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Is your round button placed right?

In the button area, is your round utton in the centre of the hole made for it?
The button is slightly smaller than the hole, and my button is against the edge at the bottom with a gap at the top, is that normal?
Thanks,
- Anthony

htc build quality strikes back lol! return it.

Can u post a picture of this?

Mines a bit pissed in the hole too. It's aligned to the bottom right of the hole.
In fact, I don't even think the cut out for it is centred within the circular marking around it...I'll measure it in a bit and post back.
EDIT: The cut out is ok, it seems to be a 2mm gap between the circular marking edge of the "hole". It's just the button itself not being 100% centred.
It's just a manufacturing tolerance. I wouldnt worry about it as long as it works.

Hard to photograph, but this is the best I could do.
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Syphon Filter said:
Mines a bit pissed in the hole too. It's aligned to the bottom right of the hole.
In fact, I don't even think the cut out for it is centred within the circular marking around it...I'll measure it in a bit and post back.
EDIT: The cut out is ok, it seems to be a 2mm gap between the circular marking edge of the "hole". It's just the button itself not being 100% centred.
It's just a manufacturing tolerance. I wouldnt worry about it as long as it works.
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That's what I wanted to hear, thanks Mine's bottom left, but I guess off centre is normal then

trinode said:
In the button area, is your round utton in the centre of the hole made for it?
The button is slightly smaller than the hole, and my button is against the edge at the bottom with a gap at the top, is that normal?
Thanks,
- Anthony
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The light around my button seems brighter in the bottom right, although I can't say I can tell if it's off-center in its hole. I wouldn't worry about it as long as it's functional.
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It's just a manufacturing tolerance. I wouldnt worry about it as long as it works.
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Just read back and saw that, you beat me to it.

You can't knock it too much, the device is pretty solidly built.

Syphon Filter said:
You can't knock it too much, the device is pretty solidly built.
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My only worry is the slider for the keyboard, after a week or so's use it shows a lot more play than it did on day 1... My Duo did the same thing, and it's not like it ever fell apart, but the Duo's a $99 phone with no spring in the horizontal slide, only the vertical.

I've got a very little gap on the right bottom.
But I can only see it when it's loading, and it's lit every few seconds.
It then shows up like the diamond ring of a solar eclips

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My only worry is the slider for the keyboard, after a week or so's use it shows a lot more play than it did on day 1... My Duo did the same thing, and it's not like it ever fell apart, but the Duo's a $99 phone with no spring in the horizontal slide, only the vertical.
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My slider hasn't losened up but it could be a little stiffer.

My only problem is the "back" key... the top-right corner of the keypad catches on the bottom of the screen face. Not a problem, as I don't use it. But will become annoying if I work out how to remap it as "OK", which I'd much rather have.

Yep just checked mine and it's also off centre

graham.hughes said:
My only problem is the "back" key... the top-right corner of the keypad catches on the bottom of the screen face. Not a problem, as I don't use it. But will become annoying if I work out how to remap it as "OK", which I'd much rather have.
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Now that's odd, mine definitely has clearance. Not much mind you, but doesn't catch the screen at all.

Maybe it should be called the "HTC Picasso" instead?

"Home" key is fine, and the "back" key just rubs, just enough to make it feel crappy. It still works. As you say, the keypad and screen are *very* close, mine must be just a fraction of a millimetre out.
I guess this is the price I must pay for a correctly located dpad centre...

Everything seems fine here. Top keys not catching, dpad centre is dead centre, and slide mechanism seems solid anything. Far far better than my Hermes, anyway.

Lol well dont you just want to rub it in Mr_Ray.
At least there is some hope for when I get mine, only I have no idea when Orange Uk are going to release it

I'll add to the rubbing as I can't seem to find fault with mine either

graham.hughes said:
My only problem is the "back" key... the top-right corner of the keypad catches on the bottom of the screen face. Not a problem, as I don't use it. But will become annoying if I work out how to remap it as "OK", which I'd much rather have.
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I was missing the "OK" key immensely!!!!
Then I found that pressing the "Back" key is like pressing "OK" for all the screens that I've tried so far.

Screen shot problem? After tmo update

Anyone with a tmo sensation having a screen shot problem?! Like everytime I hit the home it would take a screen shot, I thought if you press home and power, then it would take the shot?.. anyone else have a problem with that?

my brother was having that problem. if it happens, try hitting the back button & see if it stops after that. apparently the phone is thinking that home is still being held down or something like that.

Same thing is happening here...super annoying. Any ideas on a fix anybody?

