About 8 months ago, my volume-down button quit working completely; volume-up works perfectly fine.
This happened after a series of bad drops that cracked the screen (I regrettably opted to go without a case for my phone during this period of time). It might just be a coincidence, but I noticed that with each subsequent drop, the button became less responsive, until it quit working completely soon after the last unprotected drop.
I don't think it's a software issue, since I cannot use the power + vol down combination to boot into the bootloader. And when I am in the bootloader, it does not respond to volume-down presses. As a last resort, I replaced the flex cable for the volume buttons to no avail. Is there anything else I can try?
I'm in no dire need for volume-down. I went the last 8 months without it, and I can just work around it through adb or the advanced reboot in CM whenever I need the bootloader, but it would be nice to finally fix it.
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Is there a way to disable the volume key on the thunderbolt?
I got my hands on one (legitimately) that has had a pretty tough life. Must have been dropped on the volume key. Problem is... it's the down key... so now you get stuck at H-boot on every power up. So I S-off'd it and rooted it. (took many tries) But when I got it to boot via CWM recovery - it boots into safe mode. After poking around a bit - and the volume down key no longer working. (I think it's stuck "down". Or malfunctioning in some way that makes the phone think it's down during boot.)
I'm stuck with a stock phone that I can't even run apps on.
Which is one step further than earlier today when I couldn't get past H-boot.
Now I can ninja my way into it booting via recovery but I can't run a darn thing on it. Everything else seems fine. Aside from the scuffs and bumps.
I completely disassembled the phone to check everything I could. I can't find a cause for the volume key issue. Didn't appear to have a major water damage issue I can see. Although the indicator near the charging port was ever so slightly tinted. So there may have been a moisture issue at some point near the other side of the phone. I plucked at the tiny volume actuator under the buttons - even tried booting the phone out of it's casing to be sure the rocker was not deformed and pressing the key in any way. Same deal, got stuck at H-boot.
I planned on using it as a test mule for roms, and general douchebaggery. But is there a way to disable the physical keys in some way so I can use it? I don't plan on USING it as a phone, just as a toy. So not having a volume down key would be no big deal.
I'd hate to use an otherwise working phone as spare parts. But that's it's not so distant future if I can't get a work around for this volume key thing.
Might try loading a rom on it to see if 'safe mode' is disabled in one of them. I just tried booting my phone with CM7.1 on it with the volume key down and it didn't safe mode me. So maybe I'll load that and see what happens.
Any thoughts?
Not every day you walk into a beater TB for $0.
Yeah that totally worked. Wiped everything loaded CM7.1 and I have a working phone.
Still no working volume key. Oh well!
Yay!
I recently flashed CM9 (throwing that out there incase it is of some reasoning but I doubt it) and I've had my phone since November.
I flashed CM9 9/25 Nightly like 2 or 3 days ago (absolutely love it by the way, smoothest build/rom for the Skyrocket thus far) No problems with the Rom I might add, just my phone had just randomly restarted on its own twice while using it (nothing happened, just started right back up).
However the 3rd time, it randomly restarted and never booted back up. It vibrates and then reboots before it even gets to the Samsung screen and reboots/vibrates again (2 second intervals or so). The furthest it gets is like 5 seconds into the CM9 logo and then it'll reboot. It does the usual thin white line as it restarts and just gets stuck there. Can't get to Recovery for more than a few seconds before it reboots (not long enough for Touch to settle and do anything) and it won't get to Download Mode fast enough. Any ideas or any way to get data off /emmc? Don't want to lose a bunch of pictures/videos.
I have a replacement coming within the next days so I have about 2 weeks to either get lucky and get up long enough to save my data or somehow find a solution (doubt it). I already took it apart and swapped screens because I had busted the screen before and put the broken one in incase by some miracle the new one was causing it (no luck).
No water damage or anything to the phone, just randomly rebooted those times while texting or listening to music/what not and now it's pooped.
Any suggestions?
Tried without the battery (via usb/pc or AC source), without sim/microsd, etc. and nothing. Assuming I'm just SOL.
Edit: Side note, I got terrible battery life with this phone. I could only get 2 hours of screen-on time if I was LUCKY on Mobile and maaaybe 3 if I was on WIFI. The most I ever got was 5 hours on WIFI with a 3850mAh Extended Battrey (so even though it was a cheap battery, I'm thinking the phone had a problem from the get-go).
