A quick question for the knowledgeable guys at XDA - Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G

So my Blaze is having some catastrophic problems. It started out the other day by turning off and then vibrating like crazy in my pocket in the same way it would of you were holding the power key down, and it wouldn't stop. I pulled the battery, replaced it and it immediately started vibrating and wouldn't stop as if the power button were stuck in.
Long story short I took my phone apart and removed the plastic button and can get it to boot and stay on for a while. It still craps out sometimes, but I've had it on for a couple hours now with out the plastic part of the power button. I can still hit the button with a pen, BUT here lies my problem...
If I so much as look at the power button funny, it decides that it wants to get stuck down and won't go back up. The actual moving part doesn't get stuck, I think it's electrical.
So if anyone has any clever ideas on how to fix this, I won't have the money for a new phone for a couple weeks and it will make my life very happy to be able to make this one usable
It works sort of if I never have to press the power key, and I remember using a ROM that had the volume locker wake option, but for the life of me I can't remember which one it is. So if someone could help me out there too, that'd be great
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Cm10 has volume rocker wake in display settings.
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Oh gosh thank you so much.. I couldn't remember where to find it lol
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That's what happened to me! Can you please list what you flashed before the problem or your ROM and kernel at that time?
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Jserrano56 said:
That's what happened to me! Can you please list what you flashed before the problem or your ROM and kernel at that time?
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Gosh I'm kinda flash crazy, I believe I was on the most recent version of Paranoid Android with whatever version of LZ Kernel comes with it. I originally thought it may be a ROM / Kernel issue so I flashed CM10, and it was still broken.
I don't actually think my problem is a software (ROM or kernel) problem. If it's stuck resetting and I pull and replace the battery, it starts to boot without me touching the button. That means the problem is occurring before any of the software even loads.
I'm pretty certain it's a problem with the button. If I so much as touch it, it acts like it's stuck depressed. I think it may also be heat related, so maybe the ROM or kernel may have caused some overhearing that damages the hardware, but I don't know. It was definitely super hot when it first started.
Hope that helps you!
And if any devs or anyone has any idea about this.. That'd be great
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Morganmachine91 said:
Gosh I'm kinda flash crazy, I believe I was on the most recent version of Paranoid Android with whatever version of LZ Kernel comes with it. I originally thought it may be a ROM / Kernel issue so I flashed CM10, and it was still broken.
I don't actually think my problem is a software (ROM or kernel) problem. If it's stuck resetting and I pull and replace the battery, it starts to boot without me touching the button. That means the problem is occurring before any of the software even loads.
I'm pretty certain it's a problem with the button. If I so much as touch it, it acts like it's stuck depressed. I think it may also be heat related, so maybe the ROM or kernel may have caused some overhearing that damages the hardware, but I don't know. It was definitely super hot when it first started.
Hope that helps you!
And if any devs or anyone has any idea about this.. That'd be great
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Here no stop reboots and over heating and it too would button before I pressed any buttons
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CMX Hangs

Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew
It could be a software issue, I say this because this has happened to me on different roms, then when I flashed a different Rom the issue was solved. I'm not sure other than flashing a different Rom, how to remedy the situation. In my case this is how I fixed it when that happened to me. You might want to post this on the Rom developers site and see if others are experiencing the same issue. Perhaps they might have a fix if it's a known problem. I wish you the best ! Hopefully you can remedy this situation easily. I'm fairly certain flashing a different Rom will cure the issue. At least it did in my situation. Good luck and I hope this helped.
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mattjorgs said:
Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew
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Um...I'm sure you're new to this.
The bug aren't fully fixed yet. Reboots and hangs are obviously expected.
Nothing wrong with Kernel cuz there's no jellybean kernel for us YET.
So the ROMs are still buggy.
I suggest you wait a week or 2 for all bug fixes.
Meanwhile, try a Sense ROM or an ICS aosp based ROM. :sly:
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Alright, fair enough.
I wouldn't consider myself new to this at all. I've had my sensation since September last year and I've done my fair share of flashing and helping others out. I just thought I'd ask because I didn't see it discussed anywhere and thought I was the only one having this particular issue. I searched the ROM thread and found nothing and I searched this Q&A forum and didn't find anything so I thought I'd ask. Is that so wrong?
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Alright, fair enough.
I wouldn't consider myself new to this at all. I've had my sensation since September last year and I've done my fair share of flashing and helping others out. I just thought I'd ask because I didn't see it discussed anywhere and thought I was the only one having this particular issue. I searched the ROM thread and found nothing and I searched this Q&A forum and didn't find anything so I thought I'd ask. Is that so wrong?
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1 paragraph for saying you might be new to this?
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mattjorgs said:
Every once in awhile I'll notice my Sensey's soft keys are lit up and I can't do anything on the phone. pressing the lock/wake button does nothing and I need to do a battery pull to get into my phone again. Holding the lock/wake key doesn't even reboot at all.
Is this a firmware or kernel problem? Any fixes?
(I realize that I worded that terribly, my apologies.)
-Matthew
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I had the same problem. Fixed it by turning off system sounds in the settings option. Just turn all the sounds off and you should bee good to go
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Cm10 is a beta work in progress. This is a known bug, not something you are doing wrong.
Be patient as the rom continues to develop.
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CalCi059 said:
1 paragraph for saying you might be new to this?
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Disrespect is not something I take lightly.
monkor said:
I had the same problem. Fixed it by turning off system sounds in the settings option. Just turn all the sounds off and you should bee good to go
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Thank you, I will try this.

Aries kernel port

So, I'm kind of curious about the sod issue that the current aries kernel port has. i know it means sleep of death but does that mean that sometimes it won't come back on from the lock screen and you have to do a battery pop? How long does it have to run before that happens or is it random as hell? I'm just curious as to is it impossible to use a rom with that kernel because of the issue.
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And that's why there is no ROM with that kernel for use, other than the one release Brian did. No one is saying to use it for any sort of daily use whatsoever.
goddi2010 said:
So, I'm kind of curious about the sod issue that the current aries kernel port has. i know it means sleep of death but does that mean that sometimes it won't come back on from the lock screen and you have to do a battery pop? How long does it have to run before that happens or is it random as hell? I'm just curious as to is it impossible to use a rom with that kernel because of the issue.
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Yes. SOD you need to pull battery or possibly long press power button. And it happens when the phone sleeps.
Do you you if it's every 1st attempt to push the sleep button or does it happen after a period of time when it's sleeping?
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goddi2010 said:
Do you you if it's every 1st attempt to push the sleep button or does it happen after a period of time when it's sleeping?
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It's kind of an interesting issue. It might be a SoD (sleep of death), it could be they cypress keyboard driver which controls the volume, power, and capacitive keys, it could be a regulator issue, it could be an issue with the pmic or battery drivers.
So many possibilities.
It happens everytime you push the power button on the phone to turn off the screen. My life is seriously complicated right now and every spare minute I have is spent on figuring out this issue, continuing to maintain the cm9 herring build, porting sk4g (sgh-t839) to teamacid's cm7, and looking into work on the at&t galaxy note (sgh-i717).
m4xm4n and jeffsf are also helping out on the sgs4g aries SoD issue, but it's a very complicated issue. We'll sort it out soon!
Thanks bro no rush I was just trying to get a better understanding of the sod problem and you answered it 100 percent.
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Skyrocket NOT shutting off

