I'm about to try the soldering technique on my Infuse's power button but I have some questions before I give it a go.
My infuse has had this problem before but I temporarily fixed it by dropping the phone. Then it happened again so I tapped the power button against the corner of my desk which also fixed the problem. Now the stuck power button is back again, but this time I actually opened the phone up entirely to see what the problem was. There seems to be none..turning on my phone without the plastic casing containing the power button and volume rocker did NOT work. So my phone boot loops even without anything "jamming" the power button down. So is the issue with the stuck power button really resolvable? In MrKickstand's guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709 I've tried everything except for the soldering technique. He notes there are four spots of solder that need to be melted. I see three. What do I do? This is my last ditch effort before I call up the local cell phone repair shop.
Edit: Pulling the power button with tweezers didn't do anything.
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Pok3rr said:
I'm about to try the soldering technique on my Infuse's power button but I have some questions before I give it a go.
My infuse has had this problem before but I temporarily fixed it by dropping the phone. Then it happened again so I tapped the power button against the corner of my desk which also fixed the problem. Now the stuck power button is back again, but this time I actually opened the phone up entirely to see what the problem was. There seems to be none..turning on my phone without the plastic casing containing the power button and volume rocker did NOT work. So my phone boot loops even without anything "jamming" the power button down. So is the issue with the stuck power button really resolvable? In MrKickstand's guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709 I've tried everything except for the soldering technique. He notes there are four spots of solder that need to be melted. I see three. What do I do? This is my last ditch effort before I call up the local cell phone repair shop.
Edit: Pulling the power button with tweezers didn't do anything.
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Here try this it works for me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifw2_yYP8e0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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alexischino said:
Here try this it works for me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifw2_yYP8e0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Attempting to boot my phone without the case on it results in a bootloop too. I'll try putting the case back on the screen/motherboard.
It didn't work :'(
Pok3rr said:
Attempting to boot my phone without the case on it results in a bootloop too. I'll try putting the case back on the screen/motherboard.
It didn't work :'(
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Well it looks like your problem is not a dirty power button is a damage button....
Good luck!!
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This is a bit of a rant topic.
My phone case is one of those hard, yet bendy plastic cases.
Simple. $10 bucks. i think i grabbed it from a kiosk in a mall.
The case is a tight seal around my phone - as expected
however, through my 12 months of playing with the phone, taking the case on and off, hard reboots etc, my power button is officially unusable.
The button itself is stuck in the phone. it's as if it pressed it down and it never came back up.
This makes life with my One X very difficult.
turning the screen on and off is difficult. it's now extremely sensitive. just brushing the tip of my finger over the top of the phone turns the screen on and off multiple times.
I can't press and hold the button to bring up the reboot menu - although it does work sometimes (seems like the lower the phone's temp, the more likely it works)
Just makes life difficult. Sometimes a ROM needs a nice reboot, and it's near impossible for me to do so!
I've resorted to opening up a command line and giving it the ol' reboot command, but goddamn!
Im now officially waiting on the Nexus 5
Anyone else with similar experiences?
It's almost definitely caused by the cheap case you put on the phone. For rebooting, you could use an app called Quick Boot, it's a simple app which has options for rebooting (system/bootloader/recovery/power off).
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hey bro, fix that button is pretty simple, also dissasembly the phone is like a joke... look...
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It's almost definitely caused by the cheap case you put on the phone. For rebooting, you could use an app called Quick Boot, it's a simple app which has options for rebooting (system/bootloader/recovery/power off).
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Thanks!!
nighthawk1991 said:
hey bro, fix that button is pretty simple, also dissasembly the phone is like a joke... look...
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Alright. How do I take it apart? Did you follow a specific video or guide?
idk how is in english but I use two "puas" pua is a guitar thing, ill upload a photo... then you have to dissasembly the down side and then left and right side... look...
http://youtu.be/PrArAes5liM
Ahh - We call them a guitar pic
(pick? pic? one of those...)
cool, ill give it a shot.
looks super sketchy!! lol
Alright that wasn't too bad
One thing i never saw mentioned was that hte camera is reeeeally glued on there, so you need to pull pretty hard.
