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Force Reboot Button Behind Back Cover

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double b26

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Sorry if this is old news, but i havent seen anyone mention it in the threads ive read, and a search came up nil.

Anyway, if you pop off the back cover, and look above the camera, there's a little recessed button. its similar to a reboot button on a router. if you push it in, the phone shuts off, then reboots when released.

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I dont know exactly what its there for. When i first spotted it, i pushed it, and the phone instantly powered off, then rebooted when releases. I didnt hold it down for more than a second, and when it rebooted, it still had my podcast stopped in the same spot, so it wasnt like a full fledged reboot, where it wipes that sort of data.

I dont know what would happen if you kept the button held down for longer. On a router, the length of the hold makes it do different things.... but idk on this.

I just wanted to point it out and see if people already knew about it or not. If not, im sure 'the team' will get to work on figuring out its purpose
 
Got tired of removing my "you-can't-be-serious" case (which makes my Warp look like a multimeter :cool: ) to reboot the thing 6 times a day.

A little work with a Dremel and a rat-tail file and my life was made 5x easier.

BTW, the lockup issues seem to have all but gone away since I put the stock SD card back in.
 

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I was thinking that it would be more useful if a hole were drilled in the cover to allow access to the button w/o popping the cover off. Just guesstimating, but id say 3/32 would be about right, without being too big and noticeable.
 
shizack said:
BTW, the lockup issues seem to have all but gone away since I put the stock SD card back in.
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What card (specs, speed, etc.) did you have in there before? What "class" and size was it?
 
Has anyone tried using that button with no battery installed? I'm wondering if it's for access to a recovery menu, etc.
 
shizack said:
Sandisk SDU16 class 10 16 GB.
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Early on with the Warp I noticed mine too would lock up frequently with the Class 10 cards I have here.

I went to using a Sandisk 16GB Mobile Ultra(Class 6 rating) or even a Sandisk run of the mill 32GB Class 4 and the phone became usable again.

The Sandisk Class 4 cards I have record and playback video just fine.

Since then I've read too many folks having phone problems with Class 10 cards.
 
shizack said:
No. That's the one that was installed when I was having issues. Multiple freezes daily for no apparent reason.

With the stock 2-giggity I've had one freeze in four days probably caused by me.
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Oh, right. Here's to reading threads wrong.

I've had crashing issues and haven't done so much as remove the SD card, so I don't think it's what causes the problems. Could it be the amount or ratio of free space maybe?
 
I figure the Warp just doesn't like the "taste" of this particular card, or I got one that was just enough of a lemon to work fine on a forgiving PC and card reader yet cause issues in a finicky phone/mobile OS.

I'll probably try a different one when the stock SD nears capacity.
 
I got this from ZTE today, regarding my continuing issues with the Warp, verbatim (no grammar repair):

We would like to assist you with respect to the phone getting powering down and gets stuck with the red light on. We request you to remove the back panel of the phone and turn on the phone. You will find a small push button at the top of the camera lens. Please push that button and by doing this the phone will reboot completely.

NOTE : By doing this all the data stored in the phone memory will be erased. Please remove the Micro SD Card out of the phone, before you push the button.

If this dose not fix the issue, you need to upgrade the software...
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Perhaps they meant running applications then? That could also be why they want you to remove the sd card then... not damage it if apps are trying to write to it.
 
shizack said:
Got tired of removing my "you-can't-be-serious" case (which makes my Warp look like a multimeter :cool: ) to reboot the thing 6 times a day.

A little work with a Dremel and a rat-tail file and my life was made 5x easier.

BTW, the lockup issues seem to have all but gone away since I put the stock SD card back in.
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I just bought that case on amazon except mine(if it comes in :P) is all black.
 
Good luck finding a carry case. I carry mine in a Samsonite camera case clipped to two belt loops.

The upside is it also holds my bluetooth headset nicely.
 
I'm impressed with the work you fellows put into this, but removing the battery or even case constantly shouldn't be a requirement of owning this device. It makes me wonder why exactly the button is THERE to begin with.
 
aaanadie said:
Pressing that button just reboot phone, you do not loose any data.
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I think it depends on how long you press it for. I just did a quick press and it rebooted with no data/cache loss. But when i held the button for ~15 seconds, it rebooted to a clean start.

I liken it to the reboot button on a router. Quick press reboots, but a longer press n hold can do much more.
 
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