Dial and Home buttons stopped working

[lovehatesex]

As like everyone else I have been getting annoyed with my battery life, so I decided to run it down and let it die. (BTW, it took an hour for it to die from 4% with nonstop usage, WiFi turned on, and GPS turned on for half of it) After it died I plugged it in for a minute, and turned it on. Well my green dial AND home screen buttons have stopped working, completely. I have tried turning the phone off, and back on again... hasn't helped. And since it died, when I hold the red end button to shut it off, I notice "vibrate" isn't an option. Those 3 things have changed since letting it die and turning it back on. Any ideas on what happened? Did me letting the battery die fry something???? I'm pissed, because I know if I call Tmo they will automatically want you to do a factory reset, but I honestly don't want to.

Any suggestions on what to try before resorting to factory reset?

[Infinatenothing]

the battery dying sould not effect your hardware seems like you got a bad unit to me and its a coincidence it failed after your battery died.

[kaysesoze]

That happened to me before, and I did a factory reset and it fixed the problem. I'm not sure if it was an application or game that I added but haven't had the problem since.

[gsxrmike04]

thats a software related issue not hardware

[darthbuddha]

I have noticed sometimes my G1 when jumping from a app to home it does kinda lag.

[K.Krstnsn]

mike... ive never had communications with some one actually from or lived in or even been to rhode island...

HI!

ps vermont either

[LeandroMan]

I too have a similar problem.

SYMPTOM:

1. Home Button Not working, stopped working.
2. Dial Button Not working, stopped working.
3. Power Button No longer locks the screen, it only darkens it.

These problems began this morning except it didn't happen after the phone died from battery exhaustion (like [lovehatesex] explains above). My recent activity was:

1. Installing "Zombie, Run!" (Tons of fun)

2. Using "Any Cut" and adding every possible shortcut to see where it leads. I believe I might have gone to a shortcut that changed a phone setting making the home button stopped working and the phone button stopped working

I too am resisting a hard reset.

[tiki]

Looks like somebody needs to write an app to save all your ANDROID setting to the SD card so we can do factory resets w/o worrying about losing all our stuff..

[JmasterJ]

Im having the same problem has u and leandroman

what happen to mine was i installed bubble that stupid measuring app and toggle then my notifcations bar stopped working and i couldnt pull it down anymore so i turned my phone off when i tried it on it worked again but i got the same stuff thats happening to u to. I did to also use anycut but it was before all that happen

sady im goin to reset everything

make such u tell google about this problem so they can get it fixed

[sayitisntso]

I have the same problem. It happened when it said I was low on storage, but when I checked my storage, I was fine. I only have a few apps. It should not have given me this message. But I emptied browser and text messaging, from there my phone was no longer logged into my gmail account. It took me awhile to figure out that I had to start from scratch as if a new phone, but I got it working. FYI I also lost my contacts, and even after clearing out storage my phone kept giving me that message that I had no storage. SOOO now my home button does not work. It's bad enough I have to spend hours keeping my computers running but now I have a retarted phone! I really had no idea that the day I bought it, it had just come out two days before. You'd think I would know this since I am a Google Groopie. I hope they fix this problem.