hello,my One X has started freezing today..now,only power button works with light 3 buttons,volume buttons works too but with 3 seconds delay and not all touches..restart phone via power button works too,but display shows "a billion colour dots"..
something like this video,but display is not working in my case, but i cant post in here - text in youtube "Black and Flickering Screen HTC ONE X" and first video..
what is wrong with phone? thanks for help
Have you tried a hard reset? It will return phone to factory and erase everything though. To do it you have to go into bootloader and select factory reset.
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HR is my second step,first step is get battery totaly off..somewhere i read it can help,so i want to try it because i do not want to "clean" whole phone with HR..i have last 10 days to valid warranty,so i hope,if HR will not help,HTC give me money back..
ondr4 said:
HR is my second step,first step is get battery totaly off..somewhere i read it can help,so i want to try it because i do not want to "clean" whole phone with HR..i have last 10 days to valid warranty,so i hope,if HR will not help,HTC give me money back..
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Holding the power button down for 15-30 seconds should do the same thing as taking the battery out.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Holding the power button down for 15-30 seconds should do the same thing as taking the battery out.
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This is correct. But if it doesn't work physically disconnecting the battery for about a minute could help also. I recently had a vivid that was acting all stupid and after trying all the tricks, I removed the battery and everything has been fine. Probably static electricity in my case. If you are still under warranty don't open it up though to remove the battery, it will void your warranty, just get it replaced if you still can't fix.
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my phone is not rooted at all, i've just been using launcher pro.
Thing is, few months ago, the emmc chip thing has already happened to me.
While updating in the market, it hanged, i pulled the battery, and it died.
I sent it to HTC to repair and got it back. Phone has been smooth since then.
But few days ago I clicked update all, and it hanged again. Was stuck at the htc white screen for a while, but after constant on and off, i was sooo jubilant when the launcher pro loaded. So no problem after that.
but just now, i was just downloading one or two apps in the market, and it hanged again. I tried to turn it off and on, and so far it hasnt responded well..
it stops at HTC- quietly brilliant, the music rings, and nothing else happens.
(I am guessing this is a good sign? when my emmc chip fried, the music never played)
can anyone help me now though? i don't know what to do except hold both volume buttons and shutting down and restarting again.
i might have to pull out the battery at some point and restart.
i love the phone, but this really sucks big time.
Without intentionally meaning to offer any sympathy, am I right in thinking that after a battery pull killed your first device you then went on and pulled the thing again?
have you looked at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
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i know pulling the battery kills it, but i couldnt really do anything else..
well now i'm screwed again.
the thing is pretty much dead, and only gives me the white htc screen.
seriously, htc? if i were rich or had another phone replacement i'd throw this phone out the window at this moment.
now i'm not even in the country where i bought my phone and have my warranty ughh.. is htc's warranty global, or am i screwed?
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i know pulling the battery kills it, but i couldnt really do anything else..
well now i'm screwed again.
the thing is pretty much dead, and only gives me the white htc screen.
seriously, htc? if i were rich or had another phone replacement i'd throw this phone out the window at this moment.
now i'm not even in the country where i bought my phone and have my warranty ughh.. is htc's warranty global, or am i screwed?
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Not much help now, but should you give HTC one more chance, and it locks up again, you can force a reset without battery pull by holding down both volume keys and the power button.
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i know pulling the battery kills it, but i couldnt really do anything else..
well now i'm screwed again.
the thing is pretty much dead, and only gives me the white htc screen.
seriously, htc? if i were rich or had another phone replacement i'd throw this phone out the window at this moment.
now i'm not even in the country where i bought my phone and have my warranty ughh.. is htc's warranty global, or am i screwed?
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Wait... you said in your first post that you got past the white screen with green "htc" on it (the splash image) and onto the bootanimation (where it says "quietly brilliant" and plays the music... is that correct?
If it is, its a good sign. It means your phone is getting to the ROM and attempting a bootup. I hope you havent pulled your battery meanwhile!!! This thing may still be salvageable.
Do let us know if you can still get to the bootanimation...
the first few times it did run to the part where "quietly brilliant" came up with the music, but after that it never loaded, so i kept soft resetting many times but it would never load. Then it stopped loading pass the white HTC screen. When i soft reset, the phone blackouts for a few secs and that white screen pops up again. So there wasn't even a chance to do (volume down + power) to do a factory reset. I had to pull the battery.
