So my GS3 has been fine up until about an hour ago. It looks like the power button is somehow stuck to "on," as in, the button acts like it's always being pressed.
The physical button isn't stuck down. It clicks just fine. Here is my problem, I'm rooted with a custom recovery. I can't get into download mode to odin back to stock. whenever I press vol up to go into download mode it immediately reboots or boots the phone up.
Am I completely hosed here? If I take the battery out and put it back in it immediately powers up(hence why the power button is stuck in "on"). Also, another factor proving that the power button is always triggered as if held down is I can pop the battery in and just press vol down and home and it will launch into the initial download mode screen(press vol up to continue).
EDIT: I want to odin back to stock in order to send it in for warranty replacement.
antiseen said:
So my GS3 has been fine up until about an hour ago. It looks like the power button is somehow stuck to "on," as in, the button acts like it's always being pressed.
The physical button isn't stuck down. It clicks just fine. Here is my problem, I'm rooted with a custom recovery. I can't get into download mode to odin back to stock. whenever I press vol up to go into download mode it immediately reboots or boots the phone up.
Am I completely hosed here? If I take the battery out and put it back in it immediately powers up(hence why the power button is stuck in "on"). Also, another factor proving that the power button is always triggered as if held down is I can pop the battery in and just press vol down and home and it will launch into the initial download mode screen(press vol up to continue).
EDIT: I want to odin back to stock in order to send it in for warranty replacement.
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I literally had the exact same problem yesterday and today. What I did was unscrewed the little screws holding the back plate on and this gave me more access to the power button. I popped the plastic cover of the power button off with my fingernail and proceeded to lightly press and jiggle it. This allowed for it to work temporarily which gave me time to odin back to stock and now my phone is being replaced under warranty.
Best of luck!
Have you tried massaging the button back and forth to try to loosen it? It might be easier than removing the screws to access it more. (If it works)
Literally just started happening to me yesterday also. Not quite to that extent, it randomly clicks on and the power menu jumps up over everything I do, but maybe I should return to stock before it does get stuck down. Either of you use the ZeroLemon 7000 ma/h battery and case?
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The power button on my phone recently has stopped working. I need to get it warrantied, but I am running CM 10.2. I need to Odin back to stock, but I can not get into Download Mode or the recovery. When I go into Download mode, the initial screen pops up, the one where you choose to hit up to continue, or down to reboot normally. After I hit up, the screen goes black and nothing happens.
I really need to get back to stock, as Bestbuy are being dicks, and demanding I do a factory reset before they send my phone in.
Anything? I still need help on this.
Pompsy said:
Anything? I still need help on this.
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This has been covered at least 10 times in the past few months we need a sticky. Take your battery out hold your phone so the power button is facing a table or floor and slam that side a few times it should work again (Temporary). You might need to hit it on the surface really hard 10-20 times before it works. Just not to hard or else you might crack the screen. I used a mouse pad to soften the impact. This trick no longer works for me so I ripped the button off. After about a month of doing this I needed to use things that would only hit the button to make it work. About a month after that nothing worked so I just took it off the motherboard and now boot from a off state by plugging into the wall and enter odin mode deny the prompt and it kicks me into a workable state.
ThePagel said:
This has been covered at least 10 times in the past few months we need a sticky. Take your battery out hold your phone so the power button is facing a table or floor and slam that side a few times it should work again (Temporary). You might need to hit it on the surface really hard 10-20 times before it works. Just not to hard or else you might crack the screen. I used a mouse pad to soften the impact. This trick no longer works for me so I ripped the button off. After about a month of doing this I needed to use things that would only hit the button to make it work. About a month after that nothing worked so I just took it off the motherboard and now boot from a off state by plugging into the wall and enter odin mode deny the prompt and it kicks me into a workable state.
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I can get into the system just fine. When I go into the recovery or download mode, it doesn't stay in that mode. I tried the banging thing, and it made my power button go from intermittently working, to not working at all.
keep doing it until it works. The button is sticking that is why it reboots/stopped working.
Pompsy said:
I can get into the system just fine. When I go into the recovery or download mode, it doesn't stay in that mode. I tried the banging thing, and it made my power button go from intermittently working, to not working at all.
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It sounds like your power button is physically broken, and it is activating intermittently, which is stopping the phone from entering download mode. My only experience with this problem is my own phone but ultimately mine got so bad that I had to rip the button off the motherboard, as ThePagel did. Your symptoms sound the same as mine.
You can try this procedure to get into recovery, which works for me without a power button. You will probably have the same problem you are having now with the phone rebooting on its own before you actually get into recovery, because the power button is activating.
1. Take the battery out of the phone and unplug it from USB power.
2. Plug in USB power.
3. While holding down the volume-down button and the Home button, insert the battery (this is a little tricky).
4. The phone should start and warn you that you are entering Download mode. If you want to use Odin to return to stock, do that now.
5. If you want to get into Recovery instead, press Volume Down to reboot and then *immediately* push and hold Volume Up and Home simultaneously. The phone should reboot into recovery. Mine does.
If that doesn't work, and you can't get a new phone without returning it to stock, then prying the power button off the phone's motherboard may be your only solution.
So Honor 6+ my power button had been kinda stuck for a while and sometimes it would take holding it in for 20-30 seconds, but I always got it on eventually and used apps like 'Volume Power' to use the volume buttons to unlock the screen if the power button was stuck.
The key was basically to try to avoid letting the phone go off, but last weekend I'm on a plane no plug and it happens. I knew it was a matter of time before the power button simply didn't respond at all and that's what has happened. I've been pressing and holding it in hope constantly but nothing.
