My power button assembly is giving me trouble, in order to use it have to open it up and mess with the power button, I am not particularly familiar with this phone, but my question is, can it be replaced with out micro soldering skills or getting a new motherboard? like is there a plugin spot for the power button assembly so I can just get a new part and plug it into the motherboard?
No your gonna need a soldering gun.Lol but it shouldn't be that hard, just be super careful with the display wire or your button issue will be the least of your concerns.
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I may need to try to replace one of my volume button switches. That is, the actual surface mount component. Does anyone know where I can get this part?
I have fixed it once before after a drop pushed it in and it stopped working. I think perhaps the solder joint has broken again and I am afraid the component itself could be damaged or otherwise fatigued where it won't last. I'd like to have a replacement on hand before I take my phone apart (again) to try to fix it.
hey there,
I have been having problems with my power button for quite some time and some weeks ago it totally stopped working. As my phone is rather old and worn I did not want to send it for a a repair shop (its out of warranty). I started disassembling it and realised that the power button came loose from the board behind the inner (blue/red) plastic cover located under the back case.
hence, if I apply the power button, it is not pressed, but its case moves down some milimeters.
my question is how to reconnect it to the board: glueing? soldering?
thanks in advance
I have a verizon s6
The Volume buttons work, Home button works, but the power button does not seem to not be working
I plug the phone into charger and it shows 99%. When the battery charging animation display turns off after a few seconds, I can wake the phone up with either of the volume keys and home keys, but the power button will not wake the phone up.
If its something hardware (mobo/mainboard) How is the battery charging animation display being executed?
I have disassembled it now. Water damage, corrosion on contacts. I cleaned them, but still not working.
How can I test the logic board? Or try to power it on without the power button? If the charging battery animation shows, does this mean the logic board is working or not?
I don't really know hardware at all, but I do know Samsung considers water damage Beyond Economical Repair.
Something is interfering with the power button or the way it's detected by the device....but what that means as far as the mobo....I have no idea.
Ok, I looked closely at the board and looked for the contacts points that the physical buttons were going to.
Pulling from my automotive wiring experience, I tinkered/brainstormed around for a little bit....then I got a little piece of aluminum foil and "jumped" the two contacts points......and whattaya know...SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 POWERED BY ANDROID!!
So now I have to figure out how to get this working with the phone fully assembled.....
Problem solved (AFAIK)
I placed a piece of foil physically in-between the power button ribbon cable contact pad and the contact point on the logic board.
Working as normal. Now I can uninstall these "power button to volume rocker" apps and re-seal the backglass/cover.
I bought this phone on a whim that I could repair it.....money well spent
Ah! it was a project phone. Congratulations!
Indeed, was advertised as "water damaged", but as soon as I seen that it would show the battery charging animation..... I knew there was potential.....Now I guess its time to lay my G2 to rest (IMO one of the best phones of the recent-gen years)
Hi everyone, not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but here it goes. But an old s5 for about 60 bucks. It had the screen pretty damaged but the LCD worked fine. So since I like to tinker with things, I decided to see if I could fix it. I bought an inexpensive lcd separator, bought me some LOCA glue. I was able to separate the glass from the lcd without any apparent damage......err ....so to speak....I assembled the phone back. When I plug in the phone to a charger, I can see all the appropriate LCD lights. The screen shows the battery icon that shows up when a phone is charging. But the pressing the power button does nothing. I am pretty much stumped. I took everything apart to make sure things were connected right but I am not sure where to go with this...can anyone provide any advice?
PS. taking the glass off with the lcd separator (which is basically a hot plate) and a wire was really efficient. and a lot easier than trying to separate the glass with a guitar pick
I also bought a 10 dollar new glass for the phone...first time trying loca glue and I am proud to say that I had no air bubbles
It's my understanding that the ribbon cables behind the screen are extremely delicate and easy to damage. It is possible that you inadvertently damaged or severed them while removing the broken screen.
Try this link below, if you haven't already, and look through the steps to see if you may have missed something.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S5+Display+Assembly+Replacement/26914
thanks guys, if it is a problem with the power button, I have purchased the back tray which houses the power button. Maybe that will work.
I might have a method. Assuming the home and volume buttons still work, you can hold volume down and home and then plug the device into a computer or any power supply that charges it. This will then open up download mode. The power cord will be acting as the power button here. Once there, press volume down to cancel and then it should reboot your phone to the OS.
So for some reason my power button stopped working. I took the phone apart and saw that the ribbon circuit cable connecting the powerbutton to the contact pads has tore in half. I already am in the process of getting that fixed but in the meantime I want to "short" the phone power button connection to turn it on. I'm just not sure where to put the paperclip/foil/wire etc. Where exactly on the phone can I short the connection and how?
I know this is litlery over a year old, but did you figure out how to do it?
Well you could tell which pins to short by looking at where the power button connects from the mid-frame to the logic board, there is a spot with 4 contact pins, you short two of them to turn on the phone, try a combination of two until it works.
Or you could just replace the mid frame and if the springs on the logic board for power button are too low, just bend / lift them up a tiny bit.
I will try that, Do you have discord by any chance so I can message you there instead of on this post? My tag is Mailbox#4744
benjamen50 said:
Well you could tell which pins to short by looking at where the power button connects from the mid-frame to the logic board, there is a spot with 4 contact pins, you short two of them to turn on the phone, try a combination of two until it works.
Or you could just replace the mid frame and if the springs on the logic board for power button are too low, just bend / lift them up a tiny bit.
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Sure, my tag is Legendary#7261