You Could Have A Stuck Power Button. To Fix That Try To Repeatedly Keep Pushing The Power Button Hard To Try To Unstick It. or try taking it apart and clean the power button
vincom said:
You Could Have A Stuck Power Button. To Fix That Try To Repeatedly Keep Pushing The Power Button Hard To Try To Unstick It. or try taking it apart and clean the power button
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This was my first thought, didn't make a difference no matter how I did it. Appreciate the idea though.
[SOLVED] It is indeed the power button.
I took it apart again and thoroughly mashed the power button plenty and gave it a good few breaths of fresh air.
After that I realized that, I put it back together and realized that if I held the power button right after the phone vibrated it seemed to get to the CM9 symbol more often.
So I mashed the power button a ton more, shook the phone like hell and smashed it against my palm a few times and...it booted! I was able to get everything off of it and reset flash/counter/restore to stock all without ever touching the power button. Screen Timeout @ 30 and using ADB is your friend. Now just to see if it magically works till my replacement gets here lol.
hd2k10 said:
[SOLVED] It is indeed the power button.
I took it apart again and thoroughly mashed the power button plenty and gave it a good few breaths of fresh air.
After that I realized that, I put it back together and realized that if I held the power button right after the phone vibrated it seemed to get to the CM9 symbol more often.
So I mashed the power button a ton more, shook the phone like hell and smashed it against my palm a few times and...it booted! I was able to get everything off of it and reset flash/counter/restore to stock all without ever touching the power button. Screen Timeout @ 30 and using ADB is your friend. Now just to see if it magically works till my replacement gets here lol.
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i know its sounds too simplistic as to blame a sticky power button and users dismiss the idea because they'll blame themselves, a bad flash, or the rom, but a reboot at a 8-10sec interval is the power button internal switch making contact, sometimes its an easy fix or sometimes it takes more than a few tries, or taking it apart to clean the internals
My phone goes anywhere now from 10 seconds to a full day without having a reboot with continuous vibration at 2 second intervals. Flashed to stable ROM's so that's definitely not the issue. I've had this phone since Christmas 2011 so I'm assuming I don't have warranty? You guys just unscrewed the screws and got into the internals I'm assuming?
Hello XDA,
I've done some searching but I can't find a post like mine. I'm not in need of troubleshooting, just a question:
I've had a Nexus 5 32gb for awhile. It runs just fine, but it's always had a "feature" which I didn't realize was unique to this phone until just the other day:
Turning the phone on sometimes takes a long press of the power button (10 plus seconds). Sometimes I have to do this a couple of times and then it will boot. Booting into recovery is the same way. When powering off the phone, it takes about 15 seconds to power down, almost like it's just down like a computer. It will not restart. While the phone is booted I can long press the power button to restart it, and the phone will turn off but not restart. Also, from the bootloader I can choose restart but the phone won't restart. It just powers down.
I never assumed this was abnormal as this was my first nexus device, but I recently acquired a 16gb Nexus 5 and it does not behave in this fashion. It boots almost instantly and restarts.
So the question is, is that normal for a 32gb device? The phone has a new power button and new battery so pretty sure that's not the cause or contributing. Phone has not been rooted or unlocked.
Any thoughts?
exhumis said:
Hello XDA,
I've done some searching but I can't find a post like mine. I'm not in need of troubleshooting, just a question:
I've had a Nexus 5 32gb for awhile. It runs just fine, but it's always had a "feature" which I didn't realize was unique to this phone until just the other day:
Turning the phone on sometimes takes a long press of the power button (10 plus seconds). Sometimes I have to do this a couple of times and then it will boot. Booting into recovery is the same way. When powering off the phone, it takes about 15 seconds to power down, almost like it's just down like a computer. It will not restart. While the phone is booted I can long press the power button to restart it, and the phone will turn off but not restart. Also, from the bootloader I can choose restart but the phone won't restart. It just powers down.
I never assumed this was abnormal as this was my first nexus device, but I recently acquired a 16gb Nexus 5 and it does not behave in this fashion. It boots almost instantly and restarts.
So the question is, is that normal for a 32gb device? The phone has a new power button and new battery so pretty sure that's not the cause or contributing. Phone has not been rooted or unlocked.
Any thoughts?