I seem to have a strange problem. My Skyrocket does not want to stay off. I power down the phone, and it comes back up on its own immediately. I've tried this with and without charger connected. I had this problem on Embryo 5.4, and now also on 6.1. Right now, my only option when I need the phone to stay off (like when traveling by air, which I do often) is to take the battery out. The second I put the battery back in, the phone boots up.
Could anyone help me out here?
I tried searching the forum for similar issues, but could not find any. But in case I've missed a thread, feel free to start the flaming .
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sounds like a sticky power button
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I seem to have a strange problem. My Skyrocket does not want to stay off. I power down the phone, and it comes back up on its own immediately. I've tried this with and without charger connected. I had this problem on Embryo 5.4, and now also on 6.1. Right now, my only option when I need the phone to stay off (like when traveling by air, which I do often) is to take the battery out. The second I put the battery back in, the phone boots up.
Could anyone help me out here?
I tried searching the forum for similar issues, but could not find any. But in case I've missed a thread, feel free to start the flaming .
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I have this problem too.
I believe it happens to me when my battery is full or mostly full. Does it happen to your phone when the batter is low?
Stuck power button. It's a known issue on the skyrocket. There are a number of threads on how to clean it. Search stuck power button on the i727.
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smock9 said:
I have this problem too.
I believe it happens to me when my battery is full or mostly full. Does it happen to your phone when the batter is low?
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Nope.. would happen at any battery level! Turned out to be a sticky button issue after all... just tapped it a few times & (touch-wood) problem solved!:victory:
I have the same problem. I tried cleaning the button, a new battery, flashed different ROMs and recoveries but I still have the problem.
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sobepmp said:
I have the same problem. I tried cleaning the button, a new battery, flashed different ROMs and recoveries but I still have the problem.
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Clean the button out again, but this time do a better job.
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if the power button wont shut off the phone then its a dead button not a stuck power button, just get an app that would do a shutdown/restart/recovery function
vincom said:
if the power button wont shut off the phone then its a dead button not a stuck power button, just get an app that would do a shutdown/restart/recovery function
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quick reboot is a good option
sobepmp said:
I have the same problem. I tried cleaning the button, a new battery, flashed different ROMs and recoveries but I still have the problem.
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try cleaning the charger port also. Turned out I had something there too that was shorting the leads and once I cleaned that out thoroughly, I had no more problems till now.
Thanx, I'll try that.
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[Q] Phone starts vibrating and reboots

Need some help here...been running AOKP unofficial just fine for a while then all of a sudden my phone starts acting crazy and the flash will go off and then start vibrating and try to reboot, then it kinda gets stuck in a mini boot loop. I have to hold down the power button to get it to fully reboot properly. So i thought it might be a bad app. I uninstalled some apps and it kept doing it. So I wiped and installed the latest AOKP unofficial rom. it did it a couple of times even with no apps on the phone. One thing ive also notice is when I push the power button to sleep/lock, It comes right back on to the lockscreen...Thoughts?
Power button, it's in the beginning stages of being totally stuck
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xcrazydx said:
Power button, it's in the beginning stages of being totally stuck
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so am i pretty much SOL? I was thinking it was a hardware issue with the phone crashing and stuff...but wasnt sure...
rabbivj said:
so am i pretty much SOL? I was thinking it was a hardware issue with the phone crashing and stuff...but wasnt sure...
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Just clean it out
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Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35316878. Search is your friend
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i THINK I got it fixed...i took it apart and cleaned it best i could...Thx for the help!
My Old Skyrocket I'm letting my son use, is rebooting also. I notice if i barely touch the power button, it wants to go black, or even prompts to reboot. Extremely sensitive. I'll give this a go within the next few days and hopefully this will get him back in business.
lesd777 said:
My Old Skyrocket I'm letting my son use, is rebooting also. I notice if i barely touch the power button, it wants to go black, or even prompts to reboot. Extremely sensitive. I'll give this a go within the next few days and hopefully this will get him back in business.
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I hope so too.
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Serious crashes every few minutes

Hey guys I have been having a pretty serious issue the last couple of days. Was running a CM 10 teamchopsticks nightly from a few weeks ago, which worked perfectly up until three days ago. Then it started crashing randomly, the screen would go black and it would vibrate every few seconds, a battery pull would fix it. I updated the phone to the latest nightly, and now I can't run the phone for 5 minutes without the same type of crash. When I battery pulled and tried to turn on the phone, it would immediately crash about 4/5 of the time. This bug is rendering my phone unusable. Not sure whether this is a Rom issue or something else, thanks in advance.
Not sure what kernel I am running.
Hearing it may be a hardware issue, anyone agree?
Could be, try to odin stock jb or ics. If you still have the problem then it's probably hardware. Unfortunately the rocket is getting old. I'm having some old age problems with mine too. Mostly stuck power button.
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I am hearing broken power button, how do I fix?
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I am hearing broken power button, how do I fix?
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I don't Think you have it. Take your battery out and then put it back in. If it boots at that point then that's a sign that you probably do. Or if you try to try to power off you phone but it reboots then that's another sign
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Getting the first thing you said
nsilverman15 said:
Getting the first thing you said
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Could be a stick power button then, that's almost a sure sign. Mine is intermittent. Some times it's ok, others not not.
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