Transformer TF101 Home and lock not working

[Reaper1242]

Hi,
Hopefully someone has a solution for me.

This morning I switched on my TF101 and when I tried to go home from Gmail the button lit up but did nothing. I was convinced it didn't work. So I treid a few reboots and still nothing. I tried some other launchers and still nothing.

On further inspection I realised that when turning on slide unlock that also didn't work. Changing to pin, pattern or password still shows no unlock.

 

[Lethe6]

Are you running stock or a custom ROM?
Are you running stock recovery or a custom one?

I'd try to wipe the cache and dalvik, it fixes lots of weird software issues.

 

[Reaper1242]

Are you running stock or a custom ROM?
Are you running stock recovery or a custom one?

I'd try to wipe the cache and dalvik, it fixes lots of weird software issues.

It's the stock ROM rooted with debugfs.

I know how to wipe the cache but how do I wipe the dalvik. I remember doing it once a couple of years ago on another device but for the life of me now can't remember.

I was going to try clearing the davlik with Terminal Emulator and typed "su" followed by "ls" and all it showed is "recovery". Does this mean it's somehow landed in recovery mode? If so, how do I get out of it?

 

[Reaper1242]

I managed to clear dalvik through terminal emulator. Optimised apps and rebooted but the problem persists.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2

 

[frederuco]

It's the stock ROM rooted with debugfs.

I know how to wipe the cache but how do I wipe the dalvik. I remember doing it once a couple of years ago on another device but for the life of me now can't remember.

I was going to try clearing the davlik with Terminal Emulator and typed "su" followed by "ls" and all it showed is "recovery". Does this mean it's somehow landed in recovery mode? If so, how do I get out of it?

If you have CWM, go to advanced, wipe Davlik.

 

[Reaper1242]

If you have CWM, go to advanced, wipe Davlik.

Thanks, now I remember I used CWM.

 

[Reaper1242]

I thought I'd report back on this in case the information might help someone else down the line.

I tried the cache/davlik clear method and that did nothing for me. I stuck with it for a few days and eventually resorted to button saviour. I also realised that not only was the home button and any lock screen not working, but when using the ASUS quick settings in notifications it didn't show all settings.
This lead me to believe something in the system itself had gotten warped.

Today I did a Titanium backup, factory reset and restored all apps, data and system data. Initially it was fixed but on restart the problem casme back. I knew I'd restored whatever had caused the issue. My next step was to do another factory reset. Since it takes minutes to manually get the system back I only restored apps and data.
This time, after restore the issue was gone. So clearly the issue was in a system setting.

So for anyone else having this issue. Backup with Titanium, factory reset and only restore apps+data.