I just used the screenshot feature (hold power down and then tap home) for the second time tonight without any problems. Yes, I do have the T-Mobile update too.
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The problem is sometimes when we press the home button it takes a screen shot and doesn't go home unless we press back and then home again :/

Ah, I see. Reading comprehension fail. -_-"

i have that problem on revolution hd 3.0 rom, (based on the new update.)
usually just go to my lockscreen and come back to fix it, but its annoying. it happened about 5 times in the last week or so.

I was just about to post this issue. Good thing i found it.
This keeps happening to me all the time.
I keep having to delete 20 screenshot a day.
Any fixes?

Bkz Bubba said:
I was just about to post this issue. Good thing i found it.
This keeps happening to me all the time.
I keep having to delete 20 screenshot a day.
Any fixes?
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Haven't found one yet :S

Yeah, sometimes the phone takes a screenshot for no reason. It only happened to me 2-3 times though.

Glad that I'm not the only one with this problem. Good feature but So annoying to keep taking screenshots every time you press home..

My wife is having the same problem. She applied the OTA update and it will now randomly take screenshots when she presses Home. Not sure what the setting is to disable the feature, but if anyone knows where it is that would be of great assistance. She has no need for this.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

A buddy at work asked me about this today to, wanted to subscribe and keep this thread going. Hopefully the culprit will be found and dealt a swift fair well

Temporary Fix
I found a way to temporarily fix the screenshot problem once it suddenly starts doing it. Note, this doesn't SOLVE the problem, it's simply a work around for each time it happens:
Press the Home button and Lock button at the same time and it somehow tricks the phone back to recognizing you're not pressing both when you are only pressing the Home button.
If it doesn't work after doing it once, try doing it again a couple times and it should make it stop taking Screenshots each time you only press the Home button.
Simply just pressing the back button a bunch of times didn't do the trick for me.
Hope this helped someone? It definitely saved me the stress of restarting my phone about once an hour...

^ I have done that to.. just annoying and makes my phone feel like s**t.. hope there's a fix soon..

Ok so I found a solution to it. You can do the power+home to take a screenshot, but don't lock your phone with the power button, seems to work ok!!

808HD2 said:
Ok so I found a solution to it. You can do the power+home to take a screenshot, but don't lock your phone with the power button, seems to work ok!!
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Dont understand, So how do we lock our phones?

808HD2 said:
Anyone with a tmo sensation having a screen shot problem?! Like everytime I hit the home it would take a screen shot, I thought if you press home and power, then it would take the shot?.. anyone else have a problem with that?
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Having the same problem. So very annoying! Also related to the issue whereby the screen lights up again a few seconds after turning it off with the power button. Very annoying and never happened in 2.3.3.

Bkz Bubba said:
Dont understand, So how do we lock our phones?
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You still lock your phone with the lock button, you just press Lock + Home button a couple times to get your phone to stop taking screenshots. Once you do that, you don't need to continually press them at the same time to lock your phone. It just stops your phone from taking the screenshots when you happen to only be pressing the Home button.

The only "fix" I've found is to delete the screenshot line from the build.prop and use drocap for screenshots. no biggie.

9003 blacklight reboots

as the title says my 9003 started rebooting for no reason and no while i have it plugged in on the charger it shows a blacklight every couple of seconds... while it was operational i was on the tweaks menu and pressed something about a autoboot fix and a kernel scheduler... that's why it crashed... i'm on stock xxkpu and although it somehow goes into download mode it doesn't go to recovery menu... in download mode my pc doesn't recognize it so i can format it... any help would be appreciated... thank you in advance

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as the title says my 9003 started rebooting for no reason and no while i have it plugged in on the charger it shows a blacklight every couple of seconds... while it was operational i was on the tweaks menu and pressed something about a autoboot fix and a kernel scheduler... that's why it crashed... i'm on stock xxkpu and although it somehow goes into download mode it doesn't go to recovery menu... in download mode my pc doesn't recognize it so i can format it... any help would be appreciated... thank you in advance
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plz help me i think i have bricked my phone...

try doing hard reset. If you cant go to recovery mode, open your cover, between the camera and speaker there is tiny hole. Use pointed object to push this while doing download mode combo. You probably need an assistance of a brother or sister lol. Then in recovery mode, Try if your pc can detect your phone again. Then try flashing stock firmware.

that's what i'm trying to do... and something to know there is no button there... that's where the plastic was poured through tiny holes in the mold cavity that made the chassis... if you don't believe me there is another one right beneath the battery...

