Help phone 'stuck' in manual mode

[thejerk]

im going to purchase a gs2 in mint condition but is stuck in manual mode. im picking it up for less than the cost of a replacement digitizer (more on this later).

anywho, the guy says he hasnt flashed it, that one day he woke up and it started booting into manual mode. according to him, he can still turn it on but when it goes into manual mode, the power button stops working. i havent told him to try the home key because i want the phone for cheap.

anywho again, since it can be booted into recovery or download mode, can i just flash it with odin to a stock(rooted) rom, and would that solve the manual mode issue?

input is appreciated!

-edit-

if it cant be fixed, i plan on gutting it for the LCD and digitizer, since my digitizer has a small crack in it and needs replacing. the LCD, keep for spare parts, as well as the battery and whatever else i can salvage.

 

[KJohns]

you should still be able to odin it, that should take care of the problem.

 

[thejerk]

you should still be able to odin it, that should take care of the problem.

thats what i was hoping for. will report back, hopefully with another working gs2

 

[KJohns]

thats what i was hoping for. will report back, hopefully with another working gs2

good luck !

 

[thejerk]

well, it had some weird reboot issue even when i put it into odin mode... so i just held down the vol - key til it stayed in odin mode. flashing now, almost done. if it works, will be a nice 30$ well spent!

 

[thejerk]

aaaaand its working. not sure if its actually flashed to cricket (guy said it was)... but since it was a sprint phone formerly, i used a stock, rooted sprint rom (odin one click reflash) and all seems to be well

 

[thejerk]

hm. crappy. the power button does not work, but i read that this might be due to the ICS upgrade.

is there any way to verify if the power button is indeed toast?

for now, i found an app called Gravity Screen that does the job of the power button, minus turning the phone off.

the only good thing is that the phone seems to automatically turn on when you pull the battery and put it back in.

 

[KJohns]

you could pull a log for the phone and see what it says when the power button is pressed... are you sure this isnt a hardware issue?

 

[thejerk]

you could pull a log for the phone and see what it says when the power button is pressed... are you sure this isnt a hardware issue?

not sure how to do that. if you enlighten me, i will

 

[KJohns]

not sure how to do that. if you enlighten me, i will

plug the phone into the computer w usb debugging enabled. with the sdk and platform tools installed on the computer , through command prompt (windows) navigate to the platform-tools folder (c:/android/sdk/platform-tools/) type adb devices to ensure the device is connected and then type "adb logcat"

adb logcat -d > logcat.txt will export the log into A text file

 

[thejerk]

you could pull a log for the phone and see what it says when the power button is pressed... are you sure this isnt a hardware issue?

woops.. will up date in a few

 

[thejerk]

alright, so i was able to get the phone going on cricket, but turns out that you cant do a free ESN swap with flashed phones, you have to pay 15 bucks. the free esn swap on cricket's webpage are for cricket-branded phones only.

however, after the swap and *228, phone works great, albeit no power button... but gravity screen app fixes the need for one and actually prevents my wife from butt/pocket dialing me.

shes mighty happy with her 45$ (total cost, 30 phone 15 esn swap) phone thats loads faster than her galaxy discover.