Alright so I've got a sensation running RCMix v0.9 and my bloody power button keeps messing up. When I press it sometimes it will register the press twice and my screen will turn on then off.
This happens multiple times and it's driving me up the wall so I was wondering if anyone else has seen this and if so, then how did they fix it.
Same problem
I have the same issue! I thought it might have been a hardware problem and was going to get my phone replaced but hopefully it is a software issue because I don't want to have to go through the process of re-rooting my phone!
This seems to be happening to everyone. I think it's a hardware issue that can be remedied with a software fix to decrease sensitivity.
Ah Bummer. Hopefully someone will come up with a homebrew remedy to fix the issue. So far I've folded a piece of paper and stuck it under the button. It's a very temporary fix but I'll probably end up hot gluing the button so it isn't so flimsy
Already have thread at general section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235382
Please use search option..
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Theres a temporary solution here
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Hi,
Did u feel in your's phone that the power buttom working twice in one click??
Its make me crazy !!!
I checked in "key test" and when i click on the power buttom it's send dubble command
What can i do?
I have this problem as well. The best solution I've found is using CM7 -- there's an option to wake the device with the volume rocker, and it works much easier.
Good luck.
just started noticing this issue on my phone recently - extremely annoying. i wonder if it's the button going bad or if it's the switch itself going bad and getting caught in some kind of weird angle upon release?
HTC said that it is a hardware issue, and why do we need more threads like this? I am sure there have been at least 2.
Hi everyone, just registered here as am having a few pretty big annoyances with my Sensation.
Just wanted to chip in with my experiences of back-button issues; I've already had to send one Sensation back because the button's microswitch went faulty (was stuck on) and it looks like this is a weak link with this hardware.
Has anyone else had the power switch fail on them completely?
/Al
Hello, I'm having the famous Cappy lock button problem (the one where said button doesn't work). It's not a physical problem (unless a contact has died somewhere on my motherboard) because my button feels the same as it did the day I got this phone. I've also never had any kind of problem with my power button before. I did get my phone secondhand from a friend which voided the warranty. The only way I can turn the screen on is by plugging it in or removing and replacing the battery. The only way it turns off is by timing out.
Help guys, I need some answers!
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I already tried the camera app trick and to no avail. I also can't do anything in recovery mode because the power button is also the selection button.
My button started acting up. I used a can of compressed air to spray into the edges of the button, and it's been working great ever since.
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OP,
Check out mobiletechvideos.com for the repair.
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This is All very helpful, but I don't think that it is a hardware issue. I'll try all these things that you have suggested and we'll see to certain.
When you take the battery out then put it back in does it automatically turn on? If so the power button needs to be replaced....at least that's what mine and a lot of others I've seen was doing.
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This is All very helpful, but I don't think that it is a hardware issue. I'll try all these things that you have suggested and we'll see to certain.
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It's a hardware issue. What else would it be?
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just disassemble it and clean the button. I had same problem on my volumn down button.
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I took it apart and the motherboard was surprisingly clean. I was expecting it to be dustier, but everything looked fine. I'm now thinking it could be a micro-fracture on a solder contact. I still haven't sprayed keyboard cleaner directly on the button, so maybe I don't have to buy a whole new motherboard.
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When you take the battery out then put it back in does it automatically turn on? If so the power button needs to be replaced....at least that's what mine and a lot of others I've seen was doing.
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Did you replace the button yourself? I have been without my lock button for about a year now and I have kind of gotten used to it, but if the process of replacing it is fairly simple than I may just do that myself! Also where did you purchase your new lock button?
Hi all
I swear this is some voodoo stuff going on with my phone. I replaced the lcd by myself about half a year ago and it was working fine until last week, but I assume this has something to do with it.
Thing is, the screen freezes whenever I'm not pressing its bottom down. Like I can get it running and do whatever I want while squeezing the bottom of the screen (just below the softkeys) and the back of the phone together but as soon as I let go, the screen freezes and I have to take the battery out. Don't ask how I figured it out. The softkeys still vibrate when I press them but I have no idea if the phone is still running fine or if it's actually the system which freezes. The former would make more sense to me though.
I also had the touchscreen issue which I didn't ever get around but I don't think it has anything to do with this.
