This tablet is only a 4 months old and the power button is sticking on now. Its the left side that sticks. The right side unsticks it (sometimes). I've temporarily fixed it by first cleaning it with a q-tip dipped in some rubbing alcohol while pressing it a few times then drying it with the other half then I put one drop of oil from my electric razor on a fresh one and pressed it a few times and now its working again and isn't sticking. But I predict I will have to send it back for repair eventually because of this problem. Good thing I've installed "volume in notificatons" so I rarely use the volume keys, preserving them for recovery.
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I searched the forums for this issue, but seems like no one else has experienced this yet..!? I'm not sure how it happened, but just 2 days ago, my power button stopped responding. In other words, no matter how much pressure I put on it, or how long I hold it, my tablet will not turn on or wake up from sleep..! I'm not even sure how it happened. I just left it near on the floor propped up near my night stand earlier this week and the next morning I noticed I had a tough time turning my tablet on... (However, I did notice before this that sometimes my power button was way too sensitive and would ask if I wanted to power off the tablet, when all I did was press it for a second to put it to sleep. Guess, that was signs of eminent failure?)
And it's definitely a hardware and not a charging problem, since I can make my tablet turn on by removing it from the dock for a few secs and then reconnecting it, but obviously this is not acceptable. And other than that I don't know how else to turn it on...
I bought my tablet from Amazon, so I can't take it back to any store. Has anyone here had this problem before and tried to repair it themselves? Or has anyone at least tried to send their tablets in for repair to ASUS after unlocking the bootloader, rooting and loading a custom ROM? How did that go for you?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
amazon has a superb return policy - at least here in germany - should be no prob in the US - just call them so they open a RMA for you - or send it to asus directly.
good luck
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d0ubl3_d1zzl 3 said:
I searched the forums for this issue, but seems like no one else has experienced this yet..!? I'm not sure how it happened, but just 2 days ago, my power button stopped responding. In other words, no matter how much pressure I put on it, or how long I hold it, my tablet will not turn on or wake up from sleep..! I'm not even sure how it happened. I just left it near on the floor propped up near my night stand earlier this week and the next morning I noticed I had a tough time turning my tablet on... (However, I did notice before this that sometimes my power button was way too sensitive and would ask if I wanted to power off the tablet, when all I did was press it for a second to put it to sleep. Guess, that was signs of eminent failure?)
And it's definitely a hardware and not a charging problem, since I can make my tablet turn on by removing it from the dock for a few secs and then reconnecting it, but obviously this is not acceptable. And other than that I don't know how else to turn it on...
I bought my tablet from Amazon, so I can't take it back to any store. Has anyone here had this problem before and tried to repair it themselves? Or has anyone at least tried to send their tablets in for repair to ASUS after unlocking the bootloader, rooting and loading a custom ROM? How did that go for you?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
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My power button was giving me the power off / restart reboot which had been driving me crazy. Took the back off and investigated. The actual power button mechanism is flimsy and not well put together. After attempts with tape, with brief success the reboots returned. Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
Buster99 said:
amazon has a superb return policy - at least here in germany - should be no prob in the US - just call them so they open a RMA for you - or send it to asus directly.
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..Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
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Thanks for the input, guys. Glad to hear I'm not the only one and that it seems to be something I can try and fix on my own... I was mostly worried it was well known problem and ASUS wouldn't repair the devices that were tampered with or had unlocked bootloaders, but looks like they may not be thoroughly checking that. And my return window from Amazon expired in late June, so I figured it wasn't worth going through them anymore, but I've never had to that before, so I'm not sure...
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My power button was giving me the power off / restart reboot which had been driving me crazy. Took the back off and investigated. The actual power button mechanism is flimsy and not well put together. After attempts with tape, with brief success the reboots returned. Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
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What kind of tape did you use?
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What kind of tape did you use?
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I just pulled off the back (it has pressure pins, so i just use my nails, 'bcuz i don't have the plastic tool..), the Power Button is a 'lil switch, the top metallic part is held to the bottom part by a transparent piece of tape, if its not centered, just carefully remove it and place in the center.. If it the tape have enough glue to hold it back, You can use to same piece of tape to hold it back together.. If not, You can use a standard hmm (don't remember the name..) transparent tape to do the job... Hopefully the button keeps in place for while....
Hi all, so many of you are probably familiar with the power button issue on our Infuse. I have searched on every forum and have done every possible thing except soldering cause I don't trust myself with that. But before anything else, let me tell you what all I've done.
I have removed the back, and the power button and put in my battery, so the power button isnt even holding anything down. I even checked the little white clicker thing that gets pushed in, and it was not pushed in. So I figured it must be on the motherboard.
I stripped the motherboard, picked it up, blew everywhere around it as hard as I could for about 5 minutes, then screwed it all back in. Then again, still not even having the button attached, it did it's normal bootloop.
I have tried everything, from chucking my phone across the room, to removing the power button and putting it back in after cleaning it, to blowing on the motherboard. Have I missed anything? Am I done for good?
Over time the power button can get in a state that it is always on, regardless of outward appearances.