I didnt see that in any video
Anyways, popped the thing off and even took my power button right off from the hosuing. Doesnt seem like thres anything i can do
i think the button on the actual mother board is stuck in
Buy a new button and replace easy fix
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HI,
So, grabbed my TF300T one day and it would turn on, "no prob" its just out of charge, so charged it (led on the power button went green) went to turn it on and nothing! tried soft and hard resets and still nothing!
Does anyone have any ideas or is it just dead? its stock, just unlocked (form ASUS tool).
Cheers.
FatRocker666 said:
HI,
So, grabbed my TF300T one day and it would turn on, "no prob" its just out of charge, so charged it (led on the power button went green) went to turn it on and nothing! tried soft and hard resets and still nothing!
Does anyone have any ideas or is it just dead? its stock, just unlocked (form ASUS tool).
Cheers.
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Try using the reset hole on the left side of your tablet. Hold that down for varying lengths of time.
Does the light still turn on when you plug it in?
cmendonc2 said:
Try using the reset hole on the left side of your tablet. Hold that down for varying lengths of time.
Does the light still turn on when you plug it in?
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I have tried the reset button but with no results.
Yes, when plugged into the mains i get the orange and then green led.
It could also be the power button shiftet out of place. Remove micro sd card and remove the back cover. Ask someone for help if you don't feel comfortable doing this yourself. Be careful with the hdmi and audio connectors. A pry tool is useful but not required.
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Done that too. I had a new motherboard from the last RMA. I think I will just have to face facts that it is now dead
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Last suggestions. Service switch is off. (But that kind of don't happen by itself).
Have you checked if it possible to put it in apx mode? Have you done the nvflash/wheelie/flatline backup?
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Hi all...
I think my N5 is buggered.
I was at a festival this weekend and my phone battery ran out so I left it in my bag for more of the weekend. On the drive back it was working fine as I was using GPs, making calls, using Gplay without any problems. As my GF wanted to charge her phone mine ran out again by the time I got home and I went to charge it as it was down to 2% but when I plugged the charger in it would not charge. It would start charging for a second then stop for a second and then start again. So I unplugged it and went to give it a re-boot and the screen came back on corrupted like this -
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I have holding the volume down and power button to get to the fast boot menu and the screen does the same thing but this time while i'm holding it the screen with turn on and off wile vibrating 5-6 times before turning off.
I have even tried using fastboot to flash the recovery image onto the phone and it says everything has worked but again I get the corrupeted screen when I reboot.
Anyone seen or know of this problem? Or is it what I expect and it's got a hardware issue and needs to get repaired?
Thanks in advanced for any help or suggestions.
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Hi all...
I think my N5 is buggered.
I was at a festival this weekend and my phone battery ran out so I left it in my bag for more of the weekend. On the drive back it was working fine as I was using GPs, making calls, using Gplay without any problems. As my GF wanted to charge her phone mine ran out again by the time I got home and I went to charge it as it was down to 2% but when I plugged the charger in it would not charge. It would start charging for a second then stop for a second and then start again. So I unplugged it and went to give it a re-boot and the screen came back on corrupted like this -
I have holding the volume down and power button to get to the fast boot menu and the screen does the same thing but this time while i'm holding it the screen with turn on and off wile vibrating 5-6 times before turning off.
I have even tried using fastboot to flash the recovery image onto the phone and it says everything has worked but again I get the corrupeted screen when I reboot.
Anyone seen or know of this problem? Or is it what I expect and it's got a hardware issue and needs to get repaired?
Thanks in advanced for any help or suggestions.
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It's a problem with the flex cable, the screen, or possibly the motherboard.
A few people have had this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-screen-colored-pixel-snow-t2809802
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/screen-scrambled-t2821507
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-screen-colorful-static-t2600032
Lethargy said:
It's a problem with the flex cable, the screen, or possibly the motherboard.
A few people have had this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-screen-colored-pixel-snow-t2809802
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/screen-scrambled-t2821507
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-screen-colorful-static-t2600032
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Lethargy,
I had a feeling it was going to be a hardware issue. Thank you so much for the help... I'll get it sorted under my insurance then and get myself a temporary phone until then.
Cheers
As the title stated. I have yet to do anything to my z3.
no root or anything....
Missed my two hours lecture because of it
the notification light is on and blinking but the phone itself will not respond when pressing the power button or double tapping the screen.
had to try pressing power button with volume up to hard reboot it (i don't know but it works, got this technique from rooting my S3)
Anyone with Z3 encountered this problem yet?
my model is D6603
william90130 said:
As the title stated. I have yet to do anything to my z3.
no root or anything....
