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Hi guys,
I have a little problem where my phone's power button will not function in any way, long presses, short, almost embedding my thumb in it, all to no avail. This is doubly dissapointing as I have just installed the latest dexter plus patch to fix the problem. I still had the problem on the previous version and I thought a clean start may fix it. The only way I can get the screen on is to press the media play button! Which of course isn't doing anything on dexter.
Hunches:
I have been playing with a light sensor program and using a 3 second press to turn the phone off, I am only thinking this is related as when I re-installed then turned off the phone using a battery pull, that now the media gallery button will now not work at all, so that is a change.
Second, the power button is buggered. Seems unlikely as everthing feels normal, no big drops have occurred from heights, and the button is travelling in and out as usual.
I have also noticed that as soon as I re-insert a battery that the phone starts immediately, the M pops up as if it is already posting. So maybe it is stuck down?? Again, I don't think so, as the mechanism is working per usual.
If anyone can help it would be fantastic, you guys haven't let me down yet, and this thing is purring, but unfortunately I cannot use it lol. Just my luck.
Thanks in advance
another thing, still not solved
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
Also, at random times it plays a podcast on my phone, the exact same podcast, and from the start, though the duration may be a few seconds then repeat, or it may go for ages, its quite a rude podcast too which has caused me to throw my phone under the car seat to shut it up when people have been trying to talk to me, as you can imagine its quite embarassing.
There are no services or apps running that I can find related to music, it may happen after pressing the camera button, or opening a website.
It is still going really fast though. And I have also reinstalled the light sensor program so I can turn it on and off without causing damage to the power button.
Thanks again everyone.
pisceanblue said:
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
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sure, so the only way I can get the screen to turn back on, after turning off as per display power saving preferences, is by pressing the power button, maybe a couple of times, then following that up by pressing the gallery button next to the shutter button, pressing the gallery button doesn't seem to be working to turn the screen on now, but this combo is.
I hope that helped.
Cheers.
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The gallery button alone is working again. sorry guys.
You might just want to reflash it to stock to see if this resolves the problem.
Yeah I think I may have to.
Before I do., I was reading a post on a different forum where another person was having a similar issue. They seemed to solve the problem by using rom manager to boot to a manual restore menu where there was a button tester section, after using it the power button worked for them. I tried but after resetting it displayed a triangle graphic then rebooted.
Is there any way to do this with our open recovery program or any other utility to test the functionality or maybe reset the button or apply a patch etc.
Thanks again :-D
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Getting Frustrating
Alright so I followed your advice on your videos on how to reflash to stock, so of course my bootloader does not show up the same as yours on the video. I can get to the bootloader fine, using the button combo or by using quick boot > bootloader, both have the exact same result, the boot loader screens as follows:
Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
and that is it....
Also, my computer using rsdlite does not acknowledge the phone, not omap drivers loading etc. Followed your instructions exactly.
This is frustrating me to no end lol.
I am guessing that because I can get to the bootloader with combo no problem, that the buttons physical connections are working.. At least thats a positive.
Can I flash to stock with openrecovery? Or maybe to an earlier version of Dexters froyo? Other ideas?
Any help would be much appreciated guys, trying to use this phone at work with light sensors to turn off screen is not as easy as they say. OMG....
Thanks so much
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Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
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The fastboot bootloader isn't the right one. So... if you hold volume up + camera shutter while powering on you end up in fastboot? That's really weird.
Maybe your keys have been remapped somehow? Does anyone know a chord to boot fastboot? Perhaps check to see if your USB port is clean?
Lmao
Just my luck to have a weird problem. I thought it may have been remapped so I have been trying the program buttonremap. It doesn't seem to let me do anything except stop the buttons I re assign doing anything :'(
Does anyone have a proper key mapping file that I can replace with my faulty one to hopefully fix it?
Or any other ideas?
Cheers everyone
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Just checked my system / user / keylayout folder. How many files are supposed to be inside, there are a few. I checked the contents of some and they seemed to be the same. Just an idea.... thanks again.
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Ok installed anyunlock it allows you to use any physical button to unlock the screen. It doesn't respond when the Power button is pressed, it responded fine to volume rockers, gallery and shutter though.
Anyone know if this would mean for sure its a physical problem before I crack it open and try and fix it.
Thanks guys.
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No one has any solutions for me? Come on guys.
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Breakthrough!
I am pretty sure I have fixed the problem, I tapped the phone fairly hard on its sides and back, and lo and behold after a battery pull and replacement it didn't turn itself on, I waited, nothing, so then I held the power button and it started up!!!!
But....I have another problem that happened before that, I am stuck in the boot animation that open recovery uses before going into its program (i.e. where you can load nandroid, wipe dalvik cache etc).
I was about to load a new rom, and was in open recovery, had installed it and about to do the reset and the phone turned itself off, and thats when I got the problem with the sticking boot animation.
So just to be clear, I am stuck in a boot loop, but not with the M logo, the restore logo.
I hope the power button solution can help someone else, as random as it is.
