Hey all, just upgraded to thingonasprings rom and im pretty chuffed so far... only a couple of problems, im sure someone will be able to help me as a newbie. Keyboard and phone buttons seem to work fine, but the dpad, backlight, voice dial and camera buttons and volume control all seem dead and the power button doesnt always bring the screen back up, i have to close the lid and re-open.
Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone confirm them to be working in another rom that is as good as thingonasprings?
ok, i guess no one else has this problem... can anyone recommend a way to capture when a button is pressed and what reference refers to that button? Is there anything in the registry storing a button reference followed by its action. I may not be using the correct terminology.
If anyone can help it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
try to reflash it again... maybe it would help.
Thanks for the reply
I tried reflashing, and even tried changing to a different rom (I am using thingonaspring's rom, but have tried Beasty & Laurentius as well). Im guessing that this is something kinda specific to my device as it seems no-one else has had this problem. I know that the backlight button actually works as I can use it to get into the bootloader, thats why im thinking it must definately be a rom / software issue. Ive been looking for an app I can use to trace a button press, but cant find anything. I really like WM6, but without these buttons / volume slider i may need to swap back to something else... i was running 2003 with wisbar but the performance didnt seem as good as it is now, and i love realvga (I dunno if it is supported on other versions of the OS).
ok, think im getting somewhere - went back to wm5 and all was fine, went to wm6 and they worked until i reset...then nothing... hard reset and they work, until i reset again.... anyone any ideas please?
now sorted changed rom to jwrights and its much better - thanks
Hi guys,
I have a little problem where my phone's power button will not function in any way, long presses, short, almost embedding my thumb in it, all to no avail. This is doubly dissapointing as I have just installed the latest dexter plus patch to fix the problem. I still had the problem on the previous version and I thought a clean start may fix it. The only way I can get the screen on is to press the media play button! Which of course isn't doing anything on dexter.
Hunches:
I have been playing with a light sensor program and using a 3 second press to turn the phone off, I am only thinking this is related as when I re-installed then turned off the phone using a battery pull, that now the media gallery button will now not work at all, so that is a change.
Second, the power button is buggered. Seems unlikely as everthing feels normal, no big drops have occurred from heights, and the button is travelling in and out as usual.
I have also noticed that as soon as I re-insert a battery that the phone starts immediately, the M pops up as if it is already posting. So maybe it is stuck down?? Again, I don't think so, as the mechanism is working per usual.
If anyone can help it would be fantastic, you guys haven't let me down yet, and this thing is purring, but unfortunately I cannot use it lol. Just my luck.
Thanks in advance
another thing, still not solved
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
Also, at random times it plays a podcast on my phone, the exact same podcast, and from the start, though the duration may be a few seconds then repeat, or it may go for ages, its quite a rude podcast too which has caused me to throw my phone under the car seat to shut it up when people have been trying to talk to me, as you can imagine its quite embarassing.
There are no services or apps running that I can find related to music, it may happen after pressing the camera button, or opening a website.
It is still going really fast though. And I have also reinstalled the light sensor program so I can turn it on and off without causing damage to the power button.
Thanks again everyone.
pisceanblue said:
Another thing is happening, the phone screen turns on "after" pressing the power button, it may be once or a few times, and then pressing the gallery button.?!?!
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sure, so the only way I can get the screen to turn back on, after turning off as per display power saving preferences, is by pressing the power button, maybe a couple of times, then following that up by pressing the gallery button next to the shutter button, pressing the gallery button doesn't seem to be working to turn the screen on now, but this combo is.
I hope that helped.
Cheers.
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The gallery button alone is working again. sorry guys.
You might just want to reflash it to stock to see if this resolves the problem.
Yeah I think I may have to.
Before I do., I was reading a post on a different forum where another person was having a similar issue. They seemed to solve the problem by using rom manager to boot to a manual restore menu where there was a button tester section, after using it the power button worked for them. I tried but after resetting it displayed a triangle graphic then rebooted.
Is there any way to do this with our open recovery program or any other utility to test the functionality or maybe reset the button or apply a patch etc.
