A few weeks ago I decommissioned my rooted droid. I removed all my data, installed CM 6 and put it in a drawer. Now I'm attempting to reactivate it but it's unstable. I reformatted the SD and System partitions and it's running a bit better, but the Home and Back buttons no longer work. I tried CM 6, CM 7, and the original backup. Any ideas on how I can get this phone working again? Thanks.
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Droid is unstable, Home and Back buttons no longer work
Started by bruder, Feb 06 2012 07:42 PM
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:04 PM
Non-functioning Home and Back buttons are *usually* caused by restoring system data with an app such as TitaniumBackup. If that is your case, then don't restore system data.
To make sure it's not a hardware problem, download a known stable release-> boot to recovery->wipe data/cache (some format /system as well but usually not necessary)->flash STABLE build and recommended gapps for the version->boot up and do nothing until you confirm home and back keys work correctly. If they work at that point, then you know it is something you did during post-install tweaking.
While that should be a sufficient check, some have gone so far as to SBF back to stock to completely rule out hardware as a last resort.
To make sure it's not a hardware problem, download a known stable release-> boot to recovery->wipe data/cache (some format /system as well but usually not necessary)->flash STABLE build and recommended gapps for the version->boot up and do nothing until you confirm home and back keys work correctly. If they work at that point, then you know it is something you did during post-install tweaking.
While that should be a sufficient check, some have gone so far as to SBF back to stock to completely rule out hardware as a last resort.
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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:48 AM
bruder, on 06 February 2012 - 07:42 PM, said:
A few weeks ago I decommissioned my rooted droid. I removed all my data, installed CM 6 and put it in a drawer. Now I'm attempting to reactivate it but it's unstable. I reformatted the SD and System partitions and it's running a bit better, but the Home and Back buttons no longer work. I tried CM 6, CM 7, and the original backup. Any ideas on how I can get this phone working again? Thanks.
The home button usually doesn't work when you install CM6 without GApps, could be a similar issue.