If anyone could help me get out of this boot loop without flashing stock that would be great. ( i can get to the real bootloader now btw)
Thanks again everyone.
Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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pisceanblue said:
Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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So, is your conclusion is that the button was stuck and the banging freed it? It doesn't restick?
The Button is not perfect still. Sometimes over sensitive Occasionally it will not even work but it works most of the time. I am just wondering what cleaning solution I could use to free it some more.
It has certainly been a trying problem. Cheers for the help.
Now I need to figure out why I have this strange ghosting on the top of my screen.....
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Samsung Galaxy S2 Power Button Not Working
Hi Guys,
Any solution for the power button problem? Current latest Android 2.3.3 Samsung Galaxy S2 also having the same power button problem. Most of the time I can't use my power button to turn on/off the screen (wake/sleep) and there's no menu for long tap as well. Luckily it does wake when i press the only physical Samsung center button.
What i have already tried: Factory Reset, disable Power Saving Mode, Spare Part+ (apps), Screen Off and Lock (apps), and all won't help.
Is there any current updates or patches to allow the power button to work as usual?
Thank you.
take it to the samsung technical centre
Thats if you still have warranty
archer88 said:
take it to the samsung technical centre
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won't help because this is the 3rd phone replacement from the shop with the same problem. 100% Android software problem.
is there any other way to switch on my XT720 else than using the on/off button? my on/off button broken a few days ago..
U can use OpenRecovery.apk. Options are: Recovery Boot, Normal Boot, and Normal PowerOff. OpenRecovery.
Edit: Ahh sorry, I thought u asked about how to turn it off. U may try turning it on by connect it to the charger. But it works only on ROM that doesn't support charge-mode-only. And i don't have an idea how to do it.
Sorry for that. You might try an app called "button remapper" which is available for free on XDA.
Tell us if it helped you out.
Good luck!
MilestoneXT720 - CM 6.3.0 by MZ
kintol said:
is there any other way to switch on my XT720 else than using the on/off button? my on/off button broken a few days ago..
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I'm pretty sure that there isn't. Acutally sometimes when I remove battery and then I put it back to go to Bootloader the phone boots itself before I hit the power on/off button, but I think that's because I didn't wait long enough. Other than that I don't see it doing with a program and there is no other hardware option as far as I know.
Just send your phone to repair, I bet it won't cost much.
I think there are two aspects here. Using the power button to turn on the device from a power off situation. Maybe this can be done by removing and replacing the battery, but I don't think it always works. The second part is when the phone is already on but the screen is off/locked. I think that remapper app does indeed work for that. Alternately you can ask the nearest cute person to call your phone to wake the screen. Boom. Your phone is awake and you have their phone number in you call logs.
Indeed, kindly ask the nearest cute person - sounds like a plan!
MilestoneXT720 - CM 6.3.0 by MZ
i think the best thing is to send it for repair... i've tried all of the possible ways to put it to on but failed..
use power manager apps to lock your screen.
Hello XDA.
This is my first thread. Therefore I apologise in advance for my english and sorry if there is a similar thread, but I couldn't find it.
So i've got my Sensation few weeks ago. Everything worked fine, until today. The problem is, that, when I push the home button the phone takes (sometimes) a screenshot. My phone is not rooted, and is S-ON. Can somebody help me with this issue, how to fix this? Respectively, what could be the cause of this problem? I ran a scan with my lookout and AVG, but it didn't find any viruses.
Thank you very much in advance and I apologise, if I put the threat in a wrong section.
Best regards
Have you upadated to android 2.3.4?... If you did, then it's the update bug... A lot of people are experiencing that after the update.. i will suggest for you to disable your haptic feedback, this might solve the issue...hope it helps...
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tulenowich said:
Hello XDA.
This is my first thread. Therefore I apologise in advance for my english and sorry if there is a similar thread, but I couldn't find it.
So i've got my Sensation few weeks ago. Everything worked fine, until today. The problem is, that, when I push the home button the phone takes (sometimes) a screenshot. My phone is not rooted, and is S-ON. Can somebody help me with this issue, how to fix this? Respectively, what could be the cause of this problem? I ran a scan with my lookout and AVG, but it didn't find any viruses.
Thank you very much in advance and I apologise, if I put the threat in a wrong section.
Best regards
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I don't think its a bug. It's a feature. If you tap your power button, it puts you in screenshot mode. In screenshot mode you press the home key to take a screenshot.
To turn it off, tap the power button again.
So basically you tapped it instead of pushing it before you hit home and that is your problem.
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EDIT:
Mine was staying in camera mode after doing the power + home but now it just takes one screenshot and it doesn't stay in the mode. To get out if its stuck you just tap your power button once and home will work again.
If you press power quick, then home before it sleeps, you get a screenshot. New feature after the update.
It seems that it is really a feature. Just don't know exactly how to turn it on. Sometimes the tap is working, sometimes not. Anyway thanks a lot it was a really big help from you!
