My power button stopped being reliable two days ago. It acted as though it was always pressed. I could hear/feel the mechanical clicking but the software acted as though the button was never fully released.
I followed a teardown guide on another thread and took the plastic button insert out of the outer chassis. I cleaned that whole area with alcohol and a qtip. Put it back together and it's been flawless since.
Not sure if it'll help anyone else but it sure makes my phone less frustrating.
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I searched the forums for this issue, but seems like no one else has experienced this yet..!? I'm not sure how it happened, but just 2 days ago, my power button stopped responding. In other words, no matter how much pressure I put on it, or how long I hold it, my tablet will not turn on or wake up from sleep..! I'm not even sure how it happened. I just left it near on the floor propped up near my night stand earlier this week and the next morning I noticed I had a tough time turning my tablet on... (However, I did notice before this that sometimes my power button was way too sensitive and would ask if I wanted to power off the tablet, when all I did was press it for a second to put it to sleep. Guess, that was signs of eminent failure?)
And it's definitely a hardware and not a charging problem, since I can make my tablet turn on by removing it from the dock for a few secs and then reconnecting it, but obviously this is not acceptable. And other than that I don't know how else to turn it on...
I bought my tablet from Amazon, so I can't take it back to any store. Has anyone here had this problem before and tried to repair it themselves? Or has anyone at least tried to send their tablets in for repair to ASUS after unlocking the bootloader, rooting and loading a custom ROM? How did that go for you?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
amazon has a superb return policy - at least here in germany - should be no prob in the US - just call them so they open a RMA for you - or send it to asus directly.
good luck
cheers
power to the button
d0ubl3_d1zzl 3 said:
I searched the forums for this issue, but seems like no one else has experienced this yet..!? I'm not sure how it happened, but just 2 days ago, my power button stopped responding. In other words, no matter how much pressure I put on it, or how long I hold it, my tablet will not turn on or wake up from sleep..! I'm not even sure how it happened. I just left it near on the floor propped up near my night stand earlier this week and the next morning I noticed I had a tough time turning my tablet on... (However, I did notice before this that sometimes my power button was way too sensitive and would ask if I wanted to power off the tablet, when all I did was press it for a second to put it to sleep. Guess, that was signs of eminent failure?)
And it's definitely a hardware and not a charging problem, since I can make my tablet turn on by removing it from the dock for a few secs and then reconnecting it, but obviously this is not acceptable. And other than that I don't know how else to turn it on...
I bought my tablet from Amazon, so I can't take it back to any store. Has anyone here had this problem before and tried to repair it themselves? Or has anyone at least tried to send their tablets in for repair to ASUS after unlocking the bootloader, rooting and loading a custom ROM? How did that go for you?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
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My power button was giving me the power off / restart reboot which had been driving me crazy. Took the back off and investigated. The actual power button mechanism is flimsy and not well put together. After attempts with tape, with brief success the reboots returned. Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
Buster99 said:
amazon has a superb return policy - at least here in germany - should be no prob in the US - just call them so they open a RMA for you - or send it to asus directly.
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jennies said:
..Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
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Thanks for the input, guys. Glad to hear I'm not the only one and that it seems to be something I can try and fix on my own... I was mostly worried it was well known problem and ASUS wouldn't repair the devices that were tampered with or had unlocked bootloaders, but looks like they may not be thoroughly checking that. And my return window from Amazon expired in late June, so I figured it wasn't worth going through them anymore, but I've never had to that before, so I'm not sure...
jennies said:
My power button was giving me the power off / restart reboot which had been driving me crazy. Took the back off and investigated. The actual power button mechanism is flimsy and not well put together. After attempts with tape, with brief success the reboots returned. Today I looked again and took of the small bit of plastic with the silver button on it and noticed it was not central. Carefully peeled off the silver power button and attached it in the centre. Applied some tape and another piece in the plastic physical button mechanism to help it spring back. The result is my power button feels perfect and no more reboots so far.
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What kind of tape did you use?
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trevor7428 said:
What kind of tape did you use?
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I just pulled off the back (it has pressure pins, so i just use my nails, 'bcuz i don't have the plastic tool..), the Power Button is a 'lil switch, the top metallic part is held to the bottom part by a transparent piece of tape, if its not centered, just carefully remove it and place in the center.. If it the tape have enough glue to hold it back, You can use to same piece of tape to hold it back together.. If not, You can use a standard hmm (don't remember the name..) transparent tape to do the job... Hopefully the button keeps in place for while....
(sorry, just saw that there's a help forum - but I don't know to move my post, or if I can.)
I had ordered a screen / middle frame assembly and replaced everything, based on a couple youtube videos (I hadn't run across the replacement thread here at the time). It went pretty smoothly, except for the logic board screw, which I had a difficult time getting out, and more difficult getting back in. All because I was impatient - I was visiting family and away from all my tools. So I ended up using needle nose pliers to get the logic board screw back in, but after I finished, the OPO wouldn't turn on. The screen does display the initial charging animation when plugged in though, so I think it's just not getting the power button click. After opening it back up, it looks like I damaged the ribbon to the power button. - I have attached the best picture I could get.
Any ideas on what my next step should be? It's hard to tell where the apparently exposed wire is run - to the other contact? It's hard to tell if it's shorting, or what.
I would appreciate any ideas or help!
Thanks
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
My Nexus 5 got squished such that the screen was badly cracked and the digitizer stopped working. I still like this phone, so I ordered a replacement screen+digitizer (and battery too) and tools to replace them.
Everything seemed to go fine at first. After getting the old screen out I attached the new one and I wanted to test it before putting everything back together so I set the motherboard and charger board in place and connected all the cables without screwing everything down. I turned the phone on and it worked. The screen+digitizer worked and it looked like my phone would live.
Then I screwed everything back together and it wouldn't turn on. I mean I would push the power button and nothing at all would happen. So I took the back cover off and unscrewed everything and tried again and it powered on again. So I started putting it back together one piece at a time and what I think I've narrowed it down to is that when I put on the small cover over the motherboard (iFixit calls it the midframe but I'm not sure that's right -- sorry can't post link) and screw in the top-right screw (as viewed from the back -- it's the one above the volume control) then it won't power on. I assume something is shorting out. I don't even actually have to screw in that screw. If I squeeze that corner a bit, it won't power on.
Any advice? Thanks in advance.
I think I got it. Since the front camera was near that screw I tried taking it out, then putting everything else back together and the phone worked! The front camera had fallen out during disassembly. So I watched a video on how to replace it and found out you have to stick the tab coming off the camera underneath the rubber tab attached to the frame. I did, put everything back together and it works.
Thanks for reading.