Hello
About one week ago i noticed that my phone turned off by itself. At first, I thought it was a kernel issue (continues reboot loop) went back to stock kernel and was having the same issue. Looks like my Power button get stuck and will turn off the phone. I am over my 1 year warranty just wondering if there anything I could do to fix this issue on my own?
Yeah you can open the back cover and put a little lubricant on the power button
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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.
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[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?
I bought an used infuse the other day to fix and sell to a friend. The owner said it was bricked, but I've since gotten it into recovery mode, download mode, and a normal power on. It goes into a bootloop most of the time though, the endless bootloop people seem to be getting when the power button gets stuck.
I've completely disassembled the phone and I can't find the problem. The power button (the white one on the inside) moves completely freely. I've tried booting up the phone with the back housing off so the power button is bare but it still bootlooped. The only way I can get it to boot up is to repeatedly hit the back of the phone onto my hand as its booting up. Even then, the phone will only stay on for 30 seconds or so once it boots. I've read of people fixing this by simply throwing the phone on the ground, but is there a better way to fix this? What could be the problem?
Edit: I think I may try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235435&highlight=bootloop
It could be a weak connection on the mobo somewhere.
Edit 2: Yep! I re-soldered the connection around the power button on the back of the motherboard and the phone is working. Got it reset and now I'm running it without the second power button thing in the case.
Good evening all, I've owned my Nexus 5 for about 6 months, and yesterday for the first time, I had some issues with it. The phone shut it self off and would get stuck in a bootloop, I was eventually able to get the Nexus into the bootloader, but seemingly today, the phone will restart before I can make a selection.
Unless the phone is plugged in, I can't get any response out of it.. any idea?
Looks like a faulty power button to me since it restarts. Could also be a hosed emmc as well.
Hold the power button till the phone completely shuts down and then try to switch it back on. If it's still the same, time to claim warranty.
Hey guys, so.. I may think that my nexus 5 is hard bricked.
It all started when my phone was having the infamous " power button " issues, the power button just got ****ed so I replaced it with a new one at some apparently ****ty lab.
It worked, but again started to show signs of malfunctions after 2 weeks or so, when I pressed the power button most of the times my phone didn't go into sleep mode it was like I never even pressed the damn button, but I got a long with it because usually on the second try the the button functioned properly.
But now.. oh boy, a few days ago my phone began to restart by itself and then I knew that my power button is completely ****ed again, and on top of that my screen got ****ed.. apparently the leds on my lcd got burned or something so the screen is like " stuck " at low brightness all the time ( tried everything, deff not a software issue. ).
So.. today, I went to replace my screen. the lab guy told me that the previous lab apparently did a really ****ty job on my nexus and as soon as he unplugged the motherboard to replace the screen the damn power button fell of as it wasn't even welded properly to the motherboard.. so he tried to fix it for a lot of time but with no luck.. and when he gave me my phone back, well.. everything went to ****.
Yes, he replaced the screen. but now, the phone WILL NOT BOOT. it's like the power button is pressing itself whenever I try to power up my phone so I can't even make it to the lolipop animation most of the time, and when I do get lucky and I get to the animation the phone just restarts again. Strange thing is that if the power button were to press itself all the time well the phone is suppose to try and turn on all the time right? wrong, only when I try to turn it on ( if I actually get that lucky because most of the times that i'm trying to turn it on nothing happens ) ONLY THEN it restarts, I can't use the bootloader because the phone just keeps restarting.
I don't know if this is a real power button issue, or if my phone got hard bricked.
any thoughts?
P.S: when I plug my nexus into a wall charger then it just keeps loop booting to the " google " screen until I unplug it.
Um this isn't a hard brick, they broke your phone...
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The power button needs to be properly soldered on,
The phone is stuck in that cycle due to the failed soldering job,so the power button is pressed/on constantly
I don't get why the screen would get faulty.
If you don't have good repair places around you will need to buy a new phone.
Hello, Nexus 5 forums. This is my first post on here, because I never even tried to root or install a custom ROM on my Nexus 5, having bought it for the official updates from Google and all that stuff (I had a Galaxy SII before this phone, and I frequently visited the XdaDev GSII forums because I installed CyanoGenMod on it).
I'll go straight to the point. My phone suddenly started rebooting randomly today, and by the end of the day it was stuck in a weird kind of bootloop. The Google logo would pop up, and right as the MM boot animation started the phone would reboot and the Google logo would show up. Right now, the phone's battery is probably dry, so that's why the phone isn't bootlooping, but it has done so for 3-4 hours before shutting down. I tried opening the phone, removing the battery and putting it back in, but the phone just kept bootlooping. I tried both getting into the stock recovery and into download mode, but the phone keeps on rebooting as soon as I get into download mode.
Can I do anything to fix this or is my phone doomed to the eternal bootloop?
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
Sounds like there may be a problem with the power button.
Same thing happened to me like 5 times now. It is the power button. What I do is knock it on the side of a table below the power button. I just need it to last until the new nexus is released, so I never investigated the proper fix.
I understand, so my problem is more a hardware than a software issue. I tried knocking the phone on the side of a table like @NicksSpleen said, but maybe my problem is more serious. What can I do to fix this? I need it to last until Christmas, as I'm going to get a new phone then (maybe the Nexus Sailfish, if the price is acceptable).
EDIT: Double post.
I disassembled my phone and fixed the problem by cleaning the power button. Works like a charm. Thanks for all your suggestions!
Anything other than the power button?