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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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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.
I'm facing the Samsung boot loop and no matter what I do I can't get into the regular system. I've tried getting into download mode and it just gives me the little circle loading icon and then reboots and keeps showing me that, I've also tried getting into CWM and I still get the boot loop, has anyone been able to get past this or is it probably a hardware problem?
Another thing to note is that it would randomly reboot yesterday night, then this morning it began boot looping but it would be fine after I took the battery out and restarted it, going back to the normal system. Now it's just boot looping no matter what, I can't get into CWM or download mode, trying to get into those I still get a loop of some sorts, I'm trying to just run the battery out by boot looping in hopes that that will give me some other option.
sorry but have to ask are you using just the volume button to go into download mode try pulling battery plug in your usb cord hold down volume buttons then put your battery in see what happens have you tried different usb cords yet
brorex said:
sorry but have to ask are you using just the volume button to go into download mode try pulling battery plug in your usb cord hold down volume buttons then put your battery in see what happens have you tried different usb cords yet
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Yes I have tried removing the battery and then pressing buttons and reinserting it, and yes I have also tried different cables. It shows the little circle for loading the download mode but then it just reboots..
I seen a Guy last night with a vibrant having the same problem he finally used power and volume up to get back into download mode maybe try some different button combos prob wont work but worth a try if not you may have to get a jig
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brorex said:
sorry but have to ask are you using just the volume button to go into download mode try pulling battery plug in your usb cord hold down volume buttons then put your battery in see what happens have you tried different usb cords yet
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This worked for me when I was in a loop or stuck at the samsung screen. It was very picky about the order... got me to a screen with a big penquin saying "DO NOT UNPLUG THE DOWNLOADING DEVICE" or something. From there I was able to use GTG Ultimate Unbrick...
1. Pull battery
2. Hold Volume + and - down at the same time
3. Put battery in
4. Plug in USB Cable
5. Release the volume + & - when the penquin appears
6. Run GTG Unbrink (GTG must be a bad a$$ dude).
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This worked for me when I was in a loop or stuck at the samsung screen. It was very picky about the order... got me to a screen with a big penquin saying "DO NOT UNPLUG THE DOWNLOADING DEVICE" or something. From there I was able to use GTG Ultimate Unbrick...
1. Pull battery
2. Hold Volume + and - down at the same time
3. Put battery in
4. Plug in USB Cable
5. Release the volume + & - when the penquin appears
6. Run GTG Unbrink (GTG must be a bad a$$ dude).
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Nope, that didn't work, still boot looping..
Did your volume buttons work before it started bootlooping???
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Yup, my volume buttons were working fine, I was using the media player earlier today and I was able to turn up and down the volume of the music.
hkothari said:
Yup, my volume buttons were working fine, I was using the media player earlier today and I was able to turn up and down the volume of the music.
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Garen21 had another thread a few days ago...i think you guys had similar issues.
He had his sent to ATT store...
We were wondering if it was due to his power button (inside) being stuck.
I'm heading to the ATT store today, I hope I don't have to return this one and get a crappy refurbished one or anything.
hkothari said:
I'm heading to the ATT store today, I hope I don't have to return this one and get a crappy refurbished one or anything.
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keep us posted
I haven't been to the ATT store yet but I tried a home made JIG and that didn't work either. Same boot loop.
So the boot loop magically stopped happening after two days, someone I know who had a similar problem with their Galaxy suggested that it was because the /data/data partition had gotten too full with my apps and that it sstarted working when the dalvik cache had somehow cleared enough memory to start up again. To be safe following their instructions I moved a bunch of my apps to the SD card and for a while everything seemed to be fine. I hadn't had a boot loop since then except for yesterday it started happening again. Any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix this?
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So the boot loop magically stopped happening after two days, someone I know who had a similar problem with their Galaxy suggested that it was because the /data/data partition had gotten too full with my apps and that it sstarted working when the dalvik cache had somehow cleared enough memory to start up again. To be safe following their instructions I moved a bunch of my apps to the SD card and for a while everything seemed to be fine. I hadn't had a boot loop since then except for yesterday it started happening again. Any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix this?
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havent you done anything and boot loop has stopped? just left phone without battery?
Hi,
long story short: while trying to install CM on my old one s I first flashed the boot.img as described here: h t t p : / / wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ville. It appears that the firmware overwrote the custom recovery on a reboot, and when I entered recovery to install CM I got a screen saying "entering recovery..." in pink at the top, htc logo in the middle, and "This build is only intended for development, to not leak from HTC" (something like that) in red at the bottom. Nothing happened.