Today I took it to the service center, since this is not the country where I bought my phone, it wasn't under warranty, and I will have to pay around $30 USD. it will be back by next tuesday though.
but seriously, how is this the fault of the consumer? I have not rooted or s-off my phone. It hanged while doing an ordinary phone function - downloading from the market. How is an average consumer supposed to know that he shouldn't be pulling out the battery? and he should need to know how to do all the technical recovery things himself?
f htc.. this is the last htc product i will be using in a few years.
second time it happened to this phone too, and like i said, it happened last week too, though i was able to reboot it after maybe 30 minutes.
the only one good thing is at least they gave me a temporary phone (wildfire) to use while my desire s is being fixed.
Same problem here with me, while trying to open htc likes, it hang and no response from power bottom, i waited for 2 min, still no response, so i pull out the battery, and re install and try to open my htc desire s, its doesnt power up, no response, it does not open even the white screen of htc, no vibration, its like an dead now, try to go to recovery mode, my clicking vol down+ power key. still there is no responce, i dont know what to do, as there is no htc sercive center in my country. guys please help me if there is any other way to make it alive, i ma really worried that its hardware problem or software problem, as i havent drop it or it has in contact with water, just it hang up and i pull the battery and reinstall. please guys help me
I'm loving my new HTC one x but have found a few issues that aren't life threatening just curious lol.
1. most important is there a new trick to get to hboot? I tried the power + volume down method with no luck. My soft keys at the bottom don't even flash as I have read in other posts happens.
2. If you hold your phone up to your ear and give it a shake it seems something is loose. Immediately thinking micro sim I removed it and shook again but noise is still present. Anyone else confirm?
3. What the heck are the five silver sensor like things on the phones back for? I've read and read even the HTC website doesn't mention them. Antenna?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Edit: I have a stock AT&T one x, fast boot is off.
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I'm loving my new HTC one x but have found a few issues that aren't life threatening just curious lol.
1. most important is there a new trick to get to hboot? I tried the power + volume down method with no luck. My soft keys at the bottom don't even flash as I have read in other posts happens.
2. If you hold your phone up to your ear and give it a shake it seems something is loose. Immediately thinking micro sim I removed it and shook again but noise is still present. Anyone else confirm?
3. What the heck are the five silver sensor like things on the phones back for? I've read and read even the HTC website doesn't mention them. Antenna?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Edit: I have a stock AT&T one x, fast boot is off.
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I also have the #2 issue - even if I hold the volume and power buttons I still hear the noise. On other phones in the past similar noise has been from the camera shutter, not sure if this is the same.
#3 = The pins on the back are "POGO" pins for phone docks/mounts.
Yea I think #2 is camera.
Pogo pins huh never thought of that lol.
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1. Only way to do it
2. Sound of the shutter
3. pogo pins for accessories (different from HOX international)
Entering bootloader is definitely harder than any other phone I've had but here's a little trick to try when phone is on press and hold the power button until the menu pops up select restart then hold the volume button down keep holding the volume down until the phone reboots into bootloader.
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Don't forget if you power down your device it goes to "sleep".this is to allow" quickboot" In order to get into bootloader on other htc phones you needed to take out the battery and it shuts it down fully, now on this phone you need to hold the power button for 10 seconds /5 capacitive button flashes and it give you an option to shut down device... Once you do this and the device is off (just like a battery pull) press and hold power and -vol (down), that will bring up bootloader... Hope this helps
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Don't forget if you power down your device it goes to "sleep".this is to allow" quickboot" In order to get into bootloader on other htc phones you needed to take out the battery and it shuts it down fully, now on this phone you need to hold the power button for 10 seconds /5 capacitive button flashes and it give you an option to shut down device... Once you do this and the device is off (just like a battery pull) press and hold power and -vol (down), that will bring up bootloader... Hope this helps
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Can't you go into settings and disable quickboot just like in every other HTC Phone to date? (HTC One S, Amaze, Sensation, MyTouch 4G, Evo 4G, etc) I know from personal experience all of those have a quickboot that can be disabled.
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Can't you go into settings and disable quickboot just like in every other HTC Phone to date? (HTC One S, Amaze, Sensation, MyTouch 4G, Evo 4G, etc) I know from personal experience all of those have a quickboot that can be disabled.
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Yes you can.