Thanks again :-D
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Getting Frustrating
Alright so I followed your advice on your videos on how to reflash to stock, so of course my bootloader does not show up the same as yours on the video. I can get to the bootloader fine, using the button combo or by using quick boot > bootloader, both have the exact same result, the boot loader screens as follows:
Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
and that is it....
Also, my computer using rsdlite does not acknowledge the phone, not omap drivers loading etc. Followed your instructions exactly.
This is frustrating me to no end lol.
I am guessing that because I can get to the bootloader with combo no problem, that the buttons physical connections are working.. At least thats a positive.
Can I flash to stock with openrecovery? Or maybe to an earlier version of Dexters froyo? Other ideas?
Any help would be much appreciated guys, trying to use this phone at work with light sensors to turn off screen is not as easy as they say. OMG....
Thanks so much
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Bootloader Fastboot mode
80.89
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The fastboot bootloader isn't the right one. So... if you hold volume up + camera shutter while powering on you end up in fastboot? That's really weird.
Maybe your keys have been remapped somehow? Does anyone know a chord to boot fastboot? Perhaps check to see if your USB port is clean?
Lmao
Just my luck to have a weird problem. I thought it may have been remapped so I have been trying the program buttonremap. It doesn't seem to let me do anything except stop the buttons I re assign doing anything :'(
Does anyone have a proper key mapping file that I can replace with my faulty one to hopefully fix it?
Or any other ideas?
Cheers everyone
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Just checked my system / user / keylayout folder. How many files are supposed to be inside, there are a few. I checked the contents of some and they seemed to be the same. Just an idea.... thanks again.
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Ok installed anyunlock it allows you to use any physical button to unlock the screen. It doesn't respond when the Power button is pressed, it responded fine to volume rockers, gallery and shutter though.
Anyone know if this would mean for sure its a physical problem before I crack it open and try and fix it.
Thanks guys.
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No one has any solutions for me? Come on guys.
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Breakthrough!
I am pretty sure I have fixed the problem, I tapped the phone fairly hard on its sides and back, and lo and behold after a battery pull and replacement it didn't turn itself on, I waited, nothing, so then I held the power button and it started up!!!!
But....I have another problem that happened before that, I am stuck in the boot animation that open recovery uses before going into its program (i.e. where you can load nandroid, wipe dalvik cache etc).
I was about to load a new rom, and was in open recovery, had installed it and about to do the reset and the phone turned itself off, and thats when I got the problem with the sticking boot animation.
So just to be clear, I am stuck in a boot loop, but not with the M logo, the restore logo.
I hope the power button solution can help someone else, as random as it is.
If anyone could help me get out of this boot loop without flashing stock that would be great. ( i can get to the real bootloader now btw)
Thanks again everyone.
Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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Solved it all
Just took the sd card out and rebooted. And the power is getting better after banging it.
Thanks to all.
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So, is your conclusion is that the button was stuck and the banging freed it? It doesn't restick?
The Button is not perfect still. Sometimes over sensitive Occasionally it will not even work but it works most of the time. I am just wondering what cleaning solution I could use to free it some more.
It has certainly been a trying problem. Cheers for the help.
Now I need to figure out why I have this strange ghosting on the top of my screen.....
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Samsung Galaxy S2 Power Button Not Working
Hi Guys,
Any solution for the power button problem? Current latest Android 2.3.3 Samsung Galaxy S2 also having the same power button problem. Most of the time I can't use my power button to turn on/off the screen (wake/sleep) and there's no menu for long tap as well. Luckily it does wake when i press the only physical Samsung center button.
What i have already tried: Factory Reset, disable Power Saving Mode, Spare Part+ (apps), Screen Off and Lock (apps), and all won't help.
Is there any current updates or patches to allow the power button to work as usual?
Thank you.
take it to the samsung technical centre
Thats if you still have warranty
archer88 said:
take it to the samsung technical centre
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won't help because this is the 3rd phone replacement from the shop with the same problem. 100% Android software problem.
Hi,
Sometimes, my power button will not put the phone to sleep... Other times, it works perfectly...
It is not a hardware problem, as when this happens, I can ALWAYS hold it and see the shutdown/reboot menu. Then, after dismissing the menu, I can ALWAYS put the phone to sleep using the button. It's like if the key was ignored when that happens.
