one) make it unsable, but the power button, home button, etc, worked perfect. I felt the phone vibrating because I long pressed the home button or power button.

For me, yeah, it's a good thing to have on screen buttons, IF the screen is something like that 4.3 inches or more (something that doesn't fit my hands). But it should have a few hardware buttons (volume and power are a must).

And about ICS being only 1%, I think it isn't neither Matias Duarte or polls on internet. I think he created an awesome design, making Android something even better that it was before. And because of that, almost everything of Android structure had to be remade to make it even better, both for power and simple users.

THIS, with the long time GB was out there, and the fact that 99% of population (this is a bigger fact in Brazil) don't care if they use Android. They just buy the phones knowing they will be able to play Angry Birds and now use Instagram. They don't care about ICS...

Of course, this is my opinion...
[Android General] molesarecoming:
Sure, I agree 100 percent. I also believe android evolved because it adapted to necessity and hardware standards. Soft buttons were a natural step so they implemented them.

As for the hard button, I had an iPod nano once and it crashed. The screen was on but I couldn't operate it anymore, even the recovery combinations did not work. I had to lay it down for two days until its battery was exhausted and it finally rebooted.
[Android General] Guru Zeb:
Let me spell this out for you ....... Touch screens fail all the time, when a touch screen fails you lose all its functionality. So if all your phone has is touch controls no hardware buttons, you can't do jack about it your phone is bricked until you can fit an new screen. :rolleyes:

You cannot access anything as the one HID device has failed .... Am both old enough & experienced enough to expect equipment failures, question is how 'desperation functional' can your phone remain when the touch dies, with HW buttons thats partially without its NOT AT ALL. :rolleyes:

Also what about apps like ROM manager that interact at a lower level with your phone, Apps like that NEED hardware buttons. :rolleyes:

You should think a little before you post teenage garbage m8y :D

Don't talk crap about understanding hardware to me son, as you OBVIOUSLY don;t have a clue i was building homebrew computers probably before your parents even meet each other.

Its obvious to me that if one of us has never seen inside an Android phone its you boy.

Dood am not angry your not significant enough to make me angry what i am is analytical and critical, as you age maybe you'll grow into it to ...... still you sound like your about 14 anyway so i shouldn't expect much sense from you.

Leaving aside the fact that even with a ****ed touch screen if you have HW buttons you can still get some functionality from your phone, enough to back it up or make an emergency call,etc,etc. :rolleyes:

Some phones you can still get pretty much full access to basic functions without a touch as long as you have HW buttons. Bit like using windows without a mouse is possible in an emergency.

People replace Digitisers/Touch screens on mobile phones of every conceivable variety every day of the week!!!!!!! .... you MUPPET (look it up) :rolleyes:

I have replaced dozens over the years for myself and friends. Maybe your not familiar with this maybe Mommy and Daddy still buy you all your toys, maybe your used to being bought new phones by a dotting Mommy and Daddy, as soon as you've wrecked the last one. :rolleyes:

Some of us have to WORK to own mobile phones pay mortgages etc etc. So yeah search the forum and get educated Power users replace touch screens and other parts all the time.

LOL ...... obviously you have no clue how focus groups and marketing lead group feedback works ....... no doubt you don't even understand what they mean.

Enjoy your ignorant little corner son

Laters Gators

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Buhahahahahahahaha ROFLMFAO ........... bro your priceless and you don't even know it ........ ROFLMFAO :D

You agree 100% = so you agree most of your previous post was fundamentally wrong about how HW buttons function.

Thats a start i guess.

WTF ...... its not so complicated ....... LISTEN KID ....... implementing soft buttons does not mean that HW buttons are redundant and should be removed from handsets ..... See soooo soooo simple, if your capable of rational thought.
[Android General] mcord11758:
not to get involved in someone elses argument but what is more likely, a touch screen completely failing or a physical home button no longer working correctly? I have had several devices where a physical power button has stuck, or a volume rocker has broken, or on my iphone 3 g the silent toggle snapped off. I have never had a touch screen completely fail. Now that being said I have read seveal threads in my time where people have had screens that errored or broke but having a physical home button was never a solution to their issue. Backing up your phone would in most cases require you had the menu in CMW memorized and making emergency calls would also require you knew exaclty where the phone keys where

in either case the debate in senseless as we all have the choice to purchase the phone we want so if you require HW buttons to make you feel safe there are option.

I am not sure falling back on insulting people or assuming their relative age is an adults way of winning an argument
[Android General] molesarecoming:
Zeb, I'm talking bout the home button only, not the rockers :)
[Android General] mistermentality:
Its true hardware buttons don't help much if touchscreen goes although a hw power button allows switching phone on so you can try saving data off phone via usb.

Had a gt540 screen go but couldn't use it as had to swipe screen to unlock it, couldn't use hw buttons to make calls because even if phone had not been locked the call button only brought up the dialer and you still need to use touchscreen to select contact or dial a number.

So while I prefer hw buttons I don't find them more useful than the touch ones such as on my P920.

However I do think hw buttons for power and volume are important because if phones off you obviously need physical button to power it on or if phone freezes you can long press to reboot, and volume buttons are useful to control music with screen off where a touch button would automatically switch screen on every time it was pressed.