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I I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket i727 (with stock firmware and ROM), i dont have a SD card and not too many apps installed either, maybe 10-15 apps at most. Today while the phone was in my pocket it just went into this continous reboot cycle, it reboots, gets to the AT&T splash screen and then reboots again and then this goes on forever.
I googled the hell out of this issue but cant seem to find a solid solution and hence hoping u guys can help.
I cannot get into recovery mode cause it never gets past the splash screen
I cannot seems to perform a hard reset (power button + volume key) , it just reboots again.
I tried plugging the phone and connecting via USB but it doesnt help either, it reboots before the computer can detect the phone.
Hope u guys can help ? life without android is no fun...
Stuck power button
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Stuck power button
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anyway to fix it or m i close to a paperweight by now. I do not have warranty on this phone
I explored the stuck power buton option and lightly banged the phoen around in hopes that it would let loose but no luck.
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Stuck power button
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This. Google "stuck power button Skyrocket" for info on a fix.
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needle arounf the edges of the button works majority of the time if not then have fun with the google search
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This. Google "stuck power button Skyrocket" for info on a fix.
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Try a different battery
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Try a different battery
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A new battery will do nothing to fix a stuck power button.
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needle arounf the edges of the button works majority of the time if not then have fun with the google search
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I had this same issue with my LG Phoenix, I tried the needle around the power button, and that popped it back to normal. Apparently I held the button down to a side and it got stuck even though the actual button part was in it's "normal," position.
However it did reboot several more times after I got it unstuck. I did remove the back & battery, & unplugged it. Let it sit for a few minutes, after that I put the USB cable back in, then pressed the power button, put the battery back in and pressed the button again, and it went through the normal reboot process.
Just wanted to give you guys an update that i started cleaning the part around the edges as some folks suggested and that failed. then tried smacking around and blowing air into and that failed. Then took the entire phone apart and cleaned it several times using different techniques and sad to say that it all failed and i m SOL.
Bummer but it is what it is and i was quiet happy with that phone.
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Just wanted to give you guys an update that i started cleaning the part around the edges as some folks suggested and that failed. then tried smacking around and blowing air into and that failed. Then took the entire phone apart and cleaned it several times using different techniques and sad to say that it all failed and i m SOL.
Bummer but it is what it is and i was quiet happy with that phone.
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Did you offer up Bacon to the phone as a snackrifice?
I'm sorry that none of these options worked out for you.
Its very easy to open I changed a motherboard for a hard bricked i727 very easy to change power button or unstuck it
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Its very easy to open I changed a motherboard for a hard bricked i727 very easy to change power button or unstuck it
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Where does one find a power button for the skyrocket (the one attached to the motherboard)? The closest thing I could find was this:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-power-button-repair/
It is a repair service though and I live in Canada, I would prefer if I could just order that part. I have been to few repair shops that cant do anything because this power button is hard to find. I opened up the motherboard and the power button clicks fine, so I think it probably has to be replaced.
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I had the same issue, came here and read all the things about the stuck power button and needing to replace whatever is beneath it. My friend works in aerospace and had told me about one of the things they need to worry about is temperature causing wire shrinkage due to temperature. For whatever reason, I decided to use that logic and throw my phone in the freezer wrapped in a dry rag. 30min later and the phone finally worked after 8 hours of the boot loop/no boot. That was around November and I haven't had an issue with it since (until today, but it is a different issue).
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I had the same issue, came here and read all the things about the stuck power button and needing to replace whatever is beneath it. My friend works in aerospace and had told me about one of the things they need to worry about is temperature causing wire shrinkage due to temperature. For whatever reason, I decided to use that logic and throw my phone in the freezer wrapped in a dry rag. 30min later and the phone finally worked after 8 hours of the boot loop/no boot. That was around November and I haven't had an issue with it since (until today, but it is a different issue).
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can any one else confirm this? my phone keeps shutting off. when the screen is black, itll vibrate every second. im assuming its another stuck power button.
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can any one else confirm this? my phone keeps shutting off. when the screen is black, itll vibrate every second. im assuming its another stuck power button.
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I have just fixed mine!!!!
There is a little battery on the circuit board when you take apart the phone. It looks like a small watch battery. Top side is and bottom side are opposite polarities.
I had the exact same symptom. Sometimes just pressing the power button momentarily would bring up the power down menu, then I knew to press it a bunch of times because it was stick. If I didn't eventually it would turn off and vibrate constantly. It kept getting worse.