I have opened that sucker up and taken a gander, I assume some connector is loose or something is grounded poorly but I couldn't see anything. I appreciate any kind of help.
Thank you.
Try to remove the LCD and fix it againg with proper guidance
For touch screen issue go
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Hit thanks button if you find me helpfully
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Yeah well, the lcd has only one connector and it is properly attached. Could anything else go wrong with it? I will fix it again if I know it could help somehow but it was a real pain and I don't want to screw anything without a reason.
And that is the same link as in my post but thanks anyway. I was just mentioning it in case it could be related, I don't really care about it any longer.
aleixosk said:
Yeah well, the lcd has only one connector and it is properly attached. Could anything else go wrong with it? I will fix it again if I know it could help somehow but it was a real pain and I don't want to screw anything without a reason.
And that is the same link as in my post but thanks anyway. I was just mentioning it in case it could be related, I don't really care about it any longer.
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HI,
re fixing the lcd screen might fix the problem.
the problem might be their so
My brother's girlfriend has an SGH-i997r (the canadian varient of the Infuse 4G for Rogers) and it was stuck in a bootloop one day, it would show Rogers logo, Samsung logo, black screen, repeat. She removed the battery and it then changed the bootloop to a loading icon, then an empty battery logo, black screen, repeat.
I figured I would give it a go and try to see what I could do with it and I found some stuff that just says this is a power button problem and to clean out the power button however I found out it's the actual button on the board that's malfunctioning.
I took a stab at it by attempting to reflow the motherboard and after reflowing, the board was cool and I assembled the phone just enough to turn it on and it actually started up to the Samsung animated boot logo this time then half way though it stopped and turned off again but then it came up with the battery icon and started charging.
So if I just focus the reflow area to the power button alone I think I may be able to fix this without replacing the physical switch on the board itself so I'll keep posted on how this goes as this may be another new alternative to fixing the bootloop problem with these phones and if anyone else has any tips I could try to alternativly fix this if it still doesn't work it would be greatly appreciated.
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It got it working but the power button is still very touchy and needs to be replaced. It turns out that reflowing these boards will allow the power button to start functioning again or at least long enough that you can back up all of your data/restore to stock ROM before sending it in to Samsung.
I hope this helps anyone else with this problem. It worked pretty good for me, I just held a hair drier over the board with it facing away from me so the power and volume buttons were facing towards me (as if the LCD would be facing me and the battery facing away from me) and I heated it up for 1 minute, let cool for 1 minute, and I would repeat this for about 10 minutes in total and it starts up every time now, it just turns the screen off if I ever so lightly brush my finger along the power button, other then that though it's working and I'm sure she'll be pleased it didn't cost a cent.
Best of luck to anyone else with this problem.
Post in q and a thread. Might help other ppl
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Post in q and a thread.
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Yeah, I didn't think of that
I fixed the phone completely, she ordered some new buttons off of eBay for a buck with free shipping, gave them to me and I removed the existing buttons and changed all of them to new ones and now the phone works perfect. I guess as a temporary fix you can reflow the board to the point where you can back up your data, but for a long term fix you need to replace the buttons.
I hope this helps anyone else having this problem. I may have pictures of the process still I can upload if anyone is interested or needs help.
I997R Restart Probleme pleaz help !
VeeDaub said:
Yeah, I didn't think of that
I fixed the phone completely, she ordered some new buttons off of eBay for a buck with free shipping, gave them to me and I removed the existing buttons and changed all of them to new ones and now the phone works perfect. I guess as a temporary fix you can reflow the board to the point where you can back up your data, but for a long term fix you need to replace the buttons.
I hope this helps anyone else having this problem. I may have pictures of the process still I can upload if anyone is interested or needs help.
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hi,
My I997R just restarts at the loading Logo A & T it turns off and the same process recommence.Parfois load up my I997 office before restarts. If you there is a solution for this? thank you in advance
Hi, I have a sensation XE that i S Off-ed and rooted using FloWolf's EXCELLENT guide before installing CM 10.1-20130322-Albinoman887-pyramid. However, i started facing the issue of the hardware keys giving feedback when touched, but not working- instead, it happens as if the lowest part of the display, right above the key i pressed, has been touched. I updated to the 20130510 nightly but it did not fix the issue. I now want to try going back to the stock ROM but can't find an easy guide. I never took a backup of the stock ROM with CWM . I have the HBOOT 1.29 model
Now another issue has sprung up. Even when using a single finger, the phone sometimes behaves as if i'm multi-touching it. It only gets fixed if i lock and then unlock the screen.
