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phone frozen process.
- Thread starter dundee12
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syndicate0017
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Not a Razr owner but holding volume down and power for 10 seconds should reset it. It might be volume up and power. Can't remember.
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No problem. That is what is called a "battery pull" in the figurative sense of the words. It is the electronic version of the same thing. In phones without user-removable batteries, they had to come up with a way to do an effective power interruption. The early version was a pinhole and a switch behind it that would momentarily interrupt the power to the motherboard. It was effective but often times it was hard to find something nearby to fit into the hole. Then the manufacturers started adding a plastic "pin" on the end of a screw-off portion of the included stylus.
With the move to finger-sensitive touch screens, thereby doing away with the need for a stylus, so they had to make it work with the existing buttons. So they built in a custom circuit which is sitting in wait for the right combination of button presses, held for long enough to rule out any accidental pressing, and once the time elapsed, it electronically interrupts the power to the motherboard. It is a true power interruption so it results in the same effect as a battery pull. It had to be a true power interruption and the circuit had to be completely separate from and independent of the motherboard's processor and computer circuitry so that it would work even during a complete freezing of the operating system (as was your case).
Glad to have been of assistance, and remember that method...power + volume down for 10 seconds.
