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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please clarify
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
pisceanblue said:
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.
guys i rooted my phone then installed xrecovery for x10 mini....but then i think i made a terrible mistake i installed jit v2 trough xrecovery....i believe x10 mini doesnt support jit 2....now i cant hard reset my phone....i tried seus but i cant switch off my phone because i can only force it to restart...please help me i am desperate
Take the battery out of your phone this will turn it off. Run the SEUS Software, select support and repair phone.
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dude in x10 mini battery is not removable
Oh try pressing the centre button and power button simultaneously for five seconds and this will basically do the same thing as removing the battery (if it was removable).
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wkirky said:
Oh try pressing the centre button and power button simultaneously for five seconds and this will basically do the same thing as removing the battery (if it was removable).
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that forces the phone to restart not switch off.....please read my first post before you reply...
You said above it restarted, were you able to press the back button for 5 seconds and plug in the USB cable to do the SEUS Repair? This may not work as it is for x10i and phone needs to be off to start with.
A method for mini is turn off, press power button and hold down home button for 3 seconds and this will perform a hard reset. You will LOOSE EVERYTHING on the phone by doing this.
There is another method but this will DELETE EVERYTHING from your phone and also VOID your warranty.
Check out: androidechoblog.com/2011/01/how-to-hard-reset-xperia-x10-mini.HTML for info and diagrams.
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I have a Galaxy S2 (Android) which has a reboot function. This thing does not have it?
What do you mean? Like something to reboot it? Try pushing and holding down the power button till it reboot.
If you flash any cyanogenmod9 based rom you can reboot from software, but seriously, is it that hard to reach for the power button? xD
hmmm
There are several reboot apps/widgets in the Google Play Store. Do some searches and try to find one you like.
Fast Reboot Pro has many useful functions.
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Hi all, here's the qn.
Does pressing and holding: HOME KEY+VOLUME UP* KEY+POWER BUTTON, cause any wiping of the apps and things necessary for apps to run?
I'm suspecting this as after pressing and holding this combo keys on the G3 mod start up screen, Firstly, boot animation restarts itself repeatedly until I got no patience and killed my phone instantly with the power button, Secondly, after a 183s of boot time, errors of apps (not system apps) kept popping up and the most baffling part is that some of these apps that suffered errors did not show up in the 'manage apps' settings. Thirdly, apps installed on sd card are totally wiped off and parts of the internal apps that remained are gone since they force closes after initiating it.
However, I reinstalled the apps and everything work normally now except for longer booting time and some sudden shut downs, which might be due to my battery.
I have not seen any posts on this problem and I'm really curious about this combo keys which I pressed accidentally.
For additional info, I'm on arakmar latest kernel. And running hercolubus rom.
Could it be a secret 'apps removal' combo key designed by arakmar?
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Uhhh no it doesn't do anything :/. If you pressed it correctly a screen should come up saying 'forced upload by key pressing' or something like that. I have no idea how you got to your situation
Cheers
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Uhhh no it doesn't do anything :/. If you pressed it correctly a screen should come up saying 'forced upload by key pressing' or something like that. I have no idea how you got to your situation
Cheers
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So pressing home+volume up+power key gives an upload screen? And what if I had the usb connected and did that? What exactly does it upload? Sorry I'm abit confused.
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zhiYUAN94 said:
So pressing home+volume up+power key gives an upload screen? And what if I had the usb connected and did that? What exactly does it upload? Sorry I'm abit confused.
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Umm I have no idea wad it does. I Googled it before, but everyone seems puzzled as to what it does.
Cheers
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I don't know if I discovered a new thing or this is already a feature but, here it is.
Since I first time using this phone about early 2012, sometimes, my phone reboots itself when I take it out of my pocket. Sometimes, it reboots while in my pocket.
Today, I was facebooking in landscape mode(for the first time, cuz i hate landscape mode), I accidently pressed the home key+volume down and it reboots!(Using CM10a3) Tried it again and the phone reboot again.
The question is, is pressing both keys are a shortcut to reboot or its a phone failure and is it exist in stock rom or cm only?
If you can try, please reply with your rom. Especially if you have explanation to this.
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First, check my signature for my phone setup.
Secondly, I just tried home button+vol down(in landscape mode), no reboots.
FYI, The only shortcut which I know for reboot is power button+home button.
Did you overclock ur phone?
Sorry, cat see your sig cuz im on mobile.
OC? Yeah. Revolution Kernel. 300-1200. SmartassV2 governor.
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Tried it again just now with 300-1000 conservative, the default one but still reboots when pressed both at the same time. I don't hold one of the button and press another. I pressed them both at the same time.
My phone have exactly the same Rom, governor, clock speed and mods as yours in your sig.(exept task manager mod)
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This random reboot happened since you first use the phone? even without flashing or modding?
I just confirmed that it works. I'm on cm10 a4. It DOES reboot when you press volume down+home button. I'm not overclocked.
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Yes but its not random actually. After that day those reboots happen,(the early 2012) no reboots ever happen. I think maybe i accidentally pressed the keys by mistake that time. I was riding motorcycle in long range. thats when it happen. The next day and forth, no more reboots. It happens when i press both keys.
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This is old trick, even in stock rom.
Yes this is reboot short cut.
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Yes, it's a shortcut for reboot.
But need to press and hold home button first before pressing vol down button.
No wonder why it didn't reboot just now.
Thought that I can mess up with the sequence.
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It's a key combo to force a crash, a kernel feature.
This should be what does it if I'm not wrong (it's not happening to me and I unset SAMSUNG_KERNEL_DEBUG_USER in my kernel)
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Good or bad you might ask. I don't know, I didn't like it and disabled it. Surely it's not a normal reboot.
And yes, you need to build a new kernel to disable it.