By the way, double tapping the status bar works all the time to put the device to sleep.
I think it is a software problem.
Unfortunately, I cannot always make it happen, as my button works probably 90% of the time...
Anybody got this ?
not had this issue with the phone. might be faulty hardware
harrys1991 said:
not had this issue with the phone. might be faulty hardware
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I don't think it's a hardware problem, because it alwas work to open the screen.
I was able to catch a logcat and I opened a jira for it :
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-1344
Hope somebody can find what is the problem.
My jira was merged :
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-837
Anybody else have this problem ?
My volume and power button's both are not working as of yesterday . They worked fine after 38R update , but started to have this issue for no reason .
Luckily I had the double Tap to wake up selected and so am able to access the phone.
I too get something similar but it's to wake up the screen for me that works 1/2 the time. Also double taping to wake up is pretty bad since 38R.
Cholerabob said:
I too get something similar but it's to wake up the screen for me that works 1/2 the time. Also double taping to wake up is pretty bad since 38R.
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I have the exact same problem my self. It is extremely annoying! I can't find a way to fix that. I tried numerous different roms with no luck. Unfortunately i can't find anyone else in the internet having the same issue. It seems it is just you and me at the moment. The only work around is using dt2w which always works but the problem with dt2w many times unlocks the phone without wanting to.
I hope some experienced people here have a look on this problem!!
Please vote on jira.cyanogenmod.org to get some attention to this issue.
dcoulombe said:
Please vote on jira.cyanogenmod.org to get some attention to this issue.
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Already did. Let's hope they will try ti fix it.
me too
dima22 said:
I have the exact same problem my self. It is extremely annoying! I can't find a way to fix that. I tried numerous different roms with no luck. Unfortunately i can't find anyone else in the internet having the same issue. It seems it is just you and me at the moment. The only work around is using dt2w which always works but the problem with dt2w many times unlocks the phone without wanting to.
I hope some experienced people here have a look on this problem!!
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let me know how you could resolve the issue my screen is not getting on while outgoing call is active, power button doesn't wake the screen most of the times
I have the same problem, sometimes work sometimes not. I am using cm12, and before that i used cataclyzm mode with same problem.
Button worked fine on kit kat.
What should we do?
Has anyone found a solution to this problem ?
It's rather strange
Everything worked normally on CM11S, it also works for some time after a reboot and power on does work , just power off doesnt :/
MAy be I have a solution
nerellav said:
let me know how you could resolve the issue my screen is not getting on while outgoing call is active, power button doesn't wake the screen most of the times
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Go to Settings-Display- Go down and u will find an option Prevent Acciental wake up- Just uncheck it.
Hopefully ur problem will be solved
Hey, this happened to me randomly today. Reflashed stock rom and CM but both seem to have this problem. Vibration for random stuff stopped. Not all vibration. Touch vibration works fine when enabled. Phone vibrates normally. But for some reason holding the power button or the home button no longer cause vibration. Also holding icons in the launcher. It used to do it before. It doesn't seem to be either software or hardware related. I am really confused.
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Hey, this happened to me randomly today. Reflashed stock rom and CM but both seem to have this problem. Vibration for random stuff stopped. Not all vibration. Touch vibration works fine when enabled. Phone vibrates normally. But for some reason holding the power button or the home button no longer cause vibration. Also holding icons in the launcher. It used to do it before. It doesn't seem to be either software or hardware related. I am really confused.
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Hi everyone,
Just bought (yesterday) a mm3 and I'm facing a very strange issue.
Stock global rom there.
Just after booting, volume buttons are perfectly responding, but after a moment or using them 4 / 5 times, they do not respond anymore.
Do you think it can be a hardware issue ? If then, how to explain that they're working fine just after the device boot ?
Thanks for your help.
I had the same issue with the global rom. the EU rom does not appear to have the same issue so I do think it's software
I had a similar problem while on eu. I had installed a button remapper and even though I hadn't used it it yet my volume buttons would not work outside of waking the screen
Thanks for your reply, guys.
Issue seems to be solved as I installed "Volume Slider Trigger" app.
Well, atm, it's working pretty good.
Thanks