nickargas said:
that's what i'm trying to do... and something to know there is no button there... that's where the plastic was poured through tiny holes in the mold cavity that made the chassis... if you don't believe me there is another one right beneath the battery...
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Lol, are you sure you have the standard international version of i9003?
There would be a small pin hole sort of thing between the camera and the speaker after opening the back flap.
You need to goto the download mode by using a pin. Press the pub hole with a sharp object(not too sharp). Then press the volume down key, then home button. Holding these all, then press the power key for about 4 seconds. You'd see the Samsung boot animation. At this point leave the power key, keep holding other buttons until you see the download mode.
Then connect to a PC to see if it's connected in com port
Press thanks if helped
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it's ok if you don't believe me bro... my screen is shatered and i will make a tutorial these days on how to replace it and i will show you there's not a button there... trust me i've opened my samsung a couple of times in order to clean it...
iAmBalvinder said:
Lol, are you sure you have the standard international version of i9003?
There would be a small pin hole sort of thing between the camera and the speaker after opening the back flap.
You need to goto the download mode by using a pin. Press the pub hole with a sharp object(not too sharp). Then press the volume down key, then home button. Holding these all, then press the power key for about 4 seconds. You'd see the Samsung boot animation. At this point leave the power key, keep holding other buttons until you see the download mode.
Then connect to a PC to see if it's connected in com port
Press thanks if helped
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nickargas said:
it's ok if you don't believe me bro... my screen is shatered and i will make a tutorial these days on how to replace it and i will show you there's not a button there... trust me i've opened my samsung a couple of times in order to clean it...
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Dude as u said no button near camera and speaker.. But there is a button near the Sim card slot, just above the battery.. Try to get into recover using that button..
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[Q] HTC Sensation XE - power button failure

Hi guys,
Wondering if you can help re the following problem.
By accident, I managed to tear the power button strip on my phone (i.e. not the silver button, but the part that must be depressed). The phone is elsewise in perfect working condition.
I need to turn this particular phone on, as there is some important information on it that I need to access.
Any ideas how I can turn it on, or access the data therein?
Would appreciate any help - thanks in advance
Terry

The power button just completes an electrical circuit. That's all any power button on anything does.
Stuck in that black tape that's covering the button that you ripped are 2 tiny little wires. If you can connect those two wires even for a half a second, the circuit will be completed and the phone will power on.
I had to do the same thing on my MyTouch4G because I made the same mistake. It is not easy to do this. I had to use a VERY sharp knife (I used a surgical scalpel) to slice the surface off the black tape to expose the wires. Then I shorted them with a small peice of metal. It took about an hour to get it right.
Alternatively, if this critical information that you need is saved on the SD card....pull it out and use a card reader to view it on your computer.

Not sure if this will work for you but there is a app called tap tap app that allows you to turn On the phone without using the power button. I believe you can find it on the play store. It's supposed to be a button saver application
I've never tired it personally but I believe it's created to not use buttons to power on phone. I've came across it in the play store. Don't know much more about it but it might be worth checking out if you can get your phone powered on. Hope this helps. Best wishes and good luck.
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Some roms also support turning on the phone by pressing a volume button.

ridder215215 said:
Some roms also support turning on the phone by pressing a volume button.
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That turns the screen on, not the phone and turning the screen on won't work when the phone is not powered on
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Found solution for power on
lawtel23 said:
Hi guys,
Wondering if you can help re the following problem.
By accident, I managed to tear the power button strip on my phone (i.e. not the silver button, but the part that must be depressed). The phone is elsewise in perfect working condition.
I need to turn this particular phone on, as there is some important information on it that I need to access.
Any ideas how I can turn it on, or access the data therein?
Would appreciate any help - thanks in advance
Terry
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Hi.
Sorry for my pure english and late answer.
May be it will be usefull for someone.
I got the same problem with power button.
After searching for solution on google I have not found anything helpful.
So I got multimeter and started to check all open contacts near the button.
And the solution is:
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To turn on the phone you need:
The contact (1) connect by piece of wire to some "ground" on the board (for example I connected it to camera holder, that signed on picture as (2) ) and hold it connected for some time, then the phone must to turn on...
This is my first post.
If you have any questions for this operation, I'll try to answer.

Sidden said:
Hi.
Sorry for my pure english and late answer.
May be it will be usefull for someone.
I got the same problem with power button.
After searching for solution on google I have not found anything helpful.
So I got multimeter and started to check all open contacts near the button.
And the solution is:
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To turn on the phone you need:
The contact (1) connect by piece of wire to some "ground" on the board (for example I connected it to camera holder, that signed on picture as (2) ) and hold it connected for some time, then the phone must to turn on...
This is my first post.
If you have any questions for this operation, I'll try to answer.
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I know I know Necromancy is a forbidden art form but right now you know how happy I am I just had to delve into it.
This is the best solution I have ever seen and thank-you so much for your time in figuring out how to do this, you have no idea how I felt when I felt that little buzz on my phone when I did this wire trick, I literally jumped a little with excitement, then the second time I did it I jumped with excitement more.
The thing I did though was there was a little rectangle in the plastic casing above where the dot is, I cut from one corner to the other side of a piece of plastic that was holding down the power button and from the other corner straight down, if that makes sense good, if not I have attached a picture, it is not very clear sorry but it is the best I can do because I have no camera other then my phone at the moment.
The red is where I was going to cut, the blue was a necessary cut because that small bit was to weak to stay on there and not get bent off by accident, this gives clear access to the small point to do this work around. Now if I need to revive my phone because of a dead battery or if anything happened to it I have a way to do it I have a wire in the back of the phone with the battery so I can just remove the back and use the wire. Also I installed sweep2wake, a necessary evil IMO.
P.S. I am going to leave this thread alone after this, I am just trying to get a solution more visible instead of making another thread just stating what this one has said, totally a huge thanks for Sidden, I was going to be stuck with a small samsung brick phone that only did SMS and took calls, you have made my day that much greater kind sir