Will going back to the stock rom fix these issues or will i have to get it repaired? If the stock rom will fix it, can i please get a link for it that's as easy as Flo's guide to rooting was. Thanks!
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Hi, I have a sensation XE that i S Off-ed and rooted using FloWolf's EXCELLENT guide before installing CM 10.1-20130322-Albinoman887-pyramid. However, i started facing the issue of the hardware keys giving feedback when touched, but not working- instead, it happens as if the lowest part of the display, right above the key i pressed, has been touched. I updated to the 20130510 nightly but it did not fix the issue. I now want to try going back to the stock ROM but can't find an easy guide. I never took a backup of the stock ROM with CWM . I have the HBOOT 1.29 model
Now another issue has sprung up. Even when using a single finger, the phone sometimes behaves as if i'm multi-touching it. It only gets fixed if i lock and then unlock the screen.
Will going back to the stock rom fix these issues or will i have to get it repaired? If the stock rom will fix it, can i please get a link for it that's as easy as Flo's guide to rooting was. Thanks!
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I am on ICS 4.0.3 and Stock ROM.
Since last few days, I am having somewhat similar touch screen issues after the warranty of my Sensation XE expired last month.
At any given random time of the day, my touch screen goes berserk....!!! I am using Apex Launcher and have folders containing various apps in the Dock. These folders start moving around/rearranging automatically, apps start opening randomly on their own, screen and navigation keys (red ones on bottom panel) become unresponsive, keyboard comes up on its own and characters appear as if being typed... etc. If I lock and unlock the screen (all hardware keys - volume & power - work fine during all this), touch screen becomes responsive again but only for a short period. Again the whole cycle repeats. The only way to stop this for longer period of time is restarting the phone. This state last upto anywhere between 6-10 hours be fore my phone acts up again. I have tried the Factory Reset too, but with no results.
I have installed Avast Mobile Security soon after I got my XE. I have also installed around 80-90 paid as well as free apps.
Currently my XE has free resources as follows:
RAM 640MB out of 1.1GB
SD Storage 25GB out of 29.71GB
Though the behavior looks like some kind of virus activity, Avast doesn't show any malware or virus on the system.
Which issue does this behavior pertain to, a hardware or a software issue?
Any kind of help to pinpoint the cause of this issue is greatly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards.
Hello,
I am having the exact same problem as the two mentioned above. Sometimes the thouch screen doesn't response at all, start doing things by itself or the capacitive buttons on the bottom doesn't respond. To fix the problem I have to press the on/off button to lock and unlock the phone but after a minute it's going all over again. I thought this maybe could be a memory problem, as if the phone simply hangs because it is acting very slow when the problem shows up.
Last weeks I've tried many ROMS as I thought it would be a mem problem. Cyanogenmod 10.1 and 10.2, ViperS 1.6.3 and 3.1.2, Android Revolution and with all these ROMS the same problem showed up. So I'm thinking it's almost for sure that this is a hardware problem. I got my Sensation XE in January 2012 so there's still a waranty of a half year. In case this is a hardware problem I'm thinking about sending the phone back to HTC, but I'm not sure about what is causing this problem.
So, if anyone knows the cause of this problem, please share It's really annoying and makes the phone pretty much unusuable. In October I will be able to get a new phone but it would be nice to have a very good one for spare
Thanks in advance!
Sibbevangeyn said:
Hello,
I am having the exact same problem as the two mentioned above. Sometimes the thouch screen doesn't response at all, start doing things by itself or the capacitive buttons on the bottom doesn't respond. To fix the problem I have to press the on/off button to lock and unlock the phone but after a minute it's going all over again. I thought this maybe could be a memory problem, as if the phone simply hangs because it is acting very slow when the problem shows up.
Last weeks I've tried many ROMS as I thought it would be a mem problem. Cyanogenmod 10.1 and 10.2, ViperS 1.6.3 and 3.1.2, Android Revolution and with all these ROMS the same problem showed up. So I'm thinking it's almost for sure that this is a hardware problem. I got my Sensation XE in January 2012 so there's still a waranty of a half year. In case this is a hardware problem I'm thinking about sending the phone back to HTC, but I'm not sure about what is causing this problem.
