So all of the sudden today my power button stopped responding? I figured it was just a glitch and pulled the battery but the phone automatically rebooted when I put the battery back in as though the power button is being held in. I disassembled it and sprayed some CRC electronic cleaner in as some threads say. The button clicks and moves just fine, its just acting as though its pressed even though it isn't. Any ideas?
Sounds like you need to try cleaning it out some more.
I just fixed my captivate with the same issue.
Spray the cleaner in the button for about 1 second. Press the button 20 times or so. Repeat this a few more times.
Then check to make sure the plastic power button on the case lines up correctly.
Yeah I have sprayed it and tried cleaning it for a good 15 mins and it still isn't working
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I just wanted to let everyone know. You don't need access the reset button under the back cover. If your device freezes or becomes unresponsive, just hold down the power button for 6-7 seconds and the device will turn off. You can then press the power button again to reboot.
That's why the manufacturer didn't cut a hole in the case to access the button.
This works most of the time, but not 100%. I've had at least two occasions where i had to either open up the back to reset it, or let the battery drain dry (which also resets it). Granted, you can imagine the wacky things I've done to my device so hopefully this doesn't happen to anyone else.
They should have added a reset button on the back, imo.
I appear to have trouble with my device's power button. I have a Pantech Sky Vega Racer 2 A830S which I took out of the box after a month in storage. It seemed okay the first few hours, but I started to notice that I could NOT put the phone into sleep when pressing on the power button once. It works like 1/10 presses. Sometimes, it even seems to do an extended hold even after just pressing once since the "power off, restart and sound profiles" popup appears.
Thankfully, the power button isn't doesn't seem to have a problem when the phone is off. When the phone is off, I can turn on the phone 100% of the time. Heck, when I remove the battery for a few minutes and turn on the phone again, the power button functions perfectly and I can sleep and wake with just a single press, no matter how fast I do it. Half an hour later it starts going haywire again. It appears this problem is truly isolated to when the phone is turned on. What could the problem be? It doesn't appear to be the physical power button mechanism. Could it be the battery or something power related shorting the buttons or something? The problem seems to be electrical in nature and I'm at the end of my wits here.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
SymphonyX7 said:
I appear to have trouble with my device's power button. I have a Pantech Sky Vega Racer 2 A830S which I took out of the box after a month in storage. It seemed okay the first few hours, but I started to notice that I could NOT put the phone into sleep when pressing on the power button once. It works like 1/10 presses. Sometimes, it even seems to do an extended hold even after just pressing once since the "power off, restart and sound profiles" popup appears.
Thankfully, the power button isn't doesn't seem to have a problem when the phone is off. When the phone is off, I can turn on the phone 100% of the time. Heck, when I remove the battery for a few minutes and turn on the phone again, the power button functions perfectly and I can sleep and wake with just a single press, no matter how fast I do it. Half an hour later it starts going haywire again. It appears this problem is truly isolated to when the phone is turned on. What could the problem be? It doesn't appear to be the physical power button mechanism. Could it be the battery or something power related shorting the buttons or something? The problem seems to be electrical in nature and I'm at the end of my wits here.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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hw button got jammed!!
try cleaning it up
be carefull!!!
Yeah I'd get some can air for computers and spray it. You may just have a piece of dirt lodged in there. In the mean time you could download an app that can put your device to sleep when you click on it I believe.
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My Nexus 5 has entered into (what I believe to be) a hardware bootloop due to a faulty power button switch. I will look into getting it fixed locally but am currently wondering if there's a way to get the phone on (disabling the power button in some way?) in order that I can recover data from the built in storage.
I realise this is unlikely as it would involve some kind of invasive hardware trick.
On the basis that my phone may never turn back on, is there any way to extract data from the built in storage at all?
try smacking it into table below the power button. Seriously If it wont help, just pop off the back cover and using a knife or something "brake" the button, and insert the usb cable while holding volume down button,. then send "fastboot reboot" command. You are going to fix the button anyway, so breaking it wont matter
I had same problem. I took phone apart and soaked button side in pure alcohol. And then some tapping and pushing the button and it started to work.
The power button getting stuck has happened a few times to me. I literally just find a wood table and give a few stiff taps to the top corner of the phone (power button facing down). Always does the trick for me.
gauthier81 said:
The power button getting stuck has happened a few times to me. I literally just find a wood table and give a few stiff taps to the top corner of the phone (power button facing down). Always does the trick for me.
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Thanks, but I've had no luck with this 'solution'. I have tried tactically hitting my device but no luck. Have also smacked it down out of anger and no luck either.
I think there are two distinct power button failures. One where the button still works but sticks and can be unstuck (I had this on my first Nexus 5 and it was replaced by Google out of warranty) and another where the power button module fails and becomes 'always on' needing replaced.
Hi guys,
TLDR; Phone won't turn on, notification light flashes red once on power up (sometimes), black screen all the time. :crying:
So my brother has asked me to try and fix his Nexus 5 as he isn't tech savvy at all.
So the problem he is having started when he tried powering the phone on and it started to boot up and then started resetting iteself.
It now will not power on at all and doesn't seem to be on at all.
When holding the power button, it will sometimes flash the notification light (at the bottom) red for a second or two. No other response from the phone.
I've tried holding the power button for up to 5 minutes with nothing. I've tried holding the V+ key with the power button for a few seconds up to a few minutes then tried pressing the buttons expected to get to a reset menu with no indication of anything.
I'm kind of lost and was wondering if anyone has had these issues before and know what is the best issue to try and repair?
Thanks
It could be a faulty power button which is a common issue with the Nexus 5.
Remove the logic board, clean around the power button with isopropyl alcohol, dry it, quickly press and release the power button using more pressure than normal, re-install, and try to boot.
You could also try this: hold volume + button and connect the phone to a computer using a USB cable.
Thanks audit13, I'll give it a shot and shout back if it works
After 5 years of heavy usage and not a single hardware issue my volume (down) button just started acting weird and pressing by itself.
Everything else still works fine and I don't want to say goodbye to my beloved Nexus 5 just yet.
What are my options?
Should I open it up and try cleaning it or should I disable the volume buttons entirely?
PS: Already tried to disable Volume down through root via System>Usr>Keylayout>Generic.kl but it didn't work.
Disabled Volume down via Button remapper app until I figure out what to do.
I'd say open it up, I had the same problem, but with the power button, ended up opening it and placing a piece of plastic to act as a "spring").
The Nexus 5 is really easy to open up, just watch some videos on yt and take it slow.
So I've open it up, cleaned all the gunk around the buttons, turned it on while still open so I can see if it actually made any difference but it didn't. Volume down is still all-time active though the actual button is clicky like it's nothing wrong with it. What now?
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So I've open it up, cleaned all the gunk around the buttons, turned it on while still open so I can see if it actually made any difference but it didn't. Volume down is still all-time active though the actual button is clicky like it's nothing wrong with it. What now?
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I imagine the pcb was in the casing while you powered it on, so the ceramic piece was still touching the button right?
Try holding the ceramic piece away from the pcb and see what happens then