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Hi, that's a good question. My first thought for this problem would be a sticking power button cuz I've had one of those issues before and the phone was stuck in a bootloop because the button was stuck on my 16Gb N5. I would think this may have been the issue but since you have a new power button I wouldn't think it would be.
I recently got another Nexus 5 and this one is 32Gb but when I go to power it up, it starts instantly. So I would imagine that this is either a hardware problem and not something to do with the software. You may have to get it checked out at a phone place if the community can't find anything on this. (That and I've not seen this issue around before)
This is just my thoughts on it, Good luck!
Well I fixed it. I didn't set out to, it just sort of happened.
I disassembled the phone to replace the camera lens and thought what the heck, let's look at the power button. In doing so I noticed that the ring in the trace next to the power button was exposed, and there was only a miniscule amount of solder connecting the trace to the button. I mean hair width amount. I thought that can't be right so I opened up my 16gb and low and behold there was definitely more solder bridging the trace and power button. I thought what the heck and added a tiny bit more solder to the 32gb, completely covering the ring and thickening the solder connection.
SOLVED! Starts right up now, no problem. It even restarts too. I can't explain is but my non engineering theory is that there wasn't enough capacitance for the connection to be completed so the boot and restart processes were retarded. Either way, fixed.
So if anyone else runs into this problem, take a look at the connection. Hope this helps someone.
Hi guys,
After many years of use, my Nexus 5's power button is starting to give way. It only responds to maybe 50% of clicks. I haven't had any bootloop issues though (hopefully never).
I saw some videos online, of some people using various ways to clean and use tweezers to "squeeze" the button (after dismantling the phone). I was wondering if people were generally successful here, or should I order a new button and try resoldering?
Thoughts?
Thanks.
I was successful in fixing the power button issue on 1 of 4 phones by cleaning, banging, and squeezing. The solution worked for about a month so I would up having the button replaced at a cell repair shop.
I had the same problem and i just soldered a new button, i had never soldered before and it's working perfectly even after a few month.
I ordered a OP 3t last week, and this weekend my current main phone broke. Unlucky. But I still have my Nexus 5 as backup.
Suddenly my Nexus kept rebooting. Unlucky again. I was hoping that my AOSP 7.1.1 flash didn't go well, thus a software issue. I flashed that ROM the evening before so it was possible. But starting TWRP was impossible because it kept rebooting.
Never had any power button issues, and I went from zero to full problems
No way I could get the power button working again. The most promising was the "scratching" method, I was able to finish the boot. But after stopping 2 seconds it rebooted.
I tried the crazy method and I removed my power button physically from the mainboard. Well, removed... Broke it off carefully is a better term
When shutdown I need to have a computer with fastboot to boot my phone.
After I was able to boot into my phone again, I now have remapped the volume up key to power: gpio-keys.kl
Since I didn't have a power button to "select" menu items in fastboot, adb commands are required to boot into TWRP.
It's not a journey, it's an adventure!
Hey guys,
Something odd happened this morning and now I am sitting around with a $700 paperweight. Woke up and took the phone off of charge like I usually do and started to read the news. about 10 minutes in the screen and touch buttons froze so I decided to reboot the phone, To my surprise the phone never came back on.
I've tried VOL Down + Power for 30 seconds even longer out of desperation along with just the power button and VOL Up + power to no avail, The phone is dead, Simply dead. I just wanted to reach out to the community to see if I am just one of the lucky ones or if anyone else has had this happen to them?
Enigma_cpl03 said:
Hey guys,
Something odd happened this morning and now I am sitting around with a $700 paperweight. Woke up and took the phone off of charge like I usually do and started to read the news. about 10 minutes in the screen and touch buttons froze so I decided to reboot the phone, To my surprise the phone never came back on.
I've tried VOL Down + Power for 30 seconds even longer out of desperation along with just the power button and VOL Up + power to no avail, The phone is dead, Simply dead. I just wanted to reach out to the community to see if I am just one of the lucky ones or if anyone else has had this happen to them?
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I don't know which variant you have but look for the MSM download tool thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/msm-tool-guac-t3934691
Have you tried volume up and volume down while you press the power button? Release only the power button when you feel a vibration. I got mine stuck with a black screen while I was tinkering. I know it's a different situation, but it's worth a shot. If it works, you'll end up in bootloader mode. Just use the volume keys to select reboot, and tap the power button to select it.