hello everybody!
I have a broken power button on my nexus s and I have now remapped my buttons with the power on the volume+. It's not a great problem to have the phone configured like this, but I won't that my volume button turns broke with the intense use.
Have anyone replaced his power button? Does it need to be soldered or it need to be simply joined to the mother board?
Thank you :good:
Noone?
I took mine apart because it broke "open" so t was not possible to power on the device at all (until I messed around and found a way)
So there's 5 solder pads, 3 at the back 2 at the front. The middle pad on the back is connected to one of the outer pads, and the other outer pad is shorted to those 2 other pads when you press the button, The 2 front pads are used to hold down the switch.
Anyways, I got it out with a soldering iron but the 1 important pad got damaged.
The way I figured out to power it on was to install kies with the drivers option (just installing the samsung drivers was not enough), then get odin 1.83, this tool and CWM touch img file from the cwm website (converted to tar with that tool).
Then I turned on the phone in download mode (hold the 2 volume buttons and insert the usb cable), flashed the CWM touch tar file with odin 1.83 with the reset option on and the phone booted on into android. It's a pain but it works.
I found power buttons online for like 10$ but honestly it seems like a PITA to replace. I use button savior and if my phone dies it usually turns back on when I Plug in the charger or pop the battery in and out.
tevil said:
I found power buttons online for like 10$ but honestly it seems like a PITA to replace. I use button savior and if my phone dies it usually turns back on when I Plug in the charger or pop the battery in and out.
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This guy works fine:
http://www.ebay.es/itm/321237784539?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
It's an half dolar on a local electronics store here (Turkey). And every samsung tackle button works with Nexus S.
You don't need to spend for that button much.
I also replaced my nexus S power button. Soldered by myself. Not so hard if you have some experience with soldering...
Mine costs about $12 for replacement, service included. Actually they took an old volume rocker thingy from a beat up samsung phone, and soldered it on mine. Been doing fine for 12 months now. I installed screen off and lock so I won't stress it too much again. Use volume rocker wake if it's included on the current ROM that you are using.. Again so that you won't beat up the little guy once you have it fixed.
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this morning my wife's phone that is 4.0.4 stock/rooted was stuck in bootloop only vibrating and showing the samsung logo again and again. i wiped cache and dalvik to try a quick fix since she was on her way out the door which got the phone to boot up. she called and told me that the phone now is re-starting randomly every few minutes. what is the best way to solve this, CWM flashable stock zip or ODIN stock rom?
also im new to this phone i use the og note on CM11, so if you happen to have a link to a stock/debloated/rooted rom or a custom/stable rom please post it. Thanks all
Sounds like you have a stuck power button. Pull the battery and put out back in. If out truss to boot right up the power button is stuck. It's an easy fix to replace the power button. Do it yourself or take it to a cell phone repair shop. I just did that on my rocket. It was $40 to replace
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This is a well known failure mode on the Skyrocket, and there are a couple of ways to "fix it".
If you are rooted, you can use an app like Button Savior (or something like it) to "press" that button for you. Unfortunately, if the button really is stuck on, this may not help. (Mine would stick for a bit, but eventually open, so as long as I didn't press it the phone did okay)
The other is to just have the switch replaced at a repair shop. I would strongly recommend that, unless you have a hot air workstation and SMD grade soldering iron, you NOT try this one at home. The part is fairly small, and the solder pads are actually slightly recessed, so you really need something like a solder paste to get a good connection without a short. I have actually had some formal training as a solder tech, and even I deferred to a tech at work on this one.
Also, if you get it fixed, check to see if your ROM has an option for using other buttons to wake the phone up. I set mine to use the volume keys to take some of the load off the power button.
Hello,
Yesterday my Nexus5 won't turn on when pushing the power button. After plugging it into the Charger it kept on bootlooping at the Google Logo.
When i got home i disconnected the battery and tried again - same issue.
Did some Research after that at and came to the conclusion that my internal power button got somehow "stuck". So i disassembled the phone and tried to pull out the white little power button on the motherboard but it didn't help - the button also doesn't seem to be stuck.
Any one of you with input regarding this Issue? It Phone now randomly boots up for 3-4 Seconds and turns itself off again after that.
Some people on reddit and xda recommened on "smashing" the phone a little bit on the table to unstuck the button but that didn't help either.
thank you
From what I've read the metal piece that the white power button is pushing in is getting stuck, not the actual button itself. I ran into this with my N5 a few weeks ago. People suggested a few fixes: flicking the power button with your finger and storing the phone next to a strong magnet. Not sure how good of an idea the magnet idea is, but the flicking temporarily helped for me, enough to break it from the loop at any rate. Sounds like that didn't really help for you though.
I ended up taking it to a repair shop (out of warranty) and they soldered on a new power switch for ~$60. They didn't seem overly confident it would work, but it's working just fine now.