Try spraying gently with CRC electronics cleaner while working the button then allowing to dry before reassembly of phone.
If this doesn't do it, mobiletechvideos.com can replace the button for approx. $35-40.
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For the last week or so my power button/lock button has been intermittent, sometimes having to hit it 5 times or so to get the screen to unlock. Yesterday it all of a sudden stopped working and I couldn't unlock.
I am making this post to share my fix I found for the problem. Seeing how my phone is not under warranty because I have already replaced the screen, I took to tearing it apart and seeing what's going on. Hoping I could order a new power button, unfortunately the button is soldered onto the main board. Upon taking it apart I realized I had put a little shim in between the power button and the plastic button in the housing as a "rattle fix". This is what I am thinking caused the problem, this caused me to be putting too much pressure on the power button and caused it to over time break apart the back of the actual buttons metal housing on the main board. I removed the shim and it still did not work. I was going to take the main board and heat it at a low heat in the oven in hopes to reseat solder points, but before I did that I tried using a fine pair of needle nose pliers to crimp the back housing of the button back together. Luckily this worked. Unfortunately I do not have pictures, but if someone else has the same issue you should be able to see what I'm referring to by comparing the power button to the volume buttons on the mainboard, there is a metal housing around the actual button that is soldered to the main board, it has a slit down the back side of it that allows it to spread apart. The volume keys should be tight.
THE PROBLEM: Power/Lock button stops working
THE CAUSE(assumed): Nexus 5 power/lock button rattle fix
THE FIX: Using needle nose pliers to crimp the metal backing of the power button housing good and tight.
I hope this helps others out in the future as I'm sure I wont be the only one with this problem.
Thank you!!!
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THE FIX: Using needle nose pliers to crimp the metal backing of the power button housing good and tight.
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Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Bumping this with thank yous because I went to a whole lot of other xda threads that suggested soldering on a new button or going for warranty etc. THANK YOU!!!
Super easy fix, works so well :good::good::good:
Just an FYI this worked for me for a short while, then I my power button stopped working again, I tried applying pressure with pliers again with no luck. Ended doing an RMA on my phone. Had a new one sent to me and they didn't say anything about my phone being opened up. I had even replaced the whole front half of the phone including screen, cameras, battery etc.
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This has happened already thrice, but this time it was too much. Each time I was using my phone in the rain the home button was more and more unresponsive, forcing me to press it harder in order for it to work, but it was fine until recently.
To my dumbness, I insisted on using my phone while it was raining, and after some time the phone's not been exposed to water both home buttons and capacitive buttons started to malfunction. It seemed as if all the three buttons were pressing themselves without command, and trying to press one of them myself resulted in no reaction.
I used the good known old trick, that is, putting the phone into a bowl with rice, which really helped. The buttons do not press themselves anymore, though I have to apply very strong pressure on the home button for it to work. Weirdly, sometimes even that does not result in a reaction, somtimes I only have to press it just a little bit harder and it works for a longer period of time, then again starts to malfunction. The phone has been lying in the rice for over 12 hours straight, so I assume it would not help any further.
Any ideas on how could I fix that?
Also, the warranty is long over.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
To start, I bought this phone used a few months ago. I'm traveling, my other phone was old and the camera was broken, and I wanted something that wouldn't be bricked if I fell into a river while hiking (it happened in the past; the current was faster and the river deeper than I anticipated). Anyways, so I got this S7 and the only issue seemed to be that the volume down key was a bit... off.
A few days ago, I went for a hike in here in the south of Spain, in the seemingly only place with some water... and... only thinking about the phone's supposed water-resistance, I went under a waterfall with it to take some video. It worked (although somewhat glitchy), then it displayed the volume mini-screen on the display as if I had pressed one of the volume buttons (I hadn't), and then it restarted. Into safe mode...
Since then, everything else besides the volume has worked without any flaw. I can use every other feature of the phone, but if I restart it, it ALWAYS starts into safe mode. Using the diagnostics screen (*#0*#), neither of the volume keys registers. I thought perhaps the volume down key was stuck as when I press the home and power buttons (without touching vol down), it takes a screenshot. So I took the back cover off and checked it.
The initially dodgy vol down button was a result of the previous owner breaking something and having the back cover taken off to fix it. They had reglued (rather than using the standard adhesive strip) the cover on and the glue had gotten into button's allocated space. Their shoddy gluing job was also the reason why water was able to enter so easily when I went under the waterfall... Anyways, I cleaned their glue out and detached the flex cable for the volume buttons. With no change. The phone still starts into safe mode and the screenshot is still taken without any need for the volume key.
My last thought was that if I hold the power and home key during startup, then maybe I can use the same process as a screenshot to get into download mode. Turns out I cannot...
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So, backstory and details aside, does anyone have any previous experiences like this? Could it, in fact, be the power buttons (I initially thought so, but the lack of change when detached makes me think otherwise)? Or did the water that seeped in maybe affect the motherboard and is there a place/method by which I could check this?
Any help on the issue would be greatly appreciated as I'm rather stumped at the moment.