Note 10 Lite's screen stops working after some time

I've had a Galaxy Note 10 Lite for some time now and it started displaying this behaviour where the screen stops working after some time of the phone being on.
There's no apparent connection to how hot the phone is.
I've also re-sat all the straps and cables and cleaned them with isopropyl alcohol.
Sometimes during use, I'll see some quick greenish/purple-ish glitches on the screen. But, apart from that, it'll look amazing the whole time.
Also, sometimes, as I use it, the screen will freeze during whatever is happening on the screen and the image will refresh if I press it down on the 2/4 area from the top down.
Then, if I leave the phone for a few minutes with the screen either on or off, I could come back to it being unresponsive. At first, I thought it was turning off. But if I press the screenshot buttons, it'll vibrate and save the screenshot that I'll be able to see after I soft reset the phone back to life (it'll reboot by itself from time to time, though).
The time it takes for it to "die" varies from seconds to minutes to hours. But it's become unreliable and had to buy a new phone.
I thought about replacing the screen, but it costs as much as a new phone here in Brazil.
What I'm thinking is maybe there's some cable or something I could access on the screen to inhibit this behaviour.
Can anyone help me out with insights?
Cheers,
Uriel
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Try in safe mode.
Clear system cache.
Try a hard reboot.
Any uncased drops or water exposure?

Just tried safe mode and the screen started all messed up, with elements that should be organised scattered all over it.
Now... I'm soft rebooting it and it goes straight to a dark screen after showing the Samsung logo.
I was going to try clearing the cache next, but now I need to get access back to the system.
I've done a hard reboot to no avail.
It was exposed to water years ago, which resulted on a screen issue that was fixed by Samsung by replacing it.

Ok. I got safe mode successfully activated now. I'll give it time but I don't feel too optimistic about it.

urieljabes said:
Just tried safe mode and the screen started all messed up, with elements that should be organised scattered all over it.
Now... I'm soft rebooting it and it goes straight to a dark screen after showing the Samsung logo.
I was going to try clearing the cache next, but now I need to get access back to the system.
I've done a hard reboot to no avail.
It was exposed to water years ago, which resulted on a screen issue that was fixed by Samsung by replacing it.
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May have water damaged ribbon cable contacts, or water damage on the mobo is now showing up; corrosion never sleeps. Maybe another display failure. Maybe a loose cable; carefully inspect all display cables on both ends and their sockets. A failed ribbon cable.
Finally a corrupted rom or user data partition.
These phones are relatively inexpensive now, even new ones can still be had. The N10+ be an upgrade if you like it. If repair doesn't work you have other options.
The newer Samsung's suck. This generation of Notes was the zenith for Samsung and the Note... in my opinion. I have two N10+'s and they run like bats out of hell. Solid, well built, work horses that just keep running. This one in my hand has over 8k hours on it, looks, feels and runs like it's new with one battery replacement. Zero display flaws, current load is over 2 yo, still fast and stable with minimal maintenance. That's what these phones are capable of.

urieljabes said:
Ok. I got safe mode successfully activated now. I'll give it time but I don't feel too optimistic about it.
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Never know, could be a 3rd party app.

So, this happened. And it rebooted right after I stopped recording.

Yeah looks like the display but you won't know what it is without opening it up.
Don't think a factory reset or reflash will help... I could be wrong.

blackhawk said:
Yeah looks like the display but you won't know what it is without opening it up.
Don't think a factory reset or reflash will help... I could be wrong.
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Yep. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue.
I don't know how to get access to the other end of the ribbons that go into the screen, though. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers!

urieljabes said:
Yep. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue.
I don't know how to get access to the other end of the ribbons that go into the screen, though. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers!
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Watch some tear down vids. Have the right tools and take your time. With used ones going for a couple hundred that's another option.
I'm surprised how well my N10+ has held up, it's always cased. Water exposure is a killer. Even if it's IP68 rated, keep it away from water, especially salt water.

I hope is the backlight issue on the logic board