Yesterday my power button had some issues, my Nexus 5 was a brick unless plugged in with power, in which the Google screen will go on and off (basically boot looping). I decided to open the back of my phone to take a look at the power button, and got my Nexus 5 working again. HOWEVER when I closed it I forgot about the black cover that covers the motherboard and started trying to put in the screws in, (which was very hard). While fumbling to put the screws in, I realized that I forgot to put the cover on and had to unscrew my phone. But it was too late, I think I may have caused a electrostatic discharge on my motherboard or perhaps my battery due to the electrostatic being discharged from the screw. Though I'm not sure which one is fried, but I know one of them is. So how do you tell if which is fried?
and yes I it was very stupid of me...
currently my phone is bricked, nothing happens if I hold my power button, holding volume + power, hold it for x seconds, tried all that.
though when I plug my phone into my computer, and hold both power and volume button, it becomes connected w/ my computer and I could see it as a device connected to my computer, but then disconnects after a few seconds.
I was running the latest stock image (MMB29V) since yesterday on my Nexus 5 and today I used the Nexus root toolkit as always to root the device. Well TWRP flashed once and it said it copied the root files to the device. I had it in my pocket for a few minutes and after that it went into a crazy constant boot loop. It will stop eventually but if I keep the charging cable in it won't stop. I cannot get into recovery because I get the "Start" screen but I cannot advance because it reboots too quickly. I have found a few you tube videos where people push the power button like they are playing the old school game "Track and Field" but this does not work for me nor do I think it's a power button issue. I think I stupidly might have hit some kind of button combo while I'm my pocket believe it or not. I pulled the cover off and was hoping to pull the battery but Im not a fan of doing that since its not a simple task. Any help appreciated. This phone is dead to me and that is NOT good. I need to get this working.
TIA
Bill
Will the phone stay in fastboot mode or does it quickly restart?
Possible power button problem?
audit13 said:
Will the phone stay in fastboot mode or does it quickly restart?
Possible power button problem?
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It quickly restarts. I want to say its not a problem with the power button because it has been fine for a few years now w/out issue and only happened after rooting earlier today. Right now the only way I can even get the phone to turn on is the plug the charging cable in and then the restarting commences. Does it sound like a power button issue? Possibly but its hard to believe, I dunno. Waiting on a call back from Google tech support to see if they are any help.
It could be a power button issue. You'll have to remove the motherboard to find out.
Once removed from the housing, quickly press and release the power button several times in a row using more pressure than normal. While the motherboard is out of the phone, clean around the power button with pure alcohol.
audit13 said:
It could be a power button issue. You'll have to remove the motherboard to find out.
Once removed from the housing, quickly press and release the power button several times in a row using more pressure than normal. While the motherboard is out of the phone, clean around the power button with pure alcohol.
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Is there a write up on that here somewhere? Guess I will have to search around for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-power-button-broken-heres-to-t3049747
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-power-button-broken-heres-to-t3049747
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Did NOT want to screw up my phone so I sent it to LG. Took a few weeks but it cost me 78.00 total for them to repair the power button issue. Whatever they replaced also fixed the low volume issue I was experiencing as well so it worked out.
I have an Oneplus Nord Indian version which broke into pieces during an accident. Now my display is not working. Before replacing the display I just wanted to make sure that the phone is still working. So I plugged it in and it vibrated for a second. I thought that the phone is booting without a problem. But after sometime when i put a sim card in the phone it doesn't seem to be working. When I unplug the charger and then replug it the phone doesn't give out any sound or vibration. So I thought about force restarting the phone. But to my surprise holding on the power button for a long time doesn't do anything because I already know that the phone will vibrate if it starts to boot up. So I went in and checked every flex cable connection. And when I replugged the battery again the power button worked, the phone vibrated but again after sometime the power button just doesn't seem to be doing anything. So I held the VOL + button and power button together and this worked, everytime when I hold those buttons together, the phone responded with a vibration. So I thought about flashing it with the MDM Tool as the data in the phone was not important for me. The flashing completed without a fuss and the phone vibrated again. And guess what, Its still the same. No charging sounds, none of the sim card works , no vibration when plugged in , the alert slider isn't doing anything. The only thing that the phone will respond to is by holding the Volume Up button and power button together. So my question is, whether this is because of not having an display connected or is the mainboard faulty here ? Because replacement displays are damn expensive and I'm not ready to buy it unless I'm absolutely sure that the phone only needs a new display. And is there any other way to make sure that the phone is working or not ?
I had a similar situation. I closed the trunk of the car and the phone was on the bumper and I hit it with the trunk lid. the glass cracked, but with a long press on the power button there was a vibration. I bought a new screen and replaced it. and everything works great
gorro8 said:
I had a similar situation. I closed the trunk of the car and the phone was on the bumper and I hit it with the trunk lid. the glass cracked, but with a long press on the power button there was a vibration. I bought a new screen and replaced it. and everything works great
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That's what I'm afraid of, if the phone is good it must vibrate when power button is long pressed which indicates that the phone is rebooting. Thanks for your reply mate. Appreciate it.