So, if anyone knows the cause of this problem, please share It's really annoying and makes the phone pretty much unusuable. In October I will be able to get a new phone but it would be nice to have a very good one for spare
Thanks in advance!
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Put a thin foil between the metal pin on mid right and the back case.
Also search for touch screen issues in sensation forum. A lot of people have this issue.
Happy to help.
Far_SighT said:
Put a thin foil between the metal pin on mid right and the back case.
Also search for touch screen issues in sensation forum. A lot of people have this issue.
Happy to help.
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Thanks a lot Far_SighT for pointing me in right direction.
As per the "Touchscreen Issues" topic in "General" category, my phone will be undergoing second cycle of "Pull Pin - Add Tin Foil - Drain Battery - Take out Battery - Press Power - Keep Battery outside overnight - Recharge fully without touching screen" procedure.
First cycle didn't help much, but as per the post I have to go through this cycle at least 2-3 times.
I will get back with the results.
Thanks & Regards.
Update:
Followed the steps in the "Touchscreen Issues" thread under "General" category, and it worked!!
All my touchscreen issues have been solved by that simple solution. A great post!!
Highly recommended for solving similar touchscreen issues, specially when you have dropped your phone.
Thanks & Regards.
radhx said:
Update:
Followed the steps in the "Touchscreen Issues" thread under "General" category, and it worked!!
All my touchscreen issues have been solved by that simple solution. A great post!!
Highly recommended for solving similar touchscreen issues, specially when you have dropped your phone.
Thanks & Regards.
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Can you elaborate which step you think fixed the issue of having to press the power button to make the screen responsive? I went throught a full battery discharge-leave overnight-full charge without touching the phone, but i did this procedure only once and didnt have the patience to try again as it didnt improve the situation at all.:cyclops:
usju said:
Can you elaborate which step you think fixed the issue of having to press the power button to make the screen responsive? I went throught a full battery discharge-leave overnight-full charge without touching the phone, but i did this procedure only once and didnt have the patience to try again as it didnt improve the situation at all.:cyclops:
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Please follow my last post in "Touchscreen Issues" thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239238&page=50
Mostly one cycle does not help as per my experience. I had to go through 3 complete cycles to get my XE fixed. It made huge difference only after second cycle.
Also, other than aluminum foil over the silver square on the side of back panel, place a piece of thin paper in the depression on the back panel (check the second snapshot in above thread) which should cover the metal casings of both SIM card and SD Card so that they do not touch the back panel.
The steps taken in the cycle after placing the foil and paper:
1] Drain the battery fully.
2] Remove the battery.
3] Press Power button as if trying to power on your mobile.
4] Leave the battery out for overnight.
5] Replace the battery and back panel taking care to see that both foil and paper are in correct positions.
6] Recharge your phone fully without touching the screen and without powering on (this to prevent you from using the phone. ).
7] Disconnect the charger and use your phone till battery drains out and phone is ready for next cycle.
Hope this is helpful to sort out your issue.:fingers-crossed:
Thanks & Regards.
Far_SighT said:
Put a thin foil between the metal pin on mid right and the back case.
Also search for touch screen issues in sensation forum. A lot of people have this issue.
Happy to help.
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Thanks for the tip but did that already. I read the OP well and a lot of pages in this topic but no luck so far. Stopped even trying because half October I will have a new phone, the One to be exact. So it's no use.
What I did try was the recalibration of the touch screen by flashing the image file. That worked for a few days maybe and now it's drama all over again. Sometimes I pull out the battery for a night, push the on/off button blabla but no luck too. I think it's actually half broken because on some spots on the screen it's registering no touch. I do have to admit my phone fell a couple of times past 2 years, without a case or something. So I guess for me the only option is a new digitizer.
Like i said, I really would like to have a good spare one. Went looking on E-Bay and for 16 dollars I found a digitizer for the Sensation 4G. I have a XE, will that work with that digitizer? A digitizer for the XE was 23 bucks, but if only the color of the capacitive buttons are different I don't care and I save 7 bucks
Thanks!