I shut it down and started it back up, and it went to boot with the same htc logo and red message at the bottom -- and froze there. Only 10+ sec power button restarts it, nothing else helps. Weird enough I noticed that if it's on a cable it won't restart but just stay off, and if it's not connected it will restart immediately, no chance to switch it off.
Here's my biggest problem: my volume rocker is brocken. Up works somewhat, but down is 95% dead. I entered the bootloader through adb before, but since I can't boot the phone anymore I can't get in anymore.
It seems to me like the best solution would be to somehow fix the volume rocker. It's not 100% dead, occasionally I could get a keypress through, so I would just suppose the contacts are a little bad and I could just polish it a little? But the phone seems a pain to take apart.
What would you suggest? Is it too easy to break the whole thing while trying to clean the contacts of the rocker?
Thanks for any help / comments!
compul
why not change the volume button, at gsm service.
It's a good phone.
compul said:
Hi,
long story short: while trying to install CM on my old one s I first flashed the boot.img as described here: h t t p : / / wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ville. It appears that the firmware overwrote the custom recovery on a reboot, and when I entered recovery to install CM I got a screen saying "entering recovery..." in pink at the top, htc logo in the middle, and "This build is only intended for development, to not leak from HTC" (something like that) in red at the bottom. Nothing happened.
I shut it down and started it back up, and it went to boot with the same htc logo and red message at the bottom -- and froze there. Only 10+ sec power button restarts it, nothing else helps. Weird enough I noticed that if it's on a cable it won't restart but just stay off, and if it's not connected it will restart immediately, no chance to switch it off.
Here's my biggest problem: my volume rocker is brocken. Up works somewhat, but down is 95% dead. I entered the bootloader through adb before, but since I can't boot the phone anymore I can't get in anymore.
It seems to me like the best solution would be to somehow fix the volume rocker. It's not 100% dead, occasionally I could get a keypress through, so I would just suppose the contacts are a little bad and I could just polish it a little? But the phone seems a pain to take apart.
What would you suggest? Is it too easy to break the whole thing while trying to clean the contacts of the rocker?
Thanks for any help / comments!
compul
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Taking it apart is smth you can do. Ik its hard, i tried but if you're confident its your power button then do it. After you reveal the back of our phone, you can access the buttons
CM11 Powered G-Wonder
null0seven said:
why not change the volume button, at gsm service.
It's a good phone.
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While that is my last resort, I'd like to avoid it. I do have a working Nexus 5 after all.
TiTAN-O-One said:
Taking it apart is smth you can do. Ik its hard, i tried but if you're confident its your power button then do it. After you reveal the back of our phone, you can access the buttons
CM11 Powered G-Wonder
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It's the volume rocker, not the power button; and it's been broken for a long time. I'm a little afraid I might rip things apart, but this makes it look outright easy: youtube.com/watch?v=6j25jajIq3g. I'll give it a try.
I have found that if you hold the volume up and down buttons on the phone and press the power button at carrier boot the device stops vibrating.Give it a try I know its not a permanent fix but thought it might help some of you
Does not work for me.
pspbyer said:
I have found that if you hold the volume up and down buttons on the phone and press the power button at carrier boot the device stops vibrating.Give it a try I know its not a permanent fix but thought it might help some of you
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i did this before and some times end up in safemode, just let it vibrate it wont hurt anyhting and i know cause i do that root method for videos and most of the time i work on my phone, do new things, test etc.
I rooted the phone and it was all good.
It started to vibrate after i installed all my apps and set everything up.
Reboot>Vibrate.
WTF ?
tonycstech said:
I rooted the phone and it was all good.
It started to vibrate after i installed all my apps and set everything up.
Reboot>Vibrate.
WTF ?
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The vibrate is only on this device once you root it sucks after you get past the static boot just hold the power button & it'll go away
astonmartin214 said:
The vibrate is only on this device once you root it sucks after you get past the static boot just hold the power button & it'll go away
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Am sorry i dont understand what you talking about.
Cant you use some punctuation ? I am seriously confused.
Phone is rooted.
No static (flashed VS995_reStock_v1.2.zip in TWRP, thats what fixes it) and it vibrated thru the rooting process and stopped once rooted.
i went thru setup wizard and installed all apps etc. Restarted the phone and it started to vibrate again.
Not to mention, the big warning sign (corrupted or something) was apearing on the screen at boot, cycling thru LG logo and back until it finally booted. It vibrated all the way and never stopped.
I flashed stock firmware 13A back on it and vibration went away, but so is the root.