EDIT: now I get it. Holding the power button down and taping the home button at the same time, will do the screenshot. Great!
Cherrs crisisinthecity !!!
Hello,
My off/on button on htc desire s doent work,
i press for a while and the option to go airplane, reset or shut down dont appear.
Only wake up the screen.
Anyone know how do i shut down the phone or reset ?
without removing battery
thanks
Taking a guess you have updated to the latest official ROM?
The only way i know is to hold both volume buttons, then hold power button, but if your power button ain't working....
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pedrovki said:
Hello,
My off/on button on htc desire s doent work,
i press for a while and the option to go airplane, reset or shut down dont appear.
Only wake up the screen.
Anyone know how do i shut down the phone or reset ?
without removing battery
thanks
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Backup your phone and perform a full factory reset. That would hopefully spice your current difficulties.
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definately software related as the physical button works - as you said it wakes the phone. as posted above, a factory reset should fix that
zeekiz said:
Taking a guess you have updated to the latest official ROM?
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Hi, yes im using the latest htc rom
pedrovki said:
Hi, yes im using the latest htc rom
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Known bug.
Go to settings->security and tick "use secure credentials".
It probably won't stick after a reboot, you'll have to re-do it then. Happened to me after I logged into a enterprise WiFi network with secure credentials. Only went away after a full wipe.
Never logged into THAT network again.
Cheers
lowveld said:
Known bug.
Go to settings->security and tick "use secure credentials".
It probably won't stick after a reboot, you'll have to re-do it then. Happened to me after I logged into a enterprise WiFi network with secure credentials. Only went away after a full wipe.
Never logged into THAT network again.
Cheers
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After that do i have to soft reset?
I went to security and tick the "use secure credentials"
Hi all,
I'm having some trouble at the moment with my fantastic parents (sarcasm), who force me to suspend my phone, (which is my only internet source), at 7pm each night. However after getting an android phone about a year ago and discovering the Wifi Hotspot feature, this was no longer a problem given that I would just turn that on each night before giving my phone to them and therefore continue to use the internet past 7. Now however it seems they have worked out that I'm doing 'something' with my phone to continue internet usage after 7, however they have no idea what it is, so what they're doing is turning off my phone when I give it to them.
The good news however, is that they really aren't tech-savy at all, so I'm after some simple solution to work around this issue. The ideas I'm needing come along the lines of the following: (My phone is an Xperia Z btw)
---The power menu only has a "Power Off" option, this is what they're using to turn the phone off. Maybe if there was a way to make this option reboot the phone rather than power off, I could then set Tasker to turn on the Wifi Hotspot when the phone turns back on.
---Disable the power button from doing anything? (I would be happy to replace the power button function with a volume button, or even (if the negation of the power button could be temporary and easy to turned on/off), I would be happy to have to connect the phone to a charger in the morning to make the screen light up to be able to unlock it then turn off whatever is used to disable the power button so that I can continue to use it normally throughout the day
---Disable the screen from turning on at all unless some event happens such as the charger is connected for example? (The idea of this would be that when they press the power button to turn my phone off, nothing happens on the screen at all and they think that the phone is already turned off)
---Any other idea you might have. Long story short, I need a way of having my phone turned on after they turn it off or at least a way to trick them or prevent them from turning it off.
A major point to add though is that I REALLY REALLY don't want to root my phone. This will be my last resort option if I really have to, but if you can think of any idea that will solve this problem without rooting, that would be awesome.
Sorry for the 'noob'-sounding post, but I'm desperate for some help on this issue.
Thanks to all of you have read this and are able to offer some advice
-Michael
First of all.. ...
K.... some ideas..
U can change the lock screen to display turning off the device.. or some thing like that.. or just apply a password to unlock...
Think some more creative ideas Bro...
This is going to be Fun!!
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If u were rooted,then there was many way to come out of problem.
Why don't you talk to your parents and get permission to use internet.
Or try some black wallpaper which stays even when pressing power button..or anything like that...
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jime1 said:
First of all.. ...
K.... some ideas..
U can change the lock screen to display turning off the device.. or some thing like that.. or just apply a password to unlock...
Think some more creative ideas Bro...
This is going to be Fun!!
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Yeah I could try changing the background I guess, but with password locking, you don't need to unlock the phone to turn it off, the Xperia Z let's you shut down on the lock screen
Oh man... is there any setting to change that ' shut down without unlocking' thing ?
Keep searching :thumbup::thumbup:
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jime1 said:
Oh man... is there any setting to change that ' shut down without unlocking' thing ?
Keep searching :thumbup::thumbup:
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Well yeah there might be, but if the screen lights up at all when the power button is either pressed or held which they'll do to turn it off, then they'll know it's on obviously, so if there's no power-off option, they'll just come to me and tell me to turn it off. the idea is for them to think it's turned off not have them know it's on but not let them turn it off
Anyway, thanks for your ideas, the background change is at least a start
Try changing shut down button into some combination of key so.. like volume up + volume down + power key..
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