I measured with an ohm meter and the button itself seems fine so I figured maybe the digital logic relating to the button itself is faulty. So I shorted the little battery on the board (do this only for a brief period, no more than 1s) and put it back together.
Its behaving perfectly normally. I was also getting weird artifacts during video playback before, kind of like what failing solder would do on a bga gpu. It fixed that too.
So I think its similar to that problem some laptops have, where it wont turn on until you remove the battery, hold the power button down a couple times, and then plug it in. It seems a complete circuit discharge fixed this problem at least for me.
If people are interested I can try to find a picture
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In that picture its the silver shiny metal circle. To short it you connect the bottom soldered part to the metal plate on top of the battery. This comlpetely drains all circuits.
So I think a lot of these problems are caused by a phantom charge. In any sense, Im very very happy
Also this could explain why the fridge method worked. Cooling the battery can significantly drop its charge, however I would advise against the cooling method if possible.
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Where does one find a power button for the skyrocket (the one attached to the motherboard)? The closest thing I could find was this:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-power-button-repair/
It is a repair service though and I live in Canada, I would prefer if I could just order that part. I have been to few repair shops that cant do anything because this power button is hard to find. I opened up the motherboard and the power button clicks fine, so I think it probably has to be replaced.
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You'd need to find a friend or local electronics repair shop, but I ordered some here:
http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-sgh-i727-power-button.html.
The buttons are $0.99 USD if you buy 2 or more ($1.05 CAD), but 5-7 day business shipping is like $16.99. Still cheaper than a replacement phone, and it's an easy fix for an electronics person or electronics/tv/computer repair shop... At the rate these power buttons have had reported failures, and for the price, I'd get a couple of them in case the replacement fails in the future...
If my wife keeps squeezing the power button on her phone when some crappy app she has wigs out, I'll be needing my second button sooner rather than later...
why when one person says it something everyone band wagons on that idea. i actually had the same issue my skyrocket couldn't go pass the "samsung" screen. all i did was flash a new rom or i just restored an old backup
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why when one person says it something everyone band wagons on that idea. i actually had the same issue my skyrocket couldn't go pass the "samsung" screen. all i did was flash a new rom or i just restored an old backup
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Then it was user error or a bad flash. And that's software, not hardware.
Skyrocket power buttons are known to fail. I believe Samsung has even acknowledged this.
When your phone randomly goes into a 1-second vibration cycle, sometimes showing the reboot menu beforehand without pressing the button, more than likely it's the power button that has either failed or is sticking.
With my wife's phone, the button was not sticking, and usually lightly tapping the phone at the right angle on your lap or the counter would break the vibration cycle and let it boot up, until the next random power button press and vib cycle would happen.
Button replaced, same exact ROM, and problem gone. :thumbup:
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I I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket i727 (with stock firmware and ROM), i dont have a SD card and not too many apps installed either, maybe 10-15 apps at most. Today while the phone was in my pocket it just went into this continous reboot cycle, it reboots, gets to the AT&T splash screen and then reboots again and then this goes on forever.
I googled the hell out of this issue but cant seem to find a solid solution and hence hoping u guys can help.
I cannot get into recovery mode cause it never gets past the splash screen
I cannot seems to perform a hard reset (power button + volume key) , it just reboots again.
I tried plugging the phone and connecting via USB but it doesnt help either, it reboots before the computer can detect the phone.
Hope u guys can help ? life without android is no fun...
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I have a repair shop and i fix these issues with no problem. the only issue im located in Puerto Rico. when the power button gets stuck is because of heavy use, a fall or something that makes a lot of pressure to it and the copper contacts inside the button stay making contact. this is know to happen to i727-i717-i997-i897 and some other galaxy s1 s2 models.
i attached the picture of the power button.
I've had my Nexus S for over 8.5 months now. (since February) I've always loved the phone and was glad that it received the recent jelly bean update.
However recently, my phone is just plain dying. Ever since last week, I've been experiencing frequent freezing when browsing or on instagram etc. It's happened 3 times in the past 5 days. Could it be an app or process that's causing this? I'm not sure.
Another problem I've been facing, (the most annoying of all) is my power button. Yesterday, the power button started to die. I click on the power button to put my phone in standby and bam, suddenly it doesn't work. I'm not sure if some dust could be stuck in there or something. Sometimes when I press it to put my phone on standby, it asks me to turn off my phone, as if I had done a long hold. Strange. The only way to fix the problem is by clicking the power button repeatedly (about 15 times) and then it works again for a while.