Hello
I'm having problem with my Nexus 5 .
It started when I wanted to replace the battery. I have been replacing it in another nexus 5, done it gently, with plastic tools. And that's what happened - constant boot loop. Only thing that appear are battery charging image and white Google text, restart and over and over... nothing more (android colorful text/logo) doesn't appear.
Firstly I've read that it might be a problem with a power button, that it's stuck inside and making these constant loops. I tried to gently make a taps and flicks on the phone but it wasn't helpful. I accessed motherboard, took it off and checked the button, it seemed fine. But I took it to a mobile service place, and they replaced the button. But that didn't help.
I can't power it on when it's not connected to the charger or PC. It doesn't even start looping when not connected via cable to anything. On the bootloader screen I can go up and down using volume keys, but when i try to access "Recovery menu" it turns off and start looping. Even trying to use "power off" option makes it loop.
So I flashed it using factory image from google: 6.0.1 (M4B30Z, Dec 2016) (hammerhead-m4b30z-factory-625c027b).
I did it manually, on bootloader screen, entering all these fastboot commands. one by one. Everything seemed fine, all flashed with success. Already was happy! But after rebooting, it's still bootlooping
I installed TWRP recovery img to it, (successfully), and tried to access recovery menu, but also started looping.
I don't know what to do anymore. I've read so many threads and I think everywhere problem disappeared after successful flashing. I tried also this method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-stuck-boot-loop-lollipop-t3098632 But after flashing to 4.4.4 firmware, it was bootlooping..
Since it doesn't even react to power button on both batteries, is there some bigger hardware problem with a motherboard? A battery connector socket on motherboard is broken or something?
krystian-92 said:
Hello
I'm having problem with my Nexus 5 .
It started when I wanted to replace the battery. I have been replacing it in another nexus 5, done it gently, with plastic tools. And that's what happened - constant boot loop. Only thing that appear are battery charging image and white Google text, restart and over and over... nothing more (android colorful text/logo) doesn't appear.
Firstly I've read that it might be a problem with a power button, that it's stuck inside and making these constant loops. I tried to gently make a taps and flicks on the phone but it wasn't helpful. I accessed motherboard, took it off and checked the button, it seemed fine. But I took it to a mobile service place, and they replaced the button. But that didn't help.
I can't power it on when it's not connected to the charger or PC. It doesn't even start looping when not connected via cable to anything. On the bootloader screen I can go up and down using volume keys, but when i try to access "Recovery menu" it turns off and start looping. Even trying to use "power off" option makes it loop.
So I flashed it using factory image from google: 6.0.1 (M4B30Z, Dec 2016) (hammerhead-m4b30z-factory-625c027b).
I did it manually, on bootloader screen, entering all these fastboot commands. one by one. Everything seemed fine, all flashed with success. Already was happy! But after rebooting, it's still bootlooping
I installed TWRP recovery img to it, (successfully), and tried to access recovery menu, but also started looping.
I don't know what to do anymore. I've read so many threads and I think everywhere problem disappeared after successful flashing. I tried also this method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-stuck-boot-loop-lollipop-t3098632 But after flashing to 4.4.4 firmware, it was bootlooping..
Since it doesn't even react to power button on both batteries, is there some bigger hardware problem with a motherboard? A battery connector socket on motherboard is broken or something?
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Have you tried putting the original battery back in it? Does it not correctly only when plugged in to a charger cable? Idk how but it seems either something bad happened to your emmc or there's something not plugged in correctly to the motherboard and something may have happened to whatever piece(s) that is. I'd just take everything out and put it back together, I had to do that when I replaced my screen, it's a pain in the ass but it worked again. Hopefully I could help you, or even give u a clue as to what it is
Try flashing 4.4.2 or an older stock ROM.
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Have you tried putting the original battery back in it? Does it not correctly only when plugged in to a charger cable? Idk how but it seems either something bad happened to your emmc or there's something not plugged in correctly to the motherboard and something may have happened to whatever piece(s) that is. I'd just take everything out and put it back together, I had to do that when I replaced my screen, it's a pain in the ass but it worked again. Hopefully I could help you, or even give u a clue as to what it is
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I did it now. On both batteries it doesn't even power on. Only on a cable plugged it it starts bootlooping, when disconnecting, it powers off.
I checked all the connectors and sockets on mainboard, especially the one connecting battery and they doesn't seem anyhow broken (but I'm not any tech specialist so..)
audit13 said:
Try flashing 4.4.2 or an older stock ROM.
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I used now 4.4 (KRT16M). No result, still boot looping