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Root Moto Droid need help

sbnpuchalska

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Feb 25, 2010
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ok i got a Motorola android and i cant seem to fix it:(. it makes no sence. my power button is broke. ok fine i flip the keyboard open and it works. well one day my screen got froze so i pulled the battery out waited then put that back in and plugged it in. it looked fine for a second i got up to the m part and nothing. just a screen with in m on it. i can feel the touch working. i still get my messages cant see them of course but i can hear them... please help i don't get this. i tried doing the battery thing not working my power button is broke. and my green light is flashing so i know everything works but the screen part. oh and if i plug it into the usb i get the boot thingy but what do i do i hit every button i think. please help.. i need my phone. :mad::thinking:...
 
ok i got a Motorola android and i cant seem to fix it:(. it makes no sence. my power button is broke. ok fine i flip the keyboard open and it works. well one day my screen got froze so i pulled the battery out waited then put that back in and plugged it in. it looked fine for a second i got up to the m part and nothing. just a screen with in m on it. i can feel the touch working. i still get my messages cant see them of course but i can hear them... please help i don't get this. i tried doing the battery thing not working my power button is broke. and my green light is flashing so i know everything works but the screen part. oh and if i plug it into the usb i get the boot thingy but what do i do i hit every button i think. please help.. i need my phone. :mad::thinking:...

what droid phone are you using?
 
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ok just to let you know, you posted in the Droid X section, and the dx uses different files than the OG Droid (Original Droid) so i will move your post to the OG Droid and pm you with the link to the current post so you can monitor it carefully, and get quicker, and more accurate answers than what we can provide you.
 
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I actually had the exact same symptoms on my OG Droid (my son dropped it). Everything worked and I could even see the screen back light. Just no screen. I could muscle memory unlock, even answer phone calls while I waited for a replacement. Unfortunately, I don't know how i fixed it.

I dropped it in a drawer so I could someday go back and get the pics off the SD card. I forgot all about it and about six months later stumbled across it again. On a whim I hit the power button and I'll be damned the thing works to this day (my 4yr old son has been using it for games for the last 15 months:)). It hadn't even been charged once it went in the drawer. I fiddled with that thing for two weeks before it went in the drawer.

My only suggestion is to take the battery out for an extended period of time, like a week or two, and then give it a try. And please, let me know if this works, as it would solve my mystery as well.
 
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If you get to the M screen then you should be able to boot into recovery right? If so you could try to flash it back to stock/factory reset or if rooted flash a rom/backup. Maybe this will cure your problem although it will erase your personal data not on sd card or in the cloud so be warned.

Just something to try. Good luck
 
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