One more problem... My phone screen becomes completely useless in one small area of the screen. The only way to get rid the problem is to leave the screen alone for 10 seconds or click the power button on and off.
Now here's the deal. I don't know what to do. Should I send it in for repair and be 'phoneless' for a month? I have not tried a full wipe, and would rather not. I don't think it would change the problem. I need your opinion? Is anyone have the same issues as me?
I'm very stuck, and have no clue what to do.
Seriously...if you have hardware issues you should send it to warranty.
Try the wipe data first you should wipe it and format the "sdcard" anyway before send it to repair.
The power button in the Nexus is the small clicky type that have the tendency to go bad. For the app freezing issues, it maybe time to do a complete wipe and upgrade to 4.1.2. I'm running SlimBean and its extremely smooth.
Use warranty if you have it, or it might be time to upgrade to a newer Nexus.
Mine broke the power button would only work if I'd drop the phone I dropped it too many times and cracked the screen I'd love to get it fixed but im not sure how much Sammy would charge me
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Mine broke the power button would only work if I'd drop the phone I dropped it too many times and cracked the screen I'd love to get it fixed but im not sure how much Sammy would charge me
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A broken screen is pretty expensive, but I think Samsung is pretty nice with warranty! I sent my Nexus S with water damage, (it was dried up, but it didn't boot anymore ) and it got repaired for free! I was in my warranty limit btw
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A broken screen is pretty expensive, but I think Samsung is pretty nice with warranty! I sent my Nexus S with water damage, (it was dried up, but it didn't boot anymore ) and it got repaired for free! I was in my warranty limit btw
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How long did it take for your phone to be sent back? Like 2 weeks? Hopefully not any longer than that.
My nexus with was in repair for 10 days. They replaced my motherboard. Pretty fast.
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So I just did this.
My phone was dead. A paperweight. It in its coffin, its box.
Until I received a message from one awesome person who told me I can still save my phone.
Basically, what I did was wipe out my recovery and wipe a lot of other stuff using TWRP recovery and using format data and advanced options.
My phone wouldnt even charge so I gave up hope.
Then I received an awesome message from an awesome person who explained how I could still access my bootloader and guided me through this guide as to how I can flash in a stock OS- https://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
So I told my brother to charge his phone, and then took mine apart. and then took his apart. then used his battery to turn on my phone and flash the image. I did it.
then I turned my phone on and it got stuck at the google screen. Similar to the problem the first time around.
I turned it off and tried to charge it and thankfully I could. So it wasnt as bad.
So I flashed again and this time we got to another screen. Still google but a better animation.
It was taking too long to load so I turned it off and then on again.
And voila. One of the quickest boot ups I've had with the Nexus 5.
So that's how you do it. I'm not 100% sure if this is the right place for this and I apologise for the rantish style of this post but I am so happy about this.
There was a casualty though. My brothers phones power button was broken. Meaning I could only turn it off once and I wouldnt be able to turn it on unless I fix the power button.
I have not been able to fix the power button because the inner power button is broken. I,e I think it needs to be soldered back on. So thats one phone which died in order to save another.
I could look for help with someone in my family who knows how to solder stuff on and see what we can do.
Does anyone know any way I could get away with this without soldering?
even if it means I can only use the power button once. As in like, if there's any way I could turn on my phone, even just once, but then I dont need to solder?
I can keep my phone charged all the time after that...
The power button to turn it on is a very cheap piece... Think about a 2 USD 10 pcs.. buy it on eBay and take the mobo to any place that could do the job (take the old button apart and put the new one) it's sounds like a big deal but it's not
Good luck mate
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joepastillas01 said:
The power button to turn it on is a very cheap piece... Think about a 2 USD 10 pcs.. buy it on eBay and take the mobo to any place that could do the job (take the old button apart and put the new one) it's sounds like a big deal but it's not
Good luck mate
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Thanks man
I opened it up and the power button seems fine. Its just been separated from the motherboard so it needs to be soldered on so idk why I would need to buy a new power button.
I have no experience with soldering stuff so yes I am going to take it to a shop and ask the guy to repair it.
Still recommend to get a new power button, you'll have to go to a shop and ask somebody to do the job, it's better to do it with a brand new button
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