Home button issues? - General Questions and Answers

home button on my sgs2 not working at all times. When i reboot the phone it works for a while but then i get stuck and n order for me to get back i actually have to press the back key. Its very annoying. Pls help anyone
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melvinvs said:
home button on my sgs2 not working at all times. When i reboot the phone it works for a while but then i get stuck and n order for me to get back i actually have to press the back key. Its very annoying. Pls help anyone
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Well known "bug", you should really search your devices forums. Basically it's from Voice app that Samsung has bound to double tapping the home button. Look in your device's dev forums probably best bet.

Thx. Doing that now. But one thing though this never happened to me before. This annoying bug Started today
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Holding down the menu key won't bring up the keyboard!

I hate how holding the menu key down doesn't bring up the keyboard on this phone like it did on the n1. Is there a potential fix or workaround for this?
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Can anyone else replicate this. Holding the menu button should pop up the keyboard no matter what you are doing.
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Nope, just you. Try a reboot. Maybe Factory Reset after that.
jsauce75 said:
Can anyone else replicate this. Holding the menu button should pop up the keyboard no matter what you are doing.
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Mine doesnt come up either, but why are you trying to bring it up? We have the dedicated search button for that....
jsauce75 said:
Can anyone else replicate this.
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It seems to depend on what you are doing. In Firefox, it works as expected. In the stock launcher or in the browser, you can hold the menu key until you're blue in the face and it won't pop up the keyboard.
Works in cm7!!
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I need it to search within a playlist from spotify.
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Its not working for me either, very frustrating... i use my boxee remote keyboard by holding down on the menu button.
jsauce75 said:
Can anyone else replicate this. Holding the menu button should pop up the keyboard no matter what you are doing.
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I've had 3 G2x's. This hasn't worked on any of them.

Volume down plus Home & power

Anybody try this yet?
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What does that do???
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yep takes screen shot
strikerx312 said:
yep takes screen shot
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Home + Power takes a screen shot. Not that it's in the manual or anything...
NO VOL DOWN PLUS HOME BUTTON AND POWER WHILE DEVICE IS OFF
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What does it do???
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Will a Top tier LG Rep said it can recover us from a hard brick
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I thought I saw this somewhere... But what I read about it was it was similar to doing a factory reset, doesn't actually reflash anything. I hope I'm wrong.
ScooterG said:
Home + Power takes a screen shot. Not that it's in the manual or anything...
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true..my bad lolz
Vol- & power will do a hard reset when you still have stock recovery.
So has anyone been daring enough to try this? Lol
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crx4xharder said:
So has anyone been daring enough to try this? Lol
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Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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turbo_k said:
Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
I believe it pops up the stock recovery menu and goes into verbose mode while the phone is doing a factory reset. The stock recovery menu is useless since you can't actually select anything.
crazythunder said:
the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
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volume down and power will hard reset if you font flash nvflash.
Yups, my first G2x was experiencing major reboots so I did a factory reset via vol down + power. didn't help lol. Didn't want to wait for an OTA update to fix the issue so I opt to exchange it and my current one now works like it should
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the thread says vol. down, HOME and power. is that what you did?
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Didn't read thoroughly, my bad. its without the HOME key. I don't think the capacitive keys work when the phone is off lol.
If planning to do so, backup prior! Otherwise it shouldnt be necessary...don't do what you don't know your doing just cuz everyone else is doing it lol
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Vol. Down and Power gives me a screen that says "S/W Upgrade Please wait while upgrading..." And it never does anything. I had gotten a boot loop (hadn't even considered rooting yet) so I pulled the battery and booted up, I guess my finger had been on volume down. Still does that, and it never changes. Just stays like that. If I pull the battery, I get a boot loop again. What the hell D: Should I call up customer care?
It will force the phone to shut down. I did it couple times when my lock screen froze.
Simply holding power will force the phone to shut down.
Power and volume down format on stock or recovery if nvflashed
I don't think home is necessary or used at all.
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Reminds me of like 17 years ago, people would trick noobs into pressing..ctrl alt del.. Yeah I got tricked ... Lol
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How to restart phone without removable battery?

