OK here's the quick version of what happened.
Last night, before leaving work, I was playing a game (dice w/buddies) and when I was finished I put the phone to sleep. Picked it up after my 45 min drive home and the screen wouldn't turn on at all. Pulled the battery and as soon as I put it back in the phone vibrated and started the boot process. I didn't even hit the power button. I let it do it's thing and just watched. The screen was all kinds of jacked!! Vertical banding and discoloration to say the least. Well it took about 10 min to boot but when it did the touchscreen was unresponsive. After about 10 min of batt pulls to reboot and check the screen, I called VZW for a replacement.. (They overnighted one and it will be here this morning) So after that call, I just put the phone down and fed my daughter and did a few things around the house. Went back about 2 hrs later and pulled the battery and rebooted the phone to find that the screen now works! BUT the power button does not. It won't wake the phone up,put it to sleep, nothing. It's dead. So I thought I would unroot/relock and take it back to stock so I can send it back. Here is the problem with that; with the power button broken, fastboot won't recognize the phone. I can get into the bootloader via rom toolbox lite (JRummy app) and that works fine. But whether I try it thru adb or WugFresh's toolkit, as soon as the phone hits "Checking fastboot status", it fails. When you go to the device manager in Win7 and try to update the drivers, it fails. It comes up as something like INTF7 or something like that.
So how can I return to stock without a working power button? Even if I was to get it back to stock somehow, I can't relock it as I would have to hit the power button to accept the warning. Is there any other way?
Last night, before leaving work, I was playing a game (dice w/buddies) and when I was finished I put the phone to sleep. Picked it up after my 45 min drive home and the screen wouldn't turn on at all. Pulled the battery and as soon as I put it back in the phone vibrated and started the boot process. I didn't even hit the power button. I let it do it's thing and just watched. The screen was all kinds of jacked!! Vertical banding and discoloration to say the least. Well it took about 10 min to boot but when it did the touchscreen was unresponsive. After about 10 min of batt pulls to reboot and check the screen, I called VZW for a replacement.. (They overnighted one and it will be here this morning) So after that call, I just put the phone down and fed my daughter and did a few things around the house. Went back about 2 hrs later and pulled the battery and rebooted the phone to find that the screen now works! BUT the power button does not. It won't wake the phone up,put it to sleep, nothing. It's dead. So I thought I would unroot/relock and take it back to stock so I can send it back. Here is the problem with that; with the power button broken, fastboot won't recognize the phone. I can get into the bootloader via rom toolbox lite (JRummy app) and that works fine. But whether I try it thru adb or WugFresh's toolkit, as soon as the phone hits "Checking fastboot status", it fails. When you go to the device manager in Win7 and try to update the drivers, it fails. It comes up as something like INTF7 or something like that.
So how can I return to stock without a working power button? Even if I was to get it back to stock somehow, I can't relock it as I would have to hit the power button to accept the warning. Is there any other way?