Dave
[Android General] molesarecoming:
i think this is what duarte and the bunch had in mind. you operate a modern phone through its natural interface, which is touch and touch only. everything else can be done through hardware rockers on the side that do have their function of course. ICS was entirely laid out in such a way. everything is shifting, swpye and flickkeys would be a good example, new ideas to operate our devices in their natural habitat, leaving the old concept of stuffing buttons in there. i have seen new keyboard prototypes sporting only four touchfields that type as fast as with a real 10 finger physical keyboard.

but let's make an example, i own both a nexus and a s2. how do these two hold up to each other in terms of design and usability?

with a nexus you speed through the settings, you play a game, jump back to the calendar, make a phonecall, come back to the game, browse a webpage in between and it feels natural to jump back and forth because you never leave the interface domain which is based on touch and there's dedicated buttons that make more sense than ever.

gingerbread on the other hand was an entirely different approach, you needed taskmanagers, homescreens and appdrawers to do what you can do on a nexus with a simple flick. since the s2 has a fixed buttonlayout, and one that google itself declared as faulty, it will never be as quick and sleek. longpressing seconds with physical strength to access recents leaving the touch interface for no apparent reason, going back by pressing the button on the right which is queer, having a menue button that is obsolete for every app that came out since january or earlier, no adaption or re-positioning, all these things stand in the way of a clever design paradigm and clean user interface, worse, they clutter the device visually.

zebs argument that touchscreens "break faster" than buttons do and thats why homebuttons must grace our devices because its so cool to still be able to press a button after the phone died, well, don't even think its necessary to counter that. :)
[Android General] Guru Zeb:
Maybe you should have made your initial position clearer by not making statements like the one below in your initial post.

Looks pretty clear to me you meant more than 'just' the home button

:rolleyes:

Once again with the weak straw man arguments i at no time stated that touchs break any easier than HW buttons i merely pointed out that touch screens fail pretty regularly. At least as regularly as HW buttons do.

You don't counter because my basic point that retaining HW buttons alongside touch controls is difficult to put forth a rational attack on once you actually think about it .... despite the fact your initial post pretty much did just that :rolleyes:

For those who have never personal had digitiser failure, or witnessed it look up "touch replacement -insert any major model-" on youtube and check the results.

Do the same on ebay ...... its full of phones with broken digitisers !!!!!!!!
[Android General] molesarecoming:
what are you tallking about. the topic is called "why is there no dedicated home button." your touchscreen wont break any faster than your home button will, what is this bull**** about googling for youtube videos. and even if it does pressing the button won't do you any favour, will it. : D google and duarte already decided which way they want to go, rocker controls on the side, touchscreen controls on the front, no home button, and that for a reason. good grace zeb, dont take it so hard on you man. its just an argument. :)
[Android General] mcord11758:
I actually use both hw and sw buttons on my hc tab. Have mods to deactivate both as needed. I think in large part the single home button is not all that useful but it is only my opinion
[Android General] lowandbehold:
What I am not getting here is what is a Hardware based "home" button going to do about a failed digitiser? No one is talking about a power button. You obviously can't touch a black screen on a powered down phone to turn it on, that wouldn't be very practical...would it? And I would just like to point out that you seem to be a very angry person for no particular reason whatsoever.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DdcCabuslay:
I don't plan to switch phones anytime soon, but it would be good to know for the future.

Is there a way to transfer the data from apps from one Android to another? This is especially useful for games with saved data inside the phone, such as Angry Birds or Temple Run.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ben_pyett:
You can use the application titanium backup, the paid version sports bulk operationand us Hyatt want you need, although it's not recommended to use it across Android versions

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sikiduck:
Or MyBackup. Backup all your appa and it will create a folder on your sdcard with all your applications u backed up! :)

The savefiles is not available for every games, just some games futures savefiles that are on the sdcard also. You just have to check if your games got savefiles (try searching for the game name on the sdcard and see if there is some extra files).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B1ny:
DataSync http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.quintstoffers.DataSync/DataSync
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DdcCabuslay:
This is perfect! Where were you when I deleted my data from my phone when I was flashing new firmware lol

But thanks for your solutions guys, they're all great and helpful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarKo9:
I really appreciate your help too!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mitchellvii:
These are awesome cases and this price is unbelievable. $9.99. 6 different colors!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...h+360&rh=i:aps,k:htc+flyer+Navitech+360&ajr=0
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] dsfibins:
good quality

i have this case since 4 months and there arent any problems with it. the quality is very good.. and the price is very hot!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] rickwood:
That's the case that I've been using since Christmas. Very nice case. That's an awesome deal at that price.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] al16000:
What is the "magnetic sleep/wake function"?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mitchellvii:
No idea. Maybe it somehow puts your screen to sleep if you close the cover?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] jayochs:
idk, i have one that's almost identical, different brand though..a red one..i got it for 20, but i wish i had this type because mine's not as stiff, so it kinda falls back when i have it standing up. my boss has one that looks more like this, and his is more stiff so it stands up better.

either way, it ships from china, so it takes like 2 weeks to get apparently lol

"Standard (18-26 business days)"

two day shippiung is 44 dollars hahaha and expedited is the same.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] wxwxw:
the only problem of this type case is it doesn't protect the pen. Better to find a case with pen holder inside the case. My pen is broken with this case.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mitchellvii:
Lol, really? What the heck are you doing with your tablet to break the pen in this setup?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] wxwxw:
put in the pocket,.....,take out, damn, the head of the pen is bend,..:mad:
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mitchellvii:
You put a Flyer in this case in your pocket? You must have some big pockets. This is a large case. Very good for utility but not for someone who wants to jam it into a pocket. There honestly is no case which will also hold the pen that will fit in a normal sized pocket.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda<3:
I'm on stock 4.0.4 and I have an i9020a. Ever so often, when I'm typing on the keyboard (sending a text message or whatever) one key will stop responding to light touches... you need to press it hard. Sometimes it will be the a key, the s, key or the f key etc. It happens once or twice every two days i would say. I'm just a bit scared that it could develop into something worse? Should I be worried? Is it a software or hardware problem?

Thanks a lot!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatun:
Try to download other keyboard app, like go keyboard...