Missed my two hours lecture because of it
the notification light is on and blinking but the phone itself will not respond when pressing the power button or double tapping the screen.
had to try pressing power button with volume up to hard reboot it (i don't know but it works, got this technique from rooting my S3)
Anyone with Z3 encountered this problem yet?
my model is D6603
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Try the following step:
1). Remove your phone case/cover if you have one
2). Open the MicroSD/NanoSim Flap
3). Get a pin and push the small emergency off button which is yellowish ; Example below
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Try the following step:
1). Remove your phone case/cover if you have one
2). Open the MicroSD/NanoSim Flap
3). Get a pin and push the small emergency off button which is yellowish ; Example below
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Umm..What exactly does the button do when you press it?
I didn't have to pressed the yellow button to fix it but simply by pressing volume up and power button.
Was asking if anyone has the same experience cuz im worried about mine being defective, only had it for 2 months i think
It happened for me just one time, i had it for 3 weeks. Anyway that button simply does forces the phone shut down, it also works if you are stuck in the bootloader
Syzew said:
It happened for me just one time, i had it for 3 weeks. Anyway that button simply does forces the phone shut down, it also works if you are stuck in the bootloader
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You had it for three weeks??
Could you be more specific?
THX
I had the Sony Xperia Z3 for three weeks, there was a ram overuse and it froze, i put that button and it turned off.
Syzew said:
I had the Sony Xperia Z3 for three weeks, there was a ram overuse and it froze, i put that button and it turned off.
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It happened to me once since Sp. '14 and reset button solved the issue...
It simply forces a shutdown, It won't affect your data, i believe it will vibrate 3 times once it shuts off or something like that
The headline says most of it but I'll spell it out here more clearly...
If I press the power button by itself absolutely nothing will happen. If I press the power button with one of the volume buttons, the tablet will reboot as I might expect, and go into either recovery or bootloader.
I ran a hardware test(TestM) and it doesn't detect the power button being pressed at all so why in the world does it work when pressing the volume buttons.
This thing works fine otherwise but this is the most confusing thing I think I've seen. I'm not sure that I have a repair place local that'll fix the switch even if that's the actual problem but I don't want to buy another because this one has been working perfectly fine otherwise.
Any ideas? I'm all ears.
Is it like that in safe mode?
I haven't had any luck getting it into safe mode. I don't know if me using a custom rom has anything to do with that but so far everything seems to rely on me powering all the way down and then powering up via the power button before pressing the volume down button, and since I can't JUST press the power button, I don't know if that's interfering with the process there.
The most obvious suspect is the firmware if it's been doing this since install.
Could be a switch, connector or mobo failure.
Power port PCBs can do strange things when they fail.
blackhawk said:
The most obvious suspect is the firmware if it's been doing this since install.
Could be a switch, connector or mobo failure.
Power port PCBs can do strange things when they fail.
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No, it just started probably in the past couple weeks but I only noticed what was going on today. I was figuring it was likely the mobo or something because if the switch itself were failing then it simply wouldn't work. I guess I'll likely have to repurpose this thing and buy another tablet. Damn shame but I can't have it fail on me while I'm out and about.
ehrichweiss said:
No, it just started probably in the past couple weeks but I only noticed what was going on today. I was figuring it was likely the mobo or something because if the switch itself were failing then it simply wouldn't work. I guess I'll likely have to repurpose this thing and buy another tablet. Damn shame but I can't have it fail on me while I'm out and about.
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It may be a double pole switch. One set of contacts aren't working.
blackhawk said:
It may be a double pole switch. One set of contacts aren't working.
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Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
ehrichweiss said:
Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
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Without a circuit schematic you're just guessing unless you examine it directly.
It looks like it's modular mess. Try getting a replacement set on Ebay. This may take some looking.
Was it ever dropped/hit on the buttons?
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Hello, I had the same problem with customer tablet, And I found the solution with jumpers.
See attached photos.
Regards,
JP
fixits said:
View attachment 5765807Hello, I had the same problem with customer tablet, And I found the solution with jumpers.
See attached photos.
Regards,
JP
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So you hard wired the switch to those points?
A solder failure on the switch or pcb trace or did you bypass the pushbutton switch?