Ok so normally if a phone were to freeze up or something happend you just pull the battery and then put it back in and start it up... is there a button combination or something that no matter what will alwaya restart the phone?
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volume up AND down AND power will force a reboot
Wrong
In official user manual on page 180 is that the when not responding press power button for 10 seconds then release to restart the phone
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Well my method works and its confirmed by others. Now the OP knows 2 ways to reboot
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azzledazzle said:
Well my method works and its confirmed by others. Now the OP knows 2 ways to reboot
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Your method works because you are holding the power button. The volume keys have nothing to do with it you don't have to press them.
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yeah i totally knew that
I was just testing you all
But seriously, Thats whats been mentioned a few times around here so thats always been the method i use...
hall of shame has me right at the top !
azzledazzle said:
yeah i totally knew that
I was just testing you all
But seriously, Thats whats been mentioned a few times around here so thats always been the method i use...
hall of shame has me right at the top !
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to sound mean. I hold volume up + home + power when my i9100 freezes up so I can boot it straight into recovery
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Sky ICA cannot screen cap

I just flashed to sky ics yesterday and I everythings works fine except I cannot take a screen cap and I have tried both method, volume down with power and power with home button. Also I can't seem to have my home keys button vibrate.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
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How exactly are you trying to take the screenshot?? Are you pressing power + home at the same time and holding?? I just tried it and it worked
And as far as the vibrating goes, is "vibrate on screen tap" checked under sound settings??
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home+power . Timing is a little more critical than it should be AFAIK.. push power a split second before home and hold both for a second or so.
lilair said:
How exactly are you trying to take the screenshot?? Are you pressing power + home at the same time and holding?? I just tried it and it worked
And as far as the vibrating goes, is "vibrate on screen tap" checked under sound settings??
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stoopendis said:
home+power . Timing is a little more critical than it should be AFAIK.. push power a split second before home and hold both for a second or so.
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Thank You guys for that quick reply
The Vibrate thing was just me being stupid and could not turn it back on Thanks lilair and stoopendis, but yea i tried everything with the screen cap and still doesn't work, it used to work fine with just power button and home before i flash. My buddy who also flashed to sky ics and his screen cap worked fine too, he also has the same update.
Geez that's too bad. I gotta tell you though... it took me a while to get the sequence/timing down. I swore up and down it didn't work! But persistance paid off and I have my sc now although sometimes it takes a fee trys.
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i know it isnt a fix but i used to use an app called "screenshot" from the app store..it allowed you to shake the phone to get a screenshot
Yea think I will just do Third party app or just flash to CNET just for fun lol
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Ok my buddy just showed me how to do it on MY Phone sorry guys
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kkakckk said:
Ok my buddy just showed me how to do it on MY Phone sorry guys
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So what were you doing wrong ?
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kkakckk said:
Ok my buddy just showed me how to do it on MY Phone sorry guys
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stoopendis said:
So what were you doing wrong ?
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The easiest way to screencap on ICS is press home for a split second then hold power for roughly half a second while still pressing Home.

[Q] weird dialer glitches?

anyone else have an issue where when in dialer and they press the button to go to the number screen they have to press it twice. Everytime I press it, it opens a blank screen and I have to back out then press it again to make the numbers appear. This is between 2 nexus 5's now. My replacement does the same thing. I thought it was a glitch from romming my phone but since google sent me my new one it does it to on stock rooted rom.
Also When I unplug my headset it goes straight to speaker mode and I have to press the button twice to turn it off. Also between 2 phones.
Just want to know if this is an issue for most or just me, and it would be weird its happening with both phones. Thanks
Yes mine does it too. Annoying bug for sure.
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350Rocket said:
Yes mine does it too. Annoying bug for sure.
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thanks, just glad to know Im not alone. Sure L will fix this. I would install another dialer but its one of those things I like to just be stock
This happens to me when I turn off animations in Developer Options.
That explains it because I always disable animations. Thanks.
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Wakamatsu said:
This happens to me when I turn off animations in Developer Options.
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Awesome, Ill try that because I usually disable them as well.
Thanks

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