Phone is only 6 months old so I contact Huawei (in UK) to arrange repair. They offer me a new one but obviously I would rather my own fixed. Here's the killer - as a policy they wipe every phone that comes to their repair centre. I mean are you serious?! They send me detailed instructions on how to back my phone up before sending it out. However, obviously no instructions as to how to get the freaking thing on without the power button to back it up.
I would be hugely appreciative if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get it on without the button, even just once, and back up tons of vacation snaps and a lifetime worth of contacts. I'll try anything before I give up and send it off to them to get back blank . Thanks!
My phone(PE-TL10) is similar now. Its power button is not working. I think it's broken because I changed the region code (CHN to EU).To switch on when the phone is switched off, I connect to the PC with the data cable while the volume up key is pressed. I use the "titanium backup" application to turn off or reset the phone. I press the volume down button long to open the screen. Disgrace :angel:
Hello.
My power button is broken. The only way I know to turn the phone on is removing the battery and connecting it quickly. I could get into the stock recovery pressing vol + and connecting to the charger but I need the power button to select any option, I installed TWRP recovery but I cannot use it, the button combination is different to get into (vol + & power button).
Is there any other way to turn on or use recovery when the phone is off?
Thanks
Fastbooting it from the computer is a solution..
Fastboot is disabled in android marshmallow. Now, how can we boot the phone ?
One last resort option is to send it to Alcatel. I had issues with my power button failing and they resolved it. (FTR I was still under warranty)
I had this problem. Eventually found a video for it on YouTube. I couldn't return my phone to Alcatel as I had dropped it in the toilet ? and then taken it apart to dry it out.
If its still under warranty I would return it to Alcatel. If not then the way to turn it on is a bit of a pain at first but quite easy when you've done it a few times. You do have to take the back off your phone.
If you are happy there is a reasonable amount of charge already in it then plug it in to a charger whilst holding the volume up button (or down button I forget which!) This should start the phone in the recovery mode.
Then unplug the phone.
Then very quickly disconnect and reconnect the battery.
Phone will turn on.
Put phone back together.
Keep battery charged!
Some kind person made a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFE8FdTXrY
I have a Galaxy S6 with a faulty power button.
I took it to a Samsung Repair Centre.
After "diagnosing" the problem (which I had to pay for), I was told that the faulty power button was due to "liquid damage" (it has never been in water everything else works fine).
They said it would cost £180 to repair and would require they replace the whole motherboard.
I refused as I cannot afford that repair and would rather consult a third party shop or purchase a brand new phone.
Unfortunately, the state I received the phone back in unusable.
Before the phone was sent in, it was at least in a state where I could at least use it (providing I kept it charged and did not power it off).
Now its just stuck in a recovery mode => restart => no command (boot loop), and I cannot select an option from the recovery mode screen because the power button does not work.
I planned to flash the stock firmware to try in order to get it out of this loop, and I can get it to boot to download mode as the volume buttons and home button work fine.
However, now when I'm at the cyan warning screen it prompts me for volume up to continue.
I press volume up and nothing happens. I know that these buttons work for a fact as in recovery mode I can navigate up and down.
Any ideas whats going on? or what I should try next?
Videos of the issue
(Tinfoil theory: Did they purposefully lock down download mode after inspecting it?)
If you have time, continuously keep pressing volume up and power until it gets you into Odin. Best of luck.
We're on slightly different devices, but mine has the same defect. The power button failed overnight, it worked to start the device but afterwards, the power button became stuck in the pressed state and I couldn't lock the device (not mechanically, it is still clicky). The volume down button still worked (I don't have to hold power to force a restart because it's stuck in the pressed state), I wanted to take a look at the knox status in the download mode, it didn't respond to volume up, this means that it's dependent on not having power pressed. I somehow got the restart confirmation to show with the power button, twice, so it's not completely defective. The volume down button cycled through being stuck and non-clicky, working normally, and being stuck while being mostly clicky, like the power button, though it doesn't seem to be stuck in the pressed state. It's likely because I kept pushing Volume Down for hours in a terminal emulator. Today, it takes 5 mins of torturing Volume Down to restart the device. Eventually, it might fail completely. This device seems to be able to ignore volume up / down if those buttons are stuck and work almost completely normally.
I have a really big issue. After attempting to get into recovery mode with my S7 which has a broken power button due to water damage it tried to install a system update despite I didn't perform any update and now it shows no command and kicks me into recovery mode but I cannot choose any option because my power button is broken.
I've also tried holding Volume Down + Home Button but when entering download mode I cannot proceed when pressing Volume Up. Nothing happens and I can only get out of there when holding Volume Down for 5-10 seconds and the the first mentioned thing happens again. Is there anything I can do without replacing the damaged part?
Take your back panel off and try fixing your power key manually. However taking your back panel off will remove your IP68 water resistance.
Wattsensi said:
Take your back panel off and try fixing your power key manually. However taking your back panel off will remove your IP68 water resistance.
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The back panel has already been replaced once (but improperly) by the previous owner and it already has a tiny gap at the top of the phone, so no water resistance anymore. I'll try it out when I can. Thx for your answer
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I have a really big issue. After attempting to get into recovery mode with my S7 which has a broken power button due to water damage it tried to install a system update despite I didn't perform any update and now it shows no command and kicks me into recovery mode but I cannot choose any option because my power button is broken.
I've also tried holding Volume Down + Home Button but when entering download mode I cannot proceed when pressing Volume Up. Nothing happens and I can only get out of there when holding Volume Down for 5-10 seconds and the the first mentioned thing happens again. Is there anything I can do without replacing the damaged part?
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I've the same problem, but it happened after my S7 turned off because the battery reached 0% (I was sleeping).
My power button is also broken, and volume up doesnt work in